denial aided ethan 77 years after the holocaust hatred towards juice is still pervasive. a history of anti semitism starts july 2nd on d. w. ah, ah ah . this is d w. news line from berlin moore rush, no tax in eastern ukraine. the governor of hans says everything that can burn is already on fire. as russian missiles, rain down you cream is still waiting for more heavy weapons from the west. a devil that a crisis escalates between russia and lithuania. moscow demands that the natal member

lift a rail blockade unsanctioned goods to co leningrad plus an anti semitism controversy . overshadow is germany's documentary art show. organizers decide to remove one of the artworks after it. triggers fierce criticism. ah american tilton, welcome to the program. we begin with the battle for cranes, eastern industrial heartland. russia is making advances in the don't boss. ukraine says russian forces have captured several more settlements and now control almost all of the hunt region. some heavy weapons have now arrived from germany, but ukraine's has there just a drop in the bucket. what is needed to push back the russians? everything that can burn is on fire. that's how the governor of ukraine's

blue hands region described the situation here. russia is intensifying attacks in ukraine's east. ukrainian defenders in shapiro denounced a still holding out in the besieged as ot chemical plant. their last stronghold in the city. hundreds of civilians are sheltering there and the russian troops withdrew from her cave last month. the shelling has started once again. this footage shows what was once an educational building, now in ruins. oh was blue nixon. there were no armed forces, all representatives of territorial defense from all the national guard and in this building when it was hit off. so this strike was solely directed as a place of city infrastructure in order to intimidate the civilian population. also, wolfe legal that intimidation takes the form of words as well as weapons. without

directly mentioning the ukraine, russian president vladimir putin announced that a new nuclear capable ballistic missile system, known as sam matt would be ready for deployment by the end of the year, new when you were also, in addition to the new weapons already tested on the battlefield, before the troops began to receive as $500.00 air, a missile defense system was running. so unlike any other, the heavy intercontinental ballistic missile sa, matt, was successfully tested, give a ceremony. it is planned that the 1st complex will appear on combat duty at the end of the year. you were years old. oh, ukraine hopes that a boost to its military arsenal in the form of long awaited houses from germany may help it push back against the ration of salt. but keith says it's received only a fraction of what it needs. not long after they were delivered for this was russia's response footage, released by russia's defense ministry,

which they say shows the destruction of how it says sent by the u. s. and e u, but ukraine's morale and will to defend itself is proving much harder to destroy. earlier d, w spoke to w, corresponded manual shes in g f, and i asked her about the situation in the heavily shelton bus region in eastern ukraine. well, it appears that her russia to eats reserves in a lot in its latest be to try and conquer. all of no hands get almost a dominates every thing day. if you talk to people, talk about the city or sit out on. yes, for example, it's almost completely russian occupied by russia right now. it is only by russian troops. right now, it is only that these chemical plans were mentioning earlier in the report where hundreds of civilians are trapped. and there's no way in to say that are done yes.

can. there's no way out either because the bridge is leading to the city and the highway leading to the city have been destroyed by heavy shelling and on both sides, both the russian side and the ukrainian side to forces. the armed forces are suffering heavy, heavy losses. so a situation that has dramatically escalated and ukraine, an armed forces worn at that the next couple of days will show a decided decisive battle for the domination of dumbass. since the beginning of the war, volunteers across ukraine have been doing their part for the war effort. some are turning to recycling to help st. soldiers lives. to find out more about that now it's done. d w's, rebecca rivers, travel to southern new cream. to the original, nikolai of this old junkyard is a junkyard. no more. when war broke out, volunteers took over the space and turned it into a military workshop. dimmer is

a sound engineer and voiceover artist. now he makes flight jackets moves across number, little of it really profess were requested. hm. kilograms. so we decided to try make some a small number 30 pieces. we wanted to raise 47000 heard if near for that. sure people are out so connected. we raised 150000 in the 1st 3 to 4 days. so we made 3 times as many, most of your, most or brothers are worth it. 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 that the product is military grade level surface mitchell is certified to 8 millimeters thick. at 1 o'clock, this rubber from a conveyor belt is screwed on top of its liam. it acts as an anti fragmentation layer where this rubber traps or splinters from the bullets with that in my of c. or of course, if you call it the metal and rubber bound together in strong tape,

and like holy cross, ne, if a dog i work, fireproof material usually used to make sofas forms the outer shell of the vests, just popped the plates 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 exactly? oh wow. or the vin smith with this outside, he shows as old tractor wheels that will go in to some of the vessels fil

soldiers arrived, to pick up some for the comrades for blood. they learn what kind of bullets their new body armor can stop with children with color, a quick trip into the shop to take what they need. then they're off to the front lines, begin to save lives made in ukraine. that was d w. 's of rebecca readers reporting towards them, nikolai of. and now a diplomatic dispute between russia and lithuania, is escalating so much so that the west says it's little come in to defend lithuania is quote unquote, iron clad. russia has threatened lithuania for blocking some real shipments to which i am exclaimed, of colon and grad. this border crossing on the bell roost lithuanian border. freight trains have come to a halt. those from russia carrying materials such as metal and coal bound from moscow's baltic. sea exclaimed calin and grad have not been allowed to pass for a week. that's due to you. sanctions imposed on russia. moscow has slammed what it

calls the blockade as hostile and illegal. the lithuanian prime minister rejects this to bring it on your way, not interested in an escalation, but sanctions must be implemented. your honest, it's ironic to hear that russia is accusing us of international treaty violations. because i don't know if there are any international treaties that russia itself hasn't violated integer. the sir, colon and grad doesn't share a border with mainland russia. it's cut off by e. u. member states, poland and lithuania, but it's extremely important to moscow. russia's baltic fleet is headquartered there, armed with iskander missiles, rockets that can be fitted with nuclear warheads. people in the russian exclaimed, are nervous. most of it's in, if i was with may be crisis, will go up, or there will be no goods that we use to at all. do with it, just everything in and out. so i think we should pack our belongings and leave

before we can't go anywhere here. this is never happened before. when i bought it, we're open. we could go to poland where everything was cheaper. it was a totally different the far. she chess? no. trish to. it's the german chancellor, olaf schultz reassured lithuania of germany, support halbens and one and i promised al at the winnie and friends that will provide them a robust combat brigade to be stationed in lithuania. hot one that and crisis situation can be quickly bolstered with forces from germany fast acted. in the immediate aftermath of russia's invasion of ukraine, germany quickly increased its military presence in lithuania and throughout the region. the baltic states their fear, they could be the next to face russian aggression did have his concert in egret is following the developments from lithuania capital vilnius. earlier we asked him how worried lithuanians are about possible rushing aggression on their doorstep. given that invasion of ukraine was caught many by surprise. yes, no,

i thought that was going to invade, but also no one thought that this invasion going to go. so anywhere. so i think that we've got to it's one. yeah. it is a completely different game. most leadership understands that this is nato territory. it's not for nothing that we have confirmation yet again from joe biden, that america is going to fight. and he's going to, it's going to basically live up to its expectations of collective defense on the way to treat people in lithuania, warded ever since 2014, ever since the allocation of the primary people here consider we need to be a problem to say that's what we say here, including officials, but all the other hand, i've spoken to some people who went in governance. and they told me today that they think that this particular best of moscow irritation and rage is more propaganda than fact actually, apart from actual military action against the graeme. there is not much that the

groman can do till the 20th. let's have a quick look now and some other stories making headlines at this hour. all in the u . s. the committee investigating the january 6th riots focused on testimony from officials around the country who fended off. donald trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, arizona's republican state. how speak a rusty bowers was among the key witnesses, or one of the key witnesses who described the public pressure from trump and his allies. one of those incursions thousands of ecuador ins have taken to the streets for a night. they protest were fuel prices. police use tear gas and water cannon to disperse protesters in the capital kito. the protesters are led by ecuador, indigenous people, or disproportionately affected by rising inflation, unemployment and poverty. a jury in california has found that entertainer bill cosby sexually assaulted a teenager at the playboy mentioned in 1975 after 2 weeks. so hearing the

victim was awarded $500000.00 us dollars in damages since 2005 more than 50 women have come forward to ques, cosby of sexual assault or renown. german art show was removing one of the works on display over anti semitic imagery. the controversy round the peace has overshadow the opening of the document. a modern art exhibition which is held every 5 years in the city of castle politicians and organizers have contempt the piece of artwork a pigs face labeled with the word massage. there's railey secret police for many documented visitors. this cliched and derogatory reference towards jews is a clear example of anti thematic art. if guns class is anti semitic, antique railey and racist, and with that being so obvious, it is inexcusable for the city of castle is making public space available to these people. as this is a castle is really a liberal,

an open minded city. so something like this doesn't fit on the head of documentary issued an official apology on behalf of the indonesian artist who created the work good minds on that one cool thought one grouper, the artistic team, the artist, and i promised that there would be no anti semitic content at document 15 physicians, i'm via and that we would intervene immediately if there were high diesel hush. we did not. i had this commerce and that should never have happened to be under before the opening. there were talks about the possibility of anti semitism. at the event . a mom had a if that had been a willingness to listen. there was certainly enough warnings that should have been taken seriously before the event. there were concerns about anti semitism and if they weren't able to take a closer look at the exhibits in advance and it feels like it's because i didn't want to have my uh, meeting john boy. following me up were about the controversial exhibit. it was

covered up and removed, but the controversy about anti semitism at document it isn't going anywhere. what a dw news from berlin up next, doc filled the long war, israel iran usa part to remember what more news you can always check out our website for all the latest. that's d, w dot com. and of course we're also on twitter, instagram at d, w. news, i'm here until here in berlin. that's it for now. thanks for watching. staying. ah lou and on demand podcast and language courses, video and audio any time.