ah ah ah, this is d w. news coming to you live from berlin. kiff denies responsibility for several explosions at a russian air base in crimea. be crane says it didn't strike the base but claims the blasts destroyed at least 9 russian war plants. meanwhile, on the mainland ukrainian fighters ready for the push towards house on our correspondent meets them in the trenches. also coming up

a type boat count in kenya, we'll go to live to our correspondent this hour as the top presidential contenders look headed for an election royal. and almost a year on from the taliban taking power, we meet the director of a mother and baby clinic in cobble. one of the few women in afghanistan who still has a job. ah hello, i'm terry martin. thanks for joining us. ukraine says none russian war planes were destroyed and explosions at an air base in the annex crimea region. earlier this week, russia has used the saki base near noah federal rifka to strike southern ukraine. moscow says detonations it of stored ammunition set off the blast, snuff, and attack the crane has not claimed responsible if for any attack that says hinted

at its involvement. i spoke earlier with mike martin and a military analyst and complex researcher in the u. k. i asked him about the military implications of those explosions at the russian air base and occupied crimea. almost certainly, it was the training forces, whether it was a missile strike. or some people are talking about special forces activity or whether it was simply partisans. so ukrainian civilians attacking the bass. i'm almost certain it was the ukrainians that had a hand in it. and the reason that denying it is very clever, it creates ambiguity, and it creates doubts in the minds of the russian commanders. unless, of course, is what russia's use is a tactic for many years now. so it's really very clever. in terms of military significance, 9 will play. that's a lot, but perhaps more important is the fuel and the ammunition,

if you look at the videos of the secondary explosions, huge mushroom clouds. and so that will set back russian forces in the south of ukraine quite significantly. ok, let's, let's go to supper risha that nuclear plant chip is accused moscow using that plant to shield it's artillery in the south. how dangerous is the situation there? a very, it's absolutely outrageous. so under the rules of war, nuclear facilities are similarly to hospitals have protected characteristics. so combatants in war are meant to avoid occupying or otherwise attacking. it keeps it for obvious reasons. you know, if you hit the reactor, if you damage the coding systems, then you could end up with a channel style meltdown. so russia, by occupying the plants and firing from it is

a breaking the rules or so it's in the legal act. and of course, the reason they're doing that is to stop ukraine firing back, which, which the ukrainians are not doing. and i'll find that for obvious reasons. british intelligence says that russia's military capacity is under a significant strain now. but how significant can that really be? mike, given russia's massive military resources, russia does have mass them and we've seen over the last weeks and months trains of stock piles of soviet equipment. so old tanks from the $960.00 s being wheeled towards ukraine. but a weight of equipment is only one thing in war. there are other things like your ability to deliver logistics, your ability to command, your soldiers morale and all those things. ukraine has the upper hand. so i think,

you know, russia does have a lot of equipment, but is also losing a lot of equipment, which is why so much of it is being delivered. i think really now what we must think about is what happens in the next 3 months before winter happens. that is the really important window where ukraine will be trying to make some significant gains . defense ministers from several major countries are meeting in copenhagen today to discuss long term support for ukraine. what can ukraine expect from that? like i, we've already heard an announcement that the united kingdom will be giving 3 more of these long range rocket artillery systems. i'm sure your viewers will have heard of and a significant quantity of ammunition because the most important thing with the ammunition. i think what we see with this don't conference with previous during the conference is, is a drumbeat. the donors come along,

they are now incremental increases in weapon system c crane. and that that is the alliance. it keeps supplies going to ukraine. it's all part of the show. it's moving forward. mike, thank you so much again, that was a military analyst and mike martin in london. ukraine has stepped up a tax on russian supply lines in the strategically important house on region. as it seeks to conduct a counter offensive to retake areas of the south t w's martinez pulling a went to the front line to meet ukrainian fighters preparing for trench warfare. well, then there are weaves at the bottom of the trenches. that's how long the frontline has been here and you have for for satan that says that field name, this has many months of living in and under this is where they sleep, eat and wait for something to happen. the cranes national poet shanker,

which has over them when they shell us, we all come down here to people have to stay outside to monitor the situation. the others hide in here. it's mostly been an artillery being shell shelling back waiting for the next round. 2 sides target each other from a distance trying to damage a physician enough to then storm. not just a part of the front is in danger of hank attack, but believe me, if they come in we will meet them adequately with those with shot right now is the ukrainians were attacking when they launched a counter offensive weeks ago and have taken a few dozen settlements and the advance is low. jordan over sick enough, we liberate the settlement that we can when we do, we don't move into the village,

but we make sure the russians are gone. we don't go in, in order not to risk our soldiers live. that is important to us when the command thinks that we have enough weapons and how soldiers will happily move forward. so if you throw this super duty period, because we travel to another position scorched, we can't get information on how many modern western weapons they have. at this section at the front, we are constantly told it is not enough to move on more boldly. because a break from the shelling lunch in the trench, she said the soldiers have been living here too for many months at the moment the mood is even relaxed. here in the trenches, there is a break in the fighting. but there is the expectation that the russians might step up. they're selling again. soldiers,

no decent strikes are not tillery dumps has the high model. much of a rocket launches disrupt the russians. things from the pony strikes lead to less shelling from their side for a certain period of time. but the russians also adjust their logistics. they learn the lessons from al highmark and far ranging artillery. what can we put native? unfortunately, the war is not just a permanent turn in our favor. it's a process and it keeps changing it. so here in the trenches at the place on front, it's about patients moving forward carefully and keeping focused on we'll catch up on some other stories related to their ukraine. war of former russian state tv journalists. marina of young cova has been charged with spreading false information about the russian army after an anti war protest. last month, she faces up to 10 years in jail if convicted of sienna culver became

internationally known in march when she interrupted a live broadcast, calling for an end to the war in ukraine. hundreds of people have been protesting in the bulgarian capital sophia over concerns the caretaker government. there could revert to close energy ties with russia. gas prom cut supplies to bulgaria in april after it refused to pay an roubles. but summer worried the government could break with the policies of its pro western predecessor. a runoff boat may be needed in kenya as early election results show a tight race between the 2 main contenders. to be the next president, the veteran opposition leader rilen adina and the deputy president william root appear, had evenly matched at this point. the result is expected later in the 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 be 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, sol, 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 my my knees. i have been allowed to vote. nobody was there. a st. jude prevented from watching. the process was coll, peaceful cordelia. so if somebody has chosen not to criticize 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 bottom portion of use to, i'm sorry, bunny, i'm leg into a bib. yes, yes. ah, 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 wondering that we need to noise out that these bullets he said is out of fans on to the common people as we talk now, the notes am in any way i try to use 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. she w, corresponded marian miller is covering this election for is from kenya. she's in

the strong hold of one of the front runners, william router. the short while ago i asked her about the expectations of his supporters there. well, the expectations actually of people here, one mister router to win as it as a ride. he said, i'm in no one of the strongholds of mister gucho. so this is alger, it, and he, on the streets, people are gathering, as you can see behind me. they are watching the tv, tallying they're having political discussions yesterday. now we came here as well to our pact restaurants, and even though it was cold and rain and people who even standing out on the street and they're talking about the elections and waiting for the resolves and following the tv telling, saw yeah, that the mood is still calm people are expecting a mystery to to when they're planning celebrations on the street slaughtering cows here and having a big, big party one told me and he will be very sad of closes if he loses and won't leave

his house for 3 days. expectations are very high regard. boat counting is under way of toast, where the projections stand at this point and when we might get a result. so at the moment and 14000000 volts have been cast according to the electoral commission. but you have to know that from the polling stations, which are more than $4.00 to $6000.00, they go to the constituency telling center then to the county telling center to the nationwide telling centers it takes a tight some time for the final result to be published from the electoral commission in the meantime, at the main 3 add to the networks here, publishing their own telling. because the electoral commission has uploaded the forms that have been filled in each polling stations for $46000.00 and have made them public online. so everybody can come and download them, make their own tallying, and that's what this networks are doing. also, some people on social media and some have been already as saying, okay, mr. who to has won as

a. that's is also what's what causes anxiety and confusion and long canyons because they watch these 3 different networks and they have at 2 different people, leading one and one network, raylon's leading and the other one is rude to his meeting. and he has to know this at the, in people's memories as opposed to like, somebody is still fresh. so the confrontation between the cal engine ethnic community that mr route to hail from and the cool you ethnic community, which is the largest in the country at was very a devastating to the people here. i mean, that's been people killed and they have been massacres. they have been battles on the streets. so even though it was in 2007 people here, a very aware of that, and they really don't want this to happen again. when a new president is finally in place, mario, what are the main tasks that they're going to face up on taking office so at the main issues at the moment on the high cost of living and the unemployment

and the rising foot prices have been an issue for months now, people tell me that haven't been able to put food on the table that had to skip at one or 2 meals a day. i missed that. we're looking at the president had to health at the price of may slow, which is a stable here at her government decrees shortly before the election to keep the nerves come and the situation. it comes in a, in a situation of drought as well can. yes. suffering an especially the north of a devastating drought for 1000000 canyon's on the brink of starvation. and yeah, people really hope that the next president will help and improve the situation. mario, thank you very much. as always our correspondent mario merlin. here some other stories making headlines around the world today. sierra leone has imposed a nationwide curfew after antique ever protests turned deadly. at least 2 police

officers and 1000000000 were killed after clashes broke out with dozens more injured. the unrest come says the rising cost of living exacerbates tension and the impoverished nation. former us president donald trump has refused to answer questions and an investigation by the state of new york. in a statement, he criticized state attorney general leticia james and the wider probe said officials accused the trump organization of misleading authorities about the value of assets to get favorable loans and tax breaks. a wildfire that broke out on saturday continues to rip through a national park in portugal, central highlands, more than a 1000 firefighters have been sent in to battle. the blaze which is destroyed. thousands of factors of forest all the year of the taliban return to power in afghanistan, the lives of women have been severely restricted. they must cover themselves, head to toe and public, cannot travel without

a male guardian and are nearly all bored from working. but not completely dw sandra papers, monmouth, one of the few women in afghanistan, who still has a job. she is a doctor in the capital. cobble. wow. what a death in the meat dr. mal ally facie. she's a rare exception in afghanistan. why the taliban forced most working women from that jobs doctor for you? see got a promotion. she's no director of the country's biggest maternity clinic and cobbled female and neonatal health is one area where the fundamentalist rulers understand they need women from on a more than once. done as america, this is linked to the culture and tradition of afghanistan. when a women is pregnant, she should go to a female doctor. i don't mckenna, because a female doctor can better examine and treat her than a male. i hope was a lot of me than a good one, a mother you can now that rick over melanie, dr. i say some of the little when you go to her ward rounds are busy. the hospital

deal with up to 2500 birth a month. a many, many of the women have difficult deliveries. you to man attrition, antinini, alabama. as not that a communique ago, the team performs up to 40 syrian sections each day. roha versus daphne ma'am, by name, how does he get it? does your them a lot of people i jobless on amazon and when families cannot afford for expecting mothers to eat good a lot and attrition food? well, they face a lot of problems on lumber problems, shows up the shortest one m 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. to my i bought that i'm a doctor and i have not left the country for the past 26 years. and in all this time i've gunnison was never stable and never peaceful though. lots you see with

her after her hospital shift, doctor 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 in yet and when all the troubles that are people are facing or resolve dilemma and they are calm like one of them. 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 off. gone is done. emma, than me of once thought any. i got, i am an african. and i got my education from the blood 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. 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. uh huh. there was an example comment where the marva with follow her mother's career with the up to the taliban. they weighed. he sighed. how many women doctors they want, and where do i can? i can tell. i don't want to get 100 no money. a member of the european parliament from germany screen party traveled to afghanistan and april. the 1st i meant to do so since the taliban take over. she met with women from all walks of life there. i

asked her earlier how she would describe the plight about 10 women now. yes, the main motivation for me to travel to grande so was to meet with women and to send a clear statement that our troops i have left, but that doesn't mean that we do not no longer care about their plight. what was most stressing for me was to see how frustrated, how depressed, and how much in science most of these women were because already back in april it was while the unclear what the future would be, we already have the been on growth education. which means that there may be no future female doctors, but which also means that the daughters of the doctors, for example, can longer go to school. but it also meant for all these educated women who fought for 20 years. i mean, to find their place in this, i've gone society, they don't know. can they still go back to work tomorrow? they don't know, would they be harris on the way to work because they're, he job is not one in the right or the wrong way. whatever one topic things,

and you could really feel these clo got depression and anxiety on all of them. now many of the rights and freedoms of african women and not just women, but women in particular, all those rights that they had, one in the past decade were undone when the taliban returned to power. what prospects do you see for improving conditions for african women under the current regime? the interesting thing is that the initial statement of the tale upon after they took power was ok. women will not have a place in politics, but they can continue to work. they can continue to go to school. we want to have them as part of i've gone future. since then we saw an incredible, very incredible backtrack on all women's rights were now only dr. mad doctors, she, my teachers can work basically. that's it. but it is also clear that within the tale by movement, there are different groups. so there are even tell me,

bonds who higher school teachers to homeschooled their own daughters because they think the decision to ban girls who scored is fundamentally wrong. and then there are the very be called line as who are in the forehand at the moment. and one way ahead has to be for us to see how we can better engage and strengthen the more moderate parts of the 20 bond. and kind of nuts them towards opening the political discussion back again for people from other ethnic groups from other genders because that honey bun, they are just about 3 to 4 percent of the pushed whitney group. so they do by no means represent of gotten is done and they will not be capable to govern the country as a whole is the way they do that right now. a canister, as you well know, is facing a humanitarian crisis on a staggering scale. what are you and your european colleagues doing to help me understand, overcome that crisis and improve the welfare of its people? the 1st thing and that has also been clear last year is we do not want any,

i've gone by from starvation. so we ran humanitarian aid over it for the winter, for the last winter. we're going to have to see to what degree we will be able to do that again for the next enter. the willingness is there. but as you know, financial resources in the you, money sharing factor, australia and the food prices that is building ahead is not making things more easier. so for you, monetary made, there is a big willingness to continue also to keep hospitals running. the other question is, in terms of the future, would you mean what were tradition core development for bringing basically people back to making their own living. and that is very difficult with a tiny bound region that disregards everything that we consider fundamental basis for bringing the country back on track. dr. norman, thank you very much for speaking with us. i was 100 norman member of the p and parliament. you're welcome. a french free driver, free dive, or rather has broken the world record by plunging

a 120 meters below the caribbean sea, or no reach the depth of the bahamas with no breathing apparatus. he was under water for 3 and a half minutes breaking his own world record is the latest in a string of firsts cheryl has sent me for you. just reminder the top stories were following for you this hour. keep denies responsibility for an explosion of a russian air base in crimea. ukraine says it didn't strike the base, but says the blast destroyed 9 russian warplanes and on the mainland ukrainian fighters pushed towards the castle. and people in kenya are waiting for the final results of tuesdays of presidential election. the race is currently too close to coal between the presidential front runners, william raton, and riley voting

a runoff election to decide a winner remains a possibility. you're watching dw news from berlin coming up next is parish bonaire g with interviewing the political analyst in bremar. i'm terry martin. thanks for

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