they can't go with us, how they can also go terribly. watch you know, noon. ah, ah, this is dw news live from berlin, no less up in the fighting as the one year anniversary of the war in ukraine approaches. we report from the frontline city of hassan, liberated by ukrainian forces, but living in fear of a fresh russian on stuart. also coming up on the program. tragic stories from turkey after the earthquakes. don, my sister with good person,

full of love. it so sad that he has to die. we me to theory and man who fled the civil war in his homeland, only to lose family members in the earthquake disaster and syria. plus a growing buzz as prize giving approaches at the berlin film festival. we take a look at some of the last contenders, competing for the prestigious golden and fill the bar awards. ah, my manuscript is mecan and thanks so much for joining us. 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 hassan and other 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 in november. but 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 eastern and southern ukraine. did other corresponding commonly isn't hassan. and he told me earlier, what life is now like in the liberated areas where it's certainly very, very quote here. and so no comparison to when we were last here in the autumn, in november, when ukrainian troops came back in 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 is definitely not happened. the 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. the city that sees daily attacks and you see people walking very close the walls,

keeping uncover base, expecting things to happen at any point on either hand. when you turn to supermarket, you can find 3 different kinds of almond milk you can find for mineral water. all the logistics working mobile phones or back up power is working more or less, literally, since a lot of people have left and they're just not believing that for now. this is a safe place to be. this is the place where people are still leaving. and where, you know, for the most part, soon as keeping a very, very low profile. nick, i know that you've been covering the hostilities in ukraine since the starts. you've talked to. many people have 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 isn't, yes, that's

a lot people are still in that mostly able to do that. but the 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 leaving from solar, people in other regions for countries outside yet for european countries, north america. but also within the country are 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 the west of the country and we spoke to him about how this year has been from early morning we woke up because we heard explosions. and i remember turning my head to my husband and he looked at me and said, no kind of company you tried to share 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. when i

checked the country, the workers started to your country and we were lost. everybody was running around with a few cases. 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 might get to the listing junction. 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 band they are all the night next. almost 4 months. every time, when shedding, just ready to head to the railway station, the explosion started again. we're about an hour in ordinary took up to date one woman. is that given birth? and are there woman law for kid because ticket wants bread so hard to die?

one woman, depending hard to back it, it was. it was completely off. it's still shaking in by the time went up all my hands were shaking my edward shake and i could not say a word by the time i saw that my children, they are mental health is getting worse and worse and worse. and in september, my 8 year old daughters 2 and they agnes with nursing from she's on the spectrum. and she starting here alger, i believe her eyelash is. and this is an 18 wheeler. i cried. the look when we crossed the border, it was, it was the equally un baby on that because of order and when it's full and i realize how my shred it here. i was all this time, all of it's 8 months in keith and ukraine. i make a little, it's erica,

loud noises, but at or at 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 idea. eastern feet looks like a cemetery. a list of people who died and just when i opened my instagram, it's like one story is someone died in the hoot 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 and one day they could have my nose to or the crew to

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 some like this. so the war is arthur their lives. the war gave us the lead. i never say never. and i think isn't impossible. and honestly, i had them on house plan because it is important, the boat fence nick 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 now. and yet they still seem extraordinarily strong. do you have, do you see any signs at all that a, the ukrainian 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 and 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 ordinary people, at least behind front lines in this war. as for the can, psychological told people are open you 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. do you occupied in full and that includes crimea and other parts of ukraine that rushes controlled since 2014. the certainly opened as 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 an escalation, this will allow us to do the job quicker and bring this war to an end with few casualties. so that's the most you had time and time again. honestly, it's difficult. see how a country with a population of 40000000 can compete in the lower on with a bigger enable at russia, but slightly that's the that is off when you speak to people have neck. thanks so much for that. that's nick connelly, reporting from her son the eh,

united nations general assembly is holding an emergency session to mark the. 3 anniversary of i believe that is actually the wrong story. we don't have that for you next. and we're going to be looking at some of the other stories making news around the world 1st. and the european union has unveiled what it calls a game changing data center to collect and analyze evidence of war crimes in the ukraine. it's expected to be fully operational. by this summer, there were growing calls for an independent tribunal to prosecute russia for crimes of aggression. israeli aircraft have attacked targets in the gaza strip in retaliation for palestinian militants firing rockets into israel. an earlier israeli rate in the occupied west bank, left 11 palestinians dead and dozens more wounded. and parts of a huge open cast coal mine and china of collapse killing at least 5 people,

dozens more. missing. cctv footage captured the landslide an inner mongolia emergency cruise. we're searching for survivors, but a 2nd landslide has halted rescue operations and now to the earthquakes which have left more than a 1000000 people homeless in turkey and syria, some of them were already displaced even before the disaster struck. in our next report, we meet martha. a syrian who fled to turkey to escape the war in his homeland. but the place where he found refuge has now become a purse place of personal tragedy. missouri sister simpson has been frowned. he rushes over to the ruins. that until recently was her apartment sirian friends of miss 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 and talk to him 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. i've been in the delta, old norma, we had worked through to the bedroom. i'm not in the, in the 1st we were able to see part of my brother in law. and then my sister, shawna colson, 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. simpson taught syrian refugee children in and talk you love, jani. my sister was such a good person, full, full of love it so sad that he had to die. but it's all as well isn't listen m a lonnie schlander. but missouri 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, well 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 their hope of them and it took them about 7 hours to recover the bodies of simpson and her husband. oh no,

my little hold of them is lynch again. we came here to live in safety, half the issues 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 i'm talk you where they had dreamed of a peaceful life with the united nations. general assembly is holding an emergency session to mark the anniversary of russia's invasion of ukraine. the assembly is considering a draft 10 point piece plan, outlined by ukraine's president vladimir zalinski un secretary general antonio terrace, has repeated colds for the conflict to end. and full respect for the un shonda delegates. i expect to vote on the resolution shortly. the spirit luxury in a sub son is a former member of the ukrainian parliament. she gave me her reaction to the un, cool for a lasting peace. well,

i think on the symbolic level that is important. it is important for the world to recognize what the road to peace is and what piece means. this is not given up to to put a desire. this is not a settling up on which part of our territory we give up. space is about to deal q by liberating all of our territory and a feminist and a lot less than 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's 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 decision. that's, that the global community should be supported. but on the other hand, apart from that value and building the funding in terms of whether that's will actually lead to piece whether it will actually work according to the plan. no, i don't believe that we can, has, has neglect that all international, lower both the,

both all international resolutions possible. so let's not pull our south, but that he will actually behave somehow differently compared to how he has been behaving over the last basically all his presence, korea. and we can speak now to the w, washington bureau chief in his pool, who is following the debates, the united nations in new york, and joined us. now from that in, if can you explain to us what today's debate is about exactly now, well it is, as we just said, it is highly symbolic, like one year nearly one year after the brutal and raisin of luxury or put him into your grain. they want to map out a piece plan, but the big question here really is, how many nations really will join behind this piece plan? because we always hear the global community. it's united and her ones are to support a president lensky as long as he needs to take all the occupied territory. crimea

included bag or this is actually not the kite case. the debate to you is much, much more complicated to do. we know how the flow is likely to turn out then we don't. oh, they hold her that they get some around 140 or so vote for this resolution. last october. it was $143.00. that wasn't, are all time high. but you know the debate here at the you in new york or is also kind of regarding the longer picture. what will happen over the next months, because many countries, mainly from the global is south. they're saying, hey, we are neglected. we also do have many, many problems at the end of the united states are so focused on this war in the ukraine. and they would be actually willing to kind of give us some parts of ukraine or to put in if this war then would end very soon. if,

if the u. n. were to approve this at this resolution. i mean what, what, how would it impact the conflict in ukraine? would it have an impact? sure, you know, it is, it is symbolic. we always say that, but it is also, it is important that those countries are in support of ukraine coming together kind of making each other aware of their ongoing support. but these meetings here are so much more than the resolutions we are always focused on the figures. these meetings are also important because the foreign minister, sometimes the chancellors and presidents is their join needs in bilateral sway level meetings. and here, for example, the german 4 minister on the line and the network is it will be coming any minute. a they will try to convince these countries who are much more critical over the

ongoing support. so it's not only about figures, it's also a lot all these bilateral conversations going on here in new york city, in a school reporting from neal, thank you so much for that. now this year's bell and film festival, the berlin ali, is nearing its end, but a handful of competition. films are still to be screened. the latest offerings making a bed for the golden and silver barrow wards are from germany, from spain and from mexico. 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. as local forest fires draw closer and lay on struggles to finish his book. with him to try some tensions between the unlikely foursome stuck together in the woods reach, boiling point. the psychological tragic comedy is the 2nd in a trilogy,

focusing on the elements, water and earth. it comes 3 years after pets, old brought undine to the banana, also starring paola bear. it's a direct his 6th time in competition. but how much does the story of the struggling writer echo his own life has come? 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. so i took it i think another film in which nature plays a supporting role is $20000.00 species of these. the deb you feature from bask director se by less or so. last all,

i good an centers on an 8 year old going through a gender identity crisis during a summer holiday with her be keeping grandmother under sort of 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 lucia 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. art is tony's 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. sol is impressively played by now. ye may st. is the ensemble piece with a documentary feel is an impressive 2nd feature from lela aviles.

ah, today is also the premier of salumi. it's a japanese animated fantasy movie. the hero is a 17 year old girl call sumi, who discovers a mysterious door in the mountains. when sumi turns the handle, she unleashes all the calamities the portal was meant to contain, or the door start opening around japan threatening a population unaware of the luminous leader of our alley to tell us more about sesame. certainly this is the 1st um, the 1st a japanese animated film in the competition for 21 years. so it's a bit of a milestone. it is pretty spectacular. very, very expensive, very big budget. the attention to detail is really amazing. and yes, it is about a teenage girl who meets a mysterious boy and kind of gets drawn into this parallel universe where she has to save the world from natural disasters. now, the director told us that those disasters were inspired by the fukushima nuclear

accident. no expense has been spad on his thumbs got a fantastic striking score. and are the director actually hired one of japan's top rock bands to record the school and they did that at no less than the abbey road studios at the void actually stars, real tv and cinema household names in japan rather than ordinary voice actors. all right, so that's assuming what else is happening at the berlin arleta day? well, there's another, another film from young that couldn't be more different. this one is filmed in black and white. it's very quiet, very brooding. it's from indigenous australians filmmaker, ivan sen. he's the man behind the mystery road film and t. v series about an indigenous detective. now this stars simon baker, australian actor simon baker, as a white policeman who goes into an indigenous indigenous community in a small outback town to review a 20 year old cold case involving a girl who went missing 20 years ago and who tore her family apart when that

happened and he has to face his own demons. and that's completely polar. opposite are from a to z. me and simon bay too. if you don't remember, he played the annoying evil a right? a guy in the devil. where's prada? now later or later today, we've also got a very big premier, we've got on the german premier of the film. tar and kate blanchard is expected to be on the red carpet. now she of course has won all kinds of accolades for playing this a bully. this is a german, orchestral conductor who is kind of a narcissistic monster. and partly the director, as we might have said, she didn't just learn her own lines. she learned every one's lines. she learned to play the piano. she's a pony, learned to speak german. she actually conducted a real orchestra in the preparation for this film. so everyone's really looking forward to that. cate blanchett is amazing. i think learning to speak to her how to speak. german is probably the hardest out of all of that is now. and i believe the bell in ali is self celebrating something in particular today. can you tell us about that? well, yes, the berlin i'll actually have celebrated

a milestone. they have become the 1st major film festival to give a prize out for a series made for streaming or television. and they gave that prize last night to a series called the good mothers. now this is based on a true case based on a book written by journalist or about m. a prosecutor, you teamed up from served with some women inside, or one of the italian mafia organizations. or to bring down the or clan or organizers are and it's got a great price. apparently it's got great performance is texted performances, and that is really a big milestone. the 1st series prize from a major film festival. alida, thank you. that's d, w reporter, holiday barrow reporting from the berlin ali and here's a quick reminder of our top story today. there's been no less help in the fighting in ukraine as the 1st anniversary of the war approaches. the frontline city hassan has been liberated by ukrainian forces, but residents are living in fear of

a fresh russian onslaught. we have time for for now. up next and d, w. news, asia, look at south korea's record low facility rights. remember there's always more for you on the w dot com and on the w's social media channels. how to lead that is d w . i monica mckenna. thank you for what you ah, with

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