i how did this confrontation begin? how great is the danger? sprig? one more. israel iran usa starts june 15th on d, w. ah, ah, ah, this is the w news live from berlin. the european union promises progress on ukraine's bids to join the e u. e commission chief us live on the line, makes the price trip to queue, but president of not a mere lensky wants. he also needs progress on getting more weapons to his troops.

plus, marching to stop the killing thousands joint protests across the united states, demanding tight gun control and an end to mass shooting. president joe biden urges the protest is to keep marching. and it's back to mass testing and locked outs for millions and tyna restrictions are re imposed. as new coven 19 cases emerge in shanghai ads, beijing. ah, i bring him a hobbit welcome to the program. the european union is promising a rapid assessment of ukraine's membership application commission chief as lavonne de la made a surprise visit to give it crane submitted its request to join back in march. brussels will allows is decision next week. as to me, doing a welcome plea with momentum,

seemingly shifting and moscow's favour. ukrainian present was clearly pleased to see us sheila, on the lion again top of their agenda, ukraine's e u membership bid. the european commission chief is promising progress soon. zalinski and the president of the ripping commission. ursula funder lang. as you know, the commission is currently preparing the recommendations of so called opinion for the u. member states. we have been working day and night on this assessment and i promised to you on a priority of a lot. hm. yeah. that we will be tirelessly working on it. so the discussions today will enable us to finalize our assessment by the end of next week. is that the lensky is keen to stress, that it's not just ukraine's fake on the line. lee, what are we through? that was one woman suddenly, a decisive moment. not only for ukraine and the european union,

but for the entire european continent, summers that was now decide the future of united europe, certainly, and whether there will be a future talk himself early with the ukraine to reach that hoped for european future. it's defenders will have to hang on in the face of russia's overwhelming advantage in heavy weaponry that moscow has employed to devastating effect in savannah. done yet, the strategic city and the don bass is now almost completely under russian control . what ukrainian commanders, a warning that keeps forces won't be able to stop further russian advances unless it's western allies provide more heavy weapons and ammunition without delay. well, the w rebecca wishes is in give and she has more on whether ukraine would be able to join the you in expedited membership talks. i will the short answer to that is,

is no, there is no legal framework for a fast tracking of essential as the session to the a you. but on the line saying that the, the process will be completed by next week of the cow, of the commission's recommendations. now that commission recommendation is likely to be positive and was perhaps slightly fast tracked if you will, given the light of the situation here with the war. but definitely the essay and processed as it were, cannot be fast tracked on the line and it has to give her recommendation, all the commissions recommendation and the man has to go to the 27 members. states who will need to unanimously agree and therefore triggering the long, the long process to recession or his look at them. other developments in the war, russian forces occupying southern ukraine have begun had the out passport. 23 locals, including the new moscow installed governor care sawn, have accepted russian passports. russia has also opened an office, emily topple in

a region so partly held by ukraine. german media are reporting that chancellor. alas, schultz is planning to visit ukraine's capital keep before the end of june. the build newspaper says the chancellor will visit with french president emmanuel zacharon and italian prime minister mario druggie. the german government has so far declined to comment on the report and the guns. though, when russia's president vladimir putin launched his war on ukraine, he justified his actions in part by claiming that ukraine didn't exist as a separate state and had never been a nation. but the past few months have shown what a miscalculation that was, the war has strengthened the result of ukrainians around the world to keep their culture alive. gooding residents, living in southern brazil with ukrainian brutes, ukrainian churches in southern brazil. the city of prudent populace is south america's little keith. in this fall club,

young people practice traditional ukrainian dances. they were all born here and have brazilian citizenship. but their ancestors come from ukraine. it's important to them to keep their customs alive. and we can part to formally, the most important thing is to be part of the ukraine and community. i can do my part to preserve our culture, a culture that some want to see disappear, nick down to sleep here. almost 80 percent of the people living imprudent topless have ukrainian roots, tor guide, miroslav a crv. i talked to visitors about the war and it's getting to be like what also russia wants to destroy people, but they won't succeed because we are resilient music more. so since we have our own language that we use it to sing and pray, whoever on culture webpage booking, local daughter in the 19th century, the 1st ukrainian settlers came to southern brazil for economic reasons. the families coming now are refugees from russia's war. thus there was cackling,

it's our duty to welcome refugees are everywhere in brazil, equally as his missiles all go, martin shook has been here for 2 months with her husband and 4 children. after the russian army invaded their hometown of care, some they fled the country. our house is invaded by russian soldiers. you see right now they stayed there almost for 2 month. they are now far away from home, depending on the kindness of strangers and getting used to life in tropical brazil . move that a little bit of a came and i realize will be living here for a year. slowly. we are getting used to the brazilian culture language and way of life. and while at the court of doing and the maya, brazil is so far some exotic country for us. but then we realised that many countries they proposed, they are government programs and brazilians. they proposed as the church program, the full club, approve, and topless, now regularly donates clothes and food to the new comers. in the back,

in their proper home. you can see photos of all the club presidents. and now there's also a photo of president zalinski hanging on the wall, right me. he's a worthy leader of the ukrainian people because he did not run away. he deserve respect for that. you say this has been even though they were all born in brazil, they worry about what is happening back in ukraine, the land of their ancestors. now tens of thousands of people have rallied across the united states in the renewed push for tougher gun control measures. of the last one, school massacre and texas protest to say it's time for action and not more prayers . while makers have drafted new legislation. the reforms are likely to face hurdles in the senate. the brooklyn bridge in new york, just one of more than 400 rallies held across the us on saturday. the marches were

organized after a spate of deadly shootings across the country. buffalo, new york, and u val de texas were 2 of them, carried out by attackers with high powered firearms. weapons that demonstrate as here would like to see under stricter regulation. if you look at it, all of the recent murders have been done by 18 year olds, and yet they can't smoke because they can't buy cigarettes. they can't buy liquor because they're not mature enough to handle those 2 things. and yet they mature enough to handle an a r 15 that were dickens. and the biggest rally was in washington d. c. way senators, a said to vote on gun reform later this week. the us house of representatives has passed bills, which would, in principle, raised the age limit on buying semi automatic weapons and establish federal red flag laws. but the bills are not likely to become law because of united republican

opposition in the senate. something activists here cannot understand if our government can't do anything to start lighting, kids from being killed and fluttered in their own school and a capitated. it's time to change. oh, then guards from the very top of the u. s. government president joe biden urged demonstrators not to give up. marsha, this is the way people listen. but my bow protesters are not giving up yet, and they're demanding action from the lawmakers. or his look at some other news from around the world's police in the western usa of idaho have arrested 31 men.

suspects are plotting to stage ariah's near and l g b t q. pride event police a. the suspects are members of a white nationalist group. authorities were tipped off by a call from a local resident who reported see what looked like quote, a little army voters in france had to the polls and parliamentary elections seen as critical to the success of president emanuel microns 2nd term agenda. that's interest. presidents, absolute majority is at stake with polls predicting a strong challenge from a left wing alliance opposed to many of microns policies. china's defense, vanessa waving her, has warned that any attempt to bring about ty, one's independence will trigger a fight to the end. he spoke on a regional security form and singapore general way accused the united states of pursuing an indo pacific strategy bound to lead to confrontation. he said,

china's relationship with the us was that a critical juncture at that. it was up to washington to improve tice to literacy at asia's most important security summit in singapore, a threat of war interpreters as a very good start. we want to know if anyone dares to spit taiwan from china. the chinese military will fight at all costs a smash, any secessionist attempt with you, and will resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity without from dr. coding to under that warning followed amazing between super powered defense ministers, chinese way from her and lloyd austin, of the us. tensions between beijing and washington over the self governing island of taiwan have sought, in recent months frequent incursions by the chinese air force into ty, one's air defense soon have angered the biden administration. we were witnessed

a steady increase in provocative and d, stabilizing military activity near taiwan. and we remain focused on maintaining peace stability and the status quo across, across the tri, one street. but the p. r c's moves threatened to undermine security of stability and prosperity and the endo pacific are you will. last month president joe biden announced that washington would defend taiwan. should china or attack provoking an angry rebuke from beijing. but the white house has since walked back. those statements, part of a deliberate policy of vagueness on taiwan, known as strategic ambiguity. for the small island nation, living in the shadow of it's increasingly assertive neighbor, that ambiguity provides little comfort.

a here some international football where germany drew 11 with hungary in the nation's league in budapest. both girls were scored before the 10 minute mark. the home side netted 1st though through jolt notch. and 3 minutes later germany's jonas hoffman leveled the affair. it's jeremy's 3rd consecutive drop in the competition. us judge has dismissed a rape lawsuits brought against soccer stock christiano. rinaldo. a woman accused rinaldo of raping her in las vegas hotel in 2009. she lost her claim for millions of dollars in compensation. the court heard rinaldo paid the woman $375000.00 or to the alleged incident. the judge says the case was tainted by stolen documents and formula one ferrari's child. the clerk has secured po, position in the as the by john grant. pre. it's the 4th consecutive paul fuller clerk and his 6th for the season. it's the 24th year old's the 2nd in the overall

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