[000:00:00;00] ah ah this is the w news live from berlin. the european commission purchase of ban on russian oil commission president also off on the line says the you should phase out in ports by the end of this year. but critics say that's not fast. im also coming up russia strikes ukraine in the west and the east bombs destroy power stations in the city of la v for and russian forces continue. their assault on the southern city of mario paul,

where ukrainians are fighting for their lives. german shall. so all of shaw says flooded me put in may the mistake by invite invading ukraine. the war dominated a 2 day meeting of all of shawls cabinet focused on finding alternatives to russian fossil fuel. plus with the world's attention on ukraine, b, u. n. chief makes a high profile visit to a conflict ravaged part of nigeria. antonio with parish travels to barnum state. where is lambert islamic extremists have been terrorizing the population for years? ah, i'm glad of his war. come to the program. european commission president, also a funder lion has called on b, e. you to ban oil imports from russia. she proposed the phase out there would end

payments to moscow by the end of the year. the 27 estates wards half to support such a ban unanimously that support that may be hard to come by. several you countries get most of their oil from russia, but those who backroom embargo say anything less would help funding rushes war on ukraine. stepping up, the pressure and russia was the laugh. underline tuesday european parliament, either lawmakers to represent the ear citizens to drop out her bank announcement we call to day we will propose to ban all russian oil from europe. this will be a complete import ban on all russian oil seaborne and pipeline crude and refined. we will make sure that we phase out russian oil in an orderly fashion. the plan is to face out oil by the end of 2020 tea hungry and sla that yet, which are very dependent on ration oil will be granted longer transition periods.

besides the oil ban funder line also presented other sanctions in her 6th package on the internet, the european commissioner wants to take off spare bank rushes, largest bank from the swift financial transaction system and the pass. oh, so to target military officials involved in the atrocities in mario paul and in butcher. and 3 russian media outlets will be banned from european air base for spreading misinformation. in addition to sputnik and russia to day, it is with the ban on energy, however, that the ear is hoping to hit the rest an economy the hardest. but only facing out oil is far from enough for many lawmakers damage they want bolder steps. finally, we have for oil even when it will, takes still 6 to 9 months to implement it. i'm are also a waiting for a been on on gas because sir,

what we are paying to the war machine of put in is mainly what we are paying for russian. gus, the ears ban on russian oil could cause even higher price spikes for energy and fuel in europe. putting a burden on european citizens apprised the you has to pay to show solidarity with its neighbor ukraine. after too many, your makers think we have to understand that $1.00 price to fight this or bloody war will be on this oil and gas embargo in the end. yes. and we have to make sure this is socially, are compensated for those people. for those households who could not pay the higher price ear countries must still agree on the sanctions pack is before it entries into force. but that is likely to happen in the next few days. russia's military has renewed its assault on the us off steel plant. in the city of

mario paul, the cities may assist contact with those remaining, and the facility has been lost, making it impossible to assess their condition. humanitarian workers have evacuated over a 100 civilians from the plants and sunday. for some, it was the 1st time they had seen daylight in weeks safe. at last, after weeks and the constant attack least people have escaped the as of south steel plant, ukraine's last stronghold in the besieged city of mario paul. many arriving t is recounting stories of horror. really what you mean? because you can't imagine how scary it is when you sit in the shelter, you know what and damp a basement which is bouncing, shaking. when we were able to go outside. i saw the sun for the 2nd time in 2 months. but while dozens have made it to safety,

thousands remain in danger or fight even watch with the thought of you at the moment while we are here, as of style is being stormed off, mario pole is still under siege and people could not leave today when you were you, but you know, there are tens of thousands of such people who were tens of thousands of women and the elderly remaining mario pole. they booking all of you. russian shelling continued through the day in mario pole. soon after the evacuation was completed. those who remain are in despair. lutheran stanish massages. you wake up in the morning and you cry. you cry in the evening. i don't know where to go at own. you are not the stuff. i am not alone. imagine everything is destroyed. everything is broken. where should the people go? now? relatives of the soldiers is still fighting in the as of south planned hand rallies

in keep on tuesday, demanding may be evacuated to the soldiers. a part of the controversial far right as of regiment. while ukrainian authorities promised to continue the operation, they say international intervention will be crucial. you know this with us brand matilda, boker she is the head of the united nations human rights monitoring mission in ukraine and joins us from key. thank you for taking the time to talk to us today. at 10 weeks into this war, do you have any reliable figures of civilian casualties? yes, we have been publishing civilian casualty reports every day. we have more than $6600.00 civilian casualties, which includes more than $3200.00 civilian deaths. the other civilians you've been injured. but clearly these numbers are lower than the actual numbers. because these

are the cases that we've been able to individually verify and in places such as mary, your call, we have not been able to verify most of the casualties that have happened there. and we estimate that there have been thousands of casualties there. so overall, the numbers will actually be larger, but it will take time to be able to fully verify them. now there's been many reports about russian troops deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in ukraine. was that the case from the very beginning, or is that something that you've only seen later when it became clear that ukrainian resistance was strong and the russian invasion stoled? oh, right. in the beginning, we didn't see that as, as a conflict has increased in size and gone on for longer. we've seen more and more tax which of hits a civilian objects. and certainly we are concerned that the use of

weapons has been indiscriminate in some cases. and the numbers of civilian objects, including hospitals, including schools that have been, have been hit as strongly suggest that international humanitarian law rules, the rules of war have not been fully complied with that there has been indiscriminate use of weapons. now is there any contact at all between you and the russian forces about what's happening in the territories that they control and we have not been in direct touch on that yet. so that, that is something that we will be doing. they are aware of our reporting that we are concerned by violations in the areas where they have had control and in the places where they have since withdrawn, in particular north of key. if we have seen a wide,

a wide scope of violations there, do you get a sufficient access from both you russian and ukrainian authorities to the property, investigate events on the ground. we have an agreement with the government of he trying to give us full access to the territory that we have had access to. we get access to places of detention. we have been visiting prisoners of war. we are not able to access those areas that are under severe hostilities purely from the safety issue. it is just too insecure to go to those areas. we have not yet been able to access areas that are under, under russian control. now how worried are you that possible evidence of human rights abuses maybe remove those templates in regions that are under russian control. in maria i'm well,

i think we've already been able to collect some evidence. evidence over time. does deteriorated of a see a lot better to get evidence immediately after, after events have happened. but i am hopeful that over time evidence will be collected and that we will understand the full scope of what has happened until the how does this war that is not nearly 3 months old compared to other wars that you and your team have worked on. now it's always difficult to compare different conflicts. each conflict has its own no unique elements. however, clearly there are certain aspects which, which are similar. i mean the, the indiscriminate use of weapons has happened in many other conflicts. and i used to work on libya and certainly there we saw we were documenting also civilian

casualties and the tax on on civilian objects. so this is something that we see in common. unfortunately, also we see as summary executions are we see concerns around the treatment of torture, new treatment of prisoners of war. these are things that unfortunately happen in many conflicts and are happening here also. matilda over the head of the un human rights monitor mission in ukraine. thank you very much for your time and tell them thank you. in the south of ukraine, there are increasing concerns of a rising tensions in the neighboring region. controlled by russian backed separatists. ukrainian and western officials are concerned that russia could use the trans niece to region to open a new front in the war. trans nisa is wedged between ukraine and the rest of moldova dw correspondent, but he was billing. i travelled to a town close to

a border on the ukrainian side and filed this report. it says to water as of war, but it separates worlds just across from anatoly public's plot of land begins. trends. nestor, a self proclaimed republic, that no country in the world recognizes the cherry tree that you can see over there . trans yester has declared its independence from dover in the beginning of the 1990s. it hosts a russian military base and has ever since maintained close ties with russia. trans sniffs their board is ukraine and more dover, many have ties to the other side. but now that ukraine is at war with russia, contact has become difficult before and many would travel between us and ukraine. but now this 3 months has come to when the war started, the border with the territory was closed. the collation has been rife, the russian troops on the territory could join in the fighting crane and nearby

market used to cater to the visitors from over the river has become very quiet. the end of april explosions where he quoted from the other side, many a year they could before the flag operation to justify the territory. join the war . yes, nobody but usually normal games. yeah. of course we are afraid. so now we hope that they will not come over the throttle. the news is that most people say they don't expect anything to happen, but no one can be sure most don't want to go on cabinet next to the shore. natalia's boarding, his business for some about the conflict is close to his family. his wife has just gone to visit her father, entrance near stuff because of the toes border. she had to make a detroit travel by

a neighboring model. here with her father 72 years old and he lives alone with we cannot just forget about him. so we just have to hope that she will not get stuck on natalie's planning to open his bar later this season. but as conflict bloom's business prospects remain, tim in germany had chance all of shots has said that russian president vladimir putin miscalculated when he invaded ukraine, and the war has strengthened both nato and the european union. charles was speaking after a 2 day off site retreat of his cabinet near berlin. gathering was designed to resolve domestic issues, but it was overshadowed by the war ukraine short, short said ministers also discuss ways to reduce german dependency on russian fossil fuels are correspondent benjamin

a virus. gruber attended that meeting and sent us this assessment. russian president vladimir putin miscalculated with his war in ukraine. he's getting a strong nato alliance and a unified european union. this with german chancellor, olaf schall sat after a 2 day meeting with his, a ministries here in may's about close to berlin with of course the war in ukraine taking center stage, both gas, the prime ministers of finland and of sweden, attended with shawl, saying that germany will support both countries if they decide to join the nato defense alliance, he pledged the germany will continue increasing it's spending on defense with the 2 percent of g, german, g, d, p per year with the special fund of that bond. is that this 100000000000 euros and vice chancellor will but havoc who is also the economy minister did not only refer to the refugees to those fleeing the war in ukraine,

but also to the russians who have fled. russia already who planned to flee the country and not come back for them to make it easier to come and to work in germany . meanwhile, germany's opposition leader frivolous matter has paid a visit to keith to meet with ukraine in president vladimir zalinski. that's office said he made the trip to discuss the details of an upcoming delivery of heavy weapons to ukraine. but back home critics have accused the conservative politician of using the visit to upstage the german chancellor, who has yet to visit care of himself. when germany's opposition leader free matt smith's not only with keith maritally clinico and his brother, but also with the cranes present lensky behind closed doors. it since 2 messages. germany support is welcome. and in principle is politicians are to in the zip is on the sides. in these unusual times, it's very important and symbolic to have visits from friends who support ukraine so

deeply as a fantasy, bullish of his warrior. we are also protecting our democracy, our freedom, and our way of life in germany as well. in dodge le mounts began the day by visiting epin, a suburb of keith. here as the man told him, when the fighting was fierce as to the fore, it's also way cranium. forces stopped the russian advance on the way to the capitol . he walked spin, followed ho, i'm full of sorrow about the numerous casualties that happened here here. but also at the same time about full of admiration for what the army, the ukrainian soldiers achieved here, though, darted on jordan, utilized it up, mounts is following a simple strategy with his trip. he's trying to put pressure on the german government. he thinks it's already worked with heavy weapons deliveries. german media have reported that the government had decided to give artillery from the armies own stalks to ukraine, but mounts his walking a tightrope on one hand, his opposition leader on the other,

a supporter of the government. during wartime. a few days ago, he attacked the lack of action by the chancellor in the german parliament. that one is constantly, well, what the weeks the chancellor has stoled left open and evaded answering the question of where the weapons should be, did live at ukraine or not? oh, why not? but unfortunately, oh, love schoultz has tried to turn the tables mats, his trip to ukraine was really a mission on behalf of the government or so schoultz has subtly implied essence of them. firstly, he told me about his request, and i had no objection. and i approve of it and he got up and secondly saw we will of course, talk afterwards about what he has to tell me quite well that no government official has yet visited ukraine. is a point of contention in the coalition. as the deputy chancellor robert hobbit has made clear version of his journal shows, i was now position, i would have also gone to grange so that we as the government have not yet gone there. as the chance, as explained,

is essentially due to the fact that in the presence invitation was revoked on. but there will be a solution to that. we continuing to discuss it in that on monday. if the chancellor work visit mats be quick to claim it is a when he announced on his trip the now also wants to help clear up the reasons for shells. his reluctance to travel to keith, you think it let's have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. in many cities across the united states, people have rallied for abortion rights about responding to a leaked draft opinion from the supreme court. that indicated the court is in favor of overturning the landmark roe vs wade ruling. that ruling legalized abortion nationwide. in 1973, some anti abortion protesters also stage demonstrations. the governor of the state of new mexico has asked president biden to declare a disaster. and free up

a financial aid as wildfire spread across the region. thousands have been forced to flee so far. the fires have burnt. nearly 600 square kilometers. who led by the u. s. has handed over control of the international space station to russian cosmonaut, nasa, commander, tom marshburn and 3 other masters. we'll leave the station and return to earth later this week. russia has threatened to pull out of iron as corporation if western war related sanctions continue by one record breaking down poor in the spanish city of valencia triggered floods and cause chaos in the cities transport system. valencia, which is on spain's eastern mediterranean coast, for more than 200 liters of rain per square meter in just 24 hours. united nations secretary general is in nigeria, on his 1st visit there with warn ukraine distracting wells attention. antonio

parish has urged donors and governments not to forget other humanitarian crises. he travelled to a town in ne barnwell's state, known as the birthplace of bucko, her rom, the jihadist grew past terrorized the region for years. a grand welcome place, special guests. this dance group is here to welcome the united nations to catch a genera and to new terrace, to me degree the capital of porn estate, north eastern nigeria. the governor is on hand to receive him up for more than a decade. born estates has suffered large skill, violins by armed groups, and has now become the center of the human tyrann crises and to sail reaching millions of people live in extreme poverty and hunger. and with a war in ukraine causing donors to divert relief money away from here, things are projected to get even worse. the un secretary general wants to meet with

some of the victims of these attacks. as he arrives as one of the refugee camps in me do gallery, he's greeted with loud ovation. even though the people are smiling and celebrating, they see life as a camp is tough. does nothing, there's no food. we want to return to our village, even though it's rainy season. we can't go to our farms. in a group discussion with camp leaders. gutierrez, he has the stories of refugees and promises to continue supporting the work of the state government. i, i am the we do with 7 children to take care of and we want to go back to our home. praise be to i love that a saw you city. i am full of joy. god bless you. a with the possible to me my. 7

good terrorist says he's impressed by the governor's efforts to rebuild communities and return people back home. a strategy that has been criticized as been too focused on long term solutions while neglecting short term problems with, with the u. n. chief's visit is assigned to the people in me to agree that they are not forgotten, but it does not just lead to immediate solutions of the insecurity and hunger they're facing. i have some sports news from the u. s. for you now. the biden administration will work more aggressively to secure the release of women's basketball star, brittany greiner, who has been detained in russia since february. the west now considers griner to be wrongfully detained. she was jailed months ago on allegations that vape in

cartridges containing cannabis oil had been found in her luggage. the w and b a announced that every team would honor greiner with her initials b, g printed on the court floor. well as her number, so soon as he starts this from liverpool half scraped their way into the final of the champions league in spain. they finished off villareal to win the 2 legs semi final, but not before they relinquish the 2 goal lead and lead villareal. ty it up in the 1st half. the 2nd half was all liverpool though. 3 straight goals and the reds advanced to play the winner of wednesdays match up between the manchester city and rail madrid. and in the bonus iga bomb eunuchs long time goal and assist produce at thomas miller as extended his day with the club. that means the germany international will remain with his boyhood club until the age of 34. mila started

by a use team. when he was, and since he joined the big club in 2080 a sport, 226 goals and help bio when the buddhist lead a title 11 times including this is of the champions league. twice he watching the w news, his a reminder of the top stories we are following for you. be repeat, commission has called on member states to ban oil imports from russia. commission president, although from the line outlined 6 package of sanctions against moscow and cold 4th phased embargo that would put a whole to russian oil imports by the end of this year. and that's it from me and the newest team for now, coming up in the w news, asia, beijing residence worry. they will face the same fate as shanghai extreme lockdown said, wow, style. quarantine sent on taiwan moves away from

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