ah, and it ran without me with ah ah, this is dw live from berlin israeli air strikes on garza kill at least 14 people. rescuers search through the rubble where israel says it target had an imminent threat from these lamps. you had group a senior militant and a 5 year old girl among the dead. also in the program. europe's biggest nuclear

past asian closes after shelling. international monitors are worried about the safety of the plant in ukraine and local residents fear another to a noble ah, and we'll see how ukranian musicians a touring europe to bolster solidarity for their country. fighting for its freedom . ah ha, told me or laddie. well, welcome to the program. israel has continued as strikes on gaza for a 2nd day with its army warning. the operation against the palestinian group islamic jihad will go on for a week. the militants have been firing back. they have confirmed the death of one of their top amanda's in the israeli strikes on friday. health officials of the

gaza strip say at least 14 people have been killed in the violence o at this hospital in the gaza strip. relatives say good bye to a young man killed in an israeli air strike. it's the biggest escalation in violence in more than a year. as israel hits targets in garza for a 2nd day destroying hose and injuring dozens of people on the head of another, i was sitting on the sofa with my wife and children when suddenly something fell on us. i didn't know what happened. everything collapsed around us. could you take those that photo gonna handle a pan god. he saved us. but my wife broke her hand and my son was hit by a shop. no clever. i live in

a shallow dismal i believe. on friday is railey strikes. targeted a senior leader of the palestinian islamic jihad militant group destroying an apartment block and killing several civilians, including a 5 year old girl. israel says the attacks are a pre emptive operation against an imminent threat from the militant group. is railey forces arrested a senior militant in the west bank early this week, and detained several other alleged members early on saturday. the gaza strip. hamas leaders have so far remained on the sidelines of this latest escalation. but palestinian militants retaliated for the attacks firing rockets into southern israel. is railey forces, say these are just the opening strikes of a longer operation, adding to the fear of an all out war. for more,

let's bring in our d. w correspondent tonya cram are in jerusalem, tanya, what are we expecting now? while we understand from the israeli army that they're continuing airstrikes, tillery fired fire into our garza and what it says, our targets belonging to the palestinian arm group islamic jihad. they said this morning that they have stripe over 30 sites, but that number of course has arisen since then. at the same time, a air raid sirens are constantly going off and mainly in the south of israel, but also in the center. a warning our residence there of incoming bulkhead fire from garza sending people their into bomb shelters or are there safe rooms? now armed israeli army had said this morning saturday morning that over and 90

rockets verified. also this number has vision sense and the iron dome intercepted many of those rockets are some felon open areas or others have fell in garza, that's according to the israeli army again. but of course, you know, you see there's no let up in this escalation that started with an israeli offensive on friday afternoon. as you say it's, it's a cycle of retaliation at the moment, but advert amy attempts at d escalating the situation when i think it's still too early to say it seems that we are right in the middle of it. and of course sir does, doesn't come as good news neither for the people living in the south rizzo. but also note in garza, a small, a territory that has been a blockaded by israel and partly by egypt for the past 15 years of the city. and there is a very difficult, but i think it depends on what is happening there in the next hours. analysts here looking at, you know, the targets that israel is targeting,

they're saying they're targeting or at the moment or of the palestinian group islamic jihad. the range of the rocket said, are coming out of garza where the hamas is actually a fully joining in hm. us as controlling a garza obviously so and then there are reports coming out of egypt from the media there that egypt. and that has always been, you know, a goal between, between israel and hamas. and other militant factions in times like these are that they are trying to mediate or between the factions. but of course this is a very fluid and dynamic situation. and there's no time table given i've, you've heard from the israeli army, they're saying, you know, this could last or at least a week, or also, israeli officials are quoted as saying him, the israeli media that there no negotiations at the moment are going on. and of

course, that comes to spite calls by some international actors like the u. n. a. and roy, for the middle east, our process peace process here, or the you also, you know, calling of, you know, for not for d escalating the situation because it's the civilians that are paying a high price here need only correspondent on their grandma in jerusalem. thank you . let's take a look at more stories making headlines around the world in japan as marking the 77th anniversary of the nuclear attack in hiroshima, the u. s. dropped the world 1st atomic bomb on 6th august 1945 and the final days of world war 2. explosion destroyed the city and killed 840000 people. at least 12 people have been killed and 43 injured and a bus accident. ne, all the creation capitals i grabbed the vehicle, veered off the road and crashed into

a ditch on board with dozens of polish pilgrims traveling to a roman catholic shrine. and southern bosnia. taiwan has accused beijing of simulating an invasion of the self governing island. as china continued its large scale military drills, taipei says, the chinese army sent several ships and aircraft into the strait of taiwan on saturday. the exercises began after us. how speaker nancy pelosi visited type earlier this week. after imposing unspecified sanctions on the politician, china's also suspending corporation with the u. s. in several key areas including law enforcement and climate change. let's big now to d w's so on hand in taipei. welcome to the program. how is taiwan responding to china's military drills? well, both on china and taiwan release photo just then revealing the image of the other

sites worships. i'm showing how close they are monitoring each other. well, in china's pictures, we can see how was mountains and even a smoke pipe of what major taiwanese par plan. it's estimated that the chinese army is about 30 kilometers away from thailand, shoreline, and earlier this morning, multiple chinese war plans and worships. not only just come in to the tower straight across the media line again. and here's a response to this. how has air force made rare deployment of for the, like the most martin at 16, the war place with 8 missiles to prepare for battle. it also uses a long range air defense system to monitor and defend the aerospace at any time in response to unsuspected situations. now they've been military drills before, but where does this rank in terms of the level of what we've seen before? well, as you have mentioned, as probably the 1st time like china conduct such a large scale of military drills and for tie. why,

of course there will be some military drills now and then, but it's also for the 1st time for timing to deploy such a model systems, the defense systems and also last warships and war plans that's bought from the u. s. so for both sides, it's the 1st time that this tension come to this new escalation. all right, so to hand in taipei, thank you. ukraine president, viola dimmer zalinski is calling for sanctions against russia's nuclear industry. after the shelling of europe's biggest atomic power station, at least 3 strikes hit power lines as upper easier plant forcing the closure of one of the reactors, russia and ukraine, blame each other for the shelling russian forces seized control of the station in march just a week after the invasion of a ukrainian workers still run it, t w's it up is correspondent mathias bollinger in cuba has more. what we know is

that rockets have hit to near this power plant have hit these are power lines there . um, the plant, as you said, has been under russian occupation, and russia has been stationing military equipment there and has been firing a shells and, and, and possibly rockets from this site. of course, this is something that's very worrisome to ukraine because it's very difficult to attack these positions or without endangering the safety of the whole country or provoking an accident. there ukraine has attacked these positions with loitering, munitions that sir jones that are a fly in the air that are conducted into military targets. and that explode there, which they are more controllable than rockets of course, which are also being they. they can also be a controlled and, and adjusted, but once they fly, they fly. so this strike with rockets is of course worry, worrying, and the ukrainian energy authority has said that these were russian rockets fired

as a provocation. rushes denying this, saying these were ukrainian rockets. it's not been a wheat. no, but we have not been able or, or the has no independent confirmation for any of the versions so far. now to a group of ukrainian artists fighting for their country not on the battlefield, but on stage. the green and freedom orchestra is made up of some of the nation's greatest musical talents, the touring europe to bolster solidarity as the war for their country's future grinds on. oh, a few months ago, tell us yet. jenda of bush was filling sandbags to fortify his hometown odessa, against russian invaders. now his finally back on stage were her sing with the newly formed ukrainian freedom orchestra, visual cock xyzzy. how crowded the concert halls are you?

how people are reacting with standing ovations. it's real support at the atmosphere surf, but the escrow doth bruce, and the other men of military age needed special permission to leave ukraine. the idea of bringing together more than 70 ukranian musicians came from conductor carrie, when wilson, a canadian with ukrainian roots. actually one of my cousins, since the beginning of the invasion is in fighting dumbass. so i wanted to fight to but as a musician with my baton is my weapon here in berlin, they're playing ukrainian composer, valentin sylvester loves 7th symphony for wilson. it's an o marsh to the ukrainians who've lost their lives. ah, the ukrainian freedom orchestra is booked across western europe and in new york,

where wilson's husband heads the metropolitan opera a major supporter of the project. we all know that putin over his plan is to destroy not only ukraine, but ukrainian culture. and this is a very vivid demonstration of the greatness of ukrainian artist and their art. and it's a direct response to food. one of ukraine's great artists piano virtuoso on a footed over is also on board. she wants to make sure audiences don't forget after so many months that her country is under attack. ah, yeah. just touching him at santa, i'm feeling very motional. every minute we're playing together on the greatest stages of the world and you need any of it off with her to remind people what's going on in ukraine training. and emotional reunion for many of the musicians,

including tell us to have him dove bush and his wife, a violinist on a v. cova, who hadn't seen each other since the beginning of russia's invasion like most here . they hope they'll soon play full concerts again in their home country, ukraine. ah, you're watching t v news coming up next, the documentary looking at efforts to save the rain forest. in brazil, i remember you can always find more news and i'll website it's deed up, eat up cold. i've told the old lady will be with a vibrant habitat ended go listening place of long the mediterranean sea scene of l muster, and jafar abdul karim drift along with.