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starts me sir. paul d w ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, no less up in the fighting in ukraine. the national rail service says russian missiles hit several stations in a coordinated attack. just hours earlier, top u. s. officials traveled by trying to keep to announce the extra funding from washington to buy weapons. also on the show, tut, he jails a human rights campaign of the life. osman kabbalah is found guilty of trying to overthrow the government. he says,
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all the charges are fabricated. ah, i manuscripts mckennan, thanks so much for joining us. we begin with the latest escalation in the fighting and ukraine. ukrainian railways say a russian missiles struck 5 stage train stations within an hour. in a coordinated attack, at least 5 people have been killed and many more injured. military commanders say moscow is trying to disrupt deliveries of weapon weapons from other countries. the governor of levine region claims this video shows the railway station in the village of krazny. the united states has announced an extra $700000000.00 to help he crane by weapons secretary of state anthony blanket and defense secretary lloyd austin, made
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a secretive journey by train to the ukrainian capital keith 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 you as president joe biden to offer face to face messages of support and admiration. the reason we're back. ready 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, but it at their sam was royal priorities are weapons and support. he is bought from
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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 meal. austin said ukraine 10 be victorious over russia. in terms of their ability to win. the 1st step in winning is believing that you can win. and so they believe that we can win
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. we believe that we can work, they can win if they have the right equipment the right to afford were do everything. we can continue to do everything. we can to ensure that, 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 's young. philip fights isn't the div in western ukraine, and i asked him to tell us more about today's asked rights. indeed, there have been unusual, long air right alert. so yet, western 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 a 5 for train stations in western and central ukraine in the past. hours are ukrainian officials say a several people were killed. one attack was just to raunch 100 kilometers from the
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polish border. the have been attacks on a train stations on a train infrastructure before, but today's attacks show a new dimension of attacks on, on right away infrastructure. it can also improve, be interpreted as a warning to the west, since they're high ranking you as to legation. that was caea, used the train system in the region just a few hours ago. d, w young. it's reporting that from cave. now for a look at some of the stories related to the war in ukraine, u. s. secretary of defense lloyd austin, has arrived in germany following talks in keith. on tuesday, austin will host of meeting of defense ministers for more than 20 nations and nato secretary general young stoughton doug at the us air bass. i'm fine. the ministers will discuss ukraine's defense needs un secretary general antonio terrace is in the
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turkish capital. incur on a mission to advance ukraine peace negotiations. terrorist has been meeting the turkish president rec type at one before going on to moscow and then keith, ukrainian leader is unhappy about the terrorist visiting russia. first. russia has expelled 40 german diplomats from moscow, and a tit for tat move. germany kicked out a number of russians off earlier this month. the german foreign minister says the retaliation is expected but is not justified. greenpeace activists have tried to stop a tanker from unloading russian oil. near or slow. the campaigners chain their dinging to the vessel. they say the shipment is helping to finance rushes. war in ukraine. greenpeace claims the tank is carrying $95000.00 tons of fuel. the turkish human rights activist and philanthropist. osman kabbalah has been sentenced to life in prison. he was found guilty of attempting to overthrow the government coverage.
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had been in pre trial detention since 2017. he was accused of financing anti government protests and for playing a role in the failed could, against president at one cabella says the charges of fabricated the case against him has strained ties between turkey and its western allies. the w's door in jones has been following the trial of osmond cabella, and i asked him how the judges justified that verdict. well as of yet, we really haven't had an official explanation for the these 30. the judges will give a full are 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
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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 a 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 cover 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 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't give you a some background on corolla. how did he end up being imprisoned without trials and
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more than 4 years? this is an extremely poor, long legal process. he initially was accused of been involved in the 2013 civil war r, a protest against president nerd one the most largest white scale, or a national uprising. it was her 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 in earth. one has saying that color is the same kind of characters. in many ways, earth one's looking to can think that conflict cavellas to our, our sustain his argument that all these protests against earth, one in 2013, were
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a conspiracy rather than the sign of widespread public discontent. just briefly, dorian is asserted likely to have any international or repercussions while it puts, taken 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 been calling for the immediate or 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 cavellas release. they back tracked that statement and heard one step back to, but now the cabella 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. let's take a look now, some of the other stories that we're keeping track of for you today. a space
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extravagant capsule has returned to earth from the international space station carrying the 1st ever space through on a fully private mission on board. the cap. fuel of 3 business men from the u. s. canada and israel, as well as a retired nasa astronaut. beijing residents are rushing to buy up groceries as cove 19 case numbers increase sharply. china has been struggling to deal with its worst outbreak in 2 years. beijing has imposed half locked down and mass testing under its 0 coven policy. * a japanese women believe to be the world's oldest person has died age 100. 19 canada knock had died in hospitals. she was in relatively good health and is said to have enjoyed chocolate and fizzy drinks. and a political newcomer is set to become slovenia is next. prime minister almost complete election returns show robert gallagher, left leaning freedom movement, gaining a 3rd of the votes ahead of the current prime ministers. conservatives,
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a coalition government is now lightly. emmanuel mccoy has won a 2nd term as a president of france. mclawrence secured a convincing victory with 58.5 percent of the vote. his far right opponent, money in the pen, managed 41.5 percent. now that's the biggest share yet for the extreme rights run off for the lowest turn out in 5 decades. however, millions of voters stayed away with spoil their balance. i manual mccomb victory and sundays vote was a big personal achievement. he's the 1st incumbent to be reelected and 20 years. yet, as paris woke up to 5 more years of a mccoy presidency on monday, the focus at the new stands 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 fire rights marine la penn. out. and they now expect the
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president to make significant changes to how he governs nika. what is the sauce is 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 covenant. baglan mowgli so collect a co, a lot from old old hello le pen fared much better than in 2017 there. amend a big gap between her and micron. a source of disappointment to her supporters imaging just through this. i'm really surprised by that. i've gotten, 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. either joy or chrome were the ones in this micron himself acknowledged. 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,
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not to support the ideas that i stand for this. this is, but to block those of the extreme right. i said that if some blood mach, hong says he will respond to the anger and disappointment of those who voted for the pan. 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 with her this evening. i will say again, i will never abandon the french people, bloody lip. the republic long left france as mccullin's, victory was confirmed. far left demonstrators clashed with police and several cities across france. accuse him a crown of being a president for the rich. he insists he will be a president for all the french, but the republic he rules is more divided into satisfied than when he began 5 years ago. a quick reminder at the top story that with lang for you today.
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ukraine's national rail service says that russian missiles have had several stations in a coordinated attack. just alice earlier to help us officials travels by train to keith, to announce extra funding from washington to buy weapons washing data. but he needs from berlin up next place that looks at how climate change is threatening marine life in the se shells. thanks so much for watching the deli mm hm. in a she, she thought they were great. a.
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