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ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, ukraine's president orders more reinforcement for the defense of bach, moved regional commander his vow to continue their defense of the embattled city. even as russian forces tightened their grip on surrounding areas of so coming up, russia is considering widening and law to make it punishable offense to defame anyone fighting for rush up. critics say that the penalties are draconian and
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comparable to those seen during the solemn era. and china's foreign minister tells reporters that beijing should seek closer relations with russia and warns of conflict and confrontation. if the u. s. does not change its path on bay shape. and after a wave of suspected poison attacks hits, ronnie and school girls, teachers are leading rallies to call on the t round government to take action. ah, i'm sorry, kelly. welcome to the program. ukrainian president, the load, amir zalinski, has ordered military commanders to send reinforcements to help ukrainian troops defend the besieged city of bock, mote, and doubts are emerging over the strength of russian forces,
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trying to capture the eastern city. the head of the wagner mercenary group has admitted his troops are running out of ammunition. the battle for bach mood is the fiercest of the war so far, and has cost thousands of lives. the fighting has been so intense embankment. one ukrainian commander described it as utter hell. now instead of retreating, these troops will reinforce their positions and attempt to reclaim lost ground. they're determined to save the city, but the enemy is also unrelenting. yeah, but my, when i go it was for flu. on the black for think 5th through moore's forces at us to justify the aim of their so called special operations. will you please before, but i think we put a bug and huge is important because it cuts across roadways and it's higher ground for with football from its height. everything here is open for the russians. so
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it's important for both us and them was we, we'd learn market, please let me call it so many of them are dying, hire. i don't understand why doesn't you know, be sure that you're not russia's expected spring offensive. could hit a snag with apparent disunity in its ranks part of its quest to capture ukraine's don bass region has been fronted by mercenaries from the wagner group who emerged as rivals of the russian military. even though this supposed to be partners are exhaust resilience good. but wagner's own i yevgeny, provision and allow vladimir putin is now warning his fighters might not be able to hold on, because moscow has not replenished their ammunition in what they you do we, if we retreat you, then we'll go down in history forever as people who've taken the main step towards losing the war, melissa roverson way. whoever wins control of back much will not have much of
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a city left. after 6 months of fighting, its buildings are in ruins, and most of its residents have fled. still as one of the oldest cities in the dawn bass region, it remained symbolic. although the only visible symbol right now is one of devastation and russian forces are said to be closing in on back millard, where ukraine's president is asking for reinforcements. i asked d, w correspondent, ami, and as if in keith, how high a price ukraine is willing to pay to hold the city? well, the ukrainians side is it sending mixed messages. here, zalinski has said on the one hand that his generals are unanimous in sending reinforcements to continue trade, hold back mode, but troops on the ground, ukrainian troops have told journalists there that they believe the fall of bar mood
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is inevitable. so for them, it just seems to be a matter of time. now sending reinforcements would not necessarily be a contradiction there because if we're looking at the number of ukrainian lives lost in order to minimize that, a tactical withdraw would inevitably mean they would need reinforcements to help them get out of that one road leading out of bar mood, in order to retreat and save as many ukrainian lives as possible. meantime that the russian wagner, mercenary group, which as are spearheading a backward battle, says that it's fighters don't have enough ammunition. what should we make of that? yes, that's right. if good progression who's the chief of the wagner group has been lobbying moscow publicly, that's because the wagner group is a private military organization and doesn't have the same channels of communication with moscow as the military does. he said that he's only gotten 20 percent of the ammunition that he asked for, and he's blamed that lack of ammunition for the high death toll among his soldiers
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. now, moscow has denied that his claims of this lack of ammunition are true. we don't know what moscow is thinking, but it could be a simple calculation that russian ammunition rub russian weapons at this point are worth more to putin than the lives of the wagner mercenaries. he w correspondent, ami anessa and keith. thank you. german defense minister boris pastorius as meeting nato forces. in lithuania, it is a show of support to the baltic state which partly borders the russian enclave of colin and got drawing a visit to a military training ground. historian underlined berlin's commitment to defending nato's eastern plank. but he said that a decision on a permanent deployment of russian of a german, excuse me, permanent deployment of a german brigade to lithuania is up to nato. now,
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several countries in the region half called on a bigger and a permanent nato presence in their territories to defend against a possible russian attack. a german defense minister traveling with him. why is this visit to lithuania so important? nina? well, the dim defense minister uses every opportunity to underline that during the cold war, times west germany walls nato's eastern flank. and that germany was essentially very, very grateful to all the troops who came to, to west germany. the brits, the french and the u. s. to help protect german territory and does so now he says it is equally important for germany to show some of the support to the current eastern flank, which is why and germany's engagement in lithuania, where it is the framework nation of nato's efforts here, leading a all those national troops here is so important to historian. and he underlined
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that when i asked him in a press statement earlier, we do, and we will do anything and everything which is necessary in portugal to protect the eastern flag because of our obligation or duty inside the nader with our, with our allies, is what we are what we have been doing during the past and what were even improved during the last 12 months. and we will continue. now, nina lithuania, as we've been hearing, wants german troops to be stationed. they're not just temporarily, but long term. is that also in germany's interests will, is away, nia is one of the baltic states, and of course, has felt pressure from russia, from its neighboring position to russia for a number of years now. and has warned repeatedly, over the last couple of years. so this is not a new sentiment, but of course, since february last year, the pressure really is on the bolt, takes up to defend themselves, and they say they need nature's support. and
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a ideally lithuania wants german troops to be stationed here permanently. but this is not something that to any country, that is a member of nato would decide on its own. this depends on nato's longer term strategy. and of course, the situation there will change one's finland and sweden will also become nato members. this is still up to turkey where it has to give it's ok to this process. but ultimately, nato will have to sit down and just look at what is possible. because of course, there's also a disadvantage if you have a certain countries stationed in lithuania, say permanently than you are less flexible. so there's a lot of ifs and bots, but this will definitely become one of the topics that are being discussed by the german and the lithuanian defense ministers in vilnius. today. he w chief political correspondent, nina hossa. in lithuania, thank you. now the russian news agency tass,
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is reporting that dimitry van off the founder of an opposition social media channel has been sentenced to 8 and a half years in prison. he was reportedly charged with spreading fake news about russia's military in russia, any one perceived to have discredited. the russian army could already face a draconian prison sentence. the parliament has recently given initial backing to stepping up the law to cover fighters for the mercenary wagner group. anyone who criticizes russian soldiers in ukraine, whether they are fighting for the russian army or so called volunteer units, could soon face a long prison sentence. a law of punishing public defaming of the military has been in place for a year now, but that slightly to be extended to include so called volunteers, or mercenaries, will show that when the bar, which is through are these volunteers that are mentioned in the same breath as
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russian soldiers super ladies, it's not clear but you know who's i mean little, and that, that, that will worries me a lot lately about yourself. so if the new law would cover private armies, yes, kenny precaution, the founder of the wagner mercenary group, once the russian parliament to add the term volunteers to the discredit taishan law of many of progression soldiers a form of prisoners, he personally recruited. oh, we need your criminal talents. just with i myself served 10 years in prison before i became of russian hero, held careers and i have a few more talents now that helped me a lot in life. i emerged from i gradually noise complain that since the war began, the russian parliament has passed a series of bills aimed at stifling descent. took in his book. it's not just about
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the wagner group of june. i think the idea behind the amendment is to broaden the scope of law enforcement in general. will your role any criticism of military special operations will be punished would be punishment under the new law would be draconian. up to 15 years in a penal colony is vineyard from a legal point of view. this is simply absurd or the other statements, even if it's just one sentence or single piece of information that is judged to be false. even though it's very likely to be correct on such statements, a given huge prison sentences. we haven't seen anything like this since the 1950 as a sharpie. and joe,
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the new amendments of already been fast tracked through parliament later this month set to be approved by the upper house and signed into law by president putin. and now era shadow is date of his moscow bureau chief, he is now based in the lothian capital riga because d w is banned in russia. you're a joining us now for more. welcome to you. how hard could this new law hit critics of president putin and his war policies? or sarah, since the law is the source law on discrediting that the armed army of was introduced a year ago, almost 500 people have now been punished as criminals. are one of the last case, as you mentioned, it is the founder of an opposition telegram tenell dmitri ivanov. today, earlier, he was sentenced to more than 8 years in prison on charges of so called spreading false information about russia's armed forces are almost 6000 other people in russia received the so called administrative offense,
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offense and penalties of the 1st step before imprisonment or a large find for a crime. so these are all people who are against the war. but apparently that's not enough for the russian court system for the russian justice and saw this new law is about punishing as many people as possible about intimidating a huge country in times of war. the new law tightens the penalties for criticism of any one who fights for russia as we've been hearing. that includes, are the mercenaries like the wagner group? what do we make of this uri? why this move now? well, yeah. wagner mercenaries play an important role at the front and there is yup, let's call it m. a competition, or even rivalry between the russian army and wagner's mercenaries, and the head of wagner. guinea proposed besought my report. i saw him and i report he has repeatedly complaint publicly that he. busy seizures are not getting enough weapons and that his soldiers are not valued enough by the defense ministry. and
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the new law is basically nothing more than a favor to pre goshen. this law prohibits negative opinions about volunteers of private army fight the supreme gordon's people are. but the paradox air, so that private armies in russia are banned. and what's even more paradoxical, sarah, is the fact that was on this side of brigand. thousands of prisoners are fighting men who were war sent directly from jail to the front line. so, considering how many concessions the kremlin seems to be making to present his wagner group changing entire laws for him, you can imagine how important he is for the grammar. how much support is there for putting war against ukraine among the russian population right now? yes, ms. irrational sir, it is made to the special moot alteration as it still colton. recite rush a part of the official cannon in all parts of the country. life are the authorities are much more straightforward than before in teaching russians to be proud of the invasion as grambling, rewards officials and prepare propagandists for so called military successes
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organized as events glorifying. these are called nils rather, ation opens new monuments to the russian military and so on and so on. so ultimately there is a part of society that is a radical, it determined to continue that will by any means. but the vast majority of russians have long been fed up with propaganda. they are simply trying to ignore it. knowing that protest is punishable even more with a new law. we are talking about you're in the shadow in riga. thank you. here are some other stories making news round the world as these 15 people were killed when heavy rains trigger landslides on a remote island in indonesia, dozens more. i thought to be missing. rescue efforts are being hindered by 4, whether communication with the area is also down. people across france are experiencing widespread disruption today as 1000000 strike against president my
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phone's pension reforms. almost all train and metro services are suspended and schools across the country closed. it is the 6th day of strikes over the proposed reforms. since mid january mexican authorities have rescued more than $300.00 migrants left abandoned in a truck trailer. around a 3rd were unaccompanied children. the trailer carrying the travellers was equipped for people smuggling with fans and ventilation ports. none of them my friends were harmed for on china's foreign minister has warned that there will be a quote, confrontation, and conflict between china and the united states. if washington does not change its approach to his country, speaking on the sidelines of the national people's congress, china's rubber sand parliament. the foreign minister blamed the u. s. for rising tension over tay won. he also held the relationship between beijing and moscow. yo,
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bob, what your leading countries should figure out what they want with each other. do they want to boot exclusive political blocks or foster friendship that is open and sincere? china and russia have found a path of bilateral relations that feature strategic mutual trust and good neighborliness setting. a good example for him type of international relations. what do you want you to differ? and earlier journalist for being kretmoore in beijing told us more about what china's foreign minister said yeah, i mean, he was praising the bilateral ties between the china and russia as quote unquote, setting a model for the international stage. and he also mentioned that they are strategic partners. ship that is characterized by labor. neighborliness will continue to advance under the head of states seating ping and flooding me. putting now to give you some context, this really very cozy rhetoric and a friendly rhetoric is not very surprising. china has always been very close and
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very loyal in towards russia throughout the whole of the last year when russia at tech, to crane. and it's also interesting how chin gung, china's foreign minister frame to the warrant ukraine. he didn't call it of war. he basically said it's a ukraine crisis. and he also didn't mention it mentioned russia as the aggressor basically did not criticize russia with one syllable. he said that basically the war or the of the conflict as he said it resulted to because of the european security architecture. but he also made it clear that china has not delivered any weapons to either side of this conflict. and that was for the encroachment of journalist in a chain to iran. now where teachers have taken to the streets to protest a series of alleged poisonings in schools targeting young girls images have emerged from san an dash the capitol of iran's kurdistan province, where teachers and parents appear to have gathered outside of the department of
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education there. and earlier video purported to show a similar protest outside of another government building in tehran. there have been several 100 suspected poisoning cases and more than 50 schools since november. and let's bring in d w's, teresa trucker who is following the story for us. what are the authorities have to say about this? well, so far they haven't said much like supreme leader, early harmonies said that these are attacks were a big and unforgivable crime. and he said that whoever is responsible needs to be severely punished, but so far this republic, security forces have not come up with any details or evidence. and they also haven't arrested any one. and members of the government were quick to point their finger towards the countries enemies, a term they usually use for the united states and israel. and some even suggested that it might be the girls themselves causing the symptoms by being hysteric. and all of that is, of course very hard to investigate due to the lack of press freedom in iran. we are
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hearing a report from eye witnesses saying that schools are locked after an attack. so parents can even go to see their children in the same as apparently happening in hospitals where security agents arrived just shortly after the patients to take control. and what we do know is that these attacks seem to be not very sophisticated doctors and often treating these patients say their symptoms point towards the use of pesticides. so well, they're also confused because i mean what's making these things even harder to understand. the fact that women's education girls education is not very controversial in iran. it's part of everyday life. they're in effect. and universities. women have outnumbered men long time ago. and still many people believe the government is either behind that or is at least complicit in it because they say that in a country road security forces are able to arrest protesters just shortly after protests or women who don't wear a headscarf. or even people buying spray paint,
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it's virtually impossible that they don't know what's happening in all the is cities around the country and that they're not able to prevent that at all. and many even suspected might be a way to scare the school girls. because if you remember, school goals were the ones that were the driving force behind the protests against the government that we've been seeing since last autumn. tell us a little bit more about our, where those protests stand in the mean time and how this might now factor into it. could this re energize the protest movement? yeah, absolutely. i mean, if you remember what started these protests back in september was the death of a young woman that was previously arrested by that is so called morality police for not wearing her her job the way the islamic republic wanted her to. and now even younger girls are being targeted in school where they should be safe, and that's making people very angry. i mean, we've seen protest over the weekend, we're seeing protests today by teachers and santander also an appeal. and in many
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of these protests, people are once again shouting the rallying cry, women life freedom, a cry that now after these attack seems more urgent than ever. theresa trooper. thank you so much. some sports news for you now. arossi, a dormant face. chelsea and the champions league last 16 tonight. they take on a one goal lead to london from the 1st match of the tie as they look to continue their hot streak this year. exam right here. yeah. bruce, the adult mentor europe most in form team. last way, know if a bonus, legal title, rivals, right sick made it came out of 10 in 2023 full box vend for dormant and their coke . jaden has it's going to really why, but it wasn't always like this. i think we worked hot
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well that texas and the spoke in the winter break a lot and you say you have to do it better because you are not happy well don't have to fall opponents. chelsea have to check book. they spend nearly 70000000 euros more than europe's for the big leagues combined in january transfer window notes that chelsea's money and big main signings have helped bring them success around an awful run with just to wind from the last 11 games. believe it or not, the mood as has been has been positive throughout. it's not happy and joking and small and when, when you lose and of course not. but the same time there's a, there's been a support for each other in a, a good spirit and a good, a good atmosphere. a good atmosphere is something dormant, have lent on recently,
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as they prepare for the next battle at stamford bridge. now not all of the nominees at this year's oscar ceremony are going to walk away with the golden statue, but many will be receiving a luxury gift bag. ahead of sundays, showbiz ceremony. it's now customary for all acting and directing nominees to be sent. what is called the everybody wins goody bag. it's an unofficial selection of gifts worth around $126000.00. and included inside this year's goodie bag as a swanky italian getaway. a plot of land in australia and anti racism, medallion, and japanese milk, bread and candles. this is dw news from berlin. here's a reminder of the top stories we are following for you. ukranian president volota. miss lensky has appointed military commanders to send reinforcements to help you.
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craney and troops defending the besieged city of south tar merging over the strength of brushing forces. amid reports of ammunition shortages, china's foreign minister has warned that there will be, quote, confrontation and conflict between china and the u. s. if washington does not change its approach to his country and celebrations of the hindu festival known as fully are taking place in south asia. the colorful event celebrates the coming of spring and the victory of good over evil. we're going to leave you now with some images of celebrations across india, pakistan and paul, thank you so much for watching, dw, ah, [000:00:00;00]
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