ah ah ah ah, this is dw news line from berlin, ukraine's president orders all civilians to evacuate from the eastern province of donnette. the lat, him is zalinski warns, fighting will intensify as russia continues its advance into ukrainian territory. declaring that time to leave is now also coming up. after months of bloody protests,

voters go to the polls in senegal. opposition parties are desperate to stop president monkey sol from clean to power point. and london is buzzing in the run up to the euro. 2020 to final. germany will kick off against england in what should be a tightly fought battle for the trophy. ah. a michael ok, welcome to the program. ukrainian president villamor zalinski has ordered hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate the don. net region. it's the sheen of fierce fighting as russia as seeks to expand its territorial control in eastern ukraine. who had already the government has made a decision to order bleak. a treat evacuations from the don't yet region. everything is being organized or full support your full assistance. both of that is to payments legally only needed assistance from the people who have not yet made up

their minds. please follow the evacuation so we will help you. we are not russia, we will do everything possible to save the maximum number of human lives and limit russian terror to a minimum. you shall much almost risk ether or d, w correspondent, brigade sugar is in cave a short while ago i asked her about the government's reasoning behind the evacuation order. yes, we have been seeing fierce fighting in the don. yes, cree janelle, for the past weeks. and even though russia couldn't make any major territorial gains, they have continued the constant challenge of the region and was up to thousands of attacks every day. and these attacks have obviously destroyed a large portion of the energy infrastructure. and as official out of this

region put it beyond repair. and that's why the ukranian government is now taking the precautions to evacuate the people who would be without any heating, without light, if the winter comes. and it's important to say that this is a mandatory of a creation. so the people still have at the right to stay if they're willing to sign a paper that saying that they are taking the full responsibility. so it's not a forced every creation, but definitely it's an a tant, by the ukrainian government to put more pressure on the people to really leave this highly contested area. brita, how big an operation are we talking about here? and how confident are officials that this can be done safely? the deputy prime is there yesterday talked about 202220000 people who were still in the region many elderly but also as she put it, 50000 children. so and they,

she said we, we have an obligation to get those out. and they are very confident that they can do this a vacation because the ever creation routes are open right now. and there's still some times to prepare this. and may, ukraine has shown that it's capable ultimate of managing such an operation. let so turn to the attack on a prisoner of war camp in all. and if god were more than 50 ukrainian soldiers were killed in an air strike, russia now says they have invited the un and the red cross to investigate. what happened? does keith believe a sound and thorough investigation is in fact possible. we are hearing from the red cross that confidential negotiate negotiations are taking place right now. we don't know the details yet,

but hearing key if there is assessment that there won't be any fair and open the investigation where because they say russia has to hide a lot of things. they think russia stage this attack and satellite imagery we have seen from the side, which shows only a very limited part of the building was destroyed. is this, it seems like experts tell us here and an indication that it might have been an explosion from inside rather than a rocket from outside like russia claims. so this is not hard evidence yet, so the ukrainian government is pushing really very hard as well as relatives who protested here in key of yesterday are asking for a independent investigation and asking the international community to put more pressure on russia to gain access to,

to to let independent investigators on the site as soon as possible. bochita sugar . many, many fact. nato's expansion and the u. s. is quest to dominate the oceans . are the biggest threats facing moscow? according to a new russian naval doctrine signed by president vladimir putin on sunday. the doctrine was signed on russian navy day, an occasion designed to showcase the nation strength and capabilities. and a time the russian president has thrust them squarely in the spotlight. warships lead a huge show of force in roches former imperial capital of st. petersburg. the parade of boats, submarines, personnel, and fighter jets is ostensibly to honor russia's naval forces. but with the absence of victory in ukraine and isolated by much of the world, it appears more a highly choreographed signal of defiance and persistence president vladimir putin

who started the war now in its 6th month, came back to his home town to oversee the spectacle. the occasion was somewhat mod, though, by a drawing attack on the crimean peninsula, russia forcibly annexed it from ukraine. in 2014, the attack happened in the port city of sylvester poll home to russia's black sea fleet. russia has accused ukraine of carrying out the attack, which injured a number of people. these pictures of the apparent damage were released by the cities, governor says chisel for remoter, approximately, at 2 minutes past 6, an explosion was heard. a drone attack the fleets headquarters. the explosion went off in the courtyard. there were no casualties. for 6 people were hurt. 2 of them have injuries of medium severity, although the rest suffered light injuries on the roster. nicholas, you,

ukraine hasn't responded to the claim seats responsible for the drawing attack, which forced navy di events in suffice to paul to be cancelled. back in st. petersburg, vladimir putin news the occasion to sign a new doctrine sitting out russia's naval strategy. it includes ambitions for russia to become a great maritime power, with the presence across the entire world. looked out some the other stories making headlines around the world at this hour, philippine a former president. fidel ramos has died at the age of 94. he held office from 1992 to 1998 and oversaw a period of steady growth and peace. earning him the nickname, steady eddie ramos also held high ranking security walls until he joined the 1986 popular uprising the toppled the dictatorship of ferdinand macos senior hundreds of protesters occupying iraq's parliament have settled in for 2nd day. followers of

the powerful clerical tata al sauder storm, the fortified government zone and avowed to remain in the building. saunders party came 1st in october elections, but withdrew. after failing to former coalition, at least 25 people have died in devastating floods in the us state of kentucky. the floods were brought on by unexpected torrential rainfall. rescue workers are struggling to access hard hit areas which are among some of the poor's regions in the us. while poles half open in senegal, where voters are electing a new parliament, opposition parties are hoping to win enough seats to stop president monkeys. some party from holding a majority. the opposition believes a strong presence in parliament will enable them to block any attempt by pressing it's all to seek a 3rd term which is bored. under the constitution. journalists,

maria gert nicholas, gal, ease in the senegalese capital de carr. i put it to her that the main issue in this parliamentary vote appears to be the presidential election 2 years from now. yes, all these elections were it'll certainly be an interesting milestone ahead of the presidential election of 2024, which has already caused some controversy. and the opposition is trying to make these election a show of strength and put pressure on a president. mike, you sell a critics, have accused him of wanting to run for a 3rd term in 2024 despite the country to term limits. the president himself has been very vague on this topic, but if the opposition and manages to gain a majority out of the $165.00 parliamentary seats that had hoped that it will put an end to make yourselves a potential ambitions for a 3rd term but it also hopes to force the government to cohabitate with the

opposition coalitions you, we, as can we. and while loosen the gal who have joined forces in the hope to reach this and majority at an opposition breakthrough in parliament could also mean that nike. so a will appoint a prime minister from the opposition. what their chances are is, so is unclear so far, especially in the rural areas. but it could be a type run in 2019, the main opposition that either it was mental cool arrived 3rd in the presidential election and most recently in january, the opposition one major cities such as car and truck and local elections. maria cynical has been seen as one of africa is more stable democracies. how much worry is there that this could all be changing? well, yes, synagogue has a good reputation of being among, among the stabler countries politically and africa. but especially in the west,

africa has a good track record of democratic processes, as well as relatively good press freedom and freedom of expression time and again, they have been political tensions. for example, in march 2021, several violent protests erupted after mental who was accused of rape. and more recently, in june, 1 protest in support of the opposition turns violence with 3 people killed and several injured. this came after the constitutional court invalidated the list of national candidates for you. we can, we forcing the party to run with the list of alternate only position accused the government of a purposely trying to, to block the opposition, which the government has denied. but things have come down in july with the, with the campaign month that unfolded peacefully. seneca leaves the signing of this population is expressing increasing frustration. so things could blow up again. for

example, if nike saw, besides to run for a 3rd term. but for now, you know, things are calm here in the car and according to what we know in the rest of the country as well, that's a journalist and maria, good to nicholas gu, many thanks. excitement is building ahead of the germany, england game in the final of euro 2022 at wembley in london. later today. germany is women have won the competition 8 times already. but england go in his favorites as a look to claim their 1st major trophy. the san zone in london has been buzzing ahead of the women's euro final germany undefeated thus far is led by striker alexandra pope. with 6 goals, she's in a race for the golden boot. after scoring both goals and this in my final against france, firms magazine posted a photo of her on social media with the moustache saying she'd been called up to play for the german men's tea. pot may light of the post at a recent presser,

and like i said, with hollow for england, it's no laughing matter. the nation hasn't won a major title since 1966. the women could win their 1st ever title. in making history at home would be i seen on the cake. yeah. i think it will be a game changer. i think it already has been i think this tournament is, is already done. not both. yeah. would know that that extra step on, on sunday could really make a big difference, but is going to be such a difficult game when know that germany always such tough opposition and we'll, we'll give them the utmost respect and, but as i said before, you can help with that to dream a little bit, one resident at the london zoo has already chosen the lion masses of england to win

the women's euros. thank much mother god, i find a cool that a lot of the public will be against us because it motivates us. i says, and i from what he did with history on germany side the tournament. his already smashed attendance records. at the final a crowd of $87000.00 is expected. were you watching d w. news? world stories is next, with reports from italy, germany and ukraine. stay tuned for that. i'll be back of that top of the next hour with more news lie from berlin. i'm michael. ok. thanks for watching. we're all set to go beyond the obvious citizenship a minute. we're all in. as we take on the we're all about the stories.