ah, ah ah, this is dw news, live it from berlin tonight, another massive shipment of american weapons headed fort ukraine. if u. s. president biden says why the mere putin will never succeed. just as he did last week to day biden announced another $800000000.00 in weapons for ukraine, including heavy artillery drones and ammunition. also coming up to night, russian president putin claiming victory and control over the besieged city of mario pole. but ukrainian soldiers are still refusing to surrender. and farmers on the front line ukraine is one of the world's leading grain next quarters. tonight,

we take a look at how farmers are trying to grow crops in a countries are scarred by whoop. ah, i bring gov to our viewers watching on p b. s in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome. we start with more military assistance for ukraine and a warning that rushes vladimir putin will not win the war. you as president by made those announcements to day in washington, in a major display of support for the ukrainian government. this latest package of weapons shipment is worth $800000000.00 and it comes on top of the $2600000000.00 that the u. s. has already delivered to ukraine. biden says the package will contain heavy weaponry that the government in ukraine says it desperately needs today. banassi another $800000000.00 to further augment ukraine's ability to fight

in the east the don boss region. this package includes heavy artillery weapons, dozens of hower teachers, and $144000.00 rounds of ammunition to go with those howitzers. it also includes more tactical drones, another very large shipment of arms to ukraine from the u. s. i asked our washington, correspondence to me soon was gonna how much help this will be for keith? that's right, brent. it is a lot of money and we heard there in that clip from president biden. what that package of support will include? so the how it serves the 10s of thousands of rounds of ammunition. he also pointed out that the u. s. has already supply plenty of anti armor systems. he said, these are particularly effective against russian tanks that they actually out number russian tanks by 10 to one. so he's very keen to point out how much military support the u. s. has already provided and is providing again with this package. he also said that u. s. intelligence continued to share their information with ukraine to help the

country defend itself. now how exactly will it help president biden made clear that this package of aid is tailored specifically, especially with the type of weapon supplied to help ukraine defend the east where we know brent russia has ramped up is offensive. so that is just a different battlefield to a city like here, where you've seen urban warfare holding out defenses on the outskirts of the city. president biden said that the topography of the east of ukraine presents a very different challenge. and in this package, these weapons that we just mentioned, including the tactical drones that according to him and his administration, is going to aid that effort significantly. it, we know that the president does not showing away from his authority here to send these huge aid packages to ukraine. how much support is there for this aid among americans? i think it's safe to say print. there is still broad support for ukraine among the american public and also condemning russia for its attack. in fact, they looked at a poll from the associated press just before coming on,

showing that 54 percent of americans think biden has actually not been tough enough in his response to russia's invasion around 36 percent. think his approach has been just about right. the number of people supporting a direct and u. s. involvement. that is waning, and i do think it's important to say it's going to be interesting to see how high the support remains in the face of soaring inflation. consumer prices are as high as if they've been in 40 years. americans are feeling at the gas pump at the grocery store, so that could cut into some of the support as the war extends and bret one more note on political support. president biden also pointed out that he's pretty much exhausted all the authority that he's had from congress or approve a to ukraine than it is used up all the money and the ability. yes, to send a weapons over. so he will have to send a supplemental budget request to congress again to continue the flow of weapons and aid. but i think it can be expected that congress will approve that. and i'm sure he's hoping that of european l wise will be helping also descent more aid. do we

know that this alliance, the western alliance right now in view of supporting ukraine? how strong is it is, is it as strong as it was 2 months ago? well, if you listen to president biden, the messaging there of course is that he's underlined that the west, the u. s. in its allies there in lock step on pushing back against russia and supporting ukraine. and i think on the whole, there is still, if you listen to the biden administration, a lot of cooperation happening on all levels of the government between the u. s. and its european allies. at what president biden said today, is that the u. s. is actually also helping allies in europe get their equipment like aircraft systems, from slovakia into ukraine. that being said, i did speak to an expert earlier, lieutenant colonel windman, who's the retired army general ukraine expert who said he was very critical of germany. he thinks that it is absurd, that germany is not meeting its obligations on implementing an oil and gas embargo delivering heavy weapons. and that germany needs to stand with it's european

partners, particularly in eastern europe to carry a heavier burden. so that is one voice and we're hearing more voices. critical of germany, you're hearing this voice is outside and also inside the country regarding to weapons shipments. he w submission was gone to reporting from washington to night should be thank you. what did you, as president biden also said that there is, quote, no evidence that mario pole has fallen to russia. it comes after moscow tried to claim victory there to day, saying, brushing forces have successfully liberated the port city in southeastern, you crate. some 2000 soldiers in about a 1000 civilians are still believed to be holding out inside the vast as of stalls steel plant in the city keepers demanding that moscow open a humanitarian corridor to let civilians leave safely. president putin called off plans to storm that complex to day. instead. in a televised meeting, he told his defense minister to completely seal off theory or report now on

a steel plant that has become a symbol of ukrainian resistance. the vast as of style steel plant, seen hair and footage from russian state television ukrainian forces are holding out inside might be useful, has witnessed nearly 2 months of heavy fighting with much of the strategic port in ruins. president putin has claimed victory in the city and told his defense minister to seal off its defenders in their last stronghold. political again, my considered the proposed storming of the industrial area pointless by order to aborted emotionally. there is no need to climb into these catacombs and crawl under ground through these industrial facilities block off this industrial area is obligatory to so that not even a fly can get through. we will never succeed in dominating but in washington. us president joe biden dismissed putin's claims as questionable whether he does

control. one thing for sure, we know about variable. he should allow you managerial corners to let people on that steel mill and other places are buried under rumble. to get out to get out. that's what any, any, any head of state would do in such a circumstance. and so there is no evidence yet that mary paused completely fall. ukrainian authorities have also urged moscow to open humanitarian car doors to allow those sheltering in the heavily bombarded as of style plant to flee. these pictures provided by the plants defenders show some of the hundreds of civilians and said to be sheltering and bunkers below the steelworks. but previous efforts to organize evacuations from either you will have heard little success. some $100000.00 residents are thought to still be living among the rooms. in cave, ukrainian president followed the middle to landscape speaking alongside his spanish

and danish counterparts. remains defined in the face of russia. the soldiers announced that they will bring more weapons to young. i know that they've captured most of my jo paul a long time ago. we were very aware of that, but there is a part of our city where our service men remain and they'll stay there for now. a book issue when they come zohler sighs with no surrender planned by those blockaded in the as of style steel plant, there is growing concerned that those trapped inside could starve it is very difficult to verify. claims. coming out of mario poll, i asked our correspondent and key, but he has burger, what he is hearing about the conditions inside the city. not a lot, i'm afraid, but we know that an estimated 2000 to service men and maybe $1000.00

civilians may be more, maybe less are still on the territory. and that the attack that has been going on for the past few days has been aborted. and that put in has, as we have seen order to seal it off, which means that he is probably trying to starve these people because of course, their supplies are limited. their supply of ammunition is limited, and the mayor has said to day that there is little hope for a corridor to evacuate. at least the civilians or all of these people because no sci fi could be achieved and all they have in attempts, of course to do that. and but they have failed so far because shelling had continued during that time. there will certainly be, i guess, attempts to teach, to establish another corridor, or to maybe exchange those people trapped there for prisoners. they are all these things are being discussed. but for the moment, of course,

the russians have the upper hand, they can just starve them or, or, or just keep them in there as long as they want. it is, we are also getting reports to night of mass graves that have been found near maria po. what more do we know about their yeah, this is says satellite imagery as shown that there were many fresh ditches that looked like graves in a place where authorities have said that russian authorities have buried the dead. we know that or the with the mayor of new port estimates that 20000 people at least have died in these weeks where the excess and where the city was under siege. that would be a big portion of a big part of, of the people who had still been, who had still been living there at the beginning of the war. and of course, these people need to be buried somewhere. no city has enough morgues for 20000

people and with no electricity. what happened in also in other places in ukraine was that the authorities either the occupies or even the civilians. they would quickly bury the people at least temporarily. and these big graves, of course, they said with these, these images, they support what the mayor has said that the number of people who died in this city is really high in the cave to day the, the spanish and the danish prime ministers came for a visit what more do we know about what they said? while they have announced additional weaponry aid, they have an additional military aid and that and, and the spanish are prime ministers also visited one of the places that was most devastated by the russian that was occupied by russia. and he was deeply moved by

what he saw there. it's of course, a show of solidarity and we see people we see no heads of state or government arriving here more frequently to show support for ukraine. did amusement g, a spelling of the latest tonight from keith mathias as always. thank you. let's get a closer look now and help things have changed on the ground in ukraine this week need to be reporter joe doorway has more. this week ukraine's president declared that the battle for the don bass had begun. russia also acknowledged that a new phase in its operations was now focusing on the important industrial regions to the east. now since 2014 russian back separatists have controlled parts of the dawn bass, namely the regions of done it and lew hands while russia has also occupied crimea. now, russian forces control an arc of territory connecting the breakaway regions to crimea, and cutting ukraine off from the sea of resolve. in the latest development this

week, russia intensified its efforts to take more territory across the don boss. a launched a battery of thousands of air and artillery attacks on many points along the front line. now us analysts say they believe that russia appears to be trying to encircle ukrainian forces in this pocket here between its territories, by one estimate up to 40000 ukrainians may be position there and that's about 20 percent of the known forces. now these ukranian units are we expected to put up quite a fight because they have been well practiced in fighting separatists here for years . russia on the other side, is estimated to have up to $70000.00 troops across the se, including units which retreated after failing to take the capital keith. but some western analysts believe that russian forces are not ready for this new offensive. they say they appear to be rushing to attack without proper training, preparation, or supply lines. and this week's bombings are being seen as a test by russia to find weaknesses in the front line before attempting to move any

tanks or troops. ford, ukraine continues to call for more weapons from western countries to try and hold the russians back. that was, did abuse job dover. their reporting pressure is growing on germany to speed up shipments of weapons to help ukraine fight russian forces. the government here in berlin says that it is preparing now an arm swap with fellow e, you and nato members, slovenia. under this deal, slovenia would send a large number of tanks to ukraine to replace these germany would provide sylvia with takes from its own supplies. germany is already sitting military aid to the ukrainian army, but it has faced criticism for not giving details on those ships or political correspondence. i'm a young, he has more on this deal that berlin has struck to sin tanks to you. great. these are unconfirmed reports. so far, but to berlin has been making it clear for some time that it thinks that if other

countries could send their soviet era equipment to the ukrainian military, then they could step in and replace that equipment. so in order to, as it were, maintained nato country defenses. and if a country like slovenia is able to send tanks and that would be one such deal according to the virginian media. that country has 46 t 72 tanks, the old soviet manufactured tanks. actually they are referred to as m a t 4 because that's a, a special yugoslav army very into this tank. but the good thing about it is that those are, those tanks could be sent immediately and they could also be put into service immediately by the ukrainians. no training required because they already are familiar with the t 72 tank. so i could start using it right away, and that of course could be key because all the observers say that the next few

weeks is very likely to be decisive in this battle for the east of ukraine. in particular, there was some young reporter, russia's war in you, great as having a major impact on food supplies, both in and outside of the country. in our next report, we meet a farmer who explains the challenges that workers like him face in the midst of a war. the war has left its traces on lake sans official and the property on examiner is a farm. on the outskirts of cave, he owns a 1000 act as a farmland and agriculture machinery. it has been this has been in room since the russian troops entered the village at the beginning of march. burnt out on the vehicle 6 where his harvest was. going to do what he did, they came to the gate and began rattling. my workers were inside the farm. when they realized the troops lethargic through the gate, they ran over there, across the fence, into the village. thank god, they're all alive for both the russian forces in store themselves inside the

facility. and alexander fled to keep the rest and troops had occupied this place for around 3 weeks. and when they left, they blew up this place. now alex 100 picking up the pieces is not just his farm house that was destroyed. the fighting is also effected, his farmland is littered with unexploded ordnance supper minus we haven't been here yet, so we don't go out. we can't work at the moment or the mining brigades are out and about, but for now days stablished the damage. they haven't even started the mining agricultural land that this year harvested might be too late. the sewing season is nearing its end and the military administration has little hope they will be able to help in time versus your mind the roads and houses 1st, social facilities like schools in the things that are needed. so people come more

or less walk around. normally we do the fields only after we've done that 1st with us we're starting to, he guess is it might take years for agriculture to get back to norma. meanwhile, the winter wheat is growing. alexander sold it before the war with always dro over the field. because gland where we see traces of vehicles. my workers have been searching some minds with metal detectors or so, but we need clearance for the whole field. we don't know what's lying in there, and we'll have to wait for the mind sweeping to, to confirm that the field is safe. the consequences of this war will continue to be fed far and wide. as ukraine has been feeding the world for decades . frederica grab is an economist at the woof world food program in rome, and she told me that green shortage is stemming from the war in new cray could lead

to food shortages across the globe. but we do think that the consequences of the we see the consequences of the conflict radiating out was in triggering of ways of collateral hunger across the globe. and we prices are out. mean prices are boise prices are up. if you look at the file price index, which is a measure of global prices for base, the basket of staple commodities, it reached a new all time high in february and then took another join in march. and these prices trickle down to domestic market and import dependent country left us in line here to feel the effects. and then those people who struggle to afford a basic, neither normal time, they'll be, they won't have the ability for food anymore. so we, our projections forecast, rice and global acute hunger to a total of 323000000 people to up to that number candidates up from

a baseline of 276000000 at the beginning of this year. so a huge impact. you know, that's a disturbing number of people there who may be going hungry. we've seen here in europe, countries scrambling to diversify their, their energy import sources. what about these countries that are importing ukrainian, wheat and food? are they able to diversify their imports as quickly? well yeah, that's a huge issue and it's so there are countries like egypt or turkey that i major importers of weight. and they depend for more than 60 percent of their wheat on ukrainian and, and russian weight, i mean, ukrainian, russia to get us by 30 percent of global exports. and then there's a number of other countries like live in, antonia again, many libya that depends on russian or ukrainian we have of the importance of more

and the other countries that could potentially fill some of the gaps but, but their question marks and it's not i mean, the potential for other exporters to fully make up for the lower shipments from the blacks is, is anticipated to be limited because we've inventory is already very pious in, in canada, and the, and the us after a reduced harvest in the 20212022 marketing season, if you look towards argentina, the government is trying to control domestic inflation. if you look towards australia, they have good supplies, but they've reached maximum shipment capacity logistically. so there will be some diversification, but it's hard to, to make up for all. and i understand, i understand that there's a large supply of fertilizers from the black sea region. could you tell us why that's important? and what kind of consequences it's having?

yes. so russia is one of the biggest exports is for the 3 major groups of fertilizers. and also energy prices have been pushed up and have been highly volatile and natural gas as a production of nitrogen as bridge as much as ammonia urea. so fertilizer supplies are shrinking and are but that, that the export from osh, it's not clear if those will happen and the prices up there almost at the letters. if you look at a price and he says from that from the 2008 and fuel prices. so that means probably lower productivity and less supply in the longer term. so elevated prices for longer for the week agreed with the world food program. joining us tonight from rome, we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. thank you. well, mil to france where the 2 candidates in next sundays presidential election run off

squared off last night in there only televised debate. it was one of the last chances for income but emanuel macro and his far right challenger marine la pen to swing voters. and there were some fiery exchanges. it was the most anticipated moment in the french election campaign. the only t v debate between french president emanuel micron and the woman who wants his job . all right, challenger marine le pen move, i don't go to school, so go home the bud. use a little bit under the glare of the studio lights. the gloves were off. the cron attack le pen over her past dealings with russia. a map of the 2nd shop. let's go for dick bonded. you depend on russian power. you depend on mister putin as a few months after saying that madame le pen, that you took out a loan from a russian bank in 2015 for the 1st check russian bank, that self tick fish and bunk. when you don't talk to other leaders, you talk to your banker when talking to russia, this is the problem that madam,

that they ruined evil or pleasant on le pen insisted she was independent of moscow up more and returned to a key theme of her campaign to default the rising cost of fuel and essential legend left horse in, if horsey objected there caught my sure my read on all the sanctions that was taken against the oligarchs against the bang us law. so the only sanction that i disagree with is the one blocking russian cat is a coil in port zuka. why? because i think that's not the right method. this is not what will actually hurt russia in it. and above all, it will hurt the french people a lot. which echo shalt was, i felt i know him on multiple people said, well, shit hood with the candidates clashed of the climate change and microns economic track record in his 1st 5 year term. something peculiar, yasser, not again, on immigration, and the treatment of muslims in france. the candidates policies are far apart

as ship all i wanted to ban the hedge out in public spaces. i'll say it and the clearest possible way the fail is a uniform imposed by islamists. alma was a policy said miss rosalie, you will create a civil war in the housing projects. madame la fern, i'm being honest, what you're saying is very serious office could. would you say go here that they don't accept that because what you said is very serious. i got to thank you. an opinion poll from a french broadcaster found over half the viewers surveyed thought micron was more convincing in the debate. but french voters will had the last word in sundays run off election. you watch in the w news. here's a reminder of our top stories. the united states will send more military aid to ukraine. the bite administration says that descending another $800000000.00 worth of heavy artillery and drones to ukraine. and russian president vladimir putin is claiming victory over the besieged city of mario pole. the u. s. administration

saying there is no evidence, however, that russian forces have completely taken control of the city. a small force of ukrainian soldiers are still holding out inside the as of stalls steel plant. there . you watch a dw news after a short break. i'll be back to take you through the day. stick around. we will be right back with ah, with

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around you. subscribe to d w documentary on youtube. after almost 2 months of relentless russian attacks has the important ukrainian city of mario pole falling to day. russian president, poaching congratulated his troops for liberating the city after ordering them to surround not to storm the ukrainian soldiers there who are refusing to surrender. this would be a victory for putin in the biggest battle of this war so far. but he was, president biden isn't convinced tonight, biden seems more convinced than ever that ukrainian troops armed with western weapons can win this.