this mm ah ah, this is d, w. news live from berlin. a fresh attempt is under way to evacuate civilians from the as of stalls steel plant. we must continue to do all we can to get people all of these l scapes. but to russia is reportedly continuing its ground assault on the last ukrainian stronghold in mario paul. also coming out the world health organization finds millions more. died as a result of the coven, 19 pandemic than officially reported overburdened health care systems. and all the

factors brought the death toll to 15000000 and a massive stance. storm cloaks, the iraq, he, capital, bagdad, hospitals are overwhelmed by people struggling to breathe. authorities tell residence to stay inside as the dust turns date into night. ah, i manuscripts, mccann, and welcome to the program. a 3rd international attempt to evacuate more civilians from ukraine's besieged mario pulled steel plant is under way that the un says no more details will be given about the operation. so as not to compromise. it's possible success. british intelligence says russian forces are continuing a ground assault on the plant. despite promising a ceasefire,

the wife of one ukrainian commander said fight as inside the as of style plant had vowed to stand until the end. the batty 4 hours of style continued. this video released by the far right as of regiment, short, heavy shelling on ukraine's last stand in the besieged city of my lupo. russia says it is ready for to cease fire to allow humanity and caught a door out of the student. but ukraine and fighters claim otherwise is a threat for the 3rd day in a row. the enemy has broken through the territory of the us over style plant were heavy fighting continues eros, once again, the russians violated the promise of the truce. did not allow the evacuation of civilians who continued to hide from the shelling but one day as of styled plumps basement. yet the un has confirmed that it has successfully evacuated hundreds more from mario paul. during a brief ceasefire on red,

misty who we are accompanied by 11 buses, filled of civilians are women, children, and elderly, who wants who are seeking safe haven doors who have made it out. i believe to finally be safe. but they are also watered about the ones left behind is no, i don't know who to ask to get them out of there to get them out of there. if they don't, they will all be killed. who view them may be hope of a fresh sea spire holding a u. n. conroy on its lead to mighty or pool is hoping to use this to evacuate more people and we can cross now to our correspondent in levine and manual shells. and i, it seems that russia has ramped up its assaults on the steel plant. can you tell us more about the situation there right now? well indeed, are russia denies that there's the ground fights are on the other stars tier plan.

but british intelligence confirms that this is happening in ukraine and armed forces. oh, so her said that fighting is happening in the other styles t to plan with ukrainian intelligence officials saying that herb, herb, someone, an electrician gave away maps of the underground, a maze of as a star to russian troops. allowing them to know from which a part of the plans there could enter a d sir maze, burst a d, a forces ukrainian forces currently inside the other style plant we are, it is believed that at least 2000 soul. these are still holding the positions there . well, they said there would not surrender with or the wife of one of the commander of the as of battalion the as of a regiment with cheese or also holding its position. they're saying add that her

husband are said a good bye and say it to her and that they will hold their positions until the very the very and so are fighting's are happening and of course dcs are putting in jeopardy. all efforts are very humanitarian evacuation. they're now a 3 day truce, was supposed to go into effect on thursday to allow people to get to safety. are we seeing any evacuations happening right now? well, it has been a few days that people have indeed been evacuated. i say by now around 500 people have made it out as safely out of her mario bowl. not only out of the esteem plan, but those so are out of them as stated. mario, paul, but they still are hundreds of people who are parked in a steel plant, women, children, elderly people, some in very bad shape, very poor conditions. there have been a staying there for more than 2 months without saying or seeing

a daylight. and they to need a need and out from this situation. there's also, it is believe that hundreds of soldiers, al wounded and they are dead. some of them are trifles, and their rebels enter. the un said there was an operation and away, but then not a giving away a more information. so as not to compromise this operation. am or a president for lensky has issued a quite a stark warning that the humanitarian situation, not just in my report, but across all of ukraine, is growing increasingly dire. let's take a quick listen to what he said. you have shoes out the did you move? if we take only the medical infrastructure to date russians have destroyed or damaged, almost 400 health facilities. aqua, these are hospitals, maternity wards, outpatient clinics, dmc in the temporarily occupied areas of ukraine and the eastern sour. you know, the situation with access to medical services and medicine therapy is just catastrophic demolition. even the simplest medications are missing. i mean,

like what you said russia has brought problems to ukraine and europe that we could not have imagined a few months ago. you, your moody militia, euchre music. if dawn and k calling it catastrophic. and now what more can you tell us about the current situation across the whole of ukraine? well beyond medical facilities being shelled, you can imagine that people are from the east would also seek treatment in safety in central or western ukraine. but facilities are overwhelmed by the amount of people in need of medical treatments. you have to imagine within the country, there's over a 7500000 internally displaced people, some of them coming from areas worst affected by the fighting. so here in the hospital, hospitals are also overwhelmed with war injuries. they have to treat you, added to that there is,

there is regular selling on the infrastructure is also in center, ukraine in western ukraine. and for example, when a power station power plant is affected, then it can also affect medical services. so the whole country is left reeling by the russian aggression. he w correspondent emma, shes in love. if thanks so much. now tensions between keith and berlin appeared to be easing weeks after germany. as president said, he had been told that he was not welcome in ukraine. president zalinski has now tweeted details of a conversation with frank photoshoot i admire. in a turnaround, zalinski extended an invitation to him and to germany's chancellor. charlotte's to visit president, dine. my as tie is with russia. during his tenure as foreign minister of anger, keith he has since admitted that he made mistakes dealing with moscow. now,

while germany's chancellor didn't comment on his or shine miles future travel plans to ukraine, will our shots did announce that he is sending a member of his cabinet. the bonus president to the german president and the ukranian president spoke very carefully to each other. that's a good thing when i spoke in detail to the german president about it beforehand and afterwards of io and vicar trust. and often the result of the conversation is that the foreign minister will soon be a new cream to minister in the creighton tart. thomas ferro is our political correspondent here in berlin. and we asked him what he made, of the very public diplomatic spat between the german and the ukrainian leadership . it was it no one's interest. it was neither in germany's interest nor in ukraine's interest to have this high profile rao at this time, especially when they're so much at stake. and that's the reason probably why

pressure was growing specifically here in germany to try and resolve that route and which very probably also led to a phone conversation between the german president and the ukrainian president. it's important to remember that the german president, mr. stein maya had intended to go to ukraine in april, alongside other european leaders. but he himself stressed that it didn't seem that he was very welcome in ukraine. that's probably related to his past as germany's foreign minister and his relationship back then to russia. but that's white for him . it was also particularly important to have that conversation now with mr. salon ski to try and resolve all those differences. something that was clear from the statement that the german president's office published after the phone conversation took place to other news. now on the world health organization says the corona virus pandemic has killed nearly 15000000 people. that is nearly 3 times what governments have reported. the new estimates includes not only those who died

directly of cove at 19. it's also millions of patients who died because of the pandemic impact on global health systems and society. most of these excess deaths are concentrated in se asia, europe and the americas. eric fy golding is an epidemiologist and a member of the cove at 19 expert committee for the world health organization. we asked him earlier why there's such a difference between the official data and the w h. o. 's estimates of pandemic related to death. the official council is only about a 3rd of the $15000000.00, but the $15000000.00 captures so much more, both the undetected cases because there's very low testing in many developing countries as well as the impact of overwhelmed health care system. and the 15000000 a by the way, is a conservative estimate 420202121. the economists actually estimate 18000000 and up to current time economists actually estimate 21000000

death. so we are definitely definitely seeing a humongous pandemic. and it's, you know, waterfall indirect impacts on many other diseases and hold that. ok, let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. bangladesh, police have detained $450.00 range refugees celebrating the muslim festival of ede on a beach. official said the arrests would do to security concerns. human rights observe as of criticized bangladesh for placing restrictions on the 900000 re hinder refugees in the country. the official death toll from a building collapse in central china has risen to 53. the 6 stories stretch. i came down last friday in the city of chang, jaw. chinese television showed a tenant survivor being pulled from the debris overnight. off the authorities had

announced the end of the rescue mission. in full crew members from the international space station have return safely to uh the caps youll splashed down off the coast of florida. day after i left the orbiting lab, germany's mathias mouth i was among the returning astronauts who were part of the 6 month nasa science mission on, on the capital. now at least 700 people have been admitted to hospitals across iraq with breathing problems. after a sound storm, smothered much of the country in the capital, baghdad, flights were cancelled and streets deserted. authorities are urging residents to stay inside until the as once again safe to breathe. what should be a busy street in baghdad which shops and coffee is deserted? i'm covered with dust. with delicious, sun storm has choked the iraqi capital in a thick cloud of fine particles, turning day to night to prevent inhalation of sand. se,

se masks have become essential. not just because of covert as a result of the dust. bagdad hospitals are inundated with people struggling for air and asking why sandstorms are happening with greater frequency. and that sort of a high level visit. yes, this dust is making the situation worse because we cannot inhale clean air with the sun storm. i had it of the guys in the could have been better solutions for the climate to be less extreme. green belts could have been planted, rusty, as in other experts think climate change is part of the reason for the laser series of storms. but desertification, due to outmoded farming practices, has also made sun storms more likely in a region that is already prone to them. record low rainfall has worsened conditions to iraqis are coping as best they can clean in the sand from their streets.

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