ah, the global struggle for water and nothing can be done. thurs starts august 10th on d, w b. ah ah, this is dw, use live from berlin. ukraine steps up, its efforts to retake occupied territory on russian missiles, cause destruction in the countries east. analysts say ukraine is making gains against the invasions in the south main while russia claims ukraine's missiles have

struck a prison killing its own captive soldiers. also coming out, don't play with fire. china's later warned us president joe biden against involvement in taiwan. in a call she ging paying issue strong words as a senior us politician. consider visiting me on a nation. china views as its territory. also, alaska goes up in flames than all the new estate is seeing. an unusual spite of forest fires, dw mates, the fire crews, and struggling to save haunt. ah, i am rebecca for it is welcome to the program, russian and ukrainian forces on trading rocket attacks as they struggle over territory in the months long invasion. officials in mich, ally of in the south say, several people are dead after a new russian missile strike. meanwhile, russia claims that training missiles had struck

a prison in the occupied don at craig and killing, at least 40 ukrainian prisoners of wool at claim cannot be verified. today's attacks follow several on thursday across various regions, including near the capitol cave, with 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 for but in the country south keeps as 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. 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. you securing the wire that there is significant

damage to the bridge and its structure. we think that the enemy will try to repair it again. william of us, we are prepared for this war and you will soon hear about our next steps or not about should you booth is on most of the 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 is common in the pro russian camp. with most of the sword, one sealing group, the bridge is blown up with. everyone rejoices but these are just illusions. none of the nazis will ever enter his song on the destroyed bridge, which you can see behind me. you still exist and objectively speaking this hysteria by ukrainian nazis won't change the outcome. the, the aggregate of grammar is 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, pass on. data is fine if a child is in cave and gave us this update a little earlier. you kind of get the impression that this is a level of stagnation for both sides because they went any major gains during recent weeks needed for russia know for ukraine while at the same time as you have also heard in that report is a lot of sharing going on specifically in buckman, which is a very strategic town for russians to take in to then advanced into dumbass region towards slo vianza, which is the administrative center and don't yet so lot of fighting is going on without any halt there in the eastern region. but the situation is also quite dynamic in the harrison region as ukraine is trying to step off, step up, it's counter offensive there and liberate hearts. a city that is under russian control since the very beginning, almost off of the war that is in it's 6 months now there's focus on this key breached antonio ski bridge, which also changed hands a few times during the course of this war. and ukraine wants to control this bridge

because you, if you look at the map, you see that it really establishes a land corridor for russians from crimea, all the way into central ukraine. and it is actually very, very important for them to supply their, their forces, their troops in the city, but also in, on the west and bank of the river of the negro neva river did very important sources, very important gear, et cetera. so you will see a much more action to say so in the hassan region, of course, at the same time is going to be the civilians have to be the bronze for this. as ukraine is stepping up, it's counter offensive without any major gains yet. i'm just preparing to ground for it and russia. of course, we want to defend the region that the f taken in a few months ago. and when it is also, of course, the ongoing grain issue with speculation, things could start moving today, way where things stand there. if you listen to the un chief mr. griffith there, he said that things look good in the sense that this could start today at the same

time, a quote there, crucial details that have not been booked out yet. no one of this crucial details, of course, is the question of safety. you have to know all the sports. they are along the black sea, specifically the odessa port. our mind, this is what ukraine set up in order to defend the ports from russian advancement. but at the same time, now you need a safe cory door for the ships to leave the port, get to turkey, back and back and forth to export the grain. so these are things in terms of safety that really need to be worked out. in fact, just yesterday we heard about 2 casualties that were 2 people swimming along the, along the coastline. and unfortunately they've been blown up by a c mind. so it is a very realistic, a very probable threat there that needs to be moved out. the logistics here, the safety in order for these to really start and the ship, the 1st ship setting sale there from odessa neuron funding. thank you very much for that update. it's funny fashion in keith. china's president shaking ping has used

a coal with his u. s. counterpart to issue a stock warning against supporting taiwan. according to the chinese state media, she told president joe biden that those who play with fire will only get burnt. china is outraged over a potential visit to taiwan by high ranking u. s. official bud and said the u. s. position on time hadn't changed and stressed the need for more communication. president, gigi and ping's warning to the u. s. made headline news in china. his message don't play with fire over taiwan. the to our conversation was said to be broad ranging, beijing described exchanges, candid and it's read out of the call. the white house said biden emphasized that u. s. policy anti one had not changed. and that it opposed unilateral efforts to change the status quo attentions over a potential visit to taiwan by us. how speaker nancy pelosi dominated the agenda.

beijing views the island nation as a break away state of the mainland and announces any political engagement which i pay and it's democratically elected government. this is a joke, me. these remarks once again showed that such in us politicians fully out of the selfish interests want nothing but tensions in china. us relations turbulence across a tie, one straight and chaos in the world. change up, this is elena tensioned. sheila yuki, earlier this week, taiwanese president chai in when attended annual military exercises off the islands coast. although a potential visit from pelosi, the 3rd most senior u. s. politician wouldn't change the u. s. position on the one china policy. it could further ratchet of tensions over the contested taiwan strait. should eager pelosi proceed with the trip. it would coincide with the 75th anniversary of the founding out that people's liberation,

army and china. and were likely, i think, to see an increase and in noticeable increase in chinese air space incursions in and around taiwan in the event that she proceeds with her trip. we may even see something called a median line incursion, and that's a breach of the maritime border that exists in the center of the taiwan street. when we are president, she has vowed the, china's goal of re unification with taiwan must be fulfilled on washington's policy . recognizes china's sovereignty over the taipei governments, but bite and has made diplomatic waves by saying the u. s. would respond militarily if china were to invade. and a high profile visit from a senior figure like pelosi would likely add to the growing tension between 2 global powers. let's get you up to speed down some all the stories making headlines around the world. officials in lebanon warren, that a grain silo burning at barrett's port could collapse at any moment. the silo has

been on fire for the past 2 weeks. many the blazes bringing back memories of the devastating came on the chemical explosion that hit the port 2 years ago. french president emanuel, my court has welcomed saudi crown, prince mohammed ben solomon to his presidential palace in paris. the visit has been criticized due to saudi arabia's human rights abuses. the saudi government was linked to the 2018 killing of journalist or malika shall g indigenous women briefly stage to protest at a mass held by pope frances in quebec on thursday. demanding he retract a centuries old doctrine legitimizing colonialism. the pontiff is on a week long tour of canada to apologize for the church as role in the forced cultural assimilation of indigenous children to rental rains of triggered flash floods and mud slides in the east of the us state of kentucky authority say at least 8 people have died and the death toll is expected to rise. tens of thousands without power floods have also hit parts of the neighboring states of virginia,

and west virginia. and as floods hit some parts of the us wildfire as a devastating other parts of the country. the white house is the total area destroyed is far higher than the 10 year average, a large part driven by the climate crisis. president biden has approved a major disaster declaration for the state of alaska, which is experiencing an unusually fierce wave of forest fires. they w, caroline, aj, him, roy met some of the paper, battling the fires, as well as the residence of fleeing from them. alaska is the largest u. s. seat. it is also the least densely populated. among its great treasures, the untouched wilderness. but much of that is now being destroyed. wildfires are not a new phenomenon here at they are changing. they're becoming more frequent and more

intense. so much so that this here no co fire fighters here in anderson. we're unable to get them when a fire happens and they get bigger than the local unit can handle like so. here in anderson, they have some local volunteer firefighters. they but, but they're very small. so when the fire gets bigger than what they can control, they will call for outside help and tell pass, come from all over the u. s. kate air heart from montana has been battling places, country white for more than 20 years. this is her 5th time in alaska. she's now supervising a team of 500 fire fighters deploy to help control one wild hire. sadly, this property couldn't be saved. it's really when fires like this one. start in and around populated areas, even a lightly populated area like this that it becomes

a problem. era fair. you hear that i've never seen fire behavior like this before. and so i would say this abnormal weather is the new normal. it's getting harder to fight fires, resources they're getting scarcer and we're dealing with when it's like this, this summer, more than 264 individual fires have destroyed 1250000 hectares of land across the state. the blaze in anderson is now under control, that the damage is extensive, and the strong winds post a risk to this used to be a for is he can still see smoke up there. the fire fighters are still trying to get that high under control and we can strongly smell it. local people half had to evacuate their homes. among them don and dorothy weights are a seller 8 in the place. when they returned,

the fire was under control. it was like kind of like surreal. there was smoke and fires were still burning in the trees out here. and the firemen were with us and i think they were with us because they maybe, you know, it would be traumatic to go and see. but we, he, they said right away, your house is safe. this time they were lucky. but there will certainly be wildfires here again. and experts say global warming may make them more severe. just before we go lottery, ticket holders in the united states, a holding their breath as the jackpot for an upcoming drawer. reach is more than $1000000000.00. the organizes of the mega millions lottery drawer. say the prize pot is the 4th largest in u. s. history, the odds of winning the bonanza and fridays, gambiola less than one and 300000000. still. plenty people, plenty of people on trying them walk. good luck. everybody had a reminder of the top story by following for you this,

our russian missiles have struck several parts of ukraine, including a hotel in the eastern city of back. elsewhere. russia says ukraine bombed a jail and the occupied done at region killing. at least, 40 prisoners of war at claim cannot be verified as old from us for now. next is duck filled with the caliphate. legacy hunting down is lennox type flight. i get the more news you can always find the latest headlines and analysis on our website or on twitter. i'm rebecca written in berlin from a and the entire team here. thanks very much for with a issues with also with.