ah, ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. the crane warns at russia plans to expand its war across europe. president brought him as lensky says neighboring. moldova is in moscow sites. after a senior russian command to hinted at extending control, white across the southern ukraine. and the final count down to france's presidential election incumbent emanuel conn and his challenger, marine le pen have made their final pitch to voters. but many are unhappy with both candidates.

ah, i'm real mohammed. thanks for joining us. ukraine has warned that russia plans to attack more countries and expand its war president vladimir zalinski said, ukraine's neighbour. moldova should be concerned about russia's latest military strategy. although he is home to trans mistrial, which is a break away pro russian region which borders ukraine and this se, more bombings of civilian areas is expected. as russia tries to take on more control in that territory. ha, keep on fire. a hospital in the dawn bass, even in the countryside, no escape from the bombs in eastern ukraine. now the deputy commander of russia's central military district says its forces want to push westwards towards moldova.

on friday he told state media control over the south of ukraine is another way to trans mistrial. where there is also evidence that the russian speaking population is being oppressed. cheryl that will president followed him. is a landscape focused on the commander's comments in his nightly address? yes. oh, quite sure. said kinky did. this only confirms what i've said many times the russian invasion of ukraine was just the beginning. he then they want to capture other countries. a daily, let me hutchins' a whole booth each, secrete. the russian onslaught is relentless, but it has also failed to produce key breakthroughs. the port city of mary, a pole has been under bombardment for 2 months. yet fighters are still holding out in the as of style steel plant, a symbol of ukrainian resistance, ukraine's as all regiment or has released a video of civilians sheltering in bunkers beneath the plant. in marian poll,

it's not clear when or where the video was filmed. many of those in the tunnels are children still? oh so we can i hope we can leave here and see the sun because we've been sitting here for 2 months already and i want to see the sun because in here it's dark. not like outside of when our houses are rebuilt and my we can live in peace before let ukraine win, because ukraine is our native home claim international and m. meanwhile, ukraine is pushing back hard at russian forces, taking advantage of new weapons flowing in from western allies. this video purports to show a russian helicopter shot down while another flies away. but even when ukrainian succeed in retaking territory, the invaders leave a path of death and destruction behind them, bodies,

and burned out buildings that testify to the brutality that's been brought to bear on civilians. since the war started well as cassava to keep and speak to dw is rebecca written. now rebecca ukraine's president brought him. is lensky is current. he giving a press conference? what's he been saying? or really he opened the press conference by wishing everyone a happy easter. it is, after all the orthodox easter weekend here in ukraine, he wished for peace are understandably em. in keeping with his is the sense of humor that he's become quite famous for. he said that he's had thousands of requests for interviews from the media, but that he's a bit busy at the moment so that he thought that this would be a good idea away to be able to answer everyone's questions. he then opened up the floor. now the 1st question was about, why did russia invade ukraine to which of course, he answered, i don't have the answer for that. there's only one person who knows. but he said

that they can't make sense of this crawling occupation as he called it. and that they've been already doing this in ukraine for the last 8 years. they don't respect ukraine's independent state as an independent state and their sovereignty. he was in asked about his request for a personal meeting with vladimir putin and whether he still thought that was a good idea and still thought he was safe to go to attend such a meeting. and he said, well, that potent is the only person that can stop this war, and he still zalinski that is still wants to try everything to bring this war to an end so that he would still meet with potent. and that he didn't have any fears for his safety. he actually said that he didn't have any right to be afraid because the people here in new crime shows that they're not afraid. so the 1st one is ongoing and probably going on, going to some time as there are, you know, as he noted, quite a lot of journalists, they are asking questions. and there are reports of miss all attacks on, by russians on the port city of odessa. what more can you tell us about that?

yeah, that's right. re hila earlier today we heard that there had been some explosions and some a missile attack. some had been intercepted, but some did hit targets. 5 people died including a baby in that attack. now a desa is a key port city that russia has said from the very beginning that they, they do want to control that they haven't really, it's, it's been fed a lot of the fighting in the shelling so far. but we are starting to see an uptick in shelling on that area as we heard yesterday from russia, and from a come on russia commander that they do want to take that entire south part of the country all the way over to mold over. ok, that is rebecca versus speaking to us in key. thank you, rebecca. well let, let's cross over now to washington dc and speak to samuel bended. he's an advisor with a cna,

a non profit research organization. thanks very much for being with us here on the w news. now we are hearing about russia's ambitions to expand beyond ukraine. how significant is this? well right now, i think what we're seeing russian russian government trying to consolidate against that they already made using in southern recording and to create some rules of normalcy war. the fish are great, in other words, to consolidate the games. and to say that this was the original plan all along is difficult to imagine that the russian military would be with span beyond the ukraine, considering how exhausted is at this point. how many soldiers, material equipment and what is more. and the corey would be very difficult for the russian to work for you right now without a nash national mobilization. but why would the russian military leadership essentially give advanced warning about their potential aims beyond ukraine?

if this is really the case, was not really clear. again, most of the warnings, most of the communication from the russian ministry of defense has been out the russian games in ukraine proper, about eastern, about southern cray. again, it's difficult to imagine that russia military and its current state would be able to make any significant outside of their location outside of the territories they're currently controlling right now. now president laskey on friday said that ukraine is finally getting the offensive weapons from western allies. are ukrainian forces getting what they need in practical terms. and if not, what's missing it appears to be the case. it appears that they're getting artillery, they're getting munitions or get a response. they're getting a watering munitions to different types that would be able to target russian taints

armor or even some of that to minute control posts. i think what they are asking for is more of the same. they need weapons that would be able to very effectively launch the russian offense. and that would be able to effectively allow them to disperse and then hit russians back as they are advancing. so again, artillery missiles and aircraft, missiles and systems are very much in demand right now, as well as systems that would allow you military to conduct proper observation of the russian military and strike them as they advance. and what lessons were learned from russia's failed assaults, on cave and the surrounding areas when it now comes to the battle for don bass. well, probably the main lesson is to essentially match the, the, the sought after or match its wishes were the actual realistic assessment of adversarial, early beginning. russian with very didn't leave you with me. very specific question

. resistance in allocate in the courses actually battle, it's way to keep it ma'am, under estimated altogether, the quality really for military, the quality of the webpage and tactics. and so once that advanced, get marked down in the 1st couple of weeks, russian military was 5 to with badge. so the 2nd wish out of don't boss is a way to revise that a way to consolidate a way to consolidate jew 6 and tactics. but yeah, so much time has gone by holmes, who was in the russian military point where he can only make mental sloan games or in the territories jason, to those of birth control. all right, samuel vendor. thank you very much deed for your analysis. thank you very much. well, let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world. 6 people were killed in

somalia, capital mogadishu, when a bomb went off on a beat side. restaurant somali as police chief and legislators were present when the explosion occurred. but were not harmed. the explosion comes only days, offer a mortar attack, talk to smallest parliament. during a meeting of newly elected legislators. orthodox christians have celebrated the holy fire ceremony in jerusalem. believe a say the fire miraculously appears each year on the day before easter outside to outside. there was also tension as israel police limited the number of visitors out of safety concerns. last year, a sam pete at a jewish holy sight killed $45.00 people. the european union countries have reached a deal of a major changes to digital content laws. after a late night talks, the block will move ahead with a law forcing companies like facebook, twitter, and google to police content for issues like hates each and miss information. and

echo dorian court has requested the expedition of ex president rafael kara from belgium. korea has been sentenced in his home country for 8 years in jail, for bribery, the former leader denies any wrong doing. he has been granted asylum in belgium, where he has dipped since 2017 now for his president in many mccoy, and his far right challenge emory in the pen have made their final push for votes before sundays. presidential runoff holds show the race is much tighter than 5 years ago when french voters faced the same choice while a micron is expected to when many people say that they're undecided. w. lease lewis reports from paris. ah, as thousands of people took to the streets in paris last saturday, the demonstrators, main message was to oppose racism and the far right. but that

didn't necessarily mean the protesters were endorsing president him on a mac. ho, missouri. okay. i will vote from a crown in the 2nd round, but i'm not happy about it. i just want to block marine le pen from getting to power. i'd have been marcella begmen as we go off. marian, the pen is threatening our rule of law, but that doesn't mean i'll give my vote to my cross culverson. i already had to do so in 2017. so of course they're not the same, but macro also has a right wing program. the bond is brought to you, good water. it is the supporters of the far left candidate john mcmillan shaw who came 3rd in round one. you feel particularly frustrated, they no longer have a left wing option. my call has tried to appeal to these latest by turning down parts of his manifesto, like the plan to push up the retirement age from the current 62 to 65. with his

eyes, we can fix a lower target age. i'm open to discussion of what i can do. meanwhile, le pen has also try to gather more support by continuing to depict herself as the candidate closest to the people. i shall fall. i want to tell every french person that my project is tailor made for them all. i want them to be happy and prosperous safe and i will defend their identity. hit the see that they for the lovely donte the venue approaching. glad international topics were also on the agenda, especially during atv debate between the 2 contenders for it. and it was of equal height that you have taken out to loan in 2015 with the russian bunk. that's close to the kremlin succession, but means you're talking to your bunker when speaking with russia over buddy louis missouri is in for i am an absolutely free woman. aha, i am a patriot. and i have proven that all my life, my v pulls are saying that my call has increased his lead, oval

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