this week on d w ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin. ukraine regroups its forces to defend done that the region is next in russia's sides after it captured the bulk of neighboring lu hans residents are racing to escape cities now on the new front line . also coming up in the united states, 4th of july, celebrations are marked by yet another mass shooting police in chicago say at least 6 people are dead and 36 wounded after

a man fired from a rooftop during an independent stay parade. a suspect is now in cost plus, australia expands, its evacuation orders as flooding continues, some $50000.00 residents around sydney are told to abandon their homes with a loud wrist remaining, even as the rain subsides. ah . hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. ukraine's military says is regrouping its forces to defend the donetta region from russian attacks. residents are racing to about evacuate from cities now on the front line. russia is increasing pressure on the city of slow but slow young square missiles have destroyed homes and killed several people. in recent days. on monday, ukraine announced it had withdrawn its forces from the city of dizzy chance in an

effort to save its troops. lives with the streets of lisa chance have fallen quiet, but the wreckage is everywhere. the capture of the city means that all the lou haskell region is now in russian hands and objective that moscow has coveted. since that war began in february, ukrainian military commanders ordered their forces to pull back, rather than attempting to hold the city. for the exhausted soldiers who retreated, rushes, artillery advantage proved overwhelming. not schools. fourthly, let's see. there is at least 5 times more russian artillery here than what we have a glory been up to 10 times more daily within point up to $169.00 enemy physicians that are active. all of the same time ukrainian forces have retreated to the don, yet screeching, which along with lu hans makes up the white don bus one here

they have been re enforcing defensive positions for months. but russian forces have already turned the eye towards the donnie. it's gretchen, particularly the major cities of slow vianza and crime at oscar. slow vianza has been bombarded for over a week now, leaving many residents with little options, but to evacuate the abilene high, we went to the city literally for 2 days to pick up my things and now death. now we're trying to take everything we have and to me because life here has become scary, we only had time to evacuate the children long ago. i don't know. i think it's only going to get worse. i don't even know. i'm already thinking about leaving. it would be wise not to expect things to get better. those who stay behind a bracing for the worst. as the front line creeps ever closer,

i spoke earlier with dw corresponded, manuel shes in kia and asked her where she expects the main flashpoints to be in the den ask region. well sorry, that was sir. very much expected. as it looked more and more likely that sir, russia would install its of forces in a new hands. so de ukraine, an armed forces had been prepared, you know, to have retreated from san antonio, then to have retreated from lazy chance. they could have done so much earlier. but it seems to have been a tactic to also, you know, try to exhaust as much as possible of the russian for caesar in that area. perhaps to prepare a new line of defense, which is now situated in the area between sloppy and spark, more back moved, in contrast to where we can expect again, that very fierce fighting. yesterday we've had a governor of little harm. sadly, i had a acknowledging, you know, that little house was now under russian control,

but it's, he says, this is one battle, this warmed determined, the outcome of the war momentum on the battlefield appears to be with russia for now. emma, how is that affecting more morale? only ukrainian sought well, like i said, i think ukrainians d, the expect a rush hour to make some gains in no hands. this has been an objective for moscow from the onset of the war and even more so after they failed to seize the capital. here in p if so, i think this victory are, for russia doesn't necessarily an odd add on to the morale at the already low morale of ukrainians when it comes to russians invading their country. i think there's also a lot of hope, a key from the ukranian side, when we look at the se, se in the front or in the direction of harrison in the direction of michel i have

where indeed ukrainian or armed forces or have her begin quite consistently. to retake villages and also a discount or offensive sees, you know, a lot of western weapons being used to destroy her, for example, a russian, i'm munition warehouses and the likes as so as there are victories. oh, so in a southern, so finding particular and i think that the attention of ukrainians is rather focused on doth other mountains. it always money was shown i was talking to me a little earlier from kia now in the united states independence day celebrations were marred by a mass shooting that left 6 people dead and 30 injured in the chicago suburb highland park. a gunman opened fire from a rooftop striking crowds gathered for a 4th of july parade. after hours of uncertainty, police have detained a 22 year old suspect. it was supposed to be a day of celebration of fun with friends and family. instead,

people had to run for their lives. minutes earlier, families with young children had been gathering for the parade. when gunshots suddenly bang out. oh, panic, parents trying to protect their children. i remember hearing shootings and go, i like all i thought about us is you know, getting my daughter to safety and i ran with her. we went to the nearest mcdonalds and you know, she lost her shoe along the way, my daughter and soon, you know, she was scared, started shooting again. and we ran behind the building and i put my, my son in a dumpster. and he sit there with his dogs and i went back to look the rest of my family. it was horrible. police say the shoes have fired into the crowd from a nearby rooftop with a high powered rifle. 5 people were killed at the scene,

another victim died and hospital. dozens of people were injured among them. children. the attack comes just a month after 2 mast shootings in texas and new york. it is devastating that a celebration of america was ripped, apart by our uniquely american plague. a day dedicated to freedom has put into stark relief. the one freedom we as a nation, refused to uphold the freedom of our fellow citizens to live without the daily fear of gun violence. the shoes are managed to flee before police storm, the rooftop authorities issued a stay at home order for residence in the area. while a huge man hunt got underway. meanwhile, police announced that had identified a 22 year old man as a person of interest. he was arrested without incident and taken into custody more than 8 hours after the shooting. a shooting. that means that for some families,

july 4th will no longer be associated with celebration. but with tara and grief, sketch up on some other stories making headlines around the world today. italy has declared a state of emergency and 5 of its northern regions in the midst of the worst drought in 70 years. major rivers are drawing up and the lack of water is now threatening. summer harvests of fruit and vegetables. sedans, military says it will withdraw from political talks and make way for a civilian rule. acount october ousted civilian leaders from a transitional government and prompted international condemnation and aid cuts pro democracy protesters have been calling on the army to step back from politics. u. s . investigators have concluded that palestinian american journalist sharina of r clay was killed likely killed by an unintentional israeli fire,

but the ballistics test on the bullet that killed her has proved inconclusive. the prominent al jazeera journalist was shot dead in may, while covering in israeli military operation in the occupied west. bank. protests have taken place in the us state of ohio following the release of body cam footage, showing police shooting an unarmed black man. 25 year old jalen walker was found with over 60 gunshot wounds after he tried to run following a minor traffic violation. in australia, evacuation warnings have been expanded to cover some 50000 homes. as plotting continues around, sidney emergency response teams made about a 100 rescues overnight. hundreds of homes have been effected while clean up work has begun in some parts of sydney authorities up and down the country's east coast or warning that the threat is not over yet. with many more people they're still in

danger. i spoke to a while ago about the floods with environmental journalist, laura chung in sydney. so what when thankfully starting to say is conditions easing tonight and hopefully in to tomorrow. we seen the worst of the conditions, particularly he had graded, sidney, newcastle, and the yellow war regions. as we've seen a lot at least, ice is received more than their monthly average rank just 5 days, which is 90 or just how much rain like yet that now as you said, is now moving to that recovery stage. so for a lot of these people involved starting to clean out their houses and they hired using houses and a lot of water to get that mud and debris that's flooded into their hearts out. but the important thing to remember is that a lot of these communities we hired by floods only 3 or 4 months ago. and this is about the 3rd or 4th time they've actually been in the last 2 years. so there is a general sense in asking question and tiredness authorities been dealing with all

this authorities a used to dealing with floods. it's not something that's completely unheard of. and to see here in these communities that do live in these flood prone areas, what we don't usually see is floods on these type of scale. so the emergency services have admitted that they are stretched because they are looking after such an enormous amount of plant. but what we are seeing is people getting rescued, we are seeing that evacuation or is getting out and emergency services a just doing their best to keep ahead of this really dynamic where the front door australians attribute these extreme weather patterns to climate change. laurel they absolutely do, and it's been a really important discussion in the late out south israel election just a couple of months ago. and was really interesting to remember that we just had a linear weather event. i rouse sama, which means that we've seen above average tre. oh, and we're now starting to the into mast own season, which means that we will see events like this happen

a bit more frequently. but we're climate change starts to get worse. we will start to see these events becoming more frequent and warned him laura, thank you very much, shaw. that was journalist. laura chung there in sydney, italy's prime minister has suggested climate change contributed to the melting of mountain glaciers that collapsed killing at least 7 people. thunderstorms of hamper the search for more than a dozen hikers still missing in the italian lp's after a huge chunk of a glacier broke off on sunday, causing an avalanche rescue services. se there's little chance of finding the hikers alive. 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 full restore mental company. 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 my it was early afternoon when a huge column of ice on the face of the mama, loud iglesia, 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 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 are described. they are told apart the chimney, we're trying to organize it in a dignified and sensitive way done. that's all we can do to help these people know so as said, adequate to push them or feel free to lack of expert say, 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,

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