ah ah ah this is the w news. why from both in defending dumbass against rushes on sport kremlin claims. it's almost in control of the ones region. ukraine says it's preventing significant advances in a close to $300.00 russian soldiers being killed in battle every day. i'm blocking ukraine's grain exports with millions of tons unable to leave black see ports

rushes for me to stay in touch. the talks on how to with local hunger crisis. and for the german chancellor lamar says she would apologize for how she felt with russian leda vladimir putin. her 1st begin to view, since the invasion of ukraine, she calls the walk a great tragedy plus corruption charges at the heart of global football. 7 years after there, doubtful, the former head to thief, and you wait for go on trial accused of ah, i've been fizzle, unwelcome. russia now claims to control 97 percent of the wants. that's one of the 2 ukranian provinces that make up the dumbass. the kremlin has made taking the eastern region. it's number one objective in this phase of the war, and has been bombarding the city of sparrow donates ukraine's president. flor to me

. so lensky says his forces are putting up a fierce defense and inflicting a heavy toll on russia's military, smoke and destruction across soviet oh, don't ask. the fight for the key industrial hub has emerged as a pivotal battle in the wall. russia has claimed to have taken full control of all the residential neighborhoods there, but ukrainian officials say it's outnumbered troops are fighting on ukraine's president zalinski says the russian advance has come at the cost of pauses of its troops. j business, the more than 31000 russian servicemen have already died in ukraine. the just the since february 24th russia has been paying almost 300 lives a day for completely pointless war against ukraine. so that shut and still the day

will come when the number of losses will go beyond the permissible limit. but even for russia, the listing alert yet gave but voters to point. and this for valerie, most of the occupying contingencies already understood that they have no perspectives in ukraine lab, but the vo graham. and we state the smooth and corresponding interceptions of the conversations. this is the mood prevailing and the russian army, members, we are free people missile. we are not your slaves. and i was horrible. about 65 kilometers west, the city of slow vianza has been hit by heavy shelling. as russian forces continued to advance father in the dawn by season, but many residents are refusing to leave. i am going to stay here for you, but i will not leave without my husband must occur the he works here.

so we've decided to stay. it's tough, but it's easier when one is at home with the virus, we're going to stay now because it's too dangerous to manage their shooting everywhere. but we hope all will be well for these people are receiving essential aid. why, clinging on to hopes of survival. i also responded and keep young for the child's how much longer you crank and hold off the russians in the east. i don't think that the fighting will answer any time soon in the danverse region. it's true that most 2 sources confirm that the russians have taken over most parts of the $200.00 region, but there is still intense street fighting going on. for example, in the key city of festival donetta. and we shouldn't forget that the don bus region is more than just burn once

a robin's in the neighboring donnette sco province. the russians are far away from controlling most parts of the region, and the russians are hoping that so the delivery of new weapons will help for launch effect of counter attacks. so i think we will still see long and intense battles. we heard zalinski counting some 31000 dead on the russian side. can you verify that there's no way to independently verify this number. all we can do is conduct plausibility checks and compare it with other available data. the british defense ministry said some weeks ago that they think about half of this number of russian soldiers died. but since then, intense streets are fighting has taken place. and we all know this is very risky for all sides. also, president zalinski says that up to 100 ukrainian soldiers die on a daily basis,

which also amounts to a huge number after more than 100 days of fighting. so the $31000.00 debt russian soldiers. this number could be a little bit of an over estimate, but it's not completely unrealistic either. okay. russia claims it's open to a land corridor. in the meantime, to rush and occupy crimea, allowing civilians and goods to pass through the east. what more can you tell us about that? indeed, the russian defense ministry says that it has opened tracks and roads to connect russia, the don best region, and the crimea peninsula the occupied territories since 2014. this could also help the russians deliver goods to the occupied city of maria pool, where the unitarian situation seems to be disastrous. mario paul also has a very important harbor. so this is corey door could also play an important role

for from a logistic perspective, russia says it's ready to ship a grain supplies from maria poll. as you know, the russians have been accused of holding hostage millions of tons of rain supplies meant for the developing world. but as always, it's impossible to verify the russian information. and in the past, a lot of times this information also turned out to be a lie. and thank you very much for bringing us up to date young philip shots for us there in the capital key. russia foreign minister circuit lab roof is in turkey to discuss how to get grain out of ukrainian ports because tens of millions of tons of stock in silos import, including odessa rushes blockaded the entire coastline since invading over 3 months ago. little grain prices have searched united nations,

one's of the food crisis. ukraine is a major supplier of wheat, corn and sunflower oil, many parts of the world. joining me in the studio is our correspond. emily, sherwin also our sample corresponded dorian jones. dorian, let's start with you. what can totally do to get those grain shipments moving? scott, her keys in a pivotal position just in front of me is the basra waterway, which is the gateway to world markets from the black sea. but on top of that, turkey has the 2nd largest navy in the black sea, and there will be crucial in a role of escorting ship sir through the black sea and into the international markets. but turkey's key role is diplomatic. it is probably now the only country that has good relations with both you, through crane and russia and building trust between these 2 sides is seen as pivotal to any successful deal and it's, it working out going forward. and in fact, the turkish defense municipally occur who is involved in this. so

a process of developing a, a grain corridor admitted that there was major progress, but so truth still is to be achieved. yeah, the trust factor is huge. emily ukraine would have to d, mine are those harbors. russia would have to not only pull back, but hold back and not fire. absolutely, and one question here is the guarantee of our, these ships for the, for the safety of the ship, leaving ports essentially. and let me put in has said that he guarantees that russia will not attack odessa. for example, if there is a saved corridor for this grain, which is a concern on the ukrainian side rush also yesterday said that 2 ports which are under russian control, are actually already operational 2 ports within ukraine. i should say my tuple and also bet dance. so they're kind of setting up almost a blame game against you, grand, they're saying just ukraine is essentially blocking this deal. but the problem of no trust, of course is significant. and you can see that by the fact that a few days ago,

the foreign minister neared the for the ukrainian foreign minister said that yes foot has guaranteed the safety of these ships. but he also guaranteed that russia would not attack ukraine just a few days before a full scale invasion actually happened. so you can kind of understand the ukrainian side as well there. and meanwhile, whoa, all of this is going on. dorian love roth is also with a military delegation, i believe in turkey to talk about another conflict, syria how, how does that factor it? well, that's right. turkey wants to launch a major military operation to syria against this syrian kurdish group, the y p g, which it calls terrorists linked to a p k, k. insurgency, which has been fighting the turkey state for decades. now this group is also an ally of the you, the y p g is also an ally of the united states and fighting the islamic state. now turkey is targeting in area which is on the russian control. and turkey will need russia to live, sir, is control of our space to allow turkish jets to support its operation on the ground. are now rock. moscow had initially said it was opened whose operation,

but in the last few days, it says it's now not so happy about this. and this is seen as a bargaining process by moscow and lateral. we'll be looking for something in exchange from turkey for any deal to what i'll took you to go into syria and washington will be looking very closely at what turkey is offering. there are so many issues here at stake that have been used as bargaining chips and emily turkeys, also threatening to block nato membership for fillin and sweden and m wants something for that as well. of course. right? that seen as another kind of geopolitical bargaining chip arm. guten, of course has said that russia, she has no problem at all with sweden and finland joining nato. i'm even though they've been named neutral for so long, but he doesn't want military bases placed in those 2 countries. it's clear though, i think that going into this war. russia wanted less nato presents on its eastern flank and they've gotten more presents. turkey um has said that they're blocking

this, they have a lot of reasons to block it, but i think one, this is one indicator of the kind of complicated and often strained. and you know, wrangling, relationship that we see between turkey and russia. where am that turkey, you know, is walking a fine line between the west and russia. they're off in this kind of alliance with russia, where they're showing defiance towards the west. i'm, and i'm certainly, i think russia will be happy if nato membership of these 2 countries is walked on, you know, but i think it shows, once again, this kind of all, scratch your back if you scratch mine relationship that we also see as dorian was pointing out in syria, alisha one for us here in the studio during jones in istanbul. thank you to you as well. the analysis well, in her 1st major interview since leaving offers last year, former german chancellor, anglo miracle has described the war in ukraine as a huge tragedy. metal offended her policy towards roger over her 16 years as chancellor said, she doesn't blame herself for the events unfolding now,

but admits she asks herself if she could have done more to prevent the war from his part of what she had to say on her role. demonte diplomacy isn't wrong just because it doesn't succeed. i don't see a need for me to now say it was wrong, and therefore i don't need to apologize for that as that all miss her need intruding on michelle, a chris knows d w's chief political editor and reported extensively on anglo miracle throughout her years. as chancellor hero, her impressions of miracles interview was he did take us all in that theater in berlin, on a bit of a journey of the month leading up to russia's attack on ukraine and there we also learned that she was wondering what more she could have done that she felt very aware of being essentially a lame ducks chancellor in the months leading up struggling to get the kind of european unity that would have been needed to have some kind of preventative action

. some kind of preventative sanctions even. and what we did also get from her is the strongest possible condemnation of the russian aggression which sees, she said, goes against everything that underpins this the security architecture in europe. let's take a listen to that diesel, the invasion of ukraine, which took place on february 24th has no justification whatsoever. it's a brutal attack that disregards international law and for which there is no excuse kiner, the south pacific. in my view, what happened is not only unacceptable, but simply a big mistake on russia's part objectively. it breaks all the rules of international law that allow us to live together in europe in peace. if we started to go through one century after another arguing which territory belongs to whom, then we would have non stop war within latoya and that is just done absolutely

unacceptable of god kind of her. and then of course she did face questions. well, why did she try and seek some kind of economic partnership a with russia. b and there she said, well, if you know, despite the fact that politically she knew there was no common ground between a rasa vladimir putin and herself, at her aim was always to find a peaceful co habitation. whatever that means. and am clearly, she also stated though, that she'd learned that m deterrence was effectively the only language that vladimir putin really understands did shine more light on bruton himself. i mean she met him so many times during her time in office. yes, she did indeed. and in fact, a pretty much is her entire time almost in office. a vladimir putin was also in the kremlin and she spoke to him many, many times. and what she did say that something really changed in the relationship

. clearly something was broken after the invasion of a crimea, and let's just let her take us on that journey, that process of dialogue, a log on the lack thereof with letting me approved in this take a listen to that. you see in the continuity, i see a continuous line of him crossing more and more borders and where the political discussion is now, should we have been tougher politically responding to the annexation of crimea at the time that didn't have majority support, but we also didn't do nothing with the eyes. i think this is the only language that prudent understands that has to be said. he saw that we and not just germany, but many others to no longer had the striking power of the cold war flock. and that's why i think afghanistan is so regrettable this up because he saw basically the same thing that happened to the soviet union of us. it, of course, that probably filled him with satisfaction. we've often e m and convicted of hood. and she also recounted

a meeting of between her and letting ma putin in those early years where he said that in this has been quoted widely, that he felt that the breakup of the soviet union was the worst thing that historically ever happened well for herself. she said that was the best thing that ever happened for herself, but also for germany. and she also made a point that 989 german reunification that followed some 600000 russian troops leaving eastern germany. she distressed that how lucky germany, how lucky europe was to be able to build that post cold war piece order. but effectively, she said that ukraine still marked that continuation of the cold war that these were now very uncertain times. so a german cancer who won't apologize, but who did go a long way to explain her actions and her lack of actions. also the contentious nur stream to pipeline,

which in her view was an attempt to build that co habitation on economic grounds. now she says ukraine is being taken hostage in what is essentially a standoff between russia and the liberal democratic west. michelle, we also saw a more relaxed side of medical absolutely. as she did open up as she opened the answered questions also over why she trembled and famous pictures where everybody was concerned about her health for her mother had died just a so while before that, since you really opened up percy and she appeared like someone who is essentially actually having a really good time and in doing no longer having the heavy weight of responsibility that she clearly felt throughout her time in office, but still feels as former times. and that's also why she won't simply pick up the phone to vladimir putin. she said she could pick up the phone too many, many people, but unless the german government asked her to,

she wouldn't simply engage on something like that. yeah, we're really in a tricky time right now. michelle griffin for us there on medical speaking to the press. thank you. now to some of the other stories making use around the world. belgium's king felipe is in the democratic republic of congo on a 6 day trip. it seen as a chance for reconciliation between the 2 nations and belgium's brutal colonial rule. millions of congolese people were killed, mutilated, or died of disease as the land was pillaged for its resources. japan and nato have agreed to step up. co operation is follows a meeting between the chief of naval military committee and the head of japan. self defense forces on the ukrainian situation depends. general misaki koji told reporters that unit, the actual efforts to change the status quo by force, must not be tolerated. the trial of 2 men suspected of murdering prominent dutch journalist pitted the fleece has been, has begun. he was shot at close range at amsterdam last year and died. 9 days later,

authorities believe that killing was connected to an organized crime group. the u. s. like some of the americas is getting underway in los angeles. the biden administration hopes, the gathering of leaders from the americas and caribbean will help reduce migration . but mexico isn't attending over washington's refusal to invite cuba, venezuela, and the right you up. hollywood, sol, matthew mcconaughey. he has made an emotional appeal for gun control, the latest school shooting in the u. s. it. his hometown of vanity, texas, the oscar winning act called on congress to take action of to meet with president joe biden. he spoke about meeting the family of a gold killed in the massacre. not is there that we met to the grieving parents, ryan and jessica ramirez, their 10 year old daughter olivia. she was one of 19 children were killed the day before it was he a rob elementary school in texas,

but to lithia was killed, a must shooting, but still reverberating across america. very hollywood ox, matthew mcconaughey, a u valley native visibly shaken an un gray as he recounted the horrors of what happened at his home town. or these every day bring converse with a heart on the right tow. be the same green. com verse on her feet. it turned out to be the only clear evidence that could i did to buy her at the shooting have had that in a plea to the american people on politicians, he urged congress to reach a higher ground. we need background checks. we need to raise the minimum age to purchase in a are 15 rival to $21.00. we need

a waiting period for those rifles. we need red flag laws and consequences for those who abuse them. president biden is pushing for bipartisan negotiations on gun reform. to prevent seems like this from happening again. but it's an uphill struggle. and many fear that you, val day will be the last must school shooting. america has to endure the former chiefs of world and european football have arrived at accordance switzerland to face trial on corruption charges. said latter, the former head of fever is accused of fraud and forgery over payment of 2000000 francs made to the former head of you a firm as a teeny. and he also faced the challenges in the case corruption scandal. rumford in 2015 and led through the downfall of both men joined by david webber from solon university in the u. k. david will bladder and patina testify

and both name will testify, and in the call a trial it said to you to go on until the 22nd of june. and they are going to be a number of the witnesses that are going to be courses stand, as well as the and providing evidence in this high profile case. tell us more about the charges that they more about fee for politics or more about simple greed and corruption. yeah, the a silly interesting question because the indictment by the swiss authorities hasn't really focused upon the, the politics. however, we do know that the trial will talk about the 1st why the discredited political culture. but the document itself focuses purely upon corruption, the embezzlement charges. but it be or against a 2 man is true that the court has been unable to get current for president gianni

and continue to testify. that's right. yeah. the only fee to you a for officials of those who are formerly the governing body and you haven't seen. and jamie and tina won't be called to testify. interestingly, placidly as issued his own lawsuit against him from tino which will be played out in a french court late at a later date. what does that mean? how will that affect things? i think you can see no probably wants to distance himself from what he views really as a criminal case that people against his predecessor set laughter and and michel platinum. so platinum, both personally and blood believe really that the that

the prosecution that is being brought is also politically motivated. that questioning how at the prosecution received the, the evidence of tentatively being tipped off. and they suspect that the prosecution itself has been acting in collusion with team lead to the downfall of classes which to create a path for infancy to become a fee for precedence. briefing, david, how do you think this is all going to unfold? what, what's going to come out of this trial? i think it's going to be a very complex trial. it's going to be quite an unusual trial in the it's only going to be sitting each morning because set service is in l health. at the moment, both men actually face 5 years in prison. that in my view is an unlikely

outcome. but the stakes, nevertheless, is still quite significant in that respects both man, i suspect, will be found guilty, but will receive a suspended sentence. is that the weather? thank you very much for your analysis. finally, to one of the 7 natural wonders of the world, the equals who falls on the border between argentina and brazil. they fully reopened today after a partial closure due to flooding from heavy rain. so once again, tourists will be able to see old 275 waterfalls, including the main attraction known as the devil for the amazing stuff. remind her about top stories. russia says its forces have taken all residential areas of the east and ukrainian city of settled are nets, and now have almost total control of half of the don vance region. roches foreign

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