so get ready for the brain, a 40 to the answer to almost everything. starts january 15th on d, w. ah, ah, this is d w. news coming to live from berlin. russia's defense ministry says its forces have taken control of solid ar. ukraine denies the claim and says its troops are still there. ukrainian town could be a strategically important one for russia in the don boss region. also coming up, new research finds oil giant exxon made highly accurate predictions about global

warming already back in the 19 seventy's. and then spent decades dismissing the science to protect its business. and lisa marie presley the only child of rock'n'roll legend elvis dies at the age of $54.00, she was rushed to hospital after a reported cardiac arrest. ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. russia's defense ministry says its forces have captured the town of sola dar in eastern ukraine. ukraine has denied the claims the battle for the small mining town has intensified in recent days. if the claim is true, taking so the dog would be russia's 1st big battlefield when after 6 months of defeats, ukraine has described the fighting for the town as a difficult phase of the war. our correspondence,

tenchi of sunny polacca is covering the story. i asked her if there is any confirmation that russia has taken solider. well, ukraine has officially denied this latest russian claim of being in charge in santa dar who crane says the fighting is still very much continuing there. and we have to remember that this is not the 1st time that russia has claimed to be in control there. all this week, we've seen quite a bit of confusion about who is really in charge. earlier this week we saw the head of the russian wagner, the mercenary group, the wagner group saying, whose titles are heavily involved in that assault on solid. are saying that, you know, he's in control. we saw ukraine denying that, claim the kremlin. then you know, walking back that assertion, so that when a lot of conflicting reports about who really is in charge there, what we do know for short about sali darnell, is that the intense fighting there has absolutely devastated boats on the door and the surrounding areas. we've seen some satellite images recently off off, you know, apartment buildings, house has been completely decimate decimated there. you know,

shell craters really kind of storing the landfill and the governor off that donia donates region where a standard is located. a said more than 80 percent of the town has been destroyed. this is a small town or small mining town. why is it so important? that still solid? i had a pre war population of just 10000 people and i think it's important lies in the fact that it is just 10 kilometers away from buck moved to where we've seen some of the bloodiest fighting in this war between russia and ukraine and forces and russia, of course, sees buck moves as absolutely key to it's, you know, broader bush, of occupying the entire on bus region. and it sees, you know, a solid r o capturing solider as a way of getting there some solid are, could afford often, its troops, a new beast, a new attack position for, for its troops. because that because started out is within a it's an utterly would would be within range of sonya. thank you very much. our

correspondence. sonya folic, other in teeth take a look at a few other stories making headlines around the world. today. the german government has called on russia to provide urgent medical assistance to jailed kremlin critic, alexey divani, his family and supporters say there increasingly distressed about his health, and that he's being denied care. divani is serving a 9 year sentence at a penal colony north of moscow. south korean officials are seeking criminal charges against $23.00 officials over a deadly crush. as people celebrated halloween. the charges related to a lack of safety measures include involuntary manslaughter, and negligence. more than a 150 people died in the capital soul. when revellers got trapped in a narrow alley way, prosecutors in japan had formerly charged a man suspected of assassinating former prime minister, sions, or ave,

the suspect will now stand trial after ave was shot during a campaign speech last july. police say the man confessed to carrying out the killing because of all these rumors, links to a religious group and suite climate activist griffith to embark has appeared at protests in germany against the lesson of a village being cleared to allow open task coal mining. she criticized the police operation to remove people from loots a lot in the west of the country. germany has extended its use of coal in power generation due to the energy crisis. researchers say that one of the world's biggest oil companies made highly accurate predictions about global warming, while publicly dismissing any link between fossil fuels and climate change. the study in the journal science says exxon mobiles. scientists knew about the risks of fossil fuels from the 1970s, but chose not to disclose them. the researchers say their findings amount to

a smoking gun. excellent denies the accusations from or on this i spoke to steph on alarms door. he's a climate scientist at the potsdam institute for climate impact research that teamed up with harvard university to publish the study about exxon mobil. he told us what x on knew about global warming, but failed to reveal. well, we examine the some internal papers as well as technical journal publications by takes on scientists since the 1970s, which are the internal papers have come to lives in 2015 through journalistic investigations. and we analyzed the computer simulations of future warming in response as a result of fossil fuel burning that the exxon scientists presented. and we

compared these climate projections to observation and the projections were that there would be a warming by 0.2 degrees celsius per decade. which is pretty well exactly what happened. and of course they predicted that before there was any clear observational evidence that there was even long. so you mentioned that the papers came to light in journalistic work. exactly. how did your you and your colleagues though, uncover these details? when these papers are in the public domain and my colleagues from harvard, a science historians, and they have in the past, published about the verbal content of these papers and compared to what exxon executives have told, the public which is in sharp contrast to what was in the internal publications and

what we did in the new study is indeed the quantitative comparison of a whole range of different climate projections by exxon and we. we computed skill scores to show how good they are and it turned out they are often actually better than what independent university scientists have done or nasa scientists. jim hanson, who presented these nasa projections to the senate in the us in 988. interesting. despite knowing about climate change, early on x, on for decades, apparently funded climate change deniers. how much damage do you think that did? well, i can, i'm pretty sure that it did a lot of damage in delaying climate policy. not exxon alone. of course, it was the fossil fuel industry in general that invested hundreds of millions of dollars in basically this information campaigns to the public sewing doubt

about climate change. and we have seen some of these means that exxon's put into the public. they are appearing in german election campaigns, for example, even recently. and i think it did a lot to give the impression to the public that climate science is debated when we have had a consensus on human close climate change in the scientific community for decades. now, these are pretty powerful allegations are, could this study have consequences for exxon? will the company be held accountable? well, there is a number of court cases against exxon going on in the united states. now, there are cases against other companies and other places like europe. and i think that this will become increasingly common and important the question of who is responsible for the delays that are costing us. so really and it will,

i think increasingly, the fort out in courts in the coming decades stuff and thank you very much. that was stuff in rom, store of climate scientist at the post them institute for climate impact research now to peru and a teenager shots during anti government protests there died on thursday, bringing the death toll from a month of violent unrest to 49. since december supporters of ousted president, pedro castillo, have marched and barricaded streets in the south american countries demanding new elections and the removal of current liter dina water. they carried more coffins and effigies of their unwonted leaders in jail cells. thousands of noisy protesters hit the streets of the capital lima to demand the resignation of their president. and my son is the most of indignation, pain, and suffering. it's having a psychological impact on those of us who are following what's happening in the

provinces. that especially our brothers and sisters there who are being killed. it's a total massacre. my 2nd book back into school, the ancient capital of the inca empire. the caskets were real. locals bed a public farewell to a killed protector. elsewhere in the city, clash is brew coat yet again, please fire tear gas. protestors responded with stones and slingshot fire. by night, the violins escalated. the turmoil was triggered by the arrest of former president pedro castillo, last month, feeling after he tried to seize emergency powers to evade impeachment, over sleeves allegations. the insuring crisis has rocked the country. mark cause kish baker was protesting at the airport when he was killed. was these

young ladies, but only shouting, i don't know who gave the orders illegal, that now we want those responsible for his death to pay for us on this by so much like market. most of the victims, hail from working class heart, lungs loyal to casteel communities, united in recent weeks in protest or in grief. and sometimes both give lisa marie presley the only child of rock'n'roll legend, elvis presley has died. at the age of 54, a singer songwriter who inherited her father's estate reportedly suffered cardiac arrest. lisa marie presley pictured at the golden globe awards just this week. the 54 year old, apparently in good health. thank you. only days before she was at graceland,

the home she inherited from half it from her father, elvis presley, crowns had gathered to mark what would have been his 88th birthday you. and keep saying, you're the only people that can bring me out of my house. not kit. lisa marie presley was born in february 1968, exactly 9 months after her parents, elvis, and priscilla married. they later divorced. and when their daughter was just 9 years old, elvis died. it was a traumatic start for the only child. presley was married 4 times, including to singer michael jackson with that and did 2 years later. her marriage to act and nicholas cage lasted only a few months. she had 4 children in total, one of her sons, benjamin,

died by suicide in 2020 ah presently for which her own singer songwriter career. but she could never escape her father's iconic status. i feel that he would have been proud, but i think that he also would have understood sort of the path that i had to lead to find myself here, like the 1st 2 albums needed needed their place just because i needed to know. and then i had my own audience, i needed to find my own, my own kind of voice, and try on different things for myself. um, i think he would have understood the path. i got to tell you, lisa marie presley was very close to her mother priscilla. in a statement following her daughter's death, priscilla described her as the most passionate, strong and loving woman. i have ever known. your watching

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