and i think the, the communication team ought zelinski. they are what i would call out of the digital natives. they understand the medium. and that's more effective probably than you know, any other propaganda. because in a war there are competing narratives in salem guess when really effective ukrainian had getting their side of the story that making us all be, you know, their champions, you know, there are numerous reports, almost daily, of mercenaries, russian forces at a position to strike. and kill zalinski if they can me. that is a real possibility. what would social media mean for the consequences of that assassination? if that assassination were to take place? i'm i mean, you know, it's so it will make him an instant my tires quite obviously and zelinski has been very open about that from the beginning. i think that's part of the reason why this all social media campaign by ukrainians has been so effective. because all of us, when we watch the videos, there is no mistaking that this is really authentic, and it's very immediate. one

i actually spoke to president zelinski when he was a candidate, before he was elected. i mean, i wish to walk. did you think he was a good candidate for president of ukraine? no, i thought he was the only candidate because i knew the poor shanker was a mass of crooked. everybody in ukraine, that liberal side, conservative side wash agreed that he, he basically took anything that wasn't nailed out. and, and, and, and the bird regional occasion. the only question is, did he take a $100000000.00 or $200000000.00 there? they gave the comedian like 70 percent of the vote. and the guy, the guy was a guy with a television committee look the official with economy scribbles of any special wish than the cylinder. push it to the bottom one year. we shall see a petition your preface, the yeah, i've wanted a book conflict with you might get put on your political numbers. didn't. okay. hold it. nipple to when listed or get on would love. would you ship this amendment? mr. zalinski has success really resolved. the national issue in ukraine. on july 1st 2021. he signed law on the indig

and i think the, the communication team ought zelinski. they are what i would call out of the digital natives. they understand the medium. and that's more effective probably than you know, any other propaganda. because in a war there are competing narratives in salem guess when really effective ukrainian had getting their side of the story that making us all be, you know, they are champions. you know, there are numerous reports, almost daily, of mercenaries, russian forces at a position to strike and kill zalinski if they can. me. that is a real possibility. what would social media mean for the consequences of that assassination? if that assassination were to take place? i'm i mean, you know, it says it will make him an instant mark tires quite obviously. and zelinski has been very open about that from the beginning. i think that's part of the reason why this all social media campaign by ukrainians has been so effective. because all of us, when we watch the videos, there is no mistaking that this is really authentic, and it's very immediat

right now, ukraine's president zelinski says, quote, the battle for the dunbar has begun with shilling reported on the front line the this unverified footage purportedly shows the shilling of ukrainian positions in the dumbass. meanwhile, explosions for also reported in the major ukrainian city as a park of nikolai of now valencia again says russia has begun a long prepared offensive in the dumbass. a claim that moscow is yet to confirm that is more than a constant lot, that we can now confirm that russian troops have begun the battle for the don bass, which they have been preparing for a long time. a large part of the russian army is now dedicated to this offense. no matter how many russian soldiers are brought here, we will fight. we will defend ourselves. we will do it daily. we will not give up anything ukrainian and we do not need what's not ours, but gotcha reports now from don. yes. about the latest updates on the dumbass front lines. well, this claim that sees to of the russian operation here in ukraine has begun earlier during the night during another artillery rocket artiller

cholenski is an actor. zelinski has been said, all this lines by the best of ustr firms. as an ascii is a great information war deficit for russia. so if he's gone so much better, it's got the thing that i look at as i look at a lot of these negotiations of just is just being bluster because i tend to agree with what you said on this program. is that political facts on the ground will determine the outcome here and you know, you can have all the talk you want. but at the end of the day, what a destiny and say said a how many divisions as the pope have go ahead. scott. no that's, that's absolutely true. um, you know, we are prisoners to the information we have right now of the west is very effective . it a flooding of the battlefield, so to speak in this information war with data of that at projects one image. russia has not been so effective encountering that, and i am again, i think that's because russia simply doesn't care. russia isn't involved in information war rushes involved in real war. and, you know, hopefully for the sake of russia, of that war is progressing al

no problem. protesters demanded that the court judges resign. zelinski, the self styled servant of the people responded. he submitted a bill to the parliament, declaring the court's ruling. null and void. and he too called on the judges to quit. mm. yeah. was i shy? i think we reacted quickly. designed correctly. oh, growling, for its part, the use anti corruption body criticized the bill, calling it a blatant breach of the constitution escaped nice, no damage, not just about firing people, zone and it's about gradual renewal, puts it using transparent procedures based on certain legal principles, iep urine, and the problem, dina, is that so lensky is someone who has no experience in dealing with institution in ski and institutional procedures ongoing. as far as i can see that he has a problem with following procedure or blame it. what's the dwaa? zalinski bill was withdrawn. even members of his own party rejected the bill as unconstitutional. in early february 2021, sir lensky launched a fresh attempt to curb russian influence in ukraine. the french deserves him new governor, pretty d

i actually spoke to president zelinski when he was a candidate, before he was elected. i mean, i wish the walk, did you think he was a good candidate for president of ukraine? no, i thought he was the only candidate because i knew the poor shanker was a mass of crook. everybody in ukraine, that liberal side, conservative wash agreed that he, he basically took anything that wasn't nailed down. and, and, and, and the bird regional occasion. the only question is, did he take $100000000.00 or $200000000.00? they gave the comedian, like 70 percent of the vote. and the guy, the guy was a guy was a television committee look a book. but each person wish than this one. to put that yeah. think to the bottom one you we shall see a petition. you put this the yeah, yeah, of one have a book. conflict with begin might get on your political numbers. didn't. okay. hold it. nipple, can we enlisted or get on with it? would you ship this amendment with mr. zalinski has successfully resolved the national issue in ukraine. on july 1st 2021. he signed a law on the indigenous peoples of ukrain

some president zelinski down in the government wolf from russia to be removed from the security council, which is something the secretary general told me in an interview with not is not on the table, but you also had another witnesses ahead of his visit. not only because of the timing and the way he decided to go to moscow 1st and come back here, but also because of the role of you and so far has been a lot of frustrations in the weeks leading to the war. and there's been a lot of frustration throughout the war where 2 months in many other leaders have showed up here in cave and then he comes at the back of it. so certainly a difficult position for the secretary general is trying now to just push forward. do you mind italian track? okay, thank you so much. had i been, honey, is reporting for us from keith. and her did interview the un secretary general while he was in the capital will bring you that interview a little later on the al jazeera news hour. but as so there was mentioning, we're hearing from the ukrainian president's office that an operation is planned to get civilians out of

i actually spoke to president zelinski when he was a candidate before he was elected. i mean, i wish them, why did you think he was a good candidate for president of ukraine than what i thought he was the only candidate because i knew the poor shanker was a massive crooked, everybody in ukraine, that liberal side conservative that was agreed that he he basically took anything that wasn't nailed out and, and, and the bird regional occasion. the only question is did he take a $100000000.00 or $200000000.00? they gave the comedian, like 70 percent of the vote. i mean, the guy, the guy was a guy was a television committee. look the social was, was peace, me, economy scribbles up. but he special wish than the cylinder push plate to the bottom one. you wakeful us. he up new fish, new breakfast, the young of one that they bought. conflict with begin might to put on your political numbers, didn't. okay, hold it. nipple, can we enlisted or get on? would love, would you ship this amendment to mr. zalinski has successfully resolved the national issue in ukraine. on july 1st 2021.

and it will be worse if zelinski and the with the can't understand the current situation. and something is very interesting as well. and i saw it on the, on the french channel that the expand has during a almost 2 months is the russian army destroy. and the doctor couldn't want to finish before the 9th of may and couldn't do it and put the never said. and these are put in, nor the minister, the mystery of, of defense. never said that they want to finish on the 9th of my and know what it explains at this. of course you destroy army, but we are going to take the house of ukraine. and if you continue what it means, so you, so the 1st proposal was refused. so this is the 2nd one is worth of the 1st. and if you don't understand the worse, so we will take both sides of the never that that's, that's or the reason of this stubborn politic from the, from the west, from, from that. because of course, it's not a war between russia and ukraine. it's a war between russia and nato in ukraine. that's exactly what happened. no. dmitri, one of the way i look at this here is that this is a

and so he added 2 megabits each, and you can find it easily on the internet saying that he zelinski is responsible for what will happen to his daughter. so this is a little bit liver. we are know. you look at the look at some adventure when you with sony by s b, u is he was kidnapped, i think maybe 3 weeks ago. and it's clearly that the, the condition where he leaves know, are very hard for him. and it's even a shame a showing the domain, again is a main zalinski is open and look at him. it's exactly is a symbol of the shift key regime. he's no, yeah, well, you know that that's all part of the narratives that dimitry has been mentioned on this program already. another a narrative that is actually again, very counter intuitive. so the west sanctions, russia sanctioned like no other country. and we've talked about sanctions on iran and north korea been writers under sanction here. but you know, everything that goes wrong in the west, immigration inflation, a supply chains and, and it's also the retention side, so you sanctioning you cause all these problems for your own people. and then

since russia's invasion, zelinski is expected to ask. antony blanket annoyed austin for more powerful weapons or evidence. a ma ukraine is trying to repel russia's re focus defensive in the south, as well as the east and dumbass region shall strap fit ease near the frontline. the town of lee man, which is about 20 kilometers and also here a town that we were literally unable to get to today because shelling was so heavy, we did have a speak to civilians coming out of it. they yeah, confirming what we could have saying that they were families sheltering in bunkers . we smoked one person described a crater in the center of town that was believed to be changed from an air strike. we cannot confirm that. and just as indication of the difficulties that people are facing here is this, as it will continues, there was a young family that will actually trying to get into lehman. at one stage we said, well, where are you going? can you hear the shelling? and they said, well, we have no choice, our home is there and we cannot afford to live in to any pro. and that's where they fled to. they flip

if i may just switch back a moment to the question of mr. zelinsky, i'm not so sure it's so simple, and not so sure that his maintaining his position is in russia's, russia's interests, and not so sure. the concluding a peace treaty is in russia's interests really makes no difference. it is force that speaks you. and i think any european power would like to go in again to ukraine, efforts over would be out of it's might. so yeah, cranes future, whether it ratified by piece tree not ratified by p street will be the same as regards to successor just against the landscape. he will be a very ugly personnel and the real ugliness of the kitchen regime will be clear and whoever succeed zelinski cholenski is an actor. zalinski has been said, all this lines by the best of ustr firms. as an ascii is a great information war deficit for russia. so if he's gone so much better, it's got the thing that i look at as i look at a lot of these negotiations of just is just being bluster because i tend to agree with what you said on this program. is that political facts on the ground will rigor determined t

johnson pledge more military support to help counter expected russian offensive in the east. zelinski has said he is committed to pressing for peace despite russia's attack on civilians. the city of crime at tolorisk is still reeling from a missile strike on a train station there were residents were waiting to flee the morning after bags abandon during the rocket strike ring, as anxious love once try to reach the missing. this man has found his mother's luggage, but there is no sign of her. exactly, but she's just not answering my calls. when she's not picking up when she was among hundreds fleeing war and hunger, hoping to board a train at permit husk on friday. but then a rocket hit the station killing more than 50 people and injuring dozens more. so it was terrifying the horror, the horror. heaven forbid, i have to experience anything like that. again, they both of them. you know, i don't want to ukrainian president volota mere zalinski calls the attack a russian war crime. he's begging western leaders to do more to protect his people . he warns of a tough battle ahead as russia re

if i may just switch back a moment to the question of mr. zelinsky, i'm not so sure it's so simple and not so sure that his maintaining his position is in russia's, russia's interests, and not so sure. the concluding abuse treaty is in russia's interests really makes no difference. it is force that speaks you. and i think any european power, who would like to go in again to ukraine after the server would be out of its might . so, yeah, cranes, future weather ratified by a peace tree, not ratified by history. will be the same as regards the successor terms to against against. he will be a very ugly personnel, and the real plugins of the kevin regime will be clear and whoever succeed zelinski . cholenski is an actor that ascii has been fed all this lines by the best of ustr firms, as an ascii is a great information war deficit for russia. so if he's gone so much better, it's got the thing that i look at as i look at a lot of these negotiations of just is this being bluster because i tend to agree with what you said on this program. is that political facts and the ground will re determine

however, now we are hearing from one of president zelinski advisor saying that it was more about, well come in, somebody who really can make practical decisions like the german chancellor. because ukraine is hoping for more weapon deliveries from europe. so we are getting some mixed message messages here, and we really have to say that said the rejection of style. my as visits to key if was a huge offer on. and we have to see how it's going to play out in the relations between the crane and germany. due to view correspondence, alexander alexandra phenomena in keith. thank you. well, let's get the german angle on the story with tito view corresponded to nina has a hi nina. good to see. now how has the german public reacted to president? i'm i a being told he's essentially not welcoming keith. well, of course their story generated massive headlines here in germany, a slap in the face. that's words. commentators have been calling it here in germany . there's a lot of understanding for the horrible situation that ukraine is in, but this is the german president, the highest ranking, represe

what more, you know, this is always been a demand of zelinski that no negotiation, no peace negotiations can happen unless it's between couldn't and zalinski. now we've come one step closer. it seems that the russians have agreed at least verbally, according to the ukraine, inside to the demands of ukraine to the conditions of ukraine. russia has said that they would accept ukrainian neutrality as a way to negotiate a peace and in a referendum on that issue. here in ukraine and what we know so far as these talks are most likely to happen in turkey, stumble or out, but we have not seen any written confirmation of this. so that's still hangs in the air. i mean, it's even the vive, thank you so much. is a quick look at some of the other stories related to the war that we've been following for you. the cranium troops, every taken control of and toner, airport, close to the capitol key. after pushing back russian forces the wreckage of the world's largest cargo airplane was found in one of the hangers severely damaged military equipment was also left behind. more than 200 people were arrested

visited the city of butcher where hundreds of bodies were discovered after russian forces were treated. zelinski said the world and needed to see the atrocities carried out by russia in ukraine. images of mass graves and bodies showing signs of torture have sparked wide spread international condemnation. on monday, international journalists were taken to butcher to see 1st hand what happens there . a warning that our next report does contain disturbing images. in the streets and butcher, it looks as though the russian troops have only just been driven out. many of the bodies have only just been recovered. the ukrainian interior ministry invited journalists from around the world to come and document what took place here, atrocious scenes. russian foreign minister, sergey lover of described as a stage managed anti russian provocation. ukrainian president bludgeon mister lensky came to get a 1st hand account. he's visibly emotional when he describes women who are raped in front of their children. entire families executed. zelinski says his country must keep on fighting, but at the same time negotia

if i may just switch back a moment to the question of, of mr. zelinski, i'm not so sure it's so simple and not so sure that his maintaining his position is in russia's, russia's interests, and not so sure. the concluding abuse treaty is in russia's interests really makes no difference. it is force that speaks you. and i think any european power, who would like to go in again to ukraine, efforts over would be out of it's might. so yeah, cranes future, whether ratified by a peace tree not ratified by history, will be the same as regards the successor terms to against zelinski. he will be a very ugly personnel, and the real plugins of the cuban regime will be clear and whoever succeed zalinski . cholenski is an actor that ascii has been fed all this lines by the best of ustr firms. and the landscape is a great information war deficit for russia. so if he's gone so much better, it's got the thing that i look at as i look at a lot of these negotiations of just is this being bluster because i tend to agree with what you said on this program. is that political facts and the ground will re det

and nikolai, as zelinski again says, russia has begun a long prepared offensive in the dawn bass. a claim that moscow is yet to confirm that is more than a constant law to show. we can now confirm that russian troops have begun the battle for the dawn back, which they have been preparing for a long time. the large part of the russian army is now dedicated to this offense, no matter how many russian soldiers are brought here, we will fight. we will defend ourselves if we will do it daily. we will not give up anything ukrainian and we do not need what's not ours, buddha moore, or what i've got the reports from don. yes. about the latest updates on the done by the front lines. well, this claim that sees to of the russian operation here in ukraine has begun earlier during the night during another artillery rocket artillery salvo that apparently stretched across the front lines from nikolai in the south to the dumbass, the havoc of in the north. well, that is a claim that has been made but by president zelinski, along with, with several experts. but at the, the, the sound that we've hu

it will be worse if zelinski and the with the can't understand the current situation. and something is very interesting as well. and i saw it on the, on the french channel that the explain has during a almost 2 months is the russian army destroy. and the doctor couldn't want to finish before the 9th of may, and he couldn't do it and put in a said and is a put in or the minister mystery of of defense never said that. they want to finish on the 9th of my and know what it explains that yes, of course you destroy army, but we are going to take the house of ukraine. and if you continue what it means, so you. so the 1st proposal was refused. so this is the 2nd one is worth of the 1st, and if you don't understand the worse, so we will take both sides of the never that that's, that's or the reason of this stubborn politic from the, from the west, from, from that. because of course, it's not a war between russia and ukraine. it's a war between russia and nettle in ukraine. that's exactly what happened. no. dmitri, one of the, the way i look at this here is that this is a lease

i actually spoke to president zelinski when he was a candidate, before he was elected. i mean, i wish him luck. did you think he was a good candidate for president of ukraine? the no, i thought he was the only candidate because i knew the poor shanker was a mass of crooked. everybody in ukraine, that liberal side, conservative side wash agreed that he, he basically took anything that wasn't mailed out and, and, and, and the bird regional occasion. the only question is, did he take a $100000000.00 or $200000000.00? they gave the comedian like 70 percent of the vote. i mean the guy, the guy was a guy, was a television committee. look the social with economics noodles with any special wish than the cylinder push plate to the bottom one year. we shall see up new titian. you put this for yeah. yeah, of one. have a book. good fleet would look good if you did might to put on your political numbers. dealership quixote each nipple. can we enlisted or get on with that? would you ship this amendment with mr. zalinski has successfully resolved the national issue in ukraine. on july

so it's not correct to say that the war in defense of zelinski equals a war in defense of democracy. i have never before seen must media acting as indecently as they do. now. i'm struggling for the truth seeking to my own opinion without buying into the official version. we don't have a my daughter was in crimea during the referendum. she worked there is a photo journalist and sent me images showing people joy about returning to russia . that the referendum embodied and national unity that it was considered liberation back then while covering the situation and the don bass, she managed to survive miracle asleep while her 30 year old colleague was killed in a mortar fire. she was very upset to see the violence that the authorities and key if used against the people of the don bass sanctions, never heard governments. in fact they heard the population and because of that they are moral. they are also inefficient. if their objective is to shift power in moscow. furthermore, the sanctions have already impacted european economies. the italian economy has already suffered and it's going to

well, that is a claim that has been made, but by president zelinski along with, with several experts there has been footage and verified as of yet online showing these launches, showing missiles and artillery shrieking towards ukrainian positions. also images of exclusions designations on the ukrainian side, but not quite as many as we show on the 24th of february. when the celebration i kicked off, of course the, the epi sent a political and military api said to of what is happening ease in mary opal for now the spot. the fact that in mary's bill that was about $20000.00 to so you created nationalists and, and regular army troops. in the dawn bass, which ukraine believes russia wants to surround. there are as many as 100000 ukranian troops battle ready veterans of the 8 years civil war in east and ukraine . we have spent most of our time in mary, you both watching the ukrainian nationalist that thousands of thousands of as all flies is supplied and trained by nato nations. we have watched their numbers dwindle, many of them fallen battle many, many surrender. now at this point, they

so it's likely that whatever ukrainian president zelinski shared with the defense secretary austin, in that meeting on sunday, and keith or whatever list of further weapons that ukraine is looking for, that that will at least in part be reflected in what gets sent to congress. and william, it's one of those rare bipartisan issues right now in washington, likely to get a lot of support in congress from both parties. let's turn to some other stories making news right now to people are dead and one are injured. after paris police opened fire on a car that reportedly sped towards them. police a, the car was driving against traffic. incident happened just hours after ammonia macaroni claimed victory in the french presidential election. officials are investigating a blast that any legal oil refinery in southern nigeria that left at least 110 people dead. dozens of been hospitalized with severe burns. nigeria, as president, has vowed to clamp down a makeshift oil facilities which have caused several deadly fires in recent years. beijing residence or in a rush for groceries as covert 19 cases

in my view, zelinski is now the main obstacle to achieving piece. it's obvious that he's ready to sacrifice his country in his people in order to stain power. he's also hindering a diplomatic solution. if we want peace talks to succeed, then the compliance with immense can agreements should be the starting point. but zelinski as opposed to that the thought of it, i think that to day we're seeing 2 wars being fought simultaneously. one is being waged with arms bombs and missiles on the battlefield, whereas the other is unfolding in the media with newspapers, television, and the internet. and the latter one is no less serious. media outlets are being shut down and deploy to weaken arrival power. zelinski himself basically silenced the opposition. so it's not correct to say that the war and defense of zalinski equals a war in defense of democracy. i have never before seen must media acting as indecently as they do now. i'm struggling for the truth seeking to my own opinion without buying into the official version. we don't have a my daughter was in cri

and it will be worse if zelinski and the west, the can't understand the current situation. and something is very interesting as well. and i saw it on the, on the french channel that the expand has during almost 2 months is as the russian army destroy. and the doctor couldn't want to finish before the 9th of may, and he couldn't do it and put in a said and is a put in order minister. mystery of of defense never said that. they want to finish on the 9th of my and know what it explains that this of course, you destroy army, but we are going to take the house of ukraine. and if you continue what it means, so you. so the 1st proposal was refused. so this is the 2nd one is worth of the 1st, and if you don't understand the worse, so we will take both side of the never that that's, that's or the reason of this stubborn politic from the, from the west, from, from that. because of course, it's not a war between russia and ukraine. it's a war between russia and nettle in ukraine. that's exactly what happened. no. dmitri, one of the, the way i look at this here is that this is a lease

so it's not correct to say that the war and defense of zelinski equals a war in defense of democracy. i have never before seen mass media acting as indecently as they do now. i'm struggling for the truth seeking to my own opinion without buying into the official version of it. my daughter was in crimea during the referendum. she worked. there is a photo journalist and sent me images showing people's joy about returning to russia. that the referendum embodied a national unity that it was considered liberation back then while covering the situation and the don bass, she managed to survive miracle asleep while her 30 year old colleague was killed in a mortar fire. she was very upset to see the violence that the authorities and key if used against the people of the don bess sanctions never heard governments. in fact they heard the pop nation and because of that they are moral. they are also inefficient if their objective is to shift power and moscow. furthermore, the sanctions have already impacted european economies. the italian economy has already suffered and its going to get worse. on

but certainly president zelinski at the moment as a very quick movement at what we understand. he doesn't stay very long in one place at the same time. and is we don't even know where he works from most of the day could have been, could be in his office, could be at another location. but security is a huge concern for anyone coming to live here. or the secretary general for himself could have heard the air, sorry, is going off off quite often in the keys, but it hasn't been targeted for the past few days. but it is a concern. anyone you speak to here tell you that you know, you actually rather, you see that the army is still 45 positions around the capital around the town is not it. no one is considering that the war is over, even in this part of the country where there is no more russian presence where there hasn't been any shelling of re send bob the country has. there has been random challenger. russia has been targeted targeting several installation military installation, railway tracks, train stations around to come to you, so everybody is all the time on hire. alright hon

and this explains why in a benzo was, had him back at zelinski a telling him when he came to power in 2019, we had high hopes that things would be better, will turn at noon that chapter and we start a new one. you did nothing of that. he did nothing on the clamping down on the nazis and the nationalist, is it nothing when unsafe our grievances about her as the problems faced by the russian speaking communities in don bus, her region. and this is exactly what the russians having said over the last few weeks, they say that the world does not want to understand, but the military campaign we undertake him in ukraine peaceful sol, protection of our own people. and for the liberation of the south declared republics of logans, continue ask, okay, hash and thank you so much estimate how about is reporting from moscow? now on the situation in boucher satellite, images of the ukrainian town have appeared which were 2 weeks before the russians left the town. so images provided by macs, our technologies seemed to show that the civilians were killed when the town was under. the control of russian

we hear from president zelinski on a daily basis. but this is the 1st large press conference in the beginning of the war, and it's happening 70 meters underground. and one of the metro stations of cave, and actually when the capital was under threat, hundreds of people here seeking shelter. the president appeared, relaxed. he says he was grateful for the kind of weapons his country was receiving of late from the united states and western allies. but reminded people that without the additional weapons, there would be no fight. should the v score of local wine and the, shall i do not consider the option that our partners will not give us the weapons. they promise. i do not consider this option at all. they have no alternative to it . we will not provide them with this opportunities. we have no other chance. twin back, our landline will nothing. but zelinski also wondered about the upcoming visit of un secretary general antonia gutierrez, who is visiting moscow before coming to keep your drive home. uncle was which ugly of you, i think

and zelinski says russia is using gas exports as a weapon against europe. that's after russia's state owned, the energy company, cut off gas to both poland and the bulk area turkeys president is traveling to saudi arabia for today's visit aimed at repairing ties. ridge, a typo to one is expected to made. crown prince mohammed been selman during his 1st visit to the kingdom in years. relations between the 2 was strained after the 2018 killing of journalist to marcus shogi at the saudi consulate in istanbul. i've had to china now and officials in shanghai concentrating on vaccinating the elderly as they battle china's biggest corona virus outbreak. yet the city has been in locked down for 4 weeks. more than 9000 new cases were detected on wednesday, and 47 people have been killed. most of them were aged above 80 years old. badging mail, meanwhile, is writing to contain its corona virus outbreak. clothing, some schools, as well as entertainment and suicides, officials found 50 new cases on wednesday. as i tried to test, most of the 22000000 people are live in

thank you mr. zelinsky. not a war. and ukraine is not just a conflict between kiev and moscow for some, it's a fight for their national identity to speak their own language. or she heard from one such person named dimitri who was from mariel and joins the dynamics. people's republic militia, in 2014, to fight for his land, solemn nearby than i felt offended when some people came to my city in 2014 and began to tell me what language i should speak. how i should live. we held a referendum. we want to be with russia. we are russians. mari, opal has always been a russian city. we began to fight for our land 8 years of fighting. and finally now i've returned to my native land. i'm overwhelmed with emotions. for me, there is great happiness. it's impossible to scribe what's going on in my heart. someone is sad that the city is destroyed, but there was no other way out. and no one had the strength to wait any longer. i will rebuild the city. i'll be glad to put my whole soul into making it better. we are russian people. we ca

we hear from president zelinski on a daily basis, but this is the 1st large press conference since the beginning of the war, and it's happening 70 meters underground and one of the major stages of cave. and actually when the capital was under threat, hundreds of people here seeking shelter. the president appeared, relaxed. he says he was grateful for the kind of weapons his country was receiving of late from the united states and western allies. but reminded people that without the additional weapons, they would be no fight should the v scores local wine and the so i do not consider the option that our partners will not give us the weapons. they promise. i do not consider this option at all. they have no alternative to it. we will not provide them with this opportunity. we have no other chance to win back our landline mobile at that the but zelinski also wondered about the upcoming visit of un secretary general. and tanya gutierrez, who is visiting moscow before coming to keep your drive home uncle was which out for you, i think it's a mistake to visit russia furry than ukraine. robert

so that was zelinski. now in power colon whiskey wanted to reclaim the bank and money he said had been stolen from him. the international monetary fund warned ukraine it would withhold $8000000000.00 and funding if the bank was returned to column whiskey. foster lensky, a litmus test. once we are what we've seen under zalinski is that he was very restrained when it came to color moisture. alicia zalinski withstood pressure from the oligarchs and back to bill that would prevent the return of nationalized banks to their previous owners. pick yamashita cover tang among just goes are going on those as a journalist? yes. are those the last 4 are we which is chablis? the thermal and says are going the prayer you keep of in advocacy, the do green school economical, yet minimum benign for women. the his feet, the it the bomb or t grainy summers that us because dead all the i saw there i a math and you and washington where on this gaze, zaleski, even if you wanted actually had no wiggle room because it's such an im

no problem, protestors demanded that the court judges resign. zelinski the self styled servant of the people responded. he submitted a bill to the parliament, declaring the court's ruling null and void. and he too called on the judges to quit . mm. yes, i shall. i think we reacted quickly, designs correctly, ah growling for its part, the use anti corruption body, criticized the bill, calling it a blatant breach of the constitution. escape. nice. no damn. it's not just about firing people zone and it's about gradual renewal. puts it using transparent procedures who faced on certain legal principles, iep, ian, and the problem. dina, is that so lensky is someone who has no experience in dealing with institution in ski and institutional procedures ongoing. as far as i can see, that he has a problem with following procedure or blame. what they do honor zalinski is bill was withdrawn. even members of his own party, rejected the bill as unconstitutional. ah, in early february 2021, sir lensky launched a fresh attempt to curb russian influence in ukraine. the french does have some new governm

so that was zelinski. now in power colon whiskey wanted to reclaim the bank and money he said had been stolen from him. the international monetary fund warned ukraine, it would withhold $8000000000.00 and funding if the bank was returned to column whiskey. for zalinski, a litmus test. russ via what we've seen under zalinski is that he was very restrained when it came to color mosquito. the shock zelinski withstood pressure from the oligarchs and back to bill that would prevent the return of nationalized banks to their previous owners. ah young machine, darker but dying among just goes are going on those as a journalist? yes. are those the last boy which is chablis? the thermal and say is like on the prayer you keep a winner this the dual grain school economical. yet minimum. when i'm nimble with him, though his feet, thee eat the ball more t, grania summers on us because they're all the eyes of their i a math and you and washington, where on this gaze, zaleski, even if you wanted actually had no wiggle roo

s prime minister went there and walk the streets with zelinski. slovakia stepping up the vf 300 system. what can we do? >> look, i've got to say that the united states is doing a tremendous amount already. just yesterday the pentagon announced that they were going to have the eighth largest defense weapon system company meet at the pentagon to see what could be sustained over long term but just tens of thousands of the kinds of missiles that they made, the ammunition, all kinds of direct applications for the war for the ukraine. i think we have done a tremendous amount, and so i don't think we should feel like we haven't done enough for the ukraine. >> harris: do you think that peace is really over? i mean, one boot says he is done negotiating to believe in what is that mean? >> yeah. right now, i am certain that it is over because after the assembled meeting on the 29th of march, both sides emerged saying the same thing about what they're willing to do and what they were willing to give away in exchange for peace. the zelinski actually in full pa

zelinski says he is committed to pushing for peace. welcome back. before we get to the top story we have breaking news a live look at san jose and a fire burning at the home depot on blossom hill near the oakridge mall that fire is sending smoke over the san jose skyline. this is video. they are at this point of the home depot. no injuries. >> this is at the home depot on blossom hill road across the street from the oakridge mall. people are being asked to avoid the area. we do have a crew on scene. we are following a fire sending plumes of smoke. the fire departments are responding. the flames are engulfing. there's no shelter in place order, but that could change depending on the direction of the wind. boris johnson met with ukrainian president to show his support. the press service of the national security the most principled opponents. johnson says the uk is setting out a new package of financial and military to the ukraine. almost 100 others were wounded in the blast. we expect a global response to this war crime. they raise everything to new l

it seems as though this is sort of the one-to punch in terms of the internal bolstering of zelinski and externally, the warnings and messaging to putin, but it does seem strong, and it does seem unique, and as michael is noting, the russians still have some cards to play. we all know there are some scary capabilities out there. yamiche:here are some wondering if all that is happening at the administration might be moving closer to direct conflict with russia. hans: there is still a red line there of actual shift to direct conflict. the president of the united states, a democratic president, going to a defense contractor lockheed martin, to watch javelins coming off the assembly line. that is a little bit stronger than just plain rhetoric. think of the images and backdrop of that. as you just heard the president talk of that, this is a white house that is prepared to spend whatever it takes. in this context, $73 billion is a lot of money. this is may 10 times thesp ng spending in israel and maybe a compressed timeframe. yamiche: billion dollars is a lot of money. how does congress see th

it seems as though this is sort of the one-to punch in terms of the internal bolstering of zelinski and externally, the warnings and messaging to putin, but it does seem strong, and it does seem unique, and as michael is noting, the russians still have some cards to play. we all know there are some scary capabilities out there. yamiche: there are some wondering if all that is happening at the administration might be moving closer to direct conflict with russia. hans: there is still a red line there of actual shift to direct conflict. the president of the united states, a democratic president, going to a defense contractor lockheed martin, to watch javelins coming off the assembly line. that is a little bit stronger than just plain rhetoric. think of the images and backdrop of that. as you just heard the president talk of that, this is a white house that is prepared to spend whatever it takes. in this context, $73 billion is a lot of money. this is maybe 10 times the spending -- the military spending in israel and maybe a compressed timeframe. yamiche: 33 billion dollars is a lot of mone

so there is no mistaking the urgency zelinski has said, right from the beginning that i, you know, he could be a dead person. he said, i need a munition. not a ride. he said we are here. so i think yes, those are those bite sized messages. and they are so powerful endurance meeting with all of us because maybe it's the plan to make maybe it's the connectedness of social media. but when we watch those images, you see someone who is just like everybody else. um, you know, dad, with young children, all these people are fairly young is cabinet members. it's just someone who has like any off eyes and suddenly their lives have been up ended in ukraine. and this is the number one reaction i'm hearing on social media and people see those messages. they feel this could happen to any office. i think that's the most powerful part of the a below. so she media is the sense of solidarity. promotes and modifies may be watch those videos. professor got about a minute. let me ask you about that. there is so much negative news about social media out there right now, and you don't have to tell you about

at the end of march, he tweeted what he called the truth about zelinski regime. adding, he felt that he might disappear as did other critics of some of whom were later found dead. here is one of gonzalo, the latest interviews before he went missing. in a very real says the armed forces were nice, but they also integrated these new not the hyper nationalist elements, not just him to the armed forces by the way, also into the government itself. and these new nazi extreme nationalist, extreme ukrainian elements poisoned the well almost, and the ukrainian state. you can probably anti russian show a foreign ministry has confirmed to r t that they have been informed about the loss of contact with the journalist and are now in touch with the relevant entities to get an update on his status and location. we have also requested comment from the usa department, as gonzalez holds dual citizenship so far. the u. s. has provided no response, but we will keep you posted javier crusoe primly, a journalist, and a former european parliament member, says washington silence is because the west is delib

however, now we are hearing from one of president zelinski advisors saying that it was more about, well come in, somebody who really can make practical decisions like the german chancellor because ukraine is hoping for more weapon deliveries from europe. so we are getting some mixed message messages here, and we really have to say that sir. the rejection of stein my as visit to kia was a huge african and we have to see how it's going to play out in the relations between crane and germany. dw correspondent, alexander phenomena, they're reporting from cave. or we also asked d. w political correspondent, nina hazard for the reaction here in germany to keeps snob of german president shine maya their story generated massive headlines here in germany as slap in the face. that's what's commentators have been calling it here in germany. there's a lot of understanding for the horrible situation that ukraine is in. but this is the german president, the highest ranking, representative of germany that we're talking about. and of course he did apologize . am late. he did last week am and essentially

that is what ukraine and vladimir zelinski want to see -- bilot zelenskyy want to see. they want to continue to put pressure on russia. we saw vladimir putin talking about napping able to be cut off. he has also been surprised about the resilience of ukraine and the amount of assistance given from both the united states and european countries. as this continues, and it does not seem like it will end anytime soon, every official i talked to here in the united states says that is going to continue to up. every time it gets worse, we will continue to give every kind of aid we can without increasing the dangers for americans and nato. yamiche: marianna, eugene is talking about the prolonged war and this going much longer than a lot of officialshought it would go. of course congress was out this week, i know that is your beat, so i want to ask you, what is going on in terms of congress for where lawmakers' minds are, and is there bipartisan agreement on the way forward? marianna: the fact that this is going to go on for a long time is exactly what is at the forefront of thei

supporters in budapest, victor, or bon cold on the establishment in brussels and ukraine's president zelinski of ki opponents on his road to reelection. map was calla thought. we have been battling the biggest forces the left wing at home, the international left wing, brussels bureaucrats, all the organisations of the source and fire the international mainstream media. and finally, the ukraine in president as well. we never had so many opponents showed up or been has come under heavy criticism from some european officials for as close economic ties to russia and friendly relations with president tutton blood mirror. zelinski has been one of his fiercest critics, punning, budapest for refusing to condemn moscow's operation in ukraine and not sending weapons to key if the spite hungry being a member of the e. u. vector or bond is also strongly against the union stance on immigration, sexual minorities. let's discuss now. the election developments with earth rasmussen, executive vice president of the eurasia center. think tank good to have you on today. earl. just firstly on victor or bon size o

if i may just switch back a moment to the question of, of mr. zelinski, i'm not so sure it's so simple and not so sure that his maintaining his position is in russia's, russia's interests, and not so sure. the concluding abuse treaty is in russia's interests really makes no difference. it is force that speaks you. and i think any european power, who would like to go in again to ukraine after this over would be out of it's might . so yeah, cranes future, whether ratified by a peace tree not ratified by history, will be the same as regards to successor terms to against your landscape. he will be a very ugly personnel, and the real plugins of the cuban regime will be clear and whoever succeed zalinski cholenski is an actor that ascii has been fed all this lines by the best of ustr firms. as the landscape is a great information war deficit for russia. so if he's gone so much better, it's got the thing that i look at as i look at a lot of these negotiations of just is this being bluster because i tend to agree with what you said on this program. is that political facts and the ground will r

but zelinski as opposed to that the sort of man, i think that to day we're seeing 2 wars being fought simultaneously. one is being waged with arms bombs and missiles on the battlefield, whereas the other is unfolding in the media with newspapers, television, and the internet. and the latter one is no less serious. future media outlets are being shut down and deploy to we can arrival power. zelinski himself basically silenced the opposition. so it's not correct to say that the war in defense of zalinski equals a war in defense of democracy. i have never before seen must media acting as indecently as they do now. i'm struggling for the truth. second, to my own opinion, without buying into the official version. we don't have a my daughter was in crimea during the referendum. she worked, there is a photo journalist and sent me images showing people's joy about returning to russia. that the referendum embodied a national unity that it was considered liberation back then while covering the situation and the don bass, she managed to survive miracle asleep while her 30 year old colleague was

supporters in budapest, victor, or bon cold on the establishment in brussels and ukraine's president zelinski of ki opponents on his road to reelection. map more calla thought. we have been battling the biggest forces the left wing at home, the international left to bring the brussels bureaucrats all the organizations of the source and fire the international mainstream media. and finally, the ukranian president as well. we never had so many phone and showed up or been has come under having criticism from some european officials for a close economic ties to russia on friendly relations with president tutton. blood mirror. zelinski has been one of his fiercest critics, punning, budapest for refusing to condemn moscow's operation in ukraine and not sending weapons to key if the spite hungry being a member of the e. u. victor or bon is also strongly against the union stance on immigration, sexual minorities. let's discuss know the election developments with earth rasmussen, executive vice president of the eurasia center. think tank good to have you on today. earl. just firstly on victoria bon siz

now president zelinski is suggesting that the captured med, that shook, could be handed over to russia in exchange for ukrainian prisoners of war. more than 4 and a half 1000000 refugees have fled. the war in ukraine, among them are tens of thousands of ukrainian jews. dw, correspond it on your cramer, traveled to the capital of madeau via kissin l, where the jewish community is now rallying to help a former printing house in the mold oven capital kyshay. now now a refugee reception center. it has been set up by israeli 8 organizations to support jewish refugees from ukraine and to help them immigrate or make a yard to israel. forgot the tire man down from tel aviv this work is very close to his heart. as a child, he left ukraine for israel with his parents of the long journey, a good night and leave, and presently before the fire. this is our goal to send the people as fast as possible. all the basic needs that they need to isa to say new york has already started over once before she was uprooted from her home because of the conflict and the new hunt region in 2014. she hoped she has