ah, ah ah ah ah, this is the w news, live it from berlin tonight, the russian invasion of ukraine and the crimean factor did ukraine attack? he, russian air base in crimea. no official word from keep yet, but ukraine's president says the war will end only when the russian annexation of

crimea ex, also coming up tonight will meet the director of a mother and baby clinic in cobble. one of the few women in afghanistan who still has a job under the taliban, and a neck and neck raised in kenya, the top contenders to be the next president. they could be headed for a one off election. and as europe looks to replace russian oil and natural gas, some countries are turning to nuclear power. finland says it has a solution to story radioactive waste. ah, i brink off is good to have you, withers ukraine tonight, says that 9 russian war plains been destroyed in explosions at an air base in the annexed crimea region. one person was killed several others injured. now russia has used the saki bays, which is near nova fitter thief to strike southern ukraine. moscow says that that

nations have stored ammunition set off the blast at the air base. they say it was not an attack, or ukraine have deny bombing the air base, but a senior official is suggesting that it may have been sabotaged. ukrainian president zalinski has bell that ukraine will liberate the crimean peninsula from russian occupation. a brilliant blue sky turns dark after several powerful blast. images of black smoke at a russian air base in the black sea were posted on social media by beach goers and crimea, a popular holiday destination for many russians. but these holidaymakers may now want to change their plans, tourist described how they experienced the detonations. oh yes, well you got that i was standing and then it felt like either i flew into the air or fell under ground. i was so scared. my husband jumped up, he was resting and said what happened? and then we took a few steps back and immediately saw this cloud and

a column of smoke right above us. but none in crimea was used by russia as one of the launch pants for an invasion of ukraine. moscow has had troops stationed on the peninsula since it illegally annex crimea in 2014 many ukrainians . consider this to be the start of russia's invasion, including ukraine's president vladimir zalinski. ah, i received this russian war against ukraine and against all of free europe, began with crimea on most and with crimea, with its liberation. yo zoom russia's defense ministry says the explosions were detonations of stored ammunition and not the result of an attack. ukraine has denied it was responsible for the incident, which took place deep in a rush and occupied territory. but his senior ukrainian official suggested that the blast could have been the work of partisan saboteurs or russian incompetence.

so far ukraine hasn't reported carrying out any major attacks on russian targets in crimea. officials in moscow, warren, that would trigger massive retaliation including strengths on key if what he told me is, but he is brilliant. he is following this story, forrest from keith. my tears has the war between russia and ukraine. has it now expanded into the crimean financial while it's hard to say that it expanded because crimea was part of this war as we've just heard it, a launch put for the invasion. it's a highly militarized territory where russia has a lot of technology and it's also home to the black sea fleet and the headquarters of the black sea fleet. the have been attacked by ukraine, presumably by ukraine. it also didn't own this, but just a few days ago. so of course, this is part of the war, but what is

a clear is that the people in crimea, the tourists who traveled to crimea from russia, they did not expect this. and we are now seeing pictures of long queues of people trying to leave the territory. it was probably falsely perceived as being kind of off the off site of the war. but it is, of course, part of this whole military game. and do these vacationers they are in crimea, most of them are russians, obviously. should they be worried? i mean, is, is there a fear that there's going to be some type of retaliation? retaliation the utility asian that russia has announced would obviously not target these vacation as it would target, for example, us here and key of all or in other places in ukraine. and deb, which is probably they'll probably worries about that. but then like every strike

in a war triggers some kind of retaliation, you cannot fight to war. if you only think about retaliation. so i think the people on crimea now they are worried about being targeted again in seamless strikes in that that's my point at martinez. is there a concern now with this a blast at the russian air base in crimea? is there a concern that crimea is going to be a new battle field, if you will, in this whoa, ukraine has, has been striking beyond a, it's borders even in on to russian territory. so every supply line is a possible target. and of course, one of the targets of many people here in here and ukraine, talk about a, is a bridge that links crimea to russia destroying this bridge would, of course, considerably disrupt the russian supplies in the south. and it's definitely

something that would be worth for the ukranian army to do so once they are in the position to do so, i expect i think that targets in crimea would probably be targeted again. my thing is really good with the last night from keith. but here, thank you. in afghanistan, the telephones return to power have severely restricted the lives of women. they must now, once again covered themselves, head to toe with public. they cannot travel without a mil guardian, and they are nearly all bored from working. but there are some exceptions. des sondra pages man introduces us to one of the few women in afghanistan. he still has a job, she's a doctor in the capital. cobble that. why don't? yes. in meet duct tamela lie facie. she's a rare exception in afghanistan. why? the taliban fullest most working women from that jobs. doctor f i. e c. got

a promotion. she's now a director of the country's biggest maternity clinic and cobble with female and neo natal health is one area where the fundamentalist rulers understand they need women from on a more than once known as america. this is linked to the culture and tradition of afghanistan. when women is pregnant, she should go to a female doctor. i had only gonna, because a female doctor can better examine and treat her than a male that i hope was a lot of me than a good one. i'm actually gonna mazata back melinda, this hama was not at all when she was yours. her ward rounds are busy. the hospital deals with up to 2500 birth a month. i mean, many of the women have difficult deliveries due to man attrition and anemia. grammar as, as african nikki, the team performs up to 40, says area and sections each day. roha. don't remember name, how does he get it? does your them a lot of people are jobless on amazon,

and when families cannot afford for expecting mothers to eat good, a lot in a tricia's food where they face a lot of problems. i'm lamba problem of childhood, jonathan helena. many babies here are born prematurely. more than 20 new borns have died in each of the past 4 months. the 1000000000 spent by foreign powers on development failed to create the lasting conditions needed to reduce infant mortality whom i had thought that i am a doctor. i have not left the country for the past 26 years. and in all this time have janice and was never stable and never peaceful though. lot susie with her after her hospital shift. dr. foisy works in the private clinics. she runs with her husband. here many patients are under family pressure to have children, but can't conceive or have miscarried. it can be difficult for women to carry a pregnancy to term when constantly stressed and life in afghanistan is stressful, especially for women. muslim on it so,

so i will only feel happy when my country is at peace and secure. that gets you out of i'm yet. and when all the troubles that our people are facing are resolved dilemma and they are com. i know that that's when i will be able to relax in missouri. show this as an automatic when she gets home after a long working day, darkness awaits her. the electricity's off a daily experience for many families and cobbled as she sits down for tea with her youngest daughter. we ask her why she doesn't leave afghanistan. emma, them? yes, once on any, i got. i'm an african. and i got my education from the blot of this nation's people, including my mac. i want to shove my people had called on long if all of us decide to leave now who will rebuild this country? because what i care about hookah marva is waiting to take the university entry exam

to study medicine. she's clear on why she wants to follow in her mother's footsteps seemed as cold with. yeah, but that again, cause our society needs female doctors in every single province. after the recent earthquake, there were no female doctors in the field to help the injured women. not only mayo doctors were there but not a single female. and i want to help the women of my country, jeremy, who does that make us run hook? where the marvel with follow her mother's korea, lady up to the taliban. they weigh the sight. how many women doctors they want and where i'm going to get out of it in one year under the taliban. i'm joined now by doctor niger tarik of the international rescue committee. she leads the irises, all female health teams in southeastern coast, providence and elsewhere. dr. target, it's good to have you with us on the program. you know, we're talking about the taliban now being in power for

a year in afghanistan. what has that meant for women's health in your country? i thank you so much and as i am a medical doctor, i work with an international rescue committee. and there we have and my wife and his team and 10 program says son, currently we put a wide healthcare services and very hard to reach 84 afghan and afghan woman and gaz. before a 40 years back, they didn't have any access and held kate kia and services, has our professional medical doctor, the past zone, woman. i'm so happy to assert,

i've done women and girls and increase their access to health care services. and you're able to do the dr. kotik because you work with the international rescue committee there. it's harder, of course for other afghan women. there are so many rules that prevent women from having public jobs. is the health of the afghan people? is it suffering because you can't find women doctors anymore? her, let me i should talk about our organization. currently, we hire a money professional, doctor, and nurse freeman, nurse midwife, and a famous notation counselor and mental health counselor. and they are

working and, and remote area for a woman, and they are providing and services. and currently a woman, there is no and the war and as a place to see your moment can, can receive health care services to our mobile team. especially our, our family by his team. they are a provide services and they are walking for hours and mom in roads. and they are coming back for house at the 8 hour and they provide it and they deem it just for them. a woman. and you have a very interesting insight into what is happening because you used to be in the form of government. you were a deputy health minister, you know how things were before the tele bond came into power. you know how things

are now. are you able, your organization or doctors in afghanistan, or are they able to serve all africans? no, or all medical needs being met? i a has, you know, a medical, he sure is a, for a long time back, a crucial issue. and it help as system and, and currently with the economy and crisis and they had system collapse and therefore we need more support to receive 2. he meant to be in france for head sector and we should it provide good quality services access to a woman and i guess especially they are

a leaving and day program says there was a long time war. and i think if we, if you see a more fun we are, we can expand the services and we should increase the services for a moment and be sure access to kids services delivery. dr. unfortunately, we're out of time, but we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tonight. you're doing very important work for the people in your country. thank you. thank you so much. a one off vote may be needed in kenya as early election results show a tight rigs between the 2 main contenders to be the next president of the veteran opposition leader railroad ingle and the deputy president for your router appear evenly matched. the result is expected later this week. these ballot boxes will

seal kenya's fate for the next 5 years. after hours of voting, describe as peaceful canyons are now waiting to hear who will next leave their country in seeing it will thing you bring one will and by one just these to prevail. some canyon say they have little hope and politicians after years and would successive governments failed to meet the country's economic needs, disapproval, so voter turnout plunge compared to previous years, especially among kenya's younger voters. but observer say they can only do so much . i cannot to rumble about it. he cannot push the c g as to come. that's your pastime. now, not mine. mine is i have been allowed to vote. nobody was there, a st. jude prevented from what the process was coll,

peaceful bodily. so if somebody has chosen not to trips his eyes, he's or her i to to, to elected that. well, canyons have returned to daily life while waiting the results for many memories of violent disputes over election results are not too distant. observers hope a quick count will ease any anxieties. well, now the bullet mom fulton used to. i said, bunny, i'm late in that bill. yes. yes. and business is going on. as usual. as you can see, her dad are quite a number of people going on with their business because him, one thing that we need to know is that that these bullets he said is out of feigns on to the common people as we talk. now, the notes am in any way i try to am is what i colleague for the 1st time in kenya's history. opposing candidates have vowed to accept the results

without dispute. as the results near canyon's hope, the promise will hold. or here in europe, countries are scrambling to find new energy sources to replace russian oil and natural gas. some are turning to nuclear power, but storing nuclear waste, which can remain radioactive for centuries, it remains a big problem. finland is pioneering a system which it says can permanently contain all of its spent nuclear material and for some communities, this is a welcome financial boost of corresponded terry shoulds. she went to western finland to find out more. who wants to live next to a new, clear sight? well, this guy for one, and evidently most of the other, some 9000 residents of the town of error yaki finland. it's the proud home to 3 nuclear reactors and opening soon the world's 1st permanent storage site for high

level radioactive waste. rick at there are realistic purchase. it's about $20000000.00 per year here. are yoke mayor, vessel luck in him. he says, decades of good relations and no accidents. with the okey lu, auto nuclear power plant led his community to actively campaign to be chosen also as the location for the uncle repository. the facility is being called a game changer and the nuclear power industry. because the waste is deposited so deep in the earth, it will never have to be moved. lock in your may considers that a win for his town, long term financial security. we have a new way to school, so i'm a uncle into realtor. her sports hall here it's school support. it really euro's the economic boost from the nuclear industry is welcome, but embracing is waste requires deep trust in expertise and authority, part of the bedrock of sinner society. thanks to that and the unique suitability of

the actual finished bedrock, this country is making history, half a kilometer below ground. welcome to call. when the site becomes operational, within the next couple of years, the spent nuclear fuel will be transferred into steel canisters and then copper capsules lowered into tunnels and sealed off forever. at the moment the uncle o site is still in its trial phase, as experts continue finalizing the details of permanently disposing of spent nuclear fuel with such high level radioactive waste, there's no room for miss steps. looked good geologist johan hanson says every precaution is being taken to ensure that also into far future that there are no any, any pathways, inches a survey so. so this facility will store the canisters 400000 of years though the project has been underway under ground for almost 2

decades. it's getting new interest from abroad. that's due in part to the european parliament designation of nuclear power as a green fuel. and the push in europe to reduce dependence on russia as an energy supplier, as it wages war on ukraine. so uncle is getting lots of attention these days and not only from scientists and journalists, $17000.00 people per year, come to see this interactive visitor's center and take a tour of the facility posse to a him, a heads up communications for puss, eva, the company responsible for on callo he says his goal is to demystify the process of nuclear power generation. a lot of people say that nuclear is good, but then you have this a waste of used nuclear fuel. but well, what are, what we are saying is that not that's not true, or we do have the solution for that is completely safe to a he my says he expects more european countries to follow finland's lead. now that

they're forced to reconsider how to power their futures lovejoy now. buying mr. johann spot. he's the director of m k g in good bag sweden. that's an environmental group which looks at nuclear waste is just fine. it's good to have you with us. we just heard that story right there, that storing radioactive waste is safe. there is quite a statement to make considering we know it takes millions of years for radioactive waste to become no longer radioactive. so here we really make the claim that there is no danger here. well, i think that that claim can certainly be questioned and i'm working in sweden when nuclear waste issues and in sweden we have the same method as infant land using copper canisters or and the copper canisters here are putting question much, much more. and we have our program in sweden is therefore delayed very much because of this program. are you surprised that we're even talking about this right now?

i mean, if you were to take the russian invasion of ukraine out of the equation, you know, we'd still be talking about fukushima, chernobyl, 3 mile island, those dangers those disasters. they haven't gone away happy. no, certainly not. i mean, the risk of accidents is always there, but i think it's important to understand that the, the production of this long lived waste is probably the, made your problem to deal with. and i think it's still remains questionable what you can do this and save me the long term. and i'm wondering instead of investing money in this solution, would it not make better economic sense, but also just be safe for long term. if you were to take those resources and invest them in developing more sustainable energy sources, this is certainly correct. i mean, there is

a lot of focus now on you clear as this climate solution, but it just to little than to late and renewables and efficiency measures are available at this moment to, to, to do a lot more. and so i think it's important now to focus more on renewables sets of sources at this time and not put any major focus on on nuclear issues. are you surprised by the people we saw in that report there in finland they they what this disposal site because of the economic incentives. what, what's the situation in sweden be we're used to hearing people saying not in my backyard with you or nuclear waste. yes, i mean are ashley, the situation is quite similar than sweden in the, the nuclear communities that are quite news used to nuclear power and also to nuclear waste issues. they have also in sweden, been accepting repository so,

so that the planned repository in the, at that for from nuclear power plant, north of stockholm, the population is, is also they are pro, but it took a long, long time to get there and a long time to search and in anywhere else in sweden that apparently was impossible except right next to power plant as is the case in finland. so it's certainly a problem to find a place for a repository, which is very clear in all other countries. basically, if there is not mr. so before you run out of time, let me just ask you, let, let's, let's put back in the reality of the russian invasion of ukraine. we know energy prices are going to soar. their soaring right now, this war has, has it resulted in maybe of the sobering fact that we will not be done with nuclear power as soon as we would like to be done? no, i think it's the other way around. actually. i think that the,

the problems of the nuclear power stations being part of the war in the retrain shows that nuclear has, has less importance in the future probably. and it was saying before, which is too little and too late. i mean it's, it's, it's renewables that is the future is just fine. we appreciate your time and your insights tonight. thank you. of thank you. watching d w. news up next is conflict zone. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day i from steven with a, with

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