[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin. russia's ambitions full kremlin control of eastern and southern you create a russian general says the goal is to build a land bridge to occupied crimea. ukrainian troops trapped and were you pause us of style steel plant were made 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 in

france's presidential election incumbent. and when michael and his opponent manning the bed are showering attention on undecided voters ahead of sundays. when our vote ah hello everyone, i'm layla rock. thank you very much for joining us. in ukraine. it is. it is a bitter struggle for the country's future. ukrainian president of a lot of marines. soleski says the last fighter is in the port city of motor. you, paul wants to render. moscow has decided to keep them trapped in the cities steel plant, otherwise declaring victory over multiple watches, defense ministry said it would offer a safe passage to those still stuck there. if you create soldiers surrender or someone offers have often collapsed, giving the estimated 2000 holdouts 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 and ruins. president putin has claimed a victory in the city. and told his defense minister to seal off this last strong hold particular room by 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 is the molecular to so they're not even a fly, you can get 3 more you will never said in washington, u. s. president joe biden dismissed putin's claim that will not happen as

questionable whether he does control mary. 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. ukrainian authorities have also as moscow to open humanitarian curry doors to allow those sheltering and the heavily bombarded as the 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 works. 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 rushin 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 merrier poll attempts to break or cease fire ahead of your dogs east, a 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 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 earlier. did of you

correspondent, emerald shies? give 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 of forces. this has been said again and again, there are, there are in the other style a steel plant 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 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 are so injured in very poor shape, women, children, elderly peebles stag. 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, you, paul, even washington, we have standards, 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 ripple ports of mass graves near medieval? 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 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, 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 power 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 and 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 or collected some people yesterday out of them or you pulled. but russia only allows an evacuation or corridor etha. so these 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 . when at i know by the 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 a russian troops executed some of the victims, ukrainian forces discovered mass graves in boucher following the withdrawal of russia. units from the area president volunteers, 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 son and at separate job not to give their personal information to russian forces. the vote is seen as an attempt by moscow to legitimize its occupation of you. tanks and artillery are not the only weapons ukraine is using to fight the russian invasion. the war is also happening over the air waves, ukrainian radio operators among them. amateurs who prefer to keep their identities hidden work to intercept russia. communications. some of the messages appeared to support ukraine's allegations of russian war crimes. 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 and the mall of amateur radio is 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 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 code that we haven't even identified the 2 of them both little boards that we know their names are their social media profiles and for march the us to so we know everything about that. and you can do that because even the date they moved to crimea from russia,

let's say which timothy shameka ukrainians like viking of fighting tooth and nail to defend their country. his comrade, known by his code name raymond, has risen to coat status. he takes radio jamming a step further speaking directly to russian soldiers, often insulting them. ah, this is vance. i learned i had learned a sire radio's dis, russian soldier rich jams to call stopping reinforcements from coming. and then since this international i yeah. now you see ukrainian intelligence work is serious business. you should love and respect her enemy. oh my god. at the end of the battle, the members of radio resistance interfere with the signal so that the ukrainian

cater vans appears on the screen. this is what the war of radio ways looks like. we turn our focus now to france. we're french present a minor in my call and is far a challenger matting. the van are making a final push for votes before sundays. presidential run off whole show that the race is much tighter than 5 years ago. when french voters faced the exact same choice. though my call 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. a 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're not speaking to their call demographic. instead vying for votes from

supporters of far left candidate shall new mellon, shaun who, when 20 percent in the 1st round on the streets of paris. neither a pen nor micron are popular with this key group of voters. but we haven't had a choice in the 2nd round of ages. i'll go for the least worse choice. i won't be voting for the right or the extreme right. 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 pen trying to betray herself as a serious states woman in a tv debate earlier this week that me micron attacked le pen stance on russia. i'm afraid she refuted the accusation. instead trying to focus on the cost of living. as good for 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 secretion bank objected a car wash and i agreed 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 camp 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 more though it was a to fight the many expected love, but with millions undecided and unhappy with both candidates, there is no clear window in sundays, deciding round of mach chrome best as le pen it washing every news. reminder of our top story, ukrainian president,

a lot of years lensky says. fighters in the besieged port, city of muddy, who both will continue to resist. despite moscow's claims that it is completely under russian control. moscow says it will provide a humanitarian ceasefire. anybody who pulls as of south field plant if keeps soldiers surrendered. the suppress of next ac to be news, asia, back of the top of the hour. thanks for watching. rearing to read. ah, everyone who loves books has to go insane. the d. w. literature list 100 german must reads. i'm the green.