ah ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin in ukraine. the battle for batman is entering a crucial phrase. the head of the park mercenary group says units have almost completely surrounded the city. and there's only one road left out, while ukrainian troops dig in, residents are packing and leaving. also in the program

a day of global protests, it's picked up in sydney as thousands of young people take to the streets around the world to demand urgent action to counter climate change. plus unseasonably. low rainfall in europe is exposing some rarely seen sites. but the current drought could harold, another devastating year for crops and energy supply and in sports hits a game changing year for formula one, an old female f one academy has been established with the women's 1st re scheduled for april. ah hello m terry martin. thanks for joining us. the founder of russia's mercenary wagner group has claimed his spiders have nearly so,

and that the eastern ukrainian city of buffalo, new trenches have appeared in villages surrounding battle city as ukrainian forces prepare for russians, advance residents living in the area have also started to leave their homes on thursday, this video was posted online purporting to show wagner soldiers celebrating a top of a ruined building in the east of the city. it's not known when this footage was felt issue a guy walk. wagner, unit studio have almost completely surrounded by food program. well, there is only one road out left. yes, pincers. you have come together. john, i know guy if previously it had been the professional ukrainian army who fought with us boys. today, we see more and more and elderly people and children nurses. they fight them.

but their life in back moot is very sure. one though 2 days you bike, you know what up let them leave the city. it is almost you surrounded was wrong. so is it just a matter of time before russian forces take bach mote, i put that question to d. w. correspond at nick connelly in keith. teresa bought distress that this valet group is known for pretty tall tales and bitten, never knowing under stating their achievements. but it does seem like a ukrainian controlled withdrawal could be on the called finally, after weeks and months of full starts. we'd heard in recent days other source talking about this one route out being left. and i don't see very, very difficult situation to be in. and the pundits talking about the fact that strategically, but what isn't that crucial? it is a lot less important as it is like slogans, comatose which is still safely within ukraine, held territory. and that this is near hope. see now

a crucial kind of symbolic when for the russians of the months of sex on their part . so their sense that this might now be the beginning of the end for ukraine control in buffalo for now we've just in the last couple of minutes, had some news that some ukrainian air drone surveillance units have been ordered to leave city. but of these kind of pullouts take time, they need to be safe. they need to get positions of can have fire power to protect soldiers leaving. so i think realistically, we're going to hear a little confirmation from the ukranian side of any to botch. obama when it's basically already happened. you mentioned a drone units. nick, there are numerous reports of a parent drone attacks inside russia, which moscow blames on ukraine. what are you hearing about them? was been pretty extraordinary. look at the map, the geography of these attacks that basically all across european russia. there was a butch instant. and even in st. petersburg, which is a long way away from ukraine's borders places within about a 100 clumps of moscow and then also all along russia's black sea coast for now the

ukrainians on confirming. but often you see, you know, official social media accounts, the training on the other official bodies posting pictures that put show these attacks with all kinds of smileys and other emoji. so there is a sense that they are hinting that they are behind this. and even if we can't quite gauge how successful these attacks have been, some of the damage done is already have effect is forcing russia to pull back its air defenses deep into its hinterlands to basically deprive his troops hildebrand ukraine of that protection. and it's also having a significant impact on public opinion back in russia. it seems like most russians were convinced that they were safe, especially if they went to moscow that basically this was a war that was far away and didn't have any impact on them unless they were being pulled up to fight. but now this is really having impact people really worried about quite how able vega is to protect them from potential ukraine attack. so like recruiting point of view, it is already having opposed effects already evening. kind of the olds and oldest enforcing rush. think about faith trending. its influence. nick,

thank you so much. that was our correspondence in the creator. oh, nick conley. thousands of ukrainian civilians have been killed in russian missiles struck sir, leaving relatives to grieve and to look after a young children orphaned by the war. dw is funny for char reports from keith. this family portraits shows alive that no longer exists. the father died of a heart attack just before the war. now the mother is gone to you. grandfather gregory is now in charge of the boy who was left behind was anyway, a special. i heard the explosion, so i was downtown at the time. did it on last year and then video started circulating on telegraph. need your properties, you'll see more. yeah. much as i started calling or to nibble, but there was no connection. and i knew it was her root. she would take it of all the time. it was october 10th when a rush and rocket hit,

oksana scoring keith grigory got to the scene quickly. security officers kept him away from the wreckage. this is good of shameless. they told me there's a burned car and human remains on the front seat and i asked, is there any one on the back seat? the answer was yes, everything is burnt in. it does nothing left except mattel casually. it's happened right here at this intersection. gregory was right. asana had been on the way to hospital where she worked as a cancer doctor. and the reason why there was nothing on the back seat. just before the attack, she had dropped off her child as kindergarten. today there is nothing left to remind people of the attack. the road is one of keeps busiest and was quickly patched off of san his family is only just starting to put the pieces together with a form in a townhome and it is the life i knew was over. and another one had started to deal

with the ocean building. but how do i carianne's crystal? what do i do next? at 1st it was very hard because i know that we can't give what a mother can with a chance. and then there was a moment of despair. what will we do? will we be able to do this? and then our realised that no matter watch, we have to do it in an effort to offer gracious some continuity his grandparents have kept oksana apartment and moved there to be with him. boom, he added, can we once, will the war be out for an i told him, yes, it will. will we? when i'm sure of it? i said, we'll all the soldiers come back. yes, they will. i said, and will mom be coming home? i have to tell him your mom won't be coming back from a position yet why gregory's consumed by the challenges of raising his grandson. his message is abroad. one without the from the thing is not every one has gone to remember my daughter. but it's important that they see the horrors that are

happening around us. look at the with what he's telling oksana story has become his attempt to call on the world to not become numb, to rush as brutality. and to understand what he does to families like his take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world today. better in human rights activist and nobel peace prize winner alice b elliot's, he has been sentenced to 10 years in prison by a court in belarus. he was charged with smuggling cash and a bell road to allegedly fond opposition activities. is supporters have called it a fake trial? prominent cambodian opposition figure cam. so car has been sentenced to 27 years house arrest after being found guilty of treason come so cause of fears, critic of long time prime minister when sen, the u. s. has condemned the case as politically motivated. us jury has found

prominent south carolina and lawyer alex murdoch seek guilty of murdering his wife and son. the jury deliberated for less than 3 hours before finding him guilty of 2 counts of murder. he faces 30 years to life in prison. the trial drew world one day . the search for bodies in one of greece's worst train crashes is expected to end to day. at least 57 people died after a passenger train crashed head on into a freight train near the city of larissa on tuesday night. meanwhile, a 3rd day a protest will be held across greece over poor railway safety. at 1st, light emergency services are back combing through the wreckage several people are still unaccounted for. 3 days after a fatal crash between a passenger train and a freight train. they were running on the same track. for those still waiting for

news of their locked ones, it's been in agonizing time through orders. the train company took down my name 4 times and still no one has called me back to mother. my people are dead right now. i've lost my brother. i've lost my father. must very men lily form, so they kindly waited for 4 hours for us to retrieve our dead. regarding my brother, of course, i don't know what i will retrieve, melted flesh on steel. i don't know. enjoy this. they don't know how to answer. they don't know anything. on thursday night, unions held a demonstration over rail safety standards outside the headquarters of the country's rail operator in athens. people also protested outside the greek parliament. and it wasn't just in the capital,

the streets of fest, alona key was filled with people angry that greece israel network has left so many dead strikes have also hit the country's rail. and some way networks a station manager has been charged in connection with the crash. it's yona love is assumed his share of the responsibility within the framework of the responsibility that he should have had and has a level you know beyond that. so what we can say at this point is that we shouldn't focus on the tree. when is a whole forest behind it, which will probably biking, roku of us. the government has promised a thorough investigation into the deadly collision. it also says it will fix the country's crumbling rail system. but that's little comfort to the victims of this disaster. and to those left behind pakistan is

facing arise and attacks by the pakistani taliban just last month, the militant storm, the police compound in karachi, the group is also suspected to be behind a suicide bombing in january that killed at least a 100 people in a mosque in pressure arm, the attacks herb increased since the group walked out of a piece deal with the pakistan government last november. since then they've been blame for at least a 100 attacks, most targeting police officers. that's left the government in a dilemma. how can pakistani citizens feel safe when police themselves do not? a police officer at this outpost impish hour in north western pakistan is kidded out with a rocket propelled grenade launcher. it's part of a new campaign to help security forces fight back against the space of attacks by pakistani taliban. it's one of dozens of scattered outposts in a zone where the police face almost daily assaults by militants. less i'm okay. was

up in pakistani taliban known as the t t p. a stepped up its activity, including the deadliest single attack on the force. a mosque bombing, the killed over 80 police in pasha are in late january these i post stand at the edge of the government's full control facing mountainous areas and their militant hide out along the afghan border. pasha are, is just over 50 kilometers from the afghan frontier through the khyber pass a key trade route and a strategic military location will almost a year deal with many of them would be the gigabyte. really, the biggest problem we face is the number of personnel, which is a little low. oh, if i just have you or i have a good number of weapons inside our ground floor store. he will know this is a targeted area and we're absolutely face to face with the militants. oh got you so

little, we windows or i interlude fuller lived in within to louisa, roger the the intensive training is aimed at boosting skills and morale. the number of police killed has been rising sharply up to 119 last year from 54 and 2021. more than 2100 personnel have been killed since 2001. the taliban stated aim is to impose islamic religious law in pakistan just as they did across the border. pakistani forces have scored a string of military victory since 2014, but taliban fighters were able to regroup. attacks on police officers have escalated since the hurried departure from afghanistan of nato forces in 2021. there has been disproportionately affected. that's a fact. i'm not going to sit and say that a has been given. busy on the prediction as much prediction as it can get. but the

trip that is emanated is a very unique nature. local police complained that they're underpaid and have a lower status than the pakistani army. electricity is in short supply plus, dealing with an insurgent and a suicide best is a daunting prospect. even for well trained, well equipped personnel. global day of climate action has begun including hundreds taking to the streets in australia. oh, news workers and i was holding the product for future movement have joined students in march across sydney, demanding that no more coal oil and gas projects be approve. protesters have also taken to the streets of rome and jakarta, and more strikes are expected in the us as well. there is also a climate protest taking place here in berlin and t w's. julius elderly joins me

from there. julia, what are the main demands of the protesters home? well, the focus here in berlin today is looking at how to transform the transport sector . and that is why do you agree with teachers and the unions? and that also goes alongside increasing the wages of transport workers, but also on the agenda today. a protest against our land, the, from the transport minister here in the trying to increase and up the building of new highways meant enough for cars. and also his threats to the approval at new level of the out of combustion engine goes by 2035 or you might want to block is with these strikes

julia are happening around the world today. what does the broader picture look like? i don't say, yeah, we've seen no protests happening everywhere. alia to other cities here in europe and the friday. her futures, as of the focus on, on lighting, against the financing of fossil fuels. fossil fuels like gold, like gas, like oil being and the main causes of a human behavior in climate change. and if we look at the broader context in 2022, our big oil companies are important is their biggest problem ever in the context where energy prices were affected by the world in your brain. and as in the protesters here, say the international energy agency itself says that there is and trying to start on a funding fossil road projects immediately if we wanted to reach the parents agreement, school of keeping the rise in global. we have richard uh below 1.5 degrees celsius

and that is what protesters here are colleagues more to name julian, thank you very much. shar corresponded julia so deli here in berlin. mit well, these protests come as fears grow about the long term impact of severe winter droughts being experienced across europe. rainfall is sharply down in many countries with wide ranging consequences for agriculture, energy, and more. all this comes after the worst summer drought in 500 years in europe. so how bad has the winter been and what does that mean for the coming months and years? this is what winter drought looks like across france, spain and italy, lakes and rivers, far below their normal level or dried up entirely. farm fields dry and dusty. this used to be an island in italy's lake, garda no longer. you are the so we live for 18 years and i've

never seen the lakes are dry. so i used to come here, but now it can walk. let's hope for rain. let's. let's put the chunk this year france sides longest winter period without rainfall on record. 32 days the alps have seen about half their usual snow. and italy's river po that feeds much of the country's agriculture is down 61 percent from normal. just one example, italy's rice harvest is threatened for the 2nd year in a row. since you still know consistent, there are problems you preventing plowing with the soil is so hard that the plows can cut through the earth will many know his data. let data, farmers are the only ones worried. the lack of snow means less snow melt, flowing into lakes and rivers in the coming months that will translate into less hydro power from dams,

as well as less cooling for nuclear reactors. france is developing an action plan to save water at the national level. number 2 is 151, a nation needs to do with water. what we have done with energy, a kind of sobriety plan, we all pay attention to this resource that is becoming rare. it's the end of abundant fund, fundable don't. but no matter how much people conserve more rainfall is necessary, the spring months will be crucial and meteorologist don't know how much rain will fall if there's not enough. europe may be set for yet another devastating dry season. or more in this we have a jet, ron john from d w environment here in the studio. just tell us how this drought is impacting people's lives. so when you have these really dry conditions taking winter where you don't expect that be much more rain and wet and that's generally in europe. it's a big alarms, warning sign for pharmacy,

particularly. it means that you're expecting you're starting the year off with what levels running low. i mean you got rid of beds drying up and that means that then when rain actually does fall, the ground is so hot that it can't really so cut the water. and so the problem really get entrenched from the very beginning of the year and continue throughout the year. but they also stretch well beyond just, i mean, food is one big aspect of it, but it goes everything from nuclear power plants that need water cooling are going to struggle hydropower electricity from from dan is also going to be an issue. so you get the massive impacts that we're just starting to see the warning signs all up at this stage in the year we heard the french president in that report we just watch calling for reduction in water usage. what else can government do to deal with this? so yeah, well the early stage of government plan, and i think it leads agriculture minister proposed that they would get some

aqueducts. i mean, if the famous, i guess in raymond, time for the big aqueduct, we're talking more about pipes to get what, from places where that might be a bit more of it type of weather a lot less. but beyond that, big of the things that government can do, and i mean on the one hand you've got stopping climate change to prevent droughts. picking mediterranean region from getting was on the other hand, adapting to the effects and the damage that's already causing is important to wells already 1.2 degrees hotter than it was before we start to bending fossil fuel. and that's also something where we need to adapt to the new well that we're living in. now we've seen extremely dry conditions here in europe and throughout the past year and even longer. how are things looking as we move into spring and summer? if i speak to a scientist from the europe, copernicus, satellites, climate monitoring center this morning, who told me that there, it's one of the problems with when the drought is that an increase of the risk of

service spring and summer droughts? which if you think back to the kind of image as we saw last summer of wildfires raging through france and spain and portugal and it'll in countries like this, it could really be very severe on top of that. even have the problem that having a bad summer drought increase of the strength of the wind to drought the following year. oh. and so this is a very connected less what we have in the place where it needs to be the 100 for these communities to adopt. doesn't look good angie, to thank you so much for now. our environment correspond edging around just now some sports and formula one racing hasn't featured a female driver since 1976. now the sports organizers are trying to change that with a new f one academy, an all female racing series to help young women move up the motor sport ladder soon . the sport could see women competing alongside men. for the formula, one world championship. maria graziano la la lombardi is the only woman to ever

score points in formula 1975 lombardi scored championship point in the spanish grand prix. she was considered a trailblazer in several women later entered f. one in many roles. but none ever started to raise. now formula one wants to greece attracts for women drivers within all female f, one academy series. the aim is to develop young women drivers for the very top. want it to be as full, one should be in the future. what should be now, but will be in the future. so i want to see female mechanics. i want to see what we would love to see a female driver. we haven't got that point just yet, but that's why not there's never been a regulation, preventing female drivers from competing in formula one. some from other series such as jamie chadwick, have said that financial support is a greater obstacle than gender. therefore,

a formula one will subsidize each female driven car with the budget of 150000 euros young female driver's face. many barriers when entering the f one pyramid. now, they'll have the best opportunities to reach their potential well, we might be a step closer to solving a mystery. millennia in the making a hidden corridor above the main entrance to egypt. great pyramid of visa has been seen for the 1st time leading to speculation that it may lead to an as yet undiscovered chamber. the passage was 1st attracted by advanced scanning in 2016 but pictures released on thursday are the 1st time it has been captured on camera. the great pyramid was built almost 5000 years ago and remained the tallest structure in the world until the construction of the eiffel tower, in 1889. this is either a news pro berlin, just reminder the top story we're following for you. the head of the russian back

wagner mercenary group, says it's units have almost completely encircled eastern ukrainian city voc mood. he appeared in a video urging presence lensky to allow ukrainian troops to leave the air on. terry martin, thanks for watching. ah a

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