the, the for months military, experts and ukraine had been working on a counter offensive in the war with russia, warmer temperatures and western weapon supplies could break the deadlock in the war and give you cray momentum to push back russian troops. assign to the most brutal finding. whoops, there are indications that could be working out. he of claims and recover. 2 kilometers of territory and the head of russia's wagner mercenary group, has field speculation. the offensive has already begun. not so fast says the load america lensky. despite his generals, claiming their biggest successes in months, the ukrainian president says his military needs more time as a waste, the delivery of promise hardware and the list of pledges just became a little longer today. i'm gonna call for lincoln berlin, and this is the day. the

motor, i know from the point of view of motivation, of the tree is ready for the need to kind of move capacity. and it does this also have to provide like 8 levels. we're ready to insert the late that need more. but for a show didn't, didn't alarms day, i can confirm the u. k. it's amazing storm shot. i miss out to you. great. on the point of view of equipment, not everything has arrived yet. that's your answer. we see what your creative can do when they have the right shape for that. also on the day a year after palestinian americans during the listerine will actually was shot and killed on assignment for family is still seeking answers for us to pursue injustice . 14, unfortunately, the case the, as i've said, all this time wasting,

trying to those who just designed to hold to every or is it responsible for her feeling comfortable? welcome to the shell. it's good to have you with us ukrainian president zillow, theresa lensky, says. keith needs more time and more weapons, for as long as they've paid of counter offensive against russia. he believes you cream, could make progress if they launched it now, but the human cost would be far too great. fighting has been deadlocked and the eastern town of book notes over the past months. and i've seen the bloodiest bottle of the war, verifying information coming out of the largely destroyed city is difficult and there are once again conflicting reports over the situation in and around buffaloes . keep claims it's pushed russian forces back over recent days and account that's backed by the wagner mercenary group. law scout does admit the situation on the ground is difficult, but assures attempts to capture the former mining town remain in place.

the ukrainian ministry has released more footage showing what each say's or its troops in action. they pack moods soldiers this mountain anonymous call uninstalled, what appears to be a russian defensive position. ukraine claims it has advanced up to 2 kilometers in the area. the heads of rushes must be watching a group which has played a prominent role in the past with, with both both sides of full scale ukrainian county defense. if he's on the way the yeah, was the joy defend the ukrainian on forces has begun the units that were trains and receive the necessary weapons, equipment, tanks and everything else are already fully engaged. i did so on the, the ukraine's president for the mr. lensky. say that's not the case. ukraine still needs more time and weapons. more. right. and what the point of view of motivation

on middle tree is ready for as far as staffing be gauge goes, we're ready for the point of view of equipment and will know everything has arrived yet. if that's your answer always. well maybe i knew crank continues to suffer up entourage of russian missile island drones strikes. this is the aftermath of a striking slow of yeah, it's going to use them ukraine. one woman was killed here, adding to a rapidly growing number of civilian casualties of russian aggression, putting it sometimes on brittany nowadays. attacks like days after that date to supply you. crane with cruise missiles find the section state ukraine has the right to be able to defend itself against this. the use of storm shot i will allow you tried to push back russian forces based within ukrainian solver entire tree. the storm shadow nissan has a much longer range than other weapons provided by the west, giving the ukraine the capability to strike deep into the russian hill tetra tree including crimea. my next guest is mar kenzie and he's a retired colonel with the us marine corps. was there

a several tours in vietnam and iraq? he's now a senior advisor to the center for strategic and international studies thing tank and washington, mr. kenzie and welcome to the day. let's start with a storm shadow and miss out. how much of a difference will those make on the battlefield? how can the ukrainians use them as well that these are a significant because they have such a long range. it will allow the ukrainians to straight targets the particularly in crimea, which has been outside of most of ukraine's capabilities. they'll be able to attack the russian sleep that is stationed there. they'll probably be able to isolate the peninsula by taking up the courage bridge. we do have to keep in mind that the number of missiles is probably going to be limited. the brits don't have that many . this is not going to radically change the battlefield, but it will be very helpful. so the cleanings will they be able to use these missiles immediately? there's no reason that they,

they couldn't do that. they do need to be wired for the ukrainian aircraft. i think they've been working on that for awhile. we'll see how quickly they they can launch it, but there's no reason they quit. mm hm. and i want to talk about bucks a month because it's a situation we've been following for months now. russia has been trying to take the city for i think it's half a year. now ukraine seems to be making small but significant gains. what are we seeing here in grouping which is next very significant in the sense that the ukrainians are gaining tech territory for really 6 months. they've been on the defensive, they've been losing territory. bit by bit, as the russians haven't capitalized, particularly in the last 2 or 3 months world, other offensive to place the fact that they can make any progress, they can go over to the attack even on a limited scale. it's significant. do you think we're or seeing this as part of a, a bigger turn around and more. so i think the short answer is not at this

point. you know, the gains have been small. they're significant in that they're making gains at all . but this doesn't look like the ukranian counter offensive. zalinski was saying that it's not. and this is the wrong place for ukraine to watch a carter offensive. it's a built up area. the russians are pretty strong here. of ukrainians wanted to attack some place where they can use all of these new armored vehicles that they've been receiving. they need the open till 8. not something close like, but i want to talk about this anticipated counter offensive in a 2nd, but i want to stay in, in the mood of the for, for a little while we've been getting mixed messaging. they are not only from the opposing sides, but also from the wagner mercenary group. and from from the russian defense ministry. what's behind this mix messaging? what? what can we read into this? or?

well, we've been getting mixed messaging like this for a long time. the russian government and the wagner group have been quite independent. the head of the vitamin drip group versions has been quite outspoken in his use. so i think we're seeing the most more of that discrepancy. i think wagner wants to bring attention to themselves, arguing that they are an important component of the russian military capability. even though they say that this was the beginning of a counter offensive, i think that's trying to increase. there was about a significant scream of a counter offensive with the i think much brighter. analysts are saying that buffalo to sing the bloodiest ground combat in europe since world war 2. is this month's long effort and sacrifice understandable from a strategic view point because you just said that focusing a counter offensive on that region would make no real sense. so. so do you

understand that that key was throwing so much at behind? we don't know that the throwing up a lot right now for a counter offensive. they have been on the defensive and had been feeding a forces in there to hold the city. first they will hold, holding the city to prevent getting encircled around the city, became a symbolic of ukrainian resistance. you know, the way that a city like style and garad were done in the past have a cheap significance of the fact that they've been able to hold it is not significant. but right now the city is so wrecked. it doesn't have much of the strategic significance as a lot of psychological certificates. yeah. so if i'm reading you correctly, um, then from what you've said before, you don't think that of the counter offensive has begun yet. what do you think it is going to look like once it actually kicks off as well?

the ukrainians have built 8 or 9 were gauge with the new equipment that us and data provided. these are heavily armored. they're pretty well trained. uh so i think you're gonna see a, an attack that's going to be much broader than what we're seeing in buckboard. and i think it's going to be an open to raid so that they can use these capabilities. tanks are not very good in closed areas, but if the ukrainians can break through the rushing lines and get those, these armed forces into open terrain, they could make very significant advances. and what parts of the country do you think this will be focusing on? well the, the consensus or the thinking is that this will be in the separation area. there's a long stretch of front line there. there hasn't been much fighting there recently . and there's an opportunity to perhaps break through the russian front lines. maybe even get to the coast and divide the russians into 22 sectors. mm hm.

and i want to bring up something entirely different, something we learned of today. the us and bassett, or to south africa, is accused the country of providing weapons to russia. the government says it's looking into the matter. now, these are a very serious claims for a country insisting on being neutral. what do you make of this? well, it is worth looking into because the, the united states and the west want to make these sanctions as tight as possible. but we also know that there are countries who are, you know, for, for reasons or politics or just economic advantage. taking advantage of the russians, the low cost of the, you know, boil, for example, the directions are, are providing. so on the one hand, it's not surprising that some new tools are trying to take advantage. on the other hand, it's important to close these loopholes to close these loopholes. markets in the of the c s. i s many thanks. thanks for having me on the show.

the only a day after being found liable for sexual abuse and defamation environment. hot and cort former us president donald trump has taken part in a combative question and answer session. on the news network, cnn and attendance perspective. republican primary voters of the town hall trump double down on his claims of 2020 voter fraud, called the supreme court's decision. to drastically restrict women's reproductive rights. a great victory unturned, many of his liabilities and the punch lines, without explaining how he claimed he would quickly broker an end to the war between russia and ukraine. if he was re elected president, if i'm president, i will have that war settled in one day 24 hours. they both have weak. this is and they both have strengths and within 24 hours that will be settled. it'll be over. it will be absolutely you will ukraine to win this

for uh, i don't think in terms of winning and losing, i think in terms of getting it settled. so we stop killing all these people and breaking down lots to talk about and for that i can now welcome to she'll cuz she's a policy analyst and joins us from washington dc tonight. and she'll can good to see you again. now what do you make of the town hall, or in some ways it was absolutely shocking that we saw headline that said injected, injected pure trunk back into the conversation. but in ways it was completely not shocking and trump, it, we see it time and time again. it does not respect what we consider these kind of traditions of debate, of moderators of calling people, nasty, nasty personal rights and their phase. so it was a circus that trump directed. so i think for him, he's going to think this is pretty successful and i think it will not age well for

cnn me. this was also in a way, the 1st time trump was re introduced to mainstream media since he left office wasn't and he's been largely active and is maga bubbles? and we'll appearances like this one too much to increase is appealed to the more moderate republicans, something that he was, you know, presumably trying to do there presumably is a great word. and the question is, this was billed as a rally. this wasn't billed as paid media where he's putting out a billboard or a tv spot. this was supposed to be about the news. and so again, cnn really failed to deliver on its entire premise. so where do you middle of the road, republican sit builder, sit? i mean we have, this is not like 2020 and he will absolutely be contested in this primary. so he's given a bunch of fodder to his opponents. this answers this pack has already come out and you live tweeting the event is referring to his age a lot, which is

a fun tactic considering that's his typical sort against spider. so say he's stuck in the past saying he's picking these wedge issues. so i don't see middle of the voters wrote voters for hopkins being a part of to be captured. he captured today, he riled up his base. and as we know, primaries are about those middle of the rug voters. unfortunately, they tend to attract the fringes and that base that can get most excited me and he's still at this point is, you know, the most likely and the most popular contender for the republican primary nomination. do you think that so many trump back candidates did poorly in the mid terms last year and that had at all to do with the fact that he wasn't present in the media or have people simply grown tired of the, you know, election lies and the divisiveness or i don't think him not being president out wasn't all the reason that every single election, dire in the 2020 mentors last. he went out to rallies. he went to the raleigh in

pennsylvania and started named congress sanchez. he lost about that rally because folks are sick of him going after the republican party when he's not in need of the republican party's endorsement as well. yeah, it's what happened in 2022 is the same thing that happened in 2020. it's a, it's a, a referendum on the policies. a lot of new women voters in middle of the road builders are not interested in this. and i think we're going to see that layout. once we get a little bit past the excitement of the, of the minority phase that he is able to generate. yeah, some fact checkers last night and said they didn't even know where to start with them. this is, trump, you know, unfiltered spewing, lies and baseless claims, and he still refuses to acknowledge his 2020 election last let's listen to what he said and then go back to nearly 2 and a half years. can you publicly acknowledge that you didn't lose the 20?

20 le, let me just as go on. if you look at to the vote, they found millions of votes on camera, on government cameras where they were assessing valid boxes. so with all of that, i think it's a shame that what happened. i think it's a very sad thing for our country. i'll never tire of saying it. that's of course not true at all. he also called the january 6th riders, green people and promised to pardon large part of them if he were to return to office. how dangerous is this rhetoric list of this rhetoric gets the foundation of democracy in america, even if i believe that this is still a minority of american voters there and currently active and correctly vocal minority that is growing. and his rhetoric being the spearheaded this, we literally saw this play out in january 6, people lost their lives. it's, it's fundamental to our country that we believe in free and fair elections. and to have the highest person of one side of the aisle saying elections are stolen,

you can't trust our system and do something violent about. it is incredibly dangerous for the future of disability, the american democracy. he also weighed in on a current issues when asked about the debt limit of crisis. he said that i say that the republicans out there, congressmen, senators, if they don't give you massive cuts, you're gonna have to do a default. and i don't believe they're going to do it before because i think the democrats will absolutely cave. and this is a huge issue in the u. s. and the country defaulting on his debt and could have dramatic consequences for the global economy. trump had previously rejected webinar, i think that that's dealing for political gain. why does he seem to have changed his mind? can you have nothing to lose? he is not sitting in office, he is not an elected representative. and so if the republicans call to the left or whatever play chicken with a disability at the dollar and default on the debt,

there will be significant consequences. and he'll pay for an out of it. so absolutely, when he was president, lo and behold, he did not encourage this behavior. and yet now it's the best part of being your candidate is you can make a 1000000 promises and not actually be held accountable yet for actually delivering anything. any lessons here on how the media should treat from as the likely republican candidate for the pin presidency. there are so many lessons of the media . i thought we had this conversation in 2016, but it's absolutely responsible for its role in platforming, french on both sides. i'm not saying parties here, but french ideas and it was estimated during the 2016 election trumpet, something like $2000000000.00 worth of earned media. that's media you never had to pay for. yeah. um and, and it's also we're so far up from the primary and they're making him the front

runner is physically here, unfortunately, live. i'd love to keep this going. talk to you soon. thank you so much for your time. it's been one year since alger 0 correspondence marine i will actually was shot and killed while reporting on an is really army read in the west bank. she was a highly respected us post indian journalist. she was killed near the city of janine during the operation. there was a fire fight between is really troops and palestinian militants. although there's been no official confirmation on who fire the fatal shot. the us security coordinator concluded that gunfire for me is rarely defense. forces position is likely responsible to mark the anniversary of sharing of luckily as death to w. jerusalem correspond atanya kramer has been talking to her brother. but the 1st sign or 1st payments, ought to be shooting of options as ita behind the palestinian,

the american correspondent was a household name across the region for 25 years. trevino, i could have reported from the okay, by palestinian territories. and israel for under the 0 are a big city and a balkan is eda, what's the most the the most? oh, that's a little bit of a year ago. she was shot and killed by covering rage by the is there any military knew janine, a northern city in the occupied westbank every week her brother until now will actually visits her grave and jerusalem. the pain of losing his sister and the neck of accountability for her death way on his mind. when you have to, we are hoping to achieve justice. we are still pursuing justice for tv. and unfortunately, the case through, after all this time, we're still trying to those who justice on the or do have or is responsible for her feeling i come to her killing in the

early morning on may. 11th was partially recorded on video of the past. and during the list. c the. c black lab being showed in the side of her head, she was bearing a protective best and helmet marked the price. of the 2 young boys tend to try to help the shooting continued. all these needs are reports from c, and i just need a bit soon and even the united nation also reports was in east new york times. one of these a that came up with is that the sniper was responsible for sure. things that are

coming cause some even sketchy was targeted initially. is there any government claim palestinian militants for the king and claimed the journalist records in cross fire, but several investigations by the media, human rights groups and the you and determine that the fatal shot likely came from is really forces these where the army declined to be interviewed for this report and referred to its own investigation, that post concluded in september 2022. following the completion of a series of investigations carried out by a dedicated task force. it appears that it is not possible to unequivocally determine the source of gunfire which had ms. accurate. however, there is a high possibility that miss lockley was accidentally hit by israel defense forces gunfire that was fired towards suspects identified as armed, posting in gunman during an exchange of fire in which life was being widespread. shots were fired towards israel. defense forces soldiers nearly as shocking as her

desk most the police violence death more to a few thousands had gone in occupied is to resume, to pay their last respect is where the board of police charged into the crowd as her body was carried out of the hospital more between the hours and i close family and her colleagues, i just 0. i seeking various roads for justice. the fbi i in the united states has opened an investigation. in addition to petitions were submitted to the international criminal court without the cooperation of those that i need for the so there's right in the army. it's a big challenge and it would take time. but for us, for the family, there is nothing who brings nothing would bring shooting back. so we had to pursue this at the extent to, to,

to ensure that this is not repeated again. and then they just, you know, just as a family is hoping for the kind of accountability they believe she reading would have pushed forward for if she rested. alliance was a report, verify our jerusalem corresponding tonya kramer. and when that's, we've reached the end of the day. we'll be back tomorrow with more in the meantime, make sure to stay informed. stay engaged and stay in touch. you can follow our team on twitter at u. w. news and myself at nicole underscore for if it's the latest headlines you're looking for, there's always our website and it's of course d, w dot com for now though from the entire team on the day sales and all of us behind the scenes. thank you so much for spending part of your day the,

to the point strong, clear positions, international perspective. turkey is for is to hold an election that could prove decisive for the countries democracy and for the leader who has held power for 20

years. so we're asking of everyone's moments of truth. find out onto the court. the entered the conflicts own with sarah kelly, a carefully choreographed of russian victory day celebration was, ain, that's showing military might on red square this week. my guess on complex zone is nina cruise drove up. she has spent most of the war in moscow as russian for parents to face the ukranian counter offensive. how safety is prudent physicians? thank you for inviting me conflict zone in 60 minutes on dw, the, when i heard the verdicts,

what i felt was deep sorrow for the state of the judiciary and the judges in my country. the turkish human rights activist osmond color has been in solitary confinement for over a year charged with an attempted coup. he was sentenced to life in prison. last month, kabbalah shouldn't be in, but there are many prisoners who are detained or sentenced by means of arbitrary decision. osmond coverage of voice from prison starts may 12th on d. w. the turkey is paused to hold an election that could prove decisive. not only for the countries democracy, but also for europe and the middle east, and most especially for the leader who has been in power for the past 20 years. rest at tie up to 31 is facing his most contested election ever with

a very real chance of defeat.