ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. ukraine says russian forces are in control of that 2nd biggest power plant, the capture of the coal fired booklet here scott pas station is russia's latest advance in the eastern dong bus region elsewhere. ukraine's counter offensive appears to be making get also coming on taiwan stages. it's biggest ever military

drills or residents must trained to seek shelter from era after russia's attack on ukraine. taiwan fears a chinese invasion is now more likely residents describe leading through california largest wildfires. so far this year this was on fire. that was on fire fire. i'm fire to the child landscape near you. symmetry national park. 5 crews continue to fight the still burning blaze. i don't football germany is through to the final of the euro. 2022. after beating france, bear set for a clash against host nation, england at wembley stadium on some ah,

i'm gabrielle says welcome to the program. ukrainian officials say russian forces have taken control of the country 2nd biggest power plot. british military intelligence said mercenaries from the commercial russian military group, wagner has captured territory near the coal fired plant in recent days. the booklet here scott station is the latest loss in the eastern don bus region. it comes as president flood, mr. lensky said. ukraine was prepared to increase its electricity exports to the european union to help it with stand pressure from russia over energy supplies, importantly, elementary, did abuse, mathias billing. i said there's a covering this story for us, and i asked him, what russia latest conquest means for you? crime? yeah. as you've mentioned, the power plan seems to have been taken by the russians. this has been confirmed by an adviser to the president of ukraine, and this was one of the major theaters of fighting in the past few days and even

weeks because it was a major obstacle for the russians on their, on their move forward. however, it has taken them quite long to get to this power plant and it's a pattern that's repeated. russia concentrates. it's a tax. on one point shells, the massively attacks them massively, at some point they enter, they are making gains, but these gains, each of themselves are incremental. they are adding up, but we cannot talk about a fast advance. and similar things can be said about the ukranian counter offensive in other parts of the country where ukraine has been able to take back quite a few settlements along the line along the southern front line and also in the north east near. hark if, but none of them can be considered a break for what ukraine has been doing so far is attacking the positions and a i munition dumps behind the lines and that has proven quite effective to weaken

the russians and also to slow down the advance of the russians, russia has responded or is responding increasingly by missile attacks all over the country. and that's also something we've seen in the past day in the past night. so that, that, that missiles have been fired all over ukrainian territory, especially in the north this time, the key of region. and the chinese region, which have been quite spared these, this kind of attacks and days and weeks before it is you're in the port city of odessa. yesterday we saw the opening of a coordination center in his stumble, which should oversee the restart of the grain shipments from ukraine to world markets. when do authorities in odessa expect the 1st shipment there to set sail authorities here they say they are ready for these shipments that the ships are

loaded and they're waiting for the go. so possibly even tomorrow is what, what are one of the managers of the port authority told me they are? they would be ready to ship tomorrow, but they need to go and they don't know when it will come. it's a matter of coordination between turkey, the un, russia and ukraine, and this is something that's unpredictable, but they would be ready and it seems that pathway has been cleared. the whole coast is mine, they're russian mines, they're ukranian mines. there are russian vessels. there are fewer but some ukrainian vessels and they have agreed to to the minor corridor that leads out of the ukrainian waters into romanian and international waters. and then the ships would proceed to istanbul, this corridor seems to be operational, seems to have been the mind and it's already so we might see

a shipment to morrow. we might see it in the next few days. it's a matter of coordination. it's something us remains a little bit unpredictable. our correspondent is billing of air reporting from odessa. thank you much. yes. bye rushes attack on ukraine has cost lives and destroyed infrastructure. and it has also batted the mental health of many ukrainians. psychologists are struggling to help adults and children. deal with the impacts are corresponded. nick spicer visited the devastated town of broad young cup and found that even reminders of historical violence can trigger new anxiety for shell shocked ukrainians. during the occupation, somebody put a bullet hole through the head of ukraine's national poet, terra schiff, jenko, psychologist, tenure sauce, go tells of a patient who walk past it with her son who has children long. he is poems and begin in from their 3rd grade. still 11th grade and the boys said mom,

a little glue. what's in what state it's he holds in his head. he's sure didn't 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 nigel at once 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 the 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 j 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 mother tonya. 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 destroy the building that used to house tanius

community 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 see that you should leave again, but yes, we are trying 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. let's get you up to speed on some of the other stories making headlines today. north korea's leader kim jong owen, has said he's ready to use nuclear weapons in potential conflicts with the united states all with south korea. he made the comments during an event mocking the 69th

anniversary of the end of the fighting in the korean war. authorities in india, as western state of google are to have a launched an investigation of the dozens of people died from drinking toxic liquor . police say it contained industrial, methanol, commonly used in pain thinness liquor, sales abandoned. good. you're out and sheep elicit, alcohol causes hundreds of death across the country. every year you as president joe biden and his chinese counterpart, she didn't ping, i expect it all to call later today as relations between the 2 countries face new tensions over taiwan. white house officials say the coal will have a broad agenda. relations have deteriorated over. she's voucher realized democratic taiwan with a chinese mainland aging has also warned against a possible trip to taiwan by fort u. s. how speaker nancy pelosi saying there would be consequences of such

a high profile visit me while 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. dw correspondent zachary lee as this report from the capital time pay the ruth r o emp he only the south of the warning sirens can be heard. please instruct every one to thick shorter immediately. cities, of course taiwan shut down for 30 minutes for this nationwide military trios, military i says, i says this year are the largest in taiwan history. as you can see, the high to me o 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. i think the drills

unnecessary. we should be prepared beforehand. so how's your 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. while some the total was and because of the war in ukraine, we want to know where we can go and hide when we get attacked. for example, where are the shelters in taiwan? say no. on those i 90 ambulances in fire trucks play encoding room in these 3 o. the rescue workers fact he's putting out a fire after supposed may sell, attack the toe, and he's got them and wants to make it as real as possible to risk public awareness of emergency. we're nearly 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, the $3.00 oh $5.00. the military exercise will conduct the same time. and this will again, hey, ukraine in made reservists. dick launches under a breach, others focus some practice in open warfare. and on the open sea, several was ships carry out, may new verse. i was president how you went over sort of deals and navy destroyer. this excellent drill demonstrated the ability and determination of the soldiers of the republic of china to defend the country. let's continue to work hard and gotta high men together. china's threat to pump hit ty, $12.00, stayed up, preparation for chinese attack. us 1st page in is concerned. any attempts by pie was to come fonts is military will be doomed to fail.

now as those drills taking place, a head of the phone call between chinese president she jan thing and you as president job i'm let's turn to an expert on china and that's interactions with taiwan, micah, all back from the german marshall fund. think tag monica, if you look at the drills there and taiwan and moscow's invasion on ukraine, is it now really more likely that she will take a page out of hooton's book and move on taiwan? i think it's definitely was definitely the case is that everybody is watching very closely what's happening in ukraine, whether that is the chinese side or the taiwanese side or the west side. that doesn't mean that there is, you know, an imminent chinese invasion of taiwan. but everybody is studying what's happening in ukraine, and it was kind of adjusting their plans accordingly. and i think they're right to take it seriously. now, biden, and she are talking on the phone, says i just,

taiwan need to be a topic that i think tylen will inevitably be a topic. i mean, the phone call was set up a while ago. so i think initially the plan was to talk about the area. so she was ukraine, economy terrorists, and those things are still going to come up. what but with nancy pelosi is plan visit to taiwan and the tensions around that i would be very surprised if she didn't. ping and joe biden decided to ignore that topic altogether. now, we've touched on the topic earlier. what might china have learned from the international reaction to the invasion of ukraine? i think on the one hand, they've definitely learned that the cost may be higher than the expected. i do say that the chinese side was taken aback by the response in europe and the united states that there was a fairly or a much more count. and i think there's also why it's important to signal strongly

towards china that the economic repercussions of any, any military stats in taiwan would be quite severe. now, who has the upper hand at the moment in this rather complicated relationship? she'll but i mean this is like really hard question to say. i don't think it's necessarily a question of an upper hand or not. they both have issues to deal with. they both have severe constrains, and i do hope that both sides still have some interest in not letting it come to the worst. so this is not an issue where you can say x or x a y has the upper hand. but i go back from the german martial fund. thank. thank you very much. thanks for having me. fire crews are still working to contain the biggest blaze to hit the u. s. state of california this year,

scientists link their rising number in recent years for human induced climate change. the latest called the oak fire, as been partially contained. it has threatened the yosemite national park, but it's not yet fully under control. dw correspondence stuff on z months is in the steering nevada mountains were at, firefighters are still hard at work driving through the hills into the mountains surrounding small town. mariposa on the southwest corner of yosemite park feels almost like entering a different world to 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 lights, or to expend them. jo amador a fire captain from san diego and the press inflammation officer assigned to us

explains what they're trying to do. they're trying to build a parameter around this burn here 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, common there, connect, they go up there and they can find, i already ready to go. this will make you know, way deeper into the mountains and towards the front line with the oak fires actively burning. we are passing sides of utter destruction, examples of destroyed 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 usual 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 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 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 on fire. and it was starting to wrap around so already as fire everywhere, the reality for many of the $3000.00 and deployed fire fighters who still fight the oak fire at its frontline. however, a day without strong wind 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, fire fighters and helicopters, they go to

a what is called a dip. the dip is a pond 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. you're watching t w still to come. south korea has sent its k pop music around the world. now global talent is flocking. they're seeking success in the local music or 1st sports news in football, germany or through to the final of europe. 2022 of the beating france to one. germany's women kept their cool in a fiercely contested match in milton keynes of the u. k. captain, i example, a pop that had both goals as she is now at the joint top scorer of the tournament. her team will face england in the final,

at london's wembley stadium on sunday for more what will surely be an epic, germany, england battle? i'm now john thaw, sports reporter, max marrow max. let's talk about the game yesterday. france versus germany 1st. a bit of a slow start, but then it developed into a pretty great game. yeah, and i mean very cagey at the beginning both seems quite careful. maybe a little bit of respect for each other as well. very quality opposition at germany school 1st. and then franz hit back just before the break. it was the 1st goal that germany had conceived in the entire tournament, which just shows you what kind of told them and they've had. i was an absolute crack from outside the box to beat metal forms and metal forms, and then produced. superb saves in the 2nd half to keep germany in it. but i have to single out a different player captain alexander, to pop who we see, she scored both goals and through sheer force of will really such a dynamic play, a really impressive player. and at age 31 is quite surprising that this is her 1st

ever euros because through injuries she's missed other tournaments in the past. and most recently came off a 10 month injury lay off with to knee surgery. so she's really forced away back, making up for lost time now. and i think the team also really see this as a big opportunity to win the title around her as captain. she didn't even start the 1st match, actually came on to school though, but layer. so it was starting ahead of her. but she got coded right after the 1st match. so pop moved into the starting line up and she hasn't let go in 5 games. she's good 6 goals out of the fighting spirit will certainly help them in the final england versus germany. the one we talked about this yesterday the what the final that we both were hoping for. a true classic if there ever was one. what's your prediction for this guy? well, i think it's going to be close. i would probably say germany, if you put, you know, if you push me on picking one, i probably go with germany,

but i think it's going to be a lot closer than the last time they met in the euro's final, in 2009 when germany, 162, the last time they met in february england won the last time they played at wembley germany one. so i think it will be a close affair. it will be sold out wimbley crowd with $90000.00 fans. expected that will boost the the english to yeah. it could also give them a little bit of pressure that i think, you know, so it's one of those where it could go either way. these are the 2 stand out teams of bureau, 2022, so deservedly in the final and they both have depth and star power. the coaches dream as i mentioned to you yesterday, and the england coach that in a big man, she won the year is last time out with her native netherlands in 2017. and she knows exactly what to expect from this kind of final pressure because that was in the netherlands as well. so she is really experienced. here i was martina falls, text book, the germany coach, but the germany coach will set aside up to press england. that's something that england struggle with a little bit. so i think that's going to give germany the slight edge, but it'll be a cracking final on sunday,

whichever way it goes. it's max meryl that c w sports. thank you. i formula one news about the federal has just announced his retirement from the motor sports after the end of the season. 35 year old german is trying to drive a fast martin having previously been at thriving but bull who me one full straight recently. he has used the, his platform to support l g, b, t, q, and environmental causes and admitted he sometimes felt like a hypocrite driving and the one in the light on the client. now the korean pop music genre, k, paul pass a gone global and its appeal and is drawing global talents to south korea. in the hope of a career, it is by no means easy to achieve, but people are more than willing to step up to the challenge. ah, it takes a lot of passion,

commitment and blog to make it into a pop. but i am new. anderson was determined to go through the rigorous, dense, and singing training that successfully chance out countless korean pop stars. ah, she 1st discovered k pop in the u. k. before moving to south korea. to be honest, when i 1st started listening caper, whatever i no one knew what it was, i was the only person. however, these days i can just mention k pop and everyone's got like at least 3 groups on like top who they tend to go as keep up, grows into a world wide phenomenon. i and who has become one of the many global talents flocking to sol chasing a place in the industry. a getting a trainee offer is not easy, but making it as an idle is far tougher. the hardware paid off for korean american,

sing it. alexa. the 25 year old recently one nbc american song contest. ah, she's, that's her training and so contributed to her success. me when i didn't begin training, i train every day of the week. i had dance classes every single day. i did those for months and months and months. and then finally, the day came where my company told me i was getting prepared for debut. and like alexa, many more trainees have to go through a decade of training without knowing if they ever get to to view this. in addition to harsh training condition, difficult for overseas performers to adapt to experts say some trainees say dating and phones a band and weekly way checks are a must experts say the industry is now being forced to adapt so they can draw top talons from across the globe

i, jo anderson has decided to take a different path. it was too much for her. the 24 year old now works as a dancer and model. so part of her dream has still come true. and that's it from me. and the news seems, and i have an update for you at the top of the hour, but don't go away. coming up next is focus on europe. look at spain's water short gather office. i spoke with with

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