my new podcast, i'm abilene shy, mom and i really think we need to talk about all the topics that new york to live and united in this i have invited many deer and well known guests. and i would like to invite you to an end ah ah, this is dw, use live from berlin. ukraine remains locked in a fight for freedom. this independent state on the front lines in the south and east ukraine's military stats. it's ground against the russian advance. president lensky ballads, a fight for the end. the countries already paid a high price of the half a year of war. and

a grim tally more than 5000 ukrainian civilians killed and at least 8000 injured among those casualties almost 1000 children. we looked back at how rush run least a wave of death and destruction sending shock waves across europe and the world. also coming up, trout hit, europe could face 3 more months of extremely dry conditions. italy's longest river, the po is on the highest level of alert. it's close to billions of euros and losses to farmers. and angola votes in a contentious election. the african countries left wing ruling party struggles to keep its long time grip on power and claims. it's squandered and gold as massive oil wealth. ah, i've been fas all unwelcome. it is exactly 6 months since russia began in a legal war of aggression against ukraine. it shattered,

longstanding peace in europe and has led to tens of thousands of casualties including over $5000.00 confirm deaths of ukrainian civilians. today ukraine is mocking the anniversary of its independence from the soviet union, as it finds itself locked in a war of attrition against russia for the russian ministry of defense as its forces . and the armed forces of the dumbass are making progress in the head on and on yet regions. ukraine says its army is stabilizing the front lines through small troop movements. independent stay celebrations in kiva muted with ukrainian president. a lot of me, so then sky and 1st lady, or lena's, the landscape laying flowers at a memorial dedicated to ukrainian soldiers killed in the dumbass region during the war. as it is the landscape, one the public to follow safety rules. and to observe curfews on this day, saying russian strikes a possible rush invasion has devastated ukraine and had major repercussions on the rest of the world. it's produced the worst refugee crisis in europe since the 2nd

world war with 7000000 people displaced inside ukraine. and the un estimating of 5000000 i fled the country. a russian blockade has led to a massive disruption of shipments from one of the world's biggest grain producers affecting tens of millions globally who depend on that grain. and it triggered a world wide energy crisis as disruptions to the global energy supply. pl governments everywhere. under pressure a corresponded mathias burling, a recently visited some keep residents to live through the earliest attack on a residential building in the capital. up in the sky there working to fix the damage. at the bottom, it was a rocket. it came from over there like this and sliced off a corner of the building. you saw me

it was the 3 of the war. this was the 1st residential building and keith to be hit . they've started reconstruction, even though the war hasn't yet ended. the city council is paying for most of the repairs, but residents like only natural makeover house or raising funds sent that was available. this is the api center of the explosion. number 2 apartments here. and if you look over here, this corner, there was another room here at the rocket chick the corner off, and the whole room after the explosion also hit the 2 apartments above and below. i've been only with us, sir. who is the destroyed room was the one most families in the apartments use. as a kid bedroom,

the block was relatively new, built for the key of emerging middle class. the rock had wrecked 4 floors, but no one was killed. they were either in different parts of their apartments or had left the city like one family who fled to germany. on the video, they had a camera in the room and they could see on their phone, her their flat was destroyed. i can't imagine what that feels like. they were safe, but they still saw this happening. linda, it's terrible. here is a process. the dongle don't shift. so roughly 4 floors for the down. all in as apartment was on damaged, even the glasses intact. still, she's happy, she wasn't home when the rocket hit, some neighbors were there suffered

a terrible shock and still have trouble returning. they stay in close contact at the mercy of the calamity has united. i know many of us have become friends of your chain that we understand how important it is to stick together. and when the war is over yet, i'm sure we will quarrel. again, the kick defiance from the people was building was the 1st and keith to be hit in this war dw corresponded yon phillips shots is in keith. it's dangerous for ukrainians to publicly celebrate their independence from the soviet union. today, there were warnings the russians could attack civilian targets. and what is there to celebrate 6 months into this war? i think just the fact that there is a ukrainian independence day, 2022 after year after the russian started, the invasion makes a lot of ukrainians,

very proud of. but of course everything is so quite different today. you can see it behind me and keep central in my dance, where there are quite a few people outside, but large gatherings are ban, sir. we have heard sir arid alerts pretty much throughout the day. and also the government has urged people not to come too close to any government building and, and some areas closer to the front lines like and how to keep, for example, there is an all day curfew. i think in general, the feeling of the people here is very mixed to day on one. hence they are incredibly frolic that they have for a fault so well in the past 6 months. but of course, there's also this feeling of sorrow that half a year of for very intense war brings wizards, is so people are happy, people are celebrating, but very different sir. then in the years before,

milligrams i come from hostile, near keith, all the burnt tanks here are from there. my house was completely destroyed, nothing is left. that's why unhappy to see this charred machinery and hope that all those who destroyed my life perished there. i trust ukrainian. army. yes, there is real danger. you can hear it right now. but ukraine uses us will win though. great. we others are precise in ashley green with which i'm very proud of our country's luka. you know, i'm glad that we came back from europe some where we had fled to, to celebrate here, but now on this day with our fellow citizens, some of the day i believe the tree will come. bates, if it's a special day for me today. if you will enjoy, i feel nothing. no fear. i traveled almost a 100 kilometers here from near keith. nothing scares me. he do. you just have to do it. sylvan and it's a holiday after all, it was silver. so young philip, how much has rushes invasion? strengthen ukrainian resolve and identity the events

have strengthened the national identity a lot and i don't see any sign that the strong will of the people is so weakening at the moment. it's rather the, the opposite. so you can see it when you just listen to president lensky says, speech, and that's he gave today. he said that the day that the russians invaded the country ukraine was reborn. and so they will only be an end to this war. when there is victory for ukraine, and i think this reflect some pretty well what most people think here. when i went into a cafe today to have a coffee, the workers there were collecting money for the soldiers at the front lines and they were 100 percent convinced that there will be victory. and so of course are there. it's still a long way to go. that's what people here feel,

but they are sure they are convinced that in the end it will be a victory for ukraine. john phillips sholtes in key forest. thank you very much for the analysis. and i settled to don't wait till isaac, i'm also a security expert at kings college landon and focus. she focuses on russian foreign policy. welcome to the show. where does the war stand after 6 months in your opinion? well i think that there is 100 of talk that we are now. so some, some kind of stalemate that the russians are no longer able to on sunday ukrainians . i was not able to carry an effective counter offensive in the south. the area of k to sun, but i think that things are also moving slowly on the ground. we see the ukrainians carrying out operations that are quite effective, for example, in crimea. they've also managed to destroy the bridges behind here to so on. and so

they're making it much harder for them to sort of russian forces in the area to sort of receive supplies and equipment. and there is sort of these sort of preparation for account to offensive in the south, which i think we must monitor. on the other hand, if we look at their, if they don't boss, although russia made very small advances, nevertheless, the state carrying on with this sort of operation to try to take over areas such as, i don't need them in the north, in the area to help you in a lot of attacks and his criminal tax on a key. so clearly we, we can tell that, you know, this is not a war that is frozen, it is very active. those are not of millions, reparations going on. there's a lot of indiscriminate attacks like russians, and of course there is a very sensitive area around the nuclear power station, artesia,

where they have been sort of exchanges of fire. and now it seems to be a bit more quiet friday. this is an area that has created a lot of concern in the west righty. so i'd like to highlight an interesting part of florida landscape independent state speech today. he asked, what for us is the end of the war? we used to say peace. now we say victory, how do you read that statement when i think the ukrainians are more confident now that every, you know, with a equipment on this awards under logistics, so pulled from the waste, they could potentially use large russians. oh, so from areas i seem to be sort of beyond the reach of such as so crimea now or at least to reduce the military presence there because as a result of the attacks of their last game days, the russian is up withdrawn. so i'm of her weaponry from there. so there is some kind of encouragement dr. ukrainians can actually eventually slowly dislodged their russian military presence. i think they says it's very good for the maralie to. it

also shows that the equipment that louise they received from the waste that we're sending them has an impact on an effect on. so there it sort of reinforces the argument in favor of support of equipment and deliveries to ukraine. but at the same time, it is clear that this is not going to be very easy. it's going to take time. i'm so, as the lensky huston, peep, sort of the momentum happening. he has to sort of the attention to the western partners that this is really relevant that this is an important role that needs to continue learning still happen. and what's going to take time of you, are you talking about victory for the ukrainians? from the ukrainian perspective, it is clear that if they want to dislodge the russians, that is not going to be easy. the russians are building i reinforcements in the areas that they already occupy. there are several sort of layers where they're

digging in. they're kind of learning how to be done, effective defensive force. so it's going to be more difficult for the ukrainians to carry on effective counter offensive on so far they haven't really mounted one of grade significance. i think it was that they might require a sort of a better control of the space on better ability to deter, sort of artillery from other russians. so i think that they are planning on their thinking much more in the longer term. whereas i think russians, i thinking much more in terms of short term on the russians, are very much thinking in terms of, of how europe is going to react this winter. if you know that there is there on the necessaries that have gone supplies on people, and i really suffer from the higher energy price. is that where we could see european support for ukraine sought to crumble it's, it's a, it's a very, very,

i would say it's, it's a possibility that we really must consider. i don't say it is. so don't be likely by did we certainly create tensions, especially as a some of the big employers of russian guy such as a li, i'm going through elections in september and there is a very high chance that they knew sort of right clinician, not far right. good mission with them and such as they go with the me are talking about the need to maybe i think rethink their sanctions policy. so we can expect some discussions on that front. but of course, elements within these correlation such as their leader and apparently lonnie who is not so supportive of a pro russian line and much more supportive of our ukranian line. but we see what happens. i think that, you know, there's going to be a lot of questioning opposition parties in countries such as france as well. i'm going to increasingly sort of raise the possibility of reaching some kind of agreement with russia. so we could see some cracks on some discussions along the

overall european functions line. but i think, i think that we have to wait and see on each country and might find itself in a different position depending on how much sort of reserves of energy have been, have been sort of completed or really don't tell us how come or so security expert king's college london. appreciate your telling you. well, let's take a look at some other news related to russia's war on ukraine. presidents zalinski denies ukraine's of both mer to the killing of dalia duty. the daughter of an ultra nationalist intellectual allied with has been flooded, a potent sobinski set the comp on the killed to be no, was not ukraine's responsibility. russia and ukraine traded accusations over who was endangering this apparition, nuclear plant. russia called a un security council meeting to discuss the dangers at the power facility. there appears that a damaged reactor could leak radiation across the region. the you entered both

sides to stop any fighting around the station. and ukraine's flag is flying high over new york city and a show of solidarity york's merrick adams praise the country's resilience on the day that celebrates 31 years in our nation left the soviet union almost half the e. u is under drought warnings and report from the blocks earth observation program shows the extreme dry weather could continue in some regions for 3 more months. the pi river in northern italy was once known as the king of rivers, but the parched conditions this european some i have caused billions of euros and losses to farmers who rely on italy's longest waterway to irrigate fields and rice patties. they read the po, has reduced to a trickle in italy's lombardy region. it hasn't rained here properly since spring

stefan crappy is keeping an eye on the river stand banks which are growing white at by the day. sam, only of a lot of my tissue to water levels under 3.68 meters met my mean fairly well. usually it's much higher here at the black line. when i last year the with the senior year, that's where the water was low. but as in for the aqua, not only farmers are affected some 90 percent of the small hydro power stations deadline. the robust channels have shut down. tank's empty one of the big plants easily. there, fini, close down, back in june. there wasn't enough water to power. it's turbines. usually almost a 5th of italy's electricity is generated through hydro power. now production has been cut by 40 percent. pharma gen luca tech ini is concerned about the poor quality of his cone. the plants on his fields simply didn't get enough water. he harvested this field almost 2 months, early green at

a museum vanished the 3rd and 4th. but our situation is tragic. we had to harvest her 20 days ago was because i ran out of water and everything dried. oh, why savage? she's gotten in order to save a small bit of the harvest or yeah, well i have to cut everything di, yadda, where stalkers to cancel the regents thomas are losing half of their grain and rise crops. all no super v real baby was survivors. lawrenceville, she a little or we'll have to close up shop at the end of the year in the book. i barranca fueled, i picturesque lake. garda is where the river pole gets a part of its will to from, but the lake only has 60 percent of its usual water 1000000000 locals are worried. tourists are making the best of new swimming spots. we'll find out about that, but you can have a nice holiday it get. i mean it for somebody to say, such as the quality of the water is, is fine. here, there was at least some rainfall a short while ago where the focus to say it'll be september before more is on the

way. brenda equis alea's, director of climate science at the climate and energy program of the union of concerned scientists in washington dc. what sort of future is there for farmers considering the di situation we're seeing, for example here in parts of europe. thank you for the question right now. given the ongoing drought, it's going to be a matter of sharing very limited resources over the long term. it will be investment and infrastructure to design for today's level of climate change. last century, infrastructure is just not up to the task of supplying food and drinking water and buy a diversity needs. but this is happening fast. drought hit, you could face it 3 more dry months. what, what's going to happen if we're forced to wait until winter early, for example, a tough challenges because as we know, the agricultural sector of plants need

a lot of water to thrive. and that's a lot of the a need and in the po river, what we see is that there was a loss of snow, the normal amount of snow that would get farmers and cities in italy through the summer, dry summer months. and that natural reservoir is no longer working with climate change. we're losing that snow packets. it's rain falling on the snow, the hotter temperatures, and when it does rain, often it's a deluge. and unfortunately, all the reservoirs along the po have to release that water and send it to the sea. so there's no storage of that winter snow pack. so right now the trade offs are difficult. it's going to be a tough for local decision makers. and we're gonna have to get through and really keep an eye on the future. droughts that are inevitable. so if we can't depend on natural reservoirs, are we going to have to build our yes,

actually there are plans already for the po river where you would channel when the rains come, instead of releasing it to the ocean and the i drastic sea, you would be capturing that water during the daily use times and save it for later hydropower. use navigation use an agricultural use during the growing season when you most need the water. so to get through the dry months, we have to use human infrastructure, which is costly because climate change basically destroyed the natural reservoir, which is up in the house, which is a beautiful way of nature storing for the summer. growing season of tomatoes and rice and, and water navigation and, and cooling off from the summer he waves of the past solutions, different climate scientists, brenda equis will thank you very much for being on the show today. thank you. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines. the german government has agreed on

a legal basis for new measures. the counter a possible up taking covered 19 infections is all of them. are plans for strict mass rules on trains and planes. health minister calona bar said he expects a new wave of infections but without further lockdown. so school closure got my correspondence with former us president donald trump's legal team has revealed that more than 100 documents, marked classified or recovered from his florida resident. so the of this year, the files more than 700 pages retreat from maryland 2 months before the f. b, i seized further classified records or the of this month. mexican journalists have been protesting the death of a colleague calling for justice and an end to a culture of impunity. columnist freddie oman was shot dead in his car. it was the 12th journalists to be killed in mexico this year. and goldens voting in a timely contested election for president and parliament. the left wing body and b

allay has ruled the country since its independence from portugal in 1975. but it's facing a serious challenge from a centrist party that alleges widespread corruption and the government. the decision could depend on one group. young voters fed up with politics as usual. i accuse are long here and i go less capital luanda, 14000000 angolan, legible to vote, and choose among 8 political parties, but only to stand a real chance to win this election. president raw lorenzo m p l a. and the opposition party unita led by adobe out to a costa junior, especially the big cities like luanda asked strong holes of the opposition, where young people are frustrated about the rule of the governing m p l a. that has been running the country for almost 5 decade on he had to bid for the head, his greer christmas. probably the to make the decision would be, makes for years so that i'm going leave again leave. well, i,

we hall and i believe that i'm going to be, will change one day and today is a, sorry kobe, of course, for i'm calling to not count that. i'm in youth that don't have a job like me. that's why we, we want to see developments in our counter. you know, that's why i'm min menu for here to make a vote. somebody happy to come to work because we need more change. we've got, we got these a boost government and i'm gone. i is not so good for the 2nd time jaw. lorenzo made the fight against corruption, a central part of his election campaign. when he took over 5 years, joe stevens started going after relatives of his predecessor late president edwardo, just shunt us. his supporters also praise them for allowing more freedom in the country that has been ruled with an iron fist for decades. i'll last nessie sink while nurse them in the last 5 years. many things have changed on the government, so can after a say, oh, in the past, we often

a problem with the police up like in europe. now, i think so, normally, i'm not normally dod seeing coffee duck. so my dad and i, my side of things have improved in the past 5 years and you are in south carolina for example. there is a bit more freedom of expression. now that this but a south, what a sample that they will know, observe us, predict a close race between incumbent jaw lorenzo and the opposition leader, matthew acosta. junior. critics fear that the government could use its power to manipulate the votes, possibly sparking protests when the results are announced. but so far, everything has been calm and peaceful. and his reminder of the top story way following for you this hour here on dw use. president bloated mr. lansky has about ukraine will fight until the end as his country marks its independent state. and 6 months since the russian invasion began. authorities have worn people not together

in public, over fears of french russian air strikes. you're watching dw news coming up next and dw news asia, how the war in ukraine is changing the power politics in asia and flare. it's taking roches relations of china and india. the rush valgy is up next with these asia is more on our website, www. dot com. and i'll be back next out here on the w. c. s it ah ah, with

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