more life starts may 28 on d, w. ah, this is d w. use life from the north korea reports. it's 1st coven. 19 death state t v says hundreds of thousands more north koreans is showing symptoms. experts say it's unlikely the isolated brain james is equipped to manage this explosive outbreak. at the dangers discovered after russia's retreat, teams in ukraine cove through regain territory for unexplored weapons of

correspondence is about the challenges they thanks. plus the strong, it's costing light on the doc to val galaxy. scientists reveal the 1st images of the black hole at the center of out ah, i've been fas all and it's good to have you with us. north korea has reported its 1st death from cove at 19. the news comes a day after the country acknowledged an outbreak of the virus for the 1st time in this world wide crisis. ordering a lock down, the same media says 6 people have died from a fever that's been spreading fast nationwide. it's confirmed one of them had tested positive for the corona virus on the chrome period. it's also released this photo of leader kim jong and at the emergency epidemic prevention headquarters. the

country had previously claims to have had 0 infections during the pandemic. it's refused international help with vaccinations and has kept its borders closed and joined by corresponding josh smith in seoul, south korea. not so far from this very secretive nation, but tell us a bit more about what's going on or, or what you can tell us, considering that officially cove. it is now starting to take its toll in north korea are about 2 and a half years into this pandemic. that's right, it is quite a startling admission by the government. there long been suspicions of their that it was unlikely that north korea would entirely escape this global pandemic. and now we have the 1st official confirmation from the government that there are indeed cases there. as you mentioned though, even the death numbers that they've released so far do show the amount of confusion

over exactly what's going on there. this kind of unknown deeper that they say, hm infected at least 350000 people so far just in recent weeks. but they haven't released total cobit case numbers and experts we talked to said that that shows perhaps a weakness in their capabilities and able to test the sheer number of people with symptoms out there right now. and so i think going forward, there's going to continue to be questions over not only the numbers, but also their capability and being able to help people and prevent widespread us just just how bad do you think this outbreak get considering such a poor health care system no vaccines and sanctions on top of that. so north korea has a relatively high number of educated doctors and staff and

a health care system that's given it's, you know, authoritarian nature of the government can be very quickly mobilized and deployed around the country. however, they have chronic 4 digits of supplies, medicines, equipment, all of that, which is why experts say that it's so critical that they do open their doors to some aid. now in recent months, there has been a trickle of aid. we understand that community from some international organization, they're going through that very tight, border locked down that you mentioned before. however, there's been no sign of vaccines which have been key to keeping at least the death rate lower around the world and are seen as key to allowing north korea to eventually open up and protect it's already battered economy. do you think north korea will eventually have to open up and in effect open itself to outside scrutiny . there are some observers who. ready looked at this kind of

rather unprecedented state media coverage of this 1st outbreak as a possible sign that north korea is moving towards that, that they're getting ready to potentially accept some of this aid. they've already opened their border slightly relative to what they had before. again, in an impairment apparent acknowledgment that they do need to ease some of the controls that they have had there. and so there is an optimistic view that hopefully they are now with the scale of this spread, going to open up to some of that a that will allow them to live with coded as the rest of the world. this journalist josh smith in sole south korea. thank you very much. brushes advance in easton, ukraine has met with a strong counter offensive russian troops losing ground around the city of hockey. give you credit. your troops have also blocked a russian river. crossing in the dorm bass region, according to british intelligence and areas in ukraine,

where russian troops have already retreated now face a massive clean up job. ukrainian security teams are undertaking the dangerous task of removing rockets, munitions and mines. as the w is funny for char reports, a broken leg, an injured spine, will let em your volume barely survived a land mine explosion. but you see you need time. much needed comfort from his wife, while at amier was on assignment, restoring electricity in the key phrygian when it's happened. just when we host, when we were driving in the car with my colleagues. there were 3 of us, the driver image, myself, and my boss. so are going to, we were talking about our plans for the next day and then i don't remember anything from the, from a blue. that's when the car drove over a land mine value only survived because he was in the middle seat. he's colleague

sitting next to him. died demining teams like this one work against a clock here in the churn have region. sometimes they're able to remove about 40 explosives per day. it's not nearly enough. like a pretty my, it's a 3 amount of work is huge and now because the grass is growing and everything is blossoming, it makes it impossible to work faster than what's harder. for instance, to see booby trap was to word more roster. oscar booby traps are banned. by international law, the teams task today, a controlled explosion of this hurricane rocket full of cluster munitions, full indiscriminate weapons that can cause many fatalities before the war. people came here to walk. now, even that has become risky after the withdrawal of russian forces,

as you can see, they have left behind a lot of land mines, unexploded munitions like this one. and now they pose a threat to farmers who need to work on the land, but also to all the civilians who simply accidentally happen to step on one of these here in the forest or in their backyard. it will likely take yours to the mine ukraine, as the war ages on me, how you low explains felicia statistically one month of war equals one year of d, mining order civilians get blown up by these tramps words. those who have nothing to do with any of this and never wanted to be part of this war in the 1st place, nicholson brother park. one of them had physical injury, so he'll say, but he must go with a mental impact to go with the bouquets. what can i say when you speak to a person who's and a minute or 2 later, you understand that this person is not alive anymore? this is very heart doctor, but someone needs to know the charter woman mothers comes with 2 of

these by the hidden danger of mine and other explosives. he wants to continue this dangerous job and bring electricity back to the people. and for if a child is in care for us, funny and tell us besides living in a war zone, how do ukrainians deal with having to live with this constant fear of stepping on something like a landline? it's really incredible to witness this level of resilience and courage that people display here on the ground. you've seen that and attrition in that report who says he wants to do his job. he wants to continue bring electricity of the people. but we also met a farmer, for example, who said he simply doesn't have any alternative than to work his land to be able to feed his family. this is the season right now. fact, it's almost over when all these last agriculture fields must be worked on the plants need to be seated. so in some ways, people don't really see and other alternative to make money. and many other ways to

just say this is their way of telling russia they're not going to give up their homeland. so they come back to these places that are literally lit up with land mines, explosives and all kinds of other devices. and they're risking the lives because they say they will not give all ukraine. now the overall feeling though is of course, people are scared, but they're special actually fed up by the way this war is being fought. they say it's a very dirty war, and they say that this aggression by russia displayed by these mac minds that they left behind, clearly shows that it's a very ruthless war. and it's very likely that as we have also, i expanded that report. this is a threat that you played is going to face for years to come even when the school maybe over at some point and russian aggression is over. but what they leave behind is something that ukrainians to people here have to face for a long time. can you tell us where the war is at right now? and the situation in the east right now, in fact, and it's just

a snapshot because all of these things can change daily the front lines. but right now, if you really zoom in on the eastern part of ukraine, but also the ne, namely hockey region, we're really this counter offensive. the ukranian forces seems to be voting. in fact, of some of the villages they in both the north and the east of harkey, which is the 2nd biggest city of ukraine. this is where most of the russian forces have been withdrawn from abilene repel from bought. the situation in don bus region is quite quite different right now. in fact, they are spears fighting between ukrainian or russian forces, trying to maintain control, either part of little small villages. and we're hearing that at this point. it seems like the russian forces seem to have, i had way there. while at the same time you premium forces seem to advance as well because the weapons actually from the west do arrive. and so just say that this is one of the reasons why they can actually gain this momentum right now. but the question is really, whether these momentum that seems to be now rather working for ukrainian forces,

whether they can maintain this momentum. and this is a very sketchy picture there, as i say, we can only talk about the snapshot right now. thank you very much for the very latest from ukraine, with funny fetch are there. let's look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. veterinary lankin politicians, vanover chris sinker has been sworn in as prime minister after the previous pm resigned this week. resign guns are facing severe shortages of food medicine and fuel, which they play on the government, they calling for the resignation of the president as well. one person is dead and a dozen wounded in a roadside bombing in pakistan, southern port karachi, explosion targeted van carrying security forces. no group has claimed responsibility sofa of wild fi has destroyed a wealthy neighbourhood in southern california. people are evacuated from the area

as the place destroyed homes and land a local fire officials, a climate change is made even small fires more dangerous. the region is experiencing a long running drought and very dry conditions. are just as broad central when as aires to a standstill on thursday, argentines are angry about soaring inflation. are also opposed to the government re paying $44000000000.00 in debt to the international monetary fund and are instead demanding more social aid. astronomers have unveiled, the 1st image is captured of a super massive black hole located at the center about milky way galaxy. they said the discovery will help us understand the massive gravitational vortex and what it's capable of. what scientists have long waited for the 1st ever picture of the black hole known as such a serious a star. you are the 1st to see our image of the black hole in the center of our

galaxy. as close as it gets. our entire galaxy revolves around sagittarius, a star. these images helped an international team of researchers prove that black holes are constantly in flux, their gravitational pool is so strong that they swallow everything around them, including light. but when gas around the black hole heats up, it produces radio emissions. and these were captured by 8 connected telescopes. still getting a photo of the black hole was a huge challenge because it just won't hold still of his own kind. his v v that it's like a little baby voting around. it's hard to catch and of the exit tune as well. i in filing was it took to supercomputers in the usa and germany 5 years to generate images of the black hole. it's covered by gas and dust in the milky way, and that made the imaging even more difficult than capturing this the 1st ever picture of a black hole from another galaxy. researches are hoping they'll be able to capture

moving images of black holes one day. but to make that possible, more specialized, powerful telescopes need to be built. let's just i'd that little baby of that moves way. you're watching dw news, i'm being vigilant. i'll see next out of i pulled on the road with our travel super heroes. my mission is clear, you hushed ego, antony, called foolish explorer, germany. they dive in and they check everything out. there's a lot going on and o germany tried and tested.