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death also coming up french voters deliver a stinging blow to president manuel my con, just weeks after he was re elected, he loses his absolute majority and parliament a leftist and far right party surge, placing his reform agenda and down with columbia turns left as an elect. former marxist guerrilla fighters was double petro, as president if promises to build a more equal country through economic and social reform. political freely walk up to the program. if rainy and president volunteered, zalinski says other european countries should brace for potentially hostile activity from moscow. he says, ukraine faces a historic week as it awaits a landmark decision from you. leaders on it's been for candidate status, but that this could prompt russia to intensify its aggression against ukraine and

its western supporters. a russian miss i'll plunged into ukrainian soil in the city of lazy chance. no one is safe across the river. the city of federal on yet has been reduced to rubble by fierce fighting as russia's offensive in the dawn, beth's reading grinds on the fears, at least chance is next to that. most residents have fled to them, but some are stuck. and then we fix up. you some, but we have nothing left, everything was burned down. the most important thing is to get my sick father out. that's all that matters to me. i don't know how long he can survive, but i don't think this war is going to end soon. if durham, ashleigh, they live in sellers to increase their chances of survival. you know you the pricing for a predicted escalation in russia's campaign of destruction or to live long shot of

this week. we should expect greater hostile activity from russia and the earth against ukraine. but also against other european countries. lee proteins, we are preparing mountain. we are ready. ah, zelinski believes that russia will react to the european union's decision this week on whether ukraine will become a candidate for membership even considering ukrainian membership is a dramatic shift in the youth position and runs counter to do cremins efforts to pull ukraine into its hold. it by force german foreign minister in alina babble on monday, voice her support, head of a meeting of e. u. foreign ministers for her, diana was on the property, is a special meeting for him as we are gathered ahead of a historic moment. with mocking that we all have to realize that the membership countries have a special responsibility on your,

in none of us want to look back at this moment in a few years and think, how could we not make use looks this opportunity to use a viking stove long near the promise of europe. hope for ukraine in its fight for survival. a short while ago we spoke to d. w. 's emmanuel shaws who is in kia and asked her how significant this moment is for ukraine. ah, hi, nicole well indeed is very significant. for people in here in ukraine, i'm just in front of your opinion square, where you have to european flag floating along the ukrainian flag. and i think it shows you here in the center of the cabbage. o'keefe just how dear to europe, ian ideas off. so many ukrainians who are trying well before the war to have access to data european candidacy. they know that the road to belonging to the european union to be part of the european union. the will be

a long process. but most people here and 1st and foremost, the government here is making all that they can to ensure that it divides by european values by european rules. today it's worth also noting that the ukraine and poly man ratified the sample convention against violence against women. it's traded, trying to up its game in terms of abiding by international law abiding by europe and 5 years, so very significant for ukraine state. now, in relation to this process, president volota, we are zalinski is warning of greater hostilities from russia not only towards his country towards ukraine, but also against allies of what exactly does he mean by that? do we have any indication as to what we might have to expect? ah, well you know hostilities dont necessarily how to translate into an invasion over country do this could oh,

this could mean cyber hostility and we've seen over the past 2 years. so cyber attacks, for example, against a government institutions in germany, in denmark, that's where a later link to a russian, the hackers do could be one form of hostility, of course, as well. so the never ending question of energy dependency of european countries to woods or russia, even if things are shifting since the beginning of the war there see the strong dependency. so maybe russia will take more measures to oh, to paralyze the european energy in retaliation for considering this candidacy of ukraine to the european union. and there are concerns that western allies maybe losing their result when it comes to supporting ukraine. we're 5 months in to the conflict. now. what is the, what is the feeling among people in the ukraine? do they still have the same determination to fight this invasion?

i think they definitely do. i've been meeting people for quite a while now. and if any, see the longer the so war last is stronger, their resolve to continue fighting the invasion of their country. you know, they fighting for their freedom for the independence of their country. and i think that's something that they're not route. they're not ready to give up any time soon . there might be a fatigue in the west about this news that's here in your can. new career and people are more determined than ever. the w as in money, shes reporting from keith. thank you so much for your assessment and here's a round up of some other stories related to the war we're following for you at the sour, the ease tom diplomat is called russia's blockade of ukrainian ports, a war crime that brings the risk of famine. does every made the comments as european union foreign ministers meant to discuss the war and food security. millions of tons of we are currently stuck in ukraine. repeating. moscow has called

to move by lithuania to block rail transit between russia and its enclave of colleen and garad illegal. the area is wedged between nato members. lithuania and poland. kalynne and grad goods are subject to you. sanctions against russia. lithuania says its decision is in compliance with the embargo leading to hollywood, actor ben stiller has spent the day in ukraine to mark the you and hcr as world refugee day. stiller is a goodwill ambassador for the us refugee agency. he visited, levine and keith, were he viewed war damage and met ukrainians, forced to flee their homes. in france, voters have delivered president emanuel mccall, a major set back. his coalition has lost its absolute majority and parliamentary elections. results show my cones block will still emerge with the biggest number of

seats and the new national assembly, but without the 289 seats needed for an overall majority, the french leader may have trouble in acting his reform agenda. when french president ammonia my crawl costs his vote on sunday, this clearly wasn't the result. he was hoping for. newspapers were clear on the scale of the setback, calling it a cold shower and even a slap. in paris some voters seemed uncertain that mackerel would be able to put together a governing coalition. this is why honestly don't see how he could put together a majority, even if he does rope in a few left wing and right wing m p. 's were frankly, it cannot work, it's impossible and unlikely to provide macros with any support is the new pan left alliance. newton led by veteran left. this john lute mellow show. his coalition is set to become the biggest opposition grouping in parliament. cooperation with

marine le pens far right. national rally, which surgeon to 3rd place from the 11 fold increase in seats is also not on the cards for macro. on monday le pen said the presence agenda was dead. i scurry me. will emanuel makram be able to do what he wants? no. the answer is no. i think that retirement at 65 is a barrier reform, as well as a whole series of other measures that he wanted to put in place. and which in reality were toxic for the french people get poorly foreseen. that leaves the conservative leg republican party as the likely partners little, but they're also adamant that they'll stay in opposition to sit on issue with no clear path forward in parliament. france could well be set for political gridlock, some across a man who once compared his own top down governing style to the roman god. jupiter sundays result represents a crushing return to us. earlier i spoke to

a dw correspondingly st. louis in paris and asked her how difficult it will be for my call to govern. now, it will be incredibly difficult, really, you know, he doesn't have the absent majority and he's written quite far from it more than 40 seats. so he will need to find to try to find support from the left, from the right in the center from other parties that got into parliament. we have heard this morning already doing the day that and some people have come out to say, you know, we will not form part of this governing coalition. we will be in the opposition, such as the head of the republican party, the send to right party. that was it that some, you know, some people from him on my cause majority a party were hoping to form an alliance with. and they've already said, no, this is not going to happen and looks like you will have to find support on a case by case basis for every decision,

every reform he like to push through parliament. and that will be incredibly difficult. i think rocky road ahead, john look, men alshaun led the left us alliance to become the biggest opposition for us. but they're not a united front. are they? absolutely. this was in the electoral alliance. and even when you looked at the fine print, actually, you know, the pages and pages defining what the aligns was about. there were lots of parts where the different members before different parties did not actually agree on the measures. and that's really coming to light now because on the middle, sharon today said we should form a political group in a parliamentary group group in parliament together and the other 3 parties, greens, the communists and the socialists have said, no, we don't want to do that. and also we don't agree with only marshalls way of doing things he just announced without consulting us. seems like he wants to impose us

his program. and clearly these other parties want to show that they still exist. so even within that new left when group they can't actually reach an agreement, it seems like it's going to be a rocky road for a mile, cause you just said, but also for the other parties and parliament dw lisa lewis from parents. thank you so much for that update. and a tight run off columbia has picked its 1st ever left us president or marker willa fighter. costello, petro narrowly edged out, his opponent, real estate magnate for doleful hernandez. pedro ran on a ticket of inclusion, an equal opportunity for all and claims victory alongside his running mate, france. yeah. mark as who will be the 1st afro colombian woman to become vice president. ah, secretary and historic moment for colombia as it votes in its

1st ever left is lita former revel. gustavo petro has vowed to launch profound social and economic change. well, no story annoy. well, we are writing history at this moment. ocoee, a new history for columbia only 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 candidate, foreman, man and millionaire adolfo hernandez. hernandez was gathered lot of support for his candidacy on tick tock with promising to reduce wasteful government spending and to go off to corrupt officials. his concession speech employed petro to do the same.

let's say, well daughter was ty hopes that gustavo petrov will know how to lead the country that he will be loyal to his words against corruption, and that he will not disappoint those who trusted him. and then petro has a tough task ahead of him. he faces a divided congress like he to complicate his implementation of the fiscal and social reforms, his supporters, accounting on st. you now for a dwi news asia with melissa chant, i'll be back at the top of the hour with every journey is full of surprises. we've gone all out to give you some tips one day indian.