of shelling or anything like that. the tri needs to be able to stop to evacuate. the passengers. credible details. they're rebecca. thank you so much. rebecca of rebecca ritter speaking to us from movies in western. great. and let's get some more developments in the war there. austrian chancellor con emma is to meet the russian leader vladimir putin in moscow. o be the 1st european leader to do so. since the invasion of ukraine, they huh has been in keith where he offered humanitarian aid and political support . a grave containing at least 2 civilians has been uncovered in wood, sofa village, near keith. it's the latest burial site identified since russian force withdrew from the area to concentrate on eastern ukraine. the airport in negro ukraine's 4th biggest city has been badly damaged by russian missile attacks. that's according to the local governor. thick columns of smoke to be seen rising around the airborne and against the backdrop of the war and ukraine. germany is marking the anniversary of the liberation of the book involved concentration camp at the end of world war 2, holocaust survivors and jewish leaders gathered to remember nazi crimes that w

innocent from what is left of maria po and for the latest from ukraine, we can speak to our correspondent rebecca ritter's his standing by in the western city of wil vive rebecca, good to see you. now. we've been hearing reports about glass in the city of an air adara, which we understand is near a nuclear plant. what more can you tell us about that? that's right. marianna, a series of loss actually her vein rewarded in that ukrainian city of anna hunter. her that was reported concerned by ukraine's nuclear energy agency through their official telegram channels. no confirmation yet as to where that attack originated from, but it's significant for 2 reasons. now it's that isn't that attack is near the city of parisian. aperture is a city that's being used to where people from other eastern cities such as mary paul that you just heard about in your report are being evacuated to. but secondly, and perhaps even more significant is that it is near that separation nuclear energy plant. and that is europe's one of your biggest nuclear energy plants and accounts for about a 5th of ukraine's energy supply. that would obviously be significant. any, any attack on the pla

or let's cross life now, did you w correspond, and rebecca ritters in the western ukrainian city of live. if rebecca many civilians are waiting to be evacuated from the besieged city of maria, paul, what, what do we know about the latest rescue tents? that's right on a car, there's thought to be between anywhere between 800860000 people. still trapped in that besieged city, suffering bombardments for weeks. now. her refill reports have no food, no water, no electricity. basically living in bunkers, watching relatives die of starvation and dehydration just horrific. are scenes there now the, there is reports that a convoy is trying once again today to make it inside that received city as you just reported that they have not been able to get in to the city for the last 3 days. it's been too dangerous. they've decided they had to turn back. this is a convoy that supported by the international red cross, some civilians, however, in some slightly good news have made it out in the last days is about 3000 civilians have made it out in their personal cause. just sort of trying to risk that treacherous journ

so we're let you go take cover. rebecca ritter's there with the latest from key. rebecca, thank a police here. germany have arrested for members of a far white group on suspicion of plodding violent attacks to so civil unrest, prosecutor say that they were planning to blow up power stations and to kidnap japanese health minister coral lauterbach now. professor lauterbach has received lots of criticism because of his support for measures to stop the spread of coping 19 the plot to bring down democracy was said to have been hatched on telegram prosecutor c. far right extremists wanted to trigger power outages and civil war light conditions. it didn't stop. there isn't of boxes to put a plan behind. this was to kit, not the federal minister of health. profess allow to back to kill his passionate security and accept this as collateral. damage on us to show the health minister, priest police, and said he was unfazed, man eigen i'll miss, will not affect my own work. i'll continue as before. he is here lout aback, who has supported? tough coven? 19 measures has been a regular targets of protesters. he said the plot showed that such opp

rebecca ritters . they're reporting for us from live in western ukraine. thank you. rebecca. at the start of the war, russian troops took control of the area around the highly contaminated chernobyl nuclear plant. after weeks of occupation, some may have been exposed to radiation. channel bill is at the sight of the world's worst nuclear accident and remains the forbidden zone. russians soldiers of the china below nuclear power plant. they took over the building on february, the 24th right at the start of russia's invasion. did the troops really know much about the place that government had sent them? apparently the young soldiers were clueless about the 1986 nuclear disaster, despite large numbers of death by radiation and heavy contamination. that's vadim. pope dimness view more than the moscow he's ukraine's chief engineer at channel bill. and despite the risk of speaking to us, he agrees to an interview, he says, his co workers, who will help by russian troops for almost 4 weeks, told him that the russian soldiers might have mistaken the protective shell around the failed reactor for an

making the evacuation of civilians more urgent of a more i'm joined now by our dw corresponded rebecca ritters who has just arrived back in the viv. rebecca, what's the latest you hear from lou? hans? just as you rightly point out, want to grow just got back from not from no hands but from an area called denise, the pro city ne pro, where people from the law hans and on beth region evacuate through. and we know that the governor of the hands of that region has ordered people to get out while they still can. but he said that 30 percent of people are still they're still in the area and stuff and staying port. i spoke to one young man i said we were getting on the train in ne proved to come back to the v if he was from ne pro himself. but he was talking about his friends in our hands and done yet, who were just tired and they were going to stay where they were, because they already lost everything in the 2014 war. and they just weren't prepared to do it again that they were going to stay and fight. he broke down in tears as he was telling me this story. obviously, thinking about what might happen to those regions and to his friends. every on

people trying to get out of that region before russia start bombarding, at which we're expecting in the coming days. rebecca, thank you very much. shar corresponded rebecca ritter's there in your pin else catch up on some other stories making headlines around the world today. china's largest city has reported the 1st death from covet 19 since imposing a lockdown. 4 weeks ago. authorities in shanghai say the victims were 3 elderly people who were already ill. the city is at the center of one of china's largest ever cove. at 19 outbreaks. the death toll from tropical storm meggy in the philippines has risen to 172 with another 100. 10 people reported missing the storm . hers triggered landslides and floods, which have devastated communities in central regions. authorities say the continued rain and unstable soil are hampering rescue efforts. more than 440 people have been killed in flooding and land sides in south africa's course zulu natal province is one of the deadliest storms to hit the area. at least 63 people are missing. many feared dead rescue teams are still searching for survivors. spanish coast guard says it has rescued $61.00 migrants off the coast of s

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more difficult, horrifying scenes out of which f as go to live even western ukrainian abuse. rebecca ritters is covering development. so for you from there, rebecca, do we know more about what exactly happened in boucher what you said it there, these scenes are horrifying. i mean, really unspeakable acts that, that the soldiers of finding the journalist and now witnessing in these liberated towns in the towns that the russians have now been pushed out of retreated from. i mean, it's truly difficult to, to find the words to describe them. you saw some of the images there in that report . we saw a, you know, innocent people, civilians, people in civilian clothings, kit killed on. they have bicycles, people with their hands tied behind their backs, shot in close range in the back of the head. i mean, we've seen mass graves of people with child bodies, it really unspeakable acts, zalinski presidents, lensky and others here, calling this a, calling these crimes wall crimes and, and that is being echoed in the international community. many other ladies from other countries, echoing those claims of war crimes, president zalinski was actually in butcher.

of evacuating civilians all the more urgent. and for more i am now joined on the line by our d. w correspondent rebecca ritter's who is on the train to levin rebecca. are you are on the way back from ne pro the central eastern city in ukraine, which is serving as the hub for the internally displaced ukrainians? what have you witnessed there that time? and i've actually just stepped off the train just said you were going to air and we've just come back from the pro, as you say, it's a hard for those people evacuating. but you could have done yet. and month grades in america has now ordered people in that region to lazy area said that at least 30 percent of people was still in the house. but they needed to get out before this russian offensive stopped to take place on talking to one young man. i've been trying to say he was actually from the program. so he was coming to the be on the same train, but i was on but he was telling me about his friends that are in the gun and they don't want to. but he said they said he said that those areas have been under the cd themselves, have been under russian control since 2000 and ice and they just don't want to

so we're let you go take cover. rebecca ritter's there with the latest from key. rebecca, thank you. and rebecca has also been investigating the soon to roll of ukraine's railways in defending the country against the russian invasion. russia has bombed some railway lines, but the trains they keep moving thanks to the determination of their conductors. when russia invaded ukraine, yvonne was on duty travelling his regular route. for more than 10 years, the train conductor served passengers between z, appalachia, in the southeast elevator. in the west, a 15 hour journey, but on february 20 full life changed forever. as dawn broke news of the invasion broke to you coma blanca. a woman started to cry and said, have you heard anything? i said, no. she said that bumming me proof. i didn't believe it, i started to check facebook to check the news. and it turned out that there was bombing old around ukraine. we arrived late to separation, and we were told the evacuations would start. 11th cavellas, full bullet reports. since then they haven't stopped. and neither has yvonne, he's worked every day, and every night now he lives on the train to russian

correspondent rebecca ritters is standing by. rebecca, what more can you tell us about the situation now in maria pull? when he heard it there from the horses mouth president ploot potent and claiming victory of mary paul for the russians. we haven't had confirmation all from the ukrainian side, but it's not unexpected. terry have been expecting mary paul to fall to russian control for some days now. but in reality, territorially, nothing really has shifted since prior to the statement by president potent that they have for some days actually held control of the city and of the port. but not all of that as of steel plant, as you just reported. and that remains the same, still thought to be 2000 or so defenders. and around about a 1000 civilians hiding in tunnels in the vast tunnel network under that as of steel plant. but there has been a shift taxi clear as you heard there, president putin calling for a c sing of the bombardment of that steel plant and instead to be blockaded. it's not exactly clear why that directive was given. whether or not, uh, perhaps they want to keep that steel plant intact so that even when they do gain control of it, they can still use it. or perhaps they do indeed

rebecca, thank you very much. that was the w as rebecca ritter's on location just outside you. the united nations migration agency says the number of people displaced within ukraine has risen again reaching 7700000 aid groups are trying to help those who flared their homes as well as those still stuck in cities under bombardment. police face a daily struggle in places like ukraine's 2nd largest city hockey. it's been the target of indiscriminate shelling for weeks. their homes are unlivable, after weeks of bombardment. now the people of ha keep survived by collecting rain water and cooking on fires, fueled by debris. one last thing we don't have electricity, water, any communication at all, including gas in the garza. bear with us for the you can't really cook here because the wouldn't be of earth gold soon. it's hard to get it. if a garage is hit, you go and pickup panels. where else can we get it from a tree? a said we'll pull it and cut it. there is no other option. with bombs still flying above many are now living below in hockey, metro stations. some have been camped here for weeks once and we brought several blankets. mothers

but the pain of loss is a constant in a wall that's far from over let's say join a did have your correspondence, rebecca ritter's now. she is in the ukranian capital key for rebecca. a dire situation for the people still trapped in a matter you. but we understand a tentative deal has been struck to create a humanitarian corridor to allow them to evacuate. that's right, layla. well, we could be witnessing as you're avoiding the very last hours of this sage that we know has been going on for nigh on 7 weeks. now pretty much is the beginning of this war. at with a dia, humanitarian catastrophe taking place there. we know that there is still around about a 100000 civilians trapped in that city bought the good news. potential good news coming out of today. ukraine's deputy prime ministers saying that russia and ukraine have agreed to allow for humanitarian corridor to allow some we think 6000 people out there. that ease of course, good news, even successful. but we do know from previous attempts that goes with humanitarian corridors, particularly around that city are so treacherous and often so dangerous that they are often cancelled. so it remains to be seen whether

rebecca, thank you very much, shar corresponded rebecca ritter's there in livi, ukraine's president philadelphia zalinski has called for urgent action from the united nations over alleged russian war crimes. he addressed a meeting of the un security council after visiting boucher on monday, 2 months. zalinski sharply criticized security council for its inability to stand up to russia's aggression. as a permanent member of the council, russia has the power to veto any binding resolution, making the body powerless to act against its war on ukraine. from distinction. here are a few other stories related to the ukraine war. the un says more than 11000000 ukrainians had fled their home since the war began. that's more than a quarter of the population under secretary general for humanitarian affairs. martin griffith said more than 4000000 people have left the country while the others are internally displaced. a donor conference in berlin has pledged almost 660000000 euros for old dover, one of europe, same poorest countries which borders ukraine. it's to help it cope with ukrainian refugees. participants also agreed to help resettle 12000 ukrainians from moldova around 400000, fled to the country since war broke out. th

of shelling or anything like that. the trend needs to be able to stop to evacuate. the passengers. credible details there. rebecca, thank you so much. rebecca. rebecca ritter speaking to us from movies in western. great. and let's get some other developments regarding the war in ukraine. austrian chancellor car namor is the, is to meet the russian leader vladimir putin and moscow will be the 1st european leader to do so. since the invasion of ukraine may, homer has been in cave, where he offered humanitarian aid and political support. the airport in ne pro, ukraine's 4th biggest city has been badly damaged by russian missile attacks. that's according to the local governor. the columns of smoke could be seen around the airport. a grave continue, at least 2 civilians has been uncovered in both sofa, a village near keith. the latest burial site identified since russian forces withdrew from the area to concentrate their fighting in eastern ukraine. pope francis is called for an easter ceasefire in ukraine in his 1st full palm sunday mass since the start of the pandemic. the pope's old, $50000.00 catholic faithful, that an armistice would pave the way for peace through