ah ah ah, this is dw news live from her land. the toll of the fearsome battle waged for ukraine don boss region where thousands died. as the warden years, the one year mark are corresponded here is from an exhausted ukrainian soldier on just what drives

a friend from geico fountain. they die for you prayed loud. it's my duty to fight for you. you're crazy to build you. you great. also coming up u. s. president joe biden wraps up his ukraine and colon trapped promising solidarity with natives eastern flag club. the berlin international film festival mirrors its high point competition as strong as the berlin allah enters its final weekend. we will look at some of the final entries buying for the golden and the silver bare ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. we begin in ukraine where a year ago as the russian invasion loomed, we met a military veteran in cave who told us about his fears of being sent to fight anton

column. beth had already seen action in dumb bos in 2014, when pro russian separatists annexed part of the region. he was not looking forward to fighting again. now one year randi w. funny for char and her team found him back in uniform. this time in the town near the nest region here the front line we on your to don. yes. frontline. and heading closer. just 15 kilometers from the russians. well, be the range of the artillery. it's a very dangerous road to take. we are like now in the combat zone. so the roads, you know, roads are like venus was blot of war and every one understand that. and that's why her old saw always on there are some surveillance and of course shell, if i will get wounded. i'll get killed so i couldn't drive any more. you're just drawn away from the car. antoinette,

his unit are here to defend these people. the last, once still so close to the russians, they are bracing for the russian offensive. was still hoping for the fighting to stop here like yet, mira jake, but do everyone wants people living with these explosions? it's so loud. you don't know where it's coming from, where it will land when it all might be over. you could up really cute the treatment of surgical ensure to those li whitfield. they should start negotiations because spilling blood is a big sin before god and people need to realize the sooner the better to do those now dumont's chambers. st. image, welcome far ways. antoine has set up a makeshift headquarters in an abandoned home. from here he coordinates his unit and tries to recruit new soldiers for the fraud. but it's all getting harder be with you. people just tight. we are fighting almost whole year without any stop. or we, we don't have any rotations,

we don't have any medications or actually the only the only chance to get dressed for a month or 2 is to get wounded, which is for 2 days before rushes full skinny invasion. we met antonette home in keith bag. then he was working in veteran affairs, a devoted husband, and father to a 2 year old, anton worried, the army might call him up if russia really invaded. my wife actually is very narrow, narrow about that and she is a freight. i understand that actually, i'm also afraid. mostly it may be, i'm afraid, moreland, sure. i remember, but he was also ready to leave and defend ukraine if necessary. right in the rock. what choice do i have actually, to view my song, leave under slavery or fractions? well, i am not saying that they will enslaved him, but i understand that he will live in different country and i want if it will

happen. so he knows that his father made everything everything. so that won't happen. he's only seen his family for 3 days since then. oh oh, it reminds me of why we are fight and for us to whole. so, but of course sir, it is very emotional. you fully understand that every day actually can be a last day, or he preferred not to tell us how many of these comrades have had their last days . many, he says, my friends, for example, died for something. so they died for ukraine. so now it's my duty to leave also for them and to be able to fight for new ukraine and to build new ukraine high up until and tells us not to stay with him for a long shelling can started any time basically when it geo, when he tanks when it weapon, when he had her aeroplanes, when it everything actually and so right now he'll on the bus. we are by in time,

by life's we leave until him in the wars don't were time and lives are starting to run short. and earlier i spoke with g, w, corresponded funny for char and asked her how dire the situation is in the dumbest region where she filed that report. they're speaking about a frontline to stretches over 1000 kilometers. so you can imagine, even though we do not have official numbers by the ukrainian government, just how many ukrainian forces have been killed in this, in this ongoing war. we do now at least presidency lensky hinted at that that these resources are not limitless, not infinity. in particular, he pointed out, but when he comes to about mood, that town that's heavily embattled in the dorm bus region that yes ukraine a's going to defend it. but not at any price. we do not know about the dynamics. a had

a what's going to happen now with a looming offensive by russia, and whether ukraine can contract against. that's what we do now, that you crave is racing now for to morrow, for the 1st anniversary of these horrible war. and let's get more now on ukraine and how life has changed for people living in the country. we are joined on the program by allah. shondra, the editor in chief of the euro. my don press an english language website covering you. crane. welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us. you are a journalist, but like many ukrainians, you also have a personal story when it comes to this conflict. when the war broke out, you brought your children to germany and then returned to ukraine with your husband while you were pregnant. walk us through what happened then? well, we stayed a little bit and ukraine then went to germany to the family to so i could give birth and then when the baby was around 5 months old,

we returned back to your crane. and now we live in our home and key of oh yes, we're you know, all the time. but with germany, i long to go back. i felt like i was out of place because of all the things that my country's going through. and it felt a little bit like i was another reality was very hard to communicate to people are living in a peaceful country what it is to be at work. it's very hard to keep the focus on this. this terrible tragedy is out of the folding and to keep insisting and to compete for their attention. and i can understand now that the number 3 approaches it is, it becomes more and more harder to keep attention on ukraine. so right now we're trying to work against that. we're trying to remind the world of this work not be forgotten,

but the green you all can take in order to defeat russia. you mentioned the anniversary to morrow is indeed the anniversary of russia's invasion. and i'm wondering how you're looking at the stay in particular and how concerned you are that flattery pollutant might use it as a symbolic day to make a major announcement. for example, another mobilization or worse. well, you know, over here we have seen that initial predictions that kid would fall, that they were totally, they were totally wrong. we thought that a remarkable resistance of the people that nobody could have believed. and we also saw that the russian army was not a strong lodging kitchen both. so we're not worried that she would launch something remarkably different because we've seen that the she's completed lot of enough

force for that. he doesn't have the power to watch and other invasion cubic cetera . but what is going through like a life in cuba right now, it's remarkably peaceful apart. computational missile strikes, it is very funny and gorgeous today. and the word it's present in things small thing like and bomb shelter. the children go to school, they go into the bombshell to return that true. the more and more people die in the box and ukraine is just forced to sub for it's like to pause and progress and what we would like more and we know that ukraine can win. no other option can work for us because we're fighting for our existence of nations. so what we're hoping for the world will keep supporting ukraine and give us the tools that we need to

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or ok. first op is always the basement checks the load bearing foundations. if witnesses get demolished, it takes about 5 for tubman's because when we see the damage means that the demolition, we are just finishing thirst. the procedure under telling that is heavily damaged a building, so it needs to get damaged. but this one's okay. you think this building or stand is more than okay, lucky for the people here. although the 3rd earthquake, which hit the region 15 days after the 1st 2 is causing concerns. after the initial quakes, nearly a 1000000 buildings in this region of turkey were checked. and over 118000 had fallen down, or were being marked for demolition over a 100 building contracts as a being investigated in turkey for allegedly sidestepping earthquake building regulations. no government officials though tens of thousands of this cities

inhabitants of waiting to hear if their homes are safe. people like norway and her family who fled syria and had made a new home in gassy ann tapp. fitness level of our home is cracked. we can go back, we took this backpack and fled inside. i had just few clothes wanted children. i also gave birth in the car after the earthquake. matthew michelle, evident letters in rebuilding in southern turkey, isn't just a construction project. it's now a humanitarian necessity. and for more on this, i am joined now by our with damon in the turkish city of cassey on tap. she is the president of the international network for aid relief and assistance. and also a former c n n correspondent out welcome to the program. our way your organization is providing assistance to those affected by the earthquake. what are the biggest challenges right now?

a logistics are very difficult. a trying to meet everybody's needs. it's incredibly challenging. you have to realize that no organization, no country has really faced this level of devastation on this scale or this level of instantaneous need. more talk king about millions of people who from the moment that 1st earthquake struck were run dirt homeless. and many of them of noncoms to get basic necessity. so we're talking about everything from sanitary pads, to tooth brushes, to coloring books for children at 2 tenths. and yes, there was a huge effort that is taking place on the ground right now, but it is really being eclipsed by the sheer magnitude of the need out there that exists. and the dynamics are constantly changing that earthquake, that struck again the aftershock just a few days ago. it changed dynamics on the ground to a certain degree because families would initially felt safe enough to be indoors.

all of a sudden spilled back out on to the streets again. we saw a movement of displaced people i taking place in the days following that after shock that all sort of is created a new need, a new group of individuals who now also once again need the basics from shelter to just being able to get by day by day, that's the situation in turkey. we're hearing the situation on the syrian side is even worse. what have you been hearing? this situation on the syrian side is incomparable because everything that we're talking about, whether it's international rescue teams are 1st showed up. whether it's a flooding in whether it's those teams that you just showed the report on going around checking buildings, trying to determine whether or not they're livable, none of that exists inside syria. there is no infrastructure. people died in fight syria because there wasn't fuel to run heavy machinery because there wasn't

enough heavy machinery. hospitals were destroyed, rendered un functionable, and yet teams struggled to set up replacement field facilities to be able to meet that need. we've been working with partner organizations inside syria and there it's really just about providing shelter and trying to make sure that people are at least relatively speaking. fed. the aid going into syria has been so severely unconscionably lacking, that this is a situation where we as a global community, are going to have to look back on and say, how do we make sure that this doesn't happen? how do we makes for the bill? and the people are not cut off from a piece of paper lying issues or whatever the other challenges were that prevented aid from reaching theory because even right now, as i said, you're speaking to you, syria is not getting nearly enough of what it needs. okay. are redeeming. joining us from doesn't up in turkey. we thank you so much for that perspective. we

appreciate it. now, germany is expelling to iranian diplomats after tehran sentence. and iranian german, national to death jumps should sharma was convicted over the bombing of a mosque in 2008 supporter is alleged that he was abducted while abroad and forcibly taken to iran. this is jumps she to sharman during his 1st court hearing at the terran revolutionary court, which on tuesday sentenced him to death. iran claims the dual iranian german citizen is the leader of an outlawed pro monarch. his group accused of carrying out the deadly bombing of a mosque in 2008, his family and human rights groups reject the accusations. germany's government has strongly criticized the verdict. in a tweet, chancellor or left shot said the iran regime is battling its own people in every imaginable way. and is this regarding human rights,

the death sentence against jumps sheets, sharman is unacceptable. we condemn it in the strongest terms and call on the wrong regime to overturn the ruling. foreign minister on elena burbock also expressed her dismay. nakeesha ausa. the news from iran is shocking to sentence somebody to death in a trial that doesn't comply with the rule of law goes against international law. it violates human rights dimensionally the german foreign ministry says it's working to provide counselors support the shar mod. iran has so far denied access to him as it doesn't recognize dual nationality for iranians. german opposition leader from lake meds who is sponsoring him as part of a german parliament program called 1st stronger measures. before the bonus would you call on the german government to tele ron clearly and unambiguously that this

ruling must have consequences, consequence. and if it's carried out diplomatic relations with iran must be broken off on, downgraded to a mission with a charge. the fair and the iranian ambassador must be expelled from germany. oh, stuart sean osgood, recently at most, the verdict can be appealed. shy, much family and the german government still hope that his death sentence can be overturned. hear some other stories making headlines. the james web space telescope has discovered what appears to be 6 massive galaxies, dating back to the early days of the universe. astronomers say that the discovery could up and theories of cosmetology because the galaxies are far more massive than what had been presumed possible. so soon after the big bang, mexican president, andreas manuel lopez over door has offered asylum to opponents of his nicaraguan counterpart. daniel. so tega, he said,

mexico's doors were open to all those who wanted to be there. ortega has cracked down on descent. in recent years, berlin's international film festival, the berlin allah, is nearing its hand. but there are still a handful of competition films to be screened. the latest offerings making a bed for the golden and the silver bears are from germany, mexico and spain. in a fire from german filmmaker christian pixels uptight also lay on, finds himself sharing a holiday house with more people than he bargained for. as local forest fires, drew a closer and lay on struggles to finish his book. we're going to try some tensions between the unlikely foursome stops together in the woods reach, boiling point. this psychological, tragic comedy is the 2nd in a trilogy focusing on the elements, water, air,

and earth. it comes 3 years after pet sold, brought undine to the banana. also starring paola bear, it's a direct as 6 timing competition, but how much does the story of the struggling writer eco, his own life comes? it wasn't a totally conscious choice. but the main character leon builds a stage on which he plays the role of a writer who has to work all the time. who can never join in. he doesn't go in the water. he doesn't cook because he has to work so much. but actually he's always falling asleep. that's something that i've experienced myself and was able to pass on to the actors. i get another film in which nature plays a supporting role is 20000 species of b. the w feature from bask director, se balance order solar solar gordon centers on an 8 year old going through a gender identity crisis during a summer holiday with her be keeping grandmother under solar. good and solid

direction, newcomer sophia, or tad, or turns in an impressive subtle performance. as the youngster, with a boy's name, who wants to be called lucille mexican competition entry totem also puts the child center stage. the family drama is set over the course of a single day and almost entirely inside the chaotic home of an extended family artist toenail seriously ill. and his family is preparing a surprise birthday party that might be his last. as siblings bicker and board kids misbehave, torn as young daughter sole, tries to make sense of it. all. saul is impressively played by now he may same tis the ensemble piece with a documentary feel is an impressive 2nd feature from lela aviles. oh, well that's all for now. you're up to date on today. it is up. next it is conflict

with my colleague kim sebastian who speaks with a ukrainian lawmaker with

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killer rescue mission to 3 temple on the nile. in 45 minutes on d, w ah, in jan these had 1111. not single. one mission is to defend the fast female gentleman all his life. the gender janet in space exploration. germany's 1st female astronaut. it has been waiting for years to get her turn. a private initiative is pushing to make it happen. me personally, it's just a dream of who i sat. i've always wanted to see the us from destined to post face starts more jason on

d. w. the war in ukraine got a powerful international spotlight this past week. almost exactly year after it began, i level politicians math at the munich security conference to discuss more and foster aid to ukraine and to try to cement their unity and commitment to the countries victory. my guest this week is the ukrainian m. p. alexei gone to ranko, whose fort tirelessly to secure promises of international support for his country and more powerful weapons that hope that the decisions will be made and ukraine will receive every.