in a tap on your smartphone, smartphone, losers, number hungry children by 20 to imagine the impact you and your friends can have together, we can end global hunger. please download the app. ah, this is dw news alive from berlin, war of attrition. the battle for ukraine's dumb boss dragged john the region is left in ruins. as rushing forces pound cities in kill civilians and ukraine. struggle so hold off the honorable also coming up

a close vote expected in france. his parliamentary election, president de manuel mc hold, urges voters to back keys centrist movement on sunday. but he faces a strong challenge from a left wing alliance to follow one of its candidates on the campaign trail. and a musical legend marks a milestone hall mccartney turns 80. discuss his legacy with our resident beetles. excellent. ah. in a warm welcome to our viewers around the world. i'm michael. ok. there is no let up in the fierce fighting raging in ukraine's eastern industrial heartland. the dumbass region, ukrainian forces are battling to prevent russia taking for control of the city of shivered donuts. the regional governor says constant shelling is making it impossible to evacuate hundreds of civilians trapped in

a chemical plant there. ukraine has also reported strikes on several cities beyond the dom bots. present in val, autumn, zalinski went to see the damage in one southern city for himself. a rare excursion at sight of key for vladimir zalinski to make alive in southern ukraine, where the ukrainian leader, normally running operations from the capital. keith could witness at 1st hand the devastation wrought by russian artillery. his visit comes a day after a russian strike kill 2 people and injure 20 in the city. it's been under constant barrage by russian forces since the invasion began on february 24th mich alive lies on the way to the key strategic black sea port of odessa. the fiercest fighting is in the dumbass region to the east, which moscow's forces have been trying to cease for weeks. the russians have pounded the region with air raids, artillery and rockets of 34 children shouting continues

periodically, every 10 minutes. then there's a pause for 20 to 30 minutes and then again for 6 hours, during official feel. better equipped, russian forces have made significant gains in both the lou hans and donnette screens that make up the don bass 3rd through either way. in dumbass, the focus of the invaders is now uncivil, donetta can back multiple order. yeah. to improve the tactical position of the enemy tried to conduct assaults outside the city, but was unsuccessful between them all, it could ukrainian troops have pleaded for additional heavy weaponry to turn the tide in the east. oh yes. number driven, the city of the world of warmer you need serious equipment and we need more tanks. right now we're getting equipment for infantry soldier. we hortner person double. as a result, we have to fight a guerrilla war thought of the goals. the sub reporters on school of women zalinski

brought his country one step closer to european union membership on the block recommended ukraine as a candidate on friday. but the bigger challenge for the ukraine president now remained securing heavy weapons needed to defend the dom bus. french voters go to the pol sunday in the 2nd and final round of parliamentary elections. paul suggest president a mental my cause allies will emerge as the biggest party in the new national assembly. but possibly short of the 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 your face and a new political force grabbing the headlights in france. i mean that's an jak id is one of a number of flashbanc candidates who's made it to the 2nd round of parliamentary

elections here. the parisian lawyer is part of a new leftist alliance called nuf, 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 the broad green socialists the far left and communist together, just ahead of the selections. g'night, the long divided left in france, and to take on the business friendly policies of president emanuel macro. when he was re elected in the presidential pause as 2 months ago, my crawl was under no impressions about the reasons for his when. just so see, i know that many of our compatriots voted for me to day or not because of my ideas . this is this a book, but me block those of the far right symbols beds in these parliamentary elections. my cross main adversary is not the fair rights of marina pan. it's the veteran,

far left politician charlie 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 term in april illinois, my mom is 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 ironical consequence. onique du du, 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. 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 as a movie, they would say whether the pressure comes from the left or right in monterey on the call will have to be prepared to make more compromises to push through his policies in the coming parliamentary term. for more we're joined now by and elizabeth dom would take from paris. she's a french journalist, writer, and columnist. so allow me to quickly say, welcome and get straight to my 1st question. that cons alliance and the left coalition were neck and neck in the 1st round. any reason to expect the result will be different tomorrow. her neck and neck is

a bit different from the home and free elections and it's of 2 around 1st off the post. so if don't go to scotland in a way that means that you can't win a constituency, then you have your m p 's, then, then the other guy. and in this instance, even though it's not going to be that far away all the way more expected a lead. so it's, it's, it's a b concentration of voters and various places mean that the news is looking at more m p 's than they had. well, the lives didn't exist with those thought you didn't have room on the on. but it still doesn't mean incredibly unlikely that they could get an overall majority of 570 in the house. you need to do 189. they're not going to have 289 question is where the max will also is going to get 289 piece france recorded. it's the lowest turn out in the 1st round, more than a half

a votes state away might perspective voters be more motivated for the 2nd round. that's an interesting question because as mccall himself sat in the quote in your, in your a film. he said, i know that people voted against rather than for me, and this is going to carry over. so some people are going to be scant enough to buy the whole left, especially in economic matters. and also all the new leader to come and force themselves to hurt. so am i going back home? but i'm going to say a pox on both your houses and i'm still vote, and every single i'm studying for a long time saying that young people do not vote as much as older people to be do those. all the rooms basically, and some of the gen x is much more than young people. and on the left has a majority of young voters and especially $18.00 to $35.00. they are the ones who

wrote to the most for a new job. so that, that still sort of creates a and yet an unknown. ok, that is a journalist and elizabeth today. thank you so much. in other news, 2 people have been killed in an attack on a chic temple in afghanistan's capital cover. a taliban spokesman said attackers that attempted to drive a car laden with explosives into the temple area, but it detonated before reaching its target. it is not yet clear who was behind your soul. rescue teams have been bringing people to safety after severe floods in the north indian state of a some. the state disaster management agency says at least 9 people have been killed and millions of homes have been flooded ha heavier than normal. seasonal range caused a major river to burst its banks and inundate the surrounding region. lawyers for

weeks leaks, founder julian assigned, say they will appeal a decision by britain approving his extradition to the united states is wanted there on 18 criminal charges. washington, chaz assange endangered lives by releasing troves of classified information for your car in the democratic republic of congo has restricted border crossings. with rwanda, after a d r. c soldier was shot dead. bewanda says the soldier crossed the border illegally and injured to border guards. tensions have been high since last month. when the d. r c accused its neighbor of supporting rebels fighting on their territory. 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 a tour of the us and is due to play next weekend at the glastonbury festival in the

u. k. after the breakup of the beatles in 1970, 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 age. why i'm joined now in this you do by d w report and mark estrin or who over the decades have written wildly 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 said a few minutes of air time to celebrate somebody's 80th birthday you. we are here. indeed we are and it's quite right that we should do from the scream of beetle mania. and the yells of she loves you. yeah. yeah. the beginning of the 60s to the closing cause of the long and winding road, the end of the beatles, korea, opus of music spanned a decade. arguably the most important cultural decade of the 20th century. and the

beatles were at the center of it in his music with k, right. a john lennon, a really, really integral part of that. i mean, go to any country in the world and you'd be hard pressed to find somebody who hasn't been affected, touched emotionally, or just at least knows the beatles. and if you find somebody here as an a, be surprised, absolutely amazing contribution to the world of music and all of this, if my recollection is correct from a man who couldn't read music, that's right. he could neither read it and i'll write it down. and he made that decision early on in his career, he told me when we had a long conversation about the process of making the records with the beatles. that he and john lennon sat down and said, we don't want to write music down. we'll get someone else to do that will be like pharaohs who have scribes, we like that idea. so it is a really jokey way of explaining to me that you know, that music was created in the air. other people would write it down and put it in the school. but since then his music can span all sorts of genres from being

influenced in the avalon god by the likes of john cage and co hi stockhausen. through to making tech named music under various pseudonyms, and also scoring with said scribe, a really impressive classical work. so his work has really spend the genres a true creative genius. how do you imagine mccartney himself is celebrating on his birthday and see how i did that? yeah, i think that was john lennon. i, i imagine that he is with his family. he's a great family man. he has 5 children, the 5 children, and they were wide array of friends who i'm sure he's celebrating with today off a very successful us tool. this just finished. and he'll be, i imagine also to looking forward to playing at glastonbury next week, where he will no doubt experience a wave of love from his adoring fans and audience, which is echoed across social media. i mean, as his song says, let it be. he wakes up to the sound of music. so thank you for the music so many

thanks to you. mark estrin are a pleasure. you're watching d. w. news live from berlin will leave you with one of paul mccartney, his most famous songs. i'm michael. ok, thanks for watching. this is d w. ah . when a fine with the memory comes to me. speaking with b. leo, nar, davinci, mysterious masterpiece. so this perhaps the greatest leonardo masterpiece in the collection of the louvre. it is the virgin of the ra.