ah ah ah, this is b w news coming to line from berlin. you credit reports what it calls good news from the front line. kia claims, more territorial games and its southern counter offensive, and says troops have recaptured several villages in the northeast, hot heat region 2. also in the program, 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 europe will freeze if it

follows through. and water born diseases in pakistan are spreading among those affected by catastrophic flooding or than 3000000 children are at risk of illness and malnutrition. ah. hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us, you cranes present it, blood me, zalinski is reporting success in the northeastern hockey region saying the ukranian flag has returned to several settlements. there. there is no independent confirmation of the gains, but russian media reports of ukrainian advances appear to back up that statement. a spokesperson for the ukrainian military also says forces have re taking control of more locations in the southern hassan region where troops launched a counter offensive last month. ukrainian troops,

confident to victory. they been advancing the days here and the sudden hast sullen 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 barrack leah. and it's strategically important railway bridge, which is key to russian supply efforts. see plain on mine, i think the ukrainians are focusing on the destruction of the russian army supply routes. not 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. you know, keeping the army moving at, at the same time, preventing it from getting supplies. now typical, 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 is even turned to north korea, the ammunition, raising questions of just how we can do rushes. army is a theme of his e, from what we can see. the russian armies being hit very hard because all votes resisting it's still being forced back in many places on that. and that's relatively unusual compared to the situation and the don bus and feel that's likely because they don't have enough ammunition there. if the west would stop 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 in las vegas. meanwhile, russian forces shells hockey again on wednesday. again, hitting civilian targets. russians 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 or 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 correspondent, nicolai as in kim i asked earlier how difficult it is to get a clear picture of what's going on when both the ukrainians and the russians are claiming success on the battlefield. 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 we get 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 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 to 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 progress by the ukraine force in recent days. and some russian forces

liable to be encircled in the city of bleckley. so lots of elements, but a very difficult situation to cover and to really back up the fact melonick 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 have been credible allegations of voice transfers of unaccompanied children to ration 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 recommend cities like mary paul, after the russian army turned up. there were the so called filtration camps were basically they were looking for anyone who near the russian that she thought could pose the 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 them. 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 a kind of empty, a bits of russia with ukraine has against their will. and it's definitely something the ukraine government wants to make more of in the weeks. come, dick, thank you very much. our correspondent nick, currently there in kia russian president vladimir putin. says moscow will halt all energy shipments to europe if brussels go through with a planned price count on russian gas. his comments. com as each country's ponder ways to tackle the growing energy crisis with winter approaching. at an economic forum in the eastern russian city of leduvo start putting also blasted western sanctions saying they were a danger for the whole world. with them, good evening newsletter may. putin struck

a defiant tone at the economic form in vladivostok where he 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 west with sanctions against his country. and i here russia is coping with economic, financial, and technological aggression of the wesley's. i'm talking about aggression. there's no the word for little foreign currency exchanges. and stock exchanges have stabilize you monthly in the crazy years with he said the sanctions were causing world wide instability and compromised europeans quality of life. economic crazy 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's state own gas company gas. brom said it was closing a crucial gas pipeline to the you. again, the criminal since the closure was due to technical issues, contract obligations and international sanctions. placing the blame firmly on brussels. you officials refute his claims and accused russia of trying to blackmail the block. they truly say we are using energy as a weapon and they put themselves in the situation and don't know what to do. now. they painted themselves into a sanctioned coroner, only took the last week g, 7 nations, a grade to a russian oil price cap to rein in russia's revenues and stabilize energy markets. now the use 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 cap on russian gas. of course the objective is very clear. we all know

that our sanctions, deeply grinding into the russian economy with heavy negative impact. but booting is partially buffering through fossil fuel revenues. so here the objective is we must cut rushes revenues, which fortune uses to finance is atrocious. lauren 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 at a european energy council meeting on friday. germany has begun deploying more soldiers to lithuania as part of nato's mood to boost defense of its eastern borders. russia's invasion of ukraine has rattled nerves throughout the formally occupied baltic states. lithuania, which is a nato member, shares a lengthy border with russia and fears russian aggression. if the war spreads

beyond ukraine. d. w is cleaned by a has more rolling off the boat into nato's most vulnerable region staff, sergeant, macs whose last name we've been asked not to give is providing security for the bonus valves. new forward command element. in lithuania, it's the headquarters of a german combat brigade. with up to 2500 soldiers, the soldiers that berlin is deploying to lithuania to bolster nato's eastern flank are a direct reaction to russia's war of aggression against ukraine. max is a deputy squad leader on this armored personnel carrier. part of one of germany's armored infantry brigades who miss preservative. i know, but i think it's important because i want to protect what we have yob gardens. i'm not protect our country window. and now that i've been in the army for some time, come, i also to fight with my brothers and arms and keep my men safe and even on your line ingle, vincent hathaway. the soldiers are also here for lithuania,

as collective defense, which is how nato calls in vilnius, along with the other baltic states had been calling for more troops. and in june german chancellor, olaf schwartz granted their request, an additional combat brigade on top of the $1600.00 soldiers that are already there . but there's a catch out of the convoy traveling down this highway, only the command element comprised of around 50 soldiers will be stationed here permanently. the bulk of the troops will remain in germany on high denise, and can deploy quickly on short notice. conus lithuania is 2nd. largest city is only a half an hour's drive from the base where german troops are stationed. people here are largely happy that more soldiers are coming. it's excellent. with

security, i feel safe here to be honest. or to know that sherman, the army came fully to ania a. so been as to the most important thing is that russia doesn't even think about taking any aggressive steps towards nato. all lithuania, shimmer sought on the market to ensure that max and his men are armed with some of the most modern equipment in the german military. they say they are well trained and ready to go to war. if they must federalism, i think it's good that we hear, right. i think it's good to is a show of force along nato's border. and you also see the reaction from the locals . it feels good. what is the job i signed up to do? and that's why i'm happy to be here on the fema mothers. these oversight after accompanying the brigades combat headquarters to lithuania max and his comrades

will go back home. but not for long. in october, they will return for their combat exercises with the lithuanian military. catch up on smaller stories making headlines today. the u. s. ambassador to the un security council says russia has forcibly deported up to 1600000 ukrainians. many of the deported are reportedly sent to isolated for regions ah, eastern regions of russia. russia's un ambassador denies the claims calling in an attempt by the west to do is to besmirch his country. united nations nuclear watchdog says a backup power line. it's operation power. it has been damaged by shelling, but the i. e says the incident did not have an immediate impact on the plants operations, as it had already been disconnected from the electricity grid. thousands have taken to the streets and haiti's capital and other cities to demand better living conditions. their calling on prime minister ariel only to resign following

a spike and consumer prices a severe fuel shortage. and a rise in gang related bottles. police in canada say the 2nd suspect in a mass. stabbing has died after he was arrested. this ends of 4 day man hunt, following one of canada's deadliest incidents of mass violence. 10 people were killed and 18 injured in the stabbing rampage in saskatchewan province. the suspect brother also thought to have been involved in the attack was found dead on monday. florida i'm joined from vancouver by journalists, louise lopez, louise. you've been following the story for us from the beginning. what do you make of these latest developments is right, terry does all came to a dramatic annie here. police tonight just a few hours ago. confirm mile sanderson, who had been on the run, is now dead. police say he went into medical distress shortly after being arrested

. his afternoon. he was transported to a hospital in saskatoon, where he was pronounced dead. we still don't know the exact cause of miles is dead . there's to allow, we don't know yet as you just said, terry miles broader. damien sanderson was found dead on monday. we don't know 2 miles had anything to do with his brother's death. leasers to trying to piece that together. but just to give you a bit of a perspective on how things unfolded, city, how miles was thought. it all started with an alert from police, about a person with a knife traveling in a vehicle in a community just over an hour south of james smith creek's creek, a nation miles had stolen a get away pickup truck from that community. and there was a long search that unfolded that afternoon and he was caught the authorities have released the names of all the victims, or is there a connection between them that explains why they were targeted in this stabbing

rampage? or were they all attacked at random? terry, the last update from police on that they said that they believe some of the attacks were targeted. others were in the random fashion. they have no motive yet for the attacks. they are doing surely a huge investigation involving multiple crime scenes. but as you mentioned, terry police did release the name of all day to day. the one confirm any relationships, but it's been reported as some are related, including a mother and her 2020 year old sign. other victims also include a community 1st responder with died while responding to a crisis call, trying to help others among the dead mothers, grandmothers, sons, and daughters. you know, vigils had been going on overnight in their memory as we speak. the star of the healing process for so many for sure. certainly, terry come to grips with that with this tragedy. they say that the police don't

have a motive yet. um, but now with both suspects dead. how likely is it that they will ever determine? ah, the motive for these killings police are she putting together that part of the investigation, but they did acknowledge that they may not fully know how things unfold. it as both suspects are dead. the community has been reacting to that as well. are many people have reported to local media that they are now breathing aside o relief. they still want to know what unfold that exactly what happened the one cancer to their questions. you know, a bit of disappointment for, for them who i wanted to hear directly from the suspect. so a lot of unanswered questions still here, terry. and a lot of grieving tonight. indeed, louise, thank you very much. sure. journalist, louise lopez in vancouver now to pakistan,

where millions of people have been affected by record breaking floods. and they're now confronting the threat of waterborne disease. tens of thousands are falling ill after drinking contaminated flood waters. doctor se field hospitals have been treating thousands of people daily for diarrhea, malaria, and other sicknesses. 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. but i didn't have the money to bring him here. what i found it, i got, the doctor says he's got malaria. i did at the, he's getting a bit better with the debit. when i go either i can i am i recorded i retina like mercedes in the stagnant water means mosquitoes couldn't quickly spread

malaria. but medical facilities are basic in this remote area of the southern sind province. at each kumar runs a small practice and is always busy. most of his patients can't afford to pay some dick am or a bit. we can't really treat patients for free to live, but we do it anyway. but they still have to pay for the medicine a but there's a lot of disease that's out. most of the children often have several illnesses at once because they're drinking contaminated water, but you, it'll die again with money vinegar. it's not just medical treatment, which is lacking. food is also in short supply. most of these market traders of farmers whose fields are flooded. they also have to deal with the extreme heat aside yankee lay on my house and the harvest have been wiped out yet that a sudden there's no shelter from the heat in the water and the fields is still way steep. they did a vine. my business will go bust and she 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. and again, there are going without a government has to help us. our home has been destroyed or rocky, the children are sick. i say no, but yeah, and we have no work. i'm really worried about you. i wanna my unity again as our now don't get a chance. 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. over more we can

talk to him acidic ye, now she's with the agency, is la mic relief in pakistan. she joins us from, is lower. bud, thanks for being with us. tell us just how wide spread our water born diseases in the flood regions. i thank you very much terry. so basically, an area especially and grow into touch and tv, where the water is still standing, receiving an upright and the gates, the water going to be this, you know, such as malaria, dang, d, a q, diarrhea. and you know, there are also about one 128000 pregnant women and about 24000. i do for them to be in the next 3 months. so we're seeing a lot of cases of kids being mild, my kid drowning and kid picking up diseases such as malaria and dandy. so these are the segments of society that are more effective at the moment, especially in,

in areas because they're getting everything and uprise in the problem because of the, of the water. because people don't have access to keep watch because they want to. but i said much underwashed josh in the flood, they're having to drink dirty, waddell, which is also, you know, putting these people at risk of baltimore bond disease it. right. what's been done to help the people suffering from this the, the diseases is pakistan's health care system able to cope to the metal. gums are being set up in these areas, but due to shortage of resources, thousands are need of my urgent medical assistance. and as i said earlier, especially if somebody has to be providing hygiene items among the flood communities with a special focus on the menstrual hygiene of them. and we have also started to do the water liking that people have access to drinking water. they have access to

transition and what you do to prevent the spread of these to be that. but if you talk about the health care system of the country, the public health care system is very fragile and it will be that he's gone bad on his own. the saw the pbc in during co, it and then, and we need medical supplies. we need to meet the needs of the police and the organizations as well. we're working with the government has done to to minimize the damage it. okay. tell us he'd be, is there any prospect of things improving now are or the flood waters beginning to finally recede? so in the area that i mentioned like g p, and since specially the blood water is repeating. but it's very, very, you know, if you, if you talk about the situation before, are now becoming more poor. and the people, the most vulnerable are children and people with disabilities. most of the people

are living, you know, under the open sky. these people are from the area. so they're connected to agriculture, their talk and it has been effected. their life still has being bossed away and even the people who are able to hold onto the lights up to the, even the people who are able to see their lifestyle. and now they're like talking about danger because they can't take care of it. there's no water in the life and it's going to build them, you know, years to even have a thank you very much for talking with us. that was hipaa, sedate keith, with the islamic relief agency in pakistan. you're watching dw news. just remind are the top stories we're following for you today, while kia claims, more territorial gains in its southern counter offensive? it says, troops have re captured several villages in the northeast. i keep region 2. if confirmed the gains could mark progress in ukrainian efforts to begin disrupting

russian army supply routes and the east and russian president vladimir putin has threatened to cut off all fossil fuel exports to the e. u. if brussels goes ahead with a plan to cap price is on, russian gas use plan comes as it ponders ways to tackle soaring energy costs. with winter approaching, you're watching dw news from berlin up next. it's focus on europe with report on escaping from afghanistan to a new home in depth. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. ah, with

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