ah, ah ah, this is dw news life from berlin. the toll of the fearsome battle waged for you, cranes down bos region where thousands have died. as the war nears the one year mark, our correspondence here is from an exhausted ukrainian soldier, unjust, but tribes. friend for example, died from until they died for you crazy. so now it's my duty to fight for you. you praise and to build you. you craig also coming off a catastrophic landslide at an open pit. coal mine in china. at least 4 are dead

with some 50 people missing. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. we began in ukraine a year ago as the russian invasion loomed. we met a military veteran in keith who told us about his fears of being sent to fight. anton combat had already seen action in dumb boss in 2014. when pro russian separatist annexed part of the region, he was not looking forward to fighting again. now one year after meeting, anton for the 1st time d w's funny. the char and her team found him back in uniform. this time in the dawn ask region near the front line. we are near to don. yes. frontline. and heading closer. just 15 kilometers from the russians. well,

within range of their artillery, it's a very dangerous road to take. we are like now in the combat zone. so the roads, you know, roads are like venus was blot of war. and every one understand that. and that's why her old saw always under some surveillance and of course shelling, if i will get wounded or get killed so i couldn't drive any more. you're just drawn away from the car. antoinette, his unit are here to defend these people. the last, once still so close to the russians, they are bracing for the russian offensive. was still hoping for the fighting to stop here right yet, meta jake. but do every one once people living with these explosions, it's so allows you to know where it's coming from. where it will land when it all might be over. you could definitely do that. you meant of sure. jacqueline, sure to those ne whitfield, they should start negotiations because spilling blood is

a big sin before god. and people need to realize the sooner the better. who do those now? dumont's chambers. 3 image. oh, wait. anton has set up a makeshift headquarters in an abandoned home. from here he coordinates his unit and tries to recruit new soldiers for the fraud. but it's all getting harder. b, people just tired. we are fighting almost whole year without any stop or we, we don't have any rotations. we don't have any locations. are actually the only the only chance to get rest for a month or 2 is to get wounded. which is for 2 days before rushes full scale invasion, we met until at home in keith. back then, he was working in veteran affairs, a devoted husband, and father to a 2 year old. anton worried, the army might call him up if russia really invaded. my wife actually is very

narrow, narrow about that and she is a freight. i understand that actually, i'm also afraid. mostly it may be, i'm afraid, moreland, sure. i remember, but he was also ready to leave and defend ukraine if necessary. right? the rock, what choice do i have actually to do my song leave under slavery or fractions? well, i'm not saying that they will sit and slave him, but i understand that he will live in different country and i won't if it will happen. so he knows that his father made everything everything. so that won't him. he's only seen his family for 3 days since then. 008 reminds me of why we are fighting for 1st of all. so, but of course it is very emotional. you fully understand that every day actually can be a last day, or he prefer not to tell us how many of his comrades have had their last days. many,

he says, my friends, for example, died for something. so they died for ukraine. so now it's my duty to leave also for them and to be for, to fight for you. you great. and to build new ukraine high enough. anton tells us not to stay with him for long. shelling can started any time, basically when it geo, when he tanks, when it went on, when he had to airplanes when it, everything actually and so right now he'll on the bus. we are buying time by lifes . if we leave until in the wars, don't we're time and lives are starting to run short for many ukrainians. life has changed completely since russia invaded the country earlier, i had the chance to speak with journalists all yet shandra who was pregnant. when russia invaded ukraine, about how her life has changed in the past year. well,

we stayed a little bit and ukraine then went to germany to the family. so i could give for and then when the baby was around 5 months old, we returned back to ukraine. and now we live in our home and key of oh yes, we're you know, all the time, but it was germany. i long to go back. i felt like i was out of place because of all the things that my country's going through and it felt a little bit like i was another reality was very hard to communicate to people are living in a peaceful country what it is to be at work it's very hard to keep the focus on this, this terrible tragedy that i've been holding and to keep insisting and to compete for their attention. and i can understand now that the number 3 approaches it is,

it becomes more and more harder to keep attention on ukraine. so right now we're trying to work against that. we're trying to remind the world of this work not be forgotten cotton, but the green you all can take in order to defeat russia. you mentioned the anniversary to morrow is indeed the anniversary of russia's invasion. and i'm wondering how you're looking at the stay in particular and how concerned you are that flattery pollutant might use it as a symbolic day to make a major announcement. for example, another mobilization worse. well, you know, over here we have seen that initial predictions that kid would fall, that they were totally, they were totally wrong. we saw that a remarkable resistance of the green and people that nobody could have believed. and we also saw that the russian army was not as

strong as larger markets in both that so we're not worried that she would launch something remarkably different because we're seeing that the she's completed lot of enough force for that. she doesn't have the power to watch and other invasion cubic cetera. but what is going through like a life in here right now, it's remarkably peaceful apart. computational missile strikes, it is very funny and gorgeous today. and the war it's present in thing. small thing like and bomb shelter. the children go to school, they go into the bomb shelter, returned the air alarm sound. it was present and funeral of ukrainian soldier, whole members of the central cathedral. but at the same time, you know, it's every single day that goes through the more and more people

die in the box and ukraine is just forced to sub for it's like to pause and progress and what we would like more. and we know that ukraine can win, no other option can work for us because we're fighting for our existence of nations . so what we're hoping for the world will keep supporting ukraine and give us the tools that we need to defeat russia. because the greatness shown over the time that it didn't do remarkable things. we could have given western support to where, hoping that the support will be going strong. and then finally get things like long range missiles. what will get things like more battle tanks and jump? what we want to thank you so much, unfortunately, have to leave it there. shondra, editor in chief of euro. my don press be we thank you so much for joining us here in the w news to share your story. thank you. and hear us

mother stories making headlines. un secretary general antonio good headache has told an emergency session of the un general assembly that russia's recent threats to use nuclear weapons are unacceptable. you attended was referencing moscow's implicit threat to use so called tactical nuclear weapons and ukraine. the u. n. was meeting to mark the upcoming one year anniversary of moscow's invasion worth of nigeria as presidential candidates have signed a piece. pledge, promising to seek redress through the courts for any grievances. the move aims to quell fears that a close pole may trigger violence. saturday's vote is tip to be the country's most credible election since military rule ended in 1999. in china sections of a huge open pit coal mine collapsed on wednesday, claiming 4 lives with 49 people still missing. the mine is in china's inner

mongolia region, which is a major producer of coal, c. c t. v footage captured the moment that the catastrophic land 5 took place. hundreds of emergency helpers were sent to the region. a rescue operations were suspended on thursday after a further landslide inside the mine. china relies heavily on coal for energy generation and mines have been urged to increase production. corresponding fabian crutch. marie told us more about the ongoing rescue efforts in northern china. yeah, after the college of the land or coal mine are roughly 900 rescue workers have been assigned for the ever creations and efforts. and i mean the main, a collapsed yesterday local time, one p. m. and several hours after that there was an additional lance light. so the rescue operation had to herb was forced to a stop. they could are, continue this morning and on the latest is set up for people are debt

a 6 are injured, and 49 are still missing. they're still trapped within their mine and in the minus . located really in the heartland of the chinese call industry in north and china. that's a very desert at area in inner mongolia. so i really am not so much settlement, sir, and i think it is really not so easy to mobilize. so many people on the spot. why did the mine collapse? yeah, that's a good question and there's no official explanation. and the am company are doesn't answer phone calls about. we know that the actually the company who runs the mind and was several times term fine for violations of safety standards, for example, or unsafe or storage of our volatile materials. and from previous experience, we know that and often, you know, it's explosions were causing deadly incidence. in coal mines and china has a long history of yard deadly industrial m exo. dance will basically have increased

recently after and the other. a economy has been opened after 2 and a half years of 0, colbert. and right now, there's a lot of pressure to make profits again, that could have played a role in to earn this accident. but simply, we don't know yet. there's really no official explanation yet, but the government says it is investigating and m e r will bring the latest soon. correspondence had the encroachment in beijing. thank you. is really aircraft had attacked targets in the gaza strip after rockets launched by palestinian militants from garza struck targets in israel. exchange of tax follows and is really raid in the occupied west bank, which left 11 dead and thousands more reportedly wounded. missiles streaked across the morning sky near garza, israel's military seas sic sprockets were fired my palestinian militants. 2 hours later, it responded with air strikes on an alleged ama site. the blast come

a day after a deed, the military operation by israeli forces in the occupied waste bank. the morning right reduced this building to rabble. israel's millet treated the operation, was aimed at arresting militants accused of planning and carrying out attacks. it claims israeli soldiers shot back after coming under fire, but did not suffer any casualties. while the raid unfolded, palestinians came out onto the street and confronted the troops. dozens of people are reported to have been injured, as well as those killed. roger and another surprised at 9 30 in the morning when i heard explosion as walk, people said there are special forces for the 100. so a large number of israeli soldiers storm the whole area a little more. we stayed in the house and i didn't know what was going on on that budget. just last month, another ride in the city of janine also ended with teen. people killed these who

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