hey, we still have time to work. i'm doing with this. with this is dw used live from berlin. got shorter cuts his ties to rushes ra sniffed. the oil giant says the former german leader is leaving its board shorter was facing the threat of sanctions over his ties to the kremlin. dw meets the ukrainians, who made a subway station in hockey. that long term shelter authorities want them out. but

some are afraid to return to their shattered hopes. plus us president joe by new touches down in south korea for talks with you leader. you so cure global security issues and said to dominate the agenda, bug bite and starts his visit at a computer chip factory. will find out why ah, i've been has all and welcome rushes. invasion of ukraine is almost into its 3rd month. but only now has formed german chancellor. gerhard schroeder resigned from the board of directors of moscow based oil company ra, sniffed. he's been under growing pressure both at home and abroad. earlier this week the european parliament called for him to face sanctions. if he didn't quit his posts with russian energy firms. he's also a close friend of vladimir putin short. i was previously expected to take a tough job at rush and gas giant gas from now that's looking lice like lake

is what our political corresponded had to say about the man some in germany, a describing as an international embarrassment. the disappointment is growing that the former chancellor is only now reacting where you have a institutions possibly also waging sanctions. that's what they you parliament set that people that are close to the industries close of the russian states should be a punish taking the decision. now it's of course difficult to look into his head to try to reach his mind, but the big difference to other german politicians also within the s p d party that were part of the government of angola, macro. no. so before angle america, when gach florida still was in office half apologize and have said that this was a mistake by germany to be a dependent to russian oil, russian gas, a, the consequences that we're seeing now. but what many

a criticizing is that get trader is not showing any remorse, he gave an interview, longing to be the cause, to steer in germany a saying, i don't do medical, but it's not a my thing. so it definitely the pressure is still expected to continue even after this decision that was announced today. this whole idea of fostering economic ties with russia was to see the country moved towards a more democratic system. german leaders have admitted that was a mistake. but what is ties seem to be more about personal gain? you're absolutely right. it's not just about the business ties that he had a he helped, and he also put forward this dependence heated lobbying for russia for several years with the pipelines with it. the dependency is a personal friend of letting me put in. so it's not just the business ties. many were wondering if he would take a stance if he would try to distance himself from the russian president after moscow's invasion in the ukraine. he did not do so, it was growing pression,

not only from the position but also from the s p d, a party. and now with the decision that was taken by the bonus tag committee yesterday to strip the former chancellor from some of the privileges that he has, although he will retain the pension also the security detail. he will not have an office at the bonus tag any more, may with many saying that it's just because there is the possibility of sanctions by european institution also by growing pressure after this decision by the bonus sac yesterday. dw political correspond benyamin of a high school, but thank you very much. your granny president floating. mr. lensky says, russian forces have completely destroyed the industrial region of the dumbass. according to the regional governor, russian shelling killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens in the eastern city of federal nets, the ukrainian defense ministry said intense fighting dairies, preventing civilians from fling the area. so let's get comments came in his nightly video address. for him is the ukrainian,

or forces continue to make progress in liberating the heart of region by what the occupiers are trying to further strengthen the pressure in that don bus them is held there. and that's not an exaggeration. department of 7 of dannetta is brutal and absolutely senseless. is our yarn? funny for china here with smaller on the russian assault on the dumbass attacks have really intensified, ever since russia has withdrawn from the northern region here where i am right now q fridge and chinese, and they have refocused, basically they offensive on the dumbest region. something that vladimir putin has been describing as the motherland. basically this is where they want to gain momentum. and specifically over one town, this is what they want to gain control over over several don't yet know several don't. yeah it's, it's basically the administrative center of lance region ever since is 2014, the separatist backed by russia have control over a 100 sc a c t which has been the capital of the ones region. as a result,

this is where we see most of the heavy shutting right now. these are villages, territories around that city, but also within the city itself. so people are caught up in the crossfire it's civilians who have to be the bronze about 12 people during the past one, the for us alone have died because of shouting and at the same time, of course you have presidents and ski describing this devastating situation as how in a way, also signaling to the international community do not forget about the people in the don bus region, even though the front lines have shifted, as i say, from the north, towards the east and southern part of ukraine is basically saying, step up there, make sure, they are sanctions coming, make sure they are weapons coming and make sure that this will ends soon. i thought i am keith. the city of hock, if is fully in ukrainian hands. now, after they drove back, russian troops from the area authorities are eager to restore public life. and that includes getting the subway running again. but there are some obstacles. as al corresponded mathias putting a found out

a fight. they came here to flee the bombs. and now they don't want to leave people who have been living in the subway station are petitioning the government to let them stay subway stations here. and hargrove, have been serving as bomb shelters since the beginning of the war. ve katerina top i and her husband have been living here since the very 1st day. you do have a virus that he really, i go home every 3 weeks, so they semester, but i always need to prepare myself mentally before i can go without the most of them and i run home and take a bath. so we can wash here is that the conditions are not ideal utils, so there's a lot of my life is dealing others don't have a choice. they do not have a place to go back to any more. this station is the terminal station of the metro line, the northernmost station in the city. it's closest to the front line and to those areas that have been most heavily shell. the shelling of harker has all but

subsided, and the local government wants to get the subway system running again. it wants the people to leave the metro and is offering to relocate them. but many here don't trust the piece, not with us on the she had a law and yet on look, i do go out on the street sometimes. but the fear is always there that it for it is not that easy. but if we need time to overcome at another her, on the subway station, many of the houses have been destroyed in some streets. barely a horse has been untouched. olga has also spent the past months in a subway is the 1st time she's come back to see the apartment where she lived with her mother and her son. she was told that there was damage, but she didn't know how bad it was. told us. it's terrible all along with with shell hit

a wall in one of the rooms. there's debris, everywhere. she documents everything. people can report the damage on the government website, but nobody knows how long it will take to get any support. we ended up getting my knees are shaking my knees. they're actually shaking. i still can't believe edge also, but i knew that the windows were broken when you pull up on the phone. that shout hadn't hasten. yeah, in there wasn't a hole in the wall. we might still somehow move back, or the house is still standing, but this is different fairly for now, the only thing to do is to collect some of their belongings. they will not move back to the subway, but to

a relative's house. and here are some other developments in the war in ukraine. german chancellor, all our shots says cut, i will play a central role in germany's plans to college dependence on russian gas at the talks with cath, hurry, amier. i tani in berlin, shoals said germany would build up its infrastructure to import liquefied natural gas by ship cutter wants to start sending. ellen g to germany in 2024. finland signed a deal with the u. s. company to buy liquefied natural gas after russia said it had hope supplies because housing he refused to pay in rubles. finland only gets 5 percent of its gas from russia. officials say, there'll be no disruption to consumers. russian missiles has hit a grain warehouse in east and ukraine. officials say the storage facility, se suffer shield is now completely unusable. russia has repeatedly targeted ukraine's grain warehouses and other civilian infrastructure. president vladimir putin says ross has been facing

a growing number of cyber attack since he sent troops to ukraine in an address to his security council. who blamed foreign states for a barrel of attacks on government agencies, media, and financial institutions. he ordered officials to enhance security, adding the bratia needed to boost its defenses by cutting its reliance on foreign hardware and software. this is going now by and we show one who was a moscow correspond before the up of you had to close its office there. and what stood out to you and boots address, well, put in was essentially saying that russia is facing a coordinated information war as he was calling it by foreign governments. he didn't mention which governments, but we can only assume that he means the west in general, presumably also ukraine. he mentioned that sanctions have had an effect on russia's ability to access i t technology, but he took a very defiant stance as usual. he said that russia has been preparing for this for years and that they now need to do. they do need to do more to protect their

government systems, websites and essential infrastructure. but they still plan to switch to only home grown hardware and software when it comes to protecting of russia. he said by 2025 . and it's also an information that he started when he launched his invasion of ukraine. he would disagree, he, i'm sure he would. does russia have enough homegrown talent, though, and technology to tough to use a foreign i to look, it's been an, it's been a long term narrative within russia that russia is trying to create its own products, its own hardware, software and, and other products. in fact, in general, and also a more independent internet, at least that's what the authorities call it. there's this project for several years now of creating an autonomous internet, which essentially means that russia wants to be able to cut off its own internet from the world wide web. and authorities, of course that's to protect from cyber attacks. critic say it's for censorship. i'm but of course these sanctions now are much more sudden, i think,

than the russian government was expecting. so that means that, that russia's cut off from u. s. exports. and, you know, of computers held communications equipment. you know, the actual hardware of it all. and there's also another problem which is that the, the, there's a huge brain drain. so essentially, last month, the russian association of electronic communication tools just parliament that between 50070000, i t specialists have left the country since the war began. so not really they would say when i'm hearse, any russian young russian entrepreneurs i've spoken to are interested in developing systems for other countries to the battlefront. they tell us about the state of the russian army with the parliament now said to sudden listing over, forty's will, they've said there is space a draft build that they're looking into widening the age bracket of who can be, you know, fighting in this war and the parliamentarians who drafted this bill say that they want the most professional experts to join that includes people over the age of 40,

which makes it sound like a desperate. it does make it sound like they're desperate. we don't know, of course, the state of the russian army, but this is one of, in one of the indications that things might not be going to plan, that they want to broaden the amount of people that are kind of being drafted in, for example, their media reports that there are thousands of job ads for jobs as a soldier is online as well. now, i'm sure russians are seeing those and wondering what's going on every show. and thank you very much filling us in a while many in russia back vladimir putin, others have left the country because they oppose the invasion than a living in places like israel. you know, we use on your call made to film director who tells the stories of russian children raised in a culture promoting militarism and nationalism building. a new home is a me trip of a lubricant. has family flat moscow at the beginning of march, leaving behind their former life when the war started was absolute telling us that

we have to live. so, and we're like, we haven't slept and eat anything because we're so emotionally or devastated and they follow the news with great concern. but lubo of says he's not surprised by the allegations of atrocities committed by the russian army. his 2019 documentary town of glory shows russians, lot of the military and how even children are indoctrinated with the attitude towards violence and russia. any kind of violence or is very m like it is a mere thing, like to be to your kid. if you're a teacher to shout on a students,

this is the root of our what is happening now in ukraine fatherland day. so i'm, i'm gonna be the gender will i remember the film also deals with the propaganda protein and his aides have used over the years to convince russians that the west is their enemy within garalia, born over for years, put in just doing what people want. she feels the people's us durations yes, she warms it up. she a, make it more and more and more aggressive. but still she doing what people wanted him to do. loop off and his wife obtained is rarely citizenship after the annexation of crimea. they wanted a safe haven,

which israel offers to immigrants, was killed. they missed russia. but as long as putin is in power latency in the future. and you can watch that documentary town of glory by the filmmaker we just met there on the dw documentary channel on youtube. you as president joe biden has kicked off his 1st presidential trip to asia, starting in south korea, where he hell talks with new president. joan so cure the journey, which will also take him to japan is intended to count a chinese influence and cement us leadership in asia. he's expected to address concerns connected to brushes, invasion of ukraine, but he 1st visited a samsung semiconductor plant. one much like the factory, the electronics giant plans to build in texas addressing the global shortage of computer chips is a key element of biden's trip. i are sold based journalist frank smith, why biden had chosen to visit now and why didn't go to japan 1st?

well i think this is something to reward the incoming president noon, so you know, he's just been in office since may 10th. he was inaugurated may 10th and he ran on a platform of shifting the u. s. policy in the region, economically and security affairs toward the u. s. and strengthen the u. s. alliance. i also think it has something to do, perhaps with president, by launching the indo pacific economic framework, which is scheduled to do in japan and perhaps wants to make that a crowning achievement of this visit here. as part of its conclusion bent as we speak. china is holding military exercises in the dispute itself, trying to see in there. there are fees the visit could be overshadowed by some kind of north korean miss on test how both it's the president about that. well, president biden had been rumored to, to possibly schedule a visit to the d. m z that's been quelled whether that will take place. that's the

demilitarized zone that heavily fortified border separating north and south korea. he was going to visit there, whether he's going to visit there. i think he's up in the or they have an action plan in place in a, in a bunker under president musicals new office, which is right near the ministry of national offense. and the american military base young, san champ, humphreys, in the middle of the south korean capital. so you also want to strengthen the alliance with the, with the u. s. as i mentioned, and this is a big part of what they'll talk about. more 3 is launch 15 missiles so far this year, and they've prepared their gay re site for another potential nuclear test. so the stance toward north korea is something they'll be talking about, certainly tomorrow, when they hold their summit with tensions with north korea. and this was going on

in ukraine. why visit a computer chip factory? well, if we remember early in the pandemic and, and even up until now there's been problems with the supply chain around the world, especially computer chips. samsung electronics produces many computer chips and other electronic products that really suffered from supply chain challenges. up until today, the samsung electronics invested $17000000000.00 or willingboro, $17000000000.00 in a factory in texas. so again, i think the president is rewarding. samsung, c, e o, e j, mom who accompanied president biden and president noon on their, on their tour, their factory down and down in chung tech. so, so from so then frank smith and so forth. thank you very much. good. talking to

is a quick look at some other news making headlines. nobel peace laureate josie ramos horta has been sworn in for a 2nd time as president of tea molest. he took the oath of office in the capital dilly. he said his top priority is to protect young people seeking democracy in his own operation. it comes on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the southeast asian countries, independence officials in indian administered kashmir, said one worker has been killed, and another 9, a trapped on the part of a tunnel collapsed emergency cruise, using earth movers to clear the wreckage and trying to rescue them, the tunnel is part of a mountainous highway system in the himalayas. spain's former king juan carlos is visiting his homeland. after nearly 2 years of self imposed exile, crowns turned down to see him. the 84 year old advocated after a series of financial scandals, the royal family says he will return to his home in abu dhabi on monday. germany

has to take its 1st case of the ram monkey pox virus. the armed forces, medical survey said the case had been found in a patient munich, more cases of monkey pox who being detected in europe and other countries. normally the virus is found of the in africa. what's unusual about the rapid spread elsewhere is that most people who are now infected haven't even been their monkey pox as a rare viral infection, usually found in small mammals in west and central africa. this bed of the virus is usually caused by people traveling to those areas. but for the 1st time, the disease appears to be spreading among people who have not traveled to africa. germany, belgium, italy, and sweden have become the latest countries to confirm cases. following britain, portugal, spain, and the united states. there is something very unusual in terms of the speed in which it spread and also the long incubation time. 12 days and sometimes actually

21 days mean that you could silently incubate many people before we realize it enough trail. yeah. one man who had recently returned from britain is also infected. a 2nd case was a waiting confirmation to individual who's been diagnosed and victoria came from london. so i flew on the 14th landed in abu dhabi and then was on an epidemic. melbourne flight. landing in the early morning of the 16th had some symptoms prior to being on the flight, but has attended for medical care almost immediately. monkey pox, similar to human, small pugs, the milder most people recover from it in a few weeks. symptoms include fever and headache, feeling tired and swollen glands. the virus is usually transferred through close

bodily contact, a bodily fluids. the world health organization says the general public should be aware of unusual skin rashes and acknowledge that there were still many unknowns. also in terms of transmission, one of the theories of health officials is that the disease is now being sexually transmitted, but further investigation is needed. some football news and after and how thankful it's thrilling within the euro police. on wednesday, the teams arrived back home to a hero's welcome around a 100000 fans pack frankfurt, made square to hale, the men who b glasgow ranges on penalties. coach oliver glassner goalkeeper, kevin top, and huff i bought a new school. the winning penalty are among those soaking up the acclaim. 1000 i says he's going to party 3 until saturday to another giant of german football humbug beats had to believe in the 1st leg of the buddhist leak is relegation. play off the visiting fans, travel to berlin in huge numbers,

and they're backing helped humboldt take an advantage into next week's return match depending on who you believed, anywhere between 7525000 homburg funds were in the olympics. study on, on a bombing night in berlin, but there was plenty of home support to that. one of the most nerve wracking games in the german calendar. this was the atmosphere into which young danish keeper oliver christianson had to descend for his debut and a half a shirt. injuries forced coach felix ma got to play the 22 year old. he did well to perry robert. glad so shot. i'm 32 minutes but there was nothing he could do of it humbug. second tough winner, ludovic rice couldn't have miss hit his cross any better than the humbug funds went wild a bitter moment for christianson and for her to but the keeper's injury time saved from young jamera means the berliners must only overcome

a one goal deficit on monday easier said than done in a hostile hamburg. those he adored more to his looking for a new coach after deciding not to continue with michael or the following. what the bonus, like a cold and unsatisfactory season le club. rather, in a statement, the club said that the decision to remove the manager was taken after an internal review. don't one finish, 2nd behind by an munich and the bonus lager and disappointed fans with its performance in the champions li, europa lake and german cup. and reminder of the top stories by following foy for the german chance i get our choice a has resigned from the board of directors of the russian oil company or sniffed e. u, though, make it a cold for shorter to face sanctions. it quit. shorda is a long time friend of russian president vladimir putin. criticism of his ties to russia has been growing since the invasion of ukraine and ukraine's president

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