i see the signs down postpartum psychosis is an awful illness. mother's nightmare starts on d. w. ah ah . ah. this is dw 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 lee, man russian soldiers and their local laws are getting closer to taking over the entire 2 hands creature. also in the program,

pressure grows on texas police to explain why they waited so long when children were being shot in an elementary school. state officials including the governor, blast the police, were failing to act fast enough to end the valdez schoolmaster. and the cannes film festival is drawing the curt we go live the french riviera to find out which movie won the coveted palm door. and if the festival lived up to the hype of a joyous return to normal after the pandemic. ah next, spicer, welcome to the program. i'm ready to talk. that's what russian president vladimir putin told. german chancellor, olaf schultz and french president emanuel mac co about getting ukraine's grain shipped out of the country, but couldn't also warn against supplying keys with more western weapons. while

moscow's forces are making slow progress in parts of 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 sees it's used missile strikes to destroy posts where ukrainian soldiers and equipment were located. it's false as inching forward alongside pro bush and separatist militias. one of the latest targets lehman has gateway bridges over this diversity. donnette river will go to the following. the joint actions of the units of the militia of the donnette, the peoples republic and russian. i'm forces, the town of leman has been entirely liberated 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 could not hold back the russian advance, which is proving to build a persistent threat landscape, a blue r all will gantski oblique. amy done at work and especially lo hunter, 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. now savage girl. 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 onrush, rats who is with the german council on foreign relations, and an expert on russian defense and security policy with russia getting closer to seizing control of the entire don bass region. i asked him about the political and military significance of moscow's latest gains. yes,

news or 2 by no rush or controlling approximately 95 percent of your grades, graham, and to fall for him on a crucial railway. harmon, unfortunately seems to open the rush of a advance towards labianca sc and other key cd of little much where you 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 will be collapsing by all accounts. ukraine forces heavily treated for many among organized vague and they are still holding the eastern, more part of the city. and the seminal being asked lucy chance region are big the situation. derrick is getting increasingly critical. so all you know, if russia succeeds, taking the territory of blue house can donate 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 good, don't ask and to ask republics. so in the to get the long story short. taking diane's going to have been 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 that left 19 children and 2 teachers said, but the grief is giving 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 their worst 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 his desperate children made repeated none when one 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 to days of providing incomplete and conflicting accounts of how police responded. officials have now admitted they should have acted sooner. the course of the, not the right to say in the wrong very there is no, no excuse for just a few 100 kilometers away. in 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 dw correspondence different simons filed this report from houston, texas, where the n r a is holding, it's an annual meeting. 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 crossover. 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 is also on the other side of course, where ah, 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 and, and i will now go little further and this is where the anti gun protesters 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 this pleasure about the n r e cred mentioning actually happening here in the wake of what happened just in

a few days ago. and you valden and i 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 shooting is 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 that our republican senators, politicians are not going to touch any more gun restrictions or, or gun laws if one of those people hear what they think. c about it, then you know what answers you get. however, the trump agenda here in terms of arming the good guys, putting more guns on the street and because 500000000 johns in private has already . and i think every expert in every scholar would tell you that more guns into people's hands arming the good guy wouldn't help anything and would have not prevented you valving. ok,

thank you. stephan simon's reporting firm from outside the n. r. a convention in houston, texas. now here's a quick roundup of some of the other events making news around the world. a ship from the charity open arms has docked in the port of ismael in the odessa region. the vessel delivered 24 tons of food in the 1st part of a joint mission with a world central kitchen. it will travel up the danube to load up another shipment of food. former ukrainian president petro shanker, was prevented from going abroad to take part in an event. in lithuania is party said he was stopped twice at a border crossing with poland. shanker was due to attend to nato parliamentary assembly meeting in vilnius. at least 31 people have been killed in a stampede. at a church in southern nigeria, police, a large crowd turned up to receive free food donations for the needy and the port city of port harcourt. nigeria has seen several similar tragedies over food

distribution in recent years. time for some culture now and the 75th and a vision addition rather of the can film festival is drawing to a close in the french city. stars have been arriving on the red carpet for the award ceremony, which is one of the industries most prestigious events $21.00 films were vying for the panama dough. the events most coveted top prize. let's go now to can where d w scott roxborough is standing by for us in a tuxedo. scott, who's the winner? yes. well, it's a bit of a surprise, but not for those of us who love this movie. the palm door winner for 2022, for the 75th. can film festival is woman austin's triangle of sadness. this was a hugely popular movie here in can. it's a really broad raucous social satire, a sort of attack on the one percent on sort of modern day capitalism. and it's

quite amazing accomplishment from the swedish director of osland because this is his 2nd palm in as many tries. he won here in 2017, for another satire, a one on the art world called the square. and now he was back on stage again, just a few minutes ago on the, in the theater behind me. and again, roaring with the light that he, that he had managed to achieve cinemas, greatest apprise european cinemas, greatest, apprise the film itself. um divided some audiences because it is as it's a very broad humor on, but it definitely is an audience of favorite. the story is basically, you have a group of super rich super models and various russian oligarchs on a mega yacht, which happens to be captained by a marxist, a captain amazing turned by woody harrelson. and then when the ship goes down, a small group of the survivors end up on the desert island, where they found that their social hierarchies had been completely flipped. because one of the ships maids is the only one who knows how to fish or make

a fire. and therefore is suddenly the king of the island, as they say, a great lot of fun and definitely a hugely popular palmed or wood. yes, from how you describe it i, i can imagine why i'm can you tell us about the other movies and tough actor prizes? yes, i'm a top actor and actress. awards were given out tonight elect a single out. actually the top actor award in particular, which went to a song ho for, for broke or sunken hope course, the a korean star of parasite who celebrated here a couple of years ago when parasite, one of the palm door. he was on stage again for broker, which is a i'm a smaller film, but ace or more heart warming fil, he plays a, a man who tries to find a, a new home for an abandoned, a child, a sort of touching a tear jerker of a movie on another, a korean film decision to lead one, the best director prize for park can luke?

actually that bill was my tech for the top prize, but a part time luke seemed very happy to go away with the directors. honor of that film is a sort of film wire almost in the spirit of alfred hitchcock's of vertigo, about a detective who becomes assessed with a woman who he suspects might actually be a murderer. but on all a very a why breadth of, of nations of cinema styles being honored this evening in care. and just real quick scott, were the festival organizers successful in bringing the festival back to life after lockdown? in your opinion? yeah, most actually, yes, most definitely. of course, certain political aspects, like the warn ukraine, definitely cast a shadow over this years. can festival is hard to celebrate when you know there's a war happening, not that far away here in europe. but in terms of celebrating cinema, can definitely, uh, delivered the goods both in terms of huge films like blockbusters pop gun, maverick, which premiered here last year. and last week and also smaller european films like

triangle sadness which went away with this year's top rise, the fall. okay, scott rock thrown can thanks so much. this is of course to give you news. live from berlin. you are up to date now world stories a weekend report is up next to the look at ukrainians. refusing to mood out of a car, keep subway station. i'm a spicer to watch with it's not a question of whether the next crisis will come. but only when and how the media will deal with it. how can we stay focused on what is.