[000:00:00;00] ah, this is dw news live from berlin. another $800000000.00 worth of u. s. weapons are on their way to ukraine. washington wants to help to fend off a renew defensive by russian forces in east and ukraine. the announcement comes as investigators exam. dozens of bodies from a mass grave in the town of boucher and finland says it will decide soon on applying for nato membership. public support for joining new to us. since russia

invaded ukraine, devastating floods sweep away homes and infrastructure in south africa, killing hundreds of people. president obama most of pledges help to the victims and says, the disaster is part of climate change. ah, i'm told me your logic. well, it's good to have you with us. you as president joe biden has approved $800000000.00 in additional military assistance to ukraine. the package includes heavy artillery as q prepared to defend against the massive russian assault expected in easter ukraine. and the chief prosecutor of the international criminal court said you, crane is a crime scene. he made the comment while visiting the town of butcher, near key of 100. the civilians were found dead after russian forces withdrew. russia dismisses it as fake or staged,

but evidence is mounting of low crimes committed by russian troops in ukraine. a 2nd mass grave has been excavated in boucher investigators say it contained 40 to 60 bodies less than a week ago. 57 bodies were exhumed from another mass grave in the town near key. if this and news of other atrocities led president joe biden, to break, or to bu and accuse the kremlin directly of genocide, i call the jealous i become clear, clear brooded, finer, white above the idea of a baby crane's mom. the evidence of mary livermore last week, the more evidence coming out of literally all of the rushes have done in ukraine in a press conference with reporters kremlin spokesman dmitri bess. gov rejected the accusation and said washington's past means it has no right to make such judgments. or could

you any skin immune if only of her glee categorically disagree and consider this kind of effort to distort the situation unacceptable. her. kimberly moreover, as we said before, emma, this is hardly acceptable from a president of the united states, a country that has committed well known crimes. in recent times, vienna kitchena and marie emily. she stood the sudden port city of matthew paul was long. the focus of the fighting, now the besieged city has been largely destroyed. ukraine accuses the kremlin of using chemical weapons there. but president zalinski admitted it is difficult to verify the claim while the city is under siege. mario paused mer, said russia was doing all it could to destroy the evidence of atrocities. in the higher intelligence has concerned to day, the 13 mobile crematory, i have arrived in the city and are being prepared to get rid of the evidence of war

crimes committed by the russian federation in the city. as russia apparently prepared to shift its military focus to the east of ukraine, there are fears. many places in that region could suffer the same fate as matter. you all ukrainian president villa demur. zalinski has made an urgent appeal for more weapons ahead of unexpected russian offensive in eastern ukraine. it, of course, women, alexandra phenomena has more from kiff. while the agreeing in government has been bracing for major russian offensive for in the eastern and south eastern part of the country warning that russia was so massing their troops, deb, they're moving them into towards the strategically important city of ian. and apparently there's harassment now is that russia is ready. and of course everyone here understands that this is a pivotal moment as and as the, the battlefield shifts,

their weapons that the ukrainian forces are wanting are needing, are also changing. and sir, that is why perhaps we saw a very strong address from the ukranian president. today he urge western leaders to provide ukraine with heavy weapons with tanks are more vehicles, air defense systems, of course, and combat jets to protect civilians and ukrainian forces from russian missiles and air strikes. did of these alexandra phenomena speaking from keith? oh, the most important warship in russia's black sea fleet, good moskva has been badly damage after on board explosion. the russian defense mystery said the incident was caused by a fire at the ship's ammunition debrel. the ministry did not specify the cause of the blaze, but then the entire crew of 500 have been evacuated. and yeah,

and you are ukranian officials of the ship had been hit by 2 missiles, but did not give any evidence. the claim villains, prime minister, says a country will decide within weeks whether or not to apply to join nato. fealand is traditionally non aligned, but public opinion on natal membership has changed dramatically since the start of the russian invasion of ukraine. russia has warned both finland and sweden against joining the alliance. their joint appearance demonstrates neighborliness. but mal sweden's and finland's hands of government both moved toward nato membership. that's the main question being addressed at today's meeting and stockholm. we have to really think through what is best for sweden and our security and our peace in this new situation. and of course, what is happening and the discussion in finland is important for us to follow. therefore we need to have a very close contact. this is

a completely new security situation for finland and sweden until now the countries have been neutral viewing themselves as negotiators between east and west. but the war in ukraine has changed all that, including their attitude to nato are there is no other way to have security guarantees than under nato's deterrence and common defense as guaranteed by natives . article 5, the moon has shifted in both countries. more and more people now support nato membership the emerson or garden, i've changed my mind over the last month on finland, cannot defend itself alone. it will vary among the skill, yvonne, it would be safer for us swedes to join, yet we should do so as quickly as possible. finland plans to decide in the coming weeks. sweden, probably by summer, russia says any expansion of nato will have negative consequences. more than

4500000 refugees have led the war in ukraine according to the un, the majority of whom end up in neighboring countries like moldova, among them, a tens of thousands of ukrainian jews. dw correspondent tenure kraemer traveled to the moldova and capital. she, she now kitchena, 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 omega yard to israel. forgot the 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. oh, good, good night to sleep and resolute before the fire. this is our goal to send the boat

as fast as possible. i'll do it basically that they need to ease her to say new york 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 video, 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 is, i'm sorry. not everybody gets permission. documents are checked by israeli counselor stuff onside by israeli know someone with at least one jewish grandfather is eligible to receive citizenship. we hope the community and on the jewish organization to help 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 learned word 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 whole lot better where 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 bitter sweet moments at the airport. irina you have him over and her mother from cocky in east and ukraine are among the 80 people are permitted to board the flight to tel aviv. i will agree we're already ready to move. but of course,

it's very scary to leave when you've worked for the place where you live do studied and worked. the war, of course, sped up our decision. now, can you say it of so scored, as well as relief even as says? her thoughts are also with those left behind here is a round up now of of a world news headlines. pakistan's, former prime minister in ron can, has called for fresh elections at a rally in the north. western city of peshawar can was removed by parliament last weekend and replaced by opposition lawmaker shabbat sharif. kiners accused the worse of being behind his removal. flashes of broken out between his relished soldiers and palestinian youth after 3 people were killed during raids in the occupied west bank. is there any forces of stepped up operations across the west bank in recent days as follows,

a spate of killings in israel in recent weeks by palestinians. lisa, new york have arrested a man suspected of shooting 10 people on a subway train on tuesday authority say 62 year old frank james will face federal charges for a terrorist offense. york police commissioner said he was detained after a tip off from the public. devastating floods triggered by heavy rains in south africa as dub an area of claimed over 300 lives as denser rum up also called it a catastrophe of enormous proportions and blamed climate change. the death told is expected to rise as search and rescue efforts continue. the water has gun, but the damage remains. 2 days of heavy rains and flats destroyed thousands of houses in and around the city of durban. major infrastructure like roads and bridges,

simply washed away. so as you drive through durban, you come across many of those lance lights like this one here where you can see in the middle of it there was a house that was flashed away with the landslide. there was a family staying in the egg, rents mother with her 3 grandchildren. one of the children managed to get out all the others passed away. the youngest child was just 3 years old. neighbor loom deal in the, in a still trying to get to terms with what happened. she was inside when the soil started moving and the family home collapsed, killing her 10 year old cousin as under pitiful. i felt like my house was lacking, dozen pieces she has it badly go. joyful, always happy laugh if the one around the corner authorities set up

a shelter in the school. thousands became homeless overnight during a visit. president sewell ram up was up promised help, knowing that the limited resources of the state will reach everyone and knowing that this will not be the last disaster. they have been similar flats in the area in the past. yes. this is obviously, is part of climate change. it is telling us that the climate change is serious. it is here. we no longer can postpone what we need to do. the measure we need to take to deal with dr with management capability needs to be at the higher level needed needed hopes for assistance from the government, but doubts, she will get its every thing the family own. she says is god. like many years she

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