people, we shed light on the opaque worlds who's behind benefits. and why are they a threat to us all opaque worlds this week on d w? ah, this is d w news line from berlin, war of attrition. the battle of for you cranes. dom bus drags on the region is left in ruins, as russian forces pound cities and kill civilians and ukraine, struggles to hold off the onslaught. also coming up

a close vote expected in france is parliamentary election president emanuel mack wall urges voters to back his centuries movement on sunday. but he faces his strong challenge from a left wing alliance. we follow one of its candidates on the campaign trail and a musical legend marks a milestone. paul mccartney turns $84.00, discuss his legacy with our resident, eagles extra. ah, and welcome to our viewers round the world. i'm michael. ok. there is no let up in the fears, fighting raging in ukraine's eastern industrial heartland. the dumbass region, ukrainian forces are battling to prevent russia from taking for control of the city . if she ever denounced. the regional governor says constant shelling is making it impossible to evacuate hundreds of civilians trapped in

a chemical plant. there. russian troops are also targeting neighboring lisa chance where the civilian death toll is mountain. but the russian military offensive is not limited to the dumbass region. ukraine has reported strikes on several cities elsewhere in the country. a crater in the ground were a russian missile strike hit. it's been 114 days since the invasion began, and civilians and pisa, she near the north eastern city of ha keith still have to live with shelling was news. good. significant damage was caused a multi story buildings private vehicles and also factory workshops. moreover, one administrative building owned by pisec jean village council was damaged when it was a pleasure workers at the factory that was damaged. don't know why they were targeted . they were targeted. merchantable, we tested equipment for construction company,

somebody. there was no military object in here. new york, i was called your cousin, number one more than 500 kilometers to the south residential buildings and michel, i, if hit by mistletoe, local authorities say 2 people were killed and 20 wounded. but besides attacks in the north, east and south, the heaviest fighting is currently happening in the east and don bus region. in the embattled city of sierra donetta, ukraine says hundreds of civilians including dozens of children, are currently trapped. and as a chemical plant which has been almost completely destroyed, the regional governor of the hands says only a complete cease fire would allow them to be evacuated. the last city in this battle ground region that still under ukrainian control is neighboring. lucy chanced, but shelling has also increased here in recent days. smoke still rising from this

culture center after 30 days. bombing sparked to fire here for people who are sheltering in the building died for the people of lucy chance. it's becoming harder and harder to find a safe haven from russian shelling. let's go to the job, re corresponded and manual shows who's in kia? good to see you, emma. what's the latest on the situation on the eastern front? well, my callaway chester. how about the shelling? the constant shelling on lizzie sounds. it has intensified over the past 2 days and these selling is actually indiscriminate eats at effect civilians. there's a number of civilians who died of a day passed a few days in the neighboring city of san antonio. well, there is no longer accessed to the city to last. a practical practicable highway has been completely destroyed by the shedding. they have been elsewhere a gains from the ukrainian, the armed forces near his upper reach yard near had

a song, but the price for those fighting is really it is really heavy, really taking its tall this morning human key, if just behind me in the me had a scar, a golden don, golden dome, and manase, there was a funeral of a 24 year old kid activist, turned sole dear rahman, that our tuition he and his death is one among many affecting ukrainians. but his death, in particular, was really felt by an entire nation morning for him. i was talking this morning to kiff and mayo of italy clinical. maybe let's say he, what he had to say about these particular your mind about roman and our to she who died on the front line. he's was representative for generation worse and worse always brought

back to fam. interested all it was different rebate years. so wanted to personal know, sounds you guys said a lot. he's still in our home. he's now memory with his name's a street remains to sleep. his name in the long weekend history and continue fault and dependency. democracy for cisco douglas of homeland

keeps mer there. clearly moved by this activists who inspired a fellow ukrainians. emma, despite the fighting that's raging at their doorsteps, ukrainians, it strikes me, might have reason to be inspired. this week the european commission took a step toward granting the country candidate status and there have been additional arms pledges from the e u as well as the u. k. from your vantage point, how much of a boost has this been to morale? well of course this week has come out with its lots of comforting surprises. his 1st visit of european leaders all showed salmonella macro, among others. den the visit of a you case, prime minister boris johnson. they all came with a promise and the insurance. that's ukraine. it requires candidacy to the european union would this supported this has been effectively done so by also laugh on the

lie under president of the commission. it yesterday said that com sized good news in particular for this younger generation of ukrainians who were born after the full de dismentos or the dismantle of the ussr. it comes as a comfort but still on a daily basis. ukrainians feel in their flesh in the blood diesel or even this morning during the funeral, we could hear sirens, aurora above key if and key of skies so diesel is everywhere. diesel is affected, affecting every one and people are really tired of thought. they need more support, they ask for more support and of course, joining the european union even if it's a long process or is a prospect that is more than welcome here and keith, to job user manual shows many things to people have been killed in an attack on us chic temple and afghanistan's capital cobble at albin spokesman said, attackers had attempted to drive a car,

lead in with explosives into the temple area, but it detonated before reaching its target. there are also reports that gunman, storm the temple and wounded those inside with a grenade. it is not yet clear who is behind the assault. french voters go to the pol sunday in the 2nd and final round of parliamentary elections hall suggest president de manuel mc horn's allies will emerge as the biggest party in the new national assembly. but possibly short of a majority after a strong challenge in the 1st round from a brand new left wing alliance, which scored as well as my cons, ensemble coalition and new face and a new political force. grabbing the headlines in france, i mean not an jak had g is one of a number of flesh vein candidates who made it to the 2nd round of parliamentary elections here. the parisian lawyer is part of a new leftist alliance called nuke, which has shaken up the political landscape. but if people like me are needed to

put for it ecological issues, social justice and democracy. it's those issues that broad green socialists the far left and communists together, just the head of the selections to unite the long divided left in france and to take on the business friendly policies of president manuel my call. when he was re elected in the presidential pause as 2 months ago, my crow was and didn't know impressions about the reasons for his when. just to see, i know that many of our compatriots voted for me today or not because of my ideas. this is, this is a book, but mm hm. for lot close of the far right. and was beds in these parliamentary elections. macross main adversary is not the fair rights of marine la, penn. it's the veteran, far left politician charlotte miller shaw, and the nip coalition who could cause macro most problems. they garnered as many

votes as macros. alliance. 26 percent. after winning a 2nd, sir, when april morrow m a thomas. he will be president for all french people, but after the 1st round of voting for the national assembly, it's clear, not all friends people, one's him. he could lose his absolute majority here at the fence parliament. but the left scaling is here, don't necessarily mean a shift to the left for french politics. quite the reverse replied lego shall, as the weight of the left in the national assembly could push my calling to negotiate with right wing m p, 's, dizzy. this could even make him move his reforms to the right. and i run a cold consequent clinic, da, da, less stressful. i mean, that's an yeah, got is confident. her lines will have another strong showing and sundays 2nd. and decisive frowned. and that they pick up more votes from some of the 50 percent of

voters who didn't take part last time. bowers, i thought i'm expecting to when i expect young people to vote people from working class neighborhood. people who are worried about their retirement age by her vassar movie, they were thing whether the pressure comes from the left or rides in manuel, my car will have to be prepared to make more compromises to push through his policies in the coming parliamentary term. well, it was 80 years ago today sir paul mccartney is celebrating a milestone birthday. the former beatle is showing no signs of slowing down. he's just finished the tour of the us and is due to play next week at the glastonbury festival in the u. k. after the break up of the beatles in 970, he embarked on a successful solo career performing on stage with his 1st wife, linda, people around the world have joined in on social media to wish him a very happy idiot. i'm joined now in the studio

by d. w reporter mark estrin, who over the decades has written widely about mccartney interviewed him, seen him perform, and i suspect snapped his fingers countless times to the man's music. mark, it's not often we set aside a few minutes to celebrate somebody's re 80th birthday. well sir paul mccartney really deserves it. i mean, from the scream of b, 2 mania. she loves you. yeah. yeah, yeah. to the end of the beatles, korea with the almost him the let it be together with john lennon writing some of the most known songs that are in the english language, which have gone global. go to any country in the world. and people will know if not a beatles song than the beatles themselves. so absolutely astonishing, legacy of music that he's given to the world. and it's right that we should be celebrating that today. and all this from a man who apparently didn't know how to read music. that's absolutely right. he decided very early on, not to learn how to write no tape music or to be able to read it. he told me in the

interview that i had with him that he and john lennon decided that they wanted to be like pharaohs to have scribes to write that music down. but since the beatles, as you said earlier, his solo career has been stella. but he's experimented in dance techno music. he's also with collaborators school, a whole classical school. he's worked with abilene garb, musicians, and the range of his work is absolutely extraordinary. a truly creative genius. suppose we can allow a beetle to describe himself as a pharaoh. how do you think that mccartney himself will be celebrating today? but i imagine that he will be recovering from a fantastic us tool that he's just finished and preparing probably for glastonbury next week, where he'll be feeling a wave of love from the crowd, i'm sure. but he's a real family man, you know, he has 5 children, and i'm sure that home he'll be celebrating with them. and preparing for that performance and maybe enjoying the wave of love that there is on social media to.

there's a lot of messages out there from everybody really famous april to just the fans. and it's real proof of those wonderful words of his in the closing song with api, right? and in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make amazing favorite beatle song with what you saw. well, actually i saw her standing there kicks off the 1st record, 1234. wonderful d, w report, mark, aspirin, many, many thanks. you watching the w news. why from berlin up next are dark film documentary about libya. a michael oka will see you with more news at the top of the next step. leonardo da vinci's, mysterious masterpiece. that is perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece and the collection of the louvre. it is the virgin of.