or j o d w. the only way i can be on the top is to create my own empire, discover stories with just a click away. the journey, the destination. right. and they still came in trees from 2 i've never seen before that dr. now i took him in tree hell these days there doesn't seem to be a word more frequently used to describe the conditions and eastern ukrainian baffled from this one. after months of gruesome door to door, combat rushes noose around the besieged towns, neck seems to be tightening. but even amid suggestions ukrainian troops might be conducting a limited, tactical withdraw. leadership and cave has bound to defend the city,

for as long as it takes russia's advances in back. moot have been largely ascribed to the wagner private army. now its leader is publicly complaining about shortage of ammunition and accusing the kremlin of deliberately letting his mercenaries run out of resources to pin possible losses and the war on them. the stakes are high and so are the tensions. i'm nichol further him berlin and this is the day. ah, grima grains defense is a holding. our boys are heroically defending back moot. and we hope that we will keep defending it for longer. i think it's more of a symbolic value that it is a strategic and operational but she would go if walk in, the retreats and battles. now the whole front will collapse. the ball, bach. woof,

woof, necessarily mean that her the russians are change of title or the title fight . it is one of the toughest battles painful and challenging. ukraine will emerge victorious also on the day one month after the historic earthquakes, the situation for survivors and syria remains desperate. about his death and he said, after all the earthquakes, my son and i, a traumatized, let's you believe you didn't it, we don't dest at home because it's not safe that mm, who is he? and we haven't bought a tense, tense costs between $2400.00 and we can't afford wanted to, we've decided to stay here with her. i. ready mcdonald or come to the show, we start to nights and the most dangerous place in ukraine. a halt president voluntary zalinski says his troops are in a quote,

painful and difficult battle to hold on to the former mining town. but with conflicting reports from all sides, the real situation on the ground is all but clear. on sunday, the head of the russian back wagner mercenary, grew warned that his troops could be running out of ammunition. for months they've been heavily engaged in a battle of attrition over bolt in a message on the groups telegram channel. bergmann, she, if you're getting pre, goshen said rushes front lines could collapse if his forces didn't soon receive the ammunition promised by moscow last mug. and we can now speak to marina marana defense analyst at king's college, london to 90, joins us from alley country in spain. marina good to see you again. the russians claim they have in circles back. what ukrainian officials say that's just propaganda. so how close is russia really to capturing buffet? well, am thank you for having me again. it's quite

a difficult situation. i was agreeing horses and indeed we're seeing conflicting reports from both sides, but from the ukrainian sides, and were as some interviews with those who have been around a mood. and they did to report as the situation for the ukrainian armed forces is very dire. so i think that is a rush of the having an upper hand right now. and of course, this is old. you do what the wagner is doing, and precisely what he's doing is throwing a lot of man power. because the gradient um forces are being outnumbered as they're struggling right now. so we, we're seeing now wagner kind of trying to close this, cold run their own back, moved, and we're also seeing an enhanced from the right from the gradient side. do hold or do work to move to perhaps send some more enforcements or indeed there is a discussion between general loony and lieutenant general sarah ski about what to

do about mood. president laskey obviously doesn't want to give up mood, so it's quite a difficult situation. and we shall see what the ukrainian political leadership will do about this, whether it will realize it, in how far it can push its military instrument. and whether it's worth all the human cost. you said at their president, zalinski wants to send more troops to defend backbone, but given the highly questionable strategic importance of baltimore and the sheer brutality of the war there. would that be the right decision in your opinion? well, it depends because the problem is that a month is significant, and it has become significant for both sides, especially as president lensky has been stressing for months that the ukranian troops wouldn't give up. now losing more, it would be very self defeating right now,

both from the political and strategic perspective, especially because in military strategic terms. but mode is next to key roads which would severe the logistics of the ukrainian armed forces. the other thing is sounding in more troops given the cd because the question is whether anything can be saved or will this drive on and cost more human life, especially when we're talking about the gradient um forces. and the 2nd question is, where are those reinforcements coming from? meaning that they will be re deployed from another location which they might be defending at present. so there is a chance that the russians might use this opportunity to conduct that recognizance and to strike. whereas the defenses are weakest of the ukrainian forces along the front line. let's talk about the russian side of the war because the head of the wagner group says he's being starved of ammunition. what's behind that?

it is interesting that you get promotion is coming again with the statement. again, we have seen that a couple of weeks ago, he was complaining about the russian generals, giving our metals to those who didn't deserve them. and at the same time, his fighters were lacking proper artillery support and proper air support, and they didn't have enough emulation. and then several days later, and he claimed that the problem had been resolved that the or his request and retracted his statement. and i'm wondering who is his audience, who is he trying to appeal to? because the written evidence rec, between the ministry of defense and now the commander or the ukranian convention general grasp them and you get a precaution. so i think that you're getting recorded is trying to kind of position himself as this indispensable actor in this conflict because these messages,

if he is posting, he could have gone through the back challenge and sorted out with the, with the but he, a far as we want this attention, he wants the attention from all sides, from the m d and obviously from the russian population to reinforce his position as to gain political traction and the certain wise and how the special military operation in which they should mark should be going. and i think for, for the russian, m o d, i don't think that they are actually was holding any ammunition. there was a general ammunition shortage. and you know, both sides recovering from the sure that you're specially 120 millimeter artillery shells. so i think it is a bit of an overstatement. well, we have to keep in mind that in these there is a rest. and wagner is kind of trying to reinforce his position of probably a big for minister of defense. yet nobody in boot camp seems to be speaking of as

openly against russia strategy as for goes and has been doing and is doing again. now. if he really were to turn his back on the russian president, what could that mean for the war? oh that is correct, actually, progression is not the only one who is speaking again, the strategy comes out cordero, the chechen leader is support. they made any progress. there are some author and military academics who have been wasting the same criticism that we're hearing progression. but i think he's the kind of the toughest wan to go out and do, openly criticize, put in or rather them would be a good strategy. and i think his clothes dies was wouldn't allow him for that to basically do portion and try to next. some changes, and i think without wagner, russia would have had to look for and as

a tool to fill that gap because of wagner has been used in syria. wagner has been used in ukraine since 2014. it's a very specific tool designed to sold very specific problems on the battlefields, those jersey problems. and the benefit of wagner is that they have some sort of kind of a mission from an doctrine where they have much more flexibility on the battlefield as compared to the rest of the russian forces. so the point being, we don't really know if wagner would, would be actually suitable to full other tasks on the battlefield. a part from doing what they're doing right now and kind of tasks them manpower, intensive attacks and where he can basically risk losing man i, i think that the russians would be missing out, but i don't think that their entire kind of operation would collapse if wagner wasn't on the battlefield. military analysts,

marina moran joining us from ali khan to always. great speaking to you. thank you so much. thank you. saying in ukraine and a year of war has crippled the country's economy as russian attacks have devastated the energy infrastructure disrupted production and blocked ports. but while bombs kept raining down on the country, work has never stopped. t w's. nick connelly has been to meet people in the need for a region who are keeping ukraine's metals industry going despite the continued air strikes. ah, it's a sound that means one thing. time to head for safety on the ground. no matter how many times you've heard, it never stopped being unnerving when will began seeking shelter. also, men stopping work a year on and production of this metal plant continues. regardless, thanks to this improvised set up a little more than a few computers and internet connection people down here and keep the machines

running up above. their boss shows us his emergency supplies. if needed, he tells us they could survive on these provisions for days or even weeks through so far, this talk hasn't been hit with the russian troops still less than a 100 kilometers away. the risks are real, lea be rented, this is war and no one can possibly know what will happen. tomorrow's a good food and then we can't afford not to be prepared. his vision is of course, i pray will never need any of this with. but other ukrainian companies have been less fortunate to russian missiles a few days apart in this production cited in the pro, killing 2 people at the 1st strike not come on the weekend. that figure would likely have been far higher. it's lottery. i to lottery's a real can can time can come any time at any place. it any house at any facility. my 1st time here i sold the pictures. they did have one to come because i remember

the equipment. i remember how much effort to spent make and all this and that's russian. russian world is came to my a plant that how it looks like we visited other bitches loves factories. it's still going, but it's struggling with the effects of russian attacks when you cranes power system . yes, that the power bill dog. what will happen is we'll get warm the last couple of months. when there is the wrong it alert. i turned off all the electricity, and that happens on predictably, never ever happens. we will lose around, wouldn't get dissolved and yours, you know, one minute. the material inside, they cannot lose the temperature with the brake. brain generators made all the difference. workers can now prevent uncontrolled shutdowns,

buying time to buy pin natural gas that stabilizes the temperature until means electricity returns. where before they would lose days of production every time the power went off. now it's down to a matter of hours. the power isn't the only problem they're dealing with here. ukrainian firms operating against all the odds are increasingly finding that many customers in europe don't want to work with them. they're afraid that will prevent the ukrainian supplies from delivering more. i will guide them that everything was i don't know that we're fighting. everybody's fighting in my job is to make sure that the vendors are getting people getting salary. i can help soldiers, i can buy with them. but not every business can roll with the punches like this one bitch slap tells us that at least a quarter of his competitors have already gone out of business. and the bankruptcies keep coming. from the resilience i'm show,

ukraine's economy is still in free for leaving this country. and it's all me ever more dependent on international support. oh, the war and the economy are not ukraine's only headaches and it's attempts to join the european union. there has long been one major obstacle ukraine's endemic corruption. kalki has appointed a new anti corruption investigator, 40 year old men crib. one ross was name to add a special cabinet meeting on monday. the position had been vacant for 11 months and the you had been putting pressure on ukraine to step up its efforts in the fight against ramp and graft, ukrainian prime minister says the new appointment will pave the way toward european union membership. this promotion, but with the appointment of the head of the national anti corruption bureau of ukraine, we can say that ukraine has fulfilled all 70 you recommendations,

which were determined upon receiving candidate status. who in this demonstrates our determination in the question of integration in the you and our desire to move on to the start of accession negotiations this year roll still go yes. the anti corruption pressure group transparency international rates. ukraine as one of the most corrupt countries in the world, in their annual ranking transparency list of ukraine as 100 and 16th out of 180 countries surveyed, put ukraine only slightly ahead of russia, ranked 100 and 37th on monday. russia's prosecutor general announced it was putting transparency international on its list of undesirable organizations, a step seen as leading to outlying it and to break down these developments, i like to welcome audrey bureau vague. he's the executive director of transparency international ukraine. welcome mr. aerobic 1st. what can you tell me about the new

head of ukraine's anti corruption bureau? actually the selection process went very, very fast, and it is very important that it lasted under 44, or think 4, maybe 5 months, no more. and that was, as was said by the prime minister of ukraine, was one of the requirements for ukraine. you noted to move one with the new positions for the candidacy. then you had was never, never was before investigator. but the main role been the head of the scenes is actually the manager role. there is lots of rumors about his connections with the current current government. but we always trying to be positive and we'll see how, how, how actually the novel will change and what they will do in the future. and i hope that the investigations will be more more of them and they will, that they will speed up. all right,

let's look at the bigger picture here. then why did ukraine got such a poor rating from transparency international? honestly, i disagree that it is so. ready for because if we look historically where it was ukraine during your call each times into $1013.00, for example, ukraine. it only $25.00 points. now it's $33.00. yes, it is still quite fall from the average in the european union bars for these 10 years, we added 8 points and ukraine, m on other 200 countries in, in the ranking is ranked as 15th was the most progress. so it means that the problem of the corruption is beek all around the world. and ukraine were in the right direction. we did a number of reforms. some of them were not able to fight in the corruption, but 8 and the transparency and deliberate embed services for the citizen. and i, i think that would be going the right way, but we need definitely to speed up in order to stop any talks about the level of

corruption in ukraine. and i think that we have everything that is needed for us in order to one how hard is it to advance in the right direction with a war going on in the country? it's not an easy thing because there is lots of security risks. for example, ukraine was, was one of the leading countries in the region in the sense of all the information about the state had a very large number of open registries. now lots of information is. ready closed, as i said, because of the security reasons. but the, some of the event that happened during last year, such as was for the anti corruption strategy to corruption program, appointment of the new head of the corruption prosecutor's office. 2 days went as a point of the head of the main investigative body of the top level. corruption actually shows that we can continue doing the reforms and of course not as fast as

we want, but we still can do the reforms while our armies fight in the battlefield. so it is possible, and i hope that this year we will continue doing this many blame ukraine's troubled historic relationship with russia. 4th corruption problems. what do you think are the root causes here? but there is, there is not so many, but there is some of the different scientific hypothesis. why, why the level of corruption, the korean is that that level which we have. and they think that the russian influences definitely in place because historically, ah, it was the case when in the, even in, during the soviet times because of the scars of, of many goods for the people. it was just a common way to get something in order to give or to buy extra to those who have access to those things. so it can be one of the reasons, but also i would say that lack of any vision or fight in the corruption and

it was never such would be probable unless we had a younger college as a president. it was never in the top level of agenda ukraine, not only with the governor, but even with the population. but since 2014, i must say. and even now, when you ask in, according to sociology, pulls what it would be as a main disappointment for, for you as ukrainian after band of the war. number one people saying that the, the russia will stay unpunished. but number 2, the corruption will still exist. so i think that recession to support in fight of the corruption from general population, there is no other way for the government and politicians to more one with this problem. and finally, to ended. and of course, the 2nd reason is our way to deal with these are the requirements which we want to fulfill. yeah, i want to get to what was just announced about your organization. you know,

in europe there's only one country you rate as more corrupt ukraine and that is russia. moscow just declared your organization to be undesirable. why is my cell so sensitive about the work you do? and what does that mean for your work going forward? so i think that the russia is just showing i don't know what they're trying to show with this decision, but as soon as they become more and more closed as a country, and i am as the ukraine and kimberly lane them on on this because they came to ukraine, and they waited my country by the general. this is the next step. after that, they were very famous for both the foreign agents. so, so it basically, they see that everything that is for him is not well in russia. so i'm just even surprised that they did it on the now with us not even earlier last year. we're going to have to leave with their antibiotic of transparency international. thank you so much.

ah, exactly one month since massive earthquakes hit southern turkey and northwestern syria, more than $50000.00 people were killed in the worst natural disaster in modern turkish history. millions of people have been affected and injured, left homeless, or are lacking basic facilities. after years of war, the situation in northwestern syria is harder to evaluate the cities of aleppo and it were among those badly hen and a powerful after shock. and a falling waste triggered new fears. it always mohammed refine reports from it, like at nightfall. the 44 year old m r i e fills his car with blankets and drives to the outskirts of it live. far away from the cities crumbling residential buildings. he spends the night here with the sun. since the 2nd earthquake struck northwestern,

syria and turkey. hundreds of families are afraid to sleep in their own homes, for fear of being trapped inside. if they collapse with after all the earthquakes, my son and i are traumatized and she didn't, she didn't. we don't dare stay at home because it's not safe. there was he and we haven't bought a tent then tense costs between $2400.00 and we can't afford wanted her to have decided to stay here with her. i medina. ready honey, the earthquakes that struck northern syria and killed almost 6000 people, also destroyed thousands of structures. after the 2nd quake, nearly 200000 people were displaced. families abandoned their homes as aftershocks made the initial damage from the quakes even worse. many moved into tents in front of their houses or in other public places isn't

a relief organization based in germany says the challenges are numerous. i am in my what the law, the most crucial obstacle to expanding refugee camps during the to accommodate the enormous number of people displaced by the earthquakes was to sunny is that the communities were not ready to build such facilities and lockers. and there's the challenge of providing enough tense, daniel, with that i 2nd earthquake curriculum or even more people abandoned their homes that are the fall. and that because of the trauma they experience chevy dealer shovel in the 1st one of his other a well near the city of id live will homage looked carney offered shelter on his farm and swimming facility to people who have lost their homes or the families who are afraid their buildings will collapse on them. the nist villas, as after the 1st earthquake, we received 20 families who lost their homes of sunny jana. and after the 2nd one,

latham many more came here because they were afraid to stay in their buildings over . this will, although, as you can see, tom is difficult to meet their needs are thomas muster. for thousands of syrians, the choice is between living on the streets or living in fear. that's our time for now, but make sure to stay informed. stay engaged and stay in touch. follow our team on twitter at the the way news and myself at nicole under or 40 for now from the entire team on the day. thank you so much for spending part of your day with a, with

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