ah ah ah ah ah, this is dw news wife from berlin, ukrainian force as a dig in before the push toward her son as troops get ready for a counter offensive against russian forces in the south. our correspondence takes us into the trenches to witness life on the front lines. also coming up on the show, a tight vote count in kenya over you,

the latest from nairobi as the top presidential contenders, look headed for an election run off. and almost a year on from the tale of on taking power. we meet the director of a mother and baby clinic in cobble. she's one of the few women in afghanistan. brew still has a job. ah hello, i'm claire richardson. thank you so much for joining us. ukraine's as 9 russian warplanes were destroyed in explosions at an air base in the annex crimea regent. earlier this week, russia has used the saki base near noah. federal got to strike southern ukraine, and moscow says, detonations of stored ammunition set off the blasts. not an attack. ukraine has not claimed responsibility for any attack, but has hinted at its involvement. and meanwhile, on the mainland, ukraine has kept up

a tax on russian supply lines in the strategically important hassan region. as it seeks to conduct a counter offensive and retake areas of the south w matthew bowling, i went to the front line to meet ukrainian fighters preparing for french warfare with their a weeds at the bottom of the trenches. that's how long the frontline has been here . you have for for satan that says battlefield name. this has many months of living in and under this is where they sleep, eat and wait for something to happen. the cranes national poet tara shanker, which has over them. when they shell us, we all come down here to people have to stay outside to monitor the situation. the others hide in here. it's mostly been an artillery being shell shelling back waiting for the next round. 2 sides target each other from

a distance trying to damage a physician enough to then storm. not just a heart of the front is in danger of hank attack, but believe me, if they come, we will meet them adequately with those shots. right now is the ukrainians were attacking they launched a counter offensive weeks ago and have taken a few dozen settlements and the advance is low. jordan, well basically we liberate the settlement that we can when we do, we don't move into the village. but we make sure the russians are gone, and if we don't go in, in order not to risk, our soldiers live. that is important. when the command thinks that we have enough weapons and how soldiers will happily move for you for other super youth period. as we travel to another position scorched,

we can't get information on how many modern western weapons they have. at this section at the front. we are constantly told it is not enough and move on the more boldly. because a break from the shelling lunch in the trenches civil when the soldiers have been living here too for many months at the moment the mood is even relax. here in the trenches, there is a break in the fighting, but there is the expectation that the russians might step up. they're selling again . soldiers, no decent strikes or not hillary dump. high miles of rocket launches, disrupt the russians. things from the pony strikes lead to less shelling from their side for a certain period of time. but the russians also adjust their logistics. they learn the lesson from l. highmark and far ranging artillery. what can we put native?

unfortunately, the war is not just a permanent turn in our favor. it's a process and it keeps changing it. so here in the trenches at the glass on front, it's about patients moving forward carefully and keeping focused right. we are corresponding martinez bowling. i filed that report, he's now back in care of and a short while ago, i asked him to tell us more about the crane encounter offensive, and how the russian forces are responding. but so we have this sir, situation at the south where things are being um, determined right now. the russians also a more and more earth troops there. these troops have to come from somewhere and presumably they would come from the eastern front. however, they are not moving away or that many troops from the eastern front are to ease the situation. now we've seen quite heavy shelling in the east. we've seen a heavy attacks by the russians on his key. that's near don yet because one of the

closest boys, the ukranian army has been holding for 8 years near don. yes. good has come under heavy attack. one of the main fortifications of the ukrainian army. there i am. the russians have claimed or did not the russians, but the proxies, the so called separatists, have claimed that they had taken up is key. ukraine is denying that having attacks also on buttonwood. that's the other point where the russians have been attacking for many years. so no real change there are russians throwing in a lot of a tillery to move steadily slowly, but steadily forward towards the ukrainian positions ukraine holding most of the positions, but not always, all of them towards also take a look at international support for ukraine. defense ministers from several nato countries are meeting in copenhagen today to discuss long term support for ukraine . already. britain and denmark have announced more money and more weapons. what will ukraine be hoping to get out of this?

well, whenever you talk to ukrainian military, they say more of the same, they want more to her far range artillery, precise, far range artillery. that's a competitive advantage towards the russians who have pretty much outdated and systems that are not guided that cannot how high hit as precisely so if the ukrainians, harvard, even the same amount of artillery which is more precise, they have an advantage. but now they're far from having the same amount as they move forward. they will also need probably tanks. and one thing that always comes up is, is air defense and, and, and, and planes to, as they say, close the skies above their troops. so there's a long list of wishes, so far. these are high mars and the far ranger tillery have changed the situation in favor of ukraine. they're more able to hold the lines. they're more able to inflict damage on the russian supply lines. as we've seen in the house own region

recently, but it's not enough that we are hearing to move forward. our correspond mateus ballinger in care of many thanks for that update. let's take a closer look now at some more stories related to the war on ukraine. former russian state tv journalist, marina of danica, has been charged with spreading false information about the russian army after an anti war protest. last month, she faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of danica over the came internationally known in march when she interrupted a live broadcast to call for an end to the war in ukraine. hundreds of people have protested in bulgarian capital sophia, after the caretaker government signals. it may restart talks with russian energy supply or gas prom. the former pro western government had refused a demand to pay for russian gas in rubles, leading to supplies, being cut off. and german chancellor,

olaf schoultz has pushed for the construction of a pipeline from portugal to western europe to reduce dependence on russian energy and a press conference. he also promised a new package of measures to support german households struggling with rising prices and higher energy bills. in the week of the pandemic and the war and ukraine loads are still being counted in kenya after tuesday's presidential election with the race too tight to call deputy president william route. so and a long time opposition leader reload, dingo are currently neck and neck according to tallies by local media. the final results is expected within the next few days, but the countries electoral commission has up to a week to declare official results. let's get across to nairobi. and our corresponded felix marina, who is standing by for us at the national tallying center of felix. what are the latest projections based on vote counting so far?

good afternoon. yes. you've mentioned it correctly, that i am life or the national telling center here in a rural b r. we have been having are the media, the 3 talk me to stations in the country doing their tallies. but to day all there are only $76.00 of forms out of $46000.00 forms have not got into their independent electrolyte boundaries commissions which is also called the a, b c. so the a, b, c chairman said that by the end of the day, he'll be able to give an update on all the funds that will have been received. they have been uploading the form that you for is on their nash, on their portal, which is it can be accessed by the public and that is what the media houses has been using to tally and as, as we speak right now. the tele remains at 49 percent. would presidential candidates? i'm already surpassed the $6000000.00 mark out of the $14300000.00 of what's that was a cost. so we're just waiting to see from the media,

tallying who will become their presidential. the provisional results from their media rather as, as we rate for their final certificates are to be issued by their national chairman, either a, b, c. but if none of them get to the 50 plus one votes, then kenya will be up for a ran off in the, in the next 30 days. okay, now there are also plenty of election observer groups in kenya who have been closely monitoring developments. what have they said about the election process so far? i'll quote the former ah tanzanian president, president a khaki quite a who is representing the observer mission, either from the east african community. and to did he give a press conference, and he said that he was satisfied by how the election had been conducted so far. ah, he said, you observed how the voting process went on, how the electoral commission, ah, staff members treated, voters are there and they're pulling fissions. and they said that they were satisfied sofa by how the, what has been,

i disseminated and how even the results and even their electrical mission was commended for ensuring that their every information that they receive is made available to the public so that it does not bring unnecessary tension with people waiting and anxiously waiting for the results to be finally announced. okay, everett of conference than from those independent observers are in past elections. kenya has a seen violence after election results were announced. a is that a concern this time around as well? well of the last evening we were in the streets of nairobi and we talked to a number of guys and these one individual that we talked to. and he said he was not wanted this particular time of a possible election violence. because in the, in the past, there has been a lot of secrecy and how their independent electoral boundaries commission conducted its job. but this time, it only tried as much as possible to ensure that everything was in the public

domain and actually either independent electoral boundaries, commission, sherpa on to decide that cut, i see off them making every detailed, have a get public. it has led to some of the other parliamentary was the i candidates were vying in parliamentary positions and other positions within the country. they have already started conceding defeats even before the final tally is announced. and that is because of their transparency because they're independent and boundaries and independent electoral boundaries. commission stated that the vote that was cast and counted on the air pulling santa was their final result. and then for them, it's just confirming that he thought that was a, they've woods that were counted and relate them to their public and nothing will be counted from here. so it's just a matter of confirmation and related information. so um that people are, have been anxious of course, they expect to know who their next leader is. but in terms of people anticipating violence, even though observe as a said that they do not expect that can,

i will go there because the whole process has been transparent and they hailed the process uh for being very transparent to every canyon. felix america in nairobi. thank you very much for that reporting that good news. the ceasefire that followed 3 days of bloody exchanges between israel and militants in gaza still appears to be holding israel's military called the operation assistant, a success. they're rockets killed leaders and destroyed infrastructure from the palestinian islamic jihad militant group. but many civilians died and gaza, including children. one blast killed 5 boys in the street where they were plain driving through jamalia and overcrowded refugees settlement in a northern gaza strip. there's little to remind you at 1st of the rockets, the death and the madness of the past weekend. then suddenly, you come across a memorial set up by neighbors to honor a father and his 5 sons,

who were killed here. they were in this alley way on saturday. as the sun went down caught in the open. they had no chance to run when a rock had exploded in their midst, killing 5 and seriously injuring 2 more. both survivors were children. gun it had been the girl was inside. it was supposed to go out and call her brother inside the dinner. i showed her. the girl is named roha. she's 11 years old, a pupil in the 6th grade. every one is quiet in her hospital room when the camera crew enters. then her family members remove her blanket. they want the world to see this doctor's had to amputate both of perhaps legs and her right arm. after the rocket exploded, her parents raced outside, calling out and crying in, oh, but having had we found her brother 1st. um he was covered in blood down the he was

alive, 17 am and we waited until the ambulance came. mozilla, and then we kept searching for a half after 2 hours. we found her in the hospital with no legs. ashley and only one arm. they had, i had to get out of the rocket that killed 5 children and jubilee and maimed were huff is perhaps the most controversial weapon fired in the recent conflict. nobody wants to take responsibility for it is lament jihad say, every missile that hit gaza was israeli. but israel says this video proves that the rocket that hit jamalia was fired from gaza. and malfunctioned finally slamming into the crowded neighbourhood to melissa hudson, 2 kilometers away. and a few hours earlier in israeli rocket destroyed odo sham locks house. he knows it was israel because they called him on the phone. number touch on my phone rang. hello, hello selma, lie campbell mobile. when you have 2 minutes to evaluate your house,

a man's voice on the other end said get him out of the thing to live with. oh dies sham lock grabbed his family and his phone and got out in time to see his house blow up. why him was the strike targeting his neighbors. were they suspected terrorists? odo says he has no idea. oh, the rockets have stopped flying, but the question of who was to blame for the violence looms large and jamalia last saturday. whoever was behind the attack, wiped out the lives of innocence, and take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world's sierra leone has imposed a nationwide curfew after anti government. protests turned deadly. at least 6 police officers and 13 civilians have been killed after clashes broke out following the demonstrations. the unrest comes as the rising cost of living exacerbates tensions in the country. u. s. secretary of state antony blink and says he voiced

concerns about human rights issues during talks with bra. wanda's president polka gama lincoln's visit to rwanda is the last off of a 3 nation tour of africa. it follows a trip by russian foreign minister, sir gay laffer off last month. and a wildfire that broke out on saturday continues to rip through a national park in portugal of central highlands. more than a 1000 firefighters have been sent in to battle. the place which has destroyed thousands of hectares of forest what has been almost a year since the african capital cobble fell to the tell he bon, it was a combination of 2 months of rapid territorial gains. it called the african government and western allies by surprise. let's take a closer look at some of the key moments as it happened, the tale on taking control of the presidential palace after the african president fled. and thousands of people trying to get out of the country. many hold up in the

fortified airport in the capitol cobble. the airport became the site of desperate seem like the one that you see here. people trying to get on the transport plane as it was taking off well after season control the tale bon instituted a fundamentalist version of islamic law, denying high school girls and education requiring women to crop with mil guardians, and barring women from work w. xandra haters, man match one of the few women in afghanistan who still has a job. she is a doctor in the capital couple. oh, i don't. yes. in the meat doctor mal ally facing she's a rare exception in afghanistan. why the taliban forced most working women from their jobs? doctor fight you see got a promotion. she's now director of the country's biggest maternity clinic and cobbler female. and neonatal health is one area where the fundamentalist rulers understand they need women from on a more the of one stone. as not that

a coach. this is linked to the culture and tradition of afghanistan. when a woman is pregnant, she should go to a female doctor. i don't mckenna, because a female doctor can better examine and treat her than a male doctor. i hope was a lot of me than a good one. a mother. you can nasdaq, herbal 1000000 doctor. i think some of them actually, she will go to her ward rounds are busy. the hospital deals with up to 2500 birth a month. i mean, many of the women have difficult deliveries you to man attrition and anemia that on there as, as that a communique ago, the team performs up to 40 syrian sections each day. roha versus daphne bumbling. how does he get it? how does your them a lot of people are jobless when i meet them and when families cannot afford for expecting mothers to eat good, a lot in atrocious food. well, they face a lot of problems on lamba problem shows up the jonathan one m many babies here are born prematurely. more than 20 new borns have died in each of the past 4 months.

the 1000000000 spent by foreign powers on development failed to create the last conditions needed to reduce infant mortality whom i had bought that i am a doctor. i have not left the country for the past 26 years and in all this time i've gunnison was never stable and never peaceful though a lot susie with her after her hospital shift doctor for easy works in the private clinics, she runs with her husband. here many patients are under family pressure to have children, but can't conceive or have miscarried. it can be difficult for women to carry a pregnancy to term when constantly stressed and life in afghanistan is stressful. especially for women, missouri, monee so. so i will only feel happy when my country is at peace and secure. that is what i'm yet and when all the troubles that our people are facing are resolved for them and they are. com. i know that that's when i will be able to relax mozilla.

show this as an automatic when she gets home after a long working day, darkness awaits her. the electricity's off a daily experience for many families and cobbled as she sits down for tea with her youngest daughter. we ask her why she doesn't leave off. gone is done. emma. them? yes. once done any. i got. i'm an african and i got my education from the blot of this nation's people include me. my mom had mac. i want to shove, my people had called on long if all of us decide to leave now who will rebuild this country? because what i care about hookah marva is waiting to take the university entry exam to study medicine. she's clear on why she wants to follow in her mother's footsteps seemed as homeless. never heard that again, cause our society needs female doctors in every single province. after the recent earthquake,

there were no female doctors in the field to help the injured women. not only mayo doctors were there but not a single female, and i want to help the women of my country geneva because i think is one hooker with a marble with follow. her mothers, korea will be up to the taliban. they wait. he sighed. how many women doctors they want and where to find, how can i get hold of davis want to get as i to bring in it, nicolette waltman, ace researcher at the crisis response program of amnesty international, a very warm welcome. thank you for taking the time to speak with us. how are these holly been dealing with the fact that women as the report we just saw shows are indispensable in so many areas of life. the taliban seem to not understand or go fully or define how essential women are in so many different areas of life. they in the last 10 months have managed to arrest scores of women and

girls for what they are calling moral corruption. the rates of early child enforced marriage are surgeon under, under their watch, and as a result of some of their policies. and then they've issued this raft of to crony and restrictions that restrict women from working girls from going to school women from leaving the house without a mattress or a male chaperone. and really, the effect is that women and girls across afghanistan are not able to live free safe fulfilling lives. and what prospects do you see for improving conditions for african women under the current taliban regime? i see women across the country that are resisting and standing up to the systematic discrimination that the taliban has been imposing over the last 10 months. and that really brings me some hope. women are going out in the streets. they are time and time again. even in the face of being arrested, being forcibly disappeared,

being tortured, they are going out in the streets and demanding their rights. now really, it's the time for the internet community to join these women. stand with them and tell the taliban that this is just simply not acceptable. and how can the international community best do that in working together with the tale bond to advance the rights of women? so what we're seen so far from the international unity is a kind of apathy or indifference, really not enough coordinated action. so 2 things we believe the international unity should be doing that could influence the taliban without harming the afghan people are to impose travel bands on members of the taliban were involved in systematic discrimination as well as targeted sanctions. if those measures are imposed through un security council resolution, we think that could send the message that the taliban will face some form consequences for really repressing more than half of

a population. we need to see much more reaction from the internet community and the world in response to the plight of women and girls and afghanistan. nicholas waltman researcher at the crisis response program, amnesty international. thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us on dw . thank you. to news from the caribbean now and off the coast of the bahamas, a french free diver has broken the world record by plunging 120 meters under water . he goes, are no, you're all the reaching that stunning depth with no breathing apparatus. he was under water for 3 and a half minutes breaking his own world record. it is the latest in a string of 1st gerald has such. mm hm. mm mm ah. and just before we go,

look at our mind or at the top story we're falling for you. as our keep denies responsibility for an explosion at a russian air base in crimea. ukraine says it didn't strike the base spots as the blast destroyed 9 russian war planes and on the mainland ukrainian fighters pushed toward her son. update this, our conflict zone is coming up. next, i'm going to richardson and berlin from the team. thank you so much for joining us . ah ah ah ah

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a captain and setting sale to discover a route. a race linked to military interests, a race linked to political and military proceed. but also to my financial adventure full of hardships, dangers, and death. my children's journey around the world. starting september 7th on d. w. russia and ukraine are taking heavy casualties in the don bus. but has ukraine already lost the east? my guess this week believes that is likely the case in bremo is a political scientist and founder of the racial.