ah ah ah, this is 11 years live from berlin, not giving up ukrainian troops say they're fighting for every house. every street, despite facing intense rush and shelling in severity nets, ukraine's leader says the outcome of this battle could determine the fate of the entire dom bass region. also coming up, back to boot shop, did over here,

returns to the town outside key, dest become known around the world, for enduring some of the worst atrocities of this war. and a deadly rampage. a school teacher is dead on a 2nd teacher is fighting for his life a day after a car plowed into their group on a berlin street prosecutor say the driver is being taken into psychiatric care. ah. hi everyone on layla heart. thank you so much for your company. we open our coverage with the pivotal battle underway right now. being fought in the eastern ukrainian city of airdesk, ukrainian troops facing russian forces. there see, the battle is being waged house to house and had ongoing russian bombardment,

ukraine's president vladimir zalinski as the outcome of this fight could very well determine the fate of the critical dumbass region. the shelling is relentless. in the dawn bass ukrainian soldiers assess the damage available. it was an air bomb skin. the russians dropped an air bomb ukraine's industrial hot land is the current focus of russia's onslaught. it's defense, a heavy responsibility for these soldiers. the dodger 1st look of it is a very dreadful and difficult fighting mom would have no haps is one of the most difficult battles during this war. even yet, i am thankful to each and every one who is defending this region from one up to a great extent, the fate of our dunbar is being decided. they are now naturally done. bus number, some soldiers do are frustrated by the presence of the civilians who refused to

leave the english. we are to be able to do our job as fighters, michael, but instead we're having to make sure civilians don't get killed. that's how we lose battles. aside, leaving though is not easy in this city, in the net, including residents are tired of spending most of their days in basement shelters. but they say they don't have an option by me now. where do they wait for me? tell me, how should i leave my 85 year old mother who do i leave her with that she would not move out of pure norville. anyway. i know you're visiting your we live here that we were born here. i've just been to see my garden and my home and then is it going to end my live sugar either. so good luck with rushes, brutal onslaught showing no signs of abating. that is a difficult question to answer. and so i asked to did up your correspond

to yours billing or why severan or don't ask is so significant. well, this city does not have a strategic importance in the way that it would open a vast opportunities. but of course, russia needs to control it. if it wants to control the whole of don bass, it's the last or a city the lasts patch of land on that side of the sea whiskey. donnette river, which russia has so far, had very big difficulties to cross, and at least it would allow russia to concentrate its forces on crossing the river . at the moment, of course, meant russia is assaulting the city with a lot of power, a lot of firepower, but also a lot of manpower. and as long as this manpower is busy, fighting in this city will be very difficult for them to advance in other places to have been some advances in other places as well in nurse whether he is for example,

which is a little bit upstream at the same river, but sir, so far this seems to be there the, the barrier that they need to get over if they want to. i want to advance for it ukraine. of course, it is an important way to keep russian forces engaged in that city. it's important to hold that city as it was already with maribelle, which was and circled at the time because of the so russia cannot re deploy these troops. and it's also important because it used to be the administrative capital of the low hands region of those parts. of the lawns region that were under ukrainian control and mathias things are not going well either a, for keith than ever with regards to the southern region of her son, a russia point, a leader there is said that you have claimed that the integration of her son into russia has begun. what exactly does he mean by that?

yeah, we've been hearing this kind of news for service for some time. so the forcing businesses to use rubles, instead of leaving, as the russian currency instead of the ukranian currency is one of the things the authorities have been done. they have been doing, they have been trying to do there. we don't know all the details, of course. another one is to hand out russian passport, sir, in the neighboring city of my milly topple. we've heard that the 1st russian passports are going to be ready soon. um and then basically putting pressure on the people to accept those russian passports to renounce their ukrainian citizenship. of course, the plan of russia is to k a. to create facts on the ground that will make it more difficult, or chew it for ukraine to gain back these areas. not only militarily, but russia is also trying to create some kind of a, of a judicial legitimacy for these reasons being russian. this will not be recognized

either by ukraine or by most western countries. but out from the russian perspective, it seems to be some kind of a way to create facts on the ground. as a final thoughts from you when russia continues to refused on the international stage to accept responsibility for a c blockade of ukrainian grain. can ukraine find an alternative route out for these large volumes of grain? well, that's exactly the problem why we have been talking about these grain blockades, these port blockades for so long. there is no i alternative route that would be allow ukraine to export as many tons as they have been exporting before. and they have, of course, been alternatives to have also been an attempt to create alternatives. a lot more grain is being shipped by tre, now, or by truck on the road. but the roads and trains can not carry the same amount

as a big ship. and that's the problem now did the alternative routes they i am placed as grain ship to romania and and by train brought to romania by train and then shipped out of romanian ports. there's grain being brought to europe on trucks and trains, but none of this is enough to compensate for what are these maritime routes have been providing for before the war? daily correspondents, mateus spending a reporting from the ukrainian capital k. thank you. grateful for your reporting. the war and ukraine as well and to its force months with no sign of any so can russia keep up it's offensive beyond of course, the obvious death and destruction. war is expensive. the costs of mounting a military campaign are massive. just think of the tanks, the missiles and fuel not to mention having to feed an army. russia is believed to be spending some $900000000.00 euros a day in ukraine,

firing thousands of missiles, many estimated to cost more than $1000000.00 euros a day. well then, there is the loss of military hardware, alice se ukrainian forces have to store hundreds of russian tanks, which are also set to cost and estimated $1000000.00 euros each with an even greater price tag ukraine. thinking of the mosque of missile cruiser in the black sea is estimated to have cost mosque out more than a report at $700000000.00 euros. even with such staggering costs, surging oil prices are handing russia the revenue to pay for its war. and let's say the kremlin ability to sell oil and gas will allow it to bankroll the fighting for quite some time. now as the war has largely shifted to the east many who fled rushes invasion around the capital, keith, and i'm going back to try and rebuild you grace. as some 2000000 people have

returned home in recent weeks, including to places like boucher, which has become synonymous with atrocities committed by russian troops as the w, as young phillips sholtes reports even there, some signs of normal life are returning morris. all 1st people in his tone of boucher and let's press so and with it a little bit of normal it. this is what his cafe looked like when he came back a few weeks ago. he said the russians stole every thing. even his st. nearly every thing is working again. now. he's just missing a few windows. i crossed leg broken bridge to go to the keel to forget coffee to get milk to get. i like smoked some cookies after 1st guest come over here. and they said like, oh my gosh, you are the best you all been renewed. i music coffee next door. the block of flats

is still standing but as badly damaged hit by several rockets or more chars. some people are returning here to keen to try to re unite their families and rebuild their lives at a viagra is one of them. she fled just after the war started taking her 2 small children to safety and poland. she got back home just a few days ago. bother to take as many people warned me saying we should stay abroad for longer. but it was my decision. yeah, i just realised that these conflict, this war could drag on for years. sooner or later i had to come home on the chip is not say jasmine, the static. she and her husband michael are. we're lucky. they only lost a window up stairs. the people lost pretty much everything destroyed by a rocket. avira knows, the rockets could also come back and sometimes questions her decision to bring her children home. said the distaff. it's frightening and wishes. when you hear about

new bombings, you immediately think where could i run too? how do i save the children? my bags are still packed. i haven't even unpacked them yet. and i with net is called out. boris knows his wife and child are safe. they are still in switzerland . one element of certainty, when everything still feels up in the air, i don't know what i'm going to expect to morrow because like, yesterday we got a good bonding feel. i don't know, i'm not playing enough and i'm just leaving by one day right now. and yet, as he mixes cocktails again, he is making plans he wants to offer of a return is drinks and seating outside on the terrace this summer. while the ripple effect of the war in ukraine is being felt around the world, the united nations has warned that russia's attack is threatening to unleash an unprecedented wave of hunger and destitution. global green prices have searched as

wheat and corn pile up in ukrainian ports unable to be exported because of russia c blockade. now ukraine's farmers are scrambling to find storage for the coming, harvest. silos of grain, just sitting there. tens of millions of tons enough to feed entire countries. meanwhile, a new harvest is coming and farmers have nowhere to put it. russia now controls a significant part of ukraine's coast along the sea of resolve. and the black sea added that the port city of mario pole was under intense ben, boardman for months. meanwhile, ukraine has laid mines in the port of odessa to keep russian warships at bay. that means that any ship sailing to the port is at risk. the ukrainian government says is exploring different ways to get wheat and corn out, but there are no good options. trains can't compete the see transport in terms of

shipping volume. the un has proposed a secure c corridor to get the grain, as well as russian fertilizer and food goes out. ukraine's foot production and the food and fertilizer produced by russia must be brought back into world markets despite the war. this view is essential for hundreds of millions of people in developing countries, including in subside and africa. russian foreign minister sag oliver of back that plan of the talks with his tuck, his counterpart on wednesday and said that the ukrainians who want invited to the meeting could easily fix the crisis that assuring of the problem and mostly due to solve the problem. the only thing needed is for the ukrainians to let vessels out of their ports, either by d, mining the waters, or by mocking out safe corridors. nothing more is required to run through. but ukraine says it needs safeguards against russia using the corridor to attack here

in odessa in, um, what that even a jackie shit we need a clear mission. you've got to patrol this channel to rich grain, be delivered, kamala should, is a given by ships of countries we can trust or allow me, graham, in this regard more than we can trust the turkish navy. so in particular dry skin we school much consume my rama. morgan will do it while moscow and keith blame each other. time is running out for a solution. ukraine is running out of storage space. putting these c is harvested risk of rotting in the fields, while millions of people fall from the conflict could face starvation. if the blockade isn't lifted. loud to some of the other stories and the news around the world, the head of the international atomic energy agency at f. i. l grossi has accused

iran of removing 27 security cameras. monitoring it's nuclear program. iran's nuclear agency released a video showing 2 i. e cameras being switched off mister grossi warrant the move could be a quote, fatal blow to a nuclear d. awesome. the european central bank has said it will take action to battle record high inflation. it will raise interest rates by a quarter of one percent next month. and suggests further hikes will follow prices for consumers are more than 8 percent higher than a year ago. dozens of flights have been cancelled as paris is main. airport at paris is made ample rather after staff went on strike. hundreds of workers rallied for better working conditions and higher pay and made staff shortages. and after years of coven, 19 related job driven prosecutors say the driver

of a car that plowed into pedestrians in berlin on wednesday as mental health problems and is being taken into psychiatric care. a 29 year old man killed a teacher and seriously injured 31 others including some of her students. a fellow teacher is said to be fighting for his life. authorities believe the man intentionally drove onto the sidewalk. he w's the anya sharper northwest, sent us this update to shoppers and tourists of back on what is one of berlin's busiest shopping streets. one day on from the terrible incident that took place. it's almost like life has gone back to normal. but there still signs of the incident that occurred here yesterday. everywhere you can see the markings here on the pavement where police have circled evidence and further down the street, people have laid flowers and candles and memory of those that were injured or killed. now this attack has raised memories of another, a terror attack here in berlin,

just across the road on the square around the church. where in 2016, a man plowed into a busy christmas market, killing 12 people and injuring 7. now back then, and the attack was ideologically motivated. this time it seems to be quite different. it's been confirmed now that the man who drove his kind to the clouds here suffered from mental health issues. and he's been questioned by police and seem to be incorrect. and confused police still trying to make sense of his statements. with the help of an interpreter. there was an error for north reporting for you from this scene in berlin. he wants to get it when is still to come. why france has built a replica of an undersea cave and is making sure every nook and cranny is the precise company of the image. but 1st berlin's republica digital cultural conference culture conference,

you can say is back after a 2 year pandemic break. the forum is europe's biggest event focused on the internet and social media features, lectures and panel discussions with politicians, business leaders, bloggers and activists. thousands of visitors are expected during the 3 day events which wraps up on friday. all right, let's find out what they're up to. benjamin of ours. gruber is at republica. good to see you at benjamin. what makes this conference so important? is he just mentioned the idea of this conference. it is the biggest conference digital conference in europe is to get many people to talk about important issues right now when it comes to dis information when it comes to future of communication . when it comes to tools, there's several sessions, and the idea is to get all these people to talk together to be in a session. maybe also to do workshops together. so we have politicians, we have blockers. we have interpreters and we have people who are interested to

work, for example, of privacy of information of getting together. and as you just mentioned, this is the 1st and that the republic as happening after the outbreak of the pandemic. so the 1st time since 2019 organizes wanted to have a big outdoors area as well, close to the river here that you may not be seeing behind you. but there's a lot of outdoor area. and as you sat at this, a conference will finish it to morrow with the war in ukraine and also a disinformation and hacker attacks taking a sent to stage during this conference. now looks like a lot of people turned out to, judging by the crowd behind you, who is exactly attending this conference of the speak as the several high ranking politicians. and that shows that many of the topics that are discussed here have also a political aspect that is quite strong. yesterday was german interior minister, nancy phase, as she spoke about the consequences of the ukraine war for digital germany. and

today it was the chancellor all of shows who attended at this conference. it was the 1st time that a german count, chancellor came to republica and he said that big tech friends should be held responsible for the content that is on their platform. when he was asked about him, a law that has been passed by you lawmakers that want to find hefty fines for these big tech companies if they have a legal content on their platforms. he also spoke about russia. he spoke about ukraine. he criticized countries to try to regulate and to censor the internet as, for example, russia, he mentioned china as well. so it shows that many of the speakers as the are politicians that, that topics that are debate. if you also have this political aspect, it was here in the morning, it was a short session. and as you mentioned, the conference will finish to morrow with other high ranking em. lee does that will also attend to local politicians, people from the social, from the public. and it was interesting to have the german chancellor attending

a this conference today for a short a q and a session in the morning due to having a report on benjamin our various gruber, reporting from berlin. thank you. he was, president obama has used this weeks regional summit where the latin american and caribbean countries to lay out plans to boost economic co operation. but discussions on immigration were marred by controversy after mexico snubbed the meeting, a reaction to washington's exclusion of 3 far left autocratic countries, underscoring that key issue of migration news. the caravan heading for the united states from guatemala. he, they'll be reporter, a tort science met some of the people opting to make the 3000 kilometer long journey and hurt their stories. a border crossing between honduras and guatemala. a place that migrants want to avoid by going through the bush. some like

kayla ochoa and her 4 year old son are from venezuela. they've already experienced a hellish journey through the jungle. one lamentable and at least in the deeds i was there. full people died, including a girl and how baby. i don't know the reasons, but they died and i saw the corpses safe. i guess he had only been locked out of kayla said that police later extorted her and her fellow venezuelans twice on the road north to guatemala city in the capital. some who are unable to afford a smuggler bank for money to buy their next ticket. the last stop in guatemala is tickling oman, where migrants take a left across into mexico. the 14 members of this honduran family left their country because they could not pay their rent and to keep their teenage children from being recruited by gangs in mexico, they have to again had through the jungle to avoid immigration controls. several

smugglers offer them a ride for $30.00 per person, but they don't have enough money. although failure, it's right to swing the las. he wanted to take what leads that money we had, we on the odd enough to buy food, he told the van driver that there was a tech point savvy avenue. this group's luck ran out when police captured them and sent them to an immigration detention center. that can mean waiting for months in crowded conditions for paperwork to come through. if the biden administration lives immigration measures that were linked to the corona virus, some worry that people smugglers will be the ones to profit with little changing for people who want to cross into the us. blow one up, what are we just bought out? you're going to take advantage of this to impose new conditions for a new immigration policy audio. we think that it will be more restrictive because of the negotiation that are taking place in the u. s. needles which almost go in a civil, moderately cuba. it's a rough road north that may be about to get rougher. one or

frances greatest cultural sights has been almost inaccessible until that is now because it's under the mediterranean sea. but after years of construction, a millions of euros visitors can now see it without wet suits or an oxygen tag, or at least a replica. ah, on frances mediterranean coast, just a few kilometers from our se lies a cultural treasure hidden for thousands of years under water. when diver aniko scouts set out exploring in 1985, he had no idea what he was about to discover. he found an opening picture calanda. there was a passage, 175 meters long, a big flitted room, or 2 thirds of it under water. yes, that was stalactites and static mites, so that it was like a greek tempo. a truly exceptional sites. you mazda exception. inside the cave, 500 images painted 20000 years ago. at

a time when the entrance to the cave was well above water, it became known worldwide as the ca scare cave, after all ecos game. but most people couldn't visit it until now. here in mar, say a 24000000 euro replica is finally complete on if there were lots of challenges, if one of them was how to get a prehistoric cave into an existing building among the cave is very complex in terms of its geology to with this to lag tightens to lag might affect you said a new. but the most challenging part was recreating the caves, paintings, and all their richness and variety. in total, there are around $500.00 of them, showing various animals such as bison and horses. and then a mystery. a sea of hands with seemingly shortened fingers. researchers can only guess why donna, when hunting, it can be easier to communicate with gestures,

thus less danger of scaling of animals than if you're using your voice on your weather come. soon the real cave may be completely under water. already, some of its most significant paintings have been destroyed by rising sea levels. the new replica in marseilles is not just a special attraction. it's also an effort to preserve some of humanities, oldest cultural heritage. near washington, every news of next is focus on europe and will be back at the top of the out ah, ah, with

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