ah ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin, missiles strike in ukraine. so desa region. ukraine says that he's 19, people are dead after russian aircraft fired missiles that hit an apartment building and other targets. utah comes a day off, the russia abandoned the black sea island, but it seized early in the war. and china celebrates 25 years since the united

kingdom and its back. hong kong president, gigi, and ping in 5th hong kong can maintain its own laws. as a badge, a hard line that takes over as then territories new liter. ah, i'm gabelle as well. come to the program. russian missiles half hit, the ukrainian regional for desa officials. they're say they have killed at least 19 people. missiles fired from russian aircraft hit an apartment building and the town of said, we've got killing a residence and sparking a fire rescue as we're searching for people buried in the rubble and other missile hit a nearby recreation center. russia has intensified attacks on ukraine of the last 2 weeks. it is also withdrawn from the strategically important snake island,

may make it possible to restore c access to odessa sport. do you have your correspondent manuel shaws is covering developments for us from odessa. and earlier i asked about this latest missile strike, while gary dismissal strike occurred on midnight time. last night there was an air air read alert that we heard. oh, so here in a dare sign it's truck about 70 kilometers sauce of what they saw 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. 8 of desolation does a lot of animals which are been killed as well as pets to were in those apartments as much as a few dogs. still barking bare the emergency services still search the robbers. but at this stage, it would be for more bodies or so seen of devastation of desolation as we,

we are very sorry. we 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? where 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 makes a city or perhaps more vulnerable dr. dr. places in central of, or western ukraine on. oh so you know, those are air air red alerts. so quite regularly, you know, people take shelter quickly because the missiles are simply not her not very far. and you know, here i'm standing in a street. we in a ford city, we don't see the c. and as a reason to it, we're not allowed to fin the seat because they are already is asking that the movie

. so the coast line, the more clues we might, a gave also to the russian army to, you know, find any targets. now the russian troops, as we've heard and have withdrawn from a snake island just that's just south of odessa. tell us more about that. while this is there a both a symbolic victory for ukraine and a very strategic one. symbolic why? well, because snake ireland was one of the 1st rush and 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 on armed forces me gaining control of snake island mean every gain 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 it. humanitarian efforts are but you know,

with the choice continuing indiscriminately on civilian targets. one might wonder what these good will really is while i was out there in odessa for us. thank you. m in the face of russia's war, ukrainian lawmakers held the session to welcome their progress towards joining the european union. the 27 member block cleared the way for you cran succession. last month. in a symbolic moment, the you fly was placed in the chamber of the fair off narada that ukraine's parliament european commission president was la fonder lion joined by a video link, urging lawmakers to make more reforms to tack a corruption and the influences of oligarchs, and also protect the independent me ukraine's membership. it could take several years to complete. and you have the 2, the tech republic takes over the european union's rotating presidency today, progress vowing to focus on the war and ukraine,

and is repercussions including refugees, energy and security, and keeping the $27.00 member block united against russia. did obvious correspondence, christine montoya, reports from proc 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 to take presidency. think over presidents it in time for inflation is very high when our war is so close to our sir in ukraine. and her russian aggression against the grain is of course a main topic. her for all of us. the chick republic has welcomed nearly 400000 ukranian refugees and provided significant financial and military aid to keep 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 is huge for us. so it's a really enormous sir. the dependency on the rational gas and oil, and turn, we have to find a solution for all of us. about 30 tick republic knows this would be, have in forcible only a 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 so here in prague favor continued support for ukraine and a hard 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 of the chick republics presidency is an opportunity for the country to act as a mediator is great, as we have tackled public as a presidency country. now, because you know they are the perfect fit for this job. if there is 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 it's 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. it will in ukraine, is anywhere close to ending. prague will be tested only to ability to keep e u countries in lock step over the response to the worst crisis in europe. since the 2nd world war turkey,

the turkey's president has again suggested he may hinder sweden and finland nato desires. his statement directly follows a nato summit that formerly invited the nordic countries to join the western military alliance. as a ty bad one told reporters after the madrid summit that finished and sweden still had to quote, fulfill 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 as he sees as terrorists. according to turkey has blocked the internet, access to dodge, develop, and voice of america's websites. turkey wanted the broadcast as to obtain a license in february, the w did not comply with a request out of concern that it would allow the turkish government to censor editorial content to w. o direct, the general peter limbo has pledged to take legal action against the decision.

sophomore 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 turkish court said we'll talk lawmakers said that we definitely need a license to broadcast in turkey and will not agree to this because we think that as the director general said 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 said ok, in that case we have to investigate a little bit more and we'll let you know. but as you see, they plucked us 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 brighter media broadcasting in turkey. 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 words. we are looking at 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 turkish program, but now they band the whole, the d, w dot com and which is not appropriate. any idea where, 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 in the soon as they can. but definitely d, w will not apply for such kind of license. thank you very much and have dw turkish

as have looked at some of the other stories making headline to run headlines around the world. in italy, a heat warning has been issued for some 20 cities with people being urged to avoid the afternoon sun. the heat wave is likely to worsen the countries already severe drought. in rome, the tiber river has fallen to those levels, exposing the remains of this bridge built nearly 2000 years ago. landslide has engulfed parts of a town in northern peru. video captured the moment is swept over at least 150 homes, sending a huge cloud of dust into the air. no deaths were reported, but officials have been searching for missing people, as well with the government in ecuador has signed a deal with indigenous leaders, bringing the men 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 may have been killed in the unrest. shanghai, as disney theme park has reopened for the 1st time and more than 3 months, welcoming thousands of the park was closed during the city's recent lockdown to control an outbreak of cov 90 shanghai. as since eased restrictions, authorities set locally transmitted cases are fallen to 0. china's presidency jan paying has concluded a visit to hong kong to mock 25 years since the united kingdom and it over control of the territory to china during the visit. she prized the one country to systems policy, which is allowed hong kong to have its own laws. he said the policy was a success and would remain in place, but that hong kong must respect chinese leadership. she oversaw this wearing in of hong kong, new chief executive john lee. he's a she loyalists and former security chief who helped track down on the pro

democracy protests. but it has been tightening its grip on the city. here's a look at how hong kong has changed since the british 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 hunter, but only from a short list of approved candidates. while you young ga. gov, you can come young 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 is 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 that was me of the city w reporter to recount. if you've lived in hong kong, you've covered the hand over 90971997. yes. and you were, those are there covering the protest in a 2019, how much of that?

hong kong you knew then is left what i think there's been a, there's definitely a lot of continuity there. one thing is that, you know, the spirit of hong kong people are very pragmatic. people somehow, you know, in not just you 7, they felt a bit abandoned by, by the u. k. but people say, okay, we're gonna 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 protest, there was a real sense of resignation. but am and everyone 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, it went the other way, went to completely other direction. but in many ways it ties in with a whole sort of misleading, in many ways of, of china. generally, the belief that engagement with china would bring about change in china. where is it comes for change on is not interested in changing. it's actually, it feels it's, it's been very successful and it's more, you know, as we see now under siege and paying, it's much more interested in its model, being something that the rest of the world can learn from. now, in his speech marketing, this anniversary. jumping 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 am, 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 new chief executive john lee is a former police chief. basically, hong kong is, is coming under much more under china's grip and the one country to system saying, 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 are 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 sides. jen, jen, and i know 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 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 it 25 years, we're going to see hong kong as a much more mainland china city, clinical, and our china and hong kong expert. thank you very much. for decades, germany has struggled to own up to his colonial history history in africa. one aspect of that is stolen cultural artifacts, which are now on display at several german museums, a collection known as the benign bronzes. our case, our case in point, the british sold them throughout europe in the 19th century. now berlin is to sign a deal formally recognizing the pieces as property of nigeria. at the center of the colonialism debate in germany, the pending bruncess,

in 1897 british forces looted thousands of the art treasures from the royal palace in been martin de nigeria. many ended up in german museums. more than 400, i enter lynch, humbled forum. a long battle over the looted art is now ending. both germany and nigeria have to care nigeria, the rightful owner of the place. and sculptures is a good today started moment for us for our 2 countries that we are now going to sign the agreement. so, you know, for the return of the been in bronsels. the breakthrough means the objects can return to their homeland. it's also a radical change in perspective for germany's museums thus benoit. it is i what does change of ownership mean as bowdoin it it means that we western museums in the northern hemisphere and cannot simply determine the narrative of

these benign bronzes. any longer rhodesian being gone so it belongs to mere attain, couldn't nigeria? we'll decide which artworks will return the government once to build a new museum to house the bronzes, partly financed by germany. so as is up professionals, it is important for us to discuss on issues and areas of collaborations. so that would be able to benefit from this, you know, of toddler, patricia museums across europe are starting to opt for collaboration after years of confrontation. but the british museum has refused to give back. it's $900.00 bruncess. the issue has also become a baker public debate in farms in germany, negotiations are ongoing to keep at least some of the works in the country on permanent loan without moscow now, ab

u. s. basketball star brittany griner is on trial on the charge of transportation of drugs. the hearing began to day 4 months after she was 1st arrested while traveling to play basketball in russia. griner was detained at the moscow area airport after cannabis oil was allegedly found in her luggage. in february, the drug charges griner faces carrier centers of up to 10 years. more on this, the screen philip had nothing. dw sports, philip, give us a breakdown of what happened when in this case. so this case all began on the 17th of february, that is when griner was traveling to russia to play basketball there. and that is when custom agents discovered that there was allegedly cannabis oil in her bay cartridges that she had brought today. the court has actually said the prosecution is that how much quantity of kind of was or was allegedly found. we're talking about 0.7 grams, 0.7017 grams. and that faces potentially 10 years in prison in russia. so that's

what we're dealing with. it took the u. s. government, 2 months after she was initially detained, to declare her as wrongfully detained. so a very long time as well on the preliminary hearing took place on the 29th of june . her detention was then extend it another 6 months. and there was also a court date of given that is today the 4th of july. and today the hearing has started. there is no press allowed in the courtroom at the time being during the hearing. and also the lawyer has said of brittany runner, that it's approximately 2 months time period that they're looking at until the verdict is reached. talking about the verdict was one of the chances of a very that goes in favor. those are very likely others chance are very, very small. quit, all right, in the russian justice system is under one percent. so that also speaks for itself . there's also talks that russian officials often planned evidence such as narcotics on people that they're trying to detain for political reasons. such,

the common has said that this is not a political ordeal. however, looking at the facts, it seems quite the opposite. that griner is indeed a political power in this situation. there is one perhaps scenario that might see her free sooner than later, and that is a prisoner exchange. russian media have said that there are ongoing talks between the by net ministration on the one hand and russian government about next change. that was c griner and victor about being exchange for one another. victor about is and arms dealer who has the nickname, the merchant of death, and he's been a prison in the u. s. in the year, 2008 for a total of 25 years. when asked about this, you as officials declined to comment on it, so they have neither confirmed nor denied. now what are the reactions live regarding a situation also the start of the trial? so petition has been signed by over 300000 people at this point for the u. s. government to take more consequent actions in order to bring her back home to the u

. s. there's also a big outcry by fans, by family, by friends, of course. but people are still quite furious that this is not something that has been on public display and then the government is doing more. there's also big talks about equal pay regarding men and women. so are in context is being paid $230000.00 to play in the w and b a for one season. over in russia it is up to a 1000000 and it is after tax. so that is the reason why she was there in the 1st place. so that is why people argue, had she been paid fairly and the w and b a, this whole case would have never happened to keep following this story for you all, colleagues, it on it. thank you very much, philip. and that's it from my philip and me and the rest of the news team do not go away. are up. next is our help. so in good shape, looking at how to tackle stress. don't forget our website as well for all your

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