ah ah ah ah this is d w. news line from berlin. russian forces sees control of ukraine. second biggest power plant. it's the latest set back in the east of the area around the capital of keith also comes under renewed attack. when you crave as a counter offensive center with a key bridge, the south is gaining graph. also on the program. chinese presidents fusion tank

ward's u. s. president joe biden over taiwan. don't play with fire. he says they talk the 1st time in 5 columbia as a new president, prepared to take office. police say a powerful drugs cartel is behind a wave of attacks on security. ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. russian forces of seas. ukraine, 2nd bigger step, power station. the capture of the butch. the he has a power plant is the latest set back for defenders in the east and don't batch region. the area around the capital keeps come under miss. i'll attack the 1st time in weeks, but in the south, ukraine says a counter offensive is gaining ground. this is 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 and the doughnuts region has been hit again and again. i indiscriminate russian shelling part of moscow stalled efforts to claim ukraine's east for but in the country south, keith says a counter offensive is moving forward. the city of her son fell to russian forces early on in the war. ukraine is now stepping up efforts to retake it, keeps as is knocked out the strategic antonio ski bridge. this would help isolate russian forces on the rivers west bank, away from their supply lines. you securing the 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 or not about to give

a booth as welcome was 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. with the, with most of the lord, one silly group, the bridge is blown up with. everyone rejoices but these are just allusions. 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 cuz it won't change. the outcome is studia. agricultural grimaces, 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 her son. michael dash is professor of international relations at the university of notre dame in indiana. he gave me his assessment of today's too big gains, ukraine bombing the until they've cut bridge in castle and rushes capture of

ukraine. virtually he has a power station. 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. enter enough 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 through some 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 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 on 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 can be successfully implemented without bombs falling on being smuggled into ukraine. i do you see that going?

i think both the russians and 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.

the presidents of china on the united states have talked for the 1st time in months, in called, dominated by tensions over taiwan, joe biden, and she's in pink, spoke for 2 hours in a conversation described by beijing, is candid a china consider the iron to be part of its territory, though it governs itself, democratically abiding, has offered to come to tie one's defense. if president she tries to reunite it with the mainland us. how speaker nancy pelosi is said to be planning a visit to chinese state media. as a resident, she wanted the united states not to get involved saying those who play with only get well i talked to professor shelley rigor from davis and college in north carolina. she specializes in relations between the us, china and taiwan. and i asked her whether this call had changed anything between the 2 sides. 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 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 ultimate real crisis, it's interesting, this idea that the u. s. policy hasn't changed because president biden said earlier this week we have this, this notion of, of constructive ambiguity. and we had biden, a few weeks ago saying that yes,

america would come to tie 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 providing captured this in his remarks with present 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 a sort of about but the other thing that's going on is that i think the peer or see perceived 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 shoving rigor from donors and college. thanks very much. take a look now at small stores making headlines around the world. the north korean leader kim jong says he's ready to use nuclear weapons and potential conflicts with the united states on, with south korea. he was speaking on the 69th anniversary of the end of the community. and president emmanuel macro has welcome to saudi crown prince

muhammad been cell man to his presidential palace and paris. the visitors drawn controversy in france because a saudi arabia is a human rights abuses. saudi government has been linked to the 2018 killing of journalistic america review president petro castillo, is marking idea in office, and we dwindling support on the grid. locking congress on wednesday night police broke up a demonstration of his supporters, they by congress or sabotage in president plans to columbia, which is c, a wave of violence against the police as a new president proposed to take office. 25 offices have been killed this year. dozens more have been injured in attacks using firearms and explosives. colombians have more of the dad in visuals across the country. please say a powerful jugs cartel is behind most of the murders, and may even be offering rewards for targeting security forces. d,

w 's or johan ramirez in bugger. tar told me more about the cartel that's being blamed for these attacks. according to the government, these attacks have been carried out to by dick land. 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 retaliation. augusta data storage is for their recent extradition of the the gangs 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 look escobar, the great drug, lord in columbia, ordonia 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 good news for the next, the administration of gustavo petro, which will take office in august 7th, is that last week this sir claimed a golfer with other 30 criminal organizations. i released a letter proposing the peace accord with the next the government. they are proposing to and every, to stop every criminal activity to hand over their weapons in exchange of pardon and big warranties of non prosecution. something similar already happened back in 2017 with the then president, the now novel priest, but not as peace prize winner. one man was sent to stay or also proposed a piece, a car with that robber meant. but finally, each fail 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 the last government doing while, while all this was going on? according to the united nations office on drugs and crime, 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 quote thus far 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 of how they have become so. so powerful in the country. thank you for that. your hon. dw customer, your honda ramirez in fog a t r o 2 reminder, same sex relationships are not only illegal,

but society at large still doesn't accept many algae beating people with many things. they frequently faced discrimination. despite this one church has decided to tread another path, an open wide it's doors sunday morning for most rwandans means going to church and they're spoiled for choice and where they can go to worship. but many l g b t 2, people say they didn't feel welcome and rwanda's churches until they found this one on the outskirts of the capitol kigali. where in focus yet that fidel is conscious . as you see, i heard about this church, a place that accepts us unconditionally and accept any one. i keep sac victor jack separately and i jumped for joy because this is something new in rwanda city. at the moment. i feel at home here because this is the 1st time i can freely seeing dance i me or talk with other people is your view and not from the l g b t q,

community one, play malaysia on lacey, elijah in sante. com la. yes. zan in on the same amount of money on it. christians from other churches criticize us, a number of opinions they judge us because of our sexuality thing. and i'm saying we are cast a semi but a sheet a whole lot in their eyes. we will go to hell of a hook, so it is not easy for us to stay here and gone. the law of the whole the church, his leadership made a conscious effort to open up its membership, which is currently at about a 100 people. they say another $5000.00 from around the country follow the teachings online. or korea, harold squad timothy, head towards coma. the decision to integrate l g b t q people into our churches came after we saw that they were undesirable in any christian church. daniella cuz we looked at the scriptures and saw that they are

acceptable people like us able to see what that is, why we welcomed these people of god. one conversely, man other churches have distance themselves from that stands maintaining that true christianity cannot be altered behaviors. laker, di, maria sexuality and some of those other things that then portrayed as a thing for behavior accommodations actually for, for as a matter of fact, why, because every interdiction you finding the bible is a protection for the community. it's a common view in rwanda, which has over 15000 churches but with only one outlier providing the unconditional welcome l g b t q. christians seek artificial intelligence is transforming our lives in areas as diverse as technology,

machine learning and biology. one of the leaders in the field is deep mind, a subsidiary of google's owner, alphabet deep mine has created a network called alpha fold, which you said to be able to predict the structure of proteins, the building blocks of life. a scientist say the program could potentially have a huge impact on global problems like famine and life threatening diseases. we'll dr. samira bellanca a's team leader at m b l z. a european bioinformatics institute, which is collaborated on the alpha fold project. you tell me why it's important to predict the structure of proteins rather than just look at them through a microscope. so the tippins are the building blocks feel of off life and understanding their shape is closely linked with understanding their function. and these are the missionaries of, of the cell, but for many functions. 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 calling to kinda be understanding the pretty shape of corporate coatings has helped us in designing vaccines and 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 challenge. 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 pool, right? in our, our movie, we'll 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 going to 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 understanding the, the parkinson's, the see, this pencil. so there are lots of new radios now where it has been applied to

improve our understanding of what exactly is happening and what are 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 break through 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 one that has 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 to send me a lanka. thank you. phil and sports vassar battle has announced that he's to retire from foreman one at the end of the season

. a 35 year old german dr. aston martin previously been at ferrari and red bull with whom he won a full straight championships between 20102013. but he wasn't able to return to those heights in the decade that followed was for world titles under his belt by the age of 26, sebastian federal looked like a racing certainty to surpass the record of 7 championships set by his idle compatriot, mikhail schumacher. but a big move from red bill to the glamour of ferrari proved a huge disappointment for the german. there he was out shown by his younger teammate, sharla clare. tensions often boiled over on to the track like here at the brazilian grand prix in 2019. that my daughter with fed left ferrari having failed to add to his whole of championships. many thought he would retire, but he moved to aston martin where over the past 2 seasons,

he struggled to shine in a disappointing car. he has been politically outspoken. the irony of calling for a greener formula, one while simultaneously driving in its races is not lost on him. as he explained in the instagram post announcing his retirement. my passion comes with certain aspects that i have learned to dislike. they might be solved in the future, but the will to apply that change has to grow much, much stronger, and has to be leading to action to day. but the golden years at red bill provide the lasting images of his contribution to the sport from which he retires with $53.00 grown pre wins to his name. a game of thrones as back as a prequel series house of the dragon and its global premier in los angeles. the series will follow the ta, gary in tennessee as that kings and queens good and evil rule over the 7 kingdoms

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