[000:00:00;00] ah, ah ah, this is the w news life from berlin, ukraine's national railway service, says russia. miss files had several stations in a coordinated attack just hours earlier. of u. s. officials travels by train to keith to announce extra military funding from washington. also on the program, a turkey a jail to human rights campaign. if a life osmond cavallo, is found guilty of trying to overthrow the government charges, he says a fabricated and beijing stocks up on groceries and household goods or shoppers

fear a new lock down to contain china's worst copays 19 outbreak for 2 years. ah, i'm still getting welcome to the program. we begin with the latest escalation in the war in ukraine. ukrainian railway says coordinated russian missile strikes, hit 5 train stations inside an hour. at least 5 people were killed and many more injured. military commanders say moscow trying to disrupt delivery of weapons from other countries. according to the governor of the viv region, this video shows the railway carriage in the village of krazny. let's go to live in that in western ukraine and join d w correspondent young philip shows welcome yon phillips. i said, we've heard about air strikes that in the region where you are and on railway

stations across the country and what else you're hearing. yes indeed, there have been many area alerts a year in western ukraine throughout the day. actually there's a one alert active right now. this is why we are in the shelter at the moment here in levine, the air defense systems have been successful about. they have been at least a fort 5 strikes and, and train stations, and western and central ukraine. one strike just around 200 kilometers from the polish border. several people were injured to several people died, or they have been a tax on redwin infrastructure before. but this says definitely reached a new dimension today and some say it can also and chart be interpreted as a, as a warning to the west. since a high ranking you as to legation, has been traveling in the very same region just some hours before. right,

and they were supposed to be a face fire in mario po today. yes, sir, actually a russia announced a ceasefire some hours ago for a bachelor from what we are hearing all attends to establish a humanitarian curry door to evacuate. the civilians still trapped in the steel plants, and marya paul have not been successful. ukrainian officials say there has been no bilateral agreements, sir, regarding the establishment of such a humanitarian corridor. and they have been too many announcements of by the russians in the past. as some officials also report jabard, sir, you fighting are going on around the plan, sir? so at the moment, the ukranian officials insist that the united states,

the united nations and the red cross should be involved in any evacuation attent. i'm an him that the don bass, a region in the east of ukraine, which are russia seems determined to take what's been happening there. yeah, there's also been fighting in the don bus region throughout the day. the governor of the donnette sca regions set for it civilians including 2 children, were killed during a russian offensive in the neighboring landscape. region. officials are reported about a massive explosion in a city council building, apparently killing several people. the fighting hasn't reached a level in the dunbar region that was predicted by some observers in the past weeks. but various sir still continued fighting every day, causing the death of, of, of many people on a daily basis. ok, thank you for that day w correspondent,

a young phillip shots individual well, the young fellow was saying there was a high level us delegation in ukraine today. they were announcing an extra $700000000.00 in military aid. this was secretary of state onto the blanket and defense secretary lloyd austin, a traveling by trying to keep the highest level us visits since russia invaded on the 24th of february. a warm welcome back to keep after a secretive train journey across the polish ukraine border to the capitol. the high level delegation sent by u. s. president joe biden to offer face to face messages of support and admiration . the reason we're back is because of you because of the extraordinary courage, leadership and success that you've had in pushing back his horrific russian

aggression both blinking and defense secretary lloyd austin, offered zalinski condolences for the loss of life in ukraine and further economic and military support. as ever, zalinski was grateful then to the point about his needs for unit that their sam, possibly of the priorities are weapons and support each vote from the united states . and our partners needed from european leaders or a little in terms of our army strongly should be through and support in certain areas. zalinski was quick to point out, the u. s. has already given billions and assistance since russia's invasion and repeated his military must have top level armaments. if it is to beat back the invader. in places like the don best region where russia has tried to reinvigorate its efforts to achieve changing goals and ukraine. it's focus no longer keep the

capital but the east and southern coast of ukraine safely back across the polish border. after the meeting. austin said ukraine can be victorious over russia in terms of their ability to win. and the 1st step in winning is believing that you can win. and so they believe that we can win . we believe that we can work. they can win if they have the right equipment the rights afford. we're doing. we can continue to do everything with austin and blinking together announced a further $700000000.00 military support for the ukraine cause before austin moved on to ramstein, germany for a meeting with nato defense ministers to take a brief look at some other stories related to the war in ukraine or mr. bay. yeah, you are a secretary of defense, lloyd austin, now arrived in germany following those tossing cave on tuesday, you'll discuss ukraine's defense needs counterparts. for more than 20 countries.

nato secretary jen stole to book will also attend the meeting. the usaa airbase it ramstein green breeze activists have tried to stop a tanker from unloading russian oil near all slow by changing their dingey to the vessel. i say the shipment is helping finance rushes. war in ukraine. greenpeace claims the tank is carrying $95000.00 tons of fuel. your secretary general antonio cherishes in the turkish capital anchor on a mission to advance ukraine. peace negotiations is met with the turkish president . reggie type err tuan, and will travel on to moscow. and then keith, ukrainian leader is said to be unhappy that mister good terrorist is visiting russia 1st. russia has expelled 40 german diplomats from moscow. the kremlin says the explosions in retaliation for berlin's expulsion of dozens of russian diplomats early this month. that followed the discovery of mass graves and

civilian killings in you crate. germany is foreign minister, described the tit for tat move as expected and unjustified. i will get more from d. w political correspondent, leoni fun. hammerstein, welcome yodi. this sounds like the expected russian move in the circumstances. yeah, exactly full. i mean, you said it there can really be seen as sort of a tit for tat strategy. the, the russian foreign ministry said in a statement today that it was, this is symmetrical, responds to berlin's expulsion of the same number of russian diplomats earlier this month. back then, i mean you said it and german foreign minister, but honestly the babel had said the expulsion came in response to the quote unbelievable brutality by russian forces in ukraine. she'd also called the russian ex police spies and russia. foreign ministry today said that these words were unacceptable. and so we can really see that sort of as a, as

a further point. and that demonstrates, at what point the german russian relations really are following the war and the, the sanctions imposed on russia. and what is berlin sang about these expulsions? well you said of the response came quite swiftly. german foreign minister and not babylon said that it was expected, but completely unjustified. and she also added that the 14 she edit again today that the 40 russian diplomats who were expelled from berlin, had not engaged in diplomacy for a single day, saying that on the country, the german, by contrast, the germ diplomats expelled, expelled by russia, now, could not be accused of any, anything they've been sent to russia to work on bilateral relations. and now they and their families will be forced to leave the country. and you know, this is we talking about this in the big context. you just said that,

i mean the whole world is still trying to find a diplomatic solution. but the point, the relations between russia and germany are, have been disintegrating. you know, to the point to a point that we haven't seen since the cold war. thank you for that. i did have the political correspondent learning from thomas dunn away from the wall. a court in turkey has sentenced the human rights activists and philanthropy philanthropists, talisman cavallo to life in prison. he was found guilty of attempting to overthrow the government has been in detention since 2017 accused of financing anti government protests, a be involved in a failed coo against president $31.00. he says the charges of fabricated the case has strain ties between turkey and its western allies. d. w correspondent dorian jones, in istanbul, has more welcome during

a life sentence in turkey. does that actually mean the rest of your life in jail? was asthma cavellas been sentenced to an aggravated life sentence, and that is the most severe sentence on turkish law books. it means he will be in solitary confinement or for the rest of his life and ineligible for parole. ah, this severe sentence was passed because the hughes had found guilty of seeking to o for the government. supporting 2013 nationwide protests and as the casey movement and then the subsequent 2016 qu, which prosecutor claim were all part of the same conspiracy. 7 other people were also convicted, they were sentenced at 18 years in prison. and this case is deeply, deeply controversial, or the defense lawyer in saying that this whole case was fabricated an earlier call type that had acquitted capella or but he was an subsidy re away re arrested and then face his latest court case on top of that little defenseless highlight the fact that one of the judges stood for parliament. the president urged once

a k p party in earlier elections and demanded he be removed. they refused that they dismissed the cases or the defense his argument. although one judge did defer and are voted against the acquittal of the conviction, saying that the case was without merit or any standing. or we've also seen that now that the, the main opposition or c h p, the leader come are cultural as a condemned that calling this a tyrannical of verdict, vall, president, no one has said the justice must prevail and that can be no peace without justice. further dividing the country this case, and mister cavallo was, was imprisoned without trial for more than 4 years. i did that come about was, is in a very long and protracted case and her and has drawn widespread national and international condemnation over the fight even hell for so long had been tried once and was acquitted. and then was held again with further charges were added her to his prosecution. cobbler is an extremely important figure in turkey. civic society, a very wealthy, powerful businessman and philanthropists,

the major supporter of terrific turkey civil society. and in many ways that is seen as why he is seen as a target by present nerd one, he accused him of being with george soros of turkey, referring to the wealthy hungarian, a businessman who supports civil society movement across eastern europe and has been condemned by likes of president putin for causing unrest in those countries and prisoners. one insist that coverage is plain, the same rule supporting and bank rolling these a nation wide protest in 2013 as erd wants to argue that this was not m a and nationwide protest against his rule. but rather a conspiracy and a convention of kabbalah in his eye was seen to confirm that argument. right. and as you say that the case has been closely watched her abroad. ah, is this verdict likely to have international repercussions? while absolutely the council of europe already investigating turkey in turkey's facing disciplinary action over this case, they have been calling fraser media. withdraw saying that this case is purely political. that is a stance also back by washington,

who also called for covenants release. and last year, 10 ambassadors put a name to a letter coin for covers release. her dorm responded by saying that they would be phone out the country and that included the united states and countries like germany and france, but that they were subsequently back down on the earth on also step by. but the fact that now cabella has been convicted and facing his life in prison, although he can appeal is set to serve a course deep risk between token it's western allies. thank you for that, dorian dorian jones. in istanbul, that's a china where people and buy in the capital basin rushing to buy groceries in the household goods as coverage 19 case numbers increase, they fail. authorities will lock the city down under china strict 0 coven policy. as a country struggles with its worst outbreak for 2 years rushing to be ready in the event of a lockdown. these are just some of the millions of residents stockpiling essentials

after authorities sparked fears of impending lockdown. government assurances that there is enough food have done little to dissuade cautious locals with cues forming outside some supermarket. while in others, isles ended up nearly bare of sought after products like fresh meat supermarket chains of boosted stock levels and extended opening hours in a bid to keep up with the increased demand. but some locals are anxious about the future. aim. how will glad we're afraid that if deliveries are cut off, supplies won't meet demand. seen so many people buying food at the same time made me little nervous, but actually the situation is still ok. only 70 kevin cases have been discovered in the city of 21000000 since the outbreak was 1st detected on friday. but authorities have responded with the same strict zeroed covey toolkit china has used

throughout the pandemic. mass testing is already underway here in beijing's biggest district when most of the cases have been found. and where some residential compounds have already been placed under lockdown. officials say testing will be expanded to all but 5 of the cities remaining districts on tuesday. residents, we hoping that a shanghai style locked down won't be next, but until they know more, many will keep preparing for the worst france. now an emanuel macro has won a 2nd term as president, securing a convincing victory with $58.00 and a half percent of the vote is far right. opponent marine, the pen managed $41.00 and a half percent. that's the biggest share yet for the far right. as on this run off a saw the lowest target for 50 years with millions staying away or spoiling that balance. i manual on the chrome victory and sundays vote was

a big personal achievement. he's the 1st incumbent to be reelected in 20 years. yet as paris woke up to 5 more years of mccall presidency on monday, the focus at the new stands was very much on the challenge he now faces to united nation, at odds with itself many voted from a con, solely to keep the far right mind, le, pen out and then now expect the president to make significant changes to how he governs nica, what is the started something new? he's not going to do another 5 years at the same mandate. that's clear, we won't let him do it. if he does, i think people here ready to take to the streets if that isn't the right kind of government. yep. i've been on the monthly, so go like a call and you love them all know below the pan fared much better than in 2017. their amended big gap between her and micron. a source of disappointment to her supporters. i mean, we're just through this, i'm really surprised by that doesn't. i'm disappointed because i think she's the

person who could embody a certain french revival in the long term, particularly when it comes to more re localisation and white social less. globalization is as joy grew more than one in this micron himself acknowledged that antipathy to le pen as much a support for him drove him to victory. just say or see, i know that many of our compatriots have voted for me to day, not to support the ideas that i stand for, to support to block those of the extreme right. i said that if someone mac, hong says he will respond to the anger and disappointment of those who voted for le pen. but that particular vote has never been. hire le pen is now emphasizing the importance of forthcoming legislative elections and says, she's not going anywhere with her this evening. i will say again, i will never abandon the french people. long, left

a republic long left france as my cons, victory was confirmed. far left demonstrators clashed with police and several cities across france. accuse him a crown of been a president for the rich. he insists he will be a president for all the french, but the republic he rules is more divided into satisfied than when he began 5 years ago. it brings from breaking news here. tesla on c, e o. ellen must cause ought twitter. after the platforms of board accepted his $44000000000.00 bid, billionaire 1st announced plans to buy twitter less than 2 weeks ago. he's described himself as a free speech absolutist and his pledge to be more lenient on policing use of speech. initially, twitter organized a circle poison pill to ward off his hostile buyout. go straight to send me some scandal in washington. welcome to me. so this sounds

like a significant decision from the twitter board. it certainly is. so, i mean, this is really blockbuster news. we were talking about the richest person in the world buying what is basically one of the most important social media platforms in the world. we all know twitter, how many politicians journalists, and so on and so forth, use twitter to communicate with the world. so this is a huge decision and if you just look at how this came about, we were waiting for this decision to come down this morning, saw some rumors trickling in. twitters board essentially was negotiating with the lawn mosque right into monday they started yesterday, were negotiating and monday, and he was able to line up the financing that have been the decisive factor here. financing of $46500000000.00 as part of his offer to buy twitter. we know that his bid was $54.20 a share. a number of probably many of our viewers have seen because this saga, if you will, it's been going on for some time now. and it seems that the fact that he was able

to line up that financing was able to convince porters board that this was the right move. and if you look at the stock market, twitter is stock actually started to rise on monday upon the boomers coming through . this was a whirlwind time, really? i mean a lot mosque. you mentioned the poison pill that the board and put in place even mosque was not what twitter had wanted the board at twitter rather and wanted originally as their owner. but it seems like the winds have changed, especially with milan, mosques, ability to raise the kind of money that he had promised to raise to buy twitter. but again, this really is momentous news. and i was this free speech absolutist and likely to change twitter. and that is a big question that everyone is asking when. if you look at the messaging that we've seen from eli mosque on twitter itself because he himself is an active member on twitter. he tweets quite often. he believes that twitter needs to be a batch and for free speech, he believes that currently the weight of the companies run means that content moderators go way too far,

that they have too much power in deciding what makes it onto the platform. he wants to open up twitter more for what he calls important free speech again, and in the regulatory filing. when he announced this on twitter, he said that he believed twitter to be the potential or rather to be a platform with the potential for free speech around the globe. and that, that is important for a functioning democracy. he's also talked about the, the fact that he wants to change the company's algorithm into an open source model . and that means that you and i thought we would be able to understand how the code that's used to, to run our timelines, how it decides what it shows us, what tweets are moved up on our timeline. so those are 2 of the concrete things that we know that you must is playing with but, or we're playing with the idea at least. but certainly we'll have to wait and see what his further plans are for twitter. ok, thank you for that to me. soon. recently scanned in washington, you credit celebrities have been using their fame to raise awareness of their

countries apply to rappa, lonia alone, yet spend weeks helping in her home town. keith, she's now touring europe performing a charge of concerts and meeting some of the millions of ukrainians who have fled to home. a. this is ukraine's most famous female rapper. i'll yeah, now yonah, the former kindergarten teacher who isn't afraid to speak her mind. but since russia attacked you crane al, ya know, young has been using her face to counter fake news and to take a stand for her country. the see a boy, you thank you, look you by now. she is 3 shew spots in with numbers in the last month, she's found it hard to raft. when her latest track is a prayer with

. i want the all old people who feeling that they done do not think understand that they can pray. and this is big jump, this is big energy, big bowler, because i believe about, you know, and, and for me, is it really important to connect deeper? could you hold to people even even if people think that they can do nothing about a shift co ukraine, outside q l e on his home town, where she shot her 1st big music video about leaving home. now her family is ready to flee at a moment's notice that we have books need to reflect and we have 15 minutes ready. like if, if it, when you, it will be more dangerous. we have 15 minutes, we all go to get tom to me. sam yamaha, the village offices, russian soldiers invaded nearby villages and struck her town with a missile. l yona stayed for weeks to help people. now she's decided she can help

her country more from abroad. last week, she left ukraine, embarking on a tour of charity concerts to raise funds and spirits for ukraine. she says she'll play wherever there are ukrainian refugees. first stop. poland. if we talk about ukrainian people here, you know, i bring them cold air, tell them that we will win this, why and everything will be okay and don't be scaring everything crazy. okay? and we don't have to stay here for super long time after poland shall to germany. oh yeah. and it doesn't know how long she'll be gone from ukraine, but she wants to return as soon as possible for her. there is no question of where her home is. what is times reminder of our top story of this? our ukraine says russian missiles have struck railway stations around the country in an attempt to disrupt supplies of weapons from abroad. just hours before the

attacks. the secretary of state and defense secretary had travelled by train to keith to announce extra electric paid and set you up to date. well, well news at the top of the hour of next own d, w global $3000.00. for the look at developments in world trade, have a good thing. ah,

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