ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, a deadline to fight. russia says ukrainian defenders of mario paul refused to lay down their weapons in exchange for their lives. that's as the cities of harkey in the capital key of face new attacks from russian bonds also on the program. co francis says the world is seeing an easter of war giving his easter address. the leader of the catholic church says ukraine has been dragged into a cruel and senseless conflict. ah,

in the ukrainian bend aims high with hopes of winning the eurovision song contest, and in so doing, highlighting the destruction. russia's war has brought to their country. ah, i'm ami a niece of welcome to the program. the last ukrainian soldiers in the besieged port city of mar, you poll, have shown no indication that they've complied with a russian deadline set for this morning to surrender. remaining troops have been holding out an a steel plant in the city. in russia said it would spare their lives if they laid down their weapons. russia also hit the capital key if with missiles and stepped up there shelling of the city of har. keith, more russian rockets falling on, kind of keith. it's the latest strike to hit the city in

a deadly week with many civilians among the dead and injured. less time, at least 2 people were killed with over a dozen more wounded. ukrainian officials here the bombardment is just the prelude to a new assault on the strategically important city. just 40 kilometers from the russian border. far to the southeast brushing forces gather for a new offensive on another key target. murder, you pull the port city has been besieged for weeks. now moscow says it's defenders have been forced back to hear the giant odds of style industrial district. so that'll go to the $1000000000.00 money into urban areas. marable has been completely cleared the militants of the nazi formation. as all vulnerable unicorn must reason ukrainian troops. although the remnants of

ukrainian group unblocked in the territory of the as of dom that logical plant, visuals, and the only chance to save their lives is voluntarily lay down their arms and surrender. but a war lawful. regoza is thoughtful, ukrainian, president zalinski, warned that russia risks jeopardizing further peace talks as michigan. thus, she hopes of winning the elimination of our troops, the shall and of our men. and mary, a pull will put an end to any negotiations. wardrobe was dollar to put up on a budget for muslim or with money you posed last, defenders cut off and russian forces posed to strike ukrainians. fear the city may well soon. finally fall our correspondent rebecca readers. as in t, if we asked her if the window for mario pulled, a surrender had definitively closed. yeah,

that's right. that sir. surrender or di order given by the russians to the ukrainians. they gave the time window of 1300 at local time that has now passed. they said they would show no mercy to the ukrainian soldiers if they didn't have that warning. now it's really difficult to get real time information out of mary paul. as we know, all communication is largely cut to the city. there are no journalists there. and but the as of battalion, this last stronghold, these be the battalion that there is in that as of steel plan. as you were just reporting there. the last a sort of strong hold of the ukrainians. they have said they will from the very beginning they've been saying that they will not surrender. they're going to fight to the ends at very hard to imagine that they're heating that warning that city has been under constant bombardment. now since the beginning of this war. and though the russians have all but destroyed the city and you know it is a key target for the mere tactically and territorial toria lee. and they are also fighting to the enter remains to be seen whether or not they will succeed,

whether that city will fall. but at this stage, it is looking likely. now ukrainian president vladimir zalinski, he warned that the peace talks would end if are the russian troops executed. the ukrainian troops, though, remaining in that city, it looks like are they haven't complied with the the, the order to surrender. so what does this mean now for the future of the war? well, president zalinski said that if her russians kill those remaining sold as in mary paul, then the peace talks would die with them. but in, in reality, those piece talks have, have stalled, have been on hold since the russians retreated from areas just north of here, here and the true atrocities of what happened to under russian occupation came to light. so the peace talks have stalled regardless. and one thing that we have heard is that russian, allah, god, roman abram avila appears to be in cave, in talking to the ukrainian delegation,

to try to resuscitate those piece talks remains to be seen whether he'll be successful. and of course, the events in mary, you pole over the coming hours and days will certainly determine whether or not they're able to get back on track. now russia has also intensified its attacks across the country, even in the capital key of where you are. so what is the current situation there? well, this is a city you know, trying to get on with life as normal as possible under the really difficult circumstances. the founding urges in front of made on square site of the 2014 protests. it's normally a busy tourist attraction, or it is much quieter today. the sunday we are seeing people come out in the streets though, and we are seeing some shops opens non essential shops and restaurants. these people are trying to get on with life as best they can. but to mid vitale clinico, the mayor of care has warn people not to return to the city. he said they are preparing for intensified attacks on the capital. and we've seen signs of that

already over the weekend. a couple of attacks to yesterday the day before, both on ammunition, factories are on the outskirts of the city, about 15 kilometers from where i'm standing and this morning in the early hours. another attack was reported in a suburb just east or a sort of an area. if you like, the satellite city, east of cave, it remains to be seen exactly what the target was. russian say it with another munitions factory. but we're also hearing that a miss. i was in fact intercepted and it was in fact us shelling so difficult to get a concrete information about that. but definitely a city that is once again under attack, that was d w as rebecca ritter's for us in key is. now, here are some of the other developments in the war and ukraine. the russian navy has held a ceremony in the crimean city of sebastopol for the sunk flagship of its black sea fleet. the most vo went down on thursday after ukraine said its forces hit the vessel with a missile. russia denies that and says its crew got off the ship safely as well.

your p commission president was the fonder lion has announced that you will be thinking more russian banks and the new sanctions includes. burbank rushes largest, which has so far been spared, funded i and said that the e u is also working on quote clever mechanisms to include oil sanction of days the right of might. in his easter sunday address. cope francis urged world leaders to hear the calls for peace and what he described as an easter of war. the pontiff told the 10s of thousands of people gathered at saint peter's square that the world needed love and reconciliation. now more than ever. also reference to several conflicts around the world. he described the fighting and ukraine as cruel and senseless. this was the 1st easter sunday mass with a crowd and 2 years due to the crown of ours pandemic. earlier i spoke to d. w. religious affairs analyst martin gac,

for an analysis of the pope's address. well, i mean, i think it has had a very strong diplomatic harm that it has exercise in order to try to bring peace to the for conflict regions. i think it was somewhat unexpected that the pope would be talking or the vatican would be concentrating its efforts in europe. and most of what we heard, it's actually a plea for peace and a plea for essentially, for you know, unity, unity, brotherly, brother, unity across europe, particularly in the face of a possible escalation. and this was actually this loom quite large. and in the speech in which the pope actually weren't escalation, becoming really a form of violence that could potentially not stop and could have enormously devastating effects for human kind. he said, now does the pope's opinion on this war matter to russia, or is he just preaching to the choir, as you could say look, i mean it's,

it's extremely difficult to say, how is it that moscow is receiving? what have been increasingly critical, you know, but essentially messages from, from the vatican domestic and has been quite clear over the last 3 weeks. although at the beginning it actually did take a much lower approach to condemning moscow precisely because they have a very strong diplomatic approach to conflict and they have a very broad, it's sort of a very broad muscle are very large, but diplomatic muscle know the vatican has become much clear as to the criticism. it's not really clear that, that you know, the criminal incurs at all. what is that? that is said in rome, but it is quite clear that the criminal understands how brought the base of the vatican enough. the catholic churches, including not only inside the ukraine, inside ukraine, but also inside russia. i want to talk about the pope's health as well, because on saturday he attended the easter vigil mass, but he didn't lead it. and some think that's because of leg pain. what,

what do you know about this? this is mostly a speculation, but this is precisely the, the rumor that is circulating that you know, he has, he's ne problem has prevented him from leading saturday evening where he had to be mostly standing for about 3 hours today. he started actually though we said thought abuse, which he did lead to the master this morning. he started standing the, the speech therapist, but actually halfway through he sat down. so, you know, i mean, this does not seem to be a major health concern, but it does seem to be bidding his movement and some of his offices that was d. w martin gac talking to me earlier today. here's a round up of some of the other news making headlines around the world. north korea says it's successfully tested, a new tactical guided weapon aimed at boosting the country's nuclear capabilities. the announcement didn't specify where or when the test took place, but said leader kim jong and took part in it. south korea's military says it

detected 2 projectiles. launched from the north on saturday. the death toll and the philippines from tropical storm meggy has risen to 172 according to the national disaster agency. search and rescue operations continue after the 1st tropical storm of the year hit the archipelago one week ago, causing landslides and floods. me and mars military giantess said it will pardon me more than $101600.00 prisoners from jails across the country to mark the buddhist new year. on sunday morning, a crowd gathered outside the guns prison hoping to be reunited with loved ones as their released. local reports indicate however, that no political protesters have so far so far been free. a ukrainian ban has received permission to leave the country so they can take part in the eurovision song contest next month. the musicians hope the high profile event

will help them draw attention to the devastating war back home. ah, for ukrainian band collusion, orchestra. it's a very special concert. the musicians have taken to the stage for the 1st time since war broke out in tel aviv they play the song with which they hoped to win the upcoming eurovision song contest. ah, ah, ah. but for the band members, this is about more than just euro vision. they want to use the concert to raise funds for ukrainian refugees upon the market for young getting somebody got it done tomorrow while traveling in israel, the musicians worry about what's happening back home during a stroll through jerusalem's own city, they spread the news about the situation there rather she was late,

i'm happy to be able to help you craniums grading. these activities are another chance for us to be a mouthpiece. yeah. to remind people everywhere about the situation that, that's really important these days are, you know, upsize, let us do drug plan. and i put that in the musicians had to get special permission to travel to israel. the 1st place, all males of fighting age are barred from leaving ukraine, but there are exceptions. now the troop has been allowed to travel into representatives of their country. expectations of them are high and the war has made preparing for your ovation. even harder, richer. i know my though she char, you'll live in different towns throughout ukraine. shaw and we didn't have a chance to rehearse in person, but even even fit a thought africa instead we practice on line lol is a line i'll as out of gold now the with finally together, but the rehearsal, the time it was sure all your vision performance those are bob will run smoothly, vulnerable, blue eye and knock, and i live as wisdom. ah, stephanie a is the name of the song that collusion orchestra will perform at the eurovision

song contest. they had originally dedicated it to their others, but now they say they want to become an anthem for ukraine, according to book makers, they're the favorites to win. ah . is this dw news stay with us? ah. i started out with spooky and tim ditch and transformed into an orgy of hate and violence. the history of the ku klux klan, the oldest terrorist organization in the united states found it over 150 years ago, which repeatedly died out. but always been resurrected. the ku klux klan starts may 11th on d, w. ah.