now from our correspondent rebecca richards. she is in chia, rebecca, the leaders of the 3 biggest countries in europe, germany, france, and italy are in kia today. what's the significance of this visit to well, terry, you're right. they arrived this morning with monica press, fan fair. 2, and they're now actually here, i'm station now, but i'm either expected to leave shortly for a trip of some of the the destruction or disaster areas around the capital cave. before heading into a very important meeting, as you say, a significance of this trip is obviously a crime, desperately calling for more weapons from the west in order to push back russia before. so, you know, east and the rest of the country as well has stopped their advances with what it goes to. there's going to be attending prime minister. mr. dragging is actually leaving behind. and the other, the other latest will be following shortly. so yeah, it's very, it's a very big day, very important also comes ahead of us about the a you deciding whether or not to grant a staf

let's go straight to our correspondent rebecca richards, who's standing by in here for us. rebecca, this is situation then severity nets, very much remind the sofa mario poland, the siege of the steel works there. what else can you tell us about the ukranian troops and the civilians? trapped them 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 bomba

more heavy weapons from western countries with them, let's get an update from our correspond rebecca richards, who joined us from chia rebecca, tell us what chancellor sholtes is hoping to achieve with this visit on terry. this is a very, a high stakes visit from both sides. i hope you didn't hear me, excuse me. there's some song about here playing on the made on square at the moment, but it shouldn't be too long. now this visit is incredibly high stakes. as i just said, this is high stakes of both sides. president lensky on his part, desperately wants these european leaders to be bringing promises of more heavy weaponry to help ukraine push back the russian advance in the east. what, what the, the european leaders are obviously trying to give their assurances that they. * are with, if they have been highly criticized for not doing enough and everything that they have promised sofa hasn't really been delivered in good time. so there's been a lot of criticism there out what they are going to bring. anything remains to be seen as someone from president zalinski is office has said that he's worr

as for him that he w a correspondent, rebecca richard, who is in kia for us. rebecca, what more can you tell us? well, on the, on the battlefield, gerhard, things are moving pretty slowly. we are looking at a war of attrition at the moment. but as you say, russians making as small gains in that case, city in the hands of era than 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. or we saw a 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 that 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 sister city with lucy chance as on the other side of a river. and the russians are struggling to get across that river there. now trying a tactic of bombarding up from anothe

during rushing, bombardments, dw rebecca richard went to meet the man his fighting back against the invaders, with laughter. yeah, this is our comedy seller in ukraine. or my conjuring seller now to tell the truth because of bombay and rog, guess all this stuff. so it's really easy to find audience 1st and last because you just. gov and people here. oh, ukrainian stand up comic, anton tymoshenko, his weapon ising, his comedy fighting russians with jokes on youtube lim, last 10 years of my life, i was raising money to have a flat. so in key, if mo, emery's in my intervene or there sir, he hopes his set in english punch lines will help raise money from abroad. but here in this comedy club in central keith, his wor, if it is live o, twice a week, he takes to the stage to perform for a local crowd, who show up air raid sirens, not they lap up ukrainian language versions of gags like this one. the finest country in europe is germany, because when we ask for a weapons, jeremiah serve, we don't have enough urban to share. oh, come on germany. ah, come on. my grandmother said you have a lot of her.

little please. rebecca richard is in queue. if she has more on whether ukraine would be able to join the e u. an expedited membership talks i, well, the short answer to that is, is no. there is no legal framework for a fast tracking of a sent 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 it definitely be a say, a session process as it were, cannot be fast tracked on the line. and it has to give her recommendation. all the commissions recommendation and the man has to go to the 27 members, states who only to unanimously agree and their fort triggering the long the long process to recession. or he has a look at some of the other developments in the war. russian forces occupying southern ukraine have begun handing out passports. 23 locals, including the new mos

football team is playing against wales in cottage for a spot in the world cup on did abuse. rebecca richards is soaking in the atmosphere at a pub in kiva. rebecca that tell us that what's that moonlight i'm having a lot of trouble hearing you, eddie. so i hope that i'm getting this bid right. i've met you odd to me now, but it is pretty 10 here. i'll give you that. but it's quite different from the tension that we've felt in the city or in the recent recent mountain. it is a nice for pre, for people here who are able to, to enjoy some, some normalcy in the football. one of those people i is yury and he joins me now. you're a just how important is today's match for ukraine? it's really important much for us because it's a to find a much before we can go to the world cup and it's really important for the speech, chrome war theme or something more pleasant. draw the ones all today. rochester. i 7 measles, 6 years old. ok. we're still here and we are trying to draw our lives and the thrive distributional santa multiply them for us, then the war. now we're just coming back from half time and wha

that is the hope at least the devilish rebecca richards reporting from the crony and capital. thank you. are i, let's take a quick look at some of the other stories making headlines. this, our moscow is warned, its response to a ban on the rail transfer of certain goods to the russian exclaimed of in and read will quote, not being exclusively diplomatic. neither member lithuania says it's only following you guidelines with the blockade. leningrad belongs to russia, but is waged between lithuania, poland, school in you voted texas were a gunman killed $21.00 people last month to sit to be demolished. the cities masses announcement came hours after an official called the police is response to the shooting, an abject failure which put the officers lives ahead. what the children, gender boy u. s. senate has taken a step towards passing the country's 1st major gun control legislation. in decades ago, senators voted to speed up the passage of a bipartisan bill to toughen federal gun laws. the senate is expected to vote on the measures this week. the proposals follow to brace, i beli

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

w correspondent, rebecca richard, that the situation for the ukrainians in the loo. hans regent was looking increasingly desperate. yeah, well, it is gerhard. that's a very accurate. so the situation has been as ever, and annette brother has been at the epi center of this battle in the dumbass for some time. now i've read a very slow moving war of attrition with russia early at managing to push forward ever so slightly. as you heard there president, the lanky saying that they're really battling street for street inch by inch in that city. though it is looking pretty clear that rationale whole almost the entirety of several done yet. and in fact, and only one small pocket. as that report mentioned, of a chemical font that people, ukraine is still in control of their around about 500 civilian hiding there. and there are a couple of 100 ukrainian soldiers as well. now, russia overnight also as you just reported, destroyed at one of the last remaining evacuation roots out of several in it's making it virtually impossible for anyone to get out. you can't are trying to set up humanitarian corrido

so you now says a town in northern ukraine that spent a month under russian occupation t w's. rebecca richards went there and spoke to residence, who shared harrowing stories, the trust and yet train station, or what's left of it. for more than a month, russian troops used it as their headquarters. it was from here, alexander tells me that they carried out some of their crimes. when i was a while, they say the russians were based right there, where we're going bomb shelter. that's where we going, we do move them on ec sander. an auto mechanic says the russians came in the night and pulled him straight out of bed. some towns, men he says, were killed on the spot. but he and a handful of others were brought down here into the station's basement with federal . until dot's i was sitting right in his corner. i was beaten here before him. a miss ball was painted by another guy's blood. his head was smashed with the boots of a gun, and his hands were tied behind his back. he tried to get up and left the blood marks in without so thought a proof for groom. that man survived. this video shows his body,

dw rebecca richards, travel to southern ukraine to the region around make life. this old junkyard is a junk count. knowing 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 a little of it. really bully 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 lots of began lost obama to word. 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. so if, if, if this mitchell is certified to 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 away. this robert traps or splinters