this new one day be feature landing in science into new realms. 175 years of life starts june 19th, w ah, this is d, w. news live from berlin, war of attrition. the battle for ukraine's dom bus drags on the region is left in ruins. as russian forces pound cities in kill civilians and ukraine struggles to hold off the onslaught. also coming on

a close vote expected in france his parliamentary election. president manuel mccall burgess voters to back his centrist movement on sunday. but he faces a strong challenge from the left wing alliance. we follow one of its candidates on the campaign trail and of musical legit marks and milestone paul mccartney turns 80 will discuss his legacy with our reginald peebles, ex ah, a michael ok welcome. 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 full control of the city of sea severity nets. the regional governor says constant showing is making it impossible to evacuate hundreds of civilians trapped in a chemical plant. their ukraine has also reported strikes on several cities beyond

. the don boss, president, val autumn is zalinski went to see the damage in one southern city for himself. a rare excursion at sight of key for vladimir zalinski to meek, 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 seize for weeks. the russians have pounded the region with air raids, artillery and rockets of thrill of our children shouting continues periodically every 10 minutes. then there's

a pause for 20 to 30 minutes and then again for 6 hours, during which officials feel better equipped, russian forces have made significant gains in both to lu hans and donnette screens that make up the don bus 3rd through iowa in dumbass, the focus of the invaders is now on civic donnette can back multiple ordering you to improve the tactical position of the enemy, tried to conduct assaults outside the city, but was unsuccessful. you're calling them all it ukrainian troops have pleaded for additional heavy weaponry to turn the tide in the east. oh yes. um. but the, in the city of the rule of law, you need serious equipment and we need more tanks. right now, we're getting equipment for infantry soldier or be hortner procedure will. as a result, we have to fight a guerrilla war, thought of the goose, the subject as, as the window of bedroom semanski 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 remains securing heavy weapons needed to defend the dumbass french voters go to the pool sunday in the 2nd and final round of parliamentary elections. paul suggest president men or my cons 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 crowns ensemble coalition. and new face and a new political force grabbing the headlights in france. i mean that's an jak id 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 nip, which has shaken up the political landscape. but as people like me are needed to put port 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 to unite 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, mac cross and did no impressions about the reasons for his when just so see, i know that many of our compatriots voted for me today or not because of my ideas. this is, this is a full but me to prolong bose of the far right and was beds in these parliamentary elections. my cross main adversary is not the far rides of marine le

pen. 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 emanuel my promise, he would 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 french parliament. but the left scaling is here, don't necessarily mean a shift to the left for french politics. quite the reverse report, lagossi or less of the weight of the left in the national assembly and could push mar, calling to negotiate with right wing m p was dizzy. this could even make him move. his reforms to the right and i, ron uncle, consequent, wasn't da da last year. so, i mean that's an yoga is confident. her lines will have another strong showing and

sunday, 2nd. and decisive frowned. and that they pick up more boats from some of the 50 percent of voters who didn't take part last time. bowers had, so 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, french journalist and this is betty mcveigh told us if we should expect a repeat of the neck and neck result that we saw in the 1st round. her neck and neck is a bit different from the home and free elections and it's a 2 round 1st off the post. so if your vote to scatter in a way that means that you can't win a constituency,

then you have fewer m p 's than, than the other guy. and in this instance, even though it's not going to be that far away all the way more suit spectrum and metals are some key in the lead a it's, it's, it's a b concentration of voters in various places. mean that the news is looking at more m p 's than they had. well, the lines didn't exist with those parties didn't have room on the on. but they still don't mean incredibly unlikely that they could get an overall majority of 570 in the house. you need to 289. they're not going to have $200.00. 89 question is where the mach will also is going to get 289 piece france recorded it lowers turn out in the 1st round, more than a half of votes state away might perspective voters be more motivated for the 2nd round. that's an interesting question because as michael 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 some, some people are going to be scant enough to buy the whole left, especially in economic matters. read all shoulder. you need to come and force themselves to hurt the call. but others are going to say a pox on both your houses and i'm still no vote and every single i've studied for a long time say that young people do not verge as much as older people who 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 to 35. they, they all the ones who go to the most for a new angelica so that, that still sort of creates a, a 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 sheet temple in afghanistan, sands, a capital cobble. a taliban spokesman said, attackers had 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 the assault rescue. teams have been bringing people to safety after severe floods in the north indian state of awesome. the state disaster management agency says at least 9 people have been killed and millions of homes have been flooded. heavier than normal seasonal rains caused a major river to burst its banks and inundate the surrounding major. it was 80 years ago to day sir paul mccartney is celebrating a milestone birthday. the former beatle is showing no signs of slowing down who's just finished the tour of the us. it is due to played next weekend at the

glastonbury festival in the u. k. after the break up 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 agent. i am join now in the pseudo by d. w report, a mark s printer 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, a very 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 if 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. and 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 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 have 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 has span all sorts of genres from being influenced in the avalon guard by

the likes of john cage, co heights stockhausen through to making techno music under various pseudonyms, and also scoring with the said scribe, a really impressive classical work. so his work has really spend the genre as a true creative genius. how do you imagine mccartney himself is celebrating on his birthday? and i didn't see how i did that. yeah. but 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, 5 children, and they were wide array of friends who i'm sure he's celebrating with today, a very successful us tool this just finished. and he'll be 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 dw 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 i find myself in trouble, mother mary comes to me. speaking words with me. and my daughter's standing right in front of me speaking with b. b, b, b,

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