ah ah ah, this is the w y from berlin to russia. warren's at stepping up missile strikes on cave. ah, air raid sirens and bomb blasts, i heard in the capital after russia accuses ukraine if carrying on cross border as strikes and keith claims it's miss styles, help sink, or russian warship also on the program that they ask. what are you taking here? he said a grade for my dog. they told him, if this is your grade now, and i just shot more reports of atrocities committed by retreating russian troops,

d. w. talk to survivors in the destroyed tide of mockery. near keith plus south africa starts to clean up after devastating floods. thousands are homeless and in time neighborhoods wiped out, the search for the missing continues. the death told me is 403 years after a devastating fire. frances president, macro promises the restoration of parents is not to them. cathedral will be complete by 2024. experts say it could take much longer. ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. a ser rushes warren ukraine passes its 50th day. moscow says it will increase methyl attacks on keep warning follows on verified russian claims that ukraine carried out as drugs on villages in russian

territory and sank russia's largest warship in the block c. today. air raid sirens have been sounding across ukraine ah, 50 days into the war, and this is still the wake up call and keith, heavy explosions were heard here over night. they said to be the most powerful, since russian forces pulled out of the region around the capitol hill. russia says it will step up its attacks. sir william mosher with the others, the amerigroup c based high precision long range missiles hit, a military facility on the outskirts of keep the number and the scale of missile strikes against target. some key will increase in response to any attacks of a terrorist nature or sabotage. on russian territory by the key nationalist regime . what is, is that it sama asking if it's also in retaliation for the sinking of this war ship the mosque rushes acknowledged. the ship has been lost,

but not that it was due to ukrainian missiles. either way, a big blow, according to the pentagon. this is a cruiser. they only have 3 in this class, and it's basically designed for air defense. that's that, that's what the ship is designed to do, not unlike our own cruisers. so it's going to have an impact on their capabilities . certainly in the near term. but this for th, from the southern port city of mary you, paul, serves as a reminder of moscow's military might and brutality with russia now focusing its attention on ukraine's east, mary, you, paul, would be key and connecting the southern and eastern france despite a strong russian presence ukraine says the city hasn't fall, and yet the country's president used his nightly address to praise ukrainian resilience yackel caution. if tunable fell to put it mildly, no one was sure that we would survive. every one sympathized. many advised us to

leave the country advised us to actually surrender to tyranny, but they didn't know. i see there, he will now and they didn't know how brave ukrainians are, how much we value freedom or opportunity to live. the way we want was lazy dot yet or horrible. some am we. this war continues and ukrainians will need to show even more of that. bravery. if that repel the eminent russian onslaught in the east will join date of new correspondent rebecca written now she's in butcher which ukraine recaptured from russian forces. welcome, rebecca. we have been hearing a terrible things about what happened while russian forces were there. but what's happening there now well that's right. c i'm here in that town that has now been liberated, sir. why, what i mean is definitely net. nothing resembling normal phil here it's

a ghost town. but sir, one thing i was really surprised by having to really struck me was just the pace at which everything has been cleared away in the world. by now the world is pretty much seen those horrific images when i, when we ukraine finally gained access to this area or a game of all the tanks and the debris and we're stuffing that residential block that ever won. or we're seeing all of that pretty much has now been cleared. it was really quite surprising. i was surprised. i've only been in keith one day myself. so i didn't see any of it previously. but definitely everyone here just really trying hard to get this city back on its feet. some of the people we spoke to a definitely telling me of the atrocities that took place here and showing me welcoming me into their homes, which have been all but destroyed. are one gentleman whose house had been been used as a russian headquarters, and his house had been completely destroy. the russians blew it up before they left

or just after they left, i suppose, as so it's going to take a very long time. you'll see behind me everything, all the shops completely still destroyed. gonna take a very long time, but people doing what they can to get this back on. it's feet and, and how are authorities going about gathering evidence yet? well, that is the next step. i mean, at the moment or thirty's are working hard to gather evidence of war crime so far. the human rights commission of ukraine as of today, has over 6000 a documented cases. authorities definitely going through to talk to people hundreds, if not thousands of journalists as well, have been through and spoken to people or organizations such as human rights watch and the like. and that is sort of the next phase at the moment here also. so much is being concentrated on the humanitarian in the city is still cut off from power and water and telecommunications have been restored now, but obviously that is the 1st step. and then of course, comes the documentation of,

of the war crimes i, yesterday i was speaking to the commissioner or the ombudsman, rather for the human rights commission. and he was saying they've also set up hot lines so that people couldn't report. she said it was really important, particularly in the cases of the sexual violence claims because many people were still terrified and traumatized and found it very difficult to come forward. so there are hotlines also set up to be able to take testimony in russian forces. and now now seems to be focusing their attention on the east of the country and bring us up to date with what's happening there. well, that's right. a heavy bombardment or re focus of russian efforts is expected really any day now in the aisd. so obviously for the last week or so, authorities have been telling residents to just get out of that area while they still can. i was reporting from down near, near, near that area on the region bordering don bass on the weekend. like to lots of

people from the hans gone yet. close areas in the don bass. mass evacuations going on from the east and the south. but not everybody is leaving. of course, as of the other day, still around about 30 percent of people were staying in la hans. i spoke to a gentleman at the train station when i was leaving that area and he was leaving to but he was telling me about some friends of his enhanced that simply didn't want to leave. they were going to stick around and trying to fend, they said they've lost everything already in 2014. they weren't prepared to do it again and he broke down in tears as he was telling me the story. obviously the scenes that you just saw in that report they from are you pull the scenes that we've seen here from places such as boucher, everyone worried that we're going to see similar things like that down in the east . ok. thank you for about rebecca rebecca missus in boucher when you crave client has prompted to many countries to offer help, of course. but when asked what they need most, the answer from ukraine's leaderships often the same as will include croft expect,

ukraine's foreign minister to metro calais, but told natal last week that all his country was looking for is weapons. lots of them and more serious ones now. so far, western allies have delivered equipment like anti tank and anti aircraft missiles alley. $17000.00 such weapons against tanks have come from nato members like the united states, natty kingdom, and germany. they seem to have proven highly effective against russian armor as have turkish made drones armed with air to surface missiles. the t p 2 drone has been a work horse for ukrainian forces. the u. s. may also deliver hundreds of small fast drones called switch blades. that also go after armor. now, these sorts of lider weapons have beat back russian forces, making them downsize their war ambitions and contain their assault to ukraine's east. but to fully defeat the russian invasion,

ukraine is said it's been hounding allies for heavier weapons, such as tanks, long range artillery, anti ship missiles, and helicopters. now some of these are on the list of the a $100000000.00 of new military aid that u. s. president joe biden recently approved western allies also trying to figure out if eastern european countries consent, older equipment that ukrainian troops are already familiar with. which newer stock could then replace the u. k. and the european union had been stepping up efforts, a total of 1500000000 euros is coming out of what the e calls it's piece, facility, a budget for equipment, medical supplies, and military aid. however, it's germany that's coming under pressure to do more right now. the government is deadlocked over sending heavy weapons for ukraine. foreign minister alena burbock and many others have come out in favor, but whether ukraine starts getting german tanks will ultimately be

a decision made by chancellor a lot shells. william blue cross, let's get more on this from limb. colleen season retired. us special forces colonel and has been in the military advisor to you crime, executive director of the madison policy forum and joins us from west point in the united states. so welcome to d. w. all these weapons are pouring into ukraine, but how long is it? is it going to take for them to become useful for ukrainian soldiers to be trained and able to use them to good effect? it really depends on the weapon system and what the capability is. for example, the, the list of most recent aid to ukraine, including what i saw from the u. s. in my 17 helicopters, which are rushing helicopters at their power. they're more than capable of flying at so that's something they can integrate right away, javelin weapon systems. we started giving those in january of 2018 to again, that's a weapon. you can disseminate any mediately employee to switch blade drones that you spoke about those we've been training them on for the last few weeks. and so we have a cadre that's train, but obviously not everybody out in the fields,

and that will take time. so it really depends on a specific weapon system and what the training time is. right. and so it looks like you, crime is not going to be short of hardware supplies. how is it doing in terms of actual troops to operate these weapons? yeah, mean that's really haven't seen a lot of news on that in terms of what losses they've taken. i mean it's, they're fighting, overwhelming combat power by the russians, and they're slowly getting it treated. so we have to constantly place those weapon systems, the ammunition that they're, that they're exhausting. but right that the fighters are going to be harder to replace, but they do have tens of thousands and right volunteers in their territorial defense force that, that can supplement that effort. so it looks like they've been able to maintain that manpower for the time being, and they just got to continue to do that. and what are you hearing about i russia is doing in terms of rearming. i'm putting itself in a position to keep up the pressure. we do hear a lot about the hardware being defective and badly maintained, but they do seem to be in

a bind. they've got millions of dollars coming in everyday from gas exports. but sanctions mean a dwindling number of sources of technology to maintain the replenished the hardware. yet, for the most part, right, that those gas exports in those sanctions, those are more longer term effects. you're not going to affect the immediate war fighting capability. it's really, russia has a large amount stockpiles, which is getting those back piles to the fight. and as you said, some are dilapidated. they haven't been maintained. some of those weapon systems, they don't have a good logistical support system and we see throughout this war it's another right trying to reposition troops that have already been you know, some of the beat down pretty badly up back up and even harkey. and they're trying to re position them to the so it's, it's going to be a challenge to put good capable units into the fight on the east that haven't taken a significant action already. let's talk about this because we have, this is what we've been hearing now that the, that russia is preparing to go again at you christ, ukraine's at east and south. how do you see about putting out?

yeah, i mean obviously a person's trying to salvage some kind of victory. he knows he can't get up in the north. so he's trying to consolidate his forces and see what he can pull out of this. and it's arctic. i expect to see it play out similar to what we've seen to date, right? you've got the overwhelming combat power of russia against the much more tactically, competent, ukrainian armed forces, right? that has good leaders, well trained, professional forces that are going to beat them in the tactical fight. so it's just a matter of can russia a trick, you know, the more capable force to a great enough level to a town allow me to cheat victory or can ukraine continue to hold off, you know, the, the russian hoard with smart, smartly tight, you know, good defenses and, and smart timed counter attacks that they can do it to their advantage on a brief, what about mario, paul, how bob? a loss. would it be if it's for ukraine, if we're russia to take up that port city. yeah, i mean it's not a strategic capability. i mean it in not, not in times of war, right. it's a key trading port they needed for that capability, but i mean,

they haven't had that since the war began in. so it, yeah, i mean we, we heard about the bridge between crimea and the east, but it's, it's not as strategic as, as people are making it out to be at ukraine cannot write it initially, right. defend all their territory. they were gonna take losses early in the war in terms of territory that they had to fight back as they get up in the north and even har keep. so that's what i'd expect to see there in russia still, despite his efforts down there has not been able to take control of it at this point. ok, good. talking to thank you so much for joining us. kind of liam collins from the madison policy for thank you were following the withdrawal of russian troops from regions of northern new cray, new evidence of potential war crimes is emerging nearly every day. the men of the town of mac and reeve near keith has been accused, has accused a russian soldiers of shooting more than a 130 civilians, leaving much of the town destroyed. and philip sholtes has been to mockery to get

eye witness accounts of the russian occupation. it's hard to believe that there is still human life among all the destruction basil and his wife natalia. where at home, when russian troops took over mackarath and late february when morning, so just came to their house and accused basil of taking pictures. they tied him up and left him outside in his tooth shed. hulu, but it was very cold, especially at night. would you the worse that i had no idea what happened to my wife's bush? one day a soldier came and brought me my special medicine leaky. this was the moment when i understood that my wife was alive everywhere. it's a similar picture. neighbors of a sealant natalia tell us that in this neighbourhood alone, russian soldiers killed 53 people. a 17 year old gro was allegedly raped for weeks, their family had to hide in this small basement room, always fearing that they could be the next target. it's hard to imagine

a place with more destruction and with more human suffering than here in my carries . the town of butcher has become a worldwide symbol of rush as war crimes. but it becomes more and more apparent that there are many more butchers all across ukraine. ego worked as a teacher in my car if before the war started. now he walks through the town, distributing donated medicine often he only finds and t ruins. 90 percent of my car ifs residents have left or been killed. egos, friends seems to live in this house. he doesn't know what has become new zealous, but we used to have a calm and peaceful life here. this family was just renovating their house. they were constructing a little summer cottage in their back yard. but you all it over there, you see the kindergarten, the dutch. what happened to all of it says no issue. nearby, eager has more success. he finds an elderly man who still lives amongst all the destruction. he has hardly left the house since the attacks began. russian,

so just shot one of his neighbors on the street. usually they asked, what are you taking here? he said a grave for my dog. they told him, this is your great now. and i just shot him 3 weeks ago, not carrier, was liberated by the ukranian army. since then, many volunteers have come to her with the clean up work about the gruesome memories of the survivors will probably stay with them forever. a quick look at some headlines away from the war will start in israel, where police have classed with palestinians of the al axiom mosque in jerusalem. after friday mornings ramadan. pres israeli security forces have been on high alert following a series of deadly palestinian st. attacks. the site is revered by jews as the temple mountain by muslims, as the noble century. the 3 chinese astros of all the sions who

13 space ship bearing to return to earth after 6 months. that's longer than any previous chinese mission. schanzer is not set to detach from china space station and land. its crew of 2 men and one woman at a science in china's in mongolia autonomous region. during your visit to nisha, a german foreign minister on a line of burbock is called unconscious. around the world to prevent families, parts of africa, fighting food prices and climate change a worse and your hunger. many people already faced. burbock said he just realized, nations had the responsibility to bring a hurricane of crises under control. that to south africa, which is cleaning up after one of the biggest natural disasters in the country's history. devastating floods triggered by 2 days of intense rain this week of killed nearly 400 people in the region around the port city of durban. d. w correspondent, adrien creek reports from up, les look like toys,

but they are heavy shipping containers move to way by floss. sachi and harry suncoast companies store 1500 containers at this depot. they are now trying to recover them. what they added to this atrocity is the looting deleted earth offices to sol computers. they basically cut all the cables from diseases, fringes of microwaves, area spares, whatever was there, whatever they could sell, visit to very recently took it out. so, oh, hard work. you know, but it is what it, what it is we just have to rebuild from you. but the 1st question for the team is, where do you even start? you can see this massive destruction and the force of nature right here. the economic consequences of these natural disasters. they are very visible now,

but they're likely going to be troubling this region. for a long time. the destruction is visible in many parts of durban. thousands lost their houses, and help hasn't reached every one. like corn, our houses are destroyed, of us don't have jobs and no money. so we don't even know where we would like to know the young thing that we have lost food, grocery, everything, even our clothes and property looks like we don't know what we're going to do. so many people have the idea of being pleading for assistance that we don't want to promise less of us. morgan lewis dinning accord, hey, efforts are very, very, very bad because i have no place to sleep. i'm sleeping, i'm standing like this, but i can sleep. so i can't do nothing my, my children, my dad children now when my dad nibbled, because we have got no place to sleep. rescue operations by helicopters are in no way as some places are still not accessible by roads. the death toll is likely to

continue rising the 1st 2 days we are all going for the risk using rescues and just trying to make a difference in getting people out from the last 2 days. and i think the couple of days to come in it's just body recoveries, sir. we all, we've all got that urging us and that that hope that we're still finding a few people alive folks yards just mostly body recoveries. beckett the container depot, such in her resume current as t must still busy removing containers from the nearby highway to at least the traffic can flow again, things won't get back to normal any time soon. the south african says, but at least fortunately, his company was in short a francis marking the 3rd anniversary of the 5 at damaged paris is iconic, not down cathedral. these images from the 15th of april 2019 shot the were my fire

started in the gothic masterpiece. in the heart of the french capital thought have been sparked by an electrical short circuit. it brought down the wooden speier and melted than that roof. immense task of reconstruction can almost immediately the french government now says it is to restore the church to its former glory, the next 2 years. scott rooks for from d w culture is here with a progress update. welcome scott's 3 is on how things looking. yeah, actually much better than a lot of people expected. i mean it's progressing quite quickly at the moment, not to dom is completely encased and scaffolding both outside and inside the church . and there was, i mean, really extensive damage the roof itself, which is the, the, the sort of wood lattice a roof plus the, the lead roof that was all, almost completely destroyed. 2 thirds of it destroyed the lead melted. but is the sort of main stone structure was largely on damages to largely intact and within

the church itself. sort of the artifacts and the artworks are most them escape without a lot of damage. including the main oregon of the church, which has been shipped to a workshop in the south of france with being completely restored. every sort of pipe restored and we'll the ship back. but when it comes to the roof itself, through the wooden structure that vast be completely rebuilt. and they've already cut down from a 1000 trees across the force of france, 100 year old trees, to which are being timbered now, and will be sort of put back in place, assembled in place in the church, in paris, hopefully next year. but there's still a heck of a lot of work to be done. the extended the damage is very expensive and it's incredibly difficult to do the work because because of the, the leg contamination the roof was led, as i said. and that's created sort of a covering of lead dust throughout the church, which makes it very, very difficult and very, very hazardous to do any work with. so given that this after to move in a sort of a painstaking stage by stage process, are they likely to meet at 2024 deadline?

the present macro said yes. what we'll see. i mean macro on made this very ambitious, a statement, a very shortly after the fire, he was on the location of the fire and not on very soon after it started. and then he went on french television and made this pledge. in 5 years. we will store nor to dom, to its former glory, and we'll re open the idea of being that it will reopen in time for the 2024 summer olympics in paris. but i haven't seen any of people who are familiar with this type of work who are being directly paid by the french government to restore the cathedral who think that this is a reasonable timeline. i mentioned the, the, the contamination from the lead. there's also a lot of water damage from the process when they put out the fire, which has sort of soaked into the wouldn't structures of, of the church of bass to spend really years drying out before they can properly restore it. it was sure that the church after 3 story will be stable again so. so we'll see. but at the moment i'm a cromwell. he does have a election to win, is pledging. this will happen. and in 2 years time noted on will be able to reopen

. so sounds like it's a bit of a book or 2. yeah, i think so. i mean, there is an alternative. if you miss a thing, not credit. there was a french film team that shot in the cathedral just before the fire, and they were invited back in to a film, the restoration a process. they use sometimes robot cameras to go to areas that are too dangerous for people to go into at the moment. and they put out a documentary film called restoring credit, which combines the footage from before the fire and after the fire and everything was shot in $360.00 degree virtual reality cameras. so you can actually walk through the church as, as if you were there live. that's pretty well the only option for anyone at the moment. ok, thank you for that, scott, robert from dw call today as it's you're up to date. well, well, there's at the top of the hour, melissa chan has d, w. news asia in just a moment and i'll leave you with chinese panic, a lot of performing groups,

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