[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is the w news live from by laying ukraine's president says a new phase of the war has begun with russia launching the battle for the dom bass . miss on attacks have been reported across the country. also on the program to russian troops to withdraw from areas around key. if we meet the residents rebuilding their lives and their hopes unsure of what the future might hope.

ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski says russia has begun what he called the battle for the dawn bass. after spending days regrouping russian troops now appear to be engaging in a full scale ground offensive along a 500 kilometer front. in ukraine's east and south of to suffering sat, brack surround the capital keith, the kremlin, declared. its main goal was the capture of the don bass region in the east. but in his nightly address, president zelinski vowed to defend the territory. there was no more that we can now state that russian troops had begun the battle for the dawn of us for which they hadn't been preparing for a long time. still here, a significant part of the entire russian army is now concentrated on this offensive . no matter how many russian troops are driven there,

we will fight. we will defend ourselves, and we will do it every day. we won't give up any thing. ukrainian green skull navy the more. meanwhile, the western city of levin has been hit by multiple russian rocket attacks. miss isles destroyed buildings and killed at least 7 people. the 1st civilian death in the city, which is near the polish border in the south of the country, ukrainian troops holding out in body of pulse enormous as hostile steel plants say they will fight to the end. as russia claims its nearing victory in the besieged port city, your gross gorilla, g. russian missiles raining down on ukraine like russia says it's aiming at military targets in a campaign to weaken ukrainian defenses. but the strikes also kill civilians in levine alone at least 7. the owner of this service station found 4 of his employees dead in the ruins of his shop. and i guess it was, but after you got the,

i was planning to go to work. when my colleagues called liberal. they told me that there had been an explosion and that there was a fire. some, a pretty crucial. he is the worst part of course or the victim. so dish will go wiki. i jumped in my car and was here in 10 minutes. one doesn't and i saw it with my own eyes. you'd have about this with my lab boy. while attacks and levine have been rare in maria pull, they forever changed the face of the city. ukraine says at least 21000 people have been killed here. but it isn't on the vision. really careful, marty, who paul has undergone extremely heavy destruction as a result of the rocket bomb and artillery fire that russia is conducting round the clock. a like a russian army has failed to seize. mar, you pull completely your set of all thanks to the courage of those units. both the ukranian armed forces and other military formation. some that are there, as you put

a boy. those holdouts are making what could be their last stand here in the vast as of style. industrial zone with them are civilians, including children, and circled and low on food. they know that if maria paul falls, russian forces tied up here will be free to move on to other targets such as the town of rubies in it. now on the front line and under constant shelling, this woman lives in a nearby village or what's left of it. she describes what it's like being in no man's land mozilla. you sell it on a new point. we don't even know where the shaelyn comes from, yet. we wait for it from there. now thinking that the ukrainian army will protect has but then it comes from there. you know that there shaylee from all directions, is that one elsewhere in ukraine's east. the soldiers prepared to hold the line

against whatever the russian army throws at them. imagery was much. our motivation is our home, the motherland. we can't take a single step back and we can't retreat. that's the whole secret of our work. and with ukraine's president saying, rushes long awaited offensive has begun. that work may have entered a deadly new phase. let's get the latest from a date of new correspondent match he said, bringing in the ukrainian capital. welcome mathias, and what are you hearing about this at russian assaults on the east? yeah, the ukranian authorities have established that this was the beginning of the assault . it's mainly coming from the north, from the town of assumed that one town that's in between don bass and hargrove and it looks like the aim would be to move south from there and then cut off the forces

that are east of that a. yeah, we don't know, of course, what is going to happen and how well the ukranian army is prepared. but what we do know is that they have expected this for a long time, and that they have tried to prepare, as well as possible for, for quite a few weeks now. and all this discussion about heavy weaponry that we've been hearing, the delivery of new weapons, all this was meant to fight back an assault on don bus from the russian side. right, and whatever, mary paul, i'm, we've been following a events event for weeks and the pentagon says a senior concentration of air strikes and artillery that yeah, we know that the, the last, but parts of the ukrainian army that are still in the city are in this steel works is gigantic, still works. that was

a symbol of the city and they are staying there. there's a huge bunker underneath a system of tunnels and civilians are also hiding there what we've been hearing, but it's unconfirmed. is that many of the civilians are the relatives of these soldiers because they are afraid that they might be a target for the russian army as well. um, it seems that the, the army is still there in this very small part of town. and it's heavily bombed, we've seen pictures, but for the moment it's as it has been a war of attrition, a very cruel war of attrition, and where you pull. right? and how likely is it that ukrainian forces will be able to defend mario fall and keep the russians out? well, the only way to do that would be another offensive odd from coming from another side. and, and this opening a corridor breaking the blockade of the city. we haven't seen any offensive in that

direction. we haven't seen any preparations for that. so it seems that the ukranian army is not able to do that at the moment and civilians of course quarter in all this, how they dealing with this increase in hostilities the ukranian authorities have called upon civilians to leave these areas in don bos that are likely to be a theater of the next escalation, we have also seen that there were trains to bring out people. we don't know how many civilians are left there, but from what we've seen in the world before would within him and maria paul and north of here is that this is a war that spares no one and that's it's it can be extremely cruel on civilians as well, so most people would probably be well advised to follow this,

this advice by the government. thank you for that. with his willinger in keith of russia, shifting the focus of it's offensive to the down bass. the seen. many people in other war torn parts of ukraine returned to their homes or what's left of them. he w correspondent rebecca rich has traveled to the city of ear pain where residents have started to rebuild. despite the constant fear that the calm may not last. one thing that strikes you when you enter a pain is the silence. these once baffling straits now scorched and deserted, then sometimes the silence is broken. by the sound of people trying to put their lives back together. oh no, no. my route 300 square meters of roof is missing. above 4 of the apartments, there's nothing but the blue sky above the popular thing. a neighbor ogre is the

caretaker of these 82 flats. and she lives in one of the top drama with my apartment is in this part of the building that was damaged by missiles. she stayed right through the occupation to try to save them from russian soldiers taking them over, but was helpless to stop the missiles. more not over. now, it is in this state. the house is uninhabitable until we rebuild it. we'll do more . next door to olga, another group with a similar story. they tell me this wasn't the 1st time they've had to flee. one of putin's was on what you have on here. i made me live here as a last resort. do you understand what many of us are from done bass we came here from war just to simply live and war came here after us. we are peaceful people. we don't want anything bad. we just want to live what law. however new hike you? what brought you rubbish? the most important thing is that it doesn't happen again. person could come back at

any time even to morrow. they're building was also badly damaged by rocket fire. one woman shows me where her flat used to be several, almost via this was my bedroom and there was a balcony behind it larger and no, there is no balcony there at all or so. um, my things were there like a little away switch of it, which i know its gone off with butter one. and while russian soldiers may have left a pin. but this is a city that's been left in ruins. there isn't a building we can say that doesn't at least bear some scars of the war and many a ruined beyond repair. while the physical clean up is underway, the emotional scars will take a lot longer to heal. for many who fled when the war broke out, they have little left to come back to. but for those who stayed behind many will

have an even bigger recovery to contend with. that if the wall comes again, i will survive in any case. i will always survive because i have a bear and he protects me near sky vanessa, shad yards de la shortness. i still get frightened by every loud noise, which i don't know if it will ever go away, but for now. yeah, that's how i am. more than less you wouldn't have to talk the not so silent trauma that may live on in their lives forever. we'll take a quick look at some more news making headlines around the world and start in israel, or which says it's warplanes of struck the gaza strip after the years ready military intercepted, a missile fired from the palestinian territory. a hamas which controls garza claim to israel, hit what it said were empty sites. the incident of follows a weekend of israeli palestinian violence in and around jerusalem's alex um mosque

. china is reporting another 7 covey deaths in shanghai as a day after announcing the 1st death of from the virus. since the city went into locked down a 4 weeks ago, restrict measures are part of the countries at 0 covert policy, which has been met with growing anger and frustration. the u. s. government will no longer enforce the wearing of masks on public transport as follows. of ruling from a federal court in florida that see and that the directive was unlawful, overturning a key white house efforts to reduce the spread of cove at 19, the move prompted several major airlines to drop their mask mandates. the world's biggest carnival is back hundreds of thousands of revelers will take to the streets of rio de janeiro in the coming days as ills famous summer schools have been rehearsing and carnival go as a celebrating their freedom to party again as the city lifts to covey restrictions, ah,

ecstatic crowds throng the streets of rio de janeiro as carnival kicks off over the easter weekend. it's unusually like this year, but the festival was delayed because of the covered 19th pandemic. a major outbreak of the on the kron variant hit brazil in february. got it now as the right moment. we're all vaccinated and we can finally let our hair down as a sub watch gamma walk go. elsewhere, people are still preparing their costumes. this is the high point of the year for rio's samba schools. many of the members died during the pandemic. others spent weeks in intensive care of either wilma, so no other. other patients died mixed me in the hospital. i was completely exhausted and i felt alone mixed in the some bedroom last, rehearsals are underway a few days before the big competition of the somber schools. last year it had to be canceled to, to the pandemic. with the return of the st. carnival,

the residence of rio are enjoying a kind of rebirth after 2 difficult years to the boy. it really wasn't easy, but now we feel again that the power is in us, the power to keep going with it, watching a lot of the v and the people of rio, i once again ready to fully embrace the carnival season that they famous for a future update more well news at the top of the hour, daniel went to has business next. oh, in many countries, education is still a privilege. hummadi is one of the main causes some young children work in mind.