ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin despite significant setbacks. vladimir putin vows he'll succeed in ukraine. and he says, talks with ukrainian officials are rather dead end. his comments. com as keith investigates, claims that a poisonous substance was used in the besieged city of mario poll. we'll have analysis from washington shortly. also coming up with mario paul in ruins. another ukranian cd fees. it's now pollutants. next target residents of a jetta appealing their hopes on the cities at boston tunnel network to help them

survive any future onslaught. and germany's president scrap plans to visit the ukrainian capital as a gesture of solidarity after he's told he's not welcome. ah, i'm jared right. thank you very much for your company. russian president vladimir putin has insisted that the kremlin is bloody offensive in ukraine will continue and will succeed. speaking on tuesday, putin describe talks with keith as being at a dead end. he also said rushes economy is ext is withstanding what he described as the bleakness of western sanctions. now his comments came, as ukraine said, it was investigating a claim that a poisonous substance was dropped on the besieged city of maria pole. president floated music and ski,

said the west and needed to act now to prevent such weapons from being deployed in the future. and earlier i spoke with michael o'hanlon, who is a senior fellow and director of research in foreign policy at the brookings institution. excuse me. and i asked him how possible it was to independently verify this rumored use of chemical weapons by russia. we can't know, and of course it will require independent verification. yes, i think it's possible because if you can sneak out samples of soil where this allegedly heard, and course that requires bravery unlocked to get out of there. but it's certainly conceivable. i think that there is also every reason to think the russians might have done this. we know they have used chemical poison against their own dissidence in the past. we know they were not at all shy about working with president of syria even after he had used chemical weapons. and perhaps he continued to even during the russian intervention. there we have already seen president boot and call the

war criminal by numerous western leaders, including of course, the u. s. president, which then in some way unfortunately lowers the threshold for using chemical weapons because it is already considered a war criminal. he may feel he has nothing left to lose. and so for all these sorts of reasons, combined with the sheer barbarity of the russian onslaught, so far, i would be inclined to think this is a distinct possibility. but yes, we have to investigate further. okay, and you've talked about this barbarity that we've seen so far that could now possibly include the use of chemical weapons. if it was proven that that's happened, what would be the international response? you know, we're in a little bit of a fix because we're trying to carefully calibrate all sorts of responses against all sorts of atrocities that have already occurred. and we're trying to hopefully make them, sir, not only as punishment, but as somehow inducement the president booting to do a deal and have some of these punishments lifted. so all that being said, i don't know how much fine gradation of response capability. we still have left i

think that you can certainly make it clear to, you know, russian chemical industry that they could be anybody found complicit in making these substances could be banned from future commerce with the west. if and when broader sanctions are lifted. you could again, further your investigations and his top generals under war crimes proceedings and invoke chemical weapons convention, stipulations for that and sort of build on what you're already trying to do with the war crimes issue. but i don't know that we can really executed particularly compelling response for a war that we've all ready to stay out of militarily. now i'd like to ask you about an article you've written on the hill dot com about the threat posed by russian surveillance technology to lot of blood amid zalinski. what are the threat specifically and tens lensky stay ahead of them long term?

well yes, i'm worried that the russians move away from keith and other places where they've been in the past that there's a chance that the ukrainians could let down their guard just a little perhaps stay out in public squares too long. perhaps use non secure or less secure communications. and i'm worried about a couple of things. one that russians could have left behind various sensors that would be designed to look for the voice patterns of president landscape. for example, if he somehow can be expected to approach a city square and give a speech, it might be able to figure out when he's there. or they might be able to use simple cameras that they put in certain places and found a way to sort of string enough fiber optic cable out towards their retreating courses. they can still see what's going on in certain location minutes the last few years. they fire a surface to surface missile from bella rhodes or russia, with a flight time of less than 10 minutes. then in the expectation, he may still be there once the missile arrives or even use

a drone that's activated by one of these sensors to pop up. not even have to fly from a distant location, but the pop up quickly and then drop some kind of a weapon the way we saw drones used and as you're based on our media recent fights . so all those things are on my mind. and what they tell me is the president's what he needs to be awfully careful about his signature, about any kind of use a cell phone about his security detail because it may have a sort of easily recognized size or character and about staying publicly exposed very long in prominent locations, that was michael handling from the book brookings institution in washington. thank you very much for your time. my, my pleasure. thank you. well, now that ukraine has recap, said the region around the capital keys, military analysts believe the port city of odessa is high now on vladimir putin's new list of military targets. over the past few days, odessa has been repeatedly hit by russian missiles. the situation there is 10 spot

residents are ready to defend their city even under ground. as our correspondent yon phillips sholtes reports the road to safety leads deep beneath odessa. more than 20 meters below the port city is a 2500 kilometer long tunneled system. nobody knows this underground labyrinth better than engineer roman moser and his friend alexander. when the 1st to rocket said odessa, the pair began converging the tunnels into shelters almost every night, dozens of families seek refuge here during air, rage alerts. we're really deep on to ground and we don't, he has explosions on the surface. the whole house is shattering. the windows shattering is so very scary and her here children behaves them very come. the tunnel system is actually an old curry where limestone was minds more than 100 years ago. since then, they've provided

a retreat for gangsters and soviet troops during the 2nd world war. the channels were used as a hide out for resistance fighters. their messages are still on the walls to day dated 1941. this catacombs for used by partisans to fight against nazi and nowadays we also use this cat, the comp in this war is new war. and i think in some times, in some time, further we have to write new inscription here, 2022 above the ground. odessa, residents are finding it increasingly difficult to maintain some kind of normality . the city was supposed to celebrate its world war to victory over the nazis last weekend, but the events were cancelled for security reasons. instead of 36, our curfew was imposed. it's a very bitter irony at a time when people in odessa should be celebrating the anniversary of their liberation from the nazis. they have to get prepared for another possible attack.

but just like more than 80 years ago, the people here are ready to defend their city to the last. the security forces in odessa, a looking with concern towards other black see cities where the fighting has been intensifying. many military analysts believed putin as planning to cut ukraine off from the c. taco there, said sir, oh, this is a very important city. we call it the pearl of ukraine. it is also a port city. this is why it's so crucial for us. and of course, also for the enemy, for putting of which in the best wishes roman moses fears defending odessa will involve many more knights. spend underground is even started to install an internet network in the tunnels. in preparation for a possible long bachelor het ukrainian officials say they've captured a fugitive pro russian politician victim it viejo oak is

a close associate as close associate of vladimir putin and is the russian leaders. most influential ally in ukraine mid via chak, had been under house arrest facing treason charges, but reportedly escaped after russia's invasion. he was then re arrested in a special operation by ukraine's secret services. germany is president frank via tish dine. maia has been told that he's not welcome in keith stein. my encourage closer relations with russia when he was german. foreign minister and last week admitted that this had been a mistake on a visit to poland stein my ended up cutting his trip short and returned home. it was a conscious display of harmony when german president frank volta shine maya was welcomed by his polish counterpart on j. duda. and their plans to travel to ukraine together were also meant to send the same message. but after the talked shine, maya made a shock announcement. my colleague and find a bonus as that, was it another judah,

my colleague and friend polish president. andrew duda recently suggested that the 2 of us, together with the president of estonia, latvia and lithuania, travel to cuba, to send a strong signal of joint european solidarity with ukraine. and then i was ready to do that. but also, but apparently that was not wanted by t of on and miss. and i have to acknowledge that others in p if mr. goods. all that was left for the german president to say at the joint news conference following the meeting was distressed. that germany and poland remain close partners . then as duda headed off to ukraine, stein maya booted his plane back to berlin. to other news now, police in new york city say they're looking for a person of interest who may be linked to a mass shooting in a subway station. they say the man hide a van possibly connected to the violence. at least 29 people were treated of

hospitals, hospitals for gunshot wounds, smoke, inhalation and other injuries. no motive is yet 9 with the attacker still at large . ah, confusion and panic during a morning rush hour commute in the hearts of new york city. ah, i 1st knew the moment of shock noted some of my friends, i didn't know happy knows. i was like, i was scared and i know i didn't know to do. i didn't know. i just got off the train. i stayed by the police officers and i just, i over the best the violence started on a train car traveling through a diverse working class neighbourhood in brooklyn. witnesses se the attacker put on a gas mask, opened a smell canister, and then opened fire. the bloody attack spilling out onto

a subway platform. i didn't know what was going on. i asked the lady, she said that she actually saw everything. what happened here? she saw a lot of people when she 1st unit that she was very nervous with the tree emergency crews rushed more than a dozen victims to to local hospitals. why dawn? yes, we have 16 total patients. 10 of them are suffering from gunshot wounds, and 5 of them are in critical but stable condition. at this time, during the chaos, the gunman got away. he's described as a short, heavy set, black man, wearing a green reflective construction best, and a gray hoodie. we will not allow your place to be terrorized even bought a single individual. it was 3 days so before the suspect lodge, but we won't find no motive for the attack is known. but so far investigators do

not believe this was an act of terror. but yet another math shooting. okay, his round up of some other world news headlines now. oklahoma governor kevin steet has signed a bill making it illegal to perform abortions except in medical emergencies. those who do could be in prison for up to 10 years. this is the latest in a string of measures that limit abortion access across the us. dozens of people have died in floods and mud slides after days of heavy rain in and around the south african city of durban. local authorities expected did the death tall to rise and germany's foreign minister anna lena bear bulk has paid a visit to molly. way more than $1300.00 german troops stationed berlin has yet to decide whether to extend the mission. there after france announced it was pulling out its troops. and you're up to date here on t w up next, doc film is taking

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