ah ah ah ah, this is d w. news live from berlin. international condemnation of russia's biggest yet air strikes on new price of wave of cruise, missiles killed and injured thousands in cities across the country. resident salenti says moscow wants to wipe you crime off the face of the earth. meanwhile,

vladimir putin claims the strikes were retaliation for an explosion on the bridge thinking russia and the legally annexed crime in peninsula and says, this might just be the beginning. ah, american house, welcome, a furious response from western nations to brush and strikes across the crime that claimed at least 14 lives and left scores injured. you as president joe biden calls it brutality. what a miss lensky accuses russia of wanting to wipe you crying off the face of the earth. and on monday, the protesters, many of them ukrainians, who played a ball, took the streets of european city, including the polish capital. vs with a gathered outside of the russian embassy in prague, demonstrate has condemned the russian stripes and demanded additional international

support or ukraine's air defenses. you now is a close look at the attacks on busy ukrainian cities just after 8 in the morning. a russian miss aw, finds its target. a glass bridge, a major tourist attraction in the heart of the ukrainian capital security camera showing just how close one morning commuter comes to being caught up in the blast. across the city, a giant crater created by another strike just meters. mature jones play area. many here are lucky to escape with their lives in livermore, elsewhere, residents race to bomb shelters. among them alayna, who recently fled to the capital from her son, hoping it would be a safer environment. they want to destroy our people, our infrastructure ever since i read them all and i'm extremely envy you know why it keeps how people should shoot. i don't know how would the same

why the strikes on the capsule of the 1st since june and come up the russian president putin blamed ukraine for a blast on a bridge. lincoln crimea with russia. the weekend, speaking on the streets of keith, ukraine's president accused moscow of trying to wipe his nation off the map, binding the one to create panic and chaos. they want to destroy our energy system, right. the 2nd target is people don't know, but they deliberately chose such a time and such a target in order to cause as much harm as possible. but we are ukrainians. we help each other, we believe in ourselves. we will restore everything that was destroyed and keep was not the only target. dozens of russian rockets also cause chaos and destruction in cities right across the country. several regions across ukraine have been left

without power. after the strikes destroy key parts of the country is electricity. great. but despite the apparent russian escalation, in this war, it appears to have only strengthened the spirit of the ukrainian people. and instead of depression, this, i have a motion of all people is angry, angry, and want to defend our houses, defend our families, our children, and just to teach right across ukraine, count the deadly cost and assess the damage of this attack. they know more maybe to come retired army major. john spencer is all sort of understanding urban warfare. he's also with the medicine policy form, think tank and joins us from colorado springs in the us. welcome to you. want to start by asking, what do you think pertinent achieved by sending missiles into urban areas of ukraine on a monday morning?

i think like like we were just listening. all he did was hard in the result of the ukrainian population. it also showed the world that he will commit for crimes that will, that he's frustrated and losing all across ukraine, his military and also that the 20s have shown that they can strike a military target very far into occupied ukraine. you rise the specter of how this war is going. the attack was described as a brutality by u. s. president biden. but at this point in the war, what are russia's options to strike back against the cranium counter offensive? yes, they're absolutely a lot less than they were 7 months ago. their military is shattered. the rushing you supposedly tens of thousands of reserves. they're really draftees into already broken units. but even in the missiles, if you look at the missiles that were launched today,

i think it was one of their last sal, those they, they wanted to send a message, but they're not accurate. they're not as explosive. they're relying on our rainy and technologies. he is pretty desperate in many locations that the body's not over, but he's both desperate and frustrated with all the other outcome here. could they, if they strike having they'd fast track the delivery of a defense systems from places like germany and the you with how much more difficult does it then get, who will it get for russia to landline in ukraine? yeah, absolutely. i mean, it is what potent has done. it doesn't make common sense because now he's done is given you countries around the world, even more urgency to provide air defense systems, even at the tax that happened recently over half of those missiles were shot down.

so now the, you recognizing that putin will not follow the laws of war. many countries like the u. s. and others will rush those systems into place. absolutely. want to finish asking about the fluency of the russian decision making on the bat him on the battlefield. the rush has a new general in charge of the war is not just a new man, but he feels a new position from which he has more complete control. if you like, is that the type of change that can make it meaningful difference to the russian war? if it absolutely not. so the russian generals are average in about 3 weeks. i think he's on about the east command in general, other last in about 3 weeks. and really they have a general and his name is who, who's thinks she and he knows better and is directing battlefield actions. it's just a, sorry, just not the way that we're should be fought. those rotating generals don't have a good idea what's what, what needs to be done there already haven't broken formations. really,

it's showing the, the major weakness in the russian military, even though they have, they still have terrain. there's still a lot of fighting to be done. but command control logistics, and we cannot forget that winter's coming. so this new general, i mean there's not much that he can do to save this army major john spencer was great to get your insights. thanks so much for your time. if germany is promising to speed up delivery of a long awaited in defense system to crime, the government says the 1st and he miss all battery should arrive within dies this air defense system. the iris t s l m, can intercept any air attacks within a 40 kilometer range and up to 20 kilometers high and can protect a large area on the ground. germany promised them to ukraine and june,

and keith has been waiting ever since. but now the 1st system is about to arrive. german defense minister christina lambert, said it had become a matter of urgency. germany will deliver the 1st to 4 iris t as l m. ad defense systems to ukraine within days. the renewed myself, i on keith and many other cities. so how important it is to supply ukraine with air defense systems quickly. but the other 3 units will only be delivered next year. presses a tax on civilian targets across ukraine, drove home to germany, just how important it support for keith is foreign minister and a lena bear book called the attacks vial and promised berlin would do everything possible to strengthen ukraine's air defense. chancellor of shells also offer solidarity and support. the chancellor assured ukraine's president office on the

deputy of germany and the other g 7 countries. he said, germany would do everything possible to mobilize additional assistance, and in particular, to help repair destroyed civil an infrastructure such as electricity and heating sources in response to russia's missile strikes. the group of 7 countries will hold a virtual meeting with ukraine and president. leukemia is the lensky on tuesday. germany currently holds the g 7 presidency and rebuilding damaged infrastructure is expected to be on the agenda. but the leading industrialized countries will be looking to agree on a coordinated response to further increased weapons and defense system deliveries to ukraine. united nations is moving in new york to the bait of resolution condemning brushes, a legal annexation of parts of the crime. russia vetoed a similar initiative last month in the security council, but moscow cannot block decisions of the $193.00 members. general assembly will

vote on the resolution later this week. i understood let's look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. the cell work is in a bronze energy sick to have joined protests against the regime. these images from social media appear to show workers from an oil refinery chatting anti government slogans. and walking off the job. student led protests continue to spread following the death of the 22 year old woman in police custody. the death toll in the massive mud slide that swept through a venezuelan town over the weekend has risen to 36 with another 56 people. still missing. it happened after hurricane julia pummeled the area with heavy rains risky cruiser using drones and trained dogs in search and recovery. cities across the united states have celebrated the 2nd indigenous peoples day,

which commemorates the lives and heritage of native americans who were subjugated by european settlers. event coincides with christopher columbus day, celebrating the italian explorer who is credited by some for discovering the americas other se his landing actually led to the genocide of native american. former german chancellor angler merkel has been given the united nations refugee agencies top award medical was granted the prize in recognition of a rolled and welcoming more than 1200000 refugees to germany at the heart of the migrant crisis. in 20152016. it was a rare moments back in the spotlight for the woman who led germany some 16 years. but the ex chancellor was all smiles as she received the un refugee agencies, prestigious nansen refugee award. she received the prize and recognition of her

handling of the 2015 european refugee crisis. when hundreds of thousands of people, many from wharton, syria headed to europe in search of safety. back then, merkel made the choice to open germany's borders to them with the country excepting some one point. 2000000 refugees after getting her award, merkel gave credit to all the people who helped welcome them. was my money from my point of view, this honor i'm receiving here to day goes above all to the countless people who pitched and then and whom we have to thank for the fact that we cope with the situation as it is. it was under this tom. she also called for the protection of refugee writes, highlighting the crisis caused by russia's invasion of ukraine island. and in this

year alone, the laura ukraine has created the greatest flight of refugees since world war 2. more than $13000000.00 ukrainians have left their homeland, forced to find supportive refuge in many countries across europe, including germany are often deutschland, with michael's legacy increasingly under scrutiny. in the wake of russia's invasion of ukraine for many this award will serve as a reminder, one of the former chancellors defining achievements finally and the record has been set at an annual awesome competition. this giant pumpkin from the midwestern state of minnesota was hold all the way to california where it weighed in at 1160 kilograms sitting a new national record as you would expect, but the pumpkin, but the wardrobe prettiest pumpkin. went to a somewhat more slender. let's a smaller entry. now before we go,

i reminded the top story. we're following for you this our latest from around the globe if condemned to the latest russian strikes on the crime. miss all attacks on the capital, keith and other cities of killed at least 11 people do as president joe biden is calling it as a brutality. now that's it from may been for julian is in next with d. w business. looking at a shop full in moscow stock exchange that's coming up after a short break. stipend is just a thought so crazy with.