starts may 3rd on d, w. mm hm. ah ah, this is news life from berlin under attack in the east. russia launched as a massive new offensive aimed at securing ukraine's industrial heart land. the kremlin says capturing the dumbasses now its main objective. and our correspondent, nice ukrainians, trying to rebuild their lives. russian soldiers may have left a pin, but this is a city that's been left in ruins. there isn't a building we can say that doesn't at least bear some scars of the war and many

a row and beyond repair. residents find some comforts in cleaning up, but live in fear of the russians returning. and we meet a young student forced like millions of others to leave ukraine. he wants to start a new life right here in germany, but may have to return to his native nigeria. ah, hello everyone, i'm land. all right, thank you so much for your company. russia is stepping up its battle for control of ukraine's industrial heartland. officials on both sides are calling it a new phase of the 7 week war. now areas that are marked in blue on this map right here behind me, they are already under russian control. after days of regrouping lambert burton's

forces have launched now a full scale offensive in the eastern dom bass region. and new front line that you see here marked in red, hundreds of kilometers, long recent a weeks have been, have seen rather russia suffer, humiliating set backs around the capital. keith. the kremlin now says seizing don bass is the main goal of its so called special military operation. shots fired on the front line. ukraine says these are some of the opening salvoes in rushes, offensive in the east. in footage, released by the ukrainian defense ministry troops to say they are ready to defend the don bus w. hi, so let them come. this soldier says they will stay here forever. there is enough land to bury them all ukraine's president confirmed the start of the new phase in the war. in that us zamora,

we can now state that russian troops had begun the battle for the dawn about sla, for which they hadn't been preparing for a long time. the next year, a significant part of the entire russian army is now concentrated on this offensive . no matter how many russian troops are driven there, good, we will fight. we will defend ourselves, and we will do it every day. so we won't give up anything ukrainian green school navy, the more ah, thousands of residents are now tracked in towns under constant shelling. this woman lives in the remains of a village near the front line. she describes living in anew. no man's land was lovely so that when you find we don't even know where the shelling comes from here we wait for it from there. so thinking that the ukrainian army will protect has but then it comes from there, people to know that there shaylee from all directions is not one humanitarian groups race to evacuate sick and elderly residents from the contested donnette

screeching adding to the estimated 10000000 ukrainians. who now fled their homes by any means possible, or myrtle. thus, it as the main difficulty is that people who have problems moving you had to be evacuated or change very old people who are living there final days or weeks or months. and that's why it was so difficult when you, you watch, and olga with emma, with russian force is in control of much of the south and east. one pocket of resistance remains the as of style steel plant in mario paul, several 1000 ukrainian forces are entrenched here under heavy attack. on tuesday, russia issued yet another dead line for them to give up their arms. but here as elsewhere, ukrainians are refusing to seek any of their territory without a fight. did over your correspondent amen. where's shots is reporting from the roof

and she told me ukrainians are bracing for the worst as russia apps up. it's offensive. olivia, if we're in the western part of ukraine, which has been relatedly sped to the fighting, you know, the bombings or yesterday we had asked twice here in the city. but that has happened very rarely since the beginning of the config. but people here are nevertheless very aware of what's happening in the, in the eastern pods. they are bracing themselves, afford this offensive on the eastern parts of the country. and also does city here of leave is or so has also seen its population triple since the beginning of the russian offensive in ukraine. people coming from those affected regions of the east have sought shelter. he in the v. so you see them in the city center, you see them in shelters here. they know very well what is happening in the east. and of course they are preparing themselves for the worst out aware of what's

happening. everybody is following the news. you here at the national anthem, everywhere here in taxes are here in the central stations in cafes. everybody's checking the news. it's a very tense situation here, even if we are far away from the font line. and i am, a russia has again called on ukrainian forces in the besieged port city of medieval to lay down their arms. what do we know about the situation there right now? well, a russia had indeed a cold on ukrainian sold years and not even if not to dare a superior individual soul d as to lay down their arms. and the answer from the dual credit of the forces is that they would fight f and c. at the end, we see we pause on social media, we see pictures of street fights happening right now in our you, paul, right now in the other style,

mit allergic are industry sites and it's so heavy fighting seems to be happening right now. a very tense situation. 10 situation also because there's not only ukraine on the foresees holding a position in that industrial site does, though. so reportedly hundreds of civilians who sought shelter india's of thought as site who are trapped there while fighting is ongoing. you know, be corresponded, emma shaws and levine reporting. thank you for your continued coverage. the russian foreign minister has confirmed a new stage in word the criminal calls its special military operation survey. law ross says moscow's overall objectives have not changed, but the racial in the east of ukraine and i was on those from the very beginning to fully liberate the done yes. going to look around script books and

this duration. so we'll, we'll continue just beginning. i'm in another stage of abuse what the ocean is beginning, and i'm sure this will be a very important moment on this entire special of the regime for chrome, mit all is associate professor at the u. s. military academy at west point. i asked him what this new phase might look like. so this new phase was definitely, definitely expected. i mean, russian, the kremlin is said from the onset that one of the major goals is don bass region and benefits of getting their bay in the initial and basically basically hit a stone wall going up against ukrainian defense. so naturally what they would do is a pullback, re consolidate and then try to try focused attack on me specific region and try break the ukrainian defense. is there, get some gains,

consolidate those gains, and then see what happens from there. is there a risk that the russians could be spreading themselves too thin? so in this case, they seem to be early on the invasion. they absolutely spread themselves to then they didn't necessarily have the strategic assets necessary to support all their different operations. and seeing time this new assault will likely be a lot more concentrated then their initial assault. i'm so straight there, they'll be a little more coordinated. i can ukraine withstand this intensified offensive in the east? so i, i think they can i, the cleaning at managed and amazing defense and the russians that taken some pretty heavy losses early on. it appears that the ukrainians,

looking at different opens or sites the craniums have appeared to target a lot of strategic assets and impart russian assets instead of going after that, 40 mile conway of the holes. they were very deliberate about what they took out. russia capabilities are significantly diminished. they, when they reconcile day, they didn't take the nest, the russians, and not take necessary time to actually fix a lot of their equipment. so they're pushing back into the don bass region with broken equipment and units that are not fully up to strength the ukrainians have have a good defense so far and i think they can, i think they'll be, will withstand this 2nd assault at up at a nato a meeting ukraine's foreign minister just recently a predicted in very stark terms that the new offensive in easton ukraine has taken place right now would be reminiscent of the 2nd world war in terms of scale. how big will this attack be in your assessment?

so out think it necessarily reaches the scale a 2nd war war. but the initial invasion was a 120 battalion, tactical groups from the russians. this new one, i believe, is about $24.00 additional counting tactical groups. so it's a, it appears to be a slightly smaller operation initially, and they're doing their, i'm trying to do some shaping operations than likely be some follow on efforts. but it should be it should be a more concentrated attack than the initial one. but pro view similar scale advantage when vision in military terms, does ukraine possess the right weaponry? i mean, our allies doing enough to help ukraine. so the, the equipment has been provided to ukraine so far has been fairly substantial and

very, very effective. i mean, they, they stopped the russian military out. i don't think many people quite expected that. so they, they have a lot of very good equipment. another large issue is just down the russian defense base. their industrial base doesn't necessarily haven't been, hasn't really been turning out a massive number of new, new pieces of equipment and the new technology that the vs that produced open last decade and been very limited in numbers in limited only to a couple of italian, tactical groups so the russian, the russian military, that their attack that they, the ukraine, the far cry from what they try to project themselves to be so the ukrainians have a good amount of equipment, but they are biting, starting to run low. m answer. request for additional equipment. and

a final question to you, sir, at the sinking of the mosque voc, how has that changed russia's military strategy if at all so it's changed on a couple of bang. so 1st off it showed her that i think the aggression may be valid . they can operate with a certain amount of impunity in on, in the area and the show that even the russian fractions revolt herbal. so the ships of reagan at pola be about 200 miles off the coast. but they, so either cruise missiles appraised only watch goes into the port hounds, but the russians probably won't try and, and fabulous landing, which was right on the tables are to try to secure some of those port. townsend, who doesn't for climate all associate professor of the united states military academy at west point, sir, we thank you for your time. thank you for taking our questions. thank you for having me. while with russia now focusing on the dom bass region,

some ukrainians are able to return to what's left of their homes to be a correspond. rebecca returns travel to the city of european residence there have started to rebuild. despite their fears that the russians could return, one thing that strikes you when you enter a pain is the silence. these once bustling straits now scorched and deserted, then sometimes the silence is broken. by the sound of people trying to put their lives back together. i have nothing to my route, 300 square meters of roof is missing. above full of the apartments, there's nothing but the blue sky above. but that was the thing you never older is the caretaker of these 82 flats. and she lives in one of the top gym with my apartment is in this part of the building that was damaged by missiles. she stayed

right through the occupation to try to save them from russian soldiers taking them over, but was helpless to stop the missiles. no, not over. now it is in this state, the house is uninhabitable until we rebuild it to you more next door to alga, another group with a similar story, they tell me this wasn't the 1st time they've had to flee. one of putin's was one. what you want to do, maybe live here as a last resort. do you understand what many of us are from done bass, we came here from war just to simply live and war came here after us. i think we are peaceful people. we don't want anything bad. we just want to live what law, horror, new hike you were brought the human rubbish. the most important thing is that it doesn't happen again. person could come back at any time even to morrow. they're building was also badly damaged by rocket fire. one woman shows me where her flat

used to be. several almost finer. this was my bedroom and there was a balcony behind it larger and now there is no balcony there at all or so from my things where they are like a little away say which of it, which had never, it's gone. oh, with butter on them while russian soldiers may have left a pin. but this is a city that's been left in ruins. there isn't a building we can say that doesn't at least bear some scars of the war and many a ruined beyond repair. while the physical clean up is underway, the emotional scars will take a lot longer to heal. for many who fled when the war broke out, they have little left to come back to. but for those who stayed behind many will have an even bigger recovery to contend with the dye dye. if the wall comes again, i will survive in any case, i will always survive because i have a bear and he protects me. oh,

near shy one. yes. the shad yards de la shortness i still get frightened by every loud noise or which i don't know if it will ever go away. but for now, and that's how i am more than less your ordinance tuck the not so silent trauma that my live on in their lives forever. russians are taking to social media to show support for their army posts and videos with the hash tag. white arm band are being widely shared, especially by state employees, politicians, teachers, and school classes. children have also formed online flash mobs. the white arm band hash tag echoes the white fabric that russian soldiers where round their arms and legs to distinguish them from ukrainians and russian t. v. or presents the war as an operation to quote, liberates ukraine. people also post social media videos. now our russian,

our army might strength and bravery. we support our army, guys, you know, everyone makes their own choice. i support the russian army and our president, this white arm band shows who's on our side. we see what is happening in ukraine. we see how our guys are saving civilians from shooting and freeing them from radical. so i thought that if you call them, because the deal is everyone makes their own choice. we support the russian army. this white arm band distinguishes our guys to look like last. while the w news is no longer allowed to report from russia, but our former moscow corresponded emily. sure. when explains how these white arm bands came to symbolize support for the army. while these white arm bands were you said it yourself, inspired by the white pieces of fabric that russian soldiers have been seen wearing in the war and ukraine. apparently it seems to distinguish them from ukrainian

soldiers. of course, white also has this association with peace and surrender, whereas one social media user put it with the bright future that the russian soldiers are fighting for. you have to remember that the kremlin narrative is that this is not a war. this is a special operation, protecting russian speakers within ukraine. and they have been emphasizing again and again on russians de tv that there are largely no civilian casualties. that's the narrative did. that's the narrative. so that brings me to the next question in terms of public displays of support for this war in russia. do we know a little bit about how, how much support they can count on? well it's, it's kind of hard to know whether displays, like the one that we were just showing are kind of grass roots displays of patriotism. or whether they're kind of organized from above in some way by local administrations. and so on. many of the posts that we just saw are from, you know, librarian school teachers, employees, essentially of the state. and the phrasing in many of those social media posts i

noticed is kind of the same. so it's almost seems like people are sharing the same text amongst themselves and re posting it. this is the newest, of course, in the series of patriotic kind of flash mobs that have been going on on line. you might remember pictures of people posing in, in the letter z, which of course has been on russian tanks in ukraine. and there have also, though, been reports that universities have been receiving direct recommendations from the presidential administration in russia that they should be displaying this kind of a zed or these symbols of support on their things, on their websites and so on. and i understand children as well, have been spotted wearing these white arm bands with the so tell us, well children's children wearing the, the white r man's also posing in, in these. and there's been also a pretty wide and widespread discrete discussion. generally, i think about education, about patriotic education in russia since the war began,

including, for example, one presidential aid talking about perhaps introducing something like a pledge of allegiance like you have in, in the us, in russian schools. today there was a decision to teach history starting from 1st grade, including the history of the 2nd world war, which we see is very much, much mixed up in the gremlins narrative of this war. you know, the idea is that they're fighting ukrainian and nazis in ukraine, that that's why they're in there. and there have also been reports of schools and universities actually receiving pamphlets and materials about how to talk to students and to, to school children about the war, including actually a list of sample questions and answers that, that had it has, has been published by journalists for example in siberia where for example, if you're asked was this war avoidable, the teacher is supposed to say, this isn't a war with ukraine, but a special peacekeeping mission to contain nationalists who have been depressing russian speakers. so as you can see, we have these kind of parallel now narratives and almost parallel worlds going on. you know, he's english are and thank you so much. thank you. well,

many of the millions of refugees who flip the war in ukraine do not originally come from there. among them are a number of students from other parts of the world, including africa, when you're faced racism, and discrimination as they seek new opportunities elsewhere. wisdom, edward has lost his old way of life. the nigerian was studying in hot keith ukraine than the war came and he fled to germany. what a walk for would have gotten the stability? i thought i had just went away. and on day wisdom found a home with a german couple maybe. but it's unlikely that he will be allowed to stay for i know car,

you know all ukrainians get residential rides to so that people from africa or other countries who have lived or studied in ukraine are denied this right? quite this is a great injustice. destiny on dusty course on collections, coating ukrainian citizens can stay and work in germany for at least a year. that's not the case for every one fleeing. the war. wisdom might be sent back to his native nigeria or korea to save of money. to go stunning in ukraine than under hopes of my future. just gone. i may be safe physically now here in calon walkman dunny unsafe because of this, her real chorus of what next wisdom tries to keep himself busy. he's joined an organization that helps african students in the same situation. here with

burleson mitchell's wisdom and the other african students hope they can stay and always go german government with great opportunities because we offers the same issue, the same war, the same tragic situation. the bullet on the bomb, those are no minorities on doesn't no skin color. i want it. i know about the other stories in the headlines right now. at least 6 people have been killed in explosions near a school in the off gone capital. cobble and official says, hand grenades caused the blast. the school is in a mostly she, i muslim neighborhood, which has previously been a target of the so called islamic state. israel says it's warplanes have struck the gaza strip and retaliation for a missile, fired from the palestinian territory. a mos which controls garza claims israel hit

empty sites. the incident follows a weekend of violence around jerusalem's alex, a mosque at least 40 people have been injured in rioting in sweden. the unrest is blamed on the leader of the far right group, hard line ross. miss pollard on is accused of spreading hate. several muslim countries have condemned to violence, scenes from an easter weekend that's likely to live long in sweden's memory for days of riots in several cities. stones thrown police cars safe on fire, and a total of $26.00 police officers injured. i am volleyball. this violence is directed against the police and society. this has nothing to do with any kind of protest. it's an unjustifiable attack on our legal system and our democracy. it started with a provocation from the far right politician rasmus paladin here at a rally on good friday burning

a copy of the qur'an in front of crowds of miss limbs. authorities had authorized his rallies, but there were counter protests, especially in southern sweden. please see criminal gangs attended those their motive not political protest, but pure violence. if there are too many people in our country who lost faith in a better future and prefer to turn to crime, we have to prevent this. as we've been saying for a long time, our own reflector from police and for years sweden has failed to get a grip on its problem with criminal gangs. the government has acknowledged its own mistakes until no violence had mainly been associated with drug skaggs. the fact that police officers are now being attacked as a new label of escalation. and that's something that sweetens justice minister is all too keen to get to the bottom of song as coolness we will find answers. and we

will do it in such a way that we hold as many responsible people accountable for their crimes as possible. that is also an important signal. it's clear that sweden has to work 3 far more than the damage from the weekend. gang crime is likely to be one of the main issues in september's election. you are changing every new life from berlin, stick with us up next highlights from the point i will be back at the top with with

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