ah, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. ukraine says russian forces are in control of its 2nd biggest power plots. the capture of the coal fired vocal, your scar power station is rushes latest advance in the east and on bus. elsewhere, ukraine's car for offensive appears to be making get. also coming up taiwan stages . it's biggest ever military drills or residents must trained to seek shelter from airings after russians attack on ukraine. taiwan fears a chinese invasion is now more likely and residents describe living through

california largest wildfire so far this year. this was on fire. that was on fire. fire fire in the child landscape near yosemite national park fire crews continue to fight the still burning blades. added football germany is through to the final of the euro. 2022. after beating from set now for a clash against host nation, england at wembley stadium. this ah i'm glad i was welcome to the program. ukrainian officials say russian forces have taken control of the countries 2nd biggest power plot. british military intelligence said mercenaries from the commercial russian military group,

vac not capture territory near the cold fire plant in recent days. vocal hisco power station is the latest loss in the east and don bus region. it comes as president of them is zalinski said ukraine was preparing to increase its electricity, exposed to the you to help with stand pressure from russia of energy supplies, especially d. w as much as building a is in odessa covering this story for us. and i asked him to give us the latest on the fighting that yeah, as you've mentioned, the power plan seems to have been taken by the rations. this has been confirmed by an advisor 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's a, it's a made. 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 attacks on one point. a shells

them massively attacks them massively at, at some point they enter, they are making gains, but these gains each for 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 breakthrough. what ukraine has been doing so far is attacking the positions and a 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 gray in 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 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 their ships already. so we might see a shipment tomorrow, we might see it in the next few days. it's a matter of coordination. it's something that remains a little bit unpredictable. our correspondent is filling a very potent from odessa. thank you much. yes. rushes attack on ukraine has

caused many, many lives and destroyed infrastructure. but it is also bassett, the mental health of many ukrainians. psychologists are struggling to help adults and children deal with the impact to w, corresponded nick spicer visited the devastated town of bodhi anchor and found that even reminders of historical violence can trigger new anxiety for the shell shocked ukrainians. during the occupation, somebody put a bullet hole, 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, children alone. he's forms and beginning from the 3rd grade till 11th grade, and the boy said, no glue was what state. oh, it's a hold him. you've had his show. didn't say all know maybe they didn't know the gym grades, masha, he's 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 kinko's. where does magic? everybody in bar jacket seems to know the story of this building. when russian shelling started, people took shelter inside. it's 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 their feelings of helplessness and the fear that the war is following you when it started this couple thought it would be over in days and never get close. but celine with that, i do here what apple is shelling from the russian multiple launch rockets system. hit the playground where my wife and child were leave watching were still hopeful. she got fragments in her leg shell hola. moscow through 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 tonya takes me aboard what she calls the psychological brigade, van town. we use this car for visit in to the small 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 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 say that you should leave

again. but yes, and we're 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. as have looked at some of the other stories making headlines, north korea's leader kim jong on has said he's ready to use nuclear weapons and potential conflicts with united states or with south korea. he made his comments during an event mocking the 69th anniversary of the end of fighting in the korean war. authorities in india's western state of gerardo, have launched an investigation of the dozens of people dying from drinking toxic

liquor. please say it control it contained industrial, methanol, commonly used and painful in us. liquor, sales, abandoned, good, gerard, and cheap illicit alcohol causes hundreds of deaths across the country. every year us president joe biden and his chinese count, partridge, and ping are expected to hold a call later. today, as relations between the 2 countries, face new tensions over taiwan. white house officials say they call, we'll have a broad agenda. relations have deteriorated over. she's vow to reenact democratic taiwan with a chinese mainland. edging has also warned against a possible trip to taiwan by us. how speaker nancy pelosi say there would be consequences 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,

all residents must practise seeking shelter. dw corresponded zachary li, has this report from the capital t i pay the ruth o empty. only the south of the warning sirens can be heard. please instruct every one to seek shorter immediately. cities of course, tie one shut down for 30 minutes for these nationwide military 3 yo's, the military, i, sis, i, sis this year are the largest in taiwan history. as i can say, b hi to me. o. cause have been forced to pour over to the side of the road and every one is too thick, shorter doing this air, red jails. how many people are taking the exit? i seriously, in light of no war ukraine that has served as a wake up call for tie one over the thread from china. i think the drills a necessary. we should be prepared beforehand. oh, oh, how will they though with ohio 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, manage it all. some down toggle was until that 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? they now was that the one called old 90 ambulances in fire trucks play and encoding rule in these 3 yo's. the rescue workers pack piece, putting out a fire after supposed myself a pack. the taiwanese government wants to make it as real as possible to raise public awareness of emergency warnings or the doctor. whether 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 up one. oh, $3.00 o's, an a 5 day military exercise will conduct the elusive time. and this will game has

ukraine in might. reservists, dick, luncheon, chase on dakota beach, others focus some at kissing urban warfare and on the open, the civil war ships carry out may new verse. i was president, how you went over. so the deals and navy destroyer. this excellent drill demonstrated the vanity 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 thread to pump his tie one to stand up preparation for chinese, a peck. let us 1st page in is concerned. any attempts by ty was to come fonts is me, 3 will be doomed to fail. and i asked china experts my call back from the german marshall fund. think talk if rushes warn you, crime has raised the chances of china following suit in taiwan.

i think it's definitely one's 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 has kind of adjusting their plans accordingly. and i think they're right to take it seriously. now, biden, and she, i talking on the phone says i just, taiwan needs to be a topic that i think tywon will inevitably be a topic. i mean, this 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 gym, hang, and joe biden decided to ignore that topic altogether. now,

we've touched upon 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 they 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 resolute response and they had expected. so i do think that does, can, that's something that taking into account, 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 high one 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 to 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. you are cdw still to come? germany a through to the final of footballs, euro 2022. but they faced a tough home crowd and team when they faced england on the preview, what is likely to be a thrilling soda. but 1st, the massive wildfires burning for the 5th day along the border between germany and the check republic. it's destroying huge slaves of parkland and both countries

blaze seemed to be contained but spreading again. hundreds of firefighters from several countries are battling the flames. already one village on the check side has been destroyed and hundreds of residents evacuated. the fire started on saturday following a heat, which scientists say such extreme conditions are being driven by climate change. now those conditions are being seen across the us, us to severe droughts combined with strong winds. at high temperatures, have fueled wildfires in 11 states in california. fire crews are still working to contain the regions biggest blaze this year. the oak fire, which had threatened the yosemite national park, has been partially contained, but is not yet fully under control. to w correspondence. stefan siemens is in the sierra, nevada, mountains where fire fighters are still hard at work. driving through the hills and 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 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, right, to keep it from spreading. and that's what this protection line is doing. so they 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 all ready, 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,

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. it has no respect through. it destroys what it destroys, as much as that is true. fire, finest, 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 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 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 fire at its frontline. however, a day without strong winds helps they can use aerial essence. 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's largest wildfire this year to date is expected to be under control in about 2 weeks or so. i have some other headlines from around the world for you. at

least for more protests as have been killed in the democratic republic of congo after soldiers, 5 shots, which hit an electric cable that then fell on the crowd. the protest was against a united nations peacekeeping mission, in the eastern city of europe. at least 15 people died in a protest a day earlier. residence of the northern philippines are assessing the damage after powerful earthquakes that struck the island of luzon. on wednesday, at least 4 people were killed and more than a $130.00 injured hundreds of off the shocks of the region. many residents say their tuk scared to sleep in their homes. some sports is now in football, germany a through to the final of europe, 2022 of the beating france to one. germany's women kept their cool in a fiercely contest match in milton keynes. in the u. k. captain alexandra pop

netted both goals and she's now the joint top score of the tournament t move face england in the final at london's wembley stadium. this sunday. for more what will surely be an epic, germany, england battle on knowledge on thoughts, post 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 and germany school 1st and then france 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 actually cracking from outside the box to beat metaphors 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 pope, 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 a 1st ever euro's 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 for so way 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 stop the 1st match. actually came on to school though, but we're still, 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. he'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 hoping for a true classic if that ever was one what's your prediction for this game? 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 years 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 a sold out, wembley 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. so 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 mero, that she w sports. thank you. and inform you that one sebastian factor has just announced his retirement from the motor sport after the end of this season. the 35 year old german is currently driving for aston martin. i think previously been a ferrari and red ball with whom you on for straight championships between 201-200-2014 . and recently he has used his platform to support l g, b t q at environmental causes and admitted he sometimes felt like a hypocrite. driving in for me, the one in light of a story and a man football's adopt munch striker, give us your allow will be out for several months after undergoing surgery on a test to kill us tomorrow. the 28 year old was diagnosed last week during the

team's pre season training. can you just arrived at the moment this month of 31000000 you were transferred from i x amsterdam. the club have said no returned date as been said. and are for any game of thrones fans out there. the hit france. the drama is backed as a pre call. series house of dragon on the world's most highly anticipated tv events . events has held. it's global premier in los angeles. the series will follow the ta gerin dynasty as many kings and queens both good and evil rule over this 7. you can expect to see battles, bloodshed be trials, and plenty of dragons, which will begin streaming on august 21st. watching t w. c. as a reminder of the top story, we are following for you. officials in ukraine,

se russian forces have taken control of the countries. second biggest power plot. plot the eastern don bus region. the com says president vladimir lensky said ukraine was prepared to increase electricity export to the european and that's it from me for now. conflict, so is off next with ukraine, the military bother you both tables. excellent. aah with

you. into the conflict zone with sebastian more than a 100 days of war in ukraine, and the bottles are intensifying. my guest this week from brussels is new, both to both got advisor, ukraine's armed forces. how long can care, rely on western arms? and i, munitions. who can it really trust a nest on d,

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mileage pass. and re imagined that these teachings, both elements to us. ah, gandhi's legacy starts august 6th on d. w. more than a 100 days of war in ukraine and the battles are intensifying. ukraine's losses have been severe since invading russia has occupied a 5th of the country. and is pounding least in dumbass, which it seems determined to occupy. how long can care, rely on western arms and ammunition? who could really trust my guests this week from brussels is lou. both to both got advisor to ukraine's armed forces. along with her government. she's been angered by president macros.