this new culture. so you are not a visitor, not a guests. you want to become a citizen. in phil migrants, your platform for reliable information. ah ah, it's a d w. news live from berlin. germany's president travels to ukraine and gets a war zone reality check. franklin, the stein meyer experiences firsthand life under seed inside ukraine.

the german president is forced to take cover in a bomb shelter. also coming up at a major conference in berlin, world leaders vow to continue supporting the praying, including sharing the cost of rebuilding once the war is over. and a court in russia rejects an appeal, but in by american basketball star, brittany reiner against her 9 year prison sentence for possession and smuggling of drugs. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program, german president frank felt a shy meyer says that the berlin will support ukraine and stand by its people for as long as it takes, he was speaking during a surprise visit to ukraine. his 1st since russia invaded in february, stein meyer met with president volunteers lensky and keith mayor vitale. clinico.

he also saw for himself some of the reality of life in a war zone. the german president had been in ukraine for just a few hours when he experienced the reality of war. as he spoke with local officials in the another in town of carrack of car air raid sirens rang out with forcing his team journalists and the ukranian hosts to seek safety in a shelter. thus, this was a dark reminder of the conditions of the people here have to endure every day. mention you live in monterey and we had the opportunity to talk to 10 to 15 men and women from korea give care about these last 8 months of the russian war of aggression they deliver these, let's not more, not to this was as an under figures back in kiff may or vitale, cleats car gave stein my tour of the destruction caused by the latest russian airs,

tracks on the ukrainian capital. and the consequences for its residence is up with the street. lights are off because we are saving electricity. many regions now, phase blackouts, their goal is to make civilians freeze our winters. our cohen sometimes minus 20 or 31 fries of what my little growth real. and finally in the evening, ukraine's president welcomed stein mar into his office. where talks began in earnest. speaking at a news conference stand, my i sent a strong message of support is we are on your side. we support you and we will continue to support you. he cannot mclee politically, militarily, for as long as necessary, not the message that men ukrainians are eager to hear is russia's war in the

country takes yet another ugly turn in the cross. now to keyboard dw correspondent funding for char is standing by force, and i'd like to begin by asking you about activity on the front line, especially in her song, where there is a ukrainian counter offensive. are the russian forces preparing to hold the line after their recent withdrawal, but only to hold the line cetera. but they are attempts to actually break to break through those ukrainian positions as well. which clearly tells you our indicates that russia doesn't only want to be on the defensive, but actually mate kid, or slow down the ukrainian counter offensive there. and if you look at personal city, why 82 important strategically. why is it that fierce battle expected over the control of the city? we have to understand that he's been occupied by russia forces from early march,

so quiet pretty much at the beginning of this food, kit. evasion of questions actually have been proposed to the ukranian government by various people. why that was possible to take house from city from early on, that's something to be answered obviously wants is, war is over right now. the focus is a full ukrainian forces. how to liberate house one city, and obviously if that's going to happen, then they do have that's very important land cory door established again towards crimea with their next question, which would be too old to take on crimea something that ra, she's not just going to simply lead go off, there is a fierce battle accept expected over her so city and over the control of these. 6 very important regional capital of the region. tell us a little bit more about the ukranian counter offensive just more broadly speaking. funny because i mean the ukrainians. they have had the momentum in recent weeks. certainly just over the past couple of weeks, they have been able to liberate about

a 90 settlements at least death. the information be received here from the ukrainian government 90 settlement. this is on the west and part of the new per river because the way you have to imagine here has been region. it is being basically separated through the nipple river. so you have one part of the region on the west and back. the other part on the east, them bank and to the east and bank. this is where the russian forces actually moved thousands of ukrainians to expecting this a battle to o 22 to intensify of course in the next a couple of days. now the fact that ukraine is speaking about 90 settlement, of course we cannot verify these numbers. we cannot even tell you exactly what's happening in house and city right now, simply because it is not possible for international or even for local jolly's to axis. russia an occupied territory or link just a very limited way, even is it possible to access the ukrainian controlled part of house and region to everything that we can see at this point, that the battle over that important region and per se,

all of that capital of house in region has the city, namely, is going to take off quite some steam and a couple of days. and the question will be, who is going to actually take control over house and city about of course, thanks of thousands of civilians there. a bearing the brunt of the spiting from both sides, ukrainian on won and russian on the other side. you funny for char and keith, thank you so much. at a conference here in berlin, delegates from the world's leading economies have bow to fund the massive reconstruction that will be needed in ukraine after the war. the conference host at german chancellor, all off schultz said that the ground had been laid for a comprehensive plan to rebuilt the war is far from over, that the international community is already preparing the ground for reconstruction . hosting the conference in berlin, chancellor shalt said, now is the time to decide how to rebuild and how to pay for it. what is

a stake here? nothing less than creating a new marshal plan for the 21st century. a generational task that must begin now. the recovery reconstruction of modernization of ukraine will indeed be a challenge for generations. one that will require the combined strength of the entire international community. the region to tax on ukraine have marked a new low in this war. this was make alive southern ukraine on monday, playground and residential neighborhood, reduced to rubble by russian attacks has also been heavy damage to the power supply and the wave 2 buildings and streets in kids and to civilian targets like the shopping center in zappa region. joining the berlin conference by video link presidents,

lensky said billions would also be needed to balance the state budget in the coming year, ukraine's prime minister then it's me house said he's country needs between 3 and 5000000000 euros a month just to keep going. but he told the conference why international help make sense. we need this money to recover infrastructure immediately. to help us survive this winter to save the people from humanitarian, catastrophic. and to save the to be in continent from the immigration wave from the immigration to mommy. according to the world bank, the total bill for damage to ukraine's infrastructure will be $350000000000.00. the ukrainian government says it could be much more some worry about the lack of transparency when such amounts are discussed. that he, you commission president lafond line is taking a positive view. reconstruction linked with a dynamic work session process can function as a catalyst, as it was said today here,

for necessary reforms. and at the same time. and this is certainly true as a strong motivator to implement these reforms because there is a goal you want to go to and therefore you understand why you have to do these reforms. b, e a will support ukraine for as long as necessary from the lion said, help, likely to be worked billions every month. it is clear that the human cost of the war in ukraine is immense. the financial cost is also huge. and here's a look at some other stories making news around the world. britain's new prime minister richie sooner has appointed his cabinet snack has tapped jeremy hunt on and finance minister vowing to fix the case. economic crisis tonight has also re appointed to well above are men as interior minister, just days after she resigned from lose trust. and government id thus says that it is ending its partnership with american wrapper, k west over anti semitic remarks,

the german forth where a company called comment by the rapper, quote, unacceptable, hateful and dangerous. at least 6 organizations have distanced themselves from kind west and recent months. because of his controversial remarks, a cycle has had bangladesh killing more than a dozen people around 1000000 residents have been forced to evacuate. 10000000 people along the coast are without power. meantime, bangladesh and other countries in the region are regularly hit by cy clones. but research shows climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels is making such storms more intense and more frequent. must summit's house in sudden bungler dish has been badly affected by the flood. the water has still not completely defeated. she tries to protect what hath been left and damaged that ugly. we somehow managed to save our furniture from the water by creating a dam,

but some $200.00 worth of fish from our pond floated away. we are happy that at least no trees fell on the house like that, and i thought you will fit thank. tropical storm has left large swats of agricultural land under water. thousands of homes have been damaged fisheries washed away. millions are without bobo and many. i still beaten for help. the capital tucker is also flooded. tisha dr with have to push that away. he goes through the water boy gonna noodle the storms and the really, really struggle with kathy all the same thought in monday to get off. so it's very difficult to drive a trish also default is shouldn't country is prone to natural disasters? thank afy. climate change is making storms more frequent and destructive,

but people like mas somewhat fee, they have been left to faith, the devastation alone. tell us basketball star, britney griner has lost her appeal against her 9 year prison sentence in russia. griner was arrested at a moscow airport for being in possession of babe, cartridges containing cannabis oil. in february, the substance is banned and russia. brittany greiner appeared 5 video link from her prison south, her appeal more out of hope than any real expectation of success. but addressing what she called her honest mistake, she asked the court for leniency. i've been here almost 8 months and he was more severe. i'm less then. well, you do have to do with

all those in town to well, i grind his mistake was being caught with cannabis oil in her back age to moscow, airports back in february in august. she was sentenced to 9 years in jail for drug smuggling and possession. the backdrop to this, of course, is russia's war in ukraine. rhina, a us citizen, is one of the world's best basketball players. a 2 time olympic champion, a supporters consider her report in russia's political game. the us reiterated on school for her immediate, really nothing in the previous sentence, nothing in the result of today's appeal changes the fact that the united states government considers the screener to be wrongfully detain. this man could be grind as best hope of being set free. pick to boot a russian arms dealer serving

a 25 year sentence in the u. s. has reportedly been muted as part of a potential prisoner swap. russia, there were apparently unwilling to negotiate while growing his court process. no news. after the rejection of her repeal, shina was led away by prison. god should now be transferred to one of russia's notoriously harsh penal colonies to set the rest of her sentence. you're watching dw news up next. it is business news to stay with us. if you can for that in the meantime, i'm sarah kelly in berlin. thank you so much for watching a new tag, a this visual hotspots in germany, europe and the world d. w. travel extremely worth.