[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin. ukraine says it is doing everything possible to evacuate. fights is still trapped in the steel plant in mario pole. and concerns grow over the welfare of the ukrainian soldiers who have already surrendered off to some russian. lawmakers say they should be tried and even executed. also coming up sri lankan economic and political crisis, takes a worrying new turn. the prime minister tells the nation it needs to face what he

called unpleasant and terrifying facts as few supplies at the central medicines and run out of space considers, introducing paid leave for women unable to work with the painful period. the something mom rather than helped women ah, i am on your campus mckinnon. thanks so much for joining us today. uncertainty is growing over the fate of more than 260 ukrainian soldiers who surrendered to russian forces in mario pull. keith hopes to exchange them for russians captured by ukraine, but some lawmakers in moscow have spoken out against a prisoner swap, calling for them to be put on trial instead. meanwhile, ukraine says high level talks are under way to evacuate an undisclosed numbers of fighters who still stuck in the steel mill. daniel, go look,

go to one of the russian defense ministry. these pictures show mario pole fighter, as undergoing inspection before being evacuated. a large convoy of surrendered ukrainian soldiers was escorted from the as off still works by pro russian armed forces. dozens of troops are wounded and have been taken to a hospital in the russian controlled tying of nevaeh's offs in the far east. some 200 other as were transferred north to all any fca in russian backed separatist territory. several 100 ukrainian soldiers could still be inside the as off steel plant keeps as it wants to get them i to live, but that negotiations remain delicate. many ukrainians are skeptical about russia's pledge to treat ukrainian soldiers in line with international norms. during who nothing good will come of it. we don't know how they will be treated. actually we do know what we've already seen in boucher,

a pin on the other towns. issue is though most of mario paul now lies in ruins. the ukranian soldiers defending the city managed to fight against russian forces for much longer than expected what's used to court suits for. so just all these guys basically changed the course of the war and gave ukraine the possibility to prove on the battlefield that we have a strong army lawsuit. ukraine says that their mission at the mario pulse deal plant is complete, and that its defender is philly accomplished. what they set out to do. nevertheless, the cities lost an evacuation of its people as a major, symbolic blow free crane. one that came at a heavy price for both sides to w correspondent, mcsaunder as in levine. and i asked him earlier about the lights, the face of the soldiers,

who are still in the as of stalls steel plump well, there is a lot of uncertainty regarding the remaining a soldiers in the us toll steel mill. as far as, as we know, perhaps some of the pressure has been lifted now, especially with some of the, the 50 critically wounded personnel being removed from the steel mill, which a footage of them being a carried out on stretcher. some of them probably wouldn't have made it much longer down there. but that being said, the situation there is dire. there are limited resources in terms of food, in terms of water, in terms of medication and fighting material. so this, this fight is on sustainable and it doesn't appear that the russians will back down at any point. so for the remaining fighters down there, probably none of them want to surrender. none of them will want to put themselves in the hands of the russians. put themselves in the mercy of, of, of the enemy, especially regarding the situation. if you look, have a look at the situation right now where it's very unclear what will happen to the

troops that have been evacuated and are in, in custody of the russians at the moment. as he say, fears are growing for those fighters who are evacuated, been now in rational control, and territory, and t f is calling for an immediate prison at swamp. what's the likely scenario there? what from, what are the tears right now? there's not that much information out, but it appears that it's not going to be as straightforward as many in ukraine and other parts of the world would have hope that you could exchange one for one. what we know right now is that the 7 buses of troops, the people who are not critically wounded, were brought to a town elisa, in the russian held territory of former penal colony. and they are waiting for food for the next steps there. and now they're having these calls by russian lawmakers

to investigate them for crimes against civilians. investigate them for, for work, for war crimes. so it's not really clear what exactly will come out of this. certainly not a fair process. so it really depends now on what to what russia has to gain more from either exchanging for their own troops or perhaps making an example out of these people and crushing a symbol of resistance. all right, we'll have to leave it bad. he w correspondent, max and the reporting from livi. thanks so much. franklin, which is our regular military. i'm less than he joins me now from oxford in the u. k. hi frank, it's good to see you at mario pull has now effectively fall into the russians. but let's talk about the contribution of those ukranian soldiers or in the as a style steel plant to the ukranian war asset. what influence did they have on it? good morning on this so called russian victor some of the of

a pyrrhic victory demonstrates ukrainian strengths, ironically, and russian weaknesses. and let's let the lens sort of sweep more widely. these defenders have created something of a national myth around that last stand, which is what it effectively was. and what they've done is they focused international attention far wide in the military aspect. i mean, let's look, for example, the rather curious incident but very telling is going to your vision this weekend where a vicious and savage siege in a steel plant in southern ukraine became internationally shared at the eurovision song contest. that's the information war in action. and that's why the ukrainians have succeeded. this is a tactical defeat for them, but very much a strategic success in the broader in the broader aspect of the war. however, mario poll is essentially a russian hands now. so does this mean

a significant shift of balance in the war going forward? not necessarily what from at the tactical level, that's at the lower level, the probably 6 or 7 now maybe slightly more. returning tactical groups, the russians are focused on that will be released to strike north and his operation, but those, those units will be ravaged. now the ukrainians announced yesterday that completed building the defenses its operation. they're ready for the next right down there. so in the military sense, no, but it is something of a narrative victory within russia. so for, for then they can say, well, look, we've taken a city which they have and it's the 1st city they've taken. our former senior retired russian kern all has offered some rare public criticism of russia's military operation in ukraine on state tv. let's take a quick listen. i'll come right back to you. frank. sam, i go out in the main deficiency of our military political position, is that in a way we are in full geopolitical isolation. however much we would hate to admit this one that my,

virtually the entire world is against us. and it's that situation that we need to get out of love that we had and that interview was conducted monday night. it appeared on social media late tuesday. frank, is there any way that russia can get itself out of this position of geopolitical isolation as he described it? when you 1st do like a year? not that he has his pro ration takes about 5 minutes. really interesting. and he also talked about ukrainian morale, cohesion, all the things we've been talking about now for weeks, the minimal games and so forth. but to come back to your question, because the sense of all the sensible course now to take for, for russia, is to declare some kind of victory. look, we've got no voters here. we've taken my uncle. that is our objective is to kill don bass. going to stand on the defensive and we'll leave it up to you credit. what happens next? because that's not what's going to happen. unfortunately, the ball will go on and russia will continue to plead support to kind of go get

worse and so forth. so the answer, the question is yes, there is something that can do, they won't do it. and this war will grind on over the summer and possibly beyond peace between russia. ukraine has ground to a halt. now both sides blaming the other for the stalled negotiations. you're saying the, well, the war will grind on the lack of communication between the 2 sides. is that likely to make things even more dire? those, those piece talks were going nowhere, but what's happening on the battlefield. now, russia is making some gains down there in the southeast. it's not run out of steam yet. it's not culminated. we wouldn't have expected that to happen yet. but what they've done is they've now reduced their objectives now to the severity the next. and this chance front, they're going to try to round about the, the town. it's about it on that. i'm going to hear a lot more about that over the summer. but with respect to the peace talks, i don't think anybody was expecting much of that. we'll hear a lot more, however,

of serotonin. salient down, which i would suspect to many others, your credit will hold military analysts, thank you. thanks so much for that. thank you. of finland and sweden had formerly submitted membership beds to join at the nato military alliance. ambassadors to the 2 nordic nations handed in their applications to nato secretary general, yet, staunton, but in brussels. and they will need unanimous approval by nato members to join and turkey has signaled opposition. it was russia's invasion of ukraine that convinced sweden to end decades of military non alignment and neutrality. italy's terry shields reports now from stockholm. ah, every presidential visit is loaded with pomp and circumstance. but this time, the circumstances are heavier than usual with war weighing on every one, the finish and swedish leaders making history together as they finalized their bids

to join nato. a move long considered unthinkable and stockholm and when the government resisted despite strong public and parliamentary support for it, you also have finland so firmly moving forward. and in that way, sweden has perhaps not pushed ourselves in tomato, but we are, you know, pulled in for months. swedish prime minister magdalena anderson warned nato membership would destabilize the region. now she seems ready to move in to what she calls a new era kangaroo in a new day at on matthew for shaked missouri. we can enter it with confidence and bring the best of our history into it. we have long been a strong voice for arms control, piece of freedom and human rights heroes. not every one is convinced sweden can keep that treasured identity inside nato. it's not an organization working for pres at peace. it is sir military alliance. and what a military alliance does it is it creates more war. we wanna keep the pieces written,

but polls show most swedes do support joining. i think it's that younger generation are more against i think though, why? because they am never em had war. this young ukrainian knows war and wishes her country was in sweden's shoes. i think it's great because sir my country is say in this situation, so we have to protect ourselves without anyone's help. but until now, swedish law would have actually prevented foreign forces from coming to help the country in any situation short of a declaration of war. parliament is voting on a change this week. this open up her ability for us to get support on swedish territory in case of a crisis. pro nato policy analyst, eric bratt burg lives in washington, d. c,

and flew to his native sweden just to be here when the momentous decision was made . he says, even if sweden has historically been ambivalent about nato, the alliance is very positive about it. there's already a lot of respect from nato toward sweden, but i think the fact that sweden are joint gibbs nato. a lot of new capabilities and give suite in the capabilities to no longer risk an uncertain future alone. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. the british governments, as it wants to scrap parts of the northern island, breaks at crest called the trade deal agreed with european union as britain left. the block, british foreign minister lives trust that the planned legislation should provide north an island with access to the same benefits as the people of britain. this will be on the north korean leader, kim jong, and has blasted officials a suspected cases of coven 19 continue to serge woollen one point. 7000000 people have now displayed symptoms of what young young is cooling fever. since april the

countries antivirus authority says most patients have recovered the global experts on deeply concerned that we need for lancaster facing the most difficult months of their lives. that's the grim warning from the nations new prime ministers. it faces its worst economic crisis in over 70 years. lanka desperately needs foreign currency to pay for a central medicine run a wick revenue thing was appointed last week. it said for lanka is nearly out of petrol. now india has promised to send vital shipments of fuel, but they have yet to arrive. and their political instability to the economic crisis thought widespread. anti government protest in joining me now from shoreline, because largest city, colombo is the w manero, chowdhury manero, the new prime minister's warning of tough times for shilling cur. in the coming month, he says,

the country is running out of petrol. he tell us exactly how bad the fuel crisis is right now. but yes, you're right. did i know that? because i'm not going to keep the station, but as you can see behind me to my left, right, there's a long q. and this is a situation at almost every, every in the banking on my be in the morning at this location, i bought by a few locations which was shocked by the barricade, the lack of life. so the situation is pretty bad right now, then it will be with people are blocking the bombs at night. and if they're lucky to get some warning that is known as the prime, this a have both said that 2 shipments of these rooms and you don't ship with the july from the roof. i've been using an independent line. that's why something for a few days. it's not, it's not just the economy the prime minister has to fix though, is that he's also facing serious political instability. can you tell us more about

that? absolutely. the prime minister does space and often back right now, but then even before you can probably begin to pull the bonded out of the prices, you had to put it supposed to be darrell. now we have been appointed prime minister, but his thought he didn't want to have this one in the party before. he, i believe you have any relies on the political body to follow up on a different table in certain government. and that's a big that was not the main opposition. why do you think that they can, for some support, they can't afford to the prime minister, but they will not join the government unless the executive president system is a bullet that would give the president of the country with the vote about that i know more than the parliament and important to note, you know that for the bad i have still not in fact now while the politicians are trying to fix the politics and the economy. what about the average person, inter lanka? how bad is the situation for the average for line? can right now, well,

bad is not even the word they're using like the word they're using is dire or situation. is that bad right now there is the one shot is that is full charters, then it's clipping for good people. most of the people who are even in the city or follow have gotten to on, on what basic anybody voice which is very harmful for their head as well. there are $6.00 to $8.00 our loan follow up on the fun tree and the prime. and if that said that the follow could actually go on for 15 on the day in the coming few weeks. and the prime minister in his book and my address to the nation also said that the, the few months will be the toughest. for the light. all right, we'll have to leave it that he w. manero child re reporting from colombo. many thanks the u. s. president j by has spoken out against what he called the poison of white supremacy in the united states. he was speaking in the city of buffalo, new york state,

what 10 black people was shot dead on saturday and won't police are treating as a racial hate crime? a teenage suspect is believed to have been a follower of racist ideology. a make shift memorial. a focal point for grief and remembrance near the place where the shootings happened. a grocery store in a mostly african american neighbourhood. the area closed off later for the president. and 1st ladies, 1st stop to lay flowers of their own and connect with community leaders, alumni and come to stand with you. the president and his wife had travelled to buffalo to offer support, but also to put a label on what police say is the driving force hall behind the massacre by a young white man targeting black people. terrorism, domestic terrorist, violence infliction,

in the service of hate. and the vicious thirst for power that defines one group of people being inherently inferior to any other group outside at the victim as memorial. a mostly appreciative community. i'm glad he came. let me see the suffering here. this person shot headed people, of course. yeah. the cough and this is very important. you know, we, we need as much support as well as the community, as well as from our white house. and back inside by didn't had to pause. we counting one victim story, went to by his 3 year old son, a birthday cake. a son showing a birthday, asked him, where's daddy biden remained focused on his visit, telling his audience to fight domestic terrorism and american evil will not win. i promise you, hey,

will not prevail. and white supremacy will not have the last word appointed message meant to go beyond the perpetrators of racist violence to the voices urging them on it's to spain now where women suffering from painful periods may soon be entitled to paid time off work. the cabinet has approved a draft bill that would allow work as to claim medical leave during menstruation. if they have approval from that doctor. in spain, periods are becoming less taboo and may be less painful for women in the workforce . the government has proposed a new law allowing work is to take as many days as needed to recover from severe menstrual pain every month. sac, i will eat no more. going to work in pain, but no, we're taking pills before arriving. and having to hide the fact that we're in pain

and can't function of us. all of those women who need it will be able to use paid leave to deal with periods that caused us disabling pay. little bit less. i must drunkenness a condo, edison kathy done this. under the draft law the state would pay for the recovery time, not employers. and note 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 spell will be the 1st step for workers suffering from under research conditions like endometriosis not get a more st gay. we don't want this to just be 2 or 3 or 5 is a hobby ethan, and then you go back to work as if nothing ever happened. so what we're asking for is for this to be a 1st step towards investing research and finding a cure. so the period pain really stops being such a problem for many women. but i can the element in the lower than the ladder. they

said in berlin over, i'm ok. if spain passes the baylor with 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, but it will, this is seriously damaging for women when you consider the opportunities they could have helped us with what other. oh i do. i think some people will take mentor leave without being in terrible pain. so this law will really need to be better policed or la tampa said 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. and the more we can speak now, to nicole arrests in the spanish city of seville,

a hind nicole's could see the spanish parliament, of course, still has to vote on this draft law. is the government likely to get enough support to pass it? well, the moment i think it's feel fair to say that it can go either way, just to give you an idea before the truck actually made it to congress, there was a heavy political discussion here in spain as well. the spanish deputy prime minister at the same time economy minister nadia, quite an opera. when she said, i said i quote, the government will never pass rules that could potentially stigmatize women into there. you see the fear reflected that that could be a lateral but unity for women on the job market. and this talking about sigma comes when the party pushing for it actually wants to get rid of the stigma level. so that's a huge controversy about it. not only in society, but also in the very kind of parliament. so we will see if that will actually be proper amendments to the law if it just will pass through. like it is at the moment

propose it will short take long weeks or months until we get to this point at this stage. but this is not the only point of this proposal. to be honest. there are so many other points points. for example, this will also foresees that women from the age of 16 could get an abortion without the consent of the parents. and could get the abortion without going through a free days or reflection phase about whether they want to do this or not. so many other elements as well. now it's been dubbed a menstrual leave law, but of course not every work having that period would be able to take time off with they could you explain to us how that would work? well, a patient who suffers from severe pain headaches, nor she is, or any symptoms during that period needs to go to a medical professional 1st. this can happen in a hospital. this can be also the general practitioner decision. and it's only there where they can actually decide whether this person can receive menstrual leave. and at this point, it's also not clear whether this exact issue will be communicate like this to the

workplace, or if this stigma will be up, hold or just be treated like an open topic. like wait, we need to pull damage, wants to address this. all right, fascinating staff will have to leave it that he w. nicole risk. and sybil, thanks so much now us lawmakers want u. s. o's or unidentified flying objects to be taken seriously as a potential threat to national security. this was the 1st u. f. o. congressional hearing in more than half a century and the hearing talked us defense intelligence officials showed videos of unidentified objects. and while there is still no government confirmation of extra terrestrial life, pentagon officials say that they are determined to remove the stigma surrounding the u. f. o sightings since the release of that preliminary quote, reminder of the top story that we're following for you. more than $260.00 ukranian

fighters have surrendered to russian forces. the as of south steel flaunt a loss of pockets of resistance and the port city of mario full. moscow says troops have been taken to russian control territory and now receiving medical treatment watching he w, close up his up next, reporting on fears as the erosion on portugal, atlantic coast. i minute hips mckinnon. point fortune d w ah,

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