hell these days there doesn't seem to be a word more frequently used to describe the conditions an eastern ukrainian bottled than this one. after months of gruesome door to door combat rushes, news around the besieged towns, neck seems to be tightening. but even amid suggestions ukrainian troops might be conducting a limited, tactical withdraw leadership and keep as bound to defend the city, for as long as it takes russia's advances in back. moot have been largely ascribed to the wagner private army. now its leader is publicly complaining about shortage of ammunition and accusing the kremlin of deliberately letting his mercenaries run out of resources to pin possible losses in the war on them. the stakes are high and so are the tensions armico further him. berlin and this is the day ah,

agreement grains defense is are holding. our boys are heroically defending about mood and we hope that we will keep defending it for longer. i think it's more symbolic. a strategic collaboration. she will go if walk in, the retreats from back of now the whole front will collapse. all bought won't necessarily mean that the russians are change the title, title slide. it is one of the toughest battles painful and challenging. ukraine will emerge victorious also on the day one month after the historic earthquakes, the situation for survivors and syria remains desperate. with after all the earthquakes, my son and i are traumatized. and if you can, if you didn't it, we don't dare stay at home because it's not safe that we'll see. and we haven't

bought a tense, tense costs between $2400.00. and we can't afford wanda. we've decided to stay here with dr. mcgee, the hood welcome to the show, we started to nights and the most dangerous place in ukraine. a halt president voluntary zalinski says his troops are in a quote, painful and difficult battle to hold on to the former mining town, but with conflicting reports from all sides, the real situation on the ground is all but clear. on sunday, the head of the russian bank, wagner mercenary, grew warned that his troops could be running out of ammunition. for months. they've been heavily engaged in a battle of attrition. in a message on the groups telegram channel. bergman. she, if you're getting pre, goshen said rushes front lines could collapse if his forces didn't soon receive the ammunition promised by moscow last month. and we can now speak to marina

marana defense analyst at kings college, london to 90, joins us from alley country, in spain. marina, good to see you again. the russians claim they have in circles back. what ukrainian officials, they, that's just propaganda. so how close is russia really to capturing, baffled? well, and thank you for having me again, it's quite a difficult situation. i was agreeing horses and indeed we're seeing conflicting reports from both sides, but from the ukranian sides and were as some interviews with those who have been around been moved and they did to report as the situation for the ukrainian armed forces is very dire. so i think that is a rush of the having an upper hand right now. and of course, this is old. you do what the wagner is doing. and precisely what he's doing is throwing a lot of manpower because the ukranian on forces are being outnumbered and they're struggling right now. so we, we're seeing now wagner,

kind of trying to close this colder on their own about food. and we're also seeing attempts from the right from the ukrainian side to do hold on to work, to move, to perhaps set some more enforcements, or indeed, there is a discussion between general loony and lieutenant general sarah sky about what to do about mood. president lensky obviously doesn't want to give up, so it's quite a difficult situation and we shall see what the ukrainian political leadership will do about this, whether it will realize it. and in how far it can push its military instrument, and whether it's worse and all the human cost. you said it, their president zelinski wants to send more troops to defend backbone, but given the highly questionable strategic importance of board and the sheer brutality of the war there. would that be the right decision in your opinion?

well, it depends because the problem is that most is significant. then it has become significant for both sides, especially as president lensky has been stressing for months that the korean troops wouldn't give up. now, losing, but most would be very self defeating right. both from the political and strategic perspective, especially because in military strategic terms, next to key road, which would severe the logistics of the ukrainian forces. the other thing is founding in more given the cd because the question is whether anything can be saved or will drive on and cost more human life. and especially when we're talking about the ukranian with this as a 2nd question is, where are those reinforcements coming from? meaning that they will be re deployed from another location which they might be

defending at present. so there is a chance that the russians might use this opportunity to come back better reconnaissance and to strike where the defense is a weekend of the great influences along the front line. let's talk about the russian side of the war because the head of the wagner group says he's being starved of ammunition. what's behind that? it is interesting that you get promotion is coming again with the statement. again, we have seen that a couple of weeks ago. he was complaining about the russian generals, giving our metals to those who didn't deserve them. and you know, at the same time his fighters were lacking proper artillery support and proper air support. and they didn't have enough ammunition. and then several days later and he claimed that the problem had been recalled that the court, his request and retracted his statement. and i'm wondering who is his audience,

who is he trying to appeal to? because there isn't the evidence rec, between the ministry of defense and now the commander of the ukrainian convention, general grafton mom and you can you precaution. so i think that you're getting recorded and trying to kind of position himself as indispensable actor in this conflict because these messages that he is posting, he could have gone through the back challenge and forwarded it out with the, with the but he, a far as we want this attention, he wants the attention from all sides from the m d and obviously from the russian credit population to reinforce his position as to gain political fraction and a certain was how special military operation in we'll be sure mark should be going . and i think for, for the russian, m o d, i don't think that they are actually was holding any munitions. there is

a general ammunition shortage and you know, both sides of covering from the sure that you're specially 120 millimeter artillery shells. so i think it is a bit of an overstatement. well, we have to keep in mind that there is a rest. and wagner is kind of trying to reinforce his position of probably a lead for minister of defense. yet nobody in boot camp seems to be speaking of as openly against russia strategy as for goes and has been doing and is doing again. now. if he really were to turn his back on the russian president, what could that mean for the war? oh that is correct. actually, precaution is not the only one who is speaking against the strategy. that there are the trash and leader in supporting your records. and there are some other military academics who have been war things, the same criticism that we're hearing from regarding but i think he's the kind of

the process want to go out and do, openly criticize, put in or rather they put his strategy. and i think he's close by with didn't allow him for that to basically to push and try to next. some changes. and i think without bob nor russia would have had to look for another tool to fill that gap because oftener has been used in syria. wagner has been used in ukraine since 2014. it's a very specific tool designed to solve very specific problems on the battlefield. the jersey problem. and the benefit of wagner is that they have some sort of kind of a mission from an doctrine where they have much more flexibility on the battlefields as compared to the rest of the russian forces. so the point being, we don't really know if would be actually suitable to solve other tasks on the battlefield. apart from doing what they're doing right now with kind of the task

them manpower and have some attacks where he can basically risk losing man, i think that the russians would be missing out, but i don't think that their entire kind of operation would collapse if wasn't it wasn't on the battlefield. military analyst, marina moran, joining us from ali, come to always great speaking to you. thank you so much. thank you. saying in ukraine and a year of war has crippled the country's economy as russian attacks have devastated the energy infrastructure disrupted production and blocked ports. but while bombs, cad, raining down on the country, work has never stopped. he w. nick connelly has been to meet people in the need for a region who are keeping ukraine's metals industry going, despite the continued airstrikes. ah, it's

a sound that means wanting time to head for safety on the ground. no matter how many times you've heard, it never stopped being unnerving when will began seeking shelter. also, men stopping work, the urine and production of this metal block continues. regardless, thanks to this improvised set up a little more than a few computers and internet connection people down here and keep the machines running up above. their boss shows us his emergency supplies. if needed, he tells us they could survive on these provisions for days or even weeks. so far, this talk hasn't been hit with russian troops to less than 100 kilometers away the risks a real li be granted. this is war and no one can possibly know what will happen tomorrow. so just go through and we can't afford not to be prepared. a decision is with us. i pray will never need any of this with. but other ukrainian companies have been less fortunate to russian missiles a few days apart it this production cited in the probe,

killing 2 people at the 1st strike not come on the weekend. that figure would likely have been far higher. it's lottery. i to lottery's a real can can time can come any time at any place. it any house at any facility. my 1st time here had pictures. they did have one to come because i remember the equipment. i remember how much effort was spent making all this and that's russian. russian world is came to my a plant that how it looked like we visited other vicious, loves factories. it's still going, but it's struggling with the effects of russian attacks when ukraine's power system . yes, that the power bill. what will happen? we'll get one month. when there is robin alert, i turned off all the electricity and that happens on predictably, never,

it never happens. we will lose around the dissolved in years. you know, one minute. the material inside the can not lose the temperature, went delete the temperature, the brake and the brain generates is made all the difference. workers can now prevent uncontrolled shutdowns, buying time to buy pin natural gas that stabilizes the temperature until means electricity returns. way before they would lose days of production every time the power went off. now it's down to a matter of hours. the power isn't the only problem they're dealing with here. ukrainian firms operating against all the odds are increasingly finding that many customers in europe don't want to work with them. they're afraid will prevent ukrainian supplies from delivering more. i will guide that. everything was at an all a bed bug fighting everybody fighting late. my job is

to make sure that the vendors are working a little getting salary. i can help soldiers, i can like with. but not every business can roll with the punches like this one bitch slap tells us that at least a quarter of his competitors have already got out of business. and the bankruptcies keep coming. for the resilience i'm show you grades. economy is still in free for leaving this country. and it's all me ever more dependent on international support o, a war and the economy are not ukraine's only headaches, and it's attempts to join the european union. there has long been one major obstacle ukraine's and demik corruption. now keep has appointed a new anti corruption investigator 40 year old, the men crib one was name to add a special cabinet meeting on monday. the position had been vacant for 11 months and

the you had been putting pressure on ukraine to step up its efforts in the fight against ramp and graft, ukrainian prime minister says the new appointment will pave the way toward european union membership. this promotion, but with the appointment of the head of the national anti corruption bureau of ukraine, we can say that ukraine has fulfilled all 70 you recommendations, which were determined upon receiving candidate status. who in this demonstrates our determination in the question of integration in the you and our desire to move on to the start of accession negotiations this year roll still go yes. the anti corruption pressure group transparency international rates. ukraine as one of the most corrupt countries in the world, in their annual ranking transparency list of ukraine as 100 and 16th out of 180 countries surveyed, that puts ukraine only slightly ahead of russia, ranked 100 and 37th on monday. russia's prosecutor general announced it was putting

transparency international on its list of undesirable organizations, a step seen as leading to outlying it and to break down these developments. i like to welcome andre rural vague. he's the executive director of transparency international ukraine. welcome, mr. rick. first, what can you tell me about the new head of ukraine's anti corruption bureau? actually the selection process went very, very fast, and it is very important that it lasted under 44 or thing for maybe 5 months, no more. and that was, as was said by the prime minister of ukraine, was one of the requirements for ukraine. you noted to move one with the new positions for the candidacy. then you had was never, never was before investigator. but the main role been the head of the system is actually the manager role. there is lots of rumors about his connections with the

current current government. but we always trying to be positive and we'll see how, how, how actually the novel will change and what they will do in the future. and a hope that the investigations will be more more of them. and they will, that they will speed up. all right, let's look at the bigger picture here. then why did ukraine got such a poor rating from transparency international? honestly, i disagree that it is sold for because if we look historically, why was ukraine during unicorn each time since 2013? for example, ukraine said only $25.00 points. now it's $33.00. yes, it is still quite fall from the average. in the european union bought for these 10 years, we added a point and ukraine upon other 200 countries in, in the ranking is ranked as 15th was the most progress. so it means that the problem of the corruption is being all around the world. and ukraine,

the more in the right direction, we did a number of reforms. some of them were not able to fight in the corruption, but isn't that transparency and deliberate and bit the services for the citizen. and i think that would be going the right way. but we need definitely to speed up in order to stop any talks about the level of corruption, ukraine. and i think that we have everything that is needed for us. you know, the 21, how hard is it to advance in the right direction with a war going on in the country? it's not an easy thing because there is lots of security risks. for example, ukraine was, was one of the leading countries in the region in the sense of all the information about the state had a very large number of open registries. now lots of information is closed, as i said, because of the security 2 reasons. but the, some of the event that happened during the last, yes,

i just was for the anti corruption strategy to corruption program appointment of the new head of the corruption prosecutor's office 2 days ago. and as the head of the main investigative body of doing the reforms, and of course, not as fast as we want, but we still can do the reforms while armies fight in the battlefield. so it is possible, and i hope that this year we will continue doing this many blame ukraine's troubled historic relationship with russia. 4th corruption problems. what do you think are the root causes? here? there is, there is not so many, but there is some of the different scientific hypothesis. why, why the level of corruption, the korean is that that level which we have. and they think that the russian influences definitely in place because historically, ah, it was the case when in the, even in, during the soviet times because of the scars of,

of many goods for the people. it was just a common way to get something in order to give or to buy extra to those who have access to those things. so it can be one of the reasons, but also i would say that lack of any vision or fight in the corruption. and it was never such a big problem unless we had a younger college as a president. it was never in the top level of agenda ukraine, not only with the governor, but even with the population. but since to 1014, i must say. and even now, when you ask in, according to sociology, pulls what it would be as a main disappointment for, for us ukrainian after the end of the war. number one, people say that the, the russia will stay unpunished. but number 2, the corruption will still exist. so i think that recession to support in fight of the corruption from general population,

there is no other way for the government and politicians to more one with this problem. and finally, to ended. and of course, the 2nd reason is our way to deal with these are the requirements which we want to fulfill. yeah, i want to get to what was just announced about your organization. you know, in europe there's only one country you rate as more corrupt than ukraine, and that is russia. moscow just declared your organization to be undesirable. why is sensitive about the work you do and what does that mean for your work going forward? i, i think that the russia is just showing i don't know what they're trying to show with this decision. but as soon as they become more and more closed as a country, and i am as the ukraine and kimberly lane them on, on this because they came to ukraine and they waited by country by the general. this is the next step. after that, they are very famous for both the foreign agents. so,

so basically they see that everything that is for him is not well in russia. so i'm, i'm just even surprised that they did it on the now with us not even earlier last year. we're going to have to leave with their antibiotic of transparency international. thank you so much. thank you. oh, exactly one month since earthquakes hit, southern turkey and northwestern syria, more than $50000.00 people were killed in the worst natural disaster in modern turkish history. millions of people have been affected and injured, left homeless or are lacking basic facilities. after years of war, the situation in northwestern syria is harder to evaluate the cities of aleppo and it were among those badly hid and a powerful after shock. and falling waste triggered new fears. italy is mohammed refined reports from it, like at nightfall,

the 44 year old m r i e fills his car with blankets and drives to the outskirts of it live far away from the cities crumbling residential buildings. he spends the night here with the sun since the 2nd earthquake struck, northwestern, syria and turkey. hundreds of families are afraid to sleep in their own homes, for fear of being trapped inside. if they collapse with after all the earthquakes, my son and i are traumatized. even if you didn't it, we don't dare stay at home because it's not safe. that was he and we haven't bought a tent. the intense cost between $2400.00 easily. and we can't afford wanted her to have decided to stay here or die laguna horny. the earthquakes that struck northern syria and killed almost 6000 people also destroyed thousands of structures.

after the 2nd quake, nearly 200000 people were displaced. families abandoned their homes as aftershocks made the initial damage from the quakes, even worse. many moved into tents in front of the houses or in other public places . a son, a relief organization based in germany, says the challenges are numerous. how many miles, what the law, the most crucial obstacle to expanding refugee camps, doreen to accommodate the enormous number of people displaced by the earthquakes were sunny is that the communities were not ready to build such facilities. good luck and there's the challenge of providing enough tense. donnelly, with after 2nd earthquake academic lamar, even more people abandoned their homes that are to fall on that because of the trauma they experience. should it really shovel in the 1st one of his other a well near the city of id live mohammed looked coney offered shelter on his farm

and swimming facility to people who have lost their homes or to families who are afraid their buildings will collapse on them. but miss phyllis, as after the 1st earthquake, we received 20 families who lost their homes of sunny joanna. and after the 2nd one, latham many more came here because they were afraid to stay in their building sort of. and this will, although as you can see, it is difficult to meet their needs. september's, martha, for thousands of syrians. the choice is between living on the streets or living in fear. that's our time for now, but make sure to stay informed to stay engaged and stay in touch. follow our team on twitter at either way. news and myself at nicole underscore fully for now from the entire team on the day. thank you so much for spending part of your day with

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