ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin to night, russian control in eastern ukraine, going from strength to strength. russia says it now has control of all residential areas of the key city. several don't ask, but ukrainian troops say surrendering is not an option. also coming up tonight to

german chancellor o shelton lithuania, vowing to strengthen nato's eastern flank, amid growing fears of more russian aggression. and the survivors speaking out after a massacre at a catholic church in nigeria, 22 people were killed by a group of gunman who were armed with explosives. who the gunman were. that remains an answer to none. plus the police in, due by arresting 2 brothers from the influential group to a family there wanted in connection with a massive corruption scandal in south africa. they could now face justice. they ah, i bring gov, our viewers watching on p b. s. in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome. we begin this tuesday with the battle raging over ukraine's dawn ass regent. russia now says

that it controls 97 percent of one of the 2 provinces that make up the region in the east of ukraine. and it says its forces have taken for control of residential areas in the key city of several. don't ask where we've had reports of urban warfare, troops fighting street by street ukraine to night, admitting that its forces are un outnumbered, but it says, seating territory to russia is not an option in inflicting maximum damage. that is the goal for moscow, which jellies 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 thought you are crying. do i come down? then i cry again. and again, the focus now is on the city of 7, o. net, which could be key to gain control of the done back. ukraine says its troops out numbered, but holding strong, gnashing away as that was, our heroes are not giving up their positions in severe done as 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 ukranian dunbar stand, say it stands firmly missile. the cost of that resistance has been high. even as i shall tenens dire consequences to more hand from the west. ukraine says

medford, it's embattled to more vapid, would be the difference between life and death. or now to fears of a growing global food crisis. millions of tons of grain are piling up in southern ukraine, going nowhere because the conflict has blocked ships from leaving ports on to day addressing the un security council in new york, european council president charles michelle put the blame squarely on moscow. ticklish is solely responsible for these foot, cries russia alone. despite the trembling stamping of flies and disinformation, i seen it with my own eyes a few weeks ago in odessa millions of tons of grain in wheat, stuck into tennis and sheeps. because of fresh and warships in the black sea and bitch us or fish attack on twitter, sporting was torture entities. russian tinge,

russian bumps and mines that, that prevent in 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 propaganda. pure and simple put agenda, or russia to day denied any responsibility for the food crisis or corresponding economy he is in odessa earlier. i asked him if there is any solution here in this impasse 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 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's 2nd biggest grain terminal just few days ago in city of mac 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 released. that is being destroyed. bit by bit by the russians who was obviously making it very hard for ukraine, farmers to get the diesel they need of informing will refineries bombing oil storage units and roads am. and i think now that russia is nursing, that this is a topic that is getting a lot of traction internationally. also in countries in african, the middle east that traditionally are lot more sympathetic to russian narratives then is the case in europe and north america. and seeing that concern there, now try to play the game base the game on ukraine that has very little reason to trust. russian guarantees that if it takes the minds away from a desk coastline to protecting a desk from russian operations right now that, that will be respected in that it won't be used by russia to come here to the us or invade the city or a 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? what's kind of this gets a frantic cleaning. 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. 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 our holiday. so you will 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 russian 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 if there are some worry reports tonight,

i'm coming out talking about another key port city, the city of mario, paul, which is now controlled by russian forces. what can you tells while we've seen reports in ukraine? meta about cholera being err, discovered among people living in mar, pulled. 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, they're wanting a certain, marable is a city of ruins. people there have very little access to sanitation, and the occasional would truck go 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 of 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 to shorten it. connelly reporting tonight from odessa, nick, as always, thank you. jimmy. jennifer shoulds today promised to boost the country's military

mission. in lithuania, he met to day with the leaders of the weeny latvia and estonia. now they all share a border with russia, and they are calling for an increase in nato troop press corporation. this is my german chancellor olive shult only 20 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 ethiopia. and all i felt was keen to sat down criticism regarding germany support to ukraine with a deal cra 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 is military support with the party heads of state stressing their determination to start fresh as aggression against ukraine. a small oak up gallegos to solitude it. i believe that our colleagues always have the right to try all the options. they want to try euro, but this is not lithuanian position but so we think it is difficult to talk to a head of state who has redrawing the borders and the 21st century or what steve to see. emerson. tuesdays meeting was intended to show unity among nato allies, that germany support will likely be judged by the weapons and boots on the ground. it actually provides both to ukraine and to its nato allies. it was her 1st public comment since leaving office last year to night. here in berlin, former derby chance, or under the miracle described the war in ukraine. as quote, quoting here is

a huge tragedy. she defended her policy towards russia over her 60 years as chancellor. she said she does not blame herself for the events that are unfolding now. but she did, it meant she says, she asked herself if she could have done more to prevent the war from happen here as part of what she had to see about how the conflict has been impacting her life is because i'm is not to add this military on the hall, my retirement hasn't turned out quite the way i had expected people. february 24th was a major turning point. and it's something i think about often puzzling far. but if you're asking about my personal feelings, i step down from my position as chancellor by choice. oh and that's a nice feeling on i've started doing other things upon living and that also feels nice. oh, actually i like nothing, but at heart i remain

a political person. so at times like these, i feel as worried as many others do. or let's go now to our chief political editor, michaela cosigner. she was there listening to that interview to night because you know, so many people here in germany been around the world. they've been waiting for a miracle to break her silence, retirement. what did she have to say? well, 1st of all, she said it wasn't a silence. that after 16 years in office and 6 months without making public statements isn't such a long time. she condemned and this russian aggression. she also described ukraine as a hostage in the stand off between vladimir putin and the west. that he was attacking everything that western liberal democracy stands for, and that he was attacking the very foundations upon which a peaceful togetherness arrests is. she said that she wanted to find a way if,

if one cannot be friends with us at least of co existence. and that a diplomacy failing doesn't mean that one shouldn't have tried. now we're all asking yourself why she never picked up the. 2 phone to letting a pretty let's take a listen to what she had to say about that. but what i find particularly coming is that if something were to happen, something i thought was being handled in entirely the wrong way. well, there's any number of people i could call, but that's not the necessary. so basically she's been saying she would not call vladimir putin unless she was asked by the current government to she felt was doing and were professionals. does she describe them as after? we'll have the cards, thompson was her vice chancellor, and that she didn't do anything unless being asked by him by the government on the very least. she doesn't seem to see it as her role to interfere. and we also learned from her who's been in parallel without him put in a way more than

a decade in office. that her feeling was that the only language he understands any way was deterrence. and that she did admit that one should, should probably have done more on the military side. you know, when she says one should have done more of the military side. she's been criticized for not being tougher with fulton while she was in power for 16 years. me, did she take any responsibility for the threat to european security that we now face? well, yes and no. and she says, yes, of course, it was also her responsibility to build an architecture that would contain russia and that's what she felt she had done. and her sense was that by not allowing and let's be very concrete here. ukraine to join nato earlier. not allowing that part towards nato that former us president bush wanted for instance. and she put, feel still feels today. and that's why she says he's resting easy on this. at that

it, she prevented as something terrible from happening earlier. and that at the very least, the minutes agreement after the annexation of crimea in 2014, had bought ukraine time, a country which she described as being a very different country from 7 years ago. and that it is much more of a stable democracy. and that party is also why vladimir putin sees it as such a threat. let's just take a listen to what she had to say on that fundamental difference between putin and her. when dawson's clod, i saw it was clear that we had a big disagreement, ones and our positions kept growing apart and be good for all intents and purposes, lumen and looking back, i didn't ya, we haven't been able to effectively put an end to the cold war. hop of policy. so none is, is emma, there's always been the issue of russia once a highland,

he my know, i don't agree with putin to make it perfectly clear about the theme on it. but we've also not been able to forge a security architecture that could have kept this from happening with album with much of nothing. that's something to think about. and none of his totally gone. and it's something historians will certainly ponder here. bizarre. but i want to make it clear so that there's no misunderstanding. we've all fell off to claim that there is no justifying the attack on ukraine that took place on february 24th and bought it is a brutal attack. flying in the face of human rights for which there is no excuse so clearly the germans hoss is still doing quite a lot of thinking on what he could have done differently. but not when departing from that course that she's taking towards vladimir putin, mikayla vere, or critics of the former chancellor, calling for a reckoning with her legacy. do you think tonight's interview there on stage will

will that satisfy her critics? no. clearly not. and also, and we know that the ukrainian ambassador mound that karen bell in contacted the interview at beforehand. and the very question was, why didn't you allow us to join nato? the question he has for germany contingencies. why are you not sending more weapons? and i think that criticism one stop, but what she did tonight is explained that she did have a strategy to find a way of co existence. and notably, the lack of european unity is something she felt was in the way of having a much more stable security architecture that could have potentially contained russia. yet, until that point, she faced that problem many, many times. that is for sure work are chief political editor, mckayla griffon at about here in berlin. mckayla. thank you. we go down to nigeria where ways of grieving morning are rippling. there were community after

sundays, mash shooting inside a catholic church. 22 people were killed and 50 injured when a group of gunmen opened fire on worshippers who were marking the christian holiday of pinnacles. no group has claimed responsibility for the killings. the attack took place in the village of over in the south of nigeria. it is a region that has usually been spared the violence suffered by other communities in northern nigeria, w's oh, lisa shook wilma is on the ground. in this tragedy stricken nigerian town, he told us how this traumatized community is being supported by the authorities in nigeria. well, what we can say is that, that they have lots of tokens off from the state government and it could be from the federal government about hans and down to government code. i'll discuss with ya . talk on sunday in a catholic church in francis right? yes. on day said,

we'll have visit from the vice president himself yesterday. right. get rid of the medical center over a couple of minutes away. i did church itself. we had the ruling party leader, apc ball and also commented to church. i'm a patient through those those yesterday, right. yet in all walk. so support has been coming from the federal government and people know if everything is included in cash. 75000000. myra donated from $0.22 to the medical center and to the victim who somebody contacts sunday. so that's supposed to get them. but in terms of police, an investigation that we're not to get on to grew or what groups carried out to sac on sunday was d. w. so lisa, to whom are they're reporting from nigeria now to an arrest in a major corruption scandal that has rocked south africa, the governing party there is calling for the swift extradition of 2 indian born

brothers, our tool and righteous group took. and that's following their arrests that took place in due by these once powerful business typhoons were sold in connection with corruption allegation surrounding south africa's former president jacob zuba, the group, 2 brothers are accused of paying bribes for state contracts and of will the influence over jacobs zoom us governmental appointments, w corresponded adrian krishi is in cape town to night in earlier he told us how this arrest is being received 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 group that split the country years ago, it was clear where they are, but nothing happened until the day where they finally got arrested and just briefly described. 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 see 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. as you, my son was even deployed by one of the group of companies. and now the group that the wifi seen in south africa as the architects of a system of state capture, basically getting into as many state institutions as they could to could get corrupt deals. and the taxpayer money in the end of the day after tomorrow resigned, the state capture commission would introduce here. and they basically confirmed that millions of taxpayers, money was channeled government plans into good companies. and doing that,

the commission, you really had incredible, a testimonials of witnesses, what they were saying about the influence of the group that they had here, for example, they brought in a whole plane of guess one of the emily weddings from him get to south africa and they landed on an air force base in south africa. and the other point you already mentioned in 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. of course, that should be the next step. but what the authorities 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. and really when the case against them, remember, the group has as well as they deny any wrong doing zoom. i has been a regular guest in the countries courtroom. c a for many years, but he has never been convicted for any corruption case. you spend

a few weeks in jail for contempt of court, but he was never convicted for corruption. so this will be a really a major test to see if the institutions in south africa as well as the government, are serious about fighting corruption or corresponding increase with the leaders tonight from cape town. adrian, thank you. here are some of the other stories. now that are making headlines around the world, molly's government has said a 2 year transitional period for a return to civilian rule and new elections. the government says that this proves it is willing to negotiate with the economic community of west african states. now that, that community imposed economic sanctions on molly back in january and germany's vice chancellor robert hobbit has met with the palestinian prime minister mohammed shot in the west bank city of ramallah. their talks focused on creating a political horizon for the future of a 2 state solution in the middle east of it says that germany also wants to help

the region develop renewable energy, a british journalist and a brazilian indigenous affairs experts both have gone missing in a remote part of the amazon rain forest dom philips and bruno around hope herrera were last seen early on sunday morning. officials say that the 2 had received frequent threats from illegal fishermen and poachers. well, the trial began today of 2 men accused of killing the prominent dutch investigative crime journalist peter r de vries. he was shot at close range in amsterdam last year. he died 9 days later . now at the time, the breeze was working as an advisor to a witness in a major trial involving an organized crime. j. a beloved journalist in the netherlands, petera 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 country's 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 dan 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 helped from the bottom of my heart that this person who did this was justified. and i have it to actually help sell that. which 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 the key witness

in the case against them. peter r. devries had been supporting that witness. you probably know in canada, ice hockey is king, but there are few queens that's changing. 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 in the same drive as you was really, really important. i remember growing up in and being on teams where it was almost 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 sort of 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, if 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. this is d w. news after a short break, i'll be back to take you through the day. we'll be right back. ah, ah

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