[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, more ukrainian fighters leave the as of style steel plant and mariel. paul under russian guard, moscow says more than 1700 soldiers have surrendered, but there has been no independent confirmation of where they have been taken. keith has yet to comment on how many fighters may still be there. also on the program, the american president offers his full throated support for finland and sweden's

nato bits. they meet every nato requirement and then some trees raised to join the alliance as russia makes more on ukraine, but could turkey derail their plans and to cosy with the kremlin, germany's former chancellor is stripped of some privileges over his ties to russian . gerhard schroeder will lose his office and staff after refusing to cut links to russian energy companies. ah, i'll nick spicer, welcome to the program. russia as a total of $1700.00 ukrainian fighters have now surrendered at the as of style steel plants. and mario poll. moscow says most have been taken to a prison colony in russian controlled territory. while the injured are in hospital, these images come from russia's defense ministry. the international red cross says

it has registered hundreds of prisoners of war from the steel plant, including will good fighters keep hopes to get the soldiers back in a prisoner's swap. while moscow has threatened to put some on trial for alleged war crimes. earlier i spoke a d, w correspond mathias burning, and i asked him, what else is known about the ukranian fighters who left that plant? yeah, we've heard that the red cross has registered them as prisoners of war. so there is a record on who has, who is now in the hands of the russians, but of course it is not clear or what is going to happen. then we understand that there has been an agreement between ukraine and russia on are these on an exchange? all of these fighters from the steel steel works for, for russian prisoners of war here in ukraine. but i'm, it's very unclear whether this is going to happen. you've just mentioned the news there, many people in russia inside the russian elite or inside the russian government, demanding that they will be somehow punished that there will be declared terrorists

and so on. so russia has now something in their hands with that they can negotiate a very, very heavy, a negotiating power. and because ukraine has said that they want to see them back alive. the landscape said he, once he, he's trying to save every life of a ukrainian soldier that he can save. and that's an important thing because this is one of the things that are the narratives of the ukrainians in this war, that they don't treat their soldiers as cruelly as the russians. it's something they've been telling the people they've been showing the people how cruel russians are treating their own soldiers. so it's an important, it's important for ukraine to get them back. and that gives russia a lot of leverage. of course you're in caucasian now just to shifted to you, look how, what's the situation on the ground there? hawkins is still being sold, but it's now being shared like other cities with rockets,

et cetera. the artillery is mostly out of range from the city. so this constant bombardment of several, some parts of the city, we've been to one part today of the northern, at the very, very edge of the city where fighting was very close. and there is virtually, it's, it's, it's a, it's a high rise. it's a settlement with a lot of high rise buildings, and virtually none of them is on damaged. many of them are burnt out. it's hundreds of thousands of, of apartments destroyed here in the city. it's a bit calmer. life is slowly returning, but really slowly. we've also been in the shelter today. we've asked people in, in the metro station and they have said they are still afraid to go out. and they actually want to stay in the metro station. although the city wants to get the metro running again to get back to a bit, a more normal functioning of the city. so, but they say no, they don't,

they don't want to get out. they're afraid of going back outside there that many of the houses have been destroyed. so it's very, it's so many people are stu, but psychologically suffering from the past. they are still wary about what the situation is. now, as we can imagine, of course, mathias billing or reporting for us from car keys. the american president joe biden has given his full support to sweden and finland application to join nato barton met the 2 countries leaders at the white house. the nordic countries apply to join the defense alliance this week in response to russia's invasion of ukraine. turkey however, has blocked the start of accession talks in the nato council. same into country support kurdish militia groups that it uses. terrorist organizations still has but been stressed that sweden and finland meet all the criteria to join the alliance. sweden and settled, have strong democratic institutions, strong militaries,

and strong and transparent economies. and a strong moral sense of what is right, they meet every nato requirement and then so that having to know nato members in the high north will hand the security of our alliance deepen our security cooperation across the board and t w's. washington bureau chief in us, paul told me how biden is supporting sweden and finland in their bits to join nato . well and nick, we just saw the press conference from president biden and the 2 leaders of finland and sweden and all 3 of them really wanted to celebrate this as a very historic moment, which indeed it is. because we have to keep in mind that this, the nato membership of sweden and finland would kind of end at 200 years or so of military, none, alignment of these 2 countries. so both, all 3 of them i shall say,

really try to put out a, a happy mood and especially a president biden, also kind of try to draw attention to the fact that he himself really sees him as kind of the builder as a very strong and important force in this movements toward the extension with 2 members of nato. so it was a moment of celebration and the moment of unity. ok, but spoiling the celebrations. as we all know is turkey, which has expressed skepticism about the 2 countries joining nato, howard our, the americans, and president bon, hoping to overcome that opposition. very good pointed nick. it was interesting that a president biden did not mention turkey at all. it was only the finish, a president who said that they are in good negotiations with turkey, that turkey will support the security of finland and sweden and so would

a finland do vice versa. and the, the point is that we hear that the bite and administration is in very close conversation with the turkish administration of the administration of president out one. but we hardly hear any details. the major take here in washington is that al, tuan won't really dare to stop native finland and sweden from joining nato. but that he really wants to make most of this very moment. and just a quick last question, if i mean is, what does it change to have 2 new countries in nato as regards the war and ukraine? well, 1st of all, both are really a powerful military forces or they have been working closely with the nato and american troops anyhow. and it's, it's, it's, it's a strong signal of the war in ukraine flooding me,

put in is not able to recon nato. it's quite the opposite. he made nato even stronger. ok in his paul in washington, thanks so much for that. the german parliament has rule that former chancellor gerhard schroeder will lose some of his special privileges as a former leader. schroeder has been heavily criticized for his business and political ties with russia. the european parliament for its part has also called for sanctions against the former chancellor schroeder left office in 2005 and immediately went to work for russian state energy companies. including gas from and ra, sniffed. dw political correspondence, simon young explained to us what privileges were talking about. yeah, well as a form of chance, leg should has an all face at the bonus dog, and that's an office that has a full time staff attached to it. as a driver, and he's also compensated for some travel expenses. so under this decision,

he'll lose all of that decision that's been tabled by the governing coalition policies, including mr. as own social democrat party. what he will apparently be able to keep is his pension. although the opposition christian democrats and called for him to leave that as well, and they will also keep his personal protection detailed with these, entitled to keep it. simon showed has been criticized for his close types of food. and for a long time, the war's been going on for some 3 months now, why it's all of this coming to a head now? well, i think it's part of a growing course of criticism that to gouge good, that has not broken links with vladimir putin despite the ongoing war in the ukraine. and within the s p d, the leadership of his party have been asking him to step down or leave the party if

he's not willing to step away from russia. and there are even applications for him to be expelled from the party. we've also got a motion in the european parliament for actually to be added to a list of people facing sanctions because of their involvement with russia. so i think there's just a growing, a feeling particularly here in berlin, that it doesn't, the right to be funding and supporting the activities of someone who is supporting the kremlin, particularly when the europeans, ah, adding ramping up sanctions against those kind of people the time. ok, simon young. our political analyst, thanks so much. and here's a quick looked out some other stories making news around the world. more shanghai residents have been allowed to shop for groceries for the 1st time. in nearly 2 months, people were given passes, permitting them to leave their home for 40 minutes. is part of the authorities.

plans to gradually exit the harsh coven 19 lockdown. germany's top court has approved rules requiring health workers to be vaccinated against coven 19. the constitutional court rejected complaints against the mandate, which has been in effect since march. it said the importance of protecting vulnerable people in hospitals and care homes outweighed any infringement of health . workers' rights. italy in sweden have joined a string of european countries and the united states in reporting their 1st cases of monkey pox. the rare disease normally only occurs in central and western africa . the world health organization is calling for vigorous contact tracing. but official stress, the risk to the general population is low time for sports, some football news now wednesday. and i saw a thrilling conclusion to the rope, a league with entre frankfurt, winning in a penalty. shoot up. the bonus league aside, fought off scotlands rangers in

a tough final in seville. and an emotional reception awaits the team. back in frankfort. were fans have packed the cities, means where to hail their heroes. very move their coach oliver glass or is on his way the trophy as fans get ready to party for a 2nd night in a row. let's take a look at how frankfurt won their 1st continental trophy in 42 years. the funds from glasgow in frankfort drank in the beer and the rope leak atmosphere before the game. amid a searing heat wave in seville, perhaps they would have paced themselves a little more if they'd known what lay in store in the final. after a tense, 1st half, a slit from 2 to allow ju, i reboot, to give ranges the lead on 57 minutes. but raphael bery latched on to a great cross from phillip, hostage to equalize and spot bedlam in the front for funds in seville. there was still make thereafter, and so the game went to penalties, and frankfort keeper,

kevin trump, safe from out in ramsey, brought to glasgow from event to summit, much fanfare in january to give the germans. the advantage on columbia's boy made his 2nd big contribution of the night, keeping his cooling the heat to give frankfort just their 2nd european trophy and their 1st since the u. f. a cup in 1980. no surprise. it went down pretty well back home in germany. and a reminder, the top story we're following for you. russia says more than 1700 ukrainian soldiers have now surrendered in murray of moscow says most have been taken to a prison colony in russian control territory, while the injured arm hospital to crane hopes to get the soldiers back in a prisoner swamp. coming up next and dw news asia questions over a plane crash in china that killed all 132 people on board last march. is someone

in the cockpit intentionally flying the boeing $737.00 into a man? and 3 months after the philippines coven lockdown. and why are so many schools they're still closed? all that and more thresh, banner g after the break. another world news that update of top the our, our next pfizer. thanks for watching. ah. so i'm, you can that i work that's hard and in the end it's a me, you're not locked up to you anymore. we will send you back. are you familiar with this with the smudges with lions as of the what's your story. ready i mean wasn't, i was women,