this is detail the news from berlin. you can find much more on our website that steve w dot com. ah russia strategy in it. you crane many military experts now agree is clear. blast and bomb the enemy into submission leveling entire cities in the process. yet every inch of territory one leaves behind a wasteland. so what will it take to rebuild ukraine and how might it look different from before the war? i'm clear. richardson in berlin and this is the day. ah, knew no one has ever destroyed dawn best. what the russian troops of doing now. let's come here here to miss solve it 1st, then that jets with artillery. and then when everything is flattened, the tides swollen i this moment

it is not home nor to room. it is may, may be the skill. ah, also on the day queen elizabeth celebrates her platinum jubilee. a royal salute to 70 years on the throne. so she has one sans is my grandmother, my mother myself and my daughter for generation. it's just an amazing achievement to our viewers from around the world. thank you so much for joining us. ukrainian forces are still struggling to beat back russia's advance in the eastern don bass region. the latest reports, from their say, moscow's efforts to claim key industrial cities or intensifying a regional governor, says russian forces now control 80 percent of its rivera donuts. but after days of heavy fighting and bombardment,

much of the city has been laid to waste. some analysts say russia is trying to gain as much ground as we can before the arrival of sophisticated western weapons, which could have a big impact on the battlefield. sweden and the u. k. are the latest countries to announce military 8 packages. this after germany and the u. s, said they would provide advanced air defense and rocket systems, ukraine's president over the years. lensky has welcomed the pledges, but is still pushing for more western arms and war western sanctions. today he spoke to luxemburg parliament and laid out what his country is facing. stunning, mister, would you be going through the mobile binding, portable, i believe, as of today, about 20 percent of that territory is under the control of the. so it's almost 125000 square kilometers. this is much larger than the area belgium, the netherlands and luxembourg, combined with about 300000 square kilometers a contaminated with mines and unexploded devices. marianne li,

narrow g u e v. simply imagine all the military actions taking place across a front line of 1000 kilometers and that should then ukraine suff, his daily from russian massage tags, diety moving is shadley petition. and we have to defend ourselves against almost the entire russian army that all combat ready, russian military formations are involved in this aggression or a he v t r a and he doesn't. correspondent nick connelly has been on the ground for us in ukraine. he has more on the situation in the east and president the landscape claims that russia now controlled a 5th of his country. it's important to remember with that figure that includes crimea and the areas in east and on best that russia controlled before february 24th before the beginning of this war. but they have made quite significant turturro gains in the south verizon and that land bridge linking russian annex crimea with russia. and then also in the north near had give in dawn bass. actually,

strange enough, there has been less in the way comparatively of movement on foot length of the this is the region where ukraine has been defending itself against russ proxy for 8 years and where the defenses are the best developed and the strongest. and we've seen extraordinarily heavy fighting around several dozen ask in recent days we heard from zelinski today that ukrainian losses are at about a 100 soldiers a day with about $4500.00 additional casualties in terms of wounded, heavily, severely wounded. so these are very, very significant losses. and right now ukraine doesn't have the heavy weapons systems and doesn't have the ammunitions to, to really use them even if they did have them to really go back into a kind of full count attack in those areas. and as basic now playing for time, the hope that those western spies will turn up her faster than has been feared him and ration airstrikes and shelling, have reduced ukrainian houses. hospitals, even whole cities, to rabble, amid the immense suffering and continuation of the war plans are also already

taking place to rebuild the country. big name architects have even offered to help reveal how keith, as a carbon neutral hyper modern metropolis. but 1st, residents must come to terms with the scale of the destruction. this is downtown hock eve. after months of russian shelling, businesses, 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. you don't wish 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. whether you could, you could move those knee, you outside the capital key. if in the town of my car, i've 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 mario bowl 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 chief people aren't waiting for their musical to be refurbished. who do 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 to the end of the war may be a long way off. but in hoc eve, people insist that life must go on. well, james hudson is c e o and co founder of economists for ukraine. he's also ceo of e, a. i for good foundation and he joins us now from budapest. a welcome. we just heard in that report that in many parts of ukraine, there is a determination that despite the destruction, life must carry on. i post war germany famously had the marshall plan in ukraine. is there already a framework for reconstruction taking shape right now, there is no formal framework that's been agreed to by, by everybody there are, as has been pointed out just before this, many groups were then ukraine and outside of ukraine that are looking to support

a coordinated and concerted long term rebuilding framework for ukraine. one of the most forward looking plans i would say to come out recently is from the center for european policy research. and we're also involved on, on that front, which is looking at bringing all of the different pieces together. but ultimately building ukraine is going to be a ground up movement and it's going to be a ukranian lead movement. and there are so many pieces of the puzzle. i mean, churches, homes, hospitals, entire community areas have been destroyed. and what would you prioritize in terms of rebuilding? well, the question of rebuilding really belies the, the need full, a strong set of institutions were then ukraine. the will also support a long lasting peace. and that means that the rebuilding of ukraine is inextricably

linked to ending the war in a way that will allow for the necessary investment in long term infrastructure. i would say that these 2 pieces cannot be underestimated in terms of their importance . of course, when you get to actually getting bricks on the ground and machinery on, on the ground, as we see already rebuilding is happening. it's happening everywhere. people have finding ways to reopen schools, reopen hospitals, get back into their homes. now when it comes to critical infrastructure that's going to have to be 1st, it's going to be a major wave, all the infrastructure improvements of upgrades out of patching pieces that were already invested in over the last several years. and wishing, forget that the, you know, the zones could government and the last few years in ukraine have been about infrastructure investment as a primary focus. and you, craig middle, don't,

i'd groups that you mentioned, i just wanna jump in and ask you about these groups. how specifically, are they supporting this sort of institution rebuilding right now again, because this needs to be led by ukraine. right now these are frameworks to bring together stakeholders that can enable construction within the country that can enable stronger institutions in the sense of governance. and also in the sense of the kinds of auxiliary institutions that are needed within ukraine, and that goes from the municipal level. so enabling city councils to get back to work all the way to kind of the top government level and kind of foreign trade level. but i would say that right now, we are only getting started in terms of the work that's necessary to plan this. and it's going to be necessary over the coming months to really get down to the details

of who is involved, how they're involved, and how the ukrainian government wants to do this on a grand scale. and indeed, even before russia's invasion, corruption was a big problem facing ukrainian democracy with so much money coming into the country to rebuild. how do you stop it from falling into the wrong hands? so i would say, you know, i pushed back a little bit on, on that question. i would say that ukraine has been doing a lot over the past few years to combat some of the more endemic corruption in the country. i would also say that in terms of putting things into the global context, ukraine's development on the corruption side has been quite good and quite fast. and of course, put a war in the way of that. put all kinds of interests that will be flooding into the country when large amounts of money become available. and it can certainly become

a recipe for disaster if it's not managed correctly. there are mechanisms that will allow us to track more transparently where money is going to understand basically what is reasonable, what is unreasonable. and of course, doing this on a community based level doing this on the ground up level rather than throwing $100000000000.00 or euros will grieve year into the country is going to be crucial to making sure that their money is spent correctly. now, just very briefly, before we go, i wanna ask you, we heard in that report that billions of russian assets have been frozen or confiscated on could russian money be used to rebuild the ukraine? russian money i think, has to be used to rebuild ukraine. russia made a strategic choice to invade ukraine. at some point they will be made to take

responsibility for that choice. and we hope that that responsibility will lead to rebuilding a very strong ukraine that can enable which standing pressures on democratic nations for decades, if not longer into the future. and finding the right legal basis for being able to do that is at the forefront of many countries. mines right now. and there are special task forces looking at how to do that. i think it's inevitable that russia will be burdened with a large part of the rebuilding of ukraine. james hudson economic economists fort ukraine. i want to thank you again so much for taking the time to speak with us. thank you. lou. while the taliban have begun and forcing a ban on poppy cultivation in afghanistan, this is a significant turnaround from april when the taliban said a word and forcing their official ban. this is what one senior minister said at the

time. good. those who would have well, as you can see from our announcement to you, we said that for the moment we will not be taking action against pharmacy planted opium this year. we go. if we do that with him, many farmers will suffer great problems. listener will grant deal wish to lead the so that was a few weeks ago now the taliban says the time for leniency is over. the dire situation for farmers though has not change. i've gone on is facing a drought and a worsening economic situation. and poppy cultivation pays harvesting opium from poppies can earn farmers upwards of $300.00 a month. opium also generates serious income for the taliban and afghanistan. nearly $3000000000.00 in 2021. with afghanistan at the center of the global drugs, trade pressure is high to curb opium production. harm taliban fighters don

guard is attract her tears up a field of puppies in washer district in southern hellman province. afghanistan's rulers issued an edict in early april banning the cultivation of the poppy, the raw material required for opium, morphine, and heroine production. now the campaign is beginning. afghan opium supplies over 80 percent of old users globally. the international community has been demanding more control of drug production since the taliban retook the country last year. this is own, our supreme leader has strictly ordered the ban on cultivating poppies. so those who are acting against his and continued to seed and cultivated will be arrested and tried. according to sharia laws in relevant courts should work your, your with them for the farmers whose fields are being destroyed. it's a different story. they fear their livelihoods will be ruined at a time of growing poverty. oh, which galena are facing drives and don't have big farming fields. and so, seeding and cultivating crops,

other than the opium puppy doesn't earnest anything that we're not allowed to grow this crop. we won't earn anything lose of any of the new eradication campaign is mainly targeting those who planted their crops after the band was announced. others who planted earlier succeeded in harvesting, going from plant to plant slicing the poppies bulb, then scooping up the sap that uses out the raw material for opium. what? but if you were not aware of any order to bind the cultivation of puppies and these poppy fields were seated before any order was issued, were upset because our crop was ready for harvest before we became aware of the ban . but of i'm one of the regular, polite at the ban comes, as afghanistan's economy has collapsed, cut off from international funding since the taliban take over. most of the population struggles to afford food and the country has been suffering its worst drives in years, are at 80 percent of livelihoods in afghanistan, depend on agriculture. farmers are forced to ask themselves what can replace the

opium poppy as a source of income? there is no easy answer. ah, this was the scene in westminster abbey back in 1953. the coronation of elizabeth the 2nd. here she was crowned queen of the united kingdom and northern ireland and a host of other commonwealth countries around the world. and all at 27 years of age . on now the queen is $96.00 and tens of thousands of people gathered in central london to kick off 4 days of celebration for her platinum jubilee. the queen has spent 7 decades on the throne, making her britons longest reigning monarch. it's a milestone that may never be repeated. oh, they were in high spirits from the start. 2 2 and this is walt that we had to see

trooping the cooler took place under sunny london skies to mock the queen's platinum jubilee. ah, there was the usual pomp and circumstance. we've seen the royal's arriving carriage of as has happened often a recent events. prince charles stood in for the queen, arriving on horseback for his ceremonial duties. several people were detained after breaching the security perimeter on the mile. but most were here to enjoy the party. i just think is a moment in history, whatever. have you know you from england or from anywhere in the world. this is a history we know is a moment that i don't know when when we're going to see again i'm so she has

transcends is my i am broad mother, my mother myself and my daughter for generation and it's just an amazing achievement. lien. so much fun. the queen made the 1st of 2 appearances on the buckingham palace balcony, to welcome back the procession. following an $82.00 gun salute, crowds flop down the mall to witness the main event. after much anticipation, it was time for the honorific fly past, celebrating her 70 years on the throne and an iconic moment in british history. and for more let stay in london where we can speak to a royal commentator, richard fitz williams. richard, your thoughts on this historic anniversary?

well, clearly this is a milestone and it's an absolutely unique occasion. i think the opening day was very spectacular. he hello, so per military, arrayed with 1st battalion, the irish girls trooping the color. and we saw the queen of the balcony of buckingham palace, which is iconic, twice but very, very significantly, the 18 members of the royal family who were without the 2nd occasion excluded. prince andrew and the new conductors of sussex, harry of megan. and i think that the importance is this illustrated that though these were just the working royal, nobody else was included. and i think that was a very significant statement. and buckingham palace has said, a queen is going to miss fridays event. and what can you tell us about that? it appears that the mobility problems the queen has been having for some time. she

was a robust health and to love to have some trouble. and i think the decision to miss the service of thanksgiving has been a feature of every you believe she's a deeply religious person. you want to take the most decision life play. and i think it's probably a question of balancing her schedule because she is based and wins and would have been a dr. and then that would have been a service and it was considered perhaps i'm why is i can only say that a few minutes ago, the queen at the 1st of a series of beacons, some $3000.00 in brooklyn, also the kind of country, capitals. and so pretty clearly, i mean this has been a very good day for us and i think perhaps in balancing and not attending tomorrow, which is not you wish to do. hopefully we'll see her again on sunday way through. and she, prince charles, prince william and prince george, the future line of succession are room to be a period on the balcony. now,

there are critics who say celebrations like this are all a big waste of money, a big chunk of that coming from taxpayers. what do you say to that? i say if you want the eyes of the world on your country, and if you want to draw in tourists, if you want good will. you have, you have to buy the world's most high profile. monkey and frenzy has been hardly a voice raised the night. seeing what you have seen is after harry and megan's feel oprah i decline in support among young people for them on the key. this is a matter of concern. on the other hand, i would make the point that the support hasn't gone in many cases to the republic, to republican. so it really is the case of having something precious. there is no other molecule like the british and those the handle shipped to the

commonwealth involved. does. a cloud for charitable calls is like the princess trust store, regret won't scheme. so the whole russia reason. so monica cost, $77.00, p per person, per year, excluding security as a score and backing. curtis is being refurbished. so i would say this is brilliant value for money if you could, buys us up to 2 years. but pandemic, this is both nation needs, and the queen is 96 years old. her reign obviously won't go on forever. do you think a future monarch will ever command the same level of public affection? i think it's very, very hard to do that because the queen has a really special human quality the way she empathize with people, for example, of the panel i me and when we were locked down the way she communicated virtually brought tears to the eyes of many including myself, by bringing in dbi or a little of buttons more times the tops had the song will meet again i she is.

i would say you me. and whereas also this with the 1st in victoria was sovereign. so given the name to an age, i would say that the queen's legacy is in the hearts of her people, but also really a significant success is such as the way she's nurtured the commonwealth or her state visit drowned in 2011, which put the seal on the piece, presence round commentator richard williams, want to thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. that was the day as ever. the conversation continues on line. you'll find that on twitter at a d. w. news and i'm clear. richardson actually reports on twitter. thank you so much for taking the time to join us. ah

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