[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, this is dw news. why? but from berlin tonight, russian control and eastern ukraine going from strength to strength. russia says it now has control of all residential areas of the key city of several of don't us.

but ukrainian troops say that surrendering is not an option. also coming up tonight, a promise of support. german chancellor sholtes bowing to strengthen nato's eastern flank, amid growing fears of further russian aggression and survivors speak out after a massacre at a catholic church in nigeria. 22 people were killed by a group of gunman armed with explosives, but it's still not known who was behind the attack. and police in dubai arrest 2 brothers from the influential group to family there wanted in connection with a massive corruption scandal in south africa. they could now face justice, they ah, i'm bring. gov is good to have you with us on this tuesday and we begin with the battle raging over ukraine's don't bass region. russia now claims to control 97

percent of, of the 2 provinces that make up the region in the east of the country. and it says its forces have taken full control of residential areas in that key city of several of the nest. that's where we have had reports of troops fighting st by st. ukraine, admitting its forces now are out numbered. but it says, seating territory to russia is not an option in inflicting maximum damage. that is the goal for moscow, which released this footage of how it says at walk across ukraine's east. the destruction is evident. many of those who the mean have lost everything for the new. so i do not even know where to start for you that i am standing here and looking,

but i have no idea what to do with blood. i started crying, do i come down? and then i cry again. and again, the focus now is on the city of st. o dot net, which could be key to gain control of the don back. ukraine says it's troops out numbered, but holding strong. now she's away. and as that, you'd pause our heroes are not giving up their positions in severe dannetta wolf fear. street fights continue in the city. and i'm a guy, the russian army is trying to deploy additional forces in the danverse direction. but it's the 103rd day you and the ukrainians. understand see it stance firmly. meets the cost of that resistance has been high, even as i shall tenens dire consequences to mo, health, from the west. ukraine says medford,

it's embattled to more rapid would be the difference between life and death. and now to those spheres of a growing global food crisis, millions of tons of grain are piling up in southern ukraine, going nowhere because the war has brought ships from leaving ports where to day addressing the un security council in new york european council president charles michelle he put the blame squarely on russia. nicholas russia is solely responsible for this food, cries russia alone. despite the trembling stamping of flies and disinformation, i've seen it with my own eyes a few weeks ago in odessa millions of tons of grain and wheat stuck into tennis and sheeps. because a fresh and war ships in the black sea and bitch us officious attack on twitter,

sportage was torture entities. russian tinge, russian bumps and mines that, that prevent. and ukraine from planting and harvesting the kremlin, is also targeting grinch toadies and stealing gwyn in ukraine while shifting the blame on others. disease jointly. this is for, for gender, pure and simple with agenda are, let's go now to our correspondent nick connelly. he is in odessa in ukraine. forge tonight, nick, it's good to see. we just heard right there, scathing criticism from the european council president, blaming russia for this looming global food crisis. russia says it's not responsible. it's blaming ukraine, saying the ukrainian military needs to d. mind the waters around its black see ports before any ships can lead. is there any solution to this obvious impasse inside?

i think there's a lot of diplomatic noise going on right now. there's a meeting tomorrow in turkey, between misses from russia and turkey with the un on board and ukrainian somehow involving don't quite know how, but i think this is more about the blame game right now. this is not about real solutions. otherwise, russia would not have destroyed ukraine 2nd biggest grain terminal just few days ago in steve mich alive. but a 150 kilometers down the road from where i am now. the infrastructure on the ground that could really then let that food out in a hurry to the people who need it in north african, the least that is being destroyed. bit by bit by the russians who was obviously making it very hard for you couldn't foam us to get the diesel, they need the vin bombing will refineries bombing oil storage units and roads. and, and i think now that russia is nursing that this is a topic that is getting a lot of tracks internationally. it was in countries in african, the belief that traditionally are more sympathetic to russian narratives than is the case in europe and north america. and seeing that concern then, now trying to play the game based the game on ukraine that has very little reason

to trust. russian guarantees that if you take the mines away from addresses coastline to protecting odessa from russian operations right now that, that will be respected. that it won't be used by russia to come here to death or invade the city. or to talk about where you are right now, nick, odessa, we know that that city was the target of heavy russian attacks in the early days of this war. what's it like there? now when it's kind of, this gets a frantic feeling. on one hand, you have people out in bars and restaurants late into the night, the curfew has been pushed back to 11 pm. but those are mainly locals in the city that apart from its port lives from tourism. and those tourists, obviously no to be seen foreign tourists, even lesser, but even people inside ukraine fin, the 4th month of war at their savings are running low and they can't think about affording a holiday. so you'll notice that people's are busy their reserve, their savings are running low. the people are trying to kind of get to some kind of normality to enjoy this summer. but that they are nervous that they can't really

let go because they don't know what's coming. they don't if they'll be able to earn a living, and that is a problem that is facing ukraine. now, even parts of the country that are safe from recent attacks, people don't know if their jobs will still be there in a week or a months time. and whether they might have to soon leave for economic reasons, rather than security ones. and there are some worry reports to night job coming out, talking about another key port city, the city of mario paul, which is now controlled by russian forces. what can you tell us? while we've seen reports in ukraine metre about cholera being err, discovered among people living in miracle. those are as yet unconfirmed reports. if somebody had reports in the same and independent russian media that are some of the border regions of russia close to marable and are preparing adventures, infectious diseases, awards for people coming from there, wanting a certain marable is a city of ruins. people there have very little access to sanitation and the occasional woods truck going around, but we've seen people watching themselves and they're close in the sea. and of the lots of bodies still on recovered. it's as

a very dangerous duration is summer and summer temperatures come in. i think the risk of disease and people suffering in the resist is just going to go over the summer. heat is only going to make things worse at you. sure. nick connelly reporting tonight from odessa. nick as always, thank you. would you have a chance or off shot? he says that his government is ready to boost its military mission in lithuania, on a visit to day to vilnius. he also met with the leaders of the other 2 baltic countries, lafayette and a stone. i'm given their proximity to russia. they've been calling for increased nato's award to deter and defend against any aggression from moscow corporation. this is my german chancellor. olive shall 2020, and president guitars know said are wanting to come. they did to announce preparations for an expansion of the multinational nato combat. you need currently station in the 3 area. and all i felt was keen to sir dan criticism regarding

germany support to ukraine with the okay in a vitamin roughly, we will continue supporting ukraine with weapons deliveries. germany has been doing this more intensely than almost anybody else and will continue with support in the near term. as long as will be needed to rebuff fresh and aggression to come. that words are not enough for both ukraine and nato allies, which press berlin to step up its military support with the baltic heads of state, stressing their determination to stop fresh as aggression against ukraine. a small oak of gallegos to saluted the i believe that our colleagues always have the right to try all the options. they want to try new era, but this is not lithuanian position but so we think it is difficult to talk to a head of state who is redrawing the borders and the 21st century. will steve to see us. tuesday's meeting was intended to show unity among nato allies,

that germany support we likely be judged by to weapons and boots on the ground. the it actually provides those to ukraine and to each nato allies. well, the numbers are not good. the world bank has slashed its gross estimate for the global economy for this year to 2.9 percent of that is significantly lower than the 4 point one percent of the bank predicted back in january. the more in ukraine compounding the damage caused by lockdown to china. supply change is russians, and rising inflation. growth is expected according to the bank to remain sluggish. in 2023, the war bank is warning that many countries will fall into recession. poor nations will be hit, the hearts are, let's go through these numbers now. to do that, i'm joined by christie plaza. she's from our business department in january. the numbers weren't that bad, but then again, there had been no invasion of ukraine. right? right. i mean, well it was not that bad to be honest. this was still

a pretty pessimistic forecast that the world bank had for 2022. but obviously it's getting much worse now since the war broke out. what's changed since then? i mean, for one thing, we're looking at a global inflation at around 14 percent or no, sorry, per me at a 14 year high. and i should say, i mean, you've seen it, i've seen it, it's prices at the grocery store prices at the pump. the war has been a big hit to energy prices, a lot of as a lot of western countries turn away from russian, oil and gas. we also have a looming food crisis on our hands as well. there's a lot of grain stuck in ukraine. it's difficult to plant in harvest crops, air and supply chains were already really battered by the pandemic. so moving this food around had already been difficult in the war, has only made that harder. the were the words made things worse? if we're getting comparisons, we're hearing a lot now to the 970 the energy crisis. things i'm stacks, lation is that we're, we're headed again. right? i mean, i think stagflation is absolutely the word that everybody's buzzing about right now

. i mean, yeah, we are in a period of high inflation, low economic growth is, is absolutely, you know, the characteristics of the time period that led up to major crises, particularly for developing and emerging economies at that time. i mean, what other similarities do we have right. now we saw a major hit to the global economic growth following the pandemic, emerging in 2020, and even steeper hit. in fact, than what we saw following the 975 recession. i mean, we have a high energy prices, the high food prices we just spoke about, and we also have again a, we had the last decade, really low interest rates, also something we had, i did re today the if you factor in inflation, the prices for oil for example, are still not as high as they were in their crisis back in the 19 seventy's. nevertheless, there's reason to worry. i know you've spoken with the world bank since the figures came out today, what did they tell? right? i mean, they're actually expecting, well, they are expecting sluggish growth the next couple years, but the main thing they were going to,

so be keeping their eye on is inflation. and they're actually saying that inflation is going to sort of start stabilizing or peak, i should say, this year start going back to normal by next year as we get a more stable supply of energy. whether that's from the war ending from finding other sources and other countries, renewables, what have you? now they say that there is a chance of this prolonged inflation, prolonged slow growth like we saw in the 70s, but they don't expect that it's not the most likely scenario. but of course, we weren't expecting this kind of inflation a year ago, either we're sure that's true. if you've had some from our business, dest, thank you. are here some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world? germany's vice chancellor robert hobbit has met with the palestinian prime minister mohammed shut in the west bank city of ramallah. there talks focused on creating what is called a political horizon for the future of a 2 state solution in the middle of it also said that germany wants to help the region develop renewable energy. japan and nato have agreed to step up their

cooperation. it follows a meeting between the chief of natives military committee and the head of japan's self defense forces concerning the war in ukraine. now, the general tub general of japan told reporters that unilateral efforts to change the status quo by force must not be tolerate. a british journalist and a brazilian indigenous affairs expert have gone missing in a remote part of the amazon rain forest. dom phillips and bruno arapahoe ferrera were last seen early on sunday morning. official save the 2 had received frequent threats from illegal fishermen and poachers. molly's government have set a 2 year transitional period for a return to civilian rule and new elections. molly's government says this proves that it is willing to negotiate with the economic community of west african states

which imposed economic sanctions on the country. back in january of on the are, you are want to go now to nigeria, where waves of grief are rippling through a community after sundays, mass shooting at a catholic church. 22 people were killed. 50 injured when a group of gunman opened fire on worshippers marking the christian holiday of pinnacles. no group is playing responsibility for the killings you tactic place in the village of oak in the south of nigeria, that's a region which is usually spared violence. that has been suffered by similar communities in the north of the country. would either be use elisa, tomor is on the ground in the tragedy stricken nigerian town of. oh whoa. and he told us how this traumatized shaking community is being supported by nigerian authorities. well, but one thing we can say is that, that they have been lots of tokens off from the state government,

including from the federal government about hunting down the gunman who carried out this data at the outset on sunday. and a catholic church in francis. right. yeah, in on those states we had a business from the vice president himself yesterday. right? yes, it is medical center on over a couple of minutes away. i did church itself. we had the ruling pots, the lead as a p. c. but that's and it will also comment to the church. i'm visits in patients through dose dose yesterday. right? yeah, it all walk. so support has been coming from the federal government. some people not authorities, including cash over 75000000 go. myra donates. it wanted to sent to the medical center and to the victims who supported such acts since sunday, so that the supposed to get them. but in terms of police and investigations, there's been not yet on to who are what groups carried out. the sack on sunday that was reporter or lisa took one mother reporting on that church massacre in nigeria. let's take a look now at

a major graft scandal in south africa once powerful business tycoon, there have been arrested in due by the indian born brothers or tool and run just group 2 were salt in connection with corruption allegation surrounding former south african president, jacob zuba the 2 are accused of paying bribes for state contracts and of wielding influence over ministerial appointments in south africa's administration. it's a huge story in south africa for more. i'm joined by our correspondent adrian cree . she's in cape town, forest tonight. just going to see you adrian. so how is this news of the go to brother is being arrested? how is that going down there? well, it's widely regarded as a positive sign brand. many people have been waiting for that day. on the other hand, many actually thought this would never happen. remember the good test let the country years ago, it was clear where they are,

but nothing happened up until the day where they finally got arrested. and just briefly describe if you could, what did the brothers do and why were they prosecute? so the group just came to south africa in the early ninety's. they were wealthy, but not super rich. they started with a small technology company here and then soon expanded their empire from mining to media. you name it, they were involved during that time they gain more and more political influence. if beslee within the a and c, the ruling party here in south africa and their peak time was during the presidency of jacob luma. the former president was a good friend of this at the zoo. my son was even deployed by one of the group us companies. and now the group that the wifi seen in south africa as the architects of a system of state kept so basically getting into many as many state institutions as they could to could get corrupt deals and the taxpayer money. and the end of the day after tomorrow resigned,

the date capture commission would introduce here. and they basically confirmed that millions of taxpayers money was channeled government funds into good companies. and doing that commission, you really had incredible, a testimonials of witnesses, what they were saying about the influence of the group that, that they had here, for example, they brought in a whole plane of guess one of the emily weddings from in get to south africa and they landed on an air force base in south africa. and the other point you already mentioned, some witnesses even claim that they had a what you say when it came to ministerial appointments in the country and. and now they could face, we understand extradition. how likely is it that that will happen? nobody knows, at this stage if and when it could happen. now, of course, it should be the next step, but what the authorities are hoping for, but then the major task for the prosecutors will be to come up with a robust case to really get them to court as really when

a case against them. remember the good to have as well as they denied any wrong doing. do might have been a regular guest in the countries courtrooms here for many years, but he has never been convicted for any corruption case. he spent a few weeks in jail for contempt of court, but he would never convicted for corruption. so this will be really a major test to see if the institutions in south africa as well as the government, are serious about fighting corruption or corresponding age increase with the latest tonight from cape town. adrian, thank you. the trial begins to day of 2 men accused of killing the prominent dutch investigative crime. journalist peter are the breeds. he was shot at close range and amsterdam last year. he died 9 days later. at the time he was working as an advisor to a witness in a major trial involving an organized crime, gay. a beloved journalist in the netherlands, peter, out of re spent his life in korea. fighting to uncover the truth behind murders and crime stories,

many of which law enforcement had given up. am i central my principles? i think i'm just doing my work. that work though, set him against many of his countries, most criminal, and most corrupt. and on july, the 6th 2021 while leaving a t. v studio in central amsterdam. he was shot in the head from close range to memory, rested shortly after a nice done child with his mother. it was 9 days after he was shot, that at the age of $64.00, peter r. devries died in hospital. his mother rocked the nation. and people are looking to this trial to deliver justice actually help from the bottom of my heart that this person who did this was just right. and i have it to actually help sell that. this is really unfortunate that this things keep happening. the assassination is widely considered to be ordered by the mockery,

mafia, criminal gang who had already killed the brother and the attorney of a key witness in the case against them. peter r. devries had been supporting that witness of corresponding jack barrick. he was inside the court room today. the emotional 1st day here at the trial of the 2 men suspected and charged with the murder of peter r degrees, his family, his son and his daughter. both the dress, the cool, it's an inside address that you accuse directly. the son royce to breathe, told the men that have they have not his father in the eye and also help instead of pulling the trigger that he would have done. so not delano g, the 22 year old national, he is accused of actually pulling the trigger of the shots that eventually kills peter debrief. he has said nothing in the court room. he is neither pled guilty, no not guilty is invoked his right to remain silent. as the case in the netherlands come in, the polish national,

a 35 year old who resides in the netherlands. his offense has been that he simply was a driver that he didn't believe he was going to be involved in a murder. but the prosecution service in the netherlands has thrown a ton of evidence cctv, and dna evidence that it ledges to link him to the mat as dna on the murder weapon . also videos that show him on the same seat, the police rodriguez's mother in the days preceding the assassination. that was d. w jack character reported in canada, ice, hockey, you may know is key, but there are few queens in many regions of the country. women's teams don't even exist and there is no women's professional li, that is how things have been. things are changed. girls aged $7.00 to $14.00 out on the ice playing hockey. it's surprisingly not such a familiar sight in canada. despite canadian women winning multiple olympic gold medals in the sport,

hockey remains mainly for men. women make up less than 20 percent of players in the country. summer hoping all girls clubs can change that you know, being with other girls who have the same goals and the same drive is you is really, really important. i remember growing up in and being on teams where it was almost a surprising to me. the other girls like me who loved hockey as much as i did who wanted to spend all that extra time. we wanted to do the extra work off the ice and on the ice. and so to be surrounded by like minded people who have those same, you know, goals and dreams is you, i think is really, really powerful. at this club in toronto, many of the kids say playing at an all girls club makes them feel more comfortable . ah,

you like a group of canadian and american players have founded the professional women's hockey players association, their long term goal to create a cross border league where female athletes are paid as professionals. and don't need to work on the side in terms of football goodness, we could champions byron munich, or walked in a battle of wills with robert live in del ski, over his desire to leave the club after 8 years in munich, during which buyer won the title 8 times the stores were at strikers, believed to have an offer in place to join barcelona. in an interview published on monday, the 33 year old saying i want to leave by or the problem is that the bavarian club have the polish internet. so under contract for another season, they don't want to let them go. is reminder of the top stories we're following for you. russia says that it forces you have taken all residential areas of the key,

eastern ukrainian city of several don't ask. and it says that russia now has almost total control of half of the don't batch reject. and german chance are all watch old says that germany is ready to ramp up its military mission in lithuania. that the whiny of one with lat, via and of stony all have borders with russia, they've been calling for an increased nato military present in their countries. you're watching the w news. a kick off is up. next i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day. i hope to see you that ah ah,

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