ah, ah ah, this is a w news live from berlin, u. s. president joe biden makes his very serious allegation yet against russia is vladimir putin. yes, i call the genocide biden says the crime is trying to wipe out the entire idea of ukrainian nation while russian claims ukrainian marines defending mattie of paul have surrendered. also on the program. and it says it will decide within weeks whether to apply for nato membership, public support for joining the western military alliance. assert following russia's

war in ukraine. flooding in south africa, claims hundreds of lives president sit around with areas to meet the families, that victims rescue a search for the missing enough to have the brain and mud slides sweep away homes and infrastructure. ah i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. he was president joe biden says he believes vladimir persons war in ukraine, amounts to genocide. it's the 1st time the rest leader has used the term to describe russia's actions is to bite and emphasize that this is his personal view that a court would make the ultimate rule. yes, i call the genocide because it become clear clear that bruton is that fine to wipe

out the idea of the baby brain mama, the evidence of mine that different though it last week, the more of it is coming out literally fall thing at the russians have done in ukraine, and we can only learn more more about the devastation joe biden. ukraine says it can't confirm russian media reports of more than a 1000 ukrainian marines. defending the besieged city of mariel, paul of surrendered, addressing estonia, parliament, ukrainian, president. volume is the landscape repeated. the claim that russia is using phosphorus bombs as part of its military campaign and said, europe must act to stop the war. russian troops on the streets of murray, you pull. 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 hoge in no one has

given the repeated threats from russian propagandists of using chemical weapons against the defenders of murray. you pull even and given the repeated use of, for example, phosphorus, munitions by the russian army, by people the world must react. now, what must react preventively and everybody preventive 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 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 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 look up, your russian president vladimir putin who has i, the don, best region for years said piece was off the table to so my go on ok. ukrainian side moved away from its agreement in istanbul. now the requirement for security guarantees is one thing. and the questions regarding settlement of relations with respect to crimea sufficed 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 of a w corresponded ice on the phenomena is in cave. i asked her what she's been hearing about motto. well indeed, the russian forces some are intensifying their assault on the city of from our yo

pole. and it seems that they are determined to capture this strategically so important city. they are trying to secure a land bridge between their forces in the next crimea and the russian army in the eastern part of ukraine and to, according to the russian defense ministry, more than the 101000, i'm sorry, 1000 offer service. a members of the ukrainian armed forces said there i have already surrendered and are held her captive. however, this isn't information that the ukrainian government is saying they cannot confirm because of course, at the moment access to their port city of my you pull is a very difficult if not impossible, from the outside world. but according to western a military officials or the city could fall in the next days. right. i'm, we're, we've heard a u. s. president joe biden describing this war as

a genocide. how has president zalinski or responded to that? well, zalinski praised biden for using this term genocide against ukrainians. he took to twitter saying that those are true words from a true leader. he also said that it's now essential to cold the things by their names. he encourage other leaders to do the same. however, we also so already that some of them in particular, the french president, a manuel mccall, are warning against using this to him, saying that to there are against are the escalation of words. however, for the recording and president who has been accusing the russian forces of carrying out a genocide again, sir, he's people, it is very important now to hear from the you as president who is using the same term because of course, he's hoping for more help from the you ask for more weapons. however,

the key question he would be whether you ask, would fundamentally change its response to the war. whether they would, for instance, does what kind of substance, what kind of weapons were used in this particular case. because for that international teams, international experts would have to have access would have to collect samples on the ground to talk to victims. and that is at the moment not possible did always alexander phenomena speaking to me earlier from kiff. while our d. w reporter jo delroy has taken a closer look at the latest military movements in ukraine. well, 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 pull 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 8th 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 told that's the city where a missile strike killed almost 60 civilians last week. russia also attacked an airport near denise pro, and they are close to encircling the city of mario pole, which would give russia full control along the coast of the sea. as of will now, ukraine is also concerned about possible movements in the area of channel history. 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 devonte calls he headed the russian forces in syria in 2050, 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 q. but how effective will this new strategy be? well, according to some u. s. analysts rushes 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. jo delroy,

a felons prime minister, says her country will make a decision on applying to join nato within weeks. santa martin has been holding towson stock home with her swedish counterpart mountain. i understand the 2 liter say europe security landscape has changed following russians invasion. and they're now carefully considering whether their country security would be improved by joining the military alliance. both finland and sweden make independently their decisions regarding security policy arrangements. but we do it thus with a clear understanding that our choices will affect not only ourselves, but our neighbors aswell. are aims clear. we want to guarantee peace in the future for us and for a region for europe, and to contribute towards thus aim with our own choices. we have to analyze the situation to see what is best for sweden's security for the swedish people in this

new situation. and mission to rush into that you should make it very seriously. that is how i work. as the swedish prime minister was work river date of his brussels, a correspondent to jack parrot, and a parent and asked him how finland would decide whether to join the alliance. well, this is the interesting point now is it's not just about whether they should but how they should go about joining nato. if they did want to what sanmar in the finish prime minister has done is put forward this security report to the parliament, which they will now start to discuss. they will have a look about what it means for their country, how it fits in with their countries, current security and military commitment. the big discussion is about whether this should be put to a referendum or to the people to decide whether they want to join the nato military alliance. actually the finish president recently said that probably wasn't necessary because what they've seen is overwhelming evidence that the people of finland are in favor of joining the nato military alliance has gone up by about 19

percentage points since the invasion of ukraine at the end of february, meaning that somewhere in the region, depending on the polls you look at, but some can be sort of late sixties, early 70 percent of the population are in favor of joining nato. so now what they're going to do is she said, is going to be within weeks, they're going to how to start having serious discussions about joining the nato military alliance. remember that in june there's this big summit of nato leaders in madrid. and most people are saying that sort of forms a kind of time frame that if these 2 countries in sweden did want to apply to join to be members doing it before that june, summit would be a good thing to do. my at similar situation in sweden. well actually in sweden, if you watch that press conference earlier, it looks more like sweden. we're a little, the sweetest prime minister was slightly more reticent than the finish, a prime minister about that, their potential joining of nato. but one of the major newspapers ins feed sweden

spencer tag bullet that has a just released an article saying that actually they have the sources within the government. telling them that the swedish government will apply for nato membership themselves before the june summit as well. so that so, so up for debate, how they will do it would then need to be a referendum that the e u commissioner from sweden a. l. v. hanson said that she didn't think that a referendum would be necessary. remember in european union countries, we saw that breaks it referendum only a few years ago, which was down to the wire and cause a major shift in a political upheaval in britain. and so i think politicians in, in europe is slightly nervous to put this kind of thing on their own political fortunes to a vote when they know they already have pretty broad support for membership in sweden. i think the, the most recent poll, the i've seen said about 59 percent rival, are in favor of joining nato. and one of these countries or finland this when,

why they avoided nato membership until now. a braille is historical, partly good, you know, to try and prevent any sort of trouble with russia. finland is, had this sort of special security relationship with russia. they have a 1300 kilometer plus border with russia. and obviously, the kremlin, even even, you know, in the last few days, the criminal spokesperson, dimitri passcode has come out and said that if, if in sweden were to join nato, that they would have to re balance their situation could be potential for russian troops to be heading towards the finish border and the sentence has been, it's been a delicate balance until it for this, for this period. historically over see there was the war in 1939. the film was involved with the soviet union with the soviets. and so because of that, there's been a complicated relationship with and i may start to be changing off the invasion of

ukraine as they don't use brussels corresponding jack paragraphs speaking with malaria. a more than 4 and a half 1000000 refugees are flat. the war in ukraine, according to the un, among them are tens of thousands of ukrainian jews. the majority of who have gone to neighboring countries like mo dover w correspondent, tanya cremmit traveled to the capital. and she said out why the jewish communities willing to help a former printing house in the mold oven capital kyshay. now now a refugee reception center. it has been set up by israeli 8 organizations to support jewish refugees from ukraine and help them immigrate or make a yard to israel. for godaddy tie man down from tel aviv this work is very close to his heart. as a child, he left ukraine for israel with his parents of the long journey, a good night sleep, and resolute before the fire. this is our goal to send the people as fast as

possible. all the basic needs that they need to ease her to say new year has already started over once before she was brutal from her home because of the conflict and the new hunt region in 2014. she hoped she has the necessary documents on hand. it betty stuff at you. i just want to finally start living normally. i want a family kid to live in a place of a peaceful country under peaceful skies in yet, but i don't want to run from the war again to the 2nd 30 at this time. you might me, if i'm sorry, not everybody gets permission. documents are checked by israeli counselors, stuff on site by is ready law. some one with at least one jewish grandfather is eligible to receive citizenship. we hope the community and on the jewish organization to hold them in time to live somewhere to lead to of the condition for

the few days that they're real and checking the document. if the of the wire to came to we learned where the know and then flying google involvement, some of the refugees also want to go to other countries like germany or stay in moldova. the local jewish community has also stepped in to help. the habit synagogue under renovation has opened its doors to refugees. in the soup kitchen, cook natalie believes a daily hot meal helps people in crisis. a lot of beer. we made lots of soup lentil soup moors salads and that sort of thing to make them feel better and ready to give people strength and happiness. talk about some math some bittersweet moments at the airport. irina, you are the mother and her mother from khaki in easton, ukraine are among the 80 people permitted to port. the flight to tel aviv

are willingly were already ready to move. but of course, it's very scary to leave what you've learned for the place where you live do studied and worked. the war, of course, sped up our decision. now can you cite of so scored as well as relief even as says her thoughts are also with those left behind our quick look out. so must or is away from the war on palestinian officials, say israel, the forces shot and killed a man during military operation in the west bank. israel has stepped up raids and arrests across the west bank in recent days as follows. the space of killing finish rail over the past weeks by pumps. things shall i. st. remain mostly empty, following police warnings that they will punish anyone violating the cities strict corona virus, lockdown, or 25000000 residents have been ordered to stay home and cars have been banned from roads. with few exceptions,

shanghai is now battling china's biggest coffee 19 outbreak. primary co, the prime minister of ivory coast, patrick archie, has resigned. a new slim down government is expected to be chosen. and next week, i announced his decision after the president announced plans to restructure the administration. is the country's 3rd prime minister in the last 2 years. as $250.00 people have died in floods close to the south african city of durban days of record rainfall of left at thousands of homes and critical infrastructure destroyed. the military of helped evacuate residents from the worst affected areas of african president of civil ram, oppose affinity, devon, a wednesday. the w correspondent adrian creek told me more about the situation. both betsel and to me to particular said how many children were affected when pending, right? now you can see behind me where the lent light it's happening. this was the room of

10 year old. that collapse on her. she passed away. a family just told me about it . they obviously devastating. and just next to it to the camera and just joan. it is another place that collapse the neighbors place where grandmother stayed with 3 children, only one of the kids, the wives, all these, the others died. the youngest one was just 3 years old. and as you drive through durban, today, you can see this devastation and these kind of life all over the place on a different area. so it is likely that the death toll will continue to increase as the rescue works continue. and was the city prepared for this, this massive rainstorm? well, obviously, not prepared enough for them. something the official even said, took us by the price i was strong tallman, this rain falls, where some critics already complaining that the drainage systems were not in place, that there was not proper investment into the interest structure. and the yes,

so this might have accelerated biscuits, esther fee the to y'all ever keep on thing. the major issue was landslide, so they tried to push away the responsibility. but what is clear that this area has seen those events in the past. that is whether appearance has been happening in the past years, 2900, for example. also 60 people died when a similar with the current came to this area as well. but it's all over southern africa that especially this year we're seeing an increase the number of these then they truly have that cycle and tropical storm. we've seen almost 200 people killed in a tropical storm and my gas got in february and march. and scientists are saying that this is clearly in relation to the global climate change. we see more intense rainfalls. we cbs caps, hester fees, and this is something also south africa president through run up with a mentioned here. you also said that this event, what we're seeing here now is part of climate change. right. and so what help is the government providing as we speak as you

are and i was, i just came to visit this place and he went to several locations, the president himself, to talk to the resident to see what the needs are likely that they're going to declare the state of disaster for the entire province to facilitate and help on the national level as well. but we've had also critical voices from residency. who is that? well, when we had the last disaster, we got lots of promises and little happened. many people are still waiting for for new houses ever since then. the summer, not optimistic. on the other hand, we do see that help is coming in here. mentors abroad in the relief organizations are trying to help those who are affected of this disaster at the moment, the governments that's the key priority is to get shelter for the thousands of people who became homeless overnight. ah, football and barn munich has been kicked out of the champions league by spanish side via rail danya. barcelona from d. w. sports is here to talk us through biomes. shock exit in the quarter finals are welcome danya. what went wrong for buyer?

well, in order to win football games, you need to be able to score goals and buy, and they really just couldn't do that over 2 legs. now they lost the 1st leg, one nail in span. everyone really expected them to be able to turn that around easily learned ascii did give buying the lead in the 2nd half, but they really could not capitalize on their chances in the game. and in the 8th minute, very i'll through sam, roger whizzy, they scored the goal, tied the game up, and that ultimately sent them into the semi finals. now after the game nag was, man barnes code was pretty disappointed. he even called out one of his players, which we can actually see here. ah, it was not a good day for buying ma'am and to go get some people missing the 2nd goal, a little bit in the end chosen went almost we had a great chance with thomas miller. and if we'd have scored that we would have one miss westlake over all the pressure was group today. i think it was very good defensively. we allowed and it's a lot more. but of course that's normal. when you need to score, you have to take

a bit more risk than the opponents of nevertheless, i think we dominated for long stretches. it just doesn't matter because we're eliminates isn't to where does this leave by? well it leaves them in a bit of a mess actually because as byrom unit, you're really expected to make it as a minimum to the semi finals of the champions. like now they're out of the day of the po, cal, this season. they're out of the champions league. ok, they're going to win their 10th when they get title, probably, but that's just not enough. if you're byron, you can also see that this year they might lose some top stars like lawn dusky now breeze. so it's a bit of a dark moment. and so how big a wind is this for via ray allen, who the big names still left in the competition. so this is a massive victory for various, i mean they're a small club and under dog everyone loves that kind of story. but they did when the euroleague last year, they knocked out event as an buyer now, so people will not be taking them so lightly. now we have real madrid still last we could have athletic coal or man city or liverpool. so it'll be interesting to see now what goes on. i thank you for that. done your bossa

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