i e environmental series in over 3000 on t, w, and online with . this is news line from berlin, last stand in valuable, ukrainian forces defy a russian ultimatum to lay down their arms. this could be our last appeal of our lives. we may be facing our last days, if not hours. the enemy out numbers tend to warn the cities defenders vowing to fight on the until the end as battles rage across eastern ukraine and germany vows to stop russian oil imports by years at foreign minister on

a later bareback makes the announcement she kicks off a tour of the baltic states plus the biggest tournament in tennis bands, the russian and bell russian players over the war in ukraine. when bouldin's organizers say, the move is in response to unjustified and unprecedented military aggression from russia. ah, hi everyone, i'm layla. all right, thank you. so much for joining us. the defenders of the receipts ukrainian ports of matter you fall, our warning, the city could fall within days if not ours. as russia presses it's offensive across east in ukraine, ukrainian troops hold up in multiple have to fight a russian deadline to surrender. efforts are now under way to open a humanitarian quarter to allow trapped civilians to leave

on ukraine's eastern front. soldiers begin for the fight ahead. that direct russia has re lodged his offensive, hoping to take full control of the dumbass region. in the besieged port city of maria, pull the fight may be almost over let the voting of a few bases are appealed to the world. when this could be our last appeal of our lives, we may be facing our last days. if not ours, the enemy out numbers as 10 to one. while a sense of normal life returns to the capital, keep in cities to the east. the wall rages on infancy, the intensity of fire by russian troops in the hockey direction. in dunbar on,

in the dimly per region has increased significantly on the bicycle. consider ordinary housing infrastructure, normal targets for them anymore. we jane in this wall. the russian army will for ever inscribe itself in world history, as perhaps the most barbaric and inhuman and the world shannon may be a, shall our school e mailed school address. at this hospital in chrome, a task. the injured continue to arrive wounded by the 2nd russian offensive. yeah. as you should actually now seems. yesterday russia started a large scale advance in the area. they use artillery systems, heavy artillery drones and g r a d systems, products in hockey. families say their last good bye to those who we killed in the fight. rushes invasion

may have entered a so called new phase. but the pain of loss is a constant in a wall, but far from over the w correspondence, rebecca peters is in the green capital, keith, i asked her about evacuation efforts for civilians trapped in the besieged city of multiple we could be witnessing azure voting, the very last hours of this sage that we know has been going on for nigh on 7 weeks now, pretty much since the beginning of this war. at with a dia, humanitarian catastrophe taking place there. we know that there are still around about a $100000.00 civilians trapped in that city. bought the good news potential. good news coming out of today. ukraine's deputy prime minister saying that russia and ukraine have agreed to allow for humanitarian corridor to allow some we think 6000 people out there. that ease of course, good news,

even successful. but we do know from previous attempts, that isn't humanitarian corridors, particularly around that city. are so treacherous and often so dangerous that they are often cancelled. so it remains to be seen whether or not that will be able to be successful. at that though, 6000 people will be able to get out. but that still leaves us just a little under a 100000 people trapped in that city. catastrophic situation. their 1st civilians. what about the last ukranian stronghold in muddy, who pull our forces? still hunkering down there they are. they really defying everybody's expectations. layla. i mean, everyone thought that mario paul was gonna full weeks ago. there are 2 battalions fighting there and, and there is still around about 200-2228 half 1000 soldiers continuing that fight that defense for the city. they're based in the as of steel plan, as we know that we've been reporting, which is a vast network of warehouses and there's also an underground tunnel system. it's

believe that around about a 100, a, sorry, a 1000 civilians also sheltering in there. now the russians have started to use what, what were they calling a bunker, busting bombs that have bombs, that can go on the ground to try and get those remaining soldiers to come out. that would, of course, be catastrophic for the people sheltering down there as well. but at the moment they read, the ukrainian soldiers have been defying these sort of surrender and di orders by russia. another one that was set for today at 2 pm has already passed. they continuing to fight until the end. ah, but unfortunately, does look like that. the end could be 9 for mary lou paul, it does look like it potentially could fall in the coming hours. and rebecca. okay, tell us about the year version offensive or elsewhere along the eastern front. well, that planned russian offensive that we've been waiting for for a couple of weeks did kick off yesterday i was saying increased bombardments in the dumbass region. how to keep and in the south of some 1200 or more than 1200 targets

even were successfully hit by russia overnight since yesterday. and civilians have, of course died in some of those attacks the mer of la hans could says that some cities in the don bass region are actually out without power and other utilities. and in fact, they won't be able to be restored until the end of the wall. so dangerous is it that they're not able to get in to fix those things. we've seen huge evacuations from the ace for the last few weeks now bought. there are still civilians in those areas. russia may managing to gain control of one small city in the don bass. but on the other side, you crime taking back a small city need on yet that had been under russian control. definitely expecting a lot more bombardment missile attacks in the coming days. d. w corresponds for vicar voters reporting from the ukrainian capital. keep rebecca, thank you very much for your continued coverage. germany has found to halt all in ports of russian oil. by the end of the year. foreign minister on

a lena bear bock made the announcement after meeting with her counterparts from estonia, la, via and lithuania. miss bareback also sent an unequivocal message of support saying nato allies could rely on germany, 100 percent mines on entity or to hear at all. today the 4 of us are sending a clear message to moscow. we will defend peace. i sovereignty and freedom owned the nato. nato will collectively defend its territory and protect every corner of mines. i'm sure our correspond. killian buyer attended that meeting and we got and told us what else? the foreign minister said, well layla, i think it was a clear one thing. this is a friendly meeting. this is a jovial meeting and the tone of the meeting was definitely very, very friendly. but there was one word that i kept hearing again and again and again . and it was defense, defense defense, like we just heard,

and the in the sound bite on alina barbara said, germany is committed to defending the baltic states because they are also one of the most vulnerable regions. in nato. one of nato's most vulnerable points is in the baltics, and so she said germany will stand by the baltic side. and yes, can you contextualize as that for us, killian, how vulnerable are the baltic states? well, it really comes down to geo politics and we have to take a look at where the baltics are situated, especially lithuania. it's squeezed in between coline grad in the north and bellow roofs in the air in the south. and colleen and grad is one of the most heavily fortified territories and all of europe. it's heavily militarized. russia has a very significant anti aircraft capabilities there, an anti shipping at capabilities, so they can basically shoot down any aircraft and a 400 mile radius. and they can sink any ship in the baltics as well in the baltic

sea, i mean, and, and so that this only leaves a narrow stretch of land of over which troops and material can be transported. this is called the sa walkie gap, and it's the only 65 kilometers wide. so in a pincer movement, russia could basically cut the baltics off from the rest of the west. and this is why people are so scared here. but how realistic is a russian attack on the baltics? well, of course, to the politicians here and to the people here, it's quite clear. russia is very, very busy, and ukraine at the moment as preoccupied i. it would be the better word that they've bitten off more than they can chew. a vast majority of russia's land forces are there. and, but the fear is, of course, that russia will learn from its mistakes in ukraine. and we've seen catastrophic mistakes by the russian military. maybe they will improve their communications. maybe they will improve their command and control structure. and once they've regrouped and strengthened their army,

the fear is that they will turn their sites to the west to the baltics. and that's why the politicians here are saying later must create a very, very strong deterrence against russia. these other correspondence, killian, a buyer reporting from latvia. thank you so much, kelly wimbledon. so organizers have confirmed that russian and bell russian tennis players have been banned from this year's tournament because of the war in ukraine . the band prevent several top rank players from competing in june event, including russia's world number 2, then you mid video. that war has already prompted tenants governing bodies to ban russia and bella roost from international team competitions. let's find out more and dig deeper into this jonathan grain from the debris. sports joins me now here in person. so good to see you, jonathan. all right, how significant is this decision by wimbledon? it's a pretty significant decision because wimbledon has become the 1st grand slam to

actually announce the move by this is kind of an outlier because most tournaments because tennis is organized by several different governing bodies, most tournaments they do allow russian and better players to compete as neutral is only team events, as you mentioned that they've been banned in. so in a wind border is probably the best known tennis tournament in the world, right? is a hugely prestigious tournament, and it's got this kind of conservative reputation in money by many ways. so the statement was such the surprisingly punch, i'm going to read a bit of it. so now it says in the circumstances such unjustified and unprecedented military aggression, it will be unacceptable for the russian regime to derive any benefits from the involvement of russian or better russian players with the championships. now, when gordon has joined other sports in banning russian and better russian athletes outright, for example, athletics gymnastics in figure skating. so now i guess the question is whether other major tournaments or the grand slams in tennis like the french open, that's the next one. and then the u. s. open after that will follow suit because at

the moment russian and better russian players are still on the entry list. which players does this affect it? facts, several high profile players. really, on the men side you've got ideal metadata, who is the world number 2 on j group lab as well? he's in the top 10 on the women's side. nessa blanca is trucks, the highest profile women's play, some baller root. she actually reached the semifinals of wimbledon. last year, i had a really good run in the tournament. now, obviously, as you might expect to learn of these players once the war broke out what asked what they thought about it and what a lot of them kind of said look, we support peace. no one really condemns the invasion. all that countries involvement outright, apart from our paps on tre rhubarb. i hope we can see some pictures of him now because a soon after the war broke out at one of the tournaments. soon after that, this is what he wrote on the screen that we're going to see it in a moment because the camera will turn around. but basically it says,

no war please that you go say he did kind of give a stronger stance because, you know, a lot of people will say, look, is this fair? is it fair to band individual players? i mean, is it, that is that we know there was one of the 1st things a better thing about, i mean, is it fair? i mean it's, it's kind of punishment by association. our. yeah, i mean, ultimately justifying in wimbledon is an outlier, right? because up until now, i think many inside tennis have been nervous that imposing this kind of collective punishment st. yet can individuals, individual sport stars be held accountable for the actions of their country's leaders? now, i think wimbledon had been discussing this with the british government for quite some time. they were kind of thinking of a compromise solution where they would allow russian and bearish in place to compete. if they sign some kind of decoration saying that they didn't support the war, but that did kind of raise a few issues. one with such a declaration, be genuine,

and to could it put their family members in danger back home. now of course, the flip side is okay, you can argue that it is unfair, perhaps to bond these athletes. but what about the ukranian athletes who cannot compete a tool because of the situation in the war in their countries, in the country? very fraught fraud to discussions. i'm sure this is not the last that we're going to hear about this, but so grateful to have you hear johnson? great, thank you. stay with us. did we news asia is up next. se the top with we got some hot tips for your bucket list. romantic corner check hot spot for food and some great cultural memorials to boot w travel off. we go on the green.

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