experience outstanding shopping and dining offers and try our services all. be our guest at frankfurt and bought cd managed by frappe, bought lou. ah ah, ah, this is d. w. news live from berlin, ukraine's independence day mark by war, and alleged russian strike on a train station as reportedly killed more than a dozen people. the attack comes as ukraine march, 31 years of freedom from moscow's control celebrations,

will ban to day in the capital heave over fears of russian air strikes. and today, also march, 6 months since russia began its invasion. we'll take a look at the toll this war has taken on you. great. but also the resistance that it has inspired. also coming up, holes of closed on this election day in and go, what will the left wing ruling, n p l a party be able to hold on to power amid claimed that it has squandered the countries, oil wealth and good news for us. college graduates, you as president biden announcing a plan to cancel $10000.00 of student loan debt for filling a campaign promise that he made to younger both. ah, i'm bring gov to our viewers watching on p b as in the united states into all of you around the world. welcome. begin tonight

with breaking news from ukraine. ukrainian president zalinski saying at least 15 people have died in a rush airstrike on the train station in the central part of the country. not this attack comes on a day laden with both hope and sorrow. today's independence day, the national holiday marking independence for ukraine from the former soviet union to they also marked 6 months of the russian invasion in a moment. a report on a nation that was scheduled to celebrate freedom before a war got in the way. but 1st dw mathias burlingame, he is in cave and he has more on that attack at a train station in central ukraine. yeah, we've just heard that term 15 people were killed and several dozens wounded in that attack. now, today is a day where many people have expected such attacks will happen possibly even on the capital of key if this has not happened so far. but we also heard that quite few

rockets have been intercepted by air defense by ukrainian and defense and southern possible that some women for here for the, for the government buildings that russia has threatened to attack. or that at least some russian or propagandists have threatened to attack. and we've also seen rockets come down in other parts of the country in the more weston many ski region . and also in hoc, if we've heard of about explosions. so it's clear that russia is sending a signal out, they stay and it is that and that people have suffered from russian attacks again in different parts of the country. okay. mathias stand by this attack comes, as we said earlier on this independence day in ukraine, celebrations were banned in the capital keys for fears of a russian attack. we have this report now on how ukrainians are finding ways to show their resistance. russian tanks aligned up in the ukrainian capital

the message. this is the only way russian military equipment will appear and give burnt and destroyed. it was unusually quiet as ukrainians mount that independence dame the capital occasionally emptied warnings, disrupted the silence. ah. but the mood in the city is defined. we had as a precise and i shall crane the letters. i'm very proud of our country easily could i? you know, i'm glad that we came back from europe salmon 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 dates if it's a special day for me today, if you will ensure i feel nothing, no fear. i traveled almost a 100 kilometers here from near keith. nothing scares me to do for you just have to

do it. insulin and it's a holiday after all ever silver suits them. i am president. well, it amuses lensky release. a prerecorded message. wait, he vowed to fight until the end wasn't here with him when i was to. so in this thing, what for us as the end of the wall is it will you cite piece now we say victory, and then we won't look for a mutual understanding. was a terroristic guy, even though we understand the russian language. if you came to defend lecoq while killing thousands of people, you came to liberate in his up. i knew similarly, we finally became united zera's customer and you nation emerge on february 24th at bouy. i am the ne, not gourne for me, but reborn more a nation that did not cry, scream gets his gantski. when that did not run away, he did not give up and did not forget. the president and 1st lady also visited a memorial for the soldiers killed in the conflict.

meanwhile, ukrainian troops in the east are locked in a riding war of attrition with the russian army. oh, he is bellinger still with his mother. he is on this independence today. we're talking about a possible war of attrition. now 6 months into this conflict. is there anything for ukrainians to celebrate while this war of attrition has been going on for several months now, and it's the fear is that it's going to be a war of exhaustion actually. and of course then many worries occur. how long were the west sustain its support to ukraine, et cetera. ukraine is making, of course, sometimes even spectacular strikes against russian ammunition depots, or, or supply infrastructures. we've seen the strikes on crimea. we have seen several strikes in the hassan region,

mainly in the south where ukraine was able to take out, seemingly big ammunition dumps were, which were spectacular explosions, etc. um, so ukraine is in a better position now than it was 3 weeks ago a 3 months ago when it was just pounded by this, these, this russian fire power. that was 10 times people estimated at the time higher than the ukranian. but still, we are not seeing any territorial or significant territorial gains by the ukrainians. the have been able already a few months ago to drive back the russians from some of the positions that were very close to the cities of harkey and nick mc alive. and also of course, the retreat from the key area. but since then things are really grinding, lee slow, the russian advance is also slow, but it is a consistent so we, it doesn't look like there is going to be at fast turn. any time soon in this,

in mit is we have heard before. and during this war, particularly for multinational in russia that, that ukraine is not even a real country. what has the russian invasion, what is it done to strengthen ukrainian identity while that's not only i tra nationalist that also put in who has sad that m. yes. clearly miscalculated, of course, the ukrainians saw themselves as a nation before what it has done is that it has further consolidated the feeling of the nation and may be also the feeling of a nation that is united. i mean, you can be a nation and you can be quarrelling all over with everybody. the elder with the younger and the eastern, is with the western, is the russian speaking with the ukranian speakers and i think after this 24th of february, what has been diluted is this may be mistrust of groups against each other. there

was a process that was already on the way, at least since 2014, but also may be since the 1919 it's been accelerating over the time. but the to the 24th of february has really boosted this feeling of, of unity here. and people perceive themselves as more united than before. he debbie's when he is bellinger with the latest to night on this independence day in key. well, so far ukraine has managed to hold off the kremlin efforts to resume control over more of the country w's where your blue cross. he takes a look back now at hell. the war started and some of its major turning points. after months of speculation, warnings, fears and a massive troop build up on 3 sides of ukraine. russian president vladimir putin finally revealed his deadly intentions on february 24th. first,

let's look at how things were on the eve of the war. now russia already occupied. the crimean peninsula in the south, in 2014, and at the same time helped separatists take control of part of ukraine's eastern don. this region. now in that conflict, the united nations estimates 14000 civilians had been killed in the years since now starting february 24th putin launched a full scale invasion of ukraine by land, by sea, and by air. the russian leader claims the ukrainian government has committed crimes against russian speaking ukrainians. but outside russia, the war seen as a desperate effort to stop ukraine's further integration with the west, which putin views as a threat to his power. now in the 1st stage of the war until around the beginning of april, russian forces pounded the capital cave and other major urban centers like hockey them. maria pope entire civilian areas were flattened. millions of people fled to neighboring countries or to ukraine, somewhat safer western region. but russia under estimated ukraine's resistance and

its military couldn't establish air superiority. it tried, but failed to surround keith and decapitate ukraine's democratically elected government. so after several weeks of little progress from the north of the country, russian commanders ordered a withdrawal to concentrate their firepower on the east. that is the wars 2nd face . ukrainian troops are outmanned and outgunned and they were forced to stay really retreat. allowing russian forces to consolidate gains on the ground. now, what you see here doesn't mean that russia has full control of these areas. what we can say is that in the south and the east is where russia has advanced the most and exert some level of administrative control. it's these areas that have seen the heaviest fighting. and now we're in the 3rd face. ukraine says it's fighting back with the help of us and other western weapons. both sides have suffered tremendous

losses, though it's impossible to put a precise figure on that. same goes for the civilian toll which the united nations officially puts at $13000.00 killed and wounded. but they acknowledge it's likely a gross under cat now is unclear what putin's end game is here as the war becomes one of attrition. whether ukraine has the strength to push back against russian advances. whether russia has the resources to establish itself as an occupying power. and whether the winter ahead will freeze fighting and force some kind of deal that was he w, william glue croft vigor were in the early days of its war, russia attacked but failed to take the ukrainian capital key. in the past few months residence there have begun to return to their normal routines that despite fears of new russian strikes are corresponded. mathias, berlin recently met with some locals in keith, who recalled the shock of the earliest russian strikes on their city. 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 the 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 a natural makeover house or raising funds it said that was available. this is the api center of the explosion. there were 2 apartments here. and if you look over here, this corner,

there was another room here at the rock at chick the corner of and the whole room after the explosion also hit the que apartments above and below. i only was a while last year who is 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 had fled to germany. on the video, they had a camera in the room and they could see on their full and her their flag 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 foster than them. them here, so nothing for flaws for the down, lynn 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 them a thief, the calamity has united i will. many of us have become friends. yoshi that we understand how important it is to stick together and when the war is over it, i'm sure we will, quarterly. again. nick. defiance from the people who's building was the 1st and keith to be hit in this way. and here are more headlines connected to russia's war on ukraine. ukrainian president zalinski today addressed the united nations

security council. and that despite efforts by russia to block his appearance, albania, which called today's session, reminded the counsel that ukraine is at war and under foreign invasion. are going a british prime minister boars. johnson made a surprise visit to attend ukrainian independence day events to day president zalinski, awarded him ukraine's order of liberty and described johnson as a friend of ukraine. and president zalinski has denied ukraine's involvement in the killing of doria davina, the daughter of ultra nationalist supporter of russian president vladimir putin. zalinski says that the car bomb that killed digging in moscow was not ukraine's fault. ah, poles enclosed amberg county is now underway. in angola is most closely contested

election since its transition to a multi party democratic state. and government are picking a new parliament and a new president, the governing party. the m. p. a lay has been in power for nearly 50 years. for the 1st time, it's facing serious competition. poverty, inflation, and corruption have been the main campaign issues in this former portuguese comp. w correspondent audrey increase is in the angolan capital lawanda. he sent us this. i'm glad seeing the most competitive election in the history of the country most year i expecting a tight race between the candidate of the m p l. a. the governing party to our lorenzo, who is the current president and the major opposition candidate. and i'd be out to acosta junior of the unique top party. the opposition have their stronghold in urban areas in cities like here in the capitol luanda, where a lot of young people live at. many of them are frustrated about the rule of the m

p l a. that has been ruling this country for almost 50. yes, angola is africa's biggest oil producer. yet the other wealth hasn't trickled down to the majority of the population. youth unemployment is a massive problem. and this is why a lot of people, especially young ones here, are calling for it, changed the m p l a. however, a still does have a lot of supporters, especially in rural areas. and they do have control of a lot of government institutions, including the electoral commission. critics fear that they could use their power to manipulate the vote, which could then possibly lead to protests when the results are announced. but so far everything has been calm and peaceful during the campaign during the election day. and also now while the votes are being counted, was on to increase. their reporting from angola ensued at the death toll from flash flood. since the start of the rainy season in may, that, that store has now climbed to at least $89.00. they'll pores of course, parts of the nile river and its tributaries to burst their banks and inundate

villages across the nation. for you when served with floods of displaced more than a 100000 people, authorities have declared a state of emergency in several provinces. water that came without warning. flooding isn't unusual to sudan this time of year. but this year it's effect to double the number of people it did last year. and double the number of communities, people are salvaging what they can many lost everything. we're living here. this is my house. it collapsed and nothing is left of it. no bed, no cupboard, no chair, no tv, nothing is left. he had 3 bedrooms for beds and 2 cupboards. it's all gone and now with staying at the school and then i wanna get rid of that official say 20000 homes have been swept away by flash floods. tens of thousands more have been made

uninhabitable. people are just glad to have escaped with their lives. like other men love, this is god's fate. not a little and we're thankful it wasn't an earthquake or a fire burnt us, i know where live and that's a blessing american home to hopefully hoping this natural disaster comes amid the political and economic crisis in sudan. more than 11000000 people, quarter of the population need food aid. the un says shortages and humanitarian donations mean, sudan has received less than a 3rd of what it requires in funding this year. it's an already dire situation being made worse by an erotic rainy season. that hasn't even peaked yet. you as president joe biden has announced a partial cancellation of student debt for some us college students. in graduates. the plan calls for a $10000.00 cut for those whose income falls below

a $125000.00 a year. recipients of loans designated for low income students will see even bigger cuts. economists say that this will free up hundreds of billions of dollars for new for consumer spending heated public in the world. i ran for office to grow the economy from the bottom up in the middle. and because when we do that, everybody does better. everybody does well. the wealthy do very well. the poor have a way up in the middle class can have reading and that's going to help america when the economic competition a 21st century. that's what today's announcement is about. it's about opportunity. it's about giving people a fair shot. it's about the one word america can be defined by possibilities. or let's go now to our washington bureau chief venus. both she followed the story force enos put this into context force. how many americans will

benefit from this? me was going to be the impact. yeah, i mean present buying this, canceling up to $20000.00 trend in federal student loan. that's really a big number. we just heard that, oh, for those who is making a $125.00 a year or less, that could affect around $43000000.00 americans. 43000000. that's a lot of people and was doing so. he really kind of follows that. what he promised during his present presidential campaign to support those who have not so much money. yeah. and for giving did you know it's popular with people who oh, what of money? but i understand that vitamins come under fire for this move, not only from republicans, but also from his own party, some in his own party. oh, what are their criticisms? right. i mean, one could think that he gets a lot of applause, at least from his own kind of people. but now he's also facing critique of from

well known democrats like larry summers, the treasury secretary for bill clinton or obama's former economy get a wiser. they all say that this causes even more inflation in a moment when the country is already at 8.5 percent or so inflation rate, nation white republicans on the other side. adding to that argument, that the government basically a can't afford to spend so much money in that it would be unfair to those who have paid bag their full depth and then brand on the on the very left side, they are complaining that this is not enough money, and by the end of the day, this won't kind of change or the broken education system here in the united states . and we have to remind viewers either to this was a campaign promise of that was made couple years ago to well, how do you explain the timing of this? i mean, why did it take close to 2 years to get action on this?

right, that's also critique from him or from his own a party of biden's party. so he basically is using this political momentum he has gained. i was passing on the one hand, the green energy bill and the chips bill. and he does so only like roughly 2 and a half months ahead of the midterm sprang. this is crucial for him. he has to kind of connect every decision he's making right now to the november election. because paul suggests that he is still a very unpopular president and he needs kind of some support also from the a young of orders because he's just like not very popular a with the younger voters. so that's definitely facing them. we will see this loan forgiveness can make a difference in his poem washington in if say almost half of the

european union is now under a drought warning. a report from the eas earth observation program shows the extreme dry weather could continue in some regions for 3 more months. the po river in northern italy, it was once known as the king of rivers. but the parched conditions this european summer have caused billions of euros and loss, as to farmers who rely on italy's longest waterway to irrigate their fields. the rather pile has reduced to a trickle in italy's lombardi rate, and it hasn't rained here properly since spring. stefano crappy is keeping an eye on the rear, the sand banks, which are growing wider by the day. sam, only of a lot of my cash or to water levels under 3.68 meters, men, or mon main. they live, i usually it's much higher here at the black line i last year. the acidity this in unit, that's where the water was limited into the aqua. not only farmers are affected,

some 90 percent of the small hydro power stations. they'd lined the robust channels have shut down tanks. ah, empty one of the big plants either as it, i feeney, 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. so much and luca to kini is concerned about the poor quality of his cone. the plants on his fields simply didn't get enough water. he harvested this field will most 2 months early green m yards in venice. lagoon and portrait of situation is tragic. we had to harvest her 20 days ago was talking because i ran out of water and everything dry. dock weiss novice you guys in order to save a small bit of the harvest oil. we'll have to cut everything di yada where school crystal council, the regions thomas are losing half of their grain and rise crops. oh no. so

part of the village maybe was survivors losses she had the lower will have to close up shop at the end of the year. in the book. i barranca culinary picturesque lake. garda is where the rhythm public gets a part of its will to from, but the lake only has 60 percent of its usual bought to bargain. 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, but somebody to stay. so check with quality of the water is, is fine. here. there was at least some rightful a short while ago where the focus to sate, it'll be september before more is on the way. and after a short break, i'll be back to take you through the day to night, ukraine's independence day, and the country's new fight for free will be right back with

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poaching has placed 80 percent of the species under read distinction. is there any hope less for the delicate ecosystem able 3000 in 60 minutes on d. w. ah no. has no limits. i love is for everybody. love is live. i love matters and that's my new podcast. i'm evelyn char, mom and i really think we need to talk about all the topics that north divides and denied that this. i have invited many deer and well known guests, and i would like to invite you to an in in many countries, education is still

a privilege. hummadi is one of the main causes some young children work in mind. trav, instead of going to class others can attend classes only after they finish working with millions of children all over the world can't go to school with. we asked why and because education makes the world more, just make up your own mind. d. w. mate for mines 6 months ago to day russia began invading you crate, despite all of the intelligence, the warnings of an eminent attack. when this war started, most of the world was shocked on the shock factor war off quickly, happy year into this conflict. russia is still out guns, ukraine, but weapon.