ah ah ah this is the w news life from by then the fight for ukraine's dawn best continues. constant shelling, bushes, ukrainian troops to the outskirts of seattle, the nets. but the cities defend his vow, they won't give up regrouping and rebuilding the visit. a sharpoda and other

residents of ojo returned to a ukrainian town. no in the world over for a doing some of the worst atrocities of this book. and searching. frances in berlin, a cost smashes into a school group in a busy shopping area. one person is dead. 14 others injured. authorities believe the driver suffers from mental health problems. ah, i'm painful and good to have you with us. forced to fall back. ukrainian troops have retreated to the age of sparrows. that's the city could be key to gaining control of the east, an industrial heartland. authority say, despite the retreat troops and not about to concede. the city of liz, a chance is also waged between russian forces in hans moscow says it now controls over 90 percent of the province. it's one of 2 provinces that make up you. thanks

and battle dumbass region, ukrainian president flooded miss lensky stresses the importance of the fight was better. bennett's allusion for still complete is the very dreadful and difficult fighting. mamma had no haps is one of the most difficult battles during this war. he needn't, yes, i am thankful to each and every one who is defending this region coming up to a great extent, the fate of our dunbar is being decided. they are now marshal, done, boss. a course on a john for the children is standing by in keith the capital. is pharaoh ned scarce, we've heard there and time. it again is key for control of this region. what would it mean for ukraine if it lost control? yes, sir, severed on its cache, so become a highly symbolic battle ground. so just like places like would shine murray your pole in the weeks before. as you know, russia has so kept so a lowering his its goals in, in ukraine,

at least for the moment. first i wanted to take over the capital van had wanted to focus on the east and the south. now it's focusing on the dunbar region. so it's so throwing in. almost all, it's a force in the area around for barret on nets at the moment, and it's under a high pressure to presenter results. they are, if they manage to take over the area, they will probably very quickly try to install russian structures there. but of course, ukraine will certainly not let that happen and will probably conduct counter offenses. so we will probably still see a long and heavy fighting in the region despite the war dragging on in so many uncertainties. why so many ukrainians returning home now to other parts of the country? i think there many reasons for this. so just as we discussed before,

the battle has shifted mainly to the east of the country. so in other regions of the country, there's almost some feeling of fall normality, despite all the error rates that said continue. all so a lot of families were separated. so you mainly the women and the mothers and the children could go abroad. there are other states behind and a lot of people here have the feeling that this work. would drake on 4 months, if not 4 years? let's have a look at the report. so what people from the town of boucher have told me, boris, our 1st people in his town of boucher, an espresso, and with it a little bit of normality. this is what his cafe looked like when he came back a few weeks ago. he said the russian stole everything, even his st. nearly every thing is working again. now. he's just missing

a few windows. i crossed leg broken bridge to go to the keel to get coffee, to get milk to get. i like smoked some cookies after 1st guest come over here and they said like, oh my gosh, you're the best you all been renewed. i music coffee next door. the block of flats is still standing but as badly damaged hit by several rockets or more chars. some people are returning here to keen to try to reunite their families and rebuild their lives. heavier is one of them. she flat just after the war, started taking her 2 small children to safety and poland. she got back home just a few days ago. but i had to take as many people warned me saying we should stay abroad for longer. but it was my decision. yeah, i just realised that this conflict, this war could drag on for years. sooner or later i had to come home on the chip is

not a chest mom that she and her husband michael are. we're lucky. they only lost a window upstairs. the people lost pretty much everything destroyed by her rocket. avira knows, the rockets could also come back and sometimes questions her decision to bring her children home. so this is trash. it's frightening delicious. when you hear about new bombings, you immediately think where could i run to? how do i save the children? my bags are still packed. i haven't even unpacked them yet. and i with net is called that boris knows his wife and child are safe. they are still in switzerland . one element of certainty when everything still feels up in the air, i don't know what i'm going to expect to morrow because like, yesterday we got started in the queue. got bonding, feel, i don't know, i'm not planning math and i'm just leaving by one day, right?

now, and yet as he makes his cocktails again, he is making plans. he wants to offer other return east drinks and sitting outside on the terrace. this summer is thankfully reporting on phillip. just one more question. how difficult is it to piece together your life among such destruction? extremely difficult, of course, there's the very concrete fear that there could still be minds or under other unexploded devices in the area. so you definitely don't want your children go out and play there. then the are the psychological scars, the trauma, especially of the people who stayed behind and had to witness all the horror last, but at least a lot of people have for financial problems. and there's this uncertainty vets, the war could return to their region. so nobody really wants to invest money or make a big plans. so there is some feeling of

a return to normality. but if you have a closer look, it's often quite a superficial feeling for the child. thank you very much for the analysis of the war and ukraine is willing to which forced month with no sign of ending. can russia keep up its offensive? war is expensive. beyond death and destruction. the costs of mounting a military campaign, a massive tanks miss isles fuel. not to mention feeding an army, it's believe russia spending 900000000 euros a day in ukraine. just think about it. russian forces have 5 thousands of missiles, many estimated at over a 1000000 euros each than is the loss of military hardware. analysts say ukrainian forces have destroyed hundreds of russian tanks. they're also said to cost, at least a 1000000 years age, but much more expensive. ukraine's sinking of the mosque, while warship in the black sea is estimated to have cost must go over 700000000

euros, even with such staggering costs. so gene oil prices handing russia the revenue to pay for the war. analysts say the kremlin is ability to sell oil and gas will allow it to finance the fighting for some time. well, let's bring in frank lead, which are british military officer and an analyst on our regular analyst on our show. frank at dell is about 900000000 euro figure. first of all, just how long can russia based on that afford to continue this war? well then at the outset of the war, russia war just stayed saved as it were, about $600000000000.00. now they'll be coming to the end of that quite soon. and of course, as you will be aware, there is some fear of default in the russian economy. that's not just because of the capital outlays of the war of 5 to 9000000 a day. and that's really a minimum and it's put it even higher than that. so that's russia. ukraine

spends something in the region. it capital outlay alone. of they say $10000000000.00 a month. this is a hugely expensive war and that's before we get to reconstruction. or if the, the longer term costs, which will be much, much greater, can you explain the difference in costs between the $2.00 countries? yes, for ukraine, we've got cost accrued so far between 2 and 300000000000 dollars in infrastructure damage infrastructure damage to russia. so far as new get to a couple of oil refineries and some experimental centers. i think this will be possible for the gradients, but those are the only costs of or if you yourself said not one minute ago, there are the personnel costs. and of course to ukraine,

the ongoing difficulties with respect to trade, that not being able to get most of the harvest out. and similarly for russia sanctions will soon begin to bipolar saturday. probably haven't so far, and europe is still paying for their oil. so those cost to ukraine are especially crippling and occasionally so what about the costs to other countries? allies say of ukraine who were spending a bit going on sending over hardware and also aid in many cases. yes. well, you say ben, spending big and it does not the number sound big. the u. k says it spends about 1300000000, which is roughly 3 percent of what we spent on our disastrous war in afghanistan. the americans have so far committed about $40000000000.00, which is one percent of what they committed to the wasteful and totally pointless war in iraq in which i fought. these are large sums or so it would appear initially,

but these sums now are not being wasted. and part of that $40000000000.00, of course, from the americans, is going to help you crazy sustain their economy as well. so those costs will continue. as the european countries were talking, the low hundreds of millions of euro's drops in the ocean in that budget. of course, a lot of this money is also providing jobs are supporting other economies around the world. but what about these countries boosting their defense spending right now? is that something that's going to be here to stay? well one think. so germany, for example, you know, committed a 100000000000 euros, which defense that won't do much to make germany a real power. what it will do is repair decades of failure to invest all presidents over the last u. s. presidents over the last 20 years have been played right to europe, that they are spending enough. now what's happening is european countries are starting to recapitalize that military not really increasingly capitalize them. and

that's going to cost something perhaps if that money had been spent earlier. the deterrent effect of that to russia may have, may have been, but that's, that's all about my to be. but these again are small figures compared with the potential cost to europe of this war, with the crate failing this war, which is a failed state in europe, landlocked with a large army in an angry population. and we cannot afford that european security, which is why this money is not being wasted. it's been well spent like what we spent in the middle east. thanks for breaking down the numbers for us frank language from the university of portsmouth in england. thank you that well, that ripple effect from the war in ukraine can be felt around the globe, united nations ones, russia's attack is threatening to unleash an unprecedented wave of hunger and destitution. quibble grain prices searched as wheat and corn piled up in ukrainian ports and can't be exploited because the brushes see blockade. now you create

farmers scrambling to find storage for the upcoming harvest. silos of grain, just sitting there. tens of millions of tons enough to feed entire countries. meanwhile, a new harvest is coming, and farmers have no way to put it. russia now controls a significant part of ukraine's coast, along the sea of resolve. and the black sea added that the port city of mario pole was under intense ben, boardman for months. meanwhile, ukraine has laid mines in the port of odessa to keep russian warships at bay. that means that any ship sailing to the port is at risk. the ukrainian governments has exploring different ways to get wheat and corn out, but there are no good options. trains can't compete the c transport in terms of shipping volume. the when has proposed a secure c corridor to get the grain, as well as russian fertilizer and food out ukraine's

foot production and the food and fertilizer produced by russia must be brought back into world markets despite the war. this view is essential for hundreds of millions of people in developing countries, including in subside and africa, russian foreign minister. so gay lover of back that plan of the talks with his tuck his counterpart on wednesday and said that the ukrainians who want invited to the meeting could easily fix the crisis. that shouldn't be problem when mosley need you to solve the problem. the only thing needed is for the ukrainians to let vessels out of their ports, either by d, mining the waters, or by mocking out safe corridors. nothing more is required to run through. but ukraine says it needs safeguards against russia using the cargo to attack here in odessa. in, um, put that even a chicky shit. we need

a clear mission. you got to patrol this channel. what to rich grain be delivered to come alo should as a given by ships of countries we can trust or allow my, could i in, in this regard more than we can trust the turkish navy? so in particular dry skin we squamous consume my look at emma mortimer, the death while moscow and keep blame each other. time is running out for a solution. ukraine is running out of storage space, putting these see as harvest at risk of rotting in the fields. while millions of people, far from the conflict could face starvation. if the blockade isn't lifted. fatal murphy as director of the africa program at the european council on foreign relations for countries that depend on food aid. what is the outlook like if ukrainian grant cannot be export? well, i'm focusing mostly on africa and there the outlook is, is quite dire. there's 2 kinds of pin sort of pressures that are being applied for

about a 3rd of $25.00 african countries rely on ukrainian and russian wheat and 15 african countries rely up to one half on russian and ukrainian week for their imports. so you have the question of the direct imports that they were receiving for russia and ukraine. and now when they're not able to receive those imports anymore, they need to turn to other sources that need to look on the global market. but because of the shortage issues that are being faced by the whole world, due to the ripple effect of what's happening in ukraine and russia, prices are rising. so african countries 1st have lost their original source of supply. second, when they turn to the global market, they are faced with the market that has grown much more expensive. at the same time as africa is facing, some real financial crushes. so they're getting it from both sides. a china has

been very active in africa when it comes to infrastructure and supporting projects . is it going to be stepping in to fill the void from europe? was interesting. the last humanitarian crisis was that linked to cove, it and there, the currency of influence was vaccine. at that time, china was able to prioritize making into vac scenes available, the ones that produce and russia also for export to countries that it saw as strategically important. so they made a big push on supplying back to africa and they did that ahead of taking care of their own population. so they paid prioritized foreign policy over domestic obligations. that's something where we in europe did, did the opposite with, with the food crisis. it's a little bit different. china needs the food for its own domestic use,

more than it did the vaccine. so what china has now, in terms of food, it will not be exporting, but russia is it a different position? russia has an incredibly valuable commodity. now, wheat food exports, and it's been very clear that it is going to use it in a strategic way. there is a quote from dmitri mega, the former president of russia, who says, in veiled language that russia, as we will be for russia's friends only summit up for us really briefly. what does your need to do in this circumstance? ok, you need to have a multifaceted approach because this conflict, this issue has set up a chain reaction. the 1st thing it needs to do is help get weak out from ukraine so that it can get to the countries that need it. you would, you're quit before it was mentioning how the traditional route out by sea is been complicated. so europe and particularly the european union have been mounting an

alternative logistical effort, a way to bring the wheat out $20000000.00 tons of it. by laurie by truck overland. quite an unprecedented thing. so that's one second. your me to step up its emergency aid. that means finding where there's weeks available globally and making sure it gets to places where there's a highest need, but also help out with money. as i mentioned before, we is also available on the market. it's just a lot more expensive. so african countries need some support that. finally, it's very important that we don't get into a process of hording of banning our exports. so countries that have an excess right now look at the global situation, think that they need to hold onto what they have in case they're not able to take care of their population. and that's going to set off another negative chain reaction. last point, something is really wrong with this with,

with the global system. when africa had 65 percent of arable land out, the world. and africa is importing 80 percent of its food. so in a medium to long term strategy, we in europe need to work with africa to develop that. and he can actually be an alternative also for europe's food security. not just for africa. ok, so on so many levels. we have changed the murphy from the european council on foreign relations. thank you. thank you. of police continue to investigate. wednesday's deadly car crash on a busy shopping street in berlin. the driver plowed into a school group, killing the teacher and entering for others. some still fighting for their lives in hospital authorities believe the driver suffers from mental health problems or school trip that ended in tragedy. most of the victims were then graders visiting berlin from the state of jose and central germany. those in shock and seeking comfort went to this memorial in honor of the victims at

a nearby church. even though ha, one minute, it's a normal summer morning. then all of a sudden it's all over and our lives are darkened because of violence. oh, brutal violence has broken into the lives of helpless people on their different journeys. one woman killed many injured, terrified, and turned into emotionally wounded witnesses. fiendish long investigators are still trying to find the motive behind the attack. looking into how the scene unfolded. damn, and during the incident, the mannered onto the road and clashed into a shopping window in which office he was immediately detained, control were questioning him to find out what happened in the arctic feeling guarded in suffolk. the incident revived memories of 2016 when an extremist in the

same area of berlin stole our truck and drove into a crowded christmas market. here, where shocked that an incident has occurred that brings back bad memories for all of us. of the bright shide flaps attack. and we are here in this position where we don't yet know exactly what the motivation was bitten by. the movie went through and by then yes, of all, when someone is at the traffic lights at the metro station, we're just at the pedestrian crossing gang and rice slowly and then ex larry, it done for me. it was on purpose finishes up. this authorities believed that the suspect suffered from psychological issues, but the aunt ruling anything out t w's on her shaft. nord joins us from the scene on your what more can you tell us?

well then this whole area behind me here is where the driver plowed into the pedestrians. and that was all cordoned off yesterday and swarming with police and rescue workers. and now it's been opened up again, and traffic is flowing, pedestrians shop as a back and but there still some reminders here of what happened to yesterday and on the ground there, you can see those yellow circles. that's where police have been marking up evidence on the pavement. and we do know more about the driver now, and the suspect he's a 29 year old man with a dual german armenian citizenship who lives in berlin. in fact, not very far from where this incident took nice. what about the condition of some of those teens who were fighting for their lives in the hospital? when, as we heard in the report there, most of those were injured were part of a school group. and who'd come to villain on a class trip from western germany and there were 10 year 10 students,

so they would be around 1516 years old. and their teacher sadly is the woman who has killed on the scene. and another teacher colleague is seriously injured. and as our 14 of the school kids, some of them not so seriously, but at 6 people in all are, are critically injured and fighting for the lives and hospitals still we haven't got any more news on their condition as yet. it's still fairly early here. so are we're hoping to find out more about that in the course of the day. and any more news about a motive. yeah, it's looking more and more likely that this was not an accident. i mean, police kept all the options open at 1st. of course, didn't want to speculate. and but a quarter even eye witness reports yesterday suggested that this was probably a deliberate act. i. witnesses described how the driver came drove on to the pavement here and at full speed, drove into pedestrians on the pavement. he then came off the pavement again and

continued on the road for another 100 meters or so before crashing into a shop window further down the street. and so those actions, it never sounded like an accident, and it's now been firmed up that this was a deliberate act and the mayor of berlin francisco, if i am saying earlier and that the they were likely the actions of someone with mental health issues and the suspect was being questions, he seemed confused. and, but of course there had been the fear that this might be an ideologically motivated attack. possibly a terror attack. and by those fears don't seem to be have been confirmed yet, although we don't have the details as yet. of course, really briefly, how people react. because this isn't the 1st time buildings gone through an event like this. and it's basically the exact same spot. yeah,

i mean, when the news of this incident 1st broke, i, when i think everyone here in berlin immediately thought of another attack that happened to you in 2016 just over there on. but i tried plots at the square across the road, and back then someone drove a truck into the busy christmas market that was happening on the square and killing 12 people and injuring dozens. and so that memory is still very fresh here for berliners resign yourself and or thank you very much for your reporting up next focus on europe. i'll be back next l. a with

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