i will live long enough to witness the factory farming. the great debate this week on d. w or ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. clashes in pakistan, police use tear gas song, support is the former prime minister in run con, as he makes an appearance outside the judicial complex to face corruption charges emitter, longstanding political stand off, we'll have more from pakistan. shortly. classic crane says russian mercenaries have

made a new push to and circle the eastern city of back. moot al, correspondent in keith has the latest and german chancellor. all i've sold to meet the japanese prime minister for me or kisha in tokyo for talks aimed at boosting. economic and defense. tar. ah, i'm jared read. welcome to the show. i will have those stories and more in just a moment. but 1st, russian president vladimir putin, is on a visit to crimea, to mark the night anniversary of its annexation. russia seized the peninsula from ukraine in 2014 years before it launched a full scale invasion. his visit comes one day after the international criminal court issued an arrest warrant for war crimes against him. the i. c. c claims is focusing on the abduction and unlawful deportation of children from occupied areas

of ukraine to russia. i welcome to moscow, says russia's commissioner for children's rights. as a group of smiling children get off a plane. they're greeted with cheers and balloons. propaganda videos like these are common on russian social media channels. this one shows children and teens arriving in moscow by train as anxious, foster parents wait to greet them on the platform. we will be the roots. this puts even more responsibility on us to really become their true parents. sorry, i can't talk any more room. yes. the c n. as the public face of the kremlin back program, the i c. c has also issued an arrest warrant for russia's commissioner for children's rights scene here with her boss vladimir putin. the i, c c, says the to bear criminal responsibility for the abductions and deportations. the

kremlin coffee allegations outrageous former president dmitri medford of even compared the warrants to toilet paper. moscow says it's saving the children, ukraine, calls it genocide, or is dillard dignity to separate children from their families. when was to deprive them of any opportunity to contact their relative allotted day, not to hi children on the territory of russia. it would be to disperse them to remote regions with all this is obviously russian state policy, state decisions and state evil which starts exactly with the top official of the state. our zelinski is hailing the i c. c decision as historic, according to official ukrainian figures. russia has forcibly taken more than 16000 children, local and international authorities believe the actual number is likely much higher . at the allegation is they have been taken, or by, by road to a, by train,

into the russian federation. and they've been given up for adoption laws, have been passed by presidential decree, and they've been taught not in ukrainian, but in russian, and they've been rendered into russian citizens purportedly. you should be to that, if you only seen him, moscow doesn't recognize the court's authority, making the chance of unrest unlikely, as well as the swift return of the children. but the added pressure and growing isolation are seen as important steps towards ending impunity for russian war crimes. in ukraine. meantime, the ukrainian military says russian mercenaries had been trying to break through ukrainian defences in several directions. in an attempt to encircle the eastern city of back, note, ukrainian forces are still withstand a russian assault on the ruined city. but moon has become the focal point for 8 months of a rush, an attempt to advance through the dawn. yet, gretchen, moscow's forces had captured the city's eastern part,

but have so far failed to surround hers. earlier i spoke with our correspondent nick connelly and keith, and i asked him about the latest on in, on back moot where the russian assault is still ongoing. and the us think tank for the institute of the study of war says that the wagner groups offensive is quite likely near and culmination. well, i think combination in the kind of military speak means exhaustion. as a real sense that the wagner group that has a pretty lot of people, especially from russia's jails, has been going through boots on the ground at an incredible speed, has not tried to really minimize those losses have done some really risky attacks on ukrainian positions. and that they are now desperate for more supplies in terms while to re, but also manpower out. we've got the news from russia that they are trying to recruit. now. he's 30000 new fighters in the next couple of months. obviously they're still the russian regular army that could take their place. and the sense

that the russian asia has invested so much at least symbolically in but what it would be the 1st significant victory for months that they are gonna send in more resources and gonna keep trying to get the city, which probably has a great, a symbolic than it a strategic importance given what you just said, they're nick, ukrainian forces, of course, determined to make so rush a wind capture back. no. what is their strategy? i think right now the most important thing is to avoid being surrounded. if you look at the map or you can see that basically this is still surrounded on 3 sides and there's a pretty narrow corridor linking what remains a backward under ukraine control to the kind of ukranian hinterland and the 2 main roads leading in and out are also pretty close to those russian positions. that's very dangerous situation to be in. we believe that ukraine special forces are trying to push those russian positions back a bit. so say the ukraine garrison there in that he needs a huge amount of re supply every day diesel food, other supplies. but i think there is still an understanding human key of that.

eventually the ukrainian government will have to pull back from baltimore. this is a question of time, but for now they are definitely sending more people in and not letting the russians get what they want. i just want to pick up on something that you've said in and what the ukranian government is saying. of course, we know the losses in back mood a very hard or people are asking, is fighting for back moot worth it. and it sounds like ukraine's government is, is having a reading was there some very mix signals coming out of, you know, that kind of top ministries and the kind of top decision makers here in care of. some you constantly kind of give kind of hints that this is a matter of time before they leave other say that this is crucial to ukraine's efforts that this is crucial to allowing ukraine's expected spring offensive to work by binding russian resorts. they're basically forcing russia to focus their attention on bar mood, allowing ukraine more freedom elsewhere on the front lines. we certainly heard

a recent days from top us officials. once again making clear they don't think it's worth it. lloyd austin or defense secretary, basically saying that this was the presence, let's give battle and employing that he wouldn't invest, but this number of ukrainian lives and risk. these are the potential scenario being surrounded there. so there's definitely a difference of opinion there. and for now, we're seeing that prince zaleski is not willing to countenance a withdrawal and keeps talking about the fortress battle right in the economy. even keep there, nick, thanks so much. pakistan's, former prime minister iran con, has briefly appeared, added judicial complex in islamabad to face corruption charges. clashes outside prevented the proceedings from going ahead. police fire tear gas on con supporters who gather in anticipation of his arrival in convoy left for the capitol earlier on saturdays from his home in the hall. 400 kilometers away. con, repeatedly failed to attend to previous hearings, leading to an arrest warrant being issued against him. although that wind was

cancelled on friday, can say as he fears, heat may still be taken into custody. he is understood to now be returning home to le hor, user as curry is a journalist in karachi, she has more now on these clashes between police and iran. con supporters absolutely. as anybody. so imagine jane. we saw wrong home making almost 5. our journey would usually takes about 2 to 3 hours in 5 hours from the water. and as you posted your dish and we saw that i believe its changed. a hearing has access to what we do now is he has made an appearance. the proceedings did not hear when it was made intense too, for sure, and therefore that these proceedings had ended at

a very high note of his anger. they say that his residence in the whole has been ransacked by the police officers warrant washing. so clearly emotions run high between the authorities and iran sponsor. ringback why large numbers across so just repeating iran con, has appeared in code, albeit briefly as you say, this has taken so many twists and turns, particularly when we look at what's happened today. how do you think this case is going to end for iran con you know, 1000, that's the $1000000.00 question. no one really, really brings new volume events. we have the entire day by now differently. it takes a john one way. ringback the other, every few minutes, one cannot really say, but what is very, very evident is that you stand off with me, the authorities, the gun government in wrong hon. and his supporters. we have seen such operations

being conducted is being ransacked and need to know that weapons have been recovered. need to see a freshman, he was on his way. finally, and do you think this could all end up in a huge political crisis in pakistan? i think it is a crisis couple with the impact that economic crisis is crisis at the very start of what we see next week around we're really right up temperatures and how to find out how one can only waiting watch engine political temperatures on. i knew she and indeed many thanks to your journalist years were as curry in karachi there for your insights. german, excuse me, german chancellor. all i've sold is in tokyo for a trip aimed at strengthening economic ties with japan. so has been meeting the

japanese prime minister for me. ok, should the pair have been discussing ways to strengthen economic security and reduce dependence on chinese raw material. they also talked about the war in ukraine. t w's chief political correspondent need a hasa is traveling with chancellor shoulds earlier. she explained the economic importance. japan has to germany. well, japan is germany 2nd largest trading partner in asia. and perhaps most importantly, even at both countries. each other is very similar. they say they share values, but they're also their economies are structurally very similar. and there's a lot of scope for deeper collaboration between the 2. because for long germany neglected japan in favor of china. so today here they both said again, all sorts and the japanese prime minister that both countries have seen that big dependency on big players like china and russia is dangerous and painful. they said

they learned that during the covert, pandemic, and of course, russia's war against ukraine. and so they say diversification is key and they agreed to strengthen economic collaboration. in a you said a china is currently germany's most important trading partner in the region. how much a room from a mover does this all give all off shots? well that's of course a tight rope walk. now both countries are very dependent on china, but at the same time, they're also saying that they need to diversify. they need to reduce their dependencies. and so here today in tokyo, both governments agreed to work together more closely when it comes to sourcing critical minerals and also supporting efforts to do more research and to give incentives to japanese and german businesses to do mining. but also refining and

processing of those minerals so that they can reduce the dependency of china on china. they also say that they don't want decoupling from china and in japan. and the system works that as such that the state and businesses and work together hand in hand, essentially to develop an economic strategy in germany. that's not the case. and all i've showed says that he just hopes that businesses themselves will see that they need to reduce dependencies on china, and that the government can offer support and incentives for them to actually diversify just quickly. 9 or what had sholtes. and to should i have to say about ukraine? well, japan was one of the 1st countries to condemn russia's war against ukraine. and it also adopted on all of their wet, so called western sanctions against russia. and of course, the fear here in japan is that if putin has his way in ukraine, that,

that might send a very, very dangerous signal to other autocrats around the world, particularly china, of course. and so they say that this must not happen. geopolitical situations cannot be changed by falls into housing in tokyo. thanks nina. and you're up to date. up next on d. w is report. so a way we go to the poll to examine is safety in the himalayan country. that's after a short break. don't forget is more in d, w dot com and on social media at dw. i'm jarrett great, thanks for watching. enjoying the view and come to take a look at this tv highlight every week in your inbox. subscribe. now. you cream was like a stepping point to, you know, pi bought you into that. warranty wants to be, finish your studies. now you have a sense of control.