the, the, this is the building use live from berlin, anger morning, and confusion over the death of alexi, novelle, me as police arrest dozens of supporters. up memorials across russia and nevada. these allies say they are not being told have the opposite opposition. leader died . this team blamed vladimir putin personally as you crane and focus has world leaders hold security talks in munich, keeps forces retreat from a time they defended for years from russian procedures. presidents landscape warrants weakening western support is costing lives on the bottom of the

pablo solely as welcome to the program. russian police have detained dozens of supporters of the opposition leader alexi nev only who died suddenly in a remote penal comp. along these close allies have confirmed his death, but say the authorities are refusing to release his body with many questions, still not resolved. many world leaders, campaigners and the volume these family are old, pointing the finger at russia's president, vladimir from the theme, the arctic darkness. i'll explain, a valleys mother. ludmilla is trying to find her son's body. she came to the remote prison where he died only to be told his body had already been sent to the regional capital novel and his mother says the last time she saw him was in the prison. on monday he was cheerful and full of energy. and despite all the hardship didn't look

like someone who was about to die with the lack of transparency around what caused nevada and the saw the death. his allies want the authorities to release his body immediately. and they have another message shuttle or believe or 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 the lowest. i want to see a it's a message resonating with thousands of nevada and these supporters holding vigils across the country despite arrests and intimidation by security forces. this is very sad for us old, but alexa said not to give up. we weren't give up that we weren't let them think that they have one. that's not true. history 1st and

goodness, arono side. we will definitely, we feel very sorry for him and for our country the country is perishing with this cupid was. why is it needed? who needs it? the killing their own people? foreign is children stealing? i'm good. i no longer believe in the future of russia. maybe some of the 1st to make shift memorials were removed, but others have now reappeared. defined russians are calling for answers over the death of alex saying the valley. but in the face of accusations and worldwide condemnation, the kremlin remained silent. while earlier i spoke to carrie giles, a russia analyst, chatham has in the u. k. with the found the supporters squarely blaming president

putin for his death. i asked if such a high profile killing could create a rallying point for the public or potentially, but of course we have to remember that russia has been preparing for this moment for some time. they've been putting themselves in a position where they don't have to be concerned about public expressions of discontent. and waking up the balance of removing the phone, you as an irritant, who actually gathers quite a lot of foreign policy and criticism of russia against what it will take to to repress those expressions of concern and expressions of morning within russia. you can see why this is a good bet for the rest of the state because they have long ago behind any pretense of being a responsible country, the place by any form of recognized rules. and instead they are back to behaving as a rogue states. that commits motor without a qualm that was cared, drives a russia unless that chatham has. what were leaders gathered in munich, you are focusing on global security. the wars and gaza and ukraine top the agenda and the head of nato says the russian invasion has exposed gaps in the alliance's

resilience with the death of alexis, of all may still resonating. and the security of the free world, at the center of the munich talks, america's top diplomat stress the importance of taking part. if you're not at the table in the international system, you're going to be on the menu to visit room for me. there was an optimism about the warren gauze in dire moments. we have, i think there's an extraordinary opportunity for israel in the months ahead, to actually once and for all. and that cycle. and it's because there's some new facts that didn't exist before. when our efforts to make peace between israelis and palestinians, starting with the fact that virtually every our country now generally wants to integrate israel into the region to normalize relations if they haven't already done so to provide security, assurances and commitments. so that is real, can feel more safe and more secure ukraine. more coming up on the 2nd anniversary

was also on everyone's mind of the year of 2024 to months your response from everyone in the world. if we do not at no fortune, we'll 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 least ross, to try to try to cloud reality and reach the world. unfortunately believes they miss the drastic good to capture and all that concert in a few days or weeks whenever each one's your brain is, has been holding for 724 days. nearly a week after donald trump threatening not to protect nato members who failed to

meet their 2 percent of g d. p. contribution. germany's defense minister was up the page. i'm proud to say that this year we would spend over 2 percent of our g d, p. on defense in germany, german chancellor, all the shots underlined that commitment. yeah. yes, money that we spend now and in the future for our security copy spent elsewhere. we feel that. but i also say without security and everything else is nothing on the machines. don't use chief international editor, richard walker is at the conference in munich and i asked them about the main points so far or yeah, well i, i think the problem is the take away that you, you really can't avoid is just the impact of the death of alexi, nevada, anyways, just hit us here yesterday is people would be getting together for the security conference. and this is really a conversation that you feel just almost everybody here has had

a buyer that about this big kind of confronted with, with the nature of the preaching regime. the reality of that once again, and also some speculation about the timing of, of that, whether that was a coincidence or whether this was somehow deliberately timed to coincide with this gathering here. um, interesting, the one of the tapes that i got was for from a european leader who i will not name here but, but who said well if it was deliberate timing, then it was extremely bad timing it backside because all it has done it is kind of a strength and the result of, of your up to push back against that to me and pretend even more strongly than they have until now. but they were suddenly also different views, like an indian delegate, who told me that it really doesn't change the fact the india and russia and all friends, they get an end to goodness sticks together. i think that's being the conversation almost everybody's mean having this weekend. all right, richard. well, one of the main topics of course of conversation has the not ukraine and ukraine's

pressure has brought him here, zaleski delivered yet another forceful play for more support as that the war approaches it's 2nd diverse, right? so at this point in the context, of course we're entering almost at the 3rd year of us. and what does the calling for? yeah, well i, i tell you what it's really interesting to compare of what he said this year to what he said last year. because it kind of tells us a lot about what's going on. and this will last year when he addressed the municipality conference, virtually letting me zalinski. his message was all about speech, he was saying to the europeans, since the americans, the speed up your provision of weapons to us that they need you. things like tang so they need things like 5 to jazz, which hadn't been agreed on yet all the agreements. it's tom wood at the next 3 me slow pace and he's measured with speed things out like we have to get foster in order to push back, like, in my opinion. and then what happened, of course was that, you know,

things didn't speed up that much. and then when he launched his counter offensive last year, it ended up being pretty much a failure. and i, some criticism of the west is that, that the slow pace of those weapons provisions contributed to that know the artifacts of a contributing to that. okay. possible to now he's not talking about speed. he's talking instead about effectively staying power because of the failure of the cancer offensive last year. there is now something of a kind of mood of pessimism about the outlook for the ukraine war. and the uh, the lensky had to try to drum, into the order and see a drum into, uh, is it politicians arrayed before him. like not to lose space to not believe in what he called the miss. so to ukraine could not win the war. and to keep that support going and to provide for instance, longer range weapons which he feels that he needs to overcome. his disadvantage against russia to richard walker and unix, their well as the landscape warns against waning western support. ukraine's armed

forces have withdrawn from one besieged time after months of heavy fighting, ukraine's new army come under head arctic. sondra sir ski says troops are being pulled out of of div to avoid being and circled the retreat as rushes big a success on the battlefield. since it took the city of buck moved last year, that's cross and i have to keep find, need of use. nick. comedy joins us from there. nick, great to see you. so ukraine's ministry says to withdrawal from the destroyed eastern city of, of def got was made for strategic reasons. but what does this tell us about the advance of russia's forces? i think part of this tells us mostly that russia was desperate for something they could sell as a victory, desperate to move even a few kilometers fluids. and they have basically thrown everything they go at the city. they have come straight to choose number of their battalions, that brigades, they have thrown hundreds of glide booms at the printing defenders that it is

basically a repeat all possible you just mentioned that which is not very far away. and it is a similar scenario whether ukrainians now at risk of being surrounded that one major roads coming in to have dave because it was crucial for all the supplies, but those of food that that was now under what is known as the control of the russians they could fired from both sides and the decision was taken, but to avoid the risk of being surrounded and losing lots of troops either to rush or selling or to being taken prison that they would leave before it was too late. i think the instructive thing looking at this and comparing it to button what is that all about what we didn't see the russians able to really kind of create some kind of snowball effect and push them much further forward. they took back moved and then basically they were exhausted. they had lost so many men. we don't have good figures about how many russians have died. we certainly will be able to see read arguments that the last is on the russian side. attacking have been for high and when the grading started subsea much easier to defense and this is in the bigger

picture is probably the logical thing to do, even though it's something that doesn't go down well, we don't mean ukrainians when you speak to them about it if that, if we're just looking at the situation in updates right now, and your brain has been calling for more support from allies. and is that the coming sort of very obvious then if we're just looking at this, this uh, this area in particular? well, certainly ukraine is once again facing the issue of munitions running low. this was a big issue in the 1st some of the role then for a while when american european countries were sending basically large numbers of shells from their supplies from their own spies rather than to the manufacturers ukraine. that problem was largely results. now, once again, when you crazed basis, depending on what you are being an american companies can produce fresh off the belt as it were rather than the supplies. it is very difficult and russia has a much bigger capacity produced. so weapons is getting a lot of weapons from north korea. i'm companies like that. so it's definitely a situation where the cranes being outcomes. and now with those light bulbs rushed

over to using its planes. there's western flights of jet. so a problem is still here, that is really becoming an issue, but it's also a question manpower. ukraine has not mobilize in recent months in the way the military has wanted to do. it's basically too big a political issue and presence, let's get, hasn't wants to take responsibility for that. hasn't wanted to mobilize young. come in right now, is there any man uh, over the age of 25 who are being pulled up? so it's a manpower and it's a technical issue, but certainly this isn't some big dramatic loss. this is basically just the front line. and if it is now going to be a bit more, a straight this few kind of twisting tons and certainly something with the russians that connect crow about sometime. thanks nick, the economy for us in keith. here's a reminder of our top story. the police in russia have made dozens of arrests up memorials for the child opposition leader alexi and a valid me close out. i'd say the authorities have not released no problem these body and they're blaming president vladimir putin personally for his staff.

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