who's behind? who benefits and why are they a threat to us all opaque worlds starts june, 2nd on d w. ah ah, this is dw news wife from berlin to night. a warning that you cream to fight against russian forces in the east of the country is going badly. towns and cities are being hit by intense show it as moscow focuses on capturing ukraine's industrial heart lamp. also coming up tonight, a vigil for the victims of america's deadliest school shooting in years and

a renewed debate over gun violence. ah, i bring golf is good to have you with us russia's campaign to conquer ukraine's eastern. don't bess region is as fierce as ever. and ukraine of sounding the alar russian forces are launching attacks on dozens of towns in the hans and don't ask ukrainian presidential lensky is demanding more heavy weaponry. from the wes 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. shasky, they are listening. the 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 one of the school so proud of the only question is when it will end, you know, that's what's worrying every one the most or kosovo, die officials or quench. meanwhile, ukraine says the fighting in the east is fiercer than never before. some of castilla shots us club. this situation remains difficult and is getting worse. stringham, but 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 infant son, wisdom, 90 percent of the lawns creech in his under russian occupation. its governess as dodson to the last couple more. sure. the situation is very tense because the russians have sent all their forces to storm de la hans region down the summer,

told them to capture towns and to bring the roads under their control. mister ha, but it is that they're attacking from different directions, gnostic. no, it's very hard, but we've been holding the defensive line. what are the 4 months now? most of useless shoulder wash, despite the fact while the enemy has suffered, significant loss is not good, but they keep pushing towards our defensive line. step by step without hillary shelling at the my old storm for a da leukemia mushroom versus monkey. lance and onions together make up the don bus were rushing back separatist control lodge parts of the territory. russian forces have showed some 40 towns, a crust on bus as they battled 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 corresponded in keep rebecca river

and i asked her what she has been hearing about the situation in eastern ukraine. 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 have actually lost the upper hand in the don't bass region at the mer all at the, sorry, the governor rather of lou. 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 keep them back at this stage. and 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 the, the on, on wasted of 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 a while intents and purposes 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 who like with 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? no, from any one 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. but, you know, it's clearly the, it clear that it hasn't say, say that, you know, if we do go ahead, as henry kissinger said, give out the don master agent that you know, in a couple of years, couple of months, who knows a decade, they'll 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 did, he's just not going to give up territory. and that seems to be the popular opinion . he did abuse rebecca readers with the sobering of system situation and eastern ukraine tonight. rebecca, thank you. and here's a quick round up of some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world to capture the 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 a 12 year prison sentence is a verdict is expected. on tuesday. russia's supreme court has delayed until june, a decision on whether captured fighters from ukraine's, as orb regiment should be designated as terrorist, the russian government considers the unit a neo nazi organization. now, if the regiment were to be designated as a terrorist group, russia would probably not include its fighters at any prisoner exchange with you credit police in the town of you've all the texas are facing criticism over the length of time that it took for them to storm in elementary school were a gunman killed 19 children and 2 teachers on tuesday. the shooter was shot dead nearly an hour after he began his rampage. and the massacre has once again raised the very device of issue in america over gun control. the town of nevada is

mourning the loss of their loved ones. 19 children to teach us 21 lives it were needlessly cut short. the tightly knit community is the latest in the us 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, as a government need to find a way to target that mental health challenge and do something about it. democrat fetal wrote 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 on most 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 has to open their doors for them to get out. and you see all these new them just really sad. so we have to go to do this. i'm saddened by that i'm angry and our government for not really more about gun control. but even as people across the u. s. and around the world express grief and sympathy. few believe that this will be the last such tragedy or

why answer correspondence if on. so i'm is to tell us more about how the authorities are responding for the criticism that they took too long to respond. they actually believe it or not, we just a 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 a timeline established on really what happened when when was, are there gunfire? when wasn't there? so he said number one, there was no resource officer who confronted him. the 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 soon he saw 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 instead on an 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 or a swat that's different. so it took a little time and you see this is the, everybody has to put this and i'm not cutting the police any slack you. there's again, lots of questions unanswered. but keep in mind, small community,

16000 people, this is not big. there's police agencies plus federal aid, but he's coming from all over but from the counties next door, the cities next door and 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 to day. it 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're graduation. now look, crossed my shoulder. of course, this day changed. you see those crosses. they popped up over night. here are bearing the names of all those 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, i'm 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 all 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 hands 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 ah,

with the pockets even if though under investigation for this on that which led to a bankruptcy earlier about the however, a powerful lobby politician. so 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 or what we'll maybe happen next year, or whenever here in the united states say listen, this has nothing to do with this. here i have her rights to bear arms. it's constitutional guaranteed on the 2nd amendment. and i love gun 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. if i'm thinking it finally tonight, the world of electronic music is without one of its pioneers. andy fletcher,

the keyboard is for the british band. depeche mode is died at the age of 60 ledger was a founding member of the band, which after forming the late seventy's help, popularized electronic music around the world. the songs you know and enjoy the silence personal jesus depeche mode, released a statement, saying that they were shocked and filled with sadness. and fletcher's past. he watched the w news of next he w business news with ra once i will see you tomorrow. ah monica is in germany to learn german polish pinnacle why not learn with him online on your mobile and free the chef fee. dolly's e learning course, nikos vague.