[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin and turkey jails, a human rights campaigner for life. osmond kabbalah is found guilty of trying to overthrow the government. he says the charge is off, topic hated, also coming up. no less up in the fighting in ukraine as the national rail service says, russian missiles have hit several stations in a coordinated attack just hours earlier, talk u. s. officials travels by train to keep to announce extra funding from washington

to buy weapons. and frances, the menu and mccall. when's a 2nd 5 year term that he admits he was swept to victory in the presidential run off by voters blocking his fall. right? rival. nothing. le pen ah i'm and your cubes. mckinnon. welcome to the program. we begin with breaking news from turkey, where rights activist and philanthropist, osman kabbalah has been sentenced to life in prison. he was convicted on charges of attempting to overthrow the turkish government. kabbalah had been in pre trial detention since 2017. he was accused of financing anti government protests, and for playing a role in a failed, coo against president adder one corolla says the charges are fabricated the case

against him has strained ties between turkey and its western allies. and we can go straight to d, w. 's dorian, joan jones, his in istanbul. now it was one kabbalah has been sentenced to life in prison. how did the judges justify their verdict? well, as of yet, we really haven't had an official explanation for the these 30. the judges will give a full, a written defense of their that their verdict and how they came to that. ah, but this was a highly contested case of the defense lawyers saying that there, that there was literally, there was no evidence to support it. and it was a purely fabricated case. in fact, it did a merger on the last day. the hearings at one of the judges was even a candidate for parliamentary elections for president. earth one's ruling a k p party. and they said that this judge should be removed immediately, that was overturned, as were all of their objections. ah, but there is a palpable shock within the toki civic society that the severity of the sentence,

this is the most severe sentence that can be given to any one in turkey. it means that as my coverage will be held in solitary confinement, he will be ineligible for parole. ah, and he spends now the rest of his life in jail on top of that 7 other defendants were also convicted and they're facing 18 years in prison. and many of the, all of those who were not are in prison for head of the verdict, are now been detained as we speak and will be sent to prison of it to serve immediately their prison sentence. so there was a great deal of shock, of the severity and the speed and swift movement of the authorities to put everyone into jail convicted are of these, sir? what many defense laws, all defense lawyers have said, is a fake go trial jury. during can give you a some background on corolla. how did he end up being imprisoned without trials and more than 4 years? this is an extremely poor, long legal process. he initially was accused, have been involved in the 2013 civil ah, a protests against president nerd one,

the most largest white scale, or a national uprising. it was a, against the president's power. he always believed that this was a conspiracy. and he accused so cavalier who is this wealthy businessman, i am philanthropists and major support of turkish civil society of been behind it. he routinely accuses coupler of been the george soros of turkey. now, george soros is the billionaire hungarian businessman that thus supports civil society for our eastern europe and is accused by russian president putin of been behind many uprisings in ukraine and other eastern european countries of that core for democracy. and heard one of the saying that cover is the same kind of characters in many ways, urged ones looking to can think that conflict cover to or of sustain his argument. that all these protests against earth, one in 2013, were a conspiracy rather than the sign of widespread public discontent. just briefly, dorian, is this, heard it likely to have any international or repercussions will it puts take on

a collision course with the council of europe. it's already under investigation for the council of europe over this case. they said that this is a politically motivated case, that is a stance also backed by washington, who had been calling for the immediate a release of cavalry. in fact, her last year heard one call for the dismissal of 10 ambassadors from europe and the united states over their calls for cover as release. they back track that statement and heard one step back to. but now the kabbalah is in jail. the most facing lights in prison without parole. it will put turkey on the cushion course with its western allies over its what is seen as the key case over turkeys her. a commitment to democracy during jane's reporting from istanbul. thank you to the war and ukraine. now and ukrainian railways say russian missiles struck 5 train stations within an hour in a coordinated attack. the governor of the levine region claims this video shows the railway station in the village are present in flames. officials say more than

a dozen passenger trains have been delayed at the united states has announced an extra $700000000.00 to help he crane by weapons, secretary of state anthony blinkin and defense secretary lloyd austin, made a secretive journey by train to the ukrainian capital fleet on sunday, it's the highest level us visit since the russian invasion on february, the 24th. with a warm welcome back to keep after a secretive train journey across the polish ukraine border to the capitol. yes, the high level delegation sent by u. s. president joe biden, to offer face to face messages of support and admiration. the reason we're back is because of you because of the extraordinary courage, leadership and success that you've had in pushing back his horrific russian aggression both blinking and defense secretary lloyd austin,

offered zalinski condolences for the loss of life in ukraine and further economic and military support. as ever, zalinski was grateful then to the point about his needs for unit that their sam was brewing. the priorities are weapons to an support. he is vote from the united states and our partners needed from european leaders or little in terms of our army strongly should be through and support in certain areas. zalinski was quick to point out, the u. s. has already given billions and assistance since russia's invasion and repeated his military must have top level armaments. if it is to beat back the invader. in places like the don best region where russia has tried to reinvigorate its efforts to achieve changing goals and ukraine. it's focus no longer keep the capital but the east and southern coast of ukraine

safely back across the polish border after the meeting, austin's ukraine 10 be victorious over russia. in terms of her, their ability to win. the 1st step in winning is believing that you can win, and so they believe that we can win. we believe that we can where they can win. if they have the right equipment the right to afford, we're do everything. we can continue to do everything we can to ensure that austin and blink and together announced a further $700000000.00 military support for the ukraine cause before austin moved on to ramstein, germany for a meeting with nato defense ministers he w young phillip sites is in live even west in ukraine, and i asked him to tell us more about the situation there on the ground. indeed, there have been unusual long air rate alerts yet weston ukraine throughout the day

. here in the v for the air defense systems. so we're successful. but there have been a tax on at least 5 for train stations in western and central ukraine in the past. hours are ukrainian officials say several people were killed. one attack was just to raunch 100 kilometers from the polish border. they have been attacks on a train stations on a train infrastructure before, but today's the tech's show a new dimension of attacks on, on the right away infrastructure. it can also improve, be interpreted as a warning to the west. since the high ranking usda legation that was c a, use the train system in the region just a few hours ago. now we know that russians defense ministry announced to cease fire around maria pull steel plant to enable the evacuation of civilians. is there in fact to cease fire and our people being rescued now?

so far we only know that the russian defense ministry has announced service sir ceasefire, and that it was supposed to come into effect some hours ago. the russian defense ministry said that they, which with troy, withdraw all troops to a safe distance and allow the evacuation of up to 1000 to civilians trapped in their steel plant. as far as we know, the heavens, been any successful evacuation in the past hours from the steel plants. but the situation can change any minute. what was the ukrainians m ukraine government's reaction when there ceasefire was announced by russia. in the 1st reaction, the ukrainian vice prime minister said that there have been too many announcements by the russian side in the past days. and the fighting has says to continue. it is,

she also said that there hasn't been any bilateral agreement with the russian side regarding a humanitarian corridors that could follow a possible ceasefire. there is some hope that a ceasefire is successful and humanitarian corridors are possible, especially to rescue the many children that are still trapped in the steel plants. but according to a local media, the ukrainian officials also demands more help from international organizations. so from the red cross to make sure that so a possible humanitarian corridors are really safe to use it. any correspondence in levine? young philip, shy, thank you very much. a germany has been widely criticized for being too slow to deliver weapons to ukraine. the baltic states latvia, lithuania and estonia are especially concerned, because that geographically close to russia themselves,

t w's chief political editor, mckayla kirchner spoke to a stony as prime minister kaya callous. and she asked her what germany should be doing. prime minister callous. you say you're expecting strong leadership from germany right now. what exactly do you mean? but we definitely expect is that germany is sir, is or so i mean supporting all the decisions that we make together and or so showing the leadership in democracy. of course, you know, gas or oil, it could be expensive but, but freedom is really priceless. so if you, if you take the leadership role and also explain what is at stake here, you know, our neighbors problems today are hard problems tomorrow. if we help to end this war, you know,

there will be less war refugees for germany. there will be less problems regarding the economy as well. and therefore, you know, the strong sanctions hitting, hitting hard wood would be something that would maybe and this and this for not immediately but still. so this is one side and the other side where we expect germany's leadership isn't nato. you know, i've very carefully followed the discussions that you have in germany, and i understand what is the starting point here. but if, if you say that we don't want to go to any other war that is going on somewhere else, i totally understand that. but if nato is a defensive alliance and we are in this together, also germany has said, article 5 is iron clad,

and germany will come to help if necessary. but then it's also for everybody important including germany to make those decision. so that we make nate a stronger and there will be no need to come to any help at all. so what do you feel isn't understood in berlin yet? that is understood in the baltic countries, for instance, that our neighbors problems to day her, our problems tomorrow, if we don't help our neighbors, when their house is on fire, that pyre will also catch, you know, your house, 5 minutes to us. thank you very much. elena vladimir person's justifications for the invasion was that ukraine might join nato and become a threat on russia's border. a membership may be only a distant possibility for ukraine, but other countries in the region are getting closer to joining finland and sweden

and our rethinking that long held neutral status. russia's war on ukraine has finally made finland feel it's time to take sides. if there is a new iron curtain coming into the europe, then fins hope to be on the western side of that. in the best case scenario, that curtain would be finland's, 1300 kilometer border with russia. worst case scenario, finland, which like ukraine is outside of nato, becomes a kremlin target until the february invasion fins preferred this non align status. having built their own powerful military with one of the largest weapons stockpiles in western europe and a high proportion of citizens willing and trained to fight if necessary. we have very tough defense forces here, and we have very bigger as a reservist organization here, almost line on 100000. but now a decision on whether those assets could become nato's northeastern flank is

expected within weeks, widely predicted to be positive after a spike in public support following moscow's attack. and the finish parliament is debating the question of membership as the government seeks consensus before making its decision with members, the prime minister herself has reversed course from saying in january that alliance membership was not even on the table. i'll process will, will be quite a fast, it will happen in weeks. but the very process of seeking the security guarantees provided by the alliance has its own risks. moscow repeatedly threatens serious political and military consequences should villain proceed on the path towards nato membership. and such collision could come while finland waits for the 30 allied governments to accept and ratify its membership. 3 are probably going to be very, very, very well prepared for different potential hybrid warfare. over talking about the refugee flows over the finish or are from border,

perhaps cyberattacks. it economic sanctions or with the toolkit for hybrid measures is very wide. unfortunately, nato secretary general yen stilton berg has sought to reassure helsinki they come easily joined the salons if they decide to apply on certain that will find ways to address sir concerns. they may have a regarding repeated between the a potential application on the final verification. they mean spin, went and sweden as stockholm is also, we considering its historic opposition to joining the alliance. and what it would mean to be the only non nato nordic country. if the fins for to head out for a look at some other stories related to the war in ukraine, russia has expelled 40 german diplomats from moscow and a tit for tat news. germany kicked out a number of russian staff earlier this month. the german foreign minister says the retail tally asian is expected,

but not justified. un secretary general antonio terrace is in the turkish capital ankara on a mission to advance peace negotiations. a terrorist has been meeting the turkish president, red shaped type at one before going on to moscow, and then to keith. ukrainian. leda is unhappy about the terrorist visiting russia 1st. amanela mac law has won a 2nd term as president of france, a close secured a convincing victory with 58.5 percent of the vote is far ice opponent letting the pen managed. 41.5 percent. now that's the biggest chair. yet for the extreme right, the ronald saw the lowest to turn out in 5 decades. however, millions of those has stayed away or spoilt that balance. emmanuel nicole victory and sundays vote was a big personal achievement. he's the 1st incumbent to be reelected in 20 years. yet as paris woke up to 5 more years of mccoy presidency on monday,

the focus at the new stuns was very much on the challenge. he now faces to united nation, at odds with itself many voted from a kron solely to keep the far right mind. le pen out. and then now expect the president to make significant changes to how he governs nica, what is the started something new? he's not going to do another 5 years at the same mandate. that's clear, we won't let him do it. if he does, i think people here ready to take to the streets if that isn't the right kind of government debug monument. good. so collect record a lot from old old hello la pen fared much better than in 2017 there. amend. a big gap between her and micron, a source of disappointment to her supporters. through this, i'm really surprised by that doesn't. i'm disappointed because i think she's the person who could embody a certain french revival in the long term. particularly when it comes to more re localisation and white social less globalization if it's joy or group more than one

. that is mccoy himself, acknowledging that antipathy to le pen as much a support for him drove him to victory. just to see, i know that many of our compatriots have voted for me to day, not to support the ideas that i stand for. this is, but to block those of the extreme, right? a says that if some blood mach, hong says he will respond to the anger and disappointment of those who voted for the pain. but that particular vote has never been higher. le pen is now emphasizing the importance of forthcoming legislative elections and says, she's not going anywhere in this evening, i will say again, i will never abandon the french people long, left a republic long left. from as mc. collins victory was confirmed. far left demonstrators clashed with police and several cities across france. accuse

him a cron of been a president for the rich. he insists he would be a president for all the french, but the republic he rules is more divided into satisfied than when he began 5 years ago. we can go straight to lisa louis in paris. now she's been covering the elections for us. and he said this wasn't a straightforward victory of full mac hall. what does he need to do now to unite the country? well, you're right, it wasn't a straight victory. and you know, when you say a country is divided, that basically means you've got several comes who are having difficulties talking to each other and working together in my my coin to speech. last night he showed that he understood that that was the case. he said, i know that not all of you voted for me because they supported my project and i am willing to address that to address your anger to bring you in. he will, he said he would include some left wing measures, some ecological measures in his program. to address their concerns. he also even talked to the voters of marilla pens and said,

i understand that you're really angry with me and i will try to change my ways to talk to, you know, people here in france to change his leadership style. he has been accused of coming across as too arrogant, and he said, i now have to go this way together with you to change the country we live in. now mac hong's, opponent marine and the pen says that she's not going anywhere despite her very clear defeat was next for her. yes, absolutely. you know, a few months back, she said that she wanted to leave politics or she hinted to that really after the selection last night it sounded completely different. actually, she said that she would continue to try to gather around her, those that are not happy with him on my call. she just depicted herself as the candidate closest to the paper and also as the candidate that's actually the democratic one saying that in my my call was attacking a french institutions. now,

many people will not agree with that assessment. obviously because marilla pens program is based on the fact that she wants to cook to change the french constitution, take away some human rights from foreigners, clearly and shrine, a disconnection in the french constitution. nevertheless. nevertheless, she has insisted said that she's the candidate of the people that she would continue to try to gather the forces around her. obviously, looking ahead to the legislative elections in june, where she's hoping to win a majority here in parliament. all right, w lisa louis in paris. thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories that we're keeping track of for you today. a political newcomer is set to become slovenia is next. prime minister nearly complete election returns show robert golub, left leading freedom movement, gaining a 3rd of the votes. that's ahead of the current prime minister's conservatives. a

coalition government is likely beijing residents are rushing to buy up groceries as coven 19 case numbers increase shortly. china has been struggling to deal with it's worse to outbreak in 2 years. beijing has imposed half locked downs and mass testing under its 0 cove. it policy a ukrainian celebrities have been using their same to raise awareness of their country's plight. rappa leona, leona spent weeks helping in her home town near keith. she's now touring europe performing at charity concerts and missing some of the millions of ukrainians who had to flee that homeland but, but about a month. but then this is ukraine's most famous female rapper. i'll jo now yonah, the former kindergarten teacher, who isn't afraid to speak her mind. but since russia attacked ukraine, eliano yawn has been using her fame to counter fake news and to take

a stand for her country. but go see a boy, you they, jim, oak, you buy a mazda 3, she'll spot you in with. mamma said in the last month, she's found it hard to wrap. her latest track is a procedure like, ah, with i want the old people who feeling that they done do not think understand that they can play. and this is big jump. this is big energy color because i believe about, you know, and, and for me is important to connect people to give hope to people, even, even if people think that they can do nothing about a shift to ukraine outside kids on his home town where she shot her 1st big music video about leaving home. now her family is ready to flee at

a moment's notice. that we have books the need to reflect and we have 15 minutes ready. like if it, then your it will be more dangerous. we have 15 minutes reports all and go to get on that me. sam yamaha, the village offices, russian soldiers invaded nearby villages and struck her town with a missile. l. yona state for weeks to help people. now she's decided she can help her country more from abroad. last week she left ukraine, embarking on a tour of charity concerts to raise funds and spirits for ukraine. she says she'll play wherever there are ukrainian refugees. first stop. poland. if we talk about ukrainian people here, you know, i bring them hope, i tell them that we will win this war and everything will be okay. and then be scaring everything is okay. and we them have to stay here for super long time. after poland shall to germany,

leona doesn't know how long she'll be gone from ukraine, but she wants to return as soon as possible for her. there's no question of where her home is. that you're watching the w news coming up next. in d, w, use asia, philippines presidential candidates ramp up back campaigns with 2 weeks to go until election day stories. more coming up with bearish manager. thanks so much for watching d. w a ah,

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