on the opaque world, who's behind the benefits and why are they a threat to whistle o peak worlds this week on d w ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin, high profile european delegation on its way to ukraine. the leaders of france, italy and germany are pictured on board night train to keep the much anticipated trip comes after days of speculation. and as the west comes under height of pressure to offer help to ukraine, also coming up the west makes

a new commitment to send another $1000000000.00 worth of equipment and arms to you frame. but will it make a difference? and a confession brings the search for 2 men in the amazon to a gruesome conclusion. brazilian police say, a suspect in the disappearance of a british journalist and an indigenous expert as admitted to killing them and has led authorities to their roommate. ah, hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. we begin with this breaking news about the ukraine column plague, the leaders of france, germany and italy are business kid today. the high profile visit by italian prime minister mario druggie, french president matter. well, my call and german chancellor olive sholtes comes after days of speculation about

a joint visit to the ukrainian capital. and as you creating calls for heavy weapons from western countries grow ever more urgent. the governor of ukraine's blue hans grecian says, rushing horses are advancing in their assault on the key city of spirit. the next he says, ukraine is out. man den outgunned but the peers fighting is taking a heavy toll and civilians not only in spirit donuts but in neighboring you. this is shocked to 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. if you will surely show that your partner, we weren't sure until it became unbearable. then i got sick wrong. she has an

endless list of illnesses and i'm also sick to put away the head brush over if there was a hospital here where i would have stayed here until the very last moment. if she do only a few kilometers away and severe with the nets leaving has become nearly impossible . with all the main bridge as destroyed, the city is now cut off. ukraine says more than $500.00 civilians, a hiding inside the assault chemical factory, alongside ukrainian soldiers. moscow announced a 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 plant to surrender has passed, form the ukrainian president polish anchor, told d w. ukraine will not given. situation is extremely difficult and the concentration

of troops there is enormous, but our heroic soldiers is keeping said it had been yet squee. keeping their asoft are not those of what present chemical plan and we never surrender ah, away from the dumbass. russian forces have been aiming for other high value targets . this footage 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 efforts to disrupt the international supply of weapons . scott, an update from our correspond roman, gone to ranko. he joined us from ukraine's capital tip room and the leaders of europe, 3 biggest countries, germany, france,

and italy are apparently on their way to kill today. perhaps they're already there . what's the significance of this visit? oh, i guess they are already in here and maybe in just a few hours, they'll walk in there down there, my down the central, squaring key of his just me behind my back as many western leaders do when they come to cave, we just don't now because their program has been kept secret as the whole wizard for security reasons. so it's an extremely important visit, especially for the german chancellor of shoals. i'm who postponed m his visit, which was probably planned a few weeks ago. and we remember there was some, some, some criticism from the crane inside of the german president, and she said he'll have to wait. so and, and now he's coming, which is very good news for german ukrainian relationship, which is very good news for ukraine, which is expected german weapons to be delivered. am ukrainian said several times that they need heavy weapons. the gemini promised,

like him howitzers like an anti aircraft tanks, a gephart and people are expecting the chosewood say something about it here in cliff. and it's even more important ahead of the very important some. it's some that are coming and the next week the, the european union summit where it is expected that the ukrainian bid for candidacy on will be decided than there is a nato summit. and the g 7 summit and to both summits, ukrainian, president of all the gym as landscape had he will, it, he accepts the invitation. what is not clear so far is whether he'll come in person or he'll just be connected via video link. so a strong signal there coming from the european union, at least her, the european union's biggest countries, sir, from an in the u. s. has announced another $1000000000.00, the military aid for ukraine. a nato allies are being encouraged to step up their support. how important is this aid for ukraine? it's extremely important, and it's the biggest as far as the know, the biggest

a single assignment or by the u. s. on by any country since the start of a rush, an open war in late february. so our ukraine and saudi set aside a st every day and continued to say, we need more weapons. we need more heavy weapons because we are outgunned. and there is if he got 10, which, which is a striking. and it was mentioned by the canyon authorities in, in, on 2 occasions. first, a deputy defense minister said that the western countries delivered only 10 percent of the weapons promised so far. and irrational cheerily is 10 much stronger than ukrainian in the east. so am every single cannon. cannon are delivered by the west counts and it is very important that the unit in the united states is promising to deliver more fighting is taking place on numerous fronts. there at least along a huge line there, particularly in the east, in the south, in ukraine. what can you tell us about the latest fighting roman?

well, the biggest use is probably that there is no news from them. the fighting continues and a lot of people expected the city of several been asked to fall. this hasn't happened and this is good news, actually for ukraine. but the fighting continues as you say, it is very heavy. the shelling is every minute and am the russia continues also to, to launch rockets are and we have reports this morning that people are died this night in the north of ukraine. and there were also facilities in the west that were attacked. so the fighting continues and intensifies roman. thank you very much. that's our correspond rollin gunter anchor there in kia sh. well, mark montgomery is a military expert who served in the u. s. navy for more than 30 years. we asked him what this latest pledge of weapons from the u. s. will do for ukrainian forces.

it's really more about maintaining their ability to do what they, what they can do right now. which is, you have to have these replenishment packages flowing every few weeks. if you cranes it, if you crating to succeed in and preventing further russia, russian encroachment in the dom boss region, they're burning through artillery very rapidly. and they need these replenishment packages, not just from the u. s. from the rest of our european allies and partners in the contract, it's a question of persistence will the u. s. and it's a european allies show the same resilience, the ukrainian people and their army are showing on the battle front, where we continue to provide these packages every few weeks. you know, every 2 weeks with united states, every 2 weeks from europe to bring artillery rounds. the rocket rounds that are also include in this package, but also vehicles artillery vehicles. there's 18 in this package, but we need other ones from our european partners and then rocket launching systems

where european partners as well. now to smother stories making headlines around the world to day, even refugee agency says the number of displaced people worldwide has risen to 100000000. that's the highest number recorded since world war 2. russia's invasion of ukraine is one of several crises that have pushed the number higher. in the u. s . a panel of advisors to the food and drug administration has endorsed coven 19 shots for children aged 6 months to 5 years. as the last demographic without access to the backend vaccines in the us jobs would be available next week once approved by the agency. yellowstone national park in the us has been hit by devastating flooding that they lose has washed away many kilometers of roads and hundreds of bridges. scores of homes and surrounding communities have been swamped . park rangers say that parts of yellowstone will remain closed for the rest of the

year. the unprecedented, the unprecedented water of flood waters are also threatening to cut off fresh drinking water to montana's largest city. well, a perilous escape. rocks come raining down on this car. as the driver rushes to get out of yellowstone national park, some 10000 visitors to the u. s. his oldest national park were evacuated after to renshaw rainfall, and melted snow, sent months with a run off into rivers, causing them to best their banks. but it's not only tourists who are affected. the fighting has also hit me by towns damaging bridges, roads, and even sweeping away homes. that hit here early in the flood. and we thought we had it. and then

a bridge went out and it diverted the cree water, started rolling in the bag, broke out a basement window, start filling up my basement and then i quit. like the water one. the flooding also forced a water treatment plant to close, leaving montana's largest city billings with about a day supply of fresh water. as far as duration we're, we're in for the long haul. as far as helping folks, i will do everything that we have to do to provide those resources and just continue to work through, you know, what is, is a pretty tragic event. residents here and now pulling together to start the long, difficult work of rebuilding their communities. but the damage to yellow sterns diverse and fragile ecosystem. oh, being much harder to repair police in brazil say

a man has confessed to fatally shooting an indigenous expert. and a british journalist who went missing earlier this month. the suspect led officers to a remote area where he said the bodies were buried. the search for dom philips and bruno pereira, a shed light on tension between local indigenous communities and illegal poachers. fishermen and mining companies in the amazon a tragic end to an 11 day search. brazilian police said the bodies of missing british john list. don't phillips and brazilian indigenous expert do not bad, yet our history may have been found to live off. authorities see a suspect confessed to fatally shooting the 2 men with all the noise in the 1st suspect arrested in this case confessed to the crime. he described it in detail and pinpoint where he had buried the bodies close emerged throughout the week. a spot of blood on the suspects bought the

belongings of the missing men, but authorities joke criticism for dragging their feet on the investigation. members of brazil's indigenous eaten faithful nigh which betty eta had booked for held a vigil for the 2 men. they are protesting what they see as the government's complicity . oh, bruno, if no, no. some of him today, bruno and dome were not adventurers. if they were exceptional role models at the forefront of their work, they were violently murdered by criminals in the jewelry riley valley who the brazilian stayed under the bulls. narrow government did not combat. still. the 2 men had received chats for their work in the jawad. each renowned for illegal fishing, logging, mining and drug trafficking, their killings out

a grim reminder to indigenous rights workers in the region of the dangers, the faith for go. just a quick look at our top story. this our, the leaders of germany, france and italy are expected in kiya, or talks with ukrainian president belonged to me at sa lensky today, of sholtes, manuel mccollum and mario druggie for pictured on a train for the highly anticipated meeting as ukraine battles, russian aggression. you're watching the w news live from berlin. thanks for being with with hello guys. this is the 77.