ah ah ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. no way out for ukrainians. satellite images show the last escape brutes. out of severity nets have been cut off. hundreds of ukrainian fighters and civilians are taking refuge from the russian sold inside a local chemical plot. also coming on the 1st plane, carrying asylum seekers to rwanda is due to depart the u. k. today. but the plan is

controversial. critics call it immoral. the government says it will discourage illegal migrants from making risky attempts to reach britain and mapping the milk he weigh. how a european space probe helps us to understand how our galaxy evolved over billions of years. ah, i'm glad else has well come to the program. russian forces appear closer to taking control of severe jeanette square keys, city and ukraine's eastern don bus region. the regional governor says the last bridge in and out has been destroyed, making it impossible to organize humanitarian aid or evacuations to neighbor and lucy chance. but so crowns president brought him, zalinski says his forces could still reclaim territory in the region. if they are

supplied with the weapons, they need firing back ukrainian defense forces, say this aerial footage shows to destruction of 3 russian grad rocket launchers, which they believe are used to share. 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, don't ask, has been destroyed. authorities believe some $500.00 civilians, including children or sheltering at the vast thought chemical plant. ukraine has accused russia of shelling the works and sparking a fire russian back separatists 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 or 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 on 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 get 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 lee is the, for your business. from back in seattle denounced the constant shelling and exchange of fire rages on with no end in sight and old bridges out of the city cut . let's go straight to our correspondent rebecca richards, who's standing by in here for us. rebecca, this is situation then severity nets, very much remind the sofa mario poland, the siege of the steel works there. what else can you tell us about the ukranian troops and the civilians? trapped them in day, the situation in that city of severed and adds continues to worse. and gerhard, as you've been reporting, we've learned that the last remaining evacuation route are in and out of the city or out of the city. but to get humanitarian aid in the last bridge has been destroyed now. so there is absolutely no way of getting any civilians out of that

city, nor humanitarian aid in russian soldiers have completely surrounded the city there . awesome st. battles going on. but basically, russia, you know, now hold most of that city. it's just that chemical plant that you mentioned where there's seen, reminiscent of mary you, paul, or where the ukranian soldiers are holding out. and we're believe it's, believe there about $500.00 civilians. also sheltering in that chemical plot, but it's being bombarded, there have been fires there. obviously that's very dangerous. with toxic chemicals then a, you know, smoking as a very dangerous for anyone else in the city. it's not exactly sure how many civilians are left in that city. but it's believed somewhere between 10 and 15000 people who are living in increasingly dire situation. their humanitarian conditions worsening day by day, no running water, no electricity, and you know, fast running out of food medicines, that kind of thing. so it's a very serious situation in the sister city across the river. lucy chance or the governor has said about 70 people manage to evacuate that city in the last 24 hours

about the russians are moving in and bombarding that city as well. rebecca, you created a person id rather zalinski has said he wants more ammunition and weapons from the west for the don, boss frontline, how long came ukrainian forces hold off the russians? well, that is the 1000000 dollar question. get ha, they have been doing and putting up a pretty strong fight, considering that they are out guns, at least $10.00 to $1.00. it's believed they are there. if you know that everything is to be believed that the ukrainian military is saying now, fast running out of ammunition, i have heard some analysts say that this could be somewhat tactical in that they're trying to put pressure on the west to, to deliver the promise weapons so that they're, they're ramping up these fees that they are running out of weapons. the analysts say, why would they say that publicly did tell their enemy that they're running out of weapons, but you know, the losses on the battlefield can't be ignored. they are losing the battle if you

will. they are being pushed back. so the and they are running out of weapons. we're hearing that for every i miss all that side from the ukrainian side. they getting 10 to 15 in return, so being out gun. absolutely. and every one from the top down saying that ammunitions are running out and that they desperately need help from the west. is they going to be able to win before he doesn't corresponded rebecca, which is their reporting from keith. thank you rebecca. that's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines today. dozens of members of a former opposition party and cambodia have 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 reduced to a one party states that he 300 people have been jailed for between 5 and 25 years. for joining protests against the socialist government in cuba.

thousands rallied last year against rising food prices, medical shortages, and the response to cobit 19 activists from ecuador indigenous groups have blocked roads nationwide to protest. the economic policies of right wing president gl asile. at least 10 provinces were affected by demonstrations focused on rising fuel prices. the u is poised to bring legal action against the u. k. after the british government announced they are planning to scrap parts of the hosting break that trade deal. the u. k wants to ease its flow of trade with northern ireland. but brussel says such a move would breach international law. the 1st flight carrying asylum seekers to rwanda is expected to leave the u. k. today, the controversial plan aims to discourage people from illegally crossing the english channel into brit human rights groups say some of those scheduled to be

deported, include people flee afghanistan and syria, as well as iran and iraq. several people currently remain on the passenger list of the dozens were removed, following her legal on the challenges in this case, which turns on how the jack for more that less crossover to our corresponded big mass in long bigot. what's the current status of this plane? will it take off today? yes, for in secretary british forensics relist trust has confound that. the flight will take off at some point today, even though there are really not a lot of asylum seekers on board. so the home of us had originally not given any concrete figures, but it had been reported that they were trying to do food almost 40 people. so now the sugar, much, much lower, but forensic trailers trust i is saying that it is justified that the flight should go just to establish the principle that asylum seekers that come by the english

channel on both that they cannot expect to have their claims processed. here, but they can expect to be deported to rhonda, so around 40 originally planned are only 7 remain on that plane. and that's because of an intense, a legal battle. what were the most important points there? there were several legal battle battles am gearhart. there was a coalition, there still is a correlation of charities and unions and they are still fighting ah, in front of the british chords. they're saying that this is generally, the principal is not right. they're saying this doesn't comply with the human rights act. and also they are arguing that rhonda is not a safe that country and then there are also individual battles on behalf of asylum seekers. and as we know, some have been successful because there are no

a lot less people on the flight than originally intended. now how is this practice being viewed by the british public? are there any polls about this the has been a lot of criticism, are publicly there has been the have been charged leaders and they have said that this is an a mauro practice that shames britain. there is a petition going on and if you look at the website, the sort of numbers are increasing by the minute. over a 150000 people have put their signatures down in order to stop this practice. there are celebrities there petitioning the airlines and arguing, edging the airlines not to you know, to help with this practice. what unites all these people is that they argue that this is something that is just morally wrong. and for example, the position i is saying, the label position saying it's, it's something that's a british. however, the government is arguing that it's justified. they say,

what's morally wrong, are the people smugglers who are taking people in a very dangerous way, or helping them across the english channel. and for them, this is their main goal to stop this practice. so it remind us again, these people are be removed to rwanda. why rwanda? so the british government has struck a deal with the government of rhonda, they regard, run the as a safe that country and do you run and government has agreed to take on the claims of these people who are seeking asylum in the u. k. and if they are successful, they can stay in rwanda for, for up to 5 years, say basically it's transporting people who originally wanted to come to the u. k. most of them have some sort of ties to the u. k. have family here. this is why they went on this dangerous journey across the channel. but now instead of having the

claims process in the u. k, they can face this deportation to rhonda. thank you very much. the w corresponded bigot master in london. thanks. oh yes, the image you are unlikely to be taking with your smartphone any time. soon, scientists have released data on nearly 2000000000 stars in our galaxy. it's a massive step towards creating the most accurate map, yet of the milky way the europe in space agencies. gaia probe, as given astronomers new insights into how stars are born, and how they die, the milky way, our galactic home. a huge cloud of stars. one a thin 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. why do, ah, the garage? 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, they should temper towards their temperature, the chemical composition, how they move towards us or away from us out of 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 that have and 99 percent of the milky way remains uncharted territory for us. and before we go some sports news, australia i've secured one of the last places and this year's football woke up

australian peru would tie neil neil after extra time in their playoff match or the goalkeeper. andrew red main became an instant national hero, making a match winning save in the penalties. shootout australia go through to group d, which includes defending well champions frost's. and that's it for now from me and the news team don't go away. up next is chris, go up with the business news, and remember you can get all the latest news and analysis and video on our website, d, w dot com gallery offers as well. i just got issues with wattsey gray. he.