oh, so take the job and do it. yeah, miss me, you her with this is dw news live from berlin, ukrainian, the president of the modem is the lensky vows to retake territory along the black sea ukrainian forces preparing for a counter offensive in her song about despite being out gunned by russian troops

occupying the region also coming out the traffic jams on the black sea as ships faith, long waits to export ukrainian, great w visits, farmers and ukraine south who are struggling to get their wheat out to the world. and in formula one shot, the class spins out of the french chrome pre letting rival max for stepping breeze toward another wind. ah, i'm and you can and welcome to the program everyone. we begin in ukraine, where the country's military says it is preparing a counter offensive and the southern hassan region now occupied by russian forces. now president below them is the lensky. he has vowed to take back the region, but ukrainian troops are still outgunned by russian forces. and say they urgently need more advanced weapons from the west. the ravages of war have left this village

uninhabited, except for a few stray pets and these ukrainian fighters as they wait for the order to begin. ukraine's promised pushback towards the strategically and symbolically important city of harrison. currently, under russian control, this village is just kilometers from harrison, but on the ukrainian controlled side of the front line, the signs of devastation are everywhere in what's left of this settlement in his nightly address president followed him as a lensky vow to take back epsilon and said ukrainian troops were already making headway there for the him was up to that. first of all, we can say now that in the hands on region, the occupiers tried to gain a foothold. the collaborators made various brazen statements. but how did it help them? all the armed forces of ukraine are advancing, step by step in the region. look like a bullet. these fighters see it as their duty to future generations of ukrainians

to resist russian occupation. hassle, no visible and so thoughtful. we will liberate hands on that. for sure. most columns are you. we won't give it away to the russians you. that's why we're here. we will say that our children won't have to fight any more. they will you all the so that we can resolve this war issue now and forever. liam was a bit panera's. some of these men fear they will be hopelessly outgunned by the enemy. will you do when you could both molecule our community. we really don't have enough artillery here to see if we fire 8 times that they must, they fire back 48 times. for now. they have superiority in artillery last with still you can sort of course, and your from one come when you go through and both ukrainian officials and western analysts fear the imminent battle for harrison could be the start of the bloodiest phase of the war so far. and more on this we can bring in the dummy correspondent,

funny for char, who is in ukraine's capital keith. hi, fanny. good to see. can you tell us a little bit more about ukraine's counter offensive in a hassle region? all the focus is on the preparation as the counter offensive did not start yet, but in to lead up to this, which can happen at any day. now, in fact, the soldiers their ad that con, contact line at the front line between ukrainian russian control territories awaiting for the order by the ukrainian military commanders to start striking a russian forces. now what we have seen, however, in the last couple of days is that ukrainian forces will be used as weapons the western supplies weapons, for example, the high mos which can strike with a range of up to 80 kilometers. and we have seen that some key infrastructure, for example, a bridge was hit last week and half. so now why that is, obviously you clean your forces, imply by that, that they are strategies ahead of the counter offensive to start to caught russian

forces off important supply line. so basically make it difficult for washing forces to supply their units with fuel, with the weapons via and to slow down their preparations. we do not know when exactly this counter offensive is going to take place. but certainly, once he does, and as we have seen that report and heard it, it's probably going to be one of the biggest blockheads that we have seen unfold in the course of this war because her so on is a very important symbolically important region. and her so city itself of the administrative capital, they also very important to ukrainian forces. in fact, there was quite a bit of mountain criticism. he and keith, i've been speaking to people about how soon that said why actually was it possible that the ukrainian government in there, if you let go of harrison city so easily at the beginning of the will? so certainly regardless what will happen now, there will be quite a bit of questions, shall this will end any time soon. why was it possible for russia to control and

take her so on and most of the house and region on the rashi on control? funny, i want to, to you about russia's foreign minister said a lover of now he's currently on a diplomatic tool in africa. and he stated on that, told that russia's goal is regime change in ukraine. that's going back on earlier statements. and that, that the leadership question was up to the ukrainian people. how has that statement gone down? and he's that president zalinski is a fall from impressed. he basically said that preparations are on the way to celebrate a statute for the 1st time a national holiday on july 28th, and that ukrainian people will not be intimate intimidated by these statements at the same same time. however, of course, ukrainian people are concerned whether those statements will actually lead up in to lead into attacking keith every, the government is based. so a lot of people here bracing, in fact, full very intensely,

an intensely aggressive toms by russian forces. not knowing what is to happen, however, and you just pointed out, in fact, you crate a rush. you said earlier to these statements, they have no intentions and no plans to take out the government. really, you have to see what follows in action of is regard to the statements. all right? steadily is funny, fha, and keith, thanks so much. and ukraine says it will push ahead with assets efforts to export to its grain despite a russian missile attack on the ports of the death at the weekend. russia claims it was targeting military infrastructure. now, saturday strike came just hours after a deal was struck between russia and ukraine to allow the resumption of ukrainian great exports. the deal was an attempt to alleviate a global supply crisis. he w. net conley has been to southern ukraine, where he met the people trying to get ukraine sued out to the world.

ukraine is bringing in the harvest, spite months of war, despite shortages of everything, fuel to workers. here in this part of southern ukraine, we yielded down 40 percent on last year. that still millions of tons. this is we that half a 1000000000 people around the world. more tenure to china are waiting for. li, the stickers with this is all grown for people abroad. ukraine can't and doesn't consume all this food, but no one's buying right now. the trade is, might be willing to take it off our hands for storage. the we only get paid once it goes to the customers. this is harvest is now piling up unsold, and ukraine's granaries on top of last year's crop. should have been shipped in the early months of this year. just when war broke out. ukraine's cashed off. farmers are often themselves will, they'll even be able to afford to plot next year's crop. if the ports to reopen, giving them a chance to sell what they have and pay for new seats and fertilizer with seaports

. like a desk shut. ukraine is trying to redirect a flood through a narrow stream and the crops out by truck and river budge rather than the huge freighters normally used. the land journey is gone for a matter of hours to weeks. the trucks back up for miles around, waiting to unload at the hopelessly overstretched river ports. the drivers can only guess how long they will be camping out for what i was like. i then see where it last time we were here for 3 week rarely, but in the nobody does turn up that's only 20 trucks worth of grain. the with him like that so little. and there are thousands of us here that the advice, much in a barely makes a difference wife that much in that. so the traffic jam continues out on the black sea where over a 100 ships wait their turn to end the river danube. the river ports can only handle small boats, meaning lots and needed. all the remaining coast god can do is watch and try to

manage the sudden influx. i have never seen. such men ships here who are doing about, or $100.00 plus ships waiting to increase. the capacity of this route is, is not in the power romanian country. because i go to that the main problem is the capacity of the, of the brilliant forts. this is the problem, want to see that some of these vessels will take their cargo direct to customers in egypt with turkey. other smaller ships, stay close to home, yet taking their loads to remain his main sea ported constantia. the grain is collected before being loaded on to bigger ships. but the bottlenecks don't and here romania is busy shipping its own harvest on the little speck bastard does have was barely making a difference. ukraine's farmers a finding to that cost the alternative routes out only at up to trickle company keep estimates exports are still only a quarter of pre war levels. that's why present zalinski has been so keen to strike a deal to reopen odessa. but many here are deeply skeptical that piece of sea is

possible. all war continues on land filled up with them. there's no point opening the poets is that means letting the russians in by the back door feel live with. we'd rather go on as we are tightening our bells and helping each other out with anything to avoid being occupied when martha mcculler has good reason to be worried up recent days, top russian officials, once again made it clear they plan to grab yet more ukrainian territory at for lanka now, which is enduring a political and economic crisis, the new president is seeking a bailout from international lenders after the country defaulted on its debts and severe shortages of fuel, food, and other essentials of ravaged the country. the crisis is also crippled. the once lucrative t industry which has seen production almost hogged, and he grows a desperate for resolution. the livelihood of these women is under threat. obama flooding,

we don't know what will happen in the future. we have food to eat today, but we don't know about tomorrow. not one of the funded the out of the bad yamato. well had us. it's hard to live right now to do on the bill this month. only manage . mm hm. but we don't know about the next. yeah. aluminum of the bet sri lanka, t industry has exported sale on t around the world since before the 1st world war. now it's struggling to stay afloat, meaning these t pickers could soon be without work. fuel shortages and power cuts have affected daily operations in the factories. prolonged power cots result in plucked, leaves, withering, and getting spoiled. these are only the latest problems for the industry. 3 years ago, the former president introduced a ban on chemical fertilizer in the hopes of turning the industry organic. but it led to a collapse and production lead owner. what level was social not only the,

from the top to what i'm going to suffer with because of the subdivisions. are you afraid of? worse thing that could happen. worsting 7, the world is going to last the salon, the for the thousands of people working on the t estates. wages are already desperately low. if they lose the little income they earn, it will be even harder for them to make ends meet and some sports is now in formula one driver next rushed up and has extended his championship leads to 63 points after winning the french crumb pre his rival shall declare, started the race in pull possession and was leading the race. disaster struck, and ended his hopes of victory ah, another pull position for charlotte, claire. and very soon, another sob story. the mon, aghast had converted only 5 of his previous 15, courier pulls into winds,

and the list of failures grew just 18 lapse in as he spun out of contention. it was the 3rd time this year laclare had retired while leading on the team radio. he made his frustration plane once again, mike switched up and was the beneficiary of declares wos the grid at le castelli has been good to the dutchman and he took the checkered flag just as he had last year. elsewhere there was a rare moment of joy in a poor season for mercedes. as george russell joined british compatriot and teammate louis hamilton on the podium, but the day belonged to pushed up and whose 7th, when the season gives him a healthy lead over the chasing pack ahead of next weekend's race in hungary. ah and in athletics, another world record has tumbled at the world athletics championships in oregon as

sweeney sweden's arm on to plant us. one gold in the men's proposals for 22 year old olympic champion, cleared a height of 6 meters, 21. none of his rivals manage higher than 5 meters. 19 full. this is the 5th time, but to frances is broken, the world record. and that's where we have time for next. well, stories. we'll look at the aftermath of the devastating floods here in germany one year on that forget you can also find more news around the clock on our website. that's d w to come on social media at d to leave dot com. i monica this, mckinnon. they with india a lead of contrasts of ambitions of inequality. 75 years.