this project that became a major milestone in their lives. so can i school starts or to work on d w? ah, ah ah, this is d w. news lived from berlin, russia, withdrawals its troops from a key ukrainian city to avoid being surrounded. ukrainian officials say their soldiers have now entered the town of lemon. a development being viewed as a major defeat from moscow. also coming up coolly does in booking a fossil claim,

the ousted president is hiding on a french bass plotting a counter offensive. meanwhile, people take refuge in the capitol after gunfire is heard. and it is a bad day for the teams of the top of the boom to sleep, a leader or noon berlin lose for the 1st time while don't one fail to capitalize as they slip up in cologne. ah, i manuscript, mckinnon. thanks for being with us. the russian defense ministry says it has pulled out its troops from the strategically important town of lemon in easton, ukraine, and keith says its soldiers have now and to the city lemon. as in the done yet, sc region, one of 4 that russian president vladimir putin proclaimed to be part of russia on friday. the recapture of lemon bi ukrainian troops is part of a white,

a counter offensive that has seen ukraine retake. significant amounts of territory in the east and off are responded. nick connelly joins us now from the ukranian capital. keith. hi, nick. now, moscow says its troops will withdrawn from this ukrainian town of lemon. what does it mean for ukraine's continued advance against russia? first of all, this is russia putting on a very brave face and what is a pretty bad dia? it's to events just a day off that big event in the kremlin ho celebrations, claiming that these regions include internet's. well, the monies are now part of russia forever. and i think they definitely didn't leave in any kind of orderly fashion. there was one root out left and basically, given that there now, at the russian leadership has forbidden its troops from hennington, observing to be a becoming presence war. they had to take that road and we've seen images of lots of dead russian souls, lots of destroyed russian transport vehicles as to what this does for you grants

position? well, it's basically the north western entry point to don. mass is not far from place, like 7 minutes. can you see chance? which if you remember in the summer with the scenes of pretty awful and protracted fighting, russia invested thousands, not hundreds of thousands of its soldiers lives. and a lot of results in to capture those towns. and now ukraine seemingly has a fairly good chance of taking them back in pretty short time. so basically, you, grace on push home. it's advantage while it still on a roll, while those russian mobilized, newly mobilized forces, haven't reached the front lines in any major sense and tried to put more pressure on to moscow to show that it really can make good on these claims. that it is now. you know, taking control of these regions that it is there for ever so far. we've not seen anything from russia that really strength of positions. in spite of all the kind of rhetoric all the upping the ante or the threats of nuclear weapons. nothing really has changed for russia except the rhetoric. now we are getting reports of another attack on a civilian evacuation envoy in ukraine. what more can he tell us about that?

were since very awful images from near coupons, which is the east of had give region cars that have been destroyed, shot through some burnt out, the ukrainian officials from the region say that those cars shot at from very close range. so assuming you know optional, this was a mistake of any kind, and it's now believed that these both lost their lives last weekend. so bad news, 76, some days ago. and it was in the mail today that they were found there. basically the gray zone between the ukrainian and russian front lines and which is very dangerous places for them to be blossomed as no mobile phone network, no phone connection, people can't get any information about where to go, where safety is. and we seemed time time again, civilians basically refusing to leave the homes until it's basically too late until the shooting is near them. and then when they tried to get stacy often enough, these kind of trudges tend to happen. i think that the kind of expectation energy is unfortunate that is not really the last of these from scenes that we see from

that bottom current. thanks so much for that. next ethnic connelly reporting from keith. okay, let's take a look at some of the other stories that making news around the world. danish officials say the north stream to pipeline is no longer leaking natural gas into the baltic sea prussia and the damaged pipe has now stabilized according to its operators. even leaders describe the damage as sabotage, an asset to discuss infrastructure security at a summit in prague later this week. vote counting is underway in latvia, the former soviet states general election has been overshadowed. i've overshadowed by russia's invasion and the annexation of parts of ukraine. exit polls suggest that the ruling centrist party, which has committed to backing keith, is in the lead ethnic russians make up a quarter of the countries. 1.9000000 population. brazil's presidential hopefuls have held their final rallies ahead of elections. this sunday, concern over widening inequality has boosted leftist former president, who is in

a funeral at a silver. he's pulling well ahead and right wing incumbent jaya bolton arrow is being blamed for economic woes that have driven many into severe poverty. now between a fast those military officers who toppled the countries leader put on the dunbar just one day ago, say that he is running a counter offensive in a televised to transfer the army said to me, but has taken refuge at a french military base. and that's the plane, france is denying a group of soldiers, overthrew not dominga an officer who himself took power in a qu, in the west african nation. last january. captain abraham tal, they declared himself the nation's new leader on friday in a cru that's been condemned by the united nations and the african union. and journalist henry wilkins joins us now from the capital. wanted to go,

henry welcomed the army offices who seized power, se the top of leader pool, only dummy by is now plotting a counter offensive. can you give us any more details about this? is not beyond the realm of possibility. certainly we know that the 2 power yesterday don't have full control of the army. there's been helicopters circling the center of why the new leader in trying to interviews on the radio today. where he has said to the, the helicopters, that the military helicopters have been circling the, the city to know belong to, to him and are under his control of that. he also mentioned that there have been exchanges of gunfire between different fractions within the, the army today as well. so it's, it's pretty clear that he doesn't have full control of the situation at the moment

. so it is quite possible that to me, but could be trying to capitalize on that. so the army claims the me there is hiding at a french base. france is denying any involvement in all of this. is it likely that france is helping the ousted leader? this something is very unlikely to be honest it's, i don't have a long standing relationship with to me, but it would be huge. p r. disaster for them. if i could, since they, they said in a statement this afternoon, they have absolutely nothing to do with this. and they're not sheltering. if it then turned out that they, that they were, it would have all sorts of implications for their operation here in the, in the western. so hell, i just really can't see them taking that kind of risk. now as we said, reports have more gunfire in the capital. why do they, why you are so it's obviously not getting any comma and now is it despite the kind of heat? yeah, i mean, because he doesn't come into effect until 9 pm tonight,

but i joy around the center of the city earlier this afternoon. and you know, there are still soldiers blockading laws of the center of government buildings and saw yesterday they soldiers looked fairly remarks today. very different they were hiding behind cover. they had the guns pointed at the rate as if they were expecting an attack at any moment. people were closing their business is that there was a real powerful sense of tension and even fear in the city today. john left henry wilkins reporting from one to 2. thanks so much. actually. oh, some wonderfully good news for you now and surprise package when you and berlin suffered death 1st league defeat of the season at frankfurt on sunday. now, this ended an unbeatable run dating back to last season. the home side got off to

a good start. my gut says school from close range to put the eagle, the head when you had lost their 2 previous matches at frankfurt, and yes, the lindstrom helped to make this their 3rd defeat. he doubled frankfurt fleet minutes before the break, giving them a to no victory. but union do remain in 1st place. so now dorman could have overtaken a new one at the top of the table, but they slipped up in cologne. the home side scored 3 2nd half goals to and himself, the 3 to to victory now dampened the mood for dornan's english midfield, a jude bellingham is the clubs youngest ever captain in the bundle slager. jude bellingham was on coin toss duties for the 1st time in a dormant church. he took the captain's arm bands in the absence of the injured mock, her royce and matched her moles. and the 19 year old lead from the front as dormant went ahead with just over half an hour gone. bending on with the searching

run inside row pass, union branch did the rest. so far so good for dormant. the things would change dramatically in the 2nd half on 53 minutes lynton mine across to florian kites. he made it run all. not the start to the half dormant had in mines minor, had time and space to pick out his pass. and trains was in the right place. then 3 minutes later, a quarter from the right. stephanie tickets header. and the hosts were in france. all too easy for cologne, who turned the game on its heads. they saved at best goals the last day on liberty with the cutting shops that gave colona to go cushion with just under 20 minutes to play some breathing space. the coach stiffened, bound guards, and though dormant pulled one back soon after courtesy of a penis. schmidt's own go. the host held on for a well deserved victory. cunningham's

1st game as dormant captain ends in defeat, his i left to think what might have been as take a listen to what daltons jude belin had to say after the defeat. i think we saw the 2nd aussie paula. i think we can say to the 2 goals and change the whole company complex to the game. and soon as the guy flip that to on we didn't really do enough to get ourselves back in the game. they're making for a while and accomplishing so. so then we get to look at all towards the end, even though we are wide by chances. and you know that there were a savvy that knew how to win the game. and i got hello, this is see melissa, and now look at while this is going on in the going to sleep on that day. 8 fryeburg have climbed to 2nd after they beat mites team of van n, cuz christopher and pu both scored 2 goals. a piece for our b, like thing against bull home on friday by and, and did a 4 game one to speak

a windlass st by beating lever, cozen and breyman. and then she got a playing right now. and there are 2 more matches coming up on sunday. and now we can check out some of the other stories from the world of sports in the woman's bundis league. felicitous now was among the goals score as, as wolf berg beat. leave a cruise in 61 of the when sees the wolves move 3 points clear at the top of the league as they learn to defend their title? rivals by a unit can close the gap when they play on sunday. ferrari's charlotte clack will be on pole for the singapore graham. pre his 9th pole from 17 races this season championship lead max rushed up and only managed 8th of the he was forced to abort . his final lack. the red bull driver needs to win the rice. if he's to punch the title, if we can't play canada's dennis shap of the law of his through to the final of the korea open after a straight sets victory over jensen brooks,

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that russian forces have withdrawn to avoid being surrounded. limon is part of the territory illegally annexed by russia on friday. watching d. w. news coming up next for force of profiles, ludovic, a gay mom who's campaigning for more tolerance of the l. g b t q, community in islam. and for more international news headlines, remember our website is d, w dot com and i'll handle the social media is at dw, i my nick hips mckenna, thanks so much for working with me. oh, what people have to say it matters to us. m. that's why we lose.