ah ah ah, this is deed of you news live from berlin. the united states is sending weapons worth $800000000.00 to ukraine. washington hopes additional assistance will help the ukrainian army repel a russian offensive in the east. the latest equipment includes heavy artillery and helicopters and devastating floods. sweep away homes and infrastructure in south africa, killing hundreds of people. president 0 ram opposed to pledges help for the victims and says, the disaster is part of climate change. ah,

annexed by sir. welcome to the program. the american president joe barden has approved $800000000.00 in additional military assistance to ukraine. the package includes heavy artillery and helicopters as the country prepared to defend itself from a renewed russian assault that's expected to target. the east of the country. satellite images have shown large convoys of rush military vehicles converging on the don bass region. murray, u poll, is in ruins. after weeks of russian bombardment, the u. s. says it is once again sending arms to ukraine to stop russia's destruction of the country. for today, the president announced and author us another presidential drawdown of security assistance, valued it up to an additional $800000000.00 tailored to meet urgent ukrainian needs

for today's fight. as russian forces shift the focus of their ruthless aggression now to eastern ukraine, ukraine's president expressed his gratitude. we've agreed on $800000000.00 in military aid for weapons, ammunition, artillery helicopters and more than i am sincerely thankful for the support that you get. the need for more arms as urgent as russian convoys converge on eastern ukraine. analysts say the weapons in the american package, such as long range howitzers, are especially suited to ukraine's defense of the eastern don bass region. so you one system like that that can fire your 3040 kilometers away from where you are trying to break up the military long before he gets close to you and that's what ukrainians need at this moment. they need to destroy the rushing convoys

before they even get to the cities or near to locations. they want to take. the pentagon said it was rushing to send the equipment, but did not provide a time table for the people in the eastern ukrainian city of seattle, rodonna ask something as simple as walking to get groceries is a calculated risk that could end in tragedy. war has brought life to a standstill though it's a disaster. got every 10 or 15 minutes in bam. bam. bah, yahoo, i live on the 7th floor of a 9 floor building. it just imagine boom from one side band from the other. and then you think the roof will cave in and kill you foil. it's i put asleep for some, the fighting is too much to bear. a bus takes them away from the bombs. but others are staying behind, hoping to survive the russian advance. if weapons from the u. s, don't stop at 1st. the war ship moscow,

the flagship of the russian black sea fleet has been badly damaged after an explosion. russian defense ministry set a fire caused ammunition to detonate. didn't say what caused the blaze, but did say the entire crew of 500 sailors had been evacuated. however, ukrainian officials claim 2 of their missiles hit the ship despite vladimir putin to claim that peace talks with keith or at a dead end. austria's chance they're called they hammer says he believes there is this lim, window of opportunity. they hammer met with both ukrainian president low to mid lensky and russian placement vladimir putin in recent days. in an interview. the hammer said both are in a war time state of mind, but both know that it has to end at some point. the big question will be, is a face saving end to this war for both sides still possible. talks between ukraine and russia appeared deadlock and for perspective on how to

break that log jam. we spoke to andrew gilmore, who is a former, you an assistant secretary general for human rights and executive director of the burg hot foundation in berlin. thank you. i of course, went away live in hope that any offer will have a diplomatic solution. right now, i'm not terribly hopeful. we just heard from your excellent reporters, how the war is intensifying and it's clear. i think that there's a boot in. it's almost desperate to be able to present some victory on the emblematic day of the 9th of may. so right now i do not see much. i think there are 2 things. one must always do when there is a case of an aggressive victim. ok. so one moment you never push the victim just to keep on hiking, just because it's in strategic interests of outside this for them to do so. so fighting the last ukranian, but that's wrong. but is it also be wrong to try to put pressure on the victim of aggressions to accept a piece that he doesn't want to accept. therefore,

to put undue pressure on them to accept a compromise that you do not want to accept. so that is something moment also bear in mind while obviously doing everything possible to show that there is, if you feel it is in. and if i'm a human rights groups are accusing russian forces of human rights abuses impossible . war crimes. the american president has called what's happening a genocide, you do agree with that language. i would say denial, that there are a daily war crimes and indeed something was crimes against humanity. which means that unlike will crimes, which can be just be isolated cases that to be widespread. i'm systematic patterns and against civilians. and that is clearly i would say very likely to be the case genocide. it is too early to say that it's such a word, it shouldn't be used lightly and really does need a very, very substantial investigation for it to be ready for it to be judged. but don't

forget, norm, but we're based on crimes against humanity. these are not petty crimes in a way focusing on that. perhaps more important than deciding whether it's even one step beyond that. and just to sort of stay on the level of the values that you know, keep, keep our world together. western powers say that russia's invasion of ukraine is an attack on the rules based international order. is that a fair assessment? do you think it's the very doesn't that it is an attack, but i would say it is very unfair for the west, but also by the end of the western powers. i would really, really stop talking about attacks on the, on the bass order because the bus for ga, the, well look at the west and say, he does not iraq, afghanistan in the b as in yemen, invalid time. i mean, what do you use to. 5 attacks on the, on the move a thought up, but it is. but when the western is seen as saying that if you disregard just rank,

you see. so they really should do that because shoes, sections of the world, as you know, haven't really aligned either with nature or with russia, and therefore it is to keep them on board. and so lecturing them about rule based orders when the west is seem to mix it so many breaches of that themselves is my view west and attacks community and it just to continue in that vein. your organization to burg foundation has made an appeal not to forget the other major crises going on around the world. what are the dangers here? okay. that, that is really, really important. and really, the last question is, well, because you do need is actually essential that of the world doesn't see this just as the europeans being self interested. much the rest above does not see this in quite, that's a global way as europeans do. and they just say, europeans are only so excited about this because it's happening on the doorstep, but they're equally awful boys going on elsewhere. what they do see is that they

can be major knock on effects on the economies of all these countries, not least because the food supplies, the grain that comes from the ukraine and russia and the west must recognize that. but the other aspect of hypocrisy, that is certain both is that we have to show that we are still equally interested not equally, but at least sufficiently interested in the issues that germany has been very good at helping us do it through a grid, reduce conflict and i've got it on you and then you and other places, but it didn't really push it in my view that the west germany says way here. it should not take his eye off those other bulls as well. yes, we understand why the has to be asked to focus on your brain right now, but for goodness faith show that you also want to you care about ending conflict in a database as well. that was andrew gilmore, a former you an assistant secretary general for human rights speaking earlier to d, w. and here's some of the other headlines on the war and ukraine. russia has warned

that it would bolster its defences, should sweden and finland join nato. russian security council council deputy chairman to meet him and yet have said there would be no more talk of a nuclear free baltic region if the countries were to join the military alliance, and that it would strengthen its forces to quote, restore balance, to the area ukraine. says it is reopening humanitarian cor doors to allow the evacuation of civilians from war torn areas. it says 9 routes would be opened in the east and south, including one from the besieged city of nati. opal. reopening comes just a day after the roots are close on safety grounds. austria and chancellor call. ne hammer says vladimir putin told him that monday's meeting in moscow, russia would not turn off his gas applied to austria. now they hammer says austria can also continue to pay russia in euro's austria, gets 80 percent of its natural gas from russia, and opposes an immediate e u. embargo. and he made me devastating floods triggered by heavy rains in south

africa. durbin area have claimed over 300 lives president cyril ram, opposed to called it a catastrophe of enormous proportions and blamed climate change. the death toll is expected to rise a search and rescue efforts to continue the water has gun, but the damage roommates, 2 days of heavy rains and flats destroyed thousands of houses in and around the city of do it. major infrastructure like roads and bridges, simply washed away. as you drive through durban, you come across many of those lance lights like this one here was you can see in the middle of it, there was a house that was flashed away with the lens light. there was a family staying in the egg rents mother with 3 grand children. 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 terrible. i felt like my house was like, dozen pieces. she wasn't badly, girl. joyful, always happy laugh if do i around the corner authorities set up a shelter in a school. thousands became homeless overnight during a visit president sewell ram up was up promised help knowing that the limited resources of the state won't reach every one 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 whoa. what we need to do the measures we need to take to deal with climate change yet and how, what do management capability needs to be at a higher level? ubida nina hopes for assistance from the government, but doubts, she will get. it's everything the family own. she says is gone. like many years she tries to stay optimistic, but more rain has been predicted for the easter weekend. and here's a round up of some other world news headlines. clashes have broken up between israeli soldiers and palestinian use after israeli armed forces killed a lawyer and 2 teens. during res in the occupied westbank. israeli forces have

stepped up operations across the west bank in recent days. this follows a spade of killings in israel, in recent weeks by palestinian police in new york have arrested a man suspected of shooting 10 people to attend people on a subway train on tuesday authority say 62 year old frank. james will face federal charges for a terrorist defense. new york police commissioner says a tip from the public led to the arrest. i cassandra, former prime minister im ran can, has calls for fresh elections at a rally in the north. western city of shower can was removed by parliament last weekend and replaced by opposition lawmaker shabazz sharif can accuses the united states of causing his removal. you're watching t w news. here's a reminder of our main stories. american president joe biden has promised $800000000.00 in additional military assistance to ukraine. package includes heavy artillery as the country compares to defend against a massive russian salt expected that these to the country up

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