dining office enjoy alice services. a b al, a guest at frankfurt airport city managed by frappe, bought ah ah, ah ah, this is d w. news coming to live from berlin. rushes war against ukraine enters its 4th month. the kremlin, planned for an easy victory and a quick conquest of but ukraine's defenders defied those expectations. and now russia's army struggles to gain territory in ukraine's south and east. also coming

up, jo bible says the u. s. isn't decades long stance of strategic ambiguity toward taiwan remains unchanged. a day after he bowed that the raps would defend taiwan with force should china attack the island? beijing said the u. s. was playing with fire. and how to berlin, when the phone to sleep. relegation play or victory against hamburg is the capital city side. another season in the top flood. ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. 3 months into the ukraine war, the fighting has moved largely to the east of the country. there. russia is making slow progress in its attempt to control the don bass region. for now, the center and west of the country are no longer threatened by artillery or war

planes, but some towns outside of kia that sought devastating fighting are still struggling to recover. the w corresponded max thunder visited the town of hoster mal. we're an international team of psychologists are helping residents process the wounds of war a busy morning at the clinic and the key of suburb hostile mount bullet holes in the window is bear witness to the russian occupation. medical staff have been working round the clock since the clinic reopened in april because they're dealing with visible and invisible grants. i think is kind of a collective trauma or if your locker with paypal, living community's, hon, psychologist malcolm hugo has joined. the operation here is part of the international organization, doctors without borders. he just returned from a home visit in the area. so the woman whose house was completely destroyed was living there with her son, who is 30 years of age and a. and unfortunately,

he was killed in the driveway boy a rocket. and so she's obviously going through a grading process he's on her own now. the key of suburbs bore the brunt of the fighting in the early days of the invasion. that was followed by a ruthless occupation marked by violence against residence. the russians have left reconstruction is under way, but people here are only starting to put their lives back together. the emotional scars run deep. there are various types of trauma people here are dealing like those who experienced the occupation and extreme levels of violence than others. returning to their homes, see not much left of it. and in there were, those were taken prisoner by the enemy kidnaps even taken across the border. dark on your snow conditions all make is one of them. so that he says, russian soldiers shot him in both legs in front of his home. then took him and his

son, and you probably left me on the porch and started to put the gun to my head. and in my mouth, we could assume that when my son saw this, he got on his knees and screamed, please don't kill my dad now. so they put us in the vehicle, blindfolded off with tables. courtroom tied our hands and took us in an unknown direction. you by this evening just on the pavilion. they were taken across the border to bela bruce than flown to cost and russia. weeks later, o lick was freed than a prisoner exchange. his son still missing? whose number could you choose that there was the staiano. it, it's you from the inside and you can't take away the sorrow with your tears. what is his, i mean, we need distraction 3 work and life while we're waiting for his fridge or isn't it you leo was or done yet the worst or was caught given you? it's of there are believe to be hundreds of similar cases in this town alone. do

you all lake has joined the team of doctors without borders. seeking to assist the psychologists by sharing his experiences with him doing his bit to help others heal . in our correspondent max tonda, who filed that report, joins me now from ukraine's capital kia max. we saw an extreme example of psychological trauma in that report, but countless ukrainians are dealing with her own personal trauma in this war. how are people coping? they're generally well, that's right terry. so the people living in that area in the suburbs of t of a lot of them have fully extreme ext, experienced extreme cases of trauma. some of them were witness or experienced a pillaging violin, sir, murder, rape, torture. so people, there are going through a lot a, collectively from talking to these people. it seems that it's an important for

them to keep busy, to, to, to work, to focus on their family, to, to put their lives back together and, and reconstruct their lives. and even reconstruct their homes in many cases now that psychologist that i, i spoke to him in that report. he also said that one thing that, that stuck with me. he said it was amazing that about that he said that resilience that some people displayed in dealing with the situations. i'm really amazed him. but that, that being said, still very important that you don't just pack away your emotions, but try to seek psychological help and try to deal with this on a professional level. but then there are so many cases in this country. everybody is affected in one way or another, not just in the suburbs of kids, but in the occupied territories, close to the fighting line. there are 6000000 people who fled the country or who internally displaced, even in this somewhat seeming peaceful capital of key. at the moment people are dealing with arid alarms multiple times a day. so everybody has a story and is dealing with this in one way or another. yesterday ukraine saw its

1st war crimes trial and in a life sentence for a russian soldier, more trials are expected. what do these trials mean for ukrainians? max and for russians for that right, so for the ukrainians, this was the, this was the 1st war crimes trial and during, and it's reason of this invasion that's happening right now for the ukrainians. it's, it's a, it's an opportunity to, to follow up on their commitment and show that they're going after these chimes of crimes and they're pursuing them accordingly. the russians on the other side em haven't really said much about this other than that. they were not able to provide a proper legal assistance to their soldier there and they would try to help him through other channels. now what exactly that means, we don't really know, but there has been some talk in the past that this very prominent case that the soldier may be part of

a prison exchange in the future. there also have been some concerns of people falling the trial that the, this life sentence is very of the province of his case, may have implications on trials in russia held against ukrainian po w's. ok. let's move on to the war itself. mike, so what's happening in the battle for subordinate? so better done that sca that city in the loo hunter region has been under heavy bombardment by russian forces or ukrainian troops holding on their right. ukrainian troops are holding on to civil don't yet, because that is the case, but the russians are trying to, to, to get it to and circle the town they've been trying to take neighboring villages from there. continue on to the city itself. there's been heavy, heavy bombardment of a residential areas, places in the outskirts of the town was hurrying from the military administration that roughly 90 percent of the infrastructure is destroyed. there's only one who says only one at streets and going in and out,

and people are not being able be able to evacuate at the moment due to the shelling max. thank you very much. the w max turned that in keith take a look at some of the stories making headlines today. turkeys present. russia type out of one says he will no longer speak to the greek prime minister out on accuses curious coast mit to talk his of harboring a muslim cleric hostile to ankara and pressuring u. s. officials not to sell fighter jets to turkey. allegations of abuse of minorities are likely to dominate a trip to china by un human rights chief michelle blanca boucher let. she'll visit the remote sion jung region where rights group say, members of the weaker muslim minorities, suffer serious abuse. a recent data league showed extremely high rates of imprisonment on terrorism charges in the region. australia's new prime minister anthony albanese, is meeting the leaders of the u. s. japan and india for regional security talks in

tokyo, the so called quad countries are focusing on the potential threat from china. the key issue is the security of taiwan. l. u. s. present, joe biden has said washington's decades long stance toward taiwan, remains unchanged. biden's clarification comes a day after he told reporters at the quad summit unto care that he would use force to defend taiwan from any attack by china. china regards democratic island as part of its territory. beijing was quick to hit back. president biden was welcomed with full honors for his 1st visit as head of state to japan, the united states most important post war ally in asia, talks of prime minister for mucus. she does focused on regional security a mid, china's growing power in the aftermath of russia's invasion of its neighbor ukraine . the issue of possible chinese aggression against taiwan has taken on greater

urgency for at a news conference, president biden was asked how the u. s. would respond, are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes, you are. as a commitment, we made a reaction from beijing was swift. don't help him if on the young we deplore and reject the u. s. remarks dick had, i'm sure a taiwan is a unique part of chinese territory and i one key taiwan is purely a matter of china's internal affairs. i shall, i shall be, don't. we will not stand for foreign interference. c, u. s. has long pursued a policy of strategic ambiguity, $21.00, not promising outright whether it would come to the islands defense if it were attacked by china. president biden said in tokyo, that china was already flirting with danger, by conducting military exercises so close to taiwan. freak weather events such as

heat waves and plotting are happening more and more often worse. most scientists blame climate change, but experts also admit forecasting technologies sometimes fails to predict natural disasters. now the european space agency is showing off new satellites which could help to make weather forecasts more accurate. this isn't tornado ali, but a small town in western germany. 43 people were injured when a freak weather event last week took everyone by surprise. where the satellites provide detailed data, but sudden localized events, a hard to predict lifeless ego order, long term, or even 24 hour forecasts are quite possible through zillow, but for very local events like thunderstorms. we need a lot more data, more satellites, and better technology that'll and we're getting there. one term it was bits of attention login, does it often vacant?

one potential solution is the alias, satellite technology used by the u space program to detect wind speeds using a laser. another approach is to measure the number of lightning strikes to calculate the strength of a storm. but european space agency is currently presenting projects like these to industry experts and bomb he is a congress, is this congress is of course, enormously important for the scientist, but also for politicians here that we can show what information we can gather on the climate crisis. and the latest climate research fema forshaw. it's hope these new forecasting systems will help to give early warnings. a freak weather events. hatcher berlin have won the bonus leak, a relegation play off to say in the top flight had lost the 1st leg one neil at home and went to hamburg needing

a perfect performance. and they did it meeting their hosts to nail doing hamburg to another season in the 2nd division. ah, the home fans that folks boxed daddy on were pumped up after 4 long years of seeing their hamburg team stuck in the 2nd division. and it didn't hurt that they at one the 1st leg of the playoff. but then came marvin flattened hard corner and hair to where a head in just the 4th minute, thanks to dedrick boyar to the belgium international winning the aerial battle. and heading home character were dominating the flow of the match and they nearly made it to neil on 33 minutes hamburg keeper, daniel jolla fernandez denying luca to zack with a diving save at half time the home fans were no longer as buoyant as they'd been at the start and things were about to get worse when

flattened hot baghdad goal of his own with just over an hour gone to defender, curling and amazing, free kick right into the news. and that's how it ended to nail in hampton dug themselves out of a hole when it mattered most a joyous emotional night for the berliners and despair. for hamburg, you're watching dw news from berlin. business is next on terry martin, thanks for watching. ah ah ah ah ah ah.