ah ah this is the news line from berlin, russia back separatists say they've taken a key town in easton ukraine. moscow step suffered bombardments of don bass. i mean to encircle, defensive forces and take control of the country's industrial heartland. both so on the program. g 7, industrial nations set out,

i'm vicious climate change goals. energy ministers meeting here in berlin, aim to stop using coal to generate electricity by 2030 by 2035. and london in the grip of aba fever is really pop superstars of the seventy's and eighty's launched a new stage show with digital wizardry logger to appear as the youngest. ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program. ukraine is warning that russia is closer to surrounding its troops in the eastern dumbass region. events could be a turning point in russia's drive to gain complete control of don bass pro russia separate this, i've taken the strategic railway hub town of leman. russian forces are also

advancing from 3 directions on the nearby twin cities of savannah donetta. and lucy, chance ukrainian control cities in the hands g region, have come under relentless of bombardment, seeking safety under ground. for though still in sever danielle basements like this are the best hope of escaping the relentless brush and shelling. they tried their best to go on as normal, but they moved here is desperate. whatever i loss of serv. i don't some of those churches, mormons explosions. and so marshall, i just wanna, i just have to order and most crucial or mozilla, ukraine says 90 percent of the housing in the city has already been damaged by shelling. russia says it's artillery has been pounding ukrainian military targets

as part of its effort to rest control of the last part of the loo, hands green in in ukrainian hands were moscow is also trying to cut off supplies to the ukranian defenders striking this warehouse in the east and town of back mode were a critical supply route to the besieged cities begins. but while russian forces may be making advances, ukraine's determined resistance goes on with the ukrainian military release. this footage, it's sad shows us try go on a russian position in a village just outside several don yeske. another sign that for moscow it's offensive is likely coming at a heavy cost. well corresponded rebecca with this is a key even asked her why ukraine was struggling with the stage of the war while it really comes down to weapons. phil, i mean ukraine has as still has really high morale. it'll 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, to, we're hearing reports of, for every ukrainian, a missile that's fired or artillery 5. they getting 10 to 20 and return the 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 loud. and now i mean that they have received a lot of weapons about their they keep saying they need more and they certainly made 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 just being outnumbered when it comes to weapons and separately. so being there, since 2014 now appeared to have joined in the fight. yes,

that's right, it is, it has been claimed for it. it 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 that 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, it really the weapons that, that, that new tre needs, if they're going to be able to hold back these forces. and you talked about the ukranian morale were president zelinski nightly address has struck a more sort of down beat, an ominous tone on wednesday, how ukrainians are reacting to his message. that 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 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 dom bassett, they will continue obviously, as they've 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, that electricity, without running water already for weeks. now,

they've been living under almost continuous, chilling, and that is just getting worse. it's intensifying. these people are now running out of food medicines. they're living largely on the ground and shelters and bunkers with only moments of daylight in moments of calm. we're hearing about most cities in the region, you know, really only having half an hour between shillings. so terrifying circumstances the people that haven't been able to flatter or are the people that chose not to or people that just simply couldn't because their 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. as rebecca rebecca recess a keith or satellite images have become one of the key sources of information as this war unfolds, photos and videos taken from space documents, events on the ground, and can provide a vital evidence of atrocities. images like this one,

showing the destruction of mario pole, a providing crucial insight into russia's war in ukraine. satellite technology has become a game changing tool in documenting atrocities. this is mary, you pulled before the russian invasion there. this is how the city looked afterwards where you pulse theater, where hundreds of civilians were sheltering before a devastating air strike. the word children is written on the ground on either side of it as this next image shows that did nothing to deter the attackers. these are just some examples of how satellite imagery often captured by commercial companies is helping investigators pinpoint what's happening on the ground. when russian troops withdrew from the city of boucher, near kiff, ukrainian forces discovered streets lined with the bodies of civilians. russia claimed these scenes were staged by ukraine after its troops had gone. but

a satellite image showed what appeared to be bodies lying in the street nearly 2 weeks before the russians left the town. it showed how these pictures can also provide evidence of potential war crimes year. so couldn't think what we have conclusive evidence, model, satellite images, and we can conduct a finland transparent investigation. that is what we're interested in the maximum axis for journalists, maximum cooperation with international institutions. involvement of the international criminal court, complete truth and full accountability. commercial satellites mean pictures like these showing what appears to be mass graves and now widely available. it's changing the way war crimes are investigated and could prove vital in ukraine's efforts to hold perpetrators to justice. well, the satellite images we saw in that report were produced by mac saw technologies. a steve winwood is one of their senior directors. he joins us from westminster,

colorado, in the united states. welcome to d. w. how did you come become to be involved? we've been really doing this for decades, quite honestly, of our satellites, of which we have 4 that are in operation in an orbit today. have been documenting things that are happening around the world for, for decades. the ukraine crisis has been particularly poignant. we've had more imagery, more capabilities to help show and visually document like what you're just describing on your program. whether as boucher or murray, dupel or other areas around the country were watching areas like several genetics right now. but being able to help but visually show in document what's happening. that's, that's been a core part of what our company is all about. right. and those satellites must be covering enormous area. so what makes you decide to look more closely at a particular area? one that might, for example, contain a mass graves. sure, while we attracted the news, we worked very closely with organizations like yourself. and so we are constantly

keeping track of the latest the, the most significant areas to watch. we are also tasking and looking at areas based on what our customers are asking us to do. so every day we're trying to figure out what areas are most important, what areas have the highest priority? what areas do we need to be able to collect and then refresh and monitor to see what's happening. and talk to us about the sort of detail we can get, what sort of resolution are you able to identify your people of vehicle license plates for example? yes. so are the best resolution we can currently do is 30 centimeters and resolution. that's about it. think of it is a very small amount of detail or very good amount of detail. we can identify people, but we can't detect who they are. we can see that we can see a person, we can see a crowd of people. but we can identify the face, we can see that kind of personal behavior and world. in a larger perspective, we can see things like the windshield of a car. we can see the tube of an artillery gun. we can see

a tank or an armored personnel carrier, we can see a grave. and so it's this level of detail and resolution from space that is able to provide this kind of forensic quality imagery that then can be used for investigations for documentation, et cetera. so how does that work then? let's, let's talk about about about that, that be investigation. is it that someone comes to you and say, well, we think of this happened in this area. what pictures do you have, or you sort of doing that, the military thing as like, well this is happening in this area. perhaps you want to be looking over there. that's a great question. and the answer is that it's really a combination of both. so oftentimes in, especially with the ukraine ukraine crisis, we do indeed have investigators. we have journalists, we have clients that are coming to us and say, we would like to get the imagery of this location because we think something important has happened here. i was literally working on a project this morning that continues to look at future that area outside of the

keys, where the bodies have been seen right after the russians had pulled out of the area . so in that particular example, like with many others, there is a very specific idea of an area of interest to look at, right. but you mentioned that important point. sometimes we see things that we feel are important. and that's when we send them out to organizations around the world as well. and those before and after images can be quite striking. what will take a look again about image from before the marion poll was destroyed. and perhaps you can explain to us what, why this sort of documentation is so important. well, and then you, you bring up a very important visual case point. and i think the marable theater was one of the more dramatic and more significant images that we collected in the series of images that we collected. but why it's important that it does provide that visual record so that the data is accurate. it can be damped with a moment of time. we know exactly when and where we collected it. and so all of all

of that can become evidence very or again, part of the investigative effort, the people, organizations, united nations international tribunals, whatever might be, can use this as a piece of rep record, or of evidence good talking to you. thank you so much for joining us, steven. ward from macs, our technologies you're most welcome. germany's development minister has travelled to ukraine to pledge further support and to discuss rebuilding the country. it's financial. so i met with local officials and the town off up on a junker, on the outskirts of steve said that russia has targeted civilian infrastructure, such as residential buildings and kindergarten. germany wants to help rebuild ukraine's rude cities. or the russian invasion has changed the way many germans view their military and the country security during the cold war, germany was on the front line between east and west and boasted

a much larger and military national service was compulsory for males. but that was abolish more than 10 years ago. now some germans, really the country could be under threat again and stepping up to train as reservists in the german army. i'm down to my oh, marching in step to this shooting range. they may look like pros, but for honestly into the it's all new on the clerk for logistics management is training to become a reservoir. here at the close of its barrack, 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 the i had never shot a rifle before. and so i was quite nervous on 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 they're not just trained to shoot but

also given medical training and taught military law. among the 61, recruits public service employees, engineers and electricians average age 37, they are deemed highly motivated and will later be used in homeland security for the head of lower sex in his state 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 massey doesn't want to, so we need to master the use of combined arms again. the skiff up, we also need to handle germany's responsibility as a whole bunch of cowboys to be if reinforcements on behalf of the nato alliance are sent to germany in order to be deployed to another country or something, truth an organ. and the bonus fair has to carry out those services as part of the so called post nation is subordinate, honestly, on those or duties that we have not been attending to quite so closely. as in the office. however, they are now gaining an importance again at wagner,

one and because of the force is a half and we train them isn't just like these reservices here to day. yours for a long time, germans weren't 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 resumes for him to be added to us at 1st, i really was a bit scared. i was like, do i still really want to do this? but i'm increasingly convinced that our freedom and democracy are extremely deserving of protection. and i can do my part, young did so of behind, 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 to 7 climate change talks here in berlin has 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 rushes invasion of ukraine,

push the phase out of coal. i'm the introduction of renewable energy sources of the agenda, with many countries, including germany, still dependent on russian coal, oil and gas, reaching also accelerated partnerships to tackle climate change or d. w. political correspond to julia, so delhi was at the summit and i asked her about some of the main points of agreement. 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 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 of foot 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, puts 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 whole. but how, because to say george, this is 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 to give it. with the efforts we're making to save

the climate and slow down global warming sized data ramos, i'm so crimson to 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 shows 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 and 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. and 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 it's 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 example, germany or italy to become quickly independent from russian fossil fuels. now the challenger, there is to make sure that this a 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. this move away from these russian fossil fuels actually leads to a transformation towards a bigger use of renewable energy. thank you. julia julia. sally inputted onto the united states and police and texas are facing criticism of the length of time they took to respond to the elementary school shooting but killed 19 children . and 2 teachers officers shot dead the attack and the an hour after he began the rampage. the massacre in new val day has re ignited the debate of a gun controlled in the u. s. stephens. siemens reports you well, the texas surrounded by corn farms and cattle ranchers just about 85 kilometers from the u. s. border with mexico. the small town and the south of the lone star state has become a household name for most americans. recently, for all the wrong reasons. a few days ago the world was turned on its head for this

type of community. when an 18 year old gunman stormed into rob elementary school, killing 19 students, and 2 teachers, i heard say, really hurt or where are her. we never thought this would happen. here is just a little small town. everybody is pain stricken, feels paralyzed and is in the state of emotional shock. even her children can feel the pain. jeriso says they see me crying, they asked me, why do i cry? and i go because i don't know what i would do without them. and i know it hurts to see other parents what they're going through. it literally does it hurt and i, man, i can't sleep. i can sleep at night knowing that those children went to school thinking that they were safe after almost no communication to the public in to the media, the police. finally, days after the massacre and rob elementary school came out with more information about the timeline about what had happened here. the teenage shooter enters the elementary school through an unlocked door guns blazing. 4 minutes later, local police departments are inside. make an entry. they hear gunfire,

they take rouse, they move back, get cover. the officers pinned down called for help and help arrives. but only late, too late, many se, approximately an hour later. you with border patrol. tactical teams arrive. they make answer. shoot and kill the suspect. despite the many unanswered questions, the parents and loved ones of those who died still half despite the grief and pain they and the whole town feuds right now, many here speak up demanding tighter gun control measures. the laws at the be more strict are is too easy here to get a gun. i was a poor background checks and alyssa longer process take for them to get the rifles or any any pistols. it's too easy here to get a gun just across the street from another makeshift memorial for the victims of

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