in our series guardians of truce watch now on youtube dw documentary, the this is dw new slide from ballot rocks. a launch has a mass of air strikes on keats. the ukrainian capital comes on to time says that officials call exceptionally intense and complex. how bad is the damage will be life increase also coming up turkey head, scroll ronald collection with president adam, i'm still the man to beats election monitor site challenge. ok mall could each dar

little faces and also baffled on the playing fields that is tipped against. plus, sequels, and sequences. and the common film fest. 18 year old houses provides the sequel. the final indiana jones film will bring this stop to southern from the sequence, courtesy of a french historical drama featuring johnny debt. be a preview the head office. welcome to the program. russia has launched overnight as strikes on key studies. ukrainian officials are describing as exceptionally intense the head of keeps military administration says russia use drones, cruise missiles and probably ballistic missiles, as well as the attack to be fransisco modest,

said old russian. besides what destroyed in keys aspects, russia has mounted the flurry of past products on your brain in recent days. joining me now is the w corresponding, they commonly in the ukrainian capital next. another difficult night in kia of tell us how you experience it. well we work up to a series of very loud bang. seem the very close here in downtown kiff and it was kind of where it happened. the next 10 minutes was basically the most intense, around to find that i've certainly experienced this will began most the time. these attacks is spread over hours and you'll get things. and then 1015 minutes of quite in between. but this was 10 minutes of assuming a desperate attempts to know all these targets out of the sky. we understand that was successful because certainly here, what sounds like last fully into the ground. that's normally bits of debris falling down and setting some that debris caused fires in parts of the city. damage to

causal, so did presuming a damaging cube 0 just not very far from where i am here. and it was so bright in pots that even if you had so you couldn't disclose, it felt like there was a kind of projector illuminating the insights of your accommodations. so that was certainly a new quote to you there. and you could see all social media people really where i tried to look at what this was and kind of trying to compare experiences with people across the city. and it seems like across this big city of several, many people, the most people it was a very sleep last night. so new quality in these attacks. and the storage is say they've not all of the missiles, all those got what role of the west and air defense systems play a of the well certainly it seems like they are working. and especially if it turns out to be true that these, what was the ballistic themselves, what seems to be the case? that was something i think the russians have never expected ukraine to be able to

deal with. but now those american patriot systems are here. we also know that the franco italian system sent t is now in the country, although we don't know if it's operational yet. and so these kids are all hypersonic results that were kind of seemingly the rest of it, which is last hope have now been successfully downs by the picture themselves system. so there's a real sense that russia was trying to throw everything it had in a very short space of time in the hope of overwhelming ukraine's defense. and that just hasn't paid off, obviously key of his privilege and has a lot more in the way of protections in place as close the front lines in smaller towns. but i think there is an increasing sense of desperation, especially as things are not going well for us in the front line. they're not even able to target key of in the way they were before. and on their own side, they are being proven to be very vulnerable. those drones reaching russian targets routine now their own ability to deal with ukraine's smaller christmas cells and drone steaming. you're just not up to it. and it now increasing seems like you credit is actually the country. it is better able to deal with these kinds of targets then the russian reduction they commonly,

they're reporting from kids. thank you very much. i meanwhile, ukraine's military says it's making progress in the basso full. the eastern town of baltimore fussing has been raging in the town for months if any and forces na say they're now pushing a russian troops back on the northern and southern outskirts. but inside talking with the ukrainians foretold, keeps getting slim ukrainian troops paying a high price for the efforts to liberate the flashpoint city of buck moved. the soldier took a direct hit from a move to show. he says he's helm, it saves his life. on monday the truth to top come on, the said they'd made that 1st significant advances, despite having fewer resources and personnel than the enemies rushes, defense ministry acknowledged ukraine's attempts to capture territories around buck

moved but denied they had been successful this year to the north and south and the enemy made major attempts to break through our troops defensive. we repelled all attacks by units of ukraine's armed forces. no break, there was no defense has occurred. oh, i don't know if it was the motion, but communities the scene of the long distance the assist fighting of the will controlling it is strategic for both sides. must go seize best mode as a stepping stone to attacking all the cities. he says, keeping up his defense is buying time, which military could pass for a major town to offensive to retake russian occupied territory at the forefront of russia's bust. me defensive is the private 5. know me, it's stuff a major law says, and it's lead to you have guinea pretty gordon has persistently accused most go of failing to properly supply his army with ammunition. now,

a new scandal is brewing. on monday, the washington post came back back in january for the goals and offered to betray rushing through positions to ukrainian intelligence in return for ukraine. pulling back its troops in buck moved the post side to the us intelligence league, and added that pre holes in sofa had been rebuffed by ukraine, which did not trust him. the more pray goes and have dismissed the allegations, as soon as he denies talking to any ukrainian intelligence officials and kremlin spokesman dmitri pet schools has a so called the reports a hoax. activity, the inside thing on the russian side is intense. bought to whatever the trees, it seems, neither russia nor ukraine kind of for to concede bus moved. and so the brutal fight for the city continues. as somebody look at some of the other stories

making headlines report, the amnesty international shows the dramatic increase in the use of the death penalty worldwide. the number of known state executions rose by 53 percent last year to almost 900. i missed it says the increase was due to post pandemic resumption of trials also. terry and crackdowns on protesters and capital punishment for drug offense. at least 6 people have died in a fine, a hospital in the new zealand capital. wellington thousands more are still missing the whole service reports of the housing temporary and long term residence, including elderly people, because of the fire is not known. the better reason the liter, alexander lucas ankle has appeared in public for the 1st time and nearly a week. it follows days of speculation over his health state television shows the 68 year old inspecting and the air force base because angle has been in pos and at least 30 years. a turkey now which is headed for

a run of presidential election with the incumbent worship type, erewhon still demand to beats. neither he nor his challenge of calculus down to manage to take 50 percent of the of what the volt, which are required. but according to an extra money to us, the other one is competing on the playing fields, tilted in his favor, o. s e monitors the bomb enjoy the unjustified advantage in the 1st round of to spreading false information and censoring the internet. while opposition, newspapers proclaimed preston to other ones. defeat with almost all the votes counted. it was clear here to merge from his toughest electoral challenge. yet in a strong position with the vote is set to return to the poles again in 2 weeks. his challenge to come out could each dorado, remained determined. i am here. i am here. you are also

here with me. i swear to god that i will fight until the very end i am here. but katy's to relatives faces an uphill battle on a playing field, already tipped in. the other one's favor to is media is dominated by back, is of the president and his ruling justice and development policy. and despite rampant inflation with storing food price is a key election topic. many voters still backing out on the battery. i wish to add one to when they say price is a high pressure high everywhere. also in other countries, even in many areas, devastated by february's, quake, and way his government's response was heavily criticized. and one on his party managed to maintain support of the fish, the. i'm not happy at all that the election is going to the 2nd round. i wish out president of on had one. it would have been great the let's see what will happen.

everything is on clear. now this is a god really, it will be good. although i only owed one and katie's to roll, it will be on the pallets in 2 weeks time. another man could be a decisive fact to national is candidates sydney. oh yeah. and took around 5 percent of the vote on sunday and where his vote is go will be crucial. oh yeah. and who wants code? his policies he regards is linked to terrorism. politically isolated has already made clear, his endorsement will come with conditions. so katie's dorado, who was heavily backed by the cottage community, such a deal would be tough to swallow, that with every vote vital in the coming run off and the other one so close to victory. the opposition lead to face is difficult decisions though, as hits to the french riviera,

where they come to film festival kicks off today. the opening film is getting lots of attention fueled by scandals, both on screen i didn't realize there's, i'm due by the features accidentally dep, who's called cases had once threatened to the royal his career. the hollywood stars come back is just one of the headlines from this is festival. as johnny depp is back on top, playing francis king louis the 15th in the new film. johns, you bother you about a former prostitute who became the king's mistress. shift to the default of what's known as you just send a picture on a cool community this year. and that's a good thing because of his american accent. death only speaks a few lines in the whole movie, leaving more screen time for actress. my where she also wrote, produced and directed the film and she's got some scandals of her own. the star

just admitted to assaulting a journalist. and she's been criticized for funding the film with cash from saudi arabia. gossip and glamour going hand in hand here at the cannes film festival along with plenty of star power. 80 year old harrison ford is premier in his 5th and final indiana jones film, the dial of destiny. this time he's battling ex nazis who infiltrated the us space program together with his god. daughter played by phoebe waller bridge. sometimes i think the show more at home outside the or send the director wes anderson is back in can with the asteroid city star studded comedic tragedy about astronomy geeks and their parents are still only 9 plants themselves. but as far as we know, billing, now there's an alias also premiering and kind of a slew of films from africa and vanilla. and adam i by french senegalese,

director rahman had 2. i see 2 young bumpers. relationship disrupts their community in our comes from asia also look set to make an impact. at con, director one things 3 and a half hour documentary youth springs fellows, a group of young chinese textile workers who actually live inside a factory. and i see that quote from them this year, 6 female directors make up roughly a 3rd of the filmmakers competing for the festivals top prize. it's a record for com. was one of the critics a still isn't enough. so who will this year's winner be? for the next week and a half, the whole film world has its eyes on con to find out. and so will we. you're watching the, the news is

a reminder of all the top storage of the current capital piece has come on to advertise federal official trans, cold, exceptional in their intensity, russia loans, drones, cruise missiles and also ballistic missiles. during this time, princess shopped down as if from me and it is team, don't go away. after shall break. we have a business. and for the in from meet and the new c, the voice i am must the new jobs. she's the face of a protest movement i did not think so many.