ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin last stand in muddy ball. ukrainian forces show no sign of surrendering after a russian deadline to lay down their arms passes. this could be our last appeal of our lives with what we may be facing a lust days. if not hours. the enemy out numbers tend to warn the cities defenders vowing to fight to viet as battles, rage across east and ukraine. and russia's capture of the church noble nuclear

power plant at the start of its ukraine invasion, had the world fearing an atomic disaster. now, weeks after their retreat, more of russia's dangerous actions are coming to light. plus, germany's foreign minister kicks off for a tour of the baltic states with a clear message for moscow, nato will protect every corner of its territory to defend freedom and growing fears. in lithuania, over russian belligerents, as many worry, their countries could be moscow's next target. some are now preparing for the worst case scenario. ah, ah. hello everyone, i'm layla rock. thank you very much for joining us. the defenders of the besieged

ukrainian ports of multiple are warning the city could fall within days if not hours. as russia presses it's offensive across east and ukraine, ukrainian troops hold up in multiple have to fight a russian deadline to surrender. efforts are now underway to open a humanitarian court or to allow civilians to leave. and i have to warn you. our next report contains images that are distressing on ukraine's eastern front. soldiers begin for the fight ahead. that direct russia has re launched his offensive, hoping to take full control of the dumbass region. in the besieged port city of mario pole. the fight may be almost over let us add another bases our appeal to the world. when this could be our last appeal of our lives. we may be facing a last days if not hours,

the enemy out numbers as $10.00 to $1.00. while a sense of normal life returns to the capital, keep in cities to the east, the wall rage is on in then seen if the intensity of fire by russian troops in the hockey direction in dunbar, and in the dimly per region has increased significantly. only basically consider ordinary housing infrastructure, normal targets for them anymore. we jane in this wall. the russian army will for ever inscribe itself in world history as perhaps the most barbaric and inhuman and the world. shannon, they dish a lot of our school e nearly school address at this hospital in chrome, a task. the injured continue to arrive wounded by the 2nd russian offensive era. as international now seems, yesterday,

russia started a large scale advance in the area. they use artillery systems heavy artillery drones and g r a d systems. or are they in hockey? family say their last good bye to those who we killed in the fight. rushes invasion may have entered a so called new phase. but the pain of loss is a constant in a wall that's far from over let's say join a did have your correspondence, rebecca ritter's now. she is in the ukranian capital key for rebecca. a dire situation for the people still trapped in a matter you. but we understand a tentative deal has been struck to create a humanitarian corridor to allow them to evacuate. that's right,

layla. well, we could be witnessing as you're avoiding the very last hours of this sage that we know has been going on for nigh on 7 weeks. now pretty much is the beginning of this war. at with a dia, humanitarian catastrophe taking place there. we know that there is still around about a 100000 civilians trapped in that city bought the good news. potential good news coming out of today. ukraine's deputy prime ministers saying that russia and ukraine have agreed to allow for humanitarian corridor to allow some we think 6000 people out there. that ease of course, good news, even successful. but we do know from previous attempts that goes with humanitarian corridors, particularly around that city are so treacherous and often so dangerous that they are often cancelled. so it remains to be seen whether or not that will be able to be successful. and at those 6000 people will be able to get out, but that still leaves us just a little under a 100000 people trapped in that city. catastrophic situation there for civilians.

what about the last ukranian stronghold in muddy who pl. our forces still hunkering down there they are. they really defying everybody's expectations. layla. i mean everyone thought that mary paul was going to full weeks ago. there are 2 battalions fighting there and, and there is still around about 200-2228 half 1000 soldiers continuing that fight that defense for the city. they're based in the as of steel plant. as we know, we've been reporting, which is a vast network of warehouses and there's also an underground tunnel system. it's believe that they're round about a 100, a sorry, a 1000 civilians also sheltering in there. now the rush have started to use what, what were they calling a bunker, busting bombs that have bombs, that can go on the ground to try and get those remaining soldiers to come out. that would, of course, be catastrophic to the people sheltering down there as well. but at the moment that they read, the ukrainian soldiers have been defying these

a sort of surrender and di orders by russia. another one that was set for today at 2 pm has already passed. they continuing to fight until the end. ah, but unfortunately does look like that the end could be 9 for mary paul. it does look like it potentially could fall in the coming hours. and rebecca. okay, tell us about the year of russian offensive or elsewhere along the eastern front. well that planned russian offensive that we've been waiting for for a couple of weeks did kick off yesterday i was saying my increased bombardments in the dumbass region. how to keep and in the south add some 1200 or more than 1200 targets even were successfully hit by russia overnight since yesterday. and civilians have of course died in some of those attacks the mayor of la hans. it says that some cities in the don bass region are actually out without power and other utilities. and in fact, they won't be able to be restored until the end of the war. so dangerous is it that they're not able to get in to fix those things. we've seen huge evacuations from

the east for the last few weeks now, but there are still civilians in those areas. russia may managing to gain control of one small city in the dawn bass, but on the other side, you cry and taking back a small city near done yet that had been under russian control. definitely expecting a lot more bombardment missile attacks in the coming days. d, w corresponds for vicar voters reporting from the ukranian capital keith rebecca, thank you very much for your continued coverage. well, i meanwhile, the kremlin spokesperson, dmitri prescott says, russia has handed you crane a written list of it's demands. as part of peace talks. mr. pascall told reporters that moscow was waiting for a response from keith to the draft document, or shes earlier, negotiation demands have included ukraine taking, neutral, state neutral status. seating the net and hans regions,

and recognizing its annexation of the crimean peninsula. i let's find out more about this data correspondence and russia, alistair constantine edgar, to is following a development constantine. what more do we know about this draft document? layla? nothing. we don't know anything about any new proposals. oh boy, the reservation. and it's not clear what your scores talking about and whether it is really talking about something real. well, i suppose that, oh, well, let's like that. if he is a comical victory, do you live 19 eighties, expression on the feature thatcher era to actually believe. so we've got no information, no details of the contents of this a draft document. so that makes the question, is this a sincere attempt by moscow?

well, i think that the coincidence between the renewed russian offensive against degrading forces in the east and specifically last of all, near mario and the bureau for fisco is, well, quite, quite, sort of the, most of this, if you wish it very frequently the graham and talk speak with it's waging war. and i suppose that this is yet another reminder that well, i put in is all ready for agreement, but it is, it is, is the sky, the presence of ukraine, who isn't, who doesn't want piece that, the spin all the russian propaganda. i suppose also that's the case was that piece talks will not review if mario bill is taken in the dependent clause. i think that actually hit the crumb and then that's their way to respond to it, to biscuit,

to off load the responsibility for anything that happens. all of the ukrainian leadership. has there been any reaction hung ukraine yet? well, i haven't seen any yet. and, well, i do not think my suspicion is i do not think that the landscape will say anything to the concrete. and then what you said about the storming of mario and, and the outcome possible outcome of these battle. i suppose that in such circumstances it will be quite strange if dimansky suddenly says, well, ok, yes, let's engage in peace. i think that he's a responsibility as commander in chief and, and basically the world. are you crying to guy as overtaken? pretty much any. all the responsibility, a guarantee, as a politician, he's a democratically elected president. he is, of course, sorry, all the people that die and all the blood that's been shared by his fellow citizens

bought all the other him, the logical war. you saw that anything that will resemble the stokes with more school today will smack off surrender. and i suppose that will not be taken kindly by very significant part of the ukrainian public opinion. these are the laws of war. these are the laws of war. psychology have your correspondence on russia, analyst constantine, i heard konstantin as always. thank you very much. well, early on in its invasion of ukraine, russia seize control of the turnover nuclear power plant, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident. it was the 1st time that a nation has occupied a nuclear plant as part of its more strategy. weeks after moscow's forces, left reports continue to emerge of the reckless and extremely dangerous actions they took there. this is one of the most radioactive places in the world. yet the more than a month,

russian soldiers lived here. digging deep into the contaminated soil of the chernobyl exclusions own ukrainian officials say that bunking down in the zone so called red forest manned up costing some of the troops their lives horribly through their shoes. 3 little corporal in the red forest where russians dug trenches, ally, they lived here only breathe in dust here. usual cooked their food and set fire's hair, a hoodie la for a while when the thought so gross was burnt, and they inhaled burnt substances. you with the holy, which hang a 3rd of course it will damage their healthily fixer. it will kill some of them slowly, profoundly. and some of them will be, will die quickly. ah, dick, which will go with it? but russia's occupation of this site, but more than lives of its soldiers in danger. for a time, the decommission plant was cut off from the power grid and force to rely on diesel generators to keep critical safety systems running, sparking phase of

a new nuclear disaster reaching well beyond ukraine. when russian troops hurt left at the end of march, they looted offices some report li even stole highly radioactive materials, possibly to sell ukrainian authorities still unable to monitor radiation levels at the site off to soldiers, also stole the systems main server. chernobyl was never ready for a military occupation with the russians gone for now, and the anniversary of the 1996 disaster approaching. authorities are working to make sure it will be more prepared in the future. i katina about the other developments in this war. the un security council has meant to consider the war, ukraine's ambassador urge members to address what he called, quote, russia's dubious presence in the chamber lashes represented the qsc when of using ukraine as a pawn in their geopolitical game against russia. and the international monetary

fund has cut it's forecast for global growth this year to 3.6 per cent. they say the war and western sanctions are putting pressure on the world economy, which is already seeing a slow recovery from the pandemic. and the humans refugee agency says more than 5000000 ukraine's hath fled abroad in the 8 weeks, says russia launched its invasion more than 200000 nationals of other countries have also escaped ukraine to neighboring nations. shows aggression has triggered the fastest growing refugee migration in europe since world war 2 german chancellor schultz is facing growing frustration over what his critics say is a lack of leadership on ukraine. some of that criticism is coming from his government's coalition partners. you say his reluctance to st. heavy weapons is leaving ukraine in the lurch. the chancellor giving hints,

instead of answers. his government is sending money to ukraine, but still not supplying heavy weapons. yeah, i am the lord. we've asked german arms manufacturers to tell us what equipment they can supply in the near future. not think more on ukraine has now made it selections from this list. and we're giving ukraine the money it needs to buy them. well. it's unclear what sort of military hardware ukraine will actually get shot suggests it would be german made tanks, the focus get it. as for such equipment, it's about operational systems that are immediately available if those that can be put to use, especially if they're already used in ukraine. the chancellor stressed that supplying weapons from current vendors where stocks would be virtually impossible because there would be limits to what could be delivered. and so the debate goes on among the coalition partners, the free democrats and the greens, the former, quick to respond on twitter rating that everyone's doing what germany's doing is

not correct. we're still lagging too far behind criticism to from the greens he up to the seems to me the chancellor is still hesitating, namely because germany is the largest economy in the european union. and so we have to do much more than we're doing both in terms of arms deliveries and sanctions. we have to, as you tune praise though for schultz from the socialist last party in the some i think it's at least right that we're no longer promoting this discussion about heavy weapons domestically. any one who believes that heavy weapons will end this war faster is wrong. deli, i'm for 5. the debate over arms deliveries is becoming a bit of a stress test for germany's governing coalition. in the opposition, c, d, u. c su, many conservatives are for the delivery of heavy weapons, and they planned to put the issue to a vote in the been dis tag, shall still under pressure. and his coalition minister still waiting for clear commitments on german foreign minister on alina burbock is in the lot vian capital,

riga, to day to meet with her counterparts from the baltic states in a press conference alongside lot via's foreign minister at gar, set rank of which she reaffirmed germany's commitment to the security of the 3 former soviet republics, which are now all you and nato member states. mind them entity. i want to hear god all to day. the 4 of us are sending a clear message to moscow. if we will defend peace, i sovereignty and freedom owns the natural nato will collectively defendant's territory and protect you every corner of a mine's, i'm sure there was a foreign minister speaking a short time ago. want to go now to do to be a political correspondent, hansa brant, 4 more us at germany's a response to the war has caused a lot of a consternation. how united is this coalition? on the approach, the chancellor schultz has adopted?

well, if we look at the coalition at the number of, at the 3 parties that are part of this governing coalition in germany, obviously the social democrats, of all of shells are the largest partner. and then there are 2 smaller pop up partners that the environment of the greens and the market live role, free democrats, the smaller part partners are very clear in their call for heavy weaponry to be sent to you. craig, for more support to be given to ukraine. the real hesitancy is to be found in the social democrats and shots the chancellor's own party. that's a policy that has spent many years looking for dialogue with russia, talking about the necessity to keep the channels open, to talking about change through trade and so on. and that party really, that has to perform the strongest the, the most clear turn about in order to change the policy in germany or the shows

i think has made that turn, he has initiated a significant change in german foreign policy in german policy towards russia. but his party is not yet following him in every detail. so i think a lot of the hesitancy on the part of what shows as part of difficulties within his own social democrat party. in conclusion, germany's reputation has suffered since the start of the war in ukraine. it standing among some lies has taken a beating. are they worried is, is the chancellor worried about germany standing on the international stage? he's worried, i'm sure about the criticism that has been issued to that has been said by, for instance, by ukraine. but i think one has to say that within the alliances that germany is part of that is the g 7, which germany is chairing at the moment. the e,

u and nato. there germany is very clear on wanting to do things together with the allies. it's very strict on not doing anything on its own or on finding a common ground with all of those allies, and that's really what has been happening. so i think in that sense, germany is still very much part of that alliance and feels that it is not really isolated. did have the political correspondence, has branch. thank you very much. why is the meeting of german and baltic foreign ministers takes place and lot via people? next door in lithuania, feared their country could be moscow's next target. a particular concern is a new stretch of land known as that. so while gab bordering lithuania and the russian enclave of colon and grad, many lithuanians from moscow could some day attempt to cut this passage to its western needle partners. so some are trying to ensure they're prepared. now loosely, scowl scarce is training for the worst case scenario is

a member of the lithuanian rifleman union, a state backed barrow military group that has been growing ever since russia annexed. grand mia? in 2014. 0, oh, sales propaganda, old born russian stayed propaganda. targeted lithuania for us, it meant we could be the next ones with especially if you live here in the saw called swanky gap, lethal any us only land connection with its western. they to pardon us. this stretch of land is crucial for the transport of goods and military equipment. the sir walter gap is just 65 kilometers wide. it's located exactly here between the russian exclaim of cooling and grass on the one site and thrushes l i bellows. on the, on the site in lithuania, many fia that russia might try to cut this land breached of the west. dense with

moscow has been rising. lithuania has been a member of nato since 2004. but since the start of the boy and ukraine, politicians and normal citizens have grown more determined, i would say we owe you more, but you're too, which is to defend your freedom and so on. it's like understanding of is a fundamental things we have to a few here of to prepare ourselves. that's why we need, ah, more natal presence in our region as a very credible that of deterrence against russia. this is also the aim of an unusual art exhibition in the capital videos. this strain from moscow stops twice a day here on its way to the russian exclaim of calling and grat. russian passengers are not allowed to get off, but they are confronted with photos of war outside of their windows.

when polio was least caused gus is not training for battle, he takes off his rifle, manny uniform to work as a lawyer. he believes that the kremlin and not ordinary russian citizens are responsible for the war in the ukraine. federal globe. oh, so i have russian clients that i keep in touch with. i don't feel any personal hatred towards them, but rather towards the russian state and russian state propaganda around those long again. many here would agree with him. lithuanians have been called to between a constant state of vigilance and resilience. but with the onset audited, warned ukraine. people living in the salty gap, i looking to the future with even more concern now to south africa where catastrophic floods have left over 400 people dead and tens of

thousands more homeless. the country's military has deployed 10000 troops to help with search and rescue and relief efforts. millions are still without water. more than a week after a deadly storms pounded the region. south africa's government is calling it the worst natural disaster and living memory. well, over 400 people have lost their lives in the floods. dozens are still missing. we've been around 40000 people have been left homeless. the president says it's a humanitarian catastrophe. and has declared a state of emergency. it is going to take a massive effort. drawing on the resources and capabilities of the entire nation to recover from this disaster. as government, we will make financial resources available to meet this challenge. it is estimated that economic loss is caused by the flooding. we'll run into the hundreds of

millions of euro's. but that's only the financial cost. the human haul has been catastrophic. people continue to search for their loved ones in many places in the east and quite zulu natal province. la nod, if we're looking for our neighbor who has swept away by the river. with sure that she was told to ride by the river because we found her son's body that we haven't found her from door. meanwhile, the heavy rainfalls have east, but the cleanup will probably take months in washington, every news is a reminder of our main story. ukrainian forces hold up in the besieged porch of muddy who will say the city could fall within days. if not hours. a russian imposed deadline for ukrainian troops to surrender has passed. efforts are underway to evacuate civilians from the city. you're watching data, we knew it's coming up next. and d, w, news, asia, i've gotten a stones. poppy dilemma, the talk about it but not really why and alone and in the dark. why single

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