ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin with russian force is on the verge of taking the key eastern city of silverado, yet ukrainian president of the modem is zalinski, says russia now controls almost 20 percent of ukrainian territory. also coming up, we meet the ukrainian volunteers, defending

a village close to the front line and here from residence, how it feels to be in the line of russian fire. you diplomats accuse. hungary is divisive leader. victor, all ban of holding up the sanctions against russia by insisting that the head of the russian orthodox church is removed from the sanctions list and a legal victory for the act joanie debt for us jury sites. with the hollywood superstar concluding his ex wife, amber heard defamed him an opinion article in which she said that she was a victim of abuse. plus, she has been on the throne for longer than any other monarch in british history. we will look at how the u. k is celebrating queen elizabeth platinum jubilee. ah chi menu mccayden thanks so much for joining us. cranes allies of ramping up their

pledges to deliver heavy weapons to counter rushes, relentless assault on its neighbor, sweden and the u. k. of the latest countries to promise more weapons for ukraine has off to germany and the u. s. said they would prefer, i'd keep with advanced air defense and the rocket systems. now this comes as ukrainian forces struggle to beat back russia's advance in the eastern dumbass region. the governor there says 80 percent of the industrial hub of severe done yet is now under russian control. speaking to luxembourg parliament, ukraine's president vladimir zalinski called for more weapons and further sanctions against the kremlin. stan, this wouldn't did controllable by herself today. the occupiers control almost 20 percent of our territory. my, that's almost 125000 square kilometers. now this is much larger than the area of all the ban alex countries combine util. rosalyn in almost 300000 square meters,

are contaminated with unexploded mines in ammunitions snotty avonlea yankee narrows animals and more on the situation in and around. so very done yet. i spoke to a correspondent in keith mathias bellinger. yeah. have a fighting has been going on in the city inside the cities, orders for a few days. now the russian troops 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's what the ukrainian side says that a the ukrainian soldiers were left in this 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 half control over major

industrial areas. they have even hit some chemical err stocks there, which has, which show we've seen pictures of some urban toxic smoke are raising from these areas. so yet people are expecting the city to fall, but it's not what has happened yet. now the russian on the floor in the east has been relentless observer, say indiscriminate. can you tell us how civilians bel 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 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's 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's 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. no, 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 on. his nickname is just one of around 100000 volunteers who've 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. yes, the examples of the locals were suspicious of us in the beginning. they were watching us or what 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 them. luca quote that the video play violet got up. now soldiers and the remaining villages have could use to each other. rushing shells at the village daily, and they hid randomly. sad, he mc alive, which is a veteran area. and a beekeeper, look, it didn't get through better than body ana. the village used to be his get away spot. now he plans to leave. you can also psyche is wrecked. we hide all the time

from the shooting. look, that's a new one, atlanta. recently. poor major. they will go crazy, but we'll have honey was shrapnel this year. most of his neighbors have already left. still, there are times when it's come about the 62 year old pop. hi, another battlefield name uses the opportunity to study ukrainian source. i used to speak a mix of ukrainian or russian, but being a soldier in the cranial army, i can't be russian speaking. that would be against my principles. now i am transitioning to ukrainian or the whole not everybody wants to do it is because of his dog that 82 year old macola each in christ says he is 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. but this is what i see. 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, just let us show you. 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 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 good and you hope they are usually not a don't have a lot of money or they're quite poor actually under the other reason is that many of them say, i'm already old. i've lived my live, whatever will happen, will happen to have a correspond mathias spelling. a thanks so much for that reporting. and here's a quick round up of some of the other developments in this war. the un says that russia, ukraine conflict could put up to 15000000 people at risk of hunger. in 2022. the 2 countries account for more than one 3rd of global serial exports. it's estimated that ukraine's grain production may fool by more than 50 percent. the season, due to the war, former german chancellor angle immacule has condemned russia's war in ukraine as barbaric and blatant breach of international law. in her 1st public speech in 6 months, she said she stood in solidarity with ukraine. in her time, his chancellor lack of government was often criticized fritz or russia friendly

approach. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski says 200000 children are among the ukrainians who have been forcibly taken to russia. in his video address events, he claimed that children had been abducted from orphanages or taken with their parents. he added that ukraine would punish those responsible and u round of e u sanctions against russia is once again being held up by hungary prime minister . that to all been the you had agreed on a ban on most oil imports. on monday, however, all band is now refusing to give the green light. diplomats the saying he 1st once the head of the russian orthodox church patriarch, carol to be removed from the eas sanctions list. so does this new demand from vic to all about have the potential to derail the ease? latest sanctions package, d, w. brussels correspondent christine montoya, has more in a way it already has. i. e, you,

envoys were enemy thing to do. the formal process of taking that political agreement, that j. e, you, his, or state, had reached on monday, turning that into legal tax so that the 6 package of sanctions could be enforced. this is when hungary is ambassador, vetoed the blacklisting r for russia's most. senior carrick patriarch carol. now, the reason he was on that list is because patriarch harrell is a strong ally and supporter of our president vladimir putin. he has backed the invasion at russia's invasion in sa ukraine. in his sermons, he has blamed the west and nato for it. it's not very clear why be hungarians on our 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 there to have dragged on. it got very tense with the french ambassador who was carrying the meeting, insisting that it was too late in the game to institute such

a change. so we now have a scenario we're 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 how'd out, because they were lobbying against a russian oil in belgrade. they were able to secure an extensive opt out. and now we have the scenario where they're blocking at the black listing of this patriarch . it remains to be seen how far they're going to take this a if the use good about this pressure and indeed remove a picture of 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, let's do doubly correspond christine manuel, reporting from buffalo. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. in the u. s. full

people have been shot dead on a hospital campus in tulsa, in the state of oklahoma. the police say that the gunman, armed with a rifle and a hand gun, apparently killed himself. this is the latest in a series of math shootings to shake the united states. the european commission has approved a covert recovery fund for poland. warsaw would receive more than 35000000000 euros in exchange for making reforms to the judiciary. the plan had been on hold for months of the polish government's refusal to ease control over the judicial system . is there any forces had blown up the house of palestinian gunmen who had shot dead? 5 people in an israeli city in march? the israeli raid in the west bank village of the abad sparked clashes between residents and soldiers. palestinian officials said one man was killed, and 2 others wounded. and

a civil trial against former comedian bill cosby has begun in the u. s. he is being sued by a woman who alleges he molested her almost 50 years ago, while cosby is not attending the trial. his spokesman says the allegations of false cosby was freed from prison last year after criminal charges against him were of turned. now the act to johnny depp has won a defamation case against his ex wife amber heard a u. s. court ordered her to pay him more than $10000000.00 in damages, but heard was also awarded to $1000000.00. after jer is found, that debt had defamed her through his lawyer. the 6 week trial made headlines around the world with a couple, making often lurid claims and counterclaims of domestic abuse. mister deps clay for amber heard it was a bitter end to an intense trial. hearing, do you find that mister death has proven all the elements of definition? answer yes. had listened with her eyes downcast as it became clear that jurors had

emphatically sided with her ex husband. finding that she had defamed him by implying he was abusive during that marriage in a 2018 newspaper article dep was in england as the vote. it 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 on line . after leaving the court, saying that she was disappointed beyond words by the ruling and doubling it to set back for the idea that violence against women is to be taken seriously. the result was a remarkable turn around the 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. to more on this, i'm going by david levitz from database count to 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 any one is the winner. certainly. i think that we as society are the losers here. but yet johnny depp did accomplish what he came to accomplish. which is that the jury believed him. they believed that he did not abuse amber, hurt 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. it does really and 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 plausible that it may have influenced them. now, obviously a huge media spectacle. what does that 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, estimating stuff. david levitz from d. w culture. thank so much. now the united kingdom is beginning a 4 day celebration for the platinum jubilee mocking 70 years of the reign of queen

elizabeth's the 2nd. the country's longest serving the monarch, a ceremonial parade trooping. the color has been taking place in london and the queen has appeared on the balcony at buckingham palace to watch the fly past, along with other working royals. ah, g w correspondent in london, charlotte chelsea pill is at the venue. and she put the significance of this event 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 7 to years on the throne for her majesty, queen elizabeth. the 2nd just reflects on that for a moment. that's for example, that's 14 prime ministers in u. s. presidents that she's a mat in and seen throughout her reign. she's overseen 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. and 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 monarchy and 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 turn out here today. we can see the crowds. we've seen the trooping the color parade and the royal families of parents on the balcony. what else is gonna be happening over the next few days? well, is jam packed shed jewel 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 venue with some huge are 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, 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, can sat 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. and for more i am joined by my colleague alex forest whiting and the studio. alex obviously great affection for the queen. and 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, find 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 the 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 them on a key. and the 2nd big issue for the queen has been split between her grandsons of prince william and prince harry. when prince harry decided to move with his wife megan to the u. s. 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 the queen. even a few weeks ago, deciding that only working royals would appear on the balcony with the queen during 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 15 countries, including the u. k. they include australia, canada, new zealand,

and countries in the caribbean 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 try to worse than by sending a 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 are. 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. he 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 a head when the queen passes on alex 4th whiting. thanks so much. and we have time for a reminder of the top stories we're following for you now. ukraine's president vladimir zalinski says russia now controls one 5th of ukrainian territory. russian forces are also edging closer to capturing the key eastern city. that is to viagra, done yet with 80 percent of the city now under russian control. watching the debate news coming up next in d, w. e. news, asia, the taliban styles enforcing a ban on opium pulpy cultivation. many farmers say it's the only crops that saved them from poverty and how delivery, right. as in india, risking death to complete food deliveries in under 10 minutes.

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