your platform or reliable information? ah, ah, ah, ah, this is it, every news live from berlin. russia's ambitions for kremlin control of eastern and southern new, great, russian general says the goal is to build a land bridge to occupy crimea. ukrainian troops traps him or you polls as of style, steel, clap, remain an obstacle to those plans. 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. and

frances presidential election incumbents a menu, and michael and his opponents. madame levin are showering attention, an undecided voters ahead sunday's crucial vote. ah, hello everyone, i'm layla rock. thank you very much for your company in ukraine. it's a bitter struggle for the country's future. ukrainian president, latimer zalinski, says the last fighters in the port city of mario ball, once surrender. moscow has decided to keep them trapped in the cities steel plant. otherwise declaring victory over mario bolt, where his defense ministry said it would offer safe passage to those still there. if ukraine soldiers surrender. iverson where offers have often collapsed. estimated

2000 holdouts and 1000 civilians. reason to stay put. let's take a look now at the vast industrial complex that has become a symbol of ukrainian resistance. the huge is of style steel plant seen here in footage from rush and state television, ukrainian forces are holding out inside. mario paul has witnessed nearly 2 months of heavy fighting with much of the strategic port and ruins. president putin has claimed a victory in the city and told his defense minister to seal off this last stronghold . burglar groom by considered the proposed storming of the industrial area pointless by order to aborted removed from the list. there is no need to climb into these catacombs and crawl underground through these industrial facilities block off this industrial area. so the not even a fly can get through more, you will never said in washington, u. s. 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 you managerial 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 in the heavily bombarded plant 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 poll residence in a neighboring town. us satellite company, macs are released photos which it says show new mass graves in man hush. west of merrier poll attempts to break or cease fire ahead of the orthodox easter festival . this weekend failed. the salarous year. 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. but from the as of style steel plant hopes that piece seemed far away, the blockaded ukrainian fighters say they do not plan to surrender and best growing concerned that those traps inside could stove. earlier did of your correspondence,

emily went shes gave me this update on the situation in multiple the men ran out of option layla, but surrender ease, certainly not an option for ukraine ukrainian forces. this has been said again and again, there are, there are indeed other style a steel plants and they do not plan to lay down the arms or despite repeated renewed cause of from the russian forces to do or to do so. i was reading earlier today, or the testimony of one of the cell is a trap to in my you pause to plan and he was talking about the told that these sees is taking on people who are still inside for security reasons. he's not there. he wouldn't mention harmony, so 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, elderly peebles stag. there was no option to leave the plant or with russia only allowing our people to come out of marbles sealed, plans effect. so these laid on the arms. this is absolutely not planned on the ukrainian side. and despite russia's claim to victory over mar, you, paul, even washington. and we said it's, we're seeing 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 whitaker ports of mass graves near him? are you paul? exactly, it is sir. as satellite imagery is showing what appears to be a mass grades. and there are these just highlights just how important those 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 a 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 poll 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 medical there hasn't been any evacuation possible to day. some people are managed to get out. some buses are 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 i said earlier, this is not about this is not going to happen here in ukraine and machine reporting from western ukraine live. thank you so much for your continued college. thank you . the united nations, the migration agency says the number of people displaced within ukraine has risen again, reaching a staggering 7 point. 7000000 in groups are trying to help those who flat their homes, as well as those still stuck in cities under bombardment. we will face a daily struggle in places like ukraine's 2nd largest city. ha keith. in 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, sr garza, or bertha from with. you can't really cook here because the would not be worth gold soon. it's hard to get it. if a garage is hit, you go and pick our panels about where else can we get it from the tree as hit, 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 once and 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 clamor talked neither frontline, public transport still operates, but medicine is running out. walker county, it's bad that there are no drugs in the pharmacies and that only a few pharmacies are still open to publish it. 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 switch, cuddle, known as will i had a small piece of land value. we planted everything, their tomatoes, cucumber, and greenery or brittany. there was a flower bed in front of our house valenzuela,

vaguely now many rely only on donations aid groups worn. the humanitarian situation is worsening as the tide of internally displaced ukrainians grows. for every person they help more are waiting. christopher stokes is an emergency coordinator for doctors without borders in ukraine. he tell me what the main challenge is for ukraine's internally displaced population are. well, one of the issues that the, the, until the display sleep facing right now is the lack of access to cache basically. so you have a lot of people who are on the move and loose from the east to the west, using the savings and they're running out of money. and the situation is coming from a carrier. so that's one problem. the 2nd problem is just move, getting people out from the rules. so we've been focusing on medical evacuations,

getting people out from the last from the hospitals because there are so many good and the ukrainians are part of your very difficult to move the wounded out quickly enough to say are you able to get immersion supplies to those occupied in besieged areas. oh, very difficult. i was in come 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 unsafe. 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 um, fortune. okay, talk a little bit about the conditions in the hospitals. what are they like? well, that's an interesting so you know, this is the and we working in the hospitals that are in that are in the active

agent frontline area where there's a model shelly and going on it's, it's a mixed fixture that many schools are closed. and so what are 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, the entire department of clothes, and there are still a lot of people in the civilians who decided to stay. so the, the, the health situation is particularly warranties and violence and 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 will 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 is left. 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 trauma 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 or loaded the around the, the areas around where the ukrainians are taking back. and so we are doing mental health support and we're reaching out to people. i have to say that this is something that how organizations in this route, how through addressing those, we're mainly focused on the warrant and situation. but it's true that when you go to the hospitals in these war areas, um yeah, the, the level of stress on the medical staff little remained is actually a huge. and we're to launch into this war. very sure, roaches rule with a lot of civilian casualties. i don't know how i'm gonna be able to continue this of this right in the civilian hospitals and use christopher stokes. so emergency coordinator for doctors without borders in ukraine talking to us from the viv. sir, thank you very much for your time. greatly appreciate you. thank you. darren

foreign minister and alana. burbock is in lithuania, her final stop on a 3 day trip to the baltic states. russia invasion of ukraine, front and center in her discussions with her counterparts. speaking alongside the lithuanian foreign minister, bare bach stressed germany support for the nato alliance and commitment to strengthening regional security in the face of the growing threat from russia. she did, however, down play the prospect of a quick cease fire and rotten staged, and whom he had met cannot be a ceasefire at any price. and dick tops laden, we cannot accept the dictated piece. i line the only the ukrainians and the ukrainians alone get to decide their future video. we should not be under any illusions about that as bitter and as difficult as it may be to accept, not having tried time and again to reach a common security policy in europe with russia is our partner partner putin's russia is forced us to take a new path you or slant yet i'm annoying course. so game today about when we must

now protect ourselves from russia, was silent. well, marina hanker is the director of the center for international security at the her teep school of governance, a private university here in the german capital. very, we're welcome to d. w. news is good to have you with us, not. europe needs to protect itself from russia, but german foreign minister saying what many are thinking at the moment, but is europe in the position to provide itself a defense? well, the simple answer is no. nato can provide protection with the united states, but european countries alone. no, they can't do it right now. home to some of the world's biggest weapons producers. yet still it cannot provide necessary weaponry to ukraine for itself. defense. can you explain why? well m d, the buddhist, where's the, the, the german military has been neglected financially. and of course this has been in

the media all over sunset, chancellor schultz, as a famous set speech off the titan vendor. and so now i think am, it's really difficult to find the heavy weaponry that day ukraine is asking for, but you're right there a lot of german and ad production sites where the heavy weaponry and is made. and so, you know, like, for me, the big question is, cannot they deliver those weapons faster as so i'm not fully convinced by the arguments put forward by their tolts a government. but in the fact is that the german military lacks a lot of this equipment and you know, like, and they, they are scared that if they give away their equipment, they are left with nothing. germany, as you know, has been slammed a to put it up. not diplomatically by not just ukraine, but many e u. member states for not doing more or sufficient to help you grain. i'm doesn't create tensions within the u. absolutely. and especially crates tensions between

germany and its eastern european neighbors. so this is the baltic states. this is poland and, and, you know, i think it, they making up a fair point and, you know, in the beginning there was a lot of fair understanding here. and i think a quick reaction and the 1st and couple days of the war. but now you know, this, this conviction is say, is a vanishing and more and more damaging is this to work germany this, this moment in time. i think it has said very damaging. and i also am speak with friends and colleagues in the united states who also asked me questions all the time. how can we explain germany's m m shifting position again and, and so, you know, we really need to think through babbled this. take us in nato and the european union and the future. marina hanker director of the center for international security at the heritage school of governance here in berlin. thank you very much. thank you. let's take

a look at some 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 hotel near keith . they say russian troops executed some of the victims, ukrainian forces discovered mass graves in mutual following the withdrawal of russian units from the area present. villanueva zalinski says, russia wants to hold an illegitimate referendum on independence, and the south of ukraine is old residence in the occupied regions of her son, and at supper regent nuts against the person information to russian forces. the vote is seen as an attempt, why moscow to deal legitimately to legitimize rather it's occupational good leaders of written. and india have called for an immediate cease fire in ukraine prime ministers, wars, johnson and a render motive. made the appeal after talks in delhi, the 2 leaders signed a new defense agreement to reduce india's reliance on washington's

tanks and artillery are not the only weapons ukraine is using to fight the russian invasion. there's also a war being fought over the airways, ukrainian computer specialists and radio operators have managed to jam russian communications or intercept them. and in the process, they've been able to reveal some shocking details of the war's 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 the g, the one on the mall, obamacare 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 group 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 a 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 warrant another. do you allow me to? yeah, this is shawn. yes, i allow it. she says, according to this protection on a bullet hinkle that we haven't even identified the 2 of them, both little boards that we know their names, their social media profiles might see us to. so we know everything about that and you can leverage cuz even the date they moved to crimea from russia, let's see which timothy shameka ukrainians like viking of fighting tooth and nail to defend their country. his comrade, known by his code name murray,

has risen to coat status. julie he takes radiant jamming a step further. what? speaking directly to russian soldiers often insulting them. come, oh, this is lance. hi, lance. i learned a science lady is this russian soldier chance to call stopping reinforcements from coming, and then send this residential i here. now you see ukrainian intelligence work is serious business. you should love and respect her enemy. i got at the end of the battle and then there's a radio resistance interfere with the signal so that the trident of the ukrainian flag appears on the screen. this is what the war of radio waves looks like. french president m around my call and his far right challenger, math in the pen, are making a final push for votes before sundays. presidential run off full show,

the race is much tighter than 5 years ago. on french voters faced the same choice though. my car is expected to win. when 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 night. both the incumbent president, he and his far right opposition, marina panther had been making a final push for votes entering the t. v. stations on friday morning. them but they not speaking to their call demographic. instead mine for vote. some supporters of far left candidate shall new melon, sean, who, when 20 percent in the 1st round on the streets of paris. neither pen nor micron are popular with this key group of voters that we haven't had a choice in 2nd rounds ages. i'll get the least worst choice. i went voting for the

right or the extreme right? so it's become a campaign of style over substance micron attempting to shake off a reputation of arrogance and connect with work and class moses la penn, trying to betray herself as a serious states woman in a tv debate earlier this week to me, macro attacked le pen stance on russia. huh. she refuted the accusation. instead, trying to focus on the cost of living. as good 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 south chic cushion bank objected a car wash and i read on all the sanctions that was taken against the oligarchs against the bang us less said the only sanctioned that. i disagree with is the one

blocking russian gas is a coil in port zuka. why? because i think that's not the right method. this is not what will actually hurt russia mix and above all, it will hurt the french people along which she micron is expected to keep the keys to the elisa palace. and even though it was a tough fight, the many expected with love, but with millions undecided and unhappy with both candidates. there is no clear wind in sundays, deciding round of micron versus le pen. you're watching it. every news here is a reminder of our top story. ukrainian president villamor zalinski says fighters in the besieged port city of mario both will continue to resist. despite moscow's claims that it is completely under russian control. moscow says it will provide a humanitarian ceasefire and matthew poles of stock steel plants. if he soldiers

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