o a d w ah ah, this is there any news line from berlin? no change a message of defiance from vladimir putin vowing to press on with the war in ukraine. the russian leader uses the annual victory day parade in moscow to justify the invasion, saying he's defending the mother land, and reels against nato. also coming up a late dictator, son on port for a land slide election. when in the philippines, voters are choosing between ford,

not my cost junior, and an anti corruption campaigner. counting puts my purse comfortably ahead and reform or fall apart. european union leaders in strasburg here, citizens demands on making the blog stronger and back ukraine joining the block. ah, hello everyone, i'm layla iraq. it's great to be with you. russian president vladimir putin has praised his armed forces fighting the war in ukraine and promised to push on with the invasion. mister bruton was speaking in moscow's annual victory day parade, celebrating its 1945 defeats of nazi germany. thousands of troops and military vehicles paraded through red square. mister bowden repeated his claim that western

countries provoked the attack on ukraine. and he went on to claim falsely that western countries plan to launch attacks in east and ukraine. and that ukraine tried to obtain a nuclear weapon. and that the lot and, and that he launched his so called special military operation. only after exhausting every other bid for peace. take a lesson. but i see you presume russia calls on the west to an honest dialogue, to search for reasonable mutual solutions to take into account each other's interests, us all in vain. music and nato countries did not want to hear us, which means and in fact they had completely different plans for him and we saw it. there were open preparations for another punitive operation. and don bas and they put us in for an incursion into our historic lands, including crimea. cave announced possible acquisition of nuclear weapons was more, and the nato block started active military colonization of territories belonging to

us. you saw an absolutely unacceptable threat for us was created directly near our borders that you then you put a human. my lena, who grows ukraine, marked the end of the 2nd world war a day earlier. hosting canada's prime minister justin trudeau and u. s. f. first lady jill bye. in response to russia's victory day present, villamor zaleski released one of his trademark video messages take a lesson. no mark. a dynamic is there are no shackles that combine than our free spirit and them out on. there is no occupier. you can take that route and our free land name was that there is no invite. a who can rule of alfred people norwood sooner or later with his when me when am i'm booked with lucas? some one is fighting for the fathers are the fear of the party and the chief from us, and we were fighting for the homeland we wallace. we have never fought against anyone, william, or we will always fight for ourselves for our freedom for independence. she said that the victory of her ancestors law was not inflamed by fort val. freedom for us,

and one put him on. we are fighting with freedom for our children and therefore we will, we'll. so he did they, how would you put a mortar ukrainian net present at their i did, of course on a funny for sure, is in key for you, the ukrainian capital funded good to see you. how has this highly anticipated they've been experienced in ukraine? where you are depends really where you are asked being he and key if you see pro, people behind me enjoying the sun. however, the picture is changing. if you go obviously towards the numbers region or the southern part of ukraine, where they've been, lot of rocket attacks, not only today, but also over the course of the weekend here, how the people, the question that i actually keep hearing from people is, why was there no clue in that address by letting me put in in that 11 minute address to his nation. any clue when this may be over, and in fact, as we listen to the speech ourselves, there wasn't anything that could tell us. when this was going to be over,

or what kind of roadmap putin has to what he then calls victory. so this level of uncertainty, this unpredictability of this entire situation. this is what keeps people on edge apart from the regular air raid sirens that we also keep hearing over the entire weekend. but also today, and once again, the government was calling on people to take these air rates seriously to the area sirens for the serious the and go look for shell to altering keith. well, the situation is a rather normal a rather. com compete, as i say, to so many other parts of ukraine. the war has moved to the east. what has been happening there? especially the focus is on mario pool. and in fact, that town is, is, is a town. it's now a being controlled actually by russian forces. the 100000 people, they are reportedly can only leave their homes if they have some sort of a permission by the russian forces on the ground. however, there is one spot that still in the ukrainian controlled hands to say so,

and it should be kept this way according to the ukrainian soldiers inside that steel plant have of you hearing that according to ukrainian information, there is a currently, a storm of storming taking place apparently by russian forces to if you do not know exactly that picture is really difficult to establish what is currently happening inside or around it to your plan. but it seems like this is really the last stand there of ukrainian forces. and it seems like, especially now with symbolic day, like may, 9th, that may be that the russian force is really just would like to declare victory over that steel plant. even though, as i say, victory has been already declared over mary pool on april 21st. and in conclusion, from some final thoughts from you, the war has entered a 3rd month. how is it changed ukraine? in so many ways it would really exceed even our time. and it's not just obviously

a 10000000 people have been uprooted from their homes. millions more than 5 have left this country and not speaking about the number of casualties only yesterday that school, that's been shelton, the launch region, you really ask yourself, how is that possible in 21st century? that as civilian infrastructure, innocent people are in the midst of all of this while these russia, the neighboring country, claiming this is, this is just the military operation and they want to, they're not defy this country, but also in a different term. you have to know that ukraine is seen as the bread basket of europe. and while the school is ongoing, millions of tons of grains simply cannot leave this country because the main ports on the, the cities we just mentioned, maria pull there, but also have so no desa, all the sounds along the i both the as of see but also the black see are blocked currently. so even president lansky just today actually on the line that they must be some help from the european partners they to hauled these grains basically food leaving ukraine to avoid that. there is a world food crisis which is lingering already. honey for sharp reporting from the

ukrainian capital. keith, thank you very much for your continued coverage honey. and here with me on the set is the w reporter, aaron tilton. he has worked extensively as a correspondent at our moscow a barrow when it was still open simply to have you here on the set with me. aaron, i want to start by asking you a lot of analysts have expressed surprise at what mr. put and did not mention during his victory a parade speech. were you surprised? yes to certain i was. i mean, all the chatter we've been hearing out of intelligent circles and my analyst is that they were expecting a greater commitment of military assets from vladimir putin today. basically, the current operation in ukraine is still considering the part of the russian government to be a special military operation. that means they can't bear the full force of their military and directed on ukraine. and a lot of people were kind of expecting to see kind of a call for general mobilization, more drafting, conscription of new soldiers and full declaration of war and part of the russian

federation. we didn't get that. and that did seem to surprise a lot of analyst. instead, what we saw was, i'm gonna attempt by mister putin to reframe the narrative. the war really kind of change how the international community also it his public views. there are operations in ukraine at the moment, rather than a declaration of full war as many animals expected. that is really and i want to pick up on what you just mentioned, that they're changing of the narrative. it seemed not seen, but he actually made it look like this was an existential battle for russia. and an accidental battle is really the right way to look at it. he constantly put this in connection with the historic struggle of the soviet on the soviet union against nazi germany. because that was literally an existential threat. that was threatening the soviet people's basically you have to remember germany under hitler basically said they were going to absolutely eradicate the soviet union. that they were either going to commit genocide or in slave the soviet people. so for them it wasn't existential threat. and you have to remember the so people suffered more

than any other major nation when it came to the effects of world war 2. i mean, the 27000000 people who died direct in the battles. now, mister putin constantly tried to invoke those images of the struggle against nazi germany. why he didn't mentioned ukraine very often. the speech directly, he constantly said that this was a fight against nazis. this was a fight against these radical nationalists and tried to put it for a minute in that language that these are an external threat of ukraine. some health presents an external threat because it is somehow governed by nazis. no, of course we know that's not true. that does not jail with the facts in the ground . you can't forget that prison. vulgar zalinski is of course a jewish man who was elected democratically so it's just, it's not even valuable that there have that there's something that's not the control of the country. but at the same time, blad report was constantly using that as a tool to basically frame this as a giant conflict between east and west and one that really is an ex central threat for the current russian federation. essentially weaponized, where it was

a very painful part of russia's history and to justify the invasion of ukraine at the end goal of this war still remains very ambiguous. i mean, he didn't clarify anything. i mean, what is he going for? exactly. i think that's actually intentional because you have to remember that it does seem that mister putin as an intelligent service, thought that they were going to steam roll on the country. they thought they were going to be able to bear the entire brunt of their military and give and really, justine all the country. now they have gotten one black eye after the next from ukrainian people because to be honest, it really seems like despite the incredible amount of money rush as pumped in the military and recent years, it's not up to stuff like they really underestimated the tenacity of ukrainian people, when it comes to defending their home country, to be honest, you know, it's the same mistake. the soviet union made an afghanistan, is the exact same mistake united states, minute iraq, and afghanistan. you should never underestimate of people who are defending their home country. and because of that, because blood reporting can't really point to the successes, there's concrete successes that he probably wants to. i think he's playing cards

a little bit closer to his best. instead of actually giving us concrete definitions, what victory looks like. he's in stand, use this victory day parade to basically tell his people, this is going to be a long site. it's not going to be over in the next couple months. it's probably going to go into the winter and probably into next year. that's what this will be point of his speech and his preparations today. they were basically pointing to the russian people and say, look, we have a long fight ahead of us. we're not giving up your account. and i did, of course on thank you so very much was good to have here for that analysis. appreciate you. well, here in germany, world war 2 commemoration events are also underway. as local russians observe their victory, the celebrations have taken on a different tone because of present day war in ukraine. berlin authorities are hoping to prevent conflicts at memorial science by banning both ukrainian and russian symbols. former soviet republics, including both ukraine and russia, fought together to defeats hitler and dw correspond as i near

sheriff. an ortho was at the soviet to war memorial in berlin, and she sent us this update. you could really feel the tension here at the soviet war memorial in central berlin to day. and authorities were really worried that this day that's meant to be a commemorative day for the russian, a victory over not to germany at the end of world war 2. and was going to be overshadowed by the war in ukraine and to stop this day from being politicized in any way. you're used for propaganda purposes, and there is a blanket ban on any national flags. and that obviously applies the ukranian flag as well as the russian flag or any military symbols or uniforms. and which as far as i've seen has been largely adhered to here, everything's remained pretty peaceful. there was a march earlier from the brandenburg gate down to the memorial. here am afterwards people gathered and there were a few little scuffles. police let a few people away. and, but other than that, really at

a fairly calm situation. when it turn our attention now to the philippines were early results from presidential elections, there give a clearly to the son of former dictator ferdinand to marco's with 60 percent of voting stations, reporting their initial results for an at mark mark or so junior, has twice the number of votes of his main rival, lenny robledo, mike was junior. what did not present a clear policy platform during the campaign, but he's expected to provide continuity from the hard line approach of his predecessor. or that he would look at me. i'd say to gary, come matter sir, can tell us more. he is in the philippines. he is in now got to be exact in the south of the philippines, which is a strong hold of the progressive candidate, lenny at albedo. a good to see you are gay york unofficial vote count shows huge early lead for mike was junior. what are you hearing?

helena really looks like we see history in the making here in southeast asia, a, with that a marco's dennis t coming back to the seat of power. 40 years after his father was ousted by you, a people revolution issue is really looks like his son, fred, and on marcus junior will make it in, in this raise a quite a, quite an historic moment for, for the philippines. and i understand he has a similar approach, a strong man approach, i should say, at to outgoing our present attempting. but no, we'll policy platform. i want indicator for that is that he has teamed up with through data salter and the concern here by many, particularly in the south of the philippines where there is a strong hold of his biggest opponent. lenny rob reydell is that the authority marian style of rule that tech to has used in the past 6 years will now

even worse, and under marco's detective, a team approach with the daughter of to that to being the vice president in the country really wanted to see what was, what comes out of that when you talk to people. a concern, of course, is whoever wins this race, it had been such a device if campaign, that healing those rules, bringing the people back together will be essential. that is one of markers, a key promises, and many office supporters hope that he will help make true on those promises. and now i'm going to send us arrival la lenny at the headquarters. what have reactions been there to these the early preliminary result of course, people are disappointed. you have to understand that that was really passionate support for her. and people had hoped that they could turn around things. but what

really struck me here in this election is when you talk to survivors of the martial law, you're under a dictator much further on mark, cause it really it's the, the markup family, but also their supporters managed really whitewash that iraq. so that you approach a lot of people on the street and talk to them about the dictatorship time. and they will talk to you about the golden era of stability and, and rich country that they would like to return to. whereas the authoritarian rule, the many people are killed and imprisoned, have almost been forgotten. and that's remarkable. and it very quickly is jerica when our final results expected. well, in all the appalling stations, the one that you see behind me is while they're now electronic machines. so it has been going very swiftly and dog,

many have told me here that they expect the results in the early morning here in the philippines. all right, garrick motus reporting from the philippines. thank you. and here are some of the other stories in the headlines right now. sherlock and prime minister melinda gotcha. baxa has resigned after violent clashes that left one lawmaker dead and dozens of people wounded worship oxide dominated trolanda and politics for 2 decades. the island is facing its worst economic crisis since independence israeli soldiers have shot dead to palestinians in separate incidents. 2 other palestinians have been arrested on suspicion of killing 3 people on israel's independence date. violence involving birth communities has surged in recent weeks . sweden's ruling social democrats will announce their decision on seeking nato membership. later this week, sweden has been

a military and non aligned for 200 years, but i'm a company in a shift. it says the invasion of ukraine. european union leaders meeting in strasburg have restated their support for ukraine joining the european union. they were winding up a year long consultation process, asking voters for their views on how to strengthen democracy and unity. european commission is expected to respond to ukraine's membership id next month. mid 4 o european commission present as a founder alliance as the war means strengthening the e. u. is more important than ever. take lesson the memo. yes, our ha has always framed our future. and that is all the more important at a time when the unsinkable has returned to our continent. russia's flagrant attempts to redraw maps and to rewrite,

even the most tragic parts of our history have reminded us of the dangers of losing our grip on both. i'll pass and our future on living in a perpetual presence. i'm thinking that things can never be different. that that cannot be better ways of doing things. and even worse, that things will always stay the same. if only we do not change. that's so wrong. standing still is falling back. but this conference, this conference has shown us that europeans are determined not to make this mistake . you, you will have told us that you want to build a better future by living up to the most enduring promises of the past. promises

of peace and prosperity, fairness and progress. and just moments ago, french president em anyway, my call also spoken stroudsburg. he says it's imperative for the european union to give its full support to ukraine. then sir, for this war to hum to an end. so we've adopted unprecedented sanctions, won't cover you ab ramos, to not make it difficult, but again, always to finance the war in russia to support the ukraine of what we've mobilized, military, financial, humanitarian resources like never before. and we need to set these efforts up on the fuel to ensure we have an effective response when it comes to food security. and we will continuous fall this newly so that justice can speak. we will fight again. but the, my thing as the impunity for the crime of said have been committed in ukraine. whatever. we are not gonna go over with russia. we are fighting

in europe to maintain the sovereignty and territorial will integrity of ukraine for the return of peace to our continent. edison and it's up to ukraine, only, only legal to decide on negotiating conditions with rational code of our duty. that is a good our duty is to be by ukraine sides to obtain a ceasefire and then peace. so and then we will be ran when it comes to rebuilding ukraine as a part of europe always. andy, the records on above is or is in strasburg, where she has been covering those speeches or all day. barbara, talk us through some of the highlights of these 2 speeches, what stood out for you the highlight probably from the commission president or so from the line missouri. her is urgency ed to sort of stress the need for

reform because she sort of kept circling around this and basically she said, the european union has to now make a big jump fallback, or it will fail. oh, which is a quite strong message award to of course was a is on the table here are a lot of proposals and some that a really very important for the european union, for instance, that, that union minute g stops in a foreign policy decisions. what we're seeing at the moment, for instance, is that ambassadors in brussels are closed in their conference rooms and trying for 5 days now. ed to get the sector, the 6 sanctions, a package with the oil boy court against russia underway. and they have failed so far because hungary won't play ball. those are the sorts of things that really need to change if europe is to have a strong future, if it can also,

whether the incredible international stresses and that did the, the war in ukraine is putting on the european union. so that may be, was her cor point. and a barbara, speaking of the war in ukraine, i understand they are deliberating, considering ukraine's you membership. i mean, any candidate to applying for you membership, it's a very long drawn out process. so are they planning on speeding it up? $5000.00 pages of accession papers, a huge questionnaire. somebody must have been sitting in a bunker in keith, filling those out. those pages for weeks now have been as symbolically handed over to day. m bought. of course, president mc wrong made it quite clear in his speech that was really sort of focusing on the support for ukraine that the european union is giving and

will give in the future. but also for what will happen afterwards. he said, yes it, this is not a quick process. this is not going to happen within a few months or maybe even a year. but he also said that we should think again about the old idea is for instance of the to speed europe. that we could have some structural reforms in europe. that makes that make it possible to include countries like ukraine, like georgia, like vault over and even some of the balkan countries that are not ripe for accession in a certain in is sort of 2nd around a it, this is circle, 2nd circle around cor, europe. the to speed europe as it was called in the past and where they have a lot of the advantages and they are included in many things and maybe only not have voting rights and be included in the main decision making. things like this are possible, but the at the core of this is that reforms need to be acted upon very quickly. now within months,

evening macaroni has promised he wants to push this among all the many problems he has at home. he still thinks he can be the big reformer of the european union, a speaking of reform, some final thoughts or from you. because said the both leaders were very bullish and ambitious when it comes to overhauling some aspects of a you treaty. could those calls go anywhere? could this is the most difficult thing, of course, because everyone who has experience in the european union knows this is open in the boxes. pandora, this is the box where snakes come slithering out. and you never know whether that you will get them back in and put the lid on this box as so there are many countries as some scandinavian countries, for instance, who have already internally opposed this and said, don't do this. we don't have time for this. we don't have to political strengths for this. just leave it and, and to come back to this later. but mike wrong has again said he wants to go for it

. he wants at the next or european come summit even start talking about it, whether it'll really come. i have my doubts. right, barbara of his reporting for spouse work. thank you. and with that was come to the end of this edition of dw stick around a c, w news, asia. and i'll see you back at the top of the hour for now. thanks so much for spending this part of with

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