[000:00:00;00] 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 and helicopters. ukraine says its missiles have not the flagship of russia's black sea fleet. i was commission. russia has only acknowledged that

a fire on board seriously damaged to michelle cruz and devastating floods. sweep away homes and infrastructure in south africa, killing hundreds of people. pro president 0 rama poses pledges help for the victims and says it's astrid, this part of climate change. ah, i'm pablo fully. li us, welcome to the program. you as president joe biden has approved $800000000.00 in additional military assistance to ukraine. the package includes heavy artillery and helicopters of 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 russian military vehicles converging on the don boss 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 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 and 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 don,

vast region. so you what systems like that that can fire your 3040 kilometers away from where you are trying to break up the military long before it gets close to you. and that's what ukrainian needed this more they need to destroy the russian. com boys 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. it though it's a disaster. god. every 10 or 15 minutes in bam. bam. but usually 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 until you, well, it's a policy 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 . earlier we spoke to d w 's alexander phenomena for an update from where she is near keith. we are in a small town of boulevard that is about 40 to 50 kilometers west of the ukrainian capital. and the russian forces tried to capture this town as many others here to continue with their offensive on keith. and the building that you can see behind me is a school that was attacked by russian tanks at this moment. during this attack, more than 100 people, including children, were shaky, were seeking shelter in the cellar of the school. fortunately, no one was killed,

but people here local residents that we were able to speak with told us there stole the stories about the brutality of the russian soldiers. there also told us that some of the local residents were shot dead by russian soldiers without doing anything without any reason. so again, we are hearing horrifying stories from residents about how a day and suffer it during the time where the russian soldiers were trying to capture the city. trudy dreadful. now you've also been speaking with soldiers? what have they been telling while we spoke with the brigade, ulster territorial, the felons defense forces. there are not your normal regular units off the ukrainian army. but of course there are very important here. and there was important here because they were able to repair report the russian offensive. and

they told us that they didn't even have body armor estate. they used their own cars to, to travel around. and, and this is really what you cannot imagine that was happening. he and he told us, of course, how important it is for the west to provide the ukrainian forces with more weapons, with heavy weapons that would help them to repel russian soldiers as they did here . and of course, what the whole country now bracing for is the great battle that is expected to take place place in the eastern and south eastern part of the country. will tell us what is the latest am from this sam this wider russian offensive in eastern ukraine. what we are hearing is that the russian forces are on the move, are trying to get closer to the donate skirt region. there are trying, of course, that is their goal goal to take full control of the donuts and low hon screeching

of the so called don bas area. a. we have heard reports today about the ukrainian forces, saying that they were able to destroy a bridge use by the russian forces, and that is considered here as, as a huge success. that was tito views. alexandra phenomenal, reporting from near kiva in ukraine. when a fire has seriously damaged the warship mosque about 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 designate 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 lensky. 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. i was in the last month, the man behind those words was awarded a metal for his bravery. initially fit killed, he and other soldiers were taken captive before being freed and a prisoner exchange. the mascara with the main ship in russia as black sea fleet, armed with 16 cruise missiles, as well as long range defense system. if you cranes claim is true,

that defense system appears to have fail catastrophically. well for more we spoke earlier to chris devereaux, a retired british general, and a military analyst. well, actually, both could be true. it could be the case that you couldn't miss scott the ship, which caused an admission explosion. that's a distinct possibility. i think that the evidence is that the koreans did take into service with the credit navy last year. an upgraded ex soviet missile called nick june maximum range, about 200 miles is about halfway across the lexie. they have demonstrated the ability to hit russian ships before destroying a landing support vessel. the oscar in the port to numerical in the, in the see about those recently. so i, i suspect the answer is,

is indeed the case that the moscow has been sunk or badly damaged by play ukrainian missiles. now, russia's also saying ukrainian forces defending matter. you will have surrendered on mass. now if my tuple has fallen, how serious a blow is that to ukraine's defense of the country? why? firstly, i don't think we know that it has swollen. i mean that the russians are reporting large scale surrenders, but the sudden confirm that they say that fighting is still going. i think the evidence is, it's a matter of time before, eventually, mary po, fools because they russians have overwhelming superior numbers and, and the parents surrounded. and i think the most likely thing that that would result in the freeing up of those troops to go north to assist the russian campaign. and the done us, i know, tentative is that they would go in the opposite direction towards the desk. but i

think it's now looking as if the russians have given up on i'm trying to take a will are the mil, ukrainian forces prepared in the east and, and south east of the country. they'd been a long time there had been ukrainian forces in that area since the russians invaded the dumbass them and took crimea in 2014 so so they've been there a long time. they will dug in well equipped or so it may increase and he will get by, by western and munitions and weapons. and so, you know, i think it's the significant proportion of the crating on me, i guess about just on the huff in that area. so i think it's, it's not an easy thing to do for the russians to become the, the russian on forces would have to get considerably more effective to do so. you know, i don't think they're going to succeed,

even with more limited objectives. what they can do is a lot of damage to training and infrastructure and kill civilians. do you think we're going to see an escalation and the level of forced that the russian military is prepared to use? yes, i think certainly in terms of our tillery munitions and miss, how's, we'll fire an enormous amount of ordinance against the ukrainians, not just the military, but against the cities, which will, which will destroy them and, and kill civilians. so, so yes, i think they, the volume of munitions fired by the russians is going to increase and, and it's, it's going to be horrible. that was retired british general chris debrel. while as we just heard, ukraine is bracing for a new punishing russian offensive in the countries east after suffering major

losses and failing to take the capital. keith. moscow appears poise to focus more on the dunbar region. russian back separatists of control parts of dumbass in 2014 and may try to see the rest of it. now. president vladimir putin has expressed a keen interest in this air area, the borders russia. this is the one young man, but the goals are perfectly clear. they are noble, i said from the start back in my 1st public statement on this operation. the main goal is to help the people in don bus them. vladimir putin claims kia is committing genocide against russian speakers in the dumbass. there's no evidence of that, but it's been one of russia's justifications for the invasion all along. the dumbass is ukraine's old industrial heartland, dating back to the soviet era. it's already seen, years of fighting. the region is largely russian speaking and seen by the kremlin

as more russian than ukrainian. the dumbasses mainly comprised of the 2 large lou hunter and, and yet screens that border russia to the north and east. the shaded area here shows the territory seized by russian back separatists in 2014. russia wants to extend that control to the whole of low hunts, and on yeske, carving out a sizable chunk of ukraine. moscow could then annex the area as it did with crimea in 2014. but perhaps the biggest single prize in the dawn bus is maddie. you pull the main eastern port that has been under russian siege for weeks. the city itself is largely destroyed. but russia wanted to capture it to link up russian controlled areas all along ukraine, south east coast, and create a land bridge from russia to crimea. capturing the hold of the don boss would allow put in to claim mission accomplished in ukraine. but analysts sworn, it could be

a long and devastating conflict. here are some of the other headlines on the war in ukraine. russia has warned that it would bolster its defences, shouldn't sweden and finland join nato. the kremlin says the 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. german authorities have 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 owned by the sister of ali. share was mine off a metals and telecoms. billionaire with alleged ties to vladimir prefer. ukraine's trains have played a central role in the country's defense against the russian invasion. they move people out of harm's way and bring in supplies. and 8, russia has bombed some lines,

but the trains keep moving thanks to tireless operations. dw rebecca raters met up with one of them. when russia invaded ukraine, yvonne was on duty travelling his regular route for more than 10 years. the train conductor served passengers betweens, appalachia, in the southeast, and of in the west, a 15 hour journey. but on february 20 full life changed forever. as dawn broke news of the invasion broke to you comma blanca, a woman started to cry and said, have you heard anything? i said, no. she said that bombing me proof. i didn't believe it. i started to check facebook to check the news rollers, and it turned out that there was bombing old around ukraine. we arrived late to separation of a 40 and we were told the evacuations would start. 11th cavellas for will the ever puerto since then they haven't stopped. and neither has yvonne has worked

every day and every night. now he lives on the train to russian troops have occupied his town. those 1st days with a hottest bow is through the bodies over the train was already full in separate georgia. when we arrived in april, the platform was packed so many people, but and kale started women children. there was so many in the carriage, william, at least a 100 to a 150 people voicemails, full slip, elizabeth lou. they will what with trains get people out. but they also get aid. eat to where it's needed. ukraine couldn't fight this war without the railway network. it has more than 230000 employees in all of them have stayed on the job. despite the danger. over 60 railway workers have been killed in the line of duty as trains come on to rush and fire. that hasn't happened to yvonne,

but the work is taking its toll. the will, the, it is very hard, psychologically. so when you go back to supervisor in an empty carriage and you hear sirens on the stations of all the feeling forms with worrying dreams, i'm very tired. what is morally and there's little rest and head that isn't the railway needs me for half a year, so i can't be called for conscription, which means they will not make me join the army. once that time is up, i'll be drafted and will go to war. until then, ivan will be fighting for his country doing what used to be just a regular job through the stations and towns he knows by heart. crossing his homeland at war, police and germany have arrested several members of a far right group on suspicion of plotting violent attacks to so civil unrest. prosecutors say the suspects were aiming to kidnap germany's health minister,

carlota back and blow a power stations. lauterbach has been a target of pandemic skeptics to, to his support for restrictions on public life to control the spread of covert. 19 . most rules in germany have been dropped, and the government proposal for vaccine mandated for people over the age of 60 failed to last week. in the bonus tag, lauterbach and criticized the german pardoned for rejecting at the alarm plots. we're missing, this is aman wilken. d w player for correspondence at nina hazards following the story for us and has more on the alleged plot against the german health minister. german authority say that they've detained for german nationals from 2 different regions and that a 5th subject to 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, are on going against

a total of 12 people who all belong to chat group on the social platform. telegram that calls its hell fine to petri, 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 agree with others to attack the german health minister call out about who we saw, but they also planned to getting up other well known public figures. well, has actually been any reaction from the health minister callout about well health minister carlota but has reacted to this news and he 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 cobra policy. so he is essentially the face of german anti cove. it policies. and he now said to built newspaper that there are covert

denies out there who are not fighting a fight against vaccinations or anti cove it measures. and that instead they're fighting against democracy in 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, then 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 dang, can the anti vaccination protests here in germany? where there were 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 did do political correspondence. nina has a reporting force there. well, 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 were wonder to be re settled. johnson says the agreement would tackle illegal immigration migrants would be, quote, humanely removed to lawanda. but the opposition labor party cause a quote on workable and unethical, become a new national business man. he la musket wants to take over twitter in a bade worth $41000000000.00. the tesla c o 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 twitter, its largest shareholder police in new york have arrested a man suspected of shooting 10 people on a subway train on tuesday authority, se 62 year old frank james will face federal charges for a terrorist defense new york police commissioner said he was detained after tip off

from the public. 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 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 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 lance light. there was a family staying in the egg rents, mother with her 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 ne, 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 it felt like my house was that 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 rama was up promised help, knowing that the limited resources of the states won't reach every one ends 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 progress. climate change. it is telling us that climate change is serious. it is here. we no longer can postpone what we need to do. the measures we need to take to deal with climate change yet and how what um management capability needs to be at the high level needed needed hopes for assistance from the government, but doubts, she will get. it's everything 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. you're watching d. w news coming up next and d, w. news, asia, anger, inter lanka, as an economic crisis, pushes the country to breaking point dw reports from columbus. the philippines is reeling after

a tropical storm trigger severe floods and lance lights. and in jakarta we meet the people who controlled the traffic chaos of one of the worlds of the busiest cities. now stories and more with melissa and after the break. and remember, you can keep up to date and all the latest news on our website, dw dot com. i probably, yes, i'll be back again tomorrow. i mean the team here take care. ah ah.

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