the the, this is the, the news coming to live from berlin. restaurant strikes, again, targeting ukraine's capital and other cities. small scale says that phone bars went of park. she was in retaliation for you, finding a tap on bell over on the hills. more than 20 people, the u. n. is urging both sides de escalate. also coming up on the shows, last run, health ministry and gaza says 150 paula finance and been killed in strikes in the last j. as israel steps off as air and the ground offensive the

inquiry, richardson very warm. welcome to the show. we're going to come to that news in just a moment. but let's start by wishing everybody a very happy new year. celebration is already underway in some countries, as they've already brung in boston. hong kong for example, have just struck midnight and the city is staging. fuller, minute fireworks display over victoria. check out his life. what is the beauty of nature of the changing seasons of the year? the hard to talk, but we are going to bring you some more celebrations as you're off and the america's joining the party on their own time zones to stay with us 1st. so we're

gonna get back to our top stories and russia has targeted the eastern ukrainian city of har keeps stepping up. it's been boardman in the wake of the biggest aerial assault of the war. the kremlin says the strikes on harkey were in retaliation for a ukrainian attack on the russian city of belgrade, which killed more than 20 people of the the aftermath of the sort of cod please. you prince, the 2nd largest city, your cleaning office. you'll see restaurants, military struck the city center, 6 dining factors, residential buildings, shops and a medical facility vir hit, the hotkeys palace, one of the cities. most cortes was badly damaged. this attack tons of tip of document of discussion board to city of paper or on saturday rest. you'll see if this was a ukrainian strike and that it gets dozens of people and injured many others. the

ukrainian government has not especially commented on the banquet or to attack most cookies. it's lead to strikes on hard keep. why didn't you tell us in to the felt good order attack? what a room is a little problem is that today you cranes on full say is motion attack with multiple rocket launch is no city of belgrade or civilians, including children were killed, responded to this terrorist act, russian falls, instruct, decision making, sent his mother to facilities used by the criminal key regime in the city of hockey, that there's really no way in the product of the ukraine attacks on pin code. but apparently in response to the massive data storage by moscow on friday consider to be the largest data source. since the start of the war to a new wasting all day today, we have been hearing reports on the off the math of the russian strikes. sure. i feel like she's got a bucket. what's the in totals are moving to a 120 of us cities and villages stuff. he said he was 39. people see what killed

activities and these latest escalations come at the time when you create new struggling to secure more question, funding for, for the military. it almost through us into the war french language as a military analyst and former british military intelligence officer earlier he explained why both ukraine and russia have ramped up their attacks setting you crazy detox on battle, garage what the credit site is that civilian casualties will cost by rushing on to that across, besides crashing which seems not likely, but it's clear also that might be able to tell a tree element the as to the more of the situation more widely. i don't think i do this as a surprise. we weren't expecting a russian a sold using that consolidated, and a crude weaponry, a weapon, the accrued over the last few months. we've got to see more of these beside the sole source of the next few days as well. i would assess and sorta have you made

the, the russians want to, to start the new years, i wish to go on. and that the main objective of this is to deplete your praise defenses. with a substitute objective, i suspect savings last year about the money, the morales civilians, in which both of which i think needs will fail west very good time to make sure that the pay does not always intelligible, decent locker by defense. so that's, that's what's gonna happen. i suspect the names of the reasons i didn't want to jump in um, because we are looking ahead to 2024 and and the new year. and i'm curious what your expectations are for what that might bring. do you think it could be the year that we see some kind of negotiations? i don't think so. i don't think there's, there is that there incentives on either side from the community perspective, that objective is to hold on to consolidate, to start to build their industrial weapons base. and to consolidate those front lines to build on sustain fortifications and to rebuild and rebuild that on forces

from the russian perspective. they will continue on the assault. they will say, well, i think to make any particular gains. and we're looking here, this sort of 1st level sort of positional situation that all along the line and indeed no widely, politically to know, there's no incentive to look, ukrainians will not see land. they cannot trust the russians from the restroom perspective. they will be content to engage ukraine going forward. it fulfills that political objectives to in key question, of course is the extent to which the west will continue to support your brain. but by that, we're talking about united states, not just this year, but going forward. well, thank you very much. as always, that is military analyst, frank lead, which lead time as well as pressing further south and it's offensive and gaza prime minister benjamin netanyahu is that his forces and to take control of gauze as border with egypt. the advance is putting more pressure on displace people who

are seeking refuge cause us from us. run health ministry says 150 policy indians have been killed and is rarely strikes in the last day. as israel plans to take control of the area around the goals as food with egypt, displays, palestinians crammed the streets of rock for the towns right next to that folder. they have come here to escape intense fighting in south and central garza safely with just the bare essentials. everyone is looking for shelter and space is running out there and we came here 20 days ago. we couldn't find any place to put to 10. so west, staying at the stairs, at the most of the, at my cell, we know the situation is tragic. we don't have drinking more so we don't have food . i like the kids wake up in the morning, wants you to eat without water to drink. the lovely adding to the spiraling

humanitarian crisis. the wall continues in central goza rescue was race to find survives. it says that my goal is the cam officer is really strikes in the area. and israel's army is pushing into the southern city of con eunice as they try to eliminate him mass, which is widely considered the terrorist organization. as the intense conflict misspelled, the south displaced palestinians are running out of places to flee. present fedex actually. so katie has been re elected in the democratic republic of congo official results show. she's a catty one, just over 73 percent of the vote. election was marred by irregularities including major logistical setbacks which meant voting has to be extended by

a day. several opposition candidates have accused the government of fraud and are demanding a rerun. they are now calling on their supporters to take to the streets in protest . let's get more on the story from our correspondent. you're not getting. joining us from the capital kinshasa. you want us, can you tell us more about these results, please? yeah, so cities, just in case you got elected with this 307073 percent. and this is really by a large margin, much more than we have had in the previous selections in 2019 the strongest competitor, though, was catching. yes, been the govern. now the mining provence for time got a couple of years ago and you only view how the wrong 18 percent and other candidates such as the former competitor matching. so you just had 5 percent

and some people might know give you some free gate. and so i know would be surprised lowered, but he didn't even get to one for science and oppositional leaders. they've alleged that these elections were rigdon, they've called for mass protests. what might those look like? yeah, i think we should still need to see what actually happened because a couple of days ago they already called for the 1st purchase, the 1st purchase, they bought for pigeon. and they're just a couple of thousands of protesters who showed up fine to be they phase the police . and it's really questionable whether there will be locked skate approaches. and this is also because like this should resolve the issue in all physics to security . and the house been access such as the coast um catholic, i'm to possibly uh, protestants charge. they have or they are considered as

a watch dog. and did you see, and they already said that the generator was solved icon from but there resides, there might be some, some discussions on the precise pages, but it sounds pretty credible that fit. it's just the katie, actually one of the selections. and what about other international observers are looking at this land slide results? are they also saying that this was a free and fair election? a very good question. they do the things union that how they, how to add an alteration mission box. finally, they canceled their mission because they weren't allowed to use all the, the material that they wanted to use. and so they are not many international on international observers yet. we're just stood on the ground. and so this makes a little bit tricky to say there are a couple of irregularities, but at the end of the day it looks like most of the people will go ahead with the

results. so there won't be too much of questioning from any side. there's too much questioning to be expected. well, thank you very much for reporting. that's dw correspondent, you're not getting in contrast. and here in germany, chancellor or life schultz has used his new here is message to warn of difficult geopolitical landscapes ahead, but it also expressed confidence that confidence that quote, germany will get through it. that's been a difficult 12 months for schultz politically. he's have to grapple with coalition in fighting and his own rock bottom popularity ratings. left schultz is new years address is a message of optimism. despite the 2 thirds of germans being dissatisfied with his leadership. and that's the easiest way if i'm did you remember where we stood? one year ago, numerous experts had full cost an economic downturn of 345 percent. many said that

prizes would keep on rising, fight it on the things turned out differently because we held back that economics down to we saved energy and we made timely preparations. we all did together in mind. some shots defense is government's handling of domestic issues such as providing tax relief for germans on low incomes. and he thinks those who have helped in the flooding that has caused widespread damage in some areas of germany. while the world outside is into an oil sholtes season and so to international conflicts in europe, and in being prepared for whatever happens in next use race for the white house, the i'm point, we have friends in europe and across the globe. these are partners with whom i discussed on a daily basis, how we will guarantee ya, security in germany and europe after world rushes of war and the east of our continents is no saver, nor is the on the conflict in the middle east. the overhead will also bring

presidential elections in the united states, which may have far reaching consequences, including for us here in europe, for owns here in the hope tends to those who are politically active in gemini. he calls for mutual respect it would be nothing gets better if we just talk about each other instead of to each other. our strength for science and our readiness to compromise in the efforts we put in for one another. while last year, his address was dominated by foreign affairs. this year the chancellor is urging germans to have faced in themselves and new year celebrations of already started in some parts of the world. some countries already ring again at 2024. let's take a look at how some of them are celebrating in sydney, australia, their staging, a traditional spectacular display with more than 8 tons of fireworks lighting up the skies about the hyper bridge was popular new year extravaganzas.

hong kong, while they've stage a 12 minute a firework display over victoria harbor, or celebrating the beauty of nature and changing seasons. of course, of a century more fireworks in europe. and america goes as they joined the party in their own time zones. but until then of these, you put these in tastic pictures very happy new year. the people in trucks injured was trying to feed the city center and the straight pieces screened the ro.