the, the, this is dw, use life from brotherhood, and good morning, add to confusion over the death of alexia valley, as police arrest thousands of supporters and memorials across russia about these allies say they and not being told how the opposition beat a dime is team planes vladimir personally and you create in focus says well meet as hold security talks in munich, keeps forces for treat from the town they've defended. 4 years from russian prestigious president's a landscape once flagging west and support is costing lives on the battlefield.

the bank visible and welcome questions and multiplying over the death of russian opposition, lead alexio's only as supporters world wide voice, their rank up. russ and police of the 1000s of vigils for the late kremlin critic present. officials announced the volume he collapsed and died on friday at the remote people call it a very pacific, a 19 year prison sentence. the valley is close allies have confirmed his death that say the authorities of refusing to release his body esteemed blames the russian leader personally, phone a value each day should only be legal, put in, killed him. the whole world knows that it was the russian president who personally gave this order just as it knows that alexi was never afraid of him, never stayed silent. we must not give up. this is what alexi himself called on us

to do is almost similar to see. steve, you reported mainstream pulling alvin is with me and is he's talking about the latest details that are coming from. what more do we actually know? uh, so the, the major development that happened today we, uh, you just mentioned is that everyone, the family and supporters and allies seem to have accepted that he's actually dad because yesterday everyone pretty much use the word report. and because the only thing everyone relied was the statement from penal authorities. and today it seems like everyone has a right accepted this fact. and so allies and supporters including me see our mission and we heard that sound by before the calling on the authorities to give the body of nevada only to his mother who would travel to the penal colony together with a loyal with the lawyer. and so what happened there, that's what we know according to our mission as well,

is that they were told that the colony that he's body is in the morgue in the regional center or the city called sally hard. and so they basically were told to go there and find there, but then when, when they came there, the building was closed and there was no information. and they said that the body is not there. and so what happened after that is that the local investigative committee told the lawyer and relatives that there's going to be an additional autopsy on the body of alex in the valley. and so it's unlikely that he's body will given to them until next week. so lots of questions raised by the official line. what are the boundaries team saying about it? well, it's not on the bottom, the steam, but also mainly human rights activities. the lawyers, doctors, independent doctors who are not affiliated with the russian state. so if you look carefully at the statement, which was mad, how that his death was announced yesterday on friday afternoon,

they basically said that he suddenly died to join the prison walk. and that is, yeah, and now villains came within 7 minutes. they also reached him within 2 minutes inside the territory of the colony. so basically it took them less than 10 minutes to, to get to nevada only, but they failed to save him. so some of their absorbers found at least 3 major discrepancies with the story. is that 1st of all, the prison walks and that penal colony a scheduled wait early, it's usually happens early in the morning like 6 or 7 am. so he died about 13. they said in the official statement, 14 o'clock, 1417, local time. them. second thing is that they say that the closest hospital we could potentially send the ambulance is 35 kilometers away. so it's kind of not clear how we would get there within 7 minutes. and this 3rd thing is that the announced one of the state media channels announced that he died of something which is called

crumble and bullies means something like a cloth of blood kind of blocks. the blood flowing, you body the person dies, and doctors say that wouldn't have been diagnosed without an autopsy. so it was done immediately after the death wasn't now. so that's another thing that is in question. um, so what about the public and the public reaction because people have been getting arrested over this of a vigilance and flowers that they've been laying, being taken away of it. right? yeah, so vigils and well, it's kind of difficult to cold protests to maybe a silent protest if you will. but they started immediately after the death announced within a couple of hours in major cedars, across russia. so exactly, as you mentioned, people were bringing flowers to very symbolic places. they bring flowers mostly to monuments, to victims of political repressions, which were constructed around russia june perestroika times in

a to the collapse of the soviet union. took them in the right victims of style and repressions. firstly, so they bring flowers the there as to make this parallel as that. now let's say he himself became a victim of impressions. and so what happened to them is that, as you mentioned, we understand today about 150 people who are arrested across russia, the flowers that they bring, they disappear overnight. and so police or, or some sort of street services they enforce, it's getting rid of uh, gra feed is with the name of alex in around the period also in some of his places, feasible places in big cities. and they were painted over. so uh, yeah. is he writes for the mentioned it's, it's very difficult to express these protest at the moment, but people still continue doing this in many, many cities across the country. dimitri, thank you very much for the update. well,

lead is gathered in munich and focusing on the boys in ukraine and the middle east . the us and germany have reaffirmed their commitments, we as round security. they were also holding for the protection of civilians in gaza, ukraine's president florida and so landscape redoubled his coals for support against the russian invasion and native safer generally insulting folks at the war and ukraine has exposed gaps in the lines as preparedness, dw is chief insight as related to richard volk, is at the conference. i asked him about the main points so far. so. yeah, well i think it's hard to avoid the biggest impression of this conference so far actually being the simple fact of that and use of it, like say no problem, use death, which when it arrives just as you know, the holes who were beginning to fill out with people and it really that used to through this conference location and left everybody of course, no surprise, but still i saw sort of stands by and by this sort of dreadful illness of that

reality. and it was interesting to hear people's theories about, you know, what it happened, why it happened, why did happen? now? people were speculating about whether this was some sort of message to the international community, obviously, particularly to the west it. so the time that the security agreements have been agreed between european countries ends and russia. one chinese delegate even speculated to me that maybe this was included in feeling that john had been to sort of friendly towards the united states in his talk of calls and interview last week . and that felt that he had to so hard line again, just like he, as his people, presumably blue pretty goes and as of the last year. so these are the conversations that have been going on in the, the holes around me over the last 2436 hours. now, as everybody absorbs this news about in the fall and the and, and what it tells and once again, about the nature of the boots in raising it is it's dealing with, in that,

you know, of course, the ukraine's a fighting for their existence. and of course, the grading of presidents, automated savanski, is there the war now going on for almost 2 years at this point in the conflict, what is the cooling for? yeah, i mean it's so interesting to compare what it means that lends keys speech vc it to his message last year and even his message of the year before that. i mean, if you very much were coming up to the secondary of the 3 of the beginning of the brain was in just a few days. so the meaning security conference pretty much marks that kind of a 3 year last year. the lens piece message was a little about speed. he was saying to west and supporters, you need to get us a weapons foster. the discussion was about tang. so discussion was about a fight to judge and to the military. support from the west was coming to slowly

for the ukrainians to achieve that goals. and i think the ukrainians would say that positive. the reason that that counter offensive last year didn't go as well as hope was that they simply got weapons from the west to slowly to build up the forces appropriately to uh, to see that contra financing through cap control center. this year. he's message is really more one of the stamina and continued belief. course events, a lot of tools that the worries have settled into a kind of a stalemate. situation. there's a lot of pessimism about the outlook and let them use the lens. he was trying to say, you know, don't fold for the mess that russia cannot lose this war, that ukraine still can't move, but that happening depends on, on the stamina of will. and the stamina of providing you plan with it with the website is that it needs, of course, of the spotlight is very much on the united states that where congress is failing

to pro, uh, bring through a major package of, of military support for ukraine. i was speaking to one analyst just earlier today who said that, you know, if that american support does not get through to ukraine, that the russians would potentially have a chance to suite through the country even potentially be able to take care of again. but it'd be able to take care of their initial goal 2 years ago, manage that by the end of a see if that's how much hangs on this. so that was really the message. so it was a lensky kind of keep up the belief, doubtful, but it is for the sense of defeatism. um, and then the most concrete request that he had waste for a longer range weapons. and part of that is looking at gemini, which has yet to decide on whether to bribe provides ukraine, or whether it's longer range of cruise missiles go. taurus you guys, president flooded me, is the lensky deliberate. a forceful plea for more support at the top. see munich,

the year of 2024, demand your response from everyone in the world. if we do not know, fulton will manage to make the next year's catastrophic, catastrophic for all the nations as well. intelligence community are aware of this . ukraine has already seated miss with lisa ross to try to try to cloud reality and reach the world. unfortunately, believes they missed the drastic good to capture and all that concert in a few days or weeks. whatever each once you brain us have been holding for $724.00 days dw, spoke with face to face match the leader of germany's opposition conservatives. we asked him what he made of select skis, message as my erection was,

that he is extremely grateful to those who were in the room and giving support to ukraine for almost 2 years. now. on the other hand, he describes the actual challenges in ukraine with his people. and he asked for more support and that is in my view, still necessary. we have to give support to ukraine, potentially for longer periods of time than we sold is the very beginning of this conflict. all places of support in europe come just as ukrainian em forces announced a setback. that withdrawal from the eastern town of, of difficult, of the months of heavy fighting ukraine's new army had alexander still ski said troops were being pulled down to avoid being encircled. russian forces have been attempting to capture the ruined town since october. it's russia's biggest success on the battlefield since it took the city of the most last may re number wrong is

with kings college funded. i asked her why the, the withdrawal of ukrainian troops could open the way to a wider rush in advance. so i think it's a huge boost for the russians, both in terms of gaining military strategic ground and a fever. and also for them are all of the troops, especially considering that this is happening pre election in russia. and this is also happening um, as president, the lansky has changed the commander of the forces. so i think that the russians are sensing here is that there are other visions within the government and the military. um ukrainian troops are exhausted and then we're all is not as high as it was at the very beginning of the war. and they also lack artillery shells. meaning that they will try to push in or to, to break. and according to what the russians were saying,

the capability off the grading and um, forces to offer any resistance. so we might not see very fast at once is it might be slow. however, the idea is to grind the ukrainian military that's all from us for now. coming up, i'll talk you mentioned series choices. they to ice code pasco, new, an expedition ventures on to places that no one has the data climate research in the ice, the tasks march, the dw, the, they see everything is of it indeed. but that doesn't mean you're just sitting on.