the, the, this is dw news life from berlin. the use top cold hands, poland, a fresh legal, 5th back. the european court of justice, rules of 2019 traditional reform violates e. you know, the judges say the law could affect the independence of poland. supports forces coming up. russia say's its base and back

a ukrainian assault must go release us for that. it's phase shows russian forces repelling a ukrainian attack in the 20th region. key, of course, the russian claims a destruction opposition in the for terry in states as the russians from the sloop and on support is on criminal critics. i'll explain the voting. we made a young opposition politician on the ground who walks the fine line between activism and arrest and as specials intensify for control ups. a dense capitol hot to dw speeds, just the vineyards port in the middle for whom finding voice and food have become pairing. this task, the hello i'm christine model. welcome to the program. the european union's highest cost has ruled that poland is controversial just as reform violates e. you know,

the force in less than the upheld a finding that the pony supreme court lacks independence and impartiality, which is against e u roles. poland has already been 5, hundreds of millions of years of, of the reform which was austin 2019, the conservative governments in warsaw sais. the e. u is undermining its sovereignty. dw is corresponding jack park in brussels, is following the story for us. here's his take on the quote, really, this is a really complex case and there's a lot of legal detail about this. but really what this shows is the big back to between the power of this government, which wants to claim its own judiciary, its own sovereignty, and the obligations of poland to be an e. u. member states. and so it like a you little to be the top? no, i said to say what happened is that and put them in 2019 brought in a special disciplinary come to chamber. it was cold to oversee the king of supreme

court judges. this of mine said to that the content of the judgement is being reviewed, and if it was not seemed to be in line that they could face penalties, including reduction of the salary, the judges, a suspension of bad things and even criminal proceedings themselves. so what this was seen by the you have in brussels, was it, this was the government tinkering in the workings opponents top court. and what we've seen now is a final judgment by the european union's top coal, which is the, the top cool in, or the use countries saying that this was not enlightened, essentially what the judges of says, that the measures of this discipline retain but would not compatible with the guarantees of an independent g district, that's what they said today, this the final rolling, this is it not posted right off this case? so as you say, poland is lost. this case what this is really now mean for the polish government or

what it means, what they'll try and do is you mentioned that it's been big, finds a 1000000, you'll raise a day since the initial rolling came right up until the state defies. will not end, but the best part of a 1000000000 you'll raise, which is taken. i was posted as ability to access a 35000000 your refund for getting out of the cobit 19 pandemic. they will try and get back on board with that, but more broadly, this plays into the wider discussions in poland, a by opponents placed within the european union. and this is all in the run up to major parliamentary elections a new what you can expect is that the ruling post party will probably try and use this, this ruling to try and fight and show that they are trying to fight the european union in the course christy. all right, that's how jeff power proposing for us and brussels as always. thank you jack. we appreciate that. russia claims the it has stopped a military offensive by ukrainian troops in the don't yet screech. and that's a paucity of russian occupied region of east and ukraine. russia's defense ministry

say's its forces killed 250 soldiers. on sunday, the ministry released this throne video which could not be independently verified. it purports to show the russian forces for taking a large scale, attacked by $210.00 battalions and other mechanized units in southern areas of done yet. ukrainian officials have called the russian claims an attempt to distract from heavy russian losses elsewhere. oh dear, i suppose the defense i list marina mirror. i'm a research fellow in the defense studies department at kings college level denials to her thoughts on russia's claim that it's repelled a major ukrainian defensive until some 250 ukranian troops to today. well is, that's an interesting event and obviously are we have heard a lot of reports from the ministry of defense of the russian federation over the course of the past year, which turned out not to be exactly true. so perhaps,

um the, there is a possibility that there was indeed an attempt to break through russian defense lines. however, as far as the magnitude of this attack is concerned, and the fact that the russian forces have repelled this amount of you, bringing forces, including the to tank brigades, seems a little bit well, not of proportion. so we will not know because the ukrainian side is not saying anything for an obvious reason because they don't want to reveals a plans. however, we should think it was a grain of soul, at least until we have some verification of the footage and some input from the inside. right. and so maureen, if most latest version of events is true, what does it tell us if anything about the expected ukrainian culture offensive as well? what it tells us is that ukrainian so trying to strike across the friend funds. so

that has been reported a tax um ends up ratio. the attacks now installs the net, um, so the ukrainians, they are trying to pursue a strategy of thousands cox's and the high level deluxe had in september of 22. meaning that they're looking for a week lines and russian defenses and trying to see whereas they can break through so that they can send reinforcements. and this might have happened. north was a magnitude what the russians have said. however, maybe this was unsuccessful, so they will be looking for another entry. and overall of nobody's saying it's on the ukrainian side has signal that there should be no word about the comprehensive because they want to maintains a surprise initiative. and interestingly enough, it coincides also with incursions in belgrade. serena, do you think um, the overall, the, what do you think of russia's saves, of readiness or preparedness full ukraine's antipathy anticipated contra offensive

as well. i think across the front lines the russians have learned quite a lot and have indeed prepared well. and so they're waiting in avenue for the ukrainians to attack. they don't know where they, what was it ukrainians will attack. what kind of attack it will be, but i think they are raid years and they were last year and losing. is you losing? the radley mom, the house taught them a less than that. i think the fact that in general, the rosmer was taking charge of this so called special military operation being a very good staff officer. i think there have been some changes. however, as we're seeing, not everything can be protected as well as the russians are on the line of contact . they are leaving their board or in the state, but it is now that you penetrated right, that is defense and list. marina me around as low as marina. we appreciate your insights. thank you. thank you. a rushing police of arrest of more than $100.00

demonstrates as a trip to the streets, to mark the birth date of jail, criminal and critic alex a novel, ne, demonstrates, is held hand written science. quoting for his release, the human rights monitoring group of the info stage and the volume, the supporters were detained in 23 cities across russia, including moscow and st. petersburg. the prominent proposition veto was jail, fraud, and contempt of court. but the volley maintains the charges with trump stuff to silence him. rushes government has paused increasing the tough noise to stifle criticism, since it's invasion of ukraine. so is it even possible to oppose the government in letting me put in russia will either be spoke with the local opposition to position in moscow. constantine suncoast is focusing on community action like this recycling drive. coffee is the local opposition politician for the

moscow district of much icy. 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 though, the authorities 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. that goes just likely ecological campaigns can really unites people in these hot times. it's important to stay united and support each of us. and it's important to know we're trying to do at least some thing to improve the load around us. of an overwhelming majority of russian 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

your selenium level introduce you to a dictatorship like russia. it's a kind of a person's every move can be traced to controlled. ready the far it is going to find out everything about a person very interested in very quickly if necessary. i think that right now, but let me pretends opponents. the main task might be to get 3 this time and stay out of prison. taken to the barricades now is a bad idea of what he thought it was a most rushing off edition. politicians are in jail or an exile, but that didn't stop. 23 year olds, konstantin con. call from going into local politics just last year. he knows that the more public attention he gets to more he's in danger mode. yeah. lots of activists who have stayed in russia are afraid. you don't know if the police will come in social home in the morning. unfortunately, because of a repressive laws being passed is dangerous to express your opinion in public its own unpleasant. we have to work in the conditions. we have the law politically set

about accept flooded chemical plans to continue his monthly recycling drive. and he hopes to stay in politics despite everything he believes things in russia can change. well, let's go over to read and now to speak. so correspondent ebony show when filed the report, you just watched. emily used to report from moscow until dw was banned from russia . to, to have you on the program, emily, as, as you say in your report, most russian opposition politicians are in jail or they're in exile. and it's pretty dangerous to be opposing in russia. how risky is it for all konstantin con, cause to be doing what he's doing? i think it's very risky, frequent since he intends supposed to be doing what he's doing, especially as i mentioned in the report even it seems our environmental action like the action that he's taking could become more and more risky. just recently,

the authorities close down the environmental organization green piece. so it could be that that is an indication that even environmental action like that could become more and more considered to be political on that by the authorities. so it's really rare um, at the moment to have a opposition politicians at all, who can still speak publicly and consent to con, consult for. i also spoke to on the phone. the said to me, you know, he, he's aware that the, the more public is public, he becomes, the more follow where's and in a sense, he becomes, he gets, the more influence he gets, the more danger he's actually in. so that's the current situation, that opposition figures and rushed to face if they're not in jail already. emily, or is there a true picture of how many russians inside the country oppose a president vladimir putin and how, how are they expressing their defense i think it's almost impossible to get a real picture at the moment of, um, how many people actually

a pose of letting their foods in, there are surveys, both by independent pollsters and state pollsters, which say that an overwhelming majority of people support letting they were put in . they put the figures around 80 percent. so that really is a huge number. but also, so i'll just will point out that surveys in war time are essentially something that you can trust if you would imagine in a dictatorship being called up up by someone you don't know who asks you what you think of whatever puts in or of the war, for example, you probably aren't likely to really voice your real opinion or, or voice, any kind of defense. so it's really difficult to know what we do now is what you mentioned, christine, which is those protests over the weekend where over a 100 people were arrested. that's not a big number. of course, you know, if, if you consider how big russia is. but these were people all across the country, and this was a huge risk, but people were taking all of those people were arrested. so i think even the fact

that people took to the streets at all shows that there are still some people in russia who do a post, letting me or yeah, and just survive the audience, those people with protesting. alexa, and of all me the, the, one of the most prominent opposition think is in the country, his being imprisoned on the occasion of his birthday. what, what does that tell us about about his movement. he's currently serving an 11 year sentence, but he's movement and, and those affiliates, him still same point where he's currently, as he said in prison, for a fraud charges that he says and contempt of court as well, which he said are political charges. and he's actually facing more and more cases as well against him. there's actually going to be a 1st hearing for a new case against him now, tomorrow on extremism charges. and there are terrorism charges that he could be facing as well. so he could actually be getting another few decades in jail,

dividing himself says that he fears that he could actually spend a life sentence in jail as well. um and the conditions he's facing there, him and his lawyers have been complaining about as well. all right, that's all correspondence. emily show and thanks to him before your reporting and his look at some old stories making headlines around the world around the ac goals have been poisoned in attacks on primary schools in northern afghanistan. the goals have been taken to the hospital and our reports in the, in the stable condition neighboring iran has seen thousands of students poisoned in the techs on schools. in recent months is a bridge in india's eastern fog. a whole district has collapsed for the 2nd time in just over a get a people were on the bridge with itself and one person is missing. the bridge was under construction and slate has to be ready in 2019, but has had multiple denise heavy rain has flooded towns in northern

equitable official se hours of constant rain has caused rivers to boost their bands . it for those presidents, a 500 people have been rescued and thousands more effective residents incidents capital for to in say, fighting has intensified in the city of to the late to cease by expired over the weekend. the us and slow the radio. all ridging warren policies to agree to a new cx 5, but since fighting broke out in mid april, multiple agreements has failed. now the conflict has treated a major humanitarian crisis in a country way. many people were already struggling, so how people still in the cartoon dealing with the situation right now at the w, talk to one resident who lives in our chevy? that's just a few. columbus is from the fighting matter. my boy always loved the tranquillity at his phone. by the night, a peaceful escape from the noisy streets of central hard to him. but now the calm

is deceptive. less than 5 kilometers away, the fighting continues unabated. done as opposed to a level psalms and straight bullets hit us. the sound of artillery has become normal for us. at 1st we were afraid and hid. but now we go out despite the warning noises, because we feel we're already dead anyway. so it's better to live our last day is moving until god decides otherwise. the money out the i want kind of heard before the war met towards computer science at the university and have to him he hasn't received a salary for 2 months. so he has gone back to farming to feed his family. is landey inherited has now become a lifeline for him and others to because the markets of closed. com. so his produce . so he gets away his vegetables to other people in need. but it's not just food

that's in short supply who are at passed away because she couldn't get her medicine . she was only in our fifties. she was taken to the hospital, but there was nothing they could do. so we brought her home where she died and we buried her. you can hear fighter jets are in the air now the central mind america visits this whole neighborhood where crime is on the rise to one of his neighbors. an elderly, disabled man was beaten up and dropped his gunpoint. random attacks like these have been daily, renders where the current situation is very bad. people live in constant insecurity and the state of constant panic and distress a month. only a few people are left in this neighborhood. walking the streets is dangerous. this is one of the few grocery stores that are still open. for a few months, my suppliers are closed. once these lentils are sold,

we won't get anymore. and if i do find something that will be expensive and i won't get much and that will, the food prices have doubled. america will have to rush in the small portion even will to scares people q to use one of the fuel working pumps on that hopes. other countries will put more pressure on the word infections. if no, to end the war, then it leads to enforce real ceasefire motions. and so all good and the biggest challenge now is to push through with a appeal of the international community to stop the war. this is very important to us because breaching armistice is lucky and continuing this tool of war is very, very dangerous. and hopefully that gives you the non, regardless of the, the social skills mer to discuss is leaving. have to him with a neighbor, but he can't afford to. and even if he could, the way out has become too dangerous. i don't know if he is for 3 younger children

and his wife have the money. so for now, he's waiting it out. germany is defense, minnesota is in indonesia as part of his 1st trip to asia. mars for stories was created by his counterpart, provost bianco in the capital jakarta. the story is once germany to expand its role in the end of the pacific and has called the region key to promote in global peace . the next stop on history will be india. will the w as chief political correspondent anita has a, is traveling with the defense minister and sent us this update from jakarta. well, um when i, when i, when i will arrive at an yeah, i will be accompanied by a representative of the german companies defense industry companies. and i want to send a signal with that we are, we are willing to support our populace already live apartments like indonesia like india. and that include, for example, the way there's

a way of the possibility of delivering something to reading, for example. so we're talking about that without losing out of photos, sensibility of deliberate weapons, all over the world. we have to find a balance between delivering weapons on the ones on the one hand to our populace to our live with 5000. on the other hand, to control and to, to add to limit delivering of weapons all over the world. because we don't need really so much weapons anymore in the what we should not have too much weapons. and the full interview with far as the story is say, is coming up later in the same way. you can watch it any time on the dw news youtube channel to the u. s. navy has released video off a chinese warship crossing close me in front of the us destroyer. in a flash point was a way the incident in the taiwan straits, which the us has quote, unsafe comes in mid worsening ties between washington and beijing. this is

the moment a chinese warship blocked the part of an american destroyer. forcing the us vessel the tongue honed to drop in speed and avoid a collision. the incident dakota, the united states and canada were holding joint drills in the taiwan strait. a body of water that's already as sensitive waterway as it separates china from type on the canadian official who witnessed the 1st time has called out china's actions was intentional and dangerous. the fact that this was that was over the radio prior to doing it clearly indicated that was intentional, maneuvering close to each other, $150.00 yards is, is very scary. and you don't ever want to be that close to another vessel, because too many things can go wrong. and you could actually have a question. the weight, china as a total t c. it type on the waters of round it belonged to them. they have blamed the us

for provoking risk in the region. change out the truth is that the united states is provoking triple fast and chinese dealing with it in accordance with the international law. trying to respect freedom of navigation on overflights is. but china certainly oppose a southern countries causing trouble in the taiwan straits and safe gods. it gets offered to you on a secure. it's a, i'm a teacher hoping but take the time on straight to spot of the south china sea, where china's naval posture has been growing increasingly aggressive over the last weeks blocking the passenger philippine ship in may then or us across and now or us destroyer. you know our voyage, mike, concerned about the irresponsible behavior we've seen with the call center steps and in the course is behavior that we see in the,

in the waterways. and. and so that, that continues. i call up on the appear seas leadership to, to really do the right things to rein in that kind of a conduct because i think the accidents can happen. that could cause thing to spiral out of control. so phone china is defending it's sense of the country's leaders have also stated that a full blown conflict with the us would be a quote unbearable to fast though. some football news now and being a humbug fan hasn't been much funded recently, is the 1983 european champions were relegated from the windows needed for the 1st time since in 2018 and despite me and mrs. hen both have not managed to get back into germany's top league, and tonight their chances looked slim in a play of 2nd leg against stiff dot com. the fault did one promotion back to

the bonus legal last month, but 2 goals and stoppage time for rivals, height and timeframe to columbus as a way dash there hopes a play off against top to his book. god gave them a 2nd chance. but the 1st leg away from home did not go to plan, go defending meant stop the rest of the 3 new when i look on calls to stay in the bundles. vega, i'm the mountain to climb in the home like tonight. but they're not giving up. just yet as the seed is is your email, our goal is the same as your for so it's not like the guys are saying that from the start, they're not going to give 100 percent. what's in? i can only say in newark, strong as a team and we need everybody stocks and it will only happen if we play as a team. if we prepare the individual qualities and both sides in mind, it's something different. that's a for glazed on this. this was the end of this stuff that will help him. the don't go over the top, trying to plug it back like the red cutting mc. so wouldn't didn't the 1st leg the on off is he in does. we've seen that. it's very important that we keep

a high level of concentration for the return leg in the 1st leg. there were periods where we were chasing shadows, and were hamburg got into the final 3rd and created chances to come on. don't show us and see that. despite the miserable look in recent times, humbugs famously passionate fans will turn the folks bucks, daddy on into a cold run tonight as they try to help the team pull off the near impossible as well that is a for me, thanks for your company. use asia. what their advantages up next by the

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