a young people clearly have the solution, the future to the 77 percent, every weekend on d w ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin, explosions, rock and military base and russian occupied crimea. moscow says it's a back, you waited 3000 people from the area and claims it fell victim to sabotage. it's the 2nd major attack on russian military facilities in crimea in a week. also on the program. outraged in germany, transferred off,

shult says he is disgusted after palestinian leader, muffled a boss on a visit to berlin accuses israel of committing. quote 50 holocausts against his people. and oscar nominated german filmmaker both going papers and dies page 81 peterson made his breakthrough in 1900. 2 with world war 2 epic with the world war 2 epic dawson cold and went on to direct a string of hollywood hits. ah, hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. multiple explosions had ripped through a russian ammunitions depot in crimea. the peninsula is part of ukraine, but occupied by russia since 2014. the kremlin says, 3000 people have been evacuated and describe the blasts as of sabotage without

saying who had held responsible. only a week ago, a russian air base in crimea was attacked, if ukrainian forces were behind the explosions. it would mark a significant escalation of the war. cellphone video captures, a giant fire on the horizon. russian officials say the blades engulfed, and ammunition depot at a russian military base in northern crimea. multiple fireballs can be seen and heard erupting in this amateur video. as the blaze rips through the plant to nearby villages had to be evacuated. wooster spots, and we came out the big look and saw clouds of smoke coming from the cautious weather military warehouses. our moon, we stayed there until about 7 already and everything was exploding, flashes, fragments, deputy, falling on us. you shipped it in the emergency guys came from kit and said they were evacuating. everybody was still out. there were explosion. shells falling right in the back yards. we have a shell in ours, a bet that was it was the guys came over to inspect it that i think they said they

were going to la d minded or whatever. we just left everything you pick. workers were quickly dispatched to start repairing rail tracks and power lines damaged. in tuesday's blasts was ended. you'll become which as movie mckesson is a subterranean, the russian ministry of defense them, as he says, the official cause of the incident was sabotaging harmful grace jolla. but it will be remembered more than 3000 people have been evacuated. my scales will sca from to nearby settlements in the reach out of the machine. we would have you, but we are why be in them or don't which are being housed and temporary facilities . so was me shame just pull my marilyn schools, league a physical so you can leave a total of $100.00. 21. people are being sheltered. adoption of those 20 are children sitting at that in chicago for the rest. have gone to their relatives. to this, to me. look, i see being the blasts come one week after similar explosions at a russian military air base on the kremlin controlled peninsula. kia is not claimed responsibility for either incident,

but ukraine's president has repeatedly said that regaining sovereignty over the country must include crimea, which was annexed by russia. 8 years ago. he touched on those efforts during his nightly video dress to the nation. the novel she reparations for the crimea platform on the way he likes picked the little number of participants taking part of this initiative to bring crimea back on the ukranian sovereignty. to expand rob today, the advisory council, the d occupation of crummy has been created to coordinate all activities and projects in this direction. entered, saw the success of the crimean platform, gainfully blood for crimea is a popular tourist destination for russians. and a cryptic tweet sent out after tuesday's explosion, one of the lens, his advisors wrote that invaders and thieves must understand there is a high risk of death in occupied territories, spring and des mathias pulling up here. who's joining us now from chia, but he has no admission from ukraine that it was behind those detonations in crimea

. instead, president vladimir zalinski has suggested that the explosions resulted from the incompetence russian troops. what do you make? well, i think her, we don't have to take this earth. literally a is pretty clear that such an amazement of explosions in ammunition dumps are not probably just caused by her negligence by the russian troops. and also some of the patterns, especially the 1st one, the strike on the military air base. actually it was that one i had similar explosions and in several places. so i don't think we have to take this. it's really, it's a way for ukraine not to provide me, not to admit this is not to provide maybe for further in order to feed the russian propaganda or. but it's not really that anybody here hides what's behind it. behind

the be off record. we hear a lot diff of different stories. it's important for ukraine to do this, to show their capabilities. it's also important to disrupt the supply lines because crimea is one of the most important supply lines in this war. and one of the highly highest miniaturized places here in the region. so i think this is pretty targeted and there is a clear message attached to it that ukraine can reach russian troops there in crimea. and here it's russia has occupied cry, crimea, for many years now, are there people left in crimea who are still loyal to ukraine? probably they all. hm. there's always every think that the people who are outspoken pro ukrainian, most of them have fled. some are in jails, i don't think it's possible to be in any way pro ukrainian as an activist, for example, in crimea, which work as a pro will ukrainian activist at the moment. but you know, the silent majority,

we don't know where they lean or how many of them lean to this side on this side. they're pretty, pretty sure that they're on one of the speculations actually about how these blasts have happened. is that the, that these were saboteurs and the secretary must be. there are the ways they concept hodge anything there. so yes, probably they're all, we don't know how many we don't know how forceful they'll, but he is. thank you very much. that was our correspond mathias bellingham in kit. yep. thank you. to catch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. veteran us politician, liz cheney has lost her seat in the republican primary to lawyer harriet hagerman. the supporter of donald trump. cheney has been an outspoken critic of the former president and was one of the few republicans to both for his impeachment, sri lankan medius, a former president go to buy a raj, a pox

a will return to the crisis working country later this month runs pipes of fledge relock it after tens of thousands of anti government protesters over ran his official residence last month. protesters have demanded that he and his family faced an investigation for corruption. germany's transfer all of showed says he is disgusted at what he described is outrageous remarks by the palestinian leader. mom would have been on a visit to berlin during a press conference with schoultz abbas said israel had committed quote, 50 holocausts against palestinians. the statement is led to an outpouring of anger here in germany. we'll have more on those reactions from our political correspond at the moment. first, let's listen to what our bus said. wow, several out of in since 1947. for to come back to the present day and feel israel has carried out 50 massacre in medicine for the for me in 50 palestinian village in the elephant flora. 50

massacres. 50 holocaust you and until to day every day, every day our people get killed by the israeli army. our political correspondent, nina hossa is covering this story forrest nina. tell us more about the reaction here in germany to abbas his comment and shots his handling of it. well, the reactions have been very strong indeed and also an israel, by the way, where the government speaks of not only a moral disgrace but monstrous lies. but here in germany, the biggest davy built site on quickly called it an anti semitism scandal at the chancery and from the opposition c. d. u party, we're hearing that our buses, cummins were outrageous and that showed should have asked mister abbas to leave, and that it was the biggest derailment at the chancery in history. the federal commissioner for the fight against anti semitism here. it was who said that by relative to revising the holocaust president abbas had lacked, quote, any sensitivity towards us hosts. but yes,

the german chancellor has also been criticized for how he handled their situation. now i was there at the presbyterian, there were 2 moments where we really held our breath 1st when our boss spoke of apartheid in this country show its quickly distanced himself from that. but then, as the last question mister about was asked, where they'd ever apologized for the olympics, 972 massacres. and he replied by saying that israel had committed 50 massacres in 50 years, 50 holocausts. now, every one knew that that was the last question. answer at the press about that word . holocaust lingered in the room, shots began to frown. it looked to me and to others, as though he wanted to respond. but he didn't. his spokesperson ended the presser shots shook hands with our buses left, and he who should definitely have responded there. and then that was a massive communication glitched by the german chancellor. and was possibly even more important is that it probably is also going to have an effect on shows his willingness to give us full throated support in the future. quite something new.

can you explain to our viewers why this has provoked such a strong reaction here in germany now when it comes to the words apartheid but especially holocaust here in germany, everybody is very sensitive because there is a difference between legitimate criticism of some of the actions israeli government stands for on the one side and using words that relative eyes what the nazis here in germany did during the 2nd world war there atrocities. worldwide, that is just a no go in germany. germany argues those atrocities cannot be compared to anything else. and relative isaac, the world war holocaust is even illegal here. so the feeling is that mahmoud abbas strategically use the political stage here. he must have been aware that it was going to be a tremendous provocation to use that word for israel's actions at the chancery. and that's the one scandal because it is not going to do is cause any favors to provoke the chancellor like that. and the other is of course, that sort of didn't immediately challenge this on diplomatic language needed. thank

you very much for putting that in context for us. our correspondent nina has the oscar nominated german filmmaker both going peterson has died at the age of $81.00 peterson shot to fame with is world war 2 submarine epic. thus bought in 1982, his 1st english language film was the never ending story in 1984 and went on to direct a string of hollywood hits, including thrillers, air force, one as well as the war epic. troy wolfgang peterson built a career like few german directors ever achieved. his trademark elaborate, powerful thriller movies. his 1981 film thus bought the boat was one of german cinemas great successes. at the time, it was germany's most expensive production yet and picked up 6 oscar nominations. nearby love, drink stories, love taking people by the hand, taking them to

a world and keeping them there for hours. psychological depth and strongly defined characters. these elements were already evident in his early works for television, like the german language crime series, taught. after his success in theaters with thus bought and the fantasy film, the never ending story in the mid eighties, peterson moved to hollywood after an initial dry spell. one of cinema's biggest stars, clint eastwood wanted peterson to direct him in the line of fire, packed with action, but profound was a triumph with rave reviews and a smashing success at the box office. peterson established himself as one of the hollywood blockbuster directors. his films often carried a patriotic message in air force won the american president. that single handedly saves his plane from terrorists. the biggest stars wanted to work with both gunk,

peterson. the budgets for his movies soon exceeded $100000000.00. his biggest commercial success was troy, the epic. historical film with brad pitt peterson, belonged to the small circle of directors who were granted the final word and hollywood with complete creative control over their own work in 2016 for the 1st time in 30 years. he directed a movie in germany, fig in the bank for against the bank, a crime comedy. i think i need to when i went to the u. s. i had the feeling and so did others who said to me that you need to make a comedy film again? because they think i'm funny that i have a sense of humor, which is true. please laugh, laughing full of gang peterson, unexceptional director. a man who never forgot his roots or who lived out his dream, above all in hollywood. mm hm. and just remind her of the top story. we're

following for you. the sour here indeed be news. a series of explosions has rock to cranes annexed crimean peninsula. in what russia's defense ministry says has an active sabotage. local official say, a fire spark. the explosions had an ammunition depot, injuring to people, enforcing thousands from their homes. crane has neither confirmed or denied any attack on crimea. you're watching dw news up next week up business for you with chris cobra. i'm terry martin. thanks for with we got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah, magic corner check. hot spot for food. check and some great cultural memorials to boot.