w news from berlin for more you can always go to our website. that's to be found at 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 boat 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 keep as bound to defend the city. for as long as it takes rushes 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. i'm the cold, further him, berlin, and this is the day ah,

a grains defenses 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 would go if walk in, the retreats from bottom of now the whole front will collapse all bought or necessarily mean better the russians or change the title title slide 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. hey bud,

this is alicia. so after all the earthquakes, my son and i are traumatized and she didn't. she didn't it. we don't dare stay at home because it's not safe that we'll see him. we haven't bought a tens that tens costs between $2400.00. and we can't afford wanted to. we've decided to stay here with her. i medina horn. oh, or come to the show, we started to nights and the most dangerous place in ukraine, a halt. present involuntary 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. in a message on the groups telegram channel, bergmann chevy of getting pre goshen said rushes front lines could collapse if his

forces didn't soon receive the ammunition promised by moscow last month. and we can now speak to marina marana, the fence 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, they, that's just propaganda. so how close is russia really to capturing, baffled? well, and 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 but moved 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 due to what the wagner is doing. and precisely what he's doing is

throwing a lot of manpower because the ukranian on forces are being outnumbered and they're struggling right now. so we, 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 right from the ukrainian side to do hold on to work, to move, to perhaps set some more enforcements or indeed there is a discussion between general loony and lieutenant general sarah sky. about what to do about a mood president zaleski argument doesn't want 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 and how far it can push its military instrument. and whether it's worse and all the human cost you sent it, their president zelinski wants to send more troops to defend buffalo, but given the highly questionable strategic importance of board 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 is significant, then it has become significant for both sides, especially as president. the 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 more the next key road which would severe the logistics of the ukrainian forces. the other thing is founding 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 forces as 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 come back better reconnaissance and to strike where the defenses are weekend 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 as they didn't have enough ammunition. and then several days later and he

claimed that the problem had been resolved, that they are at his request and retracted his statement. and i'm wondering who is his audience, who is he trying to appeal to? because there is an evidence rec, between the ministry of defense and now the commander of the ukrainian convention, general grafton, mom and you can you precaution. so i think that you're getting recorded and 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 back challenge and forwarded it 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 credit population to reinforce his position as to gain political fraction and a certain was how 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 sure that you're especially 120 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 lead 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 there are the trash and leader in supporting you regard and there are some other military

academics who have been war things, the same criticism that we're hearing from regarding but i think he's the kind of the process 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 push and try to next. some changes. and i think without bob nor russia would have had to look for another tool to fill that gap. because oftener has been used in theory or wagner has been used in ukraine since 2014, if they have very specific tool designed to solve very specific problems on the battlefield. the jersey problem 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 would be actually suitable to solve other tasks on the battlefield part from doing what they're doing right now with kind of the task them manpower intensive 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. it was there wasn't on the battlefield. military analyst, 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, cad, 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 airstrikes. 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 meant stopping work. the urine and production of this metal plant 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 the hut. their boss shows us his emergency supplies if needed. he tells us they could survive on these provisions for days or even weeks. so far this talk hasn't been hit with the russian troops still less than 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. we can't afford not to be prepared. a decision. isabel's,

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 is a real kid 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 how it looks like we visited another of richard loves factories. it's still going, but it's struggling with the effects of russian attacks when you cranes power system. yes, the power bill when it will get warm,

months went through the regular a unpredictably never ever happens. we will lose around the dissolved them years. you know, one minute. the material inside, they cannot lose the temperature with the brakes, and the brain generators made all the difference. workers can now prevent uncontrolled shutdowns by time to by 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, will prevent their ukrainian supplies from delivering more. i that

wonderful guy saying that everything was at an all a bed bug. we're fighting, everybody fighting in my job is to make sure that the vendors are working. people are getting salary. i can help soldiers, i can bite with them. but not every business can role with the punches like this one that she's love tells us that at least a quarter of his competitors have already got out of business. and the bankruptcies keep coming from the resilience on shows. 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. now keith 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. these promotion him. but with the appointment of the head of the national anti corruption bureau of ukraine, we can say that ukraine has fulfilled all 7 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 listed ukraine as $100.00 and 16th out of

$180.00 countries surveyed, puts 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 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 we look historically, why was ukraine during unicorn each times in 2013 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 bought for these 10

years, we added a point and ukraine upon 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, the more in the right direction, we did a number of reforms. some of them were not able to fight and corruption, but asians 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 in ukraine. and i think that we have everything that is needed for us. you know, the 21, 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, the crane was, was one of the leading countries in the region in defense of opening 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, yes, i just was for the anti corruption strategy to corruption program appointment of the new head of the corruption prosecutor's office 2 days ago. and 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 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. forest corruption problems. what do you think are the root causes? here? there is, there is not so many, but there is some of the different scientific hypothesis. why,

why the level of corruption, ukraine is at that level which we have. and they think that the russian influences definitely plays 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 access to those things. so it can be one of the reasons, but also i would say that lack of any via the younger college as a president, it was never the top level of agenda ukraine, not only with the governor, but even with the population. but since to 1014, 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 ukraine. and after the end of the war, number one, people saying that the,

the russia will stay unpunished. but number 2, that 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 what these are the requirements which we want to fulfill. 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 so 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 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 basically they say that everything that is for him is not well in russia. so i'm, 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. thank you. oh, exactly one month since. 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 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 hid and

a powerful after shock. and falling waste triggered new fears. italy's mohammed refined reports from it at nightfall, the 44 year old i'm a feed 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 all that is 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. men tense costs between $2400.00 and we can't afford wanted to have decided to stay here with

a medina. ready earning 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. he, son, a relief organization based in germany, says the challenges are numerous. i am in my water law, the most crucial obstacle to expanding refugee camps during the to accommodate the enormous number of people displaced by the earthquakes was sunny is at the communities we're not ready to build such facilities and lockers. and there's the challenge of providing enough tense, donnelly, we, after i 2nd earthquake, because i think a lot more,

even more people abandoned their homes that are to fall on that because of the trauma they experience. should it be in the shop, in the 1st one of his other a well near the city of it live. mohammed looked 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. as after the 1st earthquake, we received 20 families who lost their homes of sunny joanna and after the 2nd one last them many more came here because they were afraid to stay in their building sort of. and this will, although, as you can see, and it's difficult to meet their needs at almost martha 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 either 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

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