we still have time to act. i'm going with foot 5th pip. subscribe for morning like i this is d. w. news live from berlin. the european union agrees a ban on most russian oil imports by the end of the year. it's the harshest measure yet imposed to punish moscow for its aggression in due crime. meanwhile, on the ground, russian forces pushed deeper into the eastern city of seattle, the nets, authorities, fee. it will become another. matthew pope,

flattened by the relentless bombardment and war crimes. under the spotlight ukrainian prosecutors mate with international investigators, but holding the guilty to account could get harder as more areas come under russian control. ah, i'm anthony. how'd it's good to have you with us. the european union has handed down it's harshest measures yet to punish russia for its aggression in ukraine. after weeks of wrangling, the 27 member states meeting in brussels have agreed to ban most seaborne in ports of russian oil. by the end of the year hungry, opposed a total embargo because it relies heavily on russian supplies. some you leaders said it was the best deal that could be achieved. nick, to our bonus,

celebrating his 59th birthday at the e is summit here in brussels. the hungarian prime minister, however, already got his presence in the wee hours when your leaders agreed on an embargo on russian oil. but with exemptions for hungary and others. each commission presidential de la funder line, still presented the water down deal as a success. these sanctions are biting heart and are really, are destroying and that's the, the goal on the basis their financial basis of putting, leading this war and hitting heart the russian economy, the ear plans to cut only russian oil that's transported by c, hungary, slovakia, and the czech republic can continue to receive oil by pipeline for now. according to u officials, in total 90 percent of fresh, an oil imports, the block will stop by year's end. even those countries that would have liked to

see a stretch your embargo say it was most important to show unity. i was positively surprised because our, when we went into the room and the signs were not that great, but everybody was very constructive. those expect that huge, a cat are fresh and gas as a next step are likely to be disappointed though from i come boom. it is lot easier to compensate for russian oil. we managed to solve technical problems with victor auburn over the gas, but gas is a different story. that's why gas embargo won't be part of the next sanctions package tend to amazon, sorry, energy prices all over the block were also addressed. as well as global food shortages jew as to the war in ukraine, the from fordham. pretty the responsibility for all the dangers that we are facing . like, clearly with russia and its president, it will be to see that's why it's so important that we reinforce our efforts to make sure grain can be exported from ukraine. repletion, eely dis,

will gather again in gene on this occasion. ukraine switched to join the european union is likely to tap the agenda. i spoke to our correspondent in brussels max and a short while ago i asked him if, despite the compromises at this deal represents a success for the european union. the your commission president funnel. and we just heard speaking and the counsel present shall michelle a. after the end of day 2 of the summit to your call, this s success. and indeed it was a long process. it took almost a month since this was initially, initially brought up by the commission this, this, or this, this oil embargo on russia. and was a hard decision that is likely to also impact you economies to hurt them as well. and it already have, we have already seen global market prices for oil going up with that being said. and despite hungry not having played along despite how hungry having an exception

here in this and bordeaux, we were looking at a potential reduction of 90 percent of oil that will be imported from russia to the u. this is going to have an impact on the russian economy. nevertheless, as of the big chunk of the russian budget, oil means diesel means petula means other types of products and it's gonna have an impact, a severe impact on all these. and these parts of the economy and the large industry in russia. bissell of fondling hinted, she wants more max, but is there anything more we can reasonably expect you to do at this point beyond this, in terms of imposing energy sanctions on russia? well, gas would be the, and the consequences will be the, the, the next escalation of, of measures against russia at the moment. but as we know, this is a very complicated subject. a lot of countries in the you are very dependent on russian gas, germany, one of the most dependent on it, on large parts of the industry, the chemical industry, for example,

to rely on russian, russian gas law and jobs and livelihoods are connected to it. so phasing it out is going to be very difficult for many countries in the u. r. country looking at alternatives, some liquefied natural gas, for example, that can be, that can be imported from other countries, such as the u. s. or from, from cutler. but the infrastructure has to be put in place, and then there are also other countries in the u, for example, belgium that don't even have significant imports of russian guess. we're who said at the summit now that they are very hesitant. and in going further with this, with this measure, worrying about impacts us could have on the markets. so gases, or oil is really can be seen as an achievement, very difficult subjects, but gases, prov. we're not going to see that very so briefly. max. what else came out of this e u summit? so, another important issue was food security and ukraine is the bread vested the world in russia is essentially blocking exports of grain. i'm from,

from ukraine to other parts, some of the poorest countries in africa and in the middle east, and the e. u was now trying to facilitate with a so called green lanes. the exports at the cannot take place from cut from ports like this right now. cuz the russian navies, blocking it to other countries in the u. m. to keep that supply chains going from the respect of ports in an e u countries. so this is not another issue that was discussed at this sir. you liter summit, max andrew brussels, thanks so much. the mayor of seattle, jeannette sc in easton, yukon, says russian forces now control about half of the city. one relief organization estimates as many as $12000.00 civilians are trapped without food and power unable to flee because of the heavy fighting. russia was trying to save the entire dumbass region, already partially in separate his hands since 2014 the sound of artillery echoes across the don bass. russian forces in sunny fields,

shelling already shattered towns and cities before moving troops in for combat. who died in london, but though says in general, the situation in the dawn bass remains extremely difficult, but the russian army is trying to gather a superior force to put more and more pressure on our defenders with the maximum combat power of their army. we will put those misty ottomans richie. russia is pushing to seize the entire eastern region of don bass, which has already been partially in the hands of pro russian separatists since 2014 . so vero done yet has seen widespread destruction, similar to what happened in the port city of barrier poll, but ukrainian forces have had some small successes elsewhere in the east. more than a 1000 civilians were evacuated from russian controlled towns around hockey id than the most is in the my there's no power but then no phone service,

no water. the echo, it's hard and we've gone, i can't contact my children. like my oldest daughter, there's no work and no money for senior citizen, an occupation regime is being established and they've introduced the rubel prices have changed the forest people to sign agreement saying they'll cooperate just yet me an idea. i hope i believe that i will return home to where i'm from and that it will be a part of ukraine up with almost as because i don't want to live under occupation. i just don't want to tell you as the russian onslaught grinds on, the exit is continues. people fleeing the east with whatever they can carry, leaving behind homes, reduced to rubble and bodies buried hastily before leaving. it runs till prosecutor is preparing to try dozens of suspected russian war criminals with

hundreds more suspects under investigation. the list include senior military offices, politicians and propaganda agents. some trials have already begun thanks to meticulous documentation on the ground that stated that investigating potential war crimes could prove difficult as russia controls more territory. now the w terry schultz in the hike, spoke to the cranny and prosecuted general irina findig to cova. she asked about the likelihood that these investigations will succeed. we understand that in ukraine, we have 3 mosses. a full, more than 5000 city rounds audit, more than 6000 civilians. i and jarred, but these figures are not correct at all. we can't count people whole on the look on the screening on and on literature which has temper recuperated. but we all know who are responsible for this war. for these dis, is for every son was born on

a ukraine. of course, this president of russian federation and his team actually who started this war, who started to kill civilians, rape city allowed store to civilians every, all these atrocities. what to and now hell on the wrong to the ukraine. actually, of course it to it to i think not on the my main role. it's the main goal of all civilized vote of all people who speak involve trula floyd, ball justice about international law. the people who are responsible of this is of the people who is responsible of crime of aggression who just came to the neighbor, stays. so just take the allowed to and kill the people. actually they should be punished. i think it's very important that often such situation in the church now

in georgia, in syria. now we have so huge, sure, and aggressive and brutal war and ukraine. maybe it's time to not only to stop this war, not only to punish people, horace constable, but actually to prevent such situation in the future. because when we speak about immunities a to it's understand that this people will be ready to do it. this same in the future, but do you think you can get vladimir putin and people of that level here? the threshold for proving these war crimes, as you know far better than i do these atrocity crimes is so high, it takes years to build cases. and is that daunting to you? does that, does that intimidate you? the, the loved the threshold of evidence that you need to prove these war crimes against people like letterman are again a, if a speaker boss graham of aggressions, very simple case. we all understand who is responsible of grammar progression. it's

us then when we're speaking about walker, i'm sick and crimes against humanity. when we speak about common responsibility. when the soldiers have done atrocity owns it growled and tufa of commander knew about this. it's mean that he has so calm responsibility for this. of course i seen cur. we've should try to do every sin to punish people who are responsible now to some of the other stories making news around the world. no way and hungry have confirmed their 1st monkey pox cases over 20 countries where the virus is not endemic. have now reported outbreaks. 300 cases had been identified most in europe. monkey pox is usually confined to parts of africa. thousands of fans and relatives have turned out for the funeral of punjabi rapper cedar mussa walla. in northern india. it 28 year old musician was shot dead while driving his

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