the, the, this is dw news live from berlin, air strikes and ukraine and moscow. the russian capital is targeted again by drones with one hitting the same high rise that was struck 2 days ago. and russia carries out strikes on civilian targets in ukraine, including a student, storm and car key. also coming up from the prime commits new troops who at the

counter offensive, which so far, has been advancing slowly against deeply entrenched russian forces. great. as we on mars, military leaders reduced on songs to cheese present the sentence that the civilian leader could still remain in prison. a prisoner of the hunter for decades. plus how cities around the world are trying to adapt to deadly heat waves link to climate change. at the women's world cup, the level of mass to 7 goals, past debutantes vietnam to their route ahead of the usa who joined them in the last 16 stage. the i'm sorry kelly, welcome to the program. russian authorities say that a drone has hit a high rise bill. thing in moscow. official said that it is the 2nd time that the

same office tower has been hit since sunday russians. defense ministry accused ukraine of being behind the attack. 2 other drones for reported. they shot down in moscow's western suburbs. meanwhile, ukraine's president says that 5 russian drones struck the city of car keys. local officials say that they destroyed an empty dorm and a sports facility where a security guard was injured. ukraine says that it's now poor and troops into its counter offensive against occupying the russian forces. it comes after months of training by western countries which have also sent a modern weapon systems. the boost in troop numbers could be pivotal to ukraine's advance was so far has made only modest gains. this is what's left of a liberated village start home my oscar, reduced to rubble. after a fierce 10 day battle by ukrainian forces to dislodge russian occupiers. a rare

piece of good news. so rare that president followed him is the landscape mentioned at alongside much bigger bottles from last year, giving voice come the candle and spit traps on. now the liberation of style mileage got my ssl. ukraine claims to have liberated over 200 square kilometers of territory. but the front line has only moved a few kilometers in the nearly 2 months that ukrainian troops have started pushing south and east. trying to break through mines concrete barriers and trenches that have slowed their advance and costs many ukrainian lives as well as western equipment. steve craniums have hundreds of tanks and troops carriers from germany. the u. k. france and the us. bradley fighting vehicles, challengers, leopards there, indispensable, and breaking through front lines. but many have reported late been destroyed. and the russians have adopted new tactics using drones to help pinpoint artillery

strikes and remotely dropping mines into areas the craniums had already cleared. meanwhile, ukraine is sticking to one part of their strategy that hasn't changed their trying to get their native was sourced artillery and rocket launchers into a range of russian ammunition depos, blowing up the equipment in the rear. so russians can't use it at the front. drone attacks have also become more frequent on russian territory and border areas and assaults that have little military value. but for us, russia to divert resources and on the russian occupied crime in peninsula and important staging ground. every village that is liberated provides a boost to the beleaguered ukrainian side. but the cost is steep. ukraine only has a certain amount of troops and tanks. it can lose in what looks less and less like a lightning offensive. and more and more like

a long grinding slog and i asked, dw is meant to you is building there for the latest on the ukrainian counter offensive. here's more of the what has become clear? is there any hopes for like a quick break through that would uh, collapse the russian lines and would make it quicker, dawns possible. so. so now is certainly not what is happening. what is happening now is that they add for testing the restroom. defense is along the line, they're trying to make modest gains in order to force the rest of this to reset for . they also attacking a tillery piece is behind the front lines. all this is the prep or a t work for in the hope of achieving this breakthrough, the think about offensive. this is not only this, and this was also the same case. last time that a lot of it is happening, where you don't see territorial games and you only see whether they were successful

when these gains indian to happen or do not happen. so it's early to say whether this offensive is successful or not. what we can say, however, so far that it's very difficult for ukrainians to break through, and the last is on the ukrainians. i don't have official figures, but these last is a high end the ukranian troops. i'm not totally using the equipment but also a loss of so which is an uncomfortable need to re supply them. uh, so the stepping off a constriction and drafting of conscripts throughout the country and they need to re train them constantly on the last week we have seen that one of the sites where these conscripts are trained very close to the front lines. these are the people who are meant to attack the peas, russian positions around baltimore. let's have a look at what we saw, that that's what these ukrainian recruits,

learning as fast as they can. they've had less than a few months of basic training. now they using all the time, they have to learn how to store and in the trenches soon they're likely to be doing it for real. even though many have only been in the army for a few weeks. not long ago, nightingale, that's his goal. assign was living in his village for conditioning this but of course i don't think we're well trained to run this. there's a reason why soldiers in the army don't just serve 2 months. of course we need more training or shot but we're in a situation where a lot has broken down really was we need to be fast to replenish it. there is no time, it's to go, go, go. but for the order of

storming and clearing the trenches is not only one of the most important operations . it is also one of the most dangerous the weird among the soldiers is that the biggest challenge is to survive the 1st time. and that's fairly anybody survives more than 3 and i was at the front all ready to show it. we cleared the enemy's trenches and a small grove customer. to me, it's terrifying. you this the do you try to hide among the trees while you are just being sailed constantly from motors. met them with the but and like get away as there is no official fee goes. but you can tell casualties a high by the demand for new soldiers. the unit these men with joint is fighting just over 20 kilometers away. nearby soldiers are constantly rotating in and out of

their position. at some of these instructors i pulled from the front line to work for a while. i was a part of the stream full time, also being in just push on the nuances. this is america full. of course, there are differences between mobilized recruits and soldiers who served $56.00, or even only 3 years. it was easier with them. we did not have to spend so much time on the basics of all. but i still don't think the level of preparedness has drawn what we have more experienced commanders now who can prepare the recruits even when they stop running, the tension remain. they all know the code to the front can come any time. so mathias, i mean, given what we've just seen there, how is more out of holding up among the ukrainian troops as well. it's difficult to say, of course, mobilize

a troops are less motivated than volunteers. and the fact that you do not see people volunteering as much as in the beginning of the war, tells you also about the fear that many people have in joining the army. they, of course, it's known that this is a very, a very dangerous of these battles are very dangerous at this stage of the one that many people have been wounded or killed. and there is, of course, a little caution about joining the army. however, support for the army has not decrees that you create. a new society stands very much behind what the army does. and there's 2, lots of donations flowing into the positions from organizations, private people donating for the army. so the need for the fight has certainly all or are the acknowledgement of the need for the fight has certainly not decreased in ukrainian society, but some people are more cautious now. and so that is of course,

posing the army in front of some problems. now mathias pulling going keith, thank you. joining us now from keith is nicola believes golf, a research fellow at the national institute for strategic studies, which is part of the office of the ukrainian president. welcome to the program, and thank you so much for joining us. it appears that ukraine's counter offensive is making very slow progress, while the loss in personnel and weapons is considerable. is there costs for ukraine and it's western supporters to worry. the? first of all that you saw a relative, i mean you said about the low associates, you look you in that open panel in on the data is that the scene pages are using and you can collins, that's russia losing more in terms of artillery in terms of for our more and those are kind of scenes and the that's why russians are losing more and ukrainian forces like whites and system. so we had just

a dollar tactics and now we try to undermine the system created by russians to successful defense. so we try to inspect as much as damage on artillery a $24.00 for an hour defense. the grades opened in full major mechanize formation committees and was out of major risk. what role do you see the weapons and the training by the west playing and the offensive? i mean there, there had been some hope that this would lead to faster progress on the battlefield . world proportion of what the role provided we uh, quite good. uh and again uh we would welcome jo minute to provide thorough sarah launch christmas. i'll just same way as you can friends, the full off the target or our work house is command and control notes. so there is still room for improvement piece. you'll have really interested in this kind of, since there's been some criticism that restrictions on the use of western weapons. for example, i mean, you mentioned jeremy there on the leopard tags from germany comes into that category and that, that might have him strong ukraine. do you agree?

i haven't seen anything related to legal parts, so there is no concern with regard call. ukraine can employ legal parts and then no restrictions. so that's why all these reports has for me super floats. presidents lensky has said that the war will increasingly affect russian territory. howard drone, a tax on moscow, where the premium peninsula really related to the general counter offensive as well . if we have successfully and disliked in the russian air defense system, so they don't guard this strong gar rail and the mobile breach linking temper occupies premier and cells mainland. if we can throw as much our defense to target to the defense small school and open ways for our lunch, christmas house to target lessons, logistics, it means that we have successful nicola, believe scott, from ukraine's national institute for strategic studies. thank you so much for joining us to share that to you.

here are some of the stories making headlines. 2 of these areas neighbors have warned against outside intervention in the chrysler, and also to join the statement. read out on state to be molly and burkina faso say that any use of force to restore some chairs to post the president will be regarded as a declaration of war on their countries, which are also ruled by munitions soldiers from distant on the chinese same media say that at least 11 people have been killed and severe rainfall in beijing. nearly 30 are still missing even during the days of heavy rains in flooding have prompted authorities to close train stations and evacuate people invalid ruble communities. the rainfall is highly unusual for the chinese capital or energy. british prime minister risky soon ok has said that he wants to max out the you case oil and gas reserves, as he announced a 100 new drilling licenses in the north sea. environmental group said that the

plans would make it impossible for britain to meet its climate commitments. to me on mars, military rulers have reduced the prison sentence handed down to the countries ousted civilian liter armstrong. fuji's 33 year sentence was cut by 6 years in conjunction with pardons on 5 criminal charges. 2 t, however, still faces many other charges and we'll look forward to seeing remaining detention . the military, over through her elective government and a crew in february of 2021 besides 2 chief thousands of political prisoners were freed as part of a mass prisoner of clemency marking april this holiday. so how significant is this move by the hunter in the on mar, also known as burma. while we put that to 1010, you know, of the independent burma news international. so in fact, the reducing the present time is not making any differences, but the

a just trying to distract the people above my as well as the whole world of the extended another 6 months of instead of emergency. and also this is signaling that they are not able to control the whole country obama and then the resistance movement is still very strong. and then we are very determined that we will fight until we, when we come to early resto democracy, human rights of federal unity in the country. so that, that this is only in a way of describing the people who distrust americans in the south west are breathing a little easier today after a 31 day streak of highs at or above 43 degrees celsius. phoenix, arizona is finally seen temperatures drops slightly, but forecast or say this is only temporary. it is one of many cities worldwide hit by deadly heat waves this year. which scientists say are on the rise due to global warming, dw cert, arvada looked into solutions. cities are trying out to cool down keith,

waves are deadly or than any other extreme vendor you went. last summer, he killed nearly 62000 people just in europe. globally, the numbers estimated to be at these several 100000 heathen city. it is particularly dangerous. they can feel 15 degrees hotter than the surrounding area. this is called the urban heat island effect. it happens because concrete buildings, us fault payments, and tradition of the roofs observe a lot of heat the temperature that they say man gets to, i mean, if you measured that temperature gets up to 4550 degrees and you're working there. so you're not experimenting that, that 35 or 40 degrees that the environment says that you, you have us framing. think 50 degrees, your walking over 50 degrees. so this is the guy,

no heat that we need to address. there's like almost 60 percent of people leaving urban areas making this a global have threat. so how about these around the world adopting? if you compare to the thermal image of a city within maple vegetation, you can see that greener areas are much cooler. that is why columbia in city of may, you has built 13 green corridors. they create shade for pay this periods and cool the area, the secretary to build up areas in these even use creating fence cannot be target dollars that resulted in a $2.00 to $5.00 degree drug screen. their temperature sale southcourt has coupled other base to major freeway with the 1990 degree where by the green quarter the around the ruler and remove of combustion engine. cars let to a 4 degree dropping average summer temperatures. this also created a space for live life to flourish. a good example is for

mitigating data and the say, a very low. we can start from greek islands that have been built in a way that the reflective you can see that quite white. they reflect the suns and that the interior of the street villages, or other white villages can be even lower than the surrounding. and this is what made with that, but it's central fish market seem to do painting the roof with highly reflective material. lower temperatures by 6 to 7 degrees, the sport cleansers energy and reduce a seed inside and outside the building. and there is one more simple thing that can say many lives. awareness is crucial, especially for people who are in some kind of danger, from suffering from the heat. and for these people that need to be maps and provisions that they can figure out where in the city it is dangerous and not the

interesting folks out to go to run, to drive or to be in general. such wanted to be able to maps are crucial for people on the move. and now that are initiatives to create categories for heat base, just like a hurricane expos emphasize the importance of people who categorization highlight think that just as we don't expect pizza delivery during the category for hurricane we should then during that they keep it. they've either and from or on this that's joint that's bringing out their good your di. she is a landscape architect and director of the company strong in a changing climate which helps cities and businesses adapt to climate change. welcome to the program and thank you for joining us. um, can you just start by giving us a little bit of insight about how cities have evolved to become heat traps? is it a recent phenomena or has it always been that way? oh, yes we just heard uh its, it's not the reason for no nights urban heats islands respect. and we're optic

tricia circuits. us like concrete assault. uh i've it store behind and please that during the day in particular they are with night. but what is recently is said, we have build up our cities and then so even more concrete has and it's even more enter virginia beach from combustion and from air condition. and also new is that the face increase in length and temperature and the urban heat island effect in cities comes just on top of that. we saw some examples in our report of how cities around the world are adapting to climate change, but how feasible are out of taishan measures for older cities that might also be struggling with type budgets. yes, it's difficult, it's a city is already built and particularly in europe,

cities are built uh, quite densely, all ready and just towards the time. so this is simply a neck of space for reading. because gleaning is one of the most effective measures to bring down the urban seed islands in cities and never the less offerings of the old cities can strive to read as much as possible in okay, arch, planting trees. packed with us are going brushing by 3 year olds and really roost. it's for the more fortune to keep ventilation areas of space open. and of course it's always especially about money, but you can do that been rented ways in any way. our cities are mixture of private and public stakeholders, so ink cartridge offices, the action of private stakeholders, of citizens companies and altogether when creating it up. what is the top saying

then you advise that isn't because there's, there's so much to consider when it comes to combat and climate change and dealing with it's a fax, what is the top thing that you advice that is when you start to consult them? i think if, if you talk about sheets, which is one of the biggest impact, another one, this is heavy rain and flooding 1st bent. um i think its about nature, nature base solution say office so many solutions against cheese. but at the same time, also it gains flooding by draining surface water into the ground. um, and at the same time, uh, these nature based solutions. they are also very nice and very attractive. so maybe you'll remember some icon you get some looks like in the 1st paragraph to college. so this makes cities not just more resilient to change,

but also more attractive. okay. becker cure. okay, thank you so much for your time and your insight. thank you. in sports and the women's world cup group has come to a close the netherlands put in a dominant performance against debutantes vietnam. 201970 final is needed. a when to guarantee a spot in the last 16. and they delivered from the off the netherlands, dominated just a minutes in beacon moss and open the scoring with an improvised looping finish. 3 minutes later, vietnam's defense was coughed open with these cut this noise, the to finish off the move by the 18 minutes netherlands had added the search this time in spectacular fashion. as may boots went to a wonderful gold, beautifully killed in the top corner. sublime skill from dominique young and

preceded the next step strike as jewels road school would hit 23rd international. go on the strength of half time estimate, but it's one in a dangerous delivery. and then the other fun, they don't added a 5th not content with just 11. the gold roots added another some to a strike after the break ceiling hub brace. and finally, deals rule also scored her 2nd goal of the match to seal a 7 mil we and in auckland, the usa played out a goal is to draw with portugal. so let's go to look at the final group, a table, the metal and stop the group with writing champions, usa and 2nd, that will both play teams from group g and last 16 likely to be sweden and italy, portugal and their 1st ever wells cup with a wind, a draw, and the last, well, 5 you fellow debutantes, vietnam crash out without a single goal or point. earlier i spoke with the w sports corresponding colleague,

a mentor of who watched to the usa as game against portugal in oakland. while the us came within inches of crushing out of the wall carpet the group's age for the 1st time ever. one of the things that sassy seems to be an issue with this united states team is that they lack confusion on the page. one of the reasons for that is that they've come into this phone number was 14 tires, who have never say so well, come on top of that, the more experience hits the likes of alex move in who least talk through the 2019 tournament in france with her goals seem to lack pace. an acute a instinct in front of go on today showing basically do not look like a team who are on their way to. i'm competing, completing the said high school. when in a right now, it is only been a few days since 1000000000 are you on last announced that he was re branding twitter to x. spelling out his intentions for the platform with

a giant sign. but now x no longer marks the spot so to speak. at least of the headquarters for the online messaging service. the sign has been taken down after san francisco authorities received thousands of complaints about the massive, glowing ex, erected without a permit last week. many express their displeasure at the re branding venting their anger on the platform. most continue to call twitter. you're up to date and dw news kick off is next with the 2nd part of a look back at the one to say got the

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