$6000000.00 jews like microbes to be annihilated even 77 years after the holocaust hatred towards jews is still pervasive. history, anti semitism starts july, 2nd on d. w. ah . this is due to the news live from berlin. the battle for your cranes. don bass drags on the region is left in ruins as a russian forces pound cities and kill civilians and 2 cranes struggles to hold off the on. stuart also coming up a close vote expected in francis parliamentary election president emanuel. the con

urges vote is to back his centrist movement that he faces a strong challenge from a left wing alliance. we follow one of the candidates on the campaign trail and a musical legend box, a milestone full mccartney turns 18 will discuss his leg. ah, i'm available. hm. it, welcome to the program. fierce fighting continues and ukraine's eastern industrial hot land, the don bass region, ukrainian forces are battling to prevent russia taking full control of the city of several don. yet. the original governor says constant shelling is making it impossible to evacuate. hundreds of civilians trapped in the chemical plant there. ukraine has also reported strikes on several cities beyond the don bass. present. vladimir lansky went to see the damage in one southern city. 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 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 than the suppose for 20 to 30 minutes. and then again for 6 hours, during which official feel better equipped,

russian forces have made significant gains in both the lou hans and donnette screens that make up the don bus 3rd through either way in dumbass, the focus of the invaders is now on severe donnette can back multiple order. yeah. to improve the tactical position of the enemy, tried to conduct assaults outside the city, but was unsuccessful spoon them all it ukrainian troops have pleaded for additional heavy weaponry to turn the tide in the east. oh, lumber driven the city on the move of la you, you need serious equipment and we need more tanks. right now we're getting equipment for infantry soldier or b hortner possible. as a result, we have to fight a guerrilla war thought of the goose. the sub reporters out of school we move oberon zelinski 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 dom bus was as good warren as from des, rebecca, where it is who is in care of the rebecca as mentioned in the report, ukraine's president traveled to the southern city of mich alive. what did he have to say about that trip? well, we'd news of this trip, as with all of his trips outside of cave, started dropping during the middle of the day. actually there were highly secretive these, these trips. as you can imagine, security is incredibly tight. we started learning that he had visited, visited, make alive. we're just starting to learn now at the moment that he's also visited odessa. we do believe that it was today. obviously these things do tend to drop on the same day, but of course he didn't give any information as to when these trips are happening. these are, of course, a very important trips to try and boost morale amongst the brave boys and girls as

he calls them at not just with them though, also with the whole country to show that he really does stand behind the, the fighters that are at the front lines. a and really standing at solidarity installed in solidarity with them. this isn't his 1st trip out out of care. it was quite surprising when he did make the 1st trips one to separation and a hockey, which really was at the front line at the time. and, and even more surprisingly, a couple of weeks ago he visited lucy chance, which is now at the epi center of the fighting in lieu, hans, so it's really, these trips are very bright and not taken lightly. is huge. security involved, as you can imagine. and of course, they kept really tightly on the raps, but incredibly important. he goes in, he goes out, but, but even though they're short trips, these are incredibly important. and everyone in ukraine really appreciate them. and meanwhile, the fighting in ukraine's east continues. just bring us up to speed on the situation that they will as i just mentioned, lucy, chance that city. it's

a twin city of several dynette switch that has been at the epicenter of the fighting for some weeks now. and it's sort of slowly moving towards further towards the sea chang chance that city has been on the, in pretty much constant indiscriminate shelling for some days on friday in particular. there was a high def told or the we're not quite sure exactly how many people that is continues on a dire situation for civilians in that area in several minutes that says to city i'm talking about on, on the other side of the river. we know that russia pretty much controls most of the city. there is some 3 to sit straight fighting, still going on. and we know that there are more than $500.00 civilians holding out in that adult chemical plant, including $38.00 children under really constant shillings are really dire situation . they're running out of food and water medicines that kind of thing. evacuations, pretty much entirely impossible over it's out of the city has been cut off. so without some kind of cease file humanitarian corridor, it looks like no one will be able to escape out of that city. and we're also

getting reports that ukraine plans to resume peace talks with russia moreno. yeah, one of the chief negotiate is on the ukranian side, said that today said that a they would be looking to resume talks by the end of august out. i've also heard of the mare of key if could go say that, that they wouldn't be willing to go into peace talks until there's no russians on the soil any more on the territory. so, you know, all, this is a very long way away. rahile us out remains to be seen whether or not these talks would actually be resumed, but i suppose the ukrainian side feeling bolstered after having the recent a. you latest visit? rebecca read his reporting from give. thank you, rebecca. in other news, 2 people have been killed in an attack on a seek temple in afghanistan. capital kabul taliban spokesman said attackers trying to drive a car with explosives into the temple area,

but it detonated before reaching its target. is not yet clear who was behind the assault rescue teams or bringing people to safety after floods in india's northern state of us. on the sate disaster management agency says at least 9 people have been killed and millions of homes have been destroyed. heavier rains caused a rivet to burst its banks and flood the surrounding regions. palestinians held a memorial mass for al jazeera john, this assuring a broccoli at the jerusalem church. she was killed in may during an israeli military operation in the west bank town of jeanine. her death has fought international outrage. the palestinian authority accuses israel of deliberately killing the journalist. israel has denied this the french voters had to the polls on sunday, and the 2nd and final round of parliamentary elections holds the jest president

emanuel now crohn. his allies will emerge as the biggest party in the new national assembly. but possibly short of a majority. after a challenge in the 1st round from a brand new left wing alliance, which scored just as well as microns and sambal coalition, and new face and a new political force. grabbing the headlines in france. i mean that's on yucca is one of a number of flashbanc candidates who's made it to the 2nd round of parliamentary elections year. the parisian lawyer is part of a new leftist alliance called snoop, which has shaken up the political landscape. but if 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. g'night, the long divided left in france, and to take on the business friendly policies of president in manuel macro. when he

was re elected in the presidential pool, just 2 months ago, ma 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 more, not because of my ideas. this is, this is a book. but me to propose of the far right symbols beds in these parliamentary elections. macross main adversary is not the fair 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 replied, lego shall as 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 ironical consequent clinic 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 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 neighborhoods. people who are worried about their retirement age. i serve as a movie, they were thing whether the pressure comes from the left or right in manuel macro

will have to be prepared to make more compromises to push through his policies in the coming parliamentary term. now it was 80 years ago today, sir paul mccartney is celebrating a milestone birthday, the former beatle showing no signs of slowing down his just finish that all of the u. s. and it's due to play next weekend at the glastonbury festival in the u. k. after the break up of the beatles in 970, he went on to 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 atheist. why? well, i'm joined in the studio now by d. w reporter mark esvito, who over the decades has written about mccartney interviewed him and seen him perform. now mark, it's not very often we set aside a few minutes of air time to talk about somebody's 80th birthday. no, it's true, but this is an exceptional figure, sir paul mccartney. i mean,

the sixty's began with the scream of beatle mania and the yells of she loves you. yeah. yeah, yeah. and they ended with the last cord stuck dying on the long and winding road played by paul mccartney at the end of their last album. the contribution that the beatles made to the culture of the 20th century in that decade is long lasting. the songs he wrote with john lennon many, everybody can probably sing one of them at least and you go anywhere to any corner of the world. and these 4 wonderful musicians with paul mccartney is one of the key song writers has spread that wonderful world. wonderful music around the world. and all of this comes from a man who couldn't even read music. that's right. he could neither. he can neither read nor write music. and it's something that when i interviewed him, we had quite a long, wide ranging discussion about the process that he and john lennon had in the studio with george martin. that producer, he said they decided quite early on. he, he and john that they wouldn't learn how to write music. they'd be like pharaohs,

he said, and that get scribes to write all of that down. but despite that, he's experimented with a very wide range of music, from techno and dance music through to classical music where he employed some of those scribes. i mentioned earlier to write down the notes for his orchestral work . that was some success. thank you. mark. are you watching d w. news live from berlin? will leave you with one of paul mccartney, his most famous songs. and really mohammed and for watching theseus. ah, lou with v and in my daughter's standing me speak with

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