revealed unparalleled beauty. ah, a special look at a special country loan from above start september 16th on d, w. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, a show of support for ukraine's european aspirations. each chief, also a funder line, arrives in the capital keyed for talks on the close, the integration of ukraine into instructions. a visit comes a day off to she declared that democracy standing united would triumph over russian

aggression. also coming up, russian president vladimir putin is to meet his chinese counterpart gigi and paying for the 1st time since moscow's invasion of ukraine. they're expected to discuss the ukraine war and taiwan and swedish politics take a hard right to turn prime minister magdalena and the fin resigns off to her social democrats lose sundays election to an alliance of right when parties ah, and i manuscripts mckinnon. welcome to the program e u commission president or slough under lion has arrived in ukraine to discuss closer cooperation with the european union. she was welcomed in keith by ukraine's head of european integration. accession,

the block and economic corporation are at the top of the agenda, and she will be holding tolts with ukrainian president for love man zalinski. ukraine was granted you candidates candidacy status in june. meanwhile, fresh russian attacks are being reported in ukraine following massive gains by keith in the east of the country. miss isles also hit a reservoir near president volota. miss zalinski is hometown of cree, very russian cruise missiles have destroyed the water system. in creevy rare residents have been warned to brace for flooding. the infrastructure is critical to the city, the largest in central ukraine, of usher or get there. does your missile attacks today like russian missiles targeting previously, i'm good for them. of the cartridge new skier reservoir occurring in the objects have no military value at all focus the bus would empty shop. in fact, targeting hundreds of thousands of ordinary civilians is another reason why russia

were louis eager. earlier the president made a surprise visit to indian little one of the cities recently liberated by ukrainian forces. keeps counter offensive, has seen the ukrainian army take back a wide swathe of territory in the northeast. residents are shocked and traumatized . what they endured during 6 months of russian occupation is just starting to come to light in the battle scarred city of balla, clear south, east of hart eve, reports of torture are emerging live cromwell. date, you may be hold 2 wires attached to an electric generator on bushel forward the faster you spin quarter since the higher the voltage and go to court. nope, of course they kept spinning it and asking questions. they said i was lying for process. so they did it more a year for her. it happened to some prisoners every or the day when the schools are sure of this to publicly with the ukrainian army back in control. residents here

long to put the dark days of war behind them and see the ukrainian flag rise over the country once again. okay, that's bringing all dw correspondent emanuel showers, who is in ha, keith m a d e commission president is in a key. it's her 3rd visit there since the war started. tell her, tell us what's on her agenda this time. well, a symbolic care visit tonya. and indeed the 3rd 4 or also laugh on their lion, of course this afternoon. or they will be a lot of talk about a possible, a ukrainian accession to the european union. you know that ukraine got granted candidate status a back in june. so that, that had it going to be on top of the agenda. i also left on the lion that is set to meet a wiz vladimir lensky. in fact, he already met him as she received

a medal in recognition of the you support towards ukraine earlier this morning and she will also me to his prime minister then is ash me go to discuss about the situation to discuss about further her support beads, financial but us, so when it comes to sanctions against a russia b day economic all or so with regard to the visa situation, old, i will be on the agenda to day. okay. impact agenda now, while ukraine is making its advances in the east of the country, russia has launched fresh attacks around huck eve where you are and in central ukraine on presidents zalinski hometown. can you tell us more about those? indeed more strikes are happened overnight and that you. 2 russia keeps on saying it just targets military infrastructure is, but here from the ground, i can tell you that is not necessarily the case because here in how to cave last night, we had an explosion in this city center, and that was

a possibly coming from quite near because the air red alert system didn't even have time to get started. so we 1st heard the alarm and, and everybody rushed to the shelter. everybody in harkey, if we can do so would take shelter in. so she comes and says, because the city is just cod all over by buildings having been destroyed, having been shell this not the only place yesterday in their central or ukrainian city of cleary, which is also the native city of la demy zalinski, a dom and a reserve or are god damage to do it or it caused or floods across or does city. this is definitely damaged to in 1st churches and the damage is impacting civilians and other military. emma, thank you and do take care. that's in manual. shes in hockey. now the russian president vladimir putin and his chinese counterpart, gigi, and ping are to meet later today on the sidelines of the shanghai corporation organization summit. the meeting will take place in his breakfast on in the ancient

silk road city of samarkand. the summit will focus on regional security issues and is being touted as a challenge to west and global influence. it will be the 1st meeting between the russian and chinese leaders since russia invaded ukraine. the last time chinese president, she jin ping met russian president vladimir putin in beijing. he declared there were no limit to the friendship between the 2 superpowers. that was just days before russia invaded ukraine. don't you want to him to? since then, beijing has been largely silent about the kremlin war against its neighbour. other than saying that china supports peace talks about russia and china have also been making their deepening partnership planed to see for the rest of the world by conducting joint military exercises on land, air, and sea. china, for its part,

can count on russia's staying out of what it sees as its domestic affairs. most importantly, tensions over taiwan, which beijing regards as a break away province. beijing has been stepping up its military activities around the island in response to recent high profile visits to taiwan by senior us lawmakers, bullion. china continues to play an important indirect role in financing the kremlin war machine by supporting rushes, economy with increased energy imports. while russia has lost markets in the west. trade with china has sword by a 3rd this year. china has said president she and put in are working together to shape what beijing cause a more just world order. more on this, i'm joined by our china analyst clifford kane and welcome. clifford. this is president. she's 1st visit outside of china since the pandemic. why is this

something important for china? it's very interesting to someone used to be kind of a sleepy affair that people largely ignored. but now it's turned into this event, which is actually forging almost like a new world order. where we're seeing this use alliance of authoritarian states that are really trying to come together and show that they can provide an alternative to the sort of the western democratic norms, which just don't sit easily with their way of thinking. it's a big one for him because for she because it's his 1st visit since since cove is 1st foreign trip since cove it. and also the 1st time you'd be meeting vladimir putin since russian bated ukraine on a, on a lot of different, a lot of different fronts it's, it's a big meeting for him. just before the ukrainian invasion, the 2 leaders declared that were no limits to that. to that partnership is beijing support for moscow unconditional. i think i think beijing support for russia or

china support for russia is always going to be conditional. but for a long time, we've seen a sort of a vague support. it hasn't really been, it's been slightly equivocal. they've curity backed the invasion, but they haven't been very outspoken about it. but we recently had a visit by lee john choose that. at the 3rd, most important figure in the, in the communist party in china. and he said that the u. s. and nato threatened russia, it's home door, forced into a corner and said that china understood russia and would assist russia. so this is a very clear backing. so at this moment it looks like china is backing russia. however, that could change, given the current situation, the current military situation, nobody really likes to back a loser. and you know, things could be different, but in many ways it's a win win, because if russia wins than russian, china has a strong ally in europe. and if russia loses in ukraine, then russia effectively becomes a vassal state to, to beijing because it's, it's got these sort of strong economic ties that very briefly,

does all this suggest that china is essentially willing to sacrifice its relation relations with the west. in addition to fight with russia, when i think i'm trying to needs your western tech and it needs, it still needs western trade. on the other hand, china has been acting a lot more ideological than strategic in recent times. so it's very possible that it could decide to focus on this new grouping that we're seeing emerging in central asia and the current days china analyst clinic tenant. thank you. all right, let's take a look at some of the other stories that he needs around the world. now, germany says ukraine will need 350000000000 euros in funds for reconstruction once the war and economy minister will. but har back made the statement after meeting his ukrainian counterpart near berlin. he added that germany would continue to support ukraine with weapons to defend itself against russian aggression. like

typhoon wafer has lash china's density populated east coast after bringing strong winds and heavy rains to shanghai overnight. around 1600000 people were forced to leave their homes. but there have been no reports of casualties. the typhoon typhoon weakened to a tropical storm. as it moved up the coast, thousands of mourners, the lining up to pay their final respects to queen elizabeth the 2nd. the cue to see the coffin stretches more than 10 kilometers along the river thames prisons longest serving monica lyons stays in london's westminster hall for 4 days. officials expect 750000 people to file past before her funeral on monday. now sweden sent a left prime minister magdalena anderson has handed in her resignation following sundays, general election: anderson, social democratic party on their left. when coalition lost by a thin margin to the conservative blog that will be dependent on the far right.

sweden, democrats, a policy that has its roots and a near nazi movement in the 19 eighties and nineties. a turning point in swedish politics. magdalena, under sun concede, defeat in the conference parliamentary election box, maloney, your boast out, that will beaked. it looks like the 4 right wing parties have received just 50 percent of the votes in the election and in parliament. and they have a one or 2 seat advantage. that then majority. but it's a majority and minority colon. it's a major head to the prime minister, social democrats. they have govern sweden since 2014 and dominated the conference political landscape since the 19 thirty's. now this man will christa son, is expected to form a government. his blog includes the sweden democrats, a far right party,

that has vow to make sweden safe again by bringing in longer prison sentences and restricting immigration. people in the capitol reacted to the news of the blocks narrow when it's a sad sign of the times that we're living in that they can the pro fall of a cell on the scaring up to scare into people. would that the where it's on site to living suasion with the good old criminal some the old i through with is a sofa that on the face of i one of 2 percent of the people this way, most people i live a very, very, very secure life. so how to come will an election on that? it's ridiculous. there are a lot of big questions in our society today that day in some ways hasn't been address correctly. and i think a lot of people have been longing for a change. or even though that change, so sometimes means shifting the,

the clarity to the rights, in this case, they go back any the sundays vote was one at the closest elections ever. and sweden, thousands of overseas and postal boats were needed to get a clearer picture of who the winner was. however, a could take weeks to form a government and with that you are up to date. so next is dw business with my colleague stephen beardsley. he'll be taking a closer look at chinese russian economic ties. i'm and you can to the can and i'll be back at the top of the next hour with more international headlines. thanks for watching you work as an architect like go on.