ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. vladimir putin says all ukrainians can obtain russian citizenship and a fast track procedure announcement comes after more civilians are killed in russian selling and eastern new grain. give alleges that moscow was stepping up a tax against civilian targets and was it was raised to the top fuel by dirty

tricks. the world's most popular ride sharing app apparently drove its aggressive global expansion with extreme and even underhanded tactics. even going as far as taking the french president for a ride. and will he stay or will he go? christian. rinaldo, importantly wants to leave manchester united after failing to turn up for their pre season tour with the clubs, new culture breaks his silence and insist a superstar is not for sale. ah, i'm here until in berlin. thanks for joining us. russian president vladimir putin has announced a fast track procedure allowing all ukrainians to obtain russian citizenship part of moscow's efforts to strengthen its influence over war torn ukraine. the announcement came hours after rushing shelling of hot keys killed at least 6 people

and dozens more. keith says moscow is stepping up attacks against civilian targets, including homes, schools and shopping centers. bits of this building was still collapsing when rescue workers pulled this woman out of the rubble of her apartment. and how keith was raining dust after russia attacked the city again with artillery rockets and tanks. many elderly citizens of ukraine have had to watch their homes crumble all boon. who you? bolton, you are doing. what have you done? there are old people here and you are doing such bad things to them that you will burn in hell with the law. that would work give you an idea, give you the up really how keith schools have also been hit hard. official say more

than 180 have been lost to the war. this one was a boarding school for children who are visually impaired. boy dd 2 of my children study here. one is 14, the other is 9 years old. guilty of itself. father, east, in the city of chassis via russian rockets landed on 3 apartment buildings killing several people. russia continues to claim that it is only attacking targets of military value. but try telling that to those people still walk into a mountain of trouble, brick by brick. in the hope of finding me some 5 d, w, stay connolly's in the ukrainian capital reporting for us. earlier, we asked him whether it was true that russia's military seems to be targeting civilians deliberately. well, definitely is the line here in kia from the government. they are saying that this

is an attempt by russia to try to break ukraine's resolve to pressure on the civilian population to so chaos so that those same civilians would then put pressure on their government to come to some kind of deal with russia. given that russia is struggling to make much noise progress and certainly much less progress than it is thought given it's huge security in terms of weapons and financial resources. i think the kind of intention behind all this is a question for later, for potential war crimes. investigators why russia is doing this. there's been talk that some of this could be because russia simply run out of the kind of precision weapons that would allow it to go specifically for military targets. and then this was, he had the, the explanation that it is part of a threatening. we've certainly seen this going on for weeks. they haven't changed their stretchy, i was at a shopping center in central u. k. about 10 days ago. also, you know, countless dead there. no changing the strategy and just claims for moscow time tom, again that they were hitting military targets and that these weren't civilians, even though you know very clearly these are civilians who are suffering. i think the kind of take away the ukrainians is wherever they are. and yet,

even if they're not near a military target, if you have the chance to get out, you have to because you know, there is no place in this country and especially anywhere near the front lines. it is anywhere near safe. back here in germany, lawmakers have new concerns about energy being used as a weapon. the biggest pipeline supplying russian natural gas to the country has been closed for 10 days of annual maintenance work, but authorities in germany and across europe. fear that moscow may keep the taps off to punish the westward support of ukraine. leaders are now warning industries and household alike to prepare for gas shortages. gas has stopped flowing through the non stream one pipeline. it's meant to be temporary, but german authorities, a worried when moscow will turn the taps back on indian ships to fight in the worst case scenario, if there really is no gas coming in from russia. a few parameters, a crucial is and how fast we are with the liquefied natural gas terminals. the

government is procuring how much gas we can save ourselves. there are several scenarios where we would end up in a gas emergency. we must do everything possible now to avoid that tom van duster for might be on a visit to the czech republic, germany's economy minister gave voice to his government's uncertainty about russia's intentions was, comes. i was to gossip gas deliveries may resume and full. they have even been statements from russia that effectively announced this, but deliveries may also remain at 0 because a minor technical issue is discovered that cannot be repaired. and we can assume that this is a pretext to keep the pipeline shot. for before marg wonders, the maintenance work is scheduled to last for 10 days with no gas flowing through its most important pipeline. germany is waiting nervously to see what happens after that. earlier we spoke to d. w, russia, analyst, constantine a got. he told us that the kremlin is monitoring out to the german government,

is reacting to the prospect of a cut back in gas supplies. i think that put is russia being, as we used to joke and russian, stella must signal of the land of signals. this is aurora signal from putting his testing, the berlin political establishment of the german public opinion as to know what will be the reaction to this shut down. i don't think it is permanent. i think it is an attempt to war a germany and other european countries dependent on russian gas. ah, that more trouble mail i had unless you correct your ways i. e, unless you stop to pull to ukraine, unless you start talking this kind of fraud piece quote unquote, ah, and style to listen to the ground and narrative. i suppose that there is a downside. a flip side for that to that, a, because in this, in the end for the kremlin, because in the end, russia gets a lot of money from supplying europe with gas. and in case putin basically blocks

these supplies, he may, he may re, cade chaos, but at the same time, you'll finally prove that russia's an unreliable supplier. and with actually, i think over the long term, increase the rush to find alternative suppliers. and just by the way, i'm speaking here from lithuania, which several years ago, rented immobile basically offshore elin g facility from norway, which helps the country to basically compensate for a shortage, i guess from gast rome. so i think there are solutions, and i suppose that in the long term with putting continues, this shan't ours, this blackmail, he will probably lose. but of course, in the short term, he may get some winds. he may get some of people panicking and that is exactly. he is a, in my view, that is exactly his goal in hole in the whole operation. an

investigation that uses over of using underhanded tactics and ethically dubious practices derive it's aggressive global expansion. it's claimed in tens of thousands of wheat documents that show how over courted comp, politicians, including french president emmanuel mccall. the report also says the right healing company exploited violence against drivers twin favorable concessions from regulators. delete files went to the guardian newspaper and a consortium of international journalists. now it's not uncommon for european capitals to mix very intensively in their economies and sometimes even pick favorite companies, paris, for example, one's part of car maker, renault. after all, earlier i spoke with edward on his on his way so junior attack and labor journalist, mother, or advice and asked him why the scandal, what the scandal actually was in these late documents. the scandal here is in

part that hoover seem to have take advantage of the system to guarantee access or to build up access to political influential leads to media companies. to briefly break the law, be excused for breaking the law and then work together to rewrite the law in its faker. and this is particularly scandal for a few reasons. one, you know, who was whole premise, if your campaign was that was an inherently destructive company. but as the league show, this has been known since the reporting of this company. from earliest days they relied a lot on acting, brazenly acting illegally. and then figuring out ways to justify speaker later on, right. and that these promises are used to get money to from investors, are used to re orient the priorities that he's had when he created transit systems or funded them and restructured our daily lives on an idea. or as the whistleblower for who are said, a lie that was sold to consumers drivers, political leads,

media companies, regulators. all right, now you're just, we're talking about the whistleblower there. let's stay with him for a 2nd. he himself was a lobbyist for uber. was he not part of the problem and do we know why he actually chose to come forward now? yeah, of course he was a part of the problem, but i would say this entire system, this logging system is the problem, right? i mean, the reason why hoover and other companies have these sorts of cheat sheet lobbyist and these playbooks, because they do understand that the way to bypass laws and to change the laws is to appeal to government officials, to the highest level. we have a system that a lot of parts of the world encourages that and shrines as normal behavior, allowing corporations to bypass democratic processes. and as there was a said he, he was part of something that was, you know, immoral that was wrong. that was deeply anti gun craddick, but that has gone into the point when you look at the labor conditions of these workers, how they're starving. other struggling to make ends meet,

where there is no longer room to be silent on. this sort of issue. hooper says, now that it's a reform company and it's actually a completely different company and your opinion, is that a true statement? i think the key thing to look at is what has changed about and grammy over pointed to recommendations made by then attorney general eric holder about how to change the company values change corporate governance. and those changes have been made. what about the actual business model and the incentives of it still has the same core business model, which is to try to initially subsidize rides, bring passengers and drivers on to the platform. the price is cut, the pay that hasn't changed, or the incentives to do that. no, i have the labor laws across most of the countries and cities that operates. so it still has incentives to erode labor laws restructure regulations. and even if it is not doing it, and some of these more recently legal ways,

it has figured out over the past decade of changing the law, how to make previously legal modes of operation. now we go and now now they're at the point where they don't need to act as recently as legal because they have changed. all right, we're going to leave it there. i'm afraid that was edward and wasteful jr. thank you for your analysis. thank you. now he's arguably the most famous actor footballer in the world. what exactly where christiano rinaldo will be playing next season? has been a mystery so far. there were reports that the portuguese superstar wants to leave manchester, united, the clubs, new coach and fists. rinaldo is not for sale. manchester united in thailand for their 1st pre season. friendly against outs, rivals, liverpool fans in bangkok want to see one man in particular. look christiano. rinaldo isn't their media report say the 37 year old has demanded to

leave. united. missed out on the champions league with a 6th place finish in england. last term. speculation is right, the superstar wants one last crack at europe's elite competition. it's news to new coach, eric 10. ha, go. hasn't thought this, so i've read. but what i said chris young was not for so christiane, always in our glance. and we want to get success together. but if that is the case, then where exactly is ronaldo? he's training back in portugal rather than lapping up the limelight in thailand. he's not, it is and that is due to personal issues. i know we are planning with christian on rinaldo for this reason. so that's it. and i'm looking forward to brookwood united have already seen

a host of plays leave, including paul paul. but who's just resigned for you? vent us losing rinaldo and he's mark ability around the world would be a hammer blow united to adamant they won't let that happen. you're watching did up the news live from berlin up lex's business news with chrissy plots and we'll be taking a closer look at that massive leak of over documents. and remember you can also get more news on our website. that's d w dot com. we'll be back at the top of the next hour with more news for you. people and trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away. families on the syria for the credit.