[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, the c w news lie from berlin, ukraine's president says, his country faces a historic week. follow to me as the lensky warrens that russia will likely intensify it's attack. this comes as the european union prepares to and now it's

decision on ukraine's application for canada and status. also coming up french voters deliver a staging blow to president minute while call just weeks after he was re elected, he loses his absolute majority and parliament as leftist and far right party surge . placing his reform agenda in doubt with the only known remains of a congolese independence hero, finally returned home. former colonial power belgium hands over a single tooth belonging to patrice, wilma, more than 6 decades after he was assassinated. ah, i'm nicole really. it's good to have you with us. ukrainian president, bullard, and we are the lensky says, other european countries should brace for potentially hostile activity for moscow.

he's, as ukraine faces a historic week, as it awaits a landmark decision from e. u. leaders on its bed for candidates status, but that this could from russia to intensify its aggression against ukraine and its western supporters. a russian missile plunged into ukrainian soil in the city of lazy chance. no one is safe across the river. the city of several on yet has been reduced to rubble by fierce fighting as russia's offensive in the dawn, beth's reading grinds on the fears, at least it chanced, is next to that most residents have fled to them, but some are stuck. when we fix up, you can, but we have nothing left, everything was burned down. the most important thing is to get my sick father out. that's all that matters to me. i don't know how long he can survive,

but i don't think this war is going to end soon. you know, they live in sellers to increase their chances of survival. you know you the pricing for a predicted escalation in russia's campaign of destruction or to live mon shotuko this week. we should expect greater hostile activity from russia and the earned against ukraine, but also against other european countries. li, rhodesia, crying we are preparing, modeling. we are ready, ah, zelinski believes that russia will react to the european union's decision this week on whether ukraine will become a candidate for membership even considering ukrainian membership is a dramatic shift in the used position and runs counter to do cremins efforts to pull ukraine into its hold it by force. german foreign minister in alina babble on monday, voice her support. head of a meeting of e. u. foreign ministers for her, diana was on the day, is

a special meeting for him as we are gathered ahead of a historic moment. with mocking that we all have to realize that the membership countries have a special responsibility on your, in none of us want to look back at this moment in a few years and think, how could we not make use looks on this opportunity to use a viking stove long, near the promise of europe. hope for ukraine and its fight for survival. earlier we asked a montoya, shes our correspondent and keith. how significant this moment is for ukraine. hi, nicole. well indeed is very significant for people in here in ukraine. i'm just to her in front of europe and square where you have to you have been slog floating along the ukrainians like and i think it shows you here in the center of the capitol, keep just how dear to europe and the ideas off of many ukrainians who are trying

well before the war to have access to the european candidacy they know down the road to belonging to the european union to be part of the european union. the will be a long process, but most people here and 1st and foremost the government here is making all and they can to ensure that it abides by european values by european rules. today. it's worth also noting that the ukraine and poly him and the ratified the sample convention against violence against women. it's really trying to up its game in terms of abiding by international law abiding by europe and 5 years, so very significant for ukraine's day. now, in relation to this process, president volota, we are zalinski is warning of greater hostilities from russia not only towards his country towards ukraine, but also against allies of what exactly does he mean by that?

do we have any indication as to what we might have to expect? well, you know, hostility is dont necessarily how to translate into an invasion over country. do these could oh, this could mean a cyber hostility and we've seen over the past 2 years. cyber attacks, for example, against the government institutions in germany, in denmark, that's where a later lead to russia and the hackers do could be one form of hostility, of course, as well. so the never ending question of the energy dependency of european countries to woods or russia, even if things are shifting since the beginning of the war there see those strong dependency. so maybe russia will take more measures to oh, to paralyze the european energy in retaliation for considering this candidacy of ukraine to the european union. and there are concerns that western allies maybe

losing their resolve when it comes to supporting ukraine. we're 5 months in to the conflict. now. what is the, what is the feeling among people in the ukraine? do they still have the same determination to fight this invasion? i think they definitely do. i've been meeting people for quite a while now. and if any, see the longer this so war last a stronger their resolve to continue fighting the invasion of their country. you know, they fighting for their freedom for the independence of their country. and i think that's something that they're not, they're not ready to give up any time soon. there might be a fatigue in the west about those news that's here in your can move around, people are more determined than ever. dw is emanuel. shes reporting from keith, thank you so much for your assessment. d, w is honoring to ukrainian journalists with its freedom of speech award for their work documenting the siege of mar you pull afghani,

my le let go. and mrs. loft. sure enough. phil missiles hitting apartment buildings and recorded the work of doctors and undertakers, as well as the suffering of countless victims. they are images of a maternity hospital destroyed by russian. bombs shocked the world. no one was preparing for a surgery quality. no one was prepared for things and full in the way everyone was surprised by complete destruction of the city and only we come to them. are you per just one hour before the war started. it was striking how normal city was there. buses was going everywhere, going around, people were going to work but then everything,

everything changed in a, in several days. and that change was so striking it quick. and most of the journalists, i probably left not because they were afraid to try to get surrounded, but i think they thought nothing is going to happen. everybody went to key of right . everybody went to, he was a big new m t a s i. my new paul was not in use. i remember i waited there is told us, hey, maybe you consider going to another city. and we said no, just wait. this is the place. and so if you didn't get to rounded, suddenly connection collapsed completely. there was no telephone connection, no internet, no one knew was going on noise. so no one knew how to evacuate, no one you what's going on with the ukraine with

a key for heart keyboard. this and we've taken no one you would happens to their relatives. and people just went crazy. and then the neighborhood by neighborhood it would get destroyed. so the front line would move from the outskirts towards the center of the city. and as it moves inside the city, every neighborhood you get destroyed, neighborhood by neighborhood. it was scary that we were surrounded. do not have a way to get out. like it was assessing that that feeling was, was really with us for the whole whole period of time. but i think we should lake work in lake understood that we will not cover this story and nobody will

color this and nobody will build it to the people you know, dick and that's why we decided to stay. you and we have a chance to leave before we were able to show spots spotlight to put the spotlights on some stories, the scale of suffering soul and imagined emily bigger that we both feel guilty for leaving the city and for not doing more in the see you coming on during my planning to go back and to continue work. the voice finished. you know, they stopped up tomorrow and stop supervise,

but anybody knows that we should continue because around some other stories related to the war of were following for you at this hour they use top diplomat has called russia the blockade of ukrainian 4th, a war crime that brings the risk of famine to separate, made the common to as european union and foreign ministers meant to discuss the war and food security. millions of tons of wheat are currently stuck in ukraine. to warn again, moscow has called a move by lithuania to block rail transit between russia and its enclave of colleen and ground illegal. the area is wedged between nato members, lithuania and poland. colleen and grog goods are subject to ease sanctions against russia. lithuania says its decision is in compliance with the embargo. it is a hollywood actor. ben stiller has spent the day in ukraine to mark the you and hcr is world refugee day filler. as a goodwill ambassador for the u. n's refugee agency, he visited levine and keith,

were he viewed war damage and met ukrainians, forced to flee their homes. and france, voters have delivered president emanuel mccall, a major set back. his coalition had lost his absolute majority in parliamentary elections. results show microns block will still emerge with the biggest number of seats and the new national assembly, but without the 289 seeds needed for an overall majority. the french leader may have trouble and acting his reform agenda when french president ammonium a chrome cast his vote on sunday. this clearly wasn't the result. he was hoping for . newspapers were clear on the scale of the setback, calling it a cold shower and even a slap in paris. some voters seemed uncertain that mackerel would be able to put together a governing coalition. this is why i honestly don't see how he could put together

a majority, even if he does rope in a few left wing and right wing m p 's, where frankly, it cannot work. it's impossible and unlikely to provide macros with any support is the new pan left alliance loops. lead by veteran left is john lute mellow show his coalition is set to become the biggest opposition grouping in parliament. while peroration with marine la pens far right. national rally, which surgeon to 3rd place women, 11 fold increase in seats, is also not on the cards from a crawl. on monday le pen said the presence agenda was dead. i scurry here will emanuel makram be able to do what he wants? no. the answer is no. i think that retirement at 65 is a buried reform, as well as a whole series of other measures that he wanted to put in place. and which in reality were toxic for the french people get poorly foreseen. that leaves the conservative leg republican party as the likely partners little but they're also

adamant that they'll stay in opposition. sit furnished with no clear path forward and parliament france could well be set for political gridlock, small crawl and a man who once compared his own top down governing style to the roman god. jupiter sunday's result represents a crushing return to us. earlier i spoke to the w, corresponded lisa lewis in paris and asked her how difficult it will actually be for my call to govern. now, it will be incredibly difficult, really, you know, he doesn't have the opposite majority, and he's written quite far from it. more than 40 seats, so he would need to find to try to find support from the left, from the right in the center from other parties that got into parliament. we have heard this morning already during the day that some people have come out to say, you know, we will not form part of this governing coalition. we will be in the opposition, such as the head of the republican party,

the send to right party. that was it that some, you know, some people from him and my call's majority, a party were hoping to form an alliance with. and they've already said no, this is not going to happen and looks like you will have to find support on a case by case basis for every decision, every reform he like to push through parliament. and that will be incredibly difficult. i think rocky road ahead, john ligman alshaun, led the leftist alliance to become the biggest opposition for us. but they're not a united front. are they? absolutely. this was in electoral alliance. and even when you looked at the fine print, actually, you know, the pages and pages defining what the aligns was about. there were lots of parts where the different members before different parties did not actually agree on the measures. and that's really coming to light now because don't realize today said we

should form a political group in a parliamentary group group in parliament together. and the other 3 parties, greens, the communists and the socialists have said, no, we don't want to do that. and also we don't agree with only marshalls way of doing things he just announced without consulting us. seems like he wants to impose us his program. and clearly these other parties want to show that they still exist. so even within that new left wing group, they can't actually reach an agreement. it seems like it's going to be a rocky road for a mile, cause you just said, but also for the other parties and parliament. the w is lisa lewis from parents. thank you so much for that update. the belgian government has returned a single tooth belonging to assassinated congo, least independence hero patrice. remove the tooth was handed over to the lowest family at a ceremony in brussels. it was all that was recovered. of the moon was body after

he was murdered in 1900. 61 luma. was congress 1st, democratically elected prime minister after it gained independence from belgium? earlier this month, belgium's king expressed deep regret for his country's abuses in its former colony activists. say belgium still means to do much more as it confronts it's colonial past, but of the return of the members to this a welcome. first step in this art studio in brussels stands one of the greatest figures of the african independence movement. this larger than life sized statue of patrice luma, is a tribute to him from the congolese community in belgium. lamar played a significant role in the transformation of the congo from a belgian colony, into an independent republic, at with the moon, baffled foul to freedom of his country. and he was killed for that. and the country never really recovered from that love until to day. patrice, remember,

became the congress 1st. prime minister, afterward gained independence in 1960, but he was only in office for a few months before he fell out what the country's former colonial ruler, which led to him being ousted in a qu, imprisoned, tortured, and later executed. ludo de victor is a belgian author who wrote a book about lumen best murder. the book reveals the belgian government's complicity and details held. remember, and 2 of his associates were executed in a forest and how their bodies were disposed. it was done during the night. so there was a lot of villagers we're, we're very suspicious. and so very quickly yom or belgium recoveries decided to dig up the brothers and 2 of the body completely destroyed. and so they got them into pieces and took the, sold them into um a barrel of farm. oh oh. so for us, it's a belgian officer who was involved later confirmed the book's account,

including the pot about him removing, remembers tooth and keeping it as a trophy. after the release of the book in 91, a parliamentary commission of inquiry concluded that belgium had, quote, moral responsibility. fuller, members, killing activism has continued here to force the country to fully recognize and atone for its brutal colonial past that led to the death of millions. in the d, r. c. there's been some progress. after years of activism and debates, the brussels municipality opened this square named after and in honor of patrice, lamar already said that the symbolic gesture was intended to reflect belgium's colonial past. activists now used the space to tell people about patrice, remembers life and legacy the, the main thing that he was assassinated for was to erase in politics

and to erase his memory. so having the square is a, a way of for reviving his arm. his memory, patrice limone, was truth is all that was left of him after he was killed. belgium, returning it to his family, is being welcomed as a 1st step. we hope it to be the beginning of the recognition death. colony alias was something wrong, was a crime against humanity. and that we can start to install a kind of politic of reparation. it's taken decades for the truth about the circumstances of patrice, remembers murder, to emerge congolese people at home and abroad. hope it will take less time for their nation and their hero to get justice. he w a correspond christine manuel, who filed that report. you just saw told me what happened earlier at the ceremony in brussels. nicole, the ceremony resembled what

a state funeral would look like and, and some would say that that is fitting for somebody or of patrice lumen best a stature. this was the 1st a prime minister of an independent democratic republic of congo who was never given a fair burial. so for the family, this was a really important moment behind closed doors. at belgium's federal prosecutor at this is the office that had been in possession of patrice remembers to his remains . i handed that over to the family behind closed doors, away from the cameras. and then came the speeches and you had the belgian prime minister and he's congolese counterpart speaking. these were states states mainly sort of a speeches said that the belgian are formed. album, prime minister talked about the fact that it was abnormal, for, for the, for, for these remains to have been kept in belgium for as long as they had. and his congolese counterpart said that the return of these remains was important for the

nation. and then it really got personal, it really had home when mom was daughter, juliana took to the podium to give her speech. she was visibly emotional and shedding tears as she spoke. and saying that this meant so much add to the family that finally they were able to give at their father some kind of a send off that they were able to now finish their morning. i. so it was really, it really took a more personal tone that for this family, this isn't about, you know, anything more than just really giving us back a piece or whatever remains of our father so that we can lay him to rest. so hugely significant for a lot of people as we already saw in your report, to if belgium's moment of reckoning with its colonial past. nicole in a way this began at the height of the 2020 black lives matter a processor. and this is when juliana and miss rumors daughter wrote to the belgian

king asking for her father's remains to be returned to the family at the belgian king then agreed to that and following that there have been as steps taken out, for example, we saw at the belgian royal's visit the recently visiting the congo. and so it is hoped that this is the start of something wider. but of course, when the royals were in and in, in the democratic republic of congo, the king stopped short of apologizing for what had happened during the colonial era rule, where millions of people had died. a, what he went on to say was he expressed, he's his deepest regret. so some people are skeptical about how far this will actually go, and whether or not and belgium will look to paying reparations are for some of the things that have been done in terms of justice. well, for patrice, remember, perhaps that chapter will close in the sense that those who were responsible for his death at nevister trial, many of them are no longer alive. those who still are and likely to have

a face tile or for for that. so it is hope that something will come out of this, but some people are not very optimistic about that. christine were always a pleasure. in columbia left us canada, gustavo petro has won the presidential election by a narrow margin. the former gorilla fighter and current senator edged out his opponent, the real estate millionaire rodolfo hernandez. this was pedro's 3rd attempt at the presidency and his victory marks a drastic change in colombian politics ah victory. historic moment for columbia, as it votes in its 1st ever left his leader, warmer rebel, gustavo petro has vowed to launch profound social and economic change all a story annoy. well, we are writing history at this moment. archy, a new history for columbia, or you for latin america, less dos and for the world,

jonas the elect. dorothy a new history, because undoubtedly what has happened to day with those 11000000 voters as a change it'll come. what is coming is a real change, a key of fundamental change. yes. oh, come be over that. oh, gambiola al petro defeated another maverick candidates form a man and millionaire rodolfo hernandez. hernandez had gone a lot of support for his candidacy on tick tock, promising to reduce wasteful government spending, and to go after corrupt officials. his concession speech implored petrow to do the same. let's say, well don't daughter who sigh hopes that. gustavo, petro will know how to leave the country, that he will be loyal to his words, against corruption, and that he will not disappoint those who trusted him. and then petro has

a tough task out of him. he faces a divided congress likely to complicate his implementation of the fiscal and social reforms, his supporters. oh, counting on her watching dw news coming up next, unbeatable you news asia? well, look at the protests across india over a military recruitment. phil, why the violence and what's behind the military's thinking? as up after a short break with melissa chant, don't forget our website is there for all your latest news, and you can also find us on instagram and twitter, s w article for lee. thank you so much watching ah ah

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