ah, ah ah, this is news life from berlin, outmanned and outgunned ukraine struggles to hold off fresh troops and you crazy. but you creased former president is defiant where your work soldiers is keeping and say that have been yes. and we never said that so poor sankoh calls for more weapons to push back the russian assault. this as the u. s. a now says more

military aid for you. great. but is it too little too late for key and more allegations of russian war crimes. we visit a ukrainian town where people say the board orchard fire russian soldiers bless, tackling inflation. the u. s. central bank analysis, its largest interest rate hike in nearly 3 decades. policy makers are struggling to get storing consumer prices under control and avoid recession. ah, hello everyone, i'm layla iraq. thank you very much for joining us. russian forces are advancing in their assaults on the key ukrainian city of samaritan. ask. a regional governor says ukraine is outmanned and outgunned for weeks very dynette scanned the

surrounding area. have been the focus of russia's efforts to capture the entire dom bass region. the fierce fighting is taking a heavy toll on civilians. in the distance, the sound of russian shelling for the people in missy chance the twin city of seattle john. yet the chance to escape is getting smaller and smaller ukrainian police officers drive from house to house to find those who want to leave . but for many here it feels like they're giving up that town. you should be able to show that your partner, we weren't sure until it became unbearable. then i got sick long. she has an endless list of illnesses and i'm also sick to put away. but after middlebrook there was a hospital here where i would have stayed here until the very last moment. she due only a few kilometers away and seattle done yet so leaving has become nearly impossible

. with all the main bridge is destroyed, the city is now cut off. ukraine says more than $500.00 civilians, a hiding inside the as a chemical factory alongside ukrainian soldiers. moscow announced the humanitarian corridor for the civilians, but then claimed ukrainian shelling disrupted the plan with moscow having more man, power, and weapons. it's becoming increasingly difficult for the ukrainians to hold their few remaining positions in the city. a ration deadline for the forces in the chemical plan to surrender has passed. former ukrainian president polish ankle told the w ukraine will not given. situation is extremely difficult and the concentration of troops there is enormous. but our heroic soldiers is keeping servitor burnouts qui, keeping their asoft novels on what present chemical plan. and we

never surrender ah, away from the dumbass. russian forces have been aiming for other high value targets . this foot is shared by the russian military claims to show high precision low range missiles, targeting a depot in the western living region where ammunition for nature supplied weapons. stuart, if true, it could be russia's latest effort to disrupt the international supply of weapons. once again, these are pivotal days for ukraine. g to be corresponds eminent shaws is in the capital. keith emma, the situation in the dumbass region is looking very dire. what more have you been able to learn? well indeed it looks very, it's iris cetera, and ask is just one of the places that is under attack to give you an idea. it's been since april forced that the entire landscape region has been under constant

higher lead for air strikes. and of course, that i would only ask is now to focus on the media, but also on of the you are the ukranian army, which really focuses on trying to keep a hold of the strategic city. although there are reports by intelligence, by british intelligence dot russia, now controls most of the town. the thing is that these paved away for russian art. i think we're having technical problems. we can't hear you, emma. we obviously can see you reporting, but unfortunately we've lost the audio connection. let's try and connect with her in our next bulletin. there was a machine in chief. now in the mean time, mom, just a little while ago, the u. s. pledge the largest package of arms support to ukraine since rushes

invasion began. u. s. president joe by announced an additional $1000000000.00 in military aid to bolster ukraine self defense. while speaking in brussels moments ago, u. s. secretary of defense, lloyd austin, called on other countries to also intensify support. mister austin says the war has reached a quote, pivotal moment. while the meeting includes nato members, as well as dozens of additional countries known as the ukrainian defense contact group. here is u. s. defense secretary boyd, austin says the contact group 1st came together nearly 3 months ago. we built tremendous momentum for donations and delivery of military assistance. and after this, this afternoon's discussions, we're not just going to maintain that momentum. we're gonna move even faster and push even harder. will deepen our coordination and cooperation and will boot

bolster ukraine's armed forces to help them repel russian aggression now and in the future. all right, and we have for re established a contact now with the m in russia, who is in a key where she is reporting on what the situation is in the dumbass region earlier before our conversation. and what we heard are the former ukrainian president and mister per shank o saying we never surrender. is this sentiment echoed by the ukrainian people? definitely and unequivocally. so people here are fighting for their land. they are fighting for 2 or so defend dera on a culture. there's absolutely a spirit of resilience. there's not one single ukraine and i've been talking to a forward for example, you ready to make territorial confessions. and that even president zalinski a few days ago reminded that a de gold 4 digit crane out of force is, was to liberate every single city that has been occupied by russia. even crimea,

which has been the next by russia, or since 2014, even if this annexation hasn't been recognized internationally. so very, very resilient population, despite the apply to, despite the told that at the top that this war has been taking on families. i just just want to figure a test 14000000 this place people over 7000000 people have flagged country out. so despite that, despite every thing of people here, very resilient, very determined to keep their land and to fight for it despite very heavy losses. your, when an army is losing up to 200 soldiers every day. this is an entire generation of ukrainians, and he's just being lost to this war that has the started in february 24th to w, corresponding to emerald charles reporting from the ukrainian capital q. thank you

very much. ukrainian forces has managed to push back russian troops from several areas in places like butcher, urban, and border younger evidence of atrocities have been found. authorities are now investigating over 15000 suspected cases of war crimes trot. so you now says a town in northern ukraine that spent a month under russian occupation t w's. rebecca richards went there and spoke to residence, who shared harrowing stories, the trust and yet train station, or what's left of it. for more than a month, russian troops used it as their headquarters. it was from here, alexander tells me that they carried out some of their crimes. when i was a while, they say the russians were based right there, where we're going bomb shelter. that's where we going, we do move them on ec sander. an auto mechanic says the russians came in the night

and pulled him straight out of bed. some towns, men he says, were killed on the spot. but he and a handful of others were brought down here into the station's basement with federal . until dot's i was sitting right in his corner. i was beaten here before him. a miss ball was painted by another guy's blood. his head was smashed with the boots of a gun, and his hands were tied behind his back. he tried to get up and left the blood marks in without so thought a proof for groom. that man survived. this video shows his body, and maybe his mind were badly scarred resulted in the fate of some fellow prisoners is unknown. burglary but bo coordinated as a colonel of ukrainian army was brought to you. they beat him badly and interrogated him. they took him somewhere and he never came back with him. we don't know where he is looking for him. you shall see. of course,

what happened to alexander and his fellow captives, these alleged war crimes. they happened here under ground where no one could hear their cries or the blows of the russian soldiers. but not all the crimes that took place in this city happened under ground. some happened right up here in broad daylight. the laws of war prohibit attacks on civilians and torture, as well as attacks on hospitals to live. there was a direct hit from a tank. they were positioned there and they were shooting at us. not billable, and our shifts over the hospitals. director says the russians knew what they were doing rather than way of the early by our thing. we have no explanation for this. there was a big hospital sign. we had a big white flag where the red cross really felt, but it was that it didn't matter to them at all. no malia was nurturing her. doctor shifts over, says the 2 nights before the russians left trusty nets were the worst. the hospital

was pounded without stop. the patients and doctors were forced to take refuge under ground. broke my leg, old royal wicked, don't you little she remembers that a baby was born. the sick and wounded continued to receive treatment. many people prayed, never my from warner to me. i think there is a god in this world. there is justice. kindness will prevail some day with these women, with tears in their eyes. the grandmothers who cried hair, you have to pay for everything in this life. and they will pay to that blanket doctor shifts over, says there is no way or time to extract vengeance. only time to rebuild. but the people of trust in nets will never forget. he watching the w still to come a controversial kiss. in the new movie about buzz lightyear has got the film bar for more than a dozen countries will get more on why they object against one of ours,

biggest money makers. but 1st the u. s. federal reserve has approved its largest single interest rate hike in almost 3 decades signaling a more aggressive path to raining in the countries stubbornly high inflation. the 3 quarters of a percentage point increases the feds largest since 1994. it's a departure from the half point high telegraph in recent weeks, but one that more investors anticipate it following the latest economic data. u. s . consumer prices in may, grew at a pace not seen in 40 years with cost for food, gas and housing, all surging. my colleagues from d a b business christy placid, is here to break it all down for you. good to have you with this? christy. first of all, what does today's rate hike mean for americans? i mean, essentially what it means is that it's going to continue to get more expensive to borrow money,

which has been the case since the fed started raising interest rates in march. i mean, so if you're wanting to buy a house, a car, anything where you're going to need a long term loan, you're probably going to be paying more interest on that loan than you would have been before these rate hikes started. i mean, a federal reserve federal re interest rate hike basically makes it more expensive for banks to borrow money from the federal reserve. and they generally pass that cost onto the consumers. and this might seem like a bit of a harsh move considering that americans are already struggling to keep up with the rising cost of consumer goods. but that's the whole purpose here. basically, we've had really low interest rates for quite some time. also a lot of stimulus going into the economy during the pandemic, and that's been pushing up consumer prices. so the fed is hoping that an interest rate hike will encourage americans to hold on to some net cash and hopefully take some of the pressure off of those prices for them. the end of the cheap money era, actually, how long will it take for this decision to have an impact on consumer prices? right, well, these kind of monetary policy does decisions, they do take some time to reverberate throughout the economy. and we should note,

of course, that this is not the end we're expecting more rate hikes. we could the interest rates around 3 this month, this year i should say, maybe for next year. we'll have to see an economist will also tell you that there's generally quite a lag with these decisions. part of the inflation we're seeing today as a result of its decisions taken a year ago. and then there's of course, many moving parts here aside from interest rates. there's also the war in ukraine. there's continued supply chain issues. so, i mean, the best the fed can really do is, is raise the rates and, and hope for the best hope for the best head, erased more than the initially signal they would do. why? right? i mean, they were really taken aback by the high rate of inflation we saw in may. they had expected inflation to actually peak in man going down. in fact, it went up. so basically, and now they had to act stronger than they had initially said the whole point of the federal reserve, or one of the points i should say is price stability. so they are, they pulled out a bigger gun when they saw

a bigger problem that originally anticipated. we'll see what effect it will have. you'll tell us about it kristie class and from d w. business. get to have you that as thank you. here in germany, corona virus cases are on the rise again. after weeks of falling infections, the health minister is warning of a summer wave and is urging people to wear masks indoors. his political opponents have accused him of fear mongering as germany enjoys the summer free of almost all restrictions here in berlin on buses and trains masks are still mandatory, but everywhere else in the german capital it's almost business as usual. again, it's in the mind in supermarkets, you don't need a mosque anymore. and so we don't, we have one we do saw in the train of course, because that's the rule. and we sometimes test ourselves. woods. we for flish, could i do what i am obliged to do? oh, but i don't where one in restaurants were in shops no either. oh, oh the 2nd manish. i'll tell you honestly though possible. i guess you don't really

pay attention to it any more, you know, you don't really feel like it any more because it's been 2 years so young. at the end of the month, residents will probably no longer be able to test themselves for free. almost all remaining vaccination sent us here in the capital are to be closed, apparently due to lack of demand, but possibly also in anticipation of a quiet summer without major outbreaks. the reality however, is that infection numbers arising again of times i to, on the one hand, we have the new berry and be a 5 ami kron sub variant one. in addition, we are keeping masks off at the moment. we are meeting in larger groups, again, there are also large events. all this contributes to the fact that we're now seeing more infections and not to have so family up unsticking. c. german health minister lauterbach is speaking of a summer wave. he has called for booster vaccinations and asked people to voluntarily wear masks in doors, but this is being criticized by the countries conservative opposition to the moment

. i don't think it's a good idea to do things the way car allow to by his doing. he's constantly warning golf and mentioning worst case scenarios that are not at all helpful in the discussion. and in the matter at hand, we will, it is much more about strengthening pragmatism and personal responsibility among people and also spreading a certain kind of optimism to business. there is certainly optimism here in berlin, that the situation in hospitals will remain stable. infections will surprising and that at least this summer will remain free of pandemic worries. and as we heard in the report, the new i'm a chron sub variant known as b, a 5 is thought to be fueling a fast rise and infections. and to make matters worse, a new study now suggest that people infected with our micron are not getting the natural immune boost that we've seen with previous various which could help fanned off future infections. let's talk more about so all this want to turn to were pip

stevens from the d. w. science trip. i good to have you with us. you have been looking into this study done by researchers at imperial college, london. what did they find? yes, that they wanted to test to sumption that a natural infection with kobe was somehow boost your immune response. and then at 700 health care workers where the range of coven infection histories, who are triple vaccinated with m, r in a vaccines. and they that they look to their blood and they look for immune mouth, has to see what they had encountered with coven, and how strong their response would be. a thing, how to different strains. and they found that with a micron, there was really no boost to protection again against omicron, and compared to other variance confusingly, so previous variance like an alpha and delta. and this, this was the case with the different levels of the immune response in the body. so their primary response with antibodies and more secondary long lasting response

with t cells, they didn't recognize omicron. and so even if your body has encountered oh, mccone, putnam infection and it, it, it counted it again. it wouldn't recognize it. so what does this all tell us about vaccinating against our micron? is it effective? so very much so still, i mean it protects against this is we're talking about booster if you're boosted with an m r and a vaccine you're between 50 and 70 percent protected against symptomatic infection of m a crohn. but i think the fear is that armor chronic could evolve to become a more dangerous variant. and it could evolve to evade vaccine community and not something that vaccine manufacturers really have to bear in mind. you know, of vaccines capability to protect us against the dominant varian is one of the main ways we can sort of shape the future of the pandemic. so that's something that vaccine manufacturers need to be mindful of, and we need to be mindful of that. the pandemic isn't over bad. demick isn't over

a concluding question for you. in a few words. we're always in the pandemic right now. well, we're really saying the case is rising in germany as your report mentioned, also in the k. and even so, even though we've had high natural levels of infections in those populations, and this study goes some way to explain why that might be the case. you know, we've, we've seen so many on infections in cases still rising. right. stevens from d. w. science. thank you very much for making all down for us now to some of the other stories in the headlines right now. the world health organization has said that europe remains the epi center of the monkey pox outbreak . the w h l will hold a meeting next week to decide if to classify the infection as a public health emergency. over 1500 cases have been confirmed in 25 countries across europe. the european union is suing the u. k. over removed to

rewrite the host briggs at trade rules with northern ireland, the ballistics, to override sections of the trade treaty signed by both the u. k. and the e. u. less than 2 years ago. you official say the unilateral decision violates international law. this is illegal. the sports news now for you tennis and world number one, russian daniel med video is playing this week in a warm up to one wimbledon rather a tournament in which russian players were banned after the invasion of ukraine. but now met video fast learned russian players will be allowed to play at the us open in august, he commented on the decision after his 1st round match and hala in central germany, where he beat david goffin in straits. as if said, he was happy with the ruling by the usaa is great. i heard this news

yesterday probably like everybody. and you know, i always say that i have to follow the rules and where i can play. i'm going to play. i'm going to try to play my best. i'm happy that i will be able to defend my title. it would be really disappointing if i would not be able to defend my title and use open. there was a video that speaking earlier to soccer news now, and the field is set for the 2022 world cup. as coast or week. i have defeated new zealand for the 32nd and final spot. they scored early to take the wind out of the key. we sales. joe campbell snuck the ball in and just the 3rd minute it appeared, new zealand had equalized but a controversial video replay call. dis allow. the goal was to recap, held new zealand ad bay after that. and following that action costa rican supporters watching from san jose erupted with delight. workers of all

kinds had been given an extra hour for lunch break to watch the match and thousands filled the streets around one of san jose's main plaza. as to watch on big screen as to rico when the right to competing group e at the finals against germany, japan. pixar is new movie light year is out this week starring the beloved toy story character, buzz lightyear, but the movie won't be shown everywhere. it has been denied release in more than a dozen, may leap muslim countries. and it's unlikely to open in china after disney refused to cut a scene that shows to women sharing a kiss. once what your mission long started, 39 on the world's most famous toy astronaut is back, buzz lightyear. he's a go who are you talked to? no one. you were narrating and i was not. but the buzz is all about his sidekick alicia,

his power partner who seem and the film kissing her girlfriend. that's why more and more countries are refusing to show the film model. but the studio and it stars stand by the lesbian romance, including actor chris evans, the voice of bud light. you. it's great that we are martin something that making steps forward in the social inclusion capacity. but it's, it's frustrating that there's still places that aren't where they should be. right . one minute. i feel feel proud for the rest of my life. we don't have to think. oh wow. weird. it is not weird is normal and it should be normalized. why don't they answer like your is a prequel to pixar, is toy story. it's about time travel and friendship with same sex romance, playing a small part. but one that picks our parent company, disney says, is not nego about 7 months. i know that we've done requests for things to time dizzy isn't going to modify the material. we're not gonna cut out anything,

especially something as important as the loving and inspiration relationship that shows buys what he's missing guarantees. and that means this time viewers in several countries will be missing, buys to infinity, and beyond who you are clear 5 to watch people go people a cloud of hot air from africa is making its way north through europe. the heat wave struck spain 1st with temperatures climbing higher than 40 degrees celsius in many cities on now the above average temperatures are moving through france. the peak of the heat wave is expected to hit several european countries this weekend. experts say unusually high temperatures will grow more common because of threats from climate change and i'll becoming now more apparent. before we go a quick look at our top story this, our original governor says russian forces are advancing is their denounced.

ukrainian troops are now almost entirely surrounded and the key battery with the city rather ukraine is asking for more weapons from the west to counter the offensive washing every news life from berlin. the news continues after the company in a ah, with

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