ah ah ah, this is dw needs live from berlin, russia titans, its grip on several don yeske bombing cuts, the last escape birds and ukrainian troops say they've been pushed out of the city center. also coming up, be writing the breaks of rules, anger in brussels as britain wants to ditch parts of its controversial trade

agreement with the european union. and a mystery disappearance in the amazon police are still searching for 2 media workers who are asking some difficult questions before they went. smith. ah, i've been a mohammed. welcome to the program. russian forces appeared closer to be taking control of several, donnie. it's a key city in ukraine's eastern don bass region. the regional governor says the last fruit in and out has been destroyed, making it impossible to organize humanitarian aid or evacuations. hundreds of ukrainian fighters and civilians are sheltering in a chemical plant under bombardment by russian vessels firing back ukrainian defense forces say this aerial footage shows to destruction

of 3 russian grind, rocket launchers, which they believe are used to shell, the embattled city of severe. don't ask and surrounding areas. street bottles are raging in the eastern city. the governor of the region says it is mostly under russian control. much of severe, diana has been destroyed. authorities believe some $500.00 civilians, including children, are sheltering at the vast ad thought chemical plant. ukraine has accused russia of shelling the works and sparking a fire russian back separatist say they're holding back from the plant to avoid an environmental catastrophe. images that remind ukrainians of the siege and matthew polt still works for just weeks ago. but the ukranian president remains defiant. my mom was proud of solutions. we're dealing with absolute evil and we have no other choice but to move forward,

free our entire territory. take the occupiers out of all our regents shouldn't and although the width of our front is already more than 2 and a half 1000 kilometers, you can feel that our strategy is still working. the russian ministry of defense released footage, claiming to show their troops opening fire on ukrainian militants. their spokesperson said they had hit important targets. was a glitch that will give them in the donates people's republic. high precision air launched missiles destroyed a large number of weapons and military equipment delivered to the ukrainian nationalists, including weapons from the u. s. and european countries. sanchez, lou, it's the for the order biscuit, from back ins. fietta denounced the constant shelling and exchange of fire rages on with no end in sight and old bridges out of the city cut.

well you re sack is the senior ukrainian defense advisor. and he told us russia is responsible for growing humanitarian misery. for your crane, human life has always been a top priority. and of course, we are doing everything we can to alleviate the suffering and to help our peaceful citizens in those areas which are now struck by the aggressive. at the same time, ukraine has to defend itself. we cannot give our land to the object without resistance. so from this perspective, we will continue. this is what we have said. from the very 1st time, this aggressive war against ukraine. we have a constitutional you state to defend our territory, to restore us for integrity. and the only thing that we need now actually is more heavy weaponry from our international partners. because if we receive it on time,

there will be less suffering had we received it before. that would have been less suffering australians as well because we will be able to repel the ration of rest more efficiently and will not allow russian aggressor who shoes mis files and residential areas destroying peace, who villages. so the suffering is brought on ukraine by the russian aggressor. well, let's take a look at what's happening in other parts of the world. european commission, president earth lavonda line has been in israel for talks on energy. european union is trying to secure alternative supplies to offset its sanctions on russia. oil and gas is really gas exports have been increasing thanks to recent offshore discoveries. us lawmakers have heard more damaging testimony about donald trump's claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. former attorney

general william bar testified that trump became detached from reality. a congressional committee is investigating the storming of the u. s. capital last january and the 300 people have been jailed for between 5 and 25 years for joining anti government protests in cuba. thousands rallied last year against rising food prices, medical shortages, and the response to covert 19 thick white dust covered baghdad as a sound storming, gulped the rocky capital officials canceled flights and also issued health warnings . a number of sounds. dogs have hit the middle east in recent weeks, find to say climate change and desertification are making extreme weather events more frequent. the british government is planning to ditch some post breaks a trading roles with the european union. it wants to alleviate trade disruptions

with northern ireland, which belongs to the u. k. but under the current briggs, the deal, northern ireland is effectively inside the eas single market. now it's meant to keep an open border with the republic of ireland, which is an e. u. member, the open frontier is the condition of the 1990 piece agreement that ended decades of violence. yet some trade between northern ireland and the rest of the u. k. still has to be checked. the u. k is proposed legislation with scraps. some of those checks that you says the changes are illegal and is threatening to retaliate . walla, now we have a little bit more from did abuse a break at mass. she explains whether there is still room for compromise. well, besides keep repeating that, they do want a negotiated solution on the u. k. are saying, well, we are tabling this really. we are continuing to negotiate. and the you also don't

really want a trade war because ultimately it's, you know, it's, it's, it's about the whole trade between the, you and, and the u. k. we with very, very important trading partners and the u. s. threatening to, to, to, to take some action against the u. k. and, but at the moment this is really not happening. so this is much further down the line because this bill also needs to go through parliament fast. and then it needs to go to the house of lords, so there will be quite a lot of backlash, especially from the house of lords. so both sides will be hoping that there is a lot of posturing at the moment from the u. k. as well as from the you, but that really earn the goal is solution can be negotiated in the end. millions of residents living in time as capital are facing compulsory testing. as you covered 90 outbreak spreads there. the latest cluster of cases were traced to

a bar by one customer later infected dozens of other people, schools, shops, and restaurants in beijing have been closed. as ot events have been canceled, 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 return to normal scene after restrictions on indoor dining and other measures were lifted just a week ago. but a cove at 19 outbreak trees to the popular heavens, supermarket bar has authorities scrambling to contain a further spread of the virus. your ha, who yoder, i am a little bit worried, the whole lots of places and community nestled need to be supervised. now through the workers people went to that bar. so i am quite worried when hallmark holds we room 200 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 coven policy. this approach has come with considerable economic costs for china, while other countries shift to learning to live with the virus. police and brazil are still searching for to media work is missing in the amazon. it disappeared more than a week ago while researching deforestation. this blue back contains a backpack, laptop, and other personal items belonging to missing indigenous expert, bruna pereira and freelance, british journalist dom phillips. and this is the moment the backpack was found on sunday afternoon in an area of flooded forest near the amazonian river, whip herrera 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 through our usage of oklahoma. we have to be realistic, though, if you are, they are no longer with us. boy, yours and his uncles on this act, which was organized by their friends and relatives, is a crime for the amazon mobiles, amazon. oh, friends and family, i demanding answers dues. more minutes here is just to make sure that we are doing what we can do at the moment, which is calling deltore, which is the government of j. a. both an arrow 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 to a tragic end. a scientists have early stage or nearly 2000000000 stars and our galaxy. this takes a massive step towards creating the most accurate nap yet of the milky way. the european space agency gaia probe has given astronomers new insights into house doors aboard and how they die. the milky way are galactic home. a huge cloud of stars. one of them is our son that our closest neighbors in space hold so much mystery

seen from earth. they appear so close together that you can't tell them apart. but the launch of the guy, a probe in 2013 changed that. wow. ah. the glass state of the art, optical technology and observation from space from a much more favourable position. never before had the locations and movements of the stars in the milky way. they measured with such precision pleasure temper towards the temperature. the chemical composition holder move towards us or away from us, all this data is available now. one discovery is that fragments of other star systems are floating in our galaxy remnants of galactic collisions. gaia has measured almost $2000000000.00 stars, but around 99 percent of the milky way remains uncharted territory for us

to was forced use now and a trans continental match up to decide. one of the last sports spots in this year's football world cup australia and peru were tied millville after extra time playing the match on neutral ground in katara. and it was on the substitute goalkeeper, andrew red main, who played the hero. he made the match, deciding, save to send australia through the last team to joint group d, which includes the defending world cup champion, france rock legend make jagger has tested positive for cove at 19 san pixie at 78 year old rolling. so singer is on tour in europe. the stones have a cancelled a concert and amsterdam saying the safety of the audience and the crew must take priority. the top marks the bands, 60th anniversary. ah,

we his reminder of our top story. ukraine says its forces have been pushed out of the center of the eastern city of several don. yes, but that fighting on the outskirts continues. russian bombs have now destroyed all bridges out of the city, making the evacuation of civilians impossible. this is dw new life from berlin. reminder, you can find much more news analysis and video on a website that is d, w dot com up next is all the latest business of season. a bite with question is whether the next crisis will come. but only when and how the media will deal with it. how can we stay focused on what is important.