was there another symbolic meaning to this beautiful painting that perhaps we just don't understand? the search for answers starts july 7th on d, w ah ah, ah. this is d w. news law firm glenn, ukraine's president rules. i've talked with moscow anytime soon. as russia pours resources into, it's don boss offensive volunteers zalinski calls, brushing aggression and evil that can only be contained on the battlefield. also

coming up, south korea blasts off into the club of space faring nations. a domestically made rocket successfully launchers and places it's payload into orbit. what does that mean for the region? we don't live to sell? and germany's documentary art show covered up, but one of its works after complaints of anti semitic stereotypes. ah, i'm pablo foley, and he has welcome to the program as the war in ukraine enters its 5th month, president valid, amir zalinski is dispelling hopes of negotiations with russia any time soon in his latest video address the landscape called russia's aggression and evil. that can be contained only on the battlefield, ukrainian authority, se erasing to have people as russia steps up,

it's attacks in the eastern dumbass region. they said russia's advantage and arms and equipment was making the situation very difficult. but in his nightly address on monday, savanski remained defiant. all right, well let's bring an dw corresponded nick conley, who's in key force. nick, good to see you. m so evil can only be defeated on the battlefield. how does he plan on achieving that goal? considering that the ukrainian arm is at running out of weapons. this is definitely about playing for time until those crucial western deliveries finally, make themselves felt on the front lines. lots of stuff promised from the u. s. from germany from the u. k. and it is finally arriving, question of training for ukrainian troops to make sure they can actually use it effectively. but there is a sense here in key of that ukraine is able to hold up with on these front lines. but 2000 clumps. the front lines between russian troops and ukrainian troops, and that if they can slow the russian advance in place, like several of the nets,

which basically weeks now the russians have been trying to take and failing only, but managing to pick up a couple of streets by the day of the week, even then by the time those weapons, rita, they'll be able to turn the tide in that time is actually in their favor that russia will exhaust itself. that's that, that the, the mood here that basically ukraine is only up for negotiation when the situation about film is better for ukraine when you crazed the stronger negotiating position . and they won't let themselves be pushed to some kind of a deal that would work against their interest long term by western european countries who in previous weeks, months had been hinting that they wanted to end. this was quickly as possible, whatever the price. so sense here that ukraine can make that military advance and also that it can put back those diplomatic advances from france. germany who had been hinting that they were willing to try and bring everyone back the table at the current situation of seat work in russia's favor. now president lansky has been calling this a historic week with the e, with e leaders meeting to decide on ukraine's bed for candidate status. how important and how much of an impact would that have on ukraine?

the top of this is huge, is something that ukraine has been pushing for for decades, essentially, and never been as close as it is now, is always been basically fed some kind of promises that some time and an unidentified for the future. it might be an option, but now this was really forced the hand of european decision makers to really make this real and to give a roadmap. and even before you kind does join the e. u, if indeed it does, it already have impacts for soon as investors will equities, they'll be reforms that ukraine will be forced to undertake that will really make it easier to build business here to bring money in. and to really help develop this country that has been struggling to live up to potential basically since its independence nearly 90. so real sense here that this is a huge deal. this will really allow you can't find live up to its potential, right? so a huge deal now. now karen cave at the moment, but you recently returned from the front lines. tell us a little bit about the situation there. what you saw. so we were in the south in michel, i have region which is basically the one place where you crank is now on the counter

offensive pushing reaction for his back or or be it's a couple of damages or by the week or the month. but definitely a sense that ukraine there is pressing home. it's advantage because the russians have been focusing so much on don bass on the hunts region around city of civil the nest there, and calls from the ukrainian government for civilians living on russian occupied church in that part of the country to leave as soon as possible because more fighting expected there is ukraine becomes able to launch couch defensive ukraine. been using its new western weapons the last few days using anti ship missiles to sink russian or so going to stay carland, which busier kind of crucial strategic point in the northwestern part of the black sea. also we've heard of the ukraine is using those american built rocket or to resistant high mars. they've come in new, she's great in the last week or so. we really haven't got those russian positions there that basically russia was using in the hope that they would then be able to push forward and take a dozen other places on the ukrainian coastline that is still under key of control

. so since that ukraine is at least in part, able to stop pushing the russians back, even if the situation is very difficult. the east and you know, this is a country that is seeing 200, if not more, military death every day and more in the way of wounded. so a difficult situation. definitely one of a high loss and high oh stress for the government and it's military but not without hope and not without success for you. grantley and bob. d. w is ne connelly reporting from keith. thank you boss. at the beginning of the war, volunteers across ukraine have been doing their part for the war effort. some are turning to reciting to help save soldiers lives. now to find out more about how it's done, d. t of these rebecca readers travel to southern you praying the region around eco life. this old junkyard is a junkyard. no more. when war broke out, volunteers took up visits base and turned it into a military workshop. dimmer is a sound engineer and voiceover artist. now he makes flak,

jackets moves across number, little of it, really fully prefects we requested. hm. kilograms. so we decided to, to make some, a small number from 30 pieces. we wanted to raise 47000 olivia for that's sure. people wrote so connected that we raised 150000 in the 1st 3 to 4 days so, so he made 3 times as many most of the you're not obama to word. so far they've sent more than $700.00 of the vests to the front lines. places like hunt, keith, china, his and mc alive, there's recycling involved and the work looks aren't, isn't all about the product is military grade level certificate. this is certified to 8 millimeters thick mcculler. this rubber from a conveyor belt is screwed on top of its liam. it acts as an anti fragmentation layer where this robert traps or splinters from the bullets we through my of c. or of course, if you call it the metal and rubber a bound together in strong tape. and we'll make holy cross. ne, if a dog think ok,

work, fly proof material usually used to make sofas, forms the out, a shell of the vests just popped the pipes inside these purpose built pockets. and hey, presto, westfield pretty good, once you get it on it, quite comfortable and much lighter than you might expect, much lighter than some of the press fest i've even had to wear in the field. but the real test, of course, is going to be whether or not it can stop a bullet. the plates deflect shots from an a k 47 standard equipment for the russian army what, what's likely, oh, or the vin sleep? it is outside. he shows his old tractor wheels that will go in to some of the vessels. soldiers arrived to pick up some for the comrades,

what they learn, what kind of bullets their new body armor can stop with. a quick trip into the shop to take what they need, then they're off to the front lines with gear to save lives made in ukraine. right, let's take a quick look at some other stories making headlines. this. our british rail workers are staging their biggest national strike in 30 years. networks will largely be brought to a stop and still on tuesday, thursday, and saturday this week, some 40000 staff of walked off the job, demanding higher pay in england, scotland, and wet nearly half a 1000000 people have been evacuated in southern china as the heaviest rains and decades wreak havoc. red alert warnings were issued on tuesday with forecasters predicting more heavy down course. last summer. catastrophic flooding in central china killed almost 400 people. sure lanka has shut schools and

non essential state services for 2 weeks. in an effort to save fuel, the nation is in the grips of its work. or economic crisis. calls for the presidential resign are growing louder as people faced severe shortages of essential goods. now it says korea has launched its 1st domestically made space rocket, unsuccessfully placed a dummy satellite into orbit it comes after a previous attempt in october failed. so is planning further launches as it moves to accelerate space program. the rocket course one and a half $1000000000.00 to develop officials say it's not intended for military purposes. i'm joined now by reuters senior correspondent josh smith, who is in so good to see. josh, thanks for joining us to m t w. so if it's not military, what is the goal of the south korean space program? well, south korea has a whole range of goals that it hopes to accomplish with this program,

everything from potentially 6 g networks to launching its own satellite navigation systems. similar to keep yes, as well as even potentially placing a lunar pro on the moon at some point. at the same time, there are also some military elements. it helps to launch the constellation of spy satellites, better to keep an eye on, on its neighbor in north korea. for now, it's pretty much, almost entirely reliant on the united states for that kind of information. and it hopes to become much more independent. there is also, of course, a major commercial element to this. it hopes to give a lot of the technology to his private sector and potentially launch things for other clients and expand some of his exports that way. briefly, if you could, and how important is this for south korea to join the circle of space varying countries? it definitely sees itself as a major global player, and this is

a big step. it's quick to note that it's one of 7 countries now that have this kind of homegrown technology. and so both from an economic military but also just simply national prestige element, this is a huge win for them. all right? when you get there, josh smith and sell, thank you. thank you. every 5 years, the documentary art exhibition in the german city of castle showcases modern contemporary works from around the world. but at the current show, one of those works has now been hidden from public view adjoined banner, depicting anti semitic stereotypes to portray jewish israelis has been condemned by officials and organizers. this is the image that is causing widespread controversy. a hooked nose, fangs and bloodshot eyes, paired with the site. carls traditionally warned by ultra orthodox jews. the image is part of a work of art by the indonesian collective tart, p a. t i. it took center stage at the document to holland castle. these,

this building does this, he had ski, it least illustration clearly has anti semitic imagery. there's protection against anti semitism, as well as protection against racism and any form of misanthropy of fundamentals, human values, winslow. and if those values aren't respected than the freedom of expression in art has its limitations. i hud isla gunther in the same work of art, a man would have pigs. nose is depicted as a member of massage, the israeli foreign intelligence service. this too is an anti semitic stereotype. the israeli embassy reacted by tweeting documents and promotes global style propaganda. marin mandel is the director of the anne frank educational center. he's equally appalled and demands that the artwork be removed and inspired me. she did them. we also need to question exactly how such a picture was created in the 1st place and then how it was allowed. such a prominent place in the exhibition or the ins aren't open ended dots in there are

still in the lower part of the artwork. are depictions of massacres and genocides. the holocaust is notably missing. the central council of jews has been highly critical of this. they said, documentary organizer is guaranteed there would be nothing anti semitic in this year's exhibition. clearly the organizers have failed when it comes to the topic of anti semitism. the exhibition has denied any connection with anti semitism and apologize for any hurts caused the controversial artwork will remain at documentary, however, it will remain hidden from visitors from to day onwards. behind huge panels of heavy cloth. finally, a nobel prize metal sold to raise money for ukrainian child refugees has smashed the previous auction records. the peace prize metal was expected to fetch, perhaps a few 1000000, but the final bait at the live auction held on world refugee. dave was $103500000.00. russian journalist to me 3 more at off the editor of one of russia's

last independent newspapers, was awarded the prize in 2021. the buyer remained anonymous, were a tough asset. the proceeds will go directly to unicef in its efforts to help children displaced by the war in ukraine. that's all for now up next. chris cobar has the latest business news after the break. and don't forget, you can stay up to date on all the latest news on our website, dw, dot com. and of course follows on our social media accounts. i'm pablo philadelphia in britain for me, the team here, thanks for watching. take care. people in trucks injured when trying to flee the city center more and more refugees are being turned away on the border families with administrative.