thousands of children still waiting for that. a sponsor of books today. so together, we can deliver futures. ah ah, this is deed of you news live from berlin. moscow says its forces have taken control of a strategic town in eastern ukraine. the defense ministry says its troops control the key cross road town of the man. russian soldiers and their local allies are getting closer to taking over the entire 2 hats region. also in the program, pressure grows on texas police to explain why they waited so long when children are

being shot in elementary school. state officials, including the governor bloss the police for failing to act fast enough to end the val day school last and the can film festival is drawing the curtain we go live the french riviera to find out if it lives up the joyce hype of a choice return to normal after the pandemic, and here about the final accolades. ah next, spicer, welcome to the program. i'm ready to talk. that's what russian president vladimir putin has told during chance. they're all r sholtes and french president emmanuel michael, about getting ukraine's grain shipped out of the country, but couldn't also warn them against shipping shipping. more western happens to

keith. meanwhile, moscow's forces are making slow progress in parts of the eastern ukraine. the russian military says it has taken control of the man as strategic ukrainian railway hub. the russian barrage is being felt in easton ukraine. moscow say's its used missile strikes to destroy posts where ukrainian soldiers and equipment were located. it's false as the inching forward. alongside progression, separatist militias, one of the latest targets leman, has gateway bridges over the diversity dannetta river. we're going to follow in the joint actions of the units of the militia of the don acts, people's republic and russian. i'm forces the town of leman has been entirely liberated prov minimum as the fighting intensified lemons. residents who'd been holding out attempt to the desperate escape. they could be more like them

nearby towns if ukrainian troops can not hold back the russian advance, which is proving to build a persistent threat landscape, a blue r, all will gantski of life. yet, in the dawn at war and especially low hands, regions, the enemy is increasing its forces and intends night and day to carry out the task of reaching its target areas while making new efforts to encircle our troops. zach difficult sir. marci vickery. those on the front lines are on high alert, but it will take much more than awareness to keep hold of their territory against russia's military might. earlier we spoke to andrea rats who was with the jury council on foreign relations and an expert on russian defense and security policy with russia getting closer to seas in control of the entire and bass region. i asked to limit the political and military significance of moscow's latest gains.

yes, news or true by no rush, i was controlling approximately 95 percent of your grades to ask region and to fall pretty mon and crucial railway harmon unfortunately seems to open the russians of a advance towards labianca sc and other key city of that must. however, want me to end. there are several major settlements in the don't much region yet under ukrainian control. so even the fall of the month does not mean that ukrainian defense is will be called, lapsing by all accounts. ukraine forces heavily treated from the monkey organized bait and they are still holding the eastern more part of the don't. a salient, dissimilar being asked lucy talk region are big the situation. derrick is getting increasingly critical. so all you know, if russia succeeds, taking the territory of last weekends of rain that might enable russian president vladimir, put him to claim some kind of a victory. anyways,

the war has started by russia, recognizing the independence of the so called don't ask and to ask republics. so in the to get the long story short taking diane's going to have with unable russia to basically declare victory both at home and abroad. the town of val day in the u. s . state of texas is still reeling from tuesday school shooting and left 19 children and 2 teachers, dad. but the grief has given way to anger as local police are now being accused of taking much too long to intervene. a punch in the guts to a town already reeling new details, raising questions if there was nightmare, could have been prevented. while armed police were at the school, within minutes of the gunman opening fire, they waited more than an hour to stop him. as parents outside begged them to help. ah, and as desperate children made repeated 911 calls from inside the classroom,

where the shooter had locked himself. as many as 19 armed officers waited in the hallway, just meet his way for more than 45 minutes. with many more outside the building. off the days of providing incomplete and conflicting accounts of how police responded. officials have now admitted they should have acted sooner. then of course it was another right? this is the wrong, this is very, there is no, no excuse for that. just a few 100 kilometers away, and houston pro gun activist, gathered for the annual convention of the national rifle association. the nation's most powerful gun lobby. outside the timing and location of the event added to the sense of outrage. we just had a shooting for 21 people in texas. and here you are talking about how great your guys are. but inside former president, donald trump delivered a defiant speech saying the answer to the u. s. his school shooting epidemic was

more not fewer guns. ah, the existence of evil in our world is not a reason to disarm law abiding citizens who know how to use their weapon and can protect a lot of people. as the age old saying goes, the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. but these activists in millions more americans are demanding a different response. according to recent polling, a majority of americans back strict to gun laws. but with republican lawmakers in congress, staunchly opposed, there's little hope of change, even in the wake of yet another mass shooting. and he, w, corresponds to for simon's joints, you know, from houston, texas, where the n r a is holding a convention, as if it was happening, where you are now let me fill here in the and give you a complete picture. and let me step out of the picture as you see behind me now and

now bastion will show you the proud boys are back right wing extremist militia. they are boxed in here. law enforcement agencies were quick to put them basically in the square he and separate them from this crowd over. this is where we go. and now let me take you with as you can see here, long foresman state troopers used in police. there are, there's also on the other side, of course, where you see the other people's standing on those police cars are. this is where the convention actually happens. the n r a's promising 14 acres of guns and gear and the best selling i will now go little further and this is where the anti gun protestors are staging their pro just making themselves heard fairly loudly, vocally ah, and just trying to get the other side to acknowledge their displeasure about a displeasure about the n r a could mentioning actually happening here in the wake

of what happened just in a few days ago. and you've alden and we just heard donald trump there for american president with the classic good by that bad guy argument about whether people should be armed and now to stop the students. this a political writing, united states have a plan for stopping as violence. i would doubt it. the political ride has no plan to touch the issue. anyway, our republican senators, politicians are not going to touch any more gun restrictions or, or gun law. one of those people hear what they think about it and you know what answers you get. however, the trump agenda here in terms of arming the good guys, putting more down on the street, america 500000000. jonathan private hands already. and i think every expert, every dollar would tell you that more guns into people hands arming the good guy

wouldn't help anything and would have not prevented you valving and just mentioning you've all day, there were that school shooting took place. we've got new information that the police knew enough to intervene much earlier. how are the people of val the reacting to those news reports? you should be a shy guy there, devastated, you know, they were devastated before all this came out in pain the entire time. now don't get me wrong, this is, this is a town where guns are readily available, almost everybody. we talk to her, she has a gun at all for protection over hunting, but still what they learned about the police and this entire police failure. there is basically bombing the bottom out of out of you by the people are devastated about this. oh, okay, thank you. stephan. simon's reporting forms from outside the n. r. a convention in houston, texas. and here's a quick round up of some other events making use around the world. a ship from the

charity open arms has docked in the port of his mile in the odessa region. the vessel delivered 24 tons of food in the 1st part of a joint mission with the world central kitchen. it will travel up to the danube to load up another shipment of food. former ukrainian president petros jenko, was prevented from going abroad to take part in an event. in lithuania, his party said he was stopped twice at a border crossing with poland for a shank was due to attended nato parliamentary assembly meeting in vilnius. would it make terms with thousands of the cannes film festivals drawn to a close? earlier we spoke to our film experts, scott rocks bra and asked if there is anything special this time around? yes this, this years unlike any that have ever covered and this is more than 20 now here in canada, it really, i think has been a tale of 2 festivals. we've had the sort of cinema spectacular that can is really

known for. i'm a mentioned top gun in the piece a before that premiered here last week. it popped on maverick the sequel to the 1986 action of block buster. i'm at it really was an amazing event. i mean, we had that fly over which some people questioned of the, a squadron of french jets, rocketing over the closet here, literally making the ground shake beneath us. but was undeniable undeniably a phenomenal, a show and a phenomenal presentation of sort of a, hollywood blockbuster at its, at its best in sharp contrast to that have been the political protests that have been happening on the red carpet here in can, including a very aggressive one by a woman who stripped nearly naked, painted at her body, painted in of ukrainian colors of the ukrainian flag with the words stop raping us up printed on her, her torso, sort of a stark reminder of the realities of the worn ukraine, which is not that far away from here on the cause at, i'm and a really a blast back to reality for many of us

a here who probably come to festivals like this to escape those harsh realities of the world. and they're pretty inescapable, i think, across europe. but look, if we could just go on to the movies now, which is you know, the purpose of, of, of the festival. is there any indication who will be winning the, the big prize? the pan madeau? yeah, it's interesting this year because there's no real favorite. i mean of the 21 films that were presented here, none really one over all everybody. they basically split audiences and critics, every, every one. and i only think of 2 films that have basically have a consensus of being phenomenal. and at those i think the best chances of winning the palm door to night i'm once a, a belgian film called close from a young director lucas dont, and this is a coming of age a tale about 213 year old boys whose intimate friendship is threatened when they both enter a puberty, it's a real tear. jerker ciara, a critic friend of mine, said it could single handily save the kleenex industry because there won't be

a dry eye in the house when this film a shows up. so that's a big favorite um, but my absolute personal favorite is a korean film called decision to leave from park chand. whoop, and this is a romantic thriller sort of in the vein of alfred hitchcock's vertigo. and it's about a detective who becomes obsessed and falls in love with woman. he suspects may actually be a murderer. it's probably the best crafted film i've seen in years. and it's my absolute favorite to win the palm door to night. sounds like an interesting one. listen, just a last quick question of her me. this was supposed to be a returned to normal festival and cinema life. the organizers were looking at this being kind of a big release after 2 years of pandemic. do you think they succeeded? i think in large part they did succeed. this was a real celebration of cinema, of all sizes from the, the huge like, like top gun to very small and intimate that like some of the smaller films that screened here. but the realities of, of the world rallies will warn you. crane. we're inescapable. and they did cast

a shadow over the proceedings here. but all in all, i think the can film festival is really a did really the achieve would take set. oh, to do, which was mark. are returned to cinema after 2 years of a pandemic. okay. deed of use. got rocks for thanks so much for waiting from. can this is dw news lie from berlin up next to discover how a global pandemic is making half the world's population obese undock film. and you get news around the clock at d, w dot com. i'm a spicer, thanks for watching interest in the global economy. our portfolio d w. business beyond. here's a closer look out the project. our mission to analyze the flight.