Skip to main content

tv   DW News  Deutsche Welle  September 30, 2023 6:00pm-6:15pm CEST

6:00 pm
the, the w news live from berlin, slovaks both in the key election that could further splinter the use unity on ukraine. polls show a neck and neck race between former prime minister rubber and see so who wants to end military support for ukraine and a pro western liberal? who wants to stay the course on foreign policy? on the sho, attentions and costs of a grow. the us urges serbia to pull its forces back from the border. it says there's been an unprecedented military build up less than a week after the deadline of violence in the region in years. and the united nation
6:01 pm
says it's sending a mission to visit the core in a car box. around for fits of the ethnic are meaning population has floods the enclave. following a light thing offensive by us or by john to retake the region. the marietta evans team. welcome loading is underway in slovakia in closely launch parliamentary elections that could see the country radically changed course. in particular on ukraine holes show a neck and neck race between pro western liberals led by vice president of the european parliament, me holler. she met scott and former prime minister rubber feed, so both sides have about 20 percent support and would require coalition partners to form a government seats. so has campaigned on a populous platform,
6:02 pm
calling for an end to slovakia is robust, military support for ukraine and for closer ties to moscow with a new in with the old. that's what's the values, former prime minister, robert feats, so hopes voters will choose when they go to the polls. he's already left the country twice and he's promising major changes if he wins a 3rd term in office. no weapons for ukraine, a veto farm, ukrainian nato membership, and a weakening of anti russian sanctions. if slovaks vote feet, so and his left wing populous summer party back into power, it would be a dramatic about face and the countries support for ukraine. since the start of rushes invasion practice lava has been one of cubes. staunchest supporters regularly delivering large quantities of ammunition and other military hardware.
6:03 pm
slovakia, as parliament has also sought to forge political ties with the u. s. declaring it a special partner. however, many slovaks are skeptical of closer ties to the west of 2023 survey said 50 percent of people view the us as a threatened. okay, current president susanna, chapter tova has warrant slovaks. the closer ties to russia, combined with kremlin back to propaganda, campaigns have unleashed what she calls an epidemic of populism and lies one that could deliver moscow a new partner in the heart of the you, after saturday's election in the vault. da da is brussels darrow, she, if alexander phenomena is following this election from brought this lava. and i asked her, what people have been saying about the significance of this vote as well. people were telling us that of course they want things to improve. in slovakia they are concerned about the state of the education here. they are concerned about the cost
6:04 pm
of leaving prices about skyrocketing energy prices. but i was quite surprised that many people told us, and we are standing in front of a polling station here in the old town all threat to solve us. so i was surprised that many people here told us that they are warning about the general direction that the country is heading off to a quite to mold shoes and very polarized election campaign. but let's have a listen to what voters see and rep to swab. i had to say, i feel like the campaign is exactly like the demonstration of this, like we're sending culture and the hatred and, and use of this information in lives in the, in the overall communication and politics. and this campaign i feel like has been the gather that most ration of that month voltage across comply. soon as the funded things have gotten lower while ago that it would be better if it is not like this one. and, but it takes me more to competition of ideas and plans for the future. unfortunately,
6:05 pm
the emotions went in defense. nicole hill and won't see it. what was he thought it was a dangerous organization. there are getting more russo fighters taking cover. i'm preventing themselves from and every course i hope so back. yeah. it's not like people have enough wisdom to prevent this from happening. all right, alexandra. so some of the main concerns among slovakian voters. but why don't we put this in a european perspective? what is it steak for the block in this election? the old rustles is watching very closely what is happening here in slovakia because they are afraid that if the anti european pro russian forces, who according to polls are in the lead here. if they are able to win the elections and if they are able to form a government that could mean that they are going to challenge europe's consensus on
6:06 pm
support for ukraine. for instance, they could join forces with the government and hungry. that's has been a problem. chide for the your opinion and for quite a while they could try to look any fathers, sanctions against russia for in, for instance. and of course they would call so bolster a group of eastern european countries for publicly calling for the and of liberal liberal democracy. so full brussels for the date you appear in the union as the whole. there is also lots of sake here and still vacuum. dw is alexander from nomine reporting from brought his lava. alexandra, thank you so much. i to the knotted states has warned serbia to pull back its forces after detecting what it calls an on precedent of military build. up along the course of a border, serbia deployed the sophisticated tanks and artillery following one of the greatest escalations in years between ethnic albanian and serve communities. in cost of all
6:07 pm
the us wanting comes at a time of rising tensions between serbia and costs of or that began after government ambushed a police patrol in cost of a one week ago. this video released by the government in the capital appreciates gina to ports to show the attack is after they fled to a nearby monastery. one officer and 3 attack is were killed in the ensuing shootout . the gun, that's what took place in the sub majority region of northern costa very just which refuses to recognize the authority of the government in pristina cost. a very says it welcomes nature's decision to bolster its troops and the volatile balkan region . we need the nato because a border with serbia is very long and the serbian army has been recently strengthened in its capacity is and they got a lot of military equipment from both that option for the nation and china. it is
6:08 pm
very important that our army gets stronger, that our police is very present in the north. but also we need joint patrols of police official with natal k for soldiers. 3rd grade says it to would welcome more peacekeepers from nature on the cost of a force known as k for kilo plus cuz i had a long telephone conversation. non easy, one with us, secretary of state anthony blinking regarding the situation in kosovo or to talk to you. and of course, there were a few things we agreed on with to leave a few things. we did not agree on. the things we agreed on is that the de escalation is needed. we agreed that there is a significant need from great a rule for k, for a total of a quarter in serbia, once that greater and more significant role for k, for in kosovo. tensions with the cost of a sub minority in the north have been smouldering some months after christina
6:09 pm
installed ethnic albanian men in full municipalities, the following elections that subs. boy, cost of cost of, or which has an ethnic albanian majority declared independence from said yes, 15 years ago, or more than $100.00 countries recognize its silver. and t sub you is not among them. the united nations says it's sending a mission to now go into a car box mainly to assess the humanitarian situation in the largely ethnic armenian territory. and as or by john, that follows a lightning operation. by the other question on the military that led to more than 80 percent of the population fleeing to armenia. and the one says it expects that nearly all of the remaining residents will also leave is the central square in the town of gold is most refugees land here. after leaving the gardener cut off by,
6:10 pm
by of the latch and corridor dionte wrote linking to region 2, i mean all of them left behind the home that will cease to exist as they knew it. as also by john re to complete control. i left it for whoever will come to live in my house, no matter whether it's an enemy or not. they're human beings know of the human wants. so anyway, we don't want to lose our home or next, but it was an order for mazda by john gunner. numerous companies are going to gratian with, as i, john was not an option on both sides. have had a lot of victims. and now i think i'll return to they're going to come up, but it's impossible. 30 percent of those arriving children of the months of being cut so from supplies. some of them are in dire condition. this, the waste is that some of these arriving with children that are so weak and even
6:11 pm
stated at the hands of their parents for it. so if some of them are dropped the say to live in the hands of them, you know, that's close fast or a bottom tier. then you end refugee agency believes that the number of people arriving could rise to 120000 in the next few days, which matches the estimated population of the break away region. going forward, a big part of that would work. we'd be putting, suiting that people left behind out of care of uh, we had been planning for equations to be a longer process. they like ways and these, we have a going very, very fast, very high numbers of people. but us, every sort of that many people become instructed, the 10s of thousands of refugees need to be moved to suicide, collect invitation before winter sets in. moreover, this fee is that some hospitals may soon run out of resources. huge
6:12 pm
tasks fly ahead for media in the upcoming days and weeks meal. how our is a canadian journalist and analysts based in our media and he recently returned to the capital. and yet, yvonne from the armenian border town of connie's, or where tens of thousands of refugees have arrived from us probation, he told us about what he saw there. yeah, i mean, the scenes were, were, were just as an enlisted with people for about 5 years of about 53 days so that i was there, you know, that, that have all. now now the numbers officially a over a 100000 people have left in to have that many people coming in. just as the space of 5 or 6 days means that the flow is, i don't know, 11 row just means the flow of them was and you know, the people just kept coming. well, we have to remember that armenia is a poor country with very high unemployment. so how is the armenian government
6:13 pm
managing this massive influx of people? and what's been the reaction among the general public? i mean, via the, as, as you said, the lord or me is it is a company of under 3000000 people developing country and, you know, 120000 people would be a lot for any company in, in a little over a week. will be a law for any country taken, let alone one in this condition. either the dead. i mean, despite that, you know, things have been things were relatively orderly down in parties aren't gore's, they were, they were disciplined, they were taking people are putting them on the buses or directing them to other parts of our media, all across the country where there's housing available for them, but still that's a lot of that as a short term solution. you know there's, there's a 120 extra houses lying around for the 100 is 820000 people here. so a lot of them are going to be staying in hotels and the waiting for the, the to get the real as well as are by john has made a number of statements promising to respect the rights of ethnic armenians. but uh,
6:14 pm
by friday, as we've been saying more than a 100000 has had less than to go in the car box, which is nearly the entire population. what does this tell us? i mean, everybody that also made a copy of it in 2020. what inside of the cease fire agreement to abide by that and not restart a war like it did last week? and it all it also in see if i agree with the way they agreed to keep. the latch in court are open for the movement of people and goods and it did not do that either. they blocked that in december and you know that they would even block you military and 8 in, in june. so for 3 months people were literally starving to death. there. so is little wonder that no one, no, did it from the car about expect us adviser to keep us bored or anything else theatre. that was journalist neal, how our reporting from yet on neil. thank you so much. thank you. if you're watching the w news before we go, a quick reminder of our top story. slovaks are going to the falls in election that threatens to further splinter the use unity on ukraine. the vote is expected to be
6:15 pm
type foot polls suggest they could returns former prime minister, a rubber teeth. so to the office, he wants to withdraw military support for cheese. you're up to date on the w news up next is sports life. a marion? i haven't seen from the invitation, thanks for watching. the those you know, understand can have a think like the volume just presented. do you have any news on instagram and follow up our interest the global economy.

14 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on