ah, ah ah ah, this is here. we news line from berlin last stand in muddy who bought ukrainian forces defy a russian ultimatum to lay down their arms. this could be our last appeal of our lives. we may be facing a last days if not hours. the enemy out numbers is tend to warn the cities defenders vowing to fight to the very end as battles rage across east in ukraine. and the kremlin spokesman says he's awaiting a response from ukraine. after delivering a written, a list of demands for p stocks. and germany's foreign minister kicks off her tour

of the baltic states with a clear message from moscow. nato will protect every corner of its territory to defend freedom plus growing fears. in lithuania, over russian belligerence, as many worried their country could be moscow. next target. right now, preparing for the worst case scenario. ah. hello everyone, i'm layla, right. thank you very much for your company. the defenders of the besieged, ukrainian ports of muddy who ball are warning the city could fall within days if not hours. as russia pressure presses it's offensive across east and ukraine. ukrainian troops hold up in mud or you bowl have defied a russian deadline to surrender. efforts are now underway to open of humanitarian

quarter to allow civilians to leave on ukraine's eastern front. soldiers begin for the fight ahead. direct. russia has relaunched 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. not as one of the few bases are 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 rages on in seen if the intensity of fire by russian troops in the hockey direction in dunbar on in the demila pro region has

increase significantly. only thanks will consider ordinary housing infrastructure, normal targets for them same as a change in this wall. the russian army will for ever inscribe itself in world history as perhaps the most barbaric and inhuman on the world. shannon may be a shovel, school, e nelly school. irish at these hospital in chrome, a task. the injured continue to arrive wounded, one of them by the 2nd russian offensive viagra as it should. i should. now it 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? families 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, but far from over g w, correspond rebecca writers is in the ukranian capital key. and i asked her about evacuations. evacuation efforts for civilians trapped in the city of multiple, we could be witnessing as you're reporting the very last hours of this saves that we know has been going on for nigh on 7 weeks now, pretty much as the beginning of this war at with a dia, humanitarian catastrophe taking place there. we know that there are 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 minister 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 isn't 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 that though 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 pull our forces still hunkering down there they are. they really defying everybody's expectations. layla. i mean, everyone thought that mario paul was gonna 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 plan, as we know that we've been reporting, which is a vast network of warehouses and is also an underground tunnel system. it's

believed that their round about a 100, a, sorry, a 1000 civilians also sheltering in there. now the russians 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 they, the ukrainian soldiers have been defying these 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 lou paul, it does look like it potentially could fall in the coming hours. and rebecca. okay, tell us about the year russian offensive 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 attack speed. maravella, hans 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 on. yet that had been under russian control. definitely expecting a lot more bombardment missile attacks in the coming days. the w corresponds for vicar richter's reporting from the ukrainian capital. keep rebecca, thank you very much for your continued coverage. early on in its invasion of

ukraine, russia seized control of the chernobyl nuclear power plant, the side of the world's worst nuclear accident. it was the 1st time that a nation has occupied a nuclear plant as part of its war 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 there lives. horrible militia derushia, 3 little corporal in the red forest where russians dug trenches, ally, they lived here, only breathed in dust. here usual cooked their food and set fire as hare

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 fix. it will kill some of them slowly, profoundly, and some of them will be, will die quickly. ah, dick, which with cold water but rushes occupation of this site, but more than the lives of its soldiers in danger. for a time, the decommission plant was cut off from the power grid and forced 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 a 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 to noble 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 kremlin spokesperson. dmitri pasco says russia has handed ukraine a written list of it's demands, as part of peace talks. mr. pest golf told reporters that moscow was waiting for a response from keith to the draft document brushes earlier, negotiation demands have included ukraine taking on neutral status. seating the da net scan, who hans regions, and recognizing its annexation of the crimean peninsula. when did it be correspondent and russia analyst konstantin, egret has been following developments from the lithuanian capital vilnius. i asked him what we know about the list of russian demands. luckily, we don't know anything about any new proposals of by the reservation and it's not

clear what i was talking about and whether he's really talking about something real . i suppose that so well, let's food like that. he's been economic go to the truth to user 1008 is expression on the features that your 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 the us 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 11 ski, the presence of ukraine who isn't who doesn't want piece. that's the spin all the russian propaganda. i suppose also that was that piece talks will not review if mario bill is taken and it's depends. a lot of i think that's actually hit the crime and then that's their way to respond to it. to biscuit it off, load the responsibility for anything that happens on the end 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 zelinski will say anything to the concrete than what he 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. ok. 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 the ram the 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 does have a correspondence on russia. analysts, konstantin anchored konstantin as always. thank you very much and want to

know by the other developments in this war, the un security council has meant to consider the war, ukraine's ambassador urged members to address what he called russia's dubious presence in the chamber shows. representative accused the you, when of using ukraine as a pawn in their geopolitical game against russia. the international monetary fund has cut it's forecast for global growth this year to 3.6 percent. they say the war and western sanctions are putting pressure on the world economy, which is already seen a slow recovery from the pandemic. and the u. n's, refugee agency says more than 5000000 ukrainians have fled abroad. in the 8 weeks since russia launched its invasion, more than 200000 nationals of other countries have also escaped ukraine to neighboring countries. russia's aggression has triggered the fastest growing

refugee crisis in europe since world war 2 german chancellor. allah 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 who say that his reluctance to send 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 norton ukraine has now made its 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 thought as good 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 left party is 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 until 5. the debate over arms deliveries is becoming a bit of

a stress test for germany's governing coalition. in the opposition cd u. c. s u. many conservatives are far the delivery of heavy weapons and they plan to put the issue to a vote in the been to stack. schultz still under pressure. and his coalition ministers still waiting for clear commitments. german foreign minister on atlanta barrow bach is in the lot vian capital. we go to meet with her counterparts from the baltic states in a press conference alongside laud fears, foreign minister at garza rink of ich, 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 then v, o to hear god all to day, the 4 of us are sending a clear message to moscow. we will defend the peace i sovereignty and freedom owns the natural nato will collectively defend its territory and protect

you every corner of a mines. i'm sure did have a political correspondent, hans, hans joined me earlier to discuss the mixed messaging coming out of the 3 party coalition. well, if we look at the coalition at the number of, at the 3 parties that are part of the 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 environmental, 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 ukraine for more support to be given to ukraine. the real hesitancy is to be found in the social democrats and all the shots, the chancellor's own party. that's a party 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 most clear turn about in order to change the policy in germany. or the shots 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 i've shown as part of difficulties within his own social democratic party. in conclusion, germany's reputation has suffered since the start of the war in ukraine. it's 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. so 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 tearing at the moment. the you 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 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. d, w, political correspondence has branch. thank you very much. why is the meeting of germany and baltic foreign ministers takes place and lot viani people next door in lithuania, feared their country could be moscow's next target. a particular concern is a narrow stretch of land known as the saw walkie gap watering lithuania and the russian enclave. of colon and cried many lithuanian sphere moscow could some day

attempt to cut this passage to its western needle partners. so now some are trying to ensure that they're prepared. now loosely, scalouse gas is straining for the worst case scenario. is a member of the lithuanian rifle, men's union, a state backed para military group that has been growing ever since russia annexed grand nea in 2014 i. oh, so 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 while key gap, li through any us only length connection with its western natal. pardon us? this stretch of land is crucial for the transport of goods and military equipment. these are walter gap is just 65 kilometers wide. it's located exactly here between

the russian exclaim of callian grat on the one site and thrush us l. a bela rose on the other side. in lithuania, man, if he has that russia might try to cut this land breached of the west. tensions 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 your order, which is to defend your freedom and so on. it's like understanding of the 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. 3rd class. 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 was no longer working for many here would agree with him. lithuanians have been called to between a constant state of vigilance and resilience. but with the onset,

all the devoid ukraine, people living in the swell to get a looking to the future with even more concern to me and man, our citizens struggle to return to democratic rule may not be making international headlines, but it's certainly very much alive. it's visible and people's attempts to boycott businesses owned by the military who into owns hundreds of enterprises involved in everything, from telecoms to oil and gas, and even beer. and it's here that being mars people are taking a stand, one pint at a time or a cool draft beer in a 19 street bar is a popular way to unwind and young guns bustling downtown. the what beer you choose these days as a political statement. drinkers are turning their back on me in mar beer once the most popular broo in the country. because of it's linked to the armed forces.

they're sipping big international brands instead. anita all i wanna all the restaurants and 19th street used to sell me and mar beer. but now i don't see any. yeah, they go to tiger, to borg and other brands have replaced. it won't only align valuable to me and mar. beer was backed by the japanese brewing giant keighron, and seen as a sign of the economic liberalization washing into the southeast asian country. after the military relaxed its iron grip on power in 2011, it dominated the market, but brands without government links around the rise. even though it anyhow, both, i mean, we know other beer browns are paying tax to the military, but we don't want all of our money going to them. we avoid is in that there's only me in my beer in the restaurant than we don't drink beer. and i will dowdy. take out an invaluable delgado, danella latavia, although natalie that i'll go many restaurants don't sell the military's me and mar

beer. and people tend not to choose me and mar beer any more lawyer. and i will wealthy gentle god, almonza is dead. we have to choose other brands only like tiger machine, but though they build them low legal aid m, avi, although there is widespread public anger at the military's crackdown on descent, which a local monitoring group says has killed more than 1700 people. this is led to attacks on bars, still serving the beer and delivery trucks carrying the beer have been stopped and their cargo destroyed the boycott spreading to include other items with military links, including coffee and beauty. products me in mars, consumers hope to fight the hunter by putting a squeeze on the economy. when molden organizers have confirmed that russian and bell russian tennis players have been banned from this year's tournament because of the war in ukraine. the band prevents a number of top rank players from competing in jews grand slam events,

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