ah this is d, w y from lane russia intensifies its a sold on don bass. multiple towns and cities are hit by intense shelling as moscow focuses on capturing ukraine's industrial heartland. also on the program, german chancellor, olaf charles tells the world economic forum that russia cannot be allowed to win the war and a vigil for the victims of america's worst school shooting for a decade, which is renewed the debate of a gun violence in the u. s. ah,

i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. russia is intensifying its campaign in ukraine's eastern dumbass region. launching attacks on dozens of towns in the hands . good done yet. the key industrial city of severe done yet is in growing danger of becoming completely surrounded. having failed to capture the ukrainian capital key advantage, 2nd largest city hockey of moscow is now focusing on smaller objectives. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski is demanding more heavy weaponry from the west. describing the situation in don bass as extremely difficult ukrainian forces are doing their best to push back russian troops despite heavy shelling in this village now back in ukrainian hands. residents tell of their fears as the

russians arrived. but i don't think you can. we try to keep out of the way miss. i'm yeah, yeah. well, maybe we should go back to the basement. she says, a little bit as a team of associated press film, russian artillery, keep up the bombardment along the road. more evidence of the fighting rushes objective is to cease to don best provinces, done yeske and no hands in the east. at least 12 people were killed by shilling as heavy fighting continues in and around civil autodesk. the local governor says the russians have taken 3 towns in the genetic region. russian troops are gaining ground in the east. these are frontline positions now abandoned by ukraine. but further away from the fighting in areas where the

ukrainians have regained control residence are determined to start over over the 3rd boy that other people are returning home, even though it's safer to await further away. but a cd to teach us her vision was personally mr. luda bowed up, i to the see the new people coming back to their houses and starting to rebuild the helping our military new school. what we asked the battle for done best intensifies, many more lives will be lost grading officials of talk about russia poring and insane number of fighters and equipment into new hands. i asked military analysts, frankly led to which, whether it was now inevitable that russia would eventually take the eastern dumbass region of what we're going to see over the next 4 weeks. i don't think it's

controversial or not really a analysis or crystal ball gazing is what will amount to a see that town american ascii mentioned earlier, which is quite big. it's actually twin time this list chance right next door. so it's about $200.00. but when you have people in the, for about 200000, so back to get about half the size of mario you crate isn't preparing to defend those cities for about 7 years now as to the same number of russian forces coming in. what's happening is that concentrating their attack, i think about the area we're talking about before, whether we're trying to get to, to take the highway. we're looking at about 20 battalions, but ukraine is can face those off. one thing that's not often mentioned filters to close on this question, if i might, or the huge, you crated losses, we very rarely hear anything about it. you kind of government, it's a matter of policy. and quite right, it doesn't comment on it. but from what i've heard, the casualties are really very severe. the thing is they can replace those

casualties. brutal out sounds. right. and we have western money equipment and intelligence pouring into you create an unprecedented rate. so this is slowing down the bleeding. if i can put it that way, but is it likely to turn this around? no, i don't think so. no, not in the medium term will certainly not in the short term. many of those are some of those. some of that equipment and reinforcement is still stuck in the west. i don't know if it's getting down there. i'm hearing that there are issues with that, but it is a short term issues in the medium term. yes. of the long term western support. western intelligence help and above all, western logistics and equipment. how will i believe? who knows, turn that time, but this is going to be a long war. this is one battle in a long, long war going probably to next year and less of a real surprise on one side of the other. because i've seen it written that given

the poor performance of russian forces that perhaps moscow would declare an end to this war effort to capture you cranes, eastern territories. that's possible. who knows what say what in head and he runs the show that i think the credit could presented some form of surrender, the weight would happen, or at least concession. but the way that would happen is the russian simply stand on the defensive ukrainians with which shape up to counter attack. and that's going to happen anyway. doesn't really matter. wants to play what's going to happen on the ground you can use. i'm going to stop fighting because the russians declare some sort of notion of victory was to happen to, to that would be a local success, which could work, i think in the long term b, reverse. thank you for the us very clear. franklin richard military analyst. thanks very much. i've also been speaking with zach, responded rebecca roacha, susan kiff, and as to how people they're feeling about the war now that the fighting has moved away from the capital to the east. well,

feelings really run the whole gamut here fell. you know, you've got, obviously frustration and fatigue, but you also have that hopefulness and you know, it is really a united city or a night at western part of the country if you will. people here really still believe that ukraine can win this war. they, they say that the other option is just too horrible to think about. so people remaining hopeful, i mean there are still some fear, hear the sirens are still sounding, but there is a little bit of a sense of relief that now that the trips have left the surrounds of kevin. i was here a couple of weeks ago. i just re read, returned it to cave, and it is a different feeling. it definitely feels like more of a normal city, if you will. you know, the sun is now shining. of course that helps. but more restaurants and bars are not bars, but restaurants, cafes, that kind of thing are open. you see more people out in the streets for all intents and purposes, you know, you could almost be forgiven for forgetting that the war is on it from time to time . except that people are still talking about it, it is really the,

the main topic of conversation. people are still very worried watching very carefully what is happening in the aisd end. yeah, of course, still really hopeful that they will end up being victorious interest in your and what people are saying about the president. i plug them in lensky because of course outside the country has become something of an icon of this struggle. how do ukrainians feel about him on the way this war is going? after 3 months while i suddenly can't speak to every person in ukraine, but i would say that if there was an election held today, a president zalinski would win in an absolute landslide. people that before the war perhaps didn't have that much faith in the president that, you know, i spoke to one mom before. she said, well actually i thought it was a bit of a joke. you know, he wasn't, he was a comedian. he was an actor. i was very disappointed that he was elected. we all thought, how could a man like this be elected during war time? she said i, i now feel very embarrassed about holding that opinion because really he's proven himself to be such a wonderful leader. he's nobody could unite the country in the way that he has done

. and that is an opinion really help pretty much across the board. feel that he's very, very popular here. people really think that he's been doing an absolutely wonderful job in trying to keep everyone together and leave this come country and try and get support from the international community. so i would say his popularity, his sword during this conflict. okay, thank you for that. rebecca riches and keith of german chancellor, olaf schultz said, russian president vladimir putin cannot be allowed to win the war. a new crime in an address of the world economic forum, he repeated his country support for you crate, but didn't address caves, demands for more heavy weapons. mister shows said brushes, war is contributing to a global food crisis. discussion of the worn ukraine and its effects dominated this year's world economic forum. participants examined solutions for the leading global threats. food insecurity, energy,

and the range of economic crises. these topics were also central to german chancellor. olaf schultz is keynote address, which wrapped up thursday's event, depend immune oil slots to the pandemic. and russia is a war against ukraine in the us. are threatening to roll back. progress made over the last decade from comforting got most dramatic, the fight against hunger and poverty. you can shuttle both. we are risking the world's biggest famine and decades. if we don't respond as nicely on video during the g 7 presidency we launched alliance for global food security with the world bank. germany has set aside nearly half a 1000000000 euros yada over broadcasted globe. it rings out near the global to the crisis is a major risk for poor countries in asia and africa. very difficult time for african countries because it's like it's gotten them off side conscious. a more debt to the cause of conscious struggle with the limited and 105000000 people

got hungry. the cause of good group globally, a little those 30 percent of those enough rica, unless the additional $100000000.00 people is affected to go hungry. so this could be really serious. and now, as the world's most powerful players leave davos, the focus will turn to putting the plans and promises they've discussed into motion . well this yes, did seem like a fundamentally different event. so did you bring fundamentally different insights? i asked the w correspondent, christy plots and who was there? i mean, i think the real question is what really was possible with davosto this year? we had a german chancellor, olaf schultz here this morning, but he was the only g 7 leader to show this year i'm and if we take a step back it may be. mm. it makes sense why i davos is associated with the rich and powerful with luxury up here in the mountains. and global leaders have a huge laundry list of issues to deal with a right now,

everything from obviously the war ukraine, but also the ongoing pandemic. a looming food crisis right at rising food prices and a continued threat to the global economic recovery. so many of them are off dealing with those issues. meanwhile, the people who are here this year, the delegations, and the politicians and the business leaders. they're also concerned with these very same issues. what we did see emerging out of this week was unity around these issues of big sense of urgency in solving them. but a business leader seemed to be feeling like they're stuck a bit that politicians me to act and that the war and ukraine needs to end before they can move on to address these things. okay, so the world's a political lead aside. so business leaders, but president zelinski did make an appearance demanding more military hardware of from world leaders. what sort of response did he get? yeah, that's right. i mean, the west has been providing military support to ukraine since the war began. but so far that's been largely soviet era weaponry and yes,

it was one sky was asking now for more modern warfare, particularly, for example, wong rage weaponry that could you think ships? because russia's, aut navy is currently blocking huge shipments of grain from leaving the country. now, there, it does seem to be a growing openness to considering providing the country with modern warfare because there are many markets around the globe but desperately need the brains again, because there's a shortage of food around the globe. earlier this week we saw denmark saying it would provide weapons to ukraine. the u. s. has already agreed to provide manuever, modern, modern weaponry, excuse me. but other countries are being very cautious. russia has said that the west is already in a proxy war with russia, so to speak, by helping ukraine militarily. so they are proceeding with caution still at this point. so of course, other big issues besides the war, climate change notable amongst them, did not get pushed to one side. right, well we heard a little bit about some protests near by, but up here it can feel like a bit of

a davos bubble in the with the forest and the mountains are that you see behind me some participants didn't seem to feel particularly affected by, by these protests, for example, but that being said, a global warming was the topic of around a 3rd of the panels that we saw this week. so it's definitely an important agenda point up for the, for him this year. but we also had billionaire george thorough saying at a meeting earlier this week that he thinks the warrant crate is overshadowing the climate change crisis and that this could be fatal for humanity. okay, thank you for that. christy. christy plots and the world economic go for the united states. the law enforcement authorities in texas a face and criticism of the amount of time it took for them to storm and elementary school. when a gunman killed 19 children and 2 teachers, sure to was shot dead nearly an hour after he began his rampage. and i'm security officer also failed to prevent the gunman from entering the school. the massacres

once again placed the divisive issue of gun control center stage in america. the town of nevada is morning, the loss of their loved ones. 19 children to teach us 21 lives did were needlessly cut short. the tightly knit community is the latest in the u. s. to be devastated by gun violence. but texas governor greg abbott beliefs mental health and not access to guns is the real issue. we as a state, we as a society. neither do a better job with mental health. anybody who shoots somebody else has a mental health challenge period. we have, we is a government need to find a way to target that mental health challenge and do something about democrats. vito role was vying to be the next governor of texas in an upcoming election publicly confronted, correct. other during his press conference,

he accused the republican of being responsible for the killings by liberalizing state gun laws. huh. the question, all you need to ask him is why does he want violent criminals to be able to carry guns on our streets? go, go, ask him that he has not had to answer for any of this. and he gets by with this theater on calling it out, i came here to called out to stop this because if we don't stop it, it will continue to happen. the community is still trying to process what happened . i was at the school where it was so pre k and kate can every morning you have to open their doors for them to get out. can you see all these faces the, like new them is just really sad. so we have to goes to do this. i'm, i'm saddened by that on angry and our government for not doing more about

gun control. but even as people across the u. s. and around the world express grief and sympathy. few belief that this will be the last such tragedy of oh, well, they don't because one stephan simons was at the scene of the shooting. and i asked him how this close knit community was coping not worry. we'll have to say people are now me or people are still in pain of course, and shock her frustrated and they're hurting. this whole community is hurting her where they had the rob elementary school. you see to your ride on the screen, those crosses, they popped up for him last night and of course they bear the names of all the victims. 19 children, 2 adults, and the site becomes a make shift. memorial of sorts thou with local people from you've all they and her from even places as houston and dallas are showing up here trying to pay

their respects, praying are going on there behind me on this at the side and people dropping flowers. so this community will be in pain for a significant pain for considerable time. and how and of course, now the bell gun control debate has sprung up again. how entrenched are that the 2 sides does the pro gun lobby concede that anything needs to change? yeah, they are as entrenched as they always were they so one crowd who says like, look of these kind of scenes here. these are incidents massacres or children or people are all mass slaughtered by one gun man who is equipped with assault rifles or any kind of gun. we need more restrictions or better or gun control laws on the state and federal level. then there's the other side who says that no, not at all, that's not the right way to do it. they are those a gun control laws or any suggestions. the other side makes are useless. they don't

do the trick. and the only way to get out of this is actually putting more guns into the hands of the so called good guys, the good guy with a gun, this concept on it. so yeah, there is no go middle way at the moment on the political side. definitely not. and today's criticism or the latest criticism is that it's take, it took too long for police to get to the say, i'm one of that what a law enforcement authorities saying about that. was her father not saying anything . we would love to have a little press conference or the opportunity to ask some questions on that issue in a few other questions which remain open and need answering from police and law enforcement. but they're not really forthcoming as of now. well, of course, that is because this is still an active crime scene and the investigators here trying to really come up with a water tight timeline of what went down here. but the besides the fact that people say like they took too long to be there to be at the scene. it is more also at

point here that there was apparently a group of men of fathers who wanted to go into the school and were held back by police saying, look, you're not going anywhere. what ensued then was after there were no gunshots anymore, that it took police 40 minutes where nothing parentally happened, or where they may be tried to negotiate with the, with the young 18 year old, who did this year before they stormed into the school, or at least into the classroom where he had himself barricaded, so they had a lot of details. questions unanswered in this investigation. let's what we get to a few more answers anytime soon. here. thanks for that date of the correspondent and stephanie, a siemens and valley texas. this is solomon price has been won by 3 bella ruffian. political activists award recognizes contributions to european unity for atlanta. took an oscar nicholas ne cova and veronica sep carlo, a being recognized for their struggle against bell lucy's authoritarian regime and

their work to promote freedom and democracy. i teamed up in 2020 to try and unseat bedrooms. is long time leader through democratic means was taken off, sky run for president and session. one regime responded by arresting thousands of opposition. supporters was closely cova, was jailed and accused of conspiring to overthrow the government from the consent. carlo and svetlana to go. sky were both forced to flee the country or the woods ceremony and the germans city of austin. a gentleman. foreign minister anna bab, walk praise the 3 women. say their message was not just for bella roost, but for the whole of europe. he, i'm going to keep watch of your efforts, remind us that we cannot close our eyes when freedom is threatened. we must never look away, but we must take action early on. so on that is the responsibility of all of us and what, and a part of that responsibility is the reorganizing of german and european policy with respect to our neighbors in the east. to develop

a new security framework and the height of faith. we didn't ask for this, but we owe it to our eastern neighbors. not on sweetie, selena paddock. well d, w 's at brussels bureau chief, i alexander phenomena was up the ceremony and told us about the winners reactions. while during the ceremony that was held right behind me in the town whole of october, the 3 on a rees made clear how on earth they are to receive the prize. of course, one of them, maria callously cover. it's in jail in viola ruth and was represented here by her sister. but all on the re said that they believe that this price is a sign, an evidence that europe and in particular germany has not forgotten verified. and sir, as he atlanta, he cannot scale, told us that she was dedicated, dedicating this price to all the people of viola ruth, to those who are still in jail, who their kids who are waiting for their parents for the,

for the many to the many people of viola ruth who had to leave at their country as she did. and she also called on all european citizens and their politicians, to keep up the pressure on lucas shenker stressing that oppression and repression is still going on in the country. but let's have a listen to what she had to say. lucas shameka unleashed terror against its own citizens. then he threatened european security with the fly flight, hijack orchestrated them migrant prizes. just last week, the dictator signed a low permit in the capital punishment for attempted acts of terrorism. de facto, this is a murder warrant. short and so follicle openings are becoming a reality. and i took an oscar. well today marks a 125 years since the publication of a classic horror novel dracula writer bram stoker was inspired to write his vampire

tale while holidaying in whitby. on england's north east coast. the town is now a place of pilgrimage for dracula fact. ah! it was a bright full moon. with heavy black driving clouds, bram stoker's dracula was published on may 26, 1897 would be bay as were in the novel count dracula lands in the western world. twice a year the town celebrates whitby goth weekend. the visitors have plenty of theories about our fascination with the count. very good story. it's spooky. i suppose there's, there's the, there's the fight over god over evil. professor catherine, when has studied the elements that irish writer bram stoker took from whitby. he

also did his research in whitby library, and it was there, of course that he discovered the name dracula. and he changes the name of his vampire from count one pier which would never have worked correctly. it's very melodramatic to count dracula. stoker was also inspired by the 1885 shipwreck of a russian schooner in whitby. he just changed the name of the vote from the demetrius the diameter, the only living thing the pangs of this boat is a black dog, a huge hal. this huge hound is dracula. the 1st film version was f w murno's nurse for our to the german classic has just celebrated. it's 100th birthday. i am regular and ninety's are to want hungarian born. bela lagossi created the templates for a more suave incarnation. but for many christopher lee who play dracula in 7 classic hammer horror movies is the benchmark,

bram stoker died before the 1st film came out. what would he have made of the enduring success of his creation? he was a theater manager. it is full time job. and i think every fear manager in the rightful bite would love a long run of 125 years lease inspired thousands of writers and staged directors. when night falls, we made some dracula devotees who take the whole thing a little too seriously. wanting to gary well noticed that lucifer lucifer jack, you? yeah, we believe that fan toys all room. there's lots of empires in whitby. wow, we're not sure about that, but 125 years on bram stoker's dracula has millions of fans around the world. let me, let me remind you of our top story this our russia is intensifying its campaign in ukraine's eastern dumbass region. floating attacks on dozens of towns in the hans

going to nancy the k industrial city of savannah. done yeah, it's case in growing danger of becoming completely surrounded by more world news at the top of the our focus on europe's up next, looking at ukrainians, returning home to ruins, after russian troops withdrew. i'm good with with

ah, with who? ah, she is the epitome of european royalty. but to the vast majority of her britain, she has always just been her majesty. elizabeth the 2nd is celebrating a 7 decade on the throne. and we find out just what people think of her. focus on d. w. ah,

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news, we shed light on the opaque worlds who's behind benefits. and why are they a threat to us all opaque worlds start to june, 2nd on d, w? it's with hello everyone, and welcome to focus on europe. it's nice to have you here with me. there will be a really special party here in europe pretty soon, and it will be taking place in the united kingdom. that's because queen elizabeth the 2nd will soon be celebrating 70 years on the throne. to put that into perspective, back when the queen was coordinated world war 2, had just ended 7 years earlier.