[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, missiles strike in ukraine's a desa region. ukraine says at least 19 people are dead off the russian aircraft fired missiles that hit an apartment building and are the targets. utah comes

a day after russia abandoned the black sea island that it seized early in the war. china celebrates 25 years since the united kingdom handed back hong kong president g. as in ping insists, hong kong can maintain its own laws as a beijing hard line of takes over as the territories new liter plus a ban on some single used plastics takes effect in india as part of a government plan to cut down on pollution. ah, i'm get out of as well. come to the program. russian missiles have hit the ukrainian region, awful, desa officials, they're said they half killed at least 19 people. missiles fired from rush, an aircraft hit an apartment building in the town of service car, killing residents, and sparking

a fire rescue as were searching for people still buried in the rubble and other missile hit. a nearby recreation center. russia has intensified attacks on ukraine of the last 2 weeks, but it has also withdrawn from the strategically important snake island that may make it possible to restore c access to addresses port. the w correspondent, manuel shaws is covering developments for us from odessa earlier. i asked her about this latest missile strike. ah, well go out dismissal. strike a curved out around midnight time. last night there was an air or air read alert that we heard. oh, so here in the design, it struck about 70 kilometers sauce of a desa instead of his car that they're still as we, as we speak is of 19 people including 2 children. there are 30 people who are who have been injured, including 4 children. also pregnant women,

the scene is one of desolation does a lot of animals which are been killed as well, pets who were in those apartments. there's more, there's a few dark, still barking there. the emergency services still search the rebels, but at this stage it would be 4 more bodies. so seen of devastation of desolation as we we are very savvy, have grown accustomed to here in ukraine. now, talk to me a bit about the city and the region of odessa. is it vulnerable in any way and is ukraine the well position to defend it? well, you know, a death is a port city. the whole region is by the black sea. so if you will, we are closer to where most miss eyes are being are being launched. so of course, this make the city or perhaps more vulnerable. dr. dr. places in central of, or western ukraine on. oh, so you know,

does air air red alert so quite regularly, you know, people take shelter quickly because the misses are simply not her not very far. and you know, here i'm standing in the street. we in a ford city, we don't see the c. and as a reason to read, we not allowed to fin the seat because the authorities are scared that the more we show the coast line, the more fuse we might, a gave also to the russia are me to, you know, find any targets. now the russian troops, as we've heard and have withdrawn from snake island just that's just south of odessa. tell us more about that. while this is there at both a symbolic victory for ukraine and a very strategic one. symbolic why? well, because snake island was one of the 1st russian victories on the very onset of the war when there are, you know, they, to cover this island, giving them, you know, the control of the black sea and strategic. well, exactly, for that reason ukraine,

an armed forces me gaining control of snake island. mean they regain control of this part of the black sea. now russia, russia said that it was a gesture of goodwill that they didn't intend to block a humanitarian efforts. but, you know, with this choice, continuing indiscriminately on civilian targets, one might wonder what these good will really is less images there in odessa for us . thank you. m. in the face of russia's war, ukrainian lawmakers held a session to welcome their progress towards joining the european union. the 27 member block cleared the way for ukraine succession last month in a symbolic moment. the e u flag was placed in the chamber of the fair off narada, ukraine's parliament european commission president, also a funder lion, joined by a video link, urging the legislature to make a more reforms to tackle corruption and the influence of oligarchs,

and also protect independent media ukraine's membership, it could take several years to complete and you have the check republic takes over the european union's rotating presidency today. prague is vowing to focus on the war and ukraine, and it's repercussions including refugees, energy and security, and keeping the $27.00 member block united against russia, the w's. christine manuel reports from prague. ha, there's a changing of the guard at the european union's top leadership with paris handing over the rotating presidency of the e. you council to prague because war has returned to europe. the check republics tenure at the home will be a hard one. we are preparing ourselves or to take presidency. think over presidents, it in time for inflation is very high when a war is so close to our sir in the ukraine and her russian aggression against the

cream is of course a main topic. her for all of us, the chick republic has welcome nearly 400000 ukranian refugees and provided significant financial and military aid to keith. since the start of the war, within the e u, it is a vocal support of sanctions against russia. but the central european country, like many others on the continent, is heavily dependent on russian energy. and there are serious concerns here about how secure that supplies energy took, reduce important topic right now and our dependence on russia, or is that a huge for us? so it's a really enormous sir dependency on rational gas and oil, and turn, we have to find a solution for all of us about 30 to public knows this would be have been possible only solidarity of all your countries. but e u countries are increasingly drifting apart on how to respond to russia's

invasion of ukraine. people i've spoken to here in prague favor continued support for ukraine, and a hot line on russia. they say this country's history being occupied by the soviet union has a lot to do with it. but the sentiment isn't the same across the union. and so a big part of this presidency for the check republic will be to keep the united going for it. some say that the timing, the chick republics presidency is an opportunity for the country to act as a mean. it's great as we have take republic as a presidency country now because you know they are the perfect fit for this shop. if there's a country that can actually try to find a consensus on the situation and the position towards russia, it could be checked. republic, you know, when we look at france, france is a very dominant country and it sets its agenda in a way that this is what we want. and please get on board. check. republic will be more of

a country that opens the dialogue with no signs that war in ukraine is anywhere close to ending. prague will be tested only to ability to keep your countries in lock step over the response to the west crisis in europe. since the 2nd world war, turkeys president has again suggests that he may hinder sweden's anti finland's nato desires. his statement directly follows the nato summit that formally invite invited the nordic countries to join the west. the military alliance was at about one, told reporters after the madrid summit at finland, and sweden still had to quote, fulfilled their duties before turkey's parliament would ratify their applications. russia's invasion of ukraine prompted the 2 countries to apply for membership ad one wants them to extradite kurdish fighters to he sees as terrorists. well from on this, let's bring in ogre alika. she's the program director for europe and central asia, the international crisis group. or how seriously do you take out the ones remarks

of still possibly stopping sweden and finland from joining nato? so i think this could continue to drag on for a bit, but i also don't think that in the end it will in any way, stop these 2 countries from joining nato. ah, some of it is negotiations behind the scenes, but i think what, what this underlines would shut her keys. moves along these lines really show is that there are other issues in nato than the ukraine war and russia that other tensions turkey's own interests also play a role. and all of these things are going to continue to interact as the alliance defines its response to the war. now that issue aside, looking back at the nato summit, has it pushed the needle in any direction regarding ukraine's position in the war. so i think it has affirmed that the nato member states, i do have

a strategy of supporting ukraine and weakening russia in many ways. this is what russia has said was nato's strategy for the last start in the 30 years. ah, so it has become self fulfilling. that is, in fact, what nato is now doing. and with the invitations to sweden and finland with the commitments to ukraine, with the promises of a more robust force posture. ah, you're seeing nato's approach show putting meet on the bones of the strategy. it's not shy, it's not done yet, but i think alliance members probably are patting themselves on the back for a successful so much. now let's cost to widen it. how would you assess nato's ability to effectively come from threats after the summit? whether from rachelle, john or elsewhere? so it depends on how you define threats and confront. look, i think the russians do see nato's combined military might as greater than theirs

with china. i think there's still some question on what exactly, what kind of threat exactly. trying opposes to nato members and how you would respond to that, right. some of this is about economics. some of it is about influence on the military aspects of this aren't entirely clear, but i think, i think for the alliance there. so a lot of challenges to be faced in defining its goals and its interest in many ways . the russia problem is the simplest one and it has very effectively unite at the alliance. thank you very much, all garlic, a program director for europe and central asia at the international crisis group. thank you. thank you. a quote in turkey has blocked internet access to deutsch develop and voice of america took. he wanted the bull causes to obtain a license in february d, w did not comply with a request out of concern that it would allow the turkish government to censor. editorial contents dw director general peter limbo,

cast pledge to take legal action against this decision on that band. i'm a john by the head of the w turkish. and how did it come to this? as you said in 2219 the truck is course it took slow, make a said that we definitely need a license to broadcast and turkey and will not agree to this. because we think that as the director general set that's kind of the door was open for censorship from the government. and we didn't accept this in march. i talked to the president of the turkish television and supreme council, and she said ok, in that case, we have to investigate a little bit more and we'll let you know. but as you see the plaque does out now. so how can we respond to this as d dot? how can d w respond to this? of course we didn't accept this and we trying to find solutions. how we

can use this for bright media, broadcasting and tricky right now we using the social media platforms and of course the response of t w is that we're really yes, sad about this position because as i said, the president of the supreme council said that they will investigate and they didn't stand with their work. let me get this right. our content on social media like on facebook and twitter still accessible. exactly. i just d, w dot com is banned. unfortunately, we thought that they will band just the target program, but now they're banned the whole, the d, w dot com and which is not appropriate. any idea? well, how long this will take for when users can access the w again, i get, you know, the supreme court council said that if we apply immediately to a kind of license, then they will open it as soon as they can. but definitely d,

w will not apply for such kind of license. thank you very much and have dw turkish let's have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. in brief, in russia you as basketball, star has gone on trial for drug trafficking, brittany griner was led into court at the start of the hearing, prosecutors alleged she was caught with vape ink cartridges containing cannabis oil . a wife says griner is a political porn. b u. s. has for, for her immediate release a landslide has engulfed part of a town in northern peru. video captured the moment, it swept over at least 150 homes, sending a huge cloud of dust into the air. no deaths were reported. officials have been searching for other people still missing. the government in ecuador has signed a deal with indigenous leaders bring an end to protest that paralyzed the country

for almost 3 weeks. the agreement cuts fuel prices to address protesters anger over the rising cost of living. 5 civilians and one soldier have been killed in the unrest. shun high's disney theme park has reopened for the 1st time and more than 3 months, welcoming thousands of visits. the park was closed during the cities. reese had lockdown to control an outbreak of coven 19 shanghai. as since eased restrictions. 30 said locally transmitted cases, fallen to 0. john as president didn't paying, has concluded a visit to hong kong to mock 25 years since the united kingdom handed over control of the territory during the visit g price. the one country to systems policy, which is allowed hong kong to have its own laws. he said a policy was the policy was a success and would remain in place, but that hong kong must respect chinese leadership. she oversaw the swearing in of

hong kong, new chief executive john lee. he's a g loyalist and former security chief who helped crack down on pro democracy protests. bridging has been tightening its grip on the sit. it is a look at how hong kong has changed since the british honda hanover. ah, hong kong enters a new era. more than a 150 years of british colonial rule came to an end at the stroke of midnight on july 1st, 1997. the sun set on an empire and rose to a new age under chinese rule. it was a moment long in the making. in 1984 after years of talks, london and beijing signed a hand over agreement for hong kong. china agreed to rule the region for 50 years,

according to the principle of one country to systems. although part of china, it was to be granted greater autonomy and allowed to preserve the freedoms and rights awarded under british rule. while beijing honored this arrangement at 1st, it soon began chipping away at hong kong special status. first in 2003. when china tried to pass a security law to limit descent and protests, more than half a 1000000 people turned out to oppose it. forcing authorities to back down jar then in 2014, beijing proposed allowing hong kong or to vote for their chief executive hadn't changed. but only from a short list of approved candidates while you young ga. gov, you can come, he can come come in response, thousands marched to demand real democracy. when police tried to clear the streets, people started carrying umbrellas to use as shields against the pepper spray. the

pro democracy protests became known as the umbrella movement in 2020 beijing imposed a sweeping security law curbing voting rights and limiting freedom of the press and free speech. hong kong has continued to hit the streets and protest, but in rapidly dwindling numbers. as hundreds of pro democracy activists, lawmakers and journalists were arrested the british consulate, a rallying point for hong kong, ers, who want china to keep its promises 25 years after the hand over the new formula is one country, one system in their city. now, just like any other city, mainland china. oh, that was me. the studio is the w reporter, cliff acount. if you've lived in hong kong,

you've covered the hand over 9 to 971997. yes. and you were the also there covering the protest in 2019 how much of that? hong kong you then is left what i think there's been definitely a lot of continuity there. one thing is that, you know, the spirit of hong kong people to very pragmatic people somehow, you know, in not jonty 7. they felt a bit abandoned by, by the u. k. but people say, okay, we're going to have to do with china. then china started rolling back the promises, so the continuity, it has been with the people's attitude to how things have gone over the years. and in 2019, during the protests there was a real sense of resignation. but am, and every i spoke to back then is now in jail, which is good. excuse me, incredible. when you think about it. so yeah, basically there is that continuity, but at the same time, external forces, as they see them in hong kong of every major, very difficult situation. now in 1997 where there was

a belief that hong kong with sheer power and and vibrancy had the potential to change china and inspire people on the mainland to, to sort of reach for democracy. was that a bit naive? i think so. i mean, i think it's just we, i'm everyone read china wrong. i think everyone sort of believe that, you know, they would see the success of hong kong and somehow that the, the commies party would, would open up and reform based on this model of the, to the one country to systems. but in fact, i went the other way, went to completely other direction. but in many ways it ties in with a whole sort of misreading in many ways of, of, of china. generally, the belief that engagement with china would bring about change in china, whereas becomes party. and john is not interested in changing. it's actually, it feels it's, it's been very successful and it's more, you know, as you see now under she, jim pink. it's much more interested and it's model being something that the rest of the world can learn from. now, in his speech marketing this anniversary,

just being promised to uphold the one come to 2 systems model. is this really a model that is still in place and what can we make of this? i think when you read statements like this, it's a bit, you know, you have to sort of see what people do rather than what they say because he is going to say this in terms of trying to justify what's happening in hong kong, internationally and terms of international law, he has to say that this is what's going on. but in reality, you know, the, the new chief executive, john lee is a former police chief. basically, hong kong is coming under much more under china's grip and the one country to system thing. i don't think anyone realistically thinks that's what's going to be the case. so 25 years after the hand over to look into your crystal bowl. where do you see hong kong? 25 years from now, still a separate entity is now off to completely swallowed up on. well, there's a, there's a story going around hong kong right now that they're talking about renaming hong kong south, jen,

jen. and now some people say that this is an investment banker making a joke, but other people say it's a genuine government policy who knows. but, but certainly in terms of southern change and you know, this, eat this wonderful economic model in southern china, just across the border from hong kong is very much how beijing sees hong kong developing. so i think 25 years, we're going to see hong kong as a much more mainland china city, clinical and are china and hong kong expert. thank you very much. abandon some single use. plastics has come into force in india today. part of a government plan to reduce pollution. india is the world's 2nd biggest producer of classic waste. after the united states, plastic pollution has doubled over the past 5 years. all correspondence, maria chandry has this report. india plastic problem is massive. the environment when it's t says indians generate 3 and

a half 1000000 tons of plastic with a year. experts said the actual figure is much more that plastic products hum the environment is well known. and yet their youth is visible in everyday life. at this point to the market, for instance, it is something that both windows and buyers can seem to do without subdue. i'll go without plastic bags, it will get very tough for us vegetable sellers. we can't put all the vegetables together in the big bag. nobody will buy things like this on it. for years, the government has tried to reduce the plastic footprint. now it's taking a big step. banning single use plastic products. items which are huge once and it's got it. it's more easily blocked exact lauretha does. this is commonly, apart from these essential pollution control board has also announced a ban on other things. use plastic items such as the o, but can you see below stick polystyrene decoration do?

among other things, they took to dart, seen a waste management expert says the ben is a good starting point. yeah, he says plastic is not only about reefed, it causes serious health problems as well. you might have come across new rules with plastic has now been found in the blood stream. humans deep inside the lungs, even in b. b poops bait. so i think that is good enough evidence for us to identify what kind of plastics are problematic. and then we can make it ahead sing as touching, cycling can be one solution to solve the issue. last thing that we saw that does not appear to be changing much though. in fact, india as classic waste generation has doubled in the last 5 years. and there is increasing awareness about the problem. medina, laos, hardy, are rivers and drains are clogged with plastic and it's non biodegradable,

which is not good for our planet and environment in liberal will attorney. but i feel bad at all. the plastic bag is a good call by the government hobby of a lawsuit class that causes a lot of pollution and every person is affected by that and see how they got an equinox on it. but for some making such a change comes at a cost. they cannot afford what you look up on me. maybe some people stop buying from us if we don't give them these plastic bags, they say how they carry the vegetables. it becomes difficult for us. there must, you know that the di da says the government can only do so much. people need to change their lifestyle. only then will it truly make a difference? an authentic stuck on west swedish pole vaulting star mondo to plant us as set a new world record in front of a home crowd while competing in the diamond legally 22 year old delighted fans with a historic jumper of 6 meters. and 60. this marks the highest auto jump

in the history of men's pole vaulting. plants is also the record holder for highest indoor jump, which he set in march, clearing the height of 6 meters and 20 you watching dw news is a quick look at our top story. at this moment, ukraine says at least 19 people have been killed in russian missile strikes outside the port city of death. it's the latest in a series of intensified russian attacks across ukraine. that's it from me, i do seem a follow up. next is all kind of has talk show to the point that we're looking at whether the u. s. is still a model of democracy. got of thanks, vote ah,

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