tony alice services be our guest at frankfurt and bought cd managed by from bought the the, the, the we 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 buck. more towards is occupied by russian troops, both sides a store the ukrainians have made some progress. also coming up the top port hands, poland, a fresh legal set back. the european court of justice ruled

a 2019 traditional reform violates in you. law judges say the law could effect the independence of poland. courts and his battles intensify for control of 2 dogs, capital car too. we need the civilians caught in the middle for whom finding water and food has become paralyzed. the welcome to the shell. officials and ukraine say their forces are moving to offensive actions along the front line. ukraine's military released this video, which they say it shows their troops firing on russian positions nearby. russell claims that repelled large scale ukrainian attack on sunday grants. deputy defense minister dismissed some reports of account are offensive as russian mis information in order to distract from russian losses. a chris defense of industry claims

ukrainian forces are increasing offensive operations and making games, but suggests that they just said some of these russian announcements are just information. i asked mike martin a senior fellow at kings causing london and a for a british army officer to tell us how he reads 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 happened. so if they say that they are increasing offensive operations, that means 3 days ago, they started increasing their friends. now, prices, on the russian side, the russians have a real problem in belgrade and in ca, square, you tried me, or rather, the russian freedom legion is, is on russian territory and taking russian villages. so russia is talking about and the thing except for the incursions into his own territory. 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 look i,

i think it's been going on for quite some time. so for the last month, we'll say we've been having shaping operations, which uh, yeah, basically that you credit and so being taking out rush and 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 unexploded. that's area. so really we just slightly up the time of what's been going on for the last month. and again, the fax mode is seemingly at the center of it, at least an at the center of one of these operations. and how did, 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 moved to russian army forces who are not as good friends. he knows as aggressive as of all the troops. and so the trainings are focusing on that because it's important to the russians, but be because they're able to reverse some of those gains because of all countries in the price with lower quality russian army troops. and what this does is it creates problems between the wagner, my series and the russian army. on the other hand, as they have a kind of a, a competition between themselves and the ukrainians are 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,

or intensified a lot. i think that's probably 3 things. i think that the russians are very, very stretched, and a lot of that forces are exhausted. they just had this 6 months bottle in backwards a. 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 whites permits that have meant to stop tanks. it appears now that they're not quite as um, efficient or as useful as the russian story. why? because the ukrainians pushed through them to get tons of russian tires and bulk of god. so that's the 2nd part of and the 3rd problem is this factionalism between involved and the chechens, the russian army. i mean, just yesterday, a russian army less tending connor was cap, should 5 all going to group and parade it on social media. um, i think they 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. hm. and you, graham says plans love silence. and do you think we'll ever see them? announce the counter offensive or will they as you point out, do so after the fact and keep advancing without advertising it. this is not going to be like a counselor of it. so when the film wired office offices times off and blows the 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 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 kinds of 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 they, you kind of identify an area where they can push and see through the rush lines and then they will. i was military analysts,

mike martin. thank you so much. thank you. to the european union's highest court has ruled a poland is controversial, judicial reform violates a you law. the european court of justice upheld finding the parts of the reform undermined the independence and impartiality of polish courts. poland has already been fined. hundreds of millions of heroes over the reform which was passed back in 2019 hope. all is justice minister rejected the ruling, calling its corrupt. this is the disciplinary chamber at the supreme court in poland. it can penalize judges up to and including dismissal. if they make unwelcome decisions, including ruling the polish judgements violate a you law, the use top governing body found this was in violation of the you law. the 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 that 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 heroes in corona virus relief funds. money that is still not been distributed to poland. the motive of device, uh, if the government does not act on the verdict, it may result in the mechanism being put in place. and there is a direct consequence would be that the european commission was submitted motion to impose new penalties and pending the implementation of the verdict to commit to poland had already had to pay half a $1000000000.00 euros and fines before monday's verdict. here's a look at some more stories making headlines around the world today. around the 80

girls have been poisoned and attacked on primary schools and northern afghanistan. the girls have been taken to a hospital and are reportedly in a stable condition. neighboring iran has seen thousands of students poisoned and attacks on schools in recent months. palestinian toddler, who was shot by, is really troops last week has died from his injuries. the 2 year olds and his father were both sean, while writing and a car in the west bank. these really military since soldiers opened fire and response to gunman shooting at a jew or settlement nearby. heavy rain, a flood of towns and northern ecuador officials say, hours of constant rain have caused rivers to burst or banks. i go to, as president said, 500 people have been rescued and thousands more affected. negotiators from around the world are meeting in the western german city of bon this week for you. when climate talks, one of his goals is to hash out the details of

a new fund that is intended to pay for loss or damage experience by poor nations. due to climate change, the meeting comes as wealthy nations prepared to outline their plans to tackle the global climate crisis. heavy rain and severe flooding. more than $1500.00 people died of cost of extreme floods and practiced on in 2022. the disaster is 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 swear, 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 nose 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, went 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 on what they're going to do to close those gaps. the bun 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, solace commitment, so we'll likely have to wait for world leaders to take the stage like to in the year. and i can now welcome daniel foods. he's a center for climate,

an energy transformation fellow at the university. a version good to see mister pods at during the call. 27 countries agreed on a loss and damaged funds to support for nations. why this climate compensation still seem to be sticking point a good evening. you're calling thanks for having me . i'm. it's in my view. there are 2 elements to, to the compensation issue. on the one hand you have got the country. so top, the financial means to the, with global warming to, to reduce emissions into money impacts. these are the countries that by and large, helped on the most to create climate change. and on the other side, the countries that suffer most from climate change impact side of the country said pretty much like the financial means to the end with the problem. service a compensation is the i think that's a good thing to do. in other words, the counties that have the financial means about to head how the country. so that goes means we just, we just had the magnitude of, of the, of the be i see where and to try the lease, of course, that there isn't enough taxpayer money to, to call the,

to pay for it. i've been and this is where i think a lot of the compensation, a lot of thought we'd go again on the, on the so called in the rate the finance, it's sources. it's been for many years. so it's being that's being talked about, the navy ation. that'd be a financial transaction tax. other thing i think we're going to see more of that on the, on the, on the other hand of compensation is a is award that's being used the law. i think the context of law, some damage and, but it's not such a clear cut solution. you might be know when he comes to the in time people lost his treatment by climate change. for example, the loss of the space is or, or the loss of culture and heritage. i believe that if we start accepting compensation as an option for these sorts of things we know monotonously. slaugh says, and i believe that that, that's the wrong thing to do. i believe that instead, we should do our most to avoid those loss here. but let's talk about one of the countries contributing to the bill, the united arab emirates, a huge oil exporter. they will be hosting called $28.00. how cannot impact

negotiations that yeah, i think you might, you might be the main issue of concern here is whether the host, county conducts, or the necessary consultations had to pick on friends. it says these consultations are getting credit import infinity g o stations to succeed a we'd seen in the past, we've seen countries, there are not port exporters and they did not succeed entirely with these consultations. and like i said, this had a huge impact on the conference. so they know the words experience code to townsend all when it comes to, to these issues the, the way he or the, you know, to the end, the rates they do have still experiencing that for some years now. they've been hosting the international have been you, but i didn't see the renewable energy agency, sorry to me at the end of the day, how well the visas experience they have is used and how much support they could must from, from other countries that need to most of the conversations,

this really is the key mold and whether or not they are annoying exporting country daniel thoughts of the university of virg and thank you for your time. thank you very much. i to develop african, where a local company is tackling to problems once it's re discovered a way to reduce the amounts of wasted food while enriching solve for agriculture. his lunchtime is that event equitorial and calvin college has the kids go back to class kitchen work cuz the cleaning up the mess they left behind. previously, the last day of, of food would go into the trash adding to the 10000000 tons of food by south africa generates every year. but then came passed away by optic and fed kashi an ancient process originating anastasia. the convert, so panic, master into soil, nutrients, recreating composts, which we also use back into the, into the school,

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. what is in trouble? we all have to do a bit, reduce your personal impact and our business impact on the environment. back santobin, the school hopes to set an example by recycling it's left day with a the unhealthy put a lid on the food vice problems. once and so all former us vice president mike pens has declared his candidacy for the 2024 republican presidential nomination. this fits pens against the former allies and boss donald trump. the current republican front runner. the 2 will have been bid arrivals and since pens refuse to support trump and the final days of his presidency during the january 6, capital and direction and now joins a growing list of high profound canada utilities. me tell you that you've noticed following the story for us from washington, i asked for a short while ago, my friend says what it takes to be donald trump, for the republican nomination as well. the very so on. so 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 trump supporters. and donald trump still has round about a set of republicans who will back him no matter what mike pins is internationally . the most recognizable name nikki haley is also in the race. she 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 polling, it starts even earlier than that. because mike pins and katie are both hovering round about 4 percent of the polling and support. when you ask republican voters at rome, desantis for 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 joe biden. 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 such serious legal trouble that either across his public support, you could even see him behind boss or sentenced in any way of form over january 6th . 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. a mechanic is now reporting from washington dc. germany and indonesia have agreed to strengthen their defense cooperation that includes planning a joint military exercise with other states in the and no pacific german defense minister boars. the story is this turing, the region which is currently was seen rising tensions between the us and china and those tensions have countries in east asia and far away you're,

i'm thinking about or security. the german defense minister right in jakarta, to an official welcome from his indonesian count about for the way so be on to indonesia with its 270000000 inhabitants needs and wants strategic thoughts initiates at new defense capabilities, potentially security challenges in the region. a changing the story is visiting asian countries to demonstrate jim and his willingness to play a positive role. what i came here because of this region were shaping the 21st century in regards of security. freedom of fanatic ation and domestic and economic economically uh, challenges and with things like that will be shape here. and there for the region is important not only for germany, but for europe and it. so the ministers agreed to strengthen defense co operation and discuss the possible delivery of german submarines. and today's you would also

like german aircraft. and the story is says he expects a decision on that said the 2 sides also talked about holding joint military maneuvers in the future. what those could look like is currently being demonstrated at the committee, though 2023 name alexis is just getting started either of the end and easy an island of sla ways the, the dozens of nations are taking part in what's described as a trust building opportunity including russia, china and the united states, the lack of trust between washington and beijing, especially over the issue of ty. one is it goes with concern. the story is called on them to take to ok. because otherwise, the space for misunderstandings on and the risk for escalations really would even increase. both of them knows that you know that i'm there for i'm quite sure that we'll get back to the table. the last stop on this story is to is india. another

potential purchase of gym and made weapons, and another country gemini, sees as a result, eval putnam in asia, presidents and students capital, cartoon se finding has intensified in the city after the latest truce expired over the weekend. and us and saudi arabia are urging warring parties to agree to a new cease fire that's in finding broke out in mid april multiple agreements failed. the conflict has triggered a major humanitarian crisis in a country where many people are already struggling. so how are people still in cartoon dealing with a situation right now? do you talk to one, residential lives in alger reef, just a few kilometers from the fighting. the matter, my boy always loves the trunk. when a d at us from, by the night, a peaceful escape from the noisy streets of central cartoon. but now the come is deceptive. less than 5 kilometers away. the fighting continues unabated.

done on the 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. i'm going out the, i'm on kind of her before the war on that 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. it does is landey inherited has now become a lifeline for him and others to because the markets are 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. remind america visits this home 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 in security, in 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 to lots of my suppliers are closed. once these lentils are sold, we won't get any more. and if i do find something that will 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 more to it scares people to you 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, 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 in his life, the money. so for now, he's waiting it out. before we go, he's

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