ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. ukraine says that it's future depends on winning the battle for bach moved. intense fighting has raged in the eastern city for monks with each side, suffering heavy losses. yet opinion is divided over the strategic importance of the area. also coming up,

australia announces plans to buy at least 3 nuclear submarines from the west. it is part of efforts to count her time influence in the endo pacific. what impact will it have on the balance of power in the region and attempts to reassure the american people and markets after the collapse of to us bank? ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. keith and moscow are both suffering heavy losses as fighting intensifies in the eastern city of buck moot. it is where the heaviest fighting has taken place in the year long war president zalinski over night vow to quote, destroy russia. they're saying that ukraine's future depends on the outcome of what happens in back moot and other key areas. but there are doubts that defending the

city is the best strategy for ukraine. up against the longest and bloodiest battle of moscow's of invasion to battle for bach moot, do ukrainian unit fires back, sending our freshman attempts to take control of this city center. ah, fierce fighting has inflicted heavy losses on both sides. that ukraine says the battle for bar moot is one of the decisive fights for its future. does result on us would you? the situation in the east is very tough, very painful. we need to destroy the enemy's military power and we will be low, horrified, gear and muddy anchor of div kid and by mood, roll glinda and come younger and all other places were a future is being decided and the future of all ukrainians is being fought for

grains viejo. russia has been trying to capture the eastern ukrainian city for months. so far. russian mercenaries have only managed to encircle back moot. moscow is now intensifying its campaign. delivering ammunition to wagner fighters, who have been spearheading the attack on bar mood. hulu. some $4000.00 residents are still in the town, according to an official tele, despite the fierce fighting in and around it. for grammar progression, commanders, the capture of the city would mean an opportunity not to deliver good news. we went to the kremlin grassley course upper level, and earlier i spoke with correspondent mathias ballinger in chief and asked him to bring us up to date as to who controls what in batman. it looks like her,

the wagner soldiers, the russian soldiers have intensified their attacks on the city center. they have been controlling the eastern part of the city for some days. now, there is a river separating the territories and it seems that they are now attacking on the other side of the river. the territory that you create is controlling. however, it's very unclear whether they are making any progress. it's been their tactics so far for quite some time to just continue talking no matter what, accepting huge losses of course, and so they have been successful, but in a very slow way so far. so it's not possible to say exactly where who is standing, where at the moment, but the fears battles inside the city in the city center. they seem to be continuing a while. russian bloggers are complaining that the russian side is not making real progress the ukrainians continue to defend the city. and there has been some

discussion on, you know, military experts have been weighing in about, you know, how strategic in fact, this particular area is. so just walk us through with the debate as here. yeah, so the losses of the ukrainian side are presumably also very high. we don't have exact figures as always from either either side, the ukrainians. keep maintaining that the russian losses are much higher. and that is why it's worth stopping them there and not retreating and then taking the fight to the next town are, which will then have the same fate as bad mood. that's those who defend ukraine's actions in buttonwood are saying the others campus saying that the losses are way too high, and that these soldiers will also be missing for further offensive operations and job. it's not worth throwing in so many soldiers into a battle that seems to be really hard to win. and yeah,

the kind in leadership has decided to continue holding back more precisely for the reason that they do not want the battle to go further into the ukrainian territory . not they do not want her grandma to was the main city in the region targeted or slowdowns, the 2nd her main city. it's not as strategic or location in the sense that it would open or, or, you know, lots of roads into the country. there's, there are few, few roads that lead to these 2 cities that i've just mentioned, but it's not a major transport up. it's not a hill that you conquer, and then you can move beyond the hill or something like that mathias falling. now, with a view from keith, thank you. for leaders of the united states, australia and britain, have unveiled details of a new nuclear submarine deal. they met in san diego on monday as part of what is

known as the arcus alliance. the plan will provide australia with nuclear power attack submarines major stacked to counter china's ambitions in the end of pacific . a hearty welcome for the 3 global leaders. they've come together 2 unknowns, not just a major arms deal, but a historic strategic partnership. the oak is agreement. we confirm hearing sandy, i represent the biggest single investment in australia's defense capability in all about history. australia will buy as many as 5 of these nuclear powered submarines and later build a new on themselves based on a british design with u. s. technology, it's a long time upgrade that will make australia a full partner in fielding top secret us nuclear technology. previously only shared with the u. k. warden has through partnership. we're showing again how

democracies can deliver our own security and prosperity and not just for us, but for the entire world. office is an attempt to counter growing chinese military power, which includes beijing's construction of a sophisticated naval fleet. britain is also beating up its military capabilities. it is more important than ever that we strengthen the resilience of our own countries. that's why the u. k. yesterday announcing a significant uplift and our defense budget. we're providing an extra $5000000.00 pounds over the next 2 years. australia isn't getting nuclear weapons, but the nuclear propulsion of the new submarine fleet will add substantial strength to the western alliance. so let's go to sydney now and speak with bates. gail, executive director for china analysis of the asia society policy institute. how far

can this deal go to count? our chinese influence in the region was a major, major step forward. i would say, certainly for the military technical cooperation across these 3 powers the, the issue here is that it's going to take many, many years for it to be fully in place. and there are a couple of stop gap measures over the near term. there will have a real impact on countering a chinese military expansion in this region, particularly with the rotation, the plan rotation of up to 5 us nuclear propelled nuclear submarines which will be based here in australia. remind us of how china has been acting in the region recently. well, over the last 1015 years, the chinese military has really grown quite considerably. and in both quite

quantitative and qualitative terms, we see a lot more presence of, of the chinese military and asserting its claims, for example, in the south china sea. and of course, increasingly assertive and aggressive even in its military activities toward taiwan. and it's these and increasingly, apparently trying to expand his presence in the western pacific, much closer trust, really ensures. so in all of these ways, i think we see much, much greater concern on the part of australia as well as on his partners, as well as in his partners united states in the united kingdom. how about other countries in the pacific region? how are they reacting to what is rising tension between china and the united states especially? well, it's a mixed picture. i would say, i mean, i think obviously this, the countries of southeast asia, for example, don't want to be forced to choose between the economic benefit. they game in their

relationship with china on the one hand versus the sort of security benefits they can gain from american power in the region. but i think they're increasingly seeing that this is going to be a difficult set of tensions over time. and the last thing they want to do is be caught in the middle of it. so i think there's increased anxiety across the region about the direction and us china relations right now based skill in sydney. thank you so much. thank you. and here's the look at some other stories making headlines. china is reopening. it's quarter to foreign tourists. for the 1st time since 2020. it will start reissuing all categories of visas from wednesday, the taurus span was imposed early in the coven. 19 pandemic. china dropped its strict 0 covert policy late last year and has gradually been easing travel restrictions in south eastern africa over

a 100 people have been killed by psychos freddie. most of the deaths are in malawi, where the storm triggered landslides and floods it earlier, swept across mozambique freddie is one of the strongest in the longest lasting cyclones recorded in the southern hemisphere. scientists have released footage of a massive iceberg that broke off an article in january. the $81.00 iceberg is estimated to be the size of london. the aerial images were recorded by a team whose research station was once located on the iceberg. they had been monitoring growing cracks and the ice sheet for over a decade. you as president joe biden has promised to do whatever is needed to strengthen us financial institutions. after the collapse of both signature bank and silicon valley bank biden has told americans that their banking system is safe, even as fears of another u. s. bank in crisis rise. the 2 bank failures are the 2nd and the 3rd worst in

u. s. history. and they have taken their toll on global markets. the news sent bank stocks tumbling in the us, asia and europe with investors fearing the biggest us bank failures in 15 years might trigger a ripple effect around the world. e u or 30 say they are monitoring the situation, but do not expect the u. s. failures to cause long term problems in europe. we take note of the swift under sites of reaction by the us authorities within the you, there is a very limited presence of silicon valley bank. and of course we are in touch with the relevant national competence authorities. that message was echoed by e. u. finance ministers. including germany's close john lindner to suffer, i afraid of germany, brother. in the us, the failures have brought back painful memories of the devastating meltdown of 2008

in a bid to less an uncertainty and avert further bank runs us president joe biden hurried to reassure the public. our customers who had deposited these bright can rest assured, i am rest assured they'll be protected and no have access to their money. as of today, biden stressed that, unlike in the past, irresponsible behavior by banking executors would not be tolerated. a management of these banks will be fired if the bank has taken over by f t. i see the people running the bank should not work there anymore. what are the president's tough words enough to convince depositors them? money is safe. california's 1st republic bank is under particular pressure and has seen increased withdrawals, but most customers seem to be keeping their nerve. i'm really not that worried about it, but i'm just being a little cautious. i don't think people need to panic at this point. i'm transferring some of my money out of this branch to another branch i have,

but at the end of the day, it's about panicking. everybody panics, then it's like a domino effect. so i don't want to panic necessarily, but i just want to take some precautions. biden says he wants to make similar failures less likely in the future by asking congress to strengthen banking move. rules that were introduced after us bank spoke to global financial crisis in 2008 by aggressive mortgage lending. they were partially repealed in 2018 under then president donald trump. in the coming days that decision is likely to be in the spotlight. daddy business reporter andrea newbury is on the story for us. so where does the situation now with silicon valley bank stand after by the speech yesterday? so from a practical standpoint, now the positives have started to withdraw their funds request to withdraw are going through or they're doing that through a bridge bank that was established by the us government. and apparently, of course,

it's a little bit of a mess right now. a lot of people are requesting this withdrawal, so there are some reports that people had to try thousands of times before they were able to get funds. and mostly we have to always remember there's a funds that there's depositors are taking out to pay their employees and they were unable to do that last week. a lot of up to 5000, i think text items where deposited into silicon valley bank. so that's what, what's happening on the ground. now, it's clear that indeed what the president biden problems is happening. so people are actually able to withdraw those funds. and eventually every everyone will be made hall regarding the banks. the banks are now officially seized. they will seize operations, the men of which management will be fired, so they sort of cease to exist, or funds will be seized and they will be as to recall the investment. and the big hope is that this will provide an action of confidence that will prevent another banking crisis like the one that we saw in 2008 in terms of where things stand right now. ha, how high is the fear that we could see another banking crisis?

well, the fear is there. absolutely. i would say that the u. s. administration was pretty quick. they worked over the weekend with this measures seemed to work to appease at least the positives was a big political, political stance here that was way different from what we saw in 2008. they stressed that this is not a bailout of investors in the banks. actually, investors will shoot the cost for this mess. they will, they took a risk bite and set into this capitalism and capitalism. risks can sometimes not pay out. so it's not a lot of investors, the positive will be protected. and what's also very different is that what we're seeing is not banks selling toxic derivatives to the entire global system. and in a, in a scheme that was overlooked for too long. now this is a case of appalling mismanagement on an upholding risk management, especially from silicon valley bank and other banks. they took too many risk on long term interest related products. so with this kind of products,

when the interest rates were low, well, the value was high. now that the fed decided to high the rates, of course, those, those products are less valuable when the depositors started to run on the bank to take their deposits out. because they probably sense that something was wrong with the bank, of course that the bank even had liquidity to honor those requests as a consequence of the banker. and so the banks, so to had to fold it collapsed because it couldn't honor those request. something similar happened to signature and they were also exposed to crypto assets, but at the same time, in that case, the government intervene faster and block the bag. one of the markets make of all of this. well, they're clearly jittery. we've seen that they don't like, i would say, don't like, especially what president biden said. it's as sometimes capitalists don't like to be reminded. it's not enough of an assurance. well, it's an definitely a reassurance for the positives because they're being protected. but biden said,

this is capitalism and sort of said like this kind of capitalism, baby kind of thing. where is that? you took risks, you're gone, and now sure the cost for those risks. so there's uncertainty that other banks might go the same, the same direction. and as we know, uncertainty is not good for market is a supporter, andrea and, and for a so much at play here. thank you so much for walk me through it. my pleasure to nita is seeing a search in racist attacks on people from sub saharan africa. it comes after chinese, as president claimed last month, that my grants from the south are part of an international plot to change the country's demographic makeup. many of the migrants arriving in tunisia come from ivory coast. molly or synagogue migration to tunisia has increased in recent years . and it's considered safer than neighboring libya. some move on to europe, but others end up staying official figures, show the country of 12000000 is currently home to 20. 1000 migrants from sub

saharan africa. now, many of finding they are no longer welcome is yon phillips schultz reports. now from tunisia there's not much to do now that he's lost his job. pierre zango came from cameroon to tunisia, 5 years ago, wanting to send money home. but his residency expired and his boss at a restaurant suddenly became nervous after the president said he wanted to fight against illegal migrants. watching videos doesn't help. pierre social media is full of actual or supposed violence between locals and people like him who have been singing, dancing with people in the street, and suddenly everything change the look out for full change to you that believe me isa. he's like, ah, the movie movie. yeah, scary movie. you see, tunisians have shown support for people. presidents,

i eat called criminals, who are infiltrating tunisian culture. and the world bank said it would suspend its partnership with the country. many tunisians seem to support the president. the country's economy is in crisis. and many accused irregular migrants of taking jobs away from locals. another i'm against too many africans here in denisia. we should deport them, especially in such difficult times as now. and even the lucky, the aunt, i don't think we should deport, every one would know that we are all africans on this continent home and to chooses that many to nissans don't want to do the jobs that the microns take on for a tiny celery battery every one of them, pierre says it's clear that he is no longer welcome. in tunisia, many of his friends are already making their way to europe. he's also thinking about getting on a boat. ah, if you don't, you don't have him. was abilities to which to tint julia at your life?

for of leo, do you will you take the decision to to go to the sea? i'm sorry, this is the reality. and yet pierre fears the reality on the other side of the mediterranean may not be much better, assuming he makes it past coastal patrols and survives the perilous crossing. and d, w and philip shalt interviewed teenagers foreign minister, a mar where he spoke at length about the country's policies toward immigrants. i just want to announce that tunisia just has not changed. it's a d n a. we have are always been known as a come to welcoming country, one of the most nice countries in the world to live in and to stay. so we continue. what happened in the recent days was very surprising to us

because it is not in line with our history or whether it is on the african continent or internationally. so those reactions are over exaggerated and we feel that they are very much unfair towards a country like tunisia. and we have always said that migration is an issue, is a global issue that needs to be addressed globally or by all the partners involved. this has always been our position and it's still continues. or when it comes to the reactions, i'm saying that there have been over over,

over react because it is linking too many interests. some are non others are less know. it is linkage with financial interests. it's linked to with political agendas or inside the country, but very much outside the country. what will be the concrete measures that tunisia wants to take in the future to ensure that all migrants, no matter if regular or irregular migrants are treated with dignity. and according to human rights standards, they have always been treated her with dignity and then with the protection of their rights, always is just her that we have are mentioned that the, they can be a problem because the of the increase of the fluxes and that cit, but after that,

and this over reactions are again, unfair and not understood is that the new, the government has taken many measures concrete measures. all of them are to, to facilitate their stay. whether they are illegal, if they are legal, to facilitate their state. if they're illegal to facilitate the thank them to go back home with the protection anti protection of the dignity and their rights. are all the migrants are, who are all the non tunisians that are living on tunisians all need to be protected and are protected? and that was the foreign minister as change of their t. v presenter gary lynn occur is to return to his hosting duties on the baby c. football shall match of the day. the former football are has been suspended. following a tweet criticizing the u. k. government's immigration policy and comparing the

british home secretary's language to that of the nazi era germany. the decision to remove him had sparked widespread outrage as well as walk out from staff after a weekend of crisis at the b. b. c, which saw football pundits commentators and even player is refusing to take part in the broadcasters coverage. gary lenika is back. andy seemed like he was in no mood to continue talking about the situation. i've already said what i'm going to phone quicker. if i say anything more, no, just encourage you to make your doorstep with in his tweet, the long time match of the day host expressed his delight in finding an end to the impasse and thanked those who stood behind him. but he also reiterated his support and empathy for refugees. the decision to suspend lenika led to accusations that the politically neutral b, b. c had bowed to pressure from the conservative government,

but its director general tim, davy said on monday the suspension of the former england captain had been appropriate. we did take action, which we thought was proportionate. and as the baby say, we believe we did the right thing. i think i did the right thing. having said that, i think you have to look at the balance here and act fairly mifflin enough. the broadcaster said that as a condition of his reinstatement linux had agreed to stick to current editorial guidelines until a new policy for social media could be formed. here today. ah, [000:00:00;00]

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