metal i didn't know what has the best or no, i know. the never ending story of asbestos starts june 21st on dw, the w news alive from berlin. nato state is the largest air force exercise in its history, led by germany. the drills involved 25 countries and over 10000 soldiers that are seen as a clear signal small scale. also coming up on the show, you frame size, it has re taken several towns from russian forces. for the 1st report it gains in

a months and are part of keeps new, come for offensive warmer. it's holly and prime minister silvio berlusconi dies at the age of $86.00. we look back at the legacy of the controversial leader and billionaire media mobile, the hello, i'm clear, richardson, thanks very much for joining us. nato is starting. it's the biggest ever air girls . they involve 10000 fruits and 250 aircraft from 25 countries. known as operation era defender, most of the drills are being staged in the skies over germany. authorities and industry groups say that appointment could cause flight delays and cancellations for holidaymakers across europe. so there's boffa air base once a tour from the state of lower sacks, me is serving as the central logistics hub for the minute. verse,

which was the official launch of the exercise. the head of germany's air force has said the exercise was aimed at demonstrating nato's defense capabilities, independently very defender, 2023. we are showing we approve and we are demonstrating the defense capability of this alliance. this exercise is a signal not aimed at any one. it is a signal to us in the record, internally in tomato and it is meaning it will confuse, taking part in this terminal that exercises a signal that we are capable of defending this country. this alliance and dw is benjamin offers. group are as active and store of air base in central germany. he has more on the size of these drills. you already mentioned a few numbers, 10000 soldiers, 250 across 25 nations that are taking parts here in boast of where we are in lower sacks. any business conduct the logistical hardware questions like are fueling with it with soldiers have been coming into germany from the us,

from the us national job as well. we've seen many plains and as you can probably also see or no, probably also here behind me, there is still a lot of movement going on this exercise. so we'll take a long time. and what they want to show is how quickly made or can respond to the threats of any kind. and that was something that the commanders, the where here today and boots up also street. and do you think this will be successful in sending that sort of signal? i mean, that's particularly against the backdrop of the war and ukraine. that's right. what's important you mentioned here, this exercise was plan was initiated by germany in 2018 by dingle gal. have the chief of the german air for that was the idea of else having also a more active role of calls as a signal. and that's something with amy goodman vs. and by 3rd to germany mentioned that older will be that should be also taking a notice of the exercises that don't take it forward to you. and the rest of it was

not mentioned in direct the that but of course it's sending a signal to show how quickly nature can get the full assistant can defend as they say, every inch of naperville territory. many exercises taking place in the skies above you're of what sort of disruptions can we expect that this is going to cause to commercial flights for people who are looking to go on their next holiday this summer? there will definitely be some kind of destruction. what the problem say, what the german air force is saying is they try to minimize it as much as possible down 3 areas over germany. well, they explain are fine with this exercise is taking place of schools, the rates, the ability to engage and that that will be of course, some implications to that. some flight delays are also expected, but what they say is that they want to have it as many moments as possible. so this effect on civilization also the possibility of german airport,

the civil airport tool to operate dom or a, the normal so the plane can land also off to the normal opening hours of the german airport. thank you so much for your reporting. guys. are benjamin brewer for us? air base. are you playing? defense ministry says its troops of re taken control of a 5th village from russian forces in the south east. the gains reported over the past 2 days are part of keeps new comforter, offensive. villages allegedly recaptured are in a cluster of settlements. internet's origin partially occupied by russia. ukrainian troops released this video accordingly, showing them posing with their flag assertion that the rest of the military says it has repelled ukraine's attempts to advance the area. for further analysis on the front line and ukraine, i asked it's almost hello several most o senior lecturer, insecurity and development atkins, college london about the significance of ukraine's territorial claims. as i think

is quite significant because it seems oddly such for aside to if we look at the direction brought to, you know, ukraine may have found a sort of uh, a week of wind and the defensive line. so fresh uh, which it was set up. uh you were in the autumn on the winter of last year to sort of protect the areas that they had already sort of conquered unoccupied. so i think that the, you know, the possibility that there is a sort of an area where you can, could make a break through. i think it's, it's probably to vote. and also if we look at the direction of this, i promise it is uh towards the areas for the south of the young and my new phone. uh so that you know, if you crane manage its 2 printed craig for the snow need. uh, but shortly they need code to a certain extent, idea me sort of break the famous land bridge, which russia has please. between the on boss on the um the pricing. yeah. through uh through. was that 40 is your son. so i think that we shouldn't be

underestimating these advances. we know that to our ukrainians are facing a tough resistance. and we also know that are, you know, they are, they are operating without uh, full control over the air space which is very challenging for them. so i think we should not under assume that there's that process is ongoing with no kind of math, they seem quite small. and i think we, we need to understand that this is very challenging. they're going to very few responses taking place. and, and russians have the possibility to, you know, to counter potential meetings that time. yeah, rush out for its part is not acknowledging any advanced as an instead saying it has repels ukrainian offences. how credible do you think that claim is? so it's not to be credible if we think more about the sort of the example easier from. so if we move further west and we look at our, the a problem says that to where i attempted to the south. so 40 shift here. the

advantage of seeing more difficult, i've seen some small advances, closer to that me for a river and in other areas further to the south, south east by the process of not being so significant. she, i think the resistance of being stronger that was told that ukrainians aren't managed to overcome the 1st line of defense. but i think we still need to wait a few a few more um, sort of reports of evidence of that. so i think that yes, the russians have managed to count some of these so finances, but at the same time, you know, they have, uh, they have faced a very strong uh, sort of, uh, a bronze of the ukrainian. so, you know, we, we should take uh, an order of what the russians are saying wasted with a pinch of salt. but also we need to be co shows. it's clear that these are offensive by the ukrainians. it's not a kind of mix creek where they are bronze or, you know, very fost, a breaking the rushing lines. this is not going to happen yet. and just quickly, before i let you go,

what do you think we're likely to see as the next steps of the ukranian counter offensive? as i think it's difficult to do, no, i think what we can see is that they're trying to probe and find what areas their weaknesses. and what is interesting, we haven't mentioned before to this is an area where where ukrainians are advancing at to the north on the south, we have sort of breaking their circle mind to that the russians have created around what. so they're there many areas where they're still let you know, trying to see if they cannot brands further on we see some, some successes there. i think what we can expect is these kind of all the drums are taking place. uh you know, further ways the ukrainians trying to figure out which areas they see. so the week of points where they kind of bounce with a hope that they can potentially sort of create uh so the status of despair on certain russian defensive positions. i'm for the russian or do i do i abandon the

position? yeah, so i think i wasn't sure that we really appreciate you kind of going to show with your analysis as always, that is on the tell us over most so from the king's college london. many thanks. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world's. a swedish, a think tank is warning that the world is drifting into one of the most dangerous periods in history. the saw some international piece research institutes as the number of operational nuclear weapons rows for the straight 3rd year in 2022. the groups at the world's governments must find ways to cooperate in order to comp, geo political tensions in the democratic republic of congo. at least 40 civilians were reportedly killed in an attack at a camp for just place people. officials say, militias launch the attack in a tory province. the camp reported the just miles from the un peacekeeping. base. in columbia,

new details are continuing to emerge about the rest to afford children who were lost in the amazon for 40 days. after their plane crashed in the jungle, their knowledge of the rain forest help them survive and find food that was safe to eat. because i've got a lot of hands in the philippines, more than 12000 people have been evacuated to shelters as a highly active volcano spews lava. ash and toxic gas is coming from mount my own are also posing a health risk. volcanic rock is falling in the region located in central l by province, italy, as remember in former liter silvio berlusconi who has died at the age of 86. he passed away after months of illness, but was gone. he was the country's longest to serve and prime minister, and he's due to be given a state funeral at milan cathedral on wednesday on the streets of room citizens reflect on the passing of a man who was a constant figure of the country's political landscape for over 3 decades maybe.

oh, really familiar. you seem to multiple anyway, i'm sorry to hear it because even though i don't show his views, the tools, he was to say that he did really historic things that have all these years. and he was a great political impresario. story as i don't know, what bad things this will lead to, but i'm sure this will be very destabilizing for food. so talia silvio. berlusconi died out of milan hospital after suffering from leukemia. and a recent lung infection done. yeah. it'll really learn from how that it should never have limits imposed on it. but it learned that it should never give up flu with him, we thought one last many battles and for him to we will bring home the goals that we had set ourselves together as a good buys, you'll be

a as the lead on this, on the day a great italian, one of the greatest tools has decided to beat us farewell. wishing everyone a good day, i asked for a minute's silence. what i'm before i see with you a bit and it's courtney courtney, fairly scone dominated the world's business and politics. billionaire tomatoes fortune from its driving media empire and the countries the long disturbing premier is controversial roll into 2 worlds. has inspired feelings across the spectrum. many loved him, many hated him. everyone today must recognize that his impact on political, but also economic sporting and television life was unprecedented. berlusconi presented himself as a self made man transformed at a least political landscape, building the country's biggest commercial tv network. to his critics,

the businessman leading fords. i tell you, a center, right, political party used his vast media empire to further his political career. the most notorious of the scandals in that career centered on his so called bunker bundle parties. fairly scone face trial for allegedly soliciting sex with a minor. and was even accuse of paying off eye witnesses to stop them testifying against him after initially being convicted, he was eventually acquitted of the charges. and that the snowballing scandal, he step down as prime minister in 2011. when you've done millions of battalions, had been waiting for that moment and we just think yours, a burly scone was in and out of hospitals. as his health became increasingly fragile, he died at the age of 86, still wielding a lot of power,

where the political and media environment of italy he will receive a state funeral on wednesday at the historic milan cathedral. earlier we spoke to journalist, seem a group to in rome, and she told us more about berlusconi political legacy as well. she definitely loomed large over life here in easley was elected 4 times as prime minister, a media tide. cool. so he had his impact on the media landscape. he found it, me just set it to the largest commercial broadcaster. and then of course the impact on football. he owned ac milan for many years and so with in the champions league and then went onto own the, the other club models. uh, so really an impact on many levels of societies, upland boy, man. but he also had, was dogged by so many scandals. whether it was about corruption, tax fraud,

or sex scandals, and actual legal cases, many cases, but indian most of them. well i did throw not because they ran under the statute of limitations. all he simply the, the issues would not follow through. and he only said was touch the final level on one conviction of tax evasion. so you really was a debate to figure that with those in italy who supported him through and to felt that he was persecuted by the judges and prosecutors. well, his detractors said that he simply, he bade justice and destroy the culture of the country with his style of politics. now is also interesting to note politically, perhaps one of these legacies. but is that he let the far right parties into government forming alliances in the past with the know the lee as well as the post flashes early on. so nothing on it. so, but understand when you're looking at a figure who has so often made headlines for alleged sex and corruption scandals, how was brewers can expel is gonna be able to hold onto power and have such

a long political career as well. he was a very charismatic big guy and when it came to those legal cases, an accusation, as i said, statute of limitations, they didn't fall up on some of the cases work which it so in that sense, he never actually had to be taken to task for any of those allegations, then, perhaps the fact that he, he said, and felt that he was prosecuted by these judges, that appealed to most of your talents, perhaps believed his, his ideas and also, um, they may have been oppressed street to the particular cause of your tenants for street that with a high taxes and bureaucracy and saw him as perhaps a successful businessman who could deliver on some of his promises. on top of that, he really was a famous politician. he was in politics for so long so many people. he was simply a name that they knew and they understood. it's important to remember back in 2008 . perhaps his potty foresight dahlia had some 37 percent of the actual boats base.

but in 2022 in the last election, they only had about 8 percent of the boat share. however, that still meant that they will part of the current coalition government. he's for say probably a party is in government to get the with the prime minister, georgia maloney and the fall right. lead party of my to so i'll be this. thank you so much for that update. that's journalist, the same, a group that with the latest in our coverage of the death, a former italian prime minister, silvio berlusconi. many, thank you my. so let's go to suzanne now where heavy clashes and gun fire have resumed and the capital hard to after the end of a 24 hour ceasefire, agreed to ease the delivery of a witnesses, say the fighting between the army and the parent military rap and support forces as some of the heaviest in weeks and a warning that some of our viewers may find images in this coming report. distressing. the bellows over the sea, denise, capital gunfire and explosions ring out at regular intervals. this is what every

day life looks and sounds like for the people who've got too many are afraid to leave the hines, although as these pictures, so they not safe that either. so don's dudley power struggle doesn't stop at the rules of residential houses. not even the dose of, of images. and may, it became known that more than 70 children, harrassed in the capitals out of my co, my or financial for that as fighting raged around them. they would instance toddlers and older children may still set to have died from fever. go to market. oh, i like a food la. thanks to wrap pools and fighting. the remaining opens has since been rescued on june. second, the, i see a see move some 300 children to a safer location. southeast of cartoon to them have been there for the past 6 weeks

. ready was really for us really released to see that that we could bring them to safety. now despite the successful mission, the events that the all may come, i often it's our brutal illustration of the humanitarian situation in 2 days. so don, 8 agencies say that i'm millions of people who are in desperate need of food and medical aid. some of them tracked and dangerous locations that are difficult to reach as we are responding and we are providing support, but it's extremely challenging to meet all the needs and to, to reach everyone wherever they are capable or ensue. don started in mid april, pitching the army, led by up to the top to the board on against the so called rapids support forces. a powerful parent military group led by his former deputy mohammed have done that. the 2 groups that are pulling out to the managing the paramilitary flows into the

army and long smouldering resentment, abrupt it into open combat when the recess moved in to catch them. soon after the violence spread, leaving up to half of students population in need of aid. when dan situation is broken into the middle of the before the board of the $15000000.00 people with facing holes with all the additional marketing fees. according to the un, more than full 100000 people have fled to other countries such as chad, egypt and the central african republic. but not everyone can make it out of the new conflict as though to have cost an additional $1400000.00 people to be internally displaced. our homes were burned and we lost all our

belongings. we need help. we just took medicine to be provided. that's the most important thing. since the children and elderly people staying here, got international media just have attempted to resolve the increasingly dire situation so far without success. until the 2 will ring parties lay down their weapons for good. the focus of students, people, young and old, will be on survival a mat in a shed as a canadian journalist based in cairo. and t earlier gave us an update on developments in sudan. i'm hearing already, but the desktop was mounting in the southern boats of cartoon. so towards the south, i just received messages earlier today from, from actors and sources there that said about a total of 18 people have been killed in shows that were launched from canons. but

also from the environment. ready which suggests that must have been from the military and the canons could have been from either side. um, so we see that the resumption of clashes is already spiking the depth. so within the capitol, just moments after the cease fire concluded or to change gears. now i get some sports news. germany's men's national football team are gearing up for their 1000 smashed night when they take on ukraine. germany will be joining a special jersey in the friendly in bremen. charity proceeds from the game will go to victims of the war and ukraine. the german football federation says it wants to send a clear message of peace as host the germans don't have to qualify for next year's european championship. yes, so many ukraine support in so many young suppose i here and that's exactly what the german f. a was off to with the 6 o'clock kick off a friend of the games to train, getting people together here, getting young people here together in the show of solidarity as well. and the

german president is just about to arrive as well. over 1000 young people and teenagers who are displaced by the war was invited here by the ha, especially. but so many people have come here today to support the ukraine national team that has been speaking to funds. who said that in these tough times, a rallying around the team gives them a sense of hope and also a distraction in moments of joy that they also say hope transmits over to people in ukraine. the german f i president van line and off also said that's to say it. germany is not so much playing against to train, but with ukraine. and of course the one thousands match for germany is uh oh, the more a special occasion here in framing. yeah, let's talk a little bit more about the german men's side. where does the team rank these days as it goes into a 1000 game? is this fall from the vintage gemini teams that we've seen when world cups in the

past and challenge for europe and titles? and of course germany do have a european champion ship right here in around a years time and looking at the squad right now. it isn't one that promises to win that tournament. that doesn't have any competitive fixtures as hosts. they were already qualified. and uh, yeah, looking through the theme, probably one or 2 players like yours what can reach the captain could be considered well clause. other than that germany do not really have a depth of attacking talent. henzy slick has struggled to get his side working against the top side since he's taken over. and he has also now said he's gonna use this break to think of with a back 3, which i think is a good idea because germany really needs to be creative with this quote. if they can really challenge as the top size, they no longer part of the best teams in europe and the world. and so as germany prepares to host heroes next year, i'm our friendlies like be helpful in preparing going into that. i mean, it's better than nothing but really you want the competitive fix, isn't it?

so many hosts of i've often complained about this fact that you do run the run up to hosting its own and not have competitive fixes gently so far haven't really impressed. and these kind of games, they've looked a bit sluggish, and it is hard to motivate your place to really play that highly competitive football when you are, when you are just playing a friendly i think today's occasion was a very joyous one. the atmosphere is very calm, very peaceful, very friendly, and to the players. it will be a fun match, but it won't be anything like the competitive made so that you get to the tournament. thank you so much for bringing us up to see if that is max merrill in bremond. and before we go, a quick reminder of our top story at this hour. you praise military says it has recaptured several frontline towns from russian forces in the south east of the country. russia has rejected the claim saying it has repelled you printing and attacks in the area. you are watching data. the news coming up next on data views.

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