learn from one another and work together for a future. ah, many thoughts do you all for tuning it for go on d w. ah, ah, ah ah, this is the w news life from berlin, the bloody battlefield buck moore to intensify rushes that no mercenary group claims further advances in ukraine's eastern city. the front line is now reportedly the river dividing the city with ukrainian forces holding the western back. we bring you the latest updates me while in moldova pro russian protesters take to the

streets against the pro west president until government, who in turn are accusing russia, plotting against them. we bring you the full picture. and israel sees the biggest protests yet against the government's plans to reform the judicial system. despite 10 weeks of demonstrations across the country, benjamin netanyahu administration is refusing to back down. ah, i'm monica jones. good to have you with us. the leader of russia's wagner, mercenary group, says it has made further advances in the ukrainian city of buck, mood reaching the river that divides the city center. earlier this week, wagner claimed it hard to capture to the eastern part of the city. ukrainian president vladimir zalinski has vowed to keep fighting amid fears that the fall of

the city could lead to further russian gains in the east ukrainian tanks on the outskirts of back moot, determined to see off any further russian advances. despite rushing gains in the east of the city, the fight for control continues. reward the year as far motivation. we are fighting until we achieve victory through. we need victory. not only piece your call is excerpt technology brought to our to portray mobility. on saturday, russia media released this footage. nick in effect, is worth reporting to show the damage the fighting has inflicted on buck moot. so you indulge an unidentified russian soldier from the wagner mercenary group. law

can be heard saying they had to destroy every house to be able to advance back in ukrainian control territory close to back. moot. the wall has taken its toll on 82 year old valentina catherine flood dalton. i to, while i was here at home about to go to sleep lying on my sofa till the law. all of a sudden the shelling started toward my kidney. physically get a side, i was lying there thinking. if he kill me here. so be it. she said that it lasted for 3 hours, at least until it was over, her lawyer, oh my god, i cannot take it. ukraine has pledged it will not surrender. but so many, it's time to say good bye to the shuttered streets of buck newt,

in moldova, pro russian protests are underway in the capital kiss or no. it's the latest in a series of demonstrations that have taken place in recent weeks against the pro western president, my a son do on the mold, open government who have accused russia of plotting against them. pro russian forces have been resurgent in moldova, since russia attacked neighboring ukraine more than a year ago. thousands of russian troops stationed in the separatist, moldova region on trans mysteria, in the east of the country. and journalist to diana papa is covering the story for us. she joins us now from kissing in moldova, dan, i, we can hear the cries already behind. you. do tell us a bit more about the background of the protests there today.

the couple of thousands of people assured the police why or why? i'm covered here a, he's asking the government team, we're all in for it, but oh, some on a 3 elections . most of the people are here. are the elders question the saudi, come to the unit. why do you play a factor, a growing assisted year and also a some these that are rushing for their bus number one wonder, the process has started over hoffman hour ago and was top shortly by the police. because people wanted to hear this alignment. but they changed their minds and wanting to go the government, but needed to do so. so special forces i had to come and to stop them before

getting to the main square of the city and the beginning. even some flood sisters have started a fight with the teeth on the phone. you said a lot of those, sir, protesting there are people not? oh, who feeling nostalgic. oh, for the former soviet union and full russia. western governments are actually accusing russia, trying to destabilize the country with the help of control to protests. is there anything to that? that's jermel devin oki shows also a kind of information this morning, the national police sad that on there. i'm not disorders planned for today. according to he, a lot of people from russia about to train groups, alpha, local, know how to provoke a relation on our devon undercover agent, detained,

trying to find that yesterday evening. and unfortunately, i wanted to steer on risks here and afford these kind of dog get paid work around $10000.00. right. diana, papa reporting there from the protests in a kiss now in the capital often will dover. thank you so much, dana and it's been called the largest demonstration in israel's history organ. i says say, over half a 1000000 people rallied across the country, protesting the right wing governments proposed radical overhaul of the countries judiciary. the plants would allow israel's parliament to override supreme court rulings and permit the government to make judicial appointments with its representatives. supporters of the judicial reform say the changes are necessary to redress the balance of power. wow. wars of outrage

rang out across israel. the demonstrations of almost become a weekly ritual. since prime minister benjamin netanyahu returned to power in january. critics fear his plans to reform the judiciary would. hollowell, the high courts, independence and good its ability to service, to check on the israel government, allowing a simple majority in parliament to reject this decision. we are protesting because if not, he said like compliance and we will never agree to have democracy. abolish in this country in a country that's long, prided itself and being the only democracy in the middle east. many is really see the legislation as an assault on the very soul of the country. i mean, to demonstrate them to sound my voice against the dictatorship of their stub this year in the name of the so called law judge called reform. it's not a judge, colorful, it's a revolution making is read, go to for that issue. and i want to say a democracy for my kids,

for my grandson is, will be here because it is a democracy country. and there's one, despite the demonstrations prime incentives in yahoo and his allies have pledge to press ahead. it's opposition, keeps mounting. and we're now joined by dw correspondent andrew selim rebecca. rita's rebecca, the protests have been taking place for several weeks now. could you please put to what's happening there in israel into a wider context? that's right, monica, these protests have been going on now for 10 consecutive weeks since the government announced this controversial plan to overhaul the judiciary. in early january. they have been gaining pace. they did start out as the weekly protests on the weekend, or even largely in television then slowly spreading out throughout the country. but of course, saturday night isn't the most disruptive. so we've seen them spilling over into

week days now to particularly when those bills were 1st being discussed by the, by the connected by the committee. and then in the case that we saw a thousands of tens of thousands of protesters here on monday in jerusalem. we've been seeing now for the last couple of weeks. what were they calling? days of resistance, days of destruction, or the latter being on thursday. there's another couple planned for during this week as well as people trying to, to be more disruptive to the economy, to people's daily lives, to really make their voices heard. now in the beginning of the government or the coalition, we're able to kind of dismiss these protests to sort of left as crews left as plot to try and overthrow the government or try and, you know, make their voices heard that they, they weren't happy with the election result, but that's becoming much harder for a bebe netanyahu for benjamin netanyahu, the prime minister and his coalition. now we're seeing reservists, military reservist join their protests, other top military brass, both a former and current. and we're seeing economists and people from the tech industry as well. and even right wing protests there,

there's been at least 3 weeks of right wing protests here in jerusalem. or there are people that voted probably for some of these coalition parties. most certainly probably a lot of voters from the la crude party that benjamin netanyahu party. they're also very unhappy with the reform. so the government, the coalition becoming increasingly isolated in its decision to push forward with these reforms with opinion poll showing that a majority of people in the country are actually against these reforms being pushed through so quickly. but it certainly seems to be the case that the, the government is pushing that. what many se controversial bill through is trying to do. so this bill seems to be very important to the current coalition ways that all their argument you, you reported on a little bit before in the report. but the argument from the supporters is really that the supreme court has too much power, that you know more power of the will of the people, the majority, the, the electorate should be heard. this is a country because it doesn't have

a constitution, it only has one house of the parliament. there is no separation of the judiciary. i'm sorry, of the legislative and executive power. so this is the supreme court is really one of the only checks on the government, the government now trying to roll back some of those checks. and they're saying that you know, that that's important. opposed opposition to opposes of the of the bill changes rather as saying that it would, it would mean that minority rights are rejected. and that, you know, yeah, basically that, that a lot of support. there's a lot of personal within the government. the ultra orthodox factions of the government want to to push their changes ahead and that that requires a weakening of the supreme court as well as the, the national religious. and of course, benjamin netanyahu, himself is existential for him. he's also facing trial so it could personally benefit him to have changes to the supreme court as well. so definitely something that is really is leading the country apart, monica right. all right, did i'll be as rebecca ritter's reporting inter rosellan. rebecca,

thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other news making headlines around the world. israel's military says its forces shot and killed 3 militant palestinian gunmen who opened fire on troops in the israeli occupied westbank near the city of nablus. the death that brings the number of palestinians killed since the start of the year to 80, while 14 israel is have been killed in palestinian attacks. and saudi arabian energy giant aramco has announced a, made a record 151000000000 euros and profit last year. it's just the latest fossil fuel giant to report record profits after russia's invasion of ukraine and energy prices soaring in 2022. scientists have repeatedly warned that oil and gas production must be faced out rapidly to avoid climate catastrophe. and as a crew has returned to earth from the international space agency or the space station, rather after 5 months and a series of delays,

the space travelers have splashed down off the coast of florida. on saturday evening, 2 americans of russian and a japanese astronaut were aboard the space ex capsule. they were scheduled to return days ago, but the journey was postponed due to weather concerns smiled over the coral sea off the north eastern. and finally the past week, so much of europe plunged back into winter as a cold snap paid to the continent, but an unseasonably woo weekend in the south of spain brought tourists flocking. here in malaga, they've gone from making a snowman to sand castles. temperatures in the region reached a summary 30 degrees celsius much warmer than usual for the end of winter. climate experts say this winter was europe's 2nd warmest on record. and before we go is a reminder of the top story we're following to you. russian forces have made

progress and the frontline hotspot of backlog in easton ukraine. that's according to british intelligence, which suggests the back no group has now captured most of the east of the city. ukrainian officials fear its fall, could lead to further russian games in watching dw news up next, and doc film with a report on how mountain guerrillas are and up russia. that's after a short break. i'm monica jones from me and the news team in berlin. thanks for watching a we're interested in the global economy. our portfolio g w business beyond. here's a closer look at the project.