ah, ah ah ah, this is the w slide from berlin. ukraine says russian forces are advancing on the center of sierra. tonight's president, plug him is zalinski, says russian bombs have almost wiped out the eastern cities. critical services as he makes his 1st visit to the troops on the front line that also coming up

a leftist force or rep, former rebel winds, the 1st round of presidential elections in columbia. gustavo petro well now faced the populace businessman rudolf, for an on this, in a ronald folks next month as columbus. conservatives are pushed out of the risks and rescues reached the side of a plane crash in naples himalayan mount mountains. over a dozen locals and tourists are confirmed it and in formula one motor racing red bulls said, joe perez claims victory at a very wet morocco ground for it. ah, i'm glad else as well come to the program. ukrainian officials a say a russian forces have now entered the city of sierra jeanette after days of intense

selling. the eastern city has become the focus of moscow's pushed to capture all of the don bus region. president vladimir zalinski said russian bombs had to destroy it almost all the cities critical infrastructure and damaged most buildings. meanwhile, on sunday, zalinski made his 1st official visit outside of the capital to meet troops on the front line near harkey. 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. oh, i want to thank each of you for your service. you risk your life for all of us and for our state. yes, thank you for defending the independence of our country. your will take care of

yourselves, lori, to ukraine. so 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. we'll go. all, most of them of wounded people who i have a great in the of rooms of hospitals in eastern regents the tumult save fennimore and to be of upgrade them to the hospitals in western grain. them believed that no pill and a song too. but that of them and to give them proper medical care. in savannah, donetta, shelling has destroyed all critical infrastructure and russian troops and now

storming the largest city, still held by keep in the loo, hans, great, and have done 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. through w correspondence. rebecca richards is in cuba, and early up i asked her whether ukrainian forces high, able to keep up them are all in the face of the continued russian aggression. well, on a whole yes, i think across the country civilians and in the military and morale 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 few days now that they've had that upper hand, that they now have 95 percent of the hans region, that's half of the dumbass and they are pushing forward the fighting now in several donates the last ukranian st stronghold. the last ukranian city in that area.

fighting is now st by street. we're seeing about $200.00 shells an hour, so they've even stopped counting the casualties in that city. and in that region at the moment gary had so it really dire situation down there, of course. so 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 it probably has lost a counter offensive in the south towards the occupied city of care. so what can you tell us about that? her son was one of the 1st areas, 1st cities to fall to russia. it was taken quite quickly at the beginning people there have been living under occupation since almost the beginning of the conflict . and now you're seeing a counter offensive find ukraine. that's also, you know, obviously to try and re take the territory, but also to try and thin out resources on the russian side, trying to pin out their troops and try and pull direction away from the dumbass

a little bit as well. so. so that has taken place over the weekend and i will a coffee attempting to try and re take that area. that's something that presidents zalinski has reiterated time. and again, he said, you know, wanting russia not to get too cozy 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 certainly what they're attempting in her son zalinski and i've interviewed sunday her 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 more if they are to, in the whole, the russians will push them back. that they've seen a slowing down of the,

of the kind of weapons that they were seeing coming into the country. and that they desperately need them and they're completely outweighed in the dumbass. 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, in, 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 by and by the russian, using this heavy weaponry to pummel and completely destroy these areas. so you kind saying without them, we're just not going to be able to stop the, the sheer force coming from the other side. that's rebecca with us in here there for us. thank you for the moon and going to hell. they belong to the city for 8 years or so since the start of this or the 1st phase of the overall campaign, 2014, it was a major back around that. and it's

a continuation i suppose of those efforts. also there is a major time, don't forget that list score list chance, which is right next door is probably the next target. what's interesting with respect to the previous report and the likelihood or the possibility of rush actually taking this is that you credit is not necessarily bad news. new credit exists entirely. it does seem that they're not focusing on. this is a last stand. what they're doing, rather than simply looks to me anyway, if they withdraw the bulk of their forces. so it's not to be surrounded in the culture. so, there isn't it to be candid. i rather thought it might be something for a city, but rather sensibly kind of drawing from looking like they're willing to give it up without a, a sort of decisive fight that we'll see. but that's how it looks to me. or do you think that russia then is going to achieve its goal of capturing the whole don bus region quite quickly?

no, i don't think they are. they say this is the point of a salient surveyor. tonight's gets the town. i think none of us expected it not to be surrounded. what you might expect to find is mike mike to hold it a bit longer than a yet. but there's a lot more to go. we have the towns of chronicles. chris with russians are still trying to push the issue to the northwest. this campaign has been discussed at the end of the beginning for the don't bass couldn't pay respect to the russian. so it does seem as if they are looking for their objective is to take the bus and we'll see if they leave a lot of set on. on friday i think that the bus was the unconditional priority. so rushes fixed its objectives. and as you know, way back in march, that was what was explicitly said, we're focusing down because we diverted the change up to the north of that nonsense where they were defeated in care. and we're going to focus on don bass and is that

it does seem to be what they're doing. now. do you see any progress for the ukrainian elsewhere in the country? i think in the medium term what you train will be focusing on doing. we do see that as you've heard before, that in the south west, they may be looking at, i mean, this is a bit of a left field thing, but maybe looking at a strike on denying a desk to the ukrainians in some way. nato's already mulling, i think, convoy in conflict vessels in and out that the russians won't want that. they want to see you kind of a failed state. and the one way to do that is to seal them off from the c. so i think we may see some pushes that way, not the next few weeks, but certainly later this year. i think. now let's talk about heavy weapons a bit more because it's kind of dominates the political agenda in many western countries. ukraine still pleading for more heavy weapons from the west. how fast do they need to get there to actually make a difference?

yesterday would be the answer to that if i was being facetious or indeed accurate. the artillery that was received already is filtering through the cruise of being trained. the pentagon reported over the weekend probably 90 percent of maybe the crews have been trained. but look, it's a drop in the ocean. what they need to report that focused on artillery on the artillery strikes and russia, majors on artillery, and what you can use to knock out the artillery and deny rushes supply lines with your portal. quite rightly said, they need heavy weapons. highmark, for example, a mile or us mostly large rocket systems, as well as better idea systems because let's not forget the russian air force is still a going concern. so they need that stuff. they need a lot of it and they will need it over the summer without delay or prevarication, or they stand to lose demand. never again. it military analyst frank lead, which they're talking to us from oxford in the u. k. thank you, frank. european leaders are meeting in brussels today to try to agree on russian

all sanctions following moscow's invasion of your crime. but the to the european council meeting is being complicated by opposition from hungary, which is heavily dependent on oil and objects to a full band. you leaders are expected to consider a compromise which would allow hungry to continue receiving all via a pipeline with fractions only stopping shipments via the c. b meeting will also discuss more funds to help you crane rebuild by confiscating russian assets. that's bring in 2 of you and becker is the director of the stock on institute of transition economics and has been focusing on ukraine's economy and to how to rebuild these past month. october russian assets could be seen to finance the reconstruction of ukraine, but would actually work well, i think it will work,

but it will probably take quite some time. i mean, we already have the frozen asset sees, but it's, it's a matter of how can they be used. and that's going to take some legal processing before we can make sure that the money actually reaches ukraine and can be used for the risk reconstruction of ukraine. now you and your team try to calculate costs of a reconstruction and the damage to ukraine's economy. what was the result of how do you calculate these things in an ongoing war? well, this is an effort led by the key of school of economics and they basically document the damage to buildings and roads and ports and airports, etc. and as of today, that number is now over $100000000000.00 us dollars in damage just to infrastructure. so it's a number that keeps increasing every day. the war goes on basically. so one big topic for today's you council meeting them are the sanctions on all imports from

russia. so for hungary is not backing them. how important is this embargo and that it is a full, a bug i think is very important that we limit rush us access to foreign exchange. and of course, in all embargo is a very efficient way of doing. the hunger itself is, of course, not one of the biggest customers in europe for russian oil. so in some sense, it wouldn't make that much of a difference in terms of limiting foreign exchange going to russia. but of course, it's symbolic to keep the united so from that perspective, we want you to be part of the 100 to be part of the package but, but really on the financial side that it's not such a big deal. i would say, well, don't you think that others, if an accept exemption is being made for, for hungary and other countries will also receive pipeline all want the same?

well, it's a matter i think also of a bit of name and shame here. how do you want your country to, to be seen by the rest of the world and from the ukrainian perspective? so i think we have seen president landscape in quite a few speeches, pointing out hungary as a special case and, and he wants them to reconsider. i don't think most leaders in europe would want to be on his list when he talks about what, what we can do more to support ukraine. so maybe so, but i think it's not going to be super obvious how this works. so the director of the stock on institute for transition economics tobin becca, thank you very much. logan. thank you tom. now to have a quick look at some of the other stories making headlines today. germany's major parties have agreed to increase defense funding in response to russia's invasion of ukraine february chance that will of shots that said he wanted a 100000000000 euros to better equip germany's armed forces,

which have suffered from a lack of investment. the new deal gets around strict budget rules and helps to meet natal spending goals. police and colombo have use tear gas and water canada students trying to storm the home of free lunch as president. protestors are demanding go to buy our auto boxes resignation. sherlock as prime minister, later went on tv to offer young protest is the greatest se in policy making. at least 79, people have been confirmed dead off the torrential rain caused landslides and flooding in northeast and brazil. the military has been called in to coordinate rescue efforts and search for dozens more who remain missing. extreme weather incidents have killed hundreds of people in brazil over the past year. you as president joe biden, and 1st lady jill bye half attended mass during a visit to you've all the texas to mourn the victims of tuesday. school shooting

that earlier the la flowers at the elementary school where a gunman killed 19 students and 2 teachers in columbia, the left his sen. gustavo petro has won the 1st round of voting of the countries presidential election for mercury. a fighter campaigned on the platform of tackling poverty and crime, also moving away from oil and mining. petrol will now face the populist independent candidates, would offer an under us in a run of vote next month. hello, ambien, clamoring for change. in the soft bedroom is counting on it to make history. the palmer rebels came out on top in the 1st round of presidential elections. bringing him one step closer to becoming columbia as force left his leader in what is traditionally a conservative country feel and i trust columbia in society and it's will to change. and then there are only 2 options.

i mean, it's a relatively simple choice or if not, of course, either leave things as they are in columbia while in meal, which in my opinion is more corruption, more violent unions, more hunger or we can change color. medical of federal is a former member of the m 19 guerrilla movement. and a former mayor of book go into like in his presidential campaign, he has vowed profound economic and social change. a federal presidency would be historic in more ways than one. his running made francy marquez is hoping to become columbia's 1st ever black female vice president. but on the chemical navigator for us is a black community. it is a great recognition to see a black press in 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 filled us with pride and federal coalition. for short of the 50 percent needed fallen out great victory. he will now face populace millionaire rodolfo hernandez in a 2nd round of voting. the man dubbed columbia donald trump emerged as a surprise that can place candidate no matter who wins the run off on june 19 changes coming. one way or the other. 2 w correspondent, johan jj a ramirez is covering the election for us in bogota. min, earlier we asked him about the major issues that columbia is facing that are influencing this election. ah, 1st and foremost violence, columbia has gone through our civil war for more than 50 years. i'm back in 2017

like alarm in the state, and they korea ropes are signing up. peace accord, the peace accord, the hasn't been really implemented, and colombians are hoping we should expect the new government to implement that the piece aker or something that could bring peace to the country. then of fighting poverty on relaunching economy as the whole war on most of the war. velocity has been hit and very hard by the pandemic, and now by the consequences of the war on ukraine. so economies also a very important issue that columbus are raising. that was one of the mayor ah thought be said during the electron campaign. did have his johan ramirez reporting the wreckage of a plane which crashed with 22 people on board has been located in the himalayan mountains in the pole rescue. as have so far recovered 14 bodies from the crash site. the plane was carrying locals and tourists to a mountain town. photos, from deep in the himalayas,

confirmed the worst for the missing flight. the wreckage was discovered in the early morning a day after the small plane went missing. multiple bodies have been recovered, but bad weather and the remote location have made accessing the site difficult. the flight from per kara to the mountain town of johnson is a popular one with tourists. it normally only takes about 20 minutes, but air traffic control last contact with the aircraft shortly off to take off. now, authorities have confirmed that an accident occurred about 5 minutes before the plane was due to land. experts are still assessing the cause of the crash battle with us. we lay again. if we analyzed the pictures we received, it seems the plane did not catch fire. oh boy, oh, other of you, everything is scattered across the site. giddy the either the flight seemed to have collided with a big rock on the hill, which double was of those that be healed. the twin, auto plains,

similar to the one shown here, was carrying 22 people, including 3 crew members. the aircraft is operated by tara air. this monday, when i set up among the 19 passengers, a 2 german nationals at full indians and 13 nepalese citizens, anybody know. for the families waiting anxiously for news, the discovery of the crash has realised their worst fears. unpredictable mountain weather and remote airport locations means that plane crashes in nepal on not infrequent clashes broke out in jerusalem. after thousands of his railways march through the cities muslim quarter, many waving national flags and chanting, anti aarp slogans. mostly orthodox marshes were taking part in the annual jerusalem day parade. israel police fire tear gas and robber bullets. ask for the stadium protesters,

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 you got in which i have to come to jerusalem to support our people, our country, and our flag in hon. bigger channel. all we're not marching to be provocative, but because jerusalem belongs to the israeli people. it's part of israel. palestinians 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 a shot my sharply, but they damaged my property, of how much awkward, befuddled to find out. they spattered us, even though we didn't do any thing. home at procrastinate. ha massena, this city doesn't belong to them. it's our city and our country had act. ah! the violence is escalating on the palestinian side. masses threatening rocket attacks as widely feared the flag march has made an already tense situation even worse. in formula one motor racing red bull team driver. sergio paris was the surprise, went out the monaco grand prix after a delayed start honor monte carlo circuit lashed by heavy rain. and there was more disappointment for local boy sharla clare, who again failed to win his home. rice, despite started from po, position 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 pri got underway and with claire was flying. until ferrari called him in for a 2nd tire change on 22 laughs. 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 will. sergio perez had stolen a march on the clare and even with his tires cut to ribbons hilda, ferrari's carlo sites to take the checkered flag. her guided, i'd like a badge.

as the mexican celebrated an aggrieved laclare had some choice final words for his team. first, when for perez, this season and a good deal road for red bull standings leader max for stopping came in 3rd. francis sports minister says livable fans without valid tickets were responsible for crowd problems on the champions. league final kick off in paris was delayed by 35 minutes after livable fans were corral into security checkpoints and entrance gates. livable chief executive billy hogan said the treatment of his clubs. fans was unacceptable and demanded a transparent investigation livable. they lost the final cereal, madrid one mill it. what? cindy w. news is a reminder of the top story we're following for you. ukranian president vladimir zalinski has made his 1st visit to troops on the eastern front line. meanwhile,

you cried, says russian troops have entered the key city of sierra jeanette's, as they push to take all of the eastern don boss region. and that's it from me and the new stream for now i have an update for you at the top of the hour. don't go away though. up next sports life meets a blind mountain clock. scaling one of africa's highest peaks. to forget this, a lot more news and background on our website, www. dot com. and to find the thing social media office with with

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