the, the, this is dw news lie from berlin after 2 years fighting off rushes invasion. we look at what could be next for ukraine. as asked, can keep, keep up the fights, facing ammunition shortages and delays from western allies on the funding to war effort. also coming up, putting an eastern congo, threatened to cut off some supplies to the city of around 2 and a half 1000000 people, many already displaced by the conflict. we look at why the mineral verge region is once again under attack. and high hopes for cannabis levers and germany, lawmakers here could today vote to legalize pop,

allowing people to smoke up both at home and in public the sarah kelly. welcome to the program. ukraine remains in the fight, but the war has entered and on certain phase just ahead of the 2 year mark of russia's full scale invasion team. now face is a critical amunition shortage. political deadlock in the us congress over continuing military assistance and lack of production capacity in europe, are both factors. with all this in mind, dw is ukraine bureau chief, an economy poses the question. can ukraine keep up? it's resistance to put in this war? the only thing we can regret is that we didn't start active measures earlier. he means the rule that was brought in many persons message,

their recent interview with the russian state, tv woods, the put in and speculation that the kremlin might be open to some kind of deal to freeze this conflict. originally let's say, which is ukraine x. but at london's chatham house, think tank, she says pollutants still think so you can take, or if you claim it is clear from both ends, public statements that she's not changing. she's wor, objectives. what i see russia in this. yeah. really believes it has a chance. it has a chance to break ukraine, and they will be breaking ukraine militarily. unnamed russian sources, talking about the potential piece deal, adjust to districts and tactics. she says. they also who work in the west to actually undermine decision making to some of these confusing messages about the possible ceasefire. meanwhile, not meeting cease fire for them. they would like to see washington actually accepting the boot instead of tauriel drab versus victory to have div go was the

biggest since the full bus worked last may many expect pushing to use momentum gain to try to take all the full ukrainian regions. he's already formally annexed. that's done yet to hans. so patricia. okay, so it will be easy. ukraine still controls large waves of these regions. preaching may want to push on, but does he actually have the results is taking of div construction forces. many lives wasted intelligence estimates for the casualties, the over 10000 dead, a one russian ministry builder. you can claim that the death toll had reached $16000.00 mike martin the senior visiting fellow and was that is at kings college london. he says that you can, you know, me, can make russia pay a higher price for any territorial gains. defense is much easier than an attack. the russians may well be able to take small amounts of grounds at great cost, but they don't then it suddenly roll it over and take up is that can raise your

desktop. and i know you guys know that they need to just move back very slowly. their ability to do that will depend on how well west and support holds up. have dave good ukrainians were fortunately out gunned 5 to one. you promise its supply ukraine with a 1000000 shells in a year failed. while russia got that many from north korea in a matter of months, or you can, you know, is now on washington. but i think at the moment we were the little bit of a guy political lighting point. everyone's waiting to see what happens with the us presidential election. think of trump wins. we all gonna say, you know, quote unquote the date of the century and from it's going to hand large average of ukraine to pizza and the ukrainians on what kind of the assumption that they're on there right now. so they're doing what they can with home grants, innovation, eating targets deep inside russia with long range drones to fix maximum damage on

pretends war economy as ukraine and his 3rd year full is trying to take the fight to russia while it waits to see whether the west provides resources have another go on the battlefields. and one of the key paddles, early on in the invasion, was for mary. you pull ukraine's fierce resistance. there became a rallying cry even as the russian forces closed in the battle for the city. on the, as of si showed just how willing russia was to at least complete devastation on ukrainian cities. with little regard paid to the faith of civilians. prussian aircraft targeted the city theatre were hundreds of families with children and were sheltering despite the russian word for children painted on the ground outside. hundreds of thousands of people fled the city, and thousands were killed amid the russian onslaught. and we're joined now by maria to return, cause she was a merrier pull residents who left the city before the war and has managed to

evacuate her family when the invasion began. and she now lives and works in keys where she is joining us from. welcome back to d w, and thank you so much for your time. we've been hearing that ukraine is now entering the 3rd year of war. what are your feelings about this conflict today to hi. yeah, my feelings are really mixed because it is since the 24 inch or february 20th range of to our lights turned upside down. and have we have the story to hear of work that we are facing? i lost some of my friends colleagues of the bottles failed to and as mainly, mainly your brain on flaws to think that everyone lost someone close and it's unbearable to see you that we are still here and the institution after the 3rd year. but in the 2nd, on the other hand, i think that it's so powerful,

but we are still in jew rain and we are still fighting for our freedom powerful to fight russians and russian or take. can you tell us a little bit more about what your family has been through now these past 2 years and how you manage to evacuate them to yeah, we manage to retrieve my family. honestly. they start the week of the work and they were hiding in the shelters for 3 weeks without basic facilities. so without food, without heating and never thing. and since they that time, they basically lost their home as the deed, and many thousands of ukrainians. and mary presidents, also my family is now all around the world, turned out we're not able together in one place because we don't have our home in

maryville anymore. and it's just unbearable to even think about this and it still some whole class to but we will be able to get a to get back there some time. it sounds like you were able to get all of your family out, but perhaps you can just clarify if you do still still have some family in mario, paul, or perhaps you have friends that have family who are there. and i'm just wondering if they're able to reach them as yeah, i still have some relatives there because some of the family members they couldn't leave, for example, some of them had really seriously ill relatives or close people. and yes, we can communicate with them. unfortunately, most of the people in mary call it, they still leave without basic facilities. some don't have electricity. others don't have hot water. and even though rush, i still mean propaganda about rebuilding variable, my relatives,

so as to leave in the, in a c t it with the mass cemeteries and in the city that is still in ruins. so it's not been bad. so i have a beautiful picture for us for media. unfortunately, my, you pull up was of course subjected to rushes, unilateral and the legal annex ation of southeastern ukraine. it remains under direct russian control. and i'm wondering, you know, we all saw the counter offensive, the ukraine launched last year, and the very little games that they were able to make, although the hopes were high at the time. where does your morales stand right now? do you hope that ukraine will get more you pull back? yes, my hope is to present. so with the ad 3 months of occupation, it's becoming harder and harder to believe in base because really needs more weapons. we need more military support to regain very well. because the russian propaganda is working well in the occupied cds and for those people,

whore is still there. and they believe in that ukraine. it's getting harder and harder to resist propaganda. and for me personally, it's a, it's a catastrophic, but i lost my home. but i still have this hope and believe, but we will be able to deal comply. maria will, and i will see a lot of see again, i will see my home, my school, and the ever since that was so close to my heart. me. thank you. so much for, for joining us to share that message and to share a little bit of your experience on this, on a verse or a maria, siri tank or former mario poll residents, be appreciated. thank you. now the us and the you have imposed sanctions on russia to hinder its ability to fund the war in ukraine. but a new report points out a major loophole that still allows the kremlin to make money off the you through oil sales. either use brussels correspondent jack parents,

reports the oil tank is like these are still bringing russian oil into the you did the kremlin 1100000000 your rows last year according to when you report by the n g, a global witness. a legal loophole is allowing russia to sell it soil in the you, the spice of sanctions from, against impulse countries which having imposed sanctions on russian oil are able to import millions of barrels of russian crude oil. they refine them in those countries. and at the point that they've become a refined product, like fuel or diesel is no longer considered russian. and so this fuel is freely imported into european union. they followed oil time can move months and delved into publicly available russian tax revenue. information in that research deal is mainly coming through india and turkey, but also the bulk area, which is actually inside the u when the you brought in the sanctions on refined to petroleum products. in february 2023,

they did so with limited exceptions. one of those exceptions being to allow bulk area to continue to impose for find oil in order to prevent a major economic hit to the use poor is nation in the statements to dw the european commission. acknowledge the loophole we do not prohibit the import of refined petroleum products from 3rd countries, which do not have a russian origin because of the refining process. they said, the 1100000000 yours in oil sales is the equivalent of nato's recent pledge to spend on munition, to ukraine and member states stockpiles. and on the other side defies russia arrives 1200 cruise missiles. the type it's been using to strike targets in ukraine for 2 years now. and here are some other stories making headlines. the head of and raw, the agency for palestinian refugees says its ability to provide relief in gaza is under imminent threat. israel has accused its workers of participating in the

october 7th last, her tax. driving 16 donor countries to suspend half a $1000000000.00 and funding the us company has landed a robotics space craft on the moon. it was the 1st control descent to the moon by the us space craft since the apollo 17 mission in 1972. researchers hope to collect data from the odysseus pro, to better understand the moon's south pole take. turning now to another conflict, raising international concern and congo. the us has this. we condemned, worsening violence, there and called on m. 23. a revel military group made up of mostly ethnic tutsis to seize hostilities, immediately ongoing screen, which is between m. 23 and congo. the as government forces has caused thousands of

civilians to flee toward the eastern city of goma. refugees have criticized western nations for not doing enough to curb bloodshed in the region. the u. s. and the un meanwhile, blame neighboring lawanda for supporting m $23.00. in a bid to control the democratic republic of congo mineral resources team does even want to that was forced to flee from the home when it was attacked by m. 23 levels. she had to act quickly to save her 3 children. my brother was killed during the attack articles she died. i didn't give make it back in human. is this. the bombs fell on our houses, so thank you. sounds good and they destroyed them completely. syngenta an adult in the k o. c. last side of her husband, she doesn't know where he is or even if he's still alive. but there is no time to grieve for her that brother worry about the rest of her missing from any

one. since we arrived here, we've had little food, nice chuckle, and the children are sick. i thought the initial goal in this class has, between the comedies army and b, m. $23.00 rebels have escalated to the towns and villages around the provincial capital coma since the beginning of the year. and as the rebels sees more and more territory, people trying to escape the fighting has been forced to seek refuge in informal camps, around coloma, according to the n g o doctors without borders more than a 100000 people live here in the berlin. go camping down, the rebels are approaching enough to do the men tillery has now reached the boat, isn't even inside to campbell, the caps become heavily militarized. so now and so in the extent, will need to tell that causes a lot of concerns for the population. when it's and threatens humanitarian access law. uh for like said is your money tell?

nearby goma a city of 2000000 people is now naturally cut off by road, making it difficult for 8 agencies to reach people. and the rebels could see school my next. at the camp itself, the conditions was the name. it is the people, many of whom have been displaced multiple times due to revel. attacks were paying the price on the safety so. so they were on the absolutely filthy, the crown on to people live in a very terrible situation. right now i'm going to leave the i could, will also explore. they are exposed to multiple reasons. it especially sexual violence, found a funeral 6 read it will to, he's got the more than a 100 and loops, roaming is done. comical. many of them are taking advantage of the situation targeting vulnerable women like don't teen. when, when done, when we go to the forest, to look for firewood to solve the sometimes they heard us find. yeah, they repo siam. that's how we have to live here. i shoot them back home. she was

able to take care of herself and her family. she used to wear because of and now i only hope is that help any kind will arrive soon. and kristof logo is a conflict researcher and congo experts at political geography unit, university of kent in belgium. so tell us a little bit more about m 23, and is it the only rebel group involved in the civil war? thank you. so yeah, the entity is certainly one of the most well known, i'm groups that operates in eastern congo and it's got a long tradition of historically based on other of the groups that have been operating on track of the past 30 years. and many of them that have been accused to be back by um, neighboring ronda and other um countries um east stuffs off the d or c. but as

far as by far not the only i'm group, i'm in the region, as we've heard, i'll say in the, in the report from goma there is, um there's over a 100 level groups and that can be counted in, in the sort of the current phase of, of the conflict in the region, some of whom are more deadly than geometry in st. although, damn trains be it has certainly been sort of the politically most important group. i'm given the complement dynamics that it has been provoking, but it should not be forgotten that there is. i'm also in the very area that i'm 3 threes is pricing. there's also other i'm groups i'm fighting against, i'm trained street and i'm also community meeting on human rights abuses. another silence. so tell us a little bit more about that because many players have been pulled into tackle rebels. why is that? first of all? and how has this made it so hard to bring peace to the region or so they've been

seen since around october, 2021. when the entry 3 restarted it's, it's rebel campaign i'm after being during months or so many years is sort of a conflagration of conflict with a lot of i'm. ready i'm local kimberly's actors as well as regional international actors being, being drawn in. so with we've been seeing our private meeting tre, companies being, i'm so contracted for the conflict as much as other on groups i'm. there was a un peacekeeping mission. there is a different regional forces. i'm that i've been replacing one another and um and then there is also um, un reports accusing rhonda off um pricing alongside entry and st as much as different groups including the f dealer which is somewhat the on the air or what used to be the wrong the general side of forces in 1994 accused of fighting

alongside the colonies on me. so there's a huge conundrum and multiplicity off of different um, actors. i'm fighting one another. i engaging in alliances and pollution that makes this particular unit of the, of the very intractable. thank you so much, congo x for crystal, for the, for joining us to share that expertise. thank you. german lawmakers are set to vote on a bill that would be the last candidates. the bill goes before parliament in just a few hours. it would take effect in april and allow adults 2 rhoda plants at home and possess up to 25 grams in public. the government's aim is to solve a number of social problems by de criminalizing the drug. but the plan to ends, the 40 year ban, has faced resistance from parts of the judiciary and law enforcement. let's.

let's hear a voice mail from germany as governing coalition on this. christina, look a is a drug policy spokesperson for the business friendly f t p party and a member of the german problem and walk into the program. and thank you so much for joining us. your party has been pushing for this over many years now. why is it so important to you? well, thank you for having me here. first of all, my party has been pushing the topic because we do see that the policy of repression and pro had bishan didn't break out. the numbers of consumers of kind of bazaars, always rising. and especially with the young people, the children and the minor. so we do need to change our acting way is to a better way to cope with cannabis and to your partners. we have to say in the espied a one of the things that they said that they were especially worried about was access to those who are under age, 18 years old. how are you willing to address those concerns?

well right now it is really easy for everybody to enter the it listed market also for children and with that kind of as claps. we do have a strict age limit. it is. 6 just the entrance for adults, for 18 year old people and older and there is and there are different requirements that have to be met for protecting the youth and the minor from entering the kind of escape. so we are aiming to push back, but in this market and therefore giving less chances for dealers or the interested market to sell that kind of as to minors. if it goes through, what would this plan mean for the justice system and for policing in germany, because i mean, lawyers and judges, they have been out with this warning of what is the potential mass. the head was convicted marijuana users wanting to be exonerated or well, at the beginning that this might actually be some amount of work to do. but in the

end there will be less people that will be convicted from cannabis. 6 criminal kind of is a big, kind of boost verdict. so in the end it will turn out just fine and the amount of work will diminish. also for ponies and justice. what do you think the implications of kind of, as legalization in germany might be internationally, for example, for, for europe and beyond? well, as we are still aiming to legalize can numbers, as we can see it in canada, we do hope that there will be a movement on the european level as well that there will be other european states trying a similar ways to cope with cannabis and that there will be a change, a shift in the para didn't to a how to handle cannabis. thank you so much. christina liska,

focusing on drug policy for the ftp party, which is part of germany's governing call. i appreciate your time. thank you. type display now where firefighters are searching for 14 people who are still missing. after a deadly fire swept through 2 residential buildings, the police broke out on thursday and the eastern coastal city of valencia authorities have so far confirmed that 4 people were killed and 13 were injured. scrutiny is turning to the buildings, construction materials, which together with high winds, they have helped the fire spread. so quickly and investigation is underway. is trapped on the balconies cooling. so how the fi is spread in a matter of minutes. emergency services say it broke out in the afternoon on the 4th floor fire

fighters rushed to the scene, bringing traps, residents down with cranes and providing inflatable cushions to catch those who had just got to feel they manage to get a father and the daughter out. they saved the thought about that, but the efforts were hampered by the wind and the soaring temperature of the flames, which then spread to a neighboring building. flaming debris came crashing down around firefighters. as they worked to extinguish the inferno must go to assist them out of it. it was pretty wild. how the facade burned. the cladding, a that's probably how it spread door to the airport authority, say the buildings external clouding might explain the rapid spread of the flames. several people were taken to the hospital with fractures, fans, i'm smoking, hey,

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