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america man is killed in a drive by shooting in the west bank, the latest victim of a surge of violence in the region. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. ukrainian forces are describing the situation in the eastern city of buck, mood as extremely tense, as russian troops step up their assault. they say that russia is trying to cut ukrainian supply lines to the city in order to force them to surrender or withdraw . now buck mood has become the scene of the longest running battle in russia's year long invasion. the fiercely contested area has become a symbol of ukrainian persistence. taking bach mood would be a major win for moscow even though it holds little strategic value.

c, w correspondent, nick connelly joins us from keith so. so nick, ukraine has been sounding increasingly urgent about the situation in back. more can you bring us up to date on the fighting there to we just heard from one of ukraine's top generals who said that the russians are basically throwing everything they have at, but not including some of their best prepared units that this has been on the caused some time now, but it does seem increasingly desperate for ukraine's defenders or did you. but what we understand by some of waterleaf, there's only one remaining route in and out from ukrainian control cherokee. up to recently there were 2, and there has been a lot of talk of getting out while it's still possible avoiding being in circles. we understand the u. s long pressure and key of to get out. they think that basically the kind of cost benefit analysis doesn't work out. the basic ukraine can't do enough damage to russian forces at, you know, reasonable price and cost to itself in terms of, you know, people on the ground and tech. so there's a sense that this could be the beginning of the end for ukraine, controlled back. but for now that there could be a withdrawal ahead,

but it certainly has been, as you mentioned, a very symbolic city, something we've had zalinski talking about time and time again. cit, calling it a ukrainian fortress and it would be a blow in terms of kind of public opinion, the symbolism. so what would it mean, ben, if, if it were indeed to fall to the russian senior thank are for both sites i think in terms of the actual strategic significance, it's less crucial. this is not as major transport hub. this is not the major ministry of hub. those cities in the dumbass region are still a couple of dozen kilometers further away and still more firmly in ukrainian control. but certainly it would be something that the criminal be very happy about indeed of to months of, of defeats losing psych, verizon bits of hot give region would be the 1st thing they could really sell their domestic audience as a success. but i don't think you would really change the course of the war. this is about similar than we've seen time time again. like last summer, when russia spent huge numbers of lives on gainst is like this, a chance in blue hunt region that russia is all kind of focused on its own domestic opinion. and he has some kind of picked up some turn that victories up. she's costs

to its own force in terms of law. last, let's talk a little bit about our ukraine's partners on the united states. for example, us treasury secretary was in key on monday, president biden in the country last week. what should we make of these visits now? i think this is basically a lot more importantly people are given it kind of credit for ukraine is basically about based on this and it's half dependent for its budget on foreign money. so this is crucial to keep the country running. and it's also about making sanctions what and preventing russia from building new weapons. this is very important but very scarce on detail in terms of things that were announced to public but certainly visit was waited for for a long time and key of and that is, you know, very important terms of allowing you crank, keep fighting the place like but what it connolly and keith, thank you. and here's a list of some other stories making headlines. supporters of prominent russian opposition figure boris themself have commemorated the 8th anniversary of his

murder. the 55 year old was assassinated at this spot near the kremlin. even though 5 men were convicted in connection with his killing, num suvs, allies still describe the case as a cover of china has criticized a u. s. deadline giving federal employees 30 days to remove the popular chinese owned app, tick tock from government devices. beijing says that the u. s. is abusing national security powers to suppress foreign companies. the u. s. ban was sparked by fears the app could be used for spying by the chinese government. the e, when the u. k have reached agreement over post regs at trading rules for northern ireland, european commission president ursula underline and british prime minister richie soon act we adopted the deal after meeting in london. the so called windsor framework is designed to ease the flow of goods between britain to put and northern

ireland but turned out to the middle east where there has been more violence in the occupied west bank. this time here, the city of jericho and his really american man has been killed in his car during a drive by shooting. is really forces say that palestinian gunmen targeted several vehicles before seeing the scene. the incident comes a day after 2 israelis were killed by a palestinian in the west bank town of horror. and was really settlers responded by attacking palestinian homes and property in the area, killing one palestinian man or correspondent record rebecca ritter's file. this report another stand off on the streets of horror, just as we arrive. so does this is riley settler, who gets out of his car to confront a group of palestinians surrounded by the foreign press. israeli soldiers intervene painting the still really high

hearing who are always standing at the entrance to the can even say that increase military presence. this is one of the minds are trying to get from the settlement of it to jerusalem and a using and you can see the cars honking every time a car come through. he threw his provocation. really, it feels like anything could happen on sunday. a palestinian gunmen shot dead to his riley brothers in this town, which led to a revenge attack by israeli settlers rampaged through the streets, torching cars and houses. one palestinian was shot dead in the violence for others badly injured. my loss of shirt, i left the shop to pick up one of my employees and i saw a coal 100 settlers setting fire to it. they burned the container, but the warehouses burnt, the storehouse for electrical appliances and destroyed the house of that sort of

old doctor didn't leave. anything good book has tensions escalate. israel security minister has urged citizen restraint. go to her meal. i want to comment on what happened in john hora, the how long i mean, i understand the hard feelings, but this isn't the way of our we call take the law into our own hands. look him at the hawkeye. instead he said it should be israel's government and security forces who quote, crush the enemy. fresh reports have now emerged from jericho. also in the occupied west bank, a suspected palestinian gunmen shot dead. another is riley, all this turmoil erupting on the heels of an emergency summit in jordan, where his riley and palestinian officials agreed on measures to try to cool things down. but the ongoing violence, putting any efforts of de escalation on shaky ground and correspondent

rebecca read hers ah, filed that report, joins us now from jerusalem. rebecca, how did you experience the situation in hora? well, the situation is nothing short of tense as you saw in that report. sarah, you know the who are is a thoroughfare, it is, it is a town that is frequented by settlers to use. they use the road that goes through the town to get to settlements. as i explained in the piece to get to settlement on the other side. so they coming in direct contact with palestinians. and so it is a place that was, is considered a hot boy. we often see some settler violence there, but nothing like the scenes of sunday night where hundreds of settlers rampage through the town burning houses and cars, property and abusing the palestinians in the town. that's almost unprecedented. people are saying here that that level of violence and the tensions aren't simmering. it remains the case there that really as i said in the piece,

it feels as though anything could happen. we saw several accounts and not just the one that we showed there, of, of settlers abusing people as they drove through the town. and there was an increased military presence there certainly all the way lining the streets and, and actually the idea stopped us from trying to get through to, to speak with some of the settlers on the other side. they were holding settlers that weren't in cars, back from entering the town. so you know, very tense. it does feel like anything could happen. and as we left who are, and we're coming back towards jerusalem, there were groups of settlers on, on many of the street corners kind of hosting. they've many protests as of almost apparently waiting for, for some kind of action waiting, fur, fur, fur for something to happen. so definitely a very tense time, time, then sure, and what efforts are being made to reduce the risk of further escalation, given that atmosphere a warmer of course, seeing all the calls come from all the international bodies as is expected,

has been going on for some weeks the un holding a 3rd, a security council meeting about the security council meeting later today to try and discuss the situation to try and call for further com. the u. the u. s. are also calling for com, the e u r. we were seeing even israeli defense, the defense spokesman calling you know, to try to deescalate the situation as we saw on sunday, their efforts being made. there was a special summit being held in jordan to try to calm the situation. there were some positive things that came out of that, particularly there's really agreement to not continue building settlements or putting a hold on settlement expansion for some time. but directly after that we had prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying that absolutely there was going to be no pause to settlements. and we had security minister to my bend. we're saying what happens in jordan's days and jordan? so definitely a confused messaging there. and it just doesn't see, this is all coming on the back of 2022, which was the most violent year. this place is seen in some decades almost as the

end of the 2nd intifada. this year is looks to be worse. so far. we've seen already in the west bank some 60 palestinians killed this year with him now that are the right the tally of israelis killed a 14 after another shooting yesterday yesterday in jericho. so simmering tensions we've got ramadan, the holy muslim festival coming up soon. and every one expecting it to be an incredibly violent time. rebecca readers in jerusalem. thank you. now early results in nigeria has general election show bola to new bo, of the ruling, all progressive congress in the lead to replace outgoing president mohammed ducari . but half the country states have still to report their results and to lose 17 rivals in this race are holding on my jury as tightest elections since the end of military rule. in 1999 has been marred by violence, delays,

and allegations of fraud 3 front reynolds and all 3 se they're winning nigeria election but with delays and disruptions since saturday. the result is fall from cleo. people are getting impatient and increasingly voted from a hospice in a week d lithonian. i wouldn't. i wouldn't also do a lot about repore on hor, good outdoor video, because really the selection will briggs law that might be, it would bring up, but it will go to my job. this is considered the tightest presidential race in la geo, since it ended military rule in 1999. but experts observing the election said voting over the weekend was affected by pool organization was african lit either of orlin officials, 14 martinos. and in some cases,

the delivery overall no materials at horns, visuals across the country, just by good that has also been violence in several states. in one case, on sunday in lagos, a group of men pretended to be electoral officials. i did and stormed into the voting center and attacked twice. one, i meant to say also there have been a few reports of ballad snatching and many complains of the electronic voting system that nigeria is using for the 1st time. political leaders have urged the electron commission to declare results soon to feel that for the delays will dampen public trust and incite or more violence. we do not want this. we want peace in our country. we want the, you know, a credible election. we want

a all to come together outside your in a make this thing work. the security challenges will have to be tackled by the new president. once nigerians know who that will be and with that now you're up to date on seed of the news up next is business with my colleagues stephen beardsley will be looking at a prominent chinese banker who went missing. and the fallout for his company was always more on the web site, d, w dot com. you can also follow us on social media. i'm sarah kelly in berlin. thank you for watching. ah ah, every jenny is full of surprises. we've gone all out to give you some tips one day in the footsteps of who rigby morgan i'm in europe.