for so you are not a visitor, not a guess. you want to become a citizen, into migrants, your platform for reliable information. ah this is the w news live from by land, russia back separatists claim to have taken over a key town in east and ukraine. moscow steps up, it's bob bob with tom's boss, i mean to encircle, defensive forces and take control of the country's industrial. also on the program investigative in ukraine,

get down to the task of prosecuting alleged russian war crimes and 13000 cases, but eventually come before the court. g 7 leading industrial nations that set our time vicious new climate change goals. energy ministers meeting here in berlin. name to stop using coal, to generate electricity by 2035. ah, i'm from gail. welcome to the program. or ukraine's warning that russia is edging closer to surrounding its forces in the eastern industrial heart land of don bass. those could be a turning point in russia's drive to gain complete control of key east and regions . pro russia separatists say they've taken the strategic railway hub town of layman . russian forces are also besieging the city of louis chance. ukraine's president

vladimir savanski has accused moscow of carrying out genocide in dumbass mines like this is what life in ukraine's east looks like now. residents of the city of lucy chanced, desperate to escape the constant shelling shelter here in this basement. why didn't you? many here urgently need medical supplies, but traveling to get them is too risky. will not only get so my father suffered a stroke. and there are many others in these houses who need medication. about 7 incremental ukraine says the fighting in the east is fiercer than ever. with nearly all of the lu hans district underbrush and control. some of the other sites of scrub the situation remains difficult and is getting worse trim problem. 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. mr. william with several among some on my infant. so mr. moscow has set of fights on dealing control of the dunbar. you preens industrial hot land, russian troops attempting to encircle ukrainian forces by seizing t highways in the region. finishing the current offensive by russia in the don bus could make the region uninhabitable. putting pressure on russia is literally a matter of saving lives. and every day of delay weakness, debates or proposals to pacify the aggressor at the expense of the victim means more ukrainians killed by g grange. ukraine says 50 towns and the region came under shelling, poster, which killed at least 9 people. for the reduction troops gaining ground justin's, he'll see no escape in sight with i says look at this sir. this significant

development them with rebecca written in kiva. welcome rebecca, at why is the the millage bean ukrainian military struggling stop brushes advance in the east while it really comes down to weapons. phil, i mean ukraine has a still has really high morale. little, of course, be interesting to see how that is maintained. if russia does keep advancing, but at the moment, you know, there is still a lot of positivity and good morale amongst churches. a lot of people who are willing to fight, but they really struggling on the weapons front. they're really outnumbered. you know, we're hearing reports of, for every ukrainian, a missile that's fired or artillery fire, they're getting 10 to 20 in return. they're really outnumbered by heavy weaponry, which is why president zalinski has been calling for support from the national community since the beginning of this war. and those calls are getting louder now, i mean that they have received a lot of weapons about their they keep saying they need more and they certainly

need everything that has been pledged to actually arrive, arrive in the country and arrive at the frontline so that they can attempt to hold back the russians and in fact push them back. but at the moment, they're not being able to do do so because they, they're just being outnumbered when it comes to weapons and separatists are bringing their since 2014 now appear to have joined in the fight. yes, that's right. it is. it has been claimed for it, he does appear that they are the ones that took that town of layman. they are a militia groups that have that fight for the russian back forces in the deanna done. it's a people's republic and the yellow house, people's republic, and they are joining in the fight as well. but on the other side, the ukrainian side, you have also a lot of people also volunteering to fight. but as i said before, it really the weapons that the tray needs if they're going to be able to hold back these forces and you talked about the ukranian marolla president zelinski nightly

address has struck. i'm also down beat an ominous tone on wednesday, how ukrainians are reacting to these message that but things are not going so well there. i mean obviously people are taking it quite badly. the quite worried everyone, you know, that you talk to him and ask is really worried over. they say that they, we have to, when we just have to, when they're that to think of the alternative just isn't worth thinking about. they're trying to remain positive, but things aren't looking good. this is a really decisive moment in this war, and people are extremely worried. what's next? they say, you know, if you give an inch, russia will take a mile. that seems to be the opinion of most people here. so they're really concerned that if they, if they do manage to take don bassett, they will continue obviously, as they have promised to head further in the southern regions. those port cities of odessa mc alive, and of course it has everyone here incredibly concert, even in k of which is of course, relatively common, almost kind of back to life as normally in

a certain respect. but they are incredibly worried about what's happening in the east of the country. and so people left there in don bass must be living in some terrible conditions. absolutely, i mean is nothing short of dia, down there, feel these people have already been living without utilities about electricity without running water already for weeks. now they've been living on an almost continuous shelling and that is just getting worse. it's intensifying these people that are running out of food medicines. they're living largely on the ground and shelters and bunkers with only, you know, moments of daylight in moments of calm. we're hearing about most cities in the region. you're really only having half an hour between shillings, so terrifying circumstances. the people that haven't been able to fled around the people that chose not to or people that just simply couldn't because they're elderly or disabled. so, you know, imagine how they must be feeling. it must be a terrifying situation for those people down there and it looks like it's not going to get better any time soon. thanks. rebecca. rebecca risa in keith

through captured russian soldiers a pleaded guilty yet ukraine. second war crimes trial. they're facing up to 12 years in prison, age charged with shunning, civilian infrastructure, it eastern ukraine. this is just one of thousands of cases being investigated by ukrainian or authorities, and fresh evidence of war crimes is being discovered every day. and next report from mac sandra contains images that you may find distressing. deep inside the forest lies in anonymous grief. whoever chose this place didn't want anyone to find it. 2 months after the end of the russian occupation here, the body of a ukrainian man was on earth. his passport found here by the police say, the death of the 56, your to billing is linked to the russian aggression. nothing unusual these days. the whole demo, we found many of them and we will find more because a lot of people are missing. a lot of people died. so

a lot of people who are buried are much of lot those rules occult them if the victims daughter is on the scene, she tells us her father went missing on the 18th of march during the russian occupation. it's ny alicia. she wishes i only know you won't down of his house and didn't return more. i think he went to feed the dog of the neighbor who had left. i didn't know where else he would have gone up with the water sticky. leave it beneath it so far, clues are limited as to what happened to her father. his passport shows red stains on it, possibly blood, butcher hostile mill hairpin. these towns have become synonymous with russian war crimes. more than a 1000 people were killed in boucher alone. a neighbouring her pin, the cemetery has changed in appearance with hundreds of freshly dug graves to day streets and the area are lined with destroyed houses and shops all over town,

reminders of horrific acts of violence like these cars attacked with weapons of war . so all the vehicles are see here are civilian vehicles that were used by people from boucher to try to flee from the russians and flee from the fighting. just like this vehicle over here. as we learned, it was struck in the back while trying to exit the town. it was hit by heavy machine gun fire and the bullets traveled through the entire car hitting in the back. next thing at the fronts and killing at least one person inside. one of more than 3000 war crimes that are now being investigated and the key of region alone, an arduous task. but authorities are making some games. who, you know, we have already fixed that 300 percent from russia on the in key region that were mentioned here in our church. and when also was it? so they went from special forces from russian federation. they came here, we have their names, their names, also even their families the default,

but with them being out of reach of ukrainian authorities. what are the prospects of bringing these men to justice? but it's where they couldn't to visit any, come to is a, have a possibility to be arrested. so anyway, you know that if somewhere at zabel come international court and international police officers and maybe to pull those, find all them and arrested. so we hope that they will find the punishment because they are guilty. so far, fewer than 50 alleged russian war criminals remain ukrainian custody of a g 7 climate talk. so here in berlin have ended with a commitment by the group of 7 leading industrial nations to largely and the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity. by 2035 russians, invasion of ukraine pushed the phase out of coal on the introduction of renewable energy sources. the agenda, with many countries, including germany, still dependent on russian co, oil and gas,

reaching also accelerated partnerships to tackle climate change. i started already, but i d. w. political correspondent, julia sa deli joins us from summit and both welcome julia. so just talk us through what's been agree, as you've said, one of the important points that was announced here at the summit was the push to stop electricity production with fossil fuels by 2035. but that is not the only thing that was committed to the countries here. also pledge to reduce carbon production a within the transport section in the coming years. but also to stop using coal to produce energy. we do not have a deadline for that goal to be reach for the phase out of coal for the entire g 7 signaling that there is a desire for each country to go their own way on that. but we also heard a pledge for the g 7 countries to support developing countries in the adaptation

effort to the consequences of climate change. and that underlines the importance of the fact that it is the developing countries that are bearing the brunt of the consequences of climate change. there was also focus, put on the protection of the environment from problems like plastic pollution or the loss of biodiversity. and on that, let's listen to what germany's climate minister hold, but how, because to say ga, just gordon. thus, it's become clear that climate protection is not only an industrial energy issue, but that the vulnerability of ecological resources to your sions, coral soil, degradation must be considered together with the efforts we're making to cite the climate on slow down global warming sizes of ramos. i'm swims and so at julia as well as those agreements. so we see the u. s. and germany have done

a separate deal. yes, they assigned a new energy partnership between the 2 countries and it is a partnership that ties into the discourse coming. for example, from the u. s. is climate envoy, john kerry, who referred to the u. s. in germany as 1st movers in terms of countries moving towards a transformation towards a sustainable renewable energy production. and also it plays into this plan by german chancellor. all of shots to initiate a so called climate club, a group of a leading countries in terms of transformation towards more renewable energy production, where countries like germany in the u. s. can push for the development of new technologies, for example, in the fields of hydrogen or offshore wind, to really a managed to, to, to give more steam and momentum to the energy transformation. of course, the, the war in ukraine is everywhere. what sort of impact has it had on this g 7

meeting? it was definitely one of the top topics discussed here at the summons. and a lot of the ministers who spoke at press conferences and at events made clear that of the rushes invasion of ukraine and its consequences have put the focus on the connection between security, energy sourcing and climate change. and it has made it even more relevant for countries within the g 7 for will germany or italy to become quickly independent from russian fossil fuels. now the challenger, there is to make sure that this move away from russian energy sources doesn't bring g 7 countries to rely more heavily on fossil fuels, from other countries and other sources in the long term term. but this move away from these russian fossil fuels actually leads to a transformation towards a bigger use of renewable energy. thank you, julia julia, i've done it a felony has confirmed its 1st

case of monkey pox. global health officials have sounded warnings about the rising number of infections in countries where the virus is considered not to be a demi. on 200 suspected or confirmed cases have been reported early may mostly in your work, your boxes, the type of viral infection, more common in west and central africa health organization, since it can't be, it can be contained in non and demi countries through quick action tarika your share of it speaks for the world health organization and joins us from geneva. welcome to the w. what is the quick action that should be taken in suspected cases? well, we know about the virus for many decades, and we know that it is being transmitted from one person to another to close skin to skin contact. so what is really important is to detect cases,

make sure that people who are diagnosed with the monkey block are being isolated and therefore we, we break the chains of transmission. it's important to look for people who may have been in contact with his 1st and monitor those people that he will caught contact. so it is really a possible to, to, to contain. but countries really have to act rapidly. and we are working with scientists from all over the world to try to really understand the context of this . because it is very difficult to see this big number of cases outside of the country that has not happened before to this extent. and so perhaps you could describe to us that the symptoms and outline why this is they w, i chose radar. well, monkey folks was on our priority list, the packages for many years. it is related to smallpox, the disease that we managed to eradicate in $78.00. and we were watching,

working with the countries to see really how we can work on they have no sticks on, on treatments and overseas. that research was ongoing. now it is not the disease, so it's being trust in the 1st place. it comes from, from animal world to human, to be true. conflict between animals and humans. the symptom, start with a headache with a fever, and then after a couple of days distinctive the distinctive feature of monkey pox to start to appear. it is, it is the rush and legions on skin as well as a swollen not so whoever lives in the area where there was a confirmation of smallpox and start having these symptoms should, should go to the health provider. again, most of people have just mild symptoms and the disease will simply go away,

but disease can have a severe consequences, especially with the even compromised people. children, all the older persons, right. so like in the early stages of cove, it early action isolate and wait to to see which, which way it goes. but unlike covey, the a, w h. so he's saying that there is no need for mass vaccination. so this is really as much as we know, and we are now looking and analyzing the virus and genetic sequence to see whether there was any change. but trans traditional monkey books is transmitted to really truce clothes came to skinny conflict. so you really need to be very close and be touching the person in order to, to be infected. like i like call it the spread the true to air souls and droplets as well. so. so we have to be careful. we have to work together to understand effective why suddenly we have this number of cases. in the meantime,

it is important to to increase surveillance, which will probably lead to more cases being indemnified. but try to really get into into quick action to try to break that any any, any further on where transmission. ok, thank you for that. you're shot of h from the world health organization. so quick round up of some of the stories making news around the world. china and russia have vetoed a un resolution put forward by the united states against north korea. the americans want to impose more sanctions on piano because it's renewed. ballistic missile launches is the 1st time the red security council has been split since sanctions against north korea. again in 2006. so i think it has begun 3 days of mourning for 11 newborn babies killed in a hospital. fire. officials say the fire was started by an electrical short circuit

. incidences, broad course of more accountability in the west african nation. russia's invasion of ukraine has changed the way many germans, few than military on the country security. during the cold war, a germany was on the front line between east and west and boasted a much larger military. national service was compulsory from miles, but that was abolished more than 10 years ago. now some germans believe that country could be under threat again and ah, stepping up to trade as reservists in the german army. i'm down with oh, marching in step to the shooting range. they may look like pros, but for another lean to the yeah, it's all in you by the clerk for logistics management as training to become a reservoir here at the close of its barracks, the northern germany, or you go to the i o. but as who it is that it's quite a sighting to actually hold a weapon. it had to, i had never shot

a rifle before. and so i was quite nervous owned vitamins, vacant, else could a however, we were very well prepared. we did quite a few dry runs so that would be ready for out of her and then not just trained to shoot but also given medical training and taught military law. among the $61.00, recruits public service employees, engineers and electricians average age. 37. that seemed highly motivated and will later be used in homeland security for the head of lower sex and he stayed command these recruits are welcome reinforcements, those after decades of specializing emissions abroad, the germans armed forces are now turning their focus on national and collective defense. again, it miss, no, she doesn't want to, so we need to master the use of combined arms again, the sc effective up. we also need to handle germany's responsibility as a whole bunch of cowboys. if reinforcements on behalf of the nato alliance are sent to germany in order to be deployed to another country or something fruitful organ.

and the bonus fair has to carry out those services as part of the so called post nation as a cordless. honestly, on those or duties that we have not been attending to quite so closely. that's in the office. however, they're now gaining an importance again at vogue in them one and because of that force is a half a trained them isn't just like these reservices here today. yours, for a long time, germans were in too interested in the military. in fact, many of you did rather skeptically rush us invasion of ukraine has changed that and increased the importance of the wonders there. as well as the motivation of these future residents. the added to as at 1st i really was a bit scared. i was like, do i still really want to do this? but i am increasingly convinced that our freedom and democracy are extremely deserving of protection. and i can do my part young did so of biotin, diarrhea and the others will do 18 days, training and total, squeezing it in iran, then normal jobs. but once it's over, they will be ready to defend their country. if the worst comes to the worst. a

london is in the grip of abba fever. the swedish pop supergroup reunited at the star studied premier of a long awaited new show. the band was there in person looking a little older than in the heyday. but up on stage, a magic of digital technology brought the younger cells back to life. it was a triumphant return to the red carpet. for the sweetest superstars. some 40 his own from their last performance, the band was excited to be back. it's so nice to see all the k c center, all the expectations and everything goes right into your hobby. when i'm so heavily, fans were clearly ready to take a chance on the group's new virtual performance. mm hm. inside they would take him back in time as holograms of the band from the

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american actor riley auto has died. age 67, new jersey born star got his big break, playing ex, convict racing clay in 1900. 86 black comedy, something wild. but he's best known as real life mobs to henry hill in martin scorsese's. good fellows with robert de niro and john radio to died in the sleep in the dominican republic where he was filming, and is reminded by top story russia back to rebels claims have taken over a key town in easton. you cried moscow pressing ahead with an offensive and securing control of the countries industrial holland cave says its forces are under attack from 3 sides coming up next to a news asia. michelle basher, that controversial visit to china. the united states is called the trip by the un human rights chief. i mistake best, a guy why chinese bug a has

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