analyzed quite experts and critical thinking and not just another show. this is who the weekdays on the w ah ah, this is d w. news live from berlin, b e u agrees. fresh sanctions against russia after it's illegal annexations in ukraine. brussels promises a tough response with planned penalties for moscow to include a price cap on russian oil. meanwhile, ukrainian troops retake more territory as they advance against retreating russian

forces. president salenti says his troops have liberated dozens of towns in the past week and an hour pressing a counter offensive in both the east and the south. also coming up a nobel prize for 3 pioneers of click chemistry, the royalty dish academy of sciences, honors the trio for discovering a weight map molecules together. it's a technology that could help make cancer drugs more effective. ah time manuscripts, mckinnon. thanks so much for joining us. the european union has agreed to impose new sanctions on russia in response to the war in ukraine. these will include a cap on the price of russian oil exports. the security threat from russia is also on the table as members of the european parliament meet in strasburg. the commission president has told me peas,

that member states need to step up. the security of their energy infrastructure was left on the line. also said the e, you is now ready to discuss a price cap on gas prices. so alara's, spatial i. e correspondence jack power can brussels and max sunday in strasbourg. and i started by asking jack to tell us more about these new sanctions on russia. well, we know that there's going to be a legal framework has been prepared for this car cap, this price cap on russian oil. we don't know the details. we don't know how much is going to be kept up price wise, how long it's going to last, or indeed, how long it's going to work that will be published on thursday as part of the use official journal. but we do know that it has been approved, along with some other sanctions, including the binding of the you citizens sitting on the boards of russian companies for instance. and also some sanctions to try and prevent the existing 7 rounds of sanctions from being circumvented. what we do know though,

anna is that hungary has managed to carve itself out of this, this oil cap, this cap on russian oil prices. and we had a statement from the spokes person for the for ministry who said the new you sanctions don't. hom hungry is interests. they been granted exemptions. and those sanctions would have violated hungarian interests and endangered. the security of their energy supply hungry has been opposed to fossil fuel sanctions. pretty much says the beginning since they started being discussed after the invasion of ukraine . and now it seems that simply because it requires unanimity to impose sanctions, meaning all countries have to agree in order to move forward with them. the european union has realized that it just cannot have hungry involved. so they just exempt them by the looks of things. and moving on without the hungarians. all right, max, if i can. if tina, what's the european parliament's response to to russia, the legal annexations of ukrainian land right on. yes. other european

parliament hasn't adopted an official position on that yet. but from following the debates in the plenary today here in stock book, i gather the, the overall sentiment across groups, political groups and, and party lines is at the annexation of ukraine. territory by the russians is illegal, it's no and void. it doesn't mean anything else. but the further escalation of the war in the region is something that's a lawmakers here or the you should not tolerate having some strong, a mark, sierra in the plenary a, some lawmakers to, to the podium, to call russia a terrorist state. now the overall sentiment and i gather also is that they the majority of lawmakers, or if the thought all are in favor of sanctioned some political groups have called for even more the conservative group. the p p for example, is called for weapons deliveries for tanks. and artillery by russia and at troy by germany and france to go to ukraine, hashish that's something that should be done. and then we've heard from blair,

for example, that they're also asking, in addition to sanctions for diplomatic channels to be reopened, to also pursue a change on a diplomatic front. but overall, bottom line here is that the, the european parliament and you will not tolerate rushes claims to these territories in the ukraine. and that can, i also ask you and planning a patients made several hints about the use of nuclear weapons. what is the european parliament positional not by. that's correct. so the you some top diplomats are joseph morrell, spoken the plenary this morning and he called it a dangerous situation. he actually said it was a source of concern that a nuclear power was a retreating on the battlefields. and now that being said, it did not seem to be a top priority about among most or any piece here today in the debate actually spoke to one of the conservative a lawmakers on the sidelines of the debate and told me that he does not believe that there is any reason to, to believe that russia will use nuclear weapons in ukraine. that is because this

would symbolize defeat and conventional warfare. and also what he believes that us would have sent a very strong message already a telling russia to, to back off with nuclear weapons. jack, this is the 8 sanctions package since fed at february. how effective had the previous ones bein yeah, this is, this is the big question. the european commission present us lavonne the lions. she said that this package shows the fact that they've got it signed off shows that they've been able to work quickly and decisively as you say, there's over a 1000 people targeted with individual sanctions now as possible. these packages, broad sways, of the russian economy as well. the question is, it doesn't really look like they've had too much of an effect, right? the, the was continuing these referendum that being considered a sham by the west. they continued russian, i believed them to be land part of the russian federation. but the question is, what else can the european union do?

essentially there's a few ways you can try and, and a war one is diplomacy. another one is hard power entering the war yourself and know you countries want to do that and the other is sanctions. so that is that these are the options on the table and i think they're quite pleased that they've managed to get these sanctions signed off to day. and that's because later this week that the next 2 days of this week, we have a big summit in prague of e u. leaders, as well as leaders from the political community. this new european political community $44.00 leaders in total, going to be meeting in prague and what they didn't want was a battle royale on this 8 right. 8th friend of sanctions at the summit. so they're pleased that they have managed to get them signed off here in brussels with the ambassadors today. jack park in brussels and max under in strasburg, thanks so much. they said he or ukraine says its forces, have retaken towns in the south, and the east of the country, including parts of the regions that russia illegally annexed last week. officials installed by moscow have acknowledged setbacks in the her son region. a

correspondent mathias spelling of visited ukrainian troops in the south close to the front line. and despite looming fears of a cold winter, he found soldiers and residence optimistic about further gains. they are digging in. the soldiers have only recently moved forward to the new position. now they are fortifying their defenses, repairing, retrench it be more than 3 months now since ukrainian president volume is zalinski and ice cubes counter offensive. in the salt law, we are constantly trying to drive the enemy from various positions with these attempts have been successful column and we are moving forward. we now have new positions and we fortifying them. that is how we make a constant progress forward. you can shuttle from us booth for quite some time.

ukraine successes in the south have been less spectacular than those in the north east of the country. but recently the army has been able to make significant gains down south as well. no koreans are convinced that their tactics are more efficient and also more sustainable and the russians there. but that doesn't mean moving forward as a walk in the park. when the law elizabeth these it, they just keep aggressively charging at us. when else they don't care about their own losses, garage and you get the impression that i just don't give a damn about their soldiers. that a couple of their tactics are simple. it's easy to read them yet. but for us, this means that we have to be permanently on watch was video. we can never, ever lower our guard. we sector, this is paula. this is all this like the highly behind the lines, villages have come under fire. russian forces passed through this settlement early

on in the war. later, they were driven back. but since the territory has been back on the ukrainian control missions, shells have been falling all over the place. believe british lloyd, that the in the beginning, when i 1st experienced an incoming fire and there were explosions everywhere, i thought it would brought my house. i left the time. but when i heard that things had come down a bit, i came back. i repaired the roof because it started raining. then i decided to stay on stars. russia has seen tremendous losses of personnel and equipment. that's why president putin has started mobilizing or troops. but the soldiers here are com, but the prospect of more russian reinforcements when i'm offered nebraska call could you think a draft, whoever they wanna. and however many they want on youth, but the ro, morales, and the opinion of the locals towards them will not allow them to relax. jim, that is, will i have with the the slot?

but now the soldiers are preparing for winter, hoping that they can gain as much territory as they can for as long as the conditions allow it. also they will not ok time to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. the european union says it may impose tough new sanctions on iran. it's crack down on anti government demonstrations protests and spread to universities and schools. as women and girls demand an end to oppression, the unrest was triggered by the death last month. the women in police custody the opec plus oil cartel has agreed to a major cussing oil output in order to profit prices. after meeting in vienna, on wednesday, the world's top oil producers decided to cut production by 2000000 barrels a day from november. now the move comes despite western countries concerns about energy, fuel inflation, in the family of a cinematographer, who was shot and killed by the us actor,

alec baldwin on the set of the film ross has agreed to settle their lawsuit. the family was suing baldwin and the films produces for wrongful death production is now set to review on the project. in january of the nobel prize and chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists for their advance is in click chemistry, which allows molecules to be snapped together like pieces of lego. the panel of judges in sweden praised the scientists for crate, creating, quote, an ingenious tool for building molecules. the process could have important applications in treating and diagnosing diseases like cancer. carolyn petrol. c at stanford university in the us. more to melville at the university of copenhagen and denmark, and barry sharpness at scripps research was celebrated with the world's most interested just prize and chemistry. thank you so much. ah,

all of you. i'm absolutely stunned. i'm. i'm sitting here. i can hardly breathe. i'm so la not entirely positive that it's real, but it's getting really by the minute the 3 scientists work is all about building blocks. that these blocks are slightly more complex than lego. sharpness found a way to collect 2 molecules together to make new materials. he was the 1st to come up with the idea of click chemistry more than 20 years ago. copper dramatically accelerates these click reactions. that was melville's discovery. when the focus shifts to human cells, copper isn't such a desirable way to connect molecules patrols. he found out sugar structures called lichens, make molecules stick to cells. this means the pathways of drugs can be illuminated to trace their effectiveness for the material. so you have this possibility of sort of modify materials to put to kili. can you activate the song, them, you can have a surface and suddenly you say i want this to be on the bacterial and on your click

on that surface compound, the filter works against bacteria. so, or you want something that sort of takes up some light and on your so drove, you click a molecule like that on, on the surface. so it's already here and there is a lot, a lot of big interest from the industry. also in this area. the scientists work has contributed a wealth of research to the study of diseases including drug development advances in dna sequencing and a new amine therapy for cancer space. x has successfully launched a raucous into earth's orbit carrying a full person crew bound for the international space station. the rocket lifted off from the cape canaveral laurent sized in florida. the crew includes 2 nasa astronaut, the japanese astronaut and a russian cosmonaut was the 1st trouble under a new agreement between the u. s. and russia. the deal allows mix to us in russian cruise to travel to the i assess

a board each nation's spacecraft. they make their way down the crew access. are you watching the w news coming up next in the w news, asia girls education held hostage in afghanistan. young women refused to be silenced by the taliban. and the daily struggle of a 20 year old afghan, who says she feels under constant surveillance from the state. all that and more coming up next in d w. 's asia. it's my colleague, ben, and i'm a new cook. mckennan. thanks so much for watching d. w a and the poor of stick to society. a symbol of arbitrary rule tool in the struggle for justice taxes.