the, the, this is the w news live from the land. russia begins evacuations from a region bordering ukraine. both ortiz have released images that show the optimal off of conflict in belgrade. pro ukrainian or russian forces have carried out several rates in the region. the russian president says he's stuffing up defenses, but also coming up on the program find out which country is all. smiles also being named the happiest on the planet to the set straight. yet the

manuscript has mckinnon. good to have you with us. russian officials say that they are evacuating families from some areas along the trading and border. also, what local officials are cooling? showing attacks by teams forces footage released by the government to build the road through social media shows destroyed vehicles and damage buildings. in addition to the evacuations, official safe schools will close leave for the holidays, while universities will hold, cloth is remotely, they also said of buffalo and would be created to protect civilians against strikes and cross border raids in the area of this map shows belgrade, close to the border with ukraine, which has hosted mt kremlin russian fights, is, is launched across the border rates. president vladimir person said russia must ensure the safety of its residence in the regions affected by them for. the reason

is that they should just be should the primary task is to ensure security. there are different ways they are not easy, but we will do it. i can use no more than my due diligence. of course, we can respond to the list of the same with the exact same thing. you my 0 striking civilian infrastructure. and all of the similar targets that the enemy is joining us used. and they don't use eastern europe at the roman it going to unco is with me in the studio some more on the story. hi, roman. now it's very difficult to obtain independent and verified information from this border region. so tell us, what are you hearing about the situation, the most a we are hearing from russian states, media, russian officials as you for i just said. and the situation is not quite clear. but on the other hand, there is a lot of footage. and um, 1st let me, um, let me give you some details about why i were talking about this. um, the tax uh from the finance side on the russian origin of belgrade started

a few days before the presidential election in russia. and present pushing charlton ties to downplayed a saying that they are trying to disrupt elections, but they're continuing. and there is no end in sight at the moment and it looks like it's the biggest wave of such attacks. seems the russian invasion in february 22. what is actually happening? we're seeing that no just drawing a tax we've seen in the past months some years. um, but also reports about artillery attacks multiple being a rocket launchers which is not very precise targeting um the plans some of some of the critical infrastructure like power stations and the russian and to aircraft systems are trying to shut down those muscles. and of course, the debrief falling on cars on people's homes. so the pictures that we are not seeing from the origin of bells,

or i'd very much remind the pictures that you brain to see every day for over 2 years. and this is the 1st time, and this is probably, i think, which is, which is very, very important. the 1st time that a russian read in a fresh off profile, not the occupied territories, but russia. papa is leaving. um, what is ukraine uh, has it has been living through for over 22 years, once again, 2 years with much more casualties. okay. so does the fact the russian authorities on now evacuating people from belgrade mean that they, you know, consider these, these attacks to be more dangerous. most serious then before? yes, of course, it looks like it is, um, the president boynton is irritated. and he, he showed that he actually didn't even want to speak about it on an occasion when he was meeting his supporters in the kremlin, thanking them for the simple, what do you are? so it was supposed to be an official ceremony, or they were supposed to be celebrating the most was supposed to be a very jolly,

but he had to talk about balder and because of the, the reports we are having from the we are hearing from the a very dramatic, people killed nearly every day russians, and this is something that he had to address. so he looks like he's kind of helpless. he's waging this war for over 2 years, but he's not able to protect his own citizens. and we also have to keep in mind that at the same time, the russian army is continuing its advance on the ukraine and forces in the east on the occupied territories. the direction of a trying have, have accumulated a very large force in that targeting footage. and just over the boulder trying to retake territories, a russia has lost in the autumn of 22. okay. and the person is saying that he will respond to these attacks on on belgrade. how is he likely to respond? well, he has a few options if he could to try and hate the ukrainian civilian targets or

intensified because he's doing that every day. we have to remember that it would try and intensify attacks on civilian infrastructure in other regions of ukraine, teakwood intensive for a tax on the ukrainian cisco park. if the 2nd largest cd, which is just across the board, about 40 kilometers from the boulder. but it is already under a tech every day, so there's not much you can do there. in the medium term, haygood assemble logic for us station it in the builder region and maybe go in. this is what you hated at. when he said that you would be probably trying to establish kind of a cold on sunday to in ukraine. so going in, nobody knows for how deep into your brand new territory. just a quick last question. roman is this fighting around belle grove, impacting other parts of the war? this is actually the hope of ukraine and the forces that are fighting on the okay inside the russian citizens who joined the opinion on a hen who are now fighting into belgrade region. so the hope is that they

ukraine and them, they could force russia to um, to pull back some of its resources that don't know attacking easton ukraine. so this will probably, this is probably the idea behind those attacks on the key of side just door to weaken the russian army. that is trying to gain momentum and to continue moving westwards and an endanger your pregnancy just along the border. first of all, the city of hockey, w as raymond on tour and k. thank you so much for that. meanwhile, the drum and trump slot, when i phillips has been speaking about the water driven palm and terry ends here in berlin. he reiterated germany support for ukraine, saying time was no phone. russia size been debt. what's the zip president as oh, russian president believes that he just has to say that's how this war and we will,

we can, in our support that he has miscalculated or stuck is russia is not strong. it cannot speculate that we will let talk support. we will continue for as long as necessary, fucked up some products. keep political editor mikayla kristen that joins us now from the gym and parliament. hi michelle, can you give us an overview of what the trunk is? let's just been saying as well and demons hunts up with our souls. was really speaking ahead of the upcoming e u summit. but bother giving us a look ahead. it was more of a summary of where he stands politically internationally, but also on domestic issues like pension reform, for instance. but over aussie was his message. that's europe that germany would stick with ukraine for as long as it takes. that's a notable difference to the latest comments we saw from the us present to bite and himself under pressure to secure a longer term funding. who said that the us would do that as long as they can. so

there is a growing awareness here amongst the german government that if the west were to be weakened, europe, germany would have to at least try and fill the gap. also a strong message towards and benjamin the 10. yahoo! though he wasn't mentioned by name off the chance of salts as trip to the region who also met the is really prime minister once again, a pledge for a longer break in the fighting. he once again stressed the need to get aid into gaza. and also once again re disarray so that germany stands by israel side and respect on sounds in israel's right to defend itself. okay, so a mix of topics from the german trump slip, if we can just come back to russia and ukraine, give us some more detail about what ship, what foot set about ukraine in particular, this is that's where it gets a teaser to be more interesting. what he is planning to take to that you summit is

a plan for europe at to actually expand its capacity to produce military goods. he said it needs to be an ability to scale that up pretty swiftly. so clearly that is gaining momentum and that will be an interesting point . when e u d, does it sit down together at the same time? this is a chance that who is seeing significant in fighting on key issues like which weapons to deliver it to ukraine amongst his own coalition that drew a very harsh comment from the authors. this indeed of the lease match. who basically said that his chancellor, whose, or far as he is, is being questioned within his own coalition. how should he be able to lead the way in europe? so we don't have an eminent election national election coming up, but this clearly is election. speak ahead of e u elections in june of key regional elections here in 3 eastern states in germany

to w as mckayla cos. now thanks so much michelle now islands to chef leo, veronica has announced his resignation as head of government. he said he was leaving for both personal and political reasons. radco said he was also questioning is the leader of the ruling feedback gail policy his the pot to follows the failure of jewel constitutional referendums. earlier in march that veronica and his government had championed, let's take a listen to what he had to say in his surprise resignation. the announcement, and i've learned so much about so many things met so many people who i never got to base beats taste, i would never say with home and abroad. and i am deeply grateful for us. and despite the challenges, would wholeheartedly recommend a career in politics to anyone who is considering us however,

politicians are human beings, however, limitations. we give it every time until we count anymore and then we have to move on live broadcast speaking the. now finland has been name the wells happiest nation for a 7th straight. yeah, you and back world, happiness report looks at life satisfaction in a 143 countries. the territories across the globe. denmark, sweden and iceland also continued to talk to lead a board coming 2nd, 3rd and 4th place. but this year that has been a significant slide down the rankings for germany. i'm for the united states, mainly because of the gloomy outlook of young people. if you're looking for a good cheer, you'll likely find it here in finland, the world's happiest nation for the 7th year. you'd be forgiven for

thinking there must be something in the water. but researchers predict dine defends, own life satisfaction as well as social support, health, life expectancy, freedom, generosity, and g d, p, finish people and most probably are happier because they can rely on a good institution. so meaning, well, function, governments, low level of corruptions and robust, but fear factors that fins have a great depreciation for. well, i think i have, i have had the opportunity is to do what i want. i have a good education. i can rise my child in here quite safely. i think so that that is maybe the most important thing for me right now we

all are for now. busy well, 1st states that we have quite strong equality here, but this of course, something that for example, a car and the government they started to run down. so i think this is something that we would really need to find to still keep such appreciation may be in shorter supply in the united states and germany, which aren't among the happiest nations ranking, 23rd and 24th, respectively. germany is also one of the countries in which older people are no happier than those under 13. afghanistan is at the bottom of the table, a made a humanitarian crisis after the taliban regain control model, that goodwill remains universe. so the report find that in our post cobit world, acts of kindness are on the rise across the generations, giving us all something to smile about and on that happy note you up to date coming

up next mapped out, looks at the power plate in the gulf states a delicate balancing, placing saudi arabia and the united arab emirates between the us and china that's coming up to the break. and you could see mckinnon. thanks to watching. i'll see you soon. the want me to pull in what it's in just a 100 days. my power is going to be bunch of my family. what cute. how was this age? i'm on a journey to find out about the resort. the 19 are to put you on the side to see the rhonda. my name is some way to shimmer. i'm a fit of mix sweet shaving history out documentary stuffs, april 6th on dw.