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 life from berlin. the battle for severe done yet appears to be tipping in rushes, favor cry, and says its troops are still fighting for every meter, but they've not been pushed out of the city center also on the program. conflicting reports about the 2 men missing in the amazon police say they are still searching

for the british journalist and brazilian researcher who disappeared more than a week ago despite local media reports that the bodies have been found. ah, i'm so welcome to the program. your crime says its forces have been pushed back from the center of severe done the ask a key city in the east that has been the focus of russia's assault in the don bass battles. continue around the city with president the lansky. thank troops are fighting for every meter 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 c over of 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 was trying to pound the city along with neighboring lucy chanced into submission with heavy artillery, ukraine's president, florida me, zalinski says rusher is throwing everything into the battle toward the occupiers. key tactical goal is not changed. they are pressing into sierra, jeanette sk. severe fighting is going on there. literally, every meter. local officials say russian forces have blown up a bridge linking several than as quickly as he chanced, cutting off a crucial evacuation route for civilians. in lucy chanced, ukraine is scrambling to evacuate residence. many there think it's now time to get out before it's too late. this not a little after we had, but we have no choice but to leave. i'm sick, i'm just sitting here here with my shelling, killed a girl in our yard. yes,

i was to decided to go with that. we do hope to come back. well again said his phone in your system. 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. keith, moscow says it destroyed a large weapon step out 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 with ukrainian troops and civilians hold up in the assault chemical plant. i asked d, w, 's, roman, conjure and coming, keith. if you could see that developing into a similar situation to that at the as off style steel plant and mary apple last month. well, there are certain similarities. it is a big plant and there are some civilians hiding there about 500 accounting

according to your crank and officials about about 40 children are among them. and ukrainians are negotiating with russian forces to lead those people out of that gland. 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 m ukrainian 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 assault blonde, i thank you for that roman roman country ranko in keith. so there are affairs in ukraine that the west might grow weary of this conflict and abandon them as soon as another international crisis. comes along, i put this to in, lisa,

who is vice president of the german marshall fund. well, i think their concern is perfectly understandable. i do think that the level of emotional engagement in the west, the level of policy commitment in the west is in fact very, very strong. and so i wouldn't exaggerate the risk. but as we look at a conflict that is likely to be longer than many might have predicted, it's right and understandable that ukraine should worry about this. i think it's less frankly, a question of whether the west is going to abandon them. i don't think that's going to happen, but there will be the important longer term questions that policy makers, politicians, societies are going to start to ask in the west. and those are very important to consider. because before the fighting actually began, we, we saw major proud powers trying to do a deal with russia without ukraine at the table. so if this goes on for long all it takes is a couple of elections in major countries. a couple of new national leaders with no,

no emotional commitments to this, to this conflict. and suddenly there's pressure on keith to give up the dumbass, perhaps in return for peace with putting that doesn't seem so far fetched well, you're absolutely right that the political dynamics can change. and the longer this goes on, the more of the chance that something will change fundamentally in the west. i don't predict that. i do think that a russia is probably emboldened by the success that it now is having at least in a modest way in the east and to an extent in the south and, and also though, has in its own mind the concern, i think in moscow that the russian that the western commitment is not going to end . and that over time ukraine will become a tougher and tougher a challenge for russia that the re supply will continue the supply, intelligence and training will continue. the funding will continue and therefore, i think russia also sees

a closing window and is unlikely to try to in this conflict any time soon from their side. right. so you, you see this dragging on and on for months. oh, i think it could it, it certainly on the ground could easily go for months and, and frankly it's possible that the conflict will stabilize along some lines that perhaps neither side will find acceptable, but nonetheless stabilized. but without a actual political settlement. in that case, it could be an open issue for the weston, for russia, and of course, for ukraine, for years to come. and at the same time, we have the, the e, u. now considering whether to allow ukraine to begin the process of joining the e. u. so how significant would a yes, before you crate, that's a yes to staff in the process. it would be very significant. i think everyone realizes that the process would be very, very long. but the prospect even the,

you know, the, the prospect of the further, as they say, euro atlantic integration, integration into the west, from crane to its institutions is a very powerful message. and it won't be lost on the russians. it certainly isn't lost on the ukrainians, but i think also for the west, it will tend to reinforce in the mind that ukraine is indeed part of the west part of europe. and that russia is threatening not just ukraine, but indeed the west. and to the extent that you create in advance of the d u. m. visions, i think that that situation will be very, very clear. it absolutely helps ukraine and those who wish to continue helping ukraine into the future. understood. thank you for outlining that so clearly and massive vice president of the german national fund would be with you as a quick look at a couple of other stores that linked to the war. a new crane, a nato secretary, general young sultan, berks at sweden and finland will join the alliance as soon as possible. he was

speaking after meeting with the swedish prime minister and the phone who said stucco is changing. counter terrorism laws to address these concerns anchor has been blocking. the 2 countries bids accusing them of harboring current medicines. my human rights group, amnesty international says, russia's indiscriminate shelling of the ukrainian city of hockey was killed. hundreds of civilians to stop the war and amounts to a war cry. under the sense it's research shows russian forces have repeatedly used cluster bombs in residential areas. out of the face of 2 men missing in the remote amazon rain forest of police in brazil. so they are still searching for british journalist dumb phillips and indigenous expert. brutal pereira, earlier local media, had reported the pair been found dead. it went missing more than a week ago while traveling by boat on a trip to reef to research deforestation in the region. this blue back contains

a backpack, laptop, and other personal items belonging to missing indigenous expert buena pereira and freelance british journalist don phillips. and this, the moment the backpack was found on sunday afternoon in an area of flooded forest near the amazonian river. wherever and phillips were last seen a day earlier, police found traces of blood in the boat of the fisherman. he's under arrest as the only suspect in the disappearance. with the newest developments, hope of finding them alive is evaporating. i think big sal usage them so we have to be realistic. oh yeah. they are no longer with us. boy and his uncles on this act, which was organized by their friends and relatives is a crime for the amazon mobiles, amazon, them. oh, friends and family. i demanding answers. jesus mormon to here is just to make sure

that we are doing what we can do at the moment, which he is calling deltore, which is the government of j. a both so narrow has faced accusations that it did not scale up the search fast enough. critics also say that the far right president has pushed to open protected indigenous lands to mining and has presided over search of destruction in the amazon journalist dom phillips was working on a book on rain forest development. when he went missing, both phillips and perrera had received threats for their work in the giovanni region, which has seen illegal fishing, logging, mining, and drug trafficking. indigenous volunteers have helped narrow down the search area . last week, offices also found possible human remains in the river. it being analyzed, possibly bringing the search tread tragic end. we don't know so far, but everything indicates that these bodies and are the ones of british journalist

a dom philips who had lived for many years in a neighbourhood. you can see behind of me and bruno payroll, the indigenous expert, but we have to wait until the final analysis. and it was happening currently in mon now's in the laboratories there. so maybe today or tomorrow to morrow we will have more information, more details, and may be a confirmation. a suspect has been arrested. what do we know about him? yeah, it's a local man, a living in the river communities over there. he and his blood in his boat, a blood particles have been, haven't found, and close to his house in health insurance card of bruno pereira, in the back of don phillips. so the re sad news for them. the families of both and human rights groups accused about in our governments of not doing enough to find of the missing pair all the right. i'm not sure about that.

it's a really remote area. it's divided up urrea, area of indigenous tribes who still live isolated lee and the government in order to deploy troops. it will always take time and hours and so i am not sure about that. for sure. the government could have reacted in a faster way. for example, in order to ask for details, satellite images from us sources, for example. right. and we, we heard in the report that they've received a threat in the past, what sort of who will making, what sort of threats against it. bruno pereira, the indigenous expert, and the indigenous patrol members, they received death threats for many years because they are patrolling their and their area which depends on to them, which is an indigenous territory. so as close to the border to peru and columbia, drug traffickers and illegal loggers. and yeah, they are in severe confrontation and with these criminal groups. and that's one of

the courses for the said. yeah. that threats which were happening for many years already am again and again. and this is case a making the news that in brazil, this is a, is this a big story that was it somewhat last? it's a big news here. they tv channels. they publish a lot of reports about it because it's the 1st time in the last 4 years that i remember foreign, john was supposedly be killed. he and brazil, and it's an issue which this society is concerned about. and also the government has to react, therefore. ok, thank you so much for that matter. ebert in rio de janeiro, a rock legend mick jagger has tested positive for cove at 1978 year old. that lead singer, the rolling stones, is currently on tour a your stones of cold off a concept plan for amsterdam this evening. thank you. the audience and to the crew

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