[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. you as president joe biden calls rush us born ukraine. genocide, biden says president putin is trying to wipe out the entire idea of ukrainian nationhood. meanwhile, the kremlin vows to continue its military campaign until all its goals are met and residents of odessa fear their city is put its next target,

that pinning their hopes on the cities vast tunnel network to help them survive any attack. and germany as president abandoned plans to visit the cranium capital as a gesture of solidarity or tease, told he's not welcome. ah, i'm gabbert was welcome to the program. you as president a joe biden has said that he believes russian president vladimir putin sworn in ukraine, amounts to genocide, biden said, put in, was trying to wipe out the idea of ukrainian nation hood put in, for his part, says, russia's military campaign will continue until all its goals have been met, ukraine's president rodney zalinski says the world must act now to stop russia from

committing further atrocities. russian troops on the streets of mario pole. russia has been accused of using band chemical weapons against the city, ukraine's president admitted it is difficult to verify the claim while the city is under siege. but he urged the world not to wait to act. i'll let you know which in no, given the repeated threats from russian propagandists of using chemical weapons against the defenders of murray. you poll even and given the repeated use of for example, he phosphorus munitions by the russian army. by single gonna the world must react. now what must react preventively? i didn't want to put it on, did not across eastern ukraine. people are fleeing ahead of an expected white scale russian assault on the don best region. military analysts say the don bess with it's open to rain and lack of natural barriers will be harder for defenders to hold on to as to the outcome. it's find the

balance right now because if the russians learn the. busy lessons of the failure so far and could concentrate more force and could connect the raffles to the ground forces better and could so that it just sticks out. then they might start to overwhelm the ukrainian positions eventually. thank you. thank you. russian president vladimir putin who has i, the don bass region for years, said piece was off the table in the family, go on ok. ukrainian side moved away from its agreement in istanbul. now the requirement for security guarantees is one thing that buses and the questions regarding settlement of relations with respect to crimea. so i've asked to pull and don bass are to be taken outside the framework of those agreements. so we're back again in a dead end situation for all of us as the russian army repositions for renewed assault on eastern ukraine as seen in these satellite images. there are fears the troops will leave many more destroyed. cities like murder, you pull in,

their wake block has funded rebecca t as in the west and ukraine and city of the v for this is her assessment about the situation and maria pull and the fear that the city might full soon ukrainian military. and he's saying now that it's looking likely that russia will, in fact, succeed in mary you poll. they believe that russia planning a strike of one of the last 3 cranium held areas, the as of steel plant where thousands of remaining, a ukrainian soldiers from the as of battalion now famous as of battalion are holding out. i mean, they have been fighting for this city since the very beginning of this war. it's a key strategic part that would link out rushes eastern and southern france and create a much needed land border between russian held areas in crimea. and the don bassett would release, a russian troops to be able to be re deployed indefinitely,

would be seen as a victory for vladimir potent in what has otherwise been a rather shambolic start to this invasion. the ukrainian troops have been holding out. they posted a video on their facebook page yesterday saying that they will fight until the very end, but they are running out of ammunition. so just if and when exactly are married, pull might full still remains unclear, but is looking likely and definitely would be same as a victory for the russian side. rebecca, there were reports yesterday that chemicals. well, the chemical weapons have been used in mario po and now volume is it? and he says that he is still not sure when will we know that's right. actually was in late monday night or so that we were 1st getting those reports of a potential chemical attack in mary paul they were met. those reports remain on on, on, clarified unconfirmed. 3 of those,

as of battalion soldiers were reporting to have a signs of a chemical warfare attack. and obviously that as outraged to the ukrainian side articles, international western, or governments as well that, that, that news remains unconfirmed at this stage is the u. s. and the u. k. are looking into this, they're trying to, to work out to firm up those reports. a chemical attack would certainly be an escalation in this fight. so far, chemical weapons haven't been used and it isn't clear how are you crying would react or in fact, how other western governments might react to such news. that was the w correspondent, director. it is in the west and ukrainian city of eve. and we are now joined by frank lead, which a military analyst who joins us from oxford in the u. k. frank put in vase to continue the war until all goals are achieved with the russian side. consider

success at this stage of the war. well, this has been something about moving target, of course, since the start of the war. but i would say that success by putting some definitions already failed to happen, emanation of the credit state government. but of course, that's different from rhetorical success, to has been somewhat, somewhat changeable. the most recent objective is declared is the liberation of the don bus area where the fighting is taking place now and will continue to intensify with that objective in mind. i think, can we expect a major shift in strategy here? so so now that they have outlined that rhetorical political objective and aligned it with the military one, they put together a command structure to try to achieve that with a new general phone to call that she's an old general. he was commanding that region before. and you come on stuff to unite the army as well behind what

objectives and what they're going to. so what we're going to see now is russia trying to surround, to annihilate russian forces in water called salience or bulges, leverage in their advantage in artillery and air power. now they did that in the past quite successfully in 2015 on a much smaller scale of the anticipated doing that now against the ukrainians. you kind of learned a lot from that and what the trainees can do, what the russians have demonstrated, they really can't. is this kind of war maneuver. one of the contributors earlier talked about if the russians have sort of the logistics with the russians have organized that planning capability and so forth. they may have an opportunity to, to do that. i don't think they have the russian armies, problems or endemic. they are serious, they're of over and deep corruption, lack of training and a complete inability so far demonstrated to combine our artillery power and indeed

other ground forces as your previous commentator thought. they should be able to demonstrate that. so on the right now, with what you just mentioned, fears out, of course, growing that russia could try to escalate and use chemical weapons in ukraine. there were reports, still unconfirmed. would that be a red line for the west and for nato? yes, that's interesting. red lines, i think it is a line which are probably not going to be used because they have a rather unfortunate history. the last time chemical weapons were used in syria, my red lines were crossed and ignored for at least for a couple of years. but i suspect messaging is taking place between diplomats between intelligence services are quietly that sort of track to mornings are being given to the russians. that if this happens, this will be treated in a very different way than the other will cause they've been liberal committee of the last 6 weeks or so. i think the messaging will have been given. chemical weapons, however,

offers something of an opportunity militarily for the russians. that doctrine mandate sit in a breakthrough operation, which is exactly what they're going to be doing over the next few weeks, trying to break through ukrainian lines. and the more chemical weapons is one option. the other is tactical, nuclear weapons, which we can probably put aside for the moment. it's a very real possibility that can happen. it's a bit of a double edged sword though, because there's a mixed history of chemical weapons in that level of warfare. last time it uses in the iran iraq war and was to try to break through. it really was really did it strike back at the rockies, use it for us. military analysts, frank look which there. thank you very much. right. thank you. are you cranium official? so they've captured the fugitive pro russian politician. big term, adventure is a close associate of letting me put it. is the russian leaders most influential

ally in ukraine that had been on the house arrest facing trees and charges, but ukrainian authorities say he gaped after russia invasion. he was now re arrested in a special operation by ukraine's secret service. now that ukraine has recaptured the region around the capital, keith military, analysts believe odessa is high on putin's new list of targets over the past few days. the strategically vital port city has been hit repeatedly by russian missiles . the situation is tense, but residents are ready to defend odessa, even on the ground. as our correspondent, young philips shaws reports. the road to safety leads deep beneath odessa, more than 20 meters below the port city is a 2500 kilometer long tunnel system. nobody knows this underground labyrinth, better than engineer roman mouser and his friend, alexander, when the 1st to rocket said odessa,

the pair began converting 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 this to 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 today, dated 1941. this catacombs for used by parties as to fight against nazi and nowadays we also use this cat to comp in this war is new war. and i think in

sometimes 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, a 36 hour 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 are looking with concern towards other black see cities where the fighting has been intensifying. many military analysts believe putin is planning to cut ukraine off from the sea duck. odessa, odessa 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 pooty, which in the best wishes roman mows are fierce defending odessa will involve many more nights spent under ground, is even started to install an internet network in the tunnels, in preparation for a possible long bachelor at the presence of poland and the baltic countries are on their way to the ukrainian capital key for talks with presidents landscape. germany is head of state franklin stein maya have been planning to go with him. but then he was informed during a visit to poland that he was not welcome in keefe, that's because to extend my ass term as foreign minister. he pursued closer relations with russia. that's a policy which he recently admitted was a mistake. it was a conscious display of harmony when german president frank vile to shine maya was

welcomed by his polish counterpart on j. duda. anti plans to travel to ukraine together were also meant to send the same message. but after the talks shine, maya made a shock announcement. my colleague and find their bonuses. that was it. and as a judah, my colleague and friend are polish, president andrew duda recently suggested that the 2 of us, together with the presidents of estonia, latvia and lithuania, travel to cuba, to send a strong signal of join to european solidarity with ukraine. but then not so that i was ready to do that by the sofa, but apparently that was not wanted by keyvonte and miss. and i have to acknowledge that others in here if nation give it all that was left for the german president to say at the joint news conference following the meeting was distressed that germany and poland remained close. partners. then as duda headed off to ukraine stein maya

booted his plane back to berlin. and i am now joined by alexander miller from the german, the liberal party, the f t p, which is part of the governing coalition here. berlin is a member of parliament, expert and military technology and also the chairman of the parliament defense a committee. now the german president is not wanted in keith because of his ties to russia in the past. how much credibility has germany lost over the last weeks in that war? oh, i think this was a wise decision of the ukraine government. i can understand it from my heart because a symbol for the, for the close relations of german social democrats with russia in the past years. but this has changed with the beginning of the war. also, social democrats got very distinct from, from russia. and this change is severe,

and now this decision from the ukrainian government to not invite i admire. no, it's not a good sign for the relationship of germany and ukraine. do you expect any negative repercussions all of that in the relations between germany and the crime? yes, because it will, it will lead to our chancellor. i'm probably not struggling to peer in the next days or weeks because he can't when wednesday maria is excluded from ukraine. he cannot go either and i think it's at the moment where the ukrainians have to do with convincing him to to change his mind regarding heavy weapons. i miss will stay with us or for a 2nd. i just want to raise another subject pressure on germany to expand and

accelerate weapons deliveries to ukraine is meanwhile, increasing. but transfer all of shows has hit back up on claims that germany is not delivering enough weapons to keep foreign minister on it. in a barbara has urged western countries to supply ukraine with more military equipment and specifically with heavy weapons. that statement is seen by some as criticism of the chancellor's reluctance among those calling those supporting babel school is one of the co leaders from her green party. let's listen to what he had to say the fish and this is the sort of fear it goes without saying that we support all those in the german government who are working day after day. trying his events and full to maintain a balance between providing the necessary support for ukraine on one hand and stopped the war from escalating on the other. niemen had been nobody has an interest in a direct military face off between nuclear powers. about us. however, it is more than evident that ukraine needs more now in the current situation,

including heavy weapons the shipper. now we just heard more heavy weapons and stop the war from escalating. this sounds like a bit of a tight rope war for germany's government there. do we have any reliable intelligence on where putins red line is here? approaching red line is regarding our delivery of heavy weapons. and our, yes, our government has made this clear as long as no german people are working in the ukraine for repairing or surrendering a weaponry. we are in the means of law. we are not part of this war and we don't want to be part of this war. but there's another issue we, we have a lot of weaponry and germany and private companies and the ukraine wants to buy this. this wouldn't lead us to,

to go into this war and we just have to permit it. and the german government doesn't permitted. and that's why i understand a foreign minister who pushes the government to permit this. so what's the hold up then? i mean, your, your party is in government or what's the hold on? why are we not delivering more? i don't know because everything a secret, the german government doesn't even not tell us as members of the parliament, how the decisions are going. but we, we, as members of the parliament, we get calls from the industry. there are a lot of armored vehicles standing in the back yard of our industry that could be delivered. the ukranian say we pay, we want it, we can, we can deliver it to our country, but we just need a permission to permission from the government. and those industries have requested those permissions many weeks ago in the beginning of march. and it is not answered

by our government. and so i can understand as well as well as the president and ski who say we do not do enough to what we could do well as a member of parliament, a chairman of the parliament defense committee, could you do more as members of the parliament we cannot do more because the decisions are made by the security council. the security council is agree. mm hm. some, some ministers plus the counselor who do everything in secret and they tell us we are doing good decisions. and after we delivered weapons, you can go to the secret office and look into secret papers and look what is the level. but i as a member of the parliament, are not convinced that those decisions are good and the german public is discussing it. and it is a democracy, it is ok if the germans discuss it. so we need more information about the general rules that our government has alex animal of

a member of parliament for the german liberal party f t p. thank you very much. let's have a look at some of the other news now. police and new york city say they are looking for a person of interest who may be linked to a mass shooting in a subway station. they say the man hired a van possibly connected to the attack. at least 29 people were treated at hospitals for gunshot wound, smoke, ventilation, and other injuries. no motive is yet known with the attack and still on the loose ah, confusion and panic during the morning rush hour commute. in the heart of new york city. a my friends i didn't know would have been i was, i was like, i was scared. i know i didn't know what to do. i didn't know. i just got off the

train. i stayed by the police officers and i just, i opened about the violence started on a train car traveling through a diverse working class neighbourhood in brooklyn. witnesses say 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 a lady, she said that she had written what happened here. she saw a lot of people reading that she was very nervous that 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 terrors eaten by a single individual. it what it is, so do you focus suspect a lot, 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 mast shooting. at several of not some of the other world news headlines. dozens of people have died in floods and mud slides off the days of heavy rain in and around the south african city of durban. local authorities expect the dest soul to rise. germany is foreign minister analynn, i babbled, visited molly, where more than 1300 german troops are stationed. belin has yet to decide whether to extend the peacekeeping mission there after france announced it was pulling its

troops out of japanese capital. tokyo has begun to mud demolishing a space age high. rise once seen as an example of sustainable architecture activists strike to save the local landmark from the wrecking board. but after half a century, the futuristic building was showing its age. this was the future, or at least one architect vision of it. the nagging capsule tower was held as cutting edge when it was completed in 1972. the idea was that occupants could take their 10 square meter cubicle with them. if they ever decided to move, one of the law got killed on the vulcan guy. i think this architecture has a lot of meaning in it. but he got a gun. it reflects the philosophy of architect kesha cora cower. his aim was to

create sustainable living spaces. you may go, not only my, some fans tried to save the local landmark, but in vain. he, he, you. good. i, i think it's so typical of japan that it's disappearing. even though people wanted it's been around so long that it's become a cultural asset. you put the and now it's being taken away from people's lives. be done. union of a union. eventually many of the units fell into disrepair. now the building will make way for new architecture in a tokyo district that's slated for redevelopment here watching t w news is a reminder of all top story. u. s. president joe biden has called russian president vladimir putin war in ukraine. genocide. biden said that brandon was trying to wipe out the idea of ukrainian nation hooked footing has vowed to continue military

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