[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah, this is dw used live from berlin, ukraine's president says his country faces an historic week below 2 meters, lensky warrens that russia will likely intensify its attacks against his country. this comes as a european union prepares to announce this decision on ukraine's applications for

members. french voters to deliver a stinging blow to president emanuel mack. just weeks after he was re elected as president. he loses his majority in the national assembly as left distant bar right party surge. placing his reform agenda in doubt, also coming up colombia, elect a new president in an historic boat former gorilla. gustavo petrov promises to shake things up with economic and social reforms. and african icon returns hold belgium's king prepares to hand over the remains of patrice. the moon brought to his family more than 6 decades after the congolese was assassin. ah,

i'm nick spicer. welcome to the program. a low to mid zalinski says ukraine has begun when he calls an historic week with fighting raging on in the don bass. the ukrainian president has predicted that russia will likely intensify his attacks in the coming days. his warning comes as kiva waits, a landmark decision from european union leaders on its bid for candidate status. let's listen in on to what to lensky had to say or chill in short of this week. we should expect greater hosted activity from russia and the earned against ukraine, but also against other european countries. li, each time we are preparing modeling, we are ready. but what might greater hostile activity actually look like? i put that question to d. w correspondent, rebecca rivers in chief. 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 antonio harris, the head of the un visited some weeks ago, now there was a, a, one off strike here in cave. and every wanted 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'll no doubt be referring to a tightening of the gas supplies, which we've also seen russia doing in recent days or weeks 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. 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 depacote, 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 is not all able to be taken out in one strike. okay,

rebecca ritter's reporting for us from keith. thanks very much talk ukrainian 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 re ukraine with just over a 100 houses. only 110th of what ukraine says, it actually needs, and no rocket launchers have yet arrived, even though ukraine has asked for 300 of them. t w's. nick connelly reports from the front lines in the southern nikolai of region were ukrainian forces are making some gains despite a shortage of equipment. russia may be making gains in the don best, but it's a different story here. 600 kilometers to the southwestern mich alive, you crank 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 healdsburg. we meet victor and his crew some way behind the front lines and will broke out. they were all working brute. all of them decided to give up their lives in 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 1000000000. 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 come up with a mozilla since it's through 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 aren't compatible with russian missile strikes, a 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. north fillmore to flow, what we have cues of people wanting to sign up to fight roughly. you know, we have more than the army can take on through as a pro, but we just don't have enough weapons to equip every one who wants to fight with jennifer. memorable it does have judge new to push the when come other, it was liberal army ukraine is in europe, very uninteresting to 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 in the dinner. if he wins here, he'll carry on an attack. are those even where you can be? there lies a sort of with the growth,

with grain is already paying a high price for being out gunned 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 sweeps 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 alone. so while ukrainian fighters continue to plead for more weapons, there's growing criticism of the gap between what western allies have promised and what they're delivering. i talked with a former british army officer and military analyst like martin about the reasons behind this discrepancy. what some of those gaps are for good reasons. so if you're delivering artillery that is a, you know, for example, 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 promised. so for instance, the u. k. as, as promised about a 1000000000 euros and has delivered about a 1000000000 euros. poland. similar 1500000000 germany has promised no point 5000000000 and only delivered no point to be in. and i think that rather than there is of course, the training gap, there is probably 2 things in germany. one is a sense of overcoming the historical inertia, social's latest famous speech that takes time to feed into the system. and secondly, i think there's a feeling of bureaucracy taking open to laying 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 attack on a military meeting and took out as well. 10 american howitzers just that seem plausible to you. no,

that's completely invisible. you the the highest value target on the battlefield. senior commanders, because i take 20 or 25 years to gain the experience to be able to run an entire battlefield. they would never, ever be located in the same location together. that location with the capital 50 of their own country, and they would never come together on the on just a question if i'm 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 that the nature of an alliance,

nato is in the last 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 is mostly the. next we have, we should be using western weapons and ukrainian to leave russia to really make them pay degrades. 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 within different government. i think you find that some even advocating harsh measures, in some cases, a weak measures. and it really takes a long time to get everyone on the same page. although i have to say we 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. and we turned to france now our voters have delivered presidency manual max. a major setback is coalition has lost its governing majority in parliamentary elections. results show back halls block will still emerge with the biggest number of seats and new national assembly. but without the 289 seats needed for a majority, the french leader may have trouble enacting his reform agenda. a manual mac ron faces an uncertain 2nd presidential term. his centrist alliance on psalms, has lost its parliamentary majority, as voters turned away from mainstream parties. listed you as your unit. the situation is unprecedented from doing this through. the national assembly has never seen a configuration of listen height in the 5th republic, citrus jo. this situation constitutes

a risk for our country and view of the challenges that we have to face and several of both on the national and international levels that he should until next year now . but we have to respect this vote and consider its consequences. his big d, the on to really concede, comes ensemble will retain the most states 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 seats 10 fold. it's biggest ever results. lay to marine le pen said her party had achieved its goal of making macros. a minority president le pen lost out to matt groan in last month's presidential election. but sundays results shows strong support across france, who parties at the political extremes de w's. lisa lewis is in paris. i asked her what the last of the absolute majority of parliament means for the president. it is a crushing defeat for a president in my car here in france. obviously, polls were predicting he might lose his majority in parliament,

but not at that reserve. 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 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, is 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 parliament. and does this result in legislative elections bring about any change, of course for france as regards foreign affairs. foreign police 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 the 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 from our car on a domestic level together and, and that might make it more complicated for him to be actually active on the international level because he need to, he need 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? is he bound to this kind of an uncomfortable cohabitation? he could, in theory, dissolve the parliament to put this on 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 result might actually even be worse than today's election. last night's 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 center right party. the people, the car, however, that party is already said that they want to say 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. and here's a round up of the other stores making news. at this hour, authorities in ethiopia, se gunman have killed more than a 100 people in the or a mere region. the massacre which targeted mostly ethnic i'm hora, happened west of the capital on december official blame the rebel or amal liberation army,

but the group itself has denied any involvement crews in spain are battling wildfires 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 and spain soared above 40 degrees celsius. last people in bangladesh and the northeast region of india are struggling to access drinking water and food. as monsoon rains, broader the country authority say at least 25 people were killed after the reins triggered landslides and lightning strikes. millions have been less stranded and homeless a severe down poor. so the countries northeast the army has been called in to carry out evacuations. and to ferry water and food to the meeting. and for more on this, let's go to d. w. correspond near chowdhury in delhi, europe, millions have been less stranded by the floods. what can you tell us about the

conditions people are facing? well, the conditions, as you can see in the images that you have shown is quite a should have described this reason flooding as the worst of the country has seen in 2004 the rain r unrelenting. and if you talk about the neighboring region, which in the northeast region of the country, the situation then also point back to talk about a situation is not good at all. as i said, the really haven't to list the have to last leg. they have to agree last lot. there are reports coming in from the of the people being displayed and really just being sent only and the how much there has been a lot of damage to the lifestyle, to the crop, to the property. or did i report on a national highway in and in fact, even an under construction hydro, electric power project so much by river. as you just said,

the rescue operations are going to be quite difficult and winter. why does this region face such floods? well, it definitely is an annual calamity on monsoons this story. almost a b, b a every year. and there's a mix of reasons. it's natural and i need to talk about a natural to feel the reason the network of rimless crisscrossing of actual that the reason is prone to planning because it receives excessive and was the form. if you don't mind the on line open, grow the bank encroachments, deep water station, you know somebody. now it's not like these activities, not the other parts of the country, but in this particular region, which is a platform be that we do when they carry out with the of course, increase the risk of a seeing that even though there is heavy flooding every year,

but some regions are receiving on presidential for which have taken authorities by surprise. and that is why you address your question that we're going to be quite difficult at the moment. okay, did you correspond? i've been near chandry and deli, thanks so much and left his presidential candidate. gustavo petro has one columbia's presidential election by a narrow margin. the former gorilla and sit and turn sen edged out, his opponent for mayor and millionaire rodolfo hernandez. petros, when mark's a drastic change in presidential politics in the country. ah victory. historic moment for columbia as it votes in its 1st ever left is lita, former rebel, gustavo, petro, has vowed to launch profound social and economic change when they start to annoy.

we are writing history at this moment. archy, a new history for columbia, oil for latin america, unless dos and for the world. jonas daily. dorothy, a new history because undoubtedly what has happened to day with those 11000000 voters as a change hasn't come. what is coming is a real change. a key of fundamental chairs. oh, come be over that old gambiola al petro defeated another maverick candidates, former man and millionaire rodolfo hernandez. hernandez had gone a lot of support for his courtesy on tick tock, promising to reduce wasteful government spending, and to go after corrupt officials. his concession speech implored petrow to do the same. let us say, while doctor will sigh hoped 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 patrice lamar, the icon of congos anti colonial movement to his family and official ceremonies underway in brussels. it's believed a single tooth was all that was recovered of his body following his assassination in 1961. the member was congos 1st prime minister after it gained independence the year before. this report now from our correspondent on a life and legacy a patrice luanda. in this art studio in brussels, stands one of the greatest figures of the african independence movement this larger than life sized statue of patrice lamar is a tribute to him from the conquer leased 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, baffled foul to freedom of his country. and he was killed for death. and the country never really recovered from that love until to day. patrice remember, became the congress 1st. prime minister, afterward gained independence in 1960, but he was only in office for a few months before he fell out with 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 worm were very suspicious. and so very quickly yom or belgium recoveries decided to dig up. the brothers and 2 of the body completely destroyed. and so they got them into pieces and took the, sold them into a barrel of fob. um 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 deaths of millions. in the d, r. c. there's been some progress. after years of activism and debates, the brussels municipality opened the sway,

named after and in honor of patrice lomax. authorities says 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, 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 reviving his arm. his memory, patrice remembers, tooth is all that was left of him after he was killed, belgium, returning it to his family, is being welcomed as a 1st step, we hope it to be the beginning of the recognition. death 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 rumors, murder, to emerge congolese,

people at home and abroad. hope it will take less time for the nation and their hero to get justice. and before we go, here's a quick look at our top story. this, our president vladimir zalesky says ukraine has begun an historic waiting. you warned that russia would likely step up with the tax on his country. crate also awaits a key decision from the you on its bid for candidate status. this is dw news live from berlin up next sports life catches up with ukrainian wrestler who fled to germany after the russian invasion. they spicer with

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