[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah, this is dw use live from berlin, ukraine's president says his country faces an historic week. below to mister lensky warned that russia will likely intensify its attacks against his country. this comes as

a european union repairs to announce its decision on ukraine's applications for members. french voters delivered a stinging blow to president emmanuel mack call just weeks after he was re elected as president. he loses his majority in the national assembly as leftist and far right party search. placing his reform agenda in doubt and columbia elect a new president in historic vote. former gorilla gustavo pedro promise is to shake things up with an economic and social reform. at an african icon returns, belgium prepares to hand over the remains of patrice the number to congo more than 6 decades after his assassination delta a blow to the anti colonization. ah,

i'm nick spicer. welcome to the program. volota may zalinski says ukraine has begun what he calls an historic week with fighting raging on, and the don't boss ukrainian president has predicted that russia will likely intensify its attacks in the coming days. his warning comes as kiva waits at landmark decision from european union leaders on it's bid for candidate status. let's listen in on what zalinski had to say quarterly. in the short of this week, we should expect greater hostile activity from russia and the earned against ukraine. but also against other european countries. li, each. we are preparing. we are ready. let's go to d. w correspondent, rebecca readers who's standing by force and keith. rebecca ukraine's president vladimir zalinski. it said on a sunday that he expects russia to intensify attacks. what, what does he mean by that? do you think? well,

i think in ukraine he's talking about an intensification on the battlefield. something we have seen in the last couple of days that he may also be referring to other random attacks on cities. not on the front lines. perhaps keith. oh, you know him perhaps when there was a similar attack when a antonio harris, the head of the un visited some weeks ago. now, there was a, a, one off strike here in cave, and everyone sort of took that to be a bit of a warning strike from russia when the 3 leaders of germany, france and italy came last week, many were expecting something similar here in the capital that didn't come to fruition. so there's this perhaps something that president zelinski is also referring to being possible this week in particular. we know it's an important week when it comes to this e u candidate status vote happening in the european council. but he was also, of course, referring to a tax on europe. now, when it comes to that, you no doubt be referring to a tightening of the gas supplies, which we've also seen,

or russia doing in recent days or weeks or on european countries making the price of gas. saul, it's really one of the only weapons he has against the west at the moment, but one that he's very prepared, as we say to use you're talking about the attacks that didn't occur. but one thing that russia is doing is making claims about ukrainian army suffering heavy losses in considerable detail. what more do you know about that? yet russia has come out and said that it had a couple of successful attacks. one on a bunch of army generals, it said that they were meeting for a meeting and that they were successfully attacked by russian soldiers and 50 casualties believed or reported by russia. they also said that they had in arms deposed and taking out quite a few of the international weapons that have been said. but actually that hasn't been independently verified. and the ukraine certainly hasn't come out acknowledging that. so we really don't know. that's true. it seems unlikely though,

that 50 generals would be collected together at once and all that the, all the arms would be stored in one area. they stuff tends to get split up for situations just like this so that it's not all able to be taken out in one strike. okay, rebecca ritter's reporting for us from keith. thanks very much. talk to creating officials say they need a massive increase of military hardware if they are to drive russian forces out of their country. right now. western allies have supplied ukraine with just over 100 howitzers. just 110th of what you, prince, as it actually needs. and no rocket launchers have been arrived even though ukraine has asked for 300 of them. did others? nick connelly reports from the front lines in the southern nikolai of region, where ukrainian forces have been struggling to keep russian troops at bay. russia may be making gains in the don't best, but it's a different story here. 600 kilometers to the southwest and mich alive ukraine is

pushing russian forces out of villages like these. closing in on the russian occupied city of hudson. b, ukrainian commanders where their advance can run out of steam be stopped or even reversed. after more than a 100 days of relentless fighting, the supposed weapons and ammunition are running dangerously low. we meet victor and his crew some way behind the front lines and will broke out. they were all working abroad. all of them decided to give up their lives and safety in poland and germany to return home to fight. victor found the little had changed since his time to recruit and the soviet army decades earlier. there are 13 can 1st the so this how it is just old. it's way past his prime little do you we be making the most of it. but what can you expect from a weapon built almost 50 years ago? we have much when i got one with the mozilla since his 3rd bottle duplicate of

replacing it with something new and more powerful is of the gods for now. but even carrying on fighting as they have been in recent months be a challenge. ukraine supplies of soviet ammunition are almost exhausted. western produce shells on compatible with russian missile strikes. the constant threat, producing weapons inside the country is near impossible. even ukraine playing for time while it waits. both western artillery and the shells to go with it. no answer warranted for what we have. cues of people wanting to sign up to fight roughly. you know, we have more than the army can take on if there was a pro, but we just don't have enough weapons to equip every one who wants to fight richard a from a bubble. it does have judge near me personally when come up with it was liberal army, ukraine is in europe's very own interest. victor tells us, he just can't understand why this seems to be so little urgency with the little ones that are what does a favourable west fighting for. all of you repeat for is robert baldwin. putin

won't be satisfied with taking ukraine with them if he wins here, he'll carry on an attack. are those a thing where you can be there lies a sort of with the growth, with you? grain is already paying a high price for being out guns with daily casualties running at several $100.00 a day. possibly, victor tells us of a call he had to make recently informing the parents of the youngest member of their unit. then 19 year old son had been killed to suites after he got to the front lines. he doesn't want to make many more clues like that and he's convinced will western weapons, leon, so let's zoom out a bit now and talk to military adolescent former british army officer mike martin. he's a visiting research fellow in the department of war studies at kings college london . mike, thanks for joining us. there's a gap between what western countries are promising as we've been saying and what's being delivered, why,

what some of those gaps are for good reason. so if you're delivering artillery, that is a result, you need to train the crews and that takes time even if you can press the training costs down. but there's actually differences between different countries. so quite a lot of the countries have delivered what they probably say. for instance, the u. k. has as promised about a 1000000000 euros delivered about the euro's poland summit at 1500000000. germany has promised no point 5000000000 and only delivered nor point 2000000000. and i think that rather than there is of course, the training gap. but there is probably 2 things in germany. one is the coming historical inertia, social and famous speech for that takes time to feed into the system. secondly, i think that the feeling of bureaucracy taking over some of those weapons deliveries. and i just like to ask you

a question about the claims russia made over the weekend that it killed more than 50 ukrainian generals and officers on an, in an attack on a military meeting and took out as well. 10 american howitzers just seemed plausible to you. no. that's completely invisible. you the the highest value targets on the battlefield. senior commanders, because i take 20 or 25 years for them to gain the experience to be able to run an entire battlefield. they would never, ever be located in the same location together, left that location with the capital city of their own country. and they would never come together on you. just a question if i may, about the policies at western countries are having these of the ukraine. there seems to be a bit of a division about how to, how to deal with russia, and perhaps how ukraine should come to terms with russia. do you think that's

a problem in this conflict? i think it is, and this is feeding into the weapons deliveries in a sense, it has been the nature of a line in the line 3040 country within the alliance. we have very views on what the strategic goal should be to the way. so one end we have the goal should be the defeat of russia. within new russia poses must leave you crime. next we have, we should be using western weapons and ukrainian treats in order to lead russia to really make them pay and degrade. and then the other end of the spectrum we have what we don't want to do is to have ukraine lose. and you can see with 3 different strategic outcomes, different countries or different positions and within different governments. i think you find that some, even advocating harsh measures in some cases,

weak measures. and it really takes a long time to get everyone on the same page. although i have to say we'd have been fighting this war now for 3 months. and for the west, not to have a united strategic goal is pretty cool. all right, military analyst, mike martin, thanks so much for that insight. thank you. in france, voters have delivered president emanuel mac or a major setback. his coalition has lost his governing majority in parliamentary elections, result show mac whole block will still emerge with the biggest number of seats in the new national assembly. but without the 299 seats needed for majority, the french leader may have trouble and acting his reform agenda. oh, emanuel mac, ron faces an uncertain and the 2nd presidential term. his centrist alliance on psalms, has lost its parliamentary majority. as voters turned away from mainstream parties list you as your unit,

the situation is unprecedented from luna's through the national assembly has never seen a configuration of listen height in the 5th republic said situ. assume this situation constitutes a risk for our country and view of the challenges that we have to face and level of both on the national and international levels. good is should until next year now. but we have to respect this vote and consider its consequences to speak the the opportunity consequence ensemble will retain the most seats in the national assembly. a new alliance of the far left, the socialists and the grains is set to become the main opposition. the new coalition is expected to make it harder for macaroni to implement his domestic agenda, which includes tax cuts and raising the retirement age. ah, that do you, but you get all the total difficulties of the president's party. there is no

majority. we have achieved the political objective that we had set for ourselves in less than a month to bring down the man who, with such arrogance, had twisted the arm of the whole country who had been elected without knowing what 4 of your dog are to bog b blood samples are, think what they are. ah, the fall rides national rally party also surged in the polls and is projected to increase it. sates 10 fold. it's biggest ever results. lead a marine le pen said her party had achieved its goal of making micron a minority. president le pen lost out to mac ron in last month's presidential election. but sundays results shows strong support across france who parties at the political extremes and dw lisa loses in paris. i asked her what the loss of the absolute majority in parliament means for person back home. it is

a crushing defeat for a president. in my call here in france. obviously, polls were predicting he might lose his majority in parliament, but not add at that reserves with it. it's less seats than expected, then predicted in any of the polls here in france. and what he means is basically that in my, my call will have to compose with other political forces. now that is something that, at the, that french politicians are not really used to as opposed to politicians in germany . and he will have to gather support from, you know, left wing, all right, being politicians. and is really up in the air. if in my, my call will be able to push through all of his reform agenda, especially in a pension reform he's planning to push up the pension age from 62 to 64 or 65. that might be a really difficult to push through. in this current cur parliament and does this result in legislative elections bring about any change? of course,

for france as regards foreign affairs foreign please. policy is actually the domain of the president. so he can do, you know, he can carry out foreign policy on his own. and also when it comes to, you know, international interventions, the government can send soldiers to fight somewhere else without having getting the go ahead from the palm and only 4 months later, 4 months later, they need to check in with parliament. however, it'll be a lot more complicated for more call on a domestic level to govern. and that might make it more complicated for him to be actually active on the international level because he need to. he needs to take care of what's happening at home here. and that will certainly involve a certain amount of chaos. yeah, it sounds like it's going to take up a lot of his time. does he need to stay in this situation for the next 5 years as

it is he bound to this kind of an uncomfortable cohabitation? he could in theory, dissolve the parliament to put this on the, the, the national assembly. now constitutional experts are not really don't really agree if he can do that right away or in a year's time. however, that also brings with the risk that the result might actually even be worse than today's election last night election results. the other option would be to try to form a stable alliance with one of the other parties and parliament such as the sent to right party, the people, the car. however, that party has already said that they want to stay in the position. so in any case, it will be a rocky road for him on my car in the 5 years to come. all right, did abuse lisa louis from paris. thanks for insight. there's a round up of the other stories making news at this hour. authorities in ethiopia,

se gunmen have killed more than 100 people in the or a mere region. the massacre which largely targeted, mostly ethnic and hora, happened to west of the capital, addis ababa officials blamed the rebel or amal liberation army. but the group itself has denied any involvement. monsoon floods in bangladesh have triggered land slides and light lighting strikes, killing at least 25 people. millions have been left stranded and homeless as severe rains pound, the countries north east. the army has been called in to carry out evacuations and ferry water, and food to the need. crews and spain are battling wild fires as an early season. heat wave maintains its grip on parts of western europe. residence in the countries north were evacuated as dry conditions and gusting winds fanned the flames. temperatures in spain, soared above 40 degrees celsius last week. left his presidential candidate. gustavo petro has one columbia's presidential election by

a narrow margin. the former gorilla and current senator edged out his opponent, the former mayor and millionaire rodolfo hernandez. petras, when marks a drastic change in presidential politics in the country. ah, victory. historic moment for columbia, as it votes in its 1st ever left its lida former rebel, gustavo petro has vowed to launch profound social and economic change. only story annoy. we are writing history at this moment. ocoee, a new history for columbia, or you for latin america, unless dos and for the world, jonas, they thought us yet a new history because undoubtedly what has happened to day with those 11000000 voters as a chain esl come. what is coming is a real change, a key of fundamental chairs. oh, come be over that. oh,

gambiola al petro defeated another maverick candidates, full man, man and millionaire rodolfo hernandez. hernandez had gone a lot of support for his candidacy on tick tock, promising to reduce wasteful government spending, and to go off to corrupt officials. his concession speech implored petrow to do the same. let's say, well, the daughter who's 5 hopes that gustavo petro will know how to leave the country, that he will be loyal to his words, against corruption, and that he will not disappoint those who trusted in petro has a tough task out of him. he faces a divided congress likely to complicate his implementation of the fiscal and social reforms. his supporters are counting on belgium is returning the remains of the icon of congos, anti colonial movement to his family. a single tooth is all that is believed to

remain at patrice. the lumber after his assassination in 1961, an official ceremony to hand back, the tooth is being held in brussels, or speak to a correspondent there after this reporter who patrice lumber was and how he died. in this art studio in brussels, stands one of the greatest figures of the african independence movement this larger than life size. statue of patrice lamar is a tribute to him from the congolese community in belgium. lamar played a significant role in the transformation of the congo from a belgian colony, into an independent republic at with the moon, bafford foul to freedom of his country. and he was killed for that. and the country never really recovered from that love until to day. patrice, remember, became the congress 1st prime minister after it gained independence in 1960, but he was only in office for a few months before he fell out what the country's former colonial ruler,

which led to him being ousted in a qu, imprisoned, tortured and later executed ludo de victor is a belgian author who wrote a book about lou members murder the book reveals the belgian government's complicity and details held. remember, and 2 of his associates were executed in a forest and how their bodies were disposed. it was done during the night. so there was a lot of villagers, one we're very suspicious and so very quickly yom, or belgium and cover, he's decided to dig up the brothers and to us, the body completely destroyed. and so they got them into pieces and took the, sold them into um a barrel of 4. 0 oh. so for us, it's a belgian officer who was involved later confirmed the books account, including the part about him removing, remembers tooth and keeping it as a trophy. after the release of the book in 91,

a parliamentary commission of inquiry concluded that belgium had, quote, moral responsibility. fuller, members, killing activism has continued here to force the country to fully recognize and atone for its brutal colonial past that led to the death of millions. in the d, r. c. there's been some progress. after years of activism and debates, the brussels municipality opened this square named after and in honor of patrice lomax. authorities said that the symbolic gesture was intended to reflect belgium's colonial past. activists now used the space to tell people about countries remembers life and legacy. the main thing that he was assassinated for was to erase in politics and to erase his memory. so having the square is a, a way of for reviving his arm. his memory, patrice limone,

was truth is all that was left of him after he was killed. belgium, returning it to his family, is been welcomed as a 1st step. we hope it to be the beginning of the recognition that colon alias was something wrong was a crime against humanity. and that we can start to install a kind of politic of reparation. it's taken decades for the truth about the circumstances of patrice, remembers murder, to emerge congolese people at home and abroad. hope it will take less time for their nation and their hero to get justice. and on occasion, their petty cerebral square where the ceremony is taking place is to help you correspond christine mooney. who filed that report? christine, tell us about what's happening the ceremony today. sonnet patrice remembers tooth has been in the belgian prosecutor's office here in brussels since 2016 when it was

taken from the daughter of the officer who had held it as a trophy in 2020 at the height of the black lives matter. protest said the king finally responded to a letter by but resume on the store to where she was asking, or had been asking for the return of her father's remains and of course of bureaucracy. the pandemic led to several delays and the day has finally come, ah, the family is going to be received by a delegation offer. a brussel at belgian officials are here headed by the prime minister. the federal prosecutor himself is going to hand over the tooth. ah, that was a, it's been placed and especially made casket i had was brought to the venue i in a hearse. and how significant is this ceremony are 2 to belgium. is it food countries moment of reckoning with us colonial pastor thing. so, nick, the, the belgian prime minister said that this was a turning point out for, for,

for he, it, for this country's relations with its former, a colony, the congo. but just recently, the belgian royals were in the congo, and the king whilst they expressed are what he called was his deepest regrets for, for the colonial air, we're talking about a time were about 10000000 congress people are said to have died of starvation. they were, they were killed of disease in the 1st 23 years of belgium's, a rule in the congo. he expressed his deep regrets, but he didn't apologize as so a lot of people are questioning on that. that the sincerity are all of all of this and that we also have to point out at nick that a beyond add, this is returning our of these remains the congo, or is, is, is in deep distress. after the murder and murder offer patrice, remember at a dictatorship that lasted over 30 years, followed are where the continued country continue to be pillaged, and people in the congress see that as a result of belgium's involvement, those who were involved in the murder patrice, remember at whenever prosecuted ad themselves, so there's a lot of skepticism,

but some do hope that this is the start or of something wider. well, thank you for being with us on this historic day did any correspond, christine model? before we go, here's a quick look at our top stories. as our president, florida, miss lensky says, ukraine has begun on historic week, the more russia would likely step up its attacks on his country. you create also a way to key decision from the european union on its bid for candidate status. this is dee of your news live from berlin. spicer,

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