[000:00:00;00] him ah ah, this is the w news coming to you live from berlin. ukraine reports what it calls good news from the front. kip claims more territorial gains in its southern counter offensive and says troops every captured several villages in the northeast. ha, he region as well. also coming up the u unveils plans to cap the price of russian

gas to undercut moscow's ability to wage war on ukraine. vladimir putin hits back saying your will, freaks, if it follows through and waterborne diseases in pakistan or spreading among those affected by catastrophic flooding. more than 3000000 children are at risk of illness and malnutrition. ah hello, i'm terry martin. good. have you with us. you cranes, president below the muse lensky is reporting success in the northeastern hockey region, saying the ukrainian flag has returned to several settlements. there. there is no official confirmation of the gains, but russian media report. ukrainian advances appear to back up that statement. a spokesperson for the ukrainian military also says forces have re taken control of more locations in the southern hassan region where troops launched

a counter offensive last month. ukrainian troops, confident of victory. they've been advancing for days here in the southern has southern region. images like these are being shared on social media, purportedly showing recaptured areas like here and visa cavellia. wow. rob's law the ukranian counter offensive has been going on for days in the south, and in the east near hawk eve, where there's been fierce fighting over the town of bad, clear, and is strategically important railway bridge, which is key to russian supply efforts. plane on mine, i think the ukrainians are focusing on the destruction of the russian army supply routes. if the russian army doesn't get more ammunition or more supplies, more man power, then of course it's considerably weakened. that's the main thing that's happening right now. he is keeping the army moving at, at the same time, preventing it from getting supplies,

nauseous. the counter offensive seems to be having effect must go back to authorities and has san epis boned a referendum on joining russia until november. and 2nd, the u. s. putin has even turned to north korea, the ammunition, raising questions of just how we can do rushes. army is kind of theme of his e from what we can see. the russian army is being hit very hard because although it's resisting, it's still being forced back in many places on that. and that's relatively unusual compared to the situation in the don bassoon film for that's likely because they don't have enough ammunition there. if the westwood stopped generally supplying weapons, but instead supply specific equipment like tanks, the ukrainians might be more successful because they'd be able to move more rapidly, which they can't at the moment. liberty cust. i. meanwhile, russian forces shells hockey again on wednesday. again, hitting civilian targets. russia's defense ministry continues to focus on its claim successes,

ignoring the ukrainian counter offensive. ukraine's for missed on the other hand, is confident of victory we're deliver together. we know how to defeat russia because we have no fear. the war taught us not to have fear of the enemy. eve, for other nations in the world would not be afraid of russia. we would put russia in its place much foster. while an official media blackout leaves it hard to judge the true extent of keith's counter offensive, for now at least it seems to have put russia on the back foot or correspond. nick connelly joins us now from keith. nick, both the ukrainians and the russians are claiming success on the battlefield. how difficult is it to get a clear picture of what's going on there? it is exceedingly difficult to fact. check any of these claims. and as you heard in the report, that is pretty much a media blackout. here from the ukraine government. we've heard top ukraine

officials in presence lensky saying that ukraine's army needs quiet now needs basically the media and grants such to basically back off and not demand much the way details. and so weirdly enough, the ukraine media is for the most part, quoting russian blog as russian military blog, as russian or other sources. sometimes it gets social media, looking at gio tags on video, to try work out the geography of all this. but it does seem that russia is on the back foot and that after months and weeks are of expecting that conference in the south now had a song which is indeed happening. the biggest surprise has been that counter offensive. nick had keith in the northeast sports roma. this is ukraine, 2nd big city that is constantly under attack. a concert being shelled. it's only 40 clumps away from the russian board and has lots of russian troops very close. and it seems like the russians have been taken basically, it is surprised by this and on the back foot now having to kind of in a hurry, send more in the way resorts to that way because there was not an area where they're expecting anything. we've had some observers from the u. s. to about 20

kilometer our progress by the crane force in recent days. and some russian forces liable to be encircled in the city of bleckley. so at lots of elements, but a very difficult situation to cover and to really back up with fact. meanwhile, nick, the u. n. is saying that there are credible reports of ukrainians, including children being forcibly taken to russia. here's what you at the u. n. z assistant secretary general for human rights said about this. there had been credible allegations of force transfers of unaccompanied children to russian occupied territory, or to the russian federation itself. we are concerned that the rational authorities have adopted a simplified procedure to grant ration citizenship to children without parental care. and that these children would be eligible for adoption by russian families. children being forced to leave ukraine taken to russia. nick,

what can you tell us about these allegations? this is something that ukraine government has been talking about for a long time, but seemingly only recently is something that the you, another outside observers are wanting to engage with. and i think that question also of them being able to kind of effect check these claims, the ombudsman here and key have talked about 7000 children who have been taken to russia. that is on top of what's believed to be more than a 1000000 ukrainians. are of our families and all ages that have at now end up on russian territory. it's important to rebates. it is like mary paul, after the russian army turned up there with the so called filtration camps were basically they were looking for anyone who near the russian that she thought could pose a threats the russian occupation regime. any one we linked to ukraine's military or ukraine's politics. and this is like my apple are basically not able to support their pre war populations and the water supply. the foods by it is all still in ruins. so lots could have been taken to russia. some have been able to get back to

ukraine, sometimes traveling 1000 kilometers through neighboring countries, like estonia or georgia. but many, many are still there. many complain that they've had their documents that ukrainian travel dawkins taken away from them. they've had their money taken away from her now ended up in far flung regions of russian far east and siberia, and basically stuck their seemingly through ukrainian line on this is that this is an attempt by the russian leadership, basically against interpreter handsome population rather. and to settle or empty a bits of russia with ukraine has against their will. and this is definitely something the ukraine government wants to make more of in the weeks. come dick, thank you very much. our correspond nick currently there in kia a russian president. when we put in says moscow will halt all energy shipments to europe. if brussels goes through with a planned price cap on russian gas is comments. com as each country's ponder ways to tackle the growing energy crisis with winter approaching an economic forum in the eastern russian city. a bladder ball stock putin also blasted western sanction

saying they were a danger for the whole world. with him, good evening, mula may, putin struck her to find tone at the economic form in vladivostok. when you had you, he said, any efforts to isolate his country with futile stressing that moscow now was looking to the east and iran for new opportunities. and not one to mince words. putin was straight up about what he thought of the western sanctions against his country. and i here russia is coping with the economic, financial, and technological aggression of the wesley's hughes. i'm talking about aggression. there's no the word for political foreign currency exchanges and stock exchanges of stabilize humans. we're in the gracie than yours was. he said the sanctions were causing world wide instability and compromised europeans, quality of life. economic as western governments began imposing sanctions on russia after invaded ukraine in february. since then, the european union has moved to cut its reliance on russian gas and oil,

causing energy prices to saw. the situation deteriorated further at the beginning of september, when russia state own gas company gas prom said it was closing a crucial gas pipeline to the you. again, the claim. and since the closure is due to technical issues, contract obligations and international sanctions. placing the blame firmly on brussels, you officials refute his claims and accuse russia of trying to blackmail the block . they are neutral, they say we are using energy as a weapon. they put themselves in the situation and don't know what to do now. they painted themselves into a sanctions corners only to last week. g 7 nations, a great to a russian oil price cap to rain in russia's revenues and stabilize energy markets. now that he used commission president is also calling for

a cap on gas. we aim at lowering the cost of gas and therefore we will propose a price cup on russian gas. of course, the objective is very clear. we all know that our sanctions, deeply grinding into the russian economy with a heavy negative impact. but putting is partially buffering through fossil fuel revenues. so here the objective is we must cut rushes, revenues, which put in uses to finance is atrocious, war and ukraine. while poaching has called the latest move, quote, stupid. the use intention is clear, even if the details are not yet. the plan is expected to be tabled as a european energy council meeting on friday. it's catch up on a couple of other stories making headlines today. police in canada say the 2nd suspect then a stabbing attack is died after he was arrested. the suspect brother also thought

to have been involved in the attack was found dead on monday. 10 people were killed in 18 injured in the mass, stabbing in saskatchewan province. apple, his launch this new i phone 14 models and a new sports watch the new i phones have better cameras, faster processors and will be able to send us a west messages while a new satellite feature in pakistan, millions of people who been affected by record breaking floods are now confronting the threat of waterborne diseases. tens of thousands and heart hit provinces are falling ill after drinking contaminated blood water. doctors say they've been treating thousands suffering from diarrhea, skin infections, and other elements. 3 year old at champ, has been feverish for days. ever since the floods badly damaged his family home and they've had to sleep out in the open, he didn't get any medical treatment at the start, because the family couldn't afford to go to the doctor. by the elbow got out of my son, fell ill a few days ago on

a burger. i didn't have the money to bring him here, but i found it got, the doctor says he's got malaria. i did at the he's getting a bit better with the debit. when i died that i could, i am i recorded, i read on. alack for faith, either the stagnant rule to means mosquitoes couldn't quickly spread malaria. but medical facilities are basic in this remote area of the southern cindy province . i teach kumar runs a small practice and is always busy. most of his patients can't afford to pay some deck. hm. more of it. we can't really treat patients for free to live, but we do it anyway. but they still have to pay for the medicine, doesn't it? okay, but there's a lot of disease or some of the children often have several illnesses at once because they're drinking contaminated water. but if you are told i can make money vinegar. it's not just medical treatment,

which is lacking. food is also in short supply. most of these market traders are farmers whose fields are flooded. they also have to deal with the extreme heat aside again, giddy lay on my house and the harvest have been wiped out yet. that is honey. there's no shelter from the heat in the water and the fields are still waist deep. they did a vine. my business will go bust actually hadn't to hear it hasn't rained in this region for about 10 days. but the water cannot run off because the ground is saturated. scientists fear the harvests in the next 2 years will fail. it jazz ali and his family are in a desperate situation. their house is uninhabitable. parts of the roof has collapsed and they live in fear of the next rain, full o n. as in morocco meant that a government has to help us. our home has been destroyed or rocky,

the children are sick and we have no work. i'm really worried about the wearing the money to login as our now to finish an with there's no food and the family is having to survive on a few cups of tea a day that will not sustain them for long. you're watching d. w. news stay with us for business had a look at the new i phone. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching the landscape. a reflection of