a starts april 16 o w ah, ah ah, this is suitable you news, lying from berlin, russia signals, it may scale back its war aims in ukraine. moscow claims the 1st stage of his campaign is complete and shifted focus from keith to the dumbass region. ukrainian forces, meanwhile, recapture territory around the capital. also coming up. visiting allies, u. s. president biden travels to poland and meets with american nato troops station

near the border with ukraine. he's coming off a trip to brussels, where he sealed an energy deal with e u. and the fridays for future movement takes to the streets with protests across the globe. we'll look at the link between the climate crisis and the war in ukraine. ah, i'm nicole fairly who welcome to the program. rush, us military claims. it has successfully completed what it calls the 1st stage of its military operation in ukraine. the army says it will now focus on gaining control of ukraine's eastern don bass region where it has besieged cities like har . keith and mario poll, leaving them in russia has based major resistance in the 1st month of its invasion, which western officials say was aimed at toppling ukraine's electric government and

installing a puppet regime. graham says 15000 russian soldiers have died in the war. though the figure released by moscow is much lower our corresponding economy is in cave and send us this analysis on the russian military briefing. i think they're putting a bray face on some pretty disappointing military results here. all the russian state media line heading into this conflict in the early days and weeks of this conflict was about basically forcing ukraine into capitulation. we had a reports of russian parade uniforms found here in ukraine's. it seems like they thought they would be celebrating of it. she prayed, hearing here pretty early in, that is not happening. east of care of we having reports of ukraine forces pushing back russian military units by about 20 to 30 kilometers in the west of care. if they're not making any progress and could potentially be surrounded in a couple more days. so i think this is an attempt to sell this as a success to the russian population, especially at the time now where ever increasing numbers of russian soldiers are

losing their lives here. and the news of those deaths is now finally filtering through to the communities where these people come from. so i think it's an attempt to put a brave face on what is a pretty unsuccessful campaign and to try and define objectives differently in a way that may be that they can reach some kind of goals without admitting to failure and ukraine. i think there's been a shock in russia at quite how well the ukranian army has been able to respond. i think there was the expectation in moscow that this would be a rerun of 2014 when russia was able to basically pick off crimea with very little resistance. so this was a time where you crane was in a political turmoil off the modem purchase. and there wasn't really any one in charge. and since then ukraine has had a lot of support from the west of the training, but also weaponry. and also just had hundreds of thousands of people who have fought in the east and on bass, who have that combat experience. that is something that very few european countries have. and so you, grain is well placed to it was of manpower in terms of people with experience to fight this war. i think that was something that the russian side definitely didn't take into account. there was no connelly reporting from keith,

u. s. defense official say russia is no longer in full control of her son, the only major ukrainian city to be occupied so far in the war, the russian soldiers have faced protest, her sons' residence since they entered the city several weeks ago, and besieged mario full local officials now say 300 people died in the russian attack on a theatre last week. the port has been among the hardest hit by russian strike. so far. mother, you, bull in eastern ukraine has come to symbolize the devastation russian bombardment has wrought. most of the city has seen terrible destruction. people trapped your struggle to find food or water. ukrainian officials now believe some 300 people could have died in last week strike on a theater. their hundreds had been seeking shelter in the building when it was leveled by a russian bomb. here in michel live near the black sea. a rocket hit tatiana as

building her neighbors were killed. her home is now wrecked. oh, but she is staying put with your apple to re key will stay in the co live and will be here until the end drifted on board. i will go back to work. yes, just my company is still operating with them. not on board in the do i hope to carry on working more good, just not due to you. but while russia keeps bombing from afar, it's advanced into ukraine's main cities has mostly stalled ukrainian forces are pushing back on the front line and need a pin just outside the capital. keep ukrainian forces have repelled the russians with a series of counter attacks. as this commander explains, he fool you thinking with the russians don't have the combat power. my men are hitting their supplies, and keep armed citizens would be shooting from every window and door to her.

venzano, ukraine's defences are holding blood the me to put in hopes of a lightening quick war dashed. but this battle comes at a high price, especially for human lives. it's hard to verify how many people have been killed in this war. in a crematorium, in keith, dozens of earns lay unclaimed. the relatives of the dead have fled, and they had to leave their loved ones remains behind. meanwhile the you had signed a deal with the us to help secure more natural gas and wean itself off russian imports. it is one of many steps now being taken in the you to cut economic ties with moscow. but experts believe it'll take years to build an energy infrastructure that doesn't rely on russian energy supplies. pipelines still bringing,

rushing gas into the e. you around 40 percent of europe's gas consumption comes from russia, which is why you leaders haven't been able to agree a ban on imports as a way of trying to force moscow to end the war in ukraine. but what they did do the summit in brussels, attended by president biden, is a great deal to buy more gas from the u. s. last year. and i think one thing business we need to work toward developing infrastructure, which will allow us a greater capacity to move gas where we need it. was it often? that means we have taken a conscious decision to better connect national networks, exidine, some lender gift on time, and that the plan is to increase imports from america by an additional 15000000000 cubic meters this year with a name to increasing that to $50000000000.00 per year in the coming years, currently, you imports from america stand at 22000000000 cubic meters annually. the use annual

dependence on russia is a 150000000000 cubic meters, though. so the increases from the u. s. won't be enough to plug the gaff. i know, i know that lemay russian gas will have cost for europe, but it's not only the right thing to do from a moral standpoint. is kind of put us on a much stronger strategic footing. what isn't clear from the statement is how much more expensive the gas coming from the u. s. will be for europe, or how shipping ports, which are already nearly at capacity for importing gas, will be expanded. liquefied natural gas doesn't just flow through pipelines like russian gas does. there is the well, in america, you take a bucket of a gas out, liquify, it put it on a ship, send it across the atlantic. it goes into an important terminal which will take that liquid gas turn it back into gashes, gas, and then it goes into the domestic pipeline infrastructure and is used exactly the

same way. the rushing would be there all those steps. following the agreement with the u. s. e u lead is continued this summer and hit a major friction point over whether government should not be allowed to intervene in the market to come energy prices, which is soaring for the citizens. i'll just hours after agreeing on that new energy deal with the e. u. u. s. president joe biden travel to poland. he's now in the capital. warsaw after spending time near the border with ukraine. there he met with polish president, j duda, the southeastern city of jazz. you is the where the u. s. military service, alongside polish troops as part of nato biden will hold more talks with student this weekend on the west, military humanitarian and economic response to russia's war on ukraine. and speaking at a briefing with president duda and military officials, biden was clear about what he thinks is the way forward. the single most important

thing that we can do in the ausa is keep democracy, united or opposition, or effort to to devastation occurring in a. ready the legal definition, whoa, has years presidential bind speaking on a visit to poland earlier today? climate activists from the fridays for future movement have taken to the streets around the world, demanding stronger action against global warming. and the conflict in ukraine has given the demonstrations added urgency with the war in ukraine was at the heart of the climate, strikes 10000 people chic to the streets in berlin. to demonstrate for a rapid fossil fuel phase out for climate justice and above all for peace. for

that they man did an input band on russian oil, gas, and coal, michelle mormon tom. i'm ashamed at the moment that we don't touch the heart to end this war by stopping the oil imports and mundane video early from lunch stop by the korean hang. natural surprises are of course, connected to many ways of meaning that will cause us enormous damage to the climate and them cities are destroyed, human lives, destroyed bombs, so dropped that causes considerable damage to the climate. that's what's incredibly important to think about. crisis together, all these crisis have to be considered and sold together in the protest, and berlin was the largest of around $300.00 events in germany. world wide demonstrations took place in more than 1000 places from taiwan to nigeria and australia. there demonstrate us gathered in front of the prime minister's office to demand better climate protection in the phase of more frequent natural disasters.

west main climate disaster after climate disaster with bush fires and floods and not not just bush 5 mega bush by the mega floods that are just absolutely ravaging our communities. and we know that it's fossil fuels that are exacerbating these floods in these climate. is autism climate activists in both else, trailyn berlin hoped that the war in ukraine will end soon. however, they are fight for climate justice will probably continue for a very long time. ukrainian runner who fled her country last month to day one that jerusalem marathon valentina baretski left ukraine with her 11 year old daughter while her husband was also her coach. had to stay behind. she told w that fans back home had urged her to run for peace. just a few weeks ago, valentine of the red skull was fleeing for her life. now the ukrainian marathon

runner is trying to promote peace around the world, starting with the jerusalem marathon. before the race, she told d w about the support she still has back home. and i got a lot of from message from my grand kids. he and oh, from ukraine. osler's from a lot from a lot of people from again war in i was a research piece and a very nice i speak here about it was unusually wet and cold for the start of the jerusalem race. but after the journey she has been on, she just felt relieved to be running again. the race was a mixed event, so she cleverly used male runners as pace setters in a bid to be the 1st woman to cross the line. she achieved her goal and celebrated with the israeli and ukrainian flags. she hopes to soon be reunited with

her husband, who is also her coach, but has remained in ukraine after the russian invasion. she bowed to do even better in the race. next year. with her did you go the rather the day the rather than spend and i'm from it next year when i look i was my husband here, craig, this record of using hard with robert. it is a metal but mean so much after a terrible mom for her family. she's yet another ukrainian sport start doing incredible things in the face of adversity. and an amazing story you're watching did over you know, and here as a recap of our main story today, rushes military has signaled it may be reduced, its military ambitions in ukraine. a senior russian army officer says the 1st stage of its military campaign in ukraine has been largely completed and that moscow

would increasingly focus it's efforts in the dumbass region and eastern ukraine. and that's all for me for now, but to stay with us. because after the break rout, watts, we'll have the latest from the business world for you. i'll have more headlights for you at the top of the hour from me and the entire team and our newsroom here in berlin. thank you so much for your company. with people and trucks injured when trying to flee the city center more and more refugees are being turned away as the border families playing phone tags in syria. these critical illness with people lean extreme around around 200 people.