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 and the war and give you cray momentum to push back russian troops assigned 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 leader, me so 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 go 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 that more capacity. and it does this also have to provide the gate levels. we're ready to insert the late and need more information did more harm's day. i can confirm u. k. it's amazing storm shot. i miss out to you. great to the point of view of equipment. not everything has arrived yet. that's your answer. receive what your creative today when they have the right shape for that. also on the day a year after palestinian americans during the listerine laclare was shot and killed on assignment for family, still seeking answers for us to pursue injustice. 14, unfortunately, the case, the after all this time we're still trying to,

to those who just designed or do every or is responsible for her feeling accountable. welcome to the shell. it's a good time you with us. ukrainian president of the letter means a less key, says key needs more time and more weapons, for as long as it has to pay them counter offensive against russia. he believes ukraine 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 buck notes over the past months and has seen the bloody as battle 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, an account that's backed by the doctor mercenary group. moscow does admit the situation on the ground is difficult, but assures attempts to capture the former mining town remain in place.

of the ukrainian ministry has released more footage showing what each say's or its troops in action. they pack moods. soldiers this mountain anom with com and storm. 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 walk in a group which has played a prominent role in the bus with a bus boot size, a full scale ukrainian county defense. if he's on the way the, yeah, was the jo roy defense, the ukraine, new non forces has begun the units that were trains and receipts unnecessary weapons, equipment, tanks and everything else are already fully engaged. but the, the one, the, the ukraine's president for the altima. so then ski size, that's not the case. ukraine still needs small time and weapons more i, you know, to the point of view of boat evasion on military is ready for as far as stuffing the gauge goes. we're ready for the point of view of equipment and will know

everything has arrived yet. if that's your answer. voice one maybe on ukraine continues to suffer up entourage of russian miss island drone strikes. this is the aftermath of a striking slow of yeah, i'm going to eastern 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 of the state. ukraine has the right to be able to defend itself against. with the use of storm shot, i will allow you try to push back russian forces based within ukrainian silver entire tree. the storm shadow beside has a much longer range than other weapons provided by the west, giving the ukraine the capability to strike deep into russian health tetra, treat including crime in my next guest is mar kenzie and he's a retired colonel with the us marine corps because there are several tours in vietnam and iraq is now

a senior advisor to the center for strategic and international studies thing tank and washington. mr. can see and welcome to the day. let's start with a storm shadow miss out. how much of a difference will those make on the battlefield outcome that you bring in to 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. to 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 cleaning will they be able to use these missiles immediately there's no reason that they, they couldn't so 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 put me and i want to talk about stuff more 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. and what are we seeing here in group? and it just looks 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 tackled, particularly in the last 2 or 3 months world, they're 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, we're seeing this as part of a, a bigger turn around and more a i think the short answer is not at this point. you know,

they 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 a long place for ukraine to watch the 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 terrain. 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? so well, we've been getting mixed messaging like this for

a long time. but the russian government and the wagner group have been quite independent of that head of the vitamin drip group versions has been quite outspoken in his use. so i think we're seeing about the most more of that discrepancy. i think a wagner wants to bring attention to selves, arguing that they are an important component of depression military capability. even though they say that this is the beginning of a counter offensive, i think that's trying to increase. there was about a significant screen was a counter offensive would be, i think, much broader. mm hm. the analysts are saying that the hello this thing, the bloodiest ground combat in europe since world war 2 is this months long, effort and sacrifice understandable from a strategic viewpoint 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 pulling the city to prevent getting in circles within the city became a symbolic of ukrainian resistance. you know, the way that a city like style and garad or we're done in the past, have a cheap significance of the fact that they've been able to hold it is significant. but right now the city is so wrecked. it doesn't have much of the strategic significance as a lot of psychological significance. yeah. so if i'm reading you correctly and then from what you've said before, and you don't think that of the counter offensive has begun yet, what do you think it is going to look like ones that 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. so i think you're going to 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 in 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 in court. 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 and turned many of his liabilities into 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. and then they both have week. 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 out to talk about and for that i can now welcome this ciocca. she's a policy analyst and joins us from washington, dc tonight. mr. looking good to see you again. now what are you make of the town hall? 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 a time and time again. and does not respect what we consider these kind of traditions of debate, of moderators of calling people, nasty, nasty person, right and their phase. so it was a circus that trump directed. and so i think for him, he's gonna 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 then he's been largely active and is mangold bubbles. and will appearances like this one do much to increase his appeal 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 prentice. 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 as this pack has already come out. you live tweeting the event with 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 around 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 i don't think him not being president out wasn't all the reason that every single election die or 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 2020. okay, 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 in correctly vocal minority that he is growing. and his writer a being the spearheaded this, we literally saw this play out in january the 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 waited on occurrence issues when asked about the debt limit 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 stealing 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 disability at the dollar and default on the debt,

there will be significant consequences. and she'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, maureen, i will actually was shot and killed while reporting on an is rarely army rate in the west bank. she was a highly respected us palestinian 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 has been no official confirmation on who fired the fatal shot. the us security coordinator concluded that gunfire from israeli defense forces position is likely responsible to mark the anniversary of sharina buckley as death to w. jerusalem correspond atanya kramer has been talking to her brother. the 1st sign or 1st famous, ought to be shooting of options as ita behind. the palestinian american correspondent was a household name across the region for 25 years. trevino could report it from the

occupied palestinian territories. and israel for under the zira or a big city and a balkan as ita. what some of the most. oh, that's a little bit of a year ago. she was shot and killed by covering rage by the is really military knew janine a northern city and 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, since, after all, this time, we're still trying to those who justice and hard to have that are, is responsible for her feeling. i come to her killing in the early

morning on may. 11th was personally recorded on video of the past and journalist to. c the. c black clad in shots in the side of her head, she was burying a protective best and helmet marked the price. of the young boys tend to try to help the shooting continued. these needs are reports from c, and i just need a bit soon and he's in the united nation or so reports was really is new york times. one of these came up with is that the sniper was responsible for shooting. you're giving cause some even sketchy was targeted

initially the is there any government claim palestinian militants for the killing and claim 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 those 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 ms. lockley was accidentally hit by israel defense forces gunfire that was fired towards suspects identified as armed, posting and gunman during an exchange of fire in which life listing widespread shots were fired towards israel. defense forces soldiers nearly as shocking as her

desk. most of police violence death more to a few thousands had gone that occupied east jerusalem to pay their last respect. is where he bought a police charged into the crowd as her body was carried out of the hospital more beating pulled, there was an eclipse family and her colleagues such as a 0. i seeking various routes 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 that i know, i mean, 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. and 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 if she rested. alliance was a report there by our jerusalem, corresponding tanya kramer and we 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 the w news and myself at nicole underscore 4. 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 self and all of us behind the scenes. thank you so much for spending part of your day with the

to the point strong, clear positions, international perspective. turkey is poised 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 out or are the ones moments of truth find out on to the court to enter the conflicts own with sarah kelly, a carefully choreographed of russian victory days, celebration was, ain, that's showing military might on red square this week. my guess on complex zone is nina cristo, but she has spent most of the war in moscow as russian for parents to face the ukranian counter offensive. how safety is prudent positions? thank you for inviting me conflict zone. in 60 minutes on dw, the brain update because these orchestra called the brain

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