ah ah ah, this is dw news ally from berlin. ukraine says russian forces are advancing on the center of severe didn't ask president of a lot of men. zalinski says russian bonds have almost wiped out the eastern cities . critical services, as he makes his 1st visit to troops on the front line,

also coming up. more than 20 travelers are dead after an aviation disaster in nepal . rescuers reach the side of a plane crash in the himalayan mountains. the bodies of locals and tourists are found in record and kurdish refugees say they're being kept from returning to their homes. more than 2 years after turkish forces seized control of northern syria, we look at turkeys plans to resettle the region. ah, a michael ok, welcome. ukrainian officials say russian forces have now entered the city of sierra dentist. after days of intense shelling, the eastern city has become the focus of moscow's pushed to capture all of the don bus region. president vladimir lensky said russian bombs had destroyed almost all

the city's critical infrastructure and damage. most buildings. meanwhile, on sundays, zalinski made his 1st official visit outside of the capital to meet troops on the front line, near hall, keefe. assessing the damage with his own eyes, ukraine's president visited the war ravaged region of hockey. 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 lines, will go hello. 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. it will take care of yourselves glory to ukraine. so 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. in google . oh, most of them of wounded people who i have a great in the forms of hospitals in eastern regents the tumult save fennimore and to be of upgrade them to the hospitals in western the 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, and 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. d w corresponded rebecca readers, is in ki. i asked her for an update on what's happening on the battlefield. while the fighting has been sent it on this city, sever done yet, because you as your report just said, there are for some days now. and russian troops are managing to surround that city almost at least on 3 sides on this, the mayor of that, sorry, the governor of low hands where that city is situated has been saying for days that, that ukraine has lost the upper hand. that russians are gaining control and that they are moving forward, but we're hearing reports now that the ukrainians have managed to at least hold the current lines. despite the intensive shelling you mentioned, it got worse overnight. you ukrainian authorities saying that they're getting pummeled at around $200.00 shells an hour so they've had to in fact, even stop counting the dead bodies because it's simply too risky to go out there and collect to them that they're gonna have to wait. so that it's kind of gives you

a sense of the intensity down there. but as i said, we are hearing that you kind of managing to perhaps hold the current line a, but really is you know, that they have in the last few days last the upper hand there in that don't mess region rebec. i'm curious for weeks, the messaging out of keith was one of confidence and strength. but in the past days there appears have been a shift in tone, stressing the loss of ground to the russians. what do you make of that? has the situation deteriorated that drastically or is to calculation and keep that appearing weaker might increase the sense of urgency in berlin, brussels, and washington. i think it would be too cynical to say that it was purely a tactical position that the ukrainians are taking. i think the proof is in the pudding that ukraine is, as i said, losing the upper hand, that the tide has turned in favor of the russians in the east and at ease particularly concerning for ukraine. of course,

these calls for will weapons. these calls for support for the international community that are coming from ukraine. and they are hoping that it's not going to be felt on fallen on deaf ears rather that, that, you know, these places that you mentioned, the powerhouse is the brussels, the washington's. you know that they, they are going to step up and try and try and help you cry and push back the russians. so, you know, i think it's a little bit of both. i think it's definitely too cynical to say that it's purely tactical. yet. there is obviously a call for help in those words, hoping that they're going to be is gonna be heard. rebecca, you mentioned the east on sunday, russian foreign minister sugar lab, rob said moscow's quote, unconditional priority is the so called liberation of the don't nets. and lu hands regions does that to you signal a clear change in the kremlin strategy to now limit it. james in ukraine will ever since said they were humiliated in their attempt to take care of when

they were pushed out of this region where i am, they were re focusing and focusing their efforts on the dumbass region and, and also the south of the country. we've seen that we've seen that uptake in the aisd and that, that real focus there. and that shift already this messaging about liberation. that is one that they have been bringing the entire time through this conflict. but i, the people that we've been speaking to who by the fled the don bass or who have friends and relatives there don't really feel that they're being liberated at the moment. some 1500 people are thought to have died in this conflict just in that region. or whether that is from shelling or from, from actual war all from a lack of food and medicine. so it's, it's doubtful to think that they, that they, these people think that they being liberated in terms of the change of tactics. yes, it definitely has been seen as a shift to the 8th, but the worry is that if they're successful they're they, they will continue to spread out with many thanks rebecca, that so d w's, rebecca readers and keith. european leaders are meeting today in brussels to try to

agree on russian oil sanctions following moscow's invasion of ukraine. but the to day european council meeting is being complicated by opposition from hungary, which is heavily dependent on russian oil and objects to a full band. you leaders are expected to consider a compromise which would allow hungry to continue receiving oil via a pipeline with sanctions only stopping shipments. the see the outcome of the e u council meeting is being closely observed in ukraine. daniel baylock is a canadian lawyer living in ukraine. he's now part of keeps territorial defense forces. he told us about the developing situation in ukraine. were being out guns 20 to one out in the east and were still holding them back there. they're not advancing anywhere near as, as quickly as they thought they would, and the cry for help is real. we need those m l r s systems,

the multi launch rocket systems that can be a real game changer in turning the tide in this war. and also points to the fact that i think the fact that we've held them is your question, both territorial defense. this is a new way of waging war for ukraine, where you have total, the concept of total resistance, where everybody in society is involved in some way in, in beating back the enemy. it's not just the army that's fighting. and that was, that was the reason the but i joined was that i didn't see any reason why somebody had to defend my home and my family. for me. i felt very strong obligation as did the members of my community in the village where the villages i live and, and others that joined up to, to defend, to defend the country against, you know, naked evil fire power, fire power firepower, that's the refrain we've been hearing for 100 percent, you leaders are scheduled to meet today to discuss you defense amid russia as

aggression against ukraine. of course. where should the block invest to strengthen defense? well like i think that the e u needs, i think right across roads, the historical cross roads in the development of global security. and certainly the e u and the european, the year, all atlantic security architectures into that. but it's also the euro, atlantic security and economic architecture. and now ukraine has to be a fundamental part of the subsurface, not to have ukraine, both in nato and in the e. u. for last 8 years we've been dying for the liberal democratic values that he professes to, to expound and we, nobody else has done that. we know the, the whole notion of the sanctity of life, the dignity of the individual and, and the rule of law and the freedom of choice. those are not value shared by the

enemy, by, by, by the president. those are values that we have shown in spades, and those are the bedrock values of the, of the you. and you know, the fact that the e u is paying 1500000000 euros a day for petroleum is, is really their financing state terrorism. and today we have had maybe a 1000000000 and a half euros given to us and assistance. so you need to invest in ukraine and the reconstruction in infrastructure, energy technology. but it also needs to invest in itself, which means a ukraine is an integral part of the you not in some halfway house that's been thought up by some leaders. then you'll be luck. you have made your message loud and clear. many, many thanks. from keith's territorial defense forces that daniel block, again many thanks, where the 1000000 people fled the dumbass. when pro russia separatists seized

control of much of the region in 2014, some decided to relocate and settle in ukrainian health territory on the other side of the front line. now as russian troops advanced, they may now be forced to flee again as d. w as mathias berlin go reports then it delete theme if it weren't for the frontline, just 15 kilometers from here. series with then co came to the village of an appeal here 8 years ago. the entrepreneur fled done yet city where he ran a retail business. watch him. what is that to do in a village? i cannot do nothing. i'm not used to working for others. i'm an entrepreneur graham sir. he is an involuntary social dropout in his home town. donnette ski was known as a ukrainian activist when pro russian separatists took power. he fled here just behind the front line. he taught himself online how to run a farm. now war has returned more forceful than ever.

a bomb had just a few 100 meters from his house. louis call little to this was a place where soldiers stayed on the vehicle. they moved into the place, then they were bombed by a plain village with i think they were nice neighbors who tipped the enemy off was all nice in quotation marks. laurel lauren will develop go sir. he is convinced that some in the village still harbor sympathies for russia. as for him, he does not hide his resentment for the state next door. he fought for 2 years at the front line. now fear and violence are back. oh sir, he has already evacuated his wife to weston ukraine. awfully. melissa,

this is la. imagine a shell hitting the farm, guys i i have to protect myself and the animal is that there was a boy in the prison negotiate the gym for moon was then they would be my wife was a little, it's less worry this way. it's so much easier to look off to one self than others that the lowball po lifted him, shiver luba for now he wants to carry on with business as long as he can before the war. he used to send cheese packages across ukraine, but as fighting intensifies postal services have shut down left over with co paula, our income fell by more than 60 percent. that the cost has changed little that up and moved loser. but nevertheless, his business has been spared the worst.

8 employees come to work every day, and goats also give birth in wartime with him, if i was a pessimist, i wouldn't have opened a farm here. of course, if we were occupied, i wouldn't stay lee, but that will not happen. and if so, he still has a uniform in his wardrobe. a quick look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. germany's major parties have agreed to increase defense funding in response to russia's invasion of ukraine. in february, chancellor, olaf schultz said he wanted a 100000000000 euros to better equipped. germany's armed forces, which have suffered from lack of investment. the new deal gets around strict budget rules and helps to meet nato spinning goals. german inflation rose to 7.9 percent in may as food and energy prices rose, according to the national statistics office. it's the highest level since $974.00.

when crude prices sharply increased, as a consequence of the oil crisis, economists say further price hikes are also on the horizon. in columbia left, his gustavo petro has come out on top in the 1st round of presidential elections. the former gorilla in one time bull guitar mare has campaigned on a platform of tackling poverty and crime. petro will now face the independent candidate, were doleful hernandez, in a runoff. police in colombo, have used to your gas in water cannon on students, trying to storm the home of sri lanka, president protesters or demanding go to buy a raj, a pos because resignation. relock as prime minister later went on tv to offer young protesters a greater shane policy making the wreckage of a plane which caught crashed with 722 people on board has been located in the

amalia in mountains. in nepal. rescuers have so far recovered all but one of the bodies from the crash site. the plane was carrying locals and tourists to mountain town. photos from deep in the himalayas concerned the worst for the missing flight . the wreckage was discovered in the early morning a day off to the small plain went missing. multiple bodies have been recovered, but bad weather and the remote location have made accessing the site difficult. the flight from pic 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 the take off. now, authorities have confirmed that an accident occurred about 5 minutes before the plane was due to land experts, a still assessing the cause of the crash buffalo with us. we lay again. if we

analyzed the pictures we received, it seems the plane did not catch fire. oh, other of you, everything is scattered across the site. giddy. the eagle, the flight seems to have collided with a big rock on the hill shovel. as those of you hear, 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 money will net up among the $19.00 passengers, a 2 german nationals 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. a not infrequent

to the conflict in syria now, which caused a refugee influx into many countries, including neighboring turkey. now on cra, says it wants to resettle more than a 1000000 syrian refugees. in territory, one's home to people from serious kurdish minority turkish forces crossed the border into northern syria in late 2019. as the country was racked by civil war, turkey is believed to have some 18000 troops station in the region which the kurdish people claim as part of their homeland. many displaced kurdish refugees now live in the isle ha saca refugee camp. but their hopes of returning to their homes, or fading country for 70 years shaped. are you? oh, monica occurred lived in the syrian city, everest island. but 3 years ago, he and his family of 8 were forced to flee. he says that allies of turkey had

attacked and wounded him when he tried to defend his home, hulu, because i already heard they threw me out of my house, stole my belongings, rama and beat me. no co googe who was that just to try to assist him while i missed the family looks at old photos of their former home, their neighborhood and their fields. they're distressed. they've heard that non kurdish syrians will be moving into their homes. well, i said that we're very angry. we can accept that refugees from huh. or italy are moving into our houses. it's not fair. we must be able to go home. the family now lives in the aisle how suck a camp in northern syria about an hour and a half strive from their home town. almost all of the roughly 14000 kurds in the camp fled from turkish attacks in recent years. most live intense in humble conditions. there is little water and few fresh vegetables. when turkish tanks

rolled across the syrian border into kurdish territory in 2019 their lives changed . turkish allies control their towns and villages to this day. donald mohammed ali, who advocates for refugees, and ross a line says turkey is trying to systematically settle kurdish areas with non kurdish syrians along with along that she would are a get. keith is a targeted attempt at changing the demographics. turkey must be stopped going on plaza, there are no longer any codes or any other minorities, such as the syrians or armenians in with us. i'm another we've all been driven out in a now, syrians and the rockies live the other course. very good, and he explains how groups close to turkey destroyed his own house and then sold it for the equivalent of $115.00 us dollars alone. but he says it's not just property that's at stake here, but also culture esla love it,

but we haven't just been here for a couple of decades. so this is where our history and our culture are. strange is moving to our city of threatening that throughout him on the chance of shape. are you home our family ever being able to return to the place where he was horn seemed low? what's more likely is that more curds. we'll soon seek shelter in the camp. as turkey has announced, fresh military operations in syria. kristen hallberg, is a journalist, an analyst who specializes in syria. i asked her whether turkey is engaging in ethnic cleansing in northeastern syria. while turkish interventions during the last few years have caused the displacement of several 100 thousands of people in the majority courts. but as well, assyrians and ease their property and land has been confiscated by turkey's proxy, which is the syrian national army. it's some islamist, malicious that take over these areas. now the idea to settle,

they are mainly arab syrians that come from completely different areas from damascus from hammer, from hans from it'll, it means that you changed the demographic reality along the border. you displace curts, you settle arabs, which means demographic engineering, and this will cause major unrest within the seo and society that is already deeply divided due to the war 10 years of war and violence and atrocities. demographic engineering, your show, how likely is it the president or the one will be successful? he's very serious about it. he has already started to build some $57000.00 houses for the west along the border. he's under major internal pressure within turkey. he wants to win the parliamentary and presidential elections next year and then moved within the society has turned against you in refugees because they are being blamed for that economic crisis within turkey. and the nationalist, a position within turkey even wants to send back more out on,

wants to deliver on that he wants to be serious about sending the ceilings back so he will follow this plan. as you well know, or to one is threatening another military incursion into northeastern syria. do you think he will carry out that threat? i think he is decided to do so because it's not only about settling soon. refugees is. it's as well about rooting out a kurdish melisha called the white p g, the people's protection units that took it, considered to be a terrorist organization because of its affiliation with a p k. k. for the americans and the europeans, it's a strong ally in their fight against the islamic state. so the terrorist of mr. add one of the allies of the west in ne, syria, which is at the root of the problem basically. and one is very serious about this intervention, because if he is empowered by the fact that nature needs even more than ever due to

the ukraine war. so he feels that due to the fact that you know, the membership often lead and sweet needs his approval. he's in the situation to now uni laterally pursue his own goals within syria and not wait for a green light from washington and or, or moscow. this was the fact of the last 4 years whenever he wanted to do something, sir. he waited for some approval from washington approval from moscow. he is now empowered to do so even without any yes, approval or coordination with his partner. well, anchor may have some leverage here will will err to one uses a turkish veto over finland and sweden joining nato. to prevent the u. s. interfering in his plans. he's already doing so he's already asking for, for example, sweden and finland to restart their arms delivery to truck. you know, due to the last intervention in 2019 several european countries like germany,

sweden, infant and stopped their weapon delivery to turkey. he wants them to restart this. he wants sweden to take a harsh stand on kurdish dissidence that has taken refuge in sweden. so he definitely uses his new leverage on the need to, to pursue his goals even in north and syria. and he will not wait for anybody to approve on his plans to reset the syrians there and for another incursion within nathan, syria. journalist christian halbert. many, many thanks to you. thank you. and remind the top story we're following for you. the cranium present enfilade. him is the landscape as made his 1st visit to troops on the eastern front line. meanwhile, ukraine says russian troops have entered the key city of sierra donetta as they push to take all of the eastern dumb bus region. you're watching w news coming up next in d, w. news, asia, china, jango, security and trade deals in the south pacific during

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