it would take more than a 100 years to completely dispose of all especially those containing material and tell you the never ending story of asbestos starts june 21st on d w. the . this is the, the, the news coming to live from berlin. russia says it has beaten back a military offensive by ukraine. moscow release has put agents, so it shows russian forces repelling. are you crazy and attack and the done yet, screeching. t a has not yet commented. it's on the claim. and opposition in an

office or a terry in state is russian police whoop on supporters of kremlin critic alexa in divani, we made a young opposition. politicians on the ground who walks the fine line between activism and arrest. the hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. russia claims it has stopped the military offensive bi ukrainian troops in the done yet region, mostly russian controlled area of eastern ukraine. russia's defense ministry says its forces killed 250 soldiers. on sunday, the ministry released this drone video which could not be independently verify. it purports to show russian forces 14 a large scale attacked by 2 tank battalions and other recognized units in southern areas of done yet. you're training and officials who have said they're ready for a major operation to push back. occupying forces have not commented on the russian

plight to let you create is also claim to have advanced near the eastern. so the above move, i asked military analysts, frank language and oxford to make sense of these new reports for us. well, good morning, terry. thank concerning. first of all this, suppose it makes major attack which hasn't been verified, even on the russian side of the cob. this is not a major major attack. it looks to be a buckler group involved. ukraine has dozens and dozens of such popular groups. what we're going to here over the next few weeks and months. plenty of these claims and very few, i think count the claims from ukraine. the record of the cranium sofa has been my not going to say anything unless we achieve something. and generally speaking on this side of achieve something, david saved it. so this is, this has no set and also major event concerning bus moods. so this is an area where both sides are at one that the city itself is captured,

but ukrainians have be nibbling away at the flanks and they continue to do so. putting at risk of costs over the over the costs of the operation document itself. being surrounded and perhaps in the cost of being taken. but, but we'll see about that to give us some insights, frank, into the military strategy that ukraine might be pursuing in his counter offensive your quotes effectively. terry icon in a because like everybody else, we don't know as so the kind of minister of defense said yesterday of that to minister silence is the front of the military time. so they're not telling us how it, but i think what we kind of say is this, that it won't be one bound. it won't be one massive assault, you know, on a big push. like in the 1st level, they do tend to fail when it's more likely to base a series of bites and hold operations all across the front for to pro progression weaknesses. and it's going to take

a long time. so we shouldn't expect something to happen quickly. this is a long series of operations that may have just because we don't know yet what types of military resources does ukraine possess that could help make its counter offensive successful? frank? well, let's deal with that in, in, in, in 3 ways. festival, the human element, most of all, what ukraine has is high morale, excellent training, and the funding will to wideness. and none of those things applies to the russians . and we'll fax right from the start to the will receive this. this is the most important element of all of them. we have what's called a conceptual element plans, duction and so forth. and you created showed itself to be got to demonstrate a must street in the employment of thoughts. and finally, a find the need with the site equipment and a bubble. the ability on the crating side to it, to that identify targets to describe me to suspect they might have less than hoping

that on a hit them with precision, all tailoring precision strike. and those advantage with a likely to carry the day for the ukrainians. those are the assets they have to. right. thank you very much. that was former british military intelligence officer, frank lead, which thank you very much. tell you what was a pleasure of the russian police of arrested more than a 100 demonstrators who took to the streets to mark the jail. the birthday of jailed kremlin credit collection. the bonding, demonstrators held hand written signs, calling for his release, the human rights monitoring group o v. d. info said they've only supporters were detained in 23 cities across russia, including moscow in st. petersburg. a prominent opposition leader was jailed for fraud and contempt. of course, but of all the rain change, the charges were trump talk to silencer precious government has passed increasingly till falls to stifled criticism since it's invasion of ukraine. so it was even

possible to oppose the government in vladimir proteins. russia dw caught up with a local opposition politician and moscow. constantine sancho is focusing on community action like this recycling drive, just called the local opposition politician for the moscow district of much ice cubes. every months he gets anywhere from 50 to a 100 people together here to sort and recycle their garbage. recycling is largely uncontroversial in russia for now. so these already did recently shut down the environmental organization. green piece, openly criticizing the government. it's almost impossible. but konstantin thinks this kind of event can be a start to go to the docs that we're likely. ecological campaigns can really unites people in these hard times. it's important to stay united, unsupported. java, and it's important to know we're trying to do at least some thing to improve the load around us is an overwhelming majority of russians support president vladimir

putin, at least according to government pollsters. increasingly draconian laws have made protesting against the russian government all but impossible, especially since the war and ukraine started even a post on social media criticizing the war can mean up to 15 years in prison before you leave me in the, in the digital dictatorship like russia it's a kind of a person's every move can be traced to controlled the far it is, can find out everything about that person very interested in very quickly if necessary. i think that right now they've loved him. he pretends opponents. the main task might be to get through this time and say out of prison. taken to the barricades now is a bad idea of what he thought it was a most russian opposition. politicians are in jail or an exile, but that didn't stop 23 year old konstantin calls from going into local politics just last year. he knows that the more public attention he gets, the more he's in danger. so he has lots of activists who have stayed english or are

afraid. we don't know if a police will come in social home in the morning. unfortunately, because of a repressive loss being passed is dangerous to express. your opinion in public is old and pleasant. we have to work in the conditions. we have the law politically settled, accept flooded, kind of cool plans to continue his monthly recycling drive. and he hopes to stay in politics. despite everything, he believes things in russia can change like say, use a pulse is the director of the russian program with a frequently a but foundation. that's a think tank here in berlin. i asked him about the current state of the opposition in russia as well. the word of position implies that there is still a possibility to actually be inside the political system and have a short of power. and this is just not the case. so actually,

i would say there is no such thing as a position in the russia, except the self assigned a position where the kremlin decides that there will be political parties that look as if their independence. so there is a lot of defense. there is a lot of anti war and n type 14 sentiment in the society, especially in the cities, but in no position in an organized manner has indeed been destroyed completely. and so actually, it was mentioned just before by the gentleman who interviewed the main task, it was maybe to survive to stay true to yourself, so also not to be corrupted or co opted by the regime. and also just continue doing what you've been doing for quite community action. it's catch up on a few other stories making headlines around the world today. authorities in china say at least 19 people were killed in a landslide in such one province. part of a mountain collapse near the city of lashawn, mud and debris were sent hurdling towards the construction site operated by a local mining company. search and rescue efforts have ended. india's railway

minister says a polity, electronic signal appears to be the cause of a deadly crash that killed at least $275.00 people. the collision on friday involved to passenger trains in a freight train. hundreds of people are still being treated in hospital it all straight leah, a woman jailed for over 2 decade server, the deaths of her 4 children has been pardoned. kathleen megan follow big was fried after new evidence suggested children could have died from genetic mutations and congenial disorders di congenital disorders, their deaths occurred over a decade. oil prices are off on monday, after saudi arabia announced a voluntary production cut of one bill. $1000000.00 barrels per day, reduction cuts saudi production of crude by 10 percent and is the biggest in years . comes on top of previously discuss,

con spiteful opec nations episode negotiators from around the world are converging in germany this week for the ball and climate change conference. one of the goals of the conference is the hash out the details for new fun intended to pay for loss and damage experience by poor a nation's due to climate change. the meeting comes just as wealthy nations get set to outline their plans to tackle the global crisis. heavy rain and severe flooding, more than $1500.00 people died of cost of extreme floods and practiced on in 2022. the disasters estimated to of cost around $30000000000.00 and economic losses and damage. climate change likely increased rain full intensity by around 50 percent according to a study. and it's also having an impact of swell heat waves and dry wood, so becoming more likely and lasting longer. storms,

more intense. the economic tall is on the rise in 2021. economic damage cost by natural disasters. hit more than $250000000000.00. some estimate save that costs from less than damage caused by climate change and developing countries alone could reach $1.00 trillion dollars by 2050. today here in charlotte shift we last year developed nations agreed to set up funding to help global sales countries cope with the financial impact of climate change related losses at the international climate summit in egypt. the but just talks kick off this, we can bone, it's clear that will be tensions. it all comes down to money. that the a sense in, in some of the developed countries that to find that's available. so international solidarity is limited. we're seeing a cost of living process globally, thanks to skyrocketing energy prices,

the hangovers from the pivot pandemic. and that's making all of these conversations about money and how to funds climate action. even walk brought countries in the global knowles will also be coming under pressure as they prepared to reveal how far they've come with goals to reduce carbon emissions. it's part of a global stop take, so will be given during the next international climate summit club $28.00 in the united arab emirates in november x. but say that will be no surprises. it's going to say we're not on track to keeping global warming below 3 degrees level and keeping it to below $1.00 degrees. so we need to see a strong and robust response from governments. i caught $28.00 of what they're going to do to close those gaps. the bon talks will serve as little comfort to the people in pakistan i'm still recovering from last is flooding. but behind the scenes, delegates will be hoping to hammer out technical details that move rich and nations

closer to action, sol as commitment, so we'll likely have to wait for world leaders to take the stage later in the year . is the printer open tennis tournament ukraine's alina? it's felina beads. daria casa kina and refused to shake the russians hand. due to the war with alina only came back from having a baby in october, but one in straight sets to reach the quarter finals where she will play a bell or russian. she is married to a french tennis star dial mo fees, who so the crowd largely left her off when she failed to greet her arrival at net fans in paris, a boot all the ukrainians who is not shaken russian hill origin. you're watching the news from berlin. just reminder of the top story we're following for you this. our russia claims it has stopped a military defensive bi ukrainian troops and the don't yet region. mostly,

russian controlled area of eastern ukraine. russia's defense ministry made fun verified claims that his forces kills 250 soldiers on something coming up next, we've got a documentary for you exploring how coca cola can make a 0 waste pledge as well proliferating plastic around the world. i'm terry morrison for me and all of us here at dw, thanks for watching the questions got any issues with all the .