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offensive followed. amir zalinski calls russian aggression and evil that can only be contained on the battlefield. also coming up a diplomatic crisis escalate between russia and lithuania, moscow demanding that the nato member left a rail blockade unsanctioned goods to russia, colon and grad. explain. ladies and gentlemen, done. all right, $100000000.00. a nobel peace prize smashed his records at auction. the owner, a russian journalist, is raising money for ukrainian child refugees. also coming up south korea blasts off into the club of space faring nations a domestically made rock and successfully launches and places it's payload into orbit. what does it mean for the region? ah,

i'm pablo foliage, welcome to the pro. as the war in ukraine enters its 5th month, president volunteer. zalinski is dispelling hopes of negotiations with russia any time soon in his latest video address, the landscape, cold rushes aggression, an evil that can be contained only on the battlefield. ukrainian authority say they're racing to evacuate people as russia steps up. it's attacks in the eastern don bass region. they said rushes advantage in arms and equipment was making the situation very difficult. but in his nightly address on monday to landscape remained defined, yucky. it, which of course russia is very nervous about our activity. there has been more shelling of ha keith and odessa to have be more brutal of salts in the don bus says, this is an evil. i can only be defeated on the battlefield. that machine were defending lucy chanced and settled on yet only this whole region is the most

difficult ship. these are the hardest fights, dw is. nick conley is covering this story in keith. and i asked him how zalinski might believe russia could be stopped on the battlefield. with ukraine running short of ammunition for its forces. this is definitely about playing for time until those crucial western deliveries. finally, make himself felt on the front lines. lots of stuff promised from the u. s. from germany from the u. k. and it is finally arriving, question of training for ukrainian troops to make sure they can actually use it effectively. but there is a sense here in key of that ukraine is able to hold up with on these front lines about 2000 clumps. the front lines between russian troops and ukrainian troops, and that if they can slow the russian advance in place, like several of the nets, which basically weeks now the russians have been trying to take and failing only, but managing to pick up a couple of streets by the day or the week, even then by the time those weapons, rita, they'll be able to turn the tide in that time is actually in their favor that russia will exhaust itself. that's that, that the, the mood here that basically ukraine is only up for negotiation when the situation

about filled is better for ukraine when you crazed a stronger negotiating position. and they won't let themselves be pushed to some kind of a deal that would work against their interest long term by western european countries who in previous weeks, months had been hinting that they wanted to end. this was quickly as possible, whatever the price. so sense here that ukraine can make that military advance and also that it can push back those diplomatic advances from france. germany who had been hinting that they were willing to try and bring everyone back the table at the current situation, which of seat work in russia's favor. now present, alaska has been calling this a historic week with the e, with e leaders meeting to decide on ukraine's bed for candidate status. how important and how much of an impact would that have on ukraine? this is huge, is something that ukraine has been pushing for for decades, essentially, and never been as close as it is now, as it has been basically fed some kind of promises that some time and an unidentified for the future, it might be an option. but now this was really forced to handle that european

decision makers to really make this real and to give a roadmap. and even before you grant does join the e. u, if indeed it does, it already have impacts pretty soon as investors will get guarantees. they'll be reforms that ukraine will be forced to undertake that will really make it easier to build business here to bring money in. and to really help develop this country that has been struggling to live up to potential basically since its independence, nearly 90. so real sense here that this is a huge deal, this will really allow you can't find live up to its potential. i saw a huge deal there near karen cave at the moment, but you recently returned from the front lines. tell us a little bit about the situation there, what you saw so we were in the south in mac alive region, which is basically the one place where ukraine is now on the counter offensive pushing russian forces back am or b, it's a couple of kilometers by the week or the month, but definitely a sense that ukraine varies pressing home. it's vantage because the russians have been focusing so much on don bass on lo hunter, region around city of civil to the next there,

and calls from the ukrainian government for civilians living on russian occupied church in that part of the country to leave. as soon as possible, because more fighting expected there is ukraine becomes able to launch counter offensive ukraine been using its new western weapons the last few days using anti ship missiles to a sink russian or vessels going to, as they call it, which busier kind of crucial sheep point in the north western part of the black sea . also we've heard of the ukraine is using those american built rocket or to resistant high mars. they've just come in new ukraine the last week or so. and really having those russian positions there that beatty russia was using in the hope that they would then be able to push forward and take a debt on other places on the ukrainian coastline that is still under key of control. so since that ukraine is at least in part, able to stop pushing the russians back, even if the situation is very difficult, the east. and now this is the country that is seeing 200, if not more, a military death every day, and more in the way of wounded. so a difficult situation. definitely one of a high loss and high oh stress for the government. and it's military,

but not without hope and not without success. for you, grantley, somebody. d w is ne connelly reporting from keith. thank you. here's a round up of other stories related to the war we're following for you. this are the russian army says russian tv is now broadcasting in ukraine. southern had a son region. people there can now access 24 russian channels for free. a spokesperson said moscow has already introduced its currency in the area and started distributing russian passports. hollywood actor ben stiller has spent a day in ukraine and met with president volunteers and lansky to mark the u. n. h c r. 's world refugee day. stiller is a goodwill ambassador for the when's refugee agency. he visited levine and keith, where he viewed war damage and met ukrainians, forced to flee their homes. russia's foreign ministry has summoned the use ambassador to russia over what moscow called

a blockade on goods transiting 3 lithuania to the russian exclaim of colleen and grot, lithuania, hold to the rail. transit of goods, including construction, material, metals, and coal. after a new package of u sanctions against russia came in to force late last week, colon and grad is wedged between nato members, lithuania and poland. while russia security council chief warned lithuania of serious consequences if the bond isn't lifted. here's what the lithuanian prime minister said in response to putting it on your lips. wayne, it has no interest in an escalation, but the sanctions must be implemented. it's ironic to hear russia accuse us of international treaty violations. because i don't know if there is any international treaty that russia itself hasn't violated a well. earlier we spoke to our correspondent konstantin. i got in lithuania and we asked him how concerned they are in vilnius given the country's geographic position . pablo people here are concerned 247 people in the baltic states,

including 1st and foremost all this when they consider themselves to be on the front line. and in this respect, there is concern about possible rush and action. but i think of the fact that the u m. pastor was called into now the foreign ministry in moscow for explanations probably shows that more school will have to basically meet the reality. what the 20th did is part of the european you sanctions, the 4th i adopted quite some time ago. and there was no way that you could not. ah, not do that. i could not block the specific goods from transit. i have to say that all the goods and people can still transit morrow to that, that military transit, which is effectuated between russia via bellows to cleaning rock still continues. it is subject to a special bi lateral treaty between lithuanian russia. there was no disruption

there, as for the measures that russia can impose on the 20th. well, there is actually not much that can be done. probably they can prevent lithonian citizens from traveling to cleaning growth. there are not many of them, frankly speaking. so it will be difficult to imagine what kind of major pushback from the credit could in then well, cleaning grad has a large port. constantine is not possible for goes to enter and exit on cargo ships . well do, and actually the governor of cleaning drug or blast as a cold on the russian government to give more money to buy or to, to basically to introduce more ferries on the route between clean grog and the main russian port on the baltic, which is called coast guard, it's not far from st. petersburg. i suppose that this will be in the end of the decision, although it may not be, it may be quite costly to bring,

let us say steal all our various metals are on the ship. it's definitely much more costly. costly are, but if russia wants to continue doing that, then it will have to do it. i think there's just no other way. konstantin exit in this. why now? thank you. thank you. ukrainian child refugees are the beneficiaries of a record breaking auction held in new york on monday nobel peace prize winner to me 3 more. a tough who donated his metal for the cause, expressed surprise at the huge winning sum of more than a $103000000.00 us dollars a year lease. it was a special kind of auction initiated by this ma'am. the me to move, i talk russian dissident journalist, a nobel peace prize winner on the block, the nobel prize metal he was awarded just last year. his place to proceed to

children affected by russia's invasion, ukraine, a movie that's his because it used to be, we felt a sense of helplessness at our newspaper, actually because the war started, people were dying. my country was involved in all of this happen with just with my us to run our country and am and we didn't know what to do. that sense of helplessness that we felt on the 24th of february onwards is familiar to many americans. mcelroy, in the face of moscow, increasingly draconian press laws were out of suspended publication of his nova cassette a newspaper. well, now he's found another way to make a difference by helping children traumatized by the conflict with what can we do? so the future is not ruined. and swept away like that, demolished cities. i. i have a oh, over a 100000000 either. doesn't even matter what it is over a $100000000.00. been ladies and gentlemen. done. all right.

the amount raised exceeded expectations and turned a peace prize into a fund that will alleviate the suffering of war for the 1st time since russia's invasion of ukraine, germany has publish an official list of weapons and equipment that it is supplying to keith along with $500.00 stinger rockets and tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition already delivered. the list includes a whole host of heavy weapons to, to be sent to ukraine shortly, including the howitzer, 2000 system. berlin says it's published the list to bring germany's information strategy in line with key allies like the united states. well for more in this we can add talk to dw pickle, correspondent hands plant high has got to see what stands out most for you on the list. there are 2 things. i think one was say, 1st of all, how diverse this list is? it ranges from weapons such as anti tank weapons and anti aircraft weapons. ron's

of ammunition, small caliber limits, ammunition to medical supplies and even food and just trucks and cars and things like that. so a very wide range of equipment that has been supplied to ukraine in the last couple of months. but it also stands out is all these heavy weapons that have been under discussion in germany, and a very controversial discussion in germany 4 weeks now. and it is now absolutely clear that germany has not sent a single piece of heavy equipment to ukraine, yet as to store unclear when this heavy equipment in would in fact reach ukraine. hence, why did it take the german government so long to publish it to arms deliveries is. i think there were a large number of reasons for that. the main reason that the government advances is security. nobody wanted to say clearly what was being sent to ukraine in order not to give that information to the russians, basically, so that the russians would not be able to see how much the ukrainian defense has

been strengthened by such deliveries. the 2nd reason is a sense of embarrassment. i think both the political embarrassment in the sense that the social democrats who are in government here together with the greens and the free democrats, have been more interested in the past and talking to russia in appeasing russia than in arming ukraine. so there's a political embarrassment, and in the sense, a bit of an embarrassment about the fact that this list in the end is not that substantial, not as substantial as ukraine might have asked for. political correspondent hands. brandt, thank you. let's take a quick look at some other stories making headlines. this are british rail workers or staging their biggest national strike in 30 years. networks will largely be brought to a standstill on tuesday, thursday and saturday this week. so 40000 staff of walked off the job of demanding higher pay in england,

scotland and wales shore lanka has shut schools and non essential state services for 2 weeks. in an effort to save fuel, the nation is in the grips of its worst ever economic crisis calls for the president to resign are growing louder as people face severe shortages of essential goods. the members of israel's coalition government say they will dissolve. parliament triggering a 5th parliamentary election in just 3 years. the coalition has been an office for just one year. and last it's one c 2 majority in april foreign minister. yeah. your lap heat will take over as prime minister until a new government is warning on nearly half a 1000000 people have been evacuated in southern china as the heaviest rains in decades. reek havoc, red alert warnings were issued on tuesday with forecast was predicting more heavy downpours. last summer,

catastrophic flooding and central china killed almost 400 people. in south korea has launched its 1st domestically made space rocket and successfully placed a dummy satellite into orbit. it comes after a previous attempt in october failed. soul is planning further launches as it moves to accelerate its space program. the rocket caused one and a half $1000000000.00 to develop. officials say it's not intended for military purposes. will. earlier i asked reuters senior correspondent josh smith in sol about the goal of the south korean space program. well, south korea has a whole range of goals that it hopes to accomplish. with this program, everything from potentially 6 g networks to launching its own satellite navigation systems. similar to keep yet as well as even potentially placing a lunar probe on the moon at some point. at the same time,

there are also some military elements to launch a constellation of spy satellites, better keep an eye on, on its neighbor in north korea. for now it's pretty much on almost entirely reliant on the united states for that kind of information. and it hopes to become much more independent. there's also of course, a major commercial element to this. it helps to give a lot of the technology to his private sector and potentially launch things for other clients and expand some of the courts that way. briefly, if you could, and how important is this for south korea to join the circle of space very countries. it definitely sees itself as a major global player. and this is a big step is quick to note that it's one of 7 countries now that have this kind of homegrown technology. and so both from an economic military but also just simply national proceed element, this is a huge win for them. all right? when they get there, josh smith and sell,

thank you to east africa now where the death toll from a massacre. and ethiopia, as a romeo region, has risen to at least $260.00 official said rebels targeted ethnic. i'm hire a villagers, it's the latest atrocity in ethiopia is nearly 2 year old civil war that began in the northern te gray region. government forces are trying to oust the t gray people's liberation from, from a stronghold there. but the war has spilled over into other parts of the country, leaving thousands dead and millions displaced. dw correspondent mario miller visited one town on the border of the t gray region that has been shattered by ethnic violence, deserted and destroyed in december last year to grain fighters loyal to the te gray people to liberation front or t p. f. attack the boot the town of alba and they left their mark. abala used to have a mixed population of ethnic to grants and afar in the days leading up to the t. b

. life attack witnesses tell us. fighting had already broken out along ethnic lines between afar residence a far militia and local to grounds, causing many to leave. as you can see, the destruction is systematic. every house on this road has been damaged. the de grain fighters went from door to door, looted and damaged everything they could find was to he has seen the mayor of abala has since returned together with armed men. an attempt to reinstate some sense of security on the cylinder cabanas at 8 o'clock. the shelling was relentless m. o like rain, more than 225 people died and watermelon. they killed the elderly in their homes and others while they were escaping. good mother followed them as, as shortened as was those and killed them put on the lawyer to migrate. they also raved several women. he says, the t p l f and the government declared

a ceasefire. it's fragile that it's been in for since march. in late april tpl f i t as withdrew from abala and other territories in the afar region, little allowing aid convoys into the tea gray region. but ballast may r t i s n, says the t p a laugh never really left or for the less than a long way say we're fully withdrawn from a thought a little, but they haven't really fully left of well, the hill that you see there are there up there now, don't is girl come back once they have received enough food aid as warrants, they had enough of it, they will use it that a warrior while you're looked at a nearby cemetery. we meet mohammed hussain a local health official who has helped very close to 60 bodies. among them were several children he tells us, but among capital i have a heavy heart. nicholas my little, i'm lost for words by them made this has left a scar in my life. if al and i'll never forget this little mother's home. but it's not just lives that have been lost. local infrastructure lies in ruins, as well. citizens wagner,

that they destroyed the hospital with everything that's useful. the x ray machine, the chem lab, and the laboratory i was, they took everything and they broke the rest of the delinquent code. the fighting has caused a rift between the 2 communities. both now accused each other of massacres, destruction and looting. we found signs of t p laugh actions, but to grind witnesses also made claims of a foreign militia aggressions. they say they're targeted and killed several to ground residence before transporting several 1000 to the regional capital samarra. the head of the u. n. h. c. r. 's field office in samarra confirmed that around 8000 people have been held at a government run camp meant to accommodate about 1500 people. this on a national and international standards that she wrote. that's that she'll be living on living human conditions. he says, among those detained are about 1200 children,

many suffering from malnourishment. we tried to gain access to the camp, but were denied by local authorities who also refused to grant us interviews. we did, however, manage to hear from one of the people in the camp. he sent us these pictures. he told us via fawn that people are suffering from diseases like scabies, diarrhea, and pneumonia. that there is not enough food and no medical care. he says 70 people, including 5 children, have died since december due to lack of medicines and food. no one knows when the border towns residence will return. or if they will ever get to call a balla their home again. if you opium prime minister abbey homage announced a committee would look into whether it would be possible to enter peace talks with rebel groups. we asked journalist collado when joey in the capital, addis ababa, how likely it is that a negotiated solution can be reached when the decision solution will highly depend

on what the committee will report back to the government of the few people, the committee going to the supposed to look at the details of what it would take when it decision process a complicated process. and after that then they'll be able to advise on probably what form of timeline and also all these we to also be about clocking with the government to, to talk to talk peace, you know. but on the other side, it was the pressure from a but they want there will be to post and facilitated. so depending on the, on the committee, that's probably when we shall see how we keep in coming to move. but if you can come and see a process, a system of an issue, dialogue collector, how much would i be? i'd be willing or able to compromise. i think if you look at the destination, wait, wait, has reached close to 2 years now. i mean, with a net initial saying, when i go for 1000000 people in need of emergency assistance because of the

conflict, we've got people suffering a part of the seat. i mean of the country we see in the tension like has been just seen in the story. we see a so much competition beyond just the government and the need to live. so i think it's a to point the government to the point where it is thinking and i'm sure it's kind of thinking of how do we get these back to normal? you know, you know, we've got to let the people to grant 6000000 people, you know, feel like they're part of it. you know? so i think, but there is a possibility that the government will do it for compromise, read receipt, allowing you to know that you kind of me. so for the sake of the people and for the sake of i tend to not see it is a high possibility that the government to look at some, some compromise. i didn't know that was collateral when joey, a journalist, and that you know,

being capital as well. a fisherman in cambodia has netted the biggest freshwater fish on record. the 300 kilogram stingray was fitted with a tracking tag by researchers before it was released back into the new con river. the device will give scientists unprecedented access to the behaviors of the news of fish. over the next year. sting ray numbers are declining to, to habitat loss and climate change. well, before we go, here's a quick look at our top story. this, our ukraine's president volunteers. lensky has called russia's aggression and evil that can be stopped only on the battlefield. his latest video dress appears to dismiss hopes, especially among some european states that ukraine would seek talks with russia. you're watching the dw news coming up next on d, w, use asia, afghan weddings get

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