the, the, you're watching the news coming to live from berlin, russia, it maintains its bombardments of ukraine. drum strikes, hit civilian targets, and the countries air defenses shoot down, and eric, grown up their own. all in the midst of the presidents for trip to european capitals. we'll hear from a member of the ukrainian parliament also on the show. the reports on nato forces

holding military exercises near the pharaoh islands. it's part of what commanders call the biggest tactical overhaul since the cold war. and final preparations in britain for the coordination of king charles the 3rd. the 1st such crowning and 70 years is now just a day away. the hello, i'm claire richardson. thank you so much for joining us. russia has targeted cities across ukraine and its latest wave of drone attacks. once again, air raid sirens, a sound in keith as the capital came under fire. phones also struck a university campus in the black sea port city of odessa and in the front line. her southern region, russian shelling had civilian infrastructure, killing and wounding dozens. the train station, hardware store,

a supermarket, civilian infrastructure, and ukraine's has own region hit by russian rockets. retail. i sold 2 people dead. i can't remember anything else. it was as if i was deaf. everything was so dusty and smoky panic while you caught me. more than 20 civilians were killed in the attacks, dozen small injured among them, children, nightfall and more strikes and other parts of the country. ukrainian authorities say russia launched dozens of deadly drones against odessa and the capital key. speaking from the netherlands, ukrainian president, florida, is the lensky condemned via tax. that's prime minister, not quotes that promised to deliver ukraine more military support. possibly including 5 digits on the f sixteens and no to boys. we are working

in 10 sleepers, our partners, they'll sion of us. uh, the okay, denmark on getting debts debates. somehow to a conclusion, presidency lensky expressed his gratitude, but stressed. his country needed more than just weapons. he visited the international criminal court within the hague, which has an outstanding warrants the russian president vladimir hooton's arrest. we all want to see different. let the mirror here in the hate the one who desires to be sentenced for these criminal actions. the landscape said he wants to the tribunal, similar to the nearburg trials after world war 2. he said without justice, peace would not be possible. and i'm very pleased to welcome a member of the crate in parliament leslie at russell and go, thank you so much for joining us as ukrainian president of

a lot of years. lensky is tory western europe. this is of course, the latest round of his diplomatic offences. what do you think he's trying to achieve this time? definitely to get ongoing stronger support for you. great, because for the counter offensive to happen on the ground, we need to means to tell you, doubtless we need not just the weapons, but the munition that the was are we need to strong add the ac 16 to present makes it clear in every single one of these addresses via plus know via through the international media, we need our skies covered on the and the way to achieve this is was $165.00 projects, or there was of and you cranes. western supporters are nervous, but if they send a sixteen's, if they send long range rockets to ukraine, that he could use them to hit targets inside of russia, and that would dramatically escalate the conflict to do you feel that there's enough for us from european partners?

russia has engaged over $300.00 thousands of men soldiers on the ground and the prey. they continued to launch drones, either ms. charles on various wages across each grade to ship cities and to hit cities. they are holding a hostage and an occupation, the largest, one of the largest nuclear power plants and you're on all of this is happening here on the ground in the crate. so let me ask you this. do you think you crew has an attention span enough resources to hits into watch or do we need to do that or so much of our area? 0, right? know our focus, our only focus is to get rid of the russian invaders in the direction of ukraine. first, the box rental solve orders and continue existing as

a free and democratic congress. and on this trip to think so landscape and has been hearing what ukraine wants to hear from europe in allies. and i think he has some very intense dialogues, especially personal ones that are not being communicated to the outside, who is the leaders of the western european states. and i heard the, he comes back was positive messages. first of all, positive messages that he's going to announce to those needs was there are uh, the chief of saw her commander or army on that discount or offensive that i really want to. so people will go actually to summer bringing back much of the training in temperatures and mainly the crating and people under the freedom of the credit and slack. yeah, i wanna ask you more about that expected spring. the fence of that you've mentioned is that partly to do with the timing of the wednesdays trip. is he in western europe needing these leaders in order to make it possible for this counter

offensive to finally begin? i will just have the details on that. this is classified state secrets, information where the begin is where it begins. uh, feature and public. i'm sorry, that's fine. let's speak and said then about one of the ones get comments from yesterday. he has acknowledged that he doesn't think it's realistic for ukraine to join nato. while there's an active conflict ongoing with russia body have said that he wants clearer signals from allies, but ukraine will be a member after the war. is that also what this trip is about? as i think so in the crate and there's a growing very strong record support for you, creating joining nato, enjoying the youth today. almost 90 percent of the population are full support when we creating becoming a full fledged member just a less than one half years ago. these numbers was around

4050 percent. this is just for the understanding of how support and confidence in our nature, but also in the eu has great and i last year. so yes, people will do ukrainian squeeze crazy and government of the president to priority to see can become a full fledged member. well, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us on dw, and as we really appreciate it, that is leslie. i've also went go a member of ukrainian parliament and we often hear that the russian invasion of ukraine has transformed nato military thinking in the last 2 weeks. proof of that has been playing out in the form of joint exercises in the high north worship aircraft. and submarines from 10 nato countries have been training together to w. alexandra phenomena reports natal naval ships in action. dynamic long booth is a high speed stuff of marine hunting exercise. and then the ortho plan to we are on

board the dentist frigates. 2 of sir 1st time how you needs from different natal nations trained together in a challenging environment. this area that we conduct dynamic mon goose, in across the gap between iceland, the pharaohs where we're operating around today of the pharaoh islands. and norway is a key area for us to understand how to conduct the anti submarine warfare. so we have to get out here and we have to do it. you can't do these things in a trainer. you have to see what the environment is like. the job here, for example, is to precisely locate an enemy submarine using a sophisticated sooner. these are the skills needed. it's to meet a growing russian threat. shocked by the war in ukraine. nato allies have made the biggest over a whole of their defense plans since the cold. putting more than $300000.00 troops on high alert nato allies hold exercises like this one on a regular basis and their goal is always to make their forces more capable and

cohesive and know it is also to make sure that their strength is more visible to russia, the message is clear, the alliance is committed to defending every inch of its territory. the maritime group, under the command of we are admirals tossed marks, as part of the so called very high readiness, joined to task force. that would be deployed in case of an attack on nato territory . we are always capable and you to move in whenever the security of the alliance is threatened by someone. i also see that there is a growing interest by the allies to send units to my task group. as i have seen over the past months, a very positive force flow that will continue over the year. and it's my responsibility to train and work these forces up to the highest on the nato as more vigilance today that it has been in the past. we are ad merrill mox, and other officers here told us and with an increasing number of allies willing to

spend more money on their forces. restaurants, warren, the queen looks to have woken up the alliance and reminded so what it stands for, collective defense of all its members. let's turn it to serbia now where police say they've arrested in my and suspected of killing at least 8 people in a drive by shooting at least 14 others were injured in the attack which spread across 3 villages. south of the capital bel grade. this latest shooting comes less than 48 hours after a 13 year old boy shot dead 9 and injured 7 others at a school in belgrade. dw correspondent eager safari joins me now from belgrade, where he is following this story for us is or what more can you tell us about this shooting as well? uh, the suspect is 21st or 21 years old and uh its uh, suspected that he had the family fide after what he left uh,

his home and uh he took uh uh, driving through religious and he started shooting in the beginning. they said that only a few wicked things were, but during the night we got to know that there were 8 people killed them, 13 of them injured and the police was alerted that this is some 40 kilometers from city center. it is a valid way of district, but uh, its further uh, from the school show thing that happens just a day before. and it's very shocking because people are still mourning the victims of the school shooting yesterday while this happens. and the police really acted very fast, but it's very shocking for all serve. yeah. because 2 cases just in 48 hours and they kind of with some people who didn't

understand what really happened in schools. and it happened also that other kids had lasted guns next. the and, and there are a few little cases happening, trying to kind of copy the shoulder from the school. and we don't know if this case is also linked with that, but uh, it's very big tragedy because it didn't happen. but certainly i had this cases before and, and i'll be beloved, very, very stressful. it certainly is shocking because as you say, aside from these 2 cases, mass shootings are extremely rare in serbia are we do know those that serbia has very high levels of gun ownership. can you tell us a little bit about why that is as well? this is because of the worse of the night these in the fall of people flavio, there were a lot of, uh, guns in uh, um,

going around the country and not only here because they were worse in boston and creation than the end of the war. this uh, us act, the ended up here actually, and that's why it is, but the states said that they will go from house to house to check with people who have licenses. if they keep their guns under control, less is should be, are they will review all of the licenses, so that ard in the country. and that's legally 300 the guns in possession and maybe around the 1000000 serbia ends in 3rd world, the biggest uh, guns country for now. thank you so much for bringing us up to speed on this story. that is joseph, very for us in belgrade. let's turn now to some other stories making news around the world. in the united states,

for members of the proud boys militia group have been found guilty of suggest as conspiracy. the jury in washington found the far right group, applauded the january 6th capital attack in an attempt to block congress from certifying president jo biden's election victory. all 4 could get up to 20 years in prison. canyon ford has released on bay one of the pastors under investigation for the depths of more than a 100 of their followers tele, i've evangelist, ezekiel darrow was detained after the risk discovery last month of dozens of bodies in mass graves. police say they starve themselves to death on the instructions of co leader po mckenzie, who remains in detention. a german chancellor, all of salts has back to the african union's bid to join the g. 20 group of major economies as he continues his 3 day visit to east africa. schultz travels in ethiopia on thursday for talks with government and african union officials and audi

suburban mex. he's heading to kenya, germany's biggest trading partner in the region. so let's take a closer look at our left schultz. this trip so far here at audi, some of the airport german chancellor oil schultz started to 2nd trip to africa since taking office. ethiopia is the 2nd most populous country in africa, but it faces many problems. the modern fist, not the chance lucy's on his driving to the city center is deceptive. ethiopia has gone from being a role model to a struggling nation with many people, barely making ends meet. inflation has sort to nearly 40 percent. survival is a daily struggle. all my children are educated, they are unemployed. i only earned about 10 euros every month. i've had my own shop for a year. during that time,

the products have become more and more expensive because of inflation. i hardly make a profit anymore. my business is getting worse and worse. the chancellor's 1st visit is to the average in unions headquarters. the union has 55 members and is said to become a bigger player on the international stage soon. yes, we want to show our support to the african union getting a seat at the g 20 didn't get to us so they can participate and have a se one to show our respect for the cognitive and all it states and it's growing population. most of all we have surveyed a number of hot spots if i can say them, so we're in addis ababa and so, and our neighbor, a sudan for citizens though many people fleeing the fighting. and so don had been pouring into neighboring ethiopia, presenting a new challenge for the crisis,

tricking and war torn country chancellor shots. his next stop is kenya or corresponding benjamin alvarez group or has been traveling with the german delegation and he earlier sentence his summary of the 1st day. it's all of sholtes, the 2nd trip to africa and the fast going to east africa is german chancellor visiting and also meeting with lead as both of kenya and also in a t o p. and also having talks with a members and how the representatives of the african union and idea that you repeated it today is what he wants the applicant union to be part of the 20 of the group of ag 20 nations to be also able to sole thing to mediate when it comes to regional conflict, because of course the conflict, the crisis inter dawn is taking center stage during this talks. and that's what you stressed here. and if you open, that's what the also will stress tomorrow. and can you all, all the topics on the agenda are also energy partnerships and possible trade deals as a business negation. that is joining him here for these 3 day trip to east africa.

as benjamin offers gruber, reporting for us or a groups are warning that the humanitarian crisis caused by the conflict in sudan could engulf east africa. the human refugee agency estimates that nearly a 1000000 people could leave the country as the army bottles of rifle. terminal a tree grew a russian college, the basic necessities, one of the things you done across the board to chad. these refugees and now reliance on a donations a 100000 student needs of escaped to neighboring countries as the violence and the 2 done shows no sign of relenting d u. n. refugee agency is now planning how to provide support in the coming months . let us out, you city them to 5 and sides. fall from yeah, to say had to flo 50 to them at the from here to little bits to pull in front of

the above the fold that the, the self and security at least is the resolve. but also provide assistance so that these families have just arrived in south to done the deadly fighting they left behind and the student needs compet to how to adapt to stay to the daily lives. right. i've given the situation in the country force me to come here. there's nothing good left in the country to go, you know, work, it's chaos. and the, anyone can rob you of your belonging. they'll decide if it's like a jungle. even if it is just outside whole team. so just keep watch from the top of a tank on the side of the road. nearby buildings, line and rubble, where the student is army has taken back control of this area from the rapid support forces. but the ongoing cash is a taking a huge total on the country, its citizens, and the soldiers themselves. the syrian how team the fighting

continues. the most recent attempt as a sci fi went up in smoke with an alice look at some other news now. and britain is making a final preparations for the coordination of king charles the 3rd on saturday. the 1st crowning in 70 years ceremony, which dates back to the middle ages will be held at westminster abbey. 100 heads of state are expected to attend. marching towards the big day, the coordination of king charles fall over the country. his subjects are getting ready. and the town of maintenance outside london, they even want to flock up the street for the location that will pop up and the right place. the queen was a wonderful role model. and i think charles will, will be good as well. it's back, it's a big celebration. we're looking for threats,

but not everyone. she has the excitement been clinton and david mcalpine are members of the republic and as movement one to accomplish them on a key. why should we not have the child support fine head of state? why should we have to come up with a family? it's been on the like. sits no one can. a small has to be head of state in this country. republicans also argue that the monarchy is extensive. an investigation by a british newspaper estimates the king's private fortune to load at nearly 2000000000 pounds. at a time when some britons can valley feed their families. republicans say it's unreasonable. my lords, pray bcc is see this enormous privilege and on and well, some position. i think that um the generally it, it's, it's reinforces the whole clause system. you know, it's like the apex of, of class and this is the country which is a severe issue. and so no one can really get to the top charles as met with more

protests then the next week. but he doesn't seem to bother by address the school by demonstrates. and so it opposed him on a recent jersey to northern england, holding up the accounts with the slogan, know my kids, the banking maidenhead republicanism isn't on the agenda. instead, children of painting royal carriages, while the adults decide what to so where would i be going? so going to they say, charles is doing a good job. he understands the problems with the the country house on the undersized distance. the country has because fits is always had them on the case a history. it says paul, of the structure of the united kentucky not to have it,

i think would be quite detrimental for the country. jobs come in and there was some really still of the approval of the majority of which but of shows that the younger people almost skeptical of their was than ever before. republicans has the profit from this in the future, and to show the explanations of the mother king the let's get across to our correspondent berrigan mazda, of joining us from oxford street in london. bear. good. tell us about the spears like there one day ahead of the big day. this is here in central loan, and you can see union jacks everywhere, a bridge flags. and this will be the civil law all over the country because people are gearing up. it's uh, almost 4000 street policies are registered and people are looking for we too old across the country. that is a lot of people. then there are others that are not very vaulted,

and that's usually the case with big ceremonies like this. so they're all so many might not be too bothered about it. they will be helping day that tomorrow when the big, the big day actually comes. and when we will have, like a 100 heads of state, for example, here in london and a huge ceremony through central on the people we want to be part of and at least have a claims on the tv screen. the barrier we have seen in that report you filed that this is a device for event. how important of a day is it for modern day bread? it's going to be very a big day for more than britain. this is what they're all family hopes. this is what king charles have's um for him. it's an incredibly big that he's really way to do and his life. and it said that he has had a lot of influence and the planning of this day it will be, it's very, very traditional ceremony. we will see gold and carriages from the 18th century. we will see ancient symbols like olds and says,

and an incredibly expensive diamond, c 8 will hock back to a glorious pause the ceremony. now, the mona key on king charles for, that's the proof that it's not just that it's not just the connection with britain's costs, but actually that they are able to be meaningful for the future. and as we have seen, the lots of young britons on really bet, convinced by it. and this is what the republicans hoping to let shown to that in the is to come. the arguments will be had because, well, the late queen was to the life that was in this respect. so they couldn't really make the case, but now that there is a transition in the one to keep. they will be hoping that there is at least the starting of a debate of the future of the money key in the u. k. are correspondent in london. thank you so much for bringing us up to speed there. and just before we go,

let's get some football news where novel we have won the italian championship for the 1st time since 1990 and the glory days of the great diego marianna, a 11 drive with the navy, sent for city of naples into a frenzy after weeks of waiting for the title to be confirmed, it's just our 3rd ever school death row. and natalie wrapped it off with 5 names to spare. the citywide party is expected to go on 4 days and that's what he's update at this hour to the point coming up next after a short break. thanks so much for watching the

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