[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. a fresh attempt is under way to evacuate civilians from the as of stalls steel plant. we must continue to do all weekend to get people out of these hill scapes. but to russia is reportedly continuing its ground assault on the last ukrainian stronghold in mario paul. also coming up indications that us intelligence may have helped ukraine think a russian warship last month. the mosque,

the thing king was one of the most high profile and military failures for russia. so far. plus, after a barrage of criticism for not sending heavy weapons to ukraine, germany announces it will supply 7 advanced. how it's the artillery systems. ah, i manuscripts mckinnon. thanks so much for joining us today. a 3rd international attempt to evacuate more civilians from ukraine's the besieged mario pull steel plant is underway, but the un says no more details will be given about the operation, so as not to compromise its success. british intelligence, as russian forces are continuing a ground assault on the plant. despite promising a ceasefire, the wife of one ukrainian commander said fighters inside the us will stole plant,

had vowed to stand until the end. to batty for hours of style continues. this video, released by the far right as of regiment shows heavy shelling on ukraine's last stand in the besieged city of malleable. russia says it is ready for to cease fire to allow and humanity and caught a door out of the steep land but ukrainian fighters claim. otherwise, just the rental for the 3rd day in a row. the enemy has broken through the territory of the as of style plans were heavy fighting continually ross. once again, the russians violated the promise of the truce. did not allow the evacuation of civilians who continued to hide from the shelling. but one, the as of stout plants basement yet the un haskin form that it has successfully evacuated hundreds more from audio boys during a brief ceasefire on wed misty that we are accompanied by 11 buses,

filled of civilians are women, children, and elderly. who wants, who are seeking safe heaven doors, who have made it out a relief to finally be safe? but they are also wadded about the ones left behind. and i don't know who to ask to get them out of there to get them out of there. if they don't, they will all be killed over you. there may be hope of a fresh sea spire holding a you and conroy on its way to mighty or pool is hoping to use this to evacuate more people. emanuel shazlaw correspondent in levine, and she told us more about the situation at steel plant and mario pl. well indeed are russia denies that there is a grand fight, sir, on the other stars tier plan. but british intelligence confirms that this is happening in ukraine, an armed forces. oh,

so are said that fighting is happening in the other style t to plan with ukrainian intelligence officials saying that herb, herb, someone, an electrician gave away maps of the underground, a maze of as a star to russian troops. allowing them to know from which part of the plant there could enter a desert maze, burst her d a forces a ukrainian force is currently inside the other style plant weed or it is believed that at least 2000 soldiers are still holding the positions there. well, they said there would not surrender with the wife of one of the commander of the as of battalion. the as of a regiment with cheese are also holding its position. they're saying add that her husband are said a good bye and say it to her. and that they will hold their positions until the

very the very and so are fighting's are happening and of course dcs are putting in jeopardy. all efforts are very humanitarian evacuation. they're now a 3 day truce. was supposed to go into effect on thursday to allow people to get to safety. are we seeing any evacuations happening right now? well, it has been a few days that people have indeed been evacuated. i say by now around 500 people have made it out as safely out of her mario bowl. not only out of the esteem plan, but those so are out of demo, stated mario, paul. but they still are hundreds of people who are parked in a steel plant, women, children, elderly people, some in very bad shape, very poor conditions. they have been staying there for more than 2 months without saying or seeing a daylight, and they to need a need. and out from this situation, there's also, it is believe that hundreds are sold,

these are wounded and they are there. some of them are trapped under rebels. and the un said there was an operation under way, but they're not a giving away a more information or so as not to compromise this operation. emma, a president for lensky, has issued a quite a stark warning that the humanitarian situation, not just in march, april, but across all of ukraine is growing increasingly. dial, let's take a quick listen to what he said. you have shoes out the do you mean if we take only the medical infrastructure got to date russians have destroyed or damaged almost 400 health facilities. luckily, these are hospitals, maternity wards, outpatient clinics dmc in the temporarily occupied areas of ukraine in the eastern sour. you know, the situation with access to medical services and medicine, but if he is just catastrophic, mal demolition, even the simplest medications are missing. i mean, like what you said russia has brought problems to ukraine and europe that we could not have imagined a few months ago. you, your moody militia,

cuba message if dawn and k calling at catastrophic. and i, what more can you tell us about the current situation across the whole of ukraine? well beyond a medical facility is being shelled or you can imagine that the people are from the east there would also seek treatment or in safety in central or western ukraine. but facilities are overwhelmed by the amount of people in need of medical treatment . you have to imagine within the country, there's over a 7500000 internally displaced people, some of them coming from areas worst affected by their fighting. so he and that leave the hospital, hospitals are also overwhelmed with war injuries. they have to treat you, added to that there is that there is regular selling on infrastructures. oh, so in center are you crying in western ukraine and for example, when a power station power plant is affected,

then it can also affect medical services. so the whole country is left reeling by the russian aggression in w correspondent emma shes in love if thanks so much as take a look. now, some of the other developments in the ukraine conflict, the united nations world food program is warning of global hunger crises. if key ukrainian ports remain closed, the agency is calling for the reopening of black c harbors saying they are a key link and global food security. ukraine is one of the world's leading exporters of grain and international conference hosted by poland and sweden is raised 6 and a half $1000000000.00 in pledges to help you crane you officials who else. so, sponsoring the event, say ukraine needs a new marshal plan to help rebuild the country presidency. lensky launched a global fundraising web site at the forum saying, every donation matters. israel's prime minister says,

russian president vladimir putin has apologizing for remarks made by his foreign minister, who said, i don't hitler had jewish blood. natalie bennett, said putin made the apology during a phone call. i, one of ukraine's biggest victories against the invading russian forces, has been the claimed thinking of the warship moskva last month. now, an anonymous us official has told media that washington shed intelligence with ukraine about the ship's location. the mosque was the flagship of russia's black sea fleet, the u. s. as it had no knowledge of ukraine's plans to attack the mosque, but with empty ship miss sales, the reports say it help pinpoint the mosque position. the biden administration has been ramping up intelligence sharing, as well as shipments of weapons to ukraine,

while avoiding direct conflicts with russia. and for more we can speak now with go stuff. chris, a senior policy fellow at the european council on foreign relations, and an expert on the russian military. welcome to d. w. the loss of the mosque was hugely significant for russia. how is this news about possible u. s. involvement? likely to be going down in moscow. oh, well, the fact that us which target with ukraine is known since the beginning of march. and it is, it was highly likely thinking that us signaling to steps might have something to do with it. because ukraine instead have sensors that reach so far out into the black sea to actually pinpoint and see that there is a warship probably in trouble or distracted by, by some called kind of damage internally that would provide

a suitable target for their christmas science for the shipment science, so either the ukrainians had electronic intelligence, electronic censoring, cold up the the signals from that ship an integrated it on their own. ready or the most likely and more likely version that the west state, the american state, and pass it onto ukraine's who, who got into action. and this is kind of assistance from the west increase the risk of russia escalating its will beyond ukraine. well, basically russia count, if you have your army or most of your army broke down in your train, you just can't afford another war against another country. and you certainly can't hold. and the rule against the biggest military lines on the planet right now, which is nice. so, for practical reasons,

of course for legal reasons and political reasons, the provision of intelligence is, of course, a much more sensitive issue than the provision of arms. a provision of arms for a party of 4 is something that is legal and you have very clear a sort of benchmarks, legal bench. what's allowed was not all intelligence. things become much more fishy to these, of course, in official reports, us government. but of course, the line having done so for very good reasons. bob, in officially, of course, everybody knows that this is the case. but yes it's, it's sort of from the legal side. this is a much more fishy part on the whole affair than sending heavy artillery tags, messiah cetera. 2 to the trainings the, the kremlin, is determined to reach some kind of milestone by may the 9th next week. and that's

the day that russia commemorates the soviet union's try and say, the nazi germany is mario poll that victory. and, and do you think russia will succeed in declaring that, to victory? ah, well, it might be on the other end, you know, in a country where the foreign minister can come out and say other people's a jew, and israel is responsible for supporting naziism. truth doesn't really matter all that much. they can declare maria pool as a victory, even though they're still fighting going on in the city. they can, they can pretty much anything to domestic audience because it's possible up to 15 years to kind of defunct or contradict, would have officially stated to it. so i'm, i would be rather relaxed about may, 9th. yes, that will announce something. yes, they will do some proper kind of scheme. but that's about to be expected. i think neither the russian military nor the ukrainian military have

a timeline in their planning or offensive and defensive. that is to, to tools may nice. ok, well, have to leave that good stuff from the european council on foreign relations. thank you so much. thank you very much. i ukrainians, living under russian occupation are being faced with a stark choice. should they resist rational authority or risk reprisals? or should they embrace the new leaders? a team from french public tv recently traveled to one such community and southeastern ukraine. and what they found were people who, after fighting the invade, is just a few weeks ago. and i choosing their words very carefully. matter. you pull in southeastern ukraine, those to reduce the city to rebel. no, bring aid the will, everything was good and functioning. now everything is destroyed, you just don't talk nonsense. i don't really. she is only here to provoke on you

here for the aid. what are you talking about? what is a lot of drugs? there is tension in the ear, but somehow life carries on in the russian occupied areas of ukraine. people are even getting married like here and bird janski's, 80 kilometers from other you pull these of the 1st weddings since the war began. no, the flags are red, white, and blue, instead of blue and yellow. it's on show for the world to see that the parsley, the russian anthem placed the wedding ceremony. the bride and groom. beam was joy. it's going well, we are very, very happy. why? it's an important day for the city and for us. and we are very proud of the country

of which country. the french journalist asks russia the marriage is marked by celebratory gunfire. well, just a few kilometers away. soldiers cool in occupied areas. russia has installed mayors who see what putin once we have a military and civilian lead administration, we see a future with russia. this is also being demonstrated and merely to pull. the central square is draped and soviet colors ahead of the commemoration of the red army is victory over nazi germany. on the 9th of me just a few weeks ago residence, protested the occupation. no, officially, at least there's barely any descent. oh yes, i came with the red flag to celebrate russia's victory. i am not afraid of anything because we have always lived well with russia receiving her for or what if they have res,

new flags before it was ours. and there are always soldiers here and not house and you carry rather than what do you think about that us the french t. v. crew for us to resume. it's hard to say when neutral. let's put it that way. a new era has begun in the occupied areas of ukraine. in some places, the ruble is being introduced us day by day. russia looks to expand its influence over all areas of life. germany has made another pledge to support ukraine with heavy weaponry announcing to day the supply of 7 self propelled ahmed howitzers. and the artillery system which resemble the tank has a reported range of up to 40 kilometers. the german military will also offer training to ukrainian troops. berlin has been under pressure to do more to help you crane defend itself against the russian invasion. last month the government agreed to export german, made anti aircraft tanks. and for more on this, until now,

by it at least chief political correspondent, melinda crane. melinda, welcome. gemini, is saying it will deliver more heavy weapons to ukraine. what more can you tell us about that? that's right. this announcement was made this morning by defense minister lamb brush, who is currently visiting german soldiers deployed in slovakia where they're helping to reinforce nato's eastern flank. and these 7 howitzers saw are exactly the kind of heavy, heavy weapons that ukraine has been asking. germany to provide minister lumber, said that germany will also offer training that has been a source of uncertainty in the past. and one of the reasons that germany has been hesitant about delivering heavy weapons. because of concern about how training could be interpreted by russia. whether that could be seen essentially as making germany a kind of a party to the conflict. the german government has, as you said,

repeatedly, been accused by the leadership in key of, of not doing enough to help defend it against the russian invasion. and until just 10 days ago, berlin had been quite reluctant to provide heavy weapons. but chancellor schultz does appear to have changed course under pressure from allies and even from his own coalition partners and has also pledged to export german, made gay part armored anti aircraft vehicles. to ukraine, so definitely we are seeing movement now on the part of the land. if we can talk about relations between berlin and keith, they have been tense recently after, excuse me, germany's president hung by to shine maya was told that he was not welcome in ukraine, but according to chance, a chance that we'll have shall, it's, it does seem that the diplomat diplomatic hatchet has now been buried. let's just take a listen. in the bonus president ago for the german president on the ukrainian president spoke very carefully to each other offers. that's

a good thing. when i spoke in detail to the german president about it beforehand and afterwards the bio and bicker fulfillment on the result of the conversation is that the foreign minister will soon be in ukraine to mr. clayton. so it seems the diplomatic spat has been smoothed out yet, shall it's still isn't going to ukraine. why is that? will schultz has, in fact, in the past, made no secret of his irritation over the fact that the german president essentially was dis invited from visiting ukraine. there had been a very short term of planned visit when he would have gone with his polish counterpart and ukraine. rather abruptly said that the german president would not be welcome and a chancellor schultz has spoken quite openly about his irritation over that. but it's difficult to speculate about the emotional side of chancellor shelters remarks,

because in fact, he is very restrained as a communicator. he comes from northern germany and he's known for understatement. if you listen to what president stein meyer said yesterday, after his telephone conversation with president lensky of ukraine, it was far more effusively. in fact, zalinski did invite the president as well as the german government to visit. so possibly chancellor sholtes is hesitation is now simply a protocol issue, because normally it is the president who makes such official state visits 1st. now, all of shots was quite heavily criticized, and for his reaction to the snub, the ukranian ambassador to germany accused fillets of sulking. how much public backing here in germany does left shall it's had for the way that he's handling this crisis in ukraine. public is very divided particularly

on whether germany should in fact meet ukraine's request to send heavy weapons the number of or that the share of pools that actually support that of ranges between 45 to 56 percent of those surveyed. so essentially, the country is split and that is particularly true of members of the chancellor's own party, the social democrats, they have a long tradition of pacifism of believing that a good commercial relations with other countries will ensure peace and stability. and therefore, this is a difficult move for the german government to make and we heard chancellor schultz on the trish national union. the labor union rally on may 1st saying to it, to his listeners in the face of cat calls, that radical pacifism has now become obsolete. so clearly he is trying to take the public along with him. but at the moment,

the country is split for fear of being drawn into this conflict. melinda crane, d. w. 's, chief political correspondent, thank you so much. is a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. bangladesh, police have detained $450.00 range refugees, celebrating the muslim festival of eat on a beach. official said the arrests were due to security concerns. human rights observers have criticized bangladesh or placing restrictions on the 900000 gra, hinder refugees in the country. the official death toll from a building collapse in central china has risen to 53. the sick story structure came down last friday in the city of gang shaw chinese television showed a tense survivor being pulled from the debris over night. as after authorities had announced the end of the rescue mission, early results from local elections in the u. k are showing losses for the

conservative party of prime minister barak johnson. the ballot is the 1st since the so called lockdown policy scandal, when johnson was found to have broken his own pandemic laws while in office final results i do later today. ali 700 people have been admitted to hospitals across iraq with breathing problems. after a sandstorm smothered much of the country in the capital, baghdad, flights were cancelled and straits deserted. authorities are urging residents to stay inside until the air is once again safe to breathe. what should be a busy street in baghdad with shops and cafes is deserted and covered with dust. with the latest sunstorm has choked the iraqi capital in a thick cloud of fine particles. turning day into night. to prevent inhalation of sunned, face masks have become essential. not just because of covert as

a result of the dust. bagdad hospitals are inundated with people struggling for air and asking why sandstorms are happening with greater frequency. alysa hi alysa with this just is making the situation worse. because we cannot inhale clean air with the sunstorm i sort of as i think the could have been better solutions for the climate to be less extreme. green belts could have been planted as in other experts think climate change is part of the reason for the laser series of storms. but desertification due to outmoded farming practices, has also made sun storms more likely in a region that is already prone to them. record low rainfall has worsened conditions to iraqis are coping as best they can cleaning the sun from their streets

while knowing the next sunstorm could already be approaching. and just before we go full crew members from the international space station have returned safely to us thermal imaging film, the space ex caps, you will splashing down off the coast of florida at night around 23 hours up for it left the overseeing lab, germany's mathias melba was among the returning astronauts who were part of a 6 month science mission to on the i assess bob on, on the capsule before loading dragon onto a flatbed truck. i believe is a quick reminder of the top story that we're following for you today. a 3rd attempt to get civilians out of the besieged as of stell steel planted. mario full is underway. the un says 500 people have been evacuated so far this week. intelligent forces say russians, ground assault is continuing. ukrainian fights is hold up in the plums of repeated

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a 9th in it was harsh. fear i even got white hair is as in learning the german language head. yeah. a lot. this keeps me a great deal. but to nikki, to interact with, you want to know their story info, my grants verifying, and reliable information for migrant. with russia now pushing for full control is southern and eastern ukraine. western countries are ramping up military support for kiev supplying billions of euro worth of artillery tanks and drones, images of suffering, death and destruction like these from maria. paul are prompting western politicians to deliver not only military, but also moral support by visiting and battled ukrainian leaders in here in the face of strong pressure to do more german chancellor or thou shalt. now pledges to