i love and respects ah, ah, ah, this is dw news live in from berlin tonight, an additional $800000000.00 worth of weapons for ukraine, courtesy of the united states. the delivery will include heavy artillery and helicopters, the weapons that ukraine says it needs to repel a new russian assault in the east. and that's expected any day. now. also coming up to night, ukraine's railway here roads will meet one of the people working tirelessly to keep the trains moving. despite constant russian bombs down the line and rushes

most important worship on the black sea out of commission. ukraine claims a victory saying its missiles took out the most bump, but russia is telling a different story. ah, i'm worried golf to our viewers watching on p b as to the united states into all of you around the world. welcome a. we begin this thursday with more money and more weapons for you crate. u. s. president biden has approved an additional $800000000.00 worth of military assistance to ukraine. the package includes heavy artillery and helicopters and it comes just as the ukrainian military prepares for a new russian assault targeting the east of the country. mar, 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 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 would system like that. i can fire, you know, 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 russian 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. god. every 10 or 15 minutes in bam. bam. bar, yes. oh, 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 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 or corresponded rebecca rivers is following this story floors in kiva short time ago. i asked her if this armed delivery from the u. s. is the type of assistance ukraine wants now from its western allies. absolutely. brands, i mean this has been very welcome. you heard some of what president zalinski had to say in response to the news to the announcement today. this has been met with relief. president salenti has been calling for pretty much since the beginning of this conflict when calling on the you and your and the u. s. rather for more support, more my artillery,

more weapons to be able to fight the russian aggression. as you can perhaps hear me, there's some sirens going on in the background. the era aren't has just come on. that's what you're hearing in the background. and yet, so obviously it's been met with huge relief. i mean, president and i see even played to congress itself. in a live video address, as you remember a couple of weeks ago. now, this package doesn't require congressional approval and we are expecting the weapons to arrive as soon as possible. some they will need some training the, the military will need some training. but it's of course, as you just said in that report, as we heard in that report has come at such a good time for the ukrainian mil military as they prepare for an onslaught in a much bigger assault in the 8th and southeast in the south. as you said, well, state has been met with relief and very welcome. this will not, and president zalinski calls for help or ukraine has been putting pressure on germany and other countries to also step up and send in more weapons. let's talk

a little bit about the situation in the key you arrived earlier today. what's the situation right now in the car? well, as i just mentioned, you can hear an air raid siren behind me. this is by no means a city that you could could say was, was normal. i was here before the war just just before the war and it certainly has a very different feel. although there are some signs of life coming back to the city. there are some shops open supermarkets, open, even even non essential. shops are starting to open and people are starting to return to the city on the train journey up here. i spoke to quite a few people as the train was very busy and a lot of people returning back to cave, despite authority, saying to not come back at the authorities, he is saying that it, it just, it still isn't safe. and they're planning. oh, preparing for potential a renewal of russian attacks on the capital. so really everyone from zalinski to

clear co, the mayor of cave and his brother, even on our i'm a station to day says, warning people that it still isn't safe enough to return. and as you can hear, their rights are in still pretty constant here. that's why we're going to let you go to rebecca, because we don't know how safe it is to be outside right now where you are. so we're let you go take cover. rebecca ritter's there with the latest from key. rebecca, thank you. and rebecca has also been investigating the soon to roll of ukraine's railways in defending the country against the russian invasion. russia has bombed some railway lines, but the trains they keep moving thanks to the determination of their conductors. when russia invaded ukraine, yvonne was on duty travelling his regular route. for more than 10 years, the train conductor served passengers between z, appalachia, in the southeast elevator. 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 coma blanca. a woman started to cry and said, have you heard anything? i said, no. she said that bumming me proof. i didn't believe it, i started to check facebook to check the news. and it turned out that there was bombing old around ukraine. we arrived late to separation, and we were told the evacuations would start. 11th cavellas, full bullet reports. since then they haven't stopped. and neither has yvonne, he's worked every day, and every night now he lives on the train to russian troops have occupied his town . those 1st days with the hottest blue missiles of bodies over the train was already full in separate georgia. when we arrived in april, the platform was packed so many people. and cale started women children. there was

so many in the carriage, william, at least a 100 to 150 people. voiceless, both spoke of his of 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 of it is very hard, psychologically. when you go back to separation in an empty carriage, and you hear sirens on the stations or the feeling a little slow. so with worrying dreams of it, i'm very tired. what is morally oh and there's little rest and head that isn't as the railway needs me for half a year,

so i come be cold for conscription, which means they will not make me join the army. once that time is up, i'll be drafted. i will go to wool 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 wal. earlier we spoke to alexander kamesia and he's the ceo of ukrainian railways, and he told us that the network has been under constant bombardment by the russians actually keep shalon de railway stations racks. and so bruce bailey and daily, we stop or from at least one station, $23.00 stations. but we keep it and them, and which is running on the schedule in austin, the real army railway man on the 2nd army of ukraine they would say. and indeed,

we starved or a platter and death threats to one's de sheylan is over. and in few hours we are ready to go on to walk on and you know, death costs us. we lost 9 to 4 people from railway ma'am. and 9 to 9 are injured. this really the highest price we played for this war. but all the rest, the infrastructure, i mean, what good, a storm and one they, they keep shell and starting from east, from time, a thought of and, and was leave in the west, but indeed, east stop us much more. and so you know, this is some of the ration for the read from told that they whoo, shall eve, eve, samson happens. but again, we tried to get back to normal operations, despite the fact that the russians could shell and all this, they belong on the conflict. 2 weeks ago,

we go back to selling tickets. and since then we started with $7000.00 tickets of b. and now it's about $40000.00 think it said the compare them to $70000.00 tickets and the be full roar. so we're getting back to normal life in terms of selling tickets. and that was the ceo there of ukrainian railway, speaking with us earlier. when it is a stunning blog to russia's navy, we are getting reports in that russia is main worship. the moscow has sunk in the black sea. now the vessel was being towed back to port in stormy weather. and it happened just hours after ukraine says that its missiles hit the ship damage again, as it turned out, this new ukrainian postage stamp was prophetic, shown off just hours before the incident by president automated lensky with the message. the russian ball ship always has only one direction. russia blames

a fire for the damage and says to ship is still afloat. ukraine now has a slightly different take. i work a, a better senior when you put up in the black sea region, the most 5 warship was hit by next year and ship me sustained damage. the fire started the other ships, tried to provide assistance in the storm and the powerful explosion of ammunition turn this back in, started sinking stuff done with it. the mosque came to prominence at the start of the war being told to go f itself. when he tried to capture ukraine's snake island in the black sea. i

the last months 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. well, ukraine is getting ready for a new russia offensive in the east of the country after suffering major losses and failing to take the ukrainian capital. keep moscow says that it is now focusing on the don bass region. rushing back to shepherds is have controlled parts of the don't bounce since 2014, and they may now tries to seize the rest of the region. president putin has expressed a keen interest in the area which borders russia zulu. one young and politic oath

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 boss than with fanny mae to 10 claims. keith 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 influence contain 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 dumbass is maddie. you pull the main easton port that has been under russian seas for weeks. the city itself is largely destroyed, that russia wants to capture it, to link up rushing, controlled areas all along ukraine, se coast and create a lunch break from russia to crimea. capturing the hold of the dumbass would allow putting to claim mission accomplished in ukraine. but analysts sworn, he could be a long and devastating conflict. where's a round of them? of some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world is railey security forces, have killed 5 fellows did he of the occupied west bank. in the past 24 hours, israel has been cracking down on militants following a wave of deadly attacks on his railways. 12 israel have been killed in the past 3

weeks. videos is said to show hundreds of coven 19 patients sleeping in cramped facilities. in shanghai. have been circulating on chinese social media, a strict 0 coven. 19 policy is being enforced in the city, including mandatory medical quarantined for people who test positive beijing denies, forcing people to quarantine in sub standard conditions. british prime minister boys, johnson says that tens of thousands of people seeking asylum in the u. k. could be sent to rwanda to be resettle. so he said the agreement with the east african country would tackle illegal immigration and that migrants would be humanely removed. the opposition labor party says that the plan is unworkable. and an ethical seeing that the hollywood actor cuba gooding junior, has admitted to forcibly kissing a waitress back in 2018. the stars lawyer says the admission is part of

a plea deal relating to charges that he groped several women. though he still faces a civil law suit for rape. police here in germany have arrested for members of a far right group on suspicion of plotting violent attacks to so civil unrest. prosecutors say that they were planning to blow up power stations and that they wanted to kidnapped germany's health minister, who has drawn criticism for supporting further pandemic restrictions. the plot to bring down democracy was said to have been hatched on telegram prosecutor c. far right extremists wanted to trigger power outages and civil war light conditions. it didn't stop there. he is into for boxes to plot the plan behind this was to kid, not the federal minister of health. profess allow to back to kill his passionate security and accept this as collateral damage on ost, shivington,

the health minister, priest police, and said he was unfazed, man eigen the are miss will not affect my own work. i'll continue as before. he is here, lot of back who has supported tough covered 19 measures has been a regular targets of protesters. he said the plot showed that such opposition had been co opted by far right elements. edith argo, one this is about forces. the intent to d, stabilize the state and democracy as well. they're obviously taking advantage of the corporate 19 protest. it is a small minority in society, but highly dangerous. we have to keep an eye on that and via authority said the suspects were affiliated with cove. it 19 protest groups and the rights burger movement, which denies the existence of the modern german state thus far been the one to the unifying and foremost element of the grouping is hatred against our democracy and

its government officials. on to durham, ricky rules for antoine pleasure. in more than 20 nationwide rage police confiscated firearms, ammunition cash and gold bars. devastating floods triggered by heavy rains in south africa's durbin area have claimed more than 300 lives south african presidency. will remo folks who has blamed the catastrophe on climate change? the death toll 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 was you can see in the middle of it there was

a house that was flushed 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 it fell at my house, was that the dozen pieces she wasn't badly go. 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 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 whoa. what we need to do the measure we need to take to deal with climate change yet and how, what does that 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. the

world's richest man could soon own one of the world's biggest social media companies. elan musk has offered to buy twitter. the move comes just days after mosque made a u turn on the decision to accept a place on the company's board of directors. and most of the ceo of tesla. and he recently took a 9 percent stake in twitter, and he's now offered to buy the rest of the company, valuing it at $43000000000.00. must have more than 80000000 twitter followers. his bid to buy the company has been met with skepticism and criticism. so media advocacy organizations, they believe that twitters board should turn dell the offer from musk. jessica gonzales is the ceo of free press based in los angeles. she says most as the so owner of twitter would be a threat to democracy. here's the threat brent. we at free press and with the change the terms coalition have been calling on twitter and other

social media companies to be responsible and accountable to the public, to peak, to civil rights leaders to women and people of color. musk has repeatedly demonstrated that he is unaccountable to us. in fact, he is a, a frequent purveyor of colon and vaccine dis, information. he is use twitter and other social media to move the market to his monetary advantage. and i don't trust him to be a responsible actor in the, in the role as full owner of twitter. in fact, i'm a nervous especially about his efforts to take the company private. it means that we will have even fewer opportunities to hold musk accountable. this isn't just about free expression, free expression is important. we need to protect that on twitter and a and on other social media platforms. but the responsibility goes beyond that. he

needs to protect civil and human rights. public safety in public health. he's demonstrated, he is not capable of that. yeah, i mean, he is a free speech. absolutely right to be, he believes free speech your, you know, you should be able to say, think, express what you want to be in, you know, on its face. that sounds like something that your organization would agree with, but if you look a little bit further there, there are problems aren't there? yeah, we're cooling people to a deeper understanding of free expression. listen, there's a brand, a free speech, absolute, a absolutism, that people like musk. and when i say people like, must, i do mean wealthy white men who've never had to face the consequences when there is an at harassment campaign aimed at women of color. we have to really understand how do we achieve brief speech. it's not by a amplifying dis,

information and bigotry, especially when there are active campaigns aimed at shutting people like me up, right where they were, where there is a campaign to dog pile on someone or to undermine credibility based on lies and bigotry. we have to shoot for free speech for all, not just free speech for wealthy unaccountable billionaires, but now we are, you are assuming beer that that is what he would be pursuing. i mean, you're judging him before the fact and that's not fair either. is it? well i think he said what he's wanted, i mean, he's been very openly critical of twitter and efforts to moderate content on twitter. so i think we have a pretty good idea based on his own words where he wants to go with this. ok. just gonzales. it's good, have you all, we appreciate your insides to. it's important to get this because the world is

definitely talking about you on mosque and twitter. thank you. thank you. you're watching. the w news is a reminder of our top stories. we've got breaking news. russia's defense ministry says that its main warship in the black sea, the most of us have sunk while being towed back to port in stormy weather. just hours earlier. ukraine said that it's missiles hit the ship, causing an explosion in fire, all $500.00 crew aboard the vessels were evacuated. this is dw news after a short break. i'll be back to take you through the day. stick around. we'll be right back with

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a belin on this point i use every day because i'm repulsing month, she's digging the country slave to find out the tools they want to kill me. guardians of truth starts may 3rd on d, w. ukraine claims it will it, it's missiles hit, a russian war ship in the black sea. that ship has now suck, but on land, russian forces are on the brink of capturing the city of mario pole. and that would be the 1st major loss for ukraine. it has been 50 days since the russian invasion began. the losses on both sides are getting worse, sending shock waves across the globe tonight, no sign of peace in ukraine. plenty of thought that the world is making the wars

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