ah ah ah, this is dw news wife from berlin to night, ukraine's hopes of joining the european union president zalinski calling this week historic. a key decision is expected on ukraine's candidacy this weekend. it comes as zalinski warns of more russian attacks on his country. also coming up tonight in

israel, a 5th election in less than 4 years by minister natalie bennett looked set to step aside as his 8 hearty coalition. government crumbled only a year after the government was form and he was assassinated more than half a century ago. now the only no remains of a congolese independence heroes are finally returning home. ah, i bring gov is good to have you with us on this monday and we begin with a warning for europe from ukrainian president boulder mans zalinski. he says that european countries should be bracing for potentially hostile activity coming from russia. so lensky says his country ukraine faces a historic week. is it a weights, a landmark decision from your he and union leaders on its bid for candidate status?

that he says this could prompt russia to intensify its aggression against ukraine and its western supporters. a russian mythical, plunged into ukrainian soil in the city of lazy chance. no one is safe across the river. the city of several on yet has been reduced to rubble by fierce fighting as russia's offensive in the dawn baths reading grinds on the fears, at least, chance is next to that. most residents have fled to them, but some are stuck. when we think that you can, 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. you more, sheila, they live in sellers to increase that chances of survival. you know you the pricing

for a predicted escalation in russia's campaign of destruction or to live mom sean. this week we should expect greater hostile activity from russia and the earned against ukraine, but also against other european countries. li, rhodesia, we are preparing modeling. we are ready, ah, zalinski 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, and alina babel, on monday, voice her support, head of a meeting of e. u. foreign ministers for you, that's been say, what i got to was on friday is a special meeting you. why me as we are get ahead of

a historic moment and this was smoking. we all have to realize that the membership countries have a special responsibility when yawn in. none of us want to look back at this moment in a few years and think, how could we not make use look this opportunity to use a vice him stay long near the promise of europe, hope for ukraine and its fight for survival? simona pulling now, my colleague, manual shawn's she is in, keep to night your mind, well, president zalinski, he says that this will be a historic week for his country with this major decision expected from the european union. how significant is this moment for ukraine? it's a very significant for ukraine and especially for ukrainians. it has been years in fact way before and the saw that the country have been a gearing towards the ear candidacy. you can see

a lot of people who are pro european are here, not least in this new government where you know, they are trying to make the necesary reforms because they know the process to be considered to be even considered a candidate and, and a process of becoming a member of the european union will be a long one and they really do try to abide by a european rule flows at low and the european values of various significance weak indeed for ukraine. it president zalinski. he is also warning of greater hostile activity from russia, not just against ukraine, but across all of europe. but do we have any indication of what that backlash is going to look like, or could look like well or the west backlash? of course, ease the price being paid by ukrainian themselves, especially in the eastern part of the country where while the ukrainian population

is paying with its blog, this war started on february 24th. but in western europe, this could take the form of cyber attacks. for example, it could also take to, for me, in russia, a block mailing europe in terms of energy delivery is even if western europe has taken the steps to to become independent from that energy from which it depended for years for air decades. and of course, we're seeing unfolding of food prices that will affect you up as russia continues to block at the simulation of grain in ukrainian ports among we'll, let's talk about what's going on on the front winds. fighting is raging and eastern ukraine. do we know what is the situation like for the residents who are still living the well, we're getting reports from a very dire situation, especially in new hampshire in the cities are said,

other than yes can. and lizzy sounds considered on yes. the few, the handful of civilians which are still remaining out of the 100000 that used to leave there before the war where they don't have access to electricity, no access to running water anymore. and there's over 300 or 300 people civilian still stuck in a chemical plant, the other chemical plant. and this is the only place still held by ukraine on forces. this is, this is unfortunately reminding us of the stand off between the russian forces and you're kind of forces in the us of thought steel, planting mario ball. so a very dire situation. they're very, are situation in this is shawn as well. this is to city of submitted on the ask way, where people are also like was continuously showed by the russian army and the special army which has thrown all its reserves in what would be the next decisive

days. we will see more bottles in dom boss in the han sentinel over the next few days. emmanuel shaw's reporting, the light from key. thank you. top ukrainian officials and 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 a 100 whole, which is just a fraction of what ukraine says. it needs and only a handful of rocket launchers are on the way even though ukraine has asked for 300 d. w. net carly reports tonight from the front lines in the southern mikayla region where ukrainian forces are struggling to keep russian troops at bay. russia may be making gains in the dawn best, but it's a different story here. 600 kilometers to the southwestern mich alive. ukraine is pushing russian forces out of villages like these to closing in on the russian occupied city of hudson b,

ukrainian commanders where their advance comrade of steam be stopped or even reversed. after more than a 100 days of relentless fighting, their supplies, weapons, and ammunition running dangerously low notice. but we meet victor and his crew some way behind the front lines. when will broke out, they were all working abroad. 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 is a recruit and the soviet army decades earlier. well, thought jackson can 1st of the this, how it is just old little 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 and i don't work with a mozilla since his 3rd bottle. duplicate of replacing it to something new and more powerful is of the cards for now. but even carrying on fighting as they have been

in recent months be a challenge. he craned supplies of soviet ammunition are almost exhausted. western produced shells on 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 west nor tillery and the shells to go with it. nor answer warranty 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. it was a bizarre, but we just don't have enough weapons to equip every one who wants to fight richard a from a bully. daughter judge knew, personally when her mother it was leveled an 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 blue robins that are what are the favor of west fighting for all of you are p other 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 or the theme where you come. neither. neither sort of with

growth, with grain is already paying a high price for being a gun to my with daily casualties running at several $100.00 a day. or 2 possibly were big to 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 different lines. he doesn't want to make many more clues like that and he's convinced western weapons the answer. well, i'm joined now by e. her is of course, he's the ukranian president. zalinski is foreign policy advisory saucer, the deputy head of the president's office. mr. zach, it's good to have you on the program. i want to talk about the situation on the front lines just a moment, but i'd like to start with this historic week. how confident are you that ukraine will get the green light from the european union this week?

to begin these fast track of session talks, well, the 1st positive news, the got the previous speak was the opinion of the european commission, and many would not believe this opinion would be positive. now i have this positive opinion recommending the european union member states to support these opinions. plus also we have the support of several leaders of the european countries. johnson shows president monochrome prime minister, druggie produced a right to support his phone conversation with president key. so definitely this is a consensus decision. you cannot be 100 percent. sure, you can be sure all you have to visit decisions made. but if we have more positive then even several days before expectations of the final decision or the european council. you know that joining the european union is a process that takes years and it can sometimes take decades. ukraine is

expecting it to be fast track. do you have confidence that your country can pull this off the, at the same time, trying to fight off the russian military? well, that's with the foss trick that's we were shown in throughout the last 4 months. i mean, just to remind you, we, someone did application for membership on the feed day war and less than the, within the 44 months, we are about to receive the kind of the standards within the record, high speed for any country before ours begin candidate or even member, we have filled in the questionnaire with just one month to process, which would usually take more than a year for the country. so which gives me all the reasons to say that ukraine will be moving with the same direction. but definitely not. overton will depend on your grade who would like to the european union and its members states to have at least half a speed grant is moving to was the pothole reforms. we are ready to make further

reforms despite the war and especially after when the war. well, let's, let's assume that the european union says yes to this faster speed, the fast lane for the session talks on. what is ukraine going to give the, you in return to are you under pressure from the european union to possibly take actions to bring this war to an end sooner rather than later. and i'm also talking about perhaps giving up territory to russia in the name of peace. that's not true. and neither leader we spoke to my president during his visits in keith or during the phone conversations which my president have numerous for day. so, me personally, i haven't heard any indications for these are that leader inclined in ukraine to, to make any decisions or to move sooner speed to end the war, which is not, do not need to end the war when the,

when we need to have all the ukranian territories back so no one is able to make my president to any inclination or any sensations of any territory to find the last to the last interview. going in, sorry, not want any other story, but when you bring in the territory, fight over time, you say you want to win the war. you can only win this war. if you have enough weapons, are you getting the, the heavy weapons, the artillery that you need right now to push the russians back? well, write too much. if not, everything depends on whether we will attain that band of, of a heavy weapon. in fact, that goes out to the system, but not only about molars, it's about arm of the because it's both dance. if you asked me whether the progress is going on, yes, it's much more progressive and the speed is much more high than it used to be in

the beginning. a war been menu of this. this would not even believe you would be able to sustain russian aggression. remember, so military experts would not ukraine more than 3 or 5 days, which consented there somehow or with a plan which rush ahead. so now everyone saw that you created a step above ukraine, knows how to fight. ukraine knows not only how to defend, but how to counter attack. and so we and this ramstein nation. so it don't really broad last month shows that the world and you know, it's high time to, to act with a high speed in delivering weapons to the director of your grade. that's what you're doing. yeah, we will, we will see definitely this week and how fast things progress. mr. hor, off the foreign policy advisor to ukrainian president zelinski. we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. thank you. here's a round of now of some of the other stories that are related to this more that we're following for you. the eas top diplomat has called russia's blockade of

ukrainian ports, a war crime that brings with the risk of famine, judge burrell made the comments to day. as european union foreign ministers met to discuss the war and food secure millions of tons of wheat are stuck in ukrainian ports. moscow has called a move by lithuania, to block rail transit between russia and its enclave of clinic rod illegal. the area, as you see there is wedged between nato members, lithuania and poland. clinic. broad goods are subject to e u sanctions against russia. that the, when he says it's decision is in compliance with the embargo. hollywood actor ben stiller have spent the day in ukraine to mark out the u. n. h c. r's. world. refugee data. stiller is a goodwill ambassador for the winds refugee agency. he visited levine and heave, where he viewed war damage and met ukrainians. you've been forced to flee their

homes now to the middle east. israel's 8 party government coalition could soon be no more. its members say that they planned to dissolve the parliament, which could mean, believe it or not, fresh elections early as early as october, the coalition has been in office for just one year and suffered a set back in april, losing its one seat majority in the connecticut it survived to no confidence votes earlier on monday, no prime minister of tele bennett is expected to step aside with foreign minister darla pete to take over until a new government is sworn in them. little them. oh ha. so israel is going to the polls for what is this the 5th time in just over 3 years. the numbers alone are mind boggling. let's go to tanya kramer. now she's in jerusalem forest tonight, tanya, israel's prime minister and his designated interim successors, they just spoke to the media meet. how did they explain what is happening to the

public? well i have to tell you, i think it didn't really come as a surprise to many israelis. there were signs in recent months and weeks that this coalition was not lost, it's full term. so both the prime minister of tale pendant and a foreign minister yellow pete ah, who's also d? i'm his also the alternate prime minister. and they realised that deborah had run out of options to hold this coalition. together. mister bennet denied highlighted the achievements of this government, but he also said it was a tough decision, but was the best for the country also in light. and that this government had increasingly no problems to cause actually legislation and the connected. most recently at the government failed to, to pass to extend actually an emergency law that pertains to israel law in sacramento in the occupied westbank. the both mr. bennett a mr. pete had,

as said earlier in his statement that they had agreed to dissolve the connected and that mr. reputable take over as can take a prime minister until the next elections, which will most likely take place in october in october. and we know that former president benjamin at yahoo has vowed to return a me what are the chances for election after the opposition's coalition experiment failed? well, that is still to see. of course, if you look at the poles at the moment and you know, neither block and we always talk of course he and is right about coalition. governments are formed by a several parties and neither blog on the right thing. or if you look at the coalition like this one would have a majority right now to form a government, even some of the smaller parties that are now in the government,

according to these polls might not make it over the electro especially. but of course, a lot can change in the coming weeks and months until the elections take place. so we heard already prime former prime minister benjamin netanyahu, knowing that he will be back or that he wants to form abroad. nationalist wiping a government. but of course, he also failed in the last 4 elections a to for him as such a government. so i, he certainly hoping a for come back, but of course, you know, a lot can happen until the elections to take place. tanya agreement with the ladies tonight from jerusalem is always tanya, thank you are, let's take a look now. and some of the other stories were following for you this hour. the french president, emanuel mac, ron, has lost his absolute majority in sundays, parliamentary elections microns. political blocks still emerged with the biggest number of seats in the new national assembly,

but left us and far right parties. they searched in num. micron may now have trouble in acting any legislation. so cold is womach state has claimed responsibility for a terror attack in north eastern rock, a province. at least 13 people were killed when a bus was ambushed and burnt. the civilian vehicle was carrying government soldiers, the extremist group was defeated in 2019, but sleeper cells still operate in parts of the country. the former rebel gorilla fighter, gustavo petro has won columbia's presidential election and a landmark victory. he said to become the country's 1st leftist leader after narrowly defeating realestate millionaire rodolfo. and, and is that true has vowed to launch wide reaching, social and economic result. the belgian government has returned a single tooth belonging to assassinated congolese independence hero. patrice,

the member of the tooth was handed over to lamar, his family at a ceremony in brussels. it was all that was recovered from his body after he was murdered. back in 1961, lamar was congos, 1st, democratically elected prime minister, after it gained independence from belgium. earlier this month, belgium's king expressed deep regret for his country's abuses in its former colony activists. se belgium still needs to do much more as it confronts its colonial past, but that the return of the members tooth. it is a welcome. first step. in this art studio in brussels stands when the greatest figures of the african independence movement. this larger than light 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, a veteran and moon bath, thoughtful the 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, afterward 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 lumen best murder. the book reveals the belgian government's complicity and details how lumber 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 and gather he's decided to dig up the brothers and 2 of the body completely destroyed. and so they got them into pieces and took dissolved them into um a barrel of farm. um oh, sulphuric acid. a belgian officer who was involved later confirmed the books account, including the part about him removing bloomberg 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 mon, best 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 this way, named after and in honor of patrice lomax. authorities said that the symbolic

gesture was intended to reflect belgium's colonial past activists now use 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 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, colony alias was something wrong, was a crime against humanity and that we can start to install a kind of a 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 here's a quick look now at our top story. president bodamer zalinski says ukraine has begun a historic week as it awaits a key decision from european union leaders on the country's bid for a candidate. stats is also warning that russia is likely intensify hostilities against his country and the west. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day hope to see you there with

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