on the opaque world who's behind benefits and why are they a threat to us all this week on d w? ah, this is the w news line from the ukraine says it's force is a fighting for every meter in the eastern city of severe done yet. many civilians are sheltering in a besieged chemical plant. a rush, this destruction of all, but one bridge out of the city means there is little chance of leaving. also on the program that we'd silos are filling out,

but ukraine's pharmacy cannot ship that product d. w here from one part about how the war is spoiling efforts to feed the world. and movement in the u. s. on gun control, group of bipartisan lawmakers puts forward proposals that could break at decades long standing ah i'm so gale of welcome to the program. the crime says its forces have been pushed back from the center of severe done yet a key city in the east that has been the focus of russia's assault. and the dumbass . ukraine says russia has destroyed all but one bridge out of the city, leaving few options for people hoping to leave. so very danielle, can they bring lizzie chance of a last significant population centers in the hands province? not under russian control, grades president as, as his troops are fighting for every metre of severe done yet,

but without more and longer range weapons from the west. the tide could be turning in rushes favor, smoke rising from an industrial area in the city of sierra, the netscape, the last part still under ukrainian control. this unverified footage reportedly shows the as ought to chemical factory where hundreds of fighters and residents are said to be taking shelter. russia is trying to pound the city along with neighboring las, he chanced into submission with heavy artillery ukraine's president florida means the lensky says russia is throwing everything into the battle to what the occupiers key tactical goal has not changed. they are pressing into 0 genetic, severe fighting is going on there. literally every meter, local officials say russian forces have blown up a bridge linking several done as quickly as he chanced, cutting off

a crucial evacuation route for civilians. in lucy, chance ukraine is scrambling to evacuate residence. many there think it's now time to get out before it's too late. the thought a little after we had, but we have no choice but to leave. and sick, i'm just sitting here here with us. what i shall in kill the girl in our yard. yes, our quick decided to go with that. we do hope to come back on the la jim said his story of nuances. meanwhile, the west of ukraine is still seeing russian rockets to these images will reportedly taken after a missile attack in the city of charts. keefe moscow says that destroyed a large weapon step are there. but for now, russia's focus remains on the dawn beth's region. and while ukrainian forces have stopped the russian advance so far, keith says it needs more help from the west and is renewed it please for more heavy

weapons. as go straight to the ukrainian capital than a jaunty w correspondent, roman gone to ranko or welcome roman. let's start with the battles for the don boss in the east of ukraine, where things are looking increasingly desperate for ukraine. well, i wouldn't say desperate, i would say the things are looking more and more dangerous. so just a few weeks ago we had an impression that a city of several and ask a very important industrial city, a center of the ukrainian controlled territory in the law hands, guerria was probably doomed, but there are still street fights there. ukrainian forces are still able to push russian forces, the attackers a few streets away. but the situation is great is getting is getting more and more dangerous for the ukrainian troops. that is true. the russians are trying to, in circle the city to cut it off from ukraine and supplies. and it is also dangerous because the russians are pushing forward also in the neighboring the net

region and further south. they are trying to attack the cities of crime at oscar and sarah and, and sl of yarns the 2 key industrial cities in the den ask region under ukrainian control. and if they are able to push there are they could in circle and a large group of ukrainian forces, but i think ukrainians learn the rest of the lessons from murray. you pull the city on the see of us off and they will not let this happen. at least they are trying to prevent us right. and the rec, of course, growing concerns about the situation or at the as thought to chemical plant in severe done yet where hundreds of civilians are said to be sheltering. is this looking like a repeat of that sage at the as of style are planted, mario problems you mentioned. oh, there are certain similarities. it is a big plant. and there are some civilians hiding there. about $500.00 accounting

according to ukrainian officials about about 40 children are among them, and ukrainians are negotiating with russian forces to lead those people out of that plant. and i think there are good chances that they will succeed and, and people will be saved. people's lives will be saved. but still the situation is different from our, your poll because an ukranian forces are close by. there is a neighboring city of lucy chunks where ukrainian forces have prepared positions to retreat. and i think they also learn the lessons from murray opal. they do not want to know that to care to, to, to be repeated. so they will just retreat. i think if they think that they can no longer hold that as or as ought blunt. right. and we've, we've heard from the governor of eastern region of lou hands, who says ukrainian, a troops are running out of ammunition. president landscape, implored nato allies at a speed up weapons at deliveries. it must be hard there for people to get the sense

that for people not to get the sense of the west has forgotten. well, i think the ukrainians are telling it's, it's not enough. it's never enough weapons because we are it's war and this war is getting more and more ugly. so we need more weapons quick. but on the other hand, we do not have a reliable information. how much of the weapons that are being delivered or are actually destroyed by the russians who claim that they are trying and hating every day targets of or fall weapon depos now or may be some, some trains delivering those weapons. i am anyway, we see that those weapons that west western countries are sending to ukraine like howitzers are actually fighting on the front and fighting in the next. i thank you for that robin roman gone to ranko in keith or frank lead, which is a military analyst, a former intelligence officer with the british army. we asked him about the idea of

growing war fatigue. here in the west was our one and last, primarily at home, we saw that in iraq for the british americans and the others. we saw it, especially in afghanistan, more recently, the home front here and ukraine is secure. there's no question of ukraine is losing their result at that strategical political level. but he said that the real home front is d. c. new york, burly in paris, london. that's where the whole front is and that's where the result needs to be for the risk is of course, of the west getting bored with this, which is pathetic, but nonetheless on true, i'm sure i'm, but another thing, russian information operations are hard at work trying to influence us at that strategic level. so now isn't the time for any kind of of defeatism. now is the time to press on, give the pennies what they want and show steady role. steady was all that, that strategic level to ensure that those, that,

that home front remains as far as the ukrainian front. because a wall awesome ukraine is a wall last for the west. we cannot tolerate a failed state with a big army angry population in europe. it's very, very poor for the future. it would be a disaster for us military analyst, a front leg which are half a 1000000000 people around the world relying ukrainian food exports of wheat, corn, and sunflower oil. but with ukraine's ports blockaded by the war, consumers seeing prices for every day, staples rise sharply. not only that, much of the most intense fighting is not focused on ukraine's agricultural heartlands in the south and east. the w. nick conley has been to visit a farmer on the frontlines mimic life, birdsong and tractors. look the early sounds and india even of is 4000 hector's artillery far in the distance, never really stops. but in a d and a team, a preoccupied with other things. what i'm going to look at the suite,

it's under fed, it's under love to that. i've been but that wasn't for want of trying on the diaz, but for most of the crew slowly growing season, she couldn't even get to her fields. they were a war zone. fighting is now at least 25 kilometers away. far enough from the d. an attempt to get back to feeding the world. the glare of the missile fly over our heads towards mc alive over there, which in the fields catches fire really easily with all the dry strong. if you do get a direct hit, you can lose hector's to the flames. in a matter of minutes. vis unexploded russian missile had dug its way a meter into the ground. to some the ordinance of the russians left behind them. no sight landmines and countless shells. they also took a lot with them from chainsaws to food, even cutlery. deer is tilting up the losses. this

crop spray is the forms pride and joy that just been bought for more than a quarter 1000000 euros was destroyed before it could be used thus far down for the use cassette bombs, it turns the insides of equipment like this to mid zeal it. it's a mess. see that spray tank riddled with holes with months of field work missed and much of her machinery either destroyed or sort of diesel, tedious as this is harvest the modest at best unlike the harvest up behind these walls with the 2021 was a recorded across the ukraine with full grain storage units, almost everywhere. much of the bumper crop, hadn't even reached world markets when war broke out in late february. that's because many farmers keep their grain back until prices are highest during the winter months if and that is case, that's thousands of tons. most of the 1st of this is how this bali is just 10 days

away from the hilton most homes here. i will barely have any way to put it. what does a grain used to be like gold? he could always salad easily. whatever you want. it is the 1st time ever. we can't get it off our hand. boy. then you cranes ports already shut. but also mind la deal with russia to reopen, not on the cards, alternatives from river barges to rail freight, a desperately being sought. but none of them come close to even matching the capacity and price of transport by sea. even when you have been found trucks now face weeks, long tail back to unload. and now the grain from this form a 1000. like if you go know it's a situation is left, the dia struggling to pay her work is wages. at the same time, the world desperately wait for the grains she produces, but at least she still producing it all. and when the ports of entry do reopen,

they'll be a crop to sell. in spite of mines in the soil and shells overhead, the soccer international peace research institute says the world's supply of nuclear weapons is likely to increase in the coming decade. the latest report says the stock of nuclear warheads actually decreased from last year to this year. but this was because all warheads were being dismantled and taken to service. according to say, free nuclear states have increase the role of nuclear weapons in their strategies. and describe this is a very boring trend. will not quarter as an associate researcher at the soccer international, a piece research institute, this nuclear signaling that the president has been using over the past few weeks and months has really brought this issue of nuclear use back into the public consciousness. and it's causing, i think, a lot of other nuclear armed states to, you know, think about their own nuclear strategies, potentially adjusting them,

adjusting the way that they talk about nuclear weapons. i think at the very least we're going to see that it's going to be very difficult to make progress on disarmament over the coming years because of this war and because of how witness talking about his nuclear weapons. we've had since the end of the cold war, this, this trends, right? this general trend of, you know, war head slowly going down, right, in arsenals and us suddenly we're seeing this reverse, right? where a lot of different countries, right? not, not just, you know, countries like russia, but increasingly, you know, we're seeing china, india, pakistan, north korea also now as of, as of this year, the united kingdom. right suddenly kind of changing course and quite dramatically increasing the size of their nuclear stockpiles. it's not quarter from the stucco international piece research institute. so take a look at some of the headlines from around the world that will stop in brazil where police say they are still searching for

a british journalist of the local research. we've been missing in the amazon for more than a week. local media are reporting that done for the brutal provider have been found . dead vigils been held for the 2 men who were researching the photo station in the region. so people are reported to have died in flooding. an anchor of province of the heavy storm swept across parts of turkey. schools in the capital anchor have been closed with more heavy rain winds and flash flooding, expected sick why dust as blanketed baghdad. as a sandstorm in gulf, the iraqi capital forcing flight cancellations and health warnings. it's the latest in an unprecedented wave of sandstorms across the middle east in recent weeks. experts, a warning that such storms will become more frequent because of climate change and the certification that un human rights commission, michelle basher that says she will not seek a 2nd term and will leave office in august, a former president of chill,

a face criticism. after visiting china last month, rights groups call for her to resign for not speaking at more forcefully against china's abuses of it. we got minority at the united states where senators from both major parties have agreed to push forward new legislation aimed at reducing gun violence. but the proposals for well short of what's being called for by anti gun campaigners. several republicans have joined democrats in drafting the proposal, which will need to be agreed by both houses of congress to become law. it follows another space and shootings in that one in texas where a teenager killed 19 children and 2 teachers inside an elementary school did correspondence to us to me some scandal in washington can that tell us more welcome. so me, one of the sentences agreed so they've agreed on a framework that would limit some access to firearms. and if we look at the

language of what was announced yesterday, and we're talking about measures that will increase money to states for school safety and mental health programs. that was important for republicans in particular because they point to mental health as being the main reason behind these mass shootings. lot the guns themselves and some of the other measures include an expanded background checks for anyone under the age of 21 who wants to purchase a gun. it also would close the boyfriend loop as it's called. so that would mean that people who have been convicted of domestic violence cannot purchase a weapon, and it also allocates money to states to implement red flag law. so those are the laws that allow officials or family members to remove a gun from someone who is considered a risk. and so that was the outline of what we received the detail of how all of that will work. so how much money congress would actually allocate where this money would come from? those details we don't know yet. okay, so, and these are sentences from the republicans and the democrats of bipartisan

cooperation on gun control in the us. this sounds like a significant development is it it definitely has felt a broad consensus here is that this is a big deal any. there hasn't been legislation on the federal level to adjust a gun control i since 1994. that's when there was an assault weapons ban that was allowed to lapse at the time. and congress is so gridlock, the issue of gun control. i can tell you from the reporting we've done here. it is so divisive and so politicized that most observers didn't really believe a deal was possible. but the senator who was leading these negotiations, chris murphy, a democrat from connecticut, said he would not accept no progress at all. that even if there was just a incremental progress, that would be something that would be some way forward and that appears to be what this framework is. feel. okay, so now we have this group of satisfied with this proposal. i have to get it in front of both houses of congress and get both houses to pass it. how likely is that? yeah, well, there are these hurdles that you mentioned. so 1st i should say this is just

a framework. it actually has to be written down into legislation. and then as you mentioned, will have to go through both houses and the 10 republican senators who said that they would vote for this legislation and pass it. and it will very much depend on what the wording ends up being. we've already seen the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell saying he welcomes this breakthrough, but he wants to see what is actually written up. and then the national rifle association, that's the very powerful gun lobby with deep ties to the republican party. says it will withhold judgment until it sees what the little legislation says. so those are the hurdles that remain, but i should say, feel that it doesn't appear from this framework that we've seen. there doesn't appear to be any serious red lines that would create massive opposition. so the chances at the moment before we seen what this legislation actually says, look pretty good. ok, so, but is it too weak to satisfy the people who were marching up the march for our lives of gun control rally this weekend? and i know you with you know, we talked to

a lot of those protesters over the weekend and pretty much every gun safety organization came out in support of this breakthrough yesterday. so the organizer of march for a lives posted when senators reach a bipartisan deal on guns. it's time to celebrate. so that is a sentiment that we've heard echoed across the democratic party as well. it's an incremental step forward, but one that they'll take. thank you for that, sumi d. w, corresponded to me so misconduct in washington. now to china, where a government spokes, a spokesman has described a new spike of coping 19 cases in beijing as explosive readings of residents, vice mandatory tasking out of outbreak was traced to a bar in the capitol, schools, shops and restaurants in the district have been closed. authorities have linked 166 new cases to wall infected person who attended the club on thursday. beijing is back to mandatory testing and targeted locked downs for residents of the city.

it's a major blow. many were hoping for a gradual returned to normal scene after restrictions on indoor dining and other measures were lifted just a week ago. but a cove at 19 outbreak trays to the popular heavens, supermarket bar has authority scrambling to contain a further spread of the virus. yo, yo yo, i am a little bit worried to hold lots of places and communities, so need to be supervised now through the records people went to that bar. so i am quite worried when polymer holes with us about 10000 close contacts of the bars. patrons have been identified and their residential buildings put under locked down. the re emergence of infections highlights how hard it will be for china to succeed in it's 0 co policy. this approach has come with considerable economic costs for china, while other countries shift to learning to live with the virus. the vital to places

in the men's world cup in katara will be filled over the next 2 days by the results of inter continental playoffs. a costa rica faced new zealand on tuesday, but before that, australia take on a route and i've proven shamans. i've been trying to jinx you. australia signed by conducting and ritual, or segment in lima. one of game is being held in mac, windows from the d. w. schools that took us through those that woke up class. so welcome back. remind us why the australia through game is just a one off. well, it's because of corona virus base. they were so far behind with the normal world cup, qualifying shed ewald. normally you'd play home in a way to make it fair, but it just isn't time. so decided let's have a one off game and where else to hold it then cut off. we'll go host these one of games a tricky. we saw that recently with ukraine against wales, which is also a one off play off all the the will cup ukraine with by far the better side and

wales won. so a lot of look comes into it. now we know the will cook scheduled is way behind because we've already had the will cut roll. normally, you'd never have a playoff after the will could draw because you need to know what teams are in the welcome to have the draw. so it means that a strategy improves going into this game tonight, knowing that whoever wins goes into a group with friends, the will champions quite a prospect. ok. it's not so bad. it's hard to know if you would look forward to that. oh no. yeah. so stick your neck out then who's going to win? i mean, prove the neutral. maybe the got quite a famous kid with the red slash, quite a collectible kit for the football fans really like the qualified in the past. there's problems in peru, though, back home. there's a political crisis there with the president who's been accused of corruption. he denies it. so i think a lot of peruvian fans would like to kind of have a bit of distraction from that and watch the game tonight. but i think straightly maybe have the better chance because they've actually been in gets off for quite

a while now. they already played a play off against us ye last week in kata, and they've been playing in these air condition stadiums in cancer. remember the cat woke up has been shunted back to november because it's meant to be too hot to play football in cutter. and here we are thankful will income in june. so the stadium is eric conditioned, which means your bring thing is a bit different as a, as a player. and also the ball reacts a bit differently. let's have a little listen now to graham arnold, the coach of a stranger. we've had but 5 gains overall playing in an air condition stadium in katara it's, it is a completely different experience than playing in the normal stadium. there is in a different different types of things as well. so when, when you go into go onto the pitch, you know, it's a fact the peru haven't experience at all yet. i only see some things to us

are interesting that i'm at. let's talk about costa rica versus new zealand on tuesday. then resume with the whole population of both countries. going to be glued to this that quite literally in costa rica. i mean, the government of said the all civil servants can have an extended lunch break or to be able to watch the game. and it's not so easy for people in museum to watch is going to be starting very early in the morning, wednesday time in museum. but still, i'm sure many people will be turning in to watch it. costa rica of got decent will cook pedigree. new zealand is tricky for them. you know, because new zealand always top the oceania group because australia play in asia qualifying so normally new zealand playing teams that solomon islands the g. tahiti, and they always win against very small nations. so they have kind of 2 years of playing these sort of games. winning said nearly every game of a sudden, boom, they've got this one off game against costa rica, and if they don't win it, they don't go to the welcome. and new zealand, cricket will be nation really, but

a good look to and they have been into the work up twice before. i was actually there in 2010 when they drew one woman, italy who will then champion so you can't come in and out. they still talk about it not, not the school father, you were there, lot matters, dw sport. thank you. i was going to big day for what will transfers alan holland has completed his long expected to move to manchester city after bruce here dormant agreed to sell him back in may cities, big rivals that live full of reacted by agreeing a fee. we've been figured it would require a forward dollar nunez noise. harland, that was a hugely politic strike at dormant and joins and manchester city side, you know, as well, is that places in mid field for city in the early 2000. and i was born in england, i've been a city fan my whole life. i know a lot about the clubs and i think in the end to things i, i feel a bit home here i think. and also i think i can develop and get the

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