we will show you how climate change and environmental conservation is taking shape around the world and how we can all make a difference. knowledge grows through sharing and download it now. feel free ah ah, this is d w. news coming to you live from berlin. germany is foreign minister makes a surprise visit to hockey. and alina padlock becomes the 1st german cabinet member to tour the eastern ukrainian city. close to the front lines. she said, how keep was a symbol of the total madness of the russian war of aggression. also coming up

brushes, reworked hairs ukraine's youngest from the arms of their parents. cube says 12000 children have been abducted and taken to russia, dw visits, one family. it's been reunited, and humanitarian workers on trial in greece, face charges of espionage and forgery. they could spend years behind bars, the actors say they were trying to save the lives of migrants crossing the mediterranean. ah. hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. german port minister molina burbock is made a surprise visit to the northeastern ukrainian city of hockey. not far from the front lines, burbock held talks were the ukrainian counterpart and toured several critical infrastructure sites, including a power station and a children's hospital. the cranes infrastructure has been under increasing attack

from russia. burbock paid tribute to the incredible stamina and courage of the ukrainians, or correspond max tonda company, donnelly, in about bach, in hockey, i asked her about the purpose of adelaide about box visit. right, so the german foreign minister actually followed the invitation by her ukrainian counterpart, calais about to show a different part of the country apart from key that has been visited by foreign heads. the state and top level politicians are quite frequently in the past. she's actually the 1st foreign guest who have come to hockey, if a region that's being shelter almost on a daily basis, a town that has ross city, i rather that has been largely destroyed, that has been besieged for quite some time, is dealing with serious issues a with it's critical infrastructure and this also one of the points i'm one of the, the, the, the points of her visits

a to raise the attention for the consequences for the critical infrastructure here for the situation with, with power, with heating with water again, but okay, came with a promise, a package she pledged, which includes transformers and generators to help out with blackouts that, that plague this town as well as 20000000 euros in that the mining funding. cuz the point here was that reconstruction cannot wait until the end of the war, but it has to be started. now, what did the foreign minister say max about delivering german tanks to ukraine? right, so that is a quite a controversial issue, not just hearing crane, but even more so a perhaps in berlin, where the coalition government cannot decide on sending heavy tanks to ukraine so far. so the joint 4 minutes on the battle stated that she

is in support. of everything that can help liberate ukraine and as she is in favor of weapons deliveries. in fact, she said that german weapons can't have the potential to save lives. so she will contain you to, to put pressure in berlin to try and make this happen. that the government will enable german arms or during tax to be sent, or perhaps even itself, since german tax, the ukrainian, a foreign minister was a bit during the statement here was a bit more optimistic if you can use it. we're in that context and he said, we don't want these tags to write up and down on the street in them. we need them to liberate our territories. and he also said that he believes that the german government he down knows this and eventually will come around. so it's just a matter of time until leopard to tags will actually be delivered to ukraine in his

opinion. max, thank you very much for now. the w max sander there in hockey rushes invasion of ukraine has also made victims of the youngest people. ukraine says 12000 of his children had been abducted from occupied territories and taken to russia. he w. manuel shaw's pound one family for whom the separation has finally ended. reunited at love of santa and her daughter, uva. it's nearly a year since day last tagged. oksana is a combat medic for the ukrainians. but her brother is a separatist. while she was on the front line, he took his family and oxen as daughter to russia to understand how this was possible. we travel near pal tavin central ukraine. oksana moved here after her house in the east was destroyed by russia. miss eyes. she preferred to not bring

her daughter twain to view. oksana is still recovering from head injuries sustained in backward on the front line. last september, a widow oksana had left here barbie's her parents somewhere she thought was safe over the mariners had elusive, made the from when i was injured in all my possessions idea foam, you were burnt. i couldn't contact my family immediately. and when i finally found an opportunity to call my mother, i found out that my own brother had taken my child to the territory of the russian federation at nebraska. lee, this knitted it, birdie wherever. it took 4 months to get her back. he asked as and i immediately filed a complaint with the police and said, i knew that if i didn't sold this at the official level, i would never see my daughter again. you never heard and i'm a military person. so there was no way i would have been able to go to russia in my brought the didn't want to return. my daughter getting out there. this is where

ukraine's parliament commissioner for human rights investigates abductions and deportations, or just the law. this is part of the entire war crime system and genocide of the ukrainian nation, which the russian federation is carrying out more ukrainian children are forcibly deported. russians are trying to resettle them throughout the territory of the russian federation as quickly as possible. you can often take months for families to even find out where their children are, volunteers from the n g you save ukraine will assist them in the complicated process to get them back. a piece latoya called mom was veteran always started to organize the trips to russia after been contacted by mothers reporting the abduction of their children. we organized the necessary documents and covered all expenses related to passports and translations. and then we arranged the travel itself. are you having to go through europe in countries than bella? ruth, russia and napa, and then return with the children this time it took families,

oregon will not from college jetta. thumbs didn't we could while he ever was in russia. oksana ford for the chance to talk with her that danielson berlin. eventually he gave me my daughter's new phone number and began to allow her to be in touch and to give her some internet. so i could talk to her some times 5 chef on that than i knew of. she ran to school there, she was treated well, but she constantly said, mom, i want to come home and have what i don't show mom. maria had shown as that them. we the family look santa no longer talks to her brother, she hopes to go back to the front line or but for now she and ever are making up for lost time. my cell, miss wood cancer throughout the year, and then we all together all day long, especially now that it's the holiday times. we communicate a lot a lot. and the e. u and nato have signed a deal to step of cooperation. bosco's invasion of ukraine has added urgency to the

deal. nato secretary general, you installed bag, signed the agreement in brussels, alongside the head of the european council, sharp, michelle. and you commission president or slot on their lion. they pledge to work closer in support of international peace and to further mobilize their political, economic, and military strength. the development comes to spike concerns. the boosting the use defense profile could undermine us lead they to alliance so we'll look at some other stories making headlines. the world health organization has recommended mask wearing on long flights to fight the spread of the latest, only kron sub period x, p b 1.5. since the new year it has caused more than one in 4 cases of cobra. in the united states, the w h o says it's the most transmissible sub barrier detected so far. china has suspended. these are processing for visitors from south korea over it's tough covered 19 rules for chinese arrivals. japanese news agencies report similar

retaliatory measures for travelers from japan. beijing insists it's outbreaks are past their peaks. and so as the curves on, travelers are discriminatory. jo, but in mexico for the 1st time as us present to attend the north american summit, talks with canada is just intrusive and mexico's under manuel lopez over a door. those talks will focus on illegal immigration and climate change and drug smuggling. prince harry's autobiography has gone on sale after months of anticipation and controversy. the book title there reveals details of the print of the british prince's life from the death of his mother, diana, to his military career, as well as his account of tensions within the royal family. the trial has begun in grease of $24.00 humanitarian workers on charges relating to humans

smuggling. the activists face several charges including espionage and can expect lengthy jail sentences if convicted. they deny the allegations, but the case has raised questions about how governments treat those who say they're only aim is to save lives. a trial generating interest bar beyond this court house on the island of love, both $24.00 human rights activists were arrested on charges that included espionage . the defendants say, all they were doing was trying to help rescue refugees. one of them volunteer divers, sean binder from ireland was detained in 2018. he's been eager to set the record straight. we're desperate to go to trial because what we did was legal and we need the judge to acknowledge that we need to get through this because until then there is a shadow of doubt was not over me alone. but over anybody who does search and

rescue another of the defendant of sarah martini a syrian who fled to europe with her sister in 2015. their story was made into a netflix film. mardina is now an aide worker helping other refugees. the human rights organization, amnesty international says the trial is a farce. it's calling on greek authorities to drop the charges such pinellas ism so not be allowed. it's a, it's a bottom across europe. we've seen in other countries as well that people who are, they are just to help her face, her child as criminal or others in an effort of state to death. such a humanitarian assistance. greece, which saw more than a 1000000 people arrive on its shores at the height of the migration crisis in 2015, says n g o is helping migrants or encouraging more to come. the less most trial again raises the question of how european nation should respond. when people risk their lives for a chance at asylum, tennis star,

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