ah ah ah, this is, these are the news live from berlin. the battle for ukraine don bass drags on the region is left in ruins, as russian forces count cities and kill civilians and ukraine struggles to hold off the all stores.

last west of europe is sweltering in the summer heat. sputter, spain is bearing the brunt of the heat, wave firefighters of buffing to contain the flames. stand by wind, strout, and global and musical legend marks a milestone full mccartney turns ac we'll discuss with ah, i'm really mohammed welcome to the program. fierce fighting continues in ukraine's eastern industrial heartland. the don bast 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 tracked in the chemical plug that

ukraine has also reported. strikes on several cities beyond the don bass and present to me as the lensky 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 cease for weeks. the russians have pounded the region with air raids, artillery and rockets of 30 for 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 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. to whom them all it could ukrainian troops have pleaded for additional heavy weaponry to turn the tide in the east 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 be what little durable. as a result, we have to fight a guerrilla war, thought of the goose, the sub reporters on school. we move about wrong. 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 remained securing heavy weapons needed to defend the don bus. ergo, he spoke to d. w. rebecca written about president lindsey's trip to mc alive. 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. there's 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 severed annette, which 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 under, 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 does continues on a dire situation for civilians in that area in several minutes that says the city that 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 c t. and we're also getting reports that ukraine plans to resume peace talks with russia. what would you know? yeah, one of their chief negotiate is on the ukrainian 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 ukrainian side feeling bolstered after having the recent, a huge lady's visit. rebecca read his reporting from give, thank you, rebecca. and in other news, 2 people have been killed in an attack on a seek temple in afghanistan's capital cobble. taliban spokesman said attack is

trying to drive a car with explosives into the temple area, but a detonated before reaching its target is wanted clear who was behind the assault. palestinians have held a memorial mass for al jazeera journalist, sharina of a claim that a jerusalem church she was killed in may during and israeli military operation in the west bank town of gin, in the deaths hawked international outrage. the palestinian authority accuses israel of deliberately killing the journalist. israel has denied this. oh, lawyers will wikileaks found julian, a son say they will appeal a decision by britain approving his expedition to the united states. he's wanted there on 18 criminal charges. washington says assange endangered lies by releasing classified information rescue teams or bringing people to safety after floods in india's northern state of a some the state does. austin disaster management agency says at least 9 people

have been killed and millions of homes have been destroyed. heavier rains caused a river to burst its banks and flood the surrounding region. the fire fighters in spain are struggling to bring raging wildfires under control in several parts of the country. up to 20000 hector's have already been burned. regions close to the border with portugal in the center and the north east are the worst hit. and numerous villages have been evacuated. an intense heat wave and a lack of rain has fueled for wildfires and exports. a warning that the extreme heat is being caused by climate change. let us get more of this from the debris is nicole race in madrid, so the worst hit all the regions close to the border with portugal, the coal. what's the latest you're hearing? all the situation in that region in the north west of spain is really dia,

we're looking at this here at the local level. $20000.00 hector's at the moment, are burning and are probably going to be gone in the future. and it's going to be more because the strong winds and also the heat. of course, i'm making it very difficult to get hold of these plans to put out that fire 5 for further villages have been evacuated at this afternoon. their emergency service is from portugal going there now to help tackle the fire, the military, the spanish military has also its forces there. it has increased the task force really looking at 200 to 300 people trying their best. but it's, it's very, a difficult situation on the ground and looking at the images. i mean, we're looking at the natural reserve and we're watching ecological disaster. they are just by the sheer size of it because a 3rd of this natural reserve is effected. this is not only home to people, it's also a stronghold for by diversity in particular, for the wolf, it's one of the la strongholds in the west of europe, so we don't know what will happen to these creatures living in this patch as well.

but i've visited this area just a few months ago and it's, it's really heartbreaking to watch this and actually engineers on the ground. also saying that they haven't seen such a severe situation in 30 to 40 years. yeah, i mean, how unusual is it to see such a hit way this early into the summer in europe? usually in june, you have temperatures that are 7 to 12 degrees a lower than now. now we're looking at of $44.00 to $45.00, depending on the region where you are. this is unusual. obviously we are in time of climate change in climate crises. so heat waves have gotten more usual in these past years, but not in june. and this is also the perfect feeding ground of course. full wildfires this a dry and hot atmosphere. actually the one in sierra local labor is said to have been caused by dry thunderstorms, meaning that there's no rain coming down, but actually the sun, the and the lightning. and well,

then you have to ask yourself, of course, what measures, what preventions you can take when you know that there's a heat wave coming and actually the left is unit, you know, union in this region of the sierra that claim it is now claiming that the regional government has known about the weight, but they haven't taken sufficient action just to prepare for itself and that they don't operate on protocols that happen updated in the last years. it's protocols from the late ninety's and that this should be something to be fixed because actually maybe that could have been less of a surface being burned right now. and as i just mentioned, it's at least 20000 hector's in that particular patch that i've gone. ok, clarice in madrid for us. thank you so much. now it was 80 years ago today, sir paul mccartney and celebrating a milestone birthday. the form of the song showing no signs of slowing down is just

finished. a tour of the u. s. and the sea to play next weekend at the glastonbury festival in the u. k. of the breakup of the beatles in 1970. 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 80. well, i will. i'm joined in the studio now by d. w reporter mark esvito, who over the decade has written about mccartney, interviewed him and seen him perform. now mark, it's not very often we set aside a few minutes of our time to talk about somebody's 80th. birthday is true, but this is an exceptional figure. suppose 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 cords dying on the long and winding road played by paul mccartney at the end of the 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 to 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 construct from a man who couldn't even read music. that's right. he could neither read, 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 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 no 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 of 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, ceasing, ah, when a fine with mary comes to me, speaking words with me. and in my daughter's standing me. it's not a question of whether the next crisis will come but only when and how the media will deal with it. how can we.