we shed light on the opaque worlds who's behind, who benefits and why are they a threat to us all? opaque worlds start june 2nd on d w. ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. ukraine says russia is bombing c available donates to destruction. president florida zalinski says the eastern cities critical services are almost wiped out as he makes his 1st visit to frontline. a

leftist former rebels tops the 1st round of presidential elections in columbia. gustavo petro will now go head to head with businessman rodolfo hernandez in the ronald for next month. and at formula won red bulls. sergio paris claims his 1st win of the season at a very wet mac, ho promptly. ah, i'm glad else has well come to the program. ukraine's a president vladimir zelinski, the says ukraine has visited eastern ukraine. that's his 1st official trip outside keith since russia invaded. meanwhile, russia as stepping up it's offensive on the don bus region, ukrainian official se russian troops have entered the key city of steve yellow. 2 nets. 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 with my job. 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. you will take care of yourselves. lori to ukraine. slow zalinski 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

besieged towns across don bass, dangerous, but aid groups are working to bring the seek and injured out. in google. oh, most of them of wounded people who ah, have a great in the forms of hospitals. in eastern regions, the tumult safe and and more and to be of upgrade them to the hospitals in western grain than we've had no pill and do so on top of that of 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 . hunt's 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. well, let's go to the ukrainian capital, keith, where w's correspondence. rebecca written, standing by rebecca zaleski. as on the bravery of christ's ukraine. soldiers during

his visit to hearken is morale still strong. well, on a whole yes, i think across the country civilians and in the military and moral is strong and i think ukraine still believes that it can win this battle, but. but at the moment is a bit of a law because, you know, russia really are taking the upper hand in the battle for don bass is it's been dubbed, we've known for a few days now that they've had that upper hand, that they now have 95 percent of the la hans region, that's half of the don bass and they are pushing forward the fighting now in several donates the last ukrainian st stronghold. the last ukranian city in that area fighting is now st by street and we're seeing about 200 shells. an hour so they've even stopped counting the casualties in that city and in that region at the moment gary had sort of really dire situation down there. of course,

again level reiterating that they're trying to liberate that region, but it's hard to see how the people down there who are living through this hell will be feeling very liberated at the moment. now you current apparently has lost a counter offensive in the south towards the occupied city of care. so what can you tell us about that? in a her son was one of the 1st areas, 1st cities to fall to russia. it was taken quite quickly at the beginning and people there have been living under occupation since almost the beginning of the conflict. now you're seeing a counter offensive, fine ukraine. that's also, you know, obviously to try and retake the territory, but also to try and thin out resources on the russian side, trying to figure out their troops and trying to pull direction away from the dumbass a little bit as well. so. so that has taken place over the weekend and they will of course, be attempting to try and retake that area. that's something that presidents zalinski has reiterated time. and again, he said, you know, wanting russia not to get to cosy in the places that they have taken, that,

that ukraine plans on taking everything that has been taken since the beginning of this conflict back. and that's certainly what they're attempting. and her some zalinski in an interview in sunday, a set the duration of the war party depends on support from the west. is you crime? getting the help it needs i think he's been even stronger than that in the past. i think it depends very much on the west, and particularly of course, the weapons coming from the west. they've been calling, jumping up and down, really insisting that the international community support them more if they are to invade a hold, the russians will push them back. that they've st slowing down all the of the kind of weapons that they were seeing coming into the country and that they desperately need them. and they are completely outweighed in the dorm bass. when it comes to heavy weapons, they really need those multi rocket launchers that can, that can go to distances of 2 or 300 kilometers in the image in the distance. that's the kind of weaponry they need,

that they don't have that the russians do have. and that the russians are using to completely annihilate those areas. and when control, i mean it's not being one sort of in a traditional on the battlefield style. it's really being one byte and by the russian, using this heavy weaponry to pamela and completely destroy these areas. so ukraine saying, without them, we're just not going to be able to stop the of the sheer force coming from the other side. that's rebecca rita's in key of there for us. thank you, ricka. let's have a quick look now at some of the other stories making headlines today. jamie's major parties have agreed to increase defense funding in response to russia's invasion of ukraine in february. 12th all of shaw said he wanted a 100000000000 euros to better equip germany's armed forces, which have suffered from a lack of investment. the extra money would help to meet maters spending goals, but also violates strict budget rules, which the deal now gets around. at least 14 people have died in

a plane crash. in the poll the small plane carrying 22 passengers went missing on saturday, on route for the tourist town of pal kara to job some elim, himalayas. cloudy weather slowed down the search in the area. at least 70 people have been confirmed dead of the torrential rain caused landslides and flooding in northeastern brazil. the military has been called in to coordinate rescue efforts and search for dozens mort will remain missing. extreme weather incidence have killed hundreds of people in brazil over the past year in columbia on the left, his sen, gustavo petro, has won the 1st round of voting in the countries presidential election for mercury, a fighter and mayor of bogota campaigned on the platform, tackling poverty and crime, while also moving away from oil income. petro will now face the populace,

independent candidate, rodolfo hernandez, in iran for next month. colombians are clamoring for change. gustavo federal is counting on it to make history. the former rebell came out on top in the 1st round of presidential elections, bringing him one step closer to becoming columbia's 1st left his leader in what is traditionally a conservative country on feel. so i trust colombian society in its will to change channels in the end. there are only 2 options will at the, i mean it's a relatively simple choice without less cause of either leave things as they are in columbia, while in europe, in which, in my opinion is more corruption. you're more violence feelings, more hunger math or, or we can change colombia, columbia federal is

a former member of the em 19 gorilla movement. and a former mayor of bo gotta like to live in his presidential campaign. he has vowed profound economic and social change. a petro presidency would be historic in more ways than one his running mate. francie r marquez is hoping to become columbia's 1st ever black female vice president. but honestly, they're probably any good for us is a black community. it is a great recognition to see a black person there. black people have always been enslaved. we have always been at the bottom and to have the opportunity to be there and represent us as black people felt as with pride. montrose collision fell short of the 50 percent needed for an hour great victory. he will now faced populace millionaire rudolfo hernandez in the 2nd round of voting. the man dubbed columbia's donald

trump emerged as a surprise taken place candidate no matter who wins the run off on june 19 changes coming, one way or the other classes broke out in jerusalem after tens of thousands of his railways marched through the city's muslim court on many waiving waving a national flocks and chanting anti arab slogans. they're mostly orthodox marches were taking part of the annual jerusalem day parade, which palestinians view as a provocation. israeli police fire tear gas and rubber bullets of palestinian protesters. nationalist israelis stage an annual flag march through the damascus gate and the muslim area of jerusalem to the wailing wool. the parade celebrates israel's capture in 1967 of east jerusalem lay to annexed, but not recognized by most countries,

which i have to come to jerusalem to support our people, our country, and our flag, you know, but they give general law. 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 political activity. a band trouble fled as jewish and muslim activists came to blows as one star. the police let these lunatics come here. they come and attack us. our got hit seemed on i shot my sharply, but they damaged my property subgroup. how much awkward be funneled to find out? they spattered us, even though we didn't do any thing. home and pack, raphael, hi mikaela. this city doesn't belong to them. is our city and our country haddocks?

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. and some sports news in formula one motor racing red bull team driver says jo perez was the surprise winner after mac or grand prix after delayed start on a monte carlo circle lashed by heavy rain. and there was more disappointment for local boy sharla clare, who again failed to win his home race, despite starting from opposition. dark clouds on the monte carlo horizon and they proved a bad omen for home favorite charley clerk. after a delay of over an hour, due to the deluge, the monocle grown pre got under way and the clerk was flying. until ferrari called him in for a 2nd tire change on 22 laps. an engineer realized they'd made a bad call. as didn't anguish mcclare

when mc schumacher split his house into the race was stopped again. after 30 laps. schumacher walked away in one piece, but the crash met the grown pre became attained race by this time, red bill, sergio perez had stolen a march on the clair and even with his tires cut to ribbons hilda, ferrari's carlo sites to take the checkered flag. her guided, i'd like for their badge. as the mexican celebrated an aggrieved laclare had some choice, final words for his team is a 1st win for perez this season and a good deal road for red bull. the standings leader max rushed up and came in. 3rd,

your 10 dw news is a reminder of the top story we're following for you. ukranian president vladimir zalinski has visited his countries in battle eastern region for the 1st time during rush as 100 day old invasion. meanwhile, russian troops all storming the key city of c, a, b o, done it and that's it from me and it is t you're up to date, do not go away up next. well, stories takes us to the stories that have been making the headlines over the past have helped us in berlin for me and the new steve. ah, people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away. families please feel free to leave.