[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin and time to let go of mario, paul, that's the message from the top friend ukraine. the commander of besieged troops in the as a stall still works as keep, has ordered him to surrender to save lives. now that i questions about how russia

will treat him and his men. also on the program, the former german chancellor cuts his links with in russia state owned oil company . a rough match that get hot shredder is leaving its board. he was facing the threat of you sanctions over his ties to the criminal on this mountain concern over a bread and potentially deadly illness. a growing number of countries are confirming cases of monkey pox. ah i'm fo gail welcome to the program. as being surrounded by russian forces for weeks on the facing constant bombardment, the remaining as hostile fighters in mario full of surrendering the order to do so, came from ukrainian government, hoping to save the lives of the troops. when in ukraine essay, the fighters or heroes were defined standoff,

what fight they not face in russia is in russian. hands is unclear. keith has ordered. the last fighter is remaining at the as of style steel plant to lay down arms. in a video just released, the commander of the as of battalion says that they have been ordered to abandon the defense of murray, a poll which is cooperating, they still, our commanders have given the order to save the lives of the men and to abandon the defense of the city, and when you show the work is underway to bring the bodies of the killed fighters out just so that ukraine can bury its heroes. what are some of her wonderfully jolla defense? experts fear there will now likely be a relocating of russian forces. troops from are you poll, could now support the offensive in other parts of eastern ukraine, where the russian assault is continuing full force. russians stay television broadcast, images of an offensive in low hunts ukraine's. president,

val autumn is the lensky says the bombardment of the dumbass region has been brutal, lonely now, william, sissy balmy's looks in them. this is a deliberate and criminal attempt to kill as many ukrainians as possible during the wanting to destroy as many homes or social institutions and businesses as possible for you said this is all genocide or ukraine on people. and the occupiers will be held accountable and brought to justice on birth procedure. meanwhile, the governor of the lou hand screech in which is still under ukrainian control has reported further attacks where more people have been killed. let's get more from d. w correspondent, matuse bullying, or he's in crime. a tosca city in the don bass region about 50 kilometers away from the fighting. welcome mathias. tell us what's going on. well, it's already past curfew, so now i'm in the backyard of my hotel. and the city is area quiet and today, and even in the day time,

we've never seen more than 3 or 4 people on the street. and i was the absolute maximum. usually you see no one, most of the people have left the city because it's the administrative center of the dumbass region of those parts that are under ukrainian control. and there were of course expectations that something might happen here. the city has been hit by rockets before there was an attack on the railway station in the beginning of april were made many civilians trying to flee. the city died and since then, more and more people have left fighting is going on. mostly north north, north, east of here in a net, that's another administrative center. in this region. selling there is heavy. people die every day, and much of the city is already been destroyed. right. and both sides. no ukraine and russia have now confirmed that the as of style steel plant is in russian hands. what are you hearing?

yeah, it's what i have been hearing as well. of course, the ukrainian defy the, the as of battalions commander has released a message to day where they have said that they have had the order to, to give up and to save their lives and not to continue fighting under these conditions with. they cannot win anything, they cannot get out. there's nothing they can do. they can just hold on until basically basically they die there. um, so they've been given the order to give up, which means to go in to give it to give up to, to surrender to the russians. and russia has now said that all of those who remained 500 had had surrendered, needs confirmation from the ukrainian side. but it's in line with what we've been hearing before. right. i know you were in, in our favor earlier, were russian troops have been driven back from the outskirts of the city. now authorities, there are, came to restore a normal life and we'll take a look at your report and then come back to images. they came here to flee the

bombs and now they don't want to leave people who have been living in the subway station are petitioning the government to let them stay. subway stations here in hargrove, have been serving as bomb shelter since the beginning of the war. the katerina top i and her husband have been living here since the very 1st day. yeah, i don't have a virus that he really, i go home every 3 weeks. so they said that i always need to prepare myself mentally before i can go. either the most of them and i run home and take a bath so we can wash here that the conditions and that ideal. a lot of my life is doing others don't have a choice. they do not have a place to go back to any more. this station is the terminal station of the metro line, the northernmost station in the city. it's closest to the front line and to those areas that have been most heavily shell. the shelling of hargrove has all but subsided,

and the local government wants to get the subway system running again. it wants the people to leave the metro and is offering to relocate them. but many here don't trust the peace. no with us on the sharon law yet on look, i do go out on the street sometimes but the fear is always there that before it is not that easy. but if we need time to overcome at another her, on the subway station, many of the houses have been destroyed in some streets, barely a house has been untouched. olga has also spent the past months in a subway is the 1st time she's come back to see the apartment where she lived with her mother and her son. she was told that there was damage, but she didn't know how bad it was. told us. it's terrible all along with a shell hit

a wall in one of the rooms. there's debris, everywhere. she documents everything. people can report the damage on the government website, but nobody knows how long it will take to get any support. oh and that hasn't got my knees are shaking my knees. they're actually shaking. i still can't believe agile from what i knew that the winners were broken when you were part. if only that shall hadn't head. yeah. in there wasn't a hole in the wall. we might still somehow move back or the house is still standing, but this is different fairly for now, the only thing to do is to collect some of their belongings. they will not move back to the subway, but to

a relative's house. some distressing personal stories there. mathias, what sort of state is the city in well, it depends on where you are in the city. so these northern suburbs, this house where she was standing is just it's the last house on the border of the town. and just behind we could look out of the window, you see fields and villages, and these villages were occupied by the russian. so they were just able to see, to show from everything they have, everything basically would hit at one of these houses because it was so close. and these areas are basically, i don't know whether they'll ever be inhabited the probably the have, you will have to tear everything down before they will be in rebuild it before it will be possible to live there. for most houses, they've been severely damaged. other parts of the city are not that bad. here there were a few rocketed at the center. you see the city is wounded wherever you walk. and people like life is really returning slowly to the city, much slower than for example, in ki, if after the troops were driven back from the border of here,

basically are life was returning already. but it's different because the fighting is still ongoing. it's further from the city and the shells don't hit the city anymore, but it's still ongoing. so people are much more careful to go back and when he shops are still closed and it takes some time for people to readjust to the situation. thank you for that much is putting in the common tours. a former german chancellor. gerhard schroeder has resigned from the board of russia state oil company ross left after facing mountain criticism over his ties to the country. this week, the european parliament to called her for him to face sanctions. if he didn't quit the form, joan chance was also a long time friend of vladimir putin. the w political correspondence. i'm in young reports for years gear hard, florida has been criticized for his closeness to russian interests. some called him

the kremlin is chief lobbyist in germany. schroeder has refused to criticize the invasion of ukraine and he played down crimes committed by russian forces within the s p. d. the party that schroeder once led, many felt his bees were unacceptable. calls grew for him either to leave voluntarily or face expulsion. this week chancellor shalt himself added to that pressure. one more thing is important to me if i may add, it would be best if galahad square to resign from his post. schroeder has never made a secret of his friendship with vladimir putin. while he was chancellor from 1998 to 2005, he signed the deal to bring russian guest to germany by the gnawed string pipeline through the baltic sea. and he raised eyebrows by referring to the russian leader as a flawless democrat. soon after leaving office, he accepted a job with rush and energy company gas prom. he later became chairman of the

supervisory board of another russian oil giant ra, sniffed. and he's also on the board of the north stream operating company. just why florida has finally changed tack is not clear. he could be down to a motion in the european parliament to put him on a list of those with russian links. he could face sanctions, including asset freezes. maybe the decision by the bundled start to withdraw privileges such as a fully staffed office and a driver force the ex chancellor to think again. whatever the truth many say, sure, the support for putin has tarnished german is international reputation. and that damage cannot easily be undone as get more from simon young. now welcome, simon. am we're 3 months into this war. nearly a why do think it took him so long to act? well i guess for the has clearly yeah, you stuck with vladimir putin needs his close friend does. he says for

a long time and you know, he's stuck with his belief that so you know, gemini should have close any g links with russia. and he said that he doesn't do, may or cooper's, he's not willing to sort of modify his position. and, you know, he's been despite cole's, of course, for him to do that. as mentioned there, i think now the heat has been turned off on him, particularly by this decision, by the put this talk to close down his all face and remove that sort of privilege. that's according to former counsellors. and also by this call from the european parliament that he should be treated like russian all galks and placed on a list of people who could face sanctions. you know, that was if he didn't step back from his role with the russian energy companies. so the pressure has been mounting it within his own party, more and more people saying, you know,

it's time for him to leave the party and indeed time for him to do the right thing . and so perhaps he's finally been nudged in that direction. right. i mean, he said in an interview last month, and he had only you go in russia turned off his gas, apply to germany. so should be read anything into the fact that he's going now. you will, of course, actually it's the other way round as near to europe age, reducing its dependency on russian gas. and before the war, germany was getting more than half of its a gas supply from russia, paying more than 200000000 euros a day for the privilege. now that, that number is falling at the node stream pipeline has been more bold and the german government plan is to end any, any russian gas supplied to germany. so it may once have been an effective salesman for russian energy in germany,

but now not so much. now germany is policy of keeping russia a close was always said to be about engagement and encouraging democracy. but mister shaw this ties did seem to be more about personal gain. well, that's right. he's reported to have been earning a 1000000 euros a year for his role on the boards of various companies. he's been doing this lobbying work in so far as it was possible to lobby for russian energy interest in germany lately. but i think his toys with russia are deep, and he says that friendship with the may approved in his genuine he was as to adopted children. he both came from russia, but to just of late you know, he's remarks about the responsibility for the war and ukraine. lying on both sides in his attempts to sort of play down russian crimes in ukraine. i think that is really crossed a red line for many people and you know,

he's reputation is an old time love. think about simon. d. w political correspond simon. yeah. brief look at some other developments in this war. germany's defense ministry says it will deliver the 1st of its 15 a gap pod or cheater anti air tanks to ukraine. in july, he's been pleading for more heavy weaponry to battle. russian troops in the east critics of accused germany taking too long to deliver military 8. several people have been injured in a russian strike on a ukrainian cultural center. president zalinski released this surveillance footage of the attack in the town of louis over in the eastern region of hockey, is that russian forces deliberately targeted the center. ukraine is accused russia of routinely striking civilian targets. german chancellor, olaf shoulds says katara will play a central role in these countries. plans to cut its dependence on russian gas talks in berlin with atari. i mean a shake at time. im bill out tiny chancellor show said germany would construct

infrastructure to important liquefied natural gas by ship guitar wants to start sending allen g to germany in 2024. and finland assigned to deal with the u. s. company to buy liquefied natural gas after russia said it would hold supplies because helsinki refused to pain rubles, and gas only accounts for about to 5 percent of fillets. energy needs. officials say there will be no disruption to consume i'd rather got it down and where the telephone, i've ordered female t v presenter to cover their faces on screen. it's the latest and the taliban is growing list of restrictions on women. the rules also include covering themselves from head to foot, being allowed to travel only with male guardians, restrictions on working in the band on education for teenage girls. some say it seems to tell about once afghan women visibly erase from society. a popular tv

percentage shows herself getting ready for i show the same day she wrote a woman being erased on orders from the v h. u and vice ministry panama. hot on the back. this was yelder ali, back in september 2021 or midway. now showing her face on air has become a crime on her protest, a strong widespread support on twitter. some say yelder ali is a hero. others ask her to stay strong. but there are also comments like this. seeing westerners have brainwashed, muslim women and opinion shared by the taliban, which less than 2 weeks ago, ordered women to where they're all covering. had to told booker in public, despite vows to respect women, when it came to power in august. it also asked them to stay home. schools for girls remain closed. long distance travel for women is no longer possible without

a close male relative. the tale bonds growing repression has confirmed the fears of the international community. what we're seeing is i as an expanding set of restrictions on our, on women, and it's quite systematic. and it's, it's certainly not looking good as, as one, as one of on women characterized a to me. she said that she had a sense that there was a taliban, a war on women. and i did the this, i think is it something to, to really take stock or is that women and are honest and feel under siege yet many remain resilient. these women say they will not lead to booker hide their identity . they are determined to defend their rights for as long as they can. and germany has detected its face, its 1st case of the red monkey pox virus. the armed forces medical service as, as it was found in

a patient in munich. the world health organization is concerned. the virus could spread throughout europe this summer. growing number of cases of not been reported in european countries and elsewhere. normally the virus is found only in africa. researches are perplexed, as many of the new cases are in people who haven't been monkey pox as a rare viral infection usually found in small mammals in west and central africa. the spread of the virus is usually caused by people traveling to those areas. but for the 1st time, the disease appears to be spreading among people who have not traveled to africa. germany, belgium, italy, and sweden had become the latest countries to confirm cases. following britain, portugal, spain, and the united states. there is something very unusual in terms of bo speed in which it spread and also the long incubation time, 12 days and sometimes potentially 21 days mid means are you could silently or

incubate in many people before we realized that in australia, one man who had recently returned from britain is also infected. a 2nd case was awaiting confirmation. the individual who's been diagnosed in victoria. i came from london. i so flew on the 14th, landed in abu dhabi, and then was on an ebay, darby, melbourne slice landing in the early morning of the 16th. i had some symptoms prior to being on the flight, but has attended for medical care almost immediately. monkey pox, similar to humans, smallpox, though milder. most people recover from it in a few weeks. symptoms include fever and headache, feeling tired and swollen glance. the virus is usually transferred through close bodily contact, a bodily fluids. their wold health organisation says the general public should be

aware of unusual skin rashes and acknowledged that there were still many unknowns. also in terms of transmission. one of the theories of health officials is that the disease is now being sexually transmitted, but further investigation is needed. a house official say monkey pock symptoms and mostly mild, and there's no cause for alarm. but after more than 2 years of the corona virus pandemic, many people are worried. professor kate baker is from university of liverpool in the u. k. we asked her if we should be concerned. yeah, there's a look happening. i guess us just having been through k that and, but there's a lot of good news here compare and contrast, say the case fatality rates, which you think is the one that everyone worries about as far as how many people you know might go on to have a fatal infection is quite low from monkey pox and it's very context dependent. said previous estimates you put it around between 0 and 11 percent. but that wide range is because it really is dependent on the outbreak. so we just don't know yet . but as they said in the lead in, you know, typically it's

a self limiting or short term disease with relatively mild symptoms. and again, in contrast to k that, you know, it's not a very vulnerable virus. so we wouldn't expect this sort of streaming very. and this like we had with the k that outbreak as well as the transmission is very different. so, you know, there isn't a symptomatic transmission, so we're not going to be playing catch up as much. it's typically quite hard to transmit. and when someone is transmitting, they've got symptoms and so it's much easier to intervene in that transmission. nora tornado has struck parts of western germany, injuring dozens of people and causing severe damage. the trista tor, through the city of potter born on friday afternoon. police say between 30 and 40 people were injured 10 of them seriously. heavy damage was also reported in the nearby town of lipstick. lodge parts of jeremy, remain on the alert for more severe weather and prices of spiked for

food and fuel since rushes invasion of ukraine. increasing costs are causing some people to get creative and rethink some of their typical daily actions. one woman in germany's desire to leave her car, a toe, an op for an alternative mode of transport. oh, it's the morning commute, but not as you know, it. with fuel prices spiraling. 33 year old stephanie kitchener decided to opt for a cheaper form of transport. giving up her s u v. and traveling the old fashioned way instead that it does ish and yet no, ma'am, i no longer use my toyota, which only gives me 17 miles per gallon about or even less when i transport things in large and litter. so if i managed to ride the horse every day, then i said about $250.00 euros each month on fuel than brush only by lapel. so

she admits her choice of transport is not popular with motorists, but delights the kids in the local village. and although she's able to make the 6 kilometer journey to work, stephanie accepts it's not ideal for traveling more widely. i don't can finish it. i can, you can just put a horse in a parking garage. now, it would be nice. i think a lot more people would use horses if more places accommodate them mad, but i don't think society is ready for that because that chap fate is me. so like with no sign of the fuel crises abating. for now, stephanie is determined to stay away from her for wheels and travel on for hoofs instead, wiggle, go some sports, sunday for barbarous adornments, looking for a new coach after parting ways with marco rose, describing the season's results as unsatisfactory mistake when the club said the

decision to remove the manager was taken following an internal review, dorman, finish 2nd behind by munich in the buddhist league, a but really disappointed fans. in the champions league, europa league and german co, a boeing's new star line capture has launched on an untrue test flight. the international space station comes after more than 2 years of delays and engineering setbacks. the star line quickly made it to orbit after taking off from cape canaveral in florida is expected to take around 24 hours to reach the i assess. we'll spend a week there before returning to earth folios. well, 2 or 3 massa test pilots could take the capture for bobby's 1st crew flight. by the end of this year. is reminder of our top story this. our russia says it's taken full control of the as of style. steel planting, mateo paul, ukraine's government ordered the last remaining troops of the as of stalls still planned to lay down on the move is aimed at saving the lives of the fighters. tales here comes across to christ,

but there's growing concerned over how russia will treat those who came out alive. former german chancellor, gerhard schroeder has resigned from the board of directors of the russian oil company roles, math and you low makers of coal for him to face sanctions. if he didn't quit is a long time friend of russian president vladimir putin. a criticism of his ties to russia, i've been, has been growing since the invasion of the mall. well, near the top of our eco africa is here on

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