ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, the united states is sending weapons worth $800000000.00 to ukraine. washington hopes the additional assistance will help the ukrainian army repel a russian offensive in the east. the latest equipment includes heavy artillery, antelli copters, ukraine says its missiles have knocked the flagship of russia's black sea fleet. out of commission. russia has only acknowledged that a fire on board seriously damaged the missile cruiser. and devastating floods,

re weigh homes and infrastructure in south africa, killing hundreds of people. president cyril rom, opposing pledges help for the victims and says, disaster is part of climate change. ah, i'm pablo police. welcome to the program. u. s. president joe biden has approved $800000000.00 an additional military assistance to ukraine. the package includes heavy artillery ant helicopters as the country prepares 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 russian military vehicles converging on the don bass region. murray, you 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. ah, today at present and announced and authorize. another presidential draw down 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 that all the need for more arms is 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 on vast region. so you want

a 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. it's 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. 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. what, let's say 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 . well for more on what ukraine is facing, we spoke earlier to vladimir kitch go. he's a former boxing champion and, and i'm fighting as part of ukraine's territorial defense forces. kitch go is the brother of the mayor of keith and he joined us from their in the past days, you could tell that see these getting back to life so to speak. you see more people on the streets as well as more cars on the roads. so there is the traffic in a certain way and even though the city is getting back to life, but we need to be really cautiously, how many people are coming back to the city to the capital. because we do believe

that russians will not, will not, i'm going anywhere but a still aiming at the capital. so in the next coming days, obviously we'll live major major battles in east, in the south of the country. and we, we really look for look to defense and defense. so east of the country as well as preparing for possible coming back and naming the capital. and so even though the lab is that we need to be really cautiously with every step and how many people are coming back to the city and to the mayor of the city. advise, advise people that leave in the capital for not for waiting, waiting for coming back just or getting the process really slow. vladimir,

what can you tell us about the situation and matter? you pol russia is reporting a mass surrender of ukrainian forces. so has the city surrendered, or is it still being defended? the city of the matter of fact, the cities still defended them. defenders of the city are stealing money. well, the situation is very critical, very critical. for the past 2 weeks, the city has been endlessly bombarded and the russian troops were trying to capture the city completely. they didn't have success. and the said the situation is very critical on every aspect. i don't know how many thousands of civilians have been killed and how many are still in the city. very difficult to get exact numbers. do the situation, understandably, but the city is still fighting back. i'm proud of our country women and men

for standing together against this says this war in russian aggression, especially in cedar maribelle, vladimir, russia, appears to be massing its forces for a major offensive in the south and southeast. you mentioned that a little earlier. are your defense forces prepared for that? we are prepared for a new think as we war for the bass. today is the day 50 of the war that russia has started. we are prepared for anything for work, worst cases for chemical weapons that for we prepared for everything. well, at least mentally, obviously we need to have supplies and support from the free world in our allies and partners on humanitarian side, military equipment. and obviously we cannot forget about containing

isolation, economical isolation of russia, because the money that they're getting in their budget's, they're going to buy, continue buying weapons and paying their soldiers to q us ukrainians. for you just mentioned that there, that ukraine needs weapons, including heavy weapons that the u. s. and the u. k. are beginning to deliver, but germany is still very hesitant. now. you've met german government representatives on a recent trip to berlin. what did you say to them and how did they respond all the live? yeah, germany is moving and we've seen that it's very slow in identification of this aggression. but i want to confirm after my, today's work trip and meeting in germany and meeting all the key politicians in the german government. i can confirm that germans as

a full and german government are united, which is pretty sell, laurie united in one front, it gives the russian aggression. we are getting incredible support from germans on humanitarian side. there are a lot of refugees that been taking in germany. you create a piece as well as with sanctions. i mean the process is slow and it's never enough, but they're moving towards indication of our, our mutual enemy. and that in this case is russian figuration. and this war that russia has, has started. so even the process is slow, but we are moving together again. this aggression in germany is not an exception. and step with the current together. vladimir love relations are, are, are you're saying are going between germany and ukraine as your president followed,

made it to lansky and the german government. there's been a little bit of tension and over at this apparent snow above the german president frank about a shy my what's your perspective on that? president stun meyer made huge mistakes in helping russia with what russia became today. he acknowledged he's mistakes, he confirmed it and made his open statements against aggression of russia war with russia and president put in particular i'm not going to criticize during this war, any of the president on the great inside for his decision. and as well now seems the mistakes were confirmed by prism style. my german prisoner stand meyer and i believe, and i hope that this meeting with the president, by mar,

driven president and chris prisons. lensky are going to take place in next coming days or weeks. here in q that was vladimir clinico, a member of ukraine's territorial defense forces. joining us from cave. a fire has seriously damaged the warship, moskva, the flagship of the russian black sea fleet. ukraine says it hit the vessel with anti ship missiles, the russian defense ministry said a fire caused ammunition to dance detonate but declined to state a cause of the fire. the 500 crew members are reportedly safe. as it turned out, this new ukrainian postage stamp with prophetic, and veiled only yesterday by president vladimir zalinski on his instagram page. with a message, the russian warship always has only one direction. the moscow came to prominence

at the start of the war being told to go f itself when he tried to capture ukraine, snake island in the black sea. oh, i really just last month, the man behind those words was awarded a metal for his bravery. initially fit killed, he and the soldiers were taken captive before being freed and a prisoner exchange. the moscow with the main ship in russia's black sea fleet, armed with 16 cruise missiles, as well as a long range air defense system. if you cranes claim is true,

that defense system appears to have failed catastrophically. here are some of the other headlines on the war in ukraine. russia has warned that it would bolster its defences, should sweden and finland join nato. the kremlin says that vladimir putin is to be shown a list of potential measures designed to reinforce russia's western defences. it did not say whether the measures would include deployment of nuclear weapons. ukraine says its reopening humanitarian car doors to allow the evacuation of civilians from war torn areas. 9 routes would be opened in the east and south, including one from the besieged city of money for the reopening comes just a day after they were closed on safety. graham's austrian schanzer colony hammer says vladimir putin told him, at monday's meeting in moscow that russia would not turn off its gas supply to austria near. huh? 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 you embargo. german authorities seized control of a super yacht as part of sanctions against russian assets. the deal bar, one of the world's largest yachts, was being refitted in hamburg. german police said it's owner. it's owned by the sister of alley share. it was mine off a metal and telecoms billionaire with alleged ties to vladimir putin, was staying in germany. police here have arrested several members of a far right group on suspicion of plotting violent attacks to so civil unrest. prosecutor say the suspects were aiming to kidnap germany's health minister carl out up and blow up power stations. lauterbach has been a target of pandemic skeptics due to his support for restrictions on public life to control the spread of coven. 19, most rules in germany have been dropped and the government proposed for a vaccine mandate for people over the age of 60 failed last week. and the bonus tag

filled out our bathroom and criticize the german parliament for rejecting it discretion. listen to through the beard while we are joined now by our political correspondence, nina has for more on this. hi, nina. good to see you. what more can you tell us about this alleged plot? german authority say that they've detained for german nationals from 2 different regions and that a 5th subject suspect is still at large. so the 4 men are accused of having intended to cause civil war like conditions by disrupting power supply here for several days, and ultimately overthrow the democratic system in germany. that's what the prosecutor's office said in the statement investigations, the authority said, our own going against a total of 12. people all belong to chat group on those social platform. telegram that calls its hell fine to pottery your can so united patriots in english, and there are some 70 people in this group. and according to the authorities, the 2 main suspects allegedly agreed with others to attack the german health

minister callout about who we saw. but they also planned to get an up other well known public figures. well, has actually been any reaction from the health minister callo tba well health minister car lot of a has reacted to this news and you told bill newspaper this morning that he is not intimidated by those kidnapping plans. and that he does want to continue his work. he has in the past spoken out several times about the fact that he is being threatened with murder on the internet. and that he is being targeted as the number one politician here in germany, when it comes to anti cove policy. so he is essentially the face of german anti cove at policies. and he now said to build newspaper that there are coven deniers out there who are not fighting a fight against vaccinations or anti cove measures. and that instead, they're fighting against democracy and germany. and who said that they showed the divisions in german society and that he would do his part to continue to try and

overcome those divisions. you know, you've touched on it there, but it brings to light his are a minority of radicalized opponents to the government to obviously oppose the covert restrictions. but is it really all about restrictions or concerns over restrictions? well, germany's intelligence agencies have warned repeatedly over the last few years that there is a radicalized minority here in germany. and that far right extremism constitutes the biggest threat to domestic security. and those intelligence agencies say that those groups are known to hijacked topics that have the potential to mobilize others. so if there are a couple of people who doubt that what is going on in terms of fighting covered is the right thing to do than those right wing groups will jump on to those protests and essentially hijacked them. and we've seen that over the past 2 years with those clear, dan, can the anti vaccination protests here in germany where there was

a members also matching with them who essentially called for a change of systems to get rid of democracy. and in some case, get rid of the representatives, and that of course, is the line that can't be crossed. that is, of course, something that constitutes a big threat where arrests are warranted then. and of course, this case also brings to my the arrest of 6 people just in december a few months ago, who had also plotted on telegram the same platform to murder the premier of the region of saxony and the chats alleged that their motivation was his position on mandatory vaccination but they also already gathered weapons and they bragged and voice messages that they had ammunition at home already. she told you political correspondent amena has a thank you. devastating floods triggered by heavy rains in south africa, as durbin area have claimed over 300 lives. president, cyril, rom, oppose are called it a curtis, a catastrophe of enormous proportions and blamed climate change. the death toll is expected to rise. a 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. as you drive through durban, you come across many of those land slides like this one here was you can see in the middle of it, there was a house that was flashed away with the lance light. there was a family staying in their grandmother 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 and it

felt like my house was that dozen pieces she has it badly go. joyful, always happy laugh if the wine 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 states 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 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 dr

with management capability needs to be at the higher level needed nina hopes for assistance from the government, but doubts, she will get. it's every thing the family own. she says is god like many years she tries to stay optimistic, but more rain has been predicted for the easter weekend. here's a round up of some other world news headlines. british prime minister bars, johnson says, tens of thousands of asylum seekers could be sent to rolanda to be re settled. johnson says the agreement would tackle illegal immigration and that migrants would be, quote, humanely removed to rwanda. but the opposition labor party calls a quote unworkable and on ethically it will become a new businessman la musk wants to take over twitter in a bed worth $41000000000.00. the tesla ceo has proposed to buy up

a 100 percent of the company stock and turn it into a private company. the offer comes just weeks after mosque became twitters largest shareholder. police in new york have arrested a man suspected of shooting 10 people on the subway train. on tuesday authorities a 62 year old frank, james will face federal charges for a terrorist offense. new york's police commissioner said he was detained after tip off from the public clashes of broken up between israeli soldiers and palestinian youths after israeli armed forces killed a lawyer and 2 teams during raids in the occupied west bank is ready, forces have stepped up operations across the west bank in recent days. this follows a spate of killings in israel in recent weeks by palestinians. pakistan's former prime minister in town has called for fresh elections at a rally in the north western city of shower. khan was removed by parliament last weekend and replaced by opposition lawmaker shabazz sharif can accuses the u. s. of

causing is removal. shall anchors. prime minister has offered to meet with protesters, camped outside the president's office. they're calling on the government to step down over its handling of a foreign currency crisis, which is led to food shortages spiraling prices and hours of power cuts every day. the government is due to start negotiations on an international monetary fund bailout next week. wow, angry she lengthens are out on the street. an unprecedented economic crisis has pushed these people to gather outside the president's office in the capital city, colombo, shouting slogans, reading placards, and demanding change. oh, i'm, he won the roger box a family whose members occupy key positions in the shrunken government, including that of the president and the prime minister to resign. we believe their

family rules than a partisan and blatant of corruption are responsible for this economy collapse. the people of the island nation have been facing regular power cuts, food and medicine shortages and soaring prices of essentials. long cues outside patrol and diesel stations have become a common sight. as the country it runs out of cash to buy fuel. the crisis has brought people together. it's a paper spread as this is not politically motivated. i'm not of any party. and i don't think anyone here is this. the 1st time all of sri lanka has united against politics. this crisis has affected everybody stomach. so everyone is out on the street, irrespective of cost creed, really to annoy economic backgrounds. a, she long conceived, they want accountability, transparency, and a responsible government. to control the unrest on the streets. a nation wide

coffee and a state of emergency was imposed briefly. but that barely the 3rd the but after that you lankin prime minister. my hinder lodge bucks are, is now appealing to the people for peace and support being that the government is working round the clock to resolve the economic crisis. but it is obvious that the government has lost the trust of the public. economists, roland summoner, juba agrees that economic situation has been severely mismanaged by those in power . we are in excessive debt and it's very clear that in order to to be able to pick the steps we have to bring in dollars. we cannot pay any more debt. we need to seriously negotiate with our people, to whom we owe money. and we have to get the economy functioning of the items back at the club to cite the drought only increases as the sunset is not here with people of all ages joining in a lot of challenges. so we thought we would meet and make change in,

so that said the heck ami a, but the demonstrated look determined to stay here, to keep a bare protest till they see the change, the lot even a heavy down poor as the evening progresses doesn't dampen bester oh, you're watching dw news. here's a reminder of our main stories. u. s. president joe biden has approved $800000000.00 in additional military assistance to ukraine. the package includes heavy artillery as the country and prepares to defend against a massive russian sold expected in eastern ukraine. ukraine says its missiles have not the flagship of russia's black sea fleet out of commission. russia has only acknowledged that a fire on board seriously damaged the missile cruiser. well, that's it from the 4th. this hour of next is news. asia with minister china. and

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