and there was a complex relationship with animals with the great meat debate this week on d w ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin in ukraine. the bible for buck wrote is entering a crucial phase. the head of the box and mercenary group says units that almost completely surrounded the city. and the only one road out remains open while ukrainian troops dig in. many residents are leaving. also on the program,

greece winds down the search for bodies in its worst ever rail disaster. but anger is growing with rail sector union saying this was a tragedy waiting to happen. i and a day bubble protests kicks all in. sydney is thousands of young people take to the streets around the world to demand urgent action to counter climate change plus unseasonably. low rainfall in europe is exposing some rarely seen sites. but the local, the rather the current drought could harold another devastating year for crops and energy supplies. ah, hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. the founder of russia's mercenary wagner group has claimed his fighters have nearly surrounded the eastern ukrainian city of

buck. mood, new trenches have appeared in villages surrounding the battle city as ukrainian forces prepare for rushes advance. residents living in the area have also started to leave their homes on thursday. this video was posted on line reporting to show wagner soldiers celebrating a top or ruined building in the east of the city is not known when this footage was felt. but the issue a guy walked in wagner unit city above almost completely surrounded buffalo troll again. well, there is only one road out left. yes, this pincers you have come together. john, i know guy. if previously it had been the professional ukrainian army who fought with us boys. today, we see more and more and elderly people and children are caesar. but they fight

them about their life in back. moot is very sure. one though 2 days you like you were up. let them leave the city. it is almost you surrounded was wrong. so is it just a matter of time before russian forces take bob mote? i put that question to dw, correspond at nick connelly, and keith green. first off is important to stress that this wagner group is known for pretty tall tales. and never knowing you understand their achievements, but it does seem like a ukrainian controlled withdrawal could be on the call to finally, after weeks and months of full starts. we'd heard in recent days other so story about this one route out being left. and i don't see very, very difficult situation to be in. and the pundits talking about the fact that strategically. but what isn't that crucial? it is a lot as important as it is, likes login credentials, which is still safely within ukraine health territory. and that this is your hope, see now a crucial kind of symbolic win for the russians of the months of sex on their part

. so there is said that this might now be the beginning of the end for ukraine control in buffalo for now we're just in the last couple of minutes had some news that some ukrainian air drone surveillance units have been ordered to leave city. but of these kind of pullouts take time, they need to be safe. they need to get positions of kind of fire power protect soldiers leaving. so i think realistically, we're going to hear a little confirmation from the ukranian side of any to botch abutment what it's basically already happened. you mentioned a drone units. nick, there are numerous reports of apparent drone attacks inside russia, which moscow blames on ukraine. what are you hearing about that was been pretty shortly if you look at the map, the geography of these attacks that basically all across european russia, there was a butch instant. and even in st. petersburg, which is a long way away from ukraine's borders places within about a 100 clumps of moscow and also all along russia's black sea coast at for now,

the ukrainians on confirming. but often you see, you know, official social media accounts, the training on the other official bodies posting pictures that put show these attacks with all kinds of small is another emoji. so there sets of the area hinting that they are behind this. and even if we can't quite gauge how successful these attacks have been, some of the damage done is already have an effect. it's forcing russia to pull back its air defenses deep into its hinterland. to basically deprive its troops here on the brand new crane of that protection. and it's also having a significant impact on public opinion back in russia. it seems like most russians were, commits that they were safe, especially if they win in moscow that they see this was a war that was far away and didn't have any impact on them unless they were being called up to fight. but now this is really having impact people really worried about quite how able the government is to protect them from potential ukraine attack. so make me complaining point of view. it is already having opposed effects already evening, kind of the olds and all this enforcing russia. think about defending its influence . nick, thank you so much. that was our correspondence in the crating capital. nick conley

support for ukraine is expected to be a major topic during a visit by german chancellor, all of shots to washington. later today, talks between transfer shots and you as president joe biden will focus on russia's invasion and concerns that china is planning to provide russia with military assistance counselors. yester schultz last visited the white house shortly before russia invaded ukraine. unlike previous trips, no journalists are travelling with the chancellor and there will not be a press con rush after the meeting. the chance for her to day i am a senior german opposition mp has said the trip is needed to repair german us relations after recent disagreements about sending battle tanks to cry. of the trip is now a trip in order to fix all the damage we'd. we do have, in our relations that assert the deeper reason that that, and no journalists are allowed to go with the chancellor. and that he, they,

they are not going to add to the, to the public. after that talks, it is very in a critical situation where a lot of damage is in our relations, of course, are in attempt from, from all of charles to come back to a better situation in our relations, which is really necessary. that was johan vanderpool, a member of german parlance for the opposition. christian democrats. germany has condemned the 10 year jail term handed down in bill roost to nobel laureate alice b ali out ski foreign minister on alina baba called the proceedings against the veteran activist, a force and a disgrace. the alien sky and 2 others were charged with smuggling cash into bell ruse to allegedly fund opposition activities. they were arrested after opposition. protests in 2020 following election. they said was rigged. barely out ski was one

of the winners of the 2022 nobel peace prize. was bringing d w as yury rash shatteau. here he is our muscular beer, a chief and join just now from rig latvia as d, w was forced to leave russia. here tell us more about alice b elliot ski. what's he known for? and why was he jailed? well, as billy ask is 60 years old and arguably, the most well known villa roost in human rights activist 35 years ago in the summit . so former soviet union, he was one of the 1st demonstration organisers, or for the opposition in belarus, or then belushi and soviet republic. several times he was arrested and fined for his activities. i believe he was a co founder of the so called bella, rosie and people's frond, which has been campaigning for democratization in belarus for decades. and in the mid and in the mid 90 ninety's blood ski founded that the human rights organization

just now which supports political prisoners and their families. and 3 years ago when the war major protests in bella rose and because of the presidential election, he became a member of the coordination council of van presidential candidates. at landon c, han oscar, but was arrested again. and yet to day men, skirt polanski was sentenced to 10 years in prison officially for funding of actions and groups that have grossly violated public order. that's what the court said. what does his arrest tell us uri about the human rights situation more broadly in belarus? swallow, human rights situation. bellows is extremely bad. one could say that half of the people who think differently from the official state there at if i am prison and the other half lives in exile abroad. and many bella was in a position. politicians live here neighboring lithuania, others, or men in other european countries. the best known person is of course,

atlanta and oscar as a former presidential candidate whose husband was also sentenced to many years in prison. abelare recently de luca shank of punished people who stood up against him, hand against his dictatorship 3 years ago. officially, terry, there are no political prisoners in barrows. people are jailed for participating and rides insulting lucas shank or extra medicine or financial fraud. all these judgments are basically excuses to prosecute political dissidents. besides ballade ski, dozens of other human rights activists are behind bars in belarus, awaiting their trial. yury. thank you very much. d. w is yury rash out there in regal latvia. you are watching d. w. news still to come, a millennial old mystery that could soon be solved. new technology is giving us glimpses of hidden chambers inside one of the world's most famous ancient land borders. but 1st,

the search for bodies in one of greece's worst train crashes is expected to end today at least $57.00 people died after a passenger train crashed and on into a freight train near the city of larissa. on tuesday night. meanwhile, a 3rd day of protests will be held across greece, over poor railway safety. at 1st light emergency services are back combing through the wreckage, several people are still unaccounted for. 3 days after a fatal crash between a passenger train and a freight train, they were running on the same track. for those still waiting for news of their locked ones, it's been in agonizing time. those are foreigners, the train company took down my name 4 times and still no one has called me back. my people are dead right now. i've lost my brother. i've lost my father.

must very men lily born, so they kindly waited for 4 hours for us to retrieve our dead. regarding my brother . of course, i don't know what i will retrieve, melted flesh on steel. i don't know. enjoy this. they don't know how to answer. they don't know anything on thursday night, unions held a demonstration over rail safety standards outside the headquarters at the country's rel operator. in athens. people also protested outside the greek parliament. and it was in just in the capital. the streets of fair salonica were filled with people angry that greece's rail network has left so many dead strikes have also hit the country's rail. and someway networks a station manager has been charged in connection

with the crash. it's yona love. he's assumed his share of the responsibility within the framework of the responsibility that he should have had and has a level beyond that. so what we can say at this point is that we shouldn't focus on the tree. when is a whole forest behind it, bishop of booking roku of us the government has promised a thorough investigation into the deadly collision. it also says it will fix the country's crumbling rail system. but that's little comfort to the victims of this disaster. and to those left behind sig looked out a couple of other stories making headlines, round the world today. a u. s. jury has found prominent south carolina a lawyer alex murdered, guilty of murdering his wife and son. the jury deliberated for less than 3 hours before finding him guilty of 2 counts of merck. he faces 30 years to life in prison

. trial drew worldwide attention. thrown in cambodian opposition figure come. so com has been sentenced to 27 years house aroused after being found guilty of treason cam. so car is a fierce critic of long time prime minister henson, the u. s. has condemned the case as politically motivated global day of climate action has begun, including hundreds taking to the streets in australia. oh unions. workers. so orders of fridays for future have joined students in march for sydney, demanding that no more coal, oil, and gas project b. the crew ro, testers, have also taken industry, rome and carter and more strikes are expected in the us as well. also a climate protest taking place here in berlin and dw julia shall deli joins me now

from there. julia, this strikes draw attention to the problem of climate change in general, but what sort of action or the protesters here in germany demanding karen germany. the focus is specifically on trying to make the transport sector more climate friendly, trying to reach climate neutrality, reducing c o. 2 emissions from the transport section. and protesters are in particular calling for more investment in public transport. and in fact, today fridays for future. here in berlin is striking alongside transport workers, public transport workers. and both are saying that without fair wages and asking for an increase in wages for those workers, a fair and fast transition, a climate neutral public transport cannot happen. but they are also protesting, again against what they don't like coming from the transport minister here in

berlin, for example, his plans to build new highways in germany. but also his threats to veto the approval in, at the level of the phase out of combustion engine vehicles. by 2035. now these protests are global with strikes happening around the world today. what does the bigger picture look like? julia? yes, we've seen protesters taking to the streets really across the world and with more protests to come. and in this case for today's global climate strike fridays for future is focusing on calling for the end of investments in a fossil fuel projects. fossil fuels like cool oil and gas, being the main contributor is to human, made a climate change. and if we look, for example, at big oil companies in 2000 and money $2.00, they reported their highest profits ever. and at the same time,

we see the international energy agency calling for an immediate end of financing of fossil fuels. if the world wants to reach the parents agree that goals of keeping the rise of global temperatures before one a below 1.5 degrees celsius. and that is what protesters here in berlin but also across the world. they're also calling for julia. thank you very much. that was our course, but a julia, so deli, downtown in berlin. all the protests come as fears grow about the long term impact of severe winter droughts being experienced across europe. rainfall is sharply down in many countries with wide ranging consequences for agriculture, energy, and more. all this comes after the worst summer drought in 500 years in europe. so how bad has to winter been and what does that mean for the coming months and years? this is what winter drought looks like across france, spain and italy,

lakes and rivers, far below their normal level or dried up entirely. farm fields dry and dusty. this used to be an island in italy's lake. garda no longer the yard we took, we that i leave tea for 18 years and i've never seen the lake so dry. i used to come here by boat, but now i can walk, let type for rain. a with this year france saw it's longest winter period without rainfall on record $32.00 days. the alps have seen about half their usual snow, and italy's river po that feeds much of the country's agriculture is down 61 percent from normal. just one example, italy's rice harvest is threatened for the 2nd year in a row seat you sooner consistent. there are problems preventing,

allowing when the soil is so hard that the plows can cut through the earth for many no has come up and the data farmers are the only ones worried. the lack of snow means less snow melt flowing into lakes and rivers in the coming months that will translate into less hydropower from dams, as well as less cooling for nuclear reactors. france is developing an action plan to save water at the national level. none of this one fits on a nation needs to do with water. what we have done with energy, a kind of sobriety plant, we all pay attention to this resource that is becoming rare. it's the end of abundance. fundable don't, don't. but no matter how much people conserve more rainfall is necessary, the spring months will be crucial and meteorologist don't know how much rain will fall. if there's not enough. europe may be said for yet another devastating dry season. or for more on this we have

a general john from d w environment here in the studio. just tell us how this drought is impacting people's lives. so when you have these really dry conditions taking winter where you'd normally expect that the much more rain and wetness generally in europe, it's a big alarms, warning sign for farmers, particularly. it means that you're expecting you're starting the year off with what levels running low. i mean, you got riverbeds drying up and that means that then when rain actually does fall, the ground is so hot that a country so cut the water. and so the problem really get entrenched from the very beginning of the year and continue throughout the year. but they also stretch well beyond just, i mean, food is one big aspect of it, but it goes everything from nuclear power plants that need water cooling are going to struggle hydropower electricity from, from dam. there's also going to be an issue. so you get the massive impacts that

we're just starting to see the warning signs all up at this stage in the year we heard the french president in that report we just watch calling for reduction in water usage. what else can government do to deal with this? so we're at the early stage of government plan. think it leaves the agriculture minister, proposed that they would get some aqueducts. i mean, if you're famous, i guess in raymond, time for the big projects, we're talking more about pipes to get what, from places where there might be a bit more of it places where there's a lot less. but beyond that, big of the things that governments can do, and i mean on the one hand you've got stuff in climate change to prevent droughts picking mediterranean region getting was on the other hand, adapting to the effects and the damage that's already causing is important. well, already $1.00 degrees hotter than it was before we start to betting fossil fuel. and that's also something where we need to, to adapt to the new world that we're living in. now we've seen extremely dry conditions here in europe as throughout the past year and even longer. how are

things looking as we move into spring and summer? if i spoke to from the europe, copernicus, satellites, climate monitoring center this morning who told me that there it's one of the problems with wind droughts is that it increase of the risk of severe spring and summer drought. which if you bring back to the kind of image as we saw last summer of wildfires raging through france and spain and portugal and it link underneath it, it could really be very severe on top of that. even have the problem that having a bad summer drought increase of the strength of the wind to drought the following year. and so this is all very connected, the less what we have in the place where it needs to be the 100 of these communities to adapt doesn't look good. angie, thank you so much for our environment. correspond as raja

mean well efforts are underway to achieve an agreement on a treaty to protect marine life and bio diversity. un negotiators are hoping more than a decade of talks will wrap with a formal deal, scientists or warning that pollution is damaging the project ecosystems of our oceans, and that more needs to be done to safeguard them. our oceans are under threat from plastic waste, climate change, and over fishing. and yet we humans need oceans. they provide us with food and transport routes. they regulate our climate and offer a range of valuable raw materials. but vast areas remain poorly protected, if at all, in particular, those that are more than 200 nautical miles from the coast, the high seas within coastal waters, you know, they're under the jurisdiction of a country, right? so that country has the tools that it needs to, to try and protect and serve those waters as appropriate. that's not the case for

the high speed rate, because the high seas are international waters. they are beyond the jurisdiction of any country. and so it makes, protecting them and conserving them much more difficult. a lack of uniform regulations makes it hard to curve illegal fishing and over fishing and international waters, or monitor damage caused by mining and drilling. although the high seas cover more than half of the earth surface, just one percent is protected. but that could change the united nations as considering a high seas treaty to insure the conservation and sustainable use of marine diversity in international waters. enable the international community to create these protected areas on the high seas. and we also hope that we'll do a couple of other things, right. we hope that it will help to coordinate these different sectors and different activities they're going on to bring a, a sense of all of the cumulative impacts that might be impacting

a particular place as the high seas. the fate of the treaty is unclear. developing countries and emerging economies want marine resources to be shared equitably, while the you and others want greater species protection. the deadline to reach an agreement at the end of the week. thou to egypt and we may be closer to solving a mystery that's been millennia in the making archaeologist scanning inside the great pyramid. visa detected a hollow spot and that discovery made headlines a few weeks ago a few years ago. but access to the chamber remained elusive. until now, a group of researchers has managed to insert a fiber optic camera into the secret chamber, bringing us insights, not seen for thousands of years. it's almost 5000 years old. i me only surviving wonder of the ancient world, but the great pyramid of keesa still has hidden secrets to be discovered.

egyptian archaeologists have unveiled pictures of a mysterious 9 me to passage for the 1st time. located close to the main entrance. antiquities officials don't know for sure what purpose the corridors served. but there is speculation. it could lead to an undiscovered burial chamber of one of egypt, hallowed pharaohs. and anna ha, i've always thought that the burial chamber of king qu food hasn't been discovered yet. and i believe that there is a great possibility that the tunnel is protecting something yet, in my opinion, it is protecting the actual burial chamber of king cuckoo. huh. and then, oh, archeologist still don't know exactly how these massive structures were built or waltzing side. i miss latest discovery provides just one piece of the puzzle posed

by these ensuring monuments to egypt and a matic leaders. oh is, is dw news from berlin. just reminder of the top story we're following for you this hour. the head of the russian backed, bogdan mercenary group, says it's units have almost completely encircled the eastern city. a buck moved a period and a video urging presidents zalinski to allow ukrainian troops to leave the area coming up after the break in good shape. thanks for watching. ah, with

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