ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin tonight, russian advances in eastern ukraine. a 2nd city has fallen to russia this week alone. moscow is stepping up its bombardment of the dog bass region, aiming to encircle defensive horses and take control of ukraine's industrial heart

lamp. also coming up tonight, g sub an energy minister's meeting here in berlin, making ambitious goals aiming to stop using coal to generate electricity by the year 2035 plus the right decision in the long period. there is no, no excuse for that protective officials are blast the police for failing to act swiftly enough to stop the teen gunman in that elementary school massacre and london is in the grip of abba fever. that is why the dancing queens are there. the swedish pump superstars of the seventy's once their new stage show with digital, with drink, allowing them to appear as their younger cell. ah,

i break off is good to have you with us on this friday to night. ukraine is warning that russia is closer to surrounding its troops in the eastern don't bass region. the advance could be turning point in russia's drive to gain complete control of dumbass for a russia separative say that they've taken the strategic railway hub town of lima. russian forces are also advancing from 3 directions on the nearby twin cities of several don't ask and lisi shots, ukrainian controlled cities in the loo hunter region. have come under relentless, bombard, seeking safety and a ground for those still in several, denise basements like this are the best hope of escaping that. relentless, fresh, and shelling. they try their best to go on as normal,

but they moved here is desperate. whatever i loss of serv, i know some of those churches, foreman's explosions. and so marshall will i just, warmer i just have to order in most pursuit or masula. ukraine says 90 percent of the housing in the city has already been damaged by shelling. russia says it's a tillery has been pounding, ukrainian military targets is part of its effort to risk control of the last part of the loo. hahn's gree jeanine ukrainian hands were moscow is also trying to cut off supplies to the ukranian. defend us, striking this warehouse in the east and town of buck mode were a critical supply route to the besieged cities begins. but while russian forces may be making advances, ukraine's determined drifts distance goes on with the ukrainian military release.

this footage, it sat, 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. ever more? no, i'm joined by samuel bended. he is an adviser of the center for naval analysis, is russia studies program. he joins me tonight from washington. d. c. mr. ben, it's good to have you with us. of, you know, you heard the news there. you've seen what's happened this week? ukraine describing the fighting in the east of the country as being at maximum intensity. russia saying it's make you more gains, are we looking at a turning point here in this war? thanks for having me back. i think it's a little too early to make any definitive conclusions about how this particular russian advance is going to go there. so opportunity for counter attacks by the brain and forces by the russian forces. what is happening right now is probably reflection that the ukrainian forces have, in fact, suffered

a lot of losses. they've suffered attrition. they're running out of manpower and supplies. russian military has more of the same. they have more soldiers, they've more supplies to have shorter logistics and supply lines. and so we're looking at a situation where russian military is bringing all of its numbers, all of its forces in there against an exhausted ukrainian defense. but again, we shouldn't probably jump to conclusions whether or not this is going to be a turning point because ukrainian forces can still launch counter attacks. but are we seeing now 3 months into this work? what we expected to see, you know, 10 weeks ago, and that is the military might of russia on display and also working in pollutants favor. this was probably expected early on, all of the concentration of forces at the ukranian borders. all the numbers, all the russians, all of the technology systems,

all of the russian tactics. this was probably expected early on, that russian military would advance in an educated manner and overwhelm ukrainian. defenses is so in a way, yes, this is something we probably anticipated early on, but what is happening now. 10 weeks later is a testament to the ukrainian defense to it. it's a testament to the tenacious ukrainian a defense is counter tax tactics and their ability to exhaust and grind down the russian military 3 months into this war course. it's not all good for rush. i mean, we're hearing that russia is now deploying 50 year old t $62.00 tanks. i mean, does that mean that the russian military is running out of modern equipment? well, in a way, yes, russian military did lose a lot of it's modern frontline forces, but it appears that the t 62 that you mentioned aren't going to be put to the front

. they're going to be in the rear action and they're going to be in gar, duties. they're going to be monitoring the situation so that more modern things can be rotated to the front lines and he 72, the t s and the t 90 s. we talked a couple of weeks ago and i remember asking you to give us a prediction about how this war would end. and i asked you, do you think that this is going to be a war of attrition? what do you say now? it always has been a war of attrition, a few weeks into this war, it became clear that the russian military would be unable to make any significant breakthrough. and because of a very well organized and well educated, ukrainian military that were able to successfully counter the russian force, they basically limit that russian advance to incremental advances here or incremental events is there again, 3 months into this. russian military is pulling up additional resources. it has

more material, it has more man power, it has more military systems to put in the field. but the ukrainian defense is still capable of holding russians and bay. and so the advance around them or the nafrica was a challenge, is an attempt to inflict probably the 1st major loss only you bring in forces, but that's not a foregone conclusion as well. it appears that this style of work and continued for quite a while with russian military slicing off little bits of ukrainian territory, creating salience around ukrainian forces and then closing those salience off with the sheer numbers and the sheer overwhelming manpower samuel ben did. it's always we appreciate your time and valuable insight, helping us to understand how this conflict is moving. thank you. thank you. what you captured, russian soldiers have pleaded guilty at ukraine's 2nd war crimes trial. they're facing up to 12 years in prison, charged with showing civilian infrastructure in eastern new great. this is just one

of thousands of cases being investigated by ukrainian authorities and fresh evidence of war crimes is being discovered every day. our next report from our corresponded marks. thunder contains images that many of you will find distress. deep inside the forest lies in anonymous grace. 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 year old civilian is linked to the russian aggression. nothing unusual these days the horde them oh, 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 a lot of rules. a call from 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 neither solutions this. i only know you won't doubt of his house and didn't return more you. i think he went to feed the dog of the neighbor who had left. i didn't know where else he would have gone with a lot of sticky ways. miss gibbons so far clues are limited as to what happened to her father. his passport shows red stains on it, possibly blood. boucher hostile mill hairpin. these towns have become synonymous with russian war crimes. more than a 1000 people were killed in boucher alone, a neighboring her pin. the cemetery has changed in appearance with hundreds of freshly dug grapes to day streets, and the area are lined with destroyed houses and shops all over town, reminders of terrific 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 fully 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 travel 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. so a 100 percent from russia on the in key region that were mentioned here in our church. and we know for sure 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 they will come international court and additional police officers and maybe to pull the 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. well, they are words that can only steve an investigator in charge of this week's school shooting in you've all the texas to they admitted that police made the wrong decision not to immediately enter the classroom where the attack was still taking place. investigators say that the police mistakenly thought that the situation was that of a barricaded gunmen and not an active shooter situation. and that was despite multiple 911 emergency calls that had been made from the school to emergency services, saying that students had already been killed. authorities say that nearly 20

officers stood in a hallway outside the classroom for more than 45 minutes before they used a master key to open the door and finally confront the gun less. listen now to what the director of the texas department of public safety said today. however, the benefit of hi site where i'm sitting now, that of course it was another right decision the wrong this is very, there's no, no excuse for that. but again, i wasn't there, but i was telling you for what we know, we believe there should have minute an x ray that as soon as you can a when there's an active shooter that the rules change is no longer. okay. it's no longer barricaded. so if you have time, you don't worry about later. printers, there isn't steven mccaul, there, the director of the texas department of public safety. i want to go now to our correspondence. stephan simons, he's been covering the story forwards the entire week in texas. he's still in texas,

which define, i want to get your reaction to what we discovered today at me. we are talking about a major, major error in judgement and a breakdown in communication with the police. i can tell you that there is a lot of people out there who, who don't have the kindest words for what they listen to and what they learned today from the police and, and of course we can't repeat them, but i can tell you that there is an outrage on the side of the public in you've all day and just imagine the families, they hurt. they heard this whole the 1st time too. so you lost your child and 3 days in, after all this happened, you're still grief stricken and you want the world to and all the world has ended for you. you get a press conference from the police, which we had asked for 4 days and that's, you know, that's

a whole other story. i'm trying to get information information. now we know why there were not forthcoming with information, not because they didn't have it because they had a problem on their hands and the people in you all day and the families are absolutely devastated with this. and why would they not? that was a major blunder, and again, for 45 minutes, 19 officers in the hallway were told by the commanding officer. no, don't do anything because it's a barricade situation. people don't even understand why he was that. how this thinking or this assessment could have been done. so major mistake and outrage all along in the re learned today the cheaper believe saying that he had the ultimate authority. it was his decision for those, those special agents to wait instead of to go in. when they could have gone in, and so of course the question comes, if they had not waited so long,

would we to day be talking about few were dead school children and may be know that teachers in decent possibly possibly at least possibly. and you know, it's, it's not about that. i mean, this is bad enough that we have to ask this question. did this police operation go so wrong? did this a leading police officer and, and surrounding officers? because, you know, i mean if one guy just because he has another star on his shoulder, pat makes a wrong decision. and i know that as a police officer is a trained police over that, then i need to, i need to face something any to this is not a mutiny, but i need to say something and try to move this mind or this officer to make the right decision and he made the wrong decision. yeah. are we? is it possible that we at that they could have life been saved? children's lives been saved or the teachers? yes. possible. there were 911 called begging the police banging the police to

actually jump into action because the kids hurt the police. the in the next door in the hallway and nothing happens. it is, as my boggling it is mind boggling. and we know now you're on your way to houston texas. the national rifle association, annual convention takes place today. and because of what has happened this week, we, we know that some politicians have cancelled their speeches, including the texas governor, but not everything has been cancelled. the former us president, he's on his way to speech, talk to me about the juxtaposition of all of that, against this school shooting. oh, what, what, what can anyone say? i mean, there is a, the truth is mr. abba, the governor of texas. he canceled his personal appearance, he still dropping a pre tape video message to the n r. a tech crew senator ted cruz from texas. ah,

is not withdrawing his participation for tonight. he will show up at the convention . president trump, as you mentioned for president trump is gone to come. this all looks so bad, it's bad optics. it's probably also bad politics. it is, it is also a comprehensible because it is, you know, for those parents or for people in india of all the we talked to not just parents, but all citizens. there are, you can go on the street here. i'm in, it's an attorney and ask somebody in there tell you they don't understand it. they don't, they really, really had shock that this is still going down there in another the but it's another thing that shocked me, but it would go about half a minute when i asked you, i know you've talked to lots of politicians, a senator, ted cruz from texas was asked this week about american exceptionalism and the fact that there are so many gun mass shootings in the us. and his response was you'd obviously don't like the u. s. if you're posing the question. i mean, we can't get lawmakers to admit that there is

a crisis. how do americans explain that americans see what's going on? yeah, they do. i really have to, let's take the emotion out of this fact this, that republican politicians, or let's say politicians who are still singing the tune of. we don't need more gun restrictions. we don't need red flag last. we don't need any improvement to this. they are responding to a clientele in america who and which is big. it's a, it's a lot of people that do not want to mess with guns in what way in that way that they think that any restriction in terms of background controls or reflect loss could impede on their god's given constitutionally constitutionally given rights to bear arms and that is so entrenched in the american culture, you have the right to bear arms that they feel they need to protect this by all

might. so they overshoot. somehow. politicians may be too and don't forget n r a and the gun lobby. these are big, big and deep pockets. yeah. and there is a lot of politicians in texas, but everywhere the u. s. they like that money for their campaigns. yeah. in money talks, not only in texas, a correspondence of hon simons on the story for his to night in the state of texas . it is always tough on thank you. we're g subbing climate change talks here in berlin had ended with a commitment by the group of 7 leading industrial nations to largely in the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity. by the year 2035, the group also pledged to increase their climate change ambitions and to double financial aid for poor nations. by the year 2025. know macola mentioned by 2035 in their power effective. that's what the g 7 nations agreed on on friday in

a be to slash the greenhouse gas emission. the agreement comes as to pressing issues, tackling climate change, and regaining energy independence for europe. well, hi, under meetings agenda. he got some fun for union and you know, source land. the replacement of fossil energy from russia has very much shaped the political debate and the government's actions in recent days, weeks, and months, this months, cloud line. but we have to be clear that the challenge of our political generations, namely to curb global warming, will not go away if we focus only on the present and talk. equipped with this conference has made that very, very clear tartly schematic for the 1st time to g 7 week nice to need to provide developing countries. these additional financial aid to cope with losses. and i made calls by global warming in light of the war in ukraine. you bilateral partnerships have also been discuss the dependence on russian oil and gas that europe is feeling right now clearly as an energy security issue. it is also

a climate issue as we have to move away from the combustion of hydrocarbon resources. and so the way in which to, for europe to enhance its domestic energy security is to produce much more of its energy resources domestically through the deployment of renewables. and to look to source clean green sources of energy like hydrogen from stable democratic countries like canada agreement, which will be put to leaders at the g 7 semi m o germany next month, we're largely welcomed by climate campaigners. while our political correspondent julius of delhi was monitoring that meeting. she told me about the impact of the war on the meet. 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 russians 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 example, 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. this move away from these russian fossil fuels actually leads to a transformation towards a bigger use of renewable energy. that was our julius hillbilly, the reporting from that meeting of g 7, ministers here in berlin arch sports news, football. there are still more than 24 hours until the champions league final kicks off in paris, but there's already a buzz on the streets of the french capital as liverpool and real madrid supporters . so up the atmosphere, the last time the teams met in the final was in 2018 went real female on top.

english and spanish fans alike were bullish about their teams chance this year, but seemed to be enjoying each other's company despite the rival deal under my enemy. contract this morning. i met liverpool fun, who told me he had driven from london and had just arrived. what we are experiencing is amazing. i think the funds of the 2 teams are friendly. there is no bad feeling or fights, so i hope everything will be fine and that we all enjoy the final. i thought you had a real good it go. that was where we going to like this play. so, and i'm very confident that we're gonna be re l miss if i'm, if not as much as a final and it's a difficult much liverpool have a great team. we are confident because madrid always when finals they win them all . laura or one place they're going to light up, is london. it is in the grips of abba fever. the swedish pop supergroup reunited at

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