the answer never seemed as foreboding. as now, early on friday, russian forces launched a massive ground to solve the long ukraine's northern border. add this to the struggle already raging along ukraine's eastern frontier and it looks like a multi front more russia advancing. what will it take to prevent ukraine from retreating? i break off and berlin. this is the day i. it's the list that has launched a new way of country offensive. does feel very familiar and very threatening fill up some training on the side of the news of russian troops crossing those waters. i'm not sure our military knew about this and our forces met the engine misfire that alicia was pretty simple. now this will we awakening memories of separate congress to and it's not very welcome to be,

we start the enemy. we voluntarily re fi us to a symbol because this is a moment of real deposition. also coming up, it will georgia turn east or west protesters on the streets of the capital. tbilisi said that their country is at a crossroads. if this bill is adopted, it means that we are back in russian orbit and we will not allow this to happen. can you hear people chanting russians? everyone here realizes that this is going down the russian path to our viewers watching on cbs in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with what could be a multi front were between ukraine and russia. on friday, ukraine's military said rush, i had launched a massive aerial attack along with a new ground offensive along ukraine's northern border. now this, in addition to the ongoing fighting in the countries east where ukrainian forces

are already struggling to hold the line. early on friday, massive shelving was reported in the town to evolve. john, near the city of, for keith reinforcements had been sent to the region and ukrainian forces are evacuating residents. now we understand that at least one civilian was killed and fridays showing. ukraine's presidential landscape says the attack of the north was not a surprise for his country's forces to play the dw sneak connelly into you've told me more about the attack along the hard key front front. it's really difficult to get a handle on the situation. the geography is pretty complex, you've got some fighting going on near of of chance, which is about 70 below it says northeast of kind of give just on that russian frontier but use a half of ports fighting directly north of kind of give in the kind of village along the board of this which, which are about themselves, 50, comes away as the crow flies from of chance. and then reports of some,

some of the village is also effected slightly further away. so this is a big area. this is a reminder that ukraine has a very, very long border, but a 1000 kilometers with russia. so even away from the front lines there is of surgeon needs to be controlled. and they have an expectation that something might happen because especially of was building up troops in that part of the country. and you just couple hours ago it really seemed like maybe they'd be rolling and then trying to take kind of give you credit 2nd city. that doesn't seem to be the case. now we've actually had a report recently from the regional government saying that russia has to be able to get in touch and they've been pushed back. we know opposite choice, that is the conclusive also, those reports are basically worse than separate to groups. crossing the border and operating kind of classically behind the brand new lines, lots of questions and new friends. not how that was possible. why this board was not better closed off. why they wouldn't mind fields what it was across. and it just really kind of reminds us of the chaos last summer when you had you bring it back to rush. next, all groups doing the same thing on the russian side of the board. it really seems like it's going to catholic kind of border rates,

duration and we can't really tell what it's going for now. yeah, we know that you creating forces are already struggling to hold the line in the eastern part of the country. this could look like it attempt by russia to start a 2 front board. but as you say, we don't know. i mean, could this then be the major question to solve that ukraine has been bracing for of the i just came back from the front lines in the east a couple of weeks ago. and when you asked people where they are, the soldiers there with the locals. are you expecting some big russian adult, some push they say to you? it's already started. it's been way more intensive in the last couple months since ukraine started getting less than the way of west to weapons and the russians so that child, so they didn't really see much shouts from all. but certainly, there is any reputation that this could be about diversionary tactics. rushed to try to force your brain to send troops to the effective regions to weaken those defensively, especially was to wait for those $60000000000.00 of usa to reach the front lines. and we have seen lots of tool in russian state media about basically so i think

kind of give trying to kind of create product and most of the population tried to force people to leave that city to give up. and to basically move further away from the russian border. so there's definitely said the russians want people to be scared. they have basically announced there's no way that they wouldn't really have if this was just about the military side. and for now, it is a very different situation. they've had basically be an air raid alarm for the best part of 10 hours. the so it is expedited to the locals. and most people who are close to the border not missing parts to the itself, because the border are definitely packing the case and leave it. it'd be the economy, the delays tonight from keith ukraine. nick, as always, thank you for your gardening and troops may be facing a new front in this world. they are already dealing with a new weapon. russian glide box using economy has more on what has quickly become a major threat to troops. and so there are some black booms tearing to a ukrainian hanging in 2024. at least that's according to russian military. blog as

questions occurring in social media has been full of these kinds of images in recent months. but seeing it on the screen, but it doesn't quite prepare you for seeing the impact these weapons can have your own noise. this is the damage done by the smallest kind of like pump currently used by russia to almost $50.00. just a small pot of big lot going through it just this was a 250 kilogram. glad to give you a sense of scale. i'm to make this tool. these ukraine, your soul just know to well what it feels like to be of the receiving end of russian black bowman text. they tell us they 1st came up against them about a year ago. recent months they've been getting bigger and more frequent on the card bombs. mike is using sound. did you hear that sound? and soon enough there is an explosion. you've got debris flying around and then the shockwave feature. right now it's the russians go to weapon to forced out infantry

out of they've dug at splish clothes that even use those and let just flatten everything. it doesn't matter. how did you do your trenches at one help? this will is the 1st to seek like bones use a widely into such effect. the technology behind them isn't completely new. this is a hybrid what an ssl bundle each live bottoms that just conventional dum, bombs. they have turned into precise smart bombs with the addition of special wing kids and satellite navigation systems. crucially, they can fly up to 70 kilometers. these are thank you. that means russian pilots can launch these go items out of range of most ukranian ad defenses. and by re purposing soviet era booms from its foss, don't bios russia can produce these weapons that speed a follow it costs than any equivalent. so see when the water so you have these, these, these russian bombs are cheaper than anything the us has endorsed. they use the

simple list mechanics and a very primitive wing cases. i won't take you with the whole thing cost less than $20000.00. and why do i say this is the lady was not only complex comparison, even the cheapest christmas owls russian as far ukraine are estimated to cost around a $1000000.00 each to produce personal items, often failed to designate the ukranian troops the challenge to better understand the weapon that they face showed they put together crudely, but they're effective. do no damage the knots hillary winning gradients of almost where the country doesn't try to build its own, like bombs, producing these weapons isn't the problem the most most safely is russia's s 400 defense systems down ukraine, your planes up to 200 kilometers away. the gradient, experts and soldiers agree, there's a new one realistic onset to rest his life problems. and that's matching rushes capacity to shoot down the planes to can carry these booms. ukraine has already

proven that it's possible. you can, you're forced to say they shut down more than a dozen russian planes to february alone. most expos believe that was down to west and supplied patriot defense systems. that is, until the much russian forces were able to destroy to ukrainian patriot launches, sustained. ukraine has kept his handful of patriot systems away from the front lines preferring instead to protect the countries big cities. until you can get some more of these defense systems can again afford to take risks. russian planes kinda like bombs, will have little to for you. well, we spoke earlier with justin crop, she is the ceo of the intelligence consultancy simple line. he explained to us what ukraine needs to counter rushes, glide box. mean, the reason the russian that across, i mean goes to the front lines are the same as the reason you're running and that caught them across the tool, which is the defense environment miss. all environment on both sides of russia even

was trying to operate and safety is lost. the macro offices we had in the report, well, behind the writing lines to pretty what day shes ukrainian tactics, but rushes to remove the account so that they, they found ways to push you currently in that different spot. they're still very wary of it. so the more at defense ukraine could equip and have the best that they can do. they also have some paper costs around if they get the 16 soon to the hoping for over the summer, around the way these, that crossover potentially help them drive back. rushing that across a bit more. they seem to push them 2030 miles, sort of the back make that a more on safe area for the russians and they could achieve an effect because they're also going to be risk. doing not because the russians a 3rd defense is the thing you friends really for them back on is that you're using the range drive and strikes to target the hatfields with these types of coming from to target. those with the light bulbs are being held. that's one of the other ways that can reduce this, right? but at the moment, not only results, the temporary reduction,

this rex russia has so many of these problems it can bring forward. so that's the 3 ways you can, can deal with it. but all of them are quite difficult for ukraine at the moment, let alone with the pressure on the citizens. and now haul caves, we've got the, well, they are bracing for more pro judge this weekend and the george and capital tbilisi . the government is drawing public anger by inch, reintroducing a controversial bill that would require all organizations accepting within 20 percent of their funding from outside the country to register as foreign agents. now the ruling political party says that this bill would help establish transparency, but that has failed to convince thousands who believe that there is russian influence at work. here, you'd have a huge maria content model. so reports a showdown overdue, which is future is taking place in the streets of to bbc to test us here, c, f,

e, just the georgia as part of the european union. but they say the government, but this for an a to this bill is steering the country to what's russia in stock? if this bill is adopted, it means that we are back in russian orbit and we will not allow this to happen. can you hear people chanting russians? everyone here realizes that this is going down the russian path. none of my last here is one of the faces of the protests. she says the bill goes against the government's promise to become part of the brussels has borne georgia to passing this bill with risk locking the cost to you membership me my they are deliberately damaging you. integration to a number let but we will not back down. we will fight to the end because being part

of the you, i mean, it's our historical choice about attorney story really up to a recent poll suggests that the wrong, 80 percent of georgia's support accession to the u. less than oriented policy. but the government, led by the georgia dream party, use jail politics differently. they're wanting talk to sas. it is focused on avoiding speak, ukrainian nation of georgia. and if possible with russia, officials also make use the west of crossing evolution in the country. it has to see this rhetoric as an unacceptable appeasement across. so just for us to be a freedom and future with the you, it's widely believed that this man is behind george's turn away from the west and most of fortune in russia in the 90s. and became the founder of the georgian team party. between a ministry accuse this western countries of modeling in georgia as a fast and causing conflict with its neighbors. russia,

georgia and ukraine were not allowed to join nato and were left outside the all such decisions i made by the global war party, which has a decisive influence in nature and the repeating union, and which only sees george ukraine as cannon fodder. hold sounds odd about the court, these parts, the ox. russia still occupies parts of georgia in territory since its invasion in 2008. we have the ex, but say it's something the government is keen to remind people off on the so you can see during the all the recent history of georgia, especially the warranty is on the date. there's 2 months out there. this is sometimes very much improperly used by their moving forward and they are trying to put between, i mean the society between the choice on the one hand towards the rook and the other started. and then we can work with the elections coming up in october of

service, say that the next few months will be decides if we would just future for now, the government shows no sign of retreating to protest is to say they will not give up on what they call a site for the europeans to charge chinese president, she's in pain, has wrapped up a whirlwind tour. here in europe is 1st and 5 years. she was in hungary for the final stop of his 5 days trip. he met with an gary and a prime minister of victor, or by an in budapest and said that the 2 nations would begin a golden voyage in bilateral relations. she and his wife also visited serbia and france now in paris, french president, emanuel mac, ron and e u commission chief or slip under lion. they both pressed she to use his influence on russia to end the more in ukraine of one cool effect than

it was, issues of stopping hungary. however, that raised quite a few eyebrows. more specifically, it was what was said to sheet hungry as prime minister victor or bonnet, said ben, he greeted the chinese leader with a welcome home message. that's right. you are not the only person wondering what in the world. did he mean? well here's or bonds explanation, cause it came from east. we have several people in the west, but the origin is very important. so we know the relative stuff, something bad that far away. so when somebody from east is coming to hungry, especially with the high civilization for some of the thousands of years as, as to, as much as i know, you know, it's always has a special emotional out of mental, definitely think. so it's a good reason to say to a president that the feel at home the hi, gary and prime minister, expressing a sense of kinship with the chinese people. let's talk about that. the that i'm

joined now by steve saying he's director of the so us china institute in london, steve, it's good to see you, victor, or bon and she's in pain share, obviously more than just political affinities. i mean that they are related in a way, i mean that must be one very interesting family tree. what do you say is so to me is very welcome from she can things perspective to hear what 5 minutes to all long has to say. but then the history is not something that she can bring guess bell read about. he's only interested in his own version of history . and you have time guarantee wants to present that version of history. that will make. she jumping smiles. she seemed to lose file. yeah. and i'm apparently there was a lot of smiling going on with this visit of how would you describe

a hungary is important to she shouldn't be well hungry is very useful to china and therefore to she didn't pay time that is interested to engage with the european union on chinese terms and does not wants to face the kind of challenges that the united european union can present to china by getting hungry, certainly in the chinese capital. then hungry will be able to pastry. can you look in union and make it more likely that the you can not broke china in terms of chinese and patients in that sense who read is very useful and important to china as she also visited serbia. and he did so on an important date in the, in the calendar. he was in the capital bell, great of the 25th anniversary of

a us led error strike on the chinese embassy there, in which 3 chinese nationals were killed of the us. and the attack in 1999 was a mistake. it took place during the day. there's bombardment of serbian targets during the coach of the we were. so steve, what do you think, what was issues in paying signaling with that visit being scheduled on that particular day? well, the message is very clear. it was the american black natal. that was the aggressor and the tech chinese cellphone tower. 3 in the chinese embassy in belgrade, and china takes the view that it was natal aggression that ultimately caused the war in ukraine. so yes, china is seizing to the re to trying to wind international opinion is that it is

the west and let nature that is the pump room, not to china, and she can finish buddy to, to is russia this week. reuters reported that the united states overtook china is germany's number one trading partner in the 1st quarter of this year. does that tell you that this is proof that germany as, as well as europe, is now in the process of di, risking itself from china. but it is certainly a response to how europeans, chinese relationships have changed in the last 5 years. the previous location when fusion being visited europe in 2019 to europe in union and europe, january the whigs stream. the welcoming and supportive of china is more than nice. ation did the whiskey idea is

a response to pop rooms that they have seen since the end of that has resulted in china becoming a less important trading partner, multi you and america emerging on tall steve zang, director of the so i so the china institutes and as always, we appreciate your time, appreciate you taking the time to be with us on this friday. thank you. you're welcome. i the but this is eurovision song contest has been played by protests, overshadowed by the war in guns that well now this latest controversy, the netherlands in trend has been prevented from rehearsing. the dutch of singer yost, klein is non performing and fridays and 2nd dress rehearsal of the competition. following what organizers have described only as, quote, an incident. and so we know we understand an investigation is now taking place. now

clients popular song, euro pop up is among the favorites to win. the title of calls to exclude is real over. it's where you guys are. on the other hand, they have been rejected by the competitions. organizers, prompt insurance protests in the host city. the swedish city of melma, united by music that flowed into your vision, your lips easiest and most extravagant song contests. for the self described, non political event is divided with ease, rails inclusion, despise its war and gaza taking center stage. there's a lot of pressure on here for me to be managed to put a smile on and just give my love out and do what i love most. i'm singing and this

is what i love most these really team is staying in an undisclosed location. and security is ties across the swedish city of melma. your vision organizes have faced coals to block israel from participating more than 10000 pro palestinian protest as rallied against these rails inclusion. many a calling for view as to boy called the show. those protests have made the way to the stage to earlier in the week form a swedish contestant eric side, or a palestinian coffee around his wrist, organizes cold, his actions regressive will. they also forced islands, ban b, sog to change their outfits. it had featured messages including the word cease file fan. visa is one of 2 known binary contestants, dcea fan favorites nemo from switzerland is performing this own code about the

journey of self discovery. if i the, when it will be assessed for non binary ah, to sit your revision just singing the song in front of a live audience and just knowing that so many people are listening. it just it, it made me really emotional. it made it did so much with me. 26 nations that through saturdays grand final. so i'm like on maney or in grace have much the culture in language with the contest, usually flamboyant. you're a pub flat contest and to face to backlash at home. so i'm in spain of criticize there are nearby losa for warranty lyrics and dense moves. as contestants prepared for the final performance, the political celebration of unity and music is as politically charged as it's ever

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