erica, besides the, the, the template stuff, but also when it comes to sustain dependency information and trend texted on d. w, travel, you can have it. what about you? what your opinion feel free to write your thoughts and the comments the this is dw deers, live it from berlin, ukrainian president, florida means zalinski is here in berlin to meet with german chancellor friedrich merits 2 are set to discuss the war in ukraine, including increased weapons support for ukraine's military and new financial sanctions against russia. also coming up in gaza, a chaotic rush for food and supplies. the union says 47 palestinians were injured after is really troops open. fire is real admit. so there was a loss of control but didn't know that it's forces fired on civilians. and a verdict is expected in one of france's largest ever prosecutions of sexual abuse

. a former surgeon is facing up to 20 years in prison for almost $300.00 towns of sexual assault and rape. most of the victims were killed. the library golf is good to have you with this on this wednesday. and we begin here in berlin, ukraine's president building is zalinski, is in the german capital for talks with chester friedrich merits military aid and new sanctions against russia. will top the agenda. so lensky is visit, comes as russia intensifies it to solve on ukraine earlier this week. merits said range limits on weapons applied to ukraine. have been lifted, but it's unclear if this will include long range taurus missiles, which ukraine has not yet been given. so lensky has long been pushing to acquire the weapons,

which would allow ukraine to strike targets deep inside russian territory. us. alright, let's go to the w, matthew moore. he is standing by near the german chancellor where these 2 leaders are meeting today. matthew zalinski here in the german capital, he got quite the welcome when he arrived, give me a rundown of what he of the chancellor are discussing. yeah, that's why you got and got quite a while. come on. he was received with military honors on you could tell that there was a report building between the 2 leaders who were all smiles. and there was a sense of, of, of, of the sudden had come over and split this guy just been reading all morning. yeah . and there was a sense of optimism as, as the sun did come out on the rain stopped and they were, there was a saturday there and then they went inside quite quickly. and that's because we don't have a lot of time to go right. 90 minutes to discuss the whole range of issues among the efforts to to reach that ceasefire and these new sanctions, the flow gimme off. so this is really hopeful will be pushed through and that will

target the russian banking a sec. so among other things, and they're also going to be discussing, it's very light and discussing all new support for ukraine and another trip and a military aid package balls for financial aid. the exact details that we hope to land when the 2 meters go before the cameras late. so. but yeah, there's a lot to discuss. as you said, if i'm really among the, the main things, especially idea of the unity between these 2 to leaders and unity again among you cleaned on its allies. matthew zalinski is a wartime president. he's also a tested president. he's not new to the game, but chancellor friedrich merits is he's a new leader here in germany. what do we know about how he intends to handle this with or one of the things that he did and that helped to him to, to really put pressure on previous chance was the issue of taurus, longer range, taurus, muscles. and that's because ukraine has been calling for these messages that

germany has to be delivered on and predict matched through a lot of pressure on the previous time slot to deliver them. i made that a key. i key area which he has had a lot of shots with and said that he was too too cowardly into defense. to defensive notions for just mass has come into office. he has really had to soften his total not. and there's a number of reasons for that. he says, you know, he's not going to discuss what way, pens, jeremy delivered to ukraine. he wants to keep his college posters test. he doesn't think it's helpful for, for ukraine and its allies to be seen public. he basically wants to set this to, to, to change the narrative around you crate in and around. jeremy and jeremy's willingness to help you create. and he's really nothing are. and that's something the time and time again, he's might be much more stronger on the rhetoric. but what's interesting is this is really a change more in style rather than in substance. okay, w matthew moore, outside of the german, she has 3, there were these 2 leaders are meeting, matthew, thank you. and for more analysis,

i have our political correspond to ben record here in the studio with me. you bet. let's talk about this visit itself and mean it was arranged rather quickly. do we know why? but it wasn't really arranged rather quickly. it was public's public are only on short notice, but i don't think they are planning for this for a long time because they this requires actually some preparation means you see all the security measures and all these things that have to be arranged and berlin, but the length is coming now to berlin to drum up more support from germany and, and also from the european partners. because he's in the middle of this diplomatic forward, if you wish, between the trump administration and the leadership in moscow. the piece talks are the efforts to of to arrange piece talks of stored. so he need some move and he need some, some public appearance to, to push forward of a said, this is agenda and these pictures of the seeing, you know, pretty much what he needs now is that explains the timing of this visit. the fact

that we're seeing russia intensify its attacks. that might also be one of the backdrops for this of the big run for this because of the ukraine butera needs and a bunch of pressure right now. we hear that the russians are preparing a so called some offensive and don't know, the aiming to establish a kind of a buffer zone between the territory that they are already holding and the, the rest of ukraine. so, the lensky needs more of a weapons. he needs more supplies and has to push for more munition at defense, especially. and this is something germany can deliver and has delivered in the past . so that's why he's also here. but you might also go on to meet some of your being part of during this week because not only drum the but all your pins and now us to, to help you crandall as the how from america from the white house is also stolen.

so there is no money coming down, no buttons to the deliberate now from washington as far as we know. so he's really, he's really to, to, to purchase a gen a bit. what do you mean? this is happening in the same week. we're bored and we have, i've seen this post from the us president, donald trump calling russian president vladimir putin basically crazy thing. he's gone crazy. and then you've got zalinski coming to berlin to meet with the new chancellor. is he trying maybe to get from predict merits something that donald trump is not delivery. but the presence of landscape is trying to signal to washington, i guess is, i am here. i'm willing to negotiate. i'm willing to adhere to the terms that donald trump has come up with. and the, the guy who's not following this lead is actually letting me put in the russian leader in moscow. and there's another to meet another post and is a true social today from the trunk, which says, but he is threatening,

must call it, but something we don't know exactly what. so it seems that this strategy might play out for us. it lensky. you're to blame. putting actually for the distort talks, ok, we want to also let our viewers know we're expecting a press conference between these 2 leaders at the bottom of the hour and we will be coming back to you then as well. then thank you. okay, the united nations says that 47 palestinians were injured. most of them by gunfire after israeli troops fired shots near thousands of people scrambling to receive aid packages. these rarely prime minister admits that there was a temporary loss of control. as the gauzy humanitarian foundation handed out food, it was the 2nd day of operations for the organization found it overseen by the us. and israel to thousands of palestinians rushed into a new age distribution center near rafa in southern gaza, tearing down the sensors to reach the limited supplies. some of the 1st to be

handed out, often to leave 3 button seventies riley blockade had this. there was no order, the people rushed to take something and we didn't get anything. there was shooting and we fled the as rarely, military set. it fired warning shots, sending crowds fleeing reporters on the same hood tank and gunfire. this man was seen lying shots on the ground, but the chaos didn't deter the desperate. no good. it was the we're going to get food for our children. feel for us. we want someone to care about us and the tragedy that we're in. we don't care about gun fire or showing what matters is for us to get food for our children. the most of the crowd left empty handed. officials said $8000.00 boxes were handed out, each containing ingredients for about 60 meals. hold on rice, this is rice. this is sugar,

this is flower. this voltage released by the israeli army shows the a distribution side run by a private group called the gods, a humanitarian foundation. it plans to open for such hubs or is rarely prime minister benjamin netanyahu acknowledged tuesdays chaos, but insisted israel would push ahead with its plans. it was some loss of control momentarily. happily, we bought it back under control. we're going to put many more of these. and the idea is basically to take away the humanity or including as a tool of world come off to give it to the population. essentially, to have a stairwell zone in the south of guys of where the entire population can move towards own protection. the united nations is refusing to cooperate with israel's new aid system, saying it does not meet humanitarian principles and risks for simply just placing palestinians. it says israel should open more border crossings and allowed aids to

be distributed independently and impartially. right. our senior international correspondent, funny to george, she is near ramallah in the westbank for as funny. what more can you tell us about what happened as well? what unfolded there at the distribution saw just that alpha in the south of the gaza strip is seen. so if she chaos seen, so she the spiration, in fact, because gaza strip has been under a blockade for nearly 3 months. so it's all of us that people are hungry, they have hired, they try to get any help that they may receive somehow. so there's so many members and this is exactly what happened. thousands of people are watching it to display some 4 hours. but looking for one part of the ship to the other, trying to get this one. and this is a reminder to the view up while submitted to attempting keeps going on. so the else likes is bombard them, etc. so this entire operation is very dangerous to begin with. now this is where

things how to get a bit blurry because of these walkways that they have only 5 wanting shots. the people that want to get food. well, at the same time, are you an official but also because of health ministry. think about thousands of people injured, it's unclear. in fact, if people have been killed in this entire kills as well, you just have to see how this entire situation evolved. and probably just didn't turn out the, the knowledge that yes, temporarily seems to be out of control. but it's more than just completely out of control. looking at the sheer desperation that owns the ground. and this is exactly what the un and other 8 organizations have moved against even before the operations have begun. that clearly what you need, especially now with this nearly 3 months blockade, having a result, having a pool on the people and that is hungry in desperation. so you need 8 organizations with the experience, how to handle such a situation. so the criticizing this very controversial garza humanitarian foundation as not being able to handle it. and while you're here in the occupied

westbank talking to the city and so they are experiencing what's been going on with regard to these are i want to ahead and what do you have an upper hand to you and the occupied westbank one more. so if you listen to the far right politicians here, what dreaming of the next thing the occupied westbank, they're also saying why looking at the scenes coming out of god. so this is the schuman isaac, and this is exactly what the you want, but also the full ahead of the god. since you're going to tell you, formation is pointed out and resigning just the day before the operation has to be gone. that this entire operation does not. it's your quote to the principles of humanity and the principles of independence database. pretty good job reporting near ramallah in the west bank for us funding. thank you. our coverage continues. now with julie beloved, she's associate professor for anthropology and says he ology at the geneva graduate institute professor, it's good to have you with this you specialize in humanitarian aid organizations.

and with that in mind, what is your read on what happened yesterday or? well, i think you know, the images to speak for themselves. so i kind of one of you agree was with what your correspondent and just reported. i think what we're seeing is, is she or despair of, of population that she has been starved deliberately. so we have an organized, i mean, that is going on. so i mean, and being used, you know, as a way for the war. and so we have these rating government and trying to cover up for these crimes. and it's genocide by pretending to provide, you know, you may need to your age, but indeed, i mean, none of the standards of many children actually met. there is don't dignities, there is no humanity, you know, easy distribution. only one point of distribution was open. and people were there to alerted about distribution no time in advance. so they came the cruelty to try

to grab whatever they could to. this is absolutely around us and we treasure checked absence checks the to everyone to julian to describe this. and we can talk about the logistics in just a moment. further, i want to ask you though about what we heard coming from other age groups in from the united nations yesterday. and today criticizing the new gaza humanitarian foundation. because and i'm quoting here, they're saying that this organization contradicts humanitarian principles. put that into play and speak for us. what does that actually mean to what, you know, the number of standards that need to be match in order to, you know, be validated as a trustworthy you run into an organization. and none of these all met at the moment . so we have the 1st foundation, which is, was created by someone who object to,

to be on the video or on the rock and getting this done was these team rubicon and kind of organization. it's supposed to be, you know, headquartered or something. how yes, watching geneva. but the goal some that posted the foundations. no. and so i also resign. i mean it's very ok. there is no independent way clear that keeps the, you know, us, he's a kind of money permission to divert the attention from what is actually going on with what is that, you know, what does this way? i guess that's what i'm going to pick up on. i mean, is, is the problem in your opinion, the fact that this is not a you in organization. i mean, for the aid to be delivered effectively, does it have to be a human organization doing it in your opinion as well. that means that you want and that's the capacity and it has the noise. i mean, you don't organize, you know,

just to do sion like these from one day to another. you need to do, it shows the logistical infrastructure. we need to know people there on the ground, being a boat or so to under the population really so that there is no all the cruelty. so, i mean, the, you know, un and, and ross was, well, that's being dismantled by use, right. so the story corps, the organization in charge of human children aid, you know, in palestine. the trucks of being stopped from entering the street for months. oh no. so we're not going to speak about humanitarianism. when these things are going on, i think this is a, this is ridiculous. well, what is your, what is your best case scenario then in this situation we know that the is really government does not trust on rob, which is the organization which had been leading the efforts to distribute aid. so with the you in, out of this equation, what's the base,

a best case scenario and your opinion for getting the help to these palestinians. what i think, you know, there is no way around the ross think, you know, this is quite clear. i mean, the truck's needs to get in and the distribution has to be organized as into the past 18 months. that is to, you know, the genocide is ongoing. there's no other humanitarian organization that we be. we have the capacity to achieve law. the infrastructure that is necessary for these a to be distributed. so it's pretty quick pressure that the international community needs to put on is rare to stop. so the situation and to ensure that the ada enters the street, there is no way around that. i'm afraid, professionally build with the geneva graduate institute professor. we appreciate your time and your insights today. thank you. thank you. it's you watching either you news still to come this hour of loaded means zalinski here and the german

capital for talks with chance or predict merits will take you to the press conference that will be following their meeting as soon as it starts, right to your law. so maybe going to other news, a verdict is expected today. and one of frances largest ever prosecutions of sexual abuse, a former surgeon, is facing up to 20 years in prison for almost 300 pounds of sexually assaulting or raping people. most of them children, the case have shocked friends and raised questions about why he was it called earlier. a devil in a white coat. that's how prosecutors described 0 and this will neck. during a 3 month trial, the 74 year old former surgeon confessed to sexually abusing hundreds of patients. most of them children. he admitted responsibility for the claimed he did not remember his act. prosecutors have asked for a 20 year prison sentence or get in light of the facts on the seriousness of the

case. we had no choice but to seek the maximum sentence. everyone expects this sentence. this has been from 1989 to 2014. at hospitals across the western france, lou so nick, sexually assaulted young patients, many fall under anesthesia. some of his victims are no longer alive to see just to serve this families, grandson died of a drug overdose after he was abused. while he took my grandson from me, because of this must not happen again. so all of those. so do that because i have to know that they going to pay the maximum price. that's all the protesters rallied outside the cord during the trial. angry. the health authorities failed to stop the doctor. he continued practicing until his retirement, despite being convicted in 2005 of purchasing images of child sexual abuse for my sample. for me, it's important that all those people who didn't do anything for

a strong condemnation or held accountable examples good. so it's important for the victims and for society to show that no one is above the law and the children must be protected when he put the list. well, nick is already behind bars for earlier child abuse convictions. a further trial may still be held to deal with even more accusations against the man considered one of france's worst over sexual abusers. with joining us now from outside, the courthouse in western france is our correspondent, rosy bird yard, rosy, good to see you. a verdict we know is imminent. tell us more about this try. oh, so very disturbing details but have emerge during the 3 months of this trial joel was slow and i managed to commit crimes for decades. that seems right under all

sorts he's no. so just finally arrested in 2017 after he was accused of sexually assaulting a child in his neighborhood. when police went to his house, they discovered years worth of diaries in which he, himself had documented the cases of rate and sexual abuse against his patients. no survivors or calling for reforms in this case, and we've seen the police officer itself, who i think go through those journals, was in tears when she spoke to the court. those survivors, many of them who have testified here in von say that there simply is no sentence which could be high enough or long enough to meet the scale of the devastation, destruction, and damage she has caused us. it was survivors in their families are outraged that no one especially help for forties in france. the no one stopped this man earlier. do we know how is this possible? well, that really is the question here and it's a virus is this right?

this is for, for the laval retreat of different failures in 2005, so 20 years ago, the surgeon was arrested and charged and received a suspended sentence for downloading images of child sexual abuse. but he was not found from practicing medicine and there was no order in the after that conviction for him to no longer work with children. and that's what some of the medical saw, the people that hire some upset during these hearings, but they haven't received instructions not to hire him. they were working in rural hospitals, which were sometimes seen as under resorts. but definitely, i think this is not the last we will hear of this case. there are more suspected victims survivors of 12 swaniker and we may have in here in question to members of his family. were there many moments for this non could have been stopped. in this trial, it comes on the heels of another case, and that's the case of giselle pelley coding for people who may not be aware. this

was a mass rape case, a woman whose husband drugged her and over a period of many years allowed dozens of been to rape her. with that in mind. is there more of a reckoning going on in france now when it comes to sexual assault as well? as much as survivors hope, in fact, many that survivors has be told that the price of talks about how disappointed they feel, by what they see as a lack of public interests and even the lack of media coverage around this trial compared to that case of she's old haley co, they feel their voices haven't really been heard and i've spoken to locals here in the city of sun. and they say they think it's because the topic of child abuse is just so taboo that they think people find it very difficult to discuss on aren't ready to look at in the face. and of course, the problem is not something which goes well beyond the safety there calling for a national reflection. survivors certainly want to see

a commission is your pilot major commission step up to try review some of the failures here. these rosie bird jargon, western france for us, rosie thinking well, the court here in germany has thrown out a climate change lawsuit brought by a peruvian farmer against the energy company r. w e. saw lou, you argued that the german company has fueled greenhouse gas emissions. and should pay to protect his hometown from a melting glacier or w. we has never operated in for route and as denied responsibility, argue me. the climate change is a global issue. the court in the city of palm in western germany said an appeal is not possible bringing this decade long case to with their w as chief climate reporter louise osborne was there for the verdict in western germany. and i asked her what it meant for the climate change movement and their attempt to hold

companies accountable. i mean, we've already seen it to some extent. there has been cases that have followed in the footsteps of this one. this one is the 1st to have come to the decision that companies should be liable for their emissions. but there are other cases that are happening only for wealth in belgium, for example, in indonesia and the us against big energy companies and export se. but following this decision will give guidance to courts having to make a decision in the, in the future about whether these companies can be held liable for the damages that they are seeing over the world as a result of the emissions that they are producing. and the global warming, but that is causing our there was a dw louise osborne there before. do we want to go back now to our top story and that is the ukranian president zalinski here in the german capital berlin to meet with the german chancellor friedrich merits were expecting and possibly in several minutes from now. a like press conference from the 2 leaders and to walk us through

the repairs for that that read my colleague bench here in the studio with me. barret zalinski and merits. they're going to talk to reporters of the big question i assume is going to be more weapons and what more sanctions against russian? yeah, that's right. these are the 2 main issues the on the agenda today. those are lensky is asking for more sanctions, not only from the drums, both of, from the hold up the european union because the union itself can own the issue of sanctions. and it's specifically about the restaurant assets that in europe, which i'm not to seized right now. they used for to hand out credits, but they are still and under the brand of, of the kremlin. and as soon as he wants to change that the europeans have been reluctant so far. and then maybe he will try to convince the chance for these amounts to appeal on his behalf in process to change that and weapons of cause

a supply of defense systems that's very important. i received from germany, petrie, and systems. and of course of the, of a, to the question that is always the munition, the ukraine needs munitions, munitions, munitions, that has to be produced. and they also talk to ramp up the cooperation between ukrainian and drummond, the defense industry to produce munition, actually in ukraine's of make the supply chain shorter and things like that. i would not expect that they actually publicly talk about the delivery of long range weapon systems, like the tours you've mentioned before because the new government says we don't talk about this anymore. we want to keep the strategic ambiguity. we don't want the russian leda letting the pointing to know what we are doing so that you can prepare in advance. so how does that, how does that fit into what we heard from the german chancellor in the, in the past week? and that is that all restrictions on long range missiles have been lift. that means

if, if i understand that correctly, we've got the german chancellor telling the brain in military, you can shoot as deeply into russian territory as you want. now you have to look at this uh, sound bites from sense amounts very carefully because he, he also beck public and that they off to the fact is that there are no restrictions right now in place. neither from the americans, neither from the position i, neither from the french who have actually deliberate these long range or mid mid range weapons or the ready to clean and ukraine is and was using them already. germany did not supply these weapons so far. so there are no restrictions, so caveats officially on these weapons so you can take them back or lift these limits because they're not there. and then the day off them out and missed them as said well, and it applies that ukraine can now strike into russian territory, which it could be before already. so we don't know if secondly, what he meant it,

he's a man of strong words, announcements and then a little bit of back pedaling the day after this. also a typical move. so yeah, this is the various sizes decisive for ukraine and right now it doesn't change anything on the ground actually. well, i want to go to our colleague max, it's under, he is in he max, can you hear us? there you are. i want to ask you just for the i can hear you. okay. i want to ask you what, what is the expectation in ukraine from this visit and it, it looks and sounds like the new german chancellor is more of a man that you cream can work with and deal with the is that the impression that you're getting a cheap right, i mean i'm from, from what i understood the stuff.