more life starts may 28 on d, w ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, the you with speeds up, its military assistance to your cry. president vital signs a revival of the world war 2 era lendlease program to excel accelerate weapons deliveries to keith lawmakers from his governing democrats. so also proposing billions in additional funding. also coming up a message of defiance from vladimir putin that russia's annual victory day parade in moscow. he repeats false claims to justify his war in new crime and says he'll

push on. and the son of a dictator, ferdinand macos junior wins an election landslide in the philippines. the man knows bone bong takes an unassailable lead over his rivals with 90 percent of the votes counted. ah, i'm jared raid. thank you for your company. the u. s. president has revived a world war 2 year, a program to speed up weapons shipments to ukraine. joe biden signed an updated version of the lend lease act, which was used to supply weapons to britain and its allies in their fight against nazi germany. he said that flatter me putin's war in ukraine was once more bringing quite wanton destruction of europe. lawmakers from his governing des grants are

proposing nearly $40000000000.00 of additional aid for ukraine. and assigning of that bill happened on what was victory day in the victory in europe day in former soviet countries, a di, mocking the defeat of nazi germany in the 2nd world war. it's usually marked by ukraine with large parades, but there was no such public events this year for fear of russian attacks. ah, it may be victory day, but ukrainians have not got much to sell it. and ceremonies kept small din barbecue, this is remember and say, commemorating all those who died during world war 2, the year more. and on this day, we're also commemorating the ukrainian wealth died during this kern warranty. i don't like to call it a war actually, but an act of aggression by the russian federation. t. irish spoke horace. with festivities canceled the silence here. loons heavily. ah,

but in the southwest, the sound of air sirens is piercing. ukraine says russia fired high precision missiles at the cities of odessa and mich alive and russian troops continued to storm the as of style steel, waxing, mary paul, where the cities last offenders holding out new mach aide, bang via kilo shackles that combined. and i'll free spirit in the mouth. there is no occupier, you can take that route and our free land name was that there was no invito who can rule of the, our free people in norwood sooner or later with his women. but am, i'm not all ukrainians shares zalinski sentiments in an area of mary po, sped for much of the shelling. some are attending celebrations organized by the moscow back to separatist government of de next and promoted by russia. yes, it doesn't look like the 1st not allowed by the ukranian authorities to celebrate

victory day, but we still celebrated this hide in every family in the thought about the lives i may. later, the mayor's office allowed us to lay flowers and thank the veterans. but the ukrainians authorities were not happy about this. people back in 2014 that we will always be together with russia, with the city which is mostly been destroyed by russian attacks, is now almost entirely under the cremeans control. as ukrainians honor the sacrifices of their forefathers, many looked to the future with a fear that the lessons of the past have not been land. but it was a different story in the russian capital. moscow way president vladimir putin praised his armed forces fighting the war in ukraine. the russian leader made a series of false claims about the war, including and allegation that western countries provoked the attack. year after

year, the same ceremony, the russian defense minister and top military bras come out to inspire their troops . there were plenty of uniforms. even among the general public, the soviet victory day is one of russia's most important public holidays. but this is event didn't just celebrate victory of nazi germany. but the war and ukraine as well. it wasn't, it was today, you are defending what our grandfathers and great grandfathers fought for, that the most important thing in their lives was the prosperity and security they hunt way. oh, glory to a heroic military. la russia, vig random seal m said. i see you zip i be a door. laura. $11000.00 soldiers, many of whom have reportedly already served in the don bass region. and lots of military hardware potent again spoke of neo nazis and ukraine, and accused nato of threatening russia. blocked madam, as you'll act,

he will hear russia has given a preemptive rebuff to the blocks aggression up was this. it was forced him new, timely and all the right associate, the decision of a sovereign strong and will a will. and independent countryman, there e. d. as in the private nation, hundreds of thousands of people then took to the streets and moscow, and another cities carrying pictures of those who took part in world war 2. historically, civil society used these marches as an alternative to the military parade. but it seems these days the kremlin has taken the lead here now to let's big now to steven norris, professor of russian history at miami university in the u. s. state of ohio professor. welcome to d. w. vladimir putin surprised a lot of analysts by not declaring any kind of victory in ukraine, and also not moving russia to a wharf his footing with

a full military mobilization. what do you make of this? it's happy to be here. i think what was said is still quite significant. there was, as you mentioned, a lot of speculation that who would announce a general mobile mobilization, which would of course, turn the war into the next phase. but what he did say was, was quite specific as reference in the story before about blaming nato. again, for the aggression referencing neo nazis and ukraine, claiming that this is ongoing aggression, that's ongoing war is a defense of the mother land claiming that on buses in a central part of the russian motherland. and you know, again and again, referencing neo nazis and ben, the rights. and i'm using the rhetoric that he's used to justify this invasion using the lies that he's used to justify this invasion for it for purposes of the picture day speech. and that marks something of a difference of the usual victory, a speech giving given everything you've just said, the rhetoric that we've heard from flood me person. what does that lead you to

believe he's plans are now going forward? it's hard to say, although, you know, last year, for example, there's, there's a sort of a usual way of giving the victory day speech that putin has employed. he's a certain phrases again and again, kind of makes a repetitive ritual of the speech about the secret victory, one and one more to the necessity of defending the mother land and the willingness of russians across time to defend the model and sacrifice themselves. the greatest hits really that he gives in the 1st half of the speech in the 2nd half of the speech is recently has been kind of vague references last year. for example, he talked about, you know, those who are denigrating, russia and who falsified history. and he made some references to growing the naziism 2 years ago and 2020, he actually praised the allied contributions to war. so what, what is really alarming and somewhat ominous about this speech is, are these very specific references to nato and native aggression. the lies that he's used for in order to justify this invasion, which means it's maybe we were looking for the speech to do something that it

normally doesn't do. but really what it did do is in fact what we were looking for . now there was some emphasis, quite a lot of emphasis on, on the don't bass in the speech and no a specific reference to the foreign country of ukraine. does that lead you to think that russia has not actually revised its war aims away from trying to eventually take over all of you crime? i think so. it is. i don't think there was a great revision here. he didn't try to claim victory in a limited sense. he didn't try to claim victory at all. he again and again talked about the don bass about the sacrifices of people that donned us about the neo nazis that are leading the fight against the don das, which includes words, you know, a fight against historic st rush itself. so yeah, i think the speech wasn't indeed just a way of reiterating wargames from the beginning that was steven norris, professor of russian history at miami university in the us state of ohio professor . thank you very much for coming on now. sure. happy to be here. thank you. of

french president emanuel macklin has been visiting berlin, where he's promoting his idea for a new political union of non in you nations. micron warned it could take decades before countries like ukraine could join the u. and a new block could bring them closer to brussels. or monday evening, the french president joined german chancellor left shots at the iconic brandenburg gate which lit up in the ukrainian colors. the french president's visit to germany was his 1st since his re election. earlier, he was welcomed with military honors at the chancellor and we asked our chief, political it editor michelle, a quick note about microns proposal of a new e u light membership possibility for states like ukraine. yes, well, this debate about to tear and different speed. european union is almost as old as actually is all the european union itself, which is to be called european community. and what memo, my call is proposing is

a european political community that would allow ukraine to get closer to the european union within a saucer time frame than what he mapped out. and that was years potentially decades . and that's how long it has taken other countries to reach that level as well. also, he wants to open up some space for former countries of which there's only one post breaks at britain to potentially move closer to the you. again, this was all i met by all of salts with the comment that it was an interesting idea to deal with the challenges that the currently has. so yes, there is a franco german engine, but the 2 leaders certainly had a lot to talk about those details this evening. michelle christner that, well, here are some of the other stories in the headlines today. sri lankan prime minister may hinder roger pox. a has resigned on another day of violence which left one law maker and several demonstrate as did russia, pox. and his brother,

the president, are blamed for the deepest economic crisis. in decades in sri lanka, they've been wakes of unrest at least 43 people have been killed in clashes between rival gangs and a jail in ecuador relatives have gathered to await news of their loved ones. police have since taken control of the side in the city of santo domingo. they also used to firearms, explosives and other weapons. more than $100.00 inmates are reported to be on the run. britons, queen elizabeth will not attend this week's opening of parliament in london. buckingham palace is the decision was made in consultation with her doctors. the queen who is 96 has mobility problems and this had to cancel a number of public appearances. recently of the son of former philippines dictator certain and my cause has won a landslide victory in the country's presidential election with more than 90

percent of the vote counted ferdinand marcos junior has taken more than twice as many votes as his main rival. lenny rub rito early results spark celebrations among michael supporters. macos junior did not present to clear policy platform during the campaign, but his expected to continue with the hard line approach of his predecessor rodrigo to take and our correspondent, d. a. mattress is a new era is beginning in the philippines. really looks like we see history in the making here in southeast asia, a with her, that a marco's dynasty coming back to the seat of power. 40 years after his father was ousted by a people revolution is really looks like his son, a non markers, junior. i will make it in this race. i quite, quite an historic moment for, for the philippines he has teamed up with through doubtless, daughter. and the concerned here by many, particularly in the south of the philippines, whether is

a strong hold of his biggest opponent or lenny rob reydell, is that the authoritarian style of ruler to do tend to i has a use in the past 6 years. i will now even worse and under a marco's, to turn to a team approach a, with the daughter of, to dare to being to the vice president in the country. i really wanted to see what, what, what comes out of that when you talk to people. a concern, of course, is that whoever wins this race, it has been such a divisive campaign that healing those wounds, bringing the people back together. it will be essential that is one of markers, a key promises and for many of his supporters hold that he will make true on those promises g of matters in the philippines day a. well, he is a reminder now of the top story we're following for you. you as president joe biden has signed a bill to speed up weapons deliveries to you, cried biden, also

a cold on congress to pass a bill, providing i'd full you crying with $33000000000.00. you're up to date. steven beasley is here next week. the business news, of course, is more on our website, d, w dot com. i'm jarrett great, thanks for watching. with people in trucks injured, one trying to see the city center more and more refugees are being turned away on the border families. planes on the tax in syria to the credit owners with demonstrate people's lean extreme getting $200.00 people for something around the world. more than.