nottingham spoke with me to 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, booklet up scott power station is russia's latest advance in the east and done beth's region elsewhere. ukraine's counter offensive appears to be making games.

also coming up, californians describe living through the us state's largest wildfire so far this year. this was on fire that was on fire virus behind a r t w, visits the charred landscape yosemite national park and meets the fire cruise facing the still burning blaze. and in football, germany is through to the final of the euro. 2022 off to beating frogs. then outside for a class against host nation england at wembley stadium on sunday. ah, i'm on your hips, mccann, and welcome to the program. we begin in ukraine where official say russian forces have now taken control of the country. second biggest power plant, now, british and 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 of a little sca power station is the latest loss in the east and don bass region. it comes as president blood em, as the lensky said, ukraine was preparing to increase its electricity exports to the european union to help it withstand pressure from russia over entities. supplies with he w. mathias bellinger is in odessa covering this story for us. and i asked him to give us the latest on the fighting in ukraine. yes, so we've heard that the russians are seemingly in control of this power plan. 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 harker and south in the his own region. ukraine is making incremental gains. they have started to 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 slowing. is it clear now that the, the newly provided and weapons from the west are helping the ukrainian counter offensive to, to really build in an engine? what these weapons do at the moment is that they help us 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 sun 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's a big question mark on whether this offensive can move on as planned. but what we are seeing is that they may 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 advance by taking out these ammunition depos. ukraine has been able in some parts of the front line to decrease russian shelling by multiple times. natty s bellinger reporting from

a data. thank you so much. let's get you up to speed now and some of the other stories making headlines around the world. north korea's leader kim jong and has said he's ready to use nuclear weapons in potential conflicts with the united states or south korea. he made the comments during an event marking b 69th anniversary of the end of facing in the korean war. at least 10 more people have died in india's western state of good europe. after drinking toxic liquor, it brings the death toll from the, from the incident to $38.00. police say the substance contained industrial methyl alcohol commonly used in pesticides and paint thinners. it launched an investigation and have made several arrests. residents of the northern philippines are recovering for a power full earthquake that struck the island of luzon on wednesday. at least 4 people were killed and over 130 injured hundreds of aftershocks have hit the region

with many resident saying that too scared to sleep in their homes. hundreds of supporters of the powerful of shiite cleric, mac todd al sada, occupied iraq's parliament building on wednesday of to breaching baghdad high security green zone. they were protesting against a rival blocks nomination from prime minister. iraq remains stuck in political deadlock with in fighting preventing the formation of a new government over 9 months after elections. our 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 the yosemite national park has now been partially contained, but it's not yet fully under control. dw correspondent stephan simons is on the ground. in mariposa county, firefighters are still hard at work driving through the hillson into the mountain

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 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 expend them jo amador, a fire captain from san diego, and the press inflammation officer assigned to us explains what the trying to do. they're trying to build a parameter around this burn here, right, to keep it from spreading. and that's what this protection line is doing. so the leave that here, they leave that here in case this come the fire, another fire exact come in there, come in there, connect, they go up there and they can find and i already ready to go is we're making our way deeper into the mountains and to what's the front line,

where the oak fires actively burning were passing sides of utter destruction. examples of destroy property, and in many cases lost 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. it has no respect for who it destroys what it destroys. as much as that is true. fire fight is also say that fire, education and preparation are most critical. some residents, like nick smith and his fiance, she and michelle took matters in 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 behind us on fire. and it was starting to wrap around, so already, fly everywhere. the reality for many of the 3000 deployed fire fighters who still fight the yoke for you at its frontline. however, a day without strong winds helps they can use every lesson. this is frontline 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 a pond in the backyard of a resident who have been evacuated on this day. 3 choppers get water from here and dump it over the fire. if everything works out, california is largest wildfire this year to date is expected to be under control in about 2 weeks or so. some source years now

and in foot or germany are through to the final of year 2022 after beating france $2.00 to $1.00 japanese women kept that cool and fiercely contested match in milton teams in the u. k. captain alexander, a pop netted both goals and she's now the joint top scorer of the tournament. a team will face england in the final at london's wembley stadium on sunday. some more and what will surely be an ethnic germany, england battle? i'm joined by our sports reporter max merrill max. let start though 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 teams sort of feeding it out. you could sense maybe a little bit of nerves as well and respect for each other. generally school 1st, but then also conceded the very 1st goal of the tournament male 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 alexandra pop, who is an absolute force of nature really dynamic player. and both goals right? really showed that side of her. and she's now level with beth, meet on 6 goals of england for the tournament. top striker, but as a 31 year old, it's quite surprising. this is her 1st euros, especially considering she's one of the best plays 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 covert 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 store a 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 in germany's favor. most recently, at wembley, germany 121 that was in 29 seen earlier this year, england one. so it's going to be close. i think these are the 2 stand out teams. euro 2022. and we're going to have a real show piece for a final in front of around $90000.00 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 pressured early, and germany are so good at that. but whatever way it goes, i think is going to be a cracking final on sunday. anything final at wembley, on sunday, we are looking forward to next narrow. thank you so much. and in men football, dolton and strike has the best. yeah. i leg will be out for several months after undergoing surgery on a test to kill a tumor. the 28 year old was diagnosed last week during the team's pre season training. can he just arrived at the open this month after a 31000000 year, a transfer from my ex amsterdam club had said no return date has been set now for any game of thrones fans out there, the hit fancy drama is back as

a prequel series. house of the dragon or the world's most highly anticipated tv events has held its global premier in los angeles. the series will for follow the ta guardian, dennis t. as many kings and queens both good and evil rule over the 7 kingdoms. you can expect to see battles, bloodshed, betrayals, and cruise plenty of dragons show begin streaming on august 21st and that's it. you're up to date. don't film is coming out. the next list, a ground for that we can i minute group is mckinnon. thank you. so much with imagine how many pushing of lunch or 3rd out in the world climate trade given hoffman stores. this is more pleasant way from just one week. how much work can it really does.