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waged in several places along its front with russian forces. they come a day off the teeth claim to have made the 1st gains of its new contract fence. it . craig says it's a we've taken several occupied snouts as nato stage is the largest air force exercise in its history, led by germany. the drills involve $25.00 countries moving $10000.00 soldiers and they're seen as a clear signal towards most plus and footfall. germany's man will phase you, craig, and just a few hours in the $1000.00 international match proceeds from the charity game will go to the victims of symbol and you find all that and the all supports the

or i'm good. how else as well comes with the program? the format, italian prime minister, i'm and media moguls, silvio berlusconi has died. he was 86 and had been ill for some time. he was prime minister 3 times, but resigned and disgrace in 2011 was on trial for tax fraud and paying for 6 with an under age. go with cross to milan in a moment, but 1st looked back at his controversial life and legacy silvio berlusconi. plus the prime minister of italy, leading full governments from 19942011. both explicit politically kataria mocked by battens, but mainly of the legal calling. yet the most notorious then told on his so called the parties 6 parties with on the age prostitutes ben to scone face trials, allegedly soliciting sex with them. i know. and because even accused of being of eye witnesses to stop them testifying against him of to initially being convicted,

he was eventually acquitted of the charges. i mean, the snowboarding scandal, he step down as prime minister in 2011 by millions of fatalities have been waiting for that moment. band of scone was also a 1000000000, and who made his fortune from a private media empire. he built it, at least it gives commercial tv network and manipulated it towards infotainment using it to photo his political career. it made him an unusual presence at that time in the tale in politics. a brash businessman leading fox, i told you of central right political party in recent deals. berlusconi was in and out of hospitals as of health, became increasingly for john. he died at the age of $86.00,

still wielding a lot of power over the political and media environment of italy. not as good a more about this from a gentler sylvia because of the whole joins as from milan. sylvia tell us more about the exact circumstances of bell is going, is this or so caesar bernasconi has died this morning at 86. he died at the san rafael hospital in milan, and he was treated for a long infection link to a previously undisclosed case of leukemia and chronic who came out last april. so there is county has been this incredible police cosigner as 4 years. he 1st came to office in 1994 and that's for governments on c o. 2011. bouncing back from from sex scandals and corruption allegation he led the center rights part to for face high. yeah. which went through integration recently with um premier. so jeremy know he

saw he's been like he's last is at a very important i were losing a very important political secret for it today. i mean, he was controversial, but he was also very popular in italy. why is that? well, i think he's, like i said in a way he was definitely a controversial and to be a figure. but he was authority central to the public. you paid for it for 30 years . and you know, way see kind of change the way language and political communication has been developed in a to me for a, for years. i see move the, the police go communication from being a part of communication to a personal communication. the with the leader with financial the image with everything. so he revolutionize politics initially. that's why i've been so so knocked in a way so the news of his death what kind of reactions are there in italy?

yeah. who who knows? well, shaw and all the same time because of course, additions i'm all far as if there are no sending messages of condolences. we're talking about a figure that has been so central for the political landscape and the city for so long that of course, every political party is kind of like, have to say something and, and, and give the information about what they think about and see that that was going, but of course we've been in a way ready for this moment cuz he's been in hospital 34 times in the past few months. but still at the same time we had this moment in which media didn't know when or if to publish this new because these new is because it was cards. it was of course so big for us that it has to be sure. 100 percent. and today we can see people saying, you know, i didn't expect to do it. of course, i knew one day was going to happen. but at the same time it's such

a big news for us. and then in a way, people did not expect it to happen. so what will he be remembered for justice scandals and legal struggles, or does he leave an imprint on italian history as well? or? well, i would definitely say that his most important legacy is the change as i was saying, and in, in, in the way he communicated the parties. so the political aspects of a party moving from just the party to a personal leader. also he had, he's like, is he's also is control of media. if this is something that wasn't happening before i took, so in addition to his private tv empire versus connie also got his time from the public broadcast, the right to influence. it said it's all your life. so this is something again that we, we, we didn't have before then. and also some policies i would to. so if you're migrants of course, after, but it's going to be starting to introduce us on the left wing,

most region on the immigrants, politics. and, and in a way, we can also say he normalize the coming of power coming to power of the post facing, right? so without the school needs, that would never have been charging me alone yet in at the government. so is that because i have the latest on the reactions of the news that the full me tell you in prime minister silvio berlusconi has died at the age of 86. thank you very much. sylvia. thank you. or ukraine's military says it has, we taken the 4th village from the russian forces in the southeast against reported over 2 days of the 1st and months. the pontiff keeps new counselor offensive. the village is allegedly recaptured on a cluster of supplements in don't that's, that's a region possibly occupied by russia. ukrainian troops released this video i'm planning to show that live being hosted at black hole dot net despite the cheese

claim advancing a few kilometers. rushes military continues to insist that it has successfully repelled ukrainian attacks. yeah, we can discuss this further with the full military intelligence officer, frank lab, who joins us now from ox. within the u. k. frank ukraine claims to have read taken several villages and lease and don't ask region. does this mean the contra offensive a got off to a successful stop? well, good morning. going to hunt? i think what we can say we can say 2 things. first of all, that much of what we know is through a glass darkly. but another thing we can say is that what we haven't seen yet is the commitment of made ukrainian forces. there are 4 separate axes which service, but to see if the salting on. but all of them on, on, not full on the salts, partly because i think they've yet to reach in most places. the 1st lines of

russian defense. that's the strong, strong points we saw being developed over the, of the winter. but they all making good progress. back to the i know at least goes what you might, at least as much as what might be expected, but we've not saved the main assault yet. we've not seen made of 9 false ukrainian brigades yet committed. now what do you think would be the likely next steps in this offensive? it's so from west to east, if you like from, from the calls co reservoir, which is now being depleted on the left. if you like on the west, we go to talk to mike access, so you go to a force that seems to be driving towards an extremely important bio hub of talk back further to the right. we have the blah, blah, blah, blah, and gotten a scripts me in western west can don't. it's not so in an access to more uh, tools mario full actually, but that mean we're looking way months ahead for the golf bus. but again,

we've got the credit lena, way up in the northeast, pending access, which you may remember from last year. dates that are not on site. so to say, we don't know which of those will be the main. first, the main access. we can only speculate, but it may well be else where the credit is an excellent deception and that we can accept expect them to do that again. well, that's the friday inside, but do the russians, do you think have any aces up their sleeves, that could foil the ukraine in advance of one reservation and that said, paula. but the ukraine is a mold and aware that they will be careful not to get ahead of the right defenses, so that can be exploited by drones and all tailoring and talk to that way. but that's one reason they're going to be moving quite slowly to make so difficult. but in terms of conventional military forces, not the russians have no i so sleep. they've committed the 9 forces to extremely debated and rather on shykeneetra zip state, the strategic an operational level and they are and will continue to be in trouble

. so the, the dog is the main to the other activities such as destruction, have done so, assaults on civil infrastructure, but on the military front. know there's plato and icons the military analyst, frank language staff. thank you very much, frank. thank you, sir. the nature of this style thing is biggest ever add rules. they involve 10000 troops and 250 across from 25 countries. most of the drills are being staged in the skies over germany. the lift off the ad bays, one stops in the state of low saxony is serving us the central logistics hub for this maneuvers. although the exercise was planned years before the russian invasion of ukraine, it is being seen as a clear signal of military readiness to a small scale the

. this is the air space above the atlantic ego doc represents a scheduled flight on a typical week day. but now, there will be even more air traffic, the exercises envisage of several scenarios against a fictitious enemy. for this purpose, the military will alternately close 3 rotating flight regions over germany for several hours at a time over a period of 10 days. the goal is deterrence, i propose this exercise tools on 18. he and us, um, after taking over the force as chief of the force. so that decimals already my, my perception of what's happening to me in columbia that, that washington way that from your renewal, okay, we have too much more we focused on, on the way how to defend deadlines that includes defending the eastern flank of the

alliance during the maneuver fighter jets will fly daily to a stone. yeah. and romania invested their border with russia and ukraine were fighting is taking place in the east and south us air power merging with european weapon systems and germany has the leading role. in this maneuver, the bone despair is responsible for organizing and supplying it's nato partners. when germany decided deleted, we were, we were in full support, obviously as one of our strongest allies and partners and all obviously our partner in nato and they've conducted operations with us for decades now. and so it was easy for us to decide to come and support the german air force according to the drill, the enemy is also attacking from the sea, with warships backed up by fighter planes.

meanwhile, civilian air traffic will continue on and off around the 3 zones of air space designated for the drill all of this in the vicinity of civilian airports. the exercises include high altitude flight training and take off and landing practice is designed as a deliberate stress test for german air traffic controllers. the game is to avoid canceling civilian flights. for 10 days, the fighter jets had the right of way. as nato's air defender $23.00 hold sway in the skies, over europe, and over to the w as terry schultz joining us from brussels, what nato is headquarters? of course, terry, the biggest drill for nato's efforts is what does that tell us? as well as we've just heard these,

these exercises have been for years in the planning since the last time russian dated ukraine. but obviously now that we've seen a war that nobody really expected to ever happen again, they've taken on a huge new importance, especially for those countries along the eastern length, the baltic states, poland. they have always been on certain that nato would come to their defense, that neither even could come to their defense quickly enough. if russia were to launch the unthinkable. this is going to be providing them a lot of reassurance, having the jets flying over their territory. now, so what kind of reaction and they to general was expecting from a russia about this because it, these moves the tops the eastern flank of nato. i don't know what they're expecting from moscow, because russia always uses movements by nato, or even statements by nato, as an excuse. so to say that the west is escalating and we don't hear that so much from allies anymore. being afraid that they will be seen to be ramping up the word

efforts themselves. i would note that nato has been careful to say it is not sending just overcome leningrad. this. this enclave between poland and lithuania that's held by russia. so they very much wanted to keep the line that this is an exercise on deterrence and not one aimed at russia aimed at escalating the conflict with russia. terry, it is, in your personal opinion, russia has been sending plans into your a p and asked space a lot more plans. do you think that natal appliance, russian happens operating very close to each other, that that's a risky thing. so this has always been something that nato has been worried about that conflict in the air space and it doesn't even have to be in europe and aerospace in the international airspace where russia is allowed to fly. they often turn off their transponders. they are operating without giving any sort of slight plans to a, to the countries that they would be flying over. so this is something that nato has actually asked russia to, to work on with them to

d. conflict to the air space. this is something that is of huge concern for civilian aircraft. you know, if they don't know where these russian war planes are flying, they can't really avoid them. so this is a huge concern, and this is certainly something that's going to be looked at, especially by germany, which is of course, heading off heading up the this, this part of the exercise w social's that joining us from brussels. thank you, terry. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. at least 10 people have been killed in australia after a bus carrying wedding gets over turned into hundreds of valley. one region north of sydney 25. others have been injured. police of arrest that the driver saying they had enough details to press charges in the philippines, more than 12000 people have been evacuated to shelters as a highly active volcano spews lava. ashan talks, a gas is coming from mountains. my own also posing

a health with conic rock is folding in the region located in the central l by providence. for a pro e you sent, respond to you, and montenegro them has claim victory and sundays elections. the europe now movement is projected to receive or on the 26 percent of the vote. closely followed by the democratic party of socialists with 23 percent official results are expected . within a few days, germany's men's national football team are gearing up for the one thousands match tonight when they take on ukraine. ge um they will be the only special jersey in the friendly in bremond. so to proceeds from the game will go to victims of the war and ukraine, the german footballs. the federation says it wants to send a clear message of peace as host the germans do not have to qualify for next is your pm championships. let's, let's talk a bit more about this,

but mark meadows w as bowl is marked. this is just a friendly, but it's not just a friendly. is it? knowing data is a very special occasion. i mean, obviously a one thousands game for the germany, men's national team and they wanted a special opponent and they haven't picked you crank and they felt this was the right thing to do it, give them what's going on in the world. and they felt that they wanted it to be more than just an anniversary games. so he's going to be a challenge, the game, the gonna be raising phones for victims of, of ukraine. that will be people that the game tonight in, in breyman wandered around with buckets collecting money and is of a fundraising assets. now what site was in games is obviously has all amazing does all the way back to 19 o 8 the 1st day of the game and that she lost to switzerland. now obviously germany was divided after the war, but what happened was after reunification the german national team took on the history of west giovanni rather than east germany,

which was handy cuz west the only $13.00 will code. so that's why they did that. yeah. um it's, is it important domestically this matches it being closely watch is for a couple of reasons. basically. um, the 1st is the kick off time because there's been lots of criticism in germany over recent years that these do me much as a kicking of too late, especially during the week, especially on school nights. so kids come to windows. okay. when does it go normally? you know, it kicks up at like 820-2045. oh oh, 9 pm. is kicking of 1800. giving me time to night. that's quite radical for up for a week day. but unfortunate. that is a one off. it looks like there was a games going up in june. we'll have to be at the usual kick off times, but still that's something. it's also important because it gains being paid in breyman is the 1st time jim, your opinion been for 11 years and frame is a big football city. it was basically a rabble of policing costs and that's finally been resolved. so it's a special match to have back in bringing. just talk about briefly about the actual football that we can expect. well, i'm, you can go to new co to

a silvia abrupt football fans might remember him from a dynamic jewel with under shift jen cove. a demo key of your had a bad spell that salt nobody's back now. recently bought and gave you credit because the woman up for the qualifies for the euros. cuz like still trying to qualify for the next. she is settlement in, in germany. and despite everything is going on at home at the gym need, well, they're already playing friendly is open till that euros. but i think it has the slick might do something different tonight. i think he might play 3 at the back as he said, and then probably 2 upfront, maybe habits and photos, loc meadows and dw sports. thank you for some tenants news. nobody documents has beaten casper rude in straight sets, winning with french open singles. title is 20, said grand slam title means he now stands at the very top men's old time list. the roles were clearly defined ahead of the final novak joke of age, wealth number 3, and to time we now wendy,

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. it was funny i s foot consecutive when abscess old brown, pre in new jello and as a food 5 for a good cause the weld costs the tide championships? yes, this such a thing with crowd a new way now on the weekend competitors in england took aim at each other in an event that's been taking place since 1967. a very sticky slap in the face. the annual world coasted pipe brewing championships during competitive from around the world to a small village on the south east of england. a 120 competitors inside the teams took it in tons to chuck plates of gooey mix of flour. moved toward each other from 6 meters,

a pot in the hopes of winning the much coveted tracy visitors came from as far away as japan to take part and according to the organizes, it's not as easy as it looks. skill really is going across no time as to your probably know those directly in front of you going across that's. that's the way most points are really great. special it out throughout the day. i of the doctor, nail biting final tracy went to the team appropriately named pie face and cock congratulations from us. you're watching the w news. here's a reminder about top stories. the full natalia and prime minister silvio berlusconi, has died at the age of 18. 60 was diagnosed with the wrathful lapkins of several

months ago, but had suffered, it'll help for several years. that is, tony was a controversial figure to create it leads largest media company must also involved in multiple legal and 6 guns. and ukraine's military says that as recaps and several upfront plan tasks from russian forces in the southeast of the country . the 1st guidance and ukraine's culture of pensive russia has been checked at the same, saying it has repels with brandy and attacks in the area. that's it. from me and the new steam of an update for you at the top of the gas office and fill in the

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