shed light on the opaque world who's behind the benefits and why are they a threat to whistle open equals this week on d w ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, brush and forces strength in de grape. in easton, you crime the kremlin claims to now have control of all residential areas of the key city to very done yet, but ukrainian troops. i surrender, he's not an option. also coming up in

a major interview and unapologetic angle of michael says she doesn't blame her still for how she handled vladimir putin or she was german chancellor. michael coastal war in ukraine. a huge tragedy and survivors speak out after a massacre to catholic church in nigeria. 22 people were killed by a group of gunman armed with explosives. who the gunman were remains unanswered. ah, i'm shower drain. welcome to the program. we begin with the battle raging over your cranes. don bass. russia now claims to control. 97 percent of one of the 2 provinces that make up the region in the east of the country. and it says its forces have taken full control of residential areas in the key city of severity on yet. where we've had reports of troops fighting st by st. ukraine admits its forces

. our route are out numbered bots is it won't give up territory to russia. this is inflicting maximum damage. that is the goal for moscow, which release this footage of how it says at walk across ukraine's east. the destruction is evident. many of those who remain have lost everything i did, but so i do not even know where to start for you. i am standing here and looking, but i have no idea what to do with my blood. i started crying, do i come down? then i cry again. and again, before the book is now is on the city of sebo dot net, which could be key to gain control of the don bass.

ukraine says it's troops out numbered, but holding strong. now she's annoyed, and as the youth was, our heroes are not giving up their positions in severe ordones. woolley fierce street fights continue in the city. no, margaret, the russian army is trying to deploy additional forces in the danverse direction. but it's the 103rd day you and the ukrainian dunbar stance. see it stance firmly. meets the cost of that resistance has been high even as russia threatens dire consequences to more help from the west. ukraine says that ford it's embattled troops, more rapid would be the difference between life and death. meantime, millions of tons of grain are piling up in southern ukraine, going nowhere because the conflict has blocked ships from leaving ports. the e u has laid the blame squarely at moscow's feet,

but the kremlin is denying any responsibility for the food crisis. t w correspond nick connelly is in odessa earlier. we asked him if there's any solution in sight. i think there's a lot of diplomatic noise going on right now. there's a meeting tomorrow in turkey, between misses from russia and turkey with the un on board and ukrainian somehow involved don't quite know how, but i think this is more about the blame game right now. this is not about real solutions, otherwise russia would not have destroyed ukraine's 2nd biggest grain terminal just few days ago in city of mac alive, but a 150 kilometers down the road from where i am now. the infrastructure on the ground that could really then let that food out in a hurry to the people who need it in north africa and released that is being destroyed. bit by bit by the russians who was obviously making it very hard for ukraine. farmers to get the diesel, they need the bin bombing will refineries forming oil storage units and roads. and i think now that russia is nursing, this is a topic that is getting a lot of traction internationally. also in countries in africa released it

traditionally are a lot more sympathetic to russian narrative than is the case in europe and north america. and seeing that concern. then i'll try to play the game based a game on ukraine that has very little reason to trust. russian guarantees that if it takes the minds away from addresses coastline to protecting a data from rational ration right now, that, that will be respected in that it won't be used by russia to come here to the us or invade the city. nick connelly, there is a quick round up of some other developments in the war. japan and nato have agreed to step out cooperation. this follows a meeting between the chief of nato's military committee and the head of japan's. the self defense forces. japan's general young mccarthy koji told reporters that unilateral efforts to change the status quo by force must not be tolerated. fi g supreme court has allowed us authorities to seize a $325000000.00. russian owned super york mod in the pacific island nation. fiji

impounded the vessel last month after washington linked its ownership to russian oligarch. sulaiman caramels. german chancellor, olaf sholtes. as promised to boost germany's military mission in lithuania. on tuesday he met with the leaders of lithuania as lexia and estonia. the baltic nations all share a border with russia and want a stronger nato presence. corporation. this is my german chancellor. allah shall send the 20 and president guitars know said i wanted to come. they did to announce preparations for an expansion of the multinational nato combat. you need currently station in the through area. and all i felt was keen to shut down criticism regarding germany support to ukraine with a dual credit vitamin roughly we will continue supporting ukraine with weapons deliveries. germany has been doing this more intensely than almost anybody else and will continue with support in the near term. as long as will be needed to rebuff

russian aggression to chrome. but words are not enough for both ukraine and nato allies, which press berlin to step up its military support with the baltic heads of state stressing their determination to stop fresh as aggression against ukraine as well. no. got gallegos to so the good at the i believe that our colleagues always have the right to try all the options. they want to try and euro, but this is not lithuanian position, but so we think it is difficult to talk to a head of state who has redrawing the borders and the 21st century or will steve to see amazon. tuesdays meeting was intended to show unity among nato allies, that germany support will likely be judged by the weapons and boots on the ground. it actually provides both to ukraine and to its nato allies. in her 1st public comment since leaving office last year,

former german chancellor anglo merkel has defended her policy towards russia over her 16 years. as chancellor speaking in berlin. on tuesday evening, michael told a public audience that she doesn't blame herself for the events unfolding now in your crime. but she admitted she asks herself if she could have done more to prevent the war from happening. she described the conflict as a huge tragedy. let's take a listen to some of what angle a michael had to say is cuz i'm is not to add this military on the hall. my retirement hasn't turned out quite the way i had expected. he was in february 24th was a major turning point and it's something i think about often puzzling far. but if you're asking about my personal feelings, i stepped down from my position as chancellor by choice. oh, and that's a nice feeling on i've started doing other things upon living and that also feels nice. oh actually i get nothing but at heart i remain

a political person. so at times like these, i feel as worried as many others do. so did uncle michael take any form of responsibility? well, that's a question we put to our chief political editor, michaela christner a bit earlier. well and yes and no. and she says, yes, of course, it was also her responsibility to build an architecture that would contain rasa. and that's what she felt she had done. and her sense was that by not allowing. and let's be very concrete here. ukraine to join nato earlier. not allowing that path towards nato, that former us president bush wanted, for instance. and she put it still feels today, and that's why she says he's resting easy on this. at that it, she prevented as something terrible from happening earlier. and that at the very least, the minsk agreement after the annexation of crimea in 2014, had bought ukraine time, a country which she described as being

a very different country from 7 years ago. and that it is much more of a stable democracy in that party is also why vladimir putin sees it as such a threat mcculloch of now, now to some of the other stories making news around the world today. the trial of 2 men suspected of murdering prominent dutch journalist peter de vries has begun to freeze, was short at close range in amsterdam last year and died. 9 days later, authorities believe the killing was connected to an organized crime group. italian authorities have seized more than 4 tons of cocaine in a large scale investigation. targeting a colombian drug cartel. the cocaine st value is estimated at 240000000 euros. marley's government has set up a 2 year transitional period for our return to civilian rule and new elections.

marley's government says this proves its willingness to negotiate with the economic community of west african states which imposed economic sanctions on the country back in january of on going to go now to nigeria, where waves of grief, a rippling through a community after sundays, mass shooting and the catholic church, at least 22 people were killed and 50 injured when a group of gunman opened fire and worship is mocking the christian holiday of pentecost. no group has claimed responsibility for the killing. the attack took place in the village of our well in the south of nigeria, where region, which is usually spared to violence, suffered by some communities in the north t w's. lisa chuck while ma has more from nigeria. well, but one thing we can say is that they have lots of tokens off from the state government and federal government about hans and down to government code. i'll discuss with you on sunday in

a catholic church in france right. yet in on days they will have visit from the vice president himself yesterday, right. get to the medical center over a couple of minutes away. i did church itself. we had the ruling party, lead apc, but i can also come into the church. i'm been patient through those those yesterday right. yet in all walk. so suppose has been coming from the federal government and people that apparently include in cash. some of the 5000000 myra donated from foreign additions to the medical center and to the victims who supported tax sunday. so that's supposed to get them. but in terms of policing investigations that we're not to yet on to grew or what groups carried out to sac on sunday. now we'll see w, it's lisa chuck wilma, in a wo niger a bit. well, the drastic park film franchise. he is one of hollywood, most lucrative of old time. now universal pictures,

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nostalgia are enough to pretty much guarantee the franchise will go out with a box off his bank. he has a med is reminded now of our top story. russia says its forces have taken all residential areas of the east in ukrainian city, obviously very daunted up next his business with my colleague christy plots and don't go with we're all set to go beyond the obvious citizenship, a man we're all in as we take on the way we're all about the stories that.