[000:00:00;00] ah ah you news ly from berlin, u. s. president joe biden cause russia sworn ukraine, genocide, biden says president, put in his 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. also on the program residents off odessa, fear their city has pollutants next targets pinning their hopes on the cities vast

tunnel network to help them survive any attack and germany as president abandons plans to visit the ukrainian capital as a gesture of solidarity after he's told he's not welcome ah, i'm glad out as a welcome to the program. you as president joe biden has said that he believes russian president vladimir putin war in ukraine, amounts to genocide, biden said, put in, was trying to wipe out the idea of ukrainian. nationhood putin, for his part says, russia's military campaign will continue until all its goals have been met. and ukraine's president vladimir zalinski says the world must stop, must act now to stop russia from committing further atrocities. russian troops on the streets of mar,

you 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 all at hoge and no one has 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 don't want to put it on, did not across eastern ukraine. people are fleeing ahead of an expected wide scale russian assault on the don bass region. military analysts say the don bess with its open terrain 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 love 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, thanks. i got you. russian president vladimir putin, who is i, the don bass region for years said piece was off the table the, so my go know, going ukrainian side moved away from its agreement in istanbul. now the requirement for security guarantees is one thing that busses and the questions regarding settlement of relations with respect to crimea will suffice to pull and don best or to be taken outside the framework of those agreements. so we're back again in a dead end situation for all of us to do it 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. all correspondence rebecca writs as is in the west and ukrainian city of the v for this is her assessment about the situation in maria pull and the fear that the city might full soon ukrainian military a. he's saying now that it's looking likely that russia will, in fact, succeed in mary you poll. they believe that russia were 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 all 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 and definitely would be seen as

a victory for vladimir putin in what has otherwise been a rather shambolic start to this invasion. the ukrainian troops have been holding out a 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 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 events. he says that he is still not sure when will we know? that's right. actually it 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 italian soldiers were reporting to have a signs all the chemical warfare attack. and obviously that as outraged the ukrainian side adipose international west. and are governments as well that that, that, that news remains unconcerned at this stage. it is the u. s. and the u. k. are of course, looking into this day trying to, to work out to firm up those reports. a grill, 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 ukraine would react or in fact, how other western governments might react to such news. that was the w correspondent, rebec curtis, and the western ukrainian city of the v reporting and off a closer look at the latest military movements on the ground in your crime. we are joined in the studio by w reported. jo, we'll just

a few weeks ago. russian forces were close to encircling the ukrainian capital keith, but in recent days, the military map has been re drawn. the knots are about to show you come from british defense intelligence. and here we can see the territory that was controlled by russia up until late march, that was a month into the invasion. you can see the focus there around keith. but in early april, russia pulled back its northern groups, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake, british intelligence as those forces and now being re deployed to ukraine's east as part of a push to take full control of the don bass region. here's some of what's happened there in recent days. there has been intensified shelling on the city of cock heave . satellite images have spotted a russian troop build up near is you him. there's been a push towards carma task. that's the city where a missile strike killed almost 60 civilians last week. russia also attacked an airport need to meet pro, and they are close to encircling the city of murray. a poll which would give russia

full control along the coast of the sea of as of well now you've kind is also concerned about possible movements in the area of trans mystery. now that is a breakaway region in moldova, that is aligned with russia. and now ukraine says it is concerned that russian forces station there, along with local police paramilitary, could potentially invade from the west. and in circle odessa, another sign of the latest news strategy. the u. s. says that russia has appointed a new war commander general alexander devona cove. he headed the russian forces in syria in 2015, where he over so a brutal campaign of bombing cities into submission. and in the latest ukraine invasion, he's been the district commander of the southeast region. his promotion is being site seen as another sign that russia is now making the se it's key target instead of key if. but how effective will this new strategy be? well, according to some u. s. analysts,

russians combat capability is being greatly exaggerated. many of its units are badly damaged and being patched together without much training. russia is also believe to be trying to recruit hundreds of thousands of new soldiers assigned that despite their setbacks. they are ready for a protracted war d. w reporter job dall rather analyzing the situation on the ground. now, with russian president, putin vowing to continue operations until all his aims, i'm met. i am military analysts, frankly lead which what will be considered a success at this stage of the war. i would say that success by putting some definitions already failed to happen, emanation of the ukrainian 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 dog 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 and 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 called actually, you know, general, he was commanding that region before you come on stuff, you know, the army as well behind what objectives and what they're going to say. what we're going to see now is russia trying to surround and annihilate russian forces in what to call salience or bulges, leave reaching their advantage in artillery and power. now they did that in the past quite successfully in 2015 on a much smaller scale of 9 to speak and doing that now against the ukrainians. you kind of learned a lot from that and what the trainings 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 sorta des logistics with the russians have organized that plan and capability and so forth. they may have an opportunity to, to do that. i don't think they have the russian armies. problems are 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 do . they haven't demonstrated 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. read 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 war kinds. 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 the users

in the iran iraq war and it was to try to break through, it really was really did it strike back at the rockies, use it for us. military analysts, frankly, which they're speaking to us a little earlier and other ukraine has. we captured the region around the capital. keith, military analysts believe odessa is higher. let me put in a 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 the desk even on the ground as our correspond, the junction of shots reports. now. 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 is too 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 sea cities where the fighting has been intensifying. many military analysts believed putin as planning to cut ukraine off from the c taco deserts. 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 putting which in the best wishes. roman mazda fears, defending odessa will involve. many more knights spend on the ground, is even started to install an internet network in the tunnels. in preparation for a possible long bachelor het ukrainian official say they've captured a fugitive. pro russian politician picked up at vet joke is a close associate of law to be putin and is the russian leaders. most influential ally in ukraine eventually had been on the house arrest facing treason challenges, but ukrainian authorities say he escapes up after russia's invasion. he was re arrested in a special operation by ukraine's secret service. i'm returning to butcher now. near the capital key found the sight of a massacre. it's trying to bury its dead civilians killed by russian troops. d w.

as nick calmly met a man in boucher who risked his own life, berry and strangers. while russian forces controlled the streets he, my tuk bear has the spare moment. a breeches main cemetery is one funeral after another . for now, there are any bearing those who dodge natural causes. if there is such a thing in wilton. but just a few weeks ago said he was driving the streets of butcher recovering the bodies of civilians, shot by russian forces, while their colleagues watched him from us. also, the hardest thing was collecting children's parties. it just doesn't make sense. i even recovered cyclists, bodies, people who were just out on their bags. one time we went out of town and found a car shot to pieces inside the car where a husband and wife was just out to look for firewood. the russians didn't care who

they shot at were for you. embosser, look, ovula, boucher alone. hundreds of civilians lost their lives at the hands of russian forces. most of them were short while out walking the streets in search of food. while local mental does he since he was being watched through the site begun. as soon as he left home, the dead was simply left where they had fallen. because of i didn't finish. oh was we arrived to pick up the bodies and suddenly they started shooting at us for some one hit me in the face with the butt of a gun. they'd been drinking and started shooting at us. why your level one russian checkpoint would let us come in and recover the bodies. but then at the next check point, you'd get shot at both. there was no coordination between them. it's a miracle westhal alive, but we're on our 3rd van already. oh. said his team would bring the bodies here to this churchyard where they had dug to lodge pits. with the help of a borrowed excavator. how many people he buried in total?

he can't even recall. but at this side to learn, it's upwards of a 120. more did all here go tell us some. it was total chaos. we weren't really counting carefully. we were burying people while we were getting shelled. of course, we were afraid, but we knew that no one apart from us would do the job. hoping before we collected all the documents we could find and gave them to the police. to look for me to well, it's a while. several weeks on the bodies and now being examined and taken to move in here and elsewhere for forensic examination. the findings are expected to provide the basis for future war crimes cases being leveled against the russian army. at the middle, the horror is also friendship and expected places. when you were, we met during the worst of the fighting here. we didn't even know each other before the guys offered to help me recover the bodies. they were willing to risk getting shot or bombed, where a team? no, i can't see as giving these out we, we still have

a lot of bodies to bury for william the presidents of poland and the baltic countries on their way to the ukrainian capital key for talks with president zalinski. germany's head of state fund by the state. i have been planning to go with him, but was informed during a visit to poland, but he was not welcome and keith as because he reached on my ass term as foreign minister. he pursued closer relations with russia. the 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 bonuses that was it another judah, my colleague and friend polish president. andre 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, lighter than not so that i was ready to do that about us. but apparently that was not wanted by tea around him again, and i have to acknowledge that others in here, 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. alexander mila is a member of parliament from germany as governing f. d p party. and as chairman of the defense committee, earlier, i asked him what we should read into gives decision not to welcome a visit by the german president. oh, i think this was a government,

i can understand it from my heart because a symbol for the, for the close relations of german social democracy with russia in the past years. but this has changed with the beginning of the war. also, social democrats got a very a distinct from, from russia, and this change is a severe and so now this decision from the ukrainian government to not invited maya, 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 appear in the next days or weeks because he can't when. when's dying?

my excluded from ukraine. you 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 reference german law. mike alexander miller, that from the fi, democrats parties speaking to us and also some other news, 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 was treated at hospital for gunshot wounds, smoke, inhalation, and other injuries. no motive is yet no with the attacker still on the loose. awe, confusion and panic during

a morning rush hour commute in the hearts of new york city. ah, i 1st knew of the modem of chicago did some of my friends. i didn't know hobbin i was. i was like, i was scared. i didn't know, i don't know to do. i didn't know i just got off the train. i stayed by some police officers and i just, i over the bus with the violence started on a train car traveling through a diverse working class neighborhood in brooklyn. witnesses say the attacker put on a gas mask, open to 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 reading and she she was very nervous with my phone. from that of the tree. emergency crews rushed more than a dozen victims to to local hospitals wide gone. 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. it will bought a single individual it while it is so difficult to suspect the lodge that we will find. no motive for the attack is known that so far investigators do not believe this with an act of terror. but yet another nath shooting as o'clock now at some of the other world headlines, dozens of people have died and floods and mud slides off the days of heavy rain and in and around the south african city of durban. local authorities expect the death

toll to rise. germany's foreign minister and alina babel visited molly, where more than 1300 german troops are stationed. berlin has yet to decide whether to extend the peacekeeping mission after france announced it was pulling out its troops. oklahoma governor kevin stitt as signed the bill making it illegal to perform abortions except in medical emergencies. those who do could be imprisoned for up to 10 years. this is the latest in a string of measures that limit abortion access across the united states. you're watching d, w. c. as a reminder of all main story u. s. president joe biden as gold, russian president vladimir hooton's war and ukraine genocide, biden said the kremlin was trying to wipe out the idea of ukrainian nation. putin has vows to continue military operations until russia has achieved all of it.

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