oh, because no one should have to flee. ah! make up your own mind. w. made for mines. ah ah! this is the news live from berlin, ukraine's president makes his 1st visit to the embattled east. $100.00 days after russia invaded ukraine. little lensky meet with troops and hawk keep defending the city. meanwhile, moscow don bus offensive is closing in on the key city of syria donuts and

a leftist formal revel tops the 1st round of presidential elections and columbia. gustavo petro will now go head to head with businessman rodolfo hernandez in a runoff boat next month. and fears of an aviation disaster in ne paul, a plane carrying 22 people is missing. believe to have crashed in the himalayas. ah, i'm willing bullcrap. welcome to the program. ukrainian president of loaners lensky, has visited eastern ukraine, his 1st official trip outside keith since russia invaded his country. his visit comes as russia steps up. it's offensive on the eastern don bussed region. ukrainian officials say russian troops are storming the key city of severe don't ask, assessing the damage with his own eyes. ukraine's president visited the war ravaged

region of hockey eve. ukraine has pushed back the russian offensive here, leaving behind ruins. in his 1st official trip out of cave, since the russian invasion, zelinski also met troops have been fighting on the front line. so good luck was my job. oh, i want to thank each of you for your service. you risk your life for all of us. and for our state, thank you for defending the independence of our country, your will take care of yourselves, lori, to ukraine. so, the lensky says, ukraine is doing everything to defend the country's east, where russia is focusing its assault. russia aims to capture the entire don bass region, calling it an unconditional priority for the kremlin. the fighting has made evacuating the sage towns across don bass, dangerous. but aid groups are working to bring the seek and injured out of them all

. most of them. a wounded people who i have a great in the of rooms of hospitals in eastern regents the tumult safe fennimore, and to be of upgrade them to the hospitals in western grain. and we've had no pill and a song to put that in them and to give them proper medical care. in savannah, donetta, shelling has destroyed old, critical infrastructure, and russian troops are now storming, the largest city still held by keep in the loo. hans great in of don bass. thousands of civilians are believed to still be in the city. the governor of lou, hans said the constant shelling makes it impossible to count casualties. to w, correspond mathias bellinger is on the ground in ukraine's eastern dundas region. he file this assessment from the town of comma talk. there's been heavy fighting

along the front line long, some part of the frontline here in easton ukraine. in the dawn bus, especially around the city of sierra, don't ask with the russians, are doing now, is that they're using as much a tillery as they can. they have brought a lot of technology into here, lot of equipment. they've also brought a lot of soldiers to these frontline parts where they want to break through. and what they do is they shell everything with a lot of material re until basically they have destroyed the positions and they're also often the residential areas that are in their way. and then they march in their advances are in fast. they are advancing very slowly, but they are advancing steadily in some parts of the front and that puts the ukrainian omby under huge pressure. this is why ukraine has been reiterating that they need heavy artillery to fight them back. that would put them on power. would even give them an advantage because the western artillery is a little bit better than the russian artillery. it's heavier, it's more explosive,

it's, it's targeting better, and it can reach further. that's what why ukraine is hoping for, more, a tillery to fight back the russians in this kind of an attrition war of not tillery war, your course bonham at his billing or reporting from eastern in cray. let's have a quick look at some other stories making news around the world right now. germany's major parties have agreed to increase defense spending to meet nato spending goals. in response to russia's invasion of ukraine in february. chance are all of shots that he wanted. 100000000000 euros to a better equip jeremy's armed forces, which have suffered from lack of investment. the extra money would violate strict budget rules, which the deal gets around. yes, present, joe biden. first lady jill biden have attended mastering a visit any volley, texas to mourn the victims of tuesday school shooting. earlier they lay flowers at

the elementary school were a gunman killed 19 students and 2 teachers. israel's annual jerusalem day has become a stage for israeli nationalists to march through jerusalem's old city waving their nation's blue and white flag. house indians view the march as a provocation, as it passes through the muslim quarter, an islamic holy sites. violence is often the result. tens of thousands of people turned out for sundays, march nationalist israelis stage an annual flag march through the damascus gate and the muslim area of jerusalem to the whaling wool. the parade celebrates israel's capture. in 1967 of east jerusalem lay to annexed, but not recognized by most countries. oh, i see that which i have to come to jerusalem to support our people, our country, and our flag, you know, but they get, you know, we're not marching to be provocative. but because jerusalem belongs to the israeli

people, it's part of israel palestine ins dispute that for them the march is highly provocative . as is the presence on temple mt of ultra nationalists, including the member of parliament, been a gary jewish people are allowed to visit. but prayer and king to blows as much that are the police let these lunatics come here. they come and attack us. i got hit him. no, no, i shut my shop, but they damaged my property. both are much awkwardly funneled to find out. they spattered us, even though we didn't do any thing. oh, my packer after la la massena, this city doesn't belong to them. it's our city and our country had acts ha! the violence is escalating on the palestinian side. masses threatening rocket attacks as widely feared the flag march is made and already tense situation. even worse. earlier i spoke to our corresponding jerusalem tanya kramer and asked her

how tense the situation was on the streets of jerusalem. but he seemed to day again the very 10 stay in jerusalem. ah, when you know the fact march happened in the afternoon and this he again, it was allowed by these early government that marches mainly all to a nationalist. very young, a crowd to have to say from what i have seen this afternoon. marching down from best jerusalem to what's the hard so to speak, to east jerusalem to the moscow skate and from the into the old city, through the muslim our quarter. now they are celebrating the capture and then the re unification in the eyes of jerusalem, the captain 9067 of from jordan israel, and next east rou slim and consider as as a unified capital. that is not, this move was not recognized by most of the international community for palestinian residence in east jerusalem. this is not a day of

a celebration for most of them. if you break it down in the older life, this is the day where most of east jerusalem around damascus gate is closed off by the is ready police. a lot of checkpoints that cannot pass. businesses are closed. i talked to one of the residents. there thing, you know, usually they stayed home a come back very, very late. they also feel harassed because again, to davies heard some of the, not just, they are chanting very racist slogans. you know, from a desk to our ups to other racist as slogans. and basically the feeling on the palestinian side is from what they are experiencing day is that the much as a telling them being taught here. and this is ours. and this is not yours. in columbia. leftist gustavo petro has come out on top in the 1st round of presidential elections. former guerrilla, one time bo, gotta mayor, as campaigned on a platform of tackling poverty and crime, petro now face the independent candidate, would also hernandez in

a runaway. the businessman finished in a surprise, 2nd place in the vote. get more now from need of your correspond ramirez. he joins me now from the capital bogota. johan, 1st of all, tell me more about this surprise results. he's very surprised. sin in one hand is surprising. but on the other hand, it's a clear message. the colombians are tired of the political elite. here during the last week we had been tucking a bug was top of petro the from ron there, and van fico, terroristic riding wing canada, who's, who was supposed to be in the 2nd place. but now this surprises rodolfo. hernandez is getting that 2nd place going into the 2nd round of this election, and it is a message, a people are tired, that the political elite, the role fernandez, is an independent candidate, a private interpreter during all his life. he was just once mayor of

a little city here in bog, at that otherwise he has been all his life working by himself in a way, many people here in columbia compares comparable fernandez with donald trump because he has a more unconventional way to do politics. and now he saw the 2nd run there he is going to be very interesting to see what is going to happen. the next june 19th when the 2nd round is going to take place. you say that voters, there are fed up with political lead sin and status quo. so what are some of those major issues that columbia is facing that had influenced this election? and this apparent outcome this 1st around the was marker the by a lot of attacks between the candidates and the 2 main candidates. he was a very polarized, ah electra campaign. and i think that people also was tired of seen this candidate insulting themselves otherwise, on the other hand, rolled fernandez,

was trying to propose more a thieves unless insulting the other candidates. and i think we can see that today, ah, in these the result was developed by very polarized campaign in a country that has be polarized for more than 50 years after the it during the civil war. so i think people wanted something new, different of i am, are more mother a candidates. we are now saying that we're offering that is going to be the next president, but he says frank message to day in columbia and his so as it is, it's shaken the ballistic allah's scenario in the country. now, did of you correspond johan ramirez joining us there for bogus. i, thanks very much. in a paula playing with 22 people on board is missing. the aircraft is thought to have crashed in a remote area of the himalayan mountains. merge the services say they're going to resume their search at 1st light. the flight took off from the resort of pic

kara on a popular tourist route that normally takes just 20 minutes. the missing aircraft is thought to have crashed about 5 minutes before it was due to land at the mountain town of johnson. poor visibility and rough terrain are making it difficult for rescues to locate any wreckage near the village of letter in an area of deep gorgeous and high bound tins. the twin or to plain similar to the one shown here, was carrying 22 people including 3 crew members. the aircraft is operated by tara air at this level and i sent a festival among the 19 passengers, our 2 german nationals for indians and 13 nepali citizens. a helicopter was sent out to search for them, but i went out but had to return because of bad weather. st. glenn, it may while we assume there was an accident or we can not confirm this until we

locate the aircraft. another example, whiskey nobody's on mine. alienate as the families of those on board. wait anxiously for news state television is reporting that villages sore and that craft on fire near the border with tibet. unpredictable mountain weather on remote port locations mean that plane crashes into poll. i'm not infrequent check out some football now. champions, leagues winners, rail madrid have paraded through the spanish capital following their record extending 14th title. thousands of people lined the streets to catch a glimpse of the trophy at the front of the bus at the cities cathedral captains kareem been sima and marcello presented their latest prize to the local cardinal. the party lasted long into madrid's. evening ral beat liverpool. one nil in paris on saturday, and a game delayed by crowd problems with the english club and french authorities. blame each other

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