[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. ukraine says russian forces are in control of its 2nd biggest power plant. the capture of the soviet era. little sca power station is russia's latest advance in the east and dumbass region. elsewhere you cranes,

counter offensive appears to be making guidance. also coming up to taiwan stages. it's biggest evan military drills. all residents must trying to seek shelter from error rates. taiwan is taking the threat of a possible invasion by china more seriously following russia's attack on ukraine and californians describe living through the us state's largest wildfire. so far this year. this was on fire that was on fire fire behind it apart. he w visits the chart landscape near yosemite national park and meets the fire crews fighting the still burning blaze. ah, i manuscripts mckinnon. thanks so much for joining us. everyone. we begin in

ukraine where official se russian forces have taken control of the trees. the 2nd biggest power plants, british military intelligence, said mercenaries from the russian private military company, wagner had captured territory near the power plant. in recent days, ukraine's soviet era, the sliver sca power station is the latest loss in the east don bath region. it comes as president, let him is a lensky, said ukraine was preparing to increase its electricity exports to the european union to help it withstand pressure from russia over energy supplies, or d. w. 's mathias bellinger is an odessa covering the story for us. and i asked him to give us the latest on the fighting. yes, so we've heard that the russians are seemingly in control of this power plant. this has been a target for the russians for many weeks now. and a few days ago, they had already captured part of the territory. now,

one of the presidents advisors has said that they are in full control of the facility. we don't still don't have a confirmation from the armed forces or from other sources, but it looks like that and fits very much, the pattern of what we've been seeing in the east that russia concentrates is offensive on one object. and then for weeks and weeks shells it and then takes it this. so russia is making steady gains, but they are in itself in themselves, each one in themselves, incremental. it takes a long time for them to capture any object or settlement. but so far they have added up, although we also hearing that the pace is slowing down and that ukraine has been able to repel a quite a few offensives in other parts of the country. that means north east, near hargrove and south in the his own region, ukraine is making incremental gains. they have started a counter offensive in the south,

but there is no fast progress yet. it seems that we are still in the preparation phase of this counter offensive. and the ukraine has not made big territorial gains, but they are, as they say themselves, advancing slowly. so rushes pace is flowing. is it clear now that the, the newly provided and weapons from the west are helping the ukrainian counter offensive to, to really build an engine? what these weapons do at the moment is that they help ukraine to prepare the terrain for the counter offensive. so the most important ones are long range artillery and multiple rocket launches. these weapons can target a targets well behind the russian lines. and ukraine has used them, for example, to take out ammunition depots. and they also shelled a bridge near have son region recently. that's an important,

that's an important target because this bridge is the only one that crosses the river in that area. and it's, it's a major blow to russian supply line. so what we're seeing is that ukraine is method methodically, a, preparing the ground for this offensive. it's not clear whether they have the means to move on because some categories of weapons that you would need need to move on. for example, tanks are not yet being delivered by the west in the same pace or in the, in the necessary quantities. so there is a big question mark on whether this offensive can move on as planned. but what we are seeing is that they meet methodically prepare it. and the other effect of these weapons is, and in the places like in the east where ukraine is currently as far as we know, not preparing to advance, that they slow down the russian advanced by taking out these ammunition depos. ukraine has been able in some parts of the front line to decrease ration shelling

by multiple times. natty bellinger reporting from a death. i thank you so much. russia's attack on ukraine has cost lives and destroyed infrastructure and has also battered the mental health of many ukrainian psychologists is struggling to help adults and children deal with the impact. dw correspondent next spicer is. it had the devastated town of bra junker, and found that even reminders of historical violence, contrib, a new anxiety to shall shalt ukrainians during the occupation. somebody put a bullet hole through the head of ukraine's national poet, terra ship, jenko, psychologist, tenure sauce, go tells of a patient who walk past it with her son, whose children long he is forms and begin in from their 1st grade. still 11th grade and the boys said, mom, a lou, what's the, what stays, ah, it's a hold in his head. he sure did,

and they all know maybe they didn't know that. so jen goes, nasha is our national hero. the boy, like, you know, it was his pain. there are painful reminders everywhere, including right across the street from the market on ship. jenko square does nigi. everybody in bar jacket seems to know the story of this building. when russian shelling started, people took shelter inside its basement as they're supposed to do, but they were trapped by the rebel. for around a month, they cried out for food and water and people tried to bring it to them. snipers held them at bay. so there are feelings of helplessness and a fear that the war is following you. when it started this couple thought it would be over in days and never get close. she but celine with that, i do eve, but the apple is shelling from the russian multiple launch rockets system hit the playground where my wife and child were leave watching were so helpful. she got fragments in her leg. shell hola!

moscow. the 3 or squall of yellowish i was sent to the hospital in jer, tamiya, and then she told me it was bombed. it was very difficult, psychologically difficult to for those who can't even express their fear with words yet my child is scared now even the words air alarm he understands and he trembled . any noise? my son he is, he runs to me and starts hugging me. margaret tanya takes me aboard what she calls the psychological brigade, van town. we use this car for visit in to this more villages busy called us several times a day and explain about the problem especially. you know, it's very difficult situation for mothers with many children when they don't have father. their father is a soldier and goes there and use a book to people. the russians destroyed the building that used to house tanya's communities. psychological support service. now they're set up in

a school. the biggest challenge she says is grief. it's really difficult to find the words how to say that you should leave again. but yes, we try to find because they, you should, they should leave because it will be the memory was them will live the memory of those people and so on and so forth. it's difficult but, but we do this every day outside the school. children wait for their parents, tanya and the other psychologist say the big job is going to be helping kids make sense of what they have seen and heard and continue to see around them. only then can healing and bore jenko truly begin. us secretary of state antony blinkin has said that he intends to speak with russia's foreign minister, so a lover of to free us citizens being held by russia. it would be the 1st direct talk since the russian invasion of the crane secretary blinkin said his priority would be to secure the release of us professional bascom, basketball,

player. brittany greiner and the former marine pool we've been working together on italy is mikaela. christina is in washington dc, and she told us earlier more about what antony blinkin wants to get out of the call, but also what he may have to offer in return. well, in thought imminent the, the u. s. secretary of states wants the release of brittany griner and paul whelan, those 2 high profile us citizens who are in rawson captivity, arbitrary def, tensions is what the united states is definitely calling this. and it is willing to put a substantial offer on the table. asked about this anti blinking wouldn't go into details there. speculation that there could be yet another high profile rawson citizen, potentially handed over this talk of a convicted russian arms traffic. and none of this confirmed but there was an

exchange already in april, also of a u. s citizen in exchange for russian pilots. so we could see something like a repeat of that. what is completely new is that these are the 1st direct talks between the us and russian foreign minister on the phone since rasa invaded ukraine . here antony lincoln said he had no illusions that there would be any diplomatic head way quite to the country that the signs on the ground were that russia simply would continue to fight, would try the next farther regions of ukraine. and wouldn't be willing to return to the negotiating table. and that was also the reason he said that the u. s. continues to back ukraine militarily, until there is a willingness on the russian side to in some shape or form, return to diplomacy. okay, let's get you up to speed on some of the other stories making headlines around the world. north korea's leader kim jong and has said that he is ready to use nuclear

weapons in potential conflicts with the united states or south korea. he made the comments during an event marking the 69th anniversary of the end of fighting in the korean war. at least 4 more protested, have been killed in the democratic republic of congo after soldiers fired shots, which hit an electric cable, but then fell on the crowd. the protest was against the united nations peacekeeping mission in the eastern city of vera. and these 15 people died and protests a day earlier. hundreds of supporters of the powerful shiite cleric knocked out outsider, occupied in rocks, parliament building on wednesday of the breaching baghdad, high security greens, at green zone. they were protesting against arrival blocks nomination for prime minister. iraq remains stuck and political deadlock with in fighting preventing the formation of a new government more than 9 months after elections. the u. s. president

joe biden, and his chinese counterpart as she jen ping are expected to hold a call later today as relations between the 2 countries face new tensions over taiwan white house official say the coal will have a broad agenda, but relations have deteriorated over. she's vow to re unite democratic taiwan with the chinese mainland asia has also warned against a possible visit to taiwan by us, how speak, and nancy pelosi saying there would be consequences to such a high profile trip. meanwhile, taiwan has been conducting its biggest ever military drills, simulating its response to a possible invasion for the 1st time in decades or residents must practice seeking shelter. she w correspondence, zachary lee said, does this report from the capsule taipei ah, the ruth o. m. p. only the south poplar warning ferentz can be heard. please instruct every

one to thick shorter immediately. fifties across tie was shut down for 30 minutes for this mission white minute period. 3 yo's. the military i says, i said this year are the largest in taiwan history. as you can see, the high to me all calls have been forced to put over to the side of the road, and everyone is too thick shut to do in the air read jail. how many people are taking the exercise seriously in light of the war? ukraine, that has served us a wakeup call for tie one over the thread from china. not and i think the joe's unnecessary. we should be prepared beforehand. so how's day mom was through the exercise. we know what instructions to follow in case of a war. i think if the government held drills more frequently, people would know how to react in an emergency situation. the total was because of the war in ukraine. we want to know where we can go and hide when we get

a tax id. for example, where are the shelters in taiwan? say now hold on councils. i 90 ambulances in fire trucks play including rule in these 3. 0, the rescue workers. fact, he's putting out a fire after supposed me sell attack latino and he's got them and wants to make it as real as possible to risk public awareness of emergency warning. all the purpose of this year's exercise is to test how we would react in a real war. and we will do a review after the exercises and see how we can improve one that also the $3.00 oh $5.00. the military exercise will conduct the same time, and this will give him ukraine in made reservists, dick lunches, under a breach and others, wilkerson at his in urban warfare and on the open sea several ships carry out. may

movers i was president how you win over the seals and naveed destroyer. this excellent job demonstrated the duty and determination of the soldiers of the republic of china to defend the country. let's continue to work hard and got a homeland together. china's threads, pumpkin pie one to stay the preparation for a chinese, a pep, a response page in is concerned. any attempts by pie was to come, fonts is mystery will be doomed to fail. or pull that from d. w correspondence, zachary lee, and i asked him earlier to tell us the more about how these attack drills have changed from those held in the past. now he's actually listening to one of the arid deals involving civilian participation in the past. the military exercise were both conducted this week. and this is the reason why we cody is the largest military

because they look high was access as opposed to i was the face of been much larger and more we and if you learn some drawers for the sales, very driver to get all the calls and ciocca as soon as eric do the latest new rule new year and also i was nice. tell us president, tell you when i was doing the military exercise list, it's only less than 5 years. oh, okay. now we saw people in your report really worried by the war and ukraine to what extent has it made china threats to the tie would need feel? morrill lee, i've come to some local people via i was a lead. told me their concern about the possible attack and they be the way

you can send them. this is why the people i taking the exercise very seriously. however, how many people i can be very used to china. great. so you can see on the road and the see people i know will read and according to know post the people you know were read. that was my husband anytime. ok. and now the us is also playing a role in these heights and tensions with china warning of consequences potentially . if the u. s. how speak and nancy pelosi were to visit taiwan. can you tell us more about that? exactly. a pillow system possible be the 2. i was already discussion about increasing page 15 by one and also a tony government actually always will come for you to be the one that actually are very happy with the high one has very

a few diploma. few country that has diploma the nation with white again, china has julia update regarding palo and this will increase. let me try and buy one. we also need to take fight in coal with chinese president. today it is expected they will discuss reward. you can also tie one issue most people here belief that also including the experts i've talked to, i believe hello, see my big i hope. but again, you will definitely increase 10 to 15. try fi one, w correspondent zachary lee. thank you so much. watching the w news still to come germany all through to the final of football euro 2022, but they face a tough home crowd and team and they facing on sunday. we will preview what is likely to be

a thrilling show down the 1st fire crews are still working to contain the biggest blaze to hit the u. s. state of california this year, the so called oak fire, which had threatened yosemite national park has been partially contained, but it's not yet fully under control. he w correspondence, stephan simons is on the ground. in mariposa county where firefighters of still hard at work driving through the hillson into the mountains surrounding small town mariposa on the southwest corner of yosemite park feels almost like entering a different world. the fire fighters we accompany liking it often to wear lunar landscape. some fire crews are swarming the chart grounds, the oak fire left behind their mopping up as they say, reoccurring hotspots, attending, smouldering tree trunks. others are assigned to check on establish so called lines, or to expand them. jo amador

a fire captain from san diego and the press inflammation officer assigned to us explains what to try to do. they're trying to build a parameter around this burn here, right to keep her from spreading. and that's what this protection line is doing. so they leave that here, they leave that here in case this come to fire. another fire exact come in there, come in there, connect, they go up there and they can find and i all ready, ready to go. this will make you know, way deeper into the mountains and to what's the front line, where the oak fires actively burning. we are passing sides of utter destruction, examples of destroy property, and in many cases, last lively. the interesting thing here is that this side of the street where we are now here is as you can see, totally destroyed. now, if we look at this side of the street there, the neighbor got spirit. i asked jo, our press information officer who is with us, why that is, it's very use your to see a fire come through and,

and destroy whole blocks of, of homes and property, and then maybe another house completely untouched. so that's the thing about fire has no respect for who it destroys or what it destroys. as much as that is true firefighters. all some say that fire, education, and preparation are most critical. some residents, like nick smith and his fiance, she and michelle took matters their own hands successfully. as soon as the fire came for them, they have the necessary tools to protect their home though a dozer and other heavy machinery. this was on fire. that was on fire. hi, this is behind us on fire. and it was starting to wrap around, so already fire everywhere. the reality for many of the 3000 deployed fire fighters who still fight the oak for you at its frontline. however, a day without strong winds helps they can use every lesson. this is front line fire fighting right there. there's the active fire oak fire. you see the smoke in the background. and that's why we have the staging ground here,

firefighters and helicopters. they go to a what is called a dip. the dip is plumbed in the back yard of a resident who have been evacuated on this day. 3 choppers get water from here and dumping over the fire. if everything works out california largest wildfire this year to date is expected to be under control in about 2 weeks or so. stephan simon's reporting that now it is time for some sports news and football, germany all through to the final. if you're ready 22 off to beating france to one japanese women cat that cool and a fiercely contested match in milton keynes in the u. k. captain alexander, a pop netted both goals and she's now the joint top scorer of the tournament and her team will face england in the final at london's wembley stadium on sunday. it's a more and what will surely be an ethnic germany, england battle,

i'm joined by our sports reporter max merrill max. let's start with the 70 final between germany and france. bit of a slow start, but then it became a pretty great game. yeah, it was fairly katie at the beginning, both team sort of feeling it out. you could sense maybe a little bit of nerves as well and respect for each other. germany scored 1st, but then also conceded the very 1st goal of the tournament mailed forms beaten for the 1st time. she then said after the match, i'm not too bothered about that and she pulled up 3. superb saves in the 2nd half to keep germany in it, but i have to single out a different player, the captain alexander pope, who is an absolute force of nature really dynamic player. and both goals rate really showed that side of her. and she's now level with beth made on 6 goals of england for the tournament top striker. but as a 31 year old is quite surprising. this is her 1st euros, especially considering she's one of the best players of her generation. she's making up for lost time because she was injured a couple of times throughout her career,

most recently out for 10 months with double knee surgery. worked her way all the way back from that long road back. and she didn't even start germany's 1st match. that was lear, sheila in her position who then got cove it and then that opened the window for alexandra pop to be a starter. and she's not looked back since in 5 james 6 goals. so fantastic. when for germany, but all credit to her, you know, to story. yeah. but now of course, sunday and in wembley, of all places, england versus germany. knowing you have both british and german possible. it's, i'm going to ask you who's going to win? well, it's always tough for me when this happens, it's all of us. i think it's going to be close. i sort of see germany just a little bit ahead because of the tournament expertise. i think it's a lot closer than 2009 final between these 2 which ended up 62 and germany's favorite most recently at wembley and germany 121 that was in 2019. then earlier this year, england won. so it's going to be close. i think these are the 2 stand out teams at

euro 2022 and we're going to have a real show piece for a final in front of around 90000 fans that are sold out, wembley. and both these teams have depth install power. i keep coming back to this, which is a coaches dream and a lethal mix, really, but they're facing off against each other. i probably say england's attack is a bit better. germany's defense a little bit better, but it's fine margins and you look at the coach setting of each month for the netherlands last time around this time. she's england coach. she want it with her native netherlands back in 2017. so she knows what to expect. and what she will certainly expect is a high press from germany who have seen england be a little bit weak when it comes to that when they get pressure early, and germany are so good at that. but whatever way it goes, i think it's going to be cracking final on sunday. anything final at wembley on sunday, we are looking for next now. thank you so much. now for any game of thrones fans out there, the hit found to see drama is back as a prequel series house of the dragon,

one of the world's most highly anticipated tv events has held its global premier. in l a. the series will follow the tell gary and did a stay as many kings and queens both good and evil rule over the 7 kingdoms view as can expect to see baffles bloodshed, good trials. and of course plenty of dragons. the show begin streaming on august 21st. so that's why we have time for conflicts zone is coming up next with ukrainian military advisor knew both. it's simple sca predicting how long you kind can count on support from the west. i many cubes. mckinnon. excellently. d, w ah,

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