ah, ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin to night. ukrainian troops say they're fighting for every house. every street, despite facing intense rushing, chilling in the city of several door ness. ukrainian president zalinski says the outcome of this battle could determine the fate of the entire east of the country. also coming up, the school teacher is jed another, fighting for his life. one day, after a car plowed into their group on a berlin street, the driver to night is now in psychiatric care. and the committee investigating the

january 6th, the tackle, the u. s. capital takes its case to the american people tonight, a public hearing made for prime time tv. ah, lou. i'm brent golf is good to have you with us. it is a bad all urban warfare that could decide the future of practically all of eastern . you great. the fight over the city of several don't ask ukrainian troops facing russian forces there said the battle is being waged house to house amid ongoing russian bombardment and massive casualties on both sides. severe, done yet is being pounded into rubble. the ukrainian governor of the surrounding new hands. grecian says it's defenders will be forced back if the russian bombardment continues up to your showed the small ah,

if the artillery shall he stays as intense as it is now. the time will come when their positions will simply be entirely destroyed. thoughtful include which us, there'll be no place for the soldiers to hide from them. um then they will most likely have to move to new positions or new military g, p. none of those new positions could well end up being here in this a chance. but severe done yet his twin city has also come under relentless shelling . ukrainian authorities say they've been trying to evacuate residents, but thousands of them are either unwilling or unable to flee. persona just 30 kilometers to the south, provide some signs of what may await them. footage from russian state media shows the town which fell to russian troops last month off to fist fighting, lying in ruins. in a sign pro russian false is

a tightening that grip on the region. cleanup has begun in parts of the don bass under that control. with a clear message sent ukrainian fighters on thursday. a separatist caught in the regions sentence 3 captured foreign fighters to death. the 2 britons and one moroccan were convicted of being mesmerized after a trial that lasted just 3 days. the u. k has slammed the ruling as a sham saying the geneva convention prohibits the prosecution of prisoners of war. but with russia opening over a 1000 investigations into other captured soldiers there and likely be the last to face trial or even death or correspondence in key mathias bellinger. he told me more about today's court ruling. yeah, it's these 3 citizens. they're the 1st ones to be sentenced in one of these courts . of course, it's not recognized by the western governments and bell or the governors that do not recognize the republics that have put this a case on trial. and it,

they are a fight is that when listed, that's what ukraine says in the ukrainian army as regular soldiers. there are lots of for, for national serving in the ukranian army. and ukraine insist that they are treated as to prisoners of war now. and there is a bit of a let's see, there are many a news and, and many, many propaganda items about foreign fight is it seems that the russian propaganda has focused on them recently. and that might be part of the story here. um, a russia has several um, narratives about this war going one about is about ukraine, ukrainian naziism as they call it ukraine being a country controlled by nazis that needs to be liberated and the other one is about a fight against the west and, and results with taking control of ukraine,

overthrowing the ukrainian government very far now from a reach for russia. they have focused a little bit on these western fight is there's been more reports about them on russian tv. and it might be one of the reasons why this trial has been held now being is basically portraying them as mercenaries and sent by western countries. my cheers. the fact that this trial took place so publicly and what does that tell us about the thinking of these pro russians separatism? it would seem that they consider the battle over the don't bass to be done to be history, and that it firmly belongs to russia. while russia has another next these territories, russia has kept them a traditionally separate or like formally separate. traditionally, it's even hard to say because they're not recognized by many countries in the world, but they are still formally separate entities. and the

russian state is very procedural about these things. that means that as long as there's no formal annexation of these territories, they will keep up. the fiction nadisa completely independent republics are corresponded. mathias berlin with the leaders tonight from keith. but he has thank you. well, the title is women in conflicts, the location, brussels, belgium. it's a conference that was hosted by european council president charles michelle to day . and it brought together female leaders and survivors, including lcd human rights activists, nadia neuron, or they put their experiences here in the spotlight. ukraine's 1st lady alena zalinski, she told delegates attending about the impact that the war is having on women in her own country, me or corresponding christie montoya. she has more,

she talks about women not being victims. and indeed, she highlighted the efforts that ukrainian women were undertaking to to hold the country together. during this war, she mentioned the 37000 ukranian women who have joined the armed forces. a 1000 of them are unit commanders. so it was really much about not just highlighting the vulnerabilities of women, but the efforts that they were undertaking in, in helping the country. she talked about the doctors and nurses. and she talked about the volunteers, the social workers who, who were in the country and helping to hold things together. the business women are, we saw a businessman in a report just now, but there were other women who i, entrepreneurs holding the country together. but she also said that this conflict, this war has a woman's face, and indeed we saw some of those images of these women who've been impacted. we saw a nurse who's, who's lost both her legs, had to be amputated because of the injuries she sustained, that we saw pictures of a mother and a baby who had been killed when they building had been struck. so in addition to

the message about how women were specifically vulnerable in this conflict, that the millions have had to flee. those who are displaced with in ukraine was also a message from the ukranian 1st lady that, that ukraine, women are strong and that there are not victims in this war. there was christie woodward, they're reporting from brussels. here are some of the other stories now that are making head winds around the world, the head of the international atomic energy, raphael grosse as accused iran of removing 20 chavez security here was monitoring its nuclear program. iran's nuclear agency released a video showing 2 i, a cameras being switched off. grossi has warned the move could be a fatal blow to any nuclear deal. poland parliament has approved the build to abolish the supreme court's disciplinary chamber. it had been accused of undermining judicial independence. now the european union made dissolving that chamber, a condition for poland, receiving pandemic aid. the country could now be in line for more than 37000000000

euros from the use recovery fought supporters of a british journalist who has been missing in the amazon jungle since sunday of hold on authorities to step up search efforts. dom phillips, in the indigenous expert, bruno perrera, vanished while only reporting trip in a remote area. popular with cocaine smugglers and illegal fisher. a german court has ordered the driver of a car that plowed into pedestrians in berlin on wednesday to be placed in psychiatric care. he reportedly has a history of mental health problems. the 29 year old man killed a school teacher and seriously injured $31.00 others, including some of the teachers students. a 2nd teacher is said to be fighting for his life to night. authorities believed the man intentionally drove his car into the people on the sidewalk. w's,

anya sharpen or sent us. this update. the shelf is and tourists of back on what is one of felons, busiest shopping streets. one day on from the terrible incident that took place. it's almost like life has gone back to normal, but they're still signs of the incident that occurred here yesterday. everywhere. you can see the markings here on the pavement where police have circled evidence and further down the street, people have laid flowers and candles and memory of those that were injured or killed. now this attack has raised memories of another, a terror attack here in berlin, just across the road on the square around the church. where in 2016, a man plowed into a busy christmas market, killing 12 people and injuring 7. now back and, and the attack was ideologically motivated. this time it seems to be quite different. and it's been confirmed now that the man who drove his kind to the cause here suffered from mental health issues. and he's been questioned by police and

seem to be incorrect and confused. police still trying to make sense of his statements. with the help of an interpreter. there was anya shopping or their reporting from right here in berlin. it was a day that nearly pushed us democracy to the break. january 6, 2021. when a mob of trump supporters stormed the u. s. capital building hoping to overturn jo biden's presidential election victory. 4 people died. hundreds were injured. and now 18 months later, the panel investigating that attack is going public, putting its hearings on prime time television to show americans what it has learned about that fateful day. please welcome the 45th prior. it started with speeches to an angry crowd, including one from former president donald trump and we fight. we fight like hell and of you don't fight like hell. you're not going to have a country anymore. shortly after

a mob made its way down pennsylvania avenue to the capital building. se scale the building broke through police line. se then roamed through the corridors. this was a fraud. you trump eventually told the crowd to go home via video messages. hours after the rampage started, we have that piece. but the questions were just beginning specifically about the white house, his involvement in the day's events. the idea that all of this was just around the demonstration that spontaneous, he got a little bit out of control, is absurd. you don't almost knock over the u. s. government by accident. the house select committee on january 6th has interviewed more than 1000 people, as well as reviewing video footage of the day and phone and computer records. press reports and court documents related to the committee have made some stunning revelation or resolution. many center around former white house chief of staff,

mark meadows. he was with the president for much of the day and was contacted by multiple republicans within the capital, begging him to get trump to order his supporters to go home. it's unclear how much he may have coordinated with people involved in the riot meadows has refused to testify as have many of trumps closest allies. trump's ongoing hold on the republican party has made the committee's work more difficult. most republicans have openly attacked the committee's work and say it's a partisan hit job. but democrats hope the hearings will show how far the white house was willing to go to keep trump in power. sports news gulps pga tour had suspended all players who joined these salty backed live golf invitational series, which kicked off this thursday. the commissioner of the pga wrote to all members to

announce the decision among the players who have already joined live, go off, are filled. nicholson, who has 6 major championships to his name and the former world. number one, dustin johnson, tiger woods, reportedly turned down $1000000000.00 to make the move to live. on the 2nd day of their fraud trial in switzerland, former fee for boss sipp blotter has denied approving. a fraudulent payment to michelle petite bladder testified that a 2000000 frank cash transferred to plug in. he followed a gentleman's agreement between the 2 men. former you a for boss latino. he told the court that the transfer was simply money that blotter had agreed to pay him for work that he had done for fifa. even though it was not mentioned that in his contract is reminder of our top story. russian forces continued to pound the eastern,

ukrainian city of several domestic ukrainian commanders as the battle there is now being fault house to help the outcome could decide the fate of the entire eastern don't best region. you're watching the w news up next w business news with christy plants and i will see you tomorrow with people in trucks injured when trying to see the city center more and more refugees are being turned away. families please, on the reason for these correct honestly litigated, demonstrated people fleeing extreme dreams. ross getting 200 people. his son.