the, the, this is the, the, the news coming to live from berlin, desperate ukrainians are trying to get out of russian occupied territory. the 3rd one is to add you as soon as possible. would you want to go home? would you say the debris the previous there? we find out how some are making the risky escape back to areas under kids control. also coming up have 2 sentences, bring 2 senior members of the far right proud boys militia, to tears they spearhead that they spearheaded the attack on the us capital. now they're each facing more than a decade in prison,

plus military coups and get ball and has led to the countries suspension from the african union. now the bonds leading opposition party is calling on the one to, to 10 power back to civilian does the effects of extreme weather disrupt people's lives and destroys land, causing untold damage. we talked to our environment, corresponded about why this is happening, what more we can expect the hello i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. when russia launched its full scale invasion of ukraine, millions of ukrainians found themselves living under occupation and subjected to russian propaganda. well, the 18 months later, many ukrainians are still looking for ways to escape occupied territories to one

way is through enemy land going into russia and then entering ukrainian controlled areas at the colored la cop rock of crossing in the country's northeast. the humanitarian core door lies between the ukrainian sumi region and the russian build garad region. the w, as abraham visited reception center near the crossing point and spoke with those who fled one side of a war to the other. they have a long road behind them. when russia attacked ukraine in february of last year, they suddenly found themselves under occupation. now they're back on ukrainian controlled land. after a journey that last 2 days and 2 nights, the national and it was scary at their check points on their russians and they do not consider us ukrainians as human beings. we didn't know what to expect from them . you changed and that you so the woman checking passports spoke aggressively to us,

and that's, that's not seamless. ella endured a lot under occupation. her team son had to flee after russians beat him up for expressing pro ukraine opinions. her husband could not find treatment for an injury and had to stop working. then russian authorities threatened to take her 2 small children away to a boarding school and pressured them to get russian passports. i. that's when i left old, she had to do everything to get away and borrowed money to see him all the below him on. we didn't have any money to leave earlier. we're ukrainians at heart. i've lived here for 40 years. i cannot simply forget that to become a russian and swear allegiance to them. but a salary is something my between 50 and a 150 people, enter ukrainian control territory through the quality last couple. crawford crossing every day. only ukrainians are allowed and if they don't have someone

waiting for them, they're brought here. volunteers give them food, a police to rest and make a plan. ukrainian border control also screens arrivals to read out potential cyber tours. this voluntary tells me that people coming from places like the knots, which has been under russian sponsored control since 2014, are especially influenced by pollutants propaganda. when they have to do much physics, it may a stupid hands that the americans admitted like to the wars pier politics. can something sinks the top of the crate? and so it doesn't exist. so they're moving and send it to run by nazis flu. but mostly they just need help. after leaving almost everything behind for people leaving occupied territories. this is the last leg of their journey back to their lives. they bore trains to key of hoping that whatever is waiting for them, there is better than what they've left behind. i'm gonna show you,

it's only fun when they, the russians treat it as bad today. today. they constantly put pressure on people. they force people to switch to russian document, so i work for them. but that way, so let me try to wide coordinate. this is good use of, i want it to end as soon as possible. i want to go home. i want to breathe freely there. so it's doug, what are my plans like if we were promised to aid with housing level, but you just don't know if there's it, maybe we'll live somewhere on the floor. and when was the level that usually the officials here tell us around $22000.00 ukrainians. have fled occupation since we started the invasion, even if their 1st days living under a ukrainian flag are difficult. authorities who more and more will make the choice . people in this train has made to and dw special correspond to abraham, who filed that report, joins be now in the studio. you mentioned in your report that some of those coming

from russian occupied areas into back into ukrainian controlled areas have been defense or thinking shape by russian propaganda. why then, are they making the move? well, we have to say it's a minority of people that are coming through with these kinds of ideas, but it's a but these people do exist in the volunteers that we have spoken to at the border crossing to report meeting people who do things like that. and we know that, you know, the, that's the strategy of occupation once they take over and you know, like ukrainian territory. it starts with tv stations, newspapers, and even curriculums in school. so there is really an effort to re shape how the population in things. now, why would these people come back is a question that i had as well. and what they say is that the economic situation in the occupied territories, we don't really hear about it that much. of course, because we as journalists, it's almost impossible to be able to go there for the economic situation there is

dire. sometimes basics like bread are unavailable. and so if you're an old person, a person who can't take care of themselves anymore, and you have relatives for living under ukrainian controlled and ukrainian control territories, that might be your only option. one of the volunteers told me of a grandmother who, you know, was living alone somewhere in the dumbass region. and her grandson was actually fighting for the ukrainian side, but it became impracticable for her to live alone under occupation shows. so she made the trip through the that particular border crossing. and you can imagine that causes a lot of tensions within families. and the volunteers said, you know, that they try their best to, you know, not be aggressive towards people who have these ideas. but to really show them when the country has been through over the past 18 months. and really since you know, 2014 a, but it is an issue for people that lives there and also people,

people that live on the border regions. we know that russia has telegram accounts that targets those people specifically told him things like, you know, these airstrikes that you're suffering from. that's the ukrainians bombing young people are unfortunately, sometimes susceptible to that kind of propaganda. so it's a front and ukraine's war that is less visible, but very present. how hard is it for people to leave russian occupied territory in ukraine? do russian authorities in control there? just let them go. there is no guarantee of crossing, so there is no press statement or official residency. and this has any ukraine who wants to, we've occupied territory simply can. but it does seem like it is possible. i mean, we do have through that one border crossing about $5250.00 people per day coming through. but the people that i've spoken to there at that center is, you know, they report of her wing interrogations on the way. very many check points being

treated very badly, their phones searched and they did say that it is more difficult for men to get through. and sometimes they could get turned away and it's also not very easy for children to get through. sometimes russian authorities want to hold people with small children back. the women that i met is really was really and you know, in the minority she was, she was there with her children. but i mostly saw very, very old people or women or their other routes for ukrainians to get out of occupied territory. other than the one that you profile during your report. so theoretically, they could go past due to from occupied territories, directly into ukrainian control territories. instead of the northeastern route, but obviously then there's the risk of going through the front lines. we know about the my, the, the, the frontline is heavily mine. some people do take that route but it's just extremely dangerous. there's also a possibility to go through belarus and then enter into the e u and then enter from poland into ukrainian control territories again or south

through crimea, georgia and then you know, finding a way to go through cream. but all of these routes are actually much, much longer than this one and much, much more expensive. they have to finance this escape. people told me that they would have to borrow money to get out this particular woman. her kids, you know, they wouldn't, they wouldn't get taken away. and so, you know, for people specially you don't have official papers dangerous as this road is. it is somehow the easiest. and thank you very much. uh that was our special correspond to a behind now to the united states were to former leaders of the right wing extremist group. the proud boys have been given half the prison sentences for their role in the january 6th capital attack. so accurately, rail was given 15 years just hours after joseph bigs received a 17 year sentence. prosecutor said they were key figures in the attempt to bodily

overturn the 2020 election results. bigs of the sentence is one of the longest handed out in the capital ride cases so far. for proud boys, members were already convicted and suspicious conspiracy in may. well, earlier we spoke to dw used correspondent, janelle do milan in washington. she told us more about the sentencing of the january 6th instigators. indeed, the sentences handed down to joseph biggs and zachary rail are among the harshest so handed down in these cases related to january 6 of which by the way, they are over a 1000. now, and this really has to do with the gravity with which the judge saw the rules and instigating the attack on the capital. so basically what the judge said, the judge in this case, timothy kelly said that this was a national disgrace. that january 6th, a harm to the

a convent and american convention that supported the rule of law and the constitution that so an american tradition around the peaceful transfer of power had been broken and has been lost. in the big's case, he cited a big role in tearing down barriers that allowed writers to search forward. and to him that was a meaningful and deliberate step to disrupt the electoral vote ongoing in the capital. at that time. in the rails case, he cited hell rail sprayed police officers with chemical irritants. now both man cried in the court room. biggs said that his daughter needed them. real said that he regretted his actions, but again, we're looking at 17 years for bigs. 15 years for rail, and that represents so the 2nd and 3rd harshest punishments needed out for january 6, respectively,

with the harshest punishment still going to the oath keeper stewart rhodes, who got 18 years to that was the w, is janelle, do milan in washington. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. type super type food and sole law is drawing close to hong kong as well as mainland china is southern coast. china has issued its highest type food warning and its weather services. seldom may be the strongest type in to hit the area in the country's history. flooding up to 3 meters high is expected in some areas. many schools and businesses have closed. thailand's king has cut the prison sentence, the former prime minister talks in sooner. what from one from 8 years, one the l. c. liter had applied for a royal. pardon? no one has returned to thailand after 15 years and sell bags. i'll talk to him. was convicted of graft and abuse of office charges. the claims are politically motivated but francis is in mongolia in the 1st ever people visit to the nation

is trip through the buddhist majority. country is a gesture of support for the countries tiny bit growing catholic community on a round one and a half 1000 long galleons identifies catholic out of a population of over 3000000 a whale hunting is such a resume in iceland after the government lifted her 2 months bad, new rules have been put in place, requiring hunters to kill wells as quickly as possible to reduce suffering. only iceland, norway and japan still permit commercial willing, despite criticism from animal rights groups and environmental. the african union has suspended get bonds. membership after military officers seize power there on wednesday, the military has closed, the boarders and names. the chief of the republican guard is head of a transitional. government for leaders have condemned wednesday's crew, which ended more than 5 decades of the congo family rule. gab loans,

opposition party has passed to leaders to recognize its candidate as the winter of last week's election. south africans are reeling from a building fire in johannesburg that resulted in the deaths of at least 74 people, south african president. so rel, oppose a has blamed what he described as criminal elements for conditions in the over crowded building. you said games had exploded families living there and demanded extortionist rents. authorities are investigating what caused the fire of the friends and relatives stand behind police tape down the street from the apartment complex, wondering, hoping, praying that their loved ones are not among the dead pulled from the building. in one of the deadliest residential fires in south africa's history, the scarcity of affordable housing and johannesburg has led to several large squatter camps in the country's most populous city. like the one where this fire

broke out. what i know, my familiar was 2 sides. when i come here, i tried my best to find them i 5 minute i never found one of them. the fire broke out in the middle of the night, leading to terrifying scenes with some jumping from windows to escape, while others remained trapped inside. hours later, the flames were still smoldering and the human cost became more clear. during the visit to the site, south africa's president called the fire a great tragedy. we've got to go to the bottom of what caused this fire and also address from now on. it's a wake up call for us to begin to address the situation of housing. he says the city on building one's house a shelter for women. but when that lease expired,

the building was hijacked by criminals. as he put it. criminals who then levied events on, on founder of people and families who need and want accommodation invested in the city for people. yes. needs to live in the city, but that needs to be older. that needs to be law and order in the, in a city run to oppose the promise of full investigation into the causes of fire. as well as the hundreds of derelict structures in johannesburg that are illegally occupied here in europe. extreme weather has brought misery to millions of people destroyed thousands of pictures of land and cost. billions of bureaus of damage this summer. record breaking for long heat waves have gripped southern europe. worsening drought and excess forbidding wildfires in spain, italy, portugal in greece. meanwhile,

torrential rain and severe flooding supp swept away holmes in norway and slovenia, germany in the netherlands to have been battered by hurricane like wins, severe hail and thunderstorms. experts say climate change is making extreme weather events like these more common. this well dw climate reporter louise osborne is here to shed some light on all of this. but we, so let's say we start with the extreme, the heat that people have been experiencing here in europe this summer. uh, one of my sons experience it firsthand on sicily when the temperature reached 46.5 degrees celsius, it was extreme. how is climate change contributing to this extreme heat? yes, that'd be so really crazy. temperatures the west thing and climate change is definitively links to extreme heat in the, you know, the fossil fuels that were bonding by, you know, having using,

caused by cutting down trees. r o producing carbon dioxide emissions, which essentially cause a blanket around us, but trucks in this heat is driving up temperatures. so the global average temperature is about $1.00 degrees above pre industrial levels. no, no, that doesn't sound like very much, but it's really pushing these temperatures up. scientists are saying that extreme heat waves that we're seeing are longer, more likely as a result of these, this woman. so that's the heat. oh, what about the severe flooding? we've been seeing in places like sabina and in norway. so what's the connection there to global warming? so just to clarify lake, there are lots of things that makes the weather happen. that is very complicated. but one of the major factors in this is the water cycle. i'm sure you remember from school, but the idea is that water from woods bodies like the ocean is left parades is held

in the atmosphere, causes clouds. when these plans are heavy enough, the rain falls of snow or rain and the cycle stops again. now scientists are saying that this process is being intensified or super charged as a result of climate change. and that means that move, which was about the rating of what water is being held in the a. and when these clouds then fulman and full, that's mobile to their, to, to full and to make these flooding events. so we're seeing, you know, they can't say that climate change actually influences all of the extreme rain falls that we're seeing um, but i spoke to scientists my, i'm a sucker i a from london as far as imperial college london. and she can explain a bit more about how they see that's as i looking at these events in the current climate. at the end with respect to a past climate defendable would have been good without climate change. we can make,

we can see that the, you know, such events would have been less or more likely. and the boss does come back to now . and if that's a change in likelihood, whether it has to be made more extreme or less extreme. or, you know, if, if it, if it hasn't changed at all. so louisa does all of this means that we should expect, extreme weather events to become both more frequent and more severe. um yes, that's the case, but um she was explaining they're using a climate models and whether observations to really see how climate changes is leading to list them and the kind of frequency that we could be staying in the future. how difficult is it scientifically to distinguish the standard whether phenomenon, there are fluctuations with standard, whether phenomena from those attributable to men made climate change. because this is really the crux of the question is that it's very difficult and there's

a whole new science that's building up around it is quite new and it's growing wealth, whether attribution is an organization that is trying to figure out this link. and so they've seen, for example, with the extreme heat waves that we saw in southern europe in july, that this was made what this would have been virtually impossible if it hadn't been for climate change and human driven climate change. but for example, they looked at rainfall in uh, it may be a remote and remain a and it's lee and flooding that we saw in may. and they said that there wasn't actually a link there. they said that actually it was more of a result of a lack of adequate drainage for the whole to rush away, which caused the flooding that we saw. so it's very complicated and it's a science that's building up. and one that is going to be extremely important in the future. please thank you very much for clement reporter, luis osborne or, and louise, by the way, it has put together more detail information on this topic. you can find it on the

dw news, youtube champ, sports now and at the us open. number 2 said rena sub olenka has eased into the 3rd round with a clinical win over jody barrage to 7 months after winning the australian open gallery. sions 7 bank ahead notes. real trouble against britain is for us winning the match in straight sets. 6362. she will now face karla burrell of france for a place in the round of 16. in paris, a ban on rental electric scooter is comes into effect today. the french capital was the 1st city in europe to embrace e scooters, hoping they'd help reduce emissions. but for many, they became a nuisance to many reckless riders and clogged sidewalks for reasons voted to be that due to the east to send another to east scooters. but they're

getting harder to find. it's his job to collect the rental schools here in paris, in less than a day. they're all meant to be gone. i don't know, but it, it, it is a switch to another to. this app helps them locate them. although they've been getting scarcer over the past days, never has a means of transport and so divisive as the talking it as provisions call them in the summer home face time. besides, it's such a pleasant way of getting around, is it you can swing left or right? it's not stressing like a car to keep a budget. i wouldn't miss them. i can't tell you how often i nearly ran over school to ride is if i don't hear you what i love them or hate them a referendum then the scooters in april, just 5 years ago. paris, who was the 1st european city to embrace east peters, hoping to reduce carbon emissions. but too often they lay

a band in the streets and accidents became more frequent. regularly fed, google neo with successfully richards at the top speed of the scriptures. but they kept getting more and more dangerous elements on compulsory, and it's impossible to prevent 2 people from writing on one scrutiny, done a sort of twitching. that's not what's add you to the net. benjamin gobeel has to get his company scooters off the streets by the deadline and electric field. the show on this could have been handled differently. we've drawn out conclusions and now concentrating on e bikes and power science plus. but yeah, that's all we can do. the um, you know, swim desa. $15000.00 e scooters are now headed for warehouses on the outskirts of paris, where they're getting a once over the money. if i fix the brakes, the wheels see if the motor still works. as you'll see them look at the screws are headed for other cities, some even to berlin. on the broad side,

the batteries also fit the bikes that will now be replacing the scooters. the city of paris supports that shift as they desperately want to uphold their traffic emissions policy, body o c k. and we'd like to parents to become the biking and pedestrian capital. that's the plan for the future. many people here hope that bankers will be more considered in traffic than a scooter writers were. it's for now, it's game over for the 20 minutes. they're just a souvenir of a paras past. you are watching dw news from berlin. just reminder of our top stories is our desperate ukrainians are fleeing russian. occupied territory. they're using risky groups to get back to areas under keeps control, freed from russia, propaganda, and oppression. and former leaders of the us extreme is group proud boys cry in court as they are sentenced to prison over the january 6 capital attack

. prosecutors say they were key figures in the attempt to violently overturn the 2020 election results. you're all watching the news up next to it's conflict. so with tim, sebastian, i'm terry martin. thanks for the

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groundbreaking questions can going speed after life. we are sitting, saving the world, 40 to answer to almost everything. start september 10th on d, w. america. the secretary of state, anthony clinton was fine. lee and by james in the long delays efforts to hold the slide in us china relations. the main speaking point is still taiwan with a chinese determined to be unified and wanting to west to stay out of the cool interest. my guess inside pay is the tie when he's 5 minutes that joseph works is the items living on borrowed time. we know that we have the ability to deal with the chinese invasion as china has stepped up in spell. it goes rhetoric and it's on forces of make those secretive.