ah ah this is the w news line from bern. russian forces sees control of ukraine 2nd biggest power plant. it's the latest fed back in the east is the area around the capital key. also comes under renewed attack, but ukraine says a counter offensive centering on a key bridge in the south is gaining ground. also on the program. chinese president

june came born u. s. president joe biden over taiwan. don't play with fire. he says it's a tool for the 1st time in my violence in columbia, as a new president prepared to take offers police say, a powerful drugs car town is behind a wave of attacks on security for political and economic term. won't take that told in sri lanka, many of the country's best qualified citizens want to leave in search of a better life. ah, i'm sure you're welcome to the program. russian forces have seized ukraine's 2nd biggest up power station, the capture of the, of google. here sca power plant is the latest set back for defenders in the east and don't bass region the area around the capitol. keith has come on the miss on

attack for the 1st time in weeks. but in the south, ukraine says a counter offensive is gaining ground. i have from the ruins of this hotel. rescuers pull a man from the rubble alive. not every one was so lucky when russian rockets hit buck moved on thursday. the city in the doughnuts region has been hit again and again. i indiscriminate russian shelling part of moscow stalled efforts to claim ukraine's east but in the country south keep says a counter offensive is moving forward. the city of have son fell to russian forces early on in the war. ukraine is now stepping up efforts to retake it. keith says is knocked out the strategic antonio ski bridge. this would help isolate russian forces on the rivers west bank, away from their supply lines. yes sir q and why that there is a significant damage to the bridge and its structure. we think that the enemy will

try to repair it again with a number of others. we are prepared for this and you will soon hear about our next steps will not supported you. booth is awesome. with posting on telegram, an official for the russian appointed administration said the bridge was still functional, while referring to ukraine's armed forces as nazis as, as common in the pro russian camp. still, with most of the sword, one silly word the bridge is blown up. every one rejoices, but these are just illusions. none of the nazis will ever enter have song. so, but the destroyed bridge, which you can see behind me, you still exists and objectively speaking this hysteria by ukrainian nazis won't change the outcome. dia agricultural grandma says though, the fighting over this strategic crossing is more than just a war of words. ukraine says it's forces will repair the bridge eventually. but 1st, the aim to liberate their son. but so personally, developments with michael dash,

who's professor of international relations at the university of notre dame in indiana. welcome to d. w. professor, how do you read those to me with? thank you. how do you leave those 2 big gains by each side to that ukraine? bombing via anton, they've cut bridge in hassan and rushes capture of the vehicle here. skip power station, ukraine, 2nd largest. well, i think neither of them are really decisive in terms of military operations that are turning into a slow grind. the bigger issue for the russians in the don't boss is to be able to push ukrainian forces far enough away from the city of don yachts to take it out from under ukrainian artillery attacks which are going on every day. conversely, the ukrainians are making a lot of the supposed offensive to take back her son and they have

struck the anti nibs. and so not ski bridge a couple of times with high mars attacks. on the other hand, the bridge is not destroyed and there are other ways over the river, including a roadway on top of a damn about 40 kilometers to the northeast. and now a pro don't yet. television is showing video pictures of the russian military building a pontoon bridge across the river. so i think the ukrainians are making a lot of the attack on the bridge, but it's not clear that it's going to, you know, really materially aid their ability to take back your sites. it's not decisive as you say. and, and the 2 sides do seem to be having for confrontation in has on,

with russia, said to be re deploying troops from dumbass and ukraine, gearing up to retake it. how do you think that will end? well that is going to be the real test of the ukrainian military because they will be on the off fence of attacking russian and russian allied forces who will be on the defensive and the ukrainians have not conducted an operation like this successfully. and i think that they're doing it quickly because they feel the need to show some progress on the battlefield. and i think, you know, if they achieve some success, they'll use that to make the case that they can win the war if they don't achieve success. i think they'll be arguing that they need a yet greater infusion of nato and american military technology.

ok, and of course the world is waiting to see whether this agreement of a grain exports a can be successfully implemented without bombs falling well being smuggled in to ukraine. how do you see that going? i think both the russians in the ukrainians have a mutual interest in the grain moving out. on the other hand, the russians want to make the point that while they're willing to agree to allow for ukraine to transport grain, they're not going to slow down their attack on other sorts of targets, including targets in port cities like odessa. and so what it suggests is that the future of the war will be quite complex, with some areas of agreement, whether grain or p, o w exchanges, moving ahead at the same time, you know,

continuing hostilities occur good talking to you. that's very clear. thanks for joining us, michael. dash, professor of international relations at the university of notre dame. my pleasure. leaders of china i'm united states have talked to for the 1st time in months and a cold dominated by tensions over taiwan. joe biden and jason pink spoke for 2 hours and a conversation by described by beijing as candid china considers the island part of its territory. although the island governs itself democratically. my president buying has offered to come to tie once that defense. if president she tries to re united with the mainland us house freak and nancy pelosi is said to be planning a visit to the island, the chinese state media, se prison. she warned us present to joe by not to get involved saying that those who play with fire will only get burned. scott,

go soon. this i sounds like fighting talk with a professor shall the rigor from davidson college in north carolina. she specializes in the relationships between the us, china and taiwan. welcome professor. from what we know of cold has anything changed materially between these countries and their positions? i think it's really hard to say that something has changed to materially already, but i think the call is significant in a couple of ways. first of all, the fact that it happened means that she didn't ping and president joe biden are trying to talk to one another and trying to navigate through this very difficult moment. and then the 2nd thing that i think is noteworthy out of this conversation is that president biden affirmed that u. s. policy has not changed. and while i don't think that here see leadership

always entirely believes that president biden and other american leaders when they say that the fact that he is saying it is, i think, a sign of again, an effort to navigate through rather than to continue moving toward a real crisis, it's interesting, this idea that the u. s. policy hasn't changed because president biden said earlier this, we have this, this notion of, of constructive ambiguity. and we have biden, a few weeks ago saying that yes, america would come to ty, one's eye. and he then sort of rode back on it. so if american policy on taiwan hasn't changed, does everybody know what it is? well, that's an excellent question, and i think u. s. policy on taiwan is a very subtle and complex kind of topic. but the fundamental character of us policy toward taiwan is,

and i think president biden captured this in his remarks with president she today. the policy is that the u. s. doesn't support a unilateral change at is either the p r c, trying to coerce taiwan to do what it ons or taiwan trying to run afoul of what the p r c wants in order to permanently alter its status so that the u. s. position is we don't really care where the p r c and taiwan end up. but our, it is a strong interest of the united states is very important to the united states. that wherever you go, you go there peacefully and neither side tries to force the other. so sometimes the u. s. emphasizes, we don't want to see china or that we don't want to see the p. r. c coercing. i was about preserving the status quo. why has it suddenly become so much more

contentious that the notion of taiwan i think part of what's going on here is that the p r c has become more sort of forward leaning on many issues as it's international power, comprehensive, national power, you know, military, economic and diplomatic has increased, it has become more willing to make the demands that have been longstanding interest of the p r c. but it maybe in the past was not quite so assertive about, but the other thing that's going on is that i think the peer or see perceives that the u. s. is also pushing taiwan to become more assertive on its side. and i think what we see right now is the p r c working very hard to kind of push back on the u. s. encouragement of taiwan. thank you. that's very

clear, professor shopping rigor from donors college. thanks very much. what i can look that up small store is making headlines around the world. peruvian president, pedro castillo is a mocking a year in office, and they dwindling support on the grid. locking congress on wednesday night police broke up a demonstration of the support in congress for sabotage in president north korean leader, kim jong says he's ready to use nuclear weapons in potential conflicts with united states or with south korea. he was speaking on the 69th anniversary of the end of the communion, red heavy rains in the united arab emirates, of course, flash floods closing roads and forcing families to leave their homes. the national weather sensor says it is the most rain for 27 years

now to columbia, which is seeing a wave of violence against the police. as a new president prepared to take office least 25 offices have been killed this year. dozens more have been injured in attacks using firearms and explosives. colombians have more of the dead in nationwide vigils. the police say a powerful drugs cartel is behind most of the murders, and may even be offering the boards for targeting security forces. so let's go to d, w 's or you had the mirrors in the colombian capital budget offer more welcome. jo . hadn't so talk us through what's behind these attacks according to the government . these attacks have been carried out to by dick gland. the goal for the golf clinton, which is the largest criminal organization of the country, one of the biggest drug gangs in latin america. and these attacks are supposed to

be in retaliation. augusta data storage is for their recent extradition of the the gang to leave their auto, knin ordonia was captured by the end of last year. and after many, many hearings and a long process, he was extra needed to do not estates a couple of months. a go just to give you an idea of the importance of auto nil after bob lot escobar, the great drug lord in columbia. or tanya is the most prominent figuring drug trafficking in the country. so his extradition is a major blow for this organization. and that's the reason why they have declared this sort of war against the police. what would the government changes in 10 days? and how was the new administration proposing to deal with this problem? the goodness for the next, the administration of was double petro, which will take office in august. 7th, is that last week this sir claimed a gold full with other 3rd. the criminal organizations are released

a letter proposed in the peace accord with the next government. they are proposing to and every, to stop every criminal activity to hand over their weapons in exchange of pardon and the warranty stuff. none. prosecution, something similar already happened back in 2017 with the then president, the now nobody priest but not peace prize winner. one man was sent to stay or also proposed a basic or would that robber meant? but finally, eat fade to so the next a weeks and months are going to be keyed to see if a finally this proposal works in the country. so, and how did they become so powerful in the 1st place? what was that the last government doing while, while all this was going on? according to the netted nations office on the rocks and crank, columbia is responsible for 7 out of every 10 grams of cocaine produced in the

world. so this is a $1000000000.00 business, and with that money over the decades, this criminal organization has established themselves have consolidated chord dice off by where have infiltrated public institutions, an estate institutions and the, and, and that's how they have also financed that terrorism, as a political weapon that how they have become so so powerful in the country. thank you for that. your hon ah dw customer your honda ramirez in bogota. i took so long on the country's economic and political emergency, seeing your people lose hope that things will get better quickly. manny i'm our considering leaving for good. d. w. so many ra chandry reports from columba every single day. 100 q or pure at the passport office in sri lanka. bushed by circumstances. they wish to leave the country. one of them is 50, do you, roy,

germany, the girl who has been coming here for 3 days now with her husband and son, or to have asthma? i have come here with my husband and my son to get their passports made. and if we want to leave them locked as no work for us here because nothing has been cut. amnio. germany has worked as a caregiver for years. and her husband as an order rickshaw driver ought to have lost a livelihood because of the current crisis. and she lanka and are finding it difficult to even so white. what she wants now is a better life for her 19 year old son, which she knows is a far cry in her country. germany says that it's not just her but boundless. others who are suffering people here have been reading for div standing in q was outside the department of immigration and emigration and colombo. many of them who have come from other parts of the country had rented small accommodations in nearby

areas to get their passports made audrey note, while people seeking to go abroad for opportunities is not a new opinion. she lanka, the number of people outside the bus would office have shot up significantly in the past few months. young people, especially phoebe, have no option but to leave. according to government statistics, the number of passports issued from january to mid june this year is over 300000, roughly equal to the total number of passport issued last, the job market is always up and down. but in the current situation, there is no job market right now. so it's why you wasting your time. there's no future here as far as we know. i mean, i tried as well, but yeah, there's no hope. so makes sense to make a move very much. dr. bike is on the 7 am would do of the center for policy alternatives, says young people moving out in such numbers does not bode well for an aging

society like she lanka. if this country gets back on the right footing with the systemic changes and all of that, they may well come back and provide their experience and expertise to develop this country. but otherwise, we do have a serious problem because we are not going to have a critical mass of people in the most productive years of their life within the country. dr. 7 hamilton says this extreme frustration that the youth fees to do with the administration that frustration is bad. the bill here as the que inches forward slowly, disgruntled, disappointed, and exhausted. people continue to which they believe leaving is the only way they can at least have a chance of creating a better future for themselves. more headlines from around the world. now german, foreign minister and i'm a bare bach has visited athens. i had

a talk with the greek government, made flowers at the sight of a former nazi headquarters where german occupies torture. thousands of great resistance fighters caught in russia, has convicted a journalist of discrediting the armed forces and find her the equivalent of 800 euros. marina of janet cova gained international attention when she protested against russia's invasion of ukraine during a news bulletin case relates to her later social media posts in which she criticized the wall. residents of the northern philippines refer in the damage after a quake struck the island of luzon on wednesday. at least 4 people were killed in more than 100. 30 injured hundreds of aftershocks, of the region with many residents saying that to get to sleep in their homes and artificial intelligence is transforming our lives in areas as diverse as technology, machine learning and biology. and one of the leaders in the field is deep mind. a

subsidiary of google's own alphabet, deep mind has created a network called alpha fault, which is said to be able to predict the structure of proteins, the building blocks of life. aside to say the program could potentially have a huge impact on global problems, like a family and life threatening diseases. dr. samir bellanca can guide us through this. he's team leader at a m b l. european bioinformatics institute, which is collaborated on the al fold project. you joins us from cambridge in the u . k. a welcome to d w doctor. why do we need to predict the structure of proteins when they're all around us? why do we need to know what i don't know as a super electron microscope or something? why do we need to be predicted? and so the tippins are the building blocks feel off off life and understanding

their shape is closely linked with understanding their function. and these are the missionaries of, of the cell, perform any function. so allowing for a better understanding of this function requires us to know the protein structure and experimentally we have been determining lots of structures, but now it is possible to predict this the, the structure of proteins. so for example, recently in the, in the coal will depend debbie understanding the pretty shape of corporate coatings has helped us in designing vaccine center molecules. and so prediction of protein structure is essential and is going to help us in new drug discovery treatment of diseases. and tackling lower the challenges, right? so, so just just taking your, your, your covert example, in that example, we predicted what it would look like rather than determine that experimentally.

so we did, in that case, it was determined experimentally. but what we are going to see is having this prediction capability means having additional tool right in our, our moody who tackle this, this problem. and people are gonna look at this, the use of a i, of course, because it is in the headlines all the time. and they're gonna wonder, well, all right, it's being used for good. tell us about the sorts of problems then that it could solve. so e, i has been a really impactful, obviously, in biological sciences where we, we have been able to solve this challenge that has been around for 50 years of predicting the protein struck just there are other applications people have done in

understanding for example, what kind of drug molecules can be looked or, or understanding the, the parkinson's, the see this transfer. so there are lots of new area now where e, j has been applied to improve our understanding of what exactly is happening and what out of the solutions. right? well, that sounds good, is there a dark side to this? can it be used for evil? so i think we had this question as well when we were trying to get all this data out for all these predicted structures, which is about more than 200000000 and we consolidate many experts. so deep mine had many experts in safety and it peaks and we considered them to understand what are the implications and the overwhelming consensus there was having these data available is going to result in benefiting the humanity. and this

is why you have made all this data accessible today. ok. so it does look my, i mean if this is a breakthrough, a, do you think that the might, the next nobel prize might go to a google company? so let me say this week, i think this is a good ones that have started one of the most fundamental challenges in by which researchers have been addressing this protein prediction problem for the last 50 years. and it is going to lead to a major impact in life sciences. and this is going to be really transformative for lifestyle research and we will see its impact for coming the kids like we saw impact of human g. well that's hope we we end up seeing you making that visit to the nobel institute. thank you so much for joining us, doctor sent me a bellanca. thank you, phil. just,

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