ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin to night. a warning that ukraine's fight against russian forces in the east of the country is going badly. towns and cities are being hit by intense shelley as moscow focuses on capturing ukraine's industrial heartland. also coming up tonight, german chance or o shoulds tells the world economic forum all must be done to preserve globalization

. and to ensure that russia loses in ukraine and a vigil for the victims of america's deadly of school, shooting in years and a renewed debate over gun vide ah, i bring gov to our viewers watching on p b. s. in the united states, into all of you around the world, welcome russia's a campaign to conquer ukraine's eastern don't. bass region is as fierce as ever, and ukraine is sounding the alarm. russian forces are launching attacks on dozens of towns in lou hans and don't ask. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski is demanding more heavy weaponry from the west describing the situation in don bass as extremely difficult moments of joy in times of war. this is

the 1st civilian wedding in european a city close to keith. it was devastated by conflict. short of complaint they are on the same thing. well, it's a joyful feeling, but also very unusual because there's a war going on. it's unusual to get married during the war a little you know, that'll give us no need to give up people. life goes on, no matter what i say. the truth is on our side, ukraine will be the will we know of this war so proud of the law? the only question is, when it will end, or, you know, that's what's worrying every one the most or kosovo diapers over quench. meanwhile, ukraine says the fighting in the east is fierce of and never be full. some of castilla shots us club. this situation remains difficult and is getting worse. stringham, probably the enemy is using all its power and means to capture our territory and surround our troops in the fighting has reached its maximum intensity to date.

mister william. mister chromebooks among my income, certainly still 90 percent of the lawns, greed in his under russian occupation. it's governor says doctor to the last couple more. sure. the situation is very tense because the russians have sent all their forces to storm de la, hence region down the summer storm to capture towns and to bring the roads under their control. mister ha, but it is that they're attacking from different directions. last, no, it's very hard, but we've been holding the defensive line. what are the 4 months now? most of useless shoulders, alaska. despite the fact while the enemy has suffered, significant loss is not good, but they keep pushing towards our defensive line. step by step with artillery shelling at the my old storm for a dollar, kenya mercer versus lincoln. glancing genius together make up the don bus. we're rushing back separatist control large parts of the territory. russian forces have showed some 40 towns,

a crust on bus as they battle to seize the entire region. so even as life and air pin and keep slowly returns to normal, else we're normality is a very long way off. or earlier i spoke with our correspondence in the ukranian capital key of rebecca rivers, and i asked her, what has she been hearing about the situation in eastern ukraine? well, i don't have anything better to tell you on that front. things are not looking good by all accounts with ukraine authorities even admitting that they are really struggling to maintain any kind of up a hand that they've actually lost the upper hand in the don't bass region at the mer all at the. sorry, the governor rather of lu. hans has said that russians now control almost 95 percent of that region that's up from 90 percent of from last week. so they are making progress. they are moving forward and the ukrainians are really struggling to even hold them. and,

and keep them back at this stage. we're hearing reports every one rocket or one artillery. that's fine from the russian side. sorry, from the ukrainian side. you've got 10 coming in the other direction. so that sort of gives you an indication of sort of, they the on, on wasted that the heaviness on the russian side. they. so it is looking really, really bad, you could say, and you know, certainly with ukraine admitting that they're losing that up a handle that they've been, you know, while attention paths lost it, that really is saying something of this is going to be a very decisive moment. in the battle, you've got presidents, zalinski and the foreign minister just singing out screaming, shouting from all weapons, they are really calling on the international community. this is almost 2 like we've also say renewed shelling in hockey. brent. so things are really hating up in the east of the country. and in a wondering, what are people there in keep saying, you know, we heard, for example, yesterday from the former you a secretary of state, henry kissinger, saying that for the war to end, ukraine should give up a little bit of its territory. i mean, i know

a lot of people in ukraine are upset by that, but is there some thinking beginning to take root that may be losing a little bit of territory, will have to be the, the price for ending this war not from anyone. i've spoken to really the consensus is here that if we give an inch, they'll take a mile. that's what people are telling me. they really do not think that ukraine should give up any territory. they said they did that already in 2015, 16 that they gave up in a crimea. they thought that that would suffice that, you know, it's clearly clear that it hasn't say, say that, you know, if we do go ahead, as henry kissinger said, give out the don mass region that you know, in a couple of years, couple of months, who knows a decade that will be back for more. so really the feeling he is he that, that is not an option as president zalinski has been saying as well, and he's just not going to give up territory. and that seems to be the popular opinion here. did abused rebecca readers with a sobering assessment of the situation in eastern ukraine tonight. rebecca,

thank you. and here is a quick round up of some of the other developments in this war. 2 captured russian soldiers have pleaded guilty at the 2nd war crimes trial to be held in ukraine. they're accused of showing civilian infrastructure in a town near r. keith, prosecutors have called for. busy 12 year prison sentences, a verdict is expected on tuesday. russia's supreme court has delayed until june, a decision on whether captured fighters from ukraine's as of regiment should be designated as terrors. the russian government considers the unit a neo nazi organization. now, if the regiment is designated a terrorist group, russia will be unlikely to include its fighters in any prisoner exchange with ukraine. you are a secretary of state antony blinking serves the by the administration wants to lead countries opposed to russia's invasion of ukraine into a broader coalition to counter china's global influence. he says that china is

the only country with the intent, as well as increasingly the power to reshape the global strategic order around. russian president vladimir putin says that moscow is ready to help avert a looming food crisis. if western countries lift sanctions imposed against his country over the worn ukraine, russia's blockade of ukraine's port as hold to the export of millions of tons of grain. but the kremlin insists that it is not to blame for. busy global food supply, proc germans, his r o y shoulds says that russia's president vladimir putin cannot be allowed to win in ukraine and addressed to the world economic form in davos, switzerland to day chancellor schoultz repeated his country support for ukraine, but he did not address caves demands for more heavy weaponry. he says that russia's warped is contributing to

a global food crisis. discussion of the warn ukraine and it's a fax 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 thursdays event, depend immune will slots to the pandemic and rushes of war against a crane. and we are threatening to roll back progress made over the last decade. some 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 arrows, a jada 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 offside countries a more debt because of it. countries are struggle with limited, and 105000000 people got hungry the cause of good group globally, a little those that to present to losing africa. another additional $100000000.00 pisec took that 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 . was this year's world economic forum was a fundamentally different event. so did it bring fundamentally different insights. we asked our correspondent christy plants and he was there covering the of i mean, i think the real question is what really was possible with davosto this year. we

had a german chancellor offshore 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, the delegations, and the politicians in 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 business leaders seem to be feeling like they're stuck a bit that politicians me to act and that the war and ukraine needs to and before they can move on to address these things. there was the w's christy plants and their reporting from davos, switzerland. the united nations estimates that nearly 7000000 ukrainians have left

their homeland since the invasion began. over half a 1000000 of them have come to germany. tonight we want you to meet a mother and her daughter who were nel staying with a hose family right here in berlin. to neve, ne of key. if. after month of heavy russian selling much of the city is destroyed, it is anna and such as hometown. in march, the mother and daughter flint to berlin, their thoughts as still with their family and friends in ukraine. slow. so in mind of a yoga thought, i study my friends state incentive that my classmates will. i can't bear the thought that they did not have the chance to escape, even though they wanted to. i can't, but it's terrifying what drives

and even though i'm doing well here, it's hard because i can't help them back in ukraine and i was finishing up high school. sasha walked in a call center than the attack started. now they live with mountain and cornelia young english. he's an entrepreneur, she's a doctor. the couple drove to the polish ukrainian border to help any refugees and take them to germany here and the villains listens, it's honestly, humans are social beings. if someone folds down next to you, you bent down and picked them up again. it's completely natural for simpson to day . and then sasha, at the social welfare office of like all ukrainian refugees and germany, they can apply for financial aid. to day they receive that fast monthly payment, $350.00 euros each. when women did love nick and we want to save up and send some money to grandmother so she can prepare her roof, the skin which was destroyed in the wool. but needless. anon,

sasha want to integrate quickly. they have signed up for a german language course. a charge congregation organizes it for free hub. when do you have children? we have been, i am 2 children. if the, if you go a bud, it's okay with, oh yes, we wouldn't. we want to start until monday. i play at them. so there's a slight a. that's why with my new with the mother and daughter, i slowly finding that bearings in berlin. and i could even imagine studying in germany and lost. i wanted all to come back to ukraine to see my family members. but i think about leaving in german of my life. yeah. and you've been both of us if

the lu i'm too old to completely overturn my former life, or my relatives on ukraine and my house to do i want and that to decide for herself whether she wants to st. germany over 20 ukraine. little, but i want to go home sunday. you leave didn't listen. i ya could seal a book that most of them won't, but bullshit. but at the moment, they have no idea how long that will take beliefs in the town of you've all the texas are facing criticism over the length of time that it took for them to storm and elementary school were a gunman killed 19 children and 2 teachers on tuesday, the shooter was shot dead at nearly an hour after he began his rampage. and armed security officer also failed to prevent him from entering the school. the massacre has once again raised that very divisive issue of gun control in america.

the town of above the is morning, the loss of their loved ones. 19 children, and to teach us 21 lives it 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 believes 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, as a government need to find a way to target that mental health challenge and do something about it. democrats, vito role was vine 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. oh,

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 really more about gun control. but even as people across the u. s. and around the world expressed

great in sympathy. few believe that this will be the last such tragedy. oh, oh correspondence. if on simon's is and the seat of that tragic school shooting in you've all the texas and i asked him to tell us more about how police are responding to the criticism that they took too long to respond. they actually believe it or not, we just the finished a press conference here from the regional director of the department of public safety here. and the police was under lot of pressure today because there were a significant questions on answered. so the regional director came out and held a more or less impromptu press conference, and i can just tell you what he said, so they're trying to get it timeline, established on really what happened when when was a there gunfire? when wasn't there. so he said number one, there was no resource officer who confronted this shooter. actually, that is

a false, a narrative there that there was an armed resource officer who had the chance and did not engage the suspect, which he officially still is on there. so that's not true, then you are right or though between 11 30 am on that day on that tuesday and 114044. so 10 to 14 minutes there was a lot of shooting and certainly so a lot of dying going on. after that it took yeah, almost one hour to have a technical team coming to the scene here and storm the school. get into the room and shoot, slash eliminate the attacker, the shooter, and on and just have on the i sent. what do you see the day was? yeah, what did they said though, about the fact that it took an hour an hour that it took an hour to get a police to? yeah, the school police was here, but the technical team more swats. that's different. so it took a little time,

am you see this is that the, everybody has to put this and i'm not cutting the police and he slack you. there's again, lots of questions unanswered. but keep in mind, small communities, 16000 people, this is not big. there's police agencies plus federal agencies coming from all over but the from the counties next door, the cities next door, no way that the local police could have like solve this problem by themself. so this is what we know so far, almost an hour until the technical team arrived to get into the school slash into the room and eliminate the threat ah, killed shooter. let me make one more point today and was supposed to be a very joyous day. it was the last day of school, supposedly and you know, we just were, we were just were in town and they are posters of the top 10 high school students here in town. i'm. so this is a city which is proud about their students when they ask registration. now look,

crossed my shoulder. of course, this day changed. is he, those crosses, they popped up over night in a bearing the names of fathers 19 children and the 2 adults who were killed here. now, i mean we, it's impossible to imagine how are the feelings that these people are going through the sorrow that has enveloped that community and now moving forward, we know that to morrow in houston, texas on a meeting of the national rifle association is going to take place the in our res, annual convention. that looks bad about what people they are saying about it. i agree that's bad optics and guess was coming prior, former president donald trump and a few other people who didn't mean to or didn't to decide to cancel their appearance there. what do people here think about this? i think if you're at talk to people who are directed directly very directly impacted by what happened here. are they just shake their hats as isis absurd. and

it is a tactless without you know it's, it's not really a good tastes now. the n r a's a very powerful, a lobby with the pockets even if though under investigation for this on that which led to a bankruptcy earlier about. however, a powerful lobby politician says some politicians, a lot of politicians take this money and they'll show up. and they say a lot of people in america who um, what ever happened here or 10 years ago and sandy hooks, all one will maybe happen next year, or whenever, here in the united states, say listen, this has nothing to do with this. here. i have a rights to bear arms, it's constitutional guaranteed on the 2nd amendment. and i love gone sal go there. um and have my n r i convention. is it bad taste for many? it is for others. no problem with all our correspondence. if on simon's joining us

to night, there on the scene of a tragic school shooting in texas. steph, i'm thinking here's a quick round of now with some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. 50 people have been killed by armed fighters in eastern burkina faso. it's not clear who's behind the attack, but jihad, his militants have over run sways of the country in recent years. the violence is part of a wider islamist insurgency, across west africa's. so hell region the palestinian authority. busy says it's investigating, or it's investigation into the shooting death of algae. dear reporter, serene ob, who actually shows that she was killed deliberately by and his railey soldier, the reporter's death 2 weeks ago during and his railey military operation in the west bank caused international outrage. israel's request for a joint investigation was rejected by the palestinian leadership. the legendary american actor ray liotta has died at the age of 67. he was best known for his role

in the crime. classic good fellows. sources say that the actor died in his sleep in the dominican republic where he was filming a new movie now to the u. k, where fans of the swedish super group abba are buzzing with excitement about the bands return to the stage on friday in london. but there is a catch here, the group will not be there in the flesh. instead, they'll be represented by digital avatars or as they're saying avatars. ah, this is a taste of what audience isn't. abba's upcoming virtual concerts can look forward to holograms called avatars. seen here and there video still have faith in you. the rest for tickets for the 1st shows has been enormous. and the count down to the premier is on we are pushing boundaries and we have created

something that people have never seen before. oh, the london concert hall was built, especially for the show. the avatars are an exact replica of the musicians as they looked in the 1970s. after almost 6 years of development, at least one of the members has now gotten used to the sight of his younger self. he is almost like someone else is me? yes, but he's also on someone else. and when i see my avatar on, on, on stage, it really becomes a mixture. it's as if i have kind of infused life into this guy that we see on the screen. the concert was recorded with

160 cameras over 5 weeks. 23 songs were selected, including some from the new album. and although the musicians are not on stage in person, that doesn't mean they don't have stage fright. we don't know how the audience will react. i mean, they come there and they see us, but they know that the it's actually it's not us. the bond is real. we real here, but not on stage. was it be like sort of applauding a painting or something? i don't know if the avatars are convincing and the rush for tickets continues. there could be concerts in the arena in london for years to come see you then. mm. i see about as no plans. and it is what it is. and i mean, we put our hearts and souls into these avatars and they will take on from now to

that handy, lulu the winner takes it all. is a reminder of the top story. we're following for you. russia is intensifying its campaign in ukraine's eastern don't bass region, launching attacks on dozens of talent in the husk and don't ask the key. industrial city of several don't ask is in growing danger of becoming completely sure. route. it's a d, w 's after a short break, i'll be back to take you through the day. stick around. we will be right back with a with

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