[000:00:00;00] news and see the way news line from berlin. ukraine says it's conducting offensive actions along the front line. according to keep, the operations are centered around the city of buff mode, which is occupied by russian troops. both sides assure the ukrainians have made at

least some progress. also coming up opposition to an authoritarian regime. dw speaks to a young russian politician walks a fine line between activism under right and those bottles intensify for control of 2 dogs, capital car. 2, we meet the civilians called in the middle for me, finding water and food become perilous plus a dangerous encounter and a contested waterway. the u. s. navy release has a video of a chinese warship crossing close to a us destroyer. the latest instance of rising tensions between the 2 super power, the only called fairly heavy with officials in ukraine say their forces are moving to offensive actions along the front line. ukraine's military released this video

which they say she. 2 shows their troops firing on russian physicians nearby. most pressure claims to have repelled a large scale ukrainian attack. on sunday, the greens deputy defense minister dismissed to some reports of account are offensive as russian misinformation to distract from russian losses. for more we can speak now to mike martin. he is a senior fellow at king's college in london and a former british army officer mister martin. welcome back to the w, and you brings defense ministry, and claiming ukrainian forces are increasing offensive operations and making games . but suggesting that some of the russian announcements are this information, how are you reading the situation? i think i think there's 2 things going on. on the crate inside. they are actually announcing things off to they've already happens. so if they say that they are increasing offensive operations, that means 3 days ago, they started increasing their funds so fractions. and on the russian side, the russians have a real problem in that, as well as i think square you tried me,

or rather, the russian freedom legion is, is on russian territory and taking russian villages. so russia is talking about anything except for the incursions into his own territories. so that's how i read both the crating and the russian statements. we have been talking about this, this anticipated ukrainian counter offensive for a long time. now, are we any closer to this? now? a look i, i think it's been going on for quite some time. so for what reason, last months we'll say we've been having shaping operations which are basically the ukrainians have been taking out russian colonial control. and also doing reconnaissance to find out where russian formations are, what we've seen over the last week or so. and this is what i think the training that you defense when it's that was alluding to off all what you cool, recognizance and force where you push into areas where russian troops ought to see what response you get. and if they reinforce the area, then you pull back and you go somewhere else. and if they don't reinforce,

then you can push through and exploding got to area. so really we just slightly up the time of what's been going on for the last month. mm hm. and again, the fax mode is seemingly at the center of it, at least at the center of one of these operations. how, how do you see it? why would they start there? where they, they spend so much time finding and then ultimately long. mm hm. well, the thing about the flute is the russians have, for the last 6 months, been obsessed with capturing it. and now they have captured it. and they lodge, you did that with the vault and private military company involved and i have not pulled out and left large areas of back move to russian army forces who are not as good front diagnosed as aggressive as of all the troops. and so the ukrainians are focusing on that a because it's important to the russians, but be because they're able to reverse some of those gains because of all the chiefs and the price with lower quality russian army troops. and what this does is

it creates problems between the wagner mass raise and the russian army, on the other hand, as they have a kind of a competition between themselves and the ukrainians. focusing on buffalo to explore that competition and with the russians, having so many fires to put out as who is here, explain their now prepared. are they to find back up once the larger counter offensive a comes along or intensified? i think as probably 3 things, i think that the russians are very, very stretched, and a lot of that forces are exhausted. they just have the 6 month bottle in backwards . and secondly, i think the physical defenses and your listeners watches will know about. they've probably seen the videos of these dragon's teeth. these white permits that have meant to stop tanks. it appears now that they're not quite says efficient or as useful as the russian story. why? because the kidneys pushed through them to get tons of cushion couch in belgrade.

so that's the 2nd problem. and the 3rd problem is the factionalism between involved and the chechens, the russian army. i mean, just yesterday, a russian army left handing connor was captured by wagner group and paraded on the social media. um, i think there were real real problems within the russian ministry structures and being able to resist. you try it and if they're able to get it right. you graham says plans love silence. do you think we'll ever see them announced the counter offensive or will they as you point out, do so after the fact and keep advancing without advertising. and this is not going to be like a counselor, that's been a film. where'd office offices stands off and blows? whistle and everyone goes over the top with likely to see what we're seeing now, just a rolling series of different activities in this area. and that's the area on the accompanying announcements by the ukrainians,

or merely meant to push the russians in one direction to think about that or in the other direction we. we also shouldn't take too much weight from them that just mainly parts of the psychological gave you credit is a problem with the russians. i don't think there's going to be a big start to this, i think is just going to continue over the summer and then the ukrainians, right. then for an area where they can push and see through the rush lines. and then they will. i was military analyst mike martin, thank you so much. thank you. over the weekend, there were demonstrations around the world to mark the birthday of jail, russian opposition. politicians. alexander bony alone, who was poisoned in 2020, narrowly surviving only to be jailed and rushed on charges including fraud and contempt of court. many other critical voices in the country having killed, attacked, imprisoned, or otherwise intimidated in silence. so is it even possible to oppose the government and vladimir putin as russia? a young opposition politician in moscow believes it's worth

a shot. constantine cold is focusing on community action like this. recycling dr. coffee is the local opposition. politician for the moscow district of my dry skin. 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. that goes just the opposite. we're 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. 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 post on social media, criticizing the war can mean up to 15 years in prison before your selenium level 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 going to find out everything about the person very interested in very quickly, if necessary. so the slice thing is that right now, the ultimate pretends opponents, the main task, might be to get through this time and stay 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 constantine calls from going into local politics just last year. he knows that the more public attention he gets, the more he's in danger. lots of activists who have stayed in russia are afraid. we don't know if the police will come in social home in the morning. unfortunately,

because of the 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 level of accept flooded cost plans to continue his monthly recycling drive. and he hopes to stay in politics. despite everything, he believes things in russia can change presidents and so don's capital, cartoon se finding has intensified in the city after the lead is truth expired over the weekend. the us and saudi arabia are urging warren parties to agree to a new states fire. but since signing broke out in april multiple agreements failed, the conflict has triggered a major humanitarian crisis in a country where many people were already struggling. so how are people still in cartoon dealing with the situation right now? the w talk to one resident who lives in alger range, just a few kilometers from the fighting. i met him,

a boy always loves 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 little songs and stray 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 kind of hurts before the war, a man 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. this is landey inherited has now become

a lifeline for him and others to because the markets are closed, the concept is produce. so he gets away his vegetables to other people in need. but it's not just food that's in short supply. who passed away because she couldn't get our 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. then we buried her on the ups. you can hear fighter jets are in the air now the central mind. oh man visits his whole neighborhood where crime is on the rise to one of his neighbors, an elderly, disabled man was beaten up and dropped his gun point random attacks like these have been daily witnesses where the current situation is very bad. people live in constant insecurity and a 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 any more. and if i do find some, they'll be expensive and i won't get much and that will the food prices have doubled. ahmed, we'll have to rush in the small portion. even water is scarce, people q to use one of the fuel working pumps, or med 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 i'll go to 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 the social skills. oh man discusses leaving hosp 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 in his life, the money. so for now, he's waiting it out. here's a look at some other stories making headlines around the world today. around 80 girls have been poisoned and attacks on primary schools and northern afghanistan. the girls have been taken to a hospital and are reportedly in a stable condition. neighboring around has seen thousands of students poisoned and attacks on schools in recent months. a palestinian toddler, who was shot by, is rarely troops last week, has died from his injuries. the 2 year old and his father were both shotwell riding in a car. and the west bank is really military said soldiers opened fire in response to gunman shooting at a jew or settlements nearby of the germany's defense minister as an indonesia, as part of his tor,

the indo pacific region for us to stories was greeted by his counterpart, trouble so be unto in the capital jakarta. the story is once germany to expand its role in the in the pacific. he's called the region key to promote in global peace. next stop on his tor will be india and u. s. navy has released video of a chinese warship crossing closely in front of a us destroyer in a flash point waterway. the incident in the taiwan strait, which the u. s. is called unsafe, comes in at worsening time from washington and beijing. this is the moment a chinese warship blocked the path of an american destroyer. forcing the use festival, the tongue honed to drop its speed and avoid a collision. the incident code of the united states and canada were holding joint drills in the taiwan strait. a body of water that's already as sensitive bought away as it separates china from type on

a canadian official who witnessed the full time has cooled up, 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 can actually have a question. the weight china also told a t c, it type on the waters around it belonged to them. they have blamed the us for provoking risk in the region. change. obviously the truth is that the united states is provoking trouble 1st. and china is dealing with it in a conference with the international law trying to respect freedom of navigation on overflights. but china certainly oppose a southern country is causing trouble in the taiwan strait and save jobs. it gets offered to you on the security. and how did your fucking 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 are us aircraft. and now are us destroyer you know, our voyage, my concern about the irresponsible behavior we've seen with the call center steps and in the course of this behavior that we see in the, in the waterways and. and so that, that continues, i call upon the appear, sees leadership to, to really do the right things to rein in that kind of a conduct because i think the accidents can happen and that could cause things as burrow out of control. so phone, china is defending it's sense of the country's leaders have also stated that

a full blown conflict, but the us would be a quote unbearable to faster and dw this mikaela. cruz now joins us now from washington. for more mikaela, the white house just condemned. what happened and the time went straight, say it won't be long before somebody gets hurt. how big or fears of tensions escalating? i think that old size would rejects the very notion that they feel any fee, but we did hear some very clear words. phones on cubby at the national security council communications coordinator. that you already close, as, yeah, he indeed spoke of unsafe and unprofessional interest up there. not long before somebody gets hurt. also asked about the lines of communication because that really is the, the key to this whole crisis. they simply on that, on the united states is that it's coarsely optimistic mistake that,

that might improve. so that at this moment in time is no red hot telephone at all. you be communications towards moscow could potentially be better or more functioning then towards china at this moment in time. and that is very wiring indeed. and when we talk of the time to time when you straight there, there's only 110 miles between mainland china and taiwan, which china claims as domestic waters, united states, incest are international waters. and that's really a stand off that threatens to become hot at any moment in time. so fit would be rejected to it. but there is a, an unusual high level of concern who had tons of be in dc. so what is being done to deescalate as well the united states keeps stressing that it is open for lines of communication. and these communications, a word quoted to us today as we were listening to this briefing there from the

white house. and that's where the situation stands, and i think the very direct wanting by the communications communications direct to the of the national security council that somebody could get hot soon more than alludes to the fact that the communication is not good between both sides. but the same time there's intense trade going on. so at this committee is a disconnect between economic dependency and the political tension that we are seeing play out almost physically and increasing the threatening me physically. so, me to stay with us for a 2nd because there's more big news coming out of the us today because former us vice president mike pence has declared his candidacy for the 2024 republican presidential nomination this pitts pence against his former ally, former president donald trump, the current republican front runner, the to have been bid arrivals and spends refuse to support trump in the final days

of his presidency during the january 6 capital interaction and now joins a growing list of high profile candidates. alright mikayla, how high profile is the, can he actually be donald trump? what are the policy? well, the very short answer right now would be no, but that's what everybody's thoughts. just the head of a trunk nomination and for the 2016 elections. and so mike pins, he fell from grace really with all trumps or forces. and donald trump still has round about the bed of republicans who will back him no matter what we may do. mike pens is internationally the most recognizable name nikki haley is also in the race scene. also was part of the trumpet ministration as the un ambassador for the united states. but that's when it really starts to fizzle out. and in terms of holding itself, even the, as in that,

because mike pins and mickey heavy are both hovering round about 40 percent of the polling and support. when you ask republican voters at rome, desantis of the florida gulf from that is just the round about 20. and donald trump has more than 50 percent support at this moment in time. so the polls are suggesting that we might well see a re run between so 5 is pretty much uncontested in the democrats come on, donald trump, himself, that's if and it's a big is donald trump doesn't run into some such serious legal trouble that either across his public support, you could even see him behind boss or sentence in any way or full overdone, re 6 and over him. basically asking for those votes in georgia and over keeping those files at home, not to mention the house money payments. so there's a lot that could we can donald trump, but he has no strong contender for the republican nomination. right now, we're mention uphill battle for mike pence,

the latest republican contender for the republican nomination to become president this next year. thank you so much. mikaela cruz. now the union's highest court has ruled that poland is controversial. judicial reform violates a you law. the european court of justice upheld of finding the parts of the reform undermines the independence and impartiality of polish courts. poland has already been fined hundreds of millions of arrows over the reform which was passed in 2019 . poland. justice minister rejected the ruling calling and corrupt. this is the disciplinary chamber at the supreme court in poland. it can penalize judges up to and including dismissal. if they make on welcomed decisions, including ruling the polish judgements, violate e you law. the use top governing body found this was in violation of the you law.

european court of justice is decision made that official of the me a prospect of polish judges who have to apply a you low bang, most of the disciplinary chamber which can affect the status. and the exercise of the office may undermine the judicial independence types. but the ruling is the central judgement in a series of lawsuits brought by the e. c. j against poland. these began shortly after the current government of power in 2015. the european commission has also suspended billions of bureaus in corona virus relief funds. money that is still not been distributed to poland, the vice, uh, if the government does not act on the verdict, it may result in the mechanism being put in place. and the direct consequence would be that the european commission was submitted motion to impose new penalties and pending the implementation of the verdict. the commission poland had already had to

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