oh, how can a city once famous for its sparkling wine be turned into the scene of the most gruesome fighting of the war in ukraine? the bloody battle for blackmore has been going on for months and countless lines have been lost. the head of the buckner group reportedly calls it the meat grinder . desperate for something to happen. russian financed mercenaries now claim to have taken control over solid dar mining town. just down the road from buffalo's. ukraine denies the claims and even the kremlin gives the conflicting version of the situation on the ground at the strategic importance of background is debatable. so how did it become the epi center of russia war of attrition? i'm nichols, furnish in berlin, and this is the day ah,

the recent days we have seen to sports in your own book on the dog in the ukraine. it seems that russia is actually gaining the upper hand and managed to break through ukrainian defenses. you couldn't say this still floating. it's house. the house is still to do. everything is destroyed. there's almost no life left. thousands the last few days, right? they may lose solid up, but let's put it in context. it's not destroyed, should buckled. the war in your brain is not all worried. yeah. but the tide is donny, and it is all ready, clear, cool. will wind. ah. also coming up system failure, a computer glitch brings us air travel to a grinding halt, calling frustration for travelers and uncertainty about the security of our skies. nothing like this has been a love and obviously, you know, everything just happened because of the system. i think that she just punch control

alt delete. welcome to the, shall we begin the day with what ukraine is describing as the bloodiest battle of the war. as far as we know, the fate of sola dar assault mining town and eastern ukraine still hangs in the balance. the russian mercenary gr wagner is claiming control of the area. but ukraine says it's forces are holding off unrelenting russian assaults. but what's truly surprising is that even moscow is contradicting. wagner claims taking sol adar, which is seen as a gateway to the city of bar, won't, would be some really good news for the kremlin after its recent defeats on the battlefield. and would also offer russian troops a springboard to attack other areas of the don bass region. but the sheer scale of the losses inflicted on russia appears to outweigh the importance of any victory.

another salvo launch shirt ukrainian trenches in their mum sloane campaign to take the city of baltimore. russian forces have concentrated their firepower on the nearby town of solider. they are claiming progress. there is the name of those who just airborne units have blocked. sold are from the northern and southern parts of the city. were russia's air force is targeting enemy strongholds, storm troops are fighting in the city. the assault is led by the wagner group. mercenaries under the command of putin, at i just gainey for goshen progression is released this picture of him in a salt mine your solider, and claims that the town is surrounded. but ukraine denies that solid us lost and points to russian losses of the little bunch more up. so we see an absolutely irresponsible to put it mildly, attitude of the russian elite towards their military personnel when they die, thereby did thousands a lot of blood, a lot of artillery jewels,

a lot of contact combat, the specially and solid are today and full of that is the one of my, this is the hottest point in the war to day when you ah, the ukrainians, amounting a stiff resistance. here, a german supplied how it's a is battering russian positions before shifting location. shoot and screwed along a slow moving front line. but most of the bottom of 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 on the fire and is forced to withdraw after heavy losses. with ukraine is determined to fight for every inch of territory will pay a high price for any progress again, battlefield over the years. the bottom, who can i get my 1st guess tonight is marine. i'm her on. she is an defense analyst with london's kings college,

and she joined us from munich here in germany. miss veronica to see you again. we're hearing conflicting reports out of solid r, especially striking is the kremlin contradicting the wagner group. how do you read the situation? is quite interesting and it denotes the riffs that exists in the upper echelons of the military command in russia because obviously at victory in solid, dar is very favourable to, to see russian armed forces. however, as they have this problems that wagner and again, you pre gordon is claiming that saved taken solid dar and they were a no russian forces. this contradicts directly to what the ministry of defense said to day. and it claimed that russian airborne forces were iran sola dar. so i think that we, we can talk about this political rift. and the fact that this is all coupled was the fact that the chief of general staff garage was appointed as a new commander,

replacing sort of beacon who was essentially approved by wagner is chief. so there is a power game going on here between wagner and the russian military staff. and it's not a great look for russia. isn't that the only games they're able to make are actually made by mercenaries working in their name. absolutely, and this is a 1st time that the wagner wants to cleans this victory because wagner has been used in other conflicts in syria for one and they never wanted this kind of attention. they never claimed and victories. also, they kind of prepared the battle field and lots of russian forces and claims of victory. however, this time we see that the rift and if you have any proportions, political ambitions are growing. and there is a possibility that he's probably aiming to replace a show you as

a defense minister. so he's trying to gain political traction by showing that wagner is actually better than the russian on forces. how important is strategically because there is some debate about it, but just the, the, the ferocity of the fighting and the amount of people were said to have died. there is, it's shocking why this, this focus on a fairly small town. while from the very beginning, wagner group started fighting for buck more or started moving towards more ones. the initial plan was that that was one of the russians were still holding zoom into north that they would use it to launch on the pack and offensive on the chrome authoress can slip ask. and basically, wagner remain there for a long time trying to break through. so the resist obsession was been moved. the

reason for that is that if the idea is that once they take book moods, the entire defensive line of the ukrainian forces and their logistics will collapse . that was a statement made by the acting had over the next people's republic. brazilian was that it's strategically important, but it's also politically important because it will be the 1st victory after a series of setbacks that russia has suffered on the battlefield. and obviously, as you said, it has a very high human casual piece, and this whole is growing for both sides. however, if the reports are true, and only wagner is acting in buck moved and they have absolutely no consideration for losses and russia can afford those losses. because they don't retrieve the bodies, they don't make the official statistics. so facial death poll, so whoever is lost from the walk in the troops, we will never know. we will never know the numbers. that's why the 5 or so for rush

is because there is no protection for personnel either you win or you get shot because it's a one way street. once you joined the wagner, you, you can just turn around and leave unless you're injured and you don't have to form part of those a sold units. however, there is no odds away if you desert you get shot and that's basically the reason. let's talk about this, this change at the helm of the russian army, who is the new man in charge. so the new man in charge is ergo ross. him off. he was the chief of general staff for many years, i think since 2012, and it is interesting that he's getting appointed now to replace or begin despite. so begins popularity. however, as i said before, as a seems to be at a rift within the kind of the,

the political and military arena. on the one hand we have as a general staff and the defense ministry, that is sure, go and write them off. and on the other hand, we have the hardliners like cut their off and precautions, so got the roman precaution, both welcomed the appointment of general sort of bacon back in october. and so i think this is a way to kind of reclaim power for the general staff. and so sort of akin will now be responding to general rassam of even focus. rosmer doesn't seem to have that same battle experience. nevertheless, he's being appointed and perhaps it's somehow connected to the fact that currently general op in has now been appointed with them as the chief of staff of the ground forces and general lapping was the one who was blamed by both precaution and cut their off. your feeling and leave mine and they called for his the motion to

major and still but he was like by the general staff by rosmer than troy go. and so he he wasn't demoted. so there is a power struggle going on and put in is trying on the one hand to appease both cordero and precaution. and on the other hand he, he tries to delegate the control to his defense minister. just very briefly, do you think we're going to see a change in russia offensive strategy? as a consequence of this change in personnel? perhaps they will be continuing the same strategy. i don't think that this change of personality will essentially lead to a change in the strategy per se. it's much more symbolic and political. i think they will try if they take more, they will try to go for chrome. doors can flip dancing, and apparently they are pushing to retake in settlement around the grass. so they are following the plan of taking that on that sc republic. and i don't think that

the plan will change if they manage to of course, take more and breaks a defense line off the ukraine. i'm forces marina moran from london, kings college. thank you so much for your time again. thank you. lou, nervous? just because we're supposed to capture cruise tomorrow, we're hoping we get there, and i'm really upset by what can i do for the nation kind of nervous. is there something else that maybe we're not being told right now? i've got a couple of hours that i can, we hope it doesn't go into tonight. but if it does, then it's just part of the journey. and here we are for a couple of hours. might wind up missing my meeting or sit tight, see what happens if the flights delayed even further. i'm just going to cancel it. like go to my media, you know, they get it fixed quickly. and once they get it fixed, i hope they upgrade it. so it doesn't happen again for the whole country to be shut down. this is amazing. awesome. slightly frustrated reactions there to the chaos in

u. s. air travel to day after a system outage force, the grounding of all aircraft across the country for several hours. it was actually the 1st nation wide flight band in the u. s. since 911, the federal aviation administration has resolved the problem and flights are gradually resuming normal operations. if a pulled the emergency break because of a failure of the notice to air mission system which advises on potential flight hazards, the delays effect the thousands of flights and caused the cancellation of hundreds more. an investigation has been launched into what authorities are calling a glitch. here's officials say they have found no evidence of a cyber attack. it's brand commercial aviation experts, steven right currently an industry professor at tampa university in finland. mr. wright, welcome to the day. the house or prize were you to see a computer glitch ground all domestic flights in the united states. good

evening. i was very surprised, but partly because i thought that the system was relatively robust. but the decision was made and retrospectively, it's the right decision. because this information is imparted to flight curve, it's mandatory that i guess it's mandatory that they read it and understand it. and it's mandatory, as you can imagine, that they follow what they've been told. and tell us a lot more about this. notice to air mission system, which seems to have failed. or are there any known problems with that system? well, i've never heard of a problem with it before. for my own personal experience, you go to work. you get to the airport, you can sign in with your rosters and such like then you perform your paperwork to chase the planning. then you read all of the necessary paperwork and no times just one of them, including the weather, and then you get

a cru bus. and you guys to work on. this is a fundamental piece of information paper work effectively. that just doesn't seem to work for the u. s. a. at the moment. the f a is taken that decision not to allow any flights within the usa for that given period. it is, of course, had a ripple effect around the glow. how big of a financial fall out does this kind of incident cause on one hand, and how long does it take for that backlog bad has emerged a clear it's a massive undertaking to then re positional the aircraft. you've got several faxes now. so the 1st problem is all the planes are in the wrong location. that's the 1st issue. the passengers are in the wrong location as well. so the ones that should have traveled couldn't for obvious reasons. so you have to move them. then you also

have to make sure that the aircraft are going to get back into the, the relatively correct location in order to resume a normal operation. this sort of stuff is likely to take might be $34.00 days, at least just to try and on all of this out. it's, and it's not one airline. it's, everyone's been affected. it's a full stop in america. so no domestic flights and certain international is that with an entering the space. yes, they could land, but it's, it's really quite dramatic. in a vacation, there is obviously a high reliance on technology, on several levels. how robust are critical systems, you know, not just to these kinds of glitches, but possible bad actors messing with them. well, there's always a worry, isn't that systems that you rely on every day for mandatory events? yeah, this is a problem, i suppose. in the old days, you could have then just got

a fax, emily, the old piece of equipment with a telephone line. and then you send 3 pages and pages of information. and that's what it how well, that's how it used to be done a long, long time ago, or tech machines. now we're really resigned on data connections computing servers and so on. so it demonstrates the requirement of this huge business on the technology. there is, at this point, no evidence of a cyber attack. i want to make this clear, but how much of a concern are a cyber attack for the industry? and are there any safeguards in place? yeah, the, i'm sure that the security services have considered this very carefully what they weren't is announced to the general public what their responses and their protocols will buy because that will just encourage all the people to test it. and so they fall as far as i'm concerned,

my sister implies it's well considered and i have every confidence in the system, every asian experts. steven, right, thank you so much. thank you. oh, willing on to germany now where police have begun evicting a group of climate activists who've been occupying a village in the west of the country. for 2 years. the protesters want to stop the village of nits aside from being demolished. so the area can be mind for coal. the fate of the town has fuel debate over germany's climate efforts. almost 10 percent of the electricity in germany comes from brown coal power plants. leg night is mind and the east and west. the largest areas are in the east around like think and allows it's a backend, but there's just as much mining happening in the west near cologne. now the government says the coal is needed for energy security,

but activists argue germany is backsliding on fine old climate pledges. in the early hours of wednesday, police began to cordon off the protest. camp near lute sought, as well as the village itself, using loud speakers they called upon the protesters to leave voluntarily approval. 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 shown, just 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 address to kelly reduced and that's why coal mining has to stop here. now it'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 does. i'm also tired of screens that a large part of the village is actually irma for demolition will not need a botanist. corner localities were hundreds of people still live your will not lose their homes in law which oh das commercial on protests from ball up. oh, i do think the protest mead symbols, but looks as odd when nobody lives anymore kind of the wrong symbols, my notion of switches and voice with 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 are studies and also other studies show that it's not necessary to buy in the coal, especially beyond and below the village of little heart and not our best failure. because we do have enough coal in other areas of gods by law and the other mining

regions that it's necessary add 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 were several 1000000000 euros from the additional coal. in the meantime, the atmosphere on the ground remains tense with activists not prepared to give up. 1 all authorities are prepared for the evacuation of lutes. it ought to take weeks, possibly even months. the double use naomi for how much dying was on site for the 1st day of what could become many and send us this rep. a long day of clearing up this side team, the to that is coming to an end. police behind here is still clearing up, removing some barricades that po to says have a record, but the police tells us that they've progressed much quicker than they expected.

and who's left here on the site are activists who are in tree houses such as the one that we are seeing now and a half very heated themselves in the last remaining houses in this village. and they tell me that they are very adamant about staying here. in the midst of and looks about and sending the sign of resistance and, and saying that they want to do everything they can in their power to keep the coal that is underneath this village in the ground. we can see if we, if we look around how close the open cost like mine is to this village am and, but we expect the evacuation and eviction off off lifted out. so keep going for a little while longer and, but we expect you to be finished much quicker than we thought just this morning. i offer 2 years of soul searching and damage

control. the golden gloves returned to the airwaves last night with all the usual glitz and glamour. but the night wasn't just about sipping champagne and returning to normal. following accusations of corruption, sexism, and racism that led to celebrities boycotting the event. and nbc cancelling its tv coverage. the hollywood, foreign press association, thought, redemption, and the stars gathered in los angeles last night didn't seem to hesitant to welcome them back to the oh. the stars were back in beverly hills. after 2 scandal written years in which the golden globes organizers were accused of corruption and a severe lack of diversity. this he is host, comedian gerad carmichael tackled the issue, head on a miracle on black. but for all the talk of a new beginning, it was one of holly, wasn't all time greats. who won big steven spielberg

taking best director and best drama film for his autobiographical movie. the fable men nomination. ah, you the smith, what he does? it's playful or imaginative. good for to be a little encouraging. yeah. michelle, no one best comedy actress for her role in the surreal. sy fi action film, everything everywhere, all at once. quite the multi verse. i think of evelyn with and angela bassett took home the best supporting actress award for her role in the black panther. sequel. what kinda forever we showed we showed the world what black unity leadership and love looks like the yawn behind and in front of the camera.

have you been route, have even riley route for you? how roll with another big winner of the night was the ban. she's of in a share and a dark irish comedy when a fellow it took him 3 major prizes, including best comedy actor for colin farrell is came to kick her door and give you a slice. is colin farrell, most of the golden globes usual glitzy after parties didn't happen this year. the awards may have taken a bit of a dentist but the night that kicks off the movie wells annual awards season is back once tonight. and we will be back with more tomorrow, that is our time for today. but make sure to stay in touch. you can follow our team on twitter at c, w news and myself at nicole underscore poorly. if it's the latest headlines you're looking for, there's always our website that is of course d, w dot com. thank you so much from the entire team here at the day. spending part of your day with,

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