keith rebecca, there are reports that russian troops are gearing up to move on. harkey, the 2nd biggest city in ukraine, but more, you know, well, that's right. ukrainian official say that russian forces are trying to get close enough to start shelling that cc. once again they have been making some progress on that says l b, it slow, but ukrainian official saying that they want to open up a new front line. then as you mentioned, hockey's concave is the 2nd largest city in ukraine and the region that it's in harkey region above the russian border. it's the 2nd time we know that this is a t target city of president putin on the russian forces. and it was heavily sheldon, heavily bombarded in the early parts of the war from round about the 1st 2 months. amnesty international says even evidence, a cluster bombs were used in that any that is found to indeed be true that would constitute a war crime. we know that a residential areas we indiscriminately sheldon has a really high death toll in that region. now this, it would be the 2nd push ukrainian forces managed to get russian forces pretty

could either be rebecca rivers reporting for us from keith. return to sports and soccer. now summer break in the bonus league means it's transfer time. after much speculation, senegal star said you many has completed his move from liverpool to byron munich. and as one of africa's most successful players and his signing is a major get for the german champions. the moment by and munich fans have been waiting for sat your money introduced as a buy and player. it's a big deal for the bond as the and african football. he's quit the mega rich english premier league in his prime and chosen germany. i speak her with the club, we do the coach and as well as he sole source or in to see the tea. how how good there. because for some, always watching, not the only been this league about the specially tempest leaks for so when barnes bay and no no doubt it is one of the best sir club in the world. the 30 year old who helped santa gal to african nations cook glory last year said he had over big authors, but quickly settled on by and he won the premier league and champions league in his

okay, rebecca ritter's reporting for us from keith. thanks very much. talk to creating officials say they need a massive increase of military hardware if they are to drive russian forces out of their country. right now. western allies have supplied ukraine with just over 100 howitzers. just 110th of what you, prince, as it actually needs. and no rocket launchers have been arrived even though ukraine has asked for 300 of them. did others? nick connelly reports from the front lines in the southern nikolai of region, where ukrainian forces have been struggling to keep russian troops at bay. russia may be making gains in the don't best, but it's a different story here. 600 kilometers to the southwest and mich alive ukraine is pushing russian forces out of villages like these. closing in on the russian occupied city of hudson. b, ukrainian commanders where their advance can run out of steam be stopped or even reversed. after more than a 100 days of relentless fighting, the supposed weapons and ammunition are running dangerously low. we meet victor and his cr

let's bring and d, w, 's, rebecca, written from keith of rebecca, heavy weapons from germany have finally arrived in ukraine as a significant moment from berlin's perspective. is that a significant moment in keith? well finally, really being the key word there, anthony. and the word actually that the ukrainian defense minister used when he tweeted the confirmation that these how it says we're now part of the ukranian arsenal. he said, i'm happy to finally have them part of the asa pod with the arsenal. i mean, there has been a heavy criticism on germany as we know just that they haven't been a doing enough be doing it fast enough. and while of course, all support is welcomed here and met with open arms by the ukrainian government and the military. and there is a real sense both in government circles and on the street that really this is just about time germany a, it's a fraction of what they've promised as you've just been reporting. but what else they've been promised that by, by in way of heavy weapons and germany says won't make it here until at least the end of the summer, even all th

so she joins us from keith. rebecca, what can you tell us about what's happening in lucy chance well, the situation there, michael, as you've just described, is worsening. i it hasn't been very good there for some time, but it is getting worse. having confirmation now of severe shelling and multiple debts. although we don't have a figure on that yet that concern by the governor of the region. now that says to city, lucy, chance is, this is the city of several minutes where the fighting has been centered. now for some time that city is more or less under russian control, although not entirely, we do know of course, that there are some ukranian fighters and civilians hiding in the as a chemical plant there in that city. we've had some new figures as over 500 civilians hiding there, including 38 children in that plant. but people saying now is absolutely no way for escape. there are no bridges, there are no roots out of that city. so it is nothing short of a sci fi will mean that those people can get out of the city. we've also seen overnight some shelling and how to keep region. and we'

let's bring in data please. rebecca reynolds from keith. rebecca, you described to me an already bleak situation and lizzie chance several weeks ago . what's it like now? i'm afraid that her has been the situation for many weeks now and it seems to only be getting worse. therefore the civilians on the ground and this is the city of around about a 100000 people, we believe is about 821-0000 still there. many of the people who are still there were unable to leave for whatever reason, whether they be old or infirm. 6 and some simply had nowhere else to go there. now living almost entirely under ground as that city is being completely. as you heard there from president zalinski destroyed her. it's being shelled and bombarded. almost constantly. people only able to come up to sort of search for food or water in those few moments between the shelling. so as you can imagine for those civilians, there it is just getting worse. we know that as you just mentioned, the russian forces are now almost surrounding that city that they are pushing forward, albeit slowly. but it is happening. they've al

's rebecca readers in keith many thanks rebecca . his a look at some other developments in the war. german media reporting that chancellor, all of schultz is planning to visit ukraine's capital key before the end of june. the build newspaper says the chancellor will visit with french president emanuel michael and italian prime minister. mario dragging. the german government has so far declined to comment on the report. russian forces occupying southern ukraine have begun handing out passports. 23 locals, including the new moscow installed governor of hassling, have accepted russian passwords. russia has also opened an office in mela, topple in a region still partly held by ukraine. tens of thousands of people have rallied across the united states and renewed push for tougher gun control measures. in the aftermath of last month, school massacre in texas. protesters shay, it's time for action and not more prayers. while lawmakers have drafted new legislation, the reforms are unlikely to overcome congressional hurdles and become law. th

is they going to be able to win before he doesn't corresponded rebecca, which is their reporting from keith. thank you rebecca. that's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines today. dozens of members of a former opposition party and cambodia have been convicted of treason. it's the latest and a number of mass trials that have targeted. the cambodian national rescue party critics decried the move saying the southeast asian country has been reduced to a one party states that he 300 people have been jailed for between 5 and 25 years. for joining protests against the socialist government in cuba. thousands rallied last year against rising food prices, medical shortages, and the response to cobit 19 activists from ecuador indigenous groups have blocked roads nationwide to protest. the economic policies of right wing president gl asile. at least 10 provinces were affected by demonstrations focused on rising fuel prices. the u is poised to bring legal action against the u. k. after the british government announced they are planning to scrap parts of the hosting break that tra

the west if they're going to be able to when the school didn't corresponded to rebecca, written their reporting from keith. thank you, rebecca. let's have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. lawmakers in the us have heard more damaging testimony, abbas donald trump's claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him. former tony attorney general and william bar testified that trump became detached from reality congressional committees investigating the storming of the was capital. as electoral votes were certified the you will bring legal action against the u. k. after the british government announced they are planning to scrap the parts of the post briggs it trade deal. the u. k wants to ease its flow of trade with northern ireland, but brussels say it as such, a move would breach international law. scotlands 1st minister nicholas sturgeon has laid out her intention to hold a 2nd independence referendum. she said that work was on the way on how to proceed without the consent of the british government, which opposes a 2nd vote. 50 per cent of voters in scotland

w correspondent rebecca readers in keith? well, i think in ukraine he's talking about an intensification on the battlefield. something we have seen in the last couple of days that he may also be referring to other random attacks on cities. not on the front lines, perhaps keith. oh, you know him perhaps where there was a similar attack. when antonio harris, the head of the un visited some weeks ago, now there was a, a, one off strike here in cave. and every wanted of took that to be a bit of a warning strike from russia. when the 3 leaders are of germany, france and italy came last week, many were expecting something similar here in the capital that didn't come to fruition. so there's this perhaps something that president vilicki is also referring to being possible this week in particular. we know it's an important week when it comes to this e u candidate status vote happening in the european council. but he was also of course, referring to a tax on europe. now, when it comes to that, you'll no doubt be referring to a tighteni

the school didn't corresponded to rebecca, which is their reporting from keith. thank you. rebecca rushes energy giant gas prom says it will be reducing daily gas deliveries via the north stream pipeline to germany due to the repair of compressor units by german companies. the men's gas pro plans to supply up to 100000000 cubic meters per day. that's according to an official company statement. the pipeline capacity is 167000000 cubic meters. north stream is the old of 2 parallel pipelines leading from russia directly to germany. the newest north stream too, was finished recently, but is not used on the sanctions against russia over its warn you right of a more that i'm not joining the studio, but chris, go from g w business. chris, what's behind this? well, you just mentioned it a quarter of gas from the reduction is necessary because of the repair of compressor units by siemens company. many of us know, i'm sure, and apparently there was some delay in getting these compressors back from seen as we have to understand that siemens, along with other many western com

w correspondent rebecca ritter's reporting from keith. germany is taking emergency measures to cut natural gas consumption and replace supplies because of lower russian deliveries. economy minister, robert havoc said the use of gas and industry and to generate electricity would be limited. instead, more, more, rather, coal fired plants will be used despite environmental concerns. germany will do its best to replenish its gas storage reserves ahead of the winter term. russia has cut deliveries, blaming repair work a decision. berlin says is, in fact politically motivated, there is a round up of some of the other stories making news. at this hour, colombians are preparing to elect a new president. the polarizing choice is between leftist former gorilla fighter gustavo petro and business magnet rodolfo hernandez, who's been compared to donald trump. both men are neck and neck in the pools. french voters are casting their ballots in the final round of parliamentary elections. opinion polls suggest that president emmanuel mack close allies will emerge as the biggest party in the new national as

here's the w's, rebecca rivers. in keith. i think that they don't believe that either, that there's still not enough heavy weaponry to really push back at this stage or really to make any sense to me. i'm not going to meet that, that the, the fire pow you and we're seeing that he chance being actually pounded, severed a. net is also being completely bombarded. and though progress is slow, they're slow moving. it does look as though that will get taken by the russians at some stage, a within, you know, short amount of time. it is really hard to give a time frame. of course, i mean, it did look like the cities would fall sooner than they have the, the credits are doing a pretty good job of holding those defense lines of tying up the russian forces in this area and creating another mario poll, if you will, as sort of an area where the russians are having to focus on. but i don't think that these weapons this 1st trance, have weapons that have come from the west. going to have much chance at pushing back russia. of course ukraine

that was given correspondent rebecca readers in keith and here's a round up of the stores making use at this hour. the greek coast guard has rescued $108.00 migrants from the sale boat that was found rudderless, and leaking water, and the gnc. in go near garrett, gale force, winds. rescued, migrants told authorities for people were still missing. voting is underway and colors has been compared to donald trump. the 2 men are neck and neck in the pools . ne indian neighboring bangladesh have been hit by heavier than usual monsoon rains, causing widespread flooding. at least 18 people have been killed in more than 2000000 left homeless experts, a flood after the rainy season or more frequent because of climate change. french voters are casting their ballads in parliamentary elections that could decide president emanuel mack hall's ability to push forward his reform agenda. holding stations opened for the 2nd and final round of voting opinion. paul suggest mcelroy allies will emerge as the biggest party in the new national assembly. but it is not clear that his party will win enough seat

been a huge so show of support and one that ukraine has welcomed with open arms. tito, news rebecca readers in keith. thank you. the u. k. has approved the extradition of wiki leaks, founder julian assange to the united states. he's wanted bear on 18 criminal charges including spine. washington says assange put lives at risk by publishing troves of classified military records and diplomatic correspondence. cassandra supporters, reviving to fight the decision 175, he is in prison. that's the maximum sentence wiki lakes founder julian assange could face in the us. the you case home secretary has now moved him a step closer ordering his extradition. but the assange team say they'll appeal using every legal avenue to keep him out of us hands. the fact is that if he's expedited to the united states, the conditions he will be under will be so oppressive the case he is facing is so oppressive that it will drive him to take his own life. the u. s. accuses assange of working with whistleblower chelsea manning to steal and publish classified material from military operations in iraq and afghanistan regal. so

a huge so show of support and one that ukraine has welcomed with open arms. detail news, rebecca raters in keith. thank you. now to some other developments related to the war in ukraine, russia has reduced its natural gas exports to europe for a 3rd consecutive day flows to italy, answer of ikea, of being caught by half and deliveries to france have ceased completely. european leaders have called to move political law. russia is blaming the cuts on a technical problem. a russian owned super yacht seized in fiji last month has arrived in white. the $300000000.00. i'm a day a belongs to sanctioned russian oligarch. sulaiman cutting off, it was seized at the request of us authorities. the u. k. has approved the extradition of wiki leaks founder julian assange to the united states. he's want to bear on 18 criminal charges including spine. washington says assange put lives at risk by publishing troves of classified military records and diplomatic correspondence. a sondra supporters are firing to fight the decision. 175, he is in prison. that's the maximum sentence wiki lakes founder julian assange co

asked her then as usual, i put that question to d w's, rebecca ritter's. in keith i. well, the short answer to that nick is, is no, there is no legal framework for a fast tracking of a cent as the session to the a you. but on the line saying that the, the process will be completed by next week of the cow, of the commission's recommendations. now that commission recommendation is likely to be positive and was perhaps slightly fast tracked if you will, given the light of the situation here with the war. but definitely the as a session pros, as it were, cannot be fast tracked on the line and it has to give her recommendation, all the commissions recommendation. and then that has to go to the 27 members day to only to unanimously agree, and therefore triggering the long the long process to a session or so let's say the do get a good assessment. all the member states agree, can you walk us through the succession process? what does it mean to join the you? how long does it take, for example? well, it's lengthy and complicated as most things with the a, you tend to be very b

announced additional weapon support for keith, including advanced rocket systems, with a range of up to 80 kilometers. for more i spoke to the w correspondent, rebecca rit, as in the ukrainian capital, keith well on the, on the battlefield, get hard things are moving pretty slowly. we are looking at a war of attrition at the moment. been, as you say, russians making as small gains in that case, city in the house gets rivera, and yet, as the governor, they're the governor of that region. now saying that they do, indeed, the russia has now round about 80 percent of that city under its control. we saw one of the chemical plants there. it is an industrial city. one chemical plant was heat yesterday and we saw plumes of toxic smoke went out, told it civilians are trying to hide in that factory. but the governor saying this will not be an as of style to if you will, referring to that the steel plant in mary you poll. that's now infamous in this battle. and on the other side of the river sever several donetta is a cease to city with lucy chance as on the other side of a river. and the russians are struggling to get across that river. they're now trying a t

yeah, thank you. rebecca lettuce there and keith look at some other stories making headlines around a world in the u. s. at least 3 people have been killed in a mass shooting in the city of philadelphia. 11 others are injured. police a several shoot us open fire on crowds, easy, night life district. the gunman asked a large fire has killed at least 49 people, and injured more than a 100 of this container, dapple in southeast, in bangladesh, among the casualties of firefighters. and police officers who rushed to the scene. the police triggered multiple explosions. read for fighters had been battling at least a couple of the latins for the 2nd day, or to see that while the flames have subsided, the operation is still ongoing. the fire was apparently marked by an incident that the past station costs and houses have been damaged. burtons, queen elizabeth has rounded off, but celebrations makin have platinum jubilee with the past and all appearance and majesty. delighted royal fans by weaving from the balcony at buckingham palace. britain has been enjoying me for the weekend to mcqueen's 7

think the ukrainians might be happy to hear that more than what the previous comments rebecca ritter's reporting from keith, thanks so much. germany is taking emergency measures to cut natural gas consumption and replace supplies because of lower russian deliveries. economy minister, robert havoc said the use of gas and industry and to and to generate electricity would be limited. instead, more coal fired plants will be used to spiral environmental concerns. germany will do its best to replenish its gas storage reserves ahead of the winter. russia has cut deliveries, blaming repair work decision berlin says is politically motivated. here's a round up of the other stories making use at this hour. northeast india and neighboring bangladesh have been hit by heavier than usual monsoon rains, causing widespread flooding. at least 800 people have been killed in more than 2000000 matter. experts say floods after the rainy season or more frequent because of climate change. colombians are preparing to elect a new president. polarizing choice is between left his former gorilla fighter gustavo hedgerow and business.

missiles hitting the south of the country also are more more bones in khaki or d w's. rebecca readers reporting force from keith left his presidential candidate. gustavo petro has one columbia's presidential election by a narrow margin. the former gorilla and current sen edged out his opponent, the former mayor and millionaire rodolfo hernandez. petras. when march a drastic change in presidential politics in the country. ah victory. historic moment, the columbia, as it votes in its 1st ever left his lida former rebel, gustavo petro, has vowed to launch profound social and economic change. only story annoy. we are writing history at this moment. archy, a new history for columbia roy, for latin america, less dos, and for the world. jonas the elect. dorothy a new history because undoubtedly what has happened to day with those 11000000 voters as a change hasn't come. what is coming is a real change, a key of fundamental change. yes. oh, come be over that old gambiola al petro defeated another maverick candidates. former ma'am and millionaire rodolfo hernandez. hernandez had gone a lot of support for his candidacy o

president and is doing a very good job of getting the international community on board. rebecca written that reporting from keith, thank you so much for that. and from all we can now talk to our dw, russia, correspondent, emily sherwin who's in berlin because of course the w has been banned from russia. we're happy to have you here, emily, and when the war started, pu sin was overseas going for, for a quick victory. as we were just saying, over the last 100 days, russia has had to withdraw regroup, focus its attacks on, on the east. how is person selling this as a success to the russian people? well, the thing is that russia and vladimir putin as well went into this war, you know, with these kind of vague rhetorical terms. so they said, 1st of all, that this war is not a war, but a special operation. they also said that the goal is the so called denotes of vacation and demilitarization of ukraine. so essentially that means, you know, if you phrase it so vaguely, you can essentially sell anything you want as a victory. and especially if you're in control of the media, the state media is pirating, you know, the kr

and that was the doubly correspond rebecca fritters in the 20th capital. keith. well, a diplomatic dispute between russia and lithuania is escalating. the baltic state is blocked, the rail transit of sanctioned goods, through its territory to the russian exclaim of colleen and grad that you. and he says it's just following a you guidelines. but moscow is threatening what it calls, serious consequences bound from russia to russia. this strain is bringing goods from russia's heartland to x, x clave of colin and gret, colin and gret is separated from the rest of russia by 2 countries, lithuania and belarus, could, while bell roosters letting all russian trains transit its territory, lithuania has started blocking all trains carrying sanctioned goods. luckily senior doing anything. it's our european sanctions that are started working from the 17th of june. coal metal cement, wood building, materials, and high tech goods are among the items on the sanctions list. they account for up to 50 percent of all goods bound for colleen and grad. moscow has called the parcel tr

and everyone in you, crime really appreciates them. rebecca dresses versus the in keith has a round up of our stories making use of this. our 2 people have been killed in an attack on a seek temple in afghanistan. capital kabul, a taliban spokesman said a tech as tried to drive a car with explosives into the temple area, but it detonated before reaching its target. is not yet clay who was behind the assault. alice indians have held a memorial mass for al jazeera journalists, serene acclaim as a jerusalem church. she was killed in majoring and israeli military operation in the west bank town of jeanine. her death box international outrage, palestinian authority accuses israel of deliberately killing the journalist. israel denies this. o. u. s. health officials have recommended coven 19 vaccines made by by intake pfizer and were turner for children as young as 6 months. this was the last group without access to the shoals. the government is gearing out for the roll out early next week with millions of doses ordered for distribution. now french voters go to the polls later today and the 2

i put that question to the w correspondent, rebecca written in keith earlier. well, yeah, i had it, you know, almost nobody here believed that this war was going to happen. now he, we stand, $100.00 is into the conflict and the conflict is entering a particularly grueling phase. on thursday in stoughton berg, the head of ne toes warned ukraine at its allies to prepare for the long haul to prepare for the grueling war of attrition. as he calls it, and that is certainly what we're seeing play out in the east of the country. as we know here was the big prize for russia when they stormed in here on the 24th of february. they wanted to take the capital and, and still a new government. they failed in that everyone thought the cave would indeed fall within 72 hours. but as we now know, ukraine managed to hold out to push back russian troops from the capital. then russia of course regrouped and moved to the 8th, and that's where the fighting is taking place. today, we are seeing this grueling war of attrition. play out there. as russia slowly does advance, we're seeing

and about this i spoke to d, w. rebecca, readers and keith and asked her how heavy weapons finally arriving from germany could be only a 1st step for ukraine. or finally is really the word, the key word in that sentence. i mean, that's the word that was used by the ukrainian defense ministry when the defense minister, rather when he tweeted about their delivery, he said that we're happy to finally have them as part of our arsenal. that's not to to mean or to sound like they're ungrateful, they're really, really grateful for any help. they've been calling that heavy weaponry for such time for such a long time. they desperately needed, as you would just sang in that report, to try and hold the gradual progress of russian forces to push them back. but they are increasingly frustrated at the pace at which they're coming. we know that, as you mentioned, that these is just a small portion of what germany has actually offered to ukraine. but, but the, the bigger the even heavier artillery that they've offered won't come until the end of this summer, or potentially even in the autumn. which of cour

that was due to the correspondent rebecca readers talking to us from keith. germany is taking emergency measures to cut natural gas consumption and replace applause because of lower russian delivers. economy minister robert havoc said the use of gas in industry and to generate electricity would be limited. instead, more coal fired plants will be used despite environmental concerns. germany will do its best to replenish its gas storage reserves ahead of the winter. russia has cut deliveries, blaming repair, work, a decision berlin, it says is politically motivated. and here's a round up of other stores making use at this hour. voting is underway in columbia in a tense and unpredictable presidential run off election. voters are choosing between left, his former gorilla fighter gustavo petro and business tycoon rudolph hernandez, who's been compared to donald trump. the 2 men are neck and neck in the polls. the so called islamic states said it carried out saturdays attack on a secret temple in the afghan capital capital 2 people died and several were injured. as you had said, they were ret

we are ready and well dw correspondent rebecca richards is in keith. and i asked her if there was any indication of what we can expect from russia. well, as you heard it there from president lensky, he believes that we could see, arise in hostilities, both here in ukraine, but also in europe. now, i suppose what he's really talking about there here is of course, an intensification of attacks on the battlefield and also in other cities. you know, we know that when a u. n. chief and having a terrors, good harris excuse me. visited keith, there was a bomb attack here, you know, many people suspecting that that was a little signal from president putin or from russia. and that when they were kind of expecting something similar when the 3 e u leaders came and visited last week. but so far, nothing like that has happened so prisoners zaleski wanting that this week is obviously important week ahead of that vote for candidate status in the you council . and that president putin or russian soldiers, russian forces could try and intensify attacks here on the grou

rages on with no end in sight and old bridges out of the seed cut did have you her splendid rebecca t. as in keith and earlier, she told me about the ukrainian troops and civilians who remain trapped in severe of the nets. in day, the situation in that city of severed and adds continues to worse and gerhard, as you've been reporting, we've learned that the last remaining evacuation route are in and out of the city or out of the city. but to get humanitarian aid in the last bridge has been destroyed now. so there is absolutely no way of getting any civilians out of that city, nor humanitarian aid in russian soldiers have completely surrounded the city there . awesome st. battles going on. but basically, russia, you know, now hold most of that city. it's just that chemical plant that you mentioned where there's seen, reminiscent of mary you, paul, or where the ukranian soldiers are holding out. and we're believe it's, believe there about $500.00 civilians. also sheltering in that chemical plot, but it's being bombarded, there have been fires there. obviously that's very dangerous with the toxic chem

and keith, after the final whistle blue d w, is rebecca. rita's asked one fan about how he felt i feel empty, and in this i don't know how to, to fill up these emptiness in my heart and because of the situation in my country. and because of that game that we put all our hopes in. but this is football that it should be, we should, you should do all things you can on the field. something leaked to day. how does it feel differently to other years or, or other games other matches? how important was it today? it was most of the important matches for the hall, ukrainian football history and we lose it unfortunately. and i cannot even find the words to describe it. and it's really hard. or burtons queen elizabeth has rounded off celebrations, marking her platinum jubilee with a personal appearance on the balcony of buckingham palace. the nation has been enjoying an extended holiday weekend to mock her 70 years on the throne. her majesty, delighted to royal fans by waving to them from the balcony at buckingham palace, marking the final celebrations for her platinum jubilee. the 96 year old mon

earlier i spoke to debbie's rebecca ritters, who's in the ukrainian capital, keith. i asked her what we know about the humanitarian situation in lissy chance. well, we know that is incredibly dire near carrying. you just have to hear what's happening to that city. it's being completely bombarded, constantly people really having to live on the ground only being able to come up for air. you know, in the few moments between bombardments, between bombings from the russian forces. we know that little chance gets really the last ukrainian stronghold in the hans as service ever done. it, as you mentioned, is already almost completely captured by russia. now there's just one small hold out who me as all chemical plant where russian for, sorry for the cranium forces and some civilians including children, still holding out their very unlikely to be able to get out without a complete c, siroy humanitarian cordele. so situation in that city also pretty dia and lucy chance lies on the other side of the river to separate on it. and it has been being bombarded for weeks. now. we kn

rebecca route. as in the you crime capital, keith, she had more for us on the situation on the front lines of conflict. again, as was largely expected, russian troops have advanced in that city of several donnette that the last ukrainian stronghold in the law hands region at the mer, the sorry, the governor of la hans now saying that russian forces have captured nearly all of that city there. most of it is under russian control. now it's definitely too difficult to get in humanitarian assistance to any of the civilians left there. it's believed around. 13000 people do remain in that city of around about a 100000 people. and they largely living underground as russia continues to shell, the city. and they've been told to stay underground as well. because a russia has also indiscriminately bombed a chemical factory in the city and plumes of smoke of toxic smoke have been seen rising above that city. very dangerous for any one there. so they've been told to remain under ground, the russian looking like they now control most of that city up to the river that separates it with assist, assist the city of cha

d w. rebecca, readers in key many thanks. rebecca chancellor, all of shots will travel to ukraine's capital keith before the end of june. according to german media sources. the build newspaper reports that the chancellor will visit with french president, manuel, mac hall and italian prime minister ramayo drug. this will mark the 1st time schoultz has visited the ukrainian capital since the war began. the german government has so far declined to comment on the report. assist months here. i'm joined now by d. w. political correspondent, benjamin alvarez gruber, benjamin. what more can you tell us coding to this media report that has not been confirmed by the german government as you just said. berlin in paris have been in talks for a long time now to plan this trip. there was the idea of him and i'm calling to invite the italian prime minister drug in the france wanted to wait off to today's a legislative elections that are taking place in france to visit the country. the idea of a trip is to show the sign of european unity and support of ukraine. the german chancellor has been criticized for being

w 's rebecca readers in key many thanks. rebecca german chancellor, all of shorts, will travel to ukraine's capital keith before the end of june, according to german media sources. the build newspaper reports that the chancellor will visit with french president emmanuel mccall, and italian prime minister mario druggie. this will mark the 1st time shalt, has visited the ukrainian capital since the war began. the german government has so far declined to comment on the report. i'm now joined by d. w. political risk correspondent benjamin alvarez gruber, benjamin. what more can you tell us? yan paris has been planning the trip for a long time. that's what this media reports also say that as you rightly just mentioned, has not been confirmed by the german government. yet they say that friendship president a wanted to invite is italian counterpart from minutes a druggie to this trip. the idea of that service to also show european solidarity with ukraine difficult situation. benjamin as you well know, the german chancellor has been criticized for being timid and indecisive in reaction to this war. how significa

w correspondent rebecca caresses his in the ukrainian capital, keith and i saw it by asking her if authorities that have reacted to the latest german and us announcements to send more weapons they have on there they have and of course these announcements by germany and the u. s a met with a sigh of relief. very welcome news here in ukraine. you say it's, they weeks now will really since the beginning of this conflict that ukraine have been calling on the international community for weapons to support that those calls have been getting louder and recent. wait, says russia, do make these quite a festive gains on bass region and in the east of the country? those schools have been getting louder so definitely being met with enthusiasm. i don't think it'll be the end of kohls for will weapons from ukraine, but suddenly a sigh of relief being felt here. however, when these weapons will arrive, is the next question. and whether or not they'll be too late for the ukrainians to be able to make gains or re retake the don best that has been taken already. so remains to be seen. and if you could paint us

awesome keith hopes this visit will prompt more support from europe as late as safe for themselves. the devastation of the wall. i'm gonna will, rebecca, there has been some tension between the you and ukraine over the past few weeks. and in particular, frustration over remarks by a mental not crone about continuing dialogue with the vladimir putin and also all of scholes continuing to maintain direct line or direct talks with the vladimir putin. you are on today's press conference. can you describe the atmosphere for us? it with formal but friendly. i mean these things do tend to be quite full when you are at the presidential palace. you've got the formal greeting, the principal standing there, taking their photos of hold the formal family, the family photo of a handshake. that kind of thing, but it was, it was friendly that were hugs and handshakes after the talk. so when the latest came out to address the media, they did certainly say that they've had a good and productive conversation is how to read much more into that than that all the comments that were ruffled feathers here from president macro. he actually addressed that at th

reporting for us from keith since the beginning of the war, volunteers across ukraine had been doing their part for the fight, some returning to recycling to help save soldiers lies. d w rebecca readers has more. this all junkyard is a junkyard. no more. when war broke out, volunteers took over the space and turned it into a military workshop. steamer is a sound engineer and voice of the artist. now he makes flak, jackets moves across number, little of it, really fully profess were requested from google. so we decided to try make some a small number from 30 pieces. we wanted to raise 47000 her if near for that's sure, people wrote so connected that we raised 150000 in the 1st 3 to 4 days or so. we made 3 times as many of the your morsbow brothers were due. so far they've sent more than $700.00 of the vests to the front lines. places like hunt, keith, china, his and mc alive, there's recycling involved and the work looks aren't, isn't all that the product is military grade level certificate. this mitchell is certified 8 millimeters thick at 1 o'clock. this rubber from a conveyor belt is glued on top of its liam. it acts as an anti fragmentation layer where this robert traps or

that keith's forces won't be able to stop further russian advances unless it's western allies provide more heavy weapons and ammunition without delay. let's go straight to kiva. we're d w's. rebecca readers is standing by. rebecca ursula vonner lion says, as we just heard, the european union will respond to ukraine's membership status. ah request by next week. so does ukraine join sooner now? what does that mean? i? well, the short answer to that nick is, is no. there is no legal framework for a fast tracking of a sent a session to the a you. but on the line saying that the, the process will be completed by next week of the cow, of the commission's recommendations. now that commission recommendation is likely to be positive and was perhaps slightly fast tracked if you will, given the light of the situation here with the war. but definitely the a say a session process as it were, can not be fast tracked on the line at the has to give her recommendation. all the commissions recommendation. and then that has to go to the 27 members day to only to unanimously agree. and therefore triggering the long, the long process to a session or so, let's say the do get a good assessment. all the