ah ah ah this is the w news life from berlin. russia makes advances, in zona dob holds off declaring victory. ukraine has called the intense fighting and you crazy. the difficult phase in the war. as all the $500.00 civilians are trapped in the small town. as a boar intensifies russia looks to step up in scripture, we meet

a former russian policeman who fled to lapierre to avoid the draft, but struggled to be recognized as a refugee swedish mine has hit upon a rare earth jackpot. the huge find could help out the world's dependence on china for elements crucial in the manufacturer of everything from wind turbines to electric vehicles. and joe biden comes under investigation. a special council is appointed to look into the president's handling of classified documents. the boy is find more secret files at his home. ah, i've been fizzle and thanks for joining us. fighting in the eastern town of zona dies becoming a test of ukraine's resilience in what it is calling a difficult phase of the war. it says it's resisting a high intensity rush and offensive. then the battle is being fought in large part

by the pro russian mercenary private army. the buckner group, hundreds of civilians attracted a small town as ukrainian soldiers fight to repel russian attacks. the sound of explosions is relentless. the battle for solider in the nearby city of buck mote is proving to be one of the fiercest so far following russia's invasion, ukraine's defense lead as they be soldiers, the fighting stubbornly, despite claims. russia had taken control of the area in concerning these are the intensity of shelling roles by about 70 percent. but nothing changed radically, or our fighters are holding the defense as they used to hold the ticket. her mind taking solider and back mood is key to the kremlin goal to claim all of the denise . 3 gen russian leaders have praised the work of the troops on the ground.

a truly gigantic work husband uninsurable. this is absolutely celsius and heroic action. not alone, solar, dora, but in many areas where it says operations are being carried out. both sides have suffered heavy losses in the fighting. as the battle rages on in the east friends and family of a soldier killed in salida gather for his funeral and butcher. to those who die in war are mostly the young one. let renee, unfortunately, there are many warriors we are burring. as you see, all the new graves behind hawaii, when they are the ones who sacrificed their lives for our peace. did you do this of decay? you kim, merge of emma, my name is rich m o rushes bid to take salinda. it seems to be key to boosting its

military morale. a when many say moscow also desperately once after struggling with numerous setbacks and recent miles as fighting intensifies in ukraine roster is said to step up, tripped mobilization anc and script more young men to fight on the front lines. the move could provoke a new wave of refugees fleeing to avoid the fighting. but not all countries are willing to take them in and some have found it hard to get refugee stacks. ah, now he can breathe again as danny's love, but she love has finally been formally recognized as a refugee from russia in law. it was a long process. at the end of it, stanislaus is relieved to have cut the ties with a country that started a war of aggression in the middle of europe. the bitter spittle i fled to the 1st best country so i wouldn't have to go to jail or be sent to war. i don't want to

fight against the ukrainians. i have many friends there. the 1st best country, as stanislaus said, was lot via and you, you member state with a 300 kilometer common border with russia. when the war started to more than 10 months ago, stanislaus decided to protest, the former policeman found himself in the midst of a peace rally in saint petersburg, where hundreds of protesters were arrested. mm. when the 27 year old received a draft notice from the army, he decided to flee over night. without losing any time he drove to russia the boda with lot. we had to jump over the fence at an unmounted torrent location illegally because he had no visa them yet. but i am no orders for us that he kimball finally got. it was terrible. i was panicking. my heart was pounding. i was running through the forest and wondering what if the guards shoot me? the fence was huge with barbed wire. and on the other side there were border guards

as well with whose language i don't understand. i had no idea how they would react to get them or can you tell us been the officials and lot where we're accommodating at 1st to let him file for asylum. but a few months later, his request was denied. stanislaus went to court and to fall to the decision in the and he was allowed to stay a rare ruling fall latiere in contrast to germany. the baltic states generally denies russians fleeing military service at the right to spain. demobilization in russia, which began in september of last year, had little influence on that policy. due to security concerns. is through supposed to start birth with it, just read it. if you are against the war against mobilization, if you think that what is being done now is unacceptable, then you must come out against the russian government. and i am not convinced by arguments that things are so oppressive there,

that no one can take to the streets. tens of thousands of russians are leaving now, according to our figures. and the question must be asked, why should we accept them all? this is also a matter of our own security of her chima mommy's when you met the deductible processor miss across mr. stanislaus. but sheila doesn't think that taken to the streets in 2 days. russia can't change anything. he says that there is no rule of law in russia and also no reason to believe the regime is about to collapse either any time soon for him, protests are of the direct way to prison and may be after that to the front lines. all legitimate parts of resistance have been exhausted. people who protest end up behind bards, and from there they cannot achieve anything any more with zeal. stanislaus says he would go back to russia one day went put in his not in power any more. his parents lived there, stanislaus, missus of them, he says, but he knows he will not see them any time. so while forest been russians,

if they want to flee the war, they must be allowed to leave the country as there are plenty of professions in russia that has been forbidden by the government to travel abroad and some civil servants estate on companies. members of the armed forces and so one second, you have to be able to finance the 3 flights to the best have behind extremely expensive because you have to fly via 3rd countries, which hardly any one can afford. what remains are neighboring russian countries. george armenia kazakstan all the baltic states, but the mood there seems to be changing, and the baltic countries have long close to their borders to most russians as be just seen in my report. we even saw people flying on foot on, on their bicycles earlier in the war. how many russians still support the war? also the hard to tell how many russians support put into policies or polls are very unreliable in times of war, because they are made under pressure. and many people in moscow, no longer dear,

even to talk about politics on the subway because they are afraid of simply being denounced. a few weeks ago, a video circulated online of an elderly woman being thrown off a bus for allowing herself to make a critical remark about the russian army. and of course, and there is a great fear of a next mobilization wave. at the same time. however, there are still many russians who support the war is the this paul from moscow shoals, the question that was asked was, what has changed in your life since the start of the so called special military duration, as the boys called in russia? let's have a look for we are the boy bad. it's bad for everyone. we should not be fighting neither. we should live in peace, mill road. surely those and ruth, i've got 2 sons, i worry about them. the situation won't get beat earliest the war ins could. how could you force them on to fight and kill it's against the bible. bully ok, louise mean you life there has changed for the better with woburn. we'd want less

war to be stopped. when you heard you reached the voicemail, steadily deity shall boy i hope all these young 18 year old children will get back home, safe and sound. but across all is good with us. but we worry of our soldiers that it is away. it's up to the authorities to decide. i don't want to interfere in this wrong. there's will so far it hasn't affected the area where i live. i don't know what's next. is not the only thing that did happen. many men were taken to the front of it is over there, but i support the operation. there are no rallies. everyone here support that we've sent humanitarian supplies or getting back to what it's like in latvia for russian refugees or authorities. they're generally opposed to most russians coming well, i must be very clear bands and to lot their lithuania and estonia also. multi countries of course, have not closed their borders to all russians. as before,

these states let in russians who are really threatened people, who protested openly against the board. the put in system in russia, political activists, independent journalists, and their families. these are all people who need protection for so called humanitarian reasons. but it throws is that for the authorities here, simply faleen mobilization is not enough to apply for asylum as the authorities argument here is that to, while these russians are fleeing mobilization because they feel their personal lives are in danger, they may still may still be sympathetic towards the put in regime, there are simply major security concerns in latvia, rusito and rigor. thank you very much, the analysis and for an update on the situation on the grounds in ukraine, d. w correspondence on your follicle joins us from keith. sonya, tell us about what's going on to day in solider and back what well, the battle for solid are seems to be still grinding on the ukrainian military says

russia is using everything it can tanks mortars, rock, rocket, artillery, even street fighting to try to break ukrainian defenses and take that tone. now the deputy defense minister of ukraine. anomaly i yesterday said that russia is building up its forces in ukraine. she says it's raising rushes, raising the number of it's combat units in solid are. and last evening, president zalinski held a daily address where he said, you know, ukrainian forces were still very much holding out. and so the dar, he said, you know, reinforcements, ammunition supplies were being rushed to the border to, to, to troops who are kind of holding the line in, in solid are and in neighboring but commute. now we still have no clear picture of, of who is really in control inside it. are there been many conflicting reports bought the russians and the ukranian said they have inflicted hemi heavy casualties on enemy troops, even that has not been independently verified. and i think what we're seeing now is both sides really digging in and, and throwing everything they can at this fight uniform for russia. taking soda dar

could help it's a help. it's in its assault on buckboard, which is absolutely critical to its goal of occupying the entire on bus and for ukraine, you know, holding on to recruit and, and uh, so the darn has become a national symbol of resistance and defiance. sonya, what about the $500.00 civilians who are said to be trapper? that's right. the meal of the done yet region has been speaking to the ukrainian state t v. and he said that, you know, the intense shelly shelly and utterly fire there has, has destroyed more than 80 percent of the town. he says most civilians have fled the area, but over $500.00 of them including children, are still trapped there. and the, it's hard to evacuate them because of the fighting. now, authorities are there are advising people to steal porch to see, put in basements, and shelters. that are some volunteer groups. have been speaking to the ukraine in media there who have described really grim situation on the ground. the intense

shelling has destroyed energy infrastructure communication lines. so many civilians have to do without heating, in some cases, water, electricity, and that and freezing winter temperatures that are also reports of drinking supplier and water supplies become becoming critical. and i think for, for many people now, the only help is volunteer groups. there is a stabilization point in buckman. we're fighting has raged for over 5 months now where civilians can go and get some basic medical help. and it's only a pocket or a pockets of resistance in the town. what chances do the, you credit troops have attorney things around well, i think the ukrainians are in a way, you know, pinning their hopes also on, on new supplies off a weapons from the west and key word your is staggs. i think the vicious fighting in insulin, it on buck move has kind of led to new urgency to, to going calls in ukraine for heavy weaponry like battle tanks. and that is why i

think the announcement by pulled in this week that was prepared to deliver a german beat combat tags. the leopard a to, to ukraine has been hugely celebrated here. and, and ukraine, of course, is hoping that this will open the floodgates to other western countries are offering more of these battle tanks, which, unless a insignificant numbers could help change the tight in this conflict. it's on your find the car in cave. thank you. a swedish mining company has discovered europe's biggest known reserves of rarer minerals, the company ok a be found the deposits in the north and sweden area of key who now well above the arctic circle. the metals, a group of 17 elements are used in a range of technologies from smartphones to electric cars, for discovery seen as crucial to enabling a green transition. but the mining process required to extract the elements also raises environmental concerns. cyrano in the far arctic north is already

sweden's treasure chest. they've been mining iron or here for years, and soon they could also be extracting where earth. geologists believe these underground caverns could hold more than a 1000000 tons of rare earth oxides. a hugely significant discovery. have ongoing expiration activities in this, the pulse of which means that for else it's open, it's not closed. we don't actually know how big it is. but what we know today is by far the law just the pulse it off all ries in europe. europe depends on imports of these vital minerals most come from china, which has deposits many times bigger. but it's still a breakthrough european union. the geopolitical aspect as say, you can't emphasize that enough. so i would say this is also an important chance

possibly to become even less dependent of one single country. sweden's discovery will not entirely offset europe's dependence on china. and it will take years to begin extracting the valuable minerals from under these frozen waists at brussels bureau chief alexandro phenomenon is standing by in cuba una, how big is this fight? well, i think that this announcement is really a big deal because we talking here about a rare earth elements that are so crucial for production, not only of smartphones, but also the production of alec electric vehicles and wind turbans. and according to the european commission, the demand for those mateo's will increase 5 fold by 2030, because of the green and digital transformation of europe's economy. so a big deal this announcement. what about the geo political aspect of this?

it can't be emphasized enough, according to the swedish minister law that said, chew up because the european union wants to learn from the past and reduce dependencies such as the one that it's developed. for instance, on russia with regard to oil and energy. and when we talked about her heiress elements, we have to say that the european union is dependent on, on china, up to 98 percent of all rarer areas. materials are coming from china. so now that you up is trying co to european commission is trying to support member states to do more, to improve supply chains. however, we also have to say, are there 2 up to one 3rd of all rare earth materials are located in china still and china is still leading when it comes to processing the earth materials. europe

is not capable of doing that, sir. as so at this sir, discovery here can be just at the beginning of a sort of change in the european union. the rules book, of course, in china is very different and taking up those where us is a completely different story. in a part of the world like the arctic shall be the environmental ramifications. there are a huge yes, you're right. there are really huge. and we have to say that according to experts mining grommet harris is never a good for the environment. and of course, we know that huge amount of chemicals, sir, i have to be use, and dads leads to huge amounts of toxic waves and has a cost already some several environmental disasters. but at the same time we of course have to stress as you just said, that that sweden is not china and sweden has certainly higher and bio mental

standards. alexander phenomena reporting from kiona in sweden. thank you. let's have a look at some other stories making headlights for such a se. one of the worlds biggest oil companies made highly accurate predictions about global warming, while publicly dismissing the link with climate change. the study of the general science says x on mobiles. scientists knew about the risks of fossil fuels from as early as the seventy's. i chose not to disclose them x and denies the accusations. prosecutors in japan have formerly charged a man suspected of assassinating, former prime minister, chalabi suspect will now stand trial for a major. the shooting ave, during a campaign speech last july. police say the man confessed to killing of a because of his room with links to a religious group. to be a way that has killed at least 6 people in the us state of alabama. the powerful storms, including a large tornado, struck me the city of selma authorities. they dozens of homes with damaged or

destroyed. rescue was still searching for people who may be trapped under debris. in los angeles police, a release body camera footage of events leading up the death of a young african american keenan anderson because of a black lives matter. co founder was repeatedly tasted during a traffic disturbance in early january. he died of cardiac arrest hours later. for the u. s. justice department has appointed a special counsel to investigate joe biden. more classified documents were found at the president's home in delaware. the discoveries are politically embarrassing for biden, after his shop criticism of the former president's alleged mishandling of classified documents. diff if we can lead to fluffy, fight documents per found indicator, a few explicit into fighting home in by law might and should have handed them over to the u. s. national archives. after he left the vice presidency in 2017 bitin

thieves. it was an innocent mistake morrow. people know i take classified documents classroom material seriously. i also said were cooperating fully incomplete with the justice department review. that republicans accused the u. s. president of hypocrisy by den sharply criticized former president donald trump, for allegedly holding on to classified documents. after sensitive files are discovered at trump's home in florida last year. here's an individual that's been in office for more than 40 years. here's an individual that sat on 60 minutes, that was so concerned about president trump's documents locked in behind and now we find it just as a vice president, keeping it for years out the open in different locations. biden steam faith, this gift, different, the u. s. president wollen dear to hand over the documents to the national archives . the moment they were discovered. on the other hand,

drum delayed responding to requests from the national archives. for months. the justice department sees to await any conflict of interest, especially council will investigate the case. we are listing base political analysts list zuka, how much political full out this could have for president biden as the republicans are now in control of the house. one of the biggest things going in by favor is that this is almost 2 years out from the election and an entire year out of primaries start. the downside is the american voter doesn't always like nuance. he just gave the republicans their greatest talking point as well. as really need to have the democrats off against trump. so it's a, it's a long enough runway. it might become a lesser issue in the next year. but it definitely will be something i think we'll be hearing again from the republicans if you're out to take him on

a 24. lisa marie presley. the only daughter of rock'n'roll legend overs presley has died at the age of $54.00. she reportedly suffered cardiac arrest. presley was the owner of her father's grace than mansion in memphis, a huge tourist attraction. you. she made headlines in 1994 when she married michael jackson in the early 2000 and she released her rookie's account of law. public appearance was at the golden global board. just this week. i asked entertainment reporter ones in san biddle in washington d. c. for more about her sudden death you extremely shocking. like you mentioned, she was in public early this week of the golden globe supporting the elvis movie, which actually won an award for austin butler who played her father. so it's really shocking for everyone knows, expecting all, and you know, she's suffering cardiac arrest early on thursday and her ex husband danny keel,

who actually she's been living with for a while now. perform c p r and her and they, she was rushed to the hospital and later passed away. she was also a pop star in a right? wouldn't you say? yes, you should. definitely a, you know, a, a minor musician, as far as young commercial success is concerned, she did have to top 10 alums of which one of them was certified gold. and i'm, you know, as she put out music over the years and did a bit of touring, so she did have her own identity as, as a musician. how's the family coping with this tragedy? you know, as you can imagine, a devastated r priscilla presley. her mother has put out a statement saying that she and the family are, you know, are not doing well and devastated about the news. and so, as you know it's, it's extremely sad given how soon, how recently we saw her in public and, and she seemed to be fine. it really is shocking to, to anyone again to someone who went through a lot of upheaval in her own life,

always in the spotlight because of her father, of course. um, and from what i hear her, her kids haven't had it easy either. right. of course, i mean she'll, she lost her father a young age, but she's also suffered loss as a parent. so her son, i, you know, benjamin keel died by suicide in july of 2020. so i, you know, she's been reeling from that for, for ever since. and so it's just another tragic for the family. it's just turbo sat on sites up at o. entertain a reporter in washington. thank you so much for joining in. and reminder of our top story, a state owned swedish mining company has uncovered a railroad elements of the arctic. the find could reduce europe's dependence on china for the elements which are crucial for the manufacturer of smartphones, electric vehicles, and wind turbine. anyways, justice department has appointed a special counsel to investigate after a whole classified documents were found out. president biden's della bye hall.

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