[000:00:00;00] ah ah, this is dw, live from berlin. ukraine seeks a new deal with russia. prisoners walk is on the table. ukraine wants to get seriously injured fighters out of the as of style still plant. and in return russian prisoners of war to be handed over. also on the program in the u. s. and brushed attempt to secure abortion rights fails, democratic senators move to create a federal law protecting access to abortion. but it struck down along party lines

here from washington about to fall out. ah, i'm told me already. well, well, come to the program. ukraine is proposing a prisoner swap as part of efforts to resolve the stand off on the as of style steel plant. in mario poll, the plan would see injured ukrainian soldiers evacuated from the plans in exchange . ukraine would release more russian prisoners a war. meanwhile, ukrainian forces save successfully pushed back against russian troops in the east. some residents who fled the fighting have begun returning to their villages. a home at last, tatiana has returned to her village for the 1st time in 2 months,

but there's not much left of her house. her garden is littered with the aftermath of russia's invasion, touch on as goats, at least survived the eyes slide. welcome there with them here. russians are brothers is no good. i could never imagined anything like this. this aggression luxury and destruction. a visual when i came home, i kissed the ground. now i have nothing void where am i supposed to live and what you like to do was your neighbors in the village weren't spared either. and also came back to find the piles of rubble where their homes once stood. but perhaps nowhere are the ruins greater than mar you, paul. after weeks of relentless bombardment, russian forces and their separatist allies are now in control of almost all of the strategic port city. before rebuilding can begin,

cruise must 1st clear massive amounts of rubble. i used to have 3 rooms now only half of one. when i came up from the shelter, i opened the door and there was no apartment any more. that was scary. residents who have remained behind are now trying to get on with their lives. and in many cases, that means improvising the loan hold out of resistance remains the as of style steel plant where fighters trapped under ground have been withstanding russian pounding the ukrainian government has proposed swapping them in exchange for russian soldiers captured during their invasion of ukraine. he w as much as belinda is in the ukraine and capitol, key of where people are awaiting news of the suggested swamp. there has been this proposal. it has not been accepted so far by the russians,

but what the ukrainian side has said is that talks are going on these. this is something that's very emotional here in ukraine. the whole country has followed these this battle around the steel plant and the education of the civilians, and for many ukrainians, really wish for these fighters to get out of for the soldiers to get out of the steel plant. they're seen by many as heroes who have defended the city with almost nothing in their hands or the positions in the end where they were not the city anymore. most of the city had already been occupied by the russians, but so, so it's something very emotional and it's something that would be, well, it comes on the other hand. we also know that russia is often taking revenge on those that they see as service serviceman or as military personnel,

or people who are have been in any way serving in the men who have been in any way serving in the ukranian army. we know that at checkpoints when people civilians get out of the city, they are checked for to choose that might associate them with a ukrainian nationalism or, or, or, or for any signs that they have been serving like like the gun belt leaving it's traces here. so it's very tricky thing to do to evacuate them. monitors from the united nation, say more than 200 children have been killed in ukraine, and more than 400 injured as a result of the war. and according to unicef, nearly 2 thirds of all children in ukraine have been forced to flee their homes. a camp for internally displaced, people in the west of the country is trying to meet the needs of school age. children whose lives have been up ended, and our correspondent emanuel shall paid them a visit. it takes

a village to raise a child and war times. i'm no exception. human, even though frankie asking western ukraine locals had mobilize resources and manpower to give young displaced children a safe haven. martin some friends, 2nd is safe space. was the support of antonio mercy call. when the worst started to, we really wanted to make a bigger contribution and ever saw so many people who are new to our cd. it with the families. and i, we also saw there was a breed needs in taking care of the kids while parents to trying to figure out their life here in our city. and to together with my friend who is there in education area. ah, we are open to this school camp disco camp brings a semblance of normality back to the lives of these children. to all of them is home. me, can i? yeah. and we play dr. and hairdresser, with my friends. going. i want to go home. i'm from key la,

lana till the day of my grandmother lived here. early early we arrived on the 3rd day of war here at 10 p. m. believe or 30 then really? i miss my friends. you very cheddar. love that always jamari. my name's my name's sophia, i'm from turner. you. i miss my friends that alicia despite coming from very different places and not always sharing the same language or cultural background. children here quickly adapt college when kids from different parts of ukraine talk to each other. it's very good if they share experiences to parents. lots from eastern and central ukraine speak russian, but now they're trying to speak ukrainian, sometimes with a funny accent, but it's good. they're trying beyond the see the lines, the children are still experiencing the trauma flow. something indicators also try

to address children need to talk by themselves about this. so they, they would sell as okay was said in their bomb shelter for a week, and then they start opening up or we, we lived under like many rents. and then we traveled here, so they are aware and for this particular reason we have every week, art therapy sessions was lab recertified psychologists and that they work with them through therapy, through art, through therapy for them to express themselves across ukraine. similar initiatives are tackling children's needs. while they alleviate to plato for them, they cannot replace the safety of their homes, they have lost. let's take a look at some other stories. making headlines. calls are mounting for an independent investigation of the death of sharina utley. the veteran al jazeera journalist was fatally shot while covering and israeli military rate in the

occupied westbank. the colleagues say it was is rainy troops that killed her. but it is really military chief says it's unclear and pulled the trigger. trill anchors, embattled president has promised political reforms in a televised address. soldiers have been deployed to quote, civil unrest and anti government protests across the country. any sri lankan blamed the president for the current economic crisis and shortages of basic supplies across the country. top you officials are in tokyo for talks. the japanese prime minister from yoshida, european commission president, was left on the line and council president sha michelle, seeking to deepen the use ties with japan and the tensions with russia and china on the line called washer the greatest threat to the international order in count on one, north korean leader engine has ordered

a nationwide lock down after reporting 1st official corona virus outbreak, state media as a sub variant of army current has been detected in the capitol. young, neighboring south korea is offering assistance. sri lanka, as president, go to by roger packs has promised political reforms as he attempts to lift the country out of turmoil. the televised address for those days of violence, the country and weeks of anti government protest over slang. as worsening economic crisis, prison roger packs is promising to end the political uncertainty, starting with changes in the corridors of power. mama, this, i am working to form a new government this widely to control the current situation and prevent the country from falling into anarchy. gamma. this week, i will be appointing a prime minister and a cabinet were able to win the confidence of the majority in parliament theory and

will strengthen the confidence of the people in the country. and for more on this, we are now joined via d w reporter. and a shorter ana. so the speech from the president was this. what's real uncle? we're expecting. um, well, it might have been what they expected because many sri lankan see go to buy a roger packs or is someone who really wants to hold on to power. but it's not the one that they were hoping for, for the anti government protested that have spent months demanding that the government steps down. they wanted to hear something more radical. like you got to buy a roger packs that actually saying he's going to resign them. it's not enough that his elder brother who was the prime minister, has stepped down at the beginning of the week and that members of the raja pox. a family who was serving and government have also gone from their positions of power

. they want the president to actually leave office and step down. but roger packs, a speech was more about how to bring back some political stability to sri lanka. and he was promising to carry out political reforms when the country became more stable. you just heard in there saying he was going to name a new prime minister. and that's quite important though, because the countries situation is getting more precarious every day, even before the violence, the beginning of the week. we saw the people were suffering from electricity blackouts. there were shortages of fuel and medicine and food. and that's because the government has run out of foreign reserve to pay for these imports. and the governor, the central bank, was urging got to buy a raj a pack. so to bring back some stability to the country because the country needs a prime minister, a finance minister to be part of the team that's negotiating right now with the i m

f. 2, to restructure the countries debt and to, to create a rescue plan for sri lanka. but seen lots of unrest, for example, on monday night, you know, and this just, you know, following is an escalation of all the violence and the unrest we've been seeing over time. and now with soldiers patrolling the streets, there's a shoot on site policy. is this actually working to sort of get rid of all of all this arrest? yeah, the unrest that we saw on monday night was really quite astonishing. and there were lawmakers who were actually killed in violence along with protesters. and the presence of the army on the street has brought some yes, some enter the violence, but the violence was already dying down before the troops were deployed. and it's hard to say whether the actual presence of the troops on the street and making people feel safer. the w reporter, i'm

a shorter thank you very much to the us now where democratic lawmakers have failed in the bid to legalize abortion. nationwide, the senate voted largely along party lines against the bill. it would have guaranteed abortion access across the us. the result was expected and the vote largely symbolic. other, some other supreme court is expected to overturn roe v wade for 973 ruling that granted women the right to abortion. all correspondence to me so must canda is in washington and has been following the debate. he has her assessment, the stakes are as high as they can be a when it comes to abortion rights. i mean, if roe v wade does get overturned next month, we're talking about millions of women who will lose the right to an abortion in those conservative states. 26 states are very likely to overturn or to band rather abortions. that means millions of women might have to travel hundreds of miles to

access one. and those who cannot afford to do that by the way, that is dirt disproportionately black and brown, women are facing a very uncertain future. so the impact of what we're seeing right now in the u. s. is debate around about abortion rights and where roe v wade heads from here is really crucial and deciding the coming years you're up to date. you're watching the w news. i'm told me a lot equal. stay with us. not just another day. so much is happening all at once. we take time to understand this is the day in depth look at current news, events analyzed by experts and critical thinkers, which is the weekdays on