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up ukrainian forces aim to retake the occupied hassan region. despite being outgunned by russian troops, the counter offensive could market turning point for control of the black sea and fires rage across greece as a heat. wave pushes, temperature is above 40 degrees celsius is the latest european countries to face climate change. catastrophe plus and formula one sharla class spins out of the french grown pre betting rival and max fetched up and breathed towards another whip . ah, my manuscripts, mckinnon. thanks so much for joining us. man, mars military government has executed 4 political prison prisoners, including a prominent lawmaker and a well in democracy activist. the 4 men had challenged last year's military coup.

among those killed were peer. zaya tore a member of the elected ruling party, and the veteran activist, cure men. you better known as co. jimmy. the military accused or for men of being involved in terrorist killings. and the executions have been widely condemned by international observers. many more political prisoners are facing similar charges. now, earlier i spoke to i am in tans a journalist from man man who now lives in exile. they told us more about the executions and what they mean for the pro democracy movement. so far, very little known about the actual executions. um, even the manner of execution is currently unclear. the military has not confirmed how this they were killed, but most i presume that it was a hanging because that is how i executed. have been carried up the past. we do know that the families were allowed to speak with the 4 men before they were executed on

friday. however, they weren't told at the time that the men were going to be executed. the military also played coin over the weekend about whether or not they were about to carry out the sentences, although because the families were allowed to meet with them for the 1st time since their sentencing. many had speculated this would be carried out today. what signal is the military hunter sending? would you say by carrying out these executions? the military has been facing quite a lot of resistance from our people within the country, including many of its own officials as well as soldiers police, and those who worked for the military being the target of assassination campaigns, as well as active conflict in many areas of the country are given that there are over a 100 people who are now on death row, who have been sentenced to military, came out. many believe that this is a tactic to try to install and still more fear in the population. but it's quite

unlikely that that is going to be successful, although that although there's quite a lot of anger in the country over 2100 people have already been killed by the military. and so many are unlikely to be counted by these recent actions, or based on what you just said was, is the likely effect of these executions on the democracy movement. and man, mom i will likely to see quite a lot of retaliation. but after the sentencing of these men to add to the multi as well as the sentencing of other prominent activists as well as partitions, that has been retaliatory attacks on prisons are military officials. and i think we're likely to see another wave of tax as retaliation or are these actions. and i think we're likely to see the continue erosion of rule of law by people who,

you know, may have been in the past, more willing to accept military rule. but are now more and more convinced every day that there will be no justice, and there will be no rule of law under this regime. you've been them and in your criticism of the coo of the one tell you now live in exile, do you hope to return to me and more one day the hope to return to the modern day. and i do think that given the strength of the resistance to the military so far, you know, this is a, an institution with over a $1000000000.00, a budget for fighting against a population of largely farmers that has been largely unable to solidify its rule even over a year after their cou, i do have hope that i will be able to return the future. however, i think that is not going to be something that's going to happen in the next in the short term lease. i'm in terms of journalist from me and my thank you so much for

your time. thank you for having me to the war in ukraine now, where the country's military says it is preparing a counter offensive in the southern hassan region now occupied by russian forces president below them is lensky has vowed to take back the region, but ukrainian troops are still out gun 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 hampson. 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 vladimir zalinski vowed to take back ab son 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 there. collaborators made various brazen statements, but how did it help them or the armed forces of ukraine are advancing, step by step in the region, look like to publish these fighters, see it as their duty to future generations of ukrainians to resist russian occupation. hassan members, all and so thoughtful, we will liberate hands on that. for sure. must go long's early. we won't give it away to the russians. that's why we're here. we will said that our children won't have to fight any more. they will you all so that we can resolve this war issue now and forever liam of us up at panera's. some of these men fear they will be hopelessly outgunned by the enemy warrior dominique with 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 was working with us was true. you can sort of course, no one can 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 it up, the correspondent haifa is in ukraine's capital keith, and she told me more about the planned counter offences against russian forces occupying her son. basically the ukranian soldiers are waiting for that order by their top commanders to say, shoot, you can start your counter offensive. now what's been happening so far, we basically preparations leading up to this country offensive that really seems to be imminent, right now. preparations such as a trying to hit very key infrastructure in her son,

house and region that he's very important for washing forces to basically supply the units with kia, with weapons, with fuel. the very basic things basically to expand and not just to have a foothold in the house in region, but also extend the positions there and, and both are there positions there along that front line or on, along that line of contact between ukrainian, russian forces. and as we have food in that report, really is a village just to can you me to see on ukrainian control territory to can meet us away from the russian frontline. so what ever we will, as you play out now, with this counter offensive about to start and russia playbook, being unclear, actually hold the are going to a play. are there offensive there? as there was a quite busy to say. so in the don't bus region, we really have to see what is that going to mean for the civilians on the ground. i have to add though, that at least via those long range missile systems, the high moss that the u. s. supplied to ukraine recently,

at least ukraine could get some sort of momentum to slow down some, some of these supply chains. as i say, a for russian force isn't to gain a momentum to prepare. what is then to be the counter offensive to stop very soon. funny, i just want to talk about russia's foreign minister sag oliver, of because he is currently on a diplomatic tour of africa during which he stated that russia's goal is regime change in ukraine. and we're going to have a quick listen to that. russian on ukrainian people would continue to live together . we will certainly feel ukrainian people to get rid of the regime, which is absolutely the people. and then so historically, it's on the very wrong side of houston. okay, so talking about regime change. they're funny. tell us how his words have been received and keith not very well, presidency lensky in his speech last night,

made clear that no one is going to give up land here in ukraine, that the independence of ukraine is going to be preserved. and in fact, he was really poised to deliver the speech and to say, you do not know the history, russia of ukraine, because if you had known the history of ukraine, you would have not even attacked this country. so you really may clear the speech that the ukrainians are not going to be intimidated by these remarks by a lover off by rushes for a minister. however, i have to add to that, that this is actually not the 1st time that lover of set something along the lines that actually the ukrainian government is probably not a stable and going not to be the ukrainian government to move forward with here. in fact, last week on wednesday, he pointed out that this trajectory of violence is going to change, that the interested in more territory is far beyond the dom bus. and in that, in those remarks last week, also lover of said that, well, we will have to see if the government is going to remain the government. if president lensky is going to remain the president. however,

still this law is installed, contrast to earliest speeches. russia said ukrainians are going to decide about who's going to be the government. so a lot is going on here right now as russia is really toughening its position when he comes to ukraine. he's funny picture in key. thank you so much. ukraine says it will push ahead will efforts to export its gray despite a russian missile attack on the port of the death at the weekend. russia claims it was target take military infrastructure. saturday strike came hours after a deal was struck between russia and ukraine to allow the resumption of ukrainian grain exports. now the deal is an attempt to alleviate a global supply crisis. the w. net connolly 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. martina to china are waiting for clean as big as little bit. this is all grown for people abroad in the 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 pulling up unsold, and ukraine's granaries on top of last year's crop could, 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 plant next years 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, but rather the huge freighters normally used. the land journey is gone for

a matter of hours to weeks for the trucks back up for miles around, waiting to unload the hopelessly overstretched river ports. the drivers can only guess how long will be camping out for us like adventure. where it last time we were here for 3 week lily. the body does turn out that's only 20 trucks worth of grain. the with him like that. so the door and there are thousands of us. he had of that vice, much in a barely makes a difference like that much in that. so the traffic jam continues out on the black sea. wherever 100 ships wait, their turn to end the river. danube river ports can only handle small boats, meaning lots and needed all the romanian 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 were 100 bluff ships waiting to increase. the capacity of this route is,

is not in the ball romanian country because i go to that the main problem is the capacity of the, of the ukrainian boards. this is the problem, want to see that some of these vessels will take their cargo direct to customers in egypt or turkey. other smaller ships stay close to home, yet taking their loads to remain his main sea ported constantia. for 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, little speck bastard does have is barely making a difference. ukraine's farmers a finding to that cost that the alternative routes out only add up to trickle government 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 a deeply skeptical piece of sea is possible or 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 till person officials. once again, made it clear they plan to grab yet more ukrainian territory. in washington, w is still to come along away his apology. hope frances visits canada to seek forgiveness from indigenous peoples the years. the terrific abuse at church run and sherland has t industry seize production harvest by the economic crisis. he pick as a desperate to see a restart of the country's eye clinic industry. the 1st in a grease fire fighters are battling wild fires that have forced hundreds to leave their homes. lodge fire has broken out in the south, near the archaeological flight of ancient olympia. it's destroyed houses and forced people to evacuate from several villages. schools of 5 been burning across the

country, and meteorologists are expecting the heat wave in greece to last until the beginning of august. he w correspondence joy and schmidt is in greece and gave us the latest on several fires raging across the mainland on the islands. $141.00 as forest fires in only 3 days. this is a high number even for country used to forest wires. the forest of growth is still burning. it's been burning by days now. there, the authorities faced and especially difficult night actually trying to contain 3 different fires. then you all do. you mentioned that volume poly bonus, us in the southern peninsula, in greece, where various villages need to be evacuated, as well as the children's summer camp. we have an ongoing situation in the less was where things looked a little bit a little better yesterday,

but things the buyers have been flaring up and i've been told that locals now is stepping in to extinguish these fires. and then we were informed that the fire broke out in the village. tell us the early morning hours about an hour ago. this of course is the 1st time that greece is dealing with fires. and the greek government was criticized last year for its handling of the devastating wild fi as then have things improved in any way this year. there was a lot of talk about prevention, about preemptive strategies after the devastating buyers in greece last year. environmental organizations that i've been talking to are criticizing the government for not having learned for the mistakes last year. they say that yes, some important investments work done, but they say that the focus is still not on prevention the way it should be. for example, the force need to be clear out of that trees are falling off branches after the

winter, so that fires can spread it easily. and they also say that local authorities need to communicate a lot better of each other. every region is very individual needs to focus on, and they also say that the government investing much more and buyer buyers, then policeman the w correspondent, trillion schmidt's in greece. thank you so much. ok, let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. thousands of people have been evacuated to shelters, to escape fast moving wild flyers in the u. s. state of california. the so called oak fire started on friday and has destroyed houses in remote communities. the place is moving to the near by 17 national park tennesseans, a voting and a referendum on a new constitution that could expand the president's powers. major political policy is bound to boycott, the vote. critics say that the changes would give the president k,

you said almost total power residents. i asked the elected government last year and at least 17 people are dead after a boat carrying dozens of haitian migrants capsized off the coast of the bahamas. rescue workers were able to save 25 people, but believe up to 60 people could have been on board. the boat was believed to be on route to miami. and pet francis is in canada where he is expected to apologize to members of the indigenous community. there for abuses, can the head i catholic lackey, a canadian government commission found that generation was of indigenous children, suffered horrific physical and sexual abuse in fate funded school friends by the catholic church, decades the church had pushed back on cold for paypal apology until now that if the tiny, mostly indigenous village of mask watches is buzzing to make way for the pope and

the expected apology right here from the head of the catholic church. frances has already acknowledged the churches shocking indifference to indigenous life and culture at schools where the church was once contracted to teach and nurture. first nations children, many like bruce cut knife are taken from their parents, taken from their traditions and language. cut knife now lives outside edmonton, a 100 kilometers up the road from where his school once stood. and the majority of us didn't speak english. and we didn't understand teacher, and sometimes we didn't respond properly for which you would be slapped in the face . much worse, residential schools contracted to the catholic churches were sometimes home to sexual predators in the guise of clergy or staff. earlier this year at the vatican, pope francis invited members of canada's cree nation for an audience. below bereavement leave and built for the deplorable behavior of those members of the catholic church. i ask forgiveness from god. and i would like to tell you from the

bottom of my heart, that i am very pained and i join my brother bishops from canada in apologizing to you. now, indigenous people wait to hear the pope say something similar on canadian soil. bruce cut knife says he has mixed feelings about the visitor and doesn't plan to be there. i can understand the anger and betrayal. many people have expressed, especially on social media because of what they feel. the church and residential school has harmed their family not only themselves, but their parents, grandparents and even great grandparents, but to cut knife believes a sincere apology, delivered right in the heart of where the terrible harm occurred. can still, he says, be quite meaningful. as to sher lanka now,

where the new president is seeking a bailout from international lenders up to the country, defaulted on its debts, severe shortages of fuel, food, and other essentials, have ravaged the country. the crisis is also crippled, the once lucrative t industry, which has seen production almost harvest t grow as our desperate for resolution. the livelihood of these women is under threat. hello, flooding. we don't know what was happening in the future. we have food to eat today, but we don't know about tomorrow, and all of us have begun to be out of the bad yamato. oh, it is hard to live right now to do on lemaire this month. only managed, ma'am, but we don't know about the next. yeah. aluminum of the bet. sure, lancoste he 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 pick her as could soon be with i work with fuel shortages and power cuts have

affected daily operations in the factories. prolonged power cuts 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 or north lab on glass so, so not only the, from the top to bottom is going to suffer with because of the some of the shoes. what are you afraid of wilson worse thing that could happen. worse things that on the world is going to last the salon. b for the thousands of people working on the t estates. wages are already desperately low. if they lose the little income may earn, it will be even harder for them to make ends meet. time some sports

news and in formula one driver max ashton has extended his championship liter. 63 points after winning the french cron. pre his rival shall a class, started the race and pull position and was leading the race. a 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 tim radio. he made his frustration plane once again, mike switched up and was the beneficiary of declares was 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 per stop and who 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, a sweden's among to plant us, one gold and the men's poles. the 22 year old olympic champion cleared a height of 6 meters. 21 under his rivals. man is higher than 5 meters 94. this is the 5th time that the plant is, has broken the world record. in his acquit reminder of the top stories with following 4 ye, me and miles military hunter has executed for pro democracy activists. excuses accused the man of terrorist activities. the challenging last year's military code

international observers have condemned the killings and ukraine's military as it is preparing an attempt to retake the southern hassan region now occupied by russian forces to counter offensive could market turning point for control of the black sea coast. and you are up to date coming up next sunday, dudley's full life looking at the huge popularity of basketball in the philippines after a short break. and don't forget, you can also find more news around the clock on our website, d, w dot com. and of course on social media apps d w use. i'm any good mckinnon. thanks for watching. ah

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