the, the, this is the w news live from the land. russia launch is massive, as strikes on keith. ukrainian capsule is targeted by attacks, but officials cool, exceptionally intend complex. also coming up on the tip program, a top auto executive confesses to his role in the vw,

diesel gate scandal as missing his guilt means full. the audi c e o will touch job left, could now avoid prison time loss. sequins. sequels at the time. the film festival, a 3 year old harris and 4 provide c cool. the last and the indiana jones film brings the hollywood store to southern fronts. and the sequins across the sea of a french historical drama featuring joni den and his return to the big screen, the manuscripts in the kitchen. thanks so much for joining us. russia has launched over night strikes on chief, the ukrainian officials are describing as exceptionally intense the head of keeps military administration says russia used drones, cruise missiles,

and probably also ballistic missiles in the attacks. ukraine's chief military commander said, or russian missiles were destroyed in teams, space. debris fell across several districts in the capital, causing a fly in one non residential building. russia has mounted a flurry of asteroids on ukraine in recent days. of corresponding knit conley is in cave and he told me about his experience of these latest air attacks. so i woke up at about 3 am local time to some extraordinary loud findings seems a lot closer than usual and it was very compact. basically it was all over with it about 10 to 15 minutes where it's normally these things go on for hours and every time you're kind of full to sleep, your work. and again, by another bank, it really seemed like these targets. what really over the center of key, if not anyway outside of the city, those reports even of every fully own key of zoo. it's not very far away from where we are here. sometimes it even felt like they were floodlights outside even when to

cut. and so close, it was extraordinary bright. and you just could see people taking social media colleagues asking how other people were doing. and it seemed like basically anyone in cuba, on all sides of the city of several, many people were hearing something similar. and we're hearing that the russian defense ministry is claiming to have destroyed the us built patriots a ad defense system in key. what do we know about the damage caused by these lights? us to tax, as well. so far, there's been no response from the government here in ukraine, and i think it's not unusual, not unexpected to have these kind of claims coming out of moscow, especially since it seems like you're out of a target, some city would not hit, they have to claim some kind of success, and we've certainly have lots of misleading things out of most go since the school began in terms of the rook at all to their systems high mazda have been sent by the us over the past year or so. it actually turns out that the russians the claim to destroyed more than actually ever arrived here in ukraine, and is also true that ukraine uses extensive mix, extensive use of dummy blow up

a weapon systems as kind of targets to lower in those russian rocket. so maybe that's what they destroyed from the found the confirmation from the ukraine inside . and i think it'd be pretty unusual. i'm pretty new quality if they really manage to hit such a high value target, so early on in it. so service in ukraine. and as we just heard, you know, there's been a flurry of uh, ass strikes on ukraine in recent days. what does this mean for you frames planned counter offensive. i think this is obviously an attempt to try and attract logistics in the kind of hinterland of ukraine to prevent ukraine getting its resources together. and i think it's also sort of desperation, given how bad the rush is doing on the front lines. trying to throw basically everything it has these big targets, the big cities of ukraine. hundreds clumps away from the front lines. but we've seen the even ballistic missiles the most difficult to intercept are now being routinely instructed by ukraine. thanks to those weston's weapon system. there is a kind of element of desperation, russell trying to throw everything it has in

a very short space of time, in the hope of overwhelming ukraine's defences. but so far it hasn't worked next. thank so much so that that's the w, isn't it? connelly reporting from keith so meanwhile, he tries military says it is making progress in the baffles of the east. some town of beth moved, facing has been raging in the town for months now. ukrainian forces say that the pushing russian troops back on the northern and the southern outskirts. but inside buff mood, ukraine's foothold keeps guessing, slim. ukrainian troops on paying a high price for the efforts to liberate the flashpoint city of buck boot. the soldier took a direct hit from a move to show, he says he's helm, it saves his life. on monday, the troops top commander said they made the 1st significant advances. despite

having fewer resources and personnel than the enemies rushes, defense ministry acknowledged ukraine's attempts to capture territories around buck moved but denied. they had been successful this year to the north and south, and the enemy made major attempts to break through. our troops defends us with your father. we repelled all attacks, but units of ukraine's armed forces when no breakthrough is and our defense has occurred. oh, i don't have a ticket. what's the balcony? which is the scene of the long distance. the assist fighting of the will controlling it is strategic for both sides. must go seize best mode as a stepping stone to attacking all the cities. he says, keeping up his defense is buying time for it's military, could pass for a major town to offensive to retake russian occupied territory at the forefront of russia's boston. new defensive is the private valve nami itself. the major law says, and its leader,

you have given you putting horton has persistently accused most go of failing to properly supply his army with munitions. now a new scandal is brewing. as on monday, the washington post came back back in january for the goals and offered to betray russian sloop positions to ukrainian intelligence in return for ukraine. pulling back its troops in buck moved the post site to the us intelligence league, and added that pre version sofa had been rebuffed by ukraine, which the notes trust him. the more pray goes and have dismissed the allegations as nonsense. he denies talking to any ukrainian intelligence officials and kremlin spokesman dmitri pet schools has a so called the report, a hoax. activity. the inside thing on the russian side is intense bots. whatever the trees, it seems, neither russia nor ukraine. kind of for to concede the mood and so the police will

fight for the city, continues. aaron gemini, the form a, c, e o. the call made to audi has admitted billed for his pause in the diesel gate scandal, rocks parent company b, w, who put stop law said that he allowed vehicles equipped with manipulating software to remain on the market. even off the he learned of the scam. until now he had always denied wrong doing. it was the biggest scandal in germany's automotive history. diesel gate in 2015. the folks bogged and it's brands, including audi, revealed that millions of tests on diesel car emissions had been manipulated. technicians reached engines through software to make them appear less polluting during tests that they were on the road. now for my audi c, e o who put stop law has made a confession about his role in the scandal. the top executive has been on trial and

munich since 2020 on charges of fraud and false advertising. he'll now pay a fine of 1100000 euros in exchange for us suspended prison sentence of up to 2 years. out e and polish a manager involve gun hops, pleaded guilty last month. according to his confession, he plans the actual installation of the legal software to rick emissions readings. and find out more, i'm doing now by laws hire tut from dw business laws and tell us what exactly we'll put stoplight has pleaded guilty to file essentially that he knew what was going on, which is of course, that folks talking, seated on emissions test using software that's allowing cars on the street that should have not been on this street because they did not apply to regulations when it comes to admissions. now that of course, uh does not mean he was the main man at fault. here he is not the guy behind these located, but he is a top manager, c o,

one of the brands and he knew what was going on. he didn't do anything about it. he 1st learned off the tricks a that's the folks i was playing in july of 2016 and he's still allowed cars under the audi brand on his leadership to be sold until 2018. so this year and a half later. and of course, that led to many, many cars to be on the road, higher emissions, but it also led to folks. so i mean, the end, if you think about the numbers here to almost go bankrupt because folks are going to have to pay a fine of a 1000000000 euros. and audi had to pay another fine of 800000000 euros. so there was a lot of money at play and he admitted that he did know about it and didn't do anything . now he is set to get a suspended sentence. what message does it send to the top executive, you know, can't admit guilt and essentially avoid jail time. i think it's a terrible message that it sends it's, it's really weak. and if you look at the very rich people, top executives, i really think trail time is the only way to punish them that really impacts them.

and if we look at that here, now there is no jail time and a fine of 1100000 yours. sounds like a lot to some people. but of course, if you made 7 millions as a c o $7000000.00 per year, over the course of many years, he basic is now forced to pay a tiny fraction off his earnings. and that is a little bit like a catching, a bank robber, who just stole 10000000 and you ask him to return to s as punishment. what was the lawyer from that we would all become bank robbers because crime essentially pays, especially here. uh, economic crime. seriously. pays even if you get caught. all right, last how testing dw business. thanks so much. i it's all right, let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world today. a quote has handed prison sentences to 5 men off to finding them guilty of breaking into the greenville museum in the german city of dresden. in november 2019 and stealing some 4300 diamonds and of the gems valued at more than

a 100000000 euro is the precious stones, a pos, of a collection of jewelry. facing as far back as the 17th century. at least 41 people have been killed in a me and mas site clone hit recline state. local leaders say over a 100 people, a still missing of the one of the was select loans to hit the region bass at the coast of man mall and bangladesh. activists in tokyo hope protested against plans to release traces, but still radioactive war. so from the focus, she met a nuclear power plant into the c. a plan by the power company. tapco is facing fish resistance from local fishing communities and mass of the quake. and subsequent tsunami and 2011 damage the feel kasheila plant, closing its cooling was set to become radioactive to new zealand. now, where a fire that broke house in a hospital in the capital city,

wellington was killed at least 6 people. but that figure out could rise as 5 slices examined the bun, tap building easy ones. prime minister chris hipkins has cooled the incident, an absolute tragedy. 5 fighters buffaloes through the mooning to put out the place and save the residence of this hospital in wellington survivors are now starting to come to terms with the tragedy. yeah, they were smart like come again. stable. so just to the left for an overflow with knocking on doors, then a 0. now this one's real and i know that to me, i like to write it out. but um, the way things are looking for other people knowing the buy the fire broke house on the top floor of the building, just often midnight. the closest still on 9 thirty's, the treating it

a suspicious new zealand prime minister cris hipkins has promised to investigate. we ample opportunity to have a look at this and coming days will be a number of investigations including the police, the car on and so on. fires like this, a red and weddington, it's being cool to once in a decade event. now the use of the death penalty is increasing around the world. the number of people executed in 2022 spikes to its highest level in 5 years. that's according to the human rights organization. i'm the city international. the groups annual report on the use of capital punishment found china continues to execute thousands of its citizens every year though, authorities don't disclose official data. the 2nd was defender, was iran,

or star sees the executed $576.00 people that's up more than 80 percent on the previous year. saudi arabia was 3rd with 196 executions. that's a 200 percent rise. and i'm the see also noted a significant increase in the number of death sentences carried out for drug related crimes. a violation of international human rights full of despite that must be also prized some progress away from the death penalty. with these 6 countries, fully or partially abolishing capital punishment. and we can take a closer look at those numbers with kiara and son, giorgio. she's a, i'm a stands mussel death, penalty advisor, and a co op of that's a last report. so welcome to d. w. i'd like to start with the situation in china. we've heard the country is

believe to carry out more executions than all the countries combined, but for years it's been impossible to gather accurate information. tell us why this is. thank you so much, sir. how are you today? uh yes, china, it remains that it needs uh, word execution i bought because of the secrecy that surrounds the data on and up and i did. it is impossible for us to before life and knocked with you guys that, that would obviously put a, a picture of it up after that. we see based on our monitoring that's continues to be expensive to it's not retained on the books and more than 40 times and we have not kids. i talked to you friday. you said that i found the fundraising often sees or i left. yeah. and increasing the number of that senses these impost for a corruption and they'll talk is repeating the claims and the cost that they have

reduced their use of the penalty. but without access to information on the uh, the ability to enter the account to verify the information for our size, it's impossible to, to face those plans much to the reality. we see these thousands of people continue to be executed. ok. now, countries like iran, a well known for execution, political prisoners or dissidence, most of the most common defense is the carry, a death sentence in china. as i know we have the majority of the sun. this is being, was my birthday. i'm doug at the office is which is a violation of international law. we have uh no number for that, but we have the is always a confirmation of the sentence as being given. for instance, by the supreme people's court in the campaigns drive to uh, to show, to no records, but some for the uh, some cases i went to serve you, not even if it was just for dr speaking or i'm talking to the office is, is there any move a tool in china, do you see any move

a tool to abolish the death penalty or at least limit his use? it is very difficult to say in the absence of, of the so she goes to recount great. we have the in the and i'm put to improve safeguards when he comes to something to be in the presence of the ability or defense julia to do the kids. and course, or at a certain day, or as far as from the supreme people's court to make sure that the safeguards inside of somebody by your records are johnson. but to say that you see from that, from this business of these to see that we see any improvement towards the police on it's really hard to make the claim. it's really hard to say we put on child who needs to be selfish. and what time is it uses and started becoming to as far as the spot and some the, some of the let's zoom out for a moment, take a look at the bigger picture. why are we seeing this major global rise in executions and why in particular now of the you mentioned in the beginning we still

have to consciously in optimize the, the drivers of the in case of execution on that vehicle. the last the we had the wrong conclusion. it's uh, it was something i found the boss from our there bought quite significantly for jobs and he's, he's something that we did not see a reason to us. there's been a southern of taking the box for dogs and i couldn't read off the body of the global executions. that vehicle is with jumped off again until at least on the job . we saw an increase the number of do some for some reason we still have the if you want people to be executed in one day, you march house of them will be don't get to that. she already just minority. and we also saw for the 1st time of the month, i'm good job. there is onto the next week you, since we're documented all since he is one law we. it was the one from the authorities that there was this. that's what i thought you were in place. what does offices? so it's uh, still a long way to go unless you have these 2 columns is really short and regression.

but the pizza over the body was quite nice because we also had some good news on my obligation. all right, so i'm gonna say international is kiara san georgie. i thank you so much for your time today. so much now and your report released today on the pollution caused by oil extraction in nigeria reveals catastrophic environmental damage caused over at more than 6 decades. the space of files in nigeria was once home to one of the largest men grades on the planet, but oil extraction and repeated oil spills have turned it into one of the wells most polluted areas of this new report. estimates the clean up costs to be over $12000000000.00 and it cools for oil companies shell and any 2 foot that bill a symbol on this we are joined by d. w corresponding alyssa to pull him off from nigeria is commercial capital lagos

. alyssa, can you tell us about the main findings in this report? whether it's got quite a far reaching report that has been released that today by these bios commission on the oil pollution in the state because the oil rich delta region of uh, nigeria, which uh brought the evidence based on evidence of about 2000 forensic uh you know report stuff on forensic scientists and also dates uh uh for me, environmental tests done and also some academic literature. and we also saw blood samples. i provided that reports that from taken about a 1600 blood samples from people who are living in this aspect of 80 off oil spills . why the filed font talk since the very high levels in the blood of this people also in the water, which is to say that a 1000000 times higher than safe levels and also a things that could cause the risk of cancer and also uh long diseases. and

problems, so people say, well, lots of huge time in find is that from district parties that it's deb describes as a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. that's what has been described as you say, there's really awesome dining findings that how have the oil corporations and in question reactive. i mean, all they willing to pay damages will they repair the damage, but they forced swelled, swell the oil companies in question singled out in this report. just like you mentioned earlier, is the shell and in id turn it on company. now we have heard from shells who say that you have to have, you know, read the report and i've been privy to the reports. so they kind of read the comments at this time. uh, but for e n i a, they have uh, you know, rejected accusations of, uh, uh, allegations of environmental racism. also saying that, you know, oral spills that pollutions were caused by local fast, and the local refineries on illegal bunkering happening in many of these regions. and by elsa also saying that they have reacted before and acted cleaned up some of

this or else. but to do so is that a comments to the other reactions on both uh, companies in terms of paying damages? well, it remains to be seen because this report comes just a couple of days after our real uh we are in a u. k. we saw quotes in the okay, ruling about the show or well could not be suited was too late for people to nigeria. a group of villages suits show that you know, for months now years now in the case i have to drag on and on and on. i did said that she'll kind of, you know, be so difficult because it's taking so long. so if were the case to come out because his oral skills happened back in 2011 or this is the kind of presidency that's related to such a case. and for that may just have being paid. you mentioned the damage is that the happiness spell it out by this commission? $12000000000.00. that's the bill that has been, you know, says that the, both these companies has to pay it remains to be seen. it is damages to be, you know, i've had so will be paid by these companies shell. and i, alyssa, thank so much for that. that's alyssa trick, wilma reporting from lagos, nigeria. to all right,

we're going to take you to the french riviera now where the com film festival is kicking off today. and the opening film is guessing an awful lot of attention fueled by scandals, both on screen and in real life is on the valley. you features the access only to up whose court cases had once threatened to derail his career. the hollywood stalls come back. it's just one of the headlines from this. he is film festival as johnny depp is back on top, playing francis king louis the 15th in the new film. john, do you bother you about a former prostitute who became the king's mistress? shift to the other part of why don't you just had a question about a quote from united us. you are the good thing because of his american accent. dep only speaks a few lines in the whole movie, leaving more screen time for actress. my when she also wrote,

produced and directed the film and she's got some scandals of her own. the star just admitted to a salting a journalist, and she has been criticized for funding the film with cash from saudi arabia. gossip and glamour going hand in hand here at the cannes film festival, along with plenty of star power. 80 year old harrison ford is premier in his 5th and final indiana jonesville, the dial of destiny. this time he's battling ex nazis who infiltrated the us space program together with his god. daughter played by c b waller, bridge. the sometimes i think the show more at home outside the or send this here director wes anderson is back in can with the asteroid city star studded committed tragedy about astronomy geeks and their parents are still only not implants themselves, but as far as we know,

billing now there's an alias also premiering and kind of a slew of films from africa and vanilla. and i don't mind by french senegalese director, i'm gonna have to, i see 2 young lovers relationship disrupts their community in our homes from asia also looks at to make an impact. at con director one things 3 and a half hour documentary youth springs. fellows, a group of young chinese textile workers who actually live inside a factory. and i see that quote from them. this year, 6 female directors make up roughly a 3rd of the filmmakers competing for the festival top prize. it's a record for com. was one that critics say still isn't enough. so who will this year's winner be? for the next week and a half, the whole film world has its eyes on con to find out his

reminder of our top story for you today. ukraine's capital key has come on the air attacks, but officials have cooled. exceptional in their intensity, russia launched drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. the during the attack, ukraine says it's shut down to the styles and it's as we have time to kick off as you put me to sleep highlights. i'm next. i've got a website dw to come for all the latest news and eliasis. i'm are on social media as well as the w news has been handled. you need that. thanks so much for watching . the

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