ah ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin. you plenty of missiles strike russian held territory in the south region. ukraine's military says it here to russian ammunition dep, hope russia claims 7 died and civilian infrastructure was hit. we take a look at the role drones playing in the conflict and we made some of the ukrainian

refugees building drugs in latvia for the war. a questions about the whereabouts of tree lank as president? got a bio roger pop chef president has been seen since friday. protested camp out at the presidential palace. he might try to play the country before he stooped to resign. us nasa releases the 1st full color image from the largest, the most powerful space telescope ever launched. the revolutionary james web telescope is designed to peer through the cosmos, the dawn of the universe. ah, i've been visible and nice to have you along. as russian shelling intensifies in easton, ukraine caves forces have launched a counter attack in the southern hassan region. they say they've destroyed an ammunition step out russia state use agency claims,

at least 7 people were killed and dozens injured in the attack in the russian hill . town of nova cancel that elsewhere in ukraine, south, the city of miracle life was the target of russian strikes, medical facilities and residential buildings were hit, at least a dozen people were injured. he w, corresponded nick connelly is in keith. he updated us on this developing shifts in the direction of the war was certainly it seems like the south of ukraine that has been a bit of a kind of side show to most of the action in the east is now coming into focus activity. maturity really ramping up there as ukraine tries to push the russians out, and the russians respond as that attack on the west coast guard. there. we definitely see the russians trying to accuse the ukrainians of inflicting civilian casualties of not being able to hit military targets as you know, as intended for that subsea. a reaction to them really coming in for a lot of heat for those significant move civilian deaths. we've seen cross country

recent days and they're really realizing that this is not doing them any good internationally. and now really an attempt to accuse, give, doing the same thing, although they have brought any proof yet no images of civilians available yet, just some identifiable ruins african mac alive. it's a big city that was already more than half empty. and you know, the calls from the authorities there to leave, have been in place for weeks now. and i think people who previous maybe thought that they could get by somehow and now deciding that it is time to go, even though it's considered it's held by ukraine. it is just to close the front lines and inconstant threat of being attacked. and what's happening on the know the border with ballard. bruce, you've just come from there. what, what did you find? so it's an easy region. it's a part of the country that has not seen a lot of fighting for the last couple of months when the russian forces left the region around kia. it's only about a 100 kilometers where i am here, but they are very conscious. the fact that russian excise is russian, except with bell, russian forces are ramping up and that,

that risk is ever present. and but lots of people, they're fearful that now russia might take this opportunity to open another front to try and distract ukrainian forces from the battlefields of the rest the country . let's have a look at what they had say here when you cranes board with bruce, who never really alone movement. not through not sure that drones, one of ours blown actually it is. but that's not a given. it was a russian drone attack from across the border. the started the war for these ukrainian border guards on february 24th. they tried to keep russian forces on the bellows side by blowing up the bridge. but the russians came all the same and stayed for nearly a month. since the russians left in april. the shooting route here is lock you been restricted to exercises on both sides of the border. fear now,

among many ukrainians is that russia's exercises and bellows could suddenly turn into real warfare just like they did in february. russian forces have never left bellows. instead, their so called exercises keep getting extended. ukrainian leaders long said their presence was just a distraction or a bluff rather than a real threat. but recently rushed troop members of the board have risen in the turn from belarus and leader alexander lucas shenker has grown ever more aggressive . ukraine's actions are also speaking a different language. these images from the bell, russian government apparently show ukrainian forces mining their side of the border in recent days. much of the 1000 kilometer frontier, which in ukraine and belarus, was barely marked, let alone defended before this war. back then trips across the board of groceries to see a doctor or part of everyday life is not all that you ca, ruiz, to go to bella ruth law and they would come to us before you die. all just got on

somehow little the. i didn't even think a war like this was even possible. i shown the whole or who knows what slack center they do my. the war has taken its toll on many family ties to span this border var, the last, what is not many people here in the village have relatives unable a russian side, religion. some of them have stopped talking to each other because of the war. i believe ukraine will when eventually it has to woo, we can't afford to lose many locals. here. we've given up their jobs to try to make sure that holds true. what you, what on it? we have a security guard. we're g, a driver, shop assistants here. but other than locksmiths? ah, unless he is lazara constantine's life changed overnight. he was called up put in charge of dozens of men. the territorial defense force. his experience, some brief military training university had never actually fought over me. she is fundamental to me and a lot of people and other places gotten,

know what it feels like when in the line, bombs are falling when your child is terrified of everything on our way of so you've shown up the club one most of us here have never even been in a fight until the war looked a little bit. yup. and then when it starts off, you know, or if the enemy comes for, if you do what you need to do, when will the d and without thinking twice in astronomy would assume new i'd say, yet masvie here might seem relaxed, domestic neighbors, even fathers and son serving side by side, the real sense of threat is never far away. caughtington tells us he's never yet had to call a family with news of a fatality. it doesn't sound sure, it'll stay that way. nick, what is the likelihood of a new front darkening in the north? well, that's the middle of the question. i think the, the most will need to remember in all this is that no one thought that russia would launch the kind of offensive on all fronts. they did in the end of february,

back then we went around these border regions of people were just kind of focused on their local problems and just dismissing all this as a bit of bluff as a bit of political theatre. now i think you really noticed a change in tone in recent weeks when they've seen more and more russian tech, more and more russian equipment ending up in these border regions and the frustration growing in moscow that they are just not making the kind of huge gains the kind of crushing blows to ukraine's military that they had expected to make the western alice had expected them to make. and that now this is increasingly attractive to moscow as an alternative, as a way of trying to spread ukraine more thinly forcing ukraine to defend that 1000 kilometer border dollars. and israel force away from the don't bus by russia is making it volts is. but no, any at the pace that they want to economy for us in cave. thank you very much. the reporting the united states says it has intelligence that iran is preparing to deliver and drones to the russian military. the u. s.

says it's unclear whether any drones have already been delivered, but the run said to train russian forces on their use this month. the kremlin announced the president vladimir putin will visit around next week. we're working closely across every dimension. drones have been used by both sides since the beginning of the war in ukraine. for our next report, the w's claimed by a visitor to factory in the lap and capital riga, that struggling to keep up with demand. ukrainian forces have come to rely on recognizance drones in their fight against the russian invasion. a few weeks ago these ukrainian refugees did not know which way to turn a screwdriver. now they're building drones for the ukrainian army. atlas aerospace, the latvian company, they now work for saw an explosion in demand for military grade recognizance drones with the onset of the war in ukraine previously was like i was happy to sell 10

drawn spell monson. now you, if you're talking about the extra 100 fare financing of stuff to think him, if he's not enough and we need to sell to think how we're going to sell more. atlas builds drones that are small enough to be carried by one soldier. they are highly sought after by ukrainian special forces units equipped with these drones can cover large areas for reconnaissance and stream their video feeds back to base in real time in for read thermal imaging cameras turn night into day. atlas says tools like this help save soldiers lives and the ukrainians are buying so far more than 100. drones have already been delivered. the battleship has become a bit more transparent, maybe. and you have soldiers that are just more independent can act independently because they already have all the data and what's happening over the next shell are behind bad wall justice on ukraine's battlefields. consumer drones from

china have had a starring role and propaganda video circulating on social media. them soldiers have been modifying these drones to drop bombs. i heard often to devastating effect. yeah. yeah, but you won't be stuck in there. but experts say using chinese may drones, is potentially dangerous. this video allegedly shows an artillery strike honing in on a ukrainian drone operator. it's been claim that d j i. the chinese firm producing these drones is passing on gio tracking information to the russian military. something the company denies. back in latvia, atlas aerospace is hiring more ukrainians to increase production. they are keen to help them on the line with when making trends for the ukranian army. with the help

of the strains, we shall win. the war. war is a money maker for some. all of these green bags will be going to ukraine, and they won't be the last. on average, these drones only last for 48 hours in combat. and so the flow of equipment will continue. earlier i spoke to tony care con, i told her from the center for security studies in zurich, i began by asking how surveillance and armed drones are shaping this conflict. i would so like to highlight it. first of all, it's hard to say that this is like 1st large, a war where you can see this extensive use of drums in terms of both numbers and there are city of roles and, and functions. and so when it comes to surveillance, that's the crucial role on because as it was mentioned in the previous place, drunk can provide real time imagery. so basic role of providing

situational awareness of what's going on on the ground. so that means in terms of deploying the smaller commercial platforms that are operated by a single soldier to, to see what's going on beyond here. but also in terms of monitoring and tracking the movement of troops in real time and sending the information back out to, to come on post. but also recording videos of successful strikes and, and wishes and posting, posting them on social media. which has also like the psychological effect. so this is basically the original wrong role jones that we can see also training on the united states is around to say, to deliver on drugs to the russians. what, what impact could that have on the battlefield?

well, do you know, the good news for you koreans, but as it was so mentioned, so 1st of all, russian shows will need to learn how to operate them. and my reading of this is that the russians are basically under invested into a combat just because we haven't seen that much of news about deploying their own or young from that drum. so i believe we can expect a system similar to what iran has been shipping to the rebels and yet they were used to attack the batteries on some other. well, i think on that we can also read it in the international context at the moment prison by then, and this is in reference of the review. so that it can, they are also part of signaling from, from you. i'm doing it. what about chinese drawings in this war? trying to being a leading manufacturer or not, the leading manufacturer will what rather yeah, the d g i plus one. so you're right, that is

a leading manufacturer of the so small commercial article officially, the judge said that step to say all of these jones to go the ukraine and russia, that we can see the extensive use of this, the drums. and what is the particular issue to avoid connecting this is just the cloud that it's stored in china because there is a risk of having the coordinates of this john stolen and in revealing the position of the operators. so as i said, we can see that the other local civilians, they are donating their their hobbies drums also made in china to bring in shows. but in contrast, just to counter this risk because this drums were manufactured in china, the us, it's been selling the similar go comparable platforms like golden eagle with

a single performance. and if they're not to grade and they have reliable interested issues. ok, we'll have to leave it there. don't monica connect over from the center for security studies in zurich. thank you. thank you. and he is a quick look at some more stories making news around the world. panama has announced measures to counter rising fuel and food costs. following nationwide protests president lauren tino called t 0 said gas prices will be reduced and staple food prices frozen. lemme germany is new ambassador to israel is stephens. i bet he served as german government spoke to person under the last chance log medical for over a decade. prime that he worked as a journalist, i bet, reiterated his nations historic commitment to israel. the euro was on parity with the us dollar, continuing a recent trends that put it at its lowest value in 20 years. rising interest rates and a comparatively stronger outlook in the united states of health fuel. the ongoing

dollar rally, firefighters in spain are battling forest fires, sparked by an extreme 8 wave and drought residents evacuated their homes in the southwest region of extreme dora neighboring portugal was also finding a number of places for lancaster. political crisis is hitting citizens hard at the pump with record high prices in an effort to conserve fuel. the government is asking people to work from home and has closed schools. restaurants of switch to cooking, meals with wood, is a closer look now at how the crisis is affecting the lives of citizens in the capital, colombo. for 7 days as our mo hadn't, has been waiting here in a kilometer long line for gas in sri lanka, capital colombo, he had a new fuel delivery was coming, he spent day and night here since i didn't, the gas in there is simply no more fuel we have no more gas at home to cook. we

used to have an income, but for weeks now the money has stopped coming to one and we love, we can't go on like this. life is hard. to make matters worse, his wife is ill. he tries to spend a little time with her every day at lunch time, risking losing his place in line in early and then i keep calling him when he's there waiting. it's the tormenting thoughts that have made me sick. i was even met at a hospital. we didn't even have fuel for him to drive me there and recorded it. many people in sri lanka face similar problems, inflation is so rang, and prices are skyrocketing, even for essentials like food. hardly any one can afford to buy what they need. oh really isn't the dang of the people used to have 3 meals a day, most of the time. now it's either 2 or one. sometimes people are drinking water

instead of eating. i know, you know, we don't know what to d, what to give our children. they say they're hungry, but we don't have anything for them. we don't want to want to let vieira molina but we can't drink tea with milk anymore. we have no milk powder. we just about managed to buy rice, but even that is very expensive. another day has gone by in the line for gas and for as armoire dean, it's again been fruitless. his one hope that after the resignation of president go to buy a roger packs a better times will finally come. mammogram, you're good at any of it only when we get problems like the fuel crisis solved, can we live a life worth living? i haven't lost faith yet that a new government will give us fresh hope and change will finally happen rather than double. don't be align dental until then as i am will heading will spend another night in line hoping that he will finally get a few leaches a few. there are questions about the whereabouts of sri lanka president go to buy

a raja pasha. he hasn't been seen in public since friday. i asked lawyer and human rights campaign up a bonnie from seeka from the set of policy alternatives and colombo, how that's affecting the crisis. well, what we've seen in the last few days is quite remarkable in terms of the numbers that have arrived at the purchase sites. and as a research, we've seen der prissy done agreeing to resign as well as the prime minister agreeing to resign. they have yet to resign, and this is something we need to keep in mind that a few days later are we still have a president and prime minister holding on to office. and now it's been reported that the president and his younger brother attempted to leave sri lanka. i, we're waiting for very fading for mission betty dos and look say people at the airport as well as staff members prevented them from leaving. so there is real

anger and frustration among people in sri lanka. and it looks say, people also want reckoning from the political leadership for the present crisis lawyer and human rights campaign to provide funds seeker, there to japan, where the funeral of former prime minister sions, lobby has taken place in the capital. tokyo, thousands of mourners gathered outside the temple where a private service was held for the ceremony of these body travel through the city passing important landmarks, including the parliament building. the 67 year old was assassinated friday while making a speech in the city of nora to stays before a national election journalist zone yard blanche ker told us more about our base legacy. i mean, for many people, especially the younger ones, he was all they knew he was the only prime minister they had seen in a long time. so he had a surprisingly big following among the younger people. and i say surprising because his policies were very conservative. so he's been also

a rather do is figure and i think a lot of the more controversial things didn't actually get reported much outside of japan. so the image that people have outside of japan and inside of japan can be quite different. there were a lot of demonstrations and yeah, he's achieved some things, but others. yeah. he didn't really get that far. and as i said, there are a lot of things that now aren't being mentioned because of obviously the grief, but shouldn't be forgotten. and should be looked into journalists, tanya laska reporting for tokyo. the white house has revealed the 1st full color image taken by the james web space telescope. nasa says the photo is the deepest look into the universe ever. it was taken a 1000000 miles from us. the image shows the earliest stars and galaxies ever observed. the telescope is expected to operate for up to 20 years.

mac mcechran is a senior adviser of the european space agency. i asked him how the telescope will help us look back in time. well, the speed of light is finite. it be the light moves it to 300000 kilometers per 2nd . so for example, it takes light to reach us from the moon one and a quarter seconds. and that means we're seeing the moon as it was one and a quarter seconds ago in the past the sun, 8 minutes ago for example. but when we look further and further away, we're looking deeper and deeper into the past. so we can look, for example, at galaxies, which might be a 1000000 years in the past, by the time that lights reached us. the j. w. s. t is designed to look for the very 1st galaxies that formed in our universe just off to the big bang, 13800000000 years ago. and that light has been traveling to us for almost that, that time. and it's about to be caught by james webb, and we'll get an insight into how those galaxies were when they were very young. of course they've changed in the meantime, those galaxies, that those great distances are now probably like our milky way. but we're able to

use james web as a kind of a time machine to look back at greater and greater distances and therefore to earlier times in the universe. and what is that that makes the telescope so special? well, it's very different to hubble in the sense that instead of being a relatively small mirror and in a tube, which is what he made, conventional telescopes used to be built. this is a huge mirror. that in fact, is 18 pieces of beryllium covered in gold, which had to unfold in space. and it's also incredibly cold. it's 233 degrees celsius below freezing point. and that means the telescope itself is so cold. it doesn't glow in the infrared, it doesn't get heat out itself. and that means we're able to make much more sensitive pictures of the universe in those wavelengths in heat radiation, if you like in the infrared, and these distant galaxies, and not only very far from us. in fact, that's why you have a big telescope. but because of the stretching the expansion of the universe,

all of their light has been stretched out from visible wavelengths into the in for red. and so that's why we need this radical new kind of telescope 1000000 half kilometers away from the us behind a giant sun shield, which lets it gets super cold. and what do you think this radically new telescope is going to deliver us next? well, what you've seen last night is that 1st image from a president biden, and that showed us a 1st look at the universe. this is just 12 and a half hours of observing. typically we're going to spend weeks and months taking incredibly deep pictures, but these are just the very 1st examples. but today we're going to be releasing new image u, as in a joint event with natural canadian space agency, showing pictures in a very local universe. so we're going to be showing something to be the next a planet planet orbiting. you know, the star. we're going to be looking at places where stars are being born in our own milky way and galaxies, half way between us and the big bearing. so it's a general purpose observatory and it's really going to be able to dig very deep

into the universe in ways that couple never could never could manage. mostly it's bigger, so it's more sensitive and it's an infrared telescope. and that's critical from seeing objects like he's high rich galaxies. but mock briefly, could it also change our lives here on earth? i think so. i, you know, this is the question often asked, you know, what does it do specifically for me? and of course, we have to remember that our space agencies also do things very specific with lots of asian telecommunications. i think what's special about the hubble space telescope and web we'll have that as well. is the sense of, or, and inspiration about this very big universe we live in and i, and i, you know, hopefully that will inspire kids to come along and come and use this telescope. it'll operate for 20 years. so there's a chance that they'll be able to use it. you know, kids who are in school today will be able to come and use it. but also, i think, you know, it gives us a bit of cosmic perspective that perhaps some of the troubles which we look for here on. when you think about the bigger picture, maybe we should just be a little bit kinder nicer to each other and live in the world and get to where we,

you know, we're not here for long. know exactly some cosmic advice there from cochrane senior guys of science and exploration at the european space agency. thank you. my pleasure. such good words. so have you, alyssa? you're watching dw news life from berlin willis. the chat is up next with use asia reporting on japan's farewell to its longest serving prime minister should swaby assassinated on friday. i'm painful that i'll see you again. same time tomorrow. ah ah, with

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