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more light starts may 28th on d, w. mm. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. a fresh attempt is under way to evacuate civilians from the as of stalled steel plunk. we must continue to do all weekend to get people. all of these ill scapes back to russia is reportedly continuing its ground assault on the last ukrainian stronghold in mario paul. also coming up after a barrage of criticism for not sending heavy weapons to ukraine, germany announces it will supply 7 advanced. how it's artillery systems,
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and indications that u. s. intelligence may have helped ukraine think a russian warship last month. the mosque, the thinking was one of the most high profile military failures for russia, so thought, ah, i'm on your campus, mckinnon. thanks so much for joining us today. a 3rd international attendant to evacuate more civilians from ukraine's besieged mario pull steel plant is underway . the you and 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 faces inside the as of style plant had
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vowed to stand until the end. the batty 4 hours of style continued. this video released by the far right as of regiment, short, heavy shelling on ukraine's last stand in the besieged city of multiple russia, as it is ready for to cease fire to allow humanity and caught a door out of the tv land. but ukraine and fighters clim otherwise is a threat for the 3rd day in a row. the enemy has broken through the territory of the us over style plants were heavy fighting continues us. once again, the russians violated the promise of the truce, does not allow the evacuation of civilians who continue to hide from the shelling but one the as of style plants basement. yes, the un has confirmed that it has successfully evacuated hundreds more from my your boy. during a brief si speier, on read misty. we are accompanied by 11 buses,
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filled of civilians are women, children, an elderly, who wants wives seeking safe heaven doors who have made it out. i believe to finally be safe. but they are also wadded about the ones left behind. and now 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. who are you? there may be hope of a fresh sea spire holding a you and conroy on its way to mario pool. is hoping to use this to evacuate more people and manually shall correspondent levine than she told us more about the situation at the steel plant in maryville. well indeed, russia denies that there's a grand fide sir on the other stars tier plan. but british intelligence confirms that this is happening in ukraine and armed forces. oh,
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so her said that fighting is happening in the other styles. tier plan with ukrainian intelligence officials saying that herb, someone, an electrician gave away a maps of the underground maze off as a star to russian troops. allowing them to know from which parts of the plant there could enter a desert maze. best. a d, a forces, a ukrainian force is currently inside the other style plant. we are, it is believed that at least 2000 soul, these are still holding the positions there. well, they said there would not surrender with or the wife of one of the commander of the as of battalion, the as of 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 would hold their positions until the very the very and so are fighting's, are happening and of course,
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disease or 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 a 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 they are so out of devastated 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,
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it is believe that hundreds of sold this 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 to date? russians have destroyed or damaged almost 400 health facilities. luckily, these are hospitals, maternity wards, outpatient clinics. do you in the temporarily occupied areas of ukraine in the eastern sour? you know, the situation with access to medical services and medicine. so 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 movie militia,
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cuba misses if 2 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 facilities being shelled or you can imagine that the people are from the east or 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 here that we've, the hospital hospitals are also overwhelmed with war injuries. they have to treat here, 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,
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then it can also affect medical services. so the whole country is left reeling by the russian aggression in w correspondent emma shes in live. thanks so much and we're going to take a look now at 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 sea harbors saying there are key link and global food security. ukraine is one of the world leading exporters of grain. and international conference hosted by poland and sweden as raised 6 and a half $1000000000.00 in pledges to help you crane you. officials who are also sponsoring the event, se ukraine needs a new marshal plan to help rebuild the country. president zalinski launched a global fundraising websites out the forum. thank every donation matters. the
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israeli prime minister says russia's precedent by the man who has apologized for remarks made by his foreign minister, said adel hitler had jewish blood, israel from the tale. bennett said fuson made the apology during a phone call. no, no, no. germany has made another pledged support. ukraine with heavy weaponry announcing today the supply of 7 self propelled armored howitzers. the artillery system 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 tax. and the decisions of supply more heavy weaponry was announced by the german defense minister existing lum placed during a trip to lubbock here. so back here is a nato ally that borders ukraine and his home to german troops deployed to help
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ruin flor force europe's eastern flank the w's chief political editor, michela cook. nor is traveling with the defense minister, and she sent us this update. yes, here in savannah here, that german defense, minnesota still on place, made the announcement that germany will deliver 7. how it says bring up the number to 12 that will go towards ukraine. here behind me, she's been inspecting patriot defense systems. that's also another corporation where the netherlands were the dutch defense minister here as well. both countries together. we'll do the training on these howitzers in germany. it will be ukrainian soldiers coming here who will be trained in that training is due to start as early as next week, a with the how it says being delivered over the coming weeks. we're not getting a more precise timeline, but quite clearly a germany willing to hand over more heavy weapons always together with its allies
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within the nato context. and also potentially willing to deliver more. that's what we're hearing. we know that there is a growing list in the german chancery of what can be done. so we expect this only to be the latest step in potential future heavy weapons deliveries. it only has mikaela kirchner in slovakia. thank you. one of ukraine's biggest victories against the invading russian forces as being the claim. thinking of the warship moskva last month, now an anonymous u. s. official has told media that washington shed intelligence with ukraine about the ship's location. in moscow was the flag ship of russia's block c fleet. the us says it had no knowledge of ukraine's plans to attack the moscow with anti ship missiles. they report say it did help pinpoint the most close position. the biden
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administration has been ramping up intelligent sharing, while avoiding direct conflict with russia. gustav castile is from the european council on foreign relations, and an expert on the russian military. i asked him if this kind of assistance increases the risk of russia escalating its war beyond ukraine. ah, well, physically, russia count. if you have your army or most of your army booked on the you train, you just can't afford another war against another country. and you certainly can't afford and of the war against the biggest military lines on the planet right now, which is natal. so, for practical reasons, no. oh, of course for legal reasons, political reasons, the provision of intelligence is, of course a much more sensitive issue than the provision of a provision of arms for a party of 4 is something that is legal and
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a half very clear. a sort of benchmarks, legal benchmarks, what's allowed was not only intelligence, things become much more fishy. so these, of course, in official reports u. s. government, but of course, the line having done so for very good reasons. bob's in officially of calls. everybody knows that this is the case, but yes, it is sort of from the legal side. this is a much more fishy, apart on the whole affair than sending having a tillery tongues me, science, et cetera, to, to the trainings. it's till right now and at least 700 people have been admitted to hospital this with breathing problems. after a sandstorm smothered much of the country and the capital baghdad, flights were cancelled and straits deserted. what should be a busy street in baghdad with shops and cafes is deserted and covered with dust.
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with the latest sunstorm has choked the iraqi capital in a thick cloud of fine particles, turning day into night. to prevent inhalation of sand 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. elizabeth hi elizabeth. yes, this just is making the situation worse because we cannot inhale clean air with this sunstorm. i sort of a jetty. 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
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a region that is already prone to them. record low rainfall has worse and conditions to iraqis are coping as best they can. cleaning the sand from their streets. while knowing the next sunstorm could already be approaching. and you are up to date coming up next up film, look for the broader differences in abortion laws across the european union. i'm and you can, we can and thanks for watching to leave with it. started out with spooky intimidation and transformed into an orgy of hate and violence. the history of the ku klux klan, the oldest terrorist organization in the united states found it over 150 years ago . it's repeatedly died out, but always been resurrected. the ku klux klan starts may 11th on
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