>> brent: this is dw news live from berlin. russia accuses ukraine of trying to assess and vladimir putin at home. images show the moment a drone exploded over the kremlin in moscow. kyiv has denied involvement. also coming up, a school shooting that has shocked serbia. police in belgrade have arrested a 14-year-old boy says build of killing a children and a security guard.

and as fighting incident continues, thousands are looking for anyway to get out of the country. ♪ i'm brent goff. to our viewers watching on pbs in the united states, and all of you around the world, welcome. russia is using ukraine of attempting to assassinate vladimir putin. moscow says it foiled an attack on the kremlin overnight, and it is pointing the finger at ukraine. russian media are calling the attack a terrorist act and are demanding retaliation. kyiv has denied any involvement. a senior advisor to ukraine's president zelenskyy warning this can be a full-fledged designed to justify russia's next move against ukraine. reporter: this footage circulating on russian telegram channels shows the alleged

overnight attack, and smoke rising above the main kremlin palace. there has been no independent verification of this footage, but russia accuses ukraine of trying to assassinate putin -ukrainian president president zelenskyy denied any involvement in the alleged incident. >> we don't attack putin or moscow. we fight on our territory. we are defending our villages and cities. we don't have, you know, enough weapon for this. that is why we don't use it anywhere. for us, that is the deficit, we can't spend it. and we didn't attack putin. we will leave it to the tribunal. reporter: in washington, the

u.s. secretary of state, antony blinken, cast doubt on the kremlin's allegations. >> i have seen the reports. i can't in any way validate them, we simply don't know. second, i would take anything coming out of the kremlin with a very large shaker of salt. so we will see what the facts are, and it is really hard to comment or speculate on this without really knowing what the facts are. reporter: moscow has threatened to retaliate against ukraine, making residents of kyiv worried about her safety. >> they might try attacking strategic objects where decisions are made in kyiv. they might shell us with missiles again. we need to remain in safety and take care of ourselves and our loved ones.

reporter: now, putin remains safe. moscow announced he will take about an scheduled report to victory day. on the red square next week. brent: brent: we have more on this now from our correspondents nick connolly in moscow, and jennifer in riga. riga is a temporary home after our moscow office was shut down. kyiv is denying it. it couldn't be any clear, that a cynic might say well, he would say that, wouldn't he? nick: that obviously makes a lot of sense, but equally when you look at previous attacks by drones on russian soil, attacks that most experts say are very likely to be ukrainian, president zelenskyy doesn't come up with these kinds of claims, these kinds of announcements to the world basically. and if it was later proved that these were indeed ukrainian attacks, that would be very

embarrassing and bad for his credibility, which he desperately needs to get weapons and other western support. in the past we have seen second echelon or third personal ukraine officials being wheeled out to say that was not us, then disappearing. there is a worry that if lots of people in europe or maybe worried about escalation or about supplying ukraine with arms were to believe that this was a ukrainian attack on the kremlin, on the center of russian power, they might pull back and say, there is a risk of contagion here and we need to put the brakes on support for ukraine. brent: we know that drone attacks on russian infrastructure close to ukraine have become more frequent, so regardless of the official denials, is the presumption tonight that kyiv is behind them, and why are we seeing this increasing attacks? nick: for a start, it is important to distinguish between attacks happening close ukraine's borders or russian-occupied crimea that are

feasible logistically. it's important to state that western countries have forbidden ukraine from using the weapons they supply against russian proper, rather than russia occupied ukraine. we have seen attacks on russian oil facilities near crimea recently, that all makes sense in terms of preparing ukraine's expected counteroffensive. it would be extraordinary if ukraine were to send a drone 700 kilometers from ukraine to the center of moscow with all of those russian antiaircraft, anti-drone systems on the roofs of moscow buildings unable to stop. it experts think that it is more likely this is a drone that was launched closer to the kremlin potentially by opposition groups, potentially with some coordination from ukraine. but would ukraine is a government take a risk and be able to do this? that seems far-fetched. brent: let's try to get the angle and from russia. what do we know about russians

clings tonight? jennifer: the kremlin spokesperson dmitry peskov called it a planned terrorist attack with the aim to take vladimir putin's life, so targeting the president's residency in the kremlin. according to him putin was not present in the kremlin. the russian investigative committee is likely to launch an investigation on terrorism. of course he blamed ukraine and kyiv for this attack. . according to the carlin's press statement four "the russian state reserves the right to retaliate when and where it sees fit." but how exactly this retaliation could look like, he did not specify. it's not only the kremlin, russian deputies and propagandists are calling for strikes on kyiv, and even president zelenskyy's residence. brent: the video we have seen shows a drone exporting over the kremlin, i mean, there are bound to be questions about whether this attack was organized within

russia or abroad or even possibly staged by russia itself. jennifer: of course there will be questions, especially because of the frequency of drone attacks or explosions in the past months, weeks or even days. counting this alleged attack on the kremlin, there were nine drone attacks in total so far. we have to keep in mind that the information and reports we are getting are coming from russian state media, they haven't been confirmed by western media or experts. the only clear statement that we have so far, comes from the kremlin itself, and from ukraine, which vehemently denies being involved. of course, there is the possibility of russia trying to use this to legitimize the war in ukraine, especially because they waited a whole day before publishing the footage. also on may 9, there will be a parade on the red square to celebrate russia's victory in world war ii. so what a timing to invoke more

patriotic feelings in russian society than showing them that the enemy is here, almost at their doorstep, in the kremlin. brent: jennifer pahlke and nick connolly, to both of you, thinking. how plausible is a drone attack on the kremlin? let's look to a political scientist from texas tech university, and a research fellow with the war institute. so, what was the reaction to this video the amount of moscow showing a drone exploding over the kremlin? >> it was sensational, but i think it also demonstrates the type of capacity involved in this attack. the drones in the videos, although short, seem to indicate that it was a moderate capacity because they are smaller drones, they have smaller payloads. the warheads seem to have

delivered kind of a sparse payload, especially against the very well fortified kremlin. on the other hand, russian officials said they had electronic interference resistance suggesting more sophisticated navigation tag. this suggests that it could be the ukrainian army or a rogue actor on either side. brent: you said that the kremlin is well fortified. about moscow's air defense capabilities? are we talking about a drone that was able to evade radar? guest: apparently. moscow does have a missile defense system, and recently in mid-january, russia installed additional defense systems at their strategic locations in moscow. so that indicates that they recognize that ukraine has the capacity to penetrate their airspace and launch an attack like this, believes that it has the incentives, and those that

its own aerial defense system has some ferocity that needed -- porosity that needs to be shored up. brent: the shortest border from ukraine to moscow is about 500 miles. is it possible for the drone to fly from outside moscow airspace and make it all the way kremlin? kerry: it is technically possible. it entails a different capacity level. on one hand it is possible this was launched from a shorter range or that it was remotely operated from someone else, but it is technically possible that the two probable platforms, based on the size and the wingspan of the drone in the video, is that it was a ukrainian uj-22. also it could be a chinese drone that the ukrainians have in their arsenal. both have a range of anywhere

from 800 kilometers to 1000 kilometers. so it is within the realm of possibility. i would really appreciate what your past correspondence were articulating, but i think instead of capacity, we should be thinking about the incentives behind this, what incentives might ukraine have, which have historically focused on military targets, targets of high-value recommendations depose. -- like natmunitions depots. if it causes moscow to put more defense away from the frontline effort, that means it is not protected targets to revalue and if it provokes a response in kind from russia, russia has limited and shrinking supply of these platforms and using them in a symbolic attack against a

very well protected military target is probably not the best use. so there are potential incentives on both sides. brent: we will definitely be watching to see what russia does and what ukraine does as well. dr kerry chavez, we appreciate your time and your insights, thank you. kerry: thank. a brent: look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world, ukraine says a few people have been killed in russian strikes on the kherson region and 46 have been wounded. a hypermarket and a railway station were shelled. some victims had been shopping for supplies i had of a three-day lockdown ordered by local authorities. the authorities saying this will enable them to root out "russian spies." a belarussian journalist and activist has been sentenced to prison, accused of letting unrest and parentheses power.

roman protasevich was arrested in 2021 when his ryan air flight was forced to land in minsk. he ran a telegram generally used by protesters opposing alexander lukashenko's regime in belarus. police in berlin say two children have been seriously wounded in a knife attack at a school in the city's south. the victims were girls aged seven and eight. . one sustained life-threatening injuries. police say they detained a 39-year-old suspect. the motive remains unknown. police in italy and in germany have arrested dozens of suspects in a crackdown on the italian mafia group the 'ndrangheta. they are accused of drug smuggling, money laundering and other crimes. authorities are calling it the largest of operation against the mafia. reporter: german police getting ready to storm a suspect's

house, just one of dozens of arrests across the country. here in munich, this carwash was busted for allegedly laundry, after two years of investigating the group involved. >> the reason why the raid took place today is quite simple the, internet authorities decide when the major strike should happen. the munich party is only a small one compared to the italian operation we are talking more than 100 arrest warrants and many thousands of police officers evolved across europe reporter: the caribbean area produced in italy was backed by helicopters. an arrest warrants were served for possession, trafficking of drugs and weapons, and money laundering. it is the biggest release operation ever carried out in europe against the calabria drndrangheta. >> money transfers of more than

22 million euros between italy and colombia via a chinese system. in one year, more than 22 million euros. reporter: european authorities have been working to wage a campaign against the 'ndrangheta in recent years, the group is italy's most powerful and wealthy mafia group and is expected of controlling the bulk of cocaine flowing across europe. brent: police in serbia say they have arrested a 13-year-old boy in connection with a shooting rampage at a school today in the capital of belgrade. eight and a security guard were killed. police say the attack was meticulously planned. reporter: arrested in the middle of this schoolyard just a couple of hours earlier, the alleged attacker walked into his own high school and started shooting. the students heard the

terrifying shots from inside the classrooms. >> i was downstairs. we had sports class downstairs. i was able to hear the shooting. it was a lot of shots, not like one shot at a time, it was shooting without stopping. i didn't know what was happening. we were receiving messages on the phone, several kids from the seventh-grade class were not replying, so we were in real fear. reporter: residents in the central district of belgrade are shocked by what the mayor is calling a huge tragedy. as police try to piece together what could have motivated the teenager, they say that the accused boy had a detailed shooting plan. >> the boy, as he stated himself, planned to carry out this act. this was a list of the children he planned to kill.

he himself drew the plans of the school entrance and exit, which was found on his desk. . as he said himself here, he said "priority targets." reporter: there hasn't been a mass shooting of this magnitude in decades. authorities have announced three days of national mourning. brent: the serbian president said the shooter was to be placed in a psychiatric institution. our correspondent in belgrade told us more. reporter: he is a minor. they say he cannot go to jail as

he is not 14 yet. [indiscernible] it is a tragedy that happened. serbia has not had a case like that in school. even outside of that, there are rare cases of mass shootings like this. measures will be taken for more security in schools and something has to be changed in the laws and also in controlling the school. brent: mass shootings in serbia are extremely rare, but the presence of guns is not. experts have been warning for years about the hundreds of thousands of illegal weapons circulating since the balkan wars of the 1990's. how big of a problem is this? reporter: it was not a problem until this moment.

serbia is the third place in the world for gun possession, but these shootings usually don't happen in school. of course there is a history during the 90's -- how many of them are outside. we did hear from officials if they will take national -- to reduce the problems. brent: our correspondent with the latest in belgrade. thank you. here are more stories now from around the world, german chancellor scholz says berlin was to provide developing countries with an additional 2 billion euros to help deal with climate change. he made the pledge at a conference in berlin. the dialogue ended with more than 40 international delegates calling for new targets on

promoting renewable energy. myanmar's military government has parted with more than 2000 prisoners to mark a buddhist holiday. among the pardons are political detainees. myanmar's military has obtained thousands of -- detained thousands of opponents since overthrowing the country's democratically elected government. the u.s. navy released footage that shows a seizing another oil tanker in gulf waters. the seizure is the second in the week and it comes amid heightened tension over to iran's nuclear program. iran says the judge ordered the panama-flagged vessel be impounded, but did not specify why. now to sedan where fighting continues between rival forces over control over the country, this, despite agreeing in principle to a weeklong sales -- -- weeklong cease fire.

hundreds are fleeing the country, many heading to neighboring chad. reporter: this village in chad is a few hundred meters from the border with sudan. refugees arriving here are mainly women and children. >> the war drove us from our home. we were with our children when the armed people came and we fled to the bush. how is this possible? reporter: sudanese refugees have fled not only to chad, but to south sudan, the central african republic, and egypt, many traveling fast distances on foot or on donkeys. the united nations refugee agency and ngos including the world food programme bar on the ground in chad, but the scope of the problem is huge. the new arrivals from sudan joined more than 500,000 sudanese refugees already here. and chad is struggling with widespread hunger amongst its

own population. the crisis in sudan, and the pressure of huge flows of people , creating even more instability. >> the ripple effect for the region is significant. it is a real concern. and we just need to find peace. we need the two parties to the conflict to come together and find a way to resolve the conflict, because this has the possibility of destabilizing the whole region. reporter: as eight agencies and the government struggled to keep up, many people are taking shelter under trees and lack access to food and clean water. everyone here is workng against the clock. the rainy season is just weeks away, making access much more difficult. and hundreds of thousands more people are expected to arrive fighting does not stop. brent: earlier i spoke with the regional director for eastern

africa the u.n. world food programme. i asked him to describe the current humanitarian situation in iran. >> the situation is nothing short of catastrophe. we have seen the fighting in khartoum and elsewhere across the country curating history for the people of sudan. before the conflict started, there were over one-third of the entire population who were hungry. there were another 3 million people who were already displaced, they were housing .1 million refugees. 4 million women and children were malnourished. this conflict, what is happening today is making a bad situation infinitely worse. brent: the u.n. is talking about millions of people being internally displaced within sudan, hundreds of thousands of refugees. how safe is it for people to

stay in the country? michael: we are seeing considerable movements elsewhere into the country and beyond the borders because of a lack of security, because cities like khartoum, areas like d darfur and areas in the country are simply too insecure for people to remain. this is putting pressure not only on the population inside sudan, but on the neighboring countries as well. we need the conflict to stop, we need the armies to end the fighting, and we want the people to be able to return home safely. brent: the people who do make it to neighboring countries such as chad, what conditions await them there? michael: i think your story showed it, it is very bleak. we as humanitarians are struggling to be able to absorb

the caseload, on top of an existing caseload that we were struggling to feed even before the crisis. in south sudan, refugees were only receiving 50% of the minimum ration because of a lack of funding, because of the needs across the country. with more refugees arriving, the world food programme will need more funding from our donors if we are to be able to provide the type of assistance these populations require. brent: are you going to get the funding that you need to make sure that people do not go hungry? michael: to be honest, at this point, i am not sure. we are going to continue to scale up our operations, continue to make the case as to why we need the funding, but we will be calling on our donors, the europeans, the americans and beyond, to dig deep, to make sure that the people in need

have what they require. brent: michael dunford, regional director in eastern africa the u.n.'s world food programme, thank you for your time and wish you all the best. michael: thank you very much. brent: you are watching dw news live from berlin. after a short break, i will be back to take you through "the day," stick around. ♪

>> it is 10:00 p.m. here in paris. you are watching france 24. these are your headlines -- moscow blames ukraine for an alleged assassination attempt on vladimir putin's life coming after two drums were shot out of the sky. the head of the united nations calls for peace in sudan is the country's army agrees to extend the current troops by seven days. -- the current truce by seven days. and shaking hands on a new economic partnership as raisi becomes the first head of state