ah ah ah this is d, w is life from burn lane, ukrainian forces make advances in the south after russia announces its withdrawing from the key city of hast song. but cave warned moscow could be prepared in preparing to turn herself into a city of death. also on the program, u. s. president joe biden sets off for the you and climate change summit in egypt

as his country face is mounting pressure to start leading the fight against global heating. think that the was mean a full climate justice and what time in leadership means, money investment in fossil fuel infrastructure and netflix releases its latest installment of the crown, the show chronicling the lives of the british royal family. but how wise is it to mixed article fact with dramatic fiction? ah, i'm show gail. welcome to the program, ukrainian forces appear to be closing in on the strategically important southern city of cas on a day after russia said it was withdrawn from the area. cave says it has re taken more than 40 settlements and that if moscow's retreat happens,

full recapture of the region is likely to take at least a week. as russia still has at least 40000 troops. little scoop of moving closer to the city of her son. the ukrainian flag is flying again in dozens of small towns around the regional capital. over instantly her rifka about 50 kilometers north of her son. people gather to thanks soldiers as they enter the city. but not every one here shares their sense of euphoria whose and it's still very, very scary. when you drive through the region, you see how many villages have been bombed with her so much destruction of our school is destroyed and not a single window with lie. all the buildings are shattered. we all know there's wood . for the 1st time since moscow launched its invasion in february, guns have fallen silent in this village close to the front line. this man

who has been living on humanitarian aid for months, has only just heard of the liberation of neighboring cni horrific renewal. only with below referrals signal, there's no food or nothing there. i was aimlessly people who were there right now told me they have no food or nothing. look, we'll do. we have to bring them food glitches. wally been seen. those who have survived the shelling are wondering how they will make it through the winter. with oh, we've had no water supply since the end of february. they are bringing us drinking water to a school. we can bring water from a nearby well with our tractor, but it's not really drinkable here, the 2 sides keep volleying rocket at each other. so no hurry, yesterday i was removing leaves and right behind this building it was terrible. the

battle went on with machine guns for weeks. ukrainian forces have been advancing on her son. it's loss would leave russia with few territorial gains since the beginning of the war. as join our correspondent nick connelly in the cranium capital. welcome, nick. how far is ukraine from completely me taking a class on city and region? well, as usual, fill the ukrainian military authority to keeping pretty tight lipped about the kind of occupational situation on the ground. we heard from the defense minister with that prediction about it taking a week. but, you know, given the kind of very nervous and sometimes in panicked kind of messages, reports were getting from pro kremlin military bloggers over the last few hours of the night. which seems to just as a kind of total collapse in russian morale and russian logistics in and around can san. but the command has taken all the kind of big equipment bits of kit away to the other bank of the river,

the kind of anti aircraft defenses. basically leaving lots of the russians, they are very vulnerable to ukrainian artillery and drone attacks. this could end up going foster of c will remember that the ukrainians have been very nervous and rich days. but this might have been a trap, some kind of provocation to your, the ukrainians in and then see them face pretty stiff resistance from kind of some of the better trained russian units. that doesn't seem to be the case right now. it doesn't seem like the russians were able to plan this well to, for all of kind of the russian commands announcement that this was a planned and coordinated withdrawal. it seems like this is actually turning into a bit of a route. and what are ukranian troops finding us a liberate settlements? finding lots of mine's lots of booby traps. here we've had widespread reports of looting by the russian troops leaving. and if the reports are kept solid to believe, there's also been methodical and kind of planned attempts to destroy the civilian infrastructure and hats on to basically leave ukraine with

a destroy city. so we've heard about mobile phone infrastructure, or even things like that kind of sewage system and the power system being destroyed . so for the people who left a house on it's important, remember that there are comparatively few people still left there because lots of left of the recent months. and most recently, in the last few weeks, they've been kind of put under pressure by the russians to move into russian controlled territory. on the other bank of river, this is going to be a very, very difficult place for civilians to survived winter. and is this really of a pivotal moment in this conflict? all the merely symbolic well, you're right in the sense that this isn't the 1st major defeat the russians are faced in recent months, hearing grain. we'll remember what happened in fact given in or out had give early on in the autumn. it is important because it means basically russia now cannot cut ukraine off from the sea, from its ports that attempt to kind of take that back the coastline is now essentially over. i think the big deal is about the kind of internal russian story . if it turns out that russia isn't able to protect some of its best troops or,

and if it's on and bring them out in a kind of controlled fashion. if you know these claims of a kind of plant withdrawal turn out not to be realizable, and lots of russian soldiers end up feeling like that they've been basically thrown to their and their left their devices kind of thrown to their fates by their command. that could, you know, or buy something much worse in terms of the kind of broader morale and russia's ability to dig in on the other bank of the river. here the plan seemingly is to kind of dig in on the eastern bank of the river and try and hope that ukraine kind of runs out of steam, loses the kind of economic war. and it's western part and stop putting pressure on key of to come to come some kind of negotiated settlement. but now, right now, if these reports are to believe to from that song, then the russian military leadership is really not doing well at communicating with its own people and offering them some kind of hope that this is award that russia can win in some form. thanks for that, nick connelly in case we get to

more on this remark. mike martin, he's a senior visiting research fellow at the department of war studies at kings college london and the former british army officer. i welcome back to dw mike and what's your assessment of the way rushes handling this withdrawal? so it is important to note a withdrawal, particularly one on the fire. so retreat is, is probably the most difficult military maneuver to conduct russia hasn't done. i mean, as we heard in your package, i don't think taking well, easy, don't announce withdraws beforehand. so we saw that from the defense minister in the head of the russian forces in ukraine. and it appears that not all of the units are told, some of the units that were able to cover. so are you in add? events were pulled out and, and there are reports now up to $1015.00 or $20000.00 russian soldiers on the wrong bank of the river. and some of the crossing points being shelled by ukraine

as well. so it's not been a particularly well executed plan from the russians. ok, so what happens then once the russians withdraw to the other side of the pro river, of a sort of dig in there, or is this, is that going to be more withdrawal? so over the last month or so, the russians have been building defensive lines on the other side of the they built, excuse me, 3 sets of defensive lines and a position to artillery to enable them to fire over. i think actually the rush is trying to do is set up for winter. so winter's coming is about a month left of a fighting really and, and what they're doing is they're hoping that with this withdrawal they will be able to settle for the winter. and then do something in the spring, right? so, so the idea of a ukrainian route across that in a pro that, that's unlikely because this is where the russians are likely to make their stand.

it's a quite wide at that point in the pro is, is at point 5 miles wide, but even even in the city is quite a wide river. so if i were ukraine, i would not be attempting a river crossing under fire. i think it's important to know much further to the east, the ukrainians already said sort of that region direction ukrainians already over the river. so if they were looking to make advance russian territory from where they've already cross the river, given the symbolic and strategic importance of her on city, do you think russia is likely to try to recapture it? so they may have the intent to do that. i think the question is, do they have the capability at the beginning of the war they managed to capture her son because, i mean, they did it in the 1st couple of days of the war, allegedly,

some of the ukrainian civilian administrators switch sides to take it once the ukrainians, back in there, and doug across the river, i think it's going to be very difficult for either side to get across that river. right. and then of course, the lots of people are saying, this is a great victory for the ukrainians. but i mean, trying to, to what you think about this, is this russia performing badly, or is this ukraine using western weapons? well, it's both, and, you know, russia has performed very poorly since the beginning of the war both in terms of what we see now, the sort of basic execution of military tactics. but also they haven't been very good at supply. and their morale has been very, very low. the ukrainians, on the other hand, have had a fairly clear, realistic strategy that competent in the way they execute military maneuvers. and

of course they are well supplied, not just western weaponry which of course is very important, but actually. ready western intelligence, there's a lot of western targeting intelligence is given to the training that enables them to target russian forces and units effectively. as great, thank you so much for joining us. i'm mike martin from the shortest king's college london. so i started making headlines around the world, police officer has died and another's been injured in a knife attacking brussels. the suspected attack was shot after the stabbing and taken to hospital belgian anti terrorism. prosecutors have taken over the investigation, australia's and pace of raised concerns after cyber criminals attack the largest health insurance, medi bank, stating $9700000.00 customer records, including those of the countries prime minister for the data on the dark web,

exposing details of abortions, drug addictions, and other sensitive health issues after medi bank refuse to pay a ran site, that has been divers, have found a 6 meter section of the space shuttle challenger. off the coast of florida. the spacecraft exploded shortly after its launch in 1986 killing. all 7 astronauts on board, nasa now deciding whether to recover the wreckage for days, italy's refuse to allow people to leave several migrant rescue ships off the italian coast. one of the vessels, the ocean viking was carrying passengers been at sea for weeks. now frances agreed to accept the 230 people on board and criticized italy's new right wing government for refusing to do so. it's been an odyssey of hardship for the passengers of the ocean. viking, over 200 migrants, including 57 children, rescued from mediterranean waters and brought to europe's doorstep by the charity s

o s military money. for days they waited off the coast of italy for permission to dock permission that never came. finally, france agreed to let them dock in the military port of 2 long. in the meantime, french maritime authorities evacuated passengers and crew with health issues. thea helicopter italy recently granted access to 3 other ships carrying migrants. rome said a 4th vessel would be too much. but france had horse words for italy in very little he did it. the new italian authorities have made the incomprehensible choice to not respond to multiple calls for assistance addressed by the ship over the past days. even if it was an uncontested lee in italy's search and rescue zone as on dorshek, there is no doubt. however, in terms of international law and maritime law,

y'all did that. it was italy's duty to immediately designate a port to welcome this boat to parker. yes. about to while tensions between european nations over immigration are common. the outspoken response from paris is unusual and it hasn't stopped at mere words. france is pulling out of a deal to take on over $3000.00 asylum seekers from italy and has vowed to beef up at security on the italian border. as for the over 200 migrants aboard the ocean viking, they will stay in europe some in france, others in germany, and a wait asylum processing. are you as president ger biden's on his way to egypt to attend the cop 27 climate summit where he is expected to push for support from corporations to help poor countries? tackle the climate crisis united states as well. second, the biggest pollutant the by the administration has been focal about the need to combat global warming by working with the private sector. the rest congress

recently passed a $369000000000.00 package that aimed to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent, by the end of the decade. partly by giving clean energy tax incentives to u. s. companies. and this week in shaw mel. shake u. s. climate amvoy at john kerry and i'm the creation of an international private sector supported cobb, an offset initiative to help poorer countries accelerate their transition away from fossil fuels. here's the climate cry, does it just red infrastructure or threaten our economy or threaten our security? it threatens every single aspect of our lives on a daily basis. we, the developed countries, we, the largest economy in the world. the 2nd largest emitter have a special responsibility to less developed nations, to 3rd world,

to the south. and we need to do and we'll do what is necessary to help make sure that this is a just transition. as john kerry, let's get more from her beatrice christopher from d. w. 's, environment desk. welcome to the studio u. s. delegations have attended numerous climate. so research in the last decade. is there anything different about their approach this year? yeah, the, as the top looter, the u. s. has been going to the summit and has always been making promises. but this is the 1st time that they have significant climate legislation that it can point to back home. because earlier this year, president joe biden signed into law the inflation reduction act, which includes a $369000000000.00 package to tackle climate change. so some of this money, for example, would go to tax incentives for renewable energy technologies like wind and solar.

and analysts say this could cut emissions by 40 percent by 2030. but critics say that still not enough, because the official us target is a 50 percent cut. right. okay, and we, herbert usaa void climate. and by john kerry there, he's introduced a plan to raise cash for climate action in the developing world. just give us your take on that. and it's a very controversial plan because it proposes a voluntary market where companies can buy carbon credits and to offset their greenhouse emissions. and then this money would go to poor nations that even though they don't pollute very much, they've been at the forefront of the climate crisis. i mean, just look at the floods and pakistan that have displaced notions of people. so then the idea is that does money would help them kind of transition to cleaner energy to cleaner economy. but critics, they is just giving companies away to pay someone else to, to stop polluting,

instead of the companies themselves, cutting their emissions and the discipline of confusing a week or so for people who are, who are watching the climate crisis. because last week we had the u. n. a telling us that that we have virtually no chance of meeting these climate goals. and now we have called 27 way, where leaders fly in from all over the world were on cop 27 and we appear to be on a drumming to 1.5 degrees celsius compared to pre industrial levels. the way that we're going right now, the way that we're burning fossil fuels right now. we're headed to a temperature, right? that's yearly double that. so yeah, critics have been saying that these climate, some of these carbs, there are nothing more than green washing events, where leaders can come into their own horn and make empty promises that never materialized. but at the end of the day they do keep the spotlight on the climates . i mean, we're talking about it right now, are we because of that? and hopefully it also forces at least incremental change. ok,

thank you so much for joining us. beatrice beatrice christopher. from our environment, thank you. now to afghanistan, where the taliban rulers have imposed yet more restrictions on women this time banning them from jim's and parks since seizing power in august last year, the taliban have introduced a set of laws that are slowly erasing women from public life. hundreds of visitors used to flock to this park every day. but a recent decision by the taliban to ban women from this space has put an end to the family fun. hello to day my grand child was crying and asking me to take her to the city park, but they didn't let us in. now she's so disappointed and we're just going back home about this. when this place opened up in cowboy 8 years ago, it was hailed as a milestone. the country's 1st ever amusement park offered a rear in her team,

an option to families, to taller bonds latest been has upset many women who say that day to should have the right to entertainment. because it's not fair to close the parks for women, because men and women both need entertainment as well. that if the women stay at home and do the chores course, they will get depressed. they must visit a park once a week. the an entertainment is ever citizens, right. the act, both men and women, smart, dishonest, amusement park operators are finding out the hard way without women. there's nobody to take children here to go on these rights. them or body on that we've been new. we've lost 90 percent of our customers that are most of the income was from the families. every family is living in a small house like a prisoner. they used to visit the park at least once a week. and another thing is that if we cannot have income, we cannot get our expenses off on. we have around $250.00 people working here with

us and electricity tax and salary sky. we can't cover our expenses anymore on we don't have any other option. but to close the park on the top on see the ban was introduced because of a failure to adhere to gender segregation rules at parks. while the scope of the crackdown is still not clear. it's yet another set back for a fun women's right. a or is walden for yes, in saudi journalist, jamal cash, oak g was murdered in the kingdoms consulate in istanbul. since then, his fiance had teaching genghis has been fighting to bring his killers to justice. this week she brought her campaign to bully. you. a teacher jenkins has a clear message for the world to me. this cra, dad, y e n t o

n e o n lo. for years, she's been fighting for justice for her fiance, jamal kashodi. she who is killed at the saudi consulate in istanbul, and 2018 for changes. the response from the west has not been enough. is that an energy crisis has made things worse. several leaders met with the crown prince of the energy rich kingdom this year. even though he allegedly ordered the murder of cushion she, i am as very disappointing because it has been for years. there's no real accountability. there is no real consequences and killers are seal free, but changes isn't going to give up. despite the disappointment, she wants to continue raising awareness. it is m kind of, just as for me to repeating the same story and seeking justice for jamal and for

others. and remind people how dangerous dis administration. i mean. so uribe, our current administration hall, they deal with this kind of am causes or a cases for memories may not always be easy to recount, but they also give her the strength to carry on. oh, the much anticipated season 5 of the british drama. the crown was released on netflix this week. the popular series chronicles the life and times the british monarchy under the night, queen elizabeth and its latest season is the most controversial yet. oh, royal struggles damage to the countries. reputation of winter should be binding the nation together setting an example of idealized family life in 19 nineties and the british will, family is on the strain. is my behavior,

this threatening survival view as future king have a duty marital discord, public descent? it's been under fire at windsor, castle 12 months had through it all. the queen manage her family and the reputation of the royal brand. in this feast outing. the series created by peter morgan, it mel the staunton takes over the monarch. what peter morgan does is try to make people understand like what is like if i to be a member of the royal family or you have to put a face on whatever's going on behind closed doors. there's a lot going on. dominic west betrays the now king, then prince of wales, charles, it's a time of his life that was, you know, not only the prime of his life, but also in many ways the most difficult time his life. and i felt that i felt enormous evergreen symptoms for him, but the one condition,

the crown is no stranger to criticism, but this season has come under particular fire critics. a. the mixture of historical fact and dramatized fiction could prove confusing even damaging to the royal it stars disagree feels it's all about iraq. i think peter is always written right with the idea of gathering every, every on a fair hearing. and i'm and i love the guy and i like the way i could have done it without them. everyone's watch the counter for ccs. both of them before whatever you use the crown season. summer is a drama, perhaps emotional rollercoaster that makes by nail biting binge watch. how did it come to? this is a reminder of our top story of this. our new crane says it's forces of retaken. 41 settlements in the hands on the region which russia annexed illegally in september . moscow announced a withdrawal if it's true,

some kind of sun city on wednesday. ukraine hasn't yet confirmed withdrawal, but if true, it would mock up, one of russia's was setbacks. in this i think you're up today, i'll have more well news at the top of the our to the point is coming up next, looking at q. s. support for you crime. following the midterm elections have a good day with with

ah, to the point of strong opinions, clear positions, international perspectives. ukraine depends on us weapons, wages, counter offensive, now prompting russia to withdraw from the key city of thought. well, american support to continue. if republicans will more power in congress,

find out on to the to the point to the point next, w. a busy week in a bonus week. i thought frankfurt continues to impress, trouncing hoffen high and underlining its ambition. while who new berlin is unlucky, wandering victory against all we're allowing byron pull away kick in 60 minutes with the criteria came up with an increasing number of women in latin america. i'm

guessing fed up fighting against sexism by you. and i says to abortion, how effective or protest on the street with dogs, november 25th on d, w. ah, ukraine is vitally dependent on us weapons as it wages the counter offensive that now appears to be prompting russia to withdraw from the key provincial capital of her son. will americans support continue if republicans wheeled more power in congress or will they rally once again around america 1st.