ah, ah ah, this is dw news lived from berlin, no less up in the fighting as the one year anniversary of the war in ukraine approaches. we report from the front lines, city of hassan, liberated by ukrainian forces, but living in fear of a fresh russian onslaught. also coming up tit for tat. the tax in the occupied west bank and gaza strip. the latest escalation and violence follows an israeli army rate, which kills 11 palestinians plus a growing bud this prize, giving approaches at the berlin film festival. we take

a look at some of the last contenders, competing for the prestigious golden and silver barrow woods. ah. my manuscript mckennan, welcome to the program as the anniversary of russia's invasion of ukraine approaches, cities and towns on the frontline face. more heavy shelling by russian forces, but residence of the southern city of her son and all the communities on the front lines remain defiant. russian shells killed 6 civilians and wounded dozens this week and her son, the city, was liberated by ukrainian forces back in november that keith and its allies are expecting a wider russian spring offensive. and russian president vladimir putin has restated . his goal of taking full control of easton and then

e cray. and we can cross straight to her son. now, where did i be? correspondent nick connelly is standing by for us. now can you give us an idea of what life is like, the people in hassan and in the other liberated areas where it's certainly very, very quiet here and have so no comparison to when we were last here in the autumn, in november, when ukrainian troops came back and there were people just filling the square behind me, shooting through z as in the sense that life could somehow get back to normal. that has definitely not happened. their russian troops on the other bank of the new pro river, just a handful of kilometers from where we're standing now. anywhere in the city is within range of russian artillery. really basic cheap equipment of which the russians have big, big supplies. there's no need for complicates cruise missiles. there's a city that sees daily attacks and you see people working very close the walls keeping uncover base, expecting things to happen at any point on either hand. when you go to the supermarket, you can find 3 different kinds of almond milk you can find for mineral water, all the logistics working mobile phones looks back up,

power is working more or less. there's only sensor lots people have left and they're just not believing that for now. this is a safe place to be. this is a place where people are still leaving and where you know, for the most part sellers give me a very, very low profile. nick, i know that you've been covering hostilities in ukraine since the starts. you've talked her to. many people has been impacted by this war. can you describe to us how people are managing to cope with living in a war zone for so long? i mean, it's definitely a sense that initially people were carried by their adrenalin that somehow they could just go day by day and not think too much about what caused this was really having for them what told it was taking on their health. people were just surviving and were just doing their best to keep their houses, their families safe. and there is no sense a lot people are still in that mostly able to do that. but they certainly are some people who, whom it is just becoming too hard and that a choosing even now months and almost a year into this war to leave the country. there are people even have solid people in other regions for countries outside. yet for european countries, north america,

but also within the country heading from the east to the western regions that have been a bit safer. we spoke to 3 women who had left the homes, 2 of whom had gone into ashley. one had moved to west of the country and we spoke to him about how this year has been from early morning we woke up big explosions. and i remember turning my head to my husband and he looked at me and said, no can be company you for your share of this and the 1st few days, don't worry. we don't know just explosion, but we really know what to do because this is something though unusual country, the workers started to your country and we were lost. everybody was running around with a few game cards. keeps crying for a month old baby had

a breathing problem. so she needed an relations and she needed to be injection. and they took my kids to the little they think jackson, there was eric byron, the daughters go to the basement. now we went to the basement and there was a for the day, but the night and then with bands they are all the night the next. almost 4 months . every time when we were heading road just ready to head to the railway station. the explosion started again were and that takes an hour in ordinary took up to date one woman is that given birth, and now there will be lot for kids because it was spread so hard to die. one woman having heart attack, if it was, it was still shaken in by the time when to both my hands were shaking

my edward shake and i could not say a word, but a time i saw that my children, they are mental health is getting worse and worse and worse. and in september my age, her old daughters too, and they agnes with asperger's syndrome. she's on own home. and she's starting here alger hod, pulling her eyelids. she is. and this inc and eating with i cried the look when we crossed the border, it was the equally un baby on that because of order and when it's full and i realize how much here i was all this time, all of it's 8 months in kip and ukraine i made a little, it's erica, loud noises, but it or the railway station and there was this train. i mean, they said, oh no, the war has started all. and i still struggling,

getting into my head that in the 21st century, people who are able to send her space ships out on this that can i just stand up and going kill somebody because of some crazy notion or a dia, eastern feet looks great. discriminatory, least of people who died. and just when i opened my instagram, it's like one story. if someone died in the home, another story, someone died in one's creature or something and it always just so young, beautiful people. and sometimes i just feel like i'm a walking target. and in one day they could hear my nose too, or they could kill my relatives, my friends. i think i got used to everything. but i realized that i feel stressed out like by default,

skinner thing. when these sirens send, you have to go to the shelter people. i think it all k. i have at least like 20 minutes. i can go buy bread and then i'll go to a shelter or something like that. so the war is arthur their lives. the war gave us the less, i never say never and nothing is impossible. and honestly i had them on health plan because it is impossible. fence snake listening to those 3 women. it's very clear how people's lives were turned upside down in a matter of days. sometimes just in a matter of minutes and how their lives are just unrecognizable and now, and yet they still seem extraordinarily strong. do you have,

do you see any signs at all that a, the ukranian resolve is, is wavering. i mean, especially after russia started targeting civilian infrastructure with, you know, these massive airstrikes in the last few months. we've seen some pretty extraordinary resilience in the ability of the ukrainian infrastructure, kind of people in charge to keep things going. normally it's a matter of couple of days before power is restored, at least to pro household. so there's always a sense that somehow there's a solution even if it's a temporary one or a kind of unorthodox one. but somehow there's always a way around the problems that are resulting for the people, at least behind front lines in this war. as for the come psychological toll, people are openly talking about the fact that this is causing them exactly that it is affecting the mental health. lots of people say they are going to show that until they're basically in safety to deal with that and deal with these issues. if you look at the sociology of the kind of questioning people through kind of professionals that the numbers are kind of extraordinary. it's over 85 percent

saying they don't want any compromise with russia. they want to see their country d, occupied in full, and that includes crimea and other parts of ukraine that russia is controlled since 2014 the certainly the open. there's no, says the people are willing to kind of countenance any negotiations on russia's terms, anything that would allow russia to dictate terms to ukraine. the one thing you hear time time again here though is give us weapons, give us more equipment. this will not lead to escalation. this will allow us to do the job quicker and bring this war to an end with fewer casualties. so that's the best you had time and time again. honestly, it's difficult. see how a country with a population of $40000000.00 can compete in the lower i'm with a bigger enable at russia, but certainly that's the, that is off when you and we're going to go to cave now and bring in in a sub son. she's a member of the ukrainian parliament and also from 2014 to 2016. she was the deputy minister of education. welcome to the w. thank you for your time. the un general assembly is voting today on a resolution to establish principles for peace in ukraine's calling for lasting

peace. does this make you hopeful at all? well, i think on the symbolic level that is important. it is important for the world to recognize what the road piece is and what piece means. this is not given up to to wouldn't desire. this is not a settling up on which part of our territory. we give up space is about to deal by liberating all of our territory and a feminist, and long lasting peace, both ukraine, but also for the rest of europe. so in that sense, it is important that we have all global common understanding of what he means. so that by some countries are trying to promote the idea of maybe give up part of your territory just to, to, to work out that is not the, the decision that's, that the global community should be support. but on the other hand, apart from symbolic value and building the funding in terms of whether that's will actually lead to peace, whether it will actually work according to to the plan. no,

i don't believe that we can, has, has neglect that all international, lower the both all international resolutions possible. so let's not pull out so that you will actually behave somehow differently compared to what, how has been behaving over the last. basically, all his presence korea understand very clear. i'd like to draw on your background in education. if i may not. schools in ukraine have been holding classes remotely in anticipation of further russian strike from tomorrow's anniversary. but can you give us an idea of what this whole year of war has done to the ukranian education system? when you have to remember, this is not the 1st challenge in school. yes, our children, my son is 10 years old. he goes to the 4th grade. so the cobit, when he was in grade one is now in grade 4. and his whole school area,

there were some interruption in his pulling. there was switch to online modes or they would simply not be starting point short period of time when the big what erupt last february at this has had immense back to the schooling of our children. and my son is actually the likely one because kids in school and he does have the bombshells. so the interruption have been is basically have to go to the bumps out to every time. there is an error rate which does happen pretty often over here. that is nothing compared to the interruption near the front line or particularly kids who are on the by territory. there are not, many of them left them, but still they basically i, the post body put into rush and curriculum where they been forced to learn russian language to learn russia and them to, to wave russia, lag and who to basically destroy their life. so it's terrifying. i am extremely concerned about the educational gap education,

the last it's our children because that will undermine the future in lonia to come even upset when the what the gibson education going to have so much less than the fact that i can't even imagine. so this is indeed very difficult. most schools don't have the test. so yeah, the situation is will have better last and effect country. yeah. that you have convey campaigned for greater just the quality in the past. come, i also have the war, push this issue onto the sidelines or has it in fact increase the need to focus on these kind of values more than ever. i think the what had double facts about chance because on the one hand, of course, the majority of those by 10 in the war directly i men but old. so remember that 50000 women, i turned in the frontline ukrainian army. so we actually do much more diverse in

terms of our me and i think that this has actually given a boost to the idea of jump in quality ukraine. so despite what typically lead into a more masculinity in the political discourse, but in our situation, actually the fight is recognizing that there is a significant number of women fighting. and even we are recognizing the ro, g, b, t, people fighting the army and that to keep them mobil debility. and that is the crowd before them for, for rice, for those groups of people. but of course, we can also shy away from the results hysteria to position, to an extent because many women had to leave the country with their children. so being photo streamlined. here we are typically, you know, women's role. so, so this is a bit of a come direct and a tendency overall. but i think that because because of the war, we got one boy, well what the agenda quantity is, is one of those issues. we don't want to be like russia where whole balance is

basically legitimate. we don't want to be like russia. we're homophobia, a part of the, of the national ideology. so, so this is also actually who should ask for what in terms of jumping quality the, the process is not perfect. i admit to that as well. ms. simpson, i'd like to ask you, president lensky has garnered international praise for his war time. leadership. what's your assessment? do you think that he should have done something differently? what i think about, and i'm here speaking as a member of parliament from the opposition political part him. but i recognize that he actually has done a good job as the president in his address to the, to the, to the world. i think that is about of the job, but he did perfectly. and he also divulged all of that military decision making to the military professionals. so that is why, why will we didn't on the, on the front line because the professionals actually make those goals multiple

additions at the very, very important. what do you have done something different during what time problem? no. i think you could have paid a bit more attention to the on me as we were preparing for the big war base today to talk about that we should focus on the current moment and i think at the time being he did a good job application for the whole entry, i just like to ask you one short last question. when you were talking about the education you were saying when we, when the war, it will take an awful lot of work to, to help our children. do you believe ukraine will be able to one day restore its borders to what they were before rushes invasion? i don't have any doubts about that. and nobody has any doubts. simply because we don't have a choice. this is essential grass. we either win or we just lose and we're still being who we are and we don't want to do that. but also we have proven that we can be winning. we have been winning the last year against the 2nd biggest,

i'm in the world. and i think that we have proven, i'm a, has proven that we actually a very strong army, and that is why given weapons to create, i'm is actually say that that is not leading to escalation. that is actually lead into dis collation our army a year ago. many western powers, and we kind of keep this weapons to ukraine and i'm because they don't know how to use it. we have proven that i will, i can do miracles. so i have no doubt that we will when we just need to decrease the number of casualties on the way to the victory in a subset a member of the cranium parliament. many thanks for joining us on d. w to day. thank you. we're going to take a look now, some of the other stories making headlines around world un secretary general, antonio terrorists has said, russia's recent talk of using nuclear weapons is other acceptable good. harris was referring to moscow's implicit threats to use so called tactical warheads in ukraine. the un general assembly is missing to mark friday's anniversary over the

invasion. cctv footage captured the moment that claimed 4 lives and left 49 missing off the sections of a huge open pit coal mine in northern china collapsed rescue operations were suspended after a further flight inside the mine in the in a mongolia region, china relies heavily on coal energy generation and mines have been urged to increase their production is rainy aircraft has attacked targets in the gaza strip, in retaliation for palestinian militants firing rockets into israel. and earlier israeli raid in the occupied west bank, left 11 palestinians dead and dozens more wounded. missiles streaked across the morning sky near garza, israel's military seas sic sprockets were fired by palestinian militants. 2 hours

later it responded with air strikes on an alleged ama site. the blast come a day after a deed, the military operation by israeli forces in the occupied waste bank the morning right reduced this building to rabble israel's millet traced it. the operation was aimed at arresting militants accused of planning and carrying out a tax. it claims israeli soldiers shot back after coming under fire, but did not suffer any casualties. while the right unfolded, palestinians came out onto the street and confronted the troops. dozens of people are reported to have been injured, as well as those killed prussia. and i was surprised at 9 30 in the morning when i heard explosion as walk, people said there are special forces for the 100. so a large number of israeli soldiers storm the whole area, local who stayed in the house and i didn't know what was going on. i'm not up with

her. just last month. another right in the city of janine also ended with teen. people killed these who rides of the deepest westbank operations in years. the u. n . has warned that if, if it's a not made to deescalate the violence could spiral out of control. now to the devastating earthquakes rocked turkey and syria, leaving more more than a 1000000 people homeless for some in the region, the quakes felt like yet another cruel twist of fate. in our next report, we meet miles her assyrian, who fled to turkey to escape the civil war. missouri sister simpson has been frowned. he rushes over to the ruins, that until recently was her apartment sirian friends of mas, ours and turkey, discovered simpson and her husband, crushed under the rubble of the 2nd floor. both are dead, missouri had already feared the worst. he'd been searching for

a sign of life in this building, in antalya se turkey for days without success. and now he has only the certainty. mamma, please don't tell anyone else. we haven't told anyone so far, we'll recover them 1st. but the recovery operation proves difficult. missouri and his friends make slow progress with a borrow jack hammer. they don't even expect any help from the authorities. a friend brings a wool blanket over to wrap the body in. simpson will later have a proper burial. delta old norma, we had worked through to the bedroom. i'm a mom old in the 1st we were able to see part of my brother in law. and then my sister wilson, they lane each other's arms and death. missouri had fled the civil war in syria to turkey with his parents and siblings. now he lives in istanbul,

not his sister sampson taught syrian refugee children in and talk you love, jani. my sister was such a good person, feel full of love, shockey. it's so sad that he had to die, but it's all as well, isn't it? isn't emma alanis flint. but bizarre and his friends tell us the situation looks much worse on the other side of the border in syria. many of his relatives are thought to have lost everything. if yod boy is not an older fella, as if the war weren't bad enough to the people there, get virtually no help at all. in here at least someone comes by now and then and bring something to eat or offers the help of them and it took them about 7 hours to recover the bodies of samson and her husband. oh my little hold of

them is lynch again. we came here to live in safety, be happy, a series of things turned out differently. and now we have to live with that. simpson and mach moods bodies are transported away from the house and, and talk you where they had dreamed of a peaceful life. also voted to berlin now. and this is berlin film festival. the belin ali is nearing its end, but a handful of competition films off still to be screened. the latest offerings making a bid for the golden and silver barrel woods off from gemini, mexico, and spain. in a fire from german filmmaker, christian pixels up tight author lay and finds himself sharing a holiday house with more people than he bargained for. benjamin. as local forest fires draw closer and lay on struggles to finish his book.

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