but with children's journey around stuart to join ah ah, this is dw is lying from berlin, a bloody battle for control in eastern ukraine. the head of russia, wagner mercenary group, says they have taken complete control of the town of sola dar ukrainian. president zalinski rebuts the claims and says finding is still going on. meanwhile, bolan's president tells lord and re zalinski his country is willing to supply

ukraine with leopard battle tanks. the statement adds to pressure on western allies to boost their support with more heavy weapons and german police move and on climate activists, evictions have begun in a village slated for demolition to make way for coal. mining activists say the plans would demolish germany's climate goals. ah, i'm the cough really thank you so much for joining us. tonight. new crane's president, bullet m, as the lensky has rejected, claims by russian mercenary forces. they have taken control of the eastern town of sola. dar keeps as fighting is still going on. the kremlin has not officially confirmed the capture, but has spoken of a quote positive dynamic taking the town in the eastern don bass region would likely put russia on track to encircling neighboring boot,

which had been trying to capture for months. now another salvo launch at ukrainian trenches in their muslim campaign to take the city of batman. russian forces have concentrated their fire power on the nearby town of solid or they are claiming progress. others in your mostly just airborne units have blocked solid are from the northern and southern parts of the city. what russia's air force is targeting and m strongholds, storm troops are fighting in the city. the assault is led by the wagner group. mercenaries under the command of putin at i, yet gainey for goshen progression has released this picture of him in assault minor solider and claims that the town is surrounded. but ukraine denies that solid ice lost and points to rush and losses of them a bunch more up. so we see an absolutely irresponsible to put it mildly, attitude of the russian elite toward their military personnel before they die there

by the thousands. was a whole lot of blood, a lot of artillery jewels, a lot of contact combat does it, especially and solid are to day full of that. is that when that list is the hottest point in the war today for the new the ukrainians, amounting a stiff resistance here. and german supplies how it's a, it's battering russian positions before shifting location, shoot and scoot along a slow moving front line. but among the pretty much the deadly impact of such high precision strikes is captured by a drone used by ukrainian soldiers and solider to acquire targets. russian unit comes under fire and is forced to withdraw after heavy losses. a term in to fight for every inch of territory will pay a high price for any progress, a good battlefield. over the years,

the borrowers who grew up with russia apparently making gains in the battle for the town of solid. are we asked dw correspondence on you found a car for the latest news with the ukrainian military says that the fight for solider is continuing. it says it forces are very much holding out and that they're putting up a stiff resistance. but of course, defense, official fuel have acknowledged the intensity of the fighting incident are, you know, they've called it a challenging and of a difficult situation. we're also seeing a lot of images on ukrainian social media about the ongoing fighting buildings reduced to compete shaleigh plumes of smoke rising up in the sky, photographers on the ground, they're speaking of the situation there as a living. hell. and i think for you cream, you know, the fighting in sort of dog and in and around buck flute which is also inflicted heavy losses on their own. troops has become something of a national symbol of defiance to the president. zalinski in his daily address said the fight post on the door is, is continuing,

and he kind of rebutted russian claims that he had gained some success in the area . he said the don, yes, up front is very much holding and that everything is being done really to, to strengthen ukraine's defenses. solid are is seen as a gateway to back wharton. both sides just mentioned that there have suffered huge losses in the fight. over backbone is being called a bloody battle of the war. why the fixation on that place in particular right, a booklet is just, you know, 10 kilometers salt off, solid dotted booth is the site in the, in east and on. yeah. the region where, you know, you're creating forces have been really locked in a bloody pitched battle with russian forces, but also with fighters of the russian muscling of the wagner group. they've been locked in battle since last summer, and we've seen really kind of brutal combat fighting in that area now for, for russia capturing back north is important because it has made buck booth,

something of a centerpiece in it's kind of broader push and smaller camping to kind of occupy the entire don bus region. not analysts have also been seeing that, you know, capturing buckman with would also open up a path for russia to, to get closer to other more important cities in the area. like come a task and slow the answer to which are in ukrainian hands. and i think the main reason for russia capturing a buck more to be really important because of that hand. russia a significant success. after really months of humiliating a military defeats, we often talk about the wagner group. when we talk about back, what can you tell us about the role of the mercenaries in the fight there? with the wagner group is, is, is a private or russian mercenary group. it has recruited a lot of prisoners from russia within, within its ranks. and it's played an absolutely leading role in that offensive in the east, in an around buck vote not. they are known for their brutal tactics in our experts here to have described their fighters as really cannon fodder being sent to the

front lines. and the founder of this group is a russian billionaire businessman, you've guinea pig gulshan. he is a close associate off off russian president vladimir putin. and unless of said that for, for him, you know, capturing buckman, he views it as, as a kind of a trophy to kind of boost his own political standing back home in russia. a w. s. i a final car entail. thank you so much for that update. meanwhile, poland says as willing to supply ukraine with leopard battle tang spent only as part of a wider international coalition. the statement came during a visit by polish president on j duda to levine, where he met volota mer zalinski. the commons increase pressure on germany to find consensus with western allies on arming. ukraine with the heavy weapons at keith considers are vital to winning the war. these of the german made leopard to battle tanks. ukraine desperately wants and needs until now. no western country has

given such advance bottle tanks to help the ukrainian military, ukraine's for a minister to me through collab remains optimistic that berlin will eventually relent. or, you know, through monuments get onto the bar. i have no doubt thought ukraine will obtain german leopard tanks. because deep down the german government knows their necessary wallet. duncan, little by little, great young sicklerville, but german chancellor. earl of schultz has been digging his heels in saying he doesn't want his country to go it alone in delivering the tanks for fear of escalating the conflict. the heavy leopard tooth equipped with a cannon and a state of the art defense system and aba would be a big boost to ukrainian forces. the german government argument of not wanting to act alone would be hard to maintain. if britain does decide to go ahead and deliver its own challenger to tanks,

ally nations have been pressuring berlin to allow them to send lepper to tanks from their own stocks. without the approval of the manufacturing country, germany, all the nations can't supply them to ukraine. among them is poland which wants to send lepper tooth as part of an international coalition are currently around 2000 lepper. 2 tanks are in service. in 13 european countries calls to supply the leper twos are growing louder. not only from other countries, but also from european commission president ursula funder lion. i have said many times since the beginning of russia's invasion in ukraine, that i think that ukraine should go to get all the necessary military equipment they need. and they can handle to defend the homeland with the final decision on the leper two's in germany's hands. ukraine's kula has warned that balance refusal

is costing lives. a lot of them have a look now at some other source making headlines around the world today. russia has replaced its top military commander in ukraine, again, larry garage im off the head of the russian army general staff has been put in charge. he replaces sergey ser over kin whom was only appointed in october following a series of successful ukrainian counter offensive. ugandan health authorities say that the country's latest outbreak of the ebola virus is over. no new cases have been registered in the past 42 days. according to the health ministry, uganda had reported more than 50 deaths since the outbreak was announced in september. flying south resumed in the u. s. after air traffic was temporarily disrupted nationwide by a key systems failure at the federal aviation administration. it says it's still looking into what caused the issue that force them to ground domestic departures for almost 2 hours. and here in germany, police have begun evicting

a group of climate activists who have occupied a village in the west of the country. for 2 years, protesters want to stop the village from being demolished, so the area can be mind for coal. the fate of the village of lit socket has fuel debate over germany's climate efforts, and the government says the coal is needed. we're energy security. now, the activists, on the other hand argue that germany is backsliding on vital climate pledges. in the early hours of wednesday, police began to cordon off the protest. camp near looks at odd as well as the village itself. using loud speakers they called upon the protesters to leave voluntarily. me. i'd rather richer so comfortable. but some activists are prepared to hang on for as long as possible. climbing out of reach of security forces. their goal to stop energy giant r w e from excavating leg night,

the dirtiest form of coal, from deep beneath the village. elaine sun, near by burning the cold from under the village, germany is breaking the paris climate agreement. and at a time when the climate crisis is escalating, we have to make sure that emissions are drastically reduced. and that's why coal mining has to stop here. now that's often the german government has struck a deal with the energy company to phase out coal by 2030, the demolition of this village as part of a compromise. excavate here now spare others in the future of host? oh, just i'm also tired of signs that a large part of the villages actually, irma for demolition will not need to banish corner to qualities were hundreds of people still live. you will not lose their homes in law which o dos commercials on protests from ball up. oh, i do think the protest mead symbols but looks as odd where nobody lives anymore. kind of the wrong symbol of my notion of high chosen point where the war in ukraine

and the energy crisis. coal has seen a revival in germany. still, experts doubt that the coal underneath lots of art is really needed. our studies and also other studies show that it's not necessary to mind the coal, especially beyond and below the village of little heart and not a vest failure because we do have enough coal in other areas of gods by law and the other mining regions that it's necessary to, to meet the energy transition and also the climate goals. but in the end, it's the energy giant r w e, who legally owns the village and they want to stick to their plans. after all, they expect profits where several 1000000000 euros from the additional comb. in the meantime, the atmosphere on the ground remains tense with activists not prepared to give up and some sports. now at the snowboard world cup in austria, the whole team has beaten germany in the parallel swallow,

mixed event. austria's unbiased omega and danina will been came away with the gold medal in but got stein, their german rival, stiff on bow my stuff and i'm gonna host my stuff and narrowly won the 1st run, but the ladder fail to finish the 2nd run, handing the when to the austrian annoy, laguna has agreed to step back from his role as french football federation president, following an emergency executive committee meeting, the committee was discussing the claims of sexual harassment that had been made against any one year old ladet. the federation itself is the target of an investigation ordered by the french or its minister after claims of sexual harassment and bullying. and the organization surfaced in french media. and a quick reminder of our top stories today. russian mercenaries are claiming full control of the eastern ukrainian town of sola dar. but keith says its troops are

holding their positions a russian victory and sold our could put its forces on track to taking other parts of done it, including all and says, it's willing to give leverett tanks to ukraine, but only as part of an international coalition. keith has repeatedly called on its allies to provide modern tanks like the german made leopard to washington leaders from berlin, christy plaza. and we'll have more about the battle over coal mining here in germany. that's in business after a short break. i'm really can. i'm signing off or today. thank you so much for your company. i just got an issue with a.