ah, ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, germany is defense minister stepped down. christina lamb christ offers her resignation to chance are all upshaw's following a series of missteps. most recently and new year's video message widely criticized for being tone. death. also coming up, hopes of finding more survivors are fading in april. after a russian cruise missile destroyed a residential building in the central ukrainian city. 35 people are confirmed dead . dozens of others are still on, accounted for an search and rescue workers in nepal recovered the black boxes at

the sight of sunday's plane crash. officials say they now fear all 72 people on board were killed. ah, i married evans, dean. it's good to have you with us. we begin with some breaking news. germany's defense minister has quit triggering uncertainty at the ministry that's at the center of berlin's response to the war. and ukraine. christina lambaste is a member of german chancellor, is all of shells. a social democrat party, she said the recent spotlight on her was distracting from the work of the armed forces. her decision to step down comes as germany face is renewed, pressure to send battle tanks to ukraine. opposition figures demanded her resignation following a new year's video that she posted, which was considered tone deaf. it was the latest in

a series of blunders been damaged, her credibility. and he double your chief political correspondent, nina has a, has the details for us. so nina, why did lambaste make this decision now? well, because he didn't have any other choice anymore. the criticism was simply too big. now she says the media have been focusing too much on her as a person. and she says that that focus essentially makes it impossible to have a proper discussion of what is actually needed in terms of reforming the bundeswehr, what the priorities would be, etc. and it is true that we covered her a lot her as a person, but also she had herself to blame because of as some of the mishaps, some of the blunders. you've mentioned. a few of those that happened over the, at the a couple of months that she was in office now from day one. she wasn't considered the ideal person for the job, but then she also didn't grow into the job after 5 months, for example,

she admitted that she still didn't know the ranks the name of the ranks of the military. and this is something where ultimately then after the discussions about the new year's video, she didn't really have any way of defending herself. and now nina, is her resignation likely to bring significant change to germany's defense policy. you know what? i don't think it is because chancellor shows made a very clear from day one of russia's large scale invasion of ukraine when this current government was only an office for not even 3 months. that all those big decisions when it comes to military strategy. but also when it comes to how germany intends to support ukraine, that those decisions ultimately lie with him. now of course, what is important for shorts now is to get it right with choosing a casino lum prices. successor. he won't get a 2nd chance. he will have to find someone who ideally is

a defense expert and especially a good manager with careers mom because the bonus vet is undergoing massive transformation. and what's perhaps most important is to find someone who actually likes the bundeswehr. but when it comes to the discussion, will germany deliver leopard to tanks, combat tank, so not to ukraine at the moment they keep stressing how much of a step hop that was for germany to announce the delivery of a 40 armored vehicles to ukraine of the modern type and the adam and germany is not going to go alone. they'll only take those decisions and closed coordination with international partners. but of course, international partners will want to know who do they call when they want to talk to germany. and this is something which sold will have to make a swift decision. that was detail is cheap. clinical correspondent nina has a. nina, thanks so much to the latest in the war in ukraine now. and the death toll from a russian missile strike on an apartment building in the city of negro, has risen to 35. rescue workers are still raising to find survivors in the wreckage

. people have been gathering in front of the ruins, hoping for news of loved ones. 2 dozen residents are still reported missing. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski said that russian citizens who fail to condemn the attack are cowardly. and we can now speak to our correspondent max sander, who is standing by in kiev. so max one is the latest that you can tell us about the situation in april. right, so this recent attacker appears to be one of the deadliest attacks against the civilian population ever since the beginning of the full scale invasion of ukraine . the russians may have attempted to target to a heating plant close to the apartment building. but in fact, a most likely a cage 20 to a very on precise ship rock it hits right into this apartment building which then

collapsed like a house of cards. with a many people still trapped underneath the rubble. as of now, the death toll stands at roughly $35.00. many, many people doesn't have been injured. many more are still missing and local authorities are now saying that them after 2 nights out in the cold, freezing temperatures for rescue workers, it's going to be harder and harder to find people pull them out from underneath the revel alive. the ukrainian president zalinski said of the rescue mission would go on as long as necessary, and at the same time, he addressed the russian population. as you already said, pointed out that there was no significant reaction, no acknowledgement coming from the russian population, and called their silence. in fact, quotes, cowardly ad is indeed a devastating attack on civilians. now, max, i know that you've been doing some traveling in the war zone in recent days and were actually able to join a number of police officers on the job. why don't we take

a look at your report and then we'll continue our talk. a school caught in the crossfire, the war is creating extra problems for police. detective alex he said anti tank grenades from this site found their way into the wrong hands. this footage shows their operation, confiscating them from a civilian position. lou, because we knew it was mean was it just the people have changed during the war? because 1st the thought the sure. now almost anyone can get any weapon they wanted it without any trouble with would would it? but a school was all the boys bullying a similar case, so you had a tragic end to make each other but a holistic as a boy, according to the death of most of that time, the man gave the military, almost all the weapons he had found a lot of the law, but kept one grenade for himself, which emma, you'll after you experienced some health problems, he wrote

a farewell letter to his mother was for leslie. he left it with his documents and alyssa, and then blew himself up at home. it was of some of them. alex says he and his colleagues are seeing morse with sites, and they're becoming practice collecting evidence of new alleged crimes. as we're about to experience, we had north to the off chance area on the border with russia. we have to cross the river on foot. so we've just been asked to turn our phones off and that's because we're moving closer to the rushing water right now. the russians are known to be monitoring phone signals in the past have used them to pinpoint their targets. alex and his colleague carina, are here to investigate a strike. it's basic police work in a war zone. vacovich 60 centimeters deep hole, glove. gathering evidence. keeping a record, the owner of this field was making herself

a cup of tea when she heard the 1st impact. she hid in the cellar and avoided injury. the evidence will be sent to a lab to determine what it was that hit. but the case seems clear to them, civilians were attacked. it was a war crime. we go virtual, where you can see for yourself that except for the yard of the local civilians were gone. there is no military equipment ah, no military personnel. nicole on the mazda is not even critical infrastructure that the russians loved so much. give a them on that. if you could, i don't know. maybe they were just aiming for a cornfield, homer at your facility cervical dana la models is in a picture of the blast. aso damaged her house. you, i'm sorry. yeah. he didn't. the push was in the eye dock. nobody's injured that the house is messed up. thank god i was where i was because something went inside the house, something smashed the window and hit inside. it is full of glass. glutton bloom for

the day. her living room becomes a makeshift police station. i think 70 neighbors make statements and shall the officers documentation, cheerful. every one has losses, which need to be recorded. the officers jurisdiction ends at the border, but they're doing what they can see. when will the all the guilty will be brought to justice. see every single one of them to the mac. it'll be unavoidable after all, victory tomorrow. if we have that other, if the time comes argue with alex and his co detectives who have evidence to offer a court level problem. max that is indeed very challenging work for those police officer is the what would you say are their biggest challenge? right. so that, that area around the both chance get close to the russian border was an impoverished area even long before the war and had been dealing with structural

issues even before that. but these police detectives that we joined there were telling me they have lack of almost anything you can think of. vehicles, equipment they dealing with power outages was which makes their job very difficult to process evidence to put it into databases, to process process a witness reports than the nature of crimes has changed. as we also saw in the reports, there are a k is going around, people can access weapons of war a quite, quite easily at the moment. and at the same time, these communities also have a number of collaborators who work, pass on information to the other side. of the border hell brush instead of it strikes against the military against civilians their neighbors or in fact against the police. as we witnessed ourselves while we're filming in the police station there, there was a number of mortar attacks in the direct vicinity. and later, we only learned that they had struck the administrative building where just, just before this had been the police headquarters just 2 days prior to filming. so

to give you an understanding of the security situation there on the ground, d, w max sander in keir forest. max, thanks so much for your reporting. we appreciate it. let's get a quick check of some of the other stories making news this hour. the most wanted mafia boss in italy has been arrested in sicily. my pay on the scene and a not always allegedly, the hand of the sicilian castaneda, belize, confirm that he was taken into custody in the city of palermo while receiving treatment at a private clinic. donato had been on the run for 30 years. traffic in the bonds for a straight has been temporarily suspended after a cargo ship traveling from ukraine to turkey, ran aground. no damage or spills had been reported, and tug boats had been sent to free. the vessel gunmen have shot dead, a former afghan law maker and her body guard at her home in cobble were saw it now be zada was among the few women parliamentarians who remained in cobble after the

taliban seized power. a year and a half ago, she was elected in 2019 to represent capital officials in nepal said both the cockpit voice recorder and find data recorder have been found at the site of sundays plane crash near the city of po haro, search efforts have resumed bonds there is now little hope of finding any survivors . the yeti airlines plane was carrying 72 people when it crashed into a steep gorge. moments before to crash. the plane was trying to land at the if port of the western city of po harder. but it plunged into her diving, came out of local, drifted in immediately corner for help and woollen dear to see if life on adam willard i called emergency services at exactly 11 a. m. no one had come there yet. we carried water in buckets and poured water from

the road. later the police came and we rescued 3 injured people with the help of the police alamahood. my little one is a good tuck you, but it is hot woburn we heard a loud explosion and went out on our terrace to see what had happened. lucky as a game of luck, we saw a lot of smoke and realized it was a plane crash and we rushed to the site that i, i stayed back my with my friend, went down the hill to look for survivors and took out at least $35.00 bodies, ugh, debug her. to plead burst in my flame after long down the rescue. workers worked with the troops and stretchers to get the bodies out of the 1004 deep gorge. some tried to put a good eaten fires. fire fighters took bodies to the hospitals. some of them burned beyond recognition. the twin engine, 80 r 72 aircraft, was flying from the capitol cap and due to the tourist destination bo hotter in

a flight. that usually takes half an hour. the ball is a popular duties destination for clambers and draco, but it's airline industry has been heavily criticized for it's poor safety record you're up to date and the w news of next is business with. janelle de milan, thanks for watching. a lot of contrasts. of ambitions of equality suddenly 5 years ago mahatma gandhi peacefully led the country to independence full of ideals. what is remained of his vision? what is the status of human rights and social.