on the opaque world who's behind benefits and why are they a threat to us all o peak wolves this week on d, w? ah, ah, ah, this is the w news life from berlin, defending don bass against roches onslaught. the kremlin claims, it's almost in control of the wants region, but you crank says it's preventing significant advances. and the close to $300.00 russian soldiers being killed in battle every day. i'm blocking ukraine's grain

exports with millions of tons unable to leave black seaports, rushes foreign minister in turkey for told on how to avert a global hunger catastrophe. down to the massacre dfw meet survivors of the ambush on the catholic church in nigeria that left 22 people dead. the community is in shocked. police still don't know who the gum and i been fizzle and welcome. russia now claims to control 97 percent of the once. that's one of the 2 easton ukrainian provinces that make up the don bass. the kremlin has made taking the region. it's number one objective in this phase of the war, but ukraine's president florida lensky says his forces are putting up a fierce defense, taking a heavy toll on russia's military,

smoke and destruction across soviet oh, don't ask. the fight for the key industrial hub has emerged as a pivotal battle in the wall. russia has claimed to have taken full control of all the residential neighborhoods there but ukrainian officials say it's outnumbered troops are fighting on you greens. president zalinski says the russian advance has come at the cost of pauses of its troops. j business. the more than 31000 russian servicemen have already died in ukraine, the just the since february 24th. russia has been paying almost 300 lives a day or 2 before completely pointless war against ukraine. so that shut and still, the day will come when the number of losses will go beyond the permissible limit. but even for russia, the listing alert yet gave but voters to point and this for them. most of the

occupying contingencies already understood that they have no perspectives in ukraine lab, but the vocal and we state the smooth and corresponding interceptions of the conversations. this is the mood prevailing and the russian army, members, we are free people missile. we are not your slaves. and i was horrible. about 65 kilometers west, the city of slow vianza has been hit by heavy shelling. as russian forces continued to advance father and the dawn by season, but many residents are refusing to leave. i am going to stay here for you, but i will not leave without my husband. muster good, he works here. so we decided to stay. it's tough, but it's easier when one is at home with a virus, we're going to stay now because it's too dangerous to move there,

shooting everywhere. but we hope all will be well for us to let these people are receiving essential aid. why clinging on to hopes of survival, let's bring in dw corresponded john for the shoulds. he joins us from the capital. keith, how much longer can ukraine hold off the russians in the east? i don't think that the fighting will answer any time soon in the don bus region. it's true that most 2 sources confirm that sir the russians have taken over most parts of the lo hunter region, but there is still intense street fighting going on. for example, in the key city of her subordinates, and we shouldn't forget that the dunbar region is more than just burned once a robins in the neighboring donnette sco province. the russians are far away from controlling most parts of the region and the russians are hoping that so the

delivery of new weapons will help for launch effect of counter attacks. so i think we will still see long and intense petals. we heard soleski counting some 31000 dead on the russian side. can you verify that there's no way to independently verify this number. all we can do is conduct plausibility checks and compare it with other available data. the british defense ministry said some weeks ago that they think about half of this number of russian soldiers died, but since then, intense streets are fighting has taken place. and we all know of this is very risky for all sites. also. president zalinski says that up to $100.00 ukrainian soldiers die on a daily basis, which also amounts to a huge number after more than $100.00 days of fighting. so the 31000 that

russian soldiers, this number could be a little bit of an over estimate, but it's not completely unrealistic either. okay, well russia claims it's opened a land car door in the mean time to rush unoccupied, crimea, allowing civilians and goods to pass through the east. what more can you tell us about that? indeed, the russian defense ministry says that it has opened tracks and roads to connect russia, the don bass region, and the crimea peninsula the occupied territories since 2014. this could also help the russians deliver goods to the occupied city of maria for whether unitarian situation seems to be disastrous. my dear paul also has a very important harbor. so this a corridor could also play an important role for from a logistics perspective. russia says it's ready to ship

a grain supplies from maria paul. as you know, the russians have been accused of holding hostage millions of tons of rain supplies meant for the developing world. but as always, it's impossible to verify the russian information. and in the past, a lot of times this information also turned out to be a lie. and thank you very much for bringing us up to date young philip shots for us there in the capital keith. and picking up on that last point that he was talking about there. russia's foreign ministers, okay. laboratories in turkey to discuss how to get grain out of ukrainian ports because tens of millions of tons of stock in silos and ports including odessa, rushes blockaded the entire coastline since invading over 3 months ago. global grain prices have searched the united nations once of a food crisis. ukraine is a major supplier of wheat,

corn and sunflower oil to many parts of the world in couldn't parts of africa and asia of a 2 hour example corresponded dorian george. what can turkey do to get those grain shipments moving to the countries that needed most well, turkey really is in a pivotal position, not any geographically. just over there is the boss was waterway, which is the gateway for the black sea to international markets. but on top of that, turkey has a 2nd largest navy in the black sea, and therefore will be in a very good position to us to more secure this corridor of and move ships through the black sea and on to the open markets. but more importantly, turkeys, diplomatic position. turkey really is the last country that has still very good relations with both russia and the ukraine. and that is seen as key to securing a deal because trust is the seen as the main obstacle for any deal to be agreed and also for it to work. and turkey is position self diplomatically to hammer out

a deal that is seen that is acceptable to both sides. and both sides would have to trust in that ukraine would have to d mind it's harvey's. russia would have to hold back. is this likely to happen? while all eyes are, will be on odessa, this is the main port still held by ukraine. and there is the main exports, her hub for a grain to go into the international markets. millions and millions of tons of grain are trapped in odessa and, but it is protected by a network of minds. now to clear those minds is expected to take a long time. ukraine said it could take months and it's warning that only up to $2000000.00 tons of use of grain could be shipped out each month are given the fact of the minds. but the most important point about these minds is that they protect a desa forente from being attacked from the sea by russian forces, and getting ukraine to agree to a deal to remove those mines, to remove those offenses is seen as a major obstacle, possibly a 3rd party of

a nato ships could be deploy to guarantee protection of a death ukraine has been talking about possibly the united kingdom. united kingdom has indicated it wants to deploy ships, possibly in the black sea, but that will require russia to sign off on that deal to prevent any possible confrontation. and that's far from clear to so that is the key point of go of resolving this issue. okay, is gonna be an interesting dave talk to sample correspond during jones. thank you very much for your update. a community in nigeria is in grief following sundays mass shooting in a catholic church. 22 people were killed and 50 injured when a group of gum and open fire of worshippers who were mocking the christian holiday of pentecost. authorities have given no information about the attack as identities or motives. it took place in the village of why in nigeria, southwest, a region usually spanned the violent, suffered in other parts, d w's, amaco. koya is there for us?

ah, this is the aftermath of what happened in this church. the people as to very much shook some looking through and covering their noses from the office of blood aka fall was in church with his only son. he was killed right before him with this religion teacher is left wondering what to do. he says he can't believe the horror. but with my wife, when i saw many course a year, crime towards the end of the

seas. a parishioner here he was in this church when it's all unfold it dishes re i was sitting. that's due when the tin happen. before i saw somebody there, what the present just came. the weather was going, gone on. good. toyota drops on to down on by one who was gone. b b and my seat stood before i got good condos, blue. in one inexplicable incident, a parishioner says she was paid by a gunman and i was trying to get from the george base. there was a guy before me. we couldn't jump for demand shot the guy, and there was a little girl behind it showed the gun of me to go. he said clamber that i was right, landed the altar of saint francis xavier catholic church. this place, which used to be a place of prayer and rise spite and consolation for the people a st. now a reminder of the horror that happened here on the 5th of june or that slept,

ease the stench of human blood, the splashes of same displace item and debris. indeed, a sad reality of what befell the people off all one on that fateful sunday. pain and i remain palatable here. these women carrying these and knives, a protestant with cries and wailing, grinning curses of the pages they call for justice and divine vengeance. it will bring you more on that story that comes to us. finally, hollywood star matthew mcconaughey, he has made an emotional peeled for gun control that later school shooting in the u . s. hit his hometown over a texas else winning act, a cold on congress to take action after meeting with president joe biden because he

describes how the of salt rifle used in the massacre left. one victim unrecognizable made, they were green high, top converse with a heart. she at hand drawn on the right toe, because they represented her love of nature. camilla's got these shoes, he shall issues place for these every day. bring converse with the heart on the right to be the same green converse on her feet. that turned out to be the only clear evidence that could i did to by her at the shooting have had that actual hi there. let's hope the message does get through. now to one of the 7 nat full wonders of the world, something to cheer you up. it was who falls on the boat of twain, argentina, and brazil. if fully open from the day after

a partial closure due to flooding from heavy rain. so once again, tourists will be able to c, o, $275.00 waterfalls, including the main attraction known as the devil's throat. beautiful. and so much to say, reminder of our top story. russia says its forces had taken old residential areas of the east and ukrainian city of settled on its and now have almost total control of half of the dumbass region. i mix it up, you business cigarettes. we're all set to go beyond the obvious citizenship a minute. we're all in as we take on the we're all about the stories that matter to you.