ah, russian forces are making slow but steady progress towards season. 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 russian 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 a little we have got the idea. and ball and sanctions on oil,

that's the only works if everyone sees and serves as part of a community. follow that agreement. the owner is still better than nothing k for european union. the 90 percent are behind the oil embargo. it's important to decide though we have to stop the funding of russian machine 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. lots courses either leave things as they are in columbia while in new york, which in my opinion is more corruption, more violence, your names, more hunger math 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 shelly devoted eskew, 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 looks like it's moscow's newest target. the devastation, intense shelling has already destroyed critical infrastructure and russian troops are 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 rotten program. most of them are wounded people who i ever creighton are from the hospital, sir, or in eastern regents the tumult safe fennimore, and to leave upgrade them to the hospitals in western grain and leave the novel and a song 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 reclaimed by ukrainian fighters. it was

zalinski, 1st trip to the embattled east since the invasion. and he took the time to meet and decorate the front line troops. was all those low. i was, i want to thank each of you for your service. you reached 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. all day. long. 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 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 d w. so by all accounts,

the 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, the pictures of maria pole and the devastation caused that. i think the same question asked by many observed times they call 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 city and occupy them . we didn't have it since the way they would have been before the conflict. ready. it's become, or has always, oddly 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, 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? russia's really obviously changed both the strategy and tactics throughout the course. the conflict in the 4th month now of the complex and russia, i think fixing on smaller and smaller areas deploying more and more firepower 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 head on without cutting it off, which i think conventional wisdom, what it's just that the russians would have sought to do 1st is at least must largely close the ring to the west of the city. it does imply a degree of urgency and potentially slight 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 captured very the next. now they've gone ahead and calculated the, the i missed you, credit supply lines is 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 our aid and supplies. how much is actually at reaching you crane has actually got in there. yes. and what sort of effect is it happen? is it having goodman certainly has got in. we've seen new donation equipment

and action in ukraine. but the em 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 and 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 costa 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 or 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 a position from hungary, which is heavily dependent on rush. no, you leaders are 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 is the landscape appeal to the

a you to act decisively. and 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 brutal russia must be made to feel the consequences of what it's doing to ukraine and to the whole of europe, that they're sure we will do green. he brought the c e robot, or andre parham 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 it to the welcome. and a sina estimates that you're 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 assumptions that are being discussed are only

appliance or the tanker tanker shipments and not full shipments. and we have to think, we have to think not only about the volumes, but about the prices as well because there is a global impact on oil prices. the discussion assumptions on 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 pay may still be relatively high. so i think practice practical approach would be to reduce oil should muster 0 and invisible to do that. europe is not as dependent on oil as it is dependent on gas. and the router just for turn is pretty feasible to substitute that oil shipped from russia with oil shipped from the rest of the world. and how much is the use div entering over this issue itself, affecting fuel prices?

this, this is the issue that i mentioned before. so the very fact that there was uncertainty about tax cost create uncertainty in the market for oil, which pushes up price or so foil. and in fact, if we look at the revenue, so russia after the war, the revenues have not the revenues have not fallen 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 high representative for foreign affairs, joseph brown, and then come back to you. we cannot create hunger to world. that's what we think 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. he's going to be very damaging for a lot of countries around the world under paul hm. and co russia says it will help

avoid a global food crisis by creating export corridors 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's your tasks and it doesn't have as many. i think the irony of the situation is that the countries that would be heard by the absence of source of grains from, from your brain, 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 a big question is whether you would want to do, i want to do something to help those countries. and of course, it would hurt the general interest in countries to she travel a sanctions. a situation like this may, may,

may also 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 an unprecedented level of sanctions. how much affect i'll be actually having on russia and it's economy well, so the 2 biggest sanctions that any country would impose in russia are essential, some oil, and even warren gas. and we see some progress on oil. we don't see much progress and gas and unfortunately it's unlikely we'll see a lot of progress and gas because see, europe has 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 sound to us on the rational harmony right now. that fact is very moderate, but i think it made intensify in the long run. as a one run as acts of just roy and trade links are realised. however,

again, the fact will be moderate unless there are serious sanctions on 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 have. so to pay attention to. thank you so much for explaining that to, to us andrew pa, hancock from the university of southern california. thanks for having me. ah, though to columbia, where the left is to satisfy gustavo, petro has won the 1st round of voting in the countries presidential election, former career 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 run off vote next month colombians are clamoring for change.

gustavo, federal discounting on it to make history, the former rebel came out on top in the 1st round of presidential elections ringing him one step closer to becoming columbia's 1st left his leader in what is traditionally a conservative country can feel. so i trust colombian society in its will to change channels in the end. there are only 2 options. well, at the moment it's a relatively simple choice without a last cause of either leave things as they are in columbia, while in reopen, which in my opinion is more corruption, your more violence feelings, more hunger math, somebody or, or we can change colombia, columbia federal is a former member of the m 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, francy marquez, is hoping to become columbia's 1st ever black female vice president. but another probably, any good for us is a black community. it is a great recognition to see a black press in there with 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 fill us with pride. that draws collision both short of the 50 percent needed foreign out great victory. he will now face populace millionaire rudolfo hernandez in a 2nd round. avoiding the man dubbed 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. as john d. w correspondent, johan ramirez and the columbia, the capital budget are welcome johan. so this is an intriguing run off. 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 meaning power and have been unable to carve violence, drug traffic in east security, poverty inequality. and that was flagrant last year when in the midst of the pan demik in the midst of the log down the brought the country into a deep economic crisis. the government of now the guy and president yvonne duka

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 the demonstrators on does the state security forces. but it was the proof that the political, it was completely disconnected from the needs of the citizens and now they are paying the price of this disconnection because yesterday, columbia 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 not out of the raise for the 2nd round. ok. and so we have both candidates promising a change. so that just took us briefly through the, the sort of changed the country can expect, depending on who wins in june. we have 2 different visions of the country on one hand to 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 rather fernanda, 77 years old. a business man very reach, a 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 now 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 receive 40 percent of the vote. or what does this tell us about colombia is 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 victim of the conflict . when you talk to colombians, every one has say, 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 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 including up his past in cleaning up his reputation to overcome the stigma. feeney, a former glory 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 as her 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 korea fighter. i think that it, this is more about the very successful political campaign that has managed to clean up and to rewrite the past of gustavo bedroom. thank you for that to you. and i was, we'll speak again. i did a renewal corresponding to johan ramirez in bonita ah, 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. he 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 clay there. we hope to long john after the meeting,

china will release its own position paper on our own positions, propositions, and cooperation proposals with pacific island countries for vanda and going forward . we will continue to have ongoing, an in depth discussions and consultations to shape more consensus on cooperation. tricia public juncture 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 and economic deals in the pacific over the life. well, this is a significant moment in china as it seems 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 agreements, security, economics, culture, development, fisheries, etc. and of course, there was gonna be authorization. so i think what's happening now is divisiveness that china is bringing to the region and the cracks, the divisions 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 the pacific all and not telling them to refuse or ignore china . but to remind them that the choices that by making about the development for the long and if they had been to read the fine they need to. and in addition, when you are striving governments like the government as

a much more progressive foreign policy than the last one and the pool killing pacific countries, what they need to hear from astray on climate change, which is obviously a central issue for them. so it is an important way that's very medical 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, anti d, w, use or act ok. thanks for watching. have a good day. ah

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