ah, ah ah, this is dw news line from berlin, french voters send a warning to president manuel mccall. just months after he was re elected as president, projections after today's parliamentary elections show him on course to lose his absolute majority in the national assembly. at the latest from paris, nato's leaders, a russians war on ukraine could go on for years. as president, folding or zalinski visits, troops on the countries from the country south, rather ukrainian president towards mid july of were soldiers are fighting to prevent a russian advance and columbia elect a new president. in a historic vote,

a former gorilla and political wildcard is now set to run the pull the rise nation, and he's promised to shake up the country. ah, i'm aaron tilton. welcome to the program. in friends, president manuel mc haul's alliance has lost its absolute majority in parliamentary elections. that's according to early estimates. as counting continues across the country, recalls allies will likely emerge as the biggest party in the new national assembly . but without an absolute majority of 289 seats, the french president is expected to face challenges in pushing his reform agenda forward is main rivals. a new left wing alliance, led by john luke bell and sean fell short of 200 seats. according to early estimates, no earlier date of you spoke to lisa lewis and paris,

she explained what the loss of an absolute majority in the parliament now means from a call. while i'm on our call, we'll have to change his policies. really, it is quite certain that certain of a sudden reforms that he's planning, such as, for example, pushing up the retirement age from 62 to 6465 will be very difficult to get through parliament. he will have to compose with other forces on the left and on the right . and if he wants to form a stable alliance with other parties in parliament, that could even mean that he will half to you would have to proceed to a re shuffle of his government, at least a parcel reshuffle to build another stable group in parliament. what is for sure they is that the governing road will be rep, very rocky, for him on my coin to coming 5. yes. that was the w's lisa lewis reporting from

paris, ukraine's present vulgar. zalinski has visited troops on the southern front line. while his army battles are rushing on slot and the eastern to mass region, ukrainian forces are also fighting off attempts by russia to take more territory. here the cities of michael wyatt in odessa, with little change to the front line positions, the head of nato gen stoughton barrack says the war could go on for years. it's russian cruise missiles like these that are pounding targets in ukraine. moscow claims to be carrying out precision guided attacks on ukrainian military infrastructure and command positions. but the soaring civilian death toll and seemingly indiscriminate damaged to residential homes and cities refutes those claims. on a visit to the southern front, ukraine's president saw the destruction for himself. but that when you get, when you go by nations, but a lot of houses were destroyed severely,

logistics were disrupted, and many social issues have developed. i've instructed that more systematic help we offer to people who have lost families and everything that has been destroyed will be restored there, not enough missiles and russia to weaken our people's will to live. what i now see eastern ukraine is also being pummeled by russian artillery. the city of lucy, sions has endured fierce shelling and now soldiers are digging in to defend the city street by street for civilians that survived the shelling. it's high time to leave. we can hear you artillery this cup of clothes and around some people understandably get nervous. they're worried about the dried out of here. so it's a constant and it's constantly trying to reassure people. oh, you know, anyway, we take them as can be better than here. aside we're leaving everything behind everything that we've had here for 70 years and we don't know where we'll go. this

. i'm ukrainian troops in the z chance corner just on the defensive there now firing at russian positions and 7 have done yet so tenaciously refusing to give up the fight. ah, earlier we spoke to d. w. 's, a manual shaws and key of about claims from the russian military that his army is gaining ground, while ukrainian forces are suffering heavy losses. well, of course, this would be a war of words and of course the russian side of the ukrainian side would do, would, you know, emphasized a lot their gains wanted on the losses of the russian army have, has done so has made some progress. so my no progress, i would say in areas around 7 or 20 ask around their hockey, but so deed, ukraine on forces especially in the south of the country need,

has so near as supple reach out. or we've seen also reports in a rush and media of the major drug which would have killed a lot of high ranking ukrainian officers. these hasn't been corroborated independently by depressed, by international press or by the ukrainian aside. but of course, that there are heavy losses on both sides. both you're quite inside and the russian side, russia has really and majorly increase. it's offensive, especially in the new house region. some reports, some intelligence reports, as say, dots or even russia has a place. all of these reserves are there in no hands in order to scale up this offensive in the coming days left his presidential candidate, gustavo petro, wins columbia election by a narrow margin. the former gorilla and current senator will be columbia's 1st left his leader. he's edged out, his former opponent or his opponent rather former mayor,

a millionaire rodolfo hernandez. heteros when marks a drastic change in presidential politics for a country that has long marginalized left for its perceived association with decades of insurgency. let's cross over now to bogota, and speak to d. w 's. johan ramirez. so gustavo petro has come out on top in the vote. what helps him get the leg up on hernandez? he had a very successful electric company, very successful communication company, because actually he presented himself asset renovation as a change as a, a break. we continue to by the truth is that gustavo better has been doing politics in columbia for the last 30 years. he wasn't the congress 1st thing he was diplomatic, thank you was may your or bullet that one of the main jobs in politics in columbia? now he's again in congress. now. he becomes a president, but he has very been very successfully presenting himself as

a renovation and brought it up on daily hiking was also a former agreed. yes. so he was very also successful in re right in his bust. his all plant relo fernandez is a very rich man, and it was easy before better to, to attack him off being part of their political and economic ally of the country. so how likely is petros election likely to change columbia's political landscape? is a major change. let's remembered that his victory represents the 1st time that the left to wink takes power in the country. columbia has been enrolled for debt, gets for mainly to political parties, and this is a major change that has promised us left to wink of policies. saw shell of policies and there are lots of expectations on is that government that will start on august 7th, the saw in a little bit more than a month or i sort of gets colby's going through a shift to the left. but at the same time, both candidates ran on platforms rejecting the political establishment. so why are

colombian so dissatisfied with their government? because as i say that columbia was a rule for mainly to political parties for decades. and during decades they didn't . they weren't able to tackle the main south country columbia, whence ah, into our civil war for more than 50 years. columbia was have been fighting against drug trafficking, i mean the golden age of drug trafficking and via the government. so in this country, when an able to tackle this problem e security and just to give you one recent example last year amy, the huge crisis provoked by the pandemic. amy the huge economic crisis. the government of now outgoing president, even duke proposed a tax reform, a tax reform to increase taxes for the middle class. it provoked the a huge political ah crisis and thousands of people took to the streets to protest

on that mom into wasa. turning point for gustavo, better to, to come out as a new, as a, as a possibility. and also relo fernandez us on the san outside. let's remember that in this presidential race, all political tradition up of the political parties were out of the of the race. and that's why because people weren't dissatisfied with the elite, the political elite of the country. all right, i was d. w. you're hung ramirez bringing us the leaders from bogota. thank you very much . and here's a round up now of other stories making headlines around the world. hundreds of people have protested in tunisia capital against a referendum on constitutional changes called by president case i had critic saves i had, has been extending his power grab after dissolving parliament in march and sacking dozens of judges. earlier this month. the greek coast guard has rescued 108 migrants from a sailboat, the g and see the seal. what was found?

router las and leaking, the migrants told authorities that 4 people were still missing. residents living in villages in the south, west of germany's capital berlin have been told to evacuate their homes. a forest fire has been burning there since friday, caused by an intense heat wave. and strong winds. military helicopter was called in to support the fire fighters. the culture and media ministers of the group of 7 largest economies in the world. i've met in the german city of bon. it's the 1st time that g 7, media ministers have come together in a formal meeting. the ukranian minister of culture took part in the meeting, remotely. discussions addressed the impact of russia's war on, on the work of journalists and issues such as media, freedom and the fight against us information. freedom of the press, media diversity and the safety of journalists. just a few of the topics on the agenda at the 1st meeting of the d. 7 media ministers.

the war against ukraine in its impact on journalism are also a focus of the discussions. we see that a situation of media is very varying. and especially now when now we see a journalists dying under russian bombs in ukraine or so we see how intensively we are targeted by russian propaganda in all the member states. ah, it's extremely important that we talk to gather vis, allergy, southern partners, and that we find the ways forward. how to protect the media, better protecting the media and access to it is one of germany's priorities as host of the meeting. is kate dolman, i not titan. i know. vale in times like these with democracy under major attack from authoritarians or autocratic regimes. very few, we need to be aware of how important of free, diverse and independent media landscape is still felt immediate lunch of tut. there at the presentation of the minister statement,

the stress that media policy must be global fully together as a global community, we must fight the rise of dis information, an arm of armful content online. and i always said that online hate is real, hate in online hate, doesn't stayed on line. it goes to the street with huge consequence is horrible. events that we witnessed are in the last years. so we have to tackle that. we need decisive action from governments to civil society in take giants around the world. the discussion on the battle against the spread of this information will continue on monday. the g 7 media, minnesota, also schedule to visit d, w. c global media forum. and we turn now to formula one competition, or red bull driver max for stopping has claimed victory in a thrilling canadian graham pre after holding off a late challenge. ah,

max 1st step in started and pulled a position and made sure it would stay that way. attains last 15 laps for the red bill. driver nearly threw this race wide open with berries. carlo st. launching a lay to tap. but for staff and managed to keep this found yard at being put on a, i'm not sure you could air us working on a you, but i was amazing. withstood the old prussia, brilliant, brilliant drive. the dutchman has and i 15 of the last 6 races was a really exciting idea. and i mean, i was giving it everything i had, of course, call us of doing the same, you know, following is trickier on here. but i could see was pushing, charging, pushing. but of course that you on your, on the dearest has been easier to job. so yeah, the last you know, or a little for staff man has tightened his grip at the very top bleeding the drivers standings with 46 points. and you've been watching the w news live from berlin

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