we shed light on the opaque world who's behind the benefits. and why are they a threat to us all open worlds? start to june, 2nd on d w d ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. ukraine says russian forces are advancing on the don bassetti. off it all done. it already fear the city of several donates could follow my real poll in falling to the russian onslaught after weeks of relentless bombardment. also coming up more than 20 travellers are dead after an aviation

disaster in nepal. rescues reach the sight of a plane crash in the himalayan mountains. the bodies of locals and tourists are found in the wreckage and kurdish refugees say they are being stopped from returning to their homes. more than 2 years after turkish courses seized control of northern syria, we look at turkey's plans to resettle the region. ah, monica jones? well, come to the program. russian forces have stepped up their attack on the eastern ukrainian city of several donetta. ukraine says its troops are battling to hold on to the city of the days of intense shelling. several donates, gazed, threatened by rushers,

pushed to capture the whole of the dumbass industrial region. president of alada, miss lensky says, almost all the cities infrastructure has been destroyed in most buildings damaged. if he had settled on ads, could follow mary, you, paul, by falling into russian hands. will this be a copy of murder you pull? as the russian army intensifies its assault in the loo, hantz region, the town of severe internet's looks like it's moscow's newest target. the devastation, intense shelling has already destroyed critical infrastructure and russian troops and now advancing into the city. the largest still held by ukrainian forces in the region. thousands of civilians are believed to still be in the city. and the governor of lou hanson said the con holden shelling makes it impossible to count casualties. the push confirms russian forces objective to capture the inter dumbass region which the kremlin is calling an unconditional priority. the fighting has

made evacuating besieged towns across the don baths dangerous. but aid groups are working to rescue the sick and injured leuchtenburg. most of them of wounded people who ah, ever creighton are from the hospitals, sir, in eastern regions the tumult save fennimore and to live, upgrade them to their hospitals in our western grain, and believed that no phil and a song are to prove that of them. and to give them proper medical care. amid the russian onslaught, keith is counting its victories. on sunday precedence lensky visited the war ravaged city of har. keith recently retained by ukrainian fighters. it was zalinski z 1st trip to the embattled east since the invasion. and he took the time to meet and decorate the front line troops with we'll go from whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,

whoa. oh, i want to thank each of you for your service. you rift your lives for all of us and for our state. thank you for defending the independence of our country. take care of yourselves. glory to ukraine, owes y'all booth slow with moscow tightening its grip on the east. new battle lines are now being drawn up more. let's go now to keith, where dw correspond, and rebecca ritters is standing by rebecca. the fighting in the east we've just heard has been rating throughout the day. what is the latest you've heard from the battlefield? well the situation and the don bass, as we know, has been getting worse and worse to weeks, valor hans region. the reason we're talking with the city of cetera done yet has been hardly fort 90. 5 percent of that region is now under russian control. earlier today we'd heard that the ukrainians were managing to hold back russian troops at

the, at the line where they were surrounding the city of several done yet. but we have just recently heard that they have now russians have now broken through into that city tanks and soldiers. now in the city, they're fighting combat in the straits. so there has been a significant development. you kind of really struggling has been for a long time if lost the upper hand in this region to be able to hold back the russian troops. and as we see russian troops have now entered that city. i mean, presidents zalinski on sunday said the duration of the war depended on support from the west, mainly talking about weapons deliveries. he has, at this rate, how long do you think ukrainian troops can actually stave off the russian offensive? i couldn't really give you any accurate timeframes. i, i don't know the number of weapons that they have, but they definitely are struggling to fight against the russians. they are just completely outnumbered. when it comes to heavy weapons, monica,

they've been desperately calling for these heavy weapons. there is some noise now, particularly from the u. s. c, u k. also making some noises that they may deliver these weapons. these multi rocket launches, as they're known. these are the acronym, actually i'm not that good with weapons. the, the multi rocket launch is that, that go to a 300 kilometers into the distance. that is what is going to be able to help them hold back the russian troops and push them back. what the time frame that zalinski is possibly talking about is that this is going to turn into a war of attrition. that this war could just grind on him. you crime for such a long time. there may not be that much movement. but without these big weapons, ukraine will struggle to push them back. now obviously we will know that for weeks the messaging out of keith was it was actually one of confidence and strengthened over the last few days. the situation seems to have deteriorated drastically. is it that bad or do you think part of it could also be calculation and key if that,

that appearing weaker could increase the sense of urgency in berlin and brussels. and as you just mentioned, washing so that is a possibility, although i think it would be cynical to say that they're, they're, they're, they're saying that they're losing only to get support from the west. i mean, i think the proof is in the pudding, monica, i think they are losing the upper hand or haven't lost the upper hand. the tide has turned in favor of the russians in the don bass. they are pummeling these towns. they are bombarding them. they are not holding back the, using everything that they have to try and get access to. the don basses has been a k region that president putin and the russians have said that they want to gain control of and they are using all that they have. so i don't, i think it would be silly call to say that they're just that the ukrainians are claiming that they're losing, in order to get support. of course, support is sorely needed and that's what they're calling for. and they are hoping that those calls are not gonna fall on deaf ears. all right, rebecca,

written there dw correspondent in kia for us. rebecca, thank you so much. european leaders are meeting in brussels to try reach agreement on oil sanctions against russia. the to day talks are being complicated by opposition from hungary, which is heavily dependent on russian oil and objects to a full ban. you leaders are expected to propose a compromise. this would allow hungry to continue receiving oil by pipeline with sanctions only stopping shipments by sea. not something i would like to talk about with the dw brussels bureau chief alexander font enaam and joining us from brussel, alexandra. so we just heard the term that you could mission could be watering down the proposal. the embargo proposal signal, it will only embargo oil transported by c, allowing hungary to still receive oil by its pipeline. does this embargo light if

it happens, actually make any difference? yes, it would make a difference. i think even though we are really talking here about a partial oil embargo only, but if for the european union moves forwards to banning all seaborne oil from russia, that would amount to 2 thirds of all oil deliveries to plan is to exempt hungry and maybe to other land locker nations, or from this embargo, but other countries such as germany, for instance, and colon, they have already announced that they are going to quit all russian deliveries of whether seaborne or through pipelines and that would in the ends amount to 90 percent of all russian deliveries, so at that it would be a big step. but even a with is a potential compromise that is currently been debated. and brussels hungary looked

set to use aids veto at least a victor all bon, keep saying that a compromise is still far off. why is that, and what would that mean for the block? so we are getting a contradictory statements here with the german chancellor shoulds saying that what he is hearing sounds like a consensus that he thinks that an agreement is within the reach. lafond ally in the european commission president was a bit more cautious saying that we are not there yet. and victor albany just spoke of him. he was making clear head in brussels that he is not pulling his punches punches that he wants to make sure that there will be more money for hungry to upgrade or refineries that they want to make sure if anything, it's happening to this one pipeline, transporting oil to hungry, they would get help, but in the end i think that it looks like

a compromise could be really possible because otherwise the damage to the unity would be huge. and of course, they know what's at stake here with the lat, sheehan prime minister, korean saying that he is going to remind all you leaders tonight. what's at stake at what is the bigger picture here, namely that it has to be supported and that they have to prevent russia from winning this war. now this is a 2 day summit and it's expected that it will also discuss defense investments and a plan to rebuild ukraine. what more can you tell us about that? we expect the leaders to agree to provide ukraine with 9000000000 euros in 2022 to make sure that the state still can function. and we also expect them to speak about said european defense. you know, that this discussion has been going on for many of them saying that

stay needs to be less dependent on the military capabilities provided by the us, alexander an arm and we lost you for just a split 2nd to but i think we got the most of your answer just now there dw brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena reporting from brussel. thank you so much . more than a 1000000 people fled from don barza. when pro russia, separatists east control of much of the region in 2014, some relocated in ukrainian health territory on the other side of the front line. now is russian troops advanced, they may be forced to flee again as dw mathias billing reports. the need delete seem 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 flit done yet sc city where he ran the retail business. watch him. what is that to do in a village?

i cannot do nothing. i am not used to working for others. i am an entrepreneur for you sir. he is an involuntary social dropout in his home town. donnette ski was known as a ukrainian activist when pro russian separatist 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. maurice coital, 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 took the enemy off was all nice in quotation marks, wurrell global in will, the will of 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 out, sir. he has already evacuated his wife to west in ukraine. awfully if nobody thought the thought, imagine a shell hitting the farm. i have to protect myself and the animal as the 3rd was about in the cynical shivers in so long then they would be my wife was a little less worry this way. it's so much easier to look after one's self than others. the po lifted him 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 it's fighting intensifies postal service and have shut down a little while our income fell by more than 60 percent, but the curve to change little drop in the blues are bothered. nevertheless his business has been spared the worst 8 employees come to work every day. and goats also give birth in war time 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. but that will not happen. and if so, he still has a uniform in his wardrobe and he has a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. germany's main political parties have agreed to increase defense funding. chancellor will

have shawls has said he wants a 100000000000 euros to better equip the armed forces. the new deal gets around strict budget rules and helps the german government to meet native spending goals. rising food and energy prices drove german inflation to just under 8 per cent last month. it's the highest rate since 1974 when crude oil prices spiked. economists a further price hikes are on the horizon. in columbia left is gustavo pedro has come out on top in the 1st round of presidential elections. the former gorilla and to bogota mayor has campaigned on a platform of tackling poverty and crime. petro will now face the independent candidate, rodolfo hernandez, in a run off a suspect as climate activist has been detained at the louvre gallery in paris at allegedly trying to vandalize the mona lisa. the protest. i tried to break the glass protecting the famous portrait before smearing it with cake. he was

disguised as an elderly woman in a wheel chair. the civil war in syria drove refugees into many countries, including neighbor and turkey. now anchor wants to resettle more than a 1000000 people on land. once home, serious kurdish minority turkish forces crossed the border into northern syria in 2019, at the heights of the civil war. turkey is believed to have some 18000 troops stationed in the region. many displaced kurdish refugees now live in the isle hassock, our refugee camp of their hopes of returning to their homes are fading. connie, for 70 years. she a u. o mot occurred who lived in the syrian city of ross 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 allen heard they threw me out of my house, stole my belongings rama and beat me there ago, a goose who was rather disinterested of the ma lamishia the family looks at old photos of their former home, their neighbourhood, 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't accept that refugees from huh. or it leave 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 curds of 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 won, are a, get you. this is a targeted attempt at changing the demographics. turkey must be stopped going on plaza. there are no longer any kurds or any other minorities, such as the syrians or armenians in with us online. 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 law. but he says it's not just property that's at stake here, but also culture asli love it, but we haven't just been here for a couple of decades. so this is where our history and our culture are strangers

leaving to our city of threatening that throughout him. the chance of shape or jo, home, our family ever being able to return to the place where he was born seemed low. what's more likely is that more kurds will soon seek shelter in the camp. as turkey has announced, fresh military operations in syria, miss. and i am don't now by kristin harrisburg, a freelance journalist, and middle east analyst who specializes in syria. good to have you with us. and simply put, kristen is target engaging and ethnic cleansing of northeastern syria. turkish interventions have displeased several 100 thousands of people close to the areas to the northern areas and northern syria, mainly coach population, but as well as syrians in east since 2016. so the property and the land of these people has been confiscated by chalk is proxy there, which is the syrian national army. it's a group of extremists in islamist,

malicious. so displacing these kurdish people, mainly kurdish people and now wanting to resettle mainly era refugees from turkey means that they are really trying to change the demographic realities along the border. and this will create more social unrest within the searing society that is already deeply divided after 10 years of war and violence. and how likely is it that president ad tuan will get away with us? he has already started to build homes like 57000 homes have already been built. so the program is already underway. he's under internal pressure within turkey because the trucks are blaming their economic crisis more and more on the steering refugees . turkey has taken more than 3700000 syrians inside the country and they so kind of as scapegoats for this economic problems. and president avalon is under pressure

from his nationalist, a position that want to send even more serious back. so he wants to deliver on that . he wants to send some syrians back because he wants to win presidential and parliamentary elections next year. so i think he's very much serious about sending people back. and he's also threatening another military incursion into north east and syria. do you think that he present ad one will carry out that threat? yes, basically, he just announced that he can start any time suddenly he can start this intervention. and the idea is not only to reset and refugees, but as well to root out a kurdish melisha, the y p g, the kurdish people's protection units. the turkey considered to be a terrorist group because it is affiliated with the peak. i k, the americans and europeans consider the y p g as allies because they help them to fight these so called islamic state within syria. and one wants to connect the different strips of land that he is already controlling in north and syria,

to make sure that this was settlement is going on and that this y, p g militia is being weakened because he wants to minish to diminish any emissions of the current for more autonomy and often syria because this could affect the kurdish minority within turkey as well. and of course all of this comes at a time and anchor actually awesome leverage. do you think that out to one will use his turkish veto over finland and sweden joining nato to prevent the u. s. interfering his plans? he's already trying to. he very much. he is empowered by the new g was tragic role . he can relate the play due to the ukraine war because natural needs turkey more than ever out. no one knows this. he has to approve the membership off sweden and finland. he wants sweden to diminish the r, help and support for coach dissidence as well. he wants that the arm, arm supplies are being taken on because germany and finland and sweden kind of

stumped these arms sales since 2019 since the not last intervention. so anyone feel very much empowered to unilaterally follow his plans within syria without any green light from what and moscow which she used to wait for in the past. he doesn't need to right now. middle east expert christian held back there. thank you so much. thank you. the wreckage of a plane which crashed with 22 people on board has been located in the himalayan mountains in nepal. rescue have so far recovered all that one of the victims 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 analyze the pictures we received, it seems the plane did not catch fire. oh boy, oh it doesn't of you ever thing is scattered across the site. giddy. the eagle, the flight seems to have collided with a big rock on the hill. stovall was almost like the heat. 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 mother will next among the 19 passengers,

a 2 german nationals for 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 france has apologized to liverpool fans with tickets who missed the champions league final because of delays outside the ground in paris. the interior ministry says french authorities were caught off guard by local hooligans. organizes originally blamed a delayed kick off on english fans arriving late. but officials later admitted that was not the case. it watching dw news coming up next in d, w. news asia, china dangled security and trade deals in the south pacific during

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administrative people. lean extreme around getting 200 people hassan from the agency around the world. more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge. yes. why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. ah. does it have the news? a shack coming up to date, china strategic moves in the south pacific rays. alum among australia and its allies, china wanted tend to pacific out in states to inc, a wide range of dealing with beijing. it failed. so what are the concerns with this deal? and how did the.