ah ah ah ah, this is the w news coming to live from berlin. renewed russian strikes target, ukraine's energy infrastructure. power is knocked out in the capital, keith, and many other towns and cities. president lensky says russia is carrying out the air attacks to terrorize and kill civilians. also coming up, concerns grow over the safety of an iranian competitive climber. l not wreck of the

wet missing after taking part in an event in south korea with altura head covering their fears, she may have been forced to return to a rent and could face abuse by the morality police and an exclusive look inside the blood. gold mines of the democratic republic of congo for a corrupt and brutal rebel roof holds the wealth of an entire nation in its ah hello em, terry martin. good to have you with us. russia has carried out more strikes against keith. this time apparently targeting energy infrastructure president blow to me, zalinski said russian forces had destroyed a 3rd of ukraine's power stations and repeated attacks. tuesday strikes hit an unspecified energy facility in nor,

and cheese ukraine says russia is targeting power facilities and other cities as winter approaches. but missile and drone attacks are also hitting the civilian population. at least one person was killed when a c 300 missile hit, a residential building in the southern ukrainian port city of mac, alive on tuesday. at a wave of deadly drone strikes a day earlier targeted the capital and cities in the eastern semi region. ah, a team of gentlest insecurity. guns run for cover. they've spotted a drone overhead. and he aircraft batteries tried to shoot it down before it can strike. but it's too late. to talk with oliver. this is the destruction the

drones left behind. one side of an apartment block reduced to rubble among those killed in the attack was a pregnant woman. a week after russia renewed its attacks on the capital, the as strikes have already become a new normal for some key residence. but a shipple and you'll a blog zhang last monday was scary this week. but now it's like we're used to host miguel air rates every day. slime. we wake up, look at social media to see what's going on. and so this morning we woke up and after 10 minutes or so of alarm, we heard the 1st explosion while on the reward for the shore and life in the capital goes on despite the looming threat on there. but your eyes live void. you think it out, i feel really bad. i have 2 children and i am morning started very loudly humbled because the area where we live in the train station was hit because

a lot of what was pretty close out of water. but after the air was finished, i had to go to my job. this was done, i live up a week that's i drive to my work, but there was an air raid. again, that is the windshield. i'm trying to stay close to a shelter. but i'm still outside motion, so it is alive. while previous russian attacks on keith were mostly missile strikes . this latest assault was carried out by what appeared to be iranian made so called kamikaze drones. in his nightly arrest, the ukrainian president followed him as the lensky said, the ukrainian army managed to shoot down $37.00 of the transmission, and that aside from the capital of $25.00, other areas of the country were hit. i spoke shore while ago with our correspondent mathias billing in key of he gave me the latest on the attacks. yeah, there were again a tax this morning. my rockets this time on an energy facility, the prosecutor's office. i just said that 2 people have been killed in this attack

and the infrastructure has been damaged, but pretty much fits the pattern that we've seen throughout the past few days. russia mainly targeting energy facilities, heating power stations and electric power stations before winter in order to inflict more damage on civilians here in ukraine. so far, these attacks keep happening and keep happening in a massive way. today several targets throughout the region yesterday. 40 drones we're hearing, we're launched on ukraine. 37 were shut down by defense, but still approximately 10 came through and they were hitting facilities here. and here, 5 drones hit. not the facility itself, but a building next to the residential building. and that's where the yesterday 4 people were killed. you say there's a pattern there. mathias. how do the attacks that we've seen today compare with

yesterday strikes on t event, other parts of ukraine besides the fact that today they were using rockets and yesterday, jones. it's pretty much the same pattern, it's but these are attacks on infrastructure objects. these are attacked also on civilians. both keep happening at the same time. we do not know for every rocket to a job whether it hit the intended target or something nearby. i just sent the drones yesterday here and they might have been targeted at the energy facility. but for example, this morning, the rockets that we seen in mac alive was hitting a residential building again. and that's what happened in this. it is near the front line. they're mostly hit by as 300 rockets, so targets trying to inflict damage, not on military facilities,

but on energy infrastructure and civilians. what a people you're talking to, they're in the capital and elsewhere around ukraine make of these wide spread attacks. what do they suspect is behind them? what's the strategy? people here call it terror, a terrorist strategy as strategy that is meant to inflict terror among the civilian populations, thus says presumably the kremlin hoping to weaken the ukrainian resolve that's obviously not working. is also an attack on the economic infrastructure in order to weaken the country all this according to people here linked to the failures on the battlefield and the the criminals seeking revenge mathias. thank you very much. our correspond mathias pulling of their in cheese. we can now talk to dr. domo taylor sag route, most though at kings college london,

she focuses on russian for it and security policy. thanks for being with us. now, russia has launched a sustained air campaign against ukraine, striking critical infrastructure and population centers. what do these tactics tell you about moscow's intentions? when mckinney depends on moscow, it's really about getting any form of refrain. it's ready to destroy the brain, to function as an attempt to say, i dislike, fracture, especially energy that turned in terrorism population. and finally, we need to bomb the brain into submission by reading, destroying the ability of breaking the ability of the brain to operate effectively under warranty with ration. so there is an element of tara, but there is on some, and it meant all of the operation level to make it much harder for the rain to carry out with our bronze. it's in various problems in stunning this out as well.

so i think that this is, you know, eventually it goes on, it might really complicate here, been here, great back to got reality or pencil handy also shows i feel for a 100 noted that, you know, i mean if you're brushing operate military to me on the to rain on the front, they do not have the necessary equipment. that won't be, is asia, it's not as effective as it was. whole name on the 8th grade does not have been necessary material to fight. so this is a way of looking to sort of our duty and i wanted to try to really compete against forget give a function a is there any doubt in your mind that iran is supplying russia with drones? and if there is no doubt about that, why is russia relying on iran as a supplier? when i don't have a set of intelligence information there,

we both that are coming out seem to indicate that iran is behind the legion of his fillings. and that escalated, elena from son from company is way, is rainy's on our parent saying that they will try to see if they can provide additional sort of ad supported to the, to the grey. russia is relying on this because it doesn't have the same kind of capabilities. they seem to be quite effective. ah, they are even to penetrate certain sort of defense capabilities. and they're quite destructive and undeclared, to sort of to count around. so i think that now i, you know, to find ways in which these can be at race. another issue of concern i think it has to be highlighted is the possibility that, that an open front i will run these again open from the local stores key. there's the number of reports that russian polls 6 are. i'm laughing invent lewis at the border of the level. it's not very far as i think

a 150 miles from here. so i think there's another element in the russian strategy to sort of spread out i you bring and poses to pause. i get pregnant still also have to defend them once and great both is in the know, i think is really not going to hold it. how do you gauge ukraine's ability to resist? could these attacks and repel russia's invasion? i think with a very i think with a

a, a, a new day for the rest of the information with. but i think we got it. ok. thank you dr. de until a psycho most are there from king's college, london. let's catch up on some of the stories making headlines around the world today. say controlled media in russia report that the death toll and a war playing crash has risen to 13 russian fighter jet reportedly crushed into a residential building in the port town of ice near ukraine. setting the structure of lays rushes. defense ministry says the crash was caused by an engine. danish police say last month,

north stream gas pipeline leaks were caused by powerful explosions which did extensive damage. footage shows at least 50 meters of the baltic pipeline is missing. the case is being investigated as an act of sabotage. in a change of plan, germany will keep all 3 of its last operational nuclear power plants online until at least april, next year. germany had planned to phase out nuclear power by the end of this year, but rushes more in ukraine and the energy crisis forced aretha maurine in climber who competed without wearing her country's mandatory hija, allegedly made an online post apologizing. illness. reco be did not wear the headscarf during the final round of a climbing competition in south korea. human rights activists fear for record be safety and say she could face jail when she returns around an instagram post from her account claims she was rushed before competing with dennis. now going back to

her ram or prearranged schedule, record b not wearing the hid, job comes as deadly anti government protest in a red entrance. there with the head of dw is persia service, yada sar box is following the story closely. i asked her earlier for her thoughts on, on that was where i could be instagram posed, suggesting that her job is paula had fallen by mistake. it's now obvious, not only for us as the rang and journalists also for all right, bring in people that this is of course 8 for is kind of confession we'll, we are witnessing a lot in doing the whole time period of protests going on with, oh, let me give you some, some background, maybe because emma's disappeared after the competition and she was out of we saw her phone was taken. we know that by some reliable sources, her phone was taken, her password was taken,

and there was no sign of her for the last 2 days until right. like this story, instagram story post allegedly made by herself around $11.00 and a half hours ago. and it is very clear that she must have been either either yeah, maybe also tortured or another thing that we know so far is that her brother has been detained in iran was also a rock climber. so of course, there is trying it that that's a way to put pressure on her to post such a story. and we don't even know if she had posted it by being forced, or it is by a guard cope's or intelligence. this is, the story is getting a lot of media attention. how are people in iran reacting to it? you know, of course no one falls for this because in knowing the,

knowing the metrics of iranian after it's not a good public. we've seen so many forced confessions on state t v. and now the recent years on social media platforms. and this is nothing new, actually iranian people have been at that with us that for the last 43 years, it just them now for the 1st time the like the world is watching how, how they are operating. and there's a lot of outreach on social media, there's a lot of reactions, people saying that we know that and as we know what, what is going on. and also people making fun of it in a way saying that, well, from now on when we go on the streets without he job it fell. he's up fell down by mistake or accidentally because it's very obvious that this was not the case. how can those record be expect to be treated by authorities when she's back in iran? well, this is of course very we have to worry about her being, being put directly to the notorious evan prison,

where thousands of protesters in the last 4 or 5 weeks have been taken to. and of course, as i said, her brother is already detained. we have seen that a lot in the last 4 or 5 weeks that the young women who have been killed, who have been raped, who have been beaten up like massa many, but there was a lot of more like 345, at least other young girls and they had their families have been put under pressure to confess and to say that it was either a car accident or a heart attack or a suicide. so of course it is very boring. her situation now going back to run, y'all, to thank you very much for your insights. that was yada top box had of dw purchase service out to the democratic republic of congo. it's home to mines containing some of the purest gold in the world. but while consumers and

richard countries are prepared to pay high prices for a finished product, the men who mind this precious commodity or paying a price of a different kind, extortion than rights abuses, are rife at the d. r. c. gold mines, which are controlled by a brutal rebel group, access to foreign journalists has been restricted until now, but a joint investigation with the german news weekly dash beagle has resulted in t w's. mario miller being allowed to enter to rebel controlled gold, binds and speak to minors themselves. this gold may gleam brightly, but a disdain. red with blood people likely died for this precious metal destined for the rich world's finest. julie's, the democratic republic of congo has some of the purest gold in the world. but experts say almost all of it smuggled out of the country illegally. that often means links to armed groups and human rights abuses. it all starts here

in suffocating li, hot tunnels that hid up to 40 degrees celsius. young man scrape out the gold bearing rock. they earn barely enough to survive on for fear of reprisals. this man wants to remain anonymous. when you go to work, he just pray to god because we're feeling like it's a death sentence. often it is when the minds cave in 6 years ago, more than 20 people were buried alive. when i was there with my 3 brothers and other miners, all of them were trapped inside the mine. even now their bodies are still inside. when i was sad both really down, then it was nice, but i can't be sad for long. i have to earn a living i then it was nice and i do my eyes and stuff with them. and on top of that, this mine is controlled by an armed group, the my, my, yeah, catawba, according to a recent un report that the rebels demand what they call taxes from each worker. it

beat me up with an iron rod because i couldn't pay that tax. they threw me into a mud hole for days with no food. i was imprison there with 6 other people. he lost 10 kilograms. he says other minors tell us similar stories. they say that my, my are never, far, even now they're hiding further up the mountain because they were informed we were coming. this is the 1st time journalist have access this mine both the my, my yahoo to amber and local government officials declined our interview requests. it's widely known that the rebels often work together with local authorities and even share profits with them. but with the money they also fine and brutal attacks on an ethnic group who they see as their main enemy. the my, my claim, the bonham will linger, dont belong to the d r c. so they burn down their villages, rape and kill scores of people east and under horror survived one of these

attacks by little who had concern of value. they found us at the place that we had sought refuge and they killed 3 people that they murdered my father in law and injured my mother in law night called me. both of them were over 80. she says she and her family were forced to march for days with no food. then they took her husband. she never saw him again. later, she learned he was hacked to death with a machete. they killed thousands displays hundreds. now is there safe? sheltering at a friend's house, rebel control of the minds means conflict go. but that's not deterring this business man. the purity of the precious metal has convinced him soon he plans to open the 1st gold refinery in the country and export from d r. c,

to europe and america. at the moment we are discussing a lot with the government. they will check all art is and war coming to work here. we will, they will try and trace how is going on, and maybe it will help. i hope it will help, but ensuring authenticity will be difficult. traitors tell us, they fake certificates to hide. the real origin of the gold is done under who can only appeal for an end to the trade and blood. i can mean i skia when i my my go to white people to buy weapons. that is why i sell the gold re, let me know is i want to tell people to stop buying from them but so they don't kill us. will least easter, it is a simple equation, as long as groups can re profit from gold mining, they will keep earning the cash to kill the more we

can speak now with casa fogel, he's an expert on central african and recently published a book about the role minerals play in conflicts in the democratic republic of congo. he joins us from brussels. thanks for being with us. first of all, christoph, of the mind, we saw on that report. it's one of many in the d, r. c. the country has rich reserves of minerals. if it's people remain among the poorest in the world, can you explain that discrepancy for us? yeah. hello, there is. well, there's probably 2 things to say. i'm on the, on a broader scale. the 1st one being indeed the congo is like rich and minerals and produces a lot of very important minerals. however, um the link between those are to little minds and over t is a bits mistaken because of the industrial mines were especially copper and cobalt are sourced in other parts of the country. and where there has been

a lot of corruption involving international companies in the past decades are actually sort of the main economic engine of the country that would lead to sort of a reforms actually benefit people and fight poverty on a larger scale. and the 2nd thing is, if you look at the eastern congo were you have a lower armed conflicts going on. it is true that the story that we just heard about the my, my equity number is one of the clear cases where there is a control for the sake of mining on by om groups. however, out of the, of some $120.00 on groups that are currently operating eastern congo. that is pretty much an out larry case, where we see today that there is only a minority of on groups that are actually operating with the main objective to secure minding areas. ok, so it's important to keep an eye on the commercial aspect of minerals extraction in the d r c as well. tell us why the authorities in the d r c have not tackled the

illegal money of gold. well, for number, since, i mean, the 1st reason sort of was implied in my answer in my previous answers, that in the end of the article mining of gold. but also of the substance substances such as colton does not represent a very important share of congo economy. so there is a limited attention as compared to other sectors such as the copper and hobbled we're industrial mining is, is way more important that than, than the gold being export from congo. the 2nd reason is that the threshold of what is legal and illegal is often not very clear. so you had a sort of contraband and fraud in gold, especially to neighboring countries, such as uganda has a very long story to not perceive necessarily as an illegal thing. and that has

predated on conflict and will probably also extend if ever, on conflict will end in that region. no there for international efforts to regulate unethical mining in the d. r. c and elsewhere. how successful are those efforts? well, there have been efforts in, in other minerals, especially colton, tin and tungsten that i'm broadly failed because they didn't, they neither brought an end to armed activities in the region, nor could they actually give a reasonable assurance in the case of goal. it's a little bit more complicated because there's a number of pilot project through to trace the origin of so called conflict goal. but the chemical composition of gold, which is unique as in that it is exactly identical from a g o chemical point of view, makes it harder to trace goal for its origin. and the um, the value for um,

for weight, which is much higher in golds than in most of the minerals also makes it much easier to hide in small quantities that can then be brought together again into may bigger quantities in the maitre hops, such as i do buy or, or places in europe and else. ok, chris, thank you very much. my friend around time there. that was, that was offer and research crystal focus. thank you. you're watching dw news from berlin. i'm terry martin. thanks for being with a, with

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