[000:00:00;00] ah, this is the w y from berlin, u. s. president joe biden makes his most serious allegation yet against russia. vladimir potent. yes, i call the genocide. mr. biden says, the claimant's trying to wipe out the entire idea of ukrainian nation, put in while russia claims that ukrainian marines defending body of all have surrendered also on the program and says it will decide within weeks whether to apply for nato membership, public support for joining the western military alliance for surge,

since russia invited you pray and flooding in south africa claims hundreds of lives . many others are still missing after heavy rain and mud, slide sweet white homes and infrastructure, and one of south africa's and deadly stores. ah, i'm from gail. welcome to the program. yes, president joe biden says he believes vladimir putin, warren, you cried amounts to genocide. it's the 1st time the u. s. leader has used the term to describe russia's actions. so he emphasized that that was his personal view and said that ultimately a court would decide yes, i'd call the genocide to become clear, clear with trying to write about the idea of the baby brain

mama, the evidence that different though it last week, the more evidence is coming out literally for the russians have done in ukraine, and we can only learn more and more about the devastation joe biden. now ukraine says it con, confirm russian me the reports of more than a 1000 ukranian marines, defending the besieged port, city of mariel. paul of surrendered dressing is stony of parliament, ukrainian president vladimir lensky, repeated his 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. you cranes, 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 new

and then a 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, phosphorus, munitions by the russian army, by people, the world must react. now what must react preventively about the preventive not across eastern ukraine. people are fleeing ahead of an expected wide scale russian assault on the don best region. military analysts say the dawn bests with its 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 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 has i, the don, best region for years. said piece was off the table to so many go, no grains, ukrainian side moved away from its agreement in istanbul. now the requirement for security guarantees is one thing. the buses and the questions regarding settlement of relations with respect to crimea serv asked 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. they w correspondent, thunder phone numbers in is in cave, and i asked her what she's been hearing about many up all. 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 a city there are trying to secure a land bridge between their forces in the next crimea and at 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 ukraine 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 sir, to the 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? while zelinski 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 is 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 in manuel my call, our warning against using this to him, saying that to there are against are the escalation of words. however, for that were crying 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 with 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, decide to have american boots on the ground. that is not likely to happen because joe biden has rolled it out from the beginning. right. and these are these accusations from the ukrainian side that russia has been using a chemical weapons in mary awful presence zalinski. and i say, he can't say with certainty whether that's the case or when we likely to know more i'm not sure whether we will really learn more in terms of whether we will really be sure what kind of substance, what kinds 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.

d, w 's alexandra phenomena. speaking with me a little earlier from here. now, the w reported jo delroy has been taking a closer look at the latest miniature movement in ukraine. will 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 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 izzy room. there's been a push towards crime, a talk. 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 of as of will. now ukraine is also concerned about possible movements in the area of trans in history . now that is a break away region in moldova, that is aligned with russia. and now ukraine says it is concerned that russian forces station there, along with local palin 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 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 kia. 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, though right now, felons prime minister says her country will make a decision on applying to join nato within weeks. son, martin has been holding toss and stuck her with her swedish count bought magdalena anderson. the 2 leaders say europe security landscape has changed funding russians invasion of ukraine. and they're now carefully considering whether the country's security would be improved by joining the western 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 he shouldn't rush into that, you should make it very seriously. that is how i work. as the swedish prime minister, when i spoke with the builder's brussels correspondent jack para, can i asked him how offended would make its decision? well, this is the interesting point. there 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's 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 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 gonna have 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, finland, 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, slightly more reticent than the finish, our prime minister about that their potential joining of nato. but one of the major newspapers ins feed sweden is fencer doug 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 vianza and said that she didn't think that a referendum would be necessary. remember in european union countries,

we saw that breaks that 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 are finland is when, why they avoided nato membership until now. approval is historical, partly could you know, to try and prevent any sort of trouble with russia. finland has had this sort of special security relationship with russia. they have a 1300 kilometer plus border with russia and oversee 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 in this sentence has been, it's been a delicate balance until it for this, for this period historically, obviously there was the war in 1939. the film is involved with the soviet union with the soviets. and so because of that, there's been, you know, a complicated relationship with and i may start to be changing off the invasion of ukraine as brussel correspondent jack perez speaking to be able to learn more than 4 and a half 1000000 refugees have fled the war in ukraine, according to the u. n. majority of them end up in neighboring countries like moldova, amongst them are tens of thousands of ukrainian jews. at the w correspondence, tanya kraemer traveled to the ball, dove in that capital, and she's, you know, where the jewish community is rallying 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 to help them immigrate or make a yard to israel. so guardy tire 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 to sleep, and presently 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 say new year has already started over once before she was uprooted from her home because of the conflict and the new hunt region in 2014, she hoped she has the necessary documents on hand. it did, betty, but i'll stop at you. i just want to finally start living. normally. i want a family kid to live in a place on a peaceful country under peaceful skies in yet,

but me. i don't want to run from the war again for the 2nd 30 at this time. my 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 view 2 of the condition. for the few days that they are real and checking the document, if the of the wire to came to we worldwide the know and then find 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 beliefs

a daily hot meal helps people in crisis. a lot of beer, we made lots of su lentil soup, bush 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 east and 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. he rena says her thoughts are also with those left behind all here's a quick round up of asked or is away from the war. a palestinian official says railey forces shot and killed

a man during military operations in the west bank. israel has stepped up rides and rest across the west bank of recent days. this follows a spite of killings in israel and the past weeks by palestinians. the 16 people have been killed and others injured in a truck accident in indonesia as west poppy popular province. a truck carrying miners and their families had been descending from an illegal gold mine in a remote mountain village. several tornadoes swept across the central united states. chain of thunderstorms brought hale and strong winds to parts of iowa and texas. dozens of people were injured and several structures damaged. in one of the strikes, shanghai streets remained mostly empty, following police warnings that they'll punish anyone violating the city strict corona virus lockdown. more than 25000000 residents have been ordered to stay at home and cause to be banned from roads. with few exceptions,

shanghai as now baffling china's biggest covey 19 outbreak. prime minister of ivory coast, patrick archie has resigned and you slipped down governments expected to be announced next week in us. this decision, after the president announced the plans to restructure the administration. is the country said prime minister in the last 2 years. i was on a more than 250 people have died in floods close to the south africa city of durban days of record rainfall of left thousands of homes and critical infrastructure destroyed. military have helped evacuate residents from worst affected areas. south african president, 0 ram of pose, have visited devon on wednesday. the w correspondent and increase use in devon told me more betsel and to meet the 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. and family just told me about it obviously devastating and just next to it to the camera and just joan. it is another place that collapse the neighbors place where the 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 some city officials even said took us by surprise . how strong the storm and it's rainfalls where some critics already complaining that the drainage systems were not in place, that there was not a proper investment into the interest structure. and the yes, so this might have accelerated biscuits, esther fee that to y'all ever keep on saying that

a major issue was landslide. so they tried to push away the responsibility. but when it's clear that this area has seen those events in the past, it is whether appearance has been happening in the past years. 2019, for example. also 60 people died when it's similar with the current came to this area as well. but it's all over southern africa that's 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 are 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 see these cap tester fees and this is something also thought efficacy, president theory from 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 we are and i was, i just came to visit this place and he went to several locations, the president himself to talk to the residents,

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. it was said, well when we had the last year, 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. matrices abroad in the relief organizations are trying to help those who are affected of this disaster. at the moment the governments at the key priority is to get shelter for the thousands of people who became homeless overnight. ah, all unborn music has been kicked out of the champions league by spanish sy via rail danya. barcelona from d. w. sports is here to talk us through bios shock. exit in the quarter finals are welcome danya. what went wrong for a 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 spain. 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 8 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, byron's coach 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 bion, ma'am indigo yet. so we were missing the 2nd goal, a little bit in the end chosen, went to was we had a great chance with thomas miller. and if we did school 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 the. nevertheless, i think we dominated for long stretches. it just doesn't matter because we're

eliminates isn't. so where does this leave by? well, it leaves them in a bit of a mess actually, because as byron munich, 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 titled, 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 one dusky now breeze. so it's a bit of dark moment. and so how big a wind is this for via ray allen, who the big name still left in the competition. so this is a massive victory for various. i mean, they're small club, an underdog. everyone loves that kind of story, but they did when the euro believe 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 call or man city, or liverpool. so it'll be interesting to see now what goes on. i thank you for that . done your bossa d w school?

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