ah, ah ah, this is news live from rural and russia's ambitions for kremlin control of eastern and southern new. great. a russian general says the goal is to build a land bridge to occupied crimea. ukrainian troops trapped him or you pulls us off . star steel plant were made an obstacle to those plants, also coming up hacking, military communications. intercepts of russian radio traffic in ukraine reveal moscow's tactics. and it is down to the wire on the final day of campaigning in

frances presidential election incumbent. a monday when michael and his opponents manning the event, are showering attention on undecided voters ahead of sunday's crucial vote. ah. hello everyone, i'm layla rock. thank you very much for joining us in ukraine. it's a bitter struggle for the country's future. ukrainian president of a lot of murder zalinski says the last fighters in the port city of multiple on surrender. moscow has decided to keep them trapped in the cities steel plants, otherwise declaring victory over multiple rushes. defense ministry meanwhile said it would offer a safe passage to those still there. if you cranes soldiers to surrender. ivr similar offers have often collapsed,

giving the estimated 2000 hold outs and 1000 civilians. reason to stay put a sick look now at the vast industrial complex that has become a symbol of ukrainian resistance. the huge is of style steel plant seen here and footage from russian state television. ukrainian forces are holding out inside. mario pull has witnessed nearly 2 months of heavy fighting with much of the strategic port in ruins. president putin has claimed a victory in the city and told his defense minister to seal off this last stronghold. but of lagoon. i considered the proposed storming of the industrial area pointless by order to aborted human lives. there is no need to climb into these catacombs and crawl underground through these industrial facilities block off this industrial area. so they're not even a fly can get through moving next or in washington. us president joe biden

dismissed him claim that will not happen as questionable whether he does control. mary. one thing for sure. we know about murray. he should allow your manager in corners to let people on that steel mill and other places are buried under rumble. to get out. ukrainian authorities have also as moscow to open humanitarian curry doors to allow those sheltering and the heavily bombarded as also flaunt to flee. these pictures were filmed by the far right and nationalist, ukrainian group. as of battalion defending the plant, the footage shows some of the hundreds of civilians said to be sheltering in the bunkers below the steel work. but previous efforts to organize evacuations from mario pole have had little success. some $100000.00 residents are thought to be still living among the ruins. but the dead may lie elsewhere.

mary poles, mia has accused russian forces of hiding the true death toll by burying bodies of mary po, residence in a neighboring town. u. s. satellite company, macs are released, photos which it says show new mass graves in man hush. west of mary poll attempts to break or cease fire ahead of the orthodox easter festival this weekend failed. the sellers? yes. the unfortunately, russia rejected a proposal to establish an easter ceasefire daughter. this demonstrates very well how the leaders of that state actually feed about the faithful, about one of the most joyful and important religious holidays. but we maintain hope, hope lace lose bri, i am. and i do let you know a little bit from the as off style steel plant, hopes that piece seemed far away, the blockaded ukrainian fighters say they do not plan to surrender. and there's

a growing concerned that those traps inside could stove. let's find out more about the situation on the ground, former correspondent and mattias in the viv emma, what do we know about the ukranian troops and civilians at the steel plant in body? who pull right now at the troops? i understand say they want to surrender, but they may run out of options. the men ran out of option layla, but surrender ease, certainly not an option for ukraine, ukrainian of forces. this has been said again and again, there are are, there are indeed other style a steel plant and they do not plan to lay down the arms or despite repeated renewed cause or from the russian forces to do or to do so. i was reading earlier today, or the testimony of one of the sold is a trap to in my you pause to plan and he was talking about the tall that these seas

is taking on people who are still inside for security reasons. he's not there. he will, he wouldn't mention how many sold these are here, but he talked about 500 people injured with no access to medicine or to clean awards or people so injured in very poor shape women, children, or elderly peebles stacked there was no option to lead to plant or with russia only allowing our people to come out of marbles, seal plant, eve are sold, is laid on the arms. this is absolutely not planned on the ukrainian side. and despite russia's claim to victory over mar, u paul, even washington, we have said it's, we've seen it in the reports, denies those report saying that there was very much an active resistance and inactive resistance, ukrainian resistance in the city of mario paul. and then the am i, there are, those were hipaa ports of mass graves near him. are you boy?

exactly. it does, sir. as satellite imagery is showing what appears to be a mass graves. and there are these just highlights just how important those are evidence that we see right now emerging ease to assess whether or not or russia has been committed, war crimes against their de ukrainian population. there's also very worrying reports on a russia are making use of a mobile crematorium, a 2 apparently a burned bodies there. so you raise the evidence of a mass crimes against the population, which again highlight the importance of documenting what's happening there. it's very difficult with a know a journalist on the ground, the more you pull to a test or the presence of does more bar crematorium of does mass graves. but that shows why also a foreign powers such as foreign, such as, as spain, are sending

a forensics or a forensic investigators here in ukraine to document carbs, that are happening to document what is happening right now in his, in ukraine. and in a few words, sir, emma, any news on no possible evacuation corridors out of money? will there hasn't been any evacuation possible today. some people are managed to get out some buses or collected some people yesterday. out of moore, you pulled, but russia only allows an evacuation a corridor. etha sold is laid on their arms. and like we said earlier, this is not about this is not going to happen here in ukraine and washers reporting from western ukraine live. thank you so much for your continued college. thank you . the united nations migration agency says the number of people displaced with in ukraine has risen again. now, reaching the epic number of 7700000 aid groups are trying to help those 2

flat their homes, as well as those still stuck in cities under bombardment. he will face a daily struggle in places like ukraine's 2nd largest city. hark, if it's been the target of intense shine for weeks their homes are unlivable. after weeks of bombardment, now the people of ha keep survived by collecting rain water and cooking on fires, fueled by debris. or last year we don't have electricity, water, any communication at all, including gas in the garza february, the for the you know, you can't really cook here because the water will be worth gold soon. it's hard to get it. if a garage is here, you go and pickup panels. where else can we get a lot of a tree? a said we'll pull it and cut it. there is no other option. with bombs still flying above many are now living below in hockey,

metro stations. some have been camped here for weeks and once said, we brought several blankets with us, came here and now live next to the ticket machines. now i believe that was the best decision that they paced the platforms to stay active. doctors tried to help the many elderly with medical conditions, parents distract their children from the realities of war. for many finding food has become a daily challenge. these hockey residency gather what vegetables and can goods they can find to cook bosch sharing, what little they have been. grandma talked near the front line, public transport still operates, but medicine is running out for her going. it's bad that there are no drugs in the pharmacies and that only a few pharmacies are still open to probably more pharmacies were open, it will be better. millions of ukrainians have fled to cities further west living

and cramped shelters like this one. in ne pro, remembering the comforts they used to have critical huddle known as will i had a small piece of land early. lee planted everything there, tomatoes, cucumber, and greenery. or with me there was a flower bed in front of our house. the valenzuela me now many rely only on donations aid groups warned. the humanitarian situation is worsening as the tide of internally displaced ukrainians grows. for every person they help more are waiting . i'd like to reach out now to christopher stokes. he is an emergency coordinator for doctors without borders in ukraine, and i, christopher joins is now from love if thank you so much for your time, sir. um, what are the main challenges that internally displaced people are, are facing out right now. one of the issues that the, the,

until the display sleep facing right now is the lack of access to cash basically. so you have a lot of people who are on the move and loose from the east to the west and using the savings and they're running out of money. and the situation is becoming particularly precarious. so that's one problem. the 2nd problem is just move, getting people out from zone. so we've been focusing on medical evacuations, getting people out from the last from the hospitals because there's so many wouldn't good and the ukrainians are part of your very difficult to move the wounded out quickly enough to say are you able to get emergency supplies to those occupied in besieged to areas very difficult. i was in come out and the really right to the 30 kilometers from the front line and the east just a couple of days ago it's, it's a pretty tricky environment. it's very,

i'm science, a lot of civilian infrastructures have been hit, and i have to say it's one of more difficult humanitarian environment. so the answer is globally yes, but with huge difficulty and, and quite a bit of risk unfortunately. okay, talk a little bit about the conditions in the hospitals. what are they like? well that's an interesting so actually this is the and we working in a host of hospitals that are in there in this activated front line area where there's a lot of shilling going on it's, it's a mixed picture. the many schools are closed. and so what some of the hospitals that have remained opening only have between $1015.00 up to 20 percent of the staff levels. so you have for example, on college each account. so you have surgery, entire department of clothes, and there are still a lot of people in the civilians you've decided to stay. so the, the, the health situation is particularly worried,

especially also for emergency surgery. let's talk a little bit about that. what are doctors dealing with right now? one of the main issues they have is practically the, the, the case load of wounded. so you have the small hospitals that internet go blast, that may be dealing with a car crash every other day and not getting 5 to 10. we do today and that's heavy for a hospital, especially a hospital, but most of the stuff. and so those kind of issues around having and still having the protocols to deal with windows that used to it. as i mentioned, it's very different getting with 5 to 10 wall compared to a car accident. when you have a heavy toner as well, which is more they didn't before. so i think that coping, you know, in very difficult circumstances. we put

a few of our social regions from doctors without borders. but it's, you know, i don't think any civilian hospital in europe would be able to cope with only 10 percent of their staff and receiving, you know, 1015 very, very trying conditions that you described there. and finally, mr. strokes, i just want to get your take in terms of psychologically what toll is this war taking on people in ukraine. yeah, i'm not sure that we, i mean we've been looking at this issue loaded the around the new the, the air is around whether ukrainians are taking mental health support and we're reaching out to people. i have to say that this is something that i hope organizations in the history of health are addressing those. we're mainly focused on the situation, but it's true that when you go to the hospitals in these war areas, um yeah, the level of stress on the medical stocks would have remained is not sort of huge.

to launch into this war. very ferocious with a lot of civilian casualties. i don't know how long they'll be able to continue this. this right in the civilian hospitals. christopher stokes, emergency coordinator for doctors without borders in ukraine talking to us from the viv. sir, thank you very much for your time. i greatly appreciate you. thank you. let's take a look now at a couple of other developments related to the war in ukraine. investigators from the united nations have documented the killing of nearly 50 civilians in the town of boucher near keith. they say russian troops executed some of the victims. ukrainian forces discovered mass graves in russia following the withdrawal of russian units from the area. president vladimir zalinski says russia wants to hold an illegitimate referendum on independence in the south of ukraine. he told

residence in the occupied regions of her song and at supper reach out not to give their personal information to russian forces. the vote is seen as an attempt by moscow to legitimize occupation. the leaders a written and in the i have called for an immediate cease fire in ukraine prime ministers, boards, johnson and a render. mowdy made the appeal after talks in delhi, the 2 leaders signed a new defense agreement to reduce india's reliance on russia, weapons. tanks and artillery are not the only weapons that ukraine is using to fight the russian invasion. there's also a war being fought over the airwaves. ukrainian computer specialists and radio operators have managed to jam russia, communications, or intercept them. and in the process they've been able to reveal some shocking details of the wars brutality. this man known as viking, is one of ukraine's most experienced amateur radio operators. he's also

a member of radio resistance, a group that interferes with the russian military's radio transmissions. they're fighting in the war of radio waves of it's either one of them all damage or radios, actually forbidden in war time. but our intelligence services quickly realized that radio resistance can help in this war liking shows us how members of the groups searched through long and short waves for the conversation channels that russian soldiers used to communicate, decoding, intercepting, and jamming them is the goal. yeah, i mean he is an example, a driver of the russian army personnel carrier since he's coordinates, according to ukraine security services. this conversation took place between a russian soldier and his wife. he asked her permission to rape ukrainian with another. do you allow me to?

yeah, this is shawn. yes, i allow it. she says, according to this protection on the bullet gene that we haven't even identified the 2 of them, both little boards that we know their names, their social media profiles and for march the us to so we know everything about that and you can leverage cuz even the date they moved to crimea from russia would say much to martha shameka ukrainians like viking of fighting tooth and nail to defend their country. his comrade, known by his code name raymond, has risen to cult status. he takes radio jamming a step further. what, speaking directly to russian soldiers, often insulting them. ah, this is bonfire, learn, fight, learn to fire radios, this russian soldier rich jams to call stopping reinforcements from coming. and then since this, i don't know. so right now you see ukrainian intelligence work is serious business

. you said love and respect her enemy. i got at the end of the battle, the members of radio resistance interfere with the signal so that the trident of the ukrainian flag and p is on the screen. this is what the war of radio waves looks like. samuel romani, it teaches politics and international relations at the university of oxford and as the author of the forthcoming book putin's war on ukraine, russia's campaign for global counter revolution, a very warm welcome, mr. romani. what do these intercept radio signals tell you about the russian army and the states that it's in? well, 1st of all, i chose the russians. they're not very good at keeping their data encrypted. they aren't using a silly encryption devices using smartphones that can be easily targeted. and the 2nd thing is that there's a repeated set of messages that have been coming through from the s b u interceptions as well as interceptions from other western countries including

germany. the 1st that is low morale is food shortages as he's to be yes, supply chain problems and disconnects between the senior commanders at the local officers. and the 2nd is that there seems to be a coherent policy of targeting civilians, which is revealed assembly footage that came out from boucher by german intelligence and was senior military commander today has said that german now germany, russia once control of eastern and southern ukraine at the start of the war president poon stayed at principal objective was the so called d notification of ukraine. so what's the game here? so i think that russia's been using euphemisms for imperial ambitions from the start. it uses phrases like liberation, like a try d, as in mary paul. a uses phrases like, denotes vacation demilitarization. but now with this statement, russia is basically admitting what we already know, that they want to establish a sphere influence in southern ukraine ad, which includes a death and landlord ukraine, off the boxy coast. they possibly want to make a move into transistor, and they also want to secure a lamb bridge in crimea and on bass,

which y marable was so important to them. so the rush announcement today basically told us what we already knew by sat in a much more overt, plainly, you imperial way, rather than through you from isms and other phases of these before. so is this only about conquering ukraine basically, or does the kremlin have a more global long term strategy? why i think for the moment, i mean, phase 2 is going to be largely focused on how they can achieve success in eastern is all the new grand. interestingly, when they say solving ukraine and on math as a very vague phrase, what does that mean for a city like hark, heave, which doesn't really fit that neatly into either those 2. i categorizations as human the dumbass is just an absolute husk. so for now, i think they've already said an object is that their military track record to just are unrealistic. but definitely in russia is allowed to succeed in. don bass is very likely to make a move for keith. there's many people in the duma prudence advisory circle, ministry, defense care. she has liter, could europe in the same media, would want that. and that happens then russia could potentially it takes

expansionism elsewhere. now the focus is now very much on eastern and southern ukraine. does present, couldn't believe that is an achievable goal what he definitely does lay was as you will go, i mean the yeah. all the reports them coming to from western leaders who interacted with them. whether it be the austrian chancellor, who just as in moscow who said he was on a war footing, he's convinced he can win or even tie in prime minister. my drug you said the talking with him is useless because he's committed to this war. would say that yes, he does believe it's j verbal, but the empirical details, yes, that reservation is an uphill struggle. all they managed to achieve so far. think over christina, which is a town that pro russian mer as of a month ago. they are losing heavy casualties in papa nan, other parts of lou hans, cuz they try to advance their stall and have to have our, which is another key city. and the craniums have also been making advances as all these younger cave holding out in odessa. and also a taking over marine k and danielle,

which was another area that russia focused on so so far to stalemated best and rushes losing heavy casualties with very little results so far. samuel at romania, author of the forthcoming buttons were on ukraine. thank you very much. for your time and your insights. thank you very much. french present a money when michael and his far i challenge martin lupin are making a final push for votes before sundays. presidential run off, poll show the race is much tighter than 5 years ago. when french voters faced the same choice, though, my coal is expected to when many people say they're undecided or ambivalent, the candidates are taking nothing for granted. his campaign slogan might be all of us. but it's not clear enough of france will be with emanuel micron at the ballot box on sunday. le idaho spoke the incumbent president. he and his far right opposition, marina pen fair had been making

a final push for votes. touring the t. v. stations on friday morning them but they're not speaking to their cold demographic. instead, buying for votes from supporters of far left candidate shall new maelin, sean, who went 20 percent in the 1st round on the streets of paris. neither a pen nor micron are popular with this key group of voters that we haven't had a choice in 2nd rounds ages. i'll give the least worse choice. i went voting for the right or the extreme right. feel it's become a campaign of style over substance micron, attempting to shake off a reputation of arrogance and connect with work and clusmo says le pen trying to betray herself as a serious states woman in a tv debate earlier this week. let me micron attack le pen stance on russia. i'm afraid she refuted the accusation. instead,

trying to focus on the cost of living as could you did on did 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 left to cushion bunk. the objected a court martial i agreed on all the sanctions that were taken against the oligarchs against the bang us law. so the only sanction that i disagree with is the one blocking russian cath is a coil in port zuka. why? because i think that's not the right method. this is not what will actually hurt russia missed and above all, it will hurt the french people a lot. is she micron is expected to keep the keys to the elisa palace. i, even though it was a to fight the many expected level, but with millions undecided and unhappy with both candidates. there is no

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