i cuz i'm a cool b u i. it's just me. in the middle. oh, a news . this is the w is line from berlin, with russian forces on the verge of taking the key eastern city of surveyor done yet capt. ukrainian. president vladimir landscape says russia not controls almost 20 percent of ukrainian territory. also on the program to meet the ukrainian volunteers, defending a village close to the front line. and here what it's like to live in the line of

russian fire. you diplomats accuse hungarian prime minister victor or button of holding up for the sanctions against russia by insisting the head of the russian orthodox church is excluded from the sanctions list and she's been on the throne for longer than any other monarch in british history. we look at how the u. k is celebrating queen elizabeth platinum jubilee. ah, i'm from gail. welcome to the program. sweden on the u. k. r, the latest countries to promise more weapons for ukraine after germany on the u. s . and they would provide advanced ad defense and rocket systems. now this comes as ukrainian forces struggle to beat back russia's advance in the eastern dumbass region. the governor of s as 80 percent of the industrial hub of savannah,

done netscape. now under russian control. addressing luxembourg parliament, our president voted, moves the landscape cold for more weapons and more sanctions style in this, it wouldn't be controllable by herself. today. the occupiers control almost 20 percent of our territory. my that's almost 125000 square kilometers. this is much larger than the area of all the better looks. countries combine you loop, and almost 300000 square meters are contaminated with unexploded mines and ammunitions marianne, the yankee narrative, straight to cave and where we joined date of the correspond matuse of pulling a welcome mathias. so let's start with a severe done that. can ukraine's east to what's happening yes, easier than it is for to about it. very, very fiercely. russia seems to be controlling most of the city we've just heard 80 percent, but we are hearing that ukrainian forces are still in the city and are still

resisting the russians. so they are, the governors said that the ukrainian forces have not given up on the city. so expect this place to be really, really in fierce battles now. right. and so how are civilians coping with this or russian onslaught? all along the line. there are civilians still living in these places. we've heard that around 12000, maybe 15000 people were still in civilized or net last week, and which is probably a number or that is close to what is it the number that are are still there? now because evacuations have been very difficult and their shelling is intense, of course, in sierra than if, but also along the line, although it's less than in this most embattled city. so clearly this is a huge, this is taking a huge toll on the civilians. they are, many,

are living in bomb shelters, happy living in bomb shirt is for weeks are still many of them have decided not to leave. and i have been to one village where civilians and the military are now living side by side. i. right, well let's, let's see your report. then. it doesn't look like that 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 okesha told 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 frontline. it's an important defense position. mistake and 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, and slowly trust has been building at them. luca quarter, the video play us now, soldiers and the remaining villages have called you to each other. russian shells at the village daily and they had 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 reading. 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 sources. 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 principals. now i am transitioning ukrainian model. not everybody wants to know. it is because of his dog that 82 year old macola each and chris 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. for visitors, 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. what the same thing as everybody else got a decent life. she just had a shooting at least pretty day. no shells have get landed near by. it is in the neighboring village that artillery has taken its toll today. i mrs. pulling her in cave while people are choosing to stay in the village, even though it looks like this will will last for some time. yeah, the authorities have warned people to leave the region already. 2 months ago they were expecting this amount of destruction and fears fighting, but many people just, i don't want to leave. it's mostly elderly people that we've talked to who said

either that they don't know what is what they will do, what they would come to if they, if they travel away, they don't have money. they don't have a place to stay. but there are also people whose whole family has evacuated. they've been evacuating their kids, their grandkids, but they themselves stay and they don't travel with them. some of them just are saying that it's their fate to be there and they don't see why they should leave at their age. and they are saying, well, as this man, mr. each anchor has said, i'll be here until the devil comes after me. they often are saying things like i was born here and i will die here. i have lived my life. it's just often it's really old people who are, who are, who don't want another change in their life and they'd rather face what is coming. and it just listening to what people were saying that report, it does seem as though people are resigning themselves to the idea that russia will

take the east. no, i wouldn't say that this is consistent. some people are saying are that are, are, are, are expecting that, i suppose nobody has said this openly to me, but there's always suspicion that some people there might even be waiting for russia a minority. but most people are saying many people are saying, well, i have hope in the ukrainian forces and it won't come to that point. and then when they're already on the fire, they realize that the war is really coming where they are. and then some escape at the late last minute. so i wouldn't say that people are really expecting russia to come many hours to say we don't know what's going to happen. it's not in our power. we just stay here because we've always been here. okay, thank you. for that date of the correspondent mathias pulling in, keith relentless russian shelling has reduced ukrainian towns and cities

to rubble, but they're ambitious plans in place to rebuild the country. big name architects have even offered to help the rebuilding the country, 2nd largest city hockey. as a carpet neutral, modern metropolis for so residents have to come to terms with the scale of the destruction. this is downtown ha keith. after months of russian shelling, business is churches, houses, whole city blocks destroyed with russian forces repelled for now. people are returning, but rebuilding the city will be a monumental task. this team of foreign volunteers and local architects creates 3 d models of the hundreds of monuments that have been damaged or destroyed in hockey eve. documenting what was there for future rebuilding? no one thinks that will happen fast. yo do moves to. i think it won't take just a year more likely 2 years. the destruction is everywhere. but you should also

consider that some of these buildings are architectural monuments. it's not basic repair work. why would you could he could do to meet those needs? you outside the capital keys in the town of my heart of people repair their houses by daylight and quit when night comes as soon as russian forces left the area they got right to work with them and thought that we have a plan to make small repairs then to repair institutional buildings, to be able to open schools and kindergartens for children for the new school year. so afterwards we will rebuild private houses and housing blocks. you will be to school solution but who will pay for it when the fighting is finally over? ukrainian economy is in ruins. the e u has pledged just under 10000000000 euros to help. but that's a fraction of the estimated hundreds of billions needed to rebuild ukraine's critical infrastructure. housing, vital services,

and help the economy get up and running. there have been calls for a modern marshal plan, the u. s. project that helped to rebuild europe after world war 2. but so far, not much commitment. there have also been calls to use frozen russian assets, including yachts, to pay for reconstruction. but nothing's been agreed yet. meanwhile, cities like marable, have been largely flattened and are still under russian control. the russian installed government there has announced that the port city and former steel making power house will be rebuilt as a resort. back in how cheve people aren't waiting for their musical to be refurbished. lou culture is the basis of everything less than if culture had been more developed. people probably wouldn't be dying and there wouldn't be a war. to day,

everyone realizes this. maybe they were not so attentive to our cultural heritage before, but once you lose it, it hurts with the end of the war may be a long way off. but in hoc eve, people insist that life must go on. let's look at some of the issues of surrounding the idea of rebuilding ukraine with touch on a da regina. she's an associate professor of finance at the university of illinois . i'm part of the global collective economists for ukraine. she joins us from french city of to lucy, a welcome to the w. this seems like quite a tricky decisions. the idea of starting reconstruction. while a war is still raising on its outcome is still uncertain. yes, indeed, it is a very hard call to make, but given the large number of people who are with me still in eastern ukraine, i think it's a necessity to start reconstruction now,

so that their basic needs can be provided for and try to secure those areas. as best as we can and the money, that's a big thing. where does that come from? yes, so ideally the money would come from russia, you know, as the creator of all this destruction. and the best proposal i have seen, which was actually a petition by economists is to tax the import of russian gas, which would reduce the revenue that the russian government received from the gas because of the difficulty of selling the gas to anybody else. russia will have to accept lower prices and then using that tax revenue to finance the rebuilding of ukraine. but obviously there are there possibilities as well, like the european union and the u. s. channeling some aid to the reconstruction of ukraine. and the idea of using frozen russian assets that but that seems like

a tricky one. legally. yes, i can't speak to the legal aspects of using frozen russian assets for this purpose. but certainly from an ethical standpoint, i think the people in power who are waging this war should lose their personal assets over it. and those assets should just like in any civil suit, there should be due process. but i think just like make people in civil suits, paid damages or what they have done. we should hold those people responsible as leaders and is individuals for the destruction that they are contributing to. that sounds like a sort of medium to long term process. so doesn't it because this, this wall looks like it's going to continue for some months. then it has to finish

one way or the other that it has to be resolved, who has one who has lost, and then presuming that russia loses, they have to then be dragged in front of some sort of international tribunal fight the case, appeal it, and then actually agree to pay i am not sure that that is necessary here given that the burden of proof in civil cases. and here i'm speaking out by to my expertise a little bit. but given that the burden of proof on civil cases is often lower than in criminal cases. i don't see any reasons why the proceedings against individuals who have been frozen can start now. and if they are found to be contributing to this war, which i think very clearly, many of them are, then i don't see a problem again from an ethical standpoint or economic standpoint, to use those assets to fund the reconstruction of your frame right now. thank you

so much for joining us. tatiana and to regina associate professor finance at the university of illinois. thank you for having a quick round for some other developments in this war. the un says the russia ukraine conflict could put up to 15000000 people at risk of hunger. this year, 2 countries account for more than a 3rd of global serial exports. it's estimated back that ukraine's great production li, full by more than 50 percent this season. because of the conflict, because it enters zalinski says 200000 children are among the ukrainians who have been forcibly taken to russia. in his video address, he claimed that children have been abducted from orphanages or taken with their parents, added ukraine would punish those responsible for the german chancellor and angular merkel has condemned russia so war as barbaric and a blatant breach of international law. in her 1st public speech and stepping down

from parliament 6 months ago, she said she stood in solidarity. he prayed during the time as chance for the government was often criticized for russia. friendly approach. you diplomats of approved a new round of sanctions against russia for it's an invasion of ukraine after making concessions to hungary monday. so the block agreeable on most oil imports including hungarian tax. you was able to make the deal after agreeing to hunger is that demand? to drop the head of the russian orthodox church. patriarch kiddle from the blocks black lace, my boy b. as go to beat up the correspondent christina, 12 are in brussels. welcome christine. and so tell us more about this last minute deal. so he throws a span in the works as e you. envoys were meeting to take a for the formality procedure of taking that political agreement reached by you. leaders on monday, agreeing on that 6 packet as

a package of sanctions taking that and putting it in to legal text so that the sanctions can be enforced. the hungarian ambassador then vetoed the blacklisting off rushes, massena carried patriarch carol. now, the reason he is on the list is because as the head of the orthodox church are patriot, carol is very close at 22 to prison rather be put in. he is a close ally, a close supporter. he has a batch. the russian invasion are of ukraine in his sermons, he blames nato and the west for it. so those, some of the reasons why he is on that list in the 1st place. now the hungarians have insinuated at the fact that they don't want to be targeting religious figures in black in the black listing and sanctions. but the key question is, why bring this up? now, when e, you leaders were gathered at that summit on monday, where they came up with disagreement. as prime minister victor alba didn't seem to raise the issue. they said this has come out as a bit of an ambush. again, putting the hungarians in the position where they are seem to be stalling the

process of further targeting russia by way of sanctions. indeed, you will know the 6 package fil took as long as it did, because the hungarians were lobbying against a ban on, on russian oil. now for their part they did secure extensive opt outs. and now there is the feeling that then guarantee i've been given an inch and they're going to go for the yard. how far will they take this, or is the question now at will they be able to get this aesthetics the package of sanctions through will the, you ultimately remove a patriot carol from that list again, giving the hungarians more than what others perhaps might be getting as so this is where it things stand now and we are listening at the to the, to the discussion as it goes along, trying to get as much as we can out of that because the commission has told us that the discussion on this continues. thank you. voter christine christine woodrow in brussels after johnny death is one of defamation case against his ex

wife amber heard a u. s. court has ordered her to pay him more than $10000000.00 in damages, but heard was also awarded to $1000000.00 after jurors found that he had defined a through his lawyer. the 6 week trial made headlines around the world with a couple of mickey often lurid claims and counterclaims of domestic abuse. mister desperately 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. 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 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. now the united kingdom is beginning a 4 day celebration of the platinum jubilee marking 70 years. the reign of queen elizabeth the 2nd, the country's longest serving monarch a ceremonial parade at trooping. the color has been taking place in london, and the queen has appeared at the balcony at buckingham palace to watch the fly

past, along with other working royals. to let's join her. t w's closest thing to royalty, a correspondent, charlotte shelton pell, in london. welcome, a charlotte this platinum jubilee. the platter jubes, as i've heard it called, how significant is it beyond an extended public holiday? a festival. thank you very much, phil. second, who just to repeat what you just said, just that she is mocking 70 years on the throne, that does make her the longest, raining british monarch in history. and that means that this event, this 4 day celebration, is completely unprecedented. i think it's a fad. best for me to assume that i won't see another one of these events in my life time, and i think that is the reason that so many thousands of people turned out on to the streets earlier today. they wanted to witness this moment in history, essentially seeing the royal family on the balcony,

the queen crucially who's dropped out of a number of a public of public appearances lately. seeing high, we in fact spoke to people from around the world who come here for this. we can specifically so a group of people from the us who addressed up in real sort of royal wedding vibes . he said that they come specifically and really looking forward to all of the pump and pageantry that to day entailed. and regardless, really, whether or not you are a fan of the monarchy, a lot of people really just reflecting on the fact that she has been the centerpiece in britain for 70 years. that's 14 prime ministers, 14 us presidents. a lot of people really taking the time to reflect on that. and now we've seen the footage of trooping the color that parade in london. and of course after red, white and blue fly over what else is happening over the next few days. yeah, and of course the center piece that balcony at parents as well from the royal family,

but it's a packed schedule coming up over the next few days. still to night there's going to be a lighting of beacons up and down the u. k. and the commonwealth as well. other events include a massive concert. this whole area around buckingham palace is going to be turned into a huge pop concept venue. and then on sunday, there's going to be an enormous patch. and looking back on the last 70 years of the queen's reign, celebrating in particular, the way that that britain is changed throughout this time becoming more diverse, for example, that is really going to be celebrated in this passion. we're being told that from the organizes that it really should. wow, that many thousands of crowds who are expected back here once again. and her majesty is 96. she is an old lady. how much of a sexual merrymaking? will she be taking? potter? i'm not sure she'd necessarily be fond of being referred to you as that. yes, she is 96. there is an open question about how many of these events she will take.

part in the palace has said that it will be decided on a day by day basis. we know, as i said, she's dropped out of a number of events last month. for example, she delegated to her son, one of the key constitutional roles of the monic, the state opening of parliament, raising a lot of questions about how much she was going to be able to get involved in. but we have seen her to day, we are expecting her to make more parents is going forward. all right, thank you for that. that. the w correspondent, i shall have chosen co in london. is reminder of our top stories of this. i usher, force is a stopping up there offensive and the key city of severe done yet can easton ukraine. cave says about 80 percent of the sixty's now under russian control with russian troops already in the city center. coming up next in dw news asia. the top wrap stuff enforcing a ban on opium, pompey cultivation. many farmers saves the only crop as

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