ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, russian forces on the verge of taking the key city of sabera done yet as they step up their offensive across the east of ukraine. also on the show, we meet the ukrainian volunteers, defending a village close to the front line and we hear from residence how it feels to be in

the line of russian fire. plus you diplomats accuse hungry is divisive leader, victor or bon of holding up for the sanctions against russia. by insisting that the head of the russian orthodox church is removed from the list. and she has been on the phone for longer than any other monarch in british history. we look at how the u. k is celebrating queen elizabeth platinum, jubilee. the queen is watching a fly past of royal air force planes over buckingham palace right now. ah. i'm on your campus mckennan. welcome to the show. russian forces are edging closer

to capturing a key ukrainian city after days of fighting street battles are underway in the industrial hub at the very done yet. in the eastern dumbass region, the governor there says that 80 percent of the city is now under russian control mass in a boost for ukraine. germany and the united states have announced additional weapons support the keys, including advanced rocket systems with a range of up to ac kilometers. from moore, i spoke to d. w correspondent, mateus bellinger, who is in the ukrainian capital. keith, you have a fighting, has been going on in the city inside the cities borders for a few days. now the russian troops was wearable for as much as we have been hurrying, have been advancing towards the city center. there was information that they were already in control of 80 percent of the city. but we are also hearing that with the ukrainian side says that a the ukranian soldiers were left in the city are putting up fierce resistance and

that fighting is going on. the governor of the region has said it's too early to change to close the case about civil or the next a however, it's not looking very good for the ukrainians there. the city, the russians are advancing from 3 sides into the city and have control over major industrial areas. they have even hit some chemical or stocks there, which has, which are we've seen pictures of some urban toxic smoke are raising from these areas. so yet people are expecting the city to for but it's not what has happened yet. now the russian on the floors in the east has been relentless observer, say indiscriminate. can you tell us how civilians they are coping with a situation? yeah, in the city of civil engineers, we're hearing that about 15012000, something like that. civilians are still left. the same is true for most of the

places there. the ukrainian side has told people to evacuate and has evacuated people since the beginning of april, telling them that basically there will be a heavy fighting and that people should leave the region, but 10 to 20 percent remain all over the place. that's in these areas where fighting is concentrated but all along the front line and all along the line. there is shelling, hitting, not only ukrainian army positions but also the places where those civilians live. whether they are cities or villages. and i have just a few days ago been to one of these villages that has been under constant shelling . and let's take a look what we have found there when the war broke out, what it immediately registered as a volunteer for ukraine's territorial defense forces. now he's guarding this village on the front line in don bass. thank you. 3 know they shoot from tags. they

shoot anti tech missiles. cannon is i not a career officer, so it is difficult for me to distinguish all of them by sound oak. we should labradoodle shortly. i've got to do what it's up. his nickname is just one of around 100000 volunteers who joined units like his since the beginning of the war. many are fighting for the 1st time. this is from a rocket. the village is just 3 kilometers from the front line. it's an important defense position. mistake. of course. the locals were suspicious of us in the beginning, they were watching us. we were patrolling the streets looking after the place and they were hiding. but as things got worse here with electricity and food, we started to help out here and there. yeah. and slowly trust has been building as them walk a quote that the video play really good of the thought. now soldiers and the remaining villages have cut due to each other. rushing shells at the village daily

. and they hid randomly said he mc alive, which is a veteran area. and a beekeeper look, it didn't get through better than body armor. the village used to be his get away spot. now he plans to leave. you can also psyche is records. we hide all the time from the shooting. look, that's a new one. it landed recently. poor major over there will go crazy. will have honey with shrapnel this year. most of his neighbors have already left. still, there are times when it's called the 62 year old pop. hi, another battlefield name uses the opportunity to study ukrainian morale. so i used to see can make so ukrainian or russian being a soldier in the training army. i can't be russian speaking. that would be against my principals. now i am transitioning to ukrainian or the horde. this is not

everybody wants to know. it is because of his dog that 82 year old macola each and christ says he's still here. he was injured by shrapnel the day before. but he wants to stay where you will live as long as the devil doesn't come after us. macola has been working in russia for many years. he says he has very few illusions about the fate of his village. for these useless, there is no way to be russia, but they continue to do everything to make things worse even for themselves. i am talking about the leadership, not the ordinary people, ordinary russians with the same thing as everybody else got a decent life, sir, your clarification at least for to day, no shells have get landed nearby. it is in the neighboring village that artillery has taken its toll to day. so this is pretty much what we are seeing in many of

these places. we are seeing these volunteer troops that we've seen in this report. alongside with more professional units of the army, and we're seeing that most of those people who are left in these villages or in the towns. mostly they are elderly people and they are have mostly 2 reasons for staying. either they say they don't know where to go, they are afraid of going somewhere where they don't know whether they're get any help. they are usually not, don't have a lot of money or they're quite poor actually. and the other reason is that many of them say i'm already old, i've lived my live. whatever will happen will happen. did have a car son mathias spelling. a thanks so much for that reporting. and his a quick roundup of some of the other developments in the wall ukraine's president. the modem is zalinski says, 200000 children are among the ukrainians who have been forcibly taken to russia. in his video address lensky claim that children had been abducted from orphanages or

taken with their parents. he said that ukraine would punish those responsible. former chairman, chancellor aguilar mackerel has condemned russia's war in ukraine as barbaric and a blatant breach of international law. in her 1st public speech in 6 months, she said she stood in solidarity with ukraine. in her time, as chancellor michaels government was often criticized for its russia friendly approach. and you round of eas sanctions against russia is once again being held up by hungary prime minister victor alban, the you had agreed on a ban on most oil imports. on monday. however, robin is now refusing to give the green light and diplomat say he 1st once the head of the russian orthodox church patriarch carol to be removed from the eas sanctions . but what he bumbled on some or we can cross. and now to the w correspondent, christine montoya, who's in brussels. christina,

this new demand from victor. all baton, came as a bit of a surprise. does it have the potential to derail this new package of sanctions that are meant to be finalized to morrow? in a way it already has, i. e, you, envoys were in a meeting to do the formal process of taking that political agreement, that j. e. u. his or state had reached on monday, turning that in to legal tax, so that the 6 package of sanctions could be enforced. this is when hungary is ambassador, vetoed the blacklisting offer. russia's most senior carrick patriarch carol. now, the reason he was on that list is because patriot carol is a staunch an ally, and supporter our for president vladimir putin. he has backed the invasion at russia's invasion inside ukraine in his sermons, he has blamed the west and nato for it. it's not very clear why be hungarians are not opposed to that, but it has come as a surprise in the sense that at that meeting of you, leaders on monday the issue did not come up. prison or band did not raise the issue

. now that meeting with the invoice on wednesday yesterday, is here to have dragged on. it got very tense with the french ambassador who was chairing the meeting, insisting that it was too late in the game to institute such a change. so we now have a scenario where hungry finds itself again, blocking the european union from taking further action against russia in the form of targeted sanctions. and of course, to get to this, to this package, the hungarians, of course at howled out because they were lobbying against a russian oil and bell that they were able to secure an extensive opt out. and now we have the scenario where they're blocking at the, the black listing of this patriarch. it remains to be seen how far they're going to take this if they use good about this pressure and indeed remove a patriot carol from, from the list. but as, as some even better to what was quoted and having said that, we gave the hungarians and engine it looks like they're now going for the yard. and at some point this has to be put to a stop. so we'll see,

we'll look around it. but as far as the commission is concerned, those discussions are on going. thanks for that, christine, that's d. w. correspond christine manuel reporting from buffalo. the acts and johnny debt has won a defamation case against his ex wife and the hut. a u. s. court ordered had to pay him more than $10000000.00 in damages. but hud was also would a $2000000.00 off to juris found the debt had the same time through his lawyer. the 6 week trial made headlines around the world with the couple making often lurid claims and counterclaims of domestic abuse. clean for amber heard it was a bitter end to an intense trial hearing. do you find that mister dev has proven all the elements of defamation? answer yes, heard, listened with her eyes downcast as it became clear that jurors had emphatically side to do with her ex husband. finding that she had defamed him by implying he was abusive during their marriage in a 2018 newspaper article. dep was in england as the verdict was delivered,

but posted a triumphant statement online in it. he thanked the jury, saying they had given him his life back heard to release her own statement online. after leaving the court. saying that she was disappointed beyond words by the ruling and dubbing at a set back for the idea that violence against women is to be taken seriously. the result was a remarkable turnaround for dep from just 2 years ago when a british court ruled that he had repeatedly assaulted, heard based on much of the same evidence presented in court in virginia. but while the latest chapter of that highly public legal saga may have ended in a victory for dep, it's unlikely to be the last time the pair face each other in court. heard has already announced she's planning to appeal the verdict. more on this and going by david levitz from did these count desk david's and would you say that johnny death

is really the winner in this case? well, i know, you know, this case was the trial was so ugly and so icky that it's hard to think of. anyone is the winner? certainly. i think that we as society are the losers here, but yet, johnny depp, i did accomplish what he came to accomplish. which is that the jury believed him. they believed that he did not abuse amber heard in any way and that she made it up in order to damage his reputation and public opinion. really, things have been with him all along, doesn't it? it does really a lot of that comes down to appearances. i think johnny depp came coming off very much as the cool guy with the sunglasses, who was able to make jokes. he was very, very calm. she at times was very emotional. many people read her body language as a signal that she was not telling the truth. and, you know, i think this comes down to a strategy on the part of deps team. they very much pushed for this publicly

broadcast, public and broadcast trial. i should say. they wanted it in a state, the state of virginia where there is a jury trial jurors are known for being a bit more emotional certainly than judges. um, and they certainly knew that he was going to come across as the cool guy there's this is the role he's been playing for his entire career very successfully. if we look at the internet, there's tons of evidence that support was overwhelmingly in his court. if you look at tick tock, the number of views for videos with the hash tag support johnny, i'm sorry, a justice for johnny depp were 19000000000. they were not even a fraction of a percent of that for amber heard. but this, this rule of public opinion is definitely going to come up again if she appeals the case because the jury was not sequestered, meaning they had access to, to this public discourse. and it seems possible that it may have influenced them.

now, obviously a huge media spectacle. what does it mean essentially, for their careers and hollywood? well, i think with johnny depp it's, it's imaginable that there are still some filmmakers who won't want to touch him. also based on that ruling in london that he was a quote unquote wife beater. um, but he is quite clearly shown that he has a big fan base. he is relevant again, his stock is way up and amber heard on the other hand, her stock is way down. there's a petition out there to get her thrown out of the next aqua man film. i don't think that we're going to see her again in a blockbuster film, at least for a long time, oscillating staff, david levitz from d. w culture. thank so much. the united kingdom is beginning a 4 day celebration for the platinum jubilee mocking 70 years of the reign of queen elizabeth 2nd. she's the countries longest serving mach a ceremonial parade trooping. the color has been taking place in london and the queen's appeared on the balcony at bucking and palace

and our london correspondent, charlotte chelsea pill joins us now from london. charlotte, huge celebrations being seen in the u. k. can you put the significance of this into context for us or any of these events don't come around every day. i can only remember 2 others in my lifetime. certainly nothing on this kind of scale. and that really is a reflection of the fact that this particular jubilee mach 72 years on the throne for her majesty, queen elizabeth the 2nd, just reflect on that for a moment. that's for example, as 14 prime ministers in us presidents that she's met and seen throughout her reign . she's overseeing the end of the british empire, the birth of the digital age. a lot of people here really reflects in using these

for days of holiday of celebration to reflect. 6 on that time, this constant presence that she has been throughout, often quite turbulent periods a here as queen and i think that's why so many people are on the streets here. behind me, we've spoken to many who made special trips from around the world. in fact, some coming from the us just to witness this moment in history. and i think regardless of what you feel about the manichean, indeed she isn't popular everywhere. and the queen does have herself, does have very high approval ratings. and i think that is why you are seeing this huge, huge town out here today. we can see the crowds. we've seen the trooping the color parade and the royal families appearance on the balcony. what else is gonna be happening over the next few days? well, is jam packed schedule of events that is going to be a lighting of beacons across the nation and the commonwealth. later on this evening

. then i got that going forward into the next few days. this whole area, for example, on saturday night, is going to be time to be turned into an enormous concert with some huge. i'm stars just joining that on sunday. there's going to be a pageant here, which we're being told is going to be really, really impressive. but of course, this isn't just a showcase of 70 years of british history. the monarchy will also want to showcase the future, the future of the monarchy. and that's why we are seeing these appearances from prince charles the ad to the throne. and of course her, the queen's grandson, prince william. now the queen is 96 years old. we can see her there on the balcony of buckingham palace. but to what extent will she be able to participate in other festivities? that remains an open question at the moment the palace said that it really will take this on a day by day basis. we know that she has had to draw pounds of

a number of events in recent months. she did in fact have cove it earlier this year and recovered. there was a good deal can concern in the build up to this that she wouldn't be able to take part. but we've seen her today. there is hope we'll see her again over the coming days. but as you say, she is 96 years old. she can't be expected to attend every event in the way that she may have done in the past. i think a lot of people will understand that perhaps that is not possible at the age of 96 . absolutely. 96 is an age to be proud of. d w correspondent charlotte chelsea pill in london. thank you so much. now the queen is known to love dogs and especially corky son in honor of her platinum jubilee. one group of women in london have taken to missing toy corgis to mark the occasion. t w's book at math. has this report for most brits, she's always been part of their lives. queen elizabeth the 2nd and now she

celebrating her platinum jubilee. 70 years of rule. a record ah. there's a determination about had said to put on the smile, put on the work clothes, go out and do what she's got to do. she's maintained relations around the world, which i don't sing as any of the person in the whole world that has done so well at that. i most grits admire her if not adore her. the ladies at the women's institute in south london certainly do. it's an organization that traditionally stands up for women's rights re. these ladies meet regularly to work with their hands. this time it's knitting. corgis, the favorite dogs of the monarch on to sledge, associate the queen more with horses than caucus. but nonetheless,

i'm quite happy to knit very bad cork is mine, but i don't really like cork is, but i've done my best. the queen will no doubt to prove at least the effort. in fact, she loves animals. he can see how enthusiastic she is when she said the horse races or how relaxed years with her own corgis. and that's since she was a child at royal functions, they are omni present. even at state visit in new york. april each has been collecting pictures of the queen once she even saw in person. her mother had taken her long to a building. the queen was inaugurating, which is all to where april mother worked. even though my mom was just a cleaner, she stopped and spoke to them. she didn't just walk by and smile or anything. it was just she actually stopped and spoke to them as well. so here my mom was well

impressed with that day. i'm here for most brits, the queen is a symbolic figure, mainly unreachable. and yet at the same time, always around for the past 7 to years. ah, the queen's just been and it's is a safety when all our lives change all of the time. you've got to be over 72, have not known her as the monica. and in honor of the queen, the ladies of the women's institute have been distributing their knitted corgis across the entire country. these are supposed to be a very personal lucky charm, as well as an expression of adoration for her majesty. ah, and for more i am joined by my colleague alex forrest, waiting in the studio. alex obviously great affection for the queen anne. yes, in recent years the royal family has really weathered some difficult. we could even

say scandalous events, couldn't we? do you think any of this is gonna overshadow the, the celebrations that we're letting now? well, let's just look at some of those events because it has been difficult for the queen over the past few years. first of all, her 2nd son, prince andrew, the duke of york. he has been stripped by the queen of both his military and royal patronage is and that is on following the virginia you for a case. now you may remember that she accused the prince of being that she had been trafficked by jeffrey epstein to have sex with a prince at the age of 17. now he has always always denied that. however, earlier this year he did agree and out of court settlement, we don't know how much money that was worth, but we assume it was in the millions and that has really tainted the monarchy. and the 2nd big issue for the queen has been a split between her grandson's of prince william and prince harry. when prince harry decided to move with his wife megan to the us and leave the u. k. completely

. and that has provided a field day for the media, both in the u. k. and actually across the world. however, despite those really major issues for the queen, i don't think that it has in any way overshadowed the jubilee because it's all about her. whether we see her or not, it is all about the queen and the palace has made sure it will always be about a queen. even a few weeks ago, deciding that only working royals would appear on the balcony with the injuring the fly past meaning no hurry. no, megan no, andrew, no distraction. now you say it's all about the queen. we know the queen is still incredibly popular in the u. k, but what about across the common well, so those countries that were former british colonies, are the royal still considered relevant there? well, it's amazing isn't it? when you think back that when the queen became queen the empire, the british empire still existed. now it doesn't, however, she is still the head of state of 15 countries, including the u. k. they include australia, canada, new zealand,

and countries in the caribbean, and that has proved controversial. so, for example, at the end of last year, barbados voted to become a republic. so she said the queen is no longer their head of state. and we know that jamaica is also considering the same thing. so big issues for the royals. they tried to woo them by sending prince william and kate there earlier this year. that didn't go down brilliantly because there were lots of people complaining about the fact that the royals and britain in particular, was too involved with slavery in the rest of it. so let's see what happens in the future. change, we're definitely becoming and talking about change. the queen is $96.00, she can't go on for forever. what will happen to the world family when she's gone? well, the 1st thing it will happen is that britain and many other countries will be in morning. and that is because the queen has been there for so many decades. and just in the past few years, she's been the glue that stuck britain together. whether it's bricks it,

whether it's cove it or whether it's just this cost of living crisis. so i think that that will be a major major problem for the u. k. prince charles will become king, but he knows they all know has to be change ahead. when the queen passes home, alex 4th whiting. thanks so much and that so we've got time for coming up next. russian journalist unintelligence expert. andre is all that tough is tim sabbatical guest on conflict saying i'm and you could see mccain and i'll be back at the top of the next hour with your news roundup. thanks for watching t w with with

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