forest fires evaporating large amounts of moisture in tune in to get the answer and learn more about this phenomenon with any invisible river that flows through the sky starts march 23rd on d w o . this is dw news live from berlin tonight wanted for war crimes and international arrest warrant issued for russia's president vladimir putin. the international criminal court in the hague says that who is responsible for illegal deportations?

ukrainian children to russia also giving up to like turkey's president. finally saying yes to finland, been to join nato. read to pay your bill to one. made that announcement today after talk with the finish president in ankara. but what about swedish and iran con, sitting down with d. w. news and former pakistan prime minister says that a fresh election is the only way to solve the countries current, political chaos, plus making waves in the surfing world both catch up with the sidney server who has taken the title for the longest ever continuous surfing session. ah, i'm burned gov to our viewers watching on p b. s. in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome the international criminal court in the hague today issued an arrest and for russia's

president vladimir putin. the court saying that the warrant was issued over alleged war crimes in ukraine, but miss suspected to have been involved in the unlawful deportation of children from occupied areas of ukraine to russia. the kremlin has dismissed the allegations . it says that the courts warrant is meaningless. the charges are the 5th that the i, c, c has even laid against the heat of a permanent member of the you in security council, russian president vladimir putin and his commissioner for children's rights. and now wanted for war crimes. there alleged to have been responsible for ukrainian children being forced from the occupied cities and seemed to live in russia. judges f reviewed the information and evidence submitted by the prosecutor and determined that debt are credible allegation against dees persons for the alleged crimes. dicey c is doing it's part of work as

a court of law. the judges ation arrest warrants the execution depends on international cooperation. the charge is being welcomed in ukraine, where officials have been sounding the alarm for months while it they are suspect in the illegal forced transfer of ukrainian children. this means that from now until is arrest president of russia as the head of a terrace as t. it will be afraid to travel outside russia because of the possibility that he will be extradited to the international criminal court. oh, russia is not a member of the i c. c. and has no legal obligation to cooperate with it. moscow's rejection of the charges came quick and fast portions, pre secret tracy, the decision was null, and void. former president dmitri mid the div,

compete the erased warrant to toilet paper. while the charges, i get another condemnation of putin's invasion there, i'm likely to bring any swift justice ukrainian children in russia. i asked war professor yvonne mcdermott, reese, what consequences the i c c decision could possibly have for russian president vladimir putin? yeah, i think the biggest consequence of they certainly examined for his colleague, maria, but the above and below that he's been and also subject to an arrest foreign today . the biggest consequence for them is that it becomes more difficult to travel internationally. so the international criminal court has a 123 state parties. and now every single one of them is under an obligation to transfer peace in or am the children's commissioner to the court in the hague to stand trial. should he traverse any of those countries and that includes, you know,

strategic allies of russia includes most countries in all countries, in europe and south america, a lot of countries in africa. so of course, you know, the, the responses to be exact as like, we're not a pyre seats this course, we recognize that. but i think they inherently ad conversations with gus. this is sad. this has consequences in the criminal. we expect the criminal to just dismiss it completely, but they can't dismiss the fact that these, this arrest war has been issued after lots of work has been done in gathering evidence. right. and you talk to me a little bit about what has gone in to the i c c being at a point where it feels like it can legally issue and arrest warrant yet. so. and in order to issue the restaurant, of course, has to be satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to believe that the crime that i had something come a says. so it's not proof beyond read. the desire which intimately has to be proven

at the lower standard of proof, but it's still a significant one. i, i think what's really notable at by dace, at particular, is students of their restaurant is the fact that it's almost implied that there are, there is either that hot ventura issued under thiel or the are coming down the truck because the fact that the effects we were going to keep this an under wraps ad, but we thought of it's important to prevent future kinds of this nature to make it known that they say restaurants exist for these particular kinds. i do wonder, are there other theories, restaurants either i there or are in process and the prosecutor has been, you know, he's relatively new in the job. but ukraine has been in big area of focus for him since taking over the prosecutor at the i. c. c. he's been there, i think 4 times, alleged thousands of pages of evidence and related to various kinds, not just these particular crimes of the force of the transfer of children,

but other crimes war crimes against humanity under the statues. possibly even genocide. and i, i just noticed that the roof warren, today that was issued was issued for vladimir putin, but also for russia's commissioner, for children's rights, are a woman. and i'm wondering if she is on this warrant arrest warrant is as well because the chances of actually physically arresting her in the eyes of the i. c. c may be, are more realistic. i mean, is that maybe a line of thinking that went into the issuing of this arrest warm i think the reason she's the restaurant has been issued against her is that the evidence is, is pretty overwhelming. you know, there is a recording that there of her talking about her own adoption of the child from one of these occupied cherry trees. her office has been allegedly responsible for a desolate program of transferring ukrainian children and to russian families. and

. and you know, one of the big challenges of international criminal trials is proof evidence and proof of this. and it might seem like in the, in the big context of things it's, it's surprising in the sense that bad, the scope of the restaurants is quite narrow. and there's focus just as far as we know. oh, just on these 2 people. i. but it seems like the prosecutor has maybe made this strategic decision by saying, we've got some really strong evidence on these and this is what we're going to lead off with and perhaps issue some more against these people and other than the peachcare. while professor yvonne mcdermott rece, we appreciate your time and your valuable insights to night. thank you. thank you. showing his president, she's been paying, we'll meet with his russian counterpart by the mere putting in moscow next week. the visit will be, she's 1st to russia in nearly 4 years equivalent official saying that the 2 leaders will discuss the conflict in ukraine as well as military cooperation between the 2

countries of the visit signals, a strong show of trying to support for russia. as bruton faces increasing international isolation over his invasion of ukraine, turkeys president richard, tell you, bear to one has finally agreed to finland, joining nato at once. okay, we'll still need to come with a ratification by turkeys parliament, but it clears one of finland's last hurdles to join the military alliance. hungary is now the only native member which has not approved the nordic countries bit but rainy day in, and kara has a piece of good news, fort hansen key at the presidential palace lodge up. they a bad one, greeted the finish president. turkey has been in the spotlight for dragging its feet in the ratification process. it's new to the other kid thought that in we've seen that finland has taken sincere and concrete steps to fulfill their commitments

under the trilateral memorandum. they didn't make young the agatha and considering the sensitivity demonstrated and eliminate our country's security concerns of her and the progress. and that has been achieved. vicki falling that she has invasion of ukraine. fin, leonard, sweden applied for nato membership. all 30 nato members must certify the applications, unlike finland, sued and must continue to wait for the approval from turkey by lumen holders. that fin length president welcomed the decision and repeated his dance that suit and must join nato nato membership. i have a feeling gotta finish nato membership is not complete without sweden. we have so much common interest having being to really neighbor santa having in the baltic sea area on our sure.

so i would like to see in real news that we really need to the alley us over 32 members, edwin's criticism of sweden became more pressing as turkey's next elections are approaching. critics off our tuan sea, he wants to win support from his nationalist waters. so when will turkeys parliament give the green light to finland? and what about hungary? i put that to the w's, terry shop in brussels. all those things are important now that the biggest obstacle, what was believed to be the biggest obstacle turkey's disapproval of both finish and swedish membership, is now unblocked for finland. it will move quickly for helsinki. so president air to one to day said he would like to see this ratified by the turkish parliament before elections in turkey. in may,

hungary has said it will also prove within the next month or 2, they keep changing the days. so i hesitate to believe exactly which day hungary will ratify, they had said they would do it before christmas. but in any case, this is due to happen within the next couple of months, and then it will move very quickly, president nina. so he said he would like to wrap it up on their side before the next parliament is electric, but that's the 1st week of april. so yeah, we're not exactly sure how the timeline to go, but it will move quickly. now this really is a tale of 2 countries, isn't it? we're talking about finland and we also have to talk about sweeten, do we have any idea of when or to one when turkey will say yes to sweden's bit. now as good as the news was for helsinki to day, it was very bad for sweden air to one said they're standing next to president me, mr. that sweden embraces terrorist. this is the kind of thing he's been saying about stock. com ever since they launched their bids last may. now he believes that

the swedish government is far too lax on kurdish groups that oppose air to one that he considers enemies. and also perhaps more significantly on the p k. k which is labeled terrorist group by every, every country in the u including finland and sweden. the difference really has been that in sweden, it is not illegal to burn a korean and that's exactly what happened in january that would not happen in finland. and so, reasons why someone has moved ahead in what is going on, do we know what's going on inside, needed the thinking here. i mean, does the fact that these 2 countries are not going to join at the same time, the way that they had wanted to originally is they're going to have a negative impact on meter. and it's stance with ukraine in its stance. you know, to be a bulwark against russian aggression. well, as you say, this is not the way nato wanted things to play out. certainly not the way finland and sweden wanted things to play out. there are

a few things going on here. sweden feels like it will be left alone and left a vulnerable by being the only one outside of the nato alliance. finland tries to reassure its neighbor that once we're in nato, you'll be even safer. you know, you've got a nato on the side with, nor we've got nato on the side with finland. so no sweet and we'll take care of you . so they are very much trying to reassure the swedes of that. but it does look bad for nato that it wasn't able to to stay united, that turkey and hungary both opposed to other countries which are best equipped, best trained, wealthiest, most integrated countries to nato, that there were devices inside the alliance. that doesn't look good as you're trying to stand up to russia and, and, you know, been present a united front in the end. no one really think sweden won't get through. it will just have had to, you know, pay a pretty high price in terms of public relations with, with turkey. patience is the virtue. sometimes you said you'd abuse her children brussels tonight. terry, thank you. let's take a look now, some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world,

u. s. media reports that the department of justice is investigating the chinese company that owns the popular video sharing app, tick tock for the illegal surveillance of american citizens. and for obtaining users details illicitly, dozens of you of state have blocked the app from government phones and recent months. germany's education minister will make an official visit to tie one next week. it is the 1st high level trip to taipei by a german official in 26 years. the politically sensitive visit comes amid growing tensions between china and the west, including over the status of taiwan. russia's defense minister has decorated the pilots of the 2 fighter jets that intercepted a u. s. drone over the black sea last tuesday. the pentagon says a video that it released shows one of the russian plains, dumping fuel on the droll washington has called the russian conduct, in the incident, unprofessional, and irresponsible. while there were tumultuous scenes among supporters of former

pakistani prime minister m ron con, as he attended a court hearing in la whore to day supporters of the former cricket player, former prime minister mom his car as he travelled to the court house. khan had been refusing to leave his home until the warrant for his arrest was lifted. dozens of cases had been filed against him since he was removed from office by parliament last year. he has denied any wrong doing c w reporter being ish. yeah, of it asked iran con, what solution he could offer to solve pakistan's political crisis. there was already only one solution, free and fair elections. the reason why that is political. all right, going bugs on because we have a hodgepodge of a government which has failed completely. it has driven, i've gotten into the ground. we have the worst economic crisis in our history of 75

because we have unprecedented information. we have a contract in going with unemployment growing. we actually have no with this government because there is no political stability, comic stability. so all we want is, and the supreme court by the way, as order elections to be on the 30th of april. and then the government is trying to get out of elections. the problems are because the government knows that a body that has one peggy out of 37 by elections. they're scared that we will sweep elections. hence they're trying to get out of it. and the other worry is that they're trying to create a situation of ob gale. this could easily lead to girls. where did you find how it's 13 sides of the bible, some derose. so if this lead to do, gail, it would suit the government because they already tried to get out of the elections

despite the supreme court orders. on the 30th of april, in earlier i asked my colleagues been issue interviewed in bron con if a way out of the crisis of pakistan if way is getting any closer. no, i don't think i'm that there, this political crisis is about is going to diffuse. i think that things about this band with everyone to get more messy, but focus on will soon have 2 important pro wynja elections. and one of the elections away. b, get it out indie. gov. it's a fun job, which is the most populated and most influential province and bought this gone. and we can see that in that hon is making all efforts getting out an aggressive campaign, a getting out the speaker. and he's because he is on feeling that it can win elections in the brothers a fun job now. and every political party it focused on wants to have a strong court in this province. and enron. hum viet stabbed that government along

with milton millet published. and there are conspiring there to get against steam and that making on efforts to i did was born an action because iraq, hans, is that government is in a week position and he is on fitting that he will be able to win the elections. i think the situation when it gets worse, that will be more confrontations. and today also in the interview, i would clearly feel that a man han was very defined. i yeah. it seems like it's fight is not going, is not getting over it or is it also in texas to the question, how far is he willing to go? i mean, obviously he has a lot of support. you know, we've, we've seen the pictures there and, and he is accusing the military of being in cahoots with the ruling political establishment, the partings to get rid of him. and if he can't get the answers and the, the solution he wants, then what's it going to do with all of these angry supporters who were on his side?

i think right now and on high feels like i or he has exhausted on his options. and he has, he has to now a fight the entire machine, the back is against him. that's how he portrays a him, says to the public. and it seems that public, if with him he has been getting of these big values today we saw, which was when he went to law high to get these b s b s. it was like a festival. people were cheering for home supporting him. and i think that also a show of baldwin and strength and a message that he's giving to his opponents that look, you get dry, all you can do to crash my efforts and my gambling. but i've been by the government say, is that the, i'm not doing anything that, that additional the government says vs falling or,

or does the 1000000 g says that it is the quite, isn't there not wasn't a bunch of texts, but in hon leads otherwise. yeah, it's a definitely a volatile situation or correspondence. vinnish, javan. meaning, like russia has been widely accused of indiscriminate showing of civilian areas in ukraine. the attacks have left many ukrainians, including many children with wife, changing injuries. but doctors are finding ways to tackle the trauma. the w's anya abraham visited a hospital and he were a medical team has helped one young girl get back on her feet. the villain. they say it takes a village to raise a child for 6 year old marina. it's taken one to put her back on her feet on the lit up a little slow chest. oh, she has grown so much during this time since the war and everything that has happened to us now that she has become very mature,

she sees everything differently. the miles of such a queen shall that shift started over 6 months ago when marina lost her leg and started treatment at the sky of hospital. our brush and shell hit her home in the southern ukrainian city of her son. natalia, not wanting to add to her daughter's trauma, refused to flee the country. instead, she moved to the capital to find a team that could give her daughter the treatment she needs. for no czar marinas physiotherapist recovery had to start from the insight. oh but jennifer that i approached her 1st as a child she put then as a friend, then as a patient. so it was, it was, it was very important to set priorities. the more so if i approached her immediately as a doctor and she has a patient, we would not have had this result was been the loosening of them. you need to find

an approach. and 1st of all know where to become a friend and receive bus and shuttle guns thought through him and send him a defense. then there was the challenge of finding our prosthetic st who could work with someone. so young was oscars. offices that you had to pay for children. we have to pay special attention to monitoring the height of the prosthetic. so her spine does not get damaged. so level of her healthy leg is growing normally. so the length and volume of the prosthetic and has to be adjusted constantly for your love her or so out there. marina also regularly meets with the psychologist who's helped her make sense of her new reality and applicable. and when marina 1st entered our hospital, she asked questions to why me, why did this happen to me? why my house, my family, why my leg b and she did not want to communicate with anyone. ha, she would cover herself with a blanket. and just wanted to be in her mother's arms. she did not let

a psychologist to me her now will, i will be monitored his mom and i have been in his art with scholar, the said, whoops, holla, a lab but, but then slowly, with the help of various methods, family therapy, art therapy, a rehabilitative you can see that marina now communicates perfectly with everyone and has fun. oh, it's absolutely a sima, alyssa laid st less than a year after starting her treatment. marina can now kick a ball, walk with confidence, and jump on a trampoline. her remarkable progress has become a point of pride and the learning experience for the all ukrainian team. they say that prior to the more they didn't have many cases where they could work together in an interdisciplinary set up arc taco bell. yes, we are like one big family. marina is energetic, some day she wants to be a soccer player and others, all she talks about is race car driving. whatever she ends up doing,

her team will always be proud that they helped her take that 1st step. with thousands of gathered in awkward, gonna to mourn the death of footballer, christiane. opposite the 31 year old was killed in turkey. and last month, earthquakes gone, his president, his staff and government ministers, attended a public service to day on service, revived by a widow and 3 children. his remains were recovered from a collapsed apartment building in turkey on february 18th, nearly 2 weeks after those devastating earthquakes. well here is one for the record books, the world's longest ever surfing session, the former professional server blake johnston, made history by clocking up more than 40 hours riding the waves. continuously on friday, the australian shattered the previous record of 30 hours and 11 minutes raising

money for mental health initiatives serv sub, for well over a day, blake johnston, breaking the record for the longest continuous serving session. he was catching waves for 30 hours, 11 minutes and kept going from there. the dial said 40, so i really i wrote a pretty good the former surfing pro briefly celebrated with supporters lining sydney's granola beach. during one of the short breaks he was allowed to then peddled back out to stay in the water. for a full 40 hours spotlights were set up to provide nighttime illumination. in total, he was estimated to have caught more than $500.00 waves raising charity money for the bed was personal. as this marked 10 years since losing his father to suicide. by that. yeah, he say, yeah. he's off 10 years ago, and that is, i'd say that he is love himself at most and putting yourself hot

in company in for johnston a day to celebrate and to raise awareness for a cause that affects many families. before we go, his reminder, the top story we're following for you, the international criminal court has issued an arrest warrant for russian president vladimir putin court in the hague. says that is his alleged involvement in abductions of children in ukraine that prompted the war. and turkey's president, richard, ty, appear to one has announced that on korea is approving finland's bid to join nato. leave comes after talks between etter, one in his finish counter heart in uncle rich. today you want to be w news. after a short break, i'll be back to take you through the day to go around. we will be right back

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