where is india headed in? this is the moment to unleash on violet bars. gandhi's legacy starts january 28th on d, w. ah, ah, ah, this is d w. news coming to live from berlin. russia's defense minister, he says its forces have taken control of solid ar. ukraine denies the claim and says its troops are still there. the eastern ukrainian town could be strategically important for russia in the don boss region. also coming up, new research binds oil giant exxon made highly accurate predictions about global

warming 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 dives. at the age of 54, she was rushed to hospital after a reported cardiac arrest. ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. russia claims its forces have captured the town of salazar and eastern ukraine. if true, it would mark a rare victory for moscow after a series of set back for its troops. ukraine's military leaders have rejected the claim saying it's soldiers are holding the line. and the battle is on going. amid ukraine's freezing winter soldiers and solid up face oblique battle to fiend,

off rushes constant attacks. the fight here is proving bloody and brutal. russia is determined to take control of this small mining town. a rear pushed forward after numerous setbacks. its defense forces already claiming victory was the leader of a complete control. so it makes it possible to cut off the supply lines of the ukrainian forces located in the south, west of back, moot van to block and enclose the ukrainian units located there in a pocket. typically those claims have been swiftly rejected by ukrainian forces who say their soldiers are holding the line. the loss of solid tao would be a major setback for ukraine after months of successes and retaken towns and territories. but the fighting comes at

a high cost. it's close gone, but we have gunshots. yeah, we have for grenades, shrapnel wounds and so on. so this kind of wounds in increased russia claims to have killed hundreds of ukrainian soldiers in the battle for salida, but they have been no confirmed death tolls. there are reported to be more than $550.00 civilians still in the town, living in horrific conditions with no running water or electricity. our correspondent in care of sonya valeca is covering the story. i asked her if there is any confirmation that russia has indeed taken solid r. well, ukraine has officially denied this latest russian claim of being in charge on. the diary 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, seeing whose titles are heavily involved in that assault on solid, are seeing that, you know, he's in control. we saw ukraine denying that, claim the kremlin. then you know, walking back that assertion, so they've been a lot of conflicting reports about who really is in charge there. what we do know for sure about sali dondo is that the intense fighting there has absolutely devastated. bought solid are 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 scoring the landfill and the governor off that danielle danielle region where sounded, art is located a said more than 80 percent of the town has been destroyed. and this is a small town or small mining town. why is it so important?

that's true 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 moore, 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 moved as absolutely key to its broader bush, of occupying the entire dawn must region and a thise, you know, a what solid r o capturing solider as a way of getting there some solid are could afford oak awful, its troops, a new beast, a new attack position for, for its troops because that big sounded out is within a it's an utterly would, would be within range of buckled sonya, thank you very much. our correspondence. sonya folic other in chief 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, dating back to the 1970 s, but chose not to disclose them. the researchers say their findings amount to a smoking gun. exxon denies the accusations. more on this i spoke to stefan of arms dog. he's a climate scientist at the pots, damaged trooper climate impact research. the teamed up with harvard university to publish the study about exxon mobil. he told us what exxon knew about global warming, but failed to reveal. well, we examined some internal papers as well as technical journal publications by some scientists since the 1970s, which 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 fuels. learning that the excellent scientists presented and we compared these climate projections to observations and the projections were that there would be a warming by 0.2 degrees celsius per decade. which is pretty much exactly what happened and of course they predicted that before there was any 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 have a science historians and they have in the past, published about the verbal content of these papers and compared it 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

a 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 4th out in courts in the coming decades. stephane, thank you very much. that was stuff in rom, store of climate scientist at the pots, them institute for climate impact research. now to peru, where a teenager shot during anti government protests died on thursday, bringing the death toll from a month of violent unrest. 249. since december protesters are supporters rather of ousted president. pedro costeo had marched and barricaded streets in the south american country, demanding new elections and removal of current liter dina watson. they carried more coffins and edges of their unwanted 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 were being killed, it's a total massacre. my 2nd book back in to school, the ancient capital of the inca empire. the caskets were real. locals bid a public farewell to a killed protector. elsewhere in the city clash is broke out. yet again, police 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 a page after he tried to seize emergency powers to evade impeachment,

over sleeves allegations. the insuring crisis has rocked the country. mark kosky, spain was protesting at the airport when he was killed. was these young ladies, but had only shot him? i don't know who gave the orders illegal. good. now we want those responsible for his death to pay for us on this by so much like marcus, 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, the 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. you only days before she was at graceland, the home she inherited from her father elvis presley, crown said, gathered to mark what would have been his 88th birthday. you keep saying you're the only people that can bring me out of my house. not to 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. but that ended 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 that 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. you are watching the w news. just reminder the top story were following for you. russia says its forces have taken control of solid are and eastern new cranium town seen as a stepping stone into the dorm bus region. ukraine denies the claim and says severe product is ongoing doc film. as of next, i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. departure into the unknown. to day. this means flying to a foreign planet. in the 16th century it meant being a captain and setting sail to discover a route.