who's behind the benefits and why are they a threat to whistle? open world this week on d w. ah, ah, this is d w news coming to live from berlin. no way out for ukrainian satellite imagery show the last escape routes out of better done that's have been cut. all hundreds of ukrainian fighters and civilians are taking refuge from the russian assault inside a local chemical plan. also coming out rewriting the briggs,

it rules, anger and brussel says britain wants to ditch parts of its controversial trade agreement with the european union and mapping the milky way the european space. probe help scientists understand how our galaxy evolved over billions of years. ah, hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. russian forces appear closer to taking control of seville road than yeske, a key city in ukraine's eastern don boss region. the regional governor says the last bridge in and out has been destroyed, making it impossible to organize humanitarian aid or evacuations to neighboring loses chunks. but ukraine's president laudermill zalinski says his forces could still reclaim territory in the region. if they are supplied with the weapons,

they need firing back ukrainian defense forced to say this aerial footage shows to destruction of 3 russian grad rocket launchers, which they believe we're used to shell. the embattled city of cbs. 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 donetta has been destroyed. authorities believe some $500.00 civilians, including children, are sheltering at the vast at sot 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 mattie, you pulled steel works 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 should 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 the colors that will give them in the da nets 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. so just let us run your business from back in viet denounced. the constant shelling on the exchange of fire

rages on with no end in sight and old bridges out of the city cut. earlier i spoke with justin crump, a military analyst who runs an intelligence consultancy in the u. k. i asked him how the battle for ukraine's don bass region is unfolding. center dot net is the focus at the moment. as you rightly say, though, i think that will rapidly move westwards with increasing russian efforts in the cities in don't ask but some areas on that. the focus because of the last bit of the scope last the most exposed bit of the cranium line. and so it's politically important for those sites and it's militarily take the important for russia because they're trying to cause as many casualties as possible to the ukrainians this time . try and circle and capture ukrainian forces to defeat ukrainian forces in the door. so i think the russian point of view is the 1st domino fall by reducing sa

verizon, that they can start to increase the tempo. what they've been doing, again were over a 110 days in this point. and they're still fighting of some of the same error though they've been fighting over 201415. so i think most keen to be making more progress over the summer now and hopefully should be the 1st part. the city itself is how to defend its on the wrong side of the river. the ukraine. there are 3 bridges crossing the river. the leaves have been destroyed now, so ukrainian forces a face to challenge to withdraw to the banquet. that friendly forces are on the city of this chance, which on the high ground overlooking severity, on that that'll be the heart of fight. in fact, itself, russia working very hard to try and attack cities in the south if it can, in the coming days to try and force ukrainians back more quickly. ukraine's president laudermill zelinski. he is determined to push russian forces back across

the border. he says, his country desperately needs more help though from abroad. what can ukraine's backers in the e u in north america do? what more can they do that they're not already doing. i mean, the requests that are coming out, i think, for, for power to weapons of russia, put ukraine hosting for around 1000 fillets. every piece is 300 multiple loans, rocket systems, and 500 main battle tanks. which probably is about the same level as what russia has deployed into ukraine itself. so on the face of it, that's a fair request, but to put it in perspective, the british army, for example, has a total of $220.00 main battle tanks of which may not in service ma'am. and a 1000 fail guns is more than 10 active duty us divisions in the u. s. army. so that's a huge number of pieces of equipment. so it's very unlikely to get, frankly, just because the stock was not bad. now in theory, when you're defending

a more you work on the basis, the attacker has 3 times as much as the defender and that should be a balance fight. ukraine's seeing the advantage of that in this conflict, big to defend the most the time. and so that employees actually, if they had about a 3rd as much and they could probably defend effectively, but defending alone does not win wars. and we've just seen this, this course and the don't mass that russia is solely grinding forwards, putting pressure on everywhere, take every inch of ground. so that's the sort of off the ukrainians have, if they're going to balance the fight rather than just gradually, slowly being ground down nervously. the hope is that russia also gets ground down to fighting, reaches and impasse. we're not that yet. no, i think will be for a few weeks, but that's the sort of hope i think, and miss this started fighting great, totally dependent really at this point on west and also our initial that's the key thing they need to keep having without good diminished justin. thank you very much

for your analysis. that was just in crump with the civil and intelligence consultancy inland. st. looked out some stories making headlines in other parts of the world. european commission. president ursula funder lion, has travelled to israel for talks on energy. european union is trying to secure alternative supplies to offset his sanctions on russian. 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, as electoral votes were certified, dozens of members of a former opposition party in cambodia been convicted of treason. it's the latest and a number of mass trials that have targeted. the cambodian national rescue party critics

decried the move saying the southeast asian country has been left as a one party state the 1st to flight carrying asylum seekers who crossed the english channel is expected to depart, poor rwanda. on tuesday, just 8 people remain on the passenger list after dozens were removed, following legal challenges. government says policy will act as a deterrent, but critics have called the move in humane the e u is threatening legal action after the u. k. government proposed new legislation that would override the post breaks at trade deal signs less than 2 years ago. at the center of a long running dispute is how to regulate trade through northern ireland. it's a part of the u. k but borders you member of the republic of ireland and effectively remains within the e u. single market. earlier i spoke to dw,

correspond christine manuel and brussels. i asked her to explain why trade rules for northern ireland were still proving to be so controversial. terry, the e u has specific food roles, especially when it comes to products like meat are and eggs and the and the block requires that goods coming in specifically from non e u. countries are subjected to customs checks. now because of the political history, which is very sensitive between ireland and northern ireland, bricks it negotiators afford it wise not to impose a hard border between ireland and northern island, which is effectively the kind of instrument that you would need to be able to facilitate these very strict checks at the e, you are required on its product. so the workaround there was that all goods coming from the rest of great britain, that is england, scotland and wales would be checked in northern ireland. especial arrangement was made for northern ireland, which kept northern island in the single you market in the, in the sense that northern island still keeps to

e. u. stand it. so any goods coming in to northern ireland, from the rest of our off britain are subject to those east standards. what the british government is now seeking to do is, for example, propose 2 lanes at that border. one process in goods that are coming in are from, from the rest of britain that are destined to stay in northern ireland, which the u. k. government says should only be subject to you k standards. and then another name for goods that are destined for the rest of the european union that would be coming from britain. but this in simple or words, terry is of course going against what was agreed upon. i in that northern ireland protocol that came into effect at the end of 2021. if maurice johnson does unilaterally change the terms of the deal on northern ireland, what impact that have on trade with the ear? terry, there people are starting to use the words trade war. could we see

a trade war between, between brussels and london and via an indication that that is, that is likely what happens in a trade war. that is, of course, to trade partners trotter increase the tariffs and the coaches on goods that makes imports and exports more expensive. that means some companies go out of business. ad there is also an inflationary aspect to that because goods become more expensive . and at a time in europe, a boat in the united kingdom and in europe, where people are seeing the cost of their living solar because of the energy crisis . among other things, that would be really, really detrimental businesses, our company is going out of business, would also mean add that there are potential job losses on both sides. in the long run, trade wars have been known to show that they have as sort of depressive economic impacts. but there's also the political impacts of all of this right now. europe is facing, it's big a security threat since the end of the world war 2 with russia's invasion of ukraine. right now. western unity and solidarity is needed more than ever. and this, of course, the straining and sorry, relations between london, brussels over over,

over, over this issue would of course be detrimental to that unity and resolved that the wish to seeking at this very difficult time. there was the w christine moon war in brussels, speaking to me a short while ago. now, here's an image you're unlikely to be taking with your smartphone any time soon, scientists have released data on nearly 2000000000 stores and our galaxy. it's a massive step towards creating the most accurate map, yet of the milky way european space agencies. dia probe has given astronomers new insights into how stores or born 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 us. they appear so close together that you can't tell them apart

. but the launch of the guy, a probe in 2013 changed that. why do ah, the garage? state of the art, optical technology and observation from space from a much more favourable position. never before have the locations and movements of the stars in the milky way. they measured with such precision. they should temper towards the dead temperature, the chemical composition, how they move towards us or away from us and 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 stars, but around 99 percent of the milky way remains uncharted territory for us. before we go, just a quick look at the top story. we're following for you this, our regional officials in ukraine stone bass region,

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