d, w dot com ah, hell. these days there doesn't seem to be a word more frequently used to describe the conditions in eastern ukrainian baffled than 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 keith 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 in the war on them. the stakes are high and so are the tensions aniko further him. berlin and this is the day. ah,

grima green's defences are holding. our boys are heroically defending about mood and we hope that we will keep defending it for longer. i think it's more symbolic. a strategic and operational, but she will go if walk in the retreats from back of now the whole front will collapse with fold, bought, whoop, or miss shirley marina, after the russians, her trip change, the title of the pipe fight. it is one of the toughest battles painful and challenging. ukraine will emerge, victorious ah, also on the day one month after the historic earthquakes, the situation for survivors and syria remains desperate. battle is this after all the earthquakes, my son and i are traumatized initiatives. he didn't it,

we don't dare stay at home because it's not safe. that was he and we haven't bought a tense, tense costs between $2400.00 added. and we can't afford wanted to. we've decided to stay here with her. i medina horn. oh, or come to the shell, we start to nights and the most dangerous place in ukraine. i won't. 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 bank, 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. in a messenger on the groups telegram channel, bergman tv of getting pre gosh said russia's front lines, could collapse if his forces didn't soon receive the ammunition promised to buy

moscow last mug. and we can now speak to marina marana defends, i live at kings college, london to 90, joins us from ali country in spain. marina good to see you again. the russians claim they have in circles back. what ukrainian officials, they, that's just propaganda. so how close is russia really to capturing muffled? well, am thank you for having me again i, it's quite a difficult situation. i was agreeing horses and indeed were seeing conflicting reports from both sides, but from the ukrainian side there were some interviews with those who have been around been moved and they tend to report as the situation for the ukrainian armed forces is very dire. so i think that is a rush of having an upper hand right now. and of course, this is old due to what the wagner is doing. and precisely what he's doing is throwing a lot of manpower because the ukranian armed forces are being outnumbered and

they're struggling right now. so we, we're seeing now wagner, kind of trying to close this colder on their own about food. and we're also seeing attempts from the router from the ukranian side, do hold on to work, to move, to perhaps set some more enforcements or in these. there is a discussion between general loony and lieutenant general sarah ski, about what to do about a president lensky. obviously that's 11 to give up. 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, as in how far it can push its military instrument, and whether it's worth all the human cost. you sent it, 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 most is significant and it has become significant for both sides, especially as president lensky has been stressing for months that the korean troops wouldn't give up. now, losing, but most would be very self defeating right. both from the political and strategic perspective, especially because in military strategic terms. but most of the next key roads which would severe the logistics of the ukrainian forces. the other thing is sounding more given the cd because the question is whether anything can be saved or will drive on and cost more human life. and especially when we're talking about the ukranian with this as the 2nd question is where apples 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 come back bad reconnaissance and to strike where the defenses are weakest of the great influences 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 you know, at the same time his fighters were lacking proper artillery support and proper air support. they didn't have enough ammunition. and then several days later and he

claimed that the problem had been told 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 there isn't evidence rec, between the ministry of defense, and now the commander or the ukrainian position 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 that he is posting, he could have gone through the background and forwarded it out with the, with the. but as far as we want this attention, he wants the attention from all sides from the m d. and obviously from the russian credit population to reinforce his position as to gain political fraction and a certain was 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 is a general ammunition shortage and you know, both sides of covering from the shore that special $120.00 millimeter artillery shells. so i think it is a bit of an overstatement. well, we have to keep in mind that 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, precaution is not the only one who is speaking against the strategy, that they are the trash and leader in supporting your records. and there are some other military academics who have been why things of the same criticism that we're

hearing regarding, but i think he's the kind of the toughest one to go out and do, openly criticize, put in or rather they put in a strategy. and i think he's close by with didn't allow him for that to basically to do portion and try to next some changes. and i think without boston or russia would have had to look for another tool to fill that gap because oftener has been used in syria. wagner has been used in ukraine since 2014. it's a very specific tool designed to solve very specific problems of the battlefield, the jersey problem. and the benefit of wagner is that they have for the 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 would be actually suitable to solve other tasks on the

battlefield. apart from doing what they're doing right now with kind of the tasks, the manpower and have some attacks where he can basically risk losing man, i think that the russians would be missing out, but i don't think that their entire kind of operation would collapse if wasn't it wasn't on the battlefield. military analyst, marina ron, joining us from ali can 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. the w nick connelly has been to meet people in the need for a region who are keeping ukraine's metals industry going,

despite the continued airstrikes. ah, it's a sound that means one thing. time to head for safety under ground. no matter how many times you've heard, it never stopped being unnerving when will began seeking shelter, also meant stopping work. the urine and production of this metal block continues regardless. thanks to this improvise 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 russian troops still less than 100 kilometers away. the risks are real lea be vantage. this is war and no one can possibly know what will happen, tomorrow's okay to him if we can't afford not to be prepared. his vision is of course i pray will never need any of this with others. but other ukrainian

companies have been less fortunate to russian missiles a few days apart in this production site 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 had pictures. they did have one to come because i remember the equipment. i remember how much effort to spent making all this and that's russian. russian world is came to my a plant that out. looks like we visited. other bitches loves factories. it still going, but it's struggling with the effects of russian attacks when you cranes power system . yet the power bill, when it will get warm months when they're in the

regular a unpredictably never, it never happens. we will lose around a 1000 years. you know, one minute, the materials inside, they cannot lose the temperature when delete the temperature, the freight and the brain generates is 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. way before they would lose days of production every time the power went off. now it's down to a much of ours. the power isn't the only problem that 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. there will prevent the ukrainian supplies from delivering more. i that one,

it will guide them with fighting everybody fighting it in. my job is to make sure that the better we're getting a little getting salary. i can help soldiers. i can like women, but not every business can role with the punches like this one bitch slap tells us that at least a quarter of his competitors have already got out of business. and the bankruptcies keep coming from the resilience and show ukraine's economy is still in free for leaving this country. and is 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 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 him 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 years. the anti corruption pressure group transparency international rates, ukraine as one of the most corrupt countries in the world, in their annual ranking transparency listed ukraine as 100 and 16th out of 180 countries surveyed,

that puts ukraine only slightly ahead of russia rank 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 the leading to outlying it and to break down these developments, i like to welcome andre rural vague. he's the executive director of transparency international ukraine. welcome, mr. rick. first, 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. i 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 sense that

you shouldn't 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 a 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 sold for because if you look historically where i was ukraine, you're in unicorn each time since 2013, for example, ukraine said only $25.00 points. now it's $33.00. yes, it is still quite far from the average in the european union bought for these 10 years, we added a point and ukraine. yvonne, 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 being all around the world and ukraine. we're in the right direction. we did a number of reforms. some of them were not able to fight in the corruption, but agency transparency and deliberate embed services for the citizen. and 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, ukraine. and i think that we have everything that is needed for us. you know, the to want with that. how hard is it to advance from the right direction with a war going on in the country? it's not an easy thing because it 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 closed,

as i said, because of the security reasons. but some of the event that happened during last yes, such as was 490 corruption strategies to corruption program appointment of the new head of the corruption prosecutor's office 2 days ago. and as 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 all 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 crane 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 be an even in, during the soviet times because of the scars of, of many good for the people. it was just a common way to get something you know, to, 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 garage and, and it was never such a big problem unless we had a younger college as a president. it was never in the top level of agenda ukraine, not only within think our but even within 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 us ukrainian after the end of the war. number one, people say that the,

the russia will stay and punished. 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 ended. and of course, the 2nd reason is all the way through the you with these are the requirements because 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 than ukraine, and that is russia. moscow just declared your organization to be undesirable. why is sensitive about the work you do and what does that mean for your work going forward? i, 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 credit about laying them on this because they came to

ukraine and they invaded 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 say 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 address. moreover, of transparency international, thank you so much. thank you. oh, exactly one month sense. earthquakes, hint, southern turkey and northwestern syria, more than 50000 people were killed in the worst natural disaster in modern turkish history. millions of people have been affected. they've been 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 hid and a powerful after shock in the following ways triggered new fears. italy is mohammed refined reports from it at nightfall, the 44 year old m r i e fills his cow 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. all that lizard alleges that after all the earthquakes, my son and i are traumatized, little if he didn't it, we don't dare stay at home because it's not safe. there was he and we haven't bought a tent montana costs between $2400.00 and we can't afford wanted to have

decided to stay here with her. i medina, horning 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. a son, a relief organization based in germany, says the challenges are numerous. hm. and my what the law, the most crucial obstacle to expanding refugee camps, doreen to accommodate the enormous number of people displaced by the earthquakes. sunny is that the communities were not ready to build such facilities and lockers. and there's the challenge of providing enough tense. donnelly, with that i 2nd earthquake because i like them or even more people abandoned their

homes that are to fall out because of the trauma they experience. chevy dealer shovel in the 1st one of his a sudden a well near the city of id live mohammed las carney offered shelter on his farm and swimming facility to people who have lost their homes or to families who are afraid that buildings will collapse on them. than this villas after the 1st earthquake, we received 20 families who lost their homes of sunny joanna. and after the 2nd one, latham many mo, came here because they were afraid to stay in their building sort of. and this will, although, as you can see, it is difficult to meet their needs at almost martha for thousands of syrians, the choice is between living on the streets or living in fear. better time for now, but make sure to stay informed. stay engaged and stay in touch. follow our team on twitter at either way. news and myself at nicole unders or foolish for now from the entire team on the day. thank you so much for spending part of your day

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