about people with passion and their dr. sports life. every weekend on d w o, [000:00:00;00] a business day that we new law from berlin. ukraine says it's future depends on the winning. the battle for buckled tense. fighting has raged in the eastern city for months with each side, suffering heavy losses. that opinion is divided over the strategic importance of

the area. also coming up, recovery efforts in malawi as psych loan, freddy lashes the southern african country with torrential rain and high wind. ah, i'm not really sure good to have you with us. ukrainian and russian forces are both suffering heavy losses as fighting intensifies in the eastern city of boat. it's where some of the most intense fighting and ukraine has taken place in this year long war president lensky overnight vowed to quote, destroy russia. they're saying, ukraine's future depends on the outcome of what happens in buffalo and other key areas in the east. the relentless boom of artillery echoes across eastern ukraine, across forests, fields, and hills ukrainian forces of fighting to hold back

a broad wave of russian attacks battles, a raging in many cities and villages. as moscow goes on the offensive all along the 250 kilometer frontline, according to ukrainian president volota may zalinski his country's future hinges on the outcome of these battles. does risk on us? would you? the situation in the east is very tough, very painful. we need to destroy the enemy's military power and we will below her if gear and maria anchor of div kid, and by mood will glinda and come younger and all other places were futures being decided and the future of all ukrainians is being fought. 4th grade in the besieged city of buck moot soldiers faced some of the bloodiest fighting since the war began . russia has been trying to capture buck motor for months. so far,

russian mercenaries have only managed to partially encircle the city. moscow is now intensifying its campaign, delivering ammunition to wagner fighters, who have been spearheading the attack on buck mote. some $4000.00 residents are still in the city, according to an official tally. despite the fist fighting in and around it. of a russian commanders, the capture of the city, represents an opportunity to finally deliver good news to the kremlin with spectrum . so as president lensky writes to double down on what many of you as a losing battle in battles, i put that to marina moran. she's with a war studies department at kings college and london. thank you for having me. well, and it's quite a difficult decision, i believe, for president lansky to make. but if buck moved full set could complex a collapsing tare the fence line of the korean armed forces. and he had already

committed so many forces to move. meaning that now declaring that, but we didn't really have any importance, would raise a question than why holding on to both moved and, and why risking so many lives so, so many soldiers and, and there have been kind of discussions between generals losing and general service gain terms of whether it makes sense to hold back move. so i think from that perspective, it's also important because in the eyes of the western support is of ukraine, ukrainian army losing buck moved could essentially a fact as a perception and possibly a military aids that ukraine is receiving right now. so is valencia wants to hold on to buck mood at all costs, but if i'm understanding you correctly, this decision isn't fully backed by his military leadership. well, and if you weeks ago, the word discussions indeed,

because as for the military leadership, of course, they want to preserve the lives of their troops. and so on the one hand you have this political aim to hold, but move on on. on the other hand, it would make much more sense to withdraw the troops and to save lives and to regroup, recover, and then potentially launch counter offensive. and we've had the same situation in her song. one general, so awaken from the russian side, decided to withdraw the troops because he didn't see any point in risking my life and losing more man power. and it was also widely criticized, but he still did redeploy the troops and they are by kind of saved a lot of good troops to be used later on in the conflict and how much potential for wider, wider problem for the lensky. this do. these divisions fell well, i think there is

a problem in terms of civil military relations and of whatever the political goal is. it has to be aligned with current military capabilities and what ukrainian armed forces can do. and asking of them sold tasks that are always stretching their capabilities is not wise at this stage, because ukraine is also lacking ammunition. ukraine is also lacking manpower right now. so it might be a better decision to listen to the military and actually not try and sacrifice the forces which could be used elsewhere, as i said, should they retreat and give back more to russian. the same ways that the russians did in her san to essentially come back to it at a later point when they're in a better shape. let's talk about capabilities is the ukranian army at this point equipped to defend the problem is that in order to defend but more,

the more forces need to be deployed or meaning the capable forces from either directions need to be sent to buck moved to reinforce it and then again, there is a question of how much the russians will be pushing it, because the russians right now are seemingly having the upper hand. there was, are tillery and the era support and wagner on the ground for the ukrainian forces. but the most is not the only problematic location. we are seeing russian advances around the di of god we seeing swath to end crim and not, and so on. so russians are trying to always stretch the capabilities of the ukrainian forces along the entire line of contact. and so redeploying forces to buck more could potentially bring about russian advances in the directions without giving ukraine the securities. that indeed, this will be enough to how to rush in offensive and to save buttonwood because it

will look at the map. it's practically being surrounded was walking or claiming to have taken premises on some steel plant, which is similar to as all feel unreasonable. marina moran always great, thank you. thank you so much. thank you. i'm related breaking news coming in just now. the u. s. military says to russian fighter jets intercepted a drone over the black sea. one of the jet struck the propeller of the us report drone forcing the us to bring it down over the sea. are you more on that story once we have it? but 1st, let's take a look at some other news making headlines around the world today. sweden's prime minister says it's likely that his country will join nato after finland. the nordic neighbours hoped to join the military lines in parallel, but objections from turkey are delaying. the membership, all 30 existing members of nato have to approve new membership applications. a number of people have been injured in cautious between pakistani police and

supporters of ousted prime minister, him run con several 100 gathered outside conn's home in the hor, to stop his arrest on a court order. the opposition leader is you in court on corruption charges. next week will always disaster management agencies as a 190 people have now died after cycling. freddy made landfall storm slammed into southeastern africa with torrential rain and high wind. this is the 2nd time in the month that freddie has hit southern africa, having earlier struck madagascar and mozambique one of the strongest and longest lasting storms to ever be recorded in the southern hemisphere. some way under these washed off roads. and my, lovey, our people rescue workers like trust owned chick a foot well, are trying to find them in a 1000000 learned today. and so far we have recovered 30 bodies but we're not yet

done. oh, go and we're still looking for more victims amusing miss ho to at least find someone who will call cyclop freddy has wrecked houses in the city of blunt here and created rushing streams that residence a struggling to cross many of the injured have been taken to hospital, but others are still missing really what young woman and her mother was so bad in the night when it, when java, now that it's day time i can feel the loss resident of it was a gun 0. but i've never seen something as terrible as this. new by my neighbors homes are gone and their family members are gone. ah, in some cases the father is alive, but the wife and the children are missing on us for cycle. and freddy killed several people in mozambique before making its way to my loving. scientists say

such tropical storms are getting stronger due to climate change. they want that video rather like this will only become more frequent unless polluters drastically produce carbon emissions. sure, i'm yam bhalla as communications specialist, as unicef and i got an update from her on the situation in malawi. if the situation here today at sate very devastating, overhead remained that people have been reported date with her about the to 7 people to report it missing. currently, their situation is bad, as i've said it as our we have up about 58000 people that have been affected by this cycle on friday. and a lot of people have lost houses. as i'm speaking, one village in blanket to sit has been washed away. so like everything is gone. so looking at the situation, this is going to affect is dems of am, have deliveries at the ground because currently we're also fighting cholera, which is a sole one of the ab arbitrarily have in,

in the country. so recently we've been having lake cases have been going on. i've been now getting low out. we've been having is cases by looking at these are flooding we if we had that, probably this is also going to increase our cases of cholera in the district here, right? now we have about 11 that have been affected with the flat. so this is quite a very big challenge for us in malawi at the moment. but also for us looking at issues of health education has also been disrupted. so it's really a big problem that we have currently in the country. what is being done to help those affected by the store? the department of dis, data in malawi without the humanitarian apartments including unit safer on the ground. first thing they've been trying to evaluate those that are the, the survivors of day of the flattening. but also at the same time, since i've been set up in the district about 50 se dates have been set up. and

we're trying to not provide a supplies for example, health supplies, do they do they affected and did slicks that are in the camps at the moment. so this is ongoing and also working with the government and them allowing defense defense forces on the ground trying to rescue people more and also looking for those that have been that are missing currently. so it's like we just out there trying to help with that with this resource that we have currently a shelter seems to be one of the biggest concerns. but what are, what are the most urgent needs people on the ground there have at this moment besides that? okay, besides shelter, we also looking at services like health services, nutrition services, child protective services. like i've said, people have gone into camp. so we are talking of children and already being bit mixed in camp. so looking at self up top protective status of us would be one of the major issue that we're looking at. but also looking at it in the long, tim,

when a couple of education, our education has been disrupted, so we actually might also miss school. so we're looking at her environment that would also facilitate that student should continue to be in school. so those are some of the ways that we meet at the moment. the government has confirmed a $190.00 deaths so far, but it's expected that the true and toll will be much higher. how our efforts to find potential survivors going so far on the ground, like i've said them allowing defense force with ad that humanitarian are patronized on the ground, trying to look for more people that are missing. but this might also maybe get on the rise because at that situation hasn't come up, come down yet. we're still getting more information from just different district where they are state, you're still on the ground, they're still sticking for more missing people. currently they have given us an app up there to 7, but we might maybe get more as we as required to stretch continues. because our, with the flattening is still continuing some of the districts. so we're still

hoping that probably by next bait coming tomorrow, we might have our 3 guys at higher than what we've been reported now try me on while of unit. so thank you so much for joining us. thank you. since you now for data will you news asia with melissa chan that's up after a short break. i'll be back with more at the top of the hour. in the meantime, there's always our website d, w dot com. or you can find us on social media or you know, there is act dw, i'm really thank you so much for a company. people in trucks injured when trying to free the city center more and more refugees are being turned away as the border families playing phone tags in syria to these