ah ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin. fresh russian strikes on ukraine hit the capital, keith. the southern city of mac alive also comes under fire, rescue workers pull a boy from the rubble of an apartment building may 2 issues as sharp warning to russia not to use nuclear weapons in ukraine. secretary general yen stone back says

there would be severe consequences if vladimir putin resorts to nuclear arms on the battlefield. and aid agencies or warning world hunger is reaching catastrophic levels. we report promote a gasket worth years of drought mean a 1000000 people are desperately in need of humanitarian aid. ah. hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. russia is again pounding ukraine in a renewed air offensive now into its 4th day. moscow claims it's striking only infrastructure, but civilians are also in the firing line is drones and cruise missiles seek out non military targets. more than a dozen people have been killed in the last day alone. this pre dawn, air raid sirens,

and my don square and keys ringing another day in russia's war on ukraine. daylight reveals fresh horrors. rushing shells struck an apartment building in the southern city of nikolai. as an 11 year old boy spent 6 hours trapped beneath the rebel before emergency workers pulled him to safety. in harkey, the death toll rose in a recent rushing, shooting on a civilian car convoy ukrainian. prosecutors said 25 people have now died, including 12 children. investigators say one passenger, a 75 year old woman, crawled nearly 200 meters towards help. before succumbing to her injuries. authorities fear the death toll could increase further. body fragments are being sent for d. n a analysis to identify those killed and harrison region. re taken by ukrainian

forces survivors share what they endured. well, you just give me. this is a disaster. i have been crying for months. i'm still shocked. i've lost everything now that i am 72 years old and i was left with nothing. all my clothes, i hear everything, use the show, elderly and disabled ukrainians have been forced to start over in the western city of kent lensky aid workers, welcome new refugees driven out of their homes. by recent attacks on the parisha ukrainian president vladimir lensky vowed again to hunt down those responsible for ukrainian suffering my sorrows. if gus botanicals are intelligence, special services, law enforcement agencies are finding out all the details regarding these and other russian strikes. they did. boom, no russian terrorism will be able to remain unknown to justice. we will know all

the names and all the details for ukraine will bring to justice. every russian murderer, an executioner, won from commanders to privates who carried out criminal orders, looking into the will of ukrainian people to fight on continues. and so does this war a short while ago? i got this update on the attacks and ukraine from our correspond. mathias billing in keith? yeah, there were strikes again on several parts of the country. you the south mich live and as 300 hit there. now the 300 is a modified air defense rocket. and it, it can be used on much shorter distance. is that why is it is like mic alive? hockey is up. what is your which are closer to the front lines or in the case of hackers close to the russian border? are much more often hit to be with these cheaper miss aisles around key. if we've seen drones, many drones have been shut down by air defense. but some also hit the town of my

card if we have heard that some infrastructure was destroyed, then we don't know more details about that. we also don't know whether anybody was injured or killed in these a specific attacks. but it seems that the attacks that started on monday, this wave of new attacks on infrastructure here in ukraine is continuing. although of course, not at the same intensity as on monday, where 80 rockets were fired at the same time, russia will probably not be able to keep this up for a long time, but it keeps maintaining a pressure on the air defense and it keeps hitting time so the rockets and missiles are continuing to rain down on ukraine. how is ukraine responding to these attacks? mathias people here have developed, developed quite some resilience. and what we see now is that whenever something happens anywhere in the ukraine emergency services,

but also technical services are pretty quick to her, make her sites accessed a little bit again, a patch road so that traffic can flow again and get back to some kind of usability, usability of public facilities. we've been today at the bridge. i don't know if you remember that there, there the glass bridge, a tourist attraction, whereby rockets came on just next to bruce the circular pictures that day and the crater next to this already. and it's just, this is a park, this is not a major road, it's, it's a little park park road. it's already been patched and they were repairing the fences and everything. but yes, we were getting reports that the russian installed head of the occupied hassan region has asked for an evacuation of civilians. they are what you make of that.

yeah, we've heard that a few days ago, and today he reiterated that he wanted russia to evacuate civilians from there to sudden russia. that's of course, a very worrisome. our development, knowing that russia has forcibly supported many people from occupied regions into russia and re settled them there. that's a violation of international law. and it also shows that the russian authorities, russian installed are forty's on these occupy territories. they seem to be worried about the ongoing offensive. ukraine has also asked people to leave, but ukraine has asked people to leave work at voluntarily and probably on to ukrainian territory. that's very difficult because russia does not let everybody who wishes to leave leave. there is one check point where people can cross over and many people i held back there. sometimes it's open, sometimes it is not so good. these,

these evacuations as they call it to russia. they might really be part of a bigger re relocation scheme of deportation. mathias thank you very much for now. our correspond mathias bollinger in chief native is wrapping up 2 days of talks and brussels with a sharp warning to russia not to use nuclear weapons in ukraine. the alliance has agreed to stuff up its military support for keith. and nato secretary general. yeah . and stroking back says any use of nuclear arms would under mentally change the nature of the war. russ, us, nuclear rhetoric is dangerous reckless. ah, de know that if they use nuclear weapon against ukraine, it will have severe consequences. and they're also know that a new to ward cannot pu um under no default nate who is planning on going ahead next week with nuclear preparedness exercises dubbed steadfast noon. i asked are

corresponding in brussels, terry shoals for her takeaways? from today's talks among nato defense ministers. certainly today, a lot of the focus was on this question of nuclear rhetoric coming out of the kremlin. every one is worried about the unpredictably of russian unpredictability of russian president vladimir putin. and so well, nato says that it has not seen any, any practical change in the posture of russia's nuclear arsenal. nobody can take that for granted. and so this is why they're going ahead with this, this long planned exercise next week and, and why the deterrence messages continue to be issued from nato headquarters here? nobody wants president putin to think he's going to be able to get away with this. now they say that they would not respond in a nuclear way, but certainly russia would be made to feel the consequences in a most severe manner if he were to use any saw any kind of nuclear weapon against ukraine. the nato defense ministers, of course, covering a lot of ground there over the past couple of days. we are hearing also that they

are the several nader members want to create a joint anti odd anti missile shield for europe. tell us more about them. yes, this is a german lead initiative and it's been picking up steam since budgets are under pressure. and since so much equipment is being sent to ukraine and to day on the sidelines of the defense ministers, meetings, 14 allies and finland, which is most likely soon to be an ally, signed an agreement that they would start working together on, on missile defense on air defense more broadly, and that means that they wouldn't each just be buying national systems, they would jointly procure them, they would make sure that all of these, these, this equipment works together. and, and this is a big deal. this is something nato has wanted to see for many, many years. and now it seems that that, that the pressure from the war on ukraine, the pressure on, on resources is finally making country's work together. this is going to be a big improvement in, in air defense,

but also simply in cost of his efficiency for purchases. nato carries out of nuclear exercises readiness exercises every year. and they're going to cont, they're going to go ahead with there's this year despite the war in ukraine. terry, is there a risk that russia could see that was a provocation? russia tends to describe every thing nato does as a provocation. so i don't think that's going to deter anyone in nato, from carrying out these exercises. in fact, i, everyone that i've spoken with says that if we were to even think about canceling this exercise, that would send the message that bullying works. that this nuclear sabre rattling works and it would in fact even empower the kremlin to think about using nuclear weapons because they would see that so western allies are, are backing down. so i'm told that there was never any consideration about calling off the exercise this year. terry, thank you very much. our corresponded terry sholtes. they're in brussels. well,

nader ministers discuss setting up an anti missile shield as we mentioned to protector ukraine too, from your russian air strikes the focus as we've heard, has also been on bladder me. putins vague threats to use nuclear weapons. here's a look at russia nuclear arsenal. the world's biggest the war, new cream has once again raised a specter many had hoped humanity cast out years ago. nuclear war. russia currently has more nuclear weapons than any other nuclear power. the exact number is a closely guarded secret, but intelligent services peg the number at around 6000 warheads. the vast majority are so called strategic nuclear weapons. normally deployed on intercontinental ballistic missiles, strategic nuclear weapons, had the capability to destroy entire cities in one strike. they're part of

a nuclear to turn strategy. military planners argue governments would be reluctant to attack a country if they knew they possessed these doomsday weapons. given their ra, destructive power, and ukraine, shared border with russia. experts argue moscow's unlikely to deploy a strategic nuclear weapon. however, there is another option, so called tactical nuclear weapons. they can be fired from traditional weapon systems like cruise missiles, while they are between $10.10 times less powerful than their strategic cousins. they still pack enough power to wipe out hardened targets without producing widespread radioactive fallout. rushes iskander missile system has already found used throughout the current conflict, and can easily fire tactical nuclear weapons of which russia is thought to possess some 2000 turkish president rush of type air. the one says he wants to continue pushing for peace in ukraine despite the recent escalation and fighting. everyone

was speaking at a regional summit in cause it's done. the turkish leader is meeting russian president vladimir putin. turkey has retained close ties with both moscow and keith . and has offered to organize peace at one says his goal is to bring an end to the bloodshed as soon as possible, grandmother, if you could, isn't. but we are all closely experiencing the effect of the crisis in ukraine on a regional and global scale. all didn't be about if i always say that it just peace can be established with diplomacy. so i think that there are no winners in war, but it's a no losers and equitable piece. c, w julia han is following those talks from is stumble. i asked her what has emerged so far? well, so far, terry, we haven't heard any details about add ons renewed efforts at diplomacy or would vladimir putin thinks about it? when the 2 leaders briefly appeared before cameras, they focused on energy security and putting proposed that russia could export more

gas wire turkey to european union countries. after the nort stream pipeline leaks, essentially turning turkey into a, a hub for russian energy for russian gas. of course, he is well aware of the fact that many european countries have been scrambling in recent months to secure a tentative to rush and gas. let's listen toward vladimir putting said with we might consider the perspective of building yet another gas pipeline system and creating a gas hub in turkey for sales or other countries. so 1st of all, of course, european countries only of course, if they're interested with while that is of course, the big question if they're interested putting also said that his proposal would mean that prices could be determined without politics. his spokesman said that turkey reacted positively to the idea, but we haven't heard anything directly from edwin yet. the turkish president only

said that he was looking forward to intensifying ties with moscow from energy to security. and of course, statements like that of viewed with a lot of concern and western capitals. so we've got putin focusing on energy there, but there to one saying in advance of this meeting that he wants to search for a diplomatic solution to the ukraine war. what exactly is present at one's role in all this? while edwin still sees himself as the key mediator in this crisis, he has performed a balancing act between ukraine and russia. since russia invaded the country in february, turkey is a natal member, but it has so far refused to join western sanctions against moscow, even though i should add that the turkish government has clearly condemned russia's annexation of 4 ukrainian regions last month. but the turkish president is trying

to continue this balancing act. he is hoping to bring together, followed me as the lensky and vladimir 14 for peace talks. because he says, diplomacy is the only way out of this. and ahead of today's meeting, there were reports about a turkish proposal to host talks between russia and the west on ukraine in the weeks to come. but of course, the question is, how realistic is that? because neither russia nor ukraine seemed to particularly want talks right now indeed, or that. so that's one question. another question is, how likely is it that putin would listen to or the one given the turkey as part of nato? well the relationship between vladimir putin andretta of ty about on is a very complicated one, but russia has essentially become a pariah in most of the western world. so i do believe that of loading me a protein needs at least a few partners,

a few allies. and that's why i think he's still talking to regina tie about on. so putting need to add one in a way and add one needs putting at least a when it comes to the economy. the turkish economy is ailing. we have skyrocketing inflation rates here. so for turkey, tray ties with moscow. energy corporation is, is very important. earlier. thank you so much. good to see you again. our correspondent jojo honda in istanbul is catch up on some other stories making headlines around the world today. north korea has launched to long range cruise missiles, according to state media, photos show leader kim jong own, overseeing the operation. he says it was a test to confirm north korea's nuclear capabilities. in serbia, 2 women have been killed and at least 10 others injured after a foot bridge collapsed into a river. the accident took place in the central town of cor buncha vanya local

media say the bridge was likely overloaded. a jury in the us state of connecticut has ruled that conspiracy theorist alex jones could pay $965000000.00 to should pay honors $5000000.00 to people who suffered from his false claim to the school. shooting never happened. a gunman killed 20 children and 6 adults at sandy hook, elementary in 2012 and staying in the u. s. the congressional committee investigating the january 6th. the attack on the capital building is promising. surprising details, a hearing due in the next few hours is likely to be the last before november's mid term elections. donald trump's security staff are expected to give evidence. oh, the storming of the u. s. capital on january 6th, 2021. an unprecedented attempt to stop the peaceful transfer a power from donald trump to joe biden. these images shocked the nation b and the world kathleen. initially, republicans condemned the writers,

but most have reversed course and thrown their support behind former president, trump, again, only a small minority continued to demand. the trauma and the writers be held to account kasey, including liz cheney. and adam kinsey are the only 2 republicans on the january 6th committee to investigate what role trump played in the riot room and efforts to overturn the election. shuttling out to the so far the committee has held a public hearing, featuring previously unseen footage and compelling witness testimony. pointing directly to donald trump and his inner circle to say the election job. i just want to say congress has certified the results without saying the elections over. okay. the committee accuses the former president of trying to overturn the 2020 election result of riling up the crowd of riders on january 6th. and egging on the attackers

as it happened when the committee finishes its work. it will submit a final report with its findings and recommendations, including one tea recommendation, whether donald trump and his allies should face criminal charges. but in the end, it will be up to the justice department to decide what to do, and that will be a tough decision. does the justice department take an unprecedented leap and press the criminal charges against a former president, or will it use its resources to go after other members of trump's inner circle of things in the dining room? the most republicans have rejected these hearings as political theater. but with a report hanging over donald trump's head, along with many other investigations, it is possible that the former president's popularity will take a hit, and that florida governor run de santis. the rising star of the republican party

could become the next republican presidential candidate. in 2024. now to read were security forces have again fired on anti government demonstrations. official attempts to suppress protests so far failed to prevent people taking part . there's been weeks of unrest over the death of a young woman held by the so called morality police week began with trance of death to the dictator from students in tariff. and then for the 1st time workers, refineries and oil facilities and the persian gulf went on strike, demanding an end to the regime. and on wednesday, lawyers demonstrated in front of the bar association into iran, and school girls demanded freedom as meanwhile, iran supreme leader appeared unimpressed. blaming iran's enemies. why moon and go. these isolated protests are not spontaneous issues. they are deliberately fueled and controlled by provocations from abroad to can you know, chris,

who was eager andrew in sun and dodge a city in western iran with a kurdish majority. bloody clashes have been going on for days, and security forces are using firearms against protesters. rights organizations now speak of at least 210 deaths nationwide. better present gracie, however, hosted an international conference on his lamb in which he praised the great achievements of his law makes civilization of a day. i mean, i'm not gonna, we have an entirely appropriate lifestyle for the people up to day modelled. i suppose he, these iranian women don't agree. many drivers have joined their protests against the regime, honking their horns, and risking a brutal reaction from the islamic republic. security forces. 8 agencies are warning that world hunger is reaching catastrophic levels. germany's belt hung a hoover and his partner concern worldwide say the fight against famine has largely

stagnated in recent years. this year's global hunger index gives a grim outlook, siding crises, including wars, climate change. in the fallout from the pandemic. one of the countries worst affected is madagascar our correspondent, 8 or increase reports from above omby, which has suffered from years of drought access to what is the major challenge she and the ambo vollmer region. after years of insufficient rainfall, the south of madagascar is experiencing one of the war st. droughts in its history . and for many people here, that means they have to go very far distances in order to have access to water. the man with a family behind me, for example, will busy the whole day trying to transport water from the town to his own village plaza. of course it's difficult. it's heavy. i have no choice. i need water, i can't live without it. i have to find small jobs here and there to afford it.

more than 1000000 people already in need of humanitarian assistance at the moment, but this number could possibly go significantly up. in the next months, 8 organizations are not only delivering emergency aid, but also trying to address the key challenge access to water drilling balls and installing drip water systems. for example, like here in this village, we are just waiting for rain fall to farm shore away there the weather due to climate change, the rainfall is not right on time or is small. so the solution is, this boils, the pharmacy are preparing their fields at the moment, starting to plant new seats. it is the time of the year where the rain is supposed to start, and while some are hoping for it, others fear that we could see yet another season of insufficient rainfall. this could then possibly lead to

a bad harvest and 10th of thousands could skip back into extreme hunger. but his moga is the secretary general of the german agency that at ha ha ha. i asked him how drought hit countries like madagascar can become more resilient. on the short term, we need definitely more funds to help those who are in dire need, who are really at the brink of starvation and even death. in the mid term, we need programs which are really focused geared towards poverty and hunger and elevation. these programs are, are there. we don't have a problem of not knowing what to do. the problem is we need to do it and therefore we need a strong political will by all governments in both by the governments in the global south, but also by governments here in the north. the governments in the north here in the

interest in the industrialized would have cost the i have cost the climate change and therefore we have a very special responsibility ought to contribute to funding to alleviate the hunger situation. in the word you're watching dw news from berlin coming up next to it's dw news, asia with my colleague melissa champ. i'm terry mark from in all of us here. the w news, thanks with

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