then buckle up, put the pedal to the metal, and let's ride with read. in 60 minutes on d w. lou, what people have to say matters to us. but me, that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend on d. w. for russian forces, it is an important victory for the ukrainian military. the calculus just got harder on sunday. russian troops captured the city of missy shots giving them control of half of the dylan baths in eastern ukraine, ukraine's president says that this is only temporary, vowing to take back the city. as soon as his soldiers received the weapons promised

by the west of faster order and delivery service, is that what it will take to turn this war round? i'm broke off in berlin. this is the day ah, ready to move an offensive operation to liberate the new hunts people's republic was successfully carried out. you could have been a 2nd, mario fall. i mean, the modern pope. that's why there was a decision to withdrawal forces. who did? i hope that everything would continue in the same way as it has so far in lucon, sc coordinator for the city doesn't exist anymore. it's practically been wiped off the face of the f to pull that up. namely, we will return thanks to our tactics. thanks to the increase in the supply mountain weapons, ukraine is not giving anything up. ah,

also coming up a collapsing glacier in italy unleashes a deadly avalanche record. summer heat at europe's highest peaks and climate change are being blanked. we up, it's sad, i guess is that you to think that a block of ice, the size of an apartment building would break off and fold down with debris and huge chunks of rock. it's an unimaginable tragedy of thought that going on that as a gift for 30 to our viewers watching on p b. s in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome. we begin the day with the advancing russian troops in eastern new crate on sunday ukrainian forces drew from these strategically important city of lizzie shots. meaning the entire lu hunsicker region is now under russian control. keep insisting that this is only a temporary setback and bowing to reclaim the territory with new weaponry on the way most of it from the u. s. no turn around in the immediate future. however,

with russian force is expected to increase. shelling and air strikes on the city of soviets get an effort to push deeper into ukraine's heart lamp. now that russia controls with hans the region of dough nest will be the next frontline for more. i want to bring in frank lead, which he is a military analyst and a visiting fellow at the transit atlantic dialogue center in key. this good to have you on the show. again, we are hearing a lot about the symbolic significance of the loss of the city of lucy, chanst for ukraine on the how big of a loss militarily is? well, blank, good evening. the kinds i think i've been expecting this for quite a while and i think we need to put this in context that it's a successful on propaganda grounds to put in it's,

they recover is he would say the invasion and taking as you kind of rocky put of new hands, but what we've seen over the last couple of months is a consumer defense in abundance of concession of land and infliction of casualties on the russian russians. we've seen in the last few days as a brilliantly executed fighting retreat to, to, to assist the russians to flatten their front was wrong to the city crane is a platinum front on me. so we need to put this into context. remember the russians been trying to do is turn off months, taking thousands of casualties. it very, do you think that this makes it more likely that russians, territorial ambitions are possibly now bigger, larger than they were just yesterday brent? it's conceivable. i suspect that, as you said before, the russians will proceed now westward to try and finish the taking of the of the

don ask up last. and that would be a again, a propaganda cooper. and i don't think they're going to get farther than that though. certainly not for this year. the president of ukraine, mister zalinski, he has vowed to retake the territory, but he says that will be done once his troops get the deliveries the help of this advanced weaponry that is coming from western allies. how realistic is it? is it that calls on once they get the weapons, they'll be able to push the russians back. present zelinski is entirely right. the trouble is that the west has been direct feet and weapons to the ukrainians now for the last 3 months. and what ukrainians need is a far more institutional supply and training effort from nate on specifically and especially the united states, which has vast quantities of weapons, modern weapons, relatively much my pins in storage. and in due course,

i think that would enable the ukrainians to drive the rather ramshackle, but rather fire power heavy russian army back to where they belong. but this is a matter that's up to the west. if you can, you can use the tools to the job, but right now we're not getting those tools. last week, i'm sure you're aware of bleeders at the g 7 summer nato countries, a promise to military aid to ukraine. and i'm quoting for as long as it takes now after the fall of the city of lucy. sean, would you like to offer an idea tonight on how long long is that? once again, brian is a matter for the west if the ukrainians get what they need, they can finish this war against a ramshackle and poorly trained rather plated russian army quite quickly than not getting what they need. and this trip feed needs to turn into a flood if that it retake their lands. i suspect they'll make an attempt in the

next few months to take some ground in the south. but they can't be sure of success unless the west really steps up and right now, as long as it takes for me, it would seem to be a very long time. if you cranes don't get what they need, they'll hold, they'll hold their land, they will succeed in the end. but the question is, how long to weigh in the west one to inflict this war on that military analyst in visiting fellow at the trans atlantic dialogue center, frank led, which frank as always we appreciate your insight in your time tonight. thank you. thank you, brian. ah, by need of a little ladies and gentlemen to lee, as long as the ruins remain. so does the wall. okay, as long as the aggressor can hope to destroy the very foundation of life death, there will be no lasting piece after a while of them will. that is why the reconstruction of ukraine will be the

greatest possible contribution to maintaining global pace. la bio metal, the sheet that was ukranian president vladimir zalinski, appealing for the money and the means to rebuild his country once the russian invasion is over, in switzerland, ukrainian officials and international leaders are meeting to talk money. how to fund post war reconstruction, no doubt foreign assistance will be necessary, but many ukrainians are not willing to wait that long for any helping hands signs of death and destruction everywhere. but also signs of life and rebuilding. this is the village of yeah, hid ne, in northern ukraine. after the occupiers left, the people got to work with people here, a grieving look. but while our soldiers in the east are protecting us, we are working here in many places, the task is monumental. in the city of hack heave after months of russian selling

his team of foreign volunteers and local architects created 3 d models of the hundreds of monuments that have been damaged or destroyed. documenting what was there for future rebuilding on? no one thinks that will happen fast, you're doing so i think it won't just take a year more likely 2 years from the destruction is everywhere. but you should also consider that some of these buildings are architectural monuments. it's not just basic repair work because he does need you, but who will pay for it when the fighting is finally over the ukrainian economy? it's a ruined line at the last donor conference. the new pledge just under 10000000000 euros to help. but that's a fraction of the estimated hundreds of billions needed to rebuild ukraine's critical infrastructure housing, vital services, and help the economy to get up and running. there have been calls for a modern marshal plan, the u. s. projects that helped rebuild europe after world war 2, but so far,

not much commitment. there are also been calls to use frozen russian assets, including yachts, to pay for reconstruction. but nothing's been agreed yet. meanwhile, cities like mary paul have been largely flattened under still under russian control, the russian installed government there has announced that the port city and former steel making power house will be rebuilt as a resort in the capital keys, which has been relatively safe for months. people know that time is not on their side and they can't wait for official health. residents are fixing this high rise as fast as they can. fearful of being left homeless next winter. but you can't say they lack a sense of humour when you fill me personally. when he left only one neighbor asks another, what are you going to do? work on the facade of the house, but i might get hit by

a minute. and it also might not building back knowing that it all might be undone again in an instant even far from the front lines as the war grinds on in the east of a more now i want to bring in alexander share, but he is a former ambassador to austria from ukraine, he is currently chief advisor to the c e o of nato. gus and she craned state energy company. he's also the author of the book, ukraine versus darkness, which draws upon his decades of experience. as a career diplomat and speech writer for ukrainian leaders, whichever is good to have you on the program. again a what is happening? let me start with this conference in switzerland. in the best case scenario. what could come out of this reconstruction conference for you? great. well the best case scenario is that the countries of the world

of the democratic world of the free world make a pledge, answer oh, home until village after the war. and so that this, that just gives the priority right now to win this war. ah, once we win this war, rules liberate. and after that we'll roll up our sleeves and hopefully will be helpful for all the people will rebuild this coffee. the did it after the will go to will do it after the will those 3 that's taking place right now in our grounds, again, i know that a lot of people, particularly there in ukraine, want to talk about reconstruction. but from the outside looks like you may be putting the, the cart before the horse, talk to me about what level of support you need. how much money does ukraine need in order to win this war? bo, we, what we need is heavy weapons. costly on the price of course,

but we just, it has been an emotional rollercoaster in the last couple of weeks with ukraine losing ground and winning some wrong in the south. but most importantly, the last days we have finally a couple of very modern, sophisticated, long rocket systems. and all of a sudden ration munition depos burning all over the place. and just with 4 or 5 of those. if we have 20 or 40 of those, it would be a completely different war. so we are not counting how much money the world goes. we are just saying we need the weapon. well, i know you need to weapons and president zelinski. he has made that clear. but what about money to help you? great, continue funding. public services a be get talk to me about, is there

a figure there that you can throw out there? because obviously your economy is taking a big hit. you know, of course we need $5000000000.00 every month and countries of the world have to get us talk to submit it to us and hopefully we are getting it. so, lot of boys with the winter coming that would need help or survive in the winter because they're not producing enough natural gas. so it would be from $7.00 to $8000000000.00. so why in the winter now to get your handle that kind of money today, ukraine's prime minister said that wealthy russians should pay to rebuild ukraine. i mean, do you think that frozen russian assets could be used in that way?

they should be used in the way if the world has, the godson has the courage to do the right thing. because of course, it's very unorthodox to take someone's property or get it, or asian put this on just a brutal war. but this is the kind of unusual situation that meets unusual solutions. i thought it would be only fair to take away this ill gotten reaches from russian oligarchs, and from the russian state by frankly, and give it to crane to rebuild what has been, has been destroyed a couple of weeks ago when you and i last spoke, we were talking about the, the idea of a marshall plan for ukraine. we have, we seen progress on that? do we know how much would be needed in a martial plan? well, the conference in logan was, of course,

a huge milestone and in that direction. so i, i just, it shows the gold wheel, i cannot say what kind of financial wages were made in the system in switzerland and, but it's, it's, it's certainly a boost the morale and gives us more open, more our face in ourselves, in our victory, quite frankly, we are, that's one of the favorite topics, the conversations here, how differently we make this country once this war is over. and once this, the whole world is standing with us and helping us rebuild this country that we cannot allow just afford just rebuilding the country. we was built in the country for you with sam's and the know will know what those sins were. ms shepherd, when i ask you one more question about weapons i was looking at the numbers so far

in this war, the united states has since it's estimated about $28000000000.00 worth of weapons to ukraine among the europeans. the u. k. has sent about $3000000000.00 worth germany, france. it's almost negligible when you're talking about comparing it with the united states. do you think that continental europe is acting like this? conflict in ukraine? doesn't exist and is going to go away on its own. so certainly many people horse still hope that so at some point this stranger russians and ukrainians will elaborate a deal within themselves and things will come back to what they used to be. oh, of course, reasonable people are people who understand the depth of this. so you know, rabbit hole in which russia fell and wrecked europe with it,

but they don't believe that. but unfortunately many people in business aren't that deep. and unfortunately. ready so yes, there is this and quite frankly, i expected more from germany, the, this german, how bits are with hers that have been supplied to brain. uh, not too many, but even those single ones that already great. my god, our soldiers are saying this is, this is the marvelous piece of technology. they can make all the difference in this world and that would be such a huge promotion for john, you know, mastery of doing things. yeah. it's, it's a very good point, and time will tell as we been hearing now 4 months mr. alexander share. but in keith as always, we appreciate your time and your insights. thank you. thank you. oh,

summer thunderstorms are hampering the search in the italian else for more than a dozen hikers, it's feared that they were caught in an avalanche triggered when a huge chunk of a glacier collapsed on sunday. so far rescue services have confirmed 7 people who die. the break left a huge scar in the glacier. drone searched through the night for people caught in the collapse, but rescue teams had to pause their ground based search out of fear that more ice would fool. still mean to competent, there to be clear, it's a difficult situation for the rescue workers least working there is very dangerous at the moment we chair but equal to so like it was early afternoon when a huge column of ice on the face of the melodic leisha broke off triggering an avalanche of ice and rock that hit at least 2 groups of high cuz the dead and missing from several countries, including italy, germany and the czech republic. it's still unknown exactly how many mountain he has

remained on, accounted for. relatives have begun arriving to identify their dead loved ones, a gruesome task. the condition of the bodies makes it more difficult as one rescue describe. they are torn apart the chicken, which trying to organize it in a dignified and sensitive way. done that, that's all we can do to help these people know so as said, adequate to push them off of free at a little echo experts, a decades of global warming have likely we conflict leisha, italy is experiencing and especially hot summer this year this weekend. so record temperatures, lack of snow and winter has compounded the problem, leaving the glacier without protection from the summer sun. for each slip, boy, jonathan bamber. he is a professor of earth observation, and lacy ology with the university of bristol and the technical university. in munich, he georgia, tonight from the u. k. professor, it's good to have you on the program. what do you say, what, why clean triggered this disaster?

well, there were 2 compounding factors. so as you report said, i'm, i mean no initially is experiencing quite severe drought and the fact i think is throughout the whole of the winter there was almost no fresh snowfall. i know that myself because i i do see mountaineering and, and there was several racism. the italian don't much the have to cancel because it just no snow next to the winter. so they had very low snowfall and snow. it acts like an inch lighting blan blanket over the surface of the ice. it's, it reflects a lot. so ation, it's got quite a lot of air in it. so it's, it's quite effective thermal blanket for the ice underneath when it falls in winter season. not very little law. and the 2nd factor is it's very warm conditions, unusually warm weather process, dolomites and i believe the avalanche took place in the early afternoon, which is the out the kind of worst time of day because you have the highest temperatures. and i think at the summit for top of the glass,

it was about plus 10 degrees. that's really very warm. you get a lot water formed. it, it, it for it forms it is on the surface, the glass you not cause it's what's called hydro fracture. and if i'm to says he has a lay person here, but considering how, how dry it's been and how warm, how hot it is right now. you know, this didn't have to happen. this actually didn't have to happen. right. or do you think that hikers are being careless now by getting as high as close to the glaciers as they're doing in the summer? oh, that's a difficult question to answer. and i think the very 1st thing we need to remember is that at least 7 people died tragically in this accident. it's probably going to be more luck and they were going out doing, doing things so that you know, many of us, me included,

love today which is being in the mountains. and i don't think they were being overly reckless, you know. but, you know, doing being in the mountains, in the sauce conditions, it's going to get increasingly more as of this, you know, in 2015 the authorities in the french house, close the normal route up because it was too dangerous to keep. we're dying up some rank or what on the beach every on, on mobile and, and the same thing happened in 2003. this is going to get a more frequent occurrence as we get warm. well, you try winters woman will miss summers more glasser ice exposed. that is melting faster and i think, you know, it's, it's, it's going to become a more hazardous environment operate. it does not mean we shouldn't go into the mountains. i don't think so. you know, like it's the many risks in life. you just after you have

a little bit more cautious and so, you know, careful what time of day you go, what time see what time you. here you go, wait, you go. well, i know you've got a lot of experience researching and just being on glaciers. i mean, you know, the terrain we're, we're talking about. i get the sense that with climate change with it, with the melting accelerating these glaciers are almost becoming changing by the hour or the day or the month if you will, into completely different bees that we have to comprehend. it's almost like it's changing more quickly or too quick quickly for us to predict. i wouldn't say it then we can predict, but it's, it's faster than we ever anticipated. and, you know, i've seen it with my own eyes. i remember, you know, i, i plan to very famous with no faces. yeah, i get 30 years ago and there was just a section called the 2nd i still,

i did it in some of the 2nd. it no longer exists. it's not there anymore. it's just gone, one of the most famous roots and you know, lots in 30 years. i think that it's a surprise to many of us how rapidly things are changing. yeah, i think what people would agree with you is it's, it's hard to comprehend how quickly things have changed and are changing because you all are just jonathan. remember, we appreciate your time and your insights tonight, professor, thank you. ah, today is independence day, the united states, and that means fireworks parades in bands, but they're playing a slightly different tune this year. emitting to cough skis, 1812 overture. the, with the ongoing war in ukraine. bands across america thought that it might be very

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