[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. ukraine acknowledges russian games near buck looped. ukrainian commanders describe the battlefield situation as extremely tense . russian horses,

including soldiers from the wagner group are said to be making progress, and they are pushed to encircle the front lines. city. also coming up israel steps up, security checks and the west bank amidst searching violence in the region. and the latest attack and israeli american man is killed in a drive by shooting and turkeys president. wretched type air to one asks for forgiveness for his government. slow response to its earthquake disaster and promises to rebuild devastated regions within a year. plus argentinian football star leonel messy wins, beef as top male player of the year award for the 7th time. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. ukrainian forces say that the situation in the eastern city of buck mood is extremely tant,

says russian troops step up their assault. they say russia is trying to cut ukrainian supply lines to the city and force them to surrender or withdraw. the fiercely contested area has become a symbol of ukrainian resistance. rushes relief plus the taxes back mood have reduced the city to rumble. there are a few signs of life on the ground. and from above, the scale of the damage is overwhelming. now moscow has through the intensified at shelling ukrainian soldiers a fighting bag as hard as they can over we are hitting them with whatever we have us. we are holding on against their infantry here. they are not sparing people on the whole area is filled with their dead bodies. they put brussel, lucy and also for russian troops have full month's trying to capture the city whether

a month and both sides have suffered high casualties. noises when and where the good, because my medical work practically nonstop hmo or for the full scale invasion here, we have 50 to 60 wounded in a 9 month rotation of a war. now sometimes we have more than that in one day. so there's a lot of work, but these soldiers are the vest. backlog holds limited strategic importance, but taking it would be a major symbolic victory for russia, ukraine's president admitted things were not going well. which can avenue of the situation is constantly becoming more difficult. the enemy is constantly destroying everything that can be used to protect oppositions for fortification and defensible are soldiers defending in the back. in what direction there are. real heroes was priority. little as russia ramps up its attacks,

it could be on the verge of claiming the city ending the longest battle so far of its invasion of ukraine and dw correspondent economy and joins us now from caves. so nicholas walk us through what is behind these increasingly urgent, ukrainian pronouncements about back loot while the cereal sense that this could be the beginning of the end for ukraine soldiers in back mort for now at least after weeks and months where it seemed like the russians were very close, it now seems like they are really closing in and there is only one route in and out left to leading to gain control territory. one route for the logistics one route get out through just recently. there were still 2 and you know, we've heard for a long time that the americans in pushing the ukrainians to get out. they seem to think that basically the gain of pinning down rush forces there is not worth it anymore. they're just too many ukrainian lives being lost and that kind of cost benefit us just doesn't work anymore. and there's

a sense that basically the kind of leadership here in ukraine is preparing people for potentially bad news ahead. having said that, the citric, important to the cities we heard in the report, isn't that huge. this is more about symbolism that russia really needs a big what they can sell as big when, after months of defeats. and yeah, if you look at the real kind of geography of that part of the country or the city that come towards gustavo, which is still safely, ukrainian control are a lot more important in terms of the logistics of being able to fight war. so definitely a sense that this could be a russian game close, but i don't think it really changes the course of the war. how big a deal is this for russia? well, i think it, they are, you know, in a really difficult position right now, right. they have 10400000 losses, different estimates there, and they are struggling to explain to their population back home what this is all for. they don't really have a really kind of coherent answer. they really have changed messages all through this war. so jasmine definitely there is

a sense that they are desperate to jump on this as sign that things are going their way even though across the country. we're seeing that very limited success and huge losses on their part in around. but what that is is more about the optics and about the, the real thing, if it's the city, do you think it's getting harder for ukrainian forces to maintain their, their momentum. meanwhile in their counter offensive? obviously after year it is very tough and you ukraine has seemed to feel losses of so the government doesn't talk about military losses, but they all believe to be in the 10s of thousands, at least i think though we are saying she's help coming in financially. we had just yelling here yesterday, the u. s. and european countries basically popping up ukraine budget by up to off if you believe some of the estimates and your new weapons coming in, it's bought see that ukraine isn't during will, it has more. there is a still a lot more in reserve being kind of gathered for unexpected spring offensive. so this is not everything they've got currently in, in bottom. we're not seeing it yet. and they're trying to take the fight to russia

. we've had news in gloucester hours of jonah tax on an oil facility of the facilities in russia on russian territory and give you credit government sources hinting that this could be a ukrainian operation. so since the russians, russia is also not having to deal with these ukrainian threats on it searches. so it is difficult, but ukraine is carrying on half an hour, at least those western deliveries wesson for that support is proving enough to kind of keep growing d. w as an economy and keith, thank you. now in the middle east, there has been more violence in the occupied west bank this time near the city of jericho. and is really american man has been killed in his car during a drive by shooting is really forces. se palestinian gunmen targeted several vehicles before fleeing the scene. the incident comes a day after 2 israelis were killed by a palestinian in the west bank town of horror. israeli settlers responded by attacking palestinian homes and property in the area,

killing one palestinian man corresponded rebecca readers. i held this report another stand off on the streets of her laura just as we arrive. so does this is riley settler, who gets out of his car to confront a group of palestinians surrounded by the foreign press, israeli soldiers intervened painting the still really high hearing who are always standing at the entrance to the town even stated that increased military presence. this is one of them i thought, peddling trying to get from the settlement of it to jerusalem. anna, using it, you can see it. cars honking every time a car come through, he threw his provocation. really, it feels like anything could happen. on sunday, a palestinian gunmen shot dead to his riley brothers in this town, which led to

a revenge attack by israeli settlers rampaged through the streets, torching cars and houses. one palestinian was shot dead in the violence for others badly injured. my loss of shirt, i left the shop to pick up one of my employees and i saw a coal 100 settlers setting fire to it. they burned the container, but the warehouses burnt, the storehouse for electrical appliances and destroyed the house on the back. sort of old door didn't leave anything. good, book, chins escalate. israel security minister has urged citizen restraint brought her meal. i want to comment on what happened in john hora, the how long? i mean, i understand the hard feelings for this isn't the way of our we can't take the law into our own hands or look him at the hawkeye. instead he said it should be israel's government and security forces who quote, crush the enemy. fresh reports have now emerged from

jericho. also in the occupied west bank, a suspected palestinian gunmen shot dead. another is riley, all this turmoil erupting on the heels of an emergency summit in jordan, where his riley and palestinian officials agreed on measures to try to cool things down. but the ongoing violence, putting any efforts of de escalation on shaky ground. and d, w corresponding rebecca writers who filed that report told me earlier how she experienced the situation in horror. well, the situation there is sarah, as you can see in that report, is nothing short of tense attentions, very high after sundays attack, following are the shooting of those 2 israeli brothers. and then the palestinians call for venice or the, the settler call for vengeance. and the going into that town and attacking homes and cars and palestinians on sunday night we've seen we saw an increased military

presence in the town, as i mentioned in the pace. it's a, it's a town is a thoroughfare that settlers used to get from jerusalem to some of the settlements on the other side. and so that they come into contact with palestinians in the village. there was a lot of provocation while we were there. although the settlers, as they drove through honking horns and creating provocations and, and more tension. and we saw the palestinians calling back and, and this back and forth. now who are ease a hot spot. as i said, that thoroughfare town. so as set, low violence was settling, clashes isn't uncommon, but the the extent to what we saw on sunday isn't very common summer saying it's unprecedented. or at least since sir seems from the end of the and father in the early 2, thousands detention very high. but not just there, as we were leaving the town the, the reports were coming out about that shooting in jericho. jericho's not normally considered one of the major hotspots, but you can see these things popping up all across. the west bank has tensions

flare. so things not looking at feeling certainly like they are going to settle down any time soon sarah would efforts are being made to reduce the risk of further escalation or, of course, seen all the international calls for. com. i. we've seen even calls from come from, you know, certain israeli politicians, benjamin netanyahu sang, don't take matters into your own hands and all the ministers echoing that. but we have seen some ministers from the far right from the security minister. been a to my bent vs party court, you know, condoning the violence in fact, supporting it. so you know, the tensions are being stoked regardless. and i think, you know, we are saying calls for calm, we saw a couple of weeks ago as tensions were flaring again, a few weeks ago after another raid in the northern west bank. we saw it timed with the u. s. secretary of state here. and he was calling for com, we did see a momentary law intentions,

but even given things like the summit that was held in jordan on sunday. and out of that summit they were, they were assurances from the israeli side saying that they would hold settlement expansion at least for a few months to try and calm things ahead of the ramadan. the islamic ramadan holy month coming up, and everyone worried about things spiraling out of control. but it is hard to see with, with, you know, out of that meeting benjamin netanyahu said no, we're not going to hold these settlement expansion. so definitely a lot of tit for tat going on. it's very hard to kind of know where it's going, but it certainly doesn't feel like it's going in the right direction. d. w correspondent, rebecca rivers. thank you. and here are some other stories making headlines around the world. china has criticized the u. s. deadline giving federal employees 30 days to remove the popular chinese owned apps, tick tock from government devices. beijing says the u. s. is abusing national

security powers to suppress foreign companies. the u. s. ban was sparked by fears the app could be used for spying by the chinese government. hong kong has announced that it is lifting one of the world last face mask mandates imposed during the corrosion of virus pandemic. from wednesday, residents will be able to leave home without a mask the 1st time in nearly a 1000 days. it is the last pandemic measure to still be in force in the financial hub. i know british prime minister richie soon act is in northern ireland to win support for his deal with you over post breaks at trade. the winds or framework is designed to use the flow of goods between britain and northern ireland. on soon achan, european commission, president russell, i found a line proclaimed a new chapter in e u. u. k. relations as they adopted the pact welcome or turkey's president rach of type air to one has asked for forgiveness for his government slow response to the

areas hardest hit by this month's earthquake. he went on to blame aftershocks and bad weather and rejected claims that the country was not prepared. the anger at the government's crisis management presents a major political challenge for air to won as he seeks re election in may. the earthquakes 3 weeks ago had turkey and syria killing more than 50000 people. he w corresponded eulley han has been reporting from the quake head regions. she told us more about what people in turkey make of air to one's apology or turkey is only a few months away from crucial elections. and president edward knows that his political future could hinge on how the public perceives his governments response to this disaster. one of the largest, the country has ever seen, i should mention that many of the quake hill provinces are actually strongholds of

prison ad one and his ruling islamic conservative aka p. we have seen many people there in id. i'm on yesterday, cheering for the president. so i assume that him asking for forgiveness was a festival, a message to his voter base because elsewhere here in the country, his words have not been well received at all. on twitter, we saw hash tags, like i won't forgive trending and hear in istanbul. football fans ahead of important matches, have been shouting from the tribune's, calling for the government to resign over an ineffective disaster response and an overall lack of earthquake preparedness. i spoke with the east and bal residents and asked them for their opinions of how the government's been handling this crisis . many of them have been quite critical. let's listen to what they had to say. to murder, the government got buried under the rubble. the people had to save themselves. the

government only arrived after 3 days. or should we take them to the dealer? yeah, now they're detaining contractors if you would just have peace, people's anger unable to mislead them. but who did those contractors get the permission from the union over from the government? we came back in august and took a very sad about us. so one man will doesn't work. we want everyone to see it, let her be elections. the system needs to change as soon as possible. we don't know anything right now. i think the government doesn't know either. nobody knows what's going to happen. just a few years there earlier on the streets. how could air to ones handling of this crisis now play out and elections is very difficult to say at this point because actually we don't know for sure when the elections are going to take place before the quake ad one had announced that he ones an early vote in mid may, but now it's unclear whether that plan is still valid. whether elections can technically

be held in the earthquake hid provinces. whether they, the opposition has not yet put forward a candidate. so we don't know who's going to run against president edwin, who has been in power of for more than 20 years now. but what i can tell you is that the effects of this catastrophe have rippled through the entire country here and is symbol right now. there is a great sense of depression, anxiety, anger, even because many people have either lost loved ones in the quake zone. they have been trying to join the relief efforts there, and others are simply afraid of another big quake hitting this city. because scientists have been wanting for decades, that is symbol is also at risk. now add to that all the question marks and insecurities over the country's political future. it is actually a lot people here have to deal with. right now. we heard it there in the sound bites that we just heard. the blame for a lot of these deaths appears to lie with sloppy construction work as well. the president,

promising to rebuild more than $230000.00 homes and the next year is that promise credible will many year agree that it would be extremely risky to rush into large scale reconstruction efforts. while the quakes and the off the shelf in the region still continue. and if you look at the figures, this is just an estimate or by the world bank for $34000000000.00 us dollars. and property damage have been caused by the quakes. and that figure doesn't even include the damage that's been caused to the already ailing talk. shaquanna me all the costs for reconstruction. and then of course, building codes, building safer homes is going to be more costly. of course, these building codes, they do it this year in turkey. the problem was really about the implementation and the oversight in recent decades. and if you let me quote the president, one more time that something he said yesterday he asked for one year to heal most of the wounds of the earthquake. but it's of course,

one thing to rebuild houses. but people there in the quick hit region have lost a so much more than the roofs over their heads. we've seen the grief, the despair they have lost their loved ones, their homes, their memories, their jobs. and these are of course things that can't just be easily rebuilds or reconstructed and brought back eulley hahn in his tumble. thank you. early results in nigeria is general election show bullet to new of the ruling. all progressives, congress in the lead to replace outgoing president mohammed who ari, but half the country states have still to report their results and to new boost. 17 rivals in this race are holding on. i'm curious, tightest elections since the end of military rule. in 1999 has been marred by violence, delays, and allegations of fraud 3, frontrunner loads and all 3 se they're winning nigeria election but

with delays and disruptions since saturday. the result is far from clear. people are getting impatient and increasingly forward. some of us did a week d. lithonian. i wouldn't. i wouldn't also do lot. repore on hor good abdul very well because ring and dyslexia will break is not that it might be it would bring her. but if the program to my judy this is considered the tightest presidential race in la geo since it ended military rule in 1999. but experts observing the election at voting over the weekend was affected by pool organization was little nafrica lit either of bowlin officials, 14 martinos. and in some cases the delivery over all the materials at hollins, visuals,

across the country. just i that has also been violence in several states. in one case, on sunday in lagos, a group of men pretended to be electoral officials. i did and stormed into the voting center and attacked twice. i made the chaos. there have been a few reports of ballots matching and many complaints of the electronic voting system that nigeria is using for the 1st time. political leaders have urged the electron commission to declare results soon to feel that for the delays will dampen public trust and incite or more violence. we do not want this. we want peace in our country. we want the, you know, a credible election and we want us all to come together as niger is a, make this thing what the security challenges will have to be tackled by the new president. once nigerians know who that will beat and d, w. legos, bureau chief,

florida to cora is watching the results come in. we asked her where the biggest surprises have been so far. lee, gus is definitely a big surprise for a lot of people. lagos is the, has been the strong code of the apc candidates, which is the ruling pot discounted as well i made to since 1999. no other policy has, has one legal for the presidential and governorship or lectures. and for the 1st time, p t r. o, b one, legal stage one. well i to the in the that definitely came as a big surprise. i know that surprises also with united states. that's is where the president's mom. i do, i re ease from a p d p one president barry in prism harvest party in his own states. but, you know, obviously still remains in believe they're still median so far. but then again, we don't know when the final results will be announced is still, you know,

something that we cannot predict at this point. we just have to wait until the final results announced. and here are some other stories making headlines, killa is deploying troops to its borders with peru and bolivia. its latest attempt to control the number of my clients, which the government says is increasing. military units will be able to detain anyone attempting to cross and hand them over to local police. north korean leader kim jong on has ordered a fundamental transformation of the countries agriculture from the mid speculation that the country is facing serious food short notice. one of your state media hasn't reported what measures will be taken has done on monday. him opened a political conference dedicated to africa in football leon, unless he has one safest male player of the year award for the 7th time. last year, he guided argentina to the world cup title and helped paris spanish oman,

when the french league barcelona, as alexia put a ass, took home the 2022 women's award. the ceremony in paris followed a vote by fans and football personalities. ah, lin messy has gone from winning this famous trophy for the very 1st time to receiving a 7th fifo world's best male player, a war for now. no good about me were here was crazy for me miss. are you chief my dreamed it? i had been hoping for, for so long in city. he fought off competition from his party, sanjay monte mate, and france forward killing and pappy as well as rail madrid's champions league winner carrying bens emma argentina's. welcome. when also meant linelle. kaloni was named best men's coach while england's triumph and the women's european

championship. the 1st major honor landed serena vague. men, the female coach award, the best best women's player, went to spain's alexia protests for the 2nd straight year. alexia would pay us her boss alone aside when every league game last season, polish and beauty football matching alexi also won. best go a flurry of awards that through a busy year of football. and yet again, it's leah. no messy taking home the big prize and some breaking news just coming in nigeria as to main opposition parties are calling for the cancellation of the weekends. presidential elections alleging manipulation of results. they demand a new ballot will bring you more in our next news bulletin. if there is indeed an update to that news, you're watching the w news coming up next. and d, w, news,

asia soaring food prices in pakistan are forcing parents to make difficult choices for their children's. futures and onions are now so precious that one filipinos couple used their big day to highlight the problem. my colleague, brush banner g will bring you those stories and more after a short break. if you want more, you can always go to the website of you dot com. you can also follow us on our social media channels, including on youtube. we are at d, w. it is. i'm sarah kelly in berlin. thank you so much for joining us. take care ah ah,

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