ah ah ah ah, this is dw is coming to live from berlin. fresh russian strikes on ukraine, hit the capital keith. the southern city of nikolai also comes under fire, rescue workers pull a boy from the rubble of an apartment, building. nato issues a sharp warning to russia not to use nuclear weapons in ukraine. secretary general

ja installed back says there would be severe consequences if a lot of protein resorts to nuclear arms on the battlefield. and aid agencies or warning world hunger is reaching catastrophic levels. we report from madagascar where years of drought mean a 1000000 people are desperately in need of humanitarian aid. ah. hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. russia is again pounding ukraine and renewed air offensive now into its 4th day. moscow claims its striking only infrastructure but civilians are also in the firing line as drones and cruise missiles seek out non military targets. more than a dozen people have been killed in the last day alone. this pre dawn, air raid sirens,

and my don square and keys ringing another day in russia's war on ukraine. daylight reveals fresh horrors. rushing shells struck an apartment building in the southern city of nikolai of an 11 year old boy spent 6 hours traps beneath the rebel before emergency workers pulled him to safety. in harkey, the death toll rose in the recent rushing, shooting on a civilian car convoy ukrainian. prosecutors said 25 people have now died including 12 children. investigators say one passenger, a 75 year old woman crowd nearly 200 meters towards help. before succumbing to her injuries. authorities fear the death toll could increase further, body fragments are being sent for d. n a analysis to identify those killed and harrison region retaken by ukrainian

forces survivors share what they endured. well, you just give me, this is a disaster. i have been crying for months. i'm still shocked. i've lost everything now that i am 72 years old and i was left with nothing. all my clothes, i hear everything, use the show. elderly and disabled ukrainians have been forced to start over. in the western city of kolinski aid workers welcome new refugees driven out of their homes by recent attacks on separation. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski vowed again to hunt down those responsible for ukrainian suffering. last arrows, if gus potential or intelligence special services, law enforcement agencies are finding out all the details regarding these and other russian strikes and they bloom. no russian terrorism will be able to remain unknown

to justice. that we will know all the knowledge and all the details for ukraine will bring to justice. every russian murderer, an executioner, one from commanders to privates, who carried out criminal orders, looking into the will of ukrainian people to fight on continues. and so does this war and joining us now from keith is our correspond mathias bowling up, but he has bring us up to date on the latest russian attacks in ukraine. what's been happening there today? yeah, there were strikes again on several parts of the country. the south mac alive and 300 hit know the a 300 is a modified eddie and rocket, and it can be used on the shorter distance. so that's why a cities like mach alive park is the port issue which are closer to the front lines, or in the case of pocket close to the russian border. much more often hits with these cheaper miss on their own key. if we've seen drones,

many drones are be shut down by ad defend. but some also hit the tone of my card. if we heard that some infrastructure was destroyed, then we don't know more details about that. we also don't know whether anybody was injured or killed in these specific attacks, but it seems that the attacks that started on monday, this wave of new attacks on infrastructure here in ukraine is continuing. although of course, not at the same intensity as on monday, where 80 rockets were fired at the same time. russia will probably not be able to keep this up for a long time, but it keeps maintaining pressure on the air defense and it keeps hitting target. so the rockets and missiles are continuing to rain down on ukraine. how is ukraine responding to these attacks? martinez? people, you have to develop quite some resilience. and what we see now is that whenever

something happens anywhere in ukraine emergency services, but also technical services are pretty quick to make the site excess love again, patch roads so that traffic can flow again and get back to some kind of usability get usability of public facilities we've seen today at the bridge. i don't know if you remember the gloss, bridge tourist attraction, aware of rocket came on just next to it, very spectacular pictures that day and the crater next to it is already and it's just, this is a part, this is not a major road. it's it's, it's a little park park road. it's already been patched and they were repairing the fences and everything. but yes, we were getting reports that the russian installed head of the occupied hassan

region has asked for an evacuation of civilians there. what you make of that yeah, we've heard that a few days ago, and today he reiterated that he wanted russia to evacuate civilians from there to sudden russia. that's, of course, a very worrisome, our development knowing that russia has forcibly supported many people from occupied regions into russia and re settled them there. that's a violation of international law. and it also shows that the russian authorities, russian installed or forty's on these occupied territories. they seem to be worried about the ongoing offensive. ukraine has also asked people to leave, but ukraine has asked people to leave work voluntarily and probably on to ukrainian territory. that's very difficult because russia does not let everybody who wishes to leave leave. there is one check point where people can cross over and many

people i held back there. sometimes it's open, sometimes it is not. so she did these, these evacuations as they call it, to russia. they might really be part of a bigger re relocation scheme of deportation. but he has thank you very much for now. our correspondent mathias bollinger in chief nato defense ministers, meanwhile, are meeting for a 2nd day in brussels, as well as more military aid for ukraine. the focus is on vladimir putin to beg threats, to use nuclear weapons. here's a look at russia's nuclear arsenal. the war, new crane has once again raised a specter many had hoped humanity cast out years ago. nuclear war. russia currently has more nuclear weapons than any other nuclear power. the exact number is a closely guarded secret, but intelligent services peg the number at around 6000 warheads. the vast

majority are so called strategic nuclear weapons. normally deployed on intercontinental ballistic missiles, strategic nuclear weapons have the capability to destroy entire cities in one strike. they're part of a nuclear to turn strategy. military planners argue governments would be reluctant to attack a country if they knew they possessed these doomsday weapons. given their ra, destructive power, and ukraine, shared border with russia. experts argue moscow's unlikely to deploy a strategic nuclear weapon. however, there is another option, so called tactical nuclear weapons. they can be fired from traditional weapon systems like cruise missiles, while they are between $10.10 times less powerful than their strategic cousins. they still pack enough power to wipe out hardened targets without producing widespread radioactive fallout. rushes iskander missile system has already found used throughout the current conflict,

and can easily fire tactical nuclear weapons of which russia is thought to possess some 2000. i spoke earlier with roland, freud and stein the vice president of the security. think tank. globe sack com. we talked about how about ne toes meeting on nato. holding a planning group meeting, there were nuclear plan, group meeting asked and how concerned nato is about the possibility of russia using nuclear weapons in ukraine. and this is really the, the crucial point here. it's not the question whether put in a series or not. the question is, how do we react to is a nuclear threats. and i think the idea that we need to deter him is a very good one. now germany is defense minister. christina lambert says that nato should adapt accordingly to russia's nuclear threats. any idea what she means by that? i do not know exactly. i know there are other politicians from

a party like all of myths and the, the chief with in the going to stock of the city who has already indicated that we should be more ready to go. she ate with russia. now i think as a reaction to nuclear threats, that's really the wrong course. i mean, that is signaling to put in that he is getting somewhere with his threats. if she'd the minister had in mind that we should, we should adapt our tactics and talk to each other to coordinate how to react to nuclear threats and the possible use of nuclear weapons. and she has my full support, i think then she is right. russia is due to hold is nuclear exercises cern possibly at the same time that nato is doing exactly. that is the risk in this situation roll on the other sides. intentions will be misread. is there

a risk of miscalculation here? that risk is extremely low because during the cold war, the u. s. and the soviet union have established channels of communication which still exists between the militaries and also between the political leaderships. so there is, there is the so called hot line between washington and moscow, and i do not see a significant risk off of unintentional escalation here. that germany and 14 other countries have agreed on plans for a better european air defense system. what can you tell us about that? well, the sad fact is that basically for the last 20 years since 2002, nato armed forces have concentrated on a different kind of threat. more from a trans national terrorist organizations. and those organizations do not possess

jet planes. so air defense was neglected, painfully neglected. during most of that time, after 2014 was crimea and on boss and the increasing russian threats of a return to militarized imperialism. i think that has been to a certain degree turnaround in nature policy, but that still has to take shape. so at the moment, nato, nato air defenses are an underdeveloped, and we have to shape up pretty quickly. ok, so they're making it for that deficit. nato countries. roland have been giving a lot of their military hardware to ukraine. could this be making the alliance itself more vulnerable? no, every tank given to ukraine improves our security. also, a leopard to tag from germany is worth many times more on the battlefield in

ukraine than in some kind of military depot in a german garrison. so, as you know, actually providing weapons to ukraine. increase is off security because it means that the russian military threat at to us will also diminish rural. and thank you very much for talking with us. that was rural and floyd and stunt vice president of the think tank. globe sec well, nato has issued a sharp warning to russia not to use nuclear weapons in ukraine. secretary general ian st oldenburg, said any use of nuclear arms would fundamentally changed the nature of the war. russia, nuclear rhetoric is dangerous, reckless. ah, de know that if they use nuclear weapon against the ukraine, it will have severe consequences. and that also know that the a nuclear war canal through, on under know default and standing by in brussels for us is our course monetary

sholtes. terry, you were following that entire news conference that went on for more than 20 minutes. what are your main takeaways from what the secretary general said? certainly today, a lot of the focus was on this question of nuclear rhetoric coming out of the kremlin. every one is worried about the unpredictably of russian unpredictability of russian president vladimir putin. and so while nato says that it has not seen any, any practical change in the pastor of russia's nuclear arsenal, nobody can take that for granted. and so this is why they're going ahead with this, this long planned exercise next week and, and why the deterrence messages continue to be issued from nato headquarters here? nobody wants to president putin to think he's going to be able to get away with this. now they say that they would not respond in a nuclear way, but certainly russia would be made to feel the consequences in a most severe manner if he were to use any saw any kind of nuclear weapon against

ukraine. the nato defense ministers, of course, covering a lot of ground there over the past couple of days. we are hearing also that they are the several nader members want to create a joint anti odd anti missile shield for europe. tell us marbella yes, this is a german lead initiative and it's been picking up steam since budgets are under pressure and since so much equipment is being sent to ukraine and to day on the sidelines of the defense ministers, meetings, 14 allies and finland, which is most likely soon to be an ally, signed an agreement that they would start working together on, on missile defense on air defense more broadly. and that means that they wouldn't each just be buying national systems, they would jointly procure them. they would make sure that all of these, these, this equipment works together and, and this is a big deal. this is something nato has wanted to see for many, many years. and now it seems that that, that the pressure from the war on ukraine,

the pressure on, on resources is finally making country's work together. this is going to be a big improvement in, in air defense, but also simply in cost of his efficiency for purchases. well, nato carries out of nuclear exercises or readiness exercises every year, and they're going to cont, they're going to go ahead with there's this year despite the war in ukraine. terry, is there a risk that russia could see that was a provocation? russia tends to describe every thing nato does as a provocation, so i don't think that's going to deter anyone in nato from carrying out these exercises. in fact, i, everyone that i've spoken with says that if we were to even think about canceling this exercise, that would send the message that bullying works, that this nuclear sabre rattling works and it would in fact, even empower the kremlin to think about using nuclear weapons. because they would see that so western allies are,

are backing down. so i'm told that there was never any consideration about calling off the exercise this year. terry, thank you very much. our corresponded terry sholtes. they're in brussels. well, turkish president rush of type air to one says he wants to continue pushing for peace in ukraine. despite the reason escalation, edwin was speaking of original summit and context on the turkish leader is meeting russia's president vladimir putin there. turkey has retained close ties with both moscow and keith and has offered to organize pistols. at one says, his goal is to bring an end to the bloodshed as soon as possible, grandmother, if you could, is in, but we are all cozy experiencing the effect of the crisis in ukraine on a regional and global scale. all didn't be about if i always say that it just peace can be established with diplomacy. so i think that there are no winners in war, but it's a no losers and equitable piece. natalie is,

julia han is following those talks in a from istanbul asked her what has emerged so far? well, so far, terry, we haven't heard any details about add ons renewed efforts at diplomacy or would vladimir putin thinks about it? when the 2 leaders briefly appeared before cameras, they focused on energy security and putting proposed that russia could export more gas wire turkey to european union countries. after the nort stream, a pipeline leaks essentially turning turkey into a, a hub for russian energy for russian gas. of course, he is well aware of the fact that many european countries have been scrambling in recent months to secure a ton of tips to russian gas. let's listen to ward letting me put in said we might consider the perspective of building yet another gas pipeline system and creating a gas hub in turkey for sales or other countries. so 1st of all, of course, european countries only of course,

if they are interested with while that is of course, the big question if they're interested putting also said that his proposal would mean that prices could be determined without politics. his spokesman said that turkey reacted positively to the idea, but we haven't heard anything directly from edwin yet. the turkish president only said that he was looking forward to intensifying ties with moscow from energy to security. and of course, statements like that of viewed with a lot of concern and western capitals. so we've got putin focusing on energy there, but there to one saying in advance of this meeting that he wants to search for a diplomatic solution to the ukraine war. what exactly is present at one's role in all this? while edwin still sees himself as the key mediator in this

crisis, he has performed a balancing act between ukraine and russia. since russia invaded the country in february, turkey is a natal member, but it has so far refused to join western sanctions against moscow, even though i should add that the turkish government has clearly condemned russia's annexation of 4 ukrainian regions last month, but the turkish president, eas, trying to continue this balancing act, he is hoping to bring together, followed me as the lensky end of loading me appointing for peace talks. because he says, diplomacy is the only way out of this. and ahead of today's meeting, there were reports about a turkish proposal to host talks between russia and the west on ukraine in the weeks to come. but of course, the question is, how realistic is that? because neither russia nor ukraine seemed to particularly want talks right now indeed, or that. so that's one question. another question is, how likely is it that putin would listen to,

or the one given the turkey as part of nato? well the relationship between vladimir putin andretta ty about on is a very complicated one, but russia has essentially become a pariah in most of the western world. so i do believe that of letting me put in needs at least a few partners, a few allies. and that's why i think he's still talking to ridge of ty, about on. so putting needs to add one in a way and add one needs, putting at least a when it comes to the economy. the turkish economy is ailing. we have skyrocketing inflation rates here. so for turkey, tray ties with moscow, energy corporation is, is very important earlier. thank you so much. good to see you again. our correspondent jojo honda in istanbul, sketch up on a few other stories making headlines around the world. today. protesters in iran's western us or by john province, burned the national flag and crush anti government demonstrations. activists have

defied a government crackdown to rally in the capital to iran. the unrest follows the death of a young woman held by the so called religious beliefs or morality. police activists say over 200 people have been killed. italy's parliament has met for the 1st time since elections election winner, georgia maloney's brothers of italy party is looking to form a right wing coalition with material saline head of the far right league and silvio berlusconi. of the righteous for italian. north korea has launched 2 long range cruise missiles, according to state media, photos show leader kim jong on overseeing the operation. he says it was a test to confirm nuclear capabilities. a jury in the u. s. state of connecticut has ruled a conspiracy theorist. alex jones should pay $965000000.00 to people who suffered

from his false claim that the school shooting never happened. a gunman killed 20 children and 6 adults at sandy hook elementary in 2028 agencies or warning world hunger is reaching catastrophic levels. germany's baton and his partner concern worldwide say the fight against famine has largely stagnated. in recent years, this years global hunger index gives a grim outlook, citing crises, including wars, climate change. in the fallout from the pandemic. one of the countries worst effected is madagascar or correspondent, 8 or increased reports from ambo bombay, which has suffered from years of drought access to what is the major challenge she and the ambo vollmer region. after years of insufficient rainfall, the south of madagascar is experiencing one of the war st. droughts in its history . and for many people here, that means they have to go very far. distance is in order to have access to water.

the man with a family behind me, for example, well busy the whole day trying to transport water from the town to his own village as well. of course it's difficult. it's heavy. i have no choice. i need water, i can't live without it. i have to find small jobs here and there to afford it. more than 1000000 people already in need of humanitarian assistance at the moment, but this number could possibly go significantly up. in the next months, 8 organizations are not only delivering emergency aid, but also trying to address the key challenge access to water drilling balls and installing drip water systems. for example, like here in this village, they are just waiting for rain for to farm shore away there. the weather, the climate change, the rainfall is not right on time or is small sol. the solution is this boils.

the pharmacy are preparing their fields at the moment, starting to plant new seats. it is the time of the year where the rain is supposed to start, and while some are hoping for it, others fear that we could see yet another season of insufficient rainfall. this could then possibly lead to a bad harvest and 10th of thousands could skip back into extreme hunger. you're watching d, dubliners, just reminder the top stories were following for you this. our nato has issued a sharp warning to russia not to use nuclear weapons in ukraine. secretary generally in stoughton back says there would be severe consequences if a lot of routine carries out is threat to use such weapons. and russia has launched a 4th day of drone and missile attacks against ukraine. officials say more than a dozen people have been killed in strikes in the last day. a love

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