ah, ah, russian forces are making slow but steady progress towards seizing the key city of severity nets can ukraine's east for they are facing fierce resistance from ukrainian forces who relinquish some ground, but are holding their line made while the european union discusses its 6th round daffy brush and sanctions, including an embargo on oil imports. there the line isn't so strong. i'm fil gale. and this is the day. ah, it's never been easy. it's the same now with a 6 package. broad economic sanctions, including oil, including gas, to start moscow of funds and now out of room,

we have got the idea. i am bored when sanctions on oil does. this only works if everyone sees and serves as part of a community law that is only about the owner. it's still better than nothing. he for european union, the 90 percent are behind the oil embargo. it's important to decide die though we have to stop the funding of russian machines also on the day, a surprise result from the 1st round of presidential elections in columbia where the candidate with the most votes is a former leftist gorilla fighter. will be, i mean it's a relatively simple choice model. let's go so either leave things as they are in columbia while in europe, which in my opinion is more corruption, more violence feelings, more hunger math. i'm body or, or we can change colombia, columbia. welcome to the day

a russian forces of entered the outskirts of the eastern ukrainian city of savannah . done yet, scarce ukraine says its troops a battling to hold their positions after days of intense shell, eggs threaded su so threatened by rushes, pushed to capture the whole of the don bus industrial region. president lansky says, almost all of us, it is infrastructure has been destroyed. and most buildings damaged. the fear is that severity and ask will a follow mary up all by falling into russian hands. will this be a copy of mattie 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 continent shelling makes it impossible to count casualties. the push confirms russian forces objective to capture the entire 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 a working to rescue the sick and injured lot. walker must have them of wounded people who ah, advocate in uh from the hospitals, sir, or in eastern regents the tumult safe anymore, and to leave upgrade them to their hospitals in western ukraine. and leave that knoxville and dis on auto pathetic 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 reclaimed by ukrainian

fighters. it was zalinski his 1st trip to the embattled east since the invasion. and he took the time to meet and decorate the front line troops. was august. no, i was. i want to thank each of you for your service. you risk 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. along with moscow tightening its grip on the east. new battle lines are now being drawn until they show. we'll look at the battles on the ground in ukraine and in the political sphere in brussels as the you tries to wrangle hungary into line with majority thinking on russian sanctions 1st said to justin crump. he's the c e o of the security analysis company a. similarly, he joins a cert from the u. k. welcome to dw. so by all account,

russian artillery is just flattening everything in sight. does this sound like an army intent on actually occupying this territory? if it captures it, unfortunately, yes, it does. so if you remember, of course the pictures of maria pole and the devastation caused that, i think the same question asked by many observer times because possible means capture the city level of destruction they are. and this goes far beyond, i think capture in terms of resources will capture to take the cities and occupy them within habits since the way they would have been before the complex. really, it's become, or has always ugly, been a matter of pride, prestige, and national identity for the russians. i think the occupation of territory on the ground within the ukraine, the russian senior leadership is suddenly convinced is russian should be russian. is that primary concern?

hence, the focus on the dumbass at this time. and despite the untold suffering being cause in the cities, i think the russian point of view, the eventual patient is the and go, right? so take it at all costs and what sort of costs are involved in this? because we know that the ukraine is, as is suffering casual tis, russia must be to resist it. how damaging is this for them? a rushes ready, obviously changed both strategy and its tactics throughout the course of the conflict when the 4th month now of the complex and russia, i think fixing on smaller and smaller areas deploying more and more power to achieve its ends. and actually that has been useful for us in that it has reduced their overall rate of loss compared to the earlier days of operations where they largely took more risk. that's changing a little bit at the moment. the, remember the fail river crossings that taken place a few weeks ago,

you probably saw the footage of those tanks spread out along the river. banks destroyed during this very risky river crossing. and actually the timing of attacking, surprised on that now had on without cutting it off, which i think conventional wisdom, when it's just, it's that the russians would have sought to do 1st is at least much larger. close the ring to the west of the city. it does imply a degree of urgency and potential flight, carelessness of lives, so continuing in order to achieve certain goals. and that might well be because they couldn't cross the river previously, but the plan says they should be capturing very the next. now they've gone ahead and calculated the damage to credit supply lines as significant enough that they got a chance to take it in the head on salt at this point. and so while, as this happens, well, we have western countries promising millions in terms of aid and supplies. how much is actually reaching ukraine has actually gotten there yet? and what sort of effect is it happen? is it having goodman certainly has got in. we've seen new donation equipment,

an action in ukraine, but the m triple 7 houses to toad artillery pieces that have been used. and these are started to give ukraine an edge in terms of range of their artillery. but they still lack numbers compared to russia. and that's why ukraine keeps asking for more support. this time we've gone through a pattern where your crime is asking for more support the on went through a phase of saying that she were happy with what were guessing. thank you and is now back to saying that she really needs more help. and i think rushes is support for ukraine will diminish over time. is western nations confront other problems like stagflation, like energy problems like cost, the living crises. and the, this is part of the stress ukraine, that was, he says, to get the supplies it needs to maintain its defense against russia. so that's now we're looking at very closely to see how this a bose,

there is no game changing piece of equipment. everything. ukraine gets helps it strike back more effectively against russia and effectively follow that pattern of doing as much damage as possible for every meter that the russia can gain is just making moscow pay a very high price for it. that's where the ukraine strategy at this point. that's very clear. thank you so much for joining us. security analyst just in crump, from sibling thank ah, to fighting are on the ground there in ukraine and squabbling in brussels as european leaders try to agree at embargo on russian oil. the to day talks have been complicated by opposition from hungry, which is heavily dependent on russian oil. you leaders expected to propose a compromise that would allow it to continue to receive oil by pipeline with sanctions only blocking shipments by sea ukrainian president volume incidentally

appealed to the a you to act decisively. that is, to my problem. it is the quarrels in europe must end of even these internal disputes only encourage russia to put more and more pressure on europe. these would be the 6th sanctions package, must be agreed to us that it must be effective and include oil. i get my bill to russia must be made to feel the consequences of what it's doing to ukraine and to the whole of europe that there should be brought to green. he brought this 0 or andrea perform anchor as an assistant professor of finance and business economics of the university of southern california is also part of the global collective economists for ukraine, joins us from carry in italy, welcome. i'm a senior estimate that you are paying a rush or something like $285000000.00 a day for its oil. is it practicable to reduce this to 0? well, what we have seen today during, during this time it is that the sessions that are being discussed are only applies

to the tanker tanker shipments and not full shipments. and we have to think, we have to think not only about the volume, but about the process as well because there is a global impact on oil prices. the discussion assumptions of the expectations of sanctions. and even if we do to decrease the amount of muscle oil that ross, i have been to europe, the price of the euro, the uniform way may still be relatively high. so i think a practice practical approach would be to reduce oil shipments to 0 and a physical to do about europe is not as dependent on oil as it does depend on russian gas. and the routes are just for turn is pretty feasible to substitute the oil ships from russia, with oil shipped from the rest of the world. and how much is the use data entering over this issue itself, affecting fuel prices that, that this,

this is the issue that i mentioned before. so the very fact that there was uncertainty about cons, create uncertainty in the market for oil, which pushes up prices. so foil, and in fact, if we'll look at the revenue, so rush after the war, the revenues have not the revenue so not fall in at all. so russia still ers, pretty much at least as much money as it used to me before the war started. ok, so that's fuel, let's also talk about food. we'll hear from the use hi representative for foreign affairs, joseph brown, and then come back to we cannot create hunger to world. that's what putting he's doing is avoiding lamenting them policy, destroy ristocki, pipe of wheat, and do something with the country. we have to say something because he's a big tragedy is going to be very damaging for a lot of countries around the world under pa hm. and co russia says it will help

avoid a global food crisis by creating export to college those out of ukraine. if sanctions lifted. does that sound like a good deal? well, it's not surprising that ross ice trying to use any bargaining ships that pass and it doesn't have as many. i think the irony of the situation is that the countries that will be hurt by the absence of, as for some grains from, from your brain and russia are the countries that did not impose sanctions on russia. the 1st place i'm talking about countries in the middle east and north africa. and i think the question is whether you would want to do, i want to do something to help those countries. and of course, it would hurt for general interest in countries to travel of sanctions. and the situation like this may, may,

may cause the european union to proceed more regularly with unfortunately. so the space to us in brussels are about the 5th round of sanctions. we are at an unprecedented level of sanctions. how much affect all they actually are having on russia and its economy? well, so that the 2 biggest sanctions that any country could impose in russia are essential, some oil, and even more on gas. and we see some progress on oil. we don't see much progress on gas, and unfortunately, it's unlikely we'll see a lot of progress and gas because see europe is so much dependent on it. ok, now when i'm talking about the effects of sanctions, we should distinguish short term from the long term. we see some fact from sounds of such as on the rational harmony right now, the effect is very moderate, but i think it may intensify in the long run as the long run aside of just throwing

trade links are realized. however, again, that that will be more direct unless there are serious actual, some oil along the lines that are discussed at the european union council this week . and even more if we thought we were starting homosexuals on guess. right. so, so these really are the ones that everyone they've served to pay attention to. thank you so much for explaining that to, to us andrew, par banker from the university of southern california. thanks for having me. ah, the to columbia, where the leftist satisfied gustavo petro has won the 1st round of voting and the countries presidential election, former gorilla and men of bugger tar campaigned on a platform of tackling poverty and crime in the face of populist independent candidates, rodolfo hernandez. and i'm gonna vote next month colombians are

clamoring for genes. gustavo federal is counting on it to make history. the former rebell came out on top in the 1st round of presidential elections. 2 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 the channels in the end. there are only 2 options will at the, i mean it's a relatively simple choice without last course of course, 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 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, navy federal coalition fell short of the 50 percent needed for an hour great victory. he will now see is populous millionaire rudolfo hernandez in the 2nd round of voting. the man dug columbia. 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. that's john d. w correspondent, johan ramirez in columbia, and the capital budget are welcome. johan. so this is an intriguing runoff. we have both contenders, left and right. both anti establishment figures. what, why is colombia turned away from its mainstream conservative leaders? because the political parties have been unable to offer solutions to the colombians . i mean for dec as they have been in power. and they have been unable to carve violence, drug traffic in e security, poverty inequalities. and that was flagrant last year, when, in the midst of the pandemic in the midst of the lug down the, brought the country into a deep economic crisis. the government of now outgoing president,

even duke proposed a tax reform in order to increase taxes to the middle class. it provoked a wave of protest that led to clashes month of clashes between that them that demonstrators and as the, the state security forces. but it was the proof that the political elite was completely disconnected from the needs of the citizens, and now they are paying the price of this, this connection because yesterday, colonial said enough is enough. you the political class, you had your time to solve our problems and you didn't, and that's why they are now out of the race for the 2nd round. okay. and so we have both candidates promising a change. so that just took us briefly through the, the sort of change the country can expect, depending on who wins in june. we have 2 different visions of the country on one hand, gustavo petro, a former glory, a fighter leftist candidate who promises more social policies who promises i grants

to poor people and is threatening the presence of the state in rural areas. on the other hand, we have a role fernanda, 77 years old, a business man, very rich businessman, who made a lot of money in the construction business. ah, he's an outsider. he has very little political experience. that's why many people compare ra fernandez with donald trump. many people call him the colombian, donald trump, he is more oriented in relaunching the economy, building back confidence with private, national, and foreign investment. i, his main flag is fighting against corruption. so in the words, those are the 2 visions that will face off in the 2nd round. and so do some. a. petro is a member of a gorilla group, but one storm the supreme court. and despite this, he still received 40 percent of the vote. what, what does this tell us about column pres, attitude to its former and indeed active gorilla armies. columbus suffered,

they civil war, the last of more than 50 or so in this country, every one is vague them of the conflict. when you talk to colombian, every one has a brother, a family member, brother, or father and mother, a friend who was killed during the war. so very few people justify violence. every one rejects that, the war rejects the gorillas. however, as you said, gustavo, petro got 40 per cent of super to last night. they think that he has been very clever in, in cleaning up his past and cleaning up his reputation to overcome the stigma. been a, a former gary defied there as well as other stigmas. for example, he has been in politics for 30 years. he was, he was even, may, you're off boggled that the capital city. and even though he presents himself, i saw a renewal of the political class here in columbia. so he has been very clever in cleaning up his reputation and his past. so what i'm trying to say is that this 40

percent of support that he got yesterday. i don't think this is 40 percent of columbia support the former gary fighter, i think that it, this is more about the very successful political campaign there has managed to clean up and to rewrite the past off with style bedroom. thank you for that. your hand. i was, we'll speak again. i did a review corresponding to your hunt, ramirez in bogota. ah, now an attempt by china to secure a sweeping security and trade deal with 10 south pacifica islands remains elusive chinese foreign minister. a wang ye had hoped to sign an agreement during the stop in fiji as part of his diplomatic tour of the region. we came away from a virtual meeting with his south pacific counterpart without a deal, and urging them not to be too anxious about his country's aims in the region. he promised to clear their. we hope talk after the meeting to china will release

its own position paper on our end positions, propositions, and co operation proposals with pacific island countries, giovanna, and going forward. we will continue to have ongoing, an in depth discussions and consultations to shape more consensus on cooperation. tricia, public junction rory metcalf is head of the national security college of the australian national university. in cambra, he has more on why china has been unable to get the security on economic deals in the pacific over the line. well, this is a significant moment in china's attempts to dominate the pacific. and i think china has overreach, so i think we're seeing a convergence of several factors in the past few days. the, the over rich, the hubris, if you like, all china and foreign minister, while you seem to,

to, to read many countries into a many dimensional agreement, security, economics, culture, development, fisheries, et cetera. and of course there was going to be on the vision. so i think what's happening now is that the nice business that china is bringing to the region and the cracks, the division of the beginning show. because the small countries cannot reach consensus on dealing with china. therefore they will put on the shelf. but the other piece of puzzle i think, is the way that the new australian government has been showing real leadership, real engagement with pacific and not telling them to refuse or ignore china. but to remind them that the choices that by making about the development for a long time. and if they have to read the fine because they need to. and in addition, when you are striving governments, like the government has

a much more progressive foreign policy, you know, the last one and the pool killing pacific countries, what they need to hear from astray on climate change, which is obviously an issue for them. so it is an important way as for a medco from the national security college at the austrian national university in cobra. and that was buffet as ever. the conversation continues online. you find a saw on twitter, onto d, w, use or act ok. thanks for watching. have a good day, ah ah

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