thank you to learn more minutes with a special look at a special country. iran from above. start september 16th on d, w. ah. this is dw news live for berlin, ukraine's president strikes a defiant tone as you visits recapture territory. a zalinski thanks troops in the strategic city of is you. he says his country is moving in only one direction to

all out. victory. plus swedish politics takes a hard right turn. prime minister magdalena anderson announces a resignation after a social democrat lose an election to an alliance of right wing parties and the final farewells of queen elizabeth these a live images from westminster hall, where the late british monarch is lying in state. the hall is open to the public for the next 4 days, so allow mourners to pay their final respect. ah and told me your logical thanks for joining us. president villa, dimmer zalinski, has made his 1st trip to the newly liberated city of is you ukrainian forces recaptured the strategic city as part of a counter offensive at seeing them take back thousands of square kilometers of

russian control territory in the north eastern hockey province. yet as russian soldiers retreat evidence is emerging of a brutal occupation in the city of his union, president zalinski shakes the hand of a ukrainian commander. thanks to his troops, hard work, the city has now been liberated from russian forces. but there's been so much fighting here that there's not much of it left. there are no surprises if you know that that's not shock for me. the viewer is very shocking, but it's not shock for me. and because we, we began to see the same pictures from butcher from the thought the occupied it directors. so the same destroyed,

builders killed people. and so what can i say for you cranes? ne encounter offensive has seen the ukranian army take back a wide suede of territory in the space of just a few days. but resident here, a shell shocked what they endured during 6 months of russian occupation is just starting to come to light in the battle scarred city of ballad, clear southeast of hoc give reports of torture are emerging 0 live criminal de la made me hold 2 wires attached to an electric generator to the numbers of the work, the faster you spin dishes, the higher the voltage and go to court. nope. they kept spinning it and asking questions. they said i was lying prostrate on so they did it more and you thought that it happened to some prisoners every of the day when the fools are sure was this to publicly with the ukrainian army back in control residents. he longed to

put the dark days of war behind them and see the ukrainian flag rise over the country. once again. earlier we spoke to date of the correspondent nick connelly was following developments for us in hoc eve. and he updated us about the situation in the city where you can't see much of her give behind me. it's about 10 p. m local time. and there's not a light on anywhere here in the downtown. some of that is because people have left in large numbers, but for the most part, people are still living in that 1st mode of war when it was all about trying to prevent, make it more difficult for us to find targets, keeping light, to a minimum, hiding behind curtains and basically leaving the streets as early as possible. it's quite kind of shocking being here. i was lost here in april, back then there was still a terrify in the city and you could hear kind of couldn't go more than half an hour without hearing it. that's not gone. but still you don't really have the feeling.

the people here kind of believe that this kind of calm is here to stay. they had a kind of false false kind of a hope early in the summer that things were getting better and then things got a lot worse for they ended up ending to where they did. and there's a sense that russia could retaliate with more attacks on civilians. we had those tax on the heating plots here in hockey, in recent days, just earlier this evening, there was a tag on a damn, another part of the country which was looked set to floods residential areas in community through the real sense that russia, the more it ends up losing territory and being cumulative battlefield might really take out those frustrations on presidents and some breaking news coming in from cuba spokesperson for for the dinner. zalinski says that ukrainian president carr was involved in a traffic accident in the capitol. the official added that the lensky was not seriously injured or bring more details on this as we get them just to repeat that for breaking news, that euclidean presence call was involved in a traffic accident in the capitol,

adding that zaleski was not seriously injured. now to the european commission where president formed alliance as a united europe will prevail over russian president vladimir putin. in her annual state of the union address to the european parliament. she added, following russia's invasion of ukraine. europe had shown courage and strength. she said much was at stake, not just for ukraine, but also for europe and the world at large. they enter the chamber and strasbourg side by side, european commission chief, or the law fund, a lion and ukraine's 1st lady allan as ellen hska, as symbolic gesture, to emphasize europe, solidarity with the people of ukraine at this crucial moment of the war, you have given courage to a whole nation, you have given a voice to your people on

a global stage. you have given hope to all of us. so today we want to thank you and all ukrainians, glory to a country of european heroes. slaver, ukrainian funder lion said the you solidarity with ukraine would remain unshakable, promising an additional $100000000.00 euros to rebuild ukrainian schools. but she didn't announce any new sanctions or new weapons delivery will have repeatedly demanded by the government and keith. instead, she focused on the challenges the youth facing like the energy crisis, with more and more consumers struggling to pay their bills, the commission wants to reduce overall electricity consumption, help companies who have liquidity problems, and introduce a cap on windfall profits. in these times, it is wrong to receive extraordinary record revenues and profits benefiting from

war and on the back of our consumers. in these times, prophets must be shared and channeled to those who need it most and proposal that could raise more than $140000000000.00 euros to cash in the low up skyrocketing energy prices fund alliance at a measure welcomed by many u. lawmakers urgent with a set of measures that all will help on the one side decrease demands on the other side, decrease the prices. and i think this set is really needed to, 1st of all, give a signal to the market that the prices are to ridiculously high. and 2nd of all, make sure that citizens are much more secure that there be, it will be able to pay the bill. but we need to do much more. we need to really at reinforce and, and triple their, their, their investments in renewable energy sources. the war in ukraine is changing the european union. and the energy crisis is the best example for that. the measures

proposed by it was a fund, a lion are a good start. many hearsay, but more needs to be done to make sure that it called and difficult to winter wants trigger war fatigue in europe and undermine solidarity with ukraine. in sweden prime minister my galena anderson has announced her resignation as social democratic blocks offered a narrow defeat in sundays election coming 2nd to coalition of right wing parties. anderson says she'll ask the speaker of parliament on thursday to relieve her of her duties as prime minister, the nationalist, sweden, democrats, and other 2nd largest party with over 20 percent of the vote in our have the 1st opportunity to form a government here with their conservative partners, so from past week we asked ashok swine, a professor of peace and conflict research at sailor university. if the victory for

the conservative camps will mean tougher immigration rules. i think if you look at, in the last few years that have been sweden has actually restricted its immigration rules because as you know, whenever that is this, the rise of far far right barbies takes place boston produced although barbara meant to barbie to do, tried to take their places and try to get the policies in some way that they will think that there will blocked up all right, quality, but that has not been successful. so what will happen if the body, which is most likely, will not be part of a particular government directly, but we did have support, the government will continue. it will certainly will restrict more towards that if you do policy of the country, it will have much more immigrant item and there are some rules for police control majors. it will also will be more. busy going for the newport patients of the immigrants. so those are the policies which will be, you know, come,

we will see much more and much more or not in a more modern in human way. let's turn to some other stories, making news around the world. and armenian security official says armenia, and as of a, john have agreed to a cease fire to end the latest round of fighting between the long time enemies. more than 100 troops have been reported killed on both sides. this week. the countries went to war over the disputed nagondo caraballo region in the 1990 s. and then again, in 2020 china's leader. she didn't ping has arrived in kaz at stan for his 1st trip abroad since the start of the pandemic. he's due to attend a summit of the 8 member shanghai corporation organization. during his visit to central asia is expected to meet russian president vladimir putin. the disgraced r and b singer r kelly has been found guilty of child pornography. a federal jury convicted carrie,

whose full name is robert sylvester kelly on 3 counts of producing child pornography. and 3 counts of enticing minors for sex. kelly's already serving a 30 year sentence for sex offences. typhoon wafer has made a landfall in eastern china, battering the country's largest city, shanghai with heavy rains, with wind speeds of over a 150 kilometers per hour. it is the strongest of 12 typhoons to hit mainland china . this year, members of the public have begun paying their last respects to queen elizabeth in london. earlier a royal procession brought the queen's coffin to westminster hall, with the late monarch is lying in state. thousands have now begun to fall past the coffin to say a final farewell of the queen's funeral on monday. ah,

this is the moment the queen left the palace for the last time, talked with the imperial crown de monarch war on brear formal occasions. queen elizabeth's coffin made its way through central london on a horse drawn carriage. at this viewpoint, many stood waiting to catch a glimpse. the procession moved past them at only $75.00 steps per minute. the pace typically used for sombre occasions. you know, i was very upset. so such a strong problem and, you know, the, the crowd suddenly fell completely quiet. it was silence. anza with a coffin pulsing by with the music that was so powerful. she meant so much to read with c. dang. yeah. it was amazing.

about reactivate her? yeah. after 38 minutes the coffin arrived at the hall, where king charles and other members of the royal family, attended a service held for the queen. the late monarch will lie and stayed here for 4 days . the westminster hall will stay open, round the clock for members of the public to pay their respects. but the queue, which already started forming 2 days prior, is long. the wait may take as long as 30 hours yet i'm extension 3. 4 for 70 is i think that you have holidays wage to pay my respects to verizon. moving in 2 parallel lines, hundreds of thousands of mourners, while file passed the coffin before the funeral was held on monday. it watching d w. news. his a reminder of our top stories, ukraine's president voluntary zaleski has made

a defiant statement as he visited the recaptured city of is you in the northeast and hockey region. soleski greeted soldiers and thank them for their efforts. and we've taken the strategic city, said you craig was on calls for victory, pulling the recent counter offensive against russian. business news is up next week. christie patterson, and i'm told me all logical, many thanks for joining with these places in europe for smashing the records. stepped into a bold adventure. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters.