imagine he's teaching or elements to ah, legacy starts january 20th on b, w ah, ah, ah, the c w news line from berlin brush. as defense, ministry says it's forces have taken control of soul adar. ukraine denies the claim and says it's troops are still there. the eastern ukrainian town could be strategically important for russia in the don bass region. also coming up an explosion hit a key natural gas pipeline. in central lithuania,

the operator says no one was injured and there is no immediate evidence of an attack. a new research finds oil giant exxon made highly accurate predictions about global warming back in the 19 seventies and then spent decades dismissing the science to protect its own bit. football fever has swept over iraq as the nation host fif us golf club. once again, it's the 1st time in over 40 years that iraq has hosted the turn events offer fee for lifted their band on iraq hosting international match. ah, i'm to call for a link to our viewers on p b. s in the united states and all around the world. of course it's good to have you with us. russia claims it's forces have captured the town of sola dar in eastern ukraine. if true. this would mark

a rare victory for moscow after months of set backs for its troops, ukraine's military leaders have rejected the claim saying its soldiers are holding the russian advance. the battle is ongoing, 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 learning of a complete control. so it makes it possible to cut off the supply lines of the ukrainian forces located in the southwest of back moot, then to block and enclose the ukrainian units located there in a pocket one. actually those claims have been swiftly rejected by

ukrainian forces who say their soldiers are holding the line. the loss of solid down would be a major setback for ukraine after months of successes and retaken towns and territories. but the fighting comes at a high cost for live. it's close gone, but we have gunshots. yeah, we have for grenades, shrapnel wounds and so on. so this kind of wounds in the 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 or in a moron as a defense analyst with london's king's college. and i asked her

a short while ago about the military significance of solid r. well, 1st of all, thank you for having me. well, 1st of all, for russia, it was politically important to take full adar because that will increase the morale of the army after so many setbacks. and in military terms, the plan was to take solid are and then to take book moved to basically cut off and ukrainians, logistics, and advanced the words from the doors cancel events. so some russian military analysts point out that there are tillery, you would be able to reach from a tourist. it remains to be seen. i don't think that it's within the range, however, it would give them a stronghold there. and at the same time, as has been pointed out to defenses of the ukrainian forces might suffer

a collapse in that region because that's right in the middle. so they will have to fall back to you as a position. and so, militarily, it would be a sad back and also it would affect them morale of the ukrainian forces, especially because the korean government said that's all it wasn't that important. and then the question is, why were those troops there? and why hasn't the illusion? it was drones troops as he wanted to, but the landscape didn't let him do that. so there are a lot of questions in terms of how the ukrainians will handle it. and what impact it will have. russia has acknowledged that the wagner mercenary groups efforts were crucial in this mission. how remarkable is that? well, i guess there is no wiser way, but to acknowledge the fact that warner was responsible for this because there was this ref between precaution and the general staff. and so precaution was claiming

that the only wagner fighters have taken solid hours without any reinforcements from, from the regular troops. and he's been posting video. so at some point, if the ministry of defense keeps on lying and it has done it on, on repeat it occasions, it might lose its credibility. so it has to sometimes tell the truth because all evidence points, interior and other directions. so that, that was an important staff for them to kind of, you know, admit that wagner is actually militarily, perhaps more effective than the russian forces. there's been a lot of talk this week about whether or not ukraine's western allies are going to send battle hangs. poland has offered but won't do it alone and needs term and approval. and no one else has yet stepped forward. so why do you think we're seeing this hesitant still? well, that would be the 1st time that the western allies would be sending something to

ukraine that is not designed for defense rather, for attack and britain has been talking about sending the challenger to to ukraine. however, we should interpret it as more of a political gesture as a way to kind of open the floodgates for these kinds of weapons and equipment tend to ukraine. because essentially, up to this point, ukraine has received the equipment to defend itself, but not to attack. and the reason why is that you case gesture is symbolic. 10 challengers will create more problems for ukraine than anything else because they need an additional supply line for the special ammunition to the, to be so munition that these tanks are using. and they will have to integrate them into their system. so you can just use the tank on its own. you will need to have

a platoon of tanks, was to have 3 infantry platoons. so it is very difficult. but again, politically, it is important because that might had a precedent and you know, it will help to test reaction. marina moran from london, kings college. thank you so much for all those insight. thank you. an explosion has damaged a key natural gas pipeline in northern, in lithuania, flames up to 50 meters high, were seen shooting from the amber grid pipeline operators said it's no indication sabotaged, but that supplies to northern lithuania, neighboring lot, could be disrupted. no injuries have been reported, but a nearby village has been evacuated. and i spoke earlier with the w corresponding constantine i got in vilnius. i asked him to tell us more about the explosion. well, the explosion happened round about 5 p. m. local time. flames were very high about 50 meters. i think, as you said, and frankly speaking,

i've been living in lithuania now for more than 8 years. and i haven't seen a far like that in my life. it's here it's, it's, it was quite gets grad, scary, scary, frankly, speaking of bots there, ronald casualties indeed and a, basically the authorities were quite quick to react and to organize trust, but roundabouts end evacuation, which was actually not a massive of the fire now is much lower and it's interesting that the authorities are saying that the repairs may start up maybe already next day. and they hope that a gas, oh, which, which is contained within an 18 kilometer section of the pipeline by that time will completely burn out. that is and must fool for repairs. the operator is that so far there is no indication of sabotage. what else could have caused a blast of that magnitude?

well, i think that the investigation will show it, but indeed what the ah, what the operator said immediately is that no sub with our respect suspected because in lithuania, which is a frog lance they bouldering putting friendly bella ruse up. this kind of idea is the 1st thing that comes to mind. uh, but uh, what the or operator of the company called ember. greet are described is that the pipeline is quite old. it was built in 1978 and it's, it is a, it hidden on the ground so essentially sabotaging it will demand quite an effort you know, to dig up and, and minded. so um, what they're saying is that they suspect some kind of for now more technical reason also will saying is does it impact will not be felled? because basically like you can log into a 2 year. boy, there is another pipeline which kind of doubles up as

a supply route. so basically northern lithuania and southern lot via will probably as the oh group as a says will not be affected. also, there is not far away. there is a guess storage tank which will probably pump guess out into the neighboring regions while the main line is being repaired. that was constantine aga, joining us from villainy us with the latest on that pipeline blast. thank you so much and have a look now. some other stories making headlines around the world today, swedish climate activist gretta tumor has appeared at protest and germany against the demolition of a village being cleared to allow open cast coal mining. to criticize the police operation to remove people from that set up in the west of the country, germany has extended its use of cold power generation in the past year. due to the energy crisis occurred in greece has dropped espionage charges against rescue workers who help migrants across the mediterranean sea. the defendants faced up to

8 years in jail for spying and forgery. the case was widely criticized by human rights groups. the united nations said it set a dangerous precedent. german government has called on russia to provide urgent medical assistance to jailed kremlin critic alec sane. of omni his family and supporters say they are increasingly distressed about his health and not he's being denied. care of ami is serving a 9 year sentence at a penal colony north of moscow. 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 and the journal science as exxon mobil scientist knew about the risks of fossil fuels from the 1970s, but chose not to disclose them. the researchers say their findings amount to a quote, smoking gun. exxon denies the accusations and for more on this,

we spoke to stefan and i'm stuff. 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 fail to reveal well, we examined some internal papers as well as technical journal publications by some scientists since the 1970s, which are the internal papers have come to live 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 well exactly what happened. and of course, they predicted that before there was any clear observational evidence that there was even blown. the german and french foreign ministers have called on the african union to condemn russian aggression in ukraine and elena bab, oak and catalina colonna are on a joined visit. teeth yoga, but their calls for solidarity against russia are likely to receive a mixed reception on the continent. several countries in africa, and heavily on russian support and have been reluctant to distance themselves from moscow. at today's meeting with the african union commission chair, muso funky mohammed, and a lena bear book and cutting colona insisted on more intensive european african cooperation. the foreign minister is called for solidarity against russia's war of aggression against ukraine. but many african countries do not want to distance

themselves from russia. one of these is ethiopia, which relies on russia for arm supplies. they did not agree to various you in resolutions against russia last year. there is, however, a common course regarding the un security council, which deals predominantly with african conflicts. the ag was calling for reform, bare bach agrees. we are supporting 2 permanent seats in the security council, also for the african continent. after 2 years of civil war, the host country, ethiopia, is now in a peace process. following yesterday's meeting with ethiopian head of government, abbey ultimate, the foreign ministers are now optimistic that the government is on the right track . in november, the ethiopian government and the t great people's liberation front had agreed on a peace deal by then up to half a 1000000 people had been killed and 2000000 displaced in the conflict. the

warranty gray was triggered when abby office took power in 2018 and excluded members of the t. great people's liberation from, from his ruling coalition. until then, they had dominated africa's 2nd most populous country. for 3 decades. their discontent turned into a revolt. and eventually, a full blown conflict, sparking one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. millions of people are starving. hospitals have been damaged or destroyed. water, electricity, and medicines are in short supply. but now urgently needed, aid is flowing. once again, telephone and internet connections are being restored for the europeans, ethiopia is once again a potential partner since the cease fire. but the foreign ministers are demanding that the east african country come to terms with the consequences of the civil war . teenage her shot during anti government protests and peru died on thursday,

bringing the death toll from a month of violent unrest to $49.00. since december supporters of our president pedro castillo, have marched and barricaded street across the south american country, demanding new elections, and the removal of current leader, dean up on the warranty. they carried more coffins and effigies 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 without these 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 look back into school. the ancient capital of the inca empire, the caskets were real muscles, bid a public farewell to

a killed protector. elsewhere in the city, clashes blue coat, yet again, please fire to your gas. protesters responded with stones on slingshot fire. by night, the violins escalated. the turmoil was triggered by the arrest of former president pedro castillo last mano, feel in a page after he tried to seize emergency powers to evade impeachment over sleeves allegations the insuring this has wrought the country. marcus kingston was protesting at the airport when he was killed. these young ladies, but only shows him, i don't know who gave the orders illegal, but now we want those responsible for his death to pay for it by him. but so much like marcus most of the victims hail from working class heartlands loyal to casteel

communities. united in recent weeks in protest or in grief, and sometimes bo and some other stories. prosecutors in japan have formerly charged a man suspected of assassinating former prime minister sions, obey the suspect. we'll now stand trial after aba was shot during a campaign speech last july. police say the man confessed to carrying out the killing because of abe's rumored links to a religious group. south korean authorities are seeking criminal charges against 23 officials over a deadly crush as people celebrate 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 revelers got trapped in a narrow alley way. germany's economy grew by

1.9 percent in 2022, according to the latest data country managed to stave off a full recession last year with the economy performing better than expected that despite supply chain problems. russia's war in ukraine and high energy price is acting as a drag on growth. good . after 33 years, international football has returned to iraq fif are banned iraq from hosting international matches. after leader saddam hussein ordered the invasion of kuwait in 1990. the band was lifted last year and now iraq is hosting the much watched golf club tournament this month. ah, after decades of waiting, iraqi fans are celebrating the return of international football. iraq is hosting the gulf cup for the 1st time since 1979. the year it won its 1st of 3 titles in

the competition political harbor one who lives here and busted out was so excited about the gulf cup that when the tickets were posted online, they were sold out in just a few hours clean. and i sat when i did that fee for band iraq from hosting internationals after the invasion of kuwait, the band was only fully lifted last year. and now locals in the host city. boshra are excited to show the world a brighter, lighter side of life in a country emerging from 3 decades of up evil. i won't have been known. i will allow them, we want to show the world our life is more than just war. we have another part of our life that's beautiful apart that loves happiness, life and positivity. and that's the most important thing with the fall is the hot issue and the iraqi government has cancelled standard $200.00 visa fees to try and further encourage foreign fans global lesson. on that along, we used to hear a lot of things about iraqi yell of me, but when we came here,

our view totally changed home on there is security and for the our journey to get here was safe. we feel as if we were in kuwait little up at a time sensitive to the quick iraqi fans are hoping to see their team succeed in basra is brand new stadium. just as importantly they want the world to feel at home as they resume their role as international hosts. really respect your rocky football federation ambassador nava. i'll dub i'm. she's at hosting a golf club is an important step for the development of football in her country. i mean, gulf coast is actually looking into hosting, hopefully that asia and that's also a huge thing. obviously it will open up more more cities within iraq that would be hosting a tournament, a huge impact that this has had on the country. and the also impacts from the other nations. now we want all the arrows and even a just to be

a part of this. and hopefully we look forward to hosting an even a year. and let's get you caught up on some other sports stories around the world. the short list for the fee fuzz best awards have been announced and argentina features heavily after their when at the world cup. you know, messy leave the men's player awards while england is well represented on the women's side, including coach that you know vague months she led england to last year's european championship title and antennas. cameron nori has pushed through to the final of the 80 p auckland classic a warm up tournament for next week's australian open nori. ring to 12 in the world was born in auckland, new zealand. but now hailed from britain, he scrambled past american jensen be on friday and will next play the show. in the final over on the australian open courts, germany's top tennis player alex,

and it's me, it was hitting balls with a guy who could still be germany's top basketball player, former and be a all star dirk nowitzki, grew up playing tennis and still follows the game closely, you proved a strong hitting partner with if one of the top challenges and australian open whiskey gave up tennis to focus on basketball eventually winning and n b a title. a 1st match in melbourne is on tuesday. 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, crowd 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 lost it only a few months. she had 4 children in total, one of her sons, benjamin,

died by suicide in 2020 ah priestly for wished 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. and here's a quick reminder of the top stories we're following for you today. russia says this

forces have taken control of soul adar and eastern ukrainian town seen as a stepping stone into the don bass region. according denies the claim and says severe fighting is ongoing. and explosion has damaged a key natural gas pipeline. in northern lithuania, the grid operator said there were no injuries and no immediate signs of an attack. but fledge to investigate all possible causes. a new research has found that oil giant exxon made highly accurate predictions about global warming decades ago, and went on to publicly deny climate science. the company's being accused of purposefully misleading the public in order to protect his business at the planet's expense with us. now after a short break, i'll be back to take you through the day hope with a with

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