for decisions under the swastika, a documentary about the sounds of power and inspiring story about survival. music in nazi germany, watch now on youtube dw documentary. ah ah, this is did all the news live from berlin? pope france's needs palm sunday mass just a day after leaving hospitals. there had been concerns that the pontiff would not have been well enough to attend to events leading up to easter. the most important week in the christian calendar. also coming up absurd and distractive ukraine's

precedent velocity. mister lensky reacts with fury as russia takes charge of the un security council presidency. it comes as key of makes plans to launch a counter offensive and will it be the end of the road for e. s. as in paris, people there are voting and a referendum on whether to bring in a ban on rentals. ah . hello monica jones. welcome to the program. pope francis had sled the palm sunday mass in the vatican's air since peter square . just a day after being released from hospital, the 86 year old spent 4 days receiving treatment for a bout of bronchitis, but he said to be feeling better, some $30000.00 faithful, crowded into the square for the pontiff address. today's ceremony marks the

beginning of celebrations for the most important week in the christian calendar. and joining me here in the studio now is dw religious affairs correspondent, matching gac matching. good to have you with us. 86 year old pope francis leaving hospital just in time for palm sunday mass. indeed indeed it was. it was, it's quite amazing at the same time, very resilient pope, i think we can say i was very much engage in very much committed, quite clearly to pastoral work as a matter of fact. and, but the concern is, is we're very much interested in letting it be seen that even during his stay at the hospital, he was actually going around and talking to other patients and taking care of business and going to morning prayers. so i mean, he was still very, very engaged. and for the last 2 days, i think we have known or 3 days almost. we have known that even the 1st night he had responded very well to antibiotics. so it was quite clear that the course was said for him to get us today. and of course, i mean, it would have been quite

a blow because this is the 1st palm sunday mass on st. peter's square. since before the pandemic. how important is that for the faithful? it's very important. i think it's very, very important for this pope in particular. so i think that it is safe to say that only dad who is going to miss the opportunity for sorry for the fun. but the fact is that precisely because pastoral engagement is so important for this policy being there at the time in which essentially st. peter, we opens for sunday met for a sunday, missouri for eastern mass, which is actually effectively next week. but it was very, very important for this open, very important for his, for his invite for his inter rush. right. and we already said it several times. this is a very busy week for the catholic church. what's in store for the public? well, i mean, the entire week will be full as order, fucked with all sorts of events leading up to sunday mass next week on the 9th. and that is really the moment in which sort of the church shines again, but the vatican shines again with all the faithful coming in. we're probably going

to see bigger crowds than today, which obviously can be quite taxing for an 86 year old. but again, i mean, i think that this is a message that they're, you know, bent on sending read. well d, w religious 1st, corresponding matching gap. good to have in the studio. thank you. thank you again . returning to other news now, and russia has taken over the rotating presidency of the united nations security council, sparking a furious reaction in ukraine in his daily address, ukraine's president. a lot of mister lansky deemed it absurd and called the council a bankrupt institution. he says it ought to be reformed, so as not to allow a terrorist stay to disrupt peace, to landscape. also called for russia to be held accountable for its actions in ukraine. meanwhile, on the front line, ukraine is managing to hold off russian troops. but civilians are still being urged to evacuate. a look now at what people are going through and the city of

a bit quicker, which has been left in ruins. driving through the battered streets in the eastern city of div kirkwood river, police are looking for those very who want to leave. would you put me hard to pull mahogany member for the last 4 months. this basement has been home to 73 year old. helena. but she's decided it's time to go with one of the roof doors and his mother was i couldn't take it any more. our house is destroyed and i spent most of the time in the basement room really ever yet. everyone is afraid. every one local officials say the town has been almost completely destroyed in recent weeks.

what's his name was destiny? me situation has changed in the past month. since the beginning of march of disco has been under aircraft bombing and artillery file bavaria. no. since then. almost all buildings have been destroyed through no one if simon, his iep will do good in nearby shows. if you are the people working for the charity international lions clubs of awfully a trying to convince residents to move to safety don't love us. we will give us a volunteer say many are reluctant to go unless the be the biggest part of the job is convincing them. the evacuation is the easy part, bucking of div her. it's an emotional departure for helena. a trained to safety but far away from the place she calls home and has a look now at some of the other stories making use around the welt. a top cleric

from the cranium orthodox church has been sentenced to 60 days of house arrest for alleged links to moscow. abbot metropolitan pablo is accused of glorifying the invading russian forces and stoking religious divisions. popular denies the accusations and insists the church has broken all ties with moscow since russia invasion them, though. hundreds of fire fighters have been mobilized to tackle a massive forest fire in the center of the south korean capital sol. hundreds of residents were evacuated from the affected areas as helicopters, battle to prevent the fire from spreading. parliamentary elections are under way in sin lands where poles are predicting a close race between the 3 main parties. ballads from early voters ready be encountered with a record 40 percent of voters choosing to cast their vote in advance. social democrat, prime minister santa marine is hoping to secure a 2nd term in office,

which is facing a strong challenge from far ride leader rica pura d. w. brussels corresponded to terry schultz told us earlier, why the nationals fin the nationalist fins party is so popular at the moment. it's not just the anti immigrant sentiment that makes the thins party popular. they're really seen as the protest vote against the 2 other major parties. the social democrats and the coalition party. and so you don't know exactly if voters who support them now are really voting for their policies. which as i mentioned, include pulling finland out of the european union. and it remains to be seen if they can turn out voters. this is a real concern for the fins party. people may say in polling that they're there for them, but it doesn't mean that they'll turn out on election day. so really this morning, all the parties are urging their supporters to get out and cast their balance because this is so close, it could come down to a very small number of votes, t w's, terry schultz, them. well,

paris is one of the most densely populated cities in europe. in recent years, the administration has opened new bike lanes and reduced parking spots to de congest. the city part of its green mobility drive are also some $15000.00 shared electrical scooters. but their days could be numbered to referendum is being held to decide whether those scooters should be banned. a paris correspondence on your fall nika has more downtown paris, 3 floating rental electric scooters, or 20 minutes, as they called in french or all the reach. leona works in the real estate agency and has been using them for 3 years. i off and if i don't, i work in central paris. and the quickest way to get there right now is on an electric scooter. it takes about 10 minutes from my place to work out. if i took a car, i think it would take 45 minutes. other spot, but the ease scooters are hugely controversial. critics,

the the biggest problem is safety accidents involving east winters on the rice law . still the city recorded 408. 0, isabel on bourbon is a pianist at the paris opera. she was hit by an escort and park in 2019 breaking her wrist into place. she was forced to stop playing for your former bosses' for years after accident, little has changed, or whether she shall dinged, kilobit and song. so it's a question of educating people who use these things, jeanette, but there's never any police presence on the street will do that. i partly seen people getting fined for traffic violations. i think e scooter writers don't see us pedestrians. it's like were shadows. they have to go through any cause i took as fast as possible, repeating with him. it's a new shed,

my mini on the speech or fishes, music list. i ride a bike and every day it's just horrible with the electric scooters are comp on by they they don't understand the traffic rules don't it's healthy as a supply. i'm a taxi driver at times. there are 2 or 3 people on an electric scooter fooling around. it's dangerous for them as well or electric scooters. a toys not a mode of transportation. why the possible the public backlash has prompted paris to set up a referendum residence a being asked a simple question. audience fever went an electric scooters on the streets or not to a different company. the stakes, a high for shed o school to companies. paris is an important market. nicholas gauze says banning rental feats would be a blow to the cities and by mental credential, the silver was the 1st consequence. if there is an o, is that we're going to substract a pub address, a mean of transport for 400000 people. it's always going to be replaced by only 2 things. ma, such ration public transport and if you go to public transport,

you were seen saturated and more individual vehicle. and so indeed, i'm concerned in a one year before the olympics that is sending about signal. if times does beat audit, 120 e scooters uses will have until september, to zip around the city of flight. and dw sonya fall nika, who is the author of this reporter, joins us now. so you're good to have you with us and i'm sure other european cities, especially berlin, will keep an eye on this referendum to day. what can we expect? i mean, so far, has there been a big turn out when monica, the walk to day is likely to be dominated mainly by all the citizens. and really by those who are really up in arms against went to school to like those residents that we saw in that report. now there has been some criticism the today's referendum is not being organized online and is really limited to just physical voting. in some

town halls, despite the fact that most users off these rental electric motors are quite young, they're largely under the age of 30. and this is a segment that largely would bought online. so i think we have to remember that many of these electric is really popular in paris. it's a trade that really took off in the week of the cut over by the scientific and you know about us to some of the highest usage rates for these liquid scooters in europe. so i think much now depends on where the rental companies will be able to mobilize largely young users to get out today and bought of the paris government is also already said that the results of this referendum will be binding regardless of the toner. right. so what does this then actually, this proposed pan if it happens, what does it say about the white, a green policies that the parish mayor is trying to implement? well, there's been a lot of criticism about that, monica, i mean, paris with members was one of the 1st cities really embrace the rental electric

bike with me or anita or really building it as a green alternative to cause saying, you know, match the cities environment and aims to the companies that over the years pattern says, really regulated the use of these ranking, the scooters and providers. he'll say they had that they call them models or have become more environmentally friendly. they point out that, you know, studies show that about as many as one 5th of the school to troops and pad is for police motivated trips, reducing overall carbon emissions. but the weight of paris on the go, she has really refused to buy this argument. she seems to have flip flopped on her policy and she says the problems with the school does, i think the spike and accidents and the continuing concerns about an irresponsible use of the scooters has really hardened attitudes among city officials. and so critics who have really slanders and the say, this is going to dent viruses image as a pioneer in the city, but also serve as a cautionary tale for the industry at large. right,

right. dw correspondence in paris on your phone call. thank you so much for the report and also for your time now. and he is a reminder of the top story we're following for you at this hour. oh, frances has led palm sunday mars just a day after leaving hospital following treatment for bronchitis. tens of thousands of worshipers attended and that's all from me for now. up next world stories as a report on the collectors in ukraine, searching for russian items left on the battlefield. i monica jones from me on the news. tina berlin, thanks so much. i saw torres with the 100 german law street on d w. ukraine was like a stepping point to you know, pi bought you into that warranty one.