ah, he won't pay check engine ticks starts or to between 1st on the w ah, ah ah, this is d, w. news live from berlin. another wave of russian strikes targets, ukraine's energy infrastructure. power is knocked out in the capital, keith, and in many other towns and cities. president zalinski says moscow wants to terrorize and kill civil. also coming up. germany fires,

it's cyber security chief over possible ties to russian intelligence. the government says the allegations against honors shouldn't ball of damage public confidence, and we go inside the dangerous gold mines of the democratic republic of congo, where a violent rebel group holds the wealth of a nation in its hat. ah, i'm glad elf has well come to the program. president vladimir zalinski says russian attacks have destroyed a 3rd of ukraine's power at work. authorities are asking people to save energy as winter approaches. moscow has renewed its assault striking power facilities in the capital, keith and nationwide. officials in the southern ukrainian

city of mc alive, pull a man's body from the rubble. a russian missa killed him as he hid in the basement . his shock neighbor recalls the moment of impact risk knots. it didn't move for us. we woke up at quarter to 2 in the morning because of a very loud explosion. it's impossible to describe so much dust we were in the basement. we crawled out through openings in the ground and neighbor died. unfortunately, he was a bit closer to the e p center while we were a bit farther away. listen, rush conducted junior for many ukrainians. the past 8 months have been a seemingly endless series of horrors. but one resident took comfort and the belief that his country holds the moral high ground. no matter how much suffering moscow

piles on them in the future of the worst that the russians get. pleasure from us, feeling bad, boucher to those 3 of them will. they feel pleased, don't you? her job is to really, i think they want us to bomb and shell, their buildings. and so on. e 3, i live her, but we won't them. wow. so we can show that we're different from that. would you let those 2 boys at least shut? psyche civilian residences aren't the only buildings targeted by the kremlin. russian forces also seem determined to knock out the country's energy grid. according to the mayor of the city of jets, amir air strikes on the power plant there, left 11 settlements without power, while russia denies deliberately attacking civilians. it says it's targeting ukraine's energy infrastructure, meaning millions could be left to face the coming winter without heat or power. i'm

not joined bar correspondent, but he has bellinger who is standing by and key of mattie has tell us what you know about these latest attacks on keith and on the other side. yeah. again, attacks on several parts of ukraine. no. don't ably. the places that have been hit very often like in the collide, which is near the front lines, but also again on the capital. another power station there hit. so these attacks are killing targeting energy infrastructure. this is the same pattern as a last week where rockets and now or so, drones were shot out, or we were fired at a critical infrastructure in order to a make the situation more difficult with the upcoming winter heating electricity in the country. basically, to make my life more difficult for the civilians here in the country. now, president zalinski says one 3rd of ukraine's power great is out. i'll badly is that

disrupting a daily life of ordinary people? where are you? so we have heard that 1000 settlements limit more than 1000 settlement without electricity at the moment the landscape said one 3rd of the power generating facilities are not one 3rd of the grid. that's a slight difference because the grid might be able to that there are a backup schemes for if part of the grip are out of power. if the supply is cut at some point. so to some extent, ukraine is able to balance out the damage and to supply power here and key. for example, when last week one important power station was hit. we had outages of power. we had controlled outages of power when the grid is switched off in certain

areas of the city in order to lower the capacity or the energy needs of the of the grid. but we are still, this was quickly repaired and we are seeing that in most places electricity can be quickly repaired. the same is true for the she told me region where that was, where were several hospitals were off hall and we're hearing they are on the grid again. but of course the more facilities are damaged. the infrastructure is damaged, the more difficult it will be to balance them out. thank you very much, much of building a key of there for us. now, the head of germany's cybersecurity agency has been fired of a reporter lead, alleging he had inappropriate links to russia. the interior minister says on the

show and bomb damage, public confidence in his quote, neutrality and impartiality. recent reports say he founded a security group with ties to russian intelligence shown bomb became head of germany, cybersecurity agency, in february 2016. now let's bring in our political respondents, simon young, simon. the questions around showed bullies are not new. what do we know about the events that led to his dismissal? yoga, while the extraordinary things about this is that these allegations really put together by a humorous tv show on the public said the f channel and their investigation essentially. yeah. claimed that as an organization called cyber security, germany, that was founded by ana, sure, and bone, had to close links to russia. now this is a sort of informal grouping,

but with some fairly senior people in it and, and lots of businesses that were affiliated. and they were also providing advice to politicians and public officials and businesses about our i t and cyber security standards. so the allegation is, for instance, that one of the member companies of this, of this grouping are ultimately had her had links with a, a k g b officer decorated by vladimir putin. and there's a series of other, awkward looking links between the personnel of this group founded as i say, by ana, shown, boom, and death, and russia. it's a bit tortuous, it has to be said and complicated, but it's clearly not a bad, not a good look for the man he's supposed to be as sort of the top official protecting

germany's cybersecurity is this assign. maybe, simon, that or the general government is, are becoming slightly nervous about cyber attacks right now. well, i think they've been nervous for a while. i mean, the government says that the number of cyber attacks against german german networks has been increasing year on year since 2005. it says the covering the whole range of things like denial of service, but also attempts to spy on and steal public data. and they say, most of these attacks originate from russia, china and iran. they go that far and it's pretty clear there have been some spectacular cyber attacks against, for instance, the servers of the buddhist talk the german parliament, but also against justice authorities or against the health care system and indeed even energy networks. so particularly, i think in the context of the ukraine war and there's

a heightened concern right now. and so pets as part of the reason why this action has been taken to make sure there are no suspicious allegations hanging around with others political correspondence. simon young there. thank you some knowledge of look at some other ukraine related news. danish police say last month, not stream gas pipeline leaks were caused by a quote, powerful explosions. at least 50 meters of the baltic pipeline is missing. investigators believe it was sabotaged. state media and russia report that the death toll in a war plane crash has risen to 14. a fighter jets flowed into an apartment building in the force of just near ukraine. the defense ministry says an engine fire caused the crash. exxon mobil says it has left russia altogether after president vladimir putin seized it's properties. exxon says it has not received any compensation for

assets valued at $4000000000.00. thousands of people have taken part in demonstrations and a nationwide strike in france. they're demanding higher salaries to contract. high inflation. industrial action has disrupted oil refineries and fuel supplies. congo is home to mines, containing some of the purest gold in the world. consumers of rich countries are prepared to pay high prices for that precious metal. but the miners who extract the gold a paying a price of a very different kind. extortion and rights abuses are widespread in minds controlled by a violent rebel group access for foreign journalists as been restricted until now in a joint investigation with german magazine dash speaker. the ws, mario miller has been inside to rebel controlled gold mines. this gold may

gleam brightly met it. a stained red with black people likely died for this precious metal destined for the rich world's finest. julie's, the democratic republic of the congo has some of the purest gold in the world. but experts say almost all of it is 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 than it was when you said, 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. and on top of that, this mine is controlled by an armed group, the my, my, yeah, catawba, according to a recent un report, the rebels demand what they called 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! timber 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. their my, my claim, the bonham will linger, don't belong to the d, r c. so they're burned down their villages, rape and kill scores of people. east and under were, are survived one of these attacks valid concern of value. they found us at the place that we had sought refuge and they killed 3 people. then they murdered my father in law and injured my mother in law. the night call 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 that 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 isn't 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 are i can only appeal for an end to the trade and blood. i can, i mean us. yeah. but i, my, my go to white people to buy weapons. that if i sell the gold ray,

let me know if i want to tell people to stop buying from them. so they don't kill us. will least that is the, it is a simple equation. as long as groups can re profit from gold mining, they will keep earning the cash to kill. and iranian climb, but who competed without wearing the mandatory? he job allegedly apologized as recovery, did not wear the head scarf and an event in south korea rights activist. now fear for safety, instagram account claim. she's going home on a pre arranged schedule. and to government protests in iran are now in the 5th week . and we can all talk to the gene a car, she's an activist for women's rights and joins us from london. l as with carby now

allegedly confirmed. she's on her way back to iran, saying a job fell by mistake. what do you make of that? oh, who were actually expecting that we were expecting the security and intelligence services, putting pressure on her to publish something is a pattern they've been doing for the last 34 years. so every time there's something happening that they don't take rebate, one of the 1st steps they do, they take over their social media and a post on their behalf. the next us that, that we are really worried about is when she gets back to route, which is midnight. you take time. basically what happened is usually happening is she would be taken to the prison or somewhere in confinement. and they would question, have you know, already her brother has been arrested and have been questioning her brother, i'm putting pressure under on have family members to kind of force her and her

family to come out and do tv false confessions. that's another trend that they win and government has been doing. but from her message is really interesting that the lines are really written. interestingly, that she doesn't apologize for it. she just says, oh it's pill down by accident, which is which you read in social media activists. they all picked it up and they're talking about it. and everyone says, we know this, this has been done under dress. so we don't actually judge you by days. and this has been a trend that, that pick up on social media at the moment. right. other than social media. do you have an idea how average people in iran are reacting to this? oh, there are calls for people to go to the airport and you know, when she arrives, there are a lot of people calling the hotels in south korea trying in the last for 24 hours. they've been trying to find out what happened to her and the movement

that started. i was fascinating because this is the 1st time a female athletes decided to go back after such an act. there's been 2 other incidents similar acts that happened before in years before, but none of them is state and you know, we did in the compartment of the country. they decided from the moment they've done it. they decided to go abroad and not stay in iran, but for illness. this was a pre planned decision and she, she told her friend beforehand that she, she will do this and she will go back to run. that's why people are deciding to gather around her and make sure that what happens to her. it's not similar to a lot of other sad incidence that happened in iran, and they've been killed or in prison for a long time. and that sort of things that they want to support her and in a physical way, go to the airport and take to the streets, legends,

she car. thank you very much for joining us on the w news. so i'm not really up to speed with some of the other stories making headlines around the world. australia has reverse the previous government's recognition of west jerusalem as israel's capital. for minister penny warm says cities status should be decided by pistols. israel's prime minister ayala pitt says it's a hasty response. bed of footballs governing a body fever and the indonesian president jacoby dodo have agreed to reassess stadium safety measures. more than 130 people were killed in a stampede. there the match this month could explain police for firing tear gas. patients are protesting against the us and canada ascending supplies to combat powerful guns who have taken control of the main port. bandits have blocked food

supplies during a colorado break. demonstrate to say foreign interference will only cause more calles. well, health organization says wars and the pandemic are harming women and children's health. a policy summit is wrapping up here in berlin. the agency warns poverty is increasing. long with under age marriage, domestic violence and depression, among young people, some 21000000 children worldwide, where not properly vaccinated last year. global hunger is also getting worse. now that's grim picture and a for more on that i am joined by the epidemiologist cheek where it requires o he leads dear w. a chose open heartful pandemic, an epidemic intelligence here and berlin, welcome to the studio here. now, how is the corona pandemic actually developing? is there an end in sight? it's hard to say that there's an end inside. it also depends on how you define and

many things are changing. the virus itself is evolving. a new variance keep evolving, we are developing together with scientists around the world, new countermeasures, new vaccines, new therapeutics. so it's an ongoing battle and we are getting better at those issues and how to fight this virus with the various tools we have. we need people to be patient and to keep collaborating, cooperating with us through the time despite the difficulty so, so there may be need from time to time to change measures again. so we just have to accept that this is walk in progress. and there we're working very hard to address these challenges, not just here, but really around the world. now your goal as a leader is new w h l hub is to stop the next panoramic before it strikes. how are you going to do that? well, to stop, we fundamentally believe that, you know,

as much as the emergence of new infections maybe cannot to stop. the pandemic, doesn't have to happen, because there are various stages from prevention to add the detection and to respond. and to do that, we have to keep learning, making sure that we're using all the tools available in many other industries using all the other data sources. so the available, so the new hop for pandemic, an epidemic preparedness right here in berlin is really focused on developing new methods, lending from ourselves, from other data streams, making sure that we are in a better position to use data to predict and to be able to respond to new emerging infection, these around the world. and even if we can stop it from appearing, we can make sure that we can find them and make sure every country around the world . it has the busy capabilities to respond so that it doesn't become a global outreach. so really, in addition to the technical expertise,

a lot of global collaboration is needed in this one of those techniques of course, is sort of isolation and locked down and all that. do you think in your experience i locked the lock down? have that worked to have their place, but it's not something where any one of us is key know using again, right. we have to be very clear that this is not, was never recommended by the joseph to any country, but you know, countries make their own decisions on what to do and we understand the local circumstances. but in addition to saying the thing we shouldn't do x, y, that we have to be proactive in providing the alternative tools. both some that can be delivered by science, which we're working on together with our partners. but really building the trust, confidence, and the sense of collaboration around the world that list and we're in this together and actions taken in one part of the world might prevent consequences in another. and that really requires global collaboration. and so the diety around

this very challenging and space, janeway wazell. thank you very much for taking the time to joining us in the studio . running a marathon is too much for most people. it would be for me. what about running a race which takes $43.00 days and last foremost, 5000 kilometers? well, italian, andrea, my cancelled as just completed that very feet and talking about a different sort of feed. he went through 13 pairs of shoes during that journey. 3 . 0, wow. oh, this was the start of the world's longest foot race back in early september. competitors have to complete the 3100 mile looped cause nearly 5000 kilometers in under 52 days. it's rolling around the streets of the new york border of queens

runners average over 2 marathons a day, but or at least allowed to sleep at night. italian, andrea marketo, one for the 3rd straight edition in $43.00 days, 3 hours, 20 minutes, 27 seconds. he said storms stopped him, challenging the world record, which stands at 40 days. i am in tune with some summer superior power, i believe in the power of prayer and meditation. and i do have faith, you know, and faith hope. and this thing they, they drive you forward, you know, it's not only about being strong and train well. and so he suffered painful cuts between his toes. that's why they have only been 51 finishes in 25 years. he fully deserved his cake. amazing. you're watching the w news. as a reminder of the top story we're following for you in a way for russian asked, writes targeting energy infrastructure in ukraine. power has been knocked out by

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