this legal action goals all in on kick off from the oldest 9th here on d w. finally. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. ukraine steps up its efforts to retake oxy per occupied territory, while russian missiles cause destruction in the countries east. analysts say ukraine is making gains against the invasion in the south. meanwhile, ukraine denies claims that its missiles killed its own soldiers in

a prison and donates. also coming up. don't play with fire china's leader wards u. s. president joe biden, against involvement in taiwan and a phone call. she's in ping issues. strong words as a senior us politician is considering to visit the island nation. ah, i am god overs welcome to the program when we begin with russia's war war on ukraine. web officials in the southern city, mich alive, say several people have died in a rush and strike on a public transport stop me. while russia has claimed that ukrainian missiles struck a prison in the occupied donuts region, killing dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war, ukraine has denied it. carried out the attack on thursday, several people were killed in strikes across the country. i could not 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 moot 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 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. yes sir. q and why that there is significant damage to the bridge and its structure. we think that the enemy will try to repair it again with

a number of hours. we are prepared for this and you will soon hear about our next steps or not about should you lucas, on most of these 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. still with most of the sword, one sealy goober, 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 fia agricultural. grandma says though the fighting over this strategic crossing is more than just a war of words. ukraine says it's forces will prepare the bridge eventually. but 1st, the aim to liberate her son. did other correspondence from? if a child is in clear, forest funny reports of an attack on a prison in the east killing full ukrainian prisoners. what will,

can you tell us about that? kara, this is one of those many things that allegedly happened or didn't happen in the course of this war. but frost, it's simply impossible to confirm right now. what really took place in what we can say for a fact that that prison actually exists in on and you've got, which is a small settlement in the, a don yeske region controlled by ukrainian forces by russian forces. rather, this is a settlement and what we can also say that yes, ukrainian prisoners of wool have been taken. they are also including people soldiers from the eyes of regiment when they had to surrender in m r. you pull in mid may and from here on the picture becomes blurry because russia and russian proxies are claiming that in fact ukrainian forces have hit this prison, killing at least of 40 prisoners and injuring at least 75. but ukrainian army just released their statement saying that this never happened. now what we can say that

ukrainians here, a quite emotional in particular when it comes to the as of regiment. because they are seen as heroes that really try to fend off to russian aggression for weeks emery pull that portal town before they actually had to surrender about 2 and a half 1000 of them in mid may. so not knowing what really happened certainly doesn't help full a people here in ukraine who f questions and wonder what, what, what, what is this? is this another form of propaganda from russia or that did something really happened to those soldiers? you have to understand, of course, a lot of people, relatives of the soldiers who onto today do not really knew about the whereabouts of their ukrainian at soldiers and would like to know. so certainly this news is leading to a lot of confusion. but as i say, we cannot confirm any of it right now. funny, let's turn to the grain issue, which is still going on. there is speculation that things could start moving possibly even today, will do, you know, feared various states could start any day now or to morrow,

really various states. and everyone is looking at that hobbling odessa, the odessa port to see is that 1st vassal going to set sale today, or when now the un seems to be hopeful that this could actually take place today, while at the same time, some skepticism still because they say that some critical details still need to be worked out and that of course implies to the question of security. how can you make sure that these vessels can leave the poor as without encountering a c mine? in fact, just yesterday, to people who killed a blown off because of a c mine as they went swimming in a pool to town. so this is not just a, a likely a threat, but this is very probable that could happen. a lot of things need to be booked out, and we just have to see really if that 1st vasa is going to leave to puerto for desa today. and did that, whether the expert of 1000000 tons of brain is going to start or not funny for char reporting from p. fair. thank you. funny. china's president,

she didn't ping has used a call with us you as counterpart joe biden, to issue a stark warning against supporting taiwan called into chinese state media. she told president biden, that those who play with fire will only get burnt. china's outraged over a potential visit to taiwan by a high ranking u. s. official. biden's at the u. s. position on taiwan had not changed and stressed the need for more communication. president gigi pangs warning to the u. s . med 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, the exchange is candid, and it's read out of the called 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 pretensions over a potential visit to taiwan by

u. s. house speaker nancy pelosi dominated the agenda. beijing views the island nation as a break away, a state of the mainland, and announces any political engagement which i pay and it's democratically elected government. this is the to me. these remarks once again showed that such an you as politicians fully out of their selfish interests, want nothing but tensions in china. us relations turbulence across the taiwan strait and chaos in the walled range up leases elling tensioned yet louis. 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 speaker pelosi proceed with the trip. it would coincide with the 75th

anniversary of the founding out that people's liberation army in china. and we're likely, i think, to see an increase and a noticeable increase in chinese airspeed 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 borders that exists in the center of the taiwan st. 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 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. for more of this, let's bring in professor c song. he is the director of the as so as china institute

at the university of london and johns is from that professor, the chinese president. she didn't thing as warned. u. s. presidential biden, against, quote, playing with fire. what can we make of this? well, the chinese government and should you be in particular clearly very displeased with the prospect or speaker hello sequins to taiwan. what is of course interesting is that very wanting she issues true. i should also applies to china itself is a highly dangerous situation that requires full size to be very cautious. what do you mean by that? that the china needs to be less belligerent in its rhetoric? well, the rhetoric of playing with fire result in one being burnt is a warning for the americans. but it should also be a warning when the chinese government because by increasing that kind of rhetoric,

they are putting themselves in a situation that when lucy says char taiwan, the chinese military may have to take some actions, which will be quiet, the americans to respond. and that push it on an escalade to report that nobody ones not in anyone's interest. so this is being fueled, of course, by a possible visit by nancy pelosi to taiwan. what would that mean for us china relations? well usually relations are already very tens and poor at the moment. it will get a lot more tens and difficult. and there is a real risk that there will be increased military activities by a chinese air force, which could potentially come across as threatening to the speaker of the united states congress. and that may well require the united states military to give and

hands protections to l. o c, and that is where the kind of an intended escalations can happen. and so would you recommend a closer to, to stay at home is a very difficult one. i think she should not have planned for this message to begin with because it doesn't really add that much to taiwan or us time relations. but now that she has said that she was going to go or indicate that she would go. and the chinese government has come back in the united states. it becomes very difficult with the united states government to back off under chinese pressure because doing so a moral hazard. so she may well end up having to go somewhere in london for us. thank you very much. view a state of kentucky. he was facing one of the worst floods in its history, heavy rains and mot slides. i've left several people dead and hundreds of

properties destroyed. more rain is expected to hamper rescue efforts. roads that dawned into rivers. homes washed away by deadly flash floods in eastern kentucky. many have lost their belongings and livelihoods making it out alive. every like, every thing is going to love is good. we had to swim out and it was good. it was over my head, so yeah, it was. this is a number of people remained missing. tens of thousands of homes were left without bar and many lacked wattle. at he's the kind that seem to drink. the governor of kentucky has declared a state of emergency and activated the national god. i may start by mentioning that the challenges of the flooding in eastern kentucky only continue

everything from power outages increasing to our 1st set of confirmed deaths. in a word. this event is devastating and i do believe it will end up being one of the most significant deadly floods that we have had in kentucky, and at least a very long time rescue crews vs to save people from rapidly rising flood waters. the u. s. national weather service, as maureen is expected in the coming days, which could make evacuations more challenging. authority said they still don't know the full extent of the damage. but the state govern us as it would take years for families to rebuild and recover from the deluge. you watching the w news? he has a reminder of the top story we're following for you. at this hour. russian missiles

have struck several parts of ukraine, including a hotel in the eastern city of buck, mount elsewhere. russians, russia says ukraine bonded jail in the occupies donetta region, killing at least 40 prisoners of wolf claimed could not be verified. that's it from me and the news team from i'll have an update for you at the top of the, our do not go. i ended up you businesses next with daniel went over for more news that was a website d, w dot com gab elvis and berlin from me and the team. so what india a lot of contrasts of ambitions of inequality. 75 years ago mahatma gandhi peacefully led the country to independence.