[000:00:00;00] hey, this is d w. news line from the as of styles. feed ends with the surrender of hundreds of ukrainian soldiers hold up in the massive steel taken to russia, held territory where moscow says they'll be given medical treatment. ukrainians have been trapped for weeks. also on the program, sweden's prime minister, an answer that her country and finland will formerly apply to join nato. on

wednesday, the u. s. president to pay his respects to the victims of a racist rampage. he will not prevail. white supremacy will not have the last word. joe biden visits buffalo, new york to meet the families of the 10 people shot dead by a white supremacist on saturday. and the cannes film festival is back without restrictions for the 1st time since the pandemic bigger. so grab your popcorn. listen to the w's take on this year's big screen. ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. more than 260 of the ukrainian soldiers hold up for weeks inside the massive still works at mario paul have surrendered. this ends the was longest siege and put to russia in full control of this key city.

russia had already taken hundreds of cranial fighters, some severely wounded. the territory held by its forces, the communist as they'll be treated in accordance with international agreements. in any of the russian defense ministries, as these picture show, mar, you pull fighters undergoing inspection before being evacuated on dozens of wounded troops have been taken from our you pull to hospital in the russian controlled town of noble as offs in the far east. some 200 others were transferred north to all the neetha. in rushing back to supper, his territory several 100 ukrainian soldiers could still be inside the eyes of style steel plant. keith, it's as it wants to get them out alive. or am i am on that usually does. we hope to save the lives of our boys and among them are heavily wounded. they have been treated the more i want to on the line ukraine needs. it's ukrainian here is alive . this is, our principal is laudable to me from over

a little to hopes of the work continues to bring our boys home and it requires delicacy and time just in keith. many ukrainians are skeptical about russia's pledge to treat ukrainian soldiers in line with international norms. during ciocca nothing good will come of it. we don't know how they will be treated. actually we do know what we have already seen in boucher, a pin on the other towns. injuries are still remember, it probably isn't very good if and, but if there's no way the way the soldiers can be saved later, russian backed separatist have released this video, which they say shows them patrolling. the as of style still works on tuesday. it like the rest of mar, you pull, is largely in ruins. the cities loss is a major symbolic blow for ukraine. and one that came at

a heavy price for both sides. the stone dw mathias pulling her who's in ukraine, 2nd biggest city hockey, close to other countries border with russia. welcome mathias. what's the latest on the soldiers who came out of the as a star? steel mill? yeah, we know that they have been brought to these places that we've just met this the mention of was aust luca, we do actually not know how they are treated. we have heard that they are you question whatever that means. and of course, the question is, know what's going to happen there? supposedly there should be prisoners what they should be exchanged for russian prisoners of war. but listening to what we hear from moscow about people demand the death penalty for them. the court of justice debating whether to call this off battalion a terror terrorist group. we cannot be sure that this is ever going to happen. you know,

those calls for the death penalty came from some members of the russian parliament today. accusing the as of fighters of being right wing extremists, extremists. is there any truth to those allegations? the other i saw you was founded by a right by right wing groups in 2014, when russia seized crimea and form these, these separatist groups and arm, the separatist groups in the don boss. and they were formed in the region as of petroleum was set up by right wing groups 2 to protect fight against these separatists. but later it was incorporated in the ukrainian military in the cranium. national guard, as under the ministry of the interior to the more precise and most of the original

founders left the battalion and it became more something like an elite troop. it never completely like the symbols of the beginning they stayed. but the most of these are right, right. when people they left or they were later driven out when they administer your interior to control and now i have lost you. i think you're all right. ok, yes. well, let's talk about the situation in the east. russian troops have just pulled back from khaki, where you are now, what is the latest on fighting in that region? so russians will so put back, they were 1st driven away from the city almost on to the border. and now we've been hearing that there withdrawing or have already withdrawn in some places. the city

is now calm. we have been all today. it's still people are still very few people on the street. some people do not seem to trust this. the shops are still barricaded and it's very, it's a very empty city, really empty. and you can still see a lot of damage here. the city has been hit hard, many houses bomb. you can really see how, how plays through over certain streets dropping a bomb here and here and here the clusters of damage building. so the city is really just, just just a few days that the city has been able to breathe a bit more freely and you still feel that it's not back to normal at all. thank you for that. mr. smith is pulling in the car. now sweden, as formerly applying for nato membership, a foreign minister, and linda assigned the official application at the foreign ministry in stockholm.

rushes of an invasion of ukraine prompted both sweden and finland to seek to join finance. parliament approved its application today by an overwhelming majority. despite previous comparative rhetoric from the kremlin russian foreign minister again love, i said the nordic countries joining the western military alliance would make no difference. however, he has said it will block the movie. the more we get more on this room in a bond, he's director of foreign policy or the center for european reform. think tank in the u. k. welcome to the w. will turkish objection. stop finland in norway joining night? well, the turkey sticks to its objections. yes. they will because the new members have to be approved unanimously by all of the existing members. but i think what we are in is this sort of bargaining process where president,

everyone is looking for some concession and just from sweden and finland and perhaps also from the united states on issues that matter to him. and in return for that, he will gracefully concede to sweden and finland can join where he's, what he's arguing is that sweden and finland harbor, members of the, the p k. k which is regarded as a terrorist organization. i don't know whether that's true or not. and i suspect that sweden fiddle and would argue that they don't harbor terrorists, but you know, there were no doubt be some discussion over, you know, whether the, whether our particular criminal's or people who shouldn't be death. but he's also arguing that they didn't posed a battle may export of weapons to turkey after turkey invaded syria a few years ago. and again, i think, you know, as major members, it would be quite difficult for them to maintain

a ban on exports to turkey. so i suspect the, you know, some way will be found to get around these obstacles. a deal will be done. and despite some belligerent rhetoric in the past rush, it does seem strangely relaxed about this. now vladimir pushed in saying that he doesn't have a problem with nato enlargement, so long as the lines doesn't move weapons or troops into swedish, he'll finish at territory. so do we take that as a warning, or is that just more of what you would expect from russia under the circumstances? well, i think he reflects the problem, not russia now has, i mean, a few days ago russia was talking about taking what he described as military technical measures, which essentially means moving more troops closer to the border. i suspect that with the state of the war in ukraine, it may have realized that it simply doesn't have more troops to move. and so now the, the sort of the new red line is, well, no, nato infrastructure,

whatever that means. and sweetness suddenly made clear that it doesn't expect to have permanent nato basis or run foreign forces on its territory. in peacetime, finland, i think has been rather more careful about what it said about what, what conditions it might impose. but for the moment, i think nato who is in the business of building, you know, big new bases in either country. a turkey is objections to the finish and swedish membership seems to take everyone by surprise. do you think there are other surprises lurking amongst the alliances? 30 members. well, i think one that everybody's looking at his hungary because not, not so much because of anything particular to nato, but because in the european union, sweden and finland have been quite tough on the hunger is rather poor record on

human rights. and the rules of law in recent years. and so it wouldn't, it wouldn't 100 percent surprise me if hungary, at some point decided to discover some reason to object to swedish and finish accessions. nato, which essentially is designed to extract concessions from them in an you context. ok, thank you for that. that's very clear and bon from this and for you. repeat and reform . thank you. thank you. take a quick look at some more of today's story. so we'll start in the lebanon, where results from parliamentary elections show the hezbollah group and its allies of loss and majority of several opposition candidates of make games. the results show a polarized parliament, mainly divided between pro and anti hello my classes of interrupted in libya. after a shall go the countries parliamentary, appointed prime minister, attempting to enter the capital. tripoli later withdrew from the city,

citing the safety of civilians of the violence broke out 2 rival administrations of voting for how on the end of civil war. 2 years ago, un is called for come us troops rule of return to somalia to help local authorities that verify the out about medicine group, president biden, to pre approved that re deployment, reversing a decision by his predecessor, donald trump, in 2020 somali somali is newly elected to president and shake out mohammed has promised to work closely with foreign partners with president biden's in buffalo, new york, where a gun been shot dead. 10 people on saturday. police are investigating the attack as a racist hate crime. the president and 1st lady, a meeting with family members of those killed as well as community leaders. the suspect, the suspect is an 18 year old to show who has shown support a white supremacist ideology, attacked a grocery store in

a predominately african american neighborhood. 11 of 13 people hit by gunfire. black and emotional speech president bind called white supremacy. theater is a poison and asked the americans to speak out against such ideas. in america, evil will not win, i promise. hate will not prevail. and white supremacy will not have the last word. what happened here is simple, straightforward terrorism, terrorism domestic carriers. well, they don't is washington bureau chief and his pole is in buffalo and watch that speech show welcome in us. what else did the president have to say? phil, i've only seen 2 president steer up. one was president obama after the sandy hook shooting and then today, president biden,

when he spoke about one victim who got shot in the supermarket right behind me, who was there to buy a birthday cake. so that indeed was a very emotional ers speech, a very powerful speech as well. prison bite and started with remembering each of the turn victims found really personal words. talked a little bit about their personal life. and then he directly really become a very, a political by saying that the pseudo was a terrorist thought, followed a racist conspiracy theory and that, and called it, or directly domestic terrorism. what happened here? so on the one hand, very emotional, very personal, but also of really strong political message. and what is known of a suspect? well we know that the 18 year old drove about $200.00 or so miles to come to this very area in buffalo, a black area. why did he come here?

he came here because he wanted to kill black americans, and it was very likely that he would find many black americans in this. a supermarket right behind me. he. we know that when he was 17 years old, right before he graduated, told people that he is planning on doing a mass. sure you got some help from psychologist. but then when he finished school, he fell kind of on the radar from officials. we also know that he got a gun when he was only 16 from his father, and that he loved gun c, apparently is a, was well in school, did well in school, but was kind of a loaner. and this has focused attention on the rise of a white supremacist movement in the u. s. and something known as the replacement ferry. right, it's also something actually president biden referred to. because when white supremacists and neo nazis marched into charlottesville, virginia,

and were shouting, we will replace you, meaning all non white americans. that was obviously the reason why president biden rent for presidency because he wanted to fight this ideology, which basically is just in support of a white male heterosexual of a white male heterosexual culture. it is also very interesting to understand, to understand the political context, you feel that republicans use this idea to blame democrats that they just bring in migrants to get re elected or to keep their power. basically saying this country is only here for white americans, not for americans, another skin color. so this is a deeply rooted, highly political issue. thank you for that. i think up is washington bureau chief in us. paul, thank you. that a spray where women suffering from painful periods might soon be entitled to paid

time off. a country cabinet has approved a draft bill allowing workers to claim medical leave during menstruation. if i'm approved from a doctor, spring would become the 1st european country to offer this, right. it's one of a broader range of measures proposed by the socialist that coalition government aimed at improving women's rights in spain. periods becoming less taboo and may be less painful for women in the workforce. the government has proposed a new law allowing workers to take as many days as needed to recover from severe menstrual pain every month. stackable it up at all. no little going to work and paint no more taking pills before arriving at work and having to hide the fact that we are in pain and unable to work. all those women who need it will be able to use paid leave to deal with periods that caused disabling pain on the lettuce and kathy

done this. under the draft law, the state would pay for the recovery time, not employers, and not workers who sometimes use up holiday allowances or take unpaid leave to cope. a spanish doctors association estimates that extreme period pain affects around a 3rd of women campaigns. hope this bill will be the 1st step for workers suffering from under research conditions like endometriosis not get em us and gay. we don't want this to be just 2 will 3 or 5 days at home, and then you go back to work as if nothing ever happens. does that look, betty? what we're asking for above all is for this to be a 1st staff, a 1st step towards investing in research and finding a cure. so that period, but hain really stops being a problem for women. it's spain, paul says the baylor would join a handful of mostly asian countries that already offer

a menstrual leave law. and it would be a european 1st, but the draft floor is controversial. not all trade union supported and some believe it won't help women in the workplace. i mean, it is seriously damaging for women from the point of view of the opportunities they could have. that wasn't, it wasn't, i think people will take menstrual leave without having those bad pains. so it would need to be better controlled, or levant wasn't the navy federal for the loss control. spanish lawmakers still have to vote on the bill and it's not clear whether the governing coalition will get enough support to pass it. a germans interior ministry has raised a rainbow flag to mark the international barragan's homophobia trans phobia. and by phobia, they aims to raise awareness of world wide l g b t writes violations. in april,

the government authorized raising the rainbow flag at federal building to mock pride. march is all global algae beach events. interior minister nancy phaser said they wanted to show solidarity with people affected by discrimination and exclusion . now, to the french riviera where the 7th, if i can, film festival has opened after cancelled 2020 additionally scaled back event last year. it's the 1st time since the start of the pandemic, the festivals being held without any restrictions even kisses. on the red carpet alert, he w scott roxborough and adrian kennedy. happy envious job of watching some of the films the cam film festival returns to relative normality after 2 years of covey to pandemic disruption. ad can is taking off looking to be chalk gun again, cove. it also put breaks on the release of top gun, maverick,

which will finally have its international launch. one isn't. it's one of life's mystery sir. more than 35 years after the 1986 original tom cruises, resurrection of the famous fighter pilot is symbolic of the festivals own resurgence already adrie wanted to confirm another eagerly await. at new film is from cult canadian filmmaker david cronum berg. after an achia high actors, the master of 40 horror dusted off a 20 year old script for his new film. crimes of the future ah, like was avenue in the body. particular what's happening with my body?

vigo mortensen lead to star studded cast as a performance artist, showcasing the mecca morphis's of his own organs. it seems a little can razzmatazz is provided by elvis. oh, ah baz lumens by a pic starring austin butler as the king of rock'n'roll and tom hanks. as his manager to colonel tom parker is a romp through the good, the bad and the ugly of american culture with elvis betrayed in the direct his own words as the original superhero. ah, that's got a ball on the cobra cope. yeah. so goodness. from

a cinema back after so many cancellations, disruptions there must be quite an atmosphere and can i think it's i think it's fantastic. i spoke to scott ross for this morning and it's the energy is back. people are, you know, no masks, no restrictions. it's really almost feeling like normality and i think the film industry is just, is just welcoming this with open arms because they're, they're feeling like they can actually get a bit of momentum again for traditional cinema. so tell us about the lineup. ok, so it's being touted as one of the best in 50 years or a, sorry, best in years, i guess, and with about 50 title. so you know, across all of the categories. and there was a lot to choose from, obviously, because during the pandemic there was tons of great work that was done. and so there was actually a huge backlog of great film. so, you know, we saw the cronum bare berg there and obviously the good hauling dose of hollywood

lids. but there are 22 films in competition. and there's new work from the swedish director, reuben land or south korean director park john walk. and there's also one by and uranian danish director, i li, about the it's called holy spider. and it's interesting because it's definitely not the usual fair that we're used to from iranian cinema about. he basically said that he was sort of fed up with the typical poetic metaphorical kind of pieces that come out of his country usually. and he wants to actually show something real. so he brought a serial killer film that set in tehran, which is probably going to be quite different, but you know, the out of competition films also have their interesting moments. and for example, the opening film that, that screened tonight, which is called final cut. it's a zombie comedy by michelle has on of it's us french director and that caused a little bit of an a claw a little while back because the original title of this film was zed and then the

ukrainians institute of course complained about that saying you couldn't use the word said, or the title said, because it's become, of course, a symbol of the russian invasion and used by kremlin supporters. so, amazingly, as on a v, c was actually went to work and changed the name of the film and it's now called, so it's called final cut. and so how much is the, the war in ukraine sort of casting a shadow over this about? well, it's, it's present, you know, it's can said very early that they weren't going to invite a russian delegation, an official one, but they said they would not issue a blanket ban on, on russian work and on russian pieces. so the very high profile director kill plenty cough is actually represented. he's the only russian film there, and it is in competition. he's got a film called tchaikovsky, his wife, which is a period drama. and the other thing that is happening that's perhaps significant is on saturday. the concept festival phil market will be hosting

a ukraine day at the end of this week to support countries, you know, battered film industry and sort of feature some, some work in progress to hope to give them a bit of a lift stuff to look forward to our calendar just a little more t w's called us. thank you so much pleasure. that's it. you're up to date. well, world news at the top of the our next here on the w kick off, where the review of what does make a study for a last much take

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