ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin in ukraine. the battle for back moot enters a crucial face brushes. voc number mercenary group says it has almost completely surrounded the city and only one rode out remains open. also on the program

a day of global protests against climate change, mostly young activists demand an end to fossil fuels and urgent action on global warming. and sports of game changing gear for formula one old female f one. the academy series has been established with the 1st women's race scheduled fight. ah, i'm gab elfaire, welcome to the program. and we start in ukraine, where the embattled city of backwoods could be on the verge of falling into russian hands, the commander of russia's mercenary back in a group claims his fighters have nearly surrounded the city. many of the cities, roads have been cut off now, making it hard for ukrainian forces to move or to retreat. russian media have released is images off. what they say is,

wagner soldiers inspector destroyed bridge on the area close to boat, taking control of the city would mark a symbolic victory for the russians who have been trying to capture buck mode. before the last 6 months. the wagner group found a if canny, because in claimed the city is almost completely cut off. it should go up. wagner units really have almost completely surrounded by troll again. well, there is only one road out left. yes, this pincers will have come together. and i know great if previously it had been the professional ukrainian army who fought with us to day we see more and more and elderly people and children they fight them. but their life in back moot is very sure. one though, 2 days by king gora,

let them leave the city. it is almost surrounded was wrong. ask alive to ukraine, did others? but his billing i standing a by in cave mighty as is it just a matter of time now before the russians take, but that's what it looks like. pretty much. should there have been conflicting messages these past few days? ukraine has said a few days ago that they would reinforce troops there. we've also heard some information about troops leaving. it's very difficult to assess the situation on the ground. we have the fog of war. what is clear also is that ukraine, if it was leaving the city would not announce this beforehand in order not to in order to guarantee a more or less safe retreat, they would pretend to move forward or drew troops to try to keep the town and would only announced that they have left after the retreat or shortly before it's is done

. but it's very hard to say that what, what we can say is that it does not look good for the ukrainians there. the city seems to be surrounded from 3 sides. that seems to be pretty much established by geo, located footage, etc. and only one, it's only, it's been weeks that only one road has been leading out of the city. and that roast is very close to the lines pretty much under fire. so of course, at some point this will become very, it's very difficult to defend this, this town i and retreat would seem logical, but the problem is what will happen then? and i guess that's the reason why they kept defending this a city for so long because then it would be the next city which basically will have the same fate as bar mode. now ukraine has also ordered a partial evacuation, at least of the frontline city of computer that's in the northeast of the country.

what's the situation there? no, we're not talking about a military evacuation. we're not tv talking about troops leaving co parents. we're talking about civilians being evacuated, her administration, this is towns administration has said that children and people with we're not very much bye. it would be would have to leave town however, um, most of the people who are still there it's, it's, it's a place where we've been several times during the past 2 weeks. most of the people who remain there do not want to leave most to can leave and want to leave, have already left. but the town is coming under fire more and more often it's a few kilometers to the front line it's. it's not as like in back where, where the front line runs really through the city, but there are a few kilometers the russians are pushing forward. they haven't made many gains

there, but they have been selling the city a quite a lot in the past few days. and that's my, the administration i said it would, it's unsafe for civilians to remain there. however, ukraine so far has had a compulsory evacuations for civilians before have and has announced them. but they're not pushing through with, with this they have been saying so far that they have no means to force people out of their houses. so it's basically signaling to the people that it's important for them to leave and providing means of trans, but providing sell to providing aid because most of the people who stay are, are not very well off. are poor people are pensioners, et cetera. but many don't want to leave because they say be my home full. i don't know how many years and they do not want to leave it up. there's one on his billing of their reporting from keith. thank you. what is the warrant?

ukraine is also topping the agenda for german chancellor, all of shorts and talks with you as president joe biden in washington to day. shoals has just arrived at the white house on his 1st visit since the invasion. b to lead us will focus on support for keith and concerns that china is planning to provide russia with military assistance. u. s. as also announced a new $400000000.00 pockets of military aid to ukraine, shoals strip is expected to be low profile. there's no news conference scheduled after the meeting so far. but our correspondent in washington, michelle occasionally talked with white house spokesman john kirby. she asked why this is the right time for a closed door meeting between the 2 leaders. this is something that both leaders had been wanting to do to get back together. here again in the white house, were grateful that peter sholtes could make the time. and we know it's a busy time for him as it is for us here at the white house that we all know that

the, that these next weeks and months are going to be critical in ukraine. and then we're all doing what we can. the germans certainly included to make sure the ukraine has the capabilities that they need when the weather gets better, to defend themselves against what we think will be a russian offensive, but also to be able to conduct offensive operations of their own. you mentioned those very capabilities. what's the u. s. expectation that to biden is conveying to determine chance on this. this is about conveying expectations. i think you could see certainly with the decision on tanks that the united states in germany are working together and closely coordinated ways. and i think they're gonna talk about that today there. but i think that'll be the dominant issue in the discussion. in the oval office is but what we can continue to do to coordinate additional security assistance for ukraine looking while a bit further afield at china potential tiny's weapons deliveries. that's something that's on everybody's mind. what's the latest information that the u. s. intelligence is telling you that what would be your expectation on accent against china, that was germany and the you. we still don't have any indication that the chinese

have decided to move forward to providing any kind of lethal weaponry or capabilities to, to, to russia. and they haven't taken it off the table, but we don't see any signs that they're moving in that direction right now. and we certainly hope that they don't, that this is obviously the decision that president, she has to make. we, we hope that he sees that it's not in china's best interest to move in this direction, that it shouldn't be in china's interest to help mister putin continue to kill and slaughter innocent ukrainians. what we need to all do is work to get this war to end. now could end today. if mr. brewton do the right thing, that's not going to happen. it doesn't look like any time soon. but, but if and when it comes to negotiations, we need to be working to make sure to present. so lensky can succeed on the battlefield, so that he can succeed at the negotiating table. so are the 2 liters, also debating scenarios here, potential scenarios to end. this will, i think every time our we talk with our allies and partners, we talk about how, how we can hopefully bring this war to an end. we all want it to end. as i said,

it can end today, but short of that we want it to end as soon as possible. so i would have every expectation that today president biden and chancellor sholtes will also talk about present zalinski proposal for a just piece. he's put forward a 10 point set of proposals on that. we all want to see if we can work to operationalize that, but i don't want to get head too far. the conversation will have a readout when it's over. ok, dunker v communications coordinator of the national security council. thank you so much. thank you. thanks not tar, not to have a look at some of the other stories making headlines today. the veterans, human rights activists and nobel peace prize winner alice filiette ski has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. by a quarter bill arose. he was charged with smuggling cash into billy rose to allegedly fond opposition activities. his supporters have called it a fake trial. anger is growing over, greece is worse of

a train crash. there have been demonstrations in several cities with protest to say this week's collision was not an accident, but a crime. 57 people are known to have died. italy's coast guards say say they've saved more than $200.00 migrants near the island of love to do so. the boat carrying the migrants was overwhelmed by rough waters. an investigation has begun and to y rescue has arrived too late to another ship reg last weekend. the fridays for future climate change movement and stage in a global day of protest, mostly young activists are gathering in cities to demand an end to new fossil fuel projects and more action to cut greenhouse gases from the p. answers of rain to the streets of indonesia,

climate change protesters demonstrating across the globe. the cooling for moon political action to tackle environmental devastation caused by rising c o 2 levels. and for most a pool for people already suffering the effects of the climate crisis. berlin was just one of them to you, hunted german cities and towns to stage fridays a future rallies. i the mood may be jovial. the protesters have serious messages for the german government. oh, i love from makers or neva. think the main reason i'm here today is to demand that factory farming is mostly abolished and no longer subsidized. i think it's a really big contributing factor to climate change in our bonus breeches. i would like to see the german government come up with a plan for the country to be climate neutral by 2030 or 2035. there is still so

much coal and gas being burned as we're not all your color and garza run as it would be really easy to put speed limits in place in cities and motor ways. and this would have immediate effects that would save loads of energy. there are many other measures needed, but i just don't understand why this hasn't been done because it doesn't cost any money that's void of as rigorous versus of us. i can get costed protesters here in germany and around the world, united by the conviction that more needs to be done. and now these climate protests also highlight extremely dry winter in many parts of europe, following on from the worst summer or the worst, some a drought, rather in 5 centuries rainfall is chopped down, threatening crops, and energy production. the many countries 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 go yard with look with a lift he for 18 years and i've never seen the lake so dry. i used to come here by boat, but now i can walk. let's hope for rain. hey, this is evident that he just, this year france saw it's longest winter period without rainfall on record $32.00 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 cynical, sustained there are problems, you know, preventing,

allowing that on the soil is so hard that the plows can cut through the earth. full, many know his crew that he had a lot that farmers aren't 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. and then as soon as one fiscal a nation needs to do with water, what we have done with energy, a kind of sobriety plan, we must all pay attention to this resource that is becoming rare. it's the end of abundance of your office. if you don't find it, is it a fundable don't fiddle, but no matter how much people conserve more rainfall is necessary, the spring months will be crucial and meteorologists don't know how much rain will fall if there's not enough. europe may be set for yet another devastating dry

season. so let's ask me the are ologist sir. let's go to a roberts, that funky in geneva. he's the chief of the agricultural meteorology division of the world, mid or logical organization. now, is there any way? misuse me of knowing if this is a one or phenomenon. thank you. as your packed background, the story stated in the summer we've had already big impacts on the drought last summer. and as you know, every year is different than the climate and the weather. but as we have seen and according to the intergovernmental panel on climate change, we do expect routes to increase in time. and the basic fact is this. as the air temperature increases and gets more, it can hold more water. it also can evaporate more water from the soil. so it's not a contradiction that we with the i p c c report,

we expect more floods and droughts. so this is just what we've seen last summer. and what we're experiencing right now is the greenhouse gas emission do not reduce, and we keep on the current path, we would expect more droughts in the future. now if we don't get more rain where in our lives, will we see the biggest impact? well, it's across the board actually getting your background piece to the next job, showing that what we're looking at, you know, definitely agriculture. but it's very complex. you talked about energy, water supply, tourism as the audience in germany, right. we know, or remember last summer, the ryan river, many of the barges couldn't move down the rhine, impacting transportation, the economy, of course, farmers. and you talked about the lack of snow tourism,

you know, drought and water supply as effect across the economy. yeah. very large impacts and at the same it doesn't drive, you know, rain again or had a significant rainfall next few months. might even be worse next summer and 2023. now you talked about the agricultural sector sector. can you say that food might become gas? well, i think for europe, probably not again, the climate in europe is quite diverse. you have a very good infrastructure of getting, you know, food supplies from the mediterranean, from africa, from again elsewhere. and only if there's a really, really severe drought. but we don't, we don't really see that i think for the agricultural supply chains, at least for most consumer products in this market. i think things are fine. but of course we have issues elsewhere in the world, especially east africa,

or food supply, you know, is an issue, but i think for europe for now is ok. again, there's multiple supply chains and multiple sources of food last year olds and grants. very briefly please. how can contrast regions become more resilient? well, one thing that demo and our partners are working on, we have a integrated drop management program. and as your piece said, developing a drought action plan, i think is extremely important. again, this is the time to do this is not during a crisis like now are doing last summer, but we want to have to have countries go from risk management instead of crisis management. that means get all the sectors of the economy together, agriculture, energy, tourism, the water supply. if the urban centers have a drop plan, have a drop monitoring system to where you can see threshold and where the, the water levels or the driver disease at a certain level, you then put actions into place. the key here is you can, we cannot avoid

a drought, but we can mitigate its impacts. and you can do this through an action plan. and again, frances, a good example and across europe, there are also very good examples of this as well. but it takes a all sectors of society coming together and then making choices and how we manage water supply. when there's not enough water good to do to a drop of it's to pounds then geneva. thank you very much for that analysis. ah, sports news now formula one racing hasn't features a featured a female driver since 1976. and now the sports organizers are trying to change that with a new f one academy, an old female racing series to help young women move up the motor sport letter soon . the sport could see women competing alongside men for the formula. one well championship. maria graziano la la lombardi is the only woman to ever score points

in formula one in 1975. when bardy scored a championship point in the spanish grand prix. she was considered a trailblazer in several women later entered f. one in many rolls. but none ever started a race. now formula one wants to grease the tracks for women drivers with an all female f one academy series. the aim is to develop young women drivers for the very top on it to be as full once should be in the future or 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 as yet, but that's why not there's never been a regulation, preventing female drivers from competing in formula. one song from other series, such as jamie chadwick, have said that financial support is a greater obstacle than gender. therefore, 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. i was day with formula one red bulls max for stoppin is going for his 3rd straight title and formula one this season. but there has been controversy about this years venues human rights campaign. as i've been nouns, the choice of some countries in the arab world, especially after forming one drivers, were told to keep political statements away from the track formula. one is back, but as so often in the top, motorsport series controversy has already taken hold. the season opener is in bahrain. the 2nd race in saudi arabia and cats are returning to the calendar in october. if one as a habits of following the money and ignoring calls from human rights activists to

avoid repressive states, things took a further twist recently, when drivers were told to avoid political statements this season, several stars use races to support certain causes last year and the new rule has not come down well with most drivers, planning to disregard it. the one thing for sure is that i think we shall be allowed to talk and, and i, yes, this is my point of view. i don't think anybody shall be able to earn banners off of talking. bahrain says it is made major progress on human rights. but drivers are being backed by campaign is in london to stand up to organize as they can use their platform and their support. not just for sports sake in itself, but for a platform for good and for change, and that they can not ignore the human rights abuses in the country that they are driving in defending champions max dashed up an android bowl,

launched their 2023 car in new york and not to f one expansion in the us as well. black vegas will become the 3rd u. s. race on the calendar. but 1st, the drivers must navigate the track and the political storm in bahrain. now with the russian invasion on its 2nd year ukraine, and many of its athletes have called for russians and bella russians to be banned from competing at paris games. next year, the international olympic committee is exploring the idea of allowing athletes from those countries to compete. but under a neutral flag, meanwhile, ukrainian olympic hope, false, a having to train in the middle of the conflict. russian strikes have destroy training venues. in error age have disrupted many sessions for ukrainian divers, stanish lab. all the fair chick. the 26 year old was a european champion in 2019. but since the conflict began,

the reality has been devastating. yeah. me. somebody will pull her even more. yeah, mary, you, paul, as my hometown listener, russian soldiers and their president putin simply destroyed it. i mr. wilson, the maya, the city merely does not exist. only it was annihilated. the nightmare has changed him. the chair of boucher usually i'm nervous, alive. i'm angry. most of the time. yes we. he says this is jessica with nope, i just can't stand it anymore. when showing happens. what's the chauffeur? i want russia to let us live in peace. and stay away from us. and looking at paris 2024. his stance on russia is unwavering. yes,

for devise shaw. i hope that the athletes from russia and bella roost won't be allowed to compete at the olympic games. there were 3 because none of them publicly condemned to putin or lucas shanker but he is sick now. they just do nothing and say nothing, precisely because of their silence and inaction, all this horror is happening in our country. they can't be allowed to compete under a neutral flag because every one knows perfectly well which country they'll represent you. and when they return home, they'll be greeted with their results. and every one knows what country they're from. a neutral flag is not an option. it's not possible, but the mental toll on many ukrainian athletes has been extremely high. the i o. c believes the olympics can be an instrument to unify, especially in times of conflict. but in this case, that appears to be too high in ask your watching w. c. as a reminder of our top story with the russian bach, miller mercenary group,

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