ah ah ah, this is the w news coming to live from berlin. washer silence is one of its strongest critics. a journalist and top opposition activist receives a hefty jail term after he's convicted of treason for publicly denouncing moscow's war in ukraine. this is not a life sentence, this is a death sentence. they will basically kill him in prison. will speak to

a friend and former colleague of his about the said, also coming up, heavy fighting and sedans, capital cartoon, as a power struggle between the army and the paramilitary group enters that 3rd day, nearly a 100 people had been killed in st. battles and air stripes. and should they run or stay put ukrainian civilians are weighing up the risks of staying in their homes on the front line. ah. hello m terry martin. good to have you with us. western governments and human rights organizations have widely condemned. the sentencing of kremlin critic laudermill kara moore's up to 25 years in a russian labor cath, moscow court convicted the prominent russian journalist and political activist of treason and spreading dis information about the russian military. kara morsa had

denied the charges. the u. s. ambassador to russia said the sentence was a sign of moscow's weakness, not strength, and was clearly an attempt to silence descent. his lawyer told the w that given her clients poor health, the jail, to remounted to a death sentence, a so called strict regime labor camp in russia. it's the kind of prison in which vladimir kind of mazda may now spend the next 25 years of his life. the dual russian and british citizen is one of russia's last prominent opposition figures. he's been behind balls since april 2022. russian authorities arrested canada after he did now russia so called special military operation and ukraine. during his speech to american politicians. he was 1st charge with spreading false information about the russian military. then russian prosecute is added a charge of treason,

the son of a soviet era journalist carol mertsa has worked to the journalist and political activists. since he was 16, he served as part of the coordinating council of the russian opposition. and the enjo open russia. he was also widely seen as a protege of murdered opposition, lead a bars nymphs of was gone down near the kremlin in 2015. karamazov also alleges he was the target of political violence, twice narrowly surviving. what talked, it described as intentional poisonings. long an outspoken critic of latin putin, kalamazoo remained defiant during his trial, saying he is proud of his statements and looks forward to the day when the people who are least rushes invasion of ukraine are recognized as criminals. or earlier i spoke with bill browder. he used to be one of the largest foreign investors in russia. he's also a former colleague and close friend of blood, amir caro moors, a. he shared his thoughts with us about the sentencing. i mean,

thought is just the absolute horror. vladimir is again a guy who is in ill health at the moment because they tried to poison him twice. he's losing the sensation in both of his feet because of the nerve damage of those poisonings, dead and he can barely walk. now. he's lost about 20 kilos, and as his lawyer said, this is not a life sentence, this is a death sentence. they will, they will basically kill him in prison if he has to carry on with the sems. and so i'm crying on the inside right now for my friend and my colleague, because what they're doing to him is just truly and humane. customers. morsa holds both russian and british passports has the british government bill done all it can to help and the answer is no. so the 1st thing that we did

it myself and his wife, you have gania, after he was arrested was we went to different countries that had passed the magnet ski at the maintenance ski act, freezes the assets and bands, the visas of human rights violators and vladimir was, was absolutely essential in getting this law passed and we went to them and said, you need to sanction the perpetrators who put him in his persecutors, essentially. and canada, sanction them the united states, sanction them. but britain, where he has got citizenship, has not sanctioned them. so britain is effectively doing nothing for their own citizen while other countries where he doesn't have any connection or doing all sorts of things. and so it's quite remarkable how passive the british government has been in the kara more of the case so far. this verdict sends a terrifying message to those who oppose the government's policies in russia, especially those who oppose the war. will anyone there dare to speak out against

putin after this? well, i think that that's one of the purposes of having such a crazy and exaggerated jail sense is, is not just to punish vladimir who is certainly an enemy of the regime. but it's that it's to send a message to everybody else who might be thinking about standing up to putin might be thinking about standing up against the war that look, you know, you're going to get either a life sentence or a death sense if you do. and so very few people are so brave as to take that risk to, to make that sacrifice. and so i think that that prudent has probably achieved one of his big games, which is to effectively cherise his own citizens. i've got a quote here. i'd like to share with our viewers are. these are remarks that vladimir kara morrison made at the closing session of his trial in moscow. he told the judge that quote, the day will come when the darkness over our country will dissipate when a war will be called a war, and a, you super,

a usurper. and when those who kindle this on a kindled and unleashed this war, rather than those who try to stop, it, will be recognized as criminals. bill broader? do you share your friends faith in russia's future? well, you know, the, in any kind of partnership there, there are the, you know, the people seeing the glass half full and the half glass half empty. i'm more of a pessimist. and i do hope that one day russia will be a better place. but i, it's hard for me to see anything good when vladimir has basically been been locked up for the rest of his life for the simple crime of protesting the war and calling food and human rights violator. it's very hard for me to have any optimism about anything right now. as you mentioned, sanctions were imposed upon russia for different reasons. those sanctions have been tightened to since the ukraine, the, the full scale invasion of ukraine by,

by russia. what do you suggest, bill? that could be done to help people like your friend who's now facing 25 years in jail. well, i'm so far as some, some countries haven't sanctioned the individuals involved in adam ears, persecution, those countries should. and when i say those countries, i mean to, you has not sanctioned his persecutors the you should, britain should, australia should i think every single person, every judge was involved in his there are 3 judges. every judge involved in this, every prosecutor, every police been involved in this trumped up case, should find themselves nate, their names permanently indelibly on a list so that they, that when they put in regime falls, they can't travel anywhere, but they keep their can't keep their assets in the west and it should, we should make an example out of them in the same way as they're making an example out of lat, amir. it should go both ways. bill,

thank you very much for talking with us today. that's the ceo of hermitage, capital management, and human rights activist. bill broader now to sudan and un secretary general antonio terrace, has called on the rival factions there to immediately seize hostilities and restore . call this as heavy fighting between the countries army and rival paramilitaries raged into a 3rd day. the funding is spread beyond the capital cartoon, military forces are battling the so called rapids support forces for control of the strategic town. a moreover, and its airport as well as the country's main seaport, port sudan. the 2 sides were intending to merge. birds became locked in a power struggle at least 9. the 7 people have been killed since the fighting began on saturday from the fight to jet over the skies of cartoon

cleans thick smoke. and the ominous rumble of gunfire. a signal that the conflict is spilling over into a 3rd day. to dance army and the paramilitary grip, the rapid support forces all r. s f. have turned their guns on each other. just months after signing a deal to rescue a civilian rule, the violence is already seen schools of death left the cities airport and top military buildings. badly scarred concern is mounting internationally about what this violence means for the stability in sudan and the region. speaking on the side lines of a g 7 summit in japan, u. s. secretary of state antony blinkin cooled fur return to peace with raleigh. help you again across all of our partners on the need for an immediate cease fire.

and a returned to toss talks that were very promising in putting sudan on the path to a full transition to civilian. let the government of people in sedan want the military back in the burse. they want democracy. they want to steadily like government. sedan needs to return to their path. because the clutches are interruption of a long simmering power struggle between the army and the r s. f. he 1st joined forces to alst former dictator. oh my alba, shia in 2019 former prime minister. abdullah hum dock wound of straying from sedans, current political pulse. we have said good bye to dictate that she forever we can have reversal. we can have setbacks, but will never be defeated. the r s f and the army, blame each other for starting the conflict and both say they were in fact down

earlier we spoke with christine ross in khartoum. she's the pseudo representative for the friedrich a bit foundation. think time she told us about the situation there. yeah, the fighting is going into the 3rd day now. during the night, at least in our area, it was calmer than last night, but the sound of a tillery and then also aircraft over had started again around 4 am in the morning . we hear fighting in at least 2 areas around us, but from friends and colleagues and via social media, it seems that it is going on in more than these 2 places. this remains extremely worrying, of course, because this is still some sort of urban warfare with little, just with little regard to the lives of millions of civilians in this biggest city of the country. the fighting is playing out in front of people's yards and roads where kids go to school on squares where people would shop. but nearly all of the normal life is halted at the moment. there's also a prospect that this might inflame more groups here in the country. this is

a multi ethnic society. it's politically multi, multi polarity here. so and at this point, some may say we already got a civil war. others are saying it may become one when will stakeholders entering the conflict. so they're so booked mediation attempts going on behind the scenes trying to activate civil society and others to diffuse hotline rhetoric and to prevent whoops, taking sites and feeding, obliged to, to start the fight to take up the fight after the war in ukraine in everyday life. who's a gamble for those living in cities on the front line civilians find themselves under fire from rockets and artillery shells on nearly a daily basis. every decision to leave home to get food or supply is, can have deadly consequences. but there are people who are staying and they have very different reasons for taking at risk. d. w as much tonda joined in evacuation team of ukrainian police as they tried to persuade people to leave these

guys ukraine. the sign reads, it seems very clear how people here feel and yet, and frontline towns like this. we find stories that are complicated these men are trying to get people to leave kanadi and to meet ro belong to a police evacuation unit nicknamed white angels. shop is currently in the space but actually in modeling more number about the sample port. the modeling was about doyle was a leak. um apple really got a new quest for this. and for this week, i wish it was more know about the pit bulls through and they bought what they bought by a colleague came with him this morning to say

good bye to his own mother. 4 days ago, she was killed by an explosion while on her way to work at the city's coke plant. this was home to more than 32000 people before the war. bombs and shell still fall in this ruined place. russian forces are making gains still about 2000 people choose to remain a resilience point. there's team electricity and company. my guess is there insurance? special usually you know, you get when you get your local going for you, which you don't get, you know, you know,

and now the and the me to have been asked to visit one particular couple the man's daughter asked the policeman to get them out. they have moved underground was her, it was a lanka. and legislative level videos up was for a fellow. so papers down leo. it'll probably be it for those wishing you more that you any mobile. but what's the point i know you use and that gives you that equal flow. they're more home i do want you to louis of mine. what of the college in her doorway to know how the wish was pretty dasheka supreme. it was the pressure work on the bridge or hotel was because it's kind of fear is what's keeping them answered when you use your suggest for you not that are for the but he's in your yeah,

i've been there by you that all you know chicago, the only for me to switch it, police officers can't force people to leave when that william and russian propaganda has left some scared of the ukrainian authorities in you, my moral de la via more chess lara's loom. yeah. no jim lake way was on the burner one of them, i believe the book raska there a brain which will on panic, a form it burns here for me. but if it is simple to know the over at the moment we have to stop filming that out. and seek shelter. oh, but i am. would it be more likely as soon as it's safe we go to where the bomb hit? well, we were just finishing up with that lady in the basement. i'm just a few 100 meters away. we heard a big bang and this is the aftermath of the lot that impacted here is a few minutes ago, literally and hooked his whole place apart. that's everyday life. sure enough.

this was the towns market. this woman came to sell household goods, literally. she isn't hurt totally. what you can see, she's in shock of these go was a frontline city long before the russian full scale invasion. russian backed rebels were in control for a brief period in 2014 before the ukrainians took it back. now the russians seem to be advancing again. those who stay know the fighting will continue. and i was drive away in chess, if yadda, we're close to bach moot. he would start less than 10 percent of people have stayed lifted. you keep up after here we meet alec. he's 74 years old and used to be an economist. now he grows onions behind, broken windows at them. we breath guaranteed lady so well. not to ride, anita rockwood, he saw one must be

a witch you so who don't let me sit with you or take a yet to do a test by didn't come way yet. woodville. will you not sure she be at will i plenty of willa shaft me through it. i would need to connect westmore fibral? eric? yet that particular woodward aleck relies on donations for the basics. despite the conditions either out of poverty or pride. he staying here, you which it's and you could a, if it yet to, to read, you'll say no, no up. but as you took my you ready to liberally. yeah, you cut your teeth, my hill here. what will chose you pulled over the harrowing, it a reboot. it does not stay let we ask him to show us a memory something from before the war. he pulls out this and soviet military id 43 years old. i kept close to had a leaking on nikia, blackwood meetings, alka. me who at at, you know, it's a new jersey lou do for you,

michael. i knew she a bully. shabby. it's come say you shift will daily of soviet scott mikka that i should ideally leave me in. yeah. it not. yes. but yet then you put i and as yellow foot, so glad you know what you not that will at that get like when you make it, then not dabilla. how glad you're like. that's a common opinion in towns like these. even though negotiating with russia could leave them under moscow's rule. there is a sense that some are not just nostalgic about the soviet union, but waiting for russians to arrive them up back enough the if can we ask police officer he naughty about this is melissa lee. i think he report cake year, a year to coach that was on the her was go home hero was leeway. watch in for my to special give for next year. thank you. re book a call either 3 more. well, it will be 2nd grade. thank you. through the yes i thought you

might consider while you to the place that i knew that the offices of the white angels can offer away out of town for those who want to take it. that story was shop our team on the 7th of april, some of the people featured who initially refused to leave the front line, have since been brought to safety by the white angels police team. take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world state. russian president vladimir putin has met with his defense minister survey showing who to discuss the military drills being carried out by russia's pacific complete routine set. the exercises demonstrated the country's high level of military readiness, but the moscow's priority remained. ukraine. key of has said it will push poland to reopen its borders to ukrainian food and grain imports at tops in warsaw. poland

announced on saturday would block the import, intransitive grain in a bid to protect the site or cultural sector hungry in slovakia of introduced similar bands be on mars. military junta has announced the release of over 3000 prisoners to mark the buddhist new you. the military has arrested thousands in a bloody cracked l on descent since it grabbed our 2 years ago. but it's not clear if political detainees are among those about to be free. suspect in saturday's attack on japan's prime minister whom yoke is shita has been sent to the prosecutor's office. as authorities continue their investigation to shita was on the injured. in the incident, when a suspected pipe bomb was thrown at him during a campaign event, suspect was arrested the scene. staying in japan, foreign ministers of the g. 7 group of highly industrialized countries are meeting their top diplomats from the member states are discussing current crises from

ukraine to sudan, emphasizing that they want to maintain the international order. they have been keen to present a united front in their approach to china. after a recent attack on to pans prime minister casita security at a cheese 7 meeting is on high alert. the group of 7 is currently headed by japan. the foreign ministers are meeting to discuss the war in ukraine and china increasingly aggressive stance towards taiwan, japan till she martha yochi, once those who want to change the international order, the color. so we will family reject any uni that through attempts to change the status girl by force or rushes aggression against clain, as well as the threat or use of nuclear weapons. by doing so, we will demonstrate to, to was the jew sip and strong determination to uphold the international order based

on the law. the southern violence in sudan is also on the agenda for the cheese 7th foreign ministers. the united states is calling for a ceasefire. one echoed by the u. k. with all the immediate future lies in the hands of the generals who all engaged in this fight. and we call upon them to put peace 1st to bring an end to the fighting. to get back to negotiations. that's what the people she'd all want. that's what the people sit on deserve. the foreign ministers meeting comes ahead of a full summit of cheese 7 leaders in hiroshima, in may. some honestly, a football now and how does a heter berlin's 5 to defeat to shaneka at the weekend was too much for the clubs

hierarchy. they've sacked coach sandro schwartz and appointed part a da die for a 3rd student in charge and then be spelled out. i is back at what is his home away from home, georgia by when he beneath he is, i'm not here to promise anything one game at a time and result result results results i give this dod eyes task once again is to save the clap from relegation. just as he did in 2021 in his 1st engine charge from 2015 to 2019 even met the club into europe in the euroleague . how times have changed previous coach sondra spots departed with headset on a 6 game win streak, including the weekend thrashing of the hands. relegation rival shall despite huge investments, the club is continued to struggle on the pitch and to find an identity degree to

credibility, to getting the job. so my play is saying most about this, so that's what's important to me is what happens next week. if we're being honest to have lots of mistakes, we need to correct what i can already see. some things that aren't working here, jenny dot, i knows he'll need some luck along the way too. but if he can keep them up, hats, i will drink to that. that isn't all. and we end with a wildlife encounter that came just a little too close for comfort. david oppenheimer was relaxing at home reading a book when an uninvited guest walked, did. sorry to tell who was more surprised, the bear or the reader d. happily, they both emerged unharmed from a chance encounter in the us state of north carolina. you're watching dw news from berlin up next we got do dw news,

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