ah, ah ah ah ah, the state of the news lying from berlin, another wave of russian strikes targets, ukraine's energy infrastructure. power is knocked out in the capital cave and over a 1000 other towns and cities. president zalinski says moscow wants to terrorize

and kill civilians. also coming up the german government, zack's it's cyber security chief over possible ties to russian intelligence and mounting fears over the face of an iranian athlete climber. elena ricardo is missing, offer competing and south korea without a head covering. ah, i'm nichol foolish, good to have you with us. ukrainian president volota mears. the lensky says, russian attacks have destroyed nearly a 3rd of his country's power stations. authorities are asking people to save energy as winter approaches. moscow has renewed its assault, striking power facilities in the capital cave and all across the country. 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 with knots. it did not move for us. we live up at quarter to 2 in the morning because of a very loud explosion. it's impossible to describe the foot to so much dust we were in the basement. we crawled out through openings in the ground, and neva died. unfortunately, he was a bit closer to the e p center. while we were a bit farther away, listen, rush, godaddy, shout 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, i told you that the words to the russians get pleasure from us feeling bad. you boone shadow dorsey at the new will they feel pleased when you, her job is to really i think they want us to bomb and shell their building. and so on. e 3, i live her, but we won't that mom. so we can show that we're different from that when you did. so we're still boy at least shots that 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 shamir airstrikes 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. and for more i'm joined now by dr. dummy till escrow most at king's college in london,

she focuses on russian foreign and security policy. welcome to the w. russia has launched a sustained air campaign, striking critical infrastructure and population centers. what's moscow game plan here? i think most groups trying to, on the one hand, to sort of terrorize the population, but as being part of moscow strategy from almost the very beginning of these military invasion, trying to sort of subdue people to finally try to give up on stock. they sort of counter offend, saves on, to press the government to reach some kind of negotiated settlement. and also trying to destroy the ability of, of ukraine to carry out a military operation by destroying essentially infrastructure which is necessary. and not only for the survival of the population on the running of the economy, but also for the functioning of the military infrastructure on the system to carry

on with the military counter offensive. so i think the, these elements are both coming together, but we'll let them are zalinski has already said that he won't be forced to the negotiating table. we have been seeing more use of the so called coming kazi drones could that have a decisive impact on the course of the war on the battle field, maybe, or the places of the country that have become a battlefield effectively. there wasn't a lot of talk when i, when i rush, i started acquiring these drawings from iran that they would be really very sophisticated on going to be a sort of a game changer on about 2 feet by the evidence that we have so far that they they have indeed kinda a civilians in some cities on they have, you know, been able to heat up some of the military equipment off of the ukraine and armed forces. but they are, they're not really a game changer. they are again, part of the sort of terrorizing strategy that russia is coming out because i think they're not very easy to, to,

to shoot down. got to on them instead of on them or on the batting feel. a sphere, i think that the ukraine and forces are able to, to hon. you've got so far, quite effective you, there is speculation. russia is using more draws because it's short of long range weapons that food now have more man power, but not enough weapons for them. to use i, yes, i mean, a russia has a serious problem not only in terms of manpower because many of the new sort of mobilized individuals are not very well trained. i with their notes of reports that they have been sent to the front without any kind of adequate of equipment. but also russia has used a lot of it's equipment, especially. it's sort of me size. i needs precision guided me sometimes. ah. so it's using a lot of their weaponry, you know, which could be used on the front, you know, to support. i'm mainly pre sort of offensive, you know, and that sort of writing the in combination with a ground offensive rather than using it in that,

in that c d 's using it's 8. so sort of may size on an air defenses. stems against civilian will be lation, so that is a bit of a waste on it's 8. so it's a very odd way of carrying out on these military operation. and it clearly shows that russia is really not able to, to have the adequate equipment on that needs. air force is, are also adris goals of being shut down. so the ukrainians, a state having an ability to counter you know, the air dominance of russia. so russia has not re applied what we call air dominance and control of the skies. so that makes any sort of effective attack or defense much more difficult. anita allows ukraine also slowly to move forward. we know there's been pressure is on hiatus on, on the other new i sort of rushing generally asking people to sort of move out from the areas of credits on this or something. pressures on lehman in the north. and also nikolai, if so, the ukrainians,

it seems that they are still trying to push further a, you know, on the military campaign on the ground and the russians are not able to really to count these offensive on the ground. now we know that the ascending more main apparently equipment to build a rules. so that could open again a new friend. it is not clear how many men are there this talk about 9000 this talk about or so. deployment of tags on the delivery in that area to again maybe try some kind of attack on the knolls. it's not clear buddy. ian might create or, you know, addition and challenges will ukraine? there are reports that iran has agreed to provide russia with surface to surface missiles and more drones. how much does putin depend on support from iran? at this point? it depends throw. so to an extreme, by dove close, russia still has quite a significant amount of air defenses. i'm on me science, but do you know it, it is running out. so you know, you can go on like the same. definitely. maybe. i mean,

that will calculations that maybe after $1015.00 days off these kind of massive bombardments, russia would run out of these kind of weapon res. so it is understanding that they're trying to rely on, on iran, you know, as a supplier. because russia cannot go on indefinitely carrying out these kinds of sort of, most massive attacks. it would run out of a weapon. reese about that. of course, as created. grandsons among, among these rates are now talking that they might also come in and try to help do ahead a ukraine with which by to add a phone system. so now that a lot of the focus on trying to improve the air defense systems of your brain so that it is not really, you know, sort of bomb to the round. so to say that some kind of infrastructure, he's still in place so that people can live through the window of the economy, can keep going on, you know, that mutual variations can continue at. let's talk about israel for a 2nd because so far is rarely support has been limited to humanitarian aid. how

significant could a more robust backing be? i think it would be very significant because these rallies are very good at the fancy streams around you know, their main sequencing. amy's read on dean of the famous island dome has been very effective at countering any kind of incoming me side. so i think that that would really be a game changer in my, in my view, in together with the air defense systems that are going to be provided by the united states on, by some european country. so i think that if it actually happens i, it might be very significant, dr. dom until us i grandma, so from king's college in london. thank you so much. the head of germany cybersecurity agency has been fired from his job over reports, alleging he had inappropriate links to russia. the interior minister says on a shirt, bomb damage, public confidence in his neutrality and impartiality. recent report say he founded a security group with ties to russian intelligence, washer and boom,

became head of the government agency in 2016. and let's bring in our political correspondence, simon young, who's following the story for us. simon, what do we know about the events that led to show and booms dismissal? yes, so it's a little bit complicated. the organization, the honor shown bomb, has been running, is called the federal office for information security that has basically overall responsibility for protecting german government networks and for setting id standards. and basically for looking after the security of computing networks here in germany, before he had that job, he was running something called cyber security, germany services, security council, germany. now that is a semi formal organization that he himself helped to set up. and what it did was bring together a senior people from these righty security,

a community. and it was giving advice to politicians and public bodies into businesses on how to protect their firms. or the problem is the allegations that have come to light that, that organisation, or had, for instance, member companies with very close links to russia. one of them was ultimately linked . and it had been set up by a former k g b officer, a scientist who was decorated by vladimir putin and investigative journalists of uncovered a number of other links to russia. very close. and i think that's what's got the interior minister annoyed. she says, you know, despite warnings to, on a shown by me hasn't yet kept his distance from that organization is continued to attend their meetings. and that has broken public trust. and particularly at this time with the ukraine war and threats from russia that there are concerns about trust. so that's why this action has been taken to day to remove him from post. now

this story was broken last week by a canadian, on public television in germany. how embarrassing is this for the authority? the fact that they didn't catch this in the years that man has been in charge of the country, cybersecurity was that isn't as it embarrassing aspect. and it was only very recently that on a shoe bomb, in fact, told his staff within that agency to keep their distance from this. what is essentially a lobby group. and as i say, he himself did not do that, or probably it's worth underlying that so far. there's no clear evidence of any wrongdoing by on assuring bone himself. but i think questions have been raised, as i said about to the property and the trust. indeed, when on a show and boom 1st got that job or people said, well, he doesn't really have the experience. why has he been given this? is it a sort of political machinations?

so i think there have been a number of question marks around his leadership, and that's why you had to go to the over your political correspondence, simon young. thank you, sam and let them take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. today, authorities in russia say the death toll in a work plane crash has risen to 15. a fighter jet plowed into an apartment building in the port of yes, near ukraine. the defense ministry says an engine fire caused the crash. danish police say last month, north stream gas pipeline leaks were caused by quote, powerful explosions. at least 50 meters of the baltic pipeline is missing. investigators believe it was sabotage and dw interview show conflict own has been hosting a session at the annual berlin foreign policy forum, thera kelly spoke to nato secretary general against oldenburg, about the west,

responds to the war in ukraine, and how to end it must put and go for there to be a resolution in ukraine. yes or no? again, i will note that you will force me to, to given the yes or no answer to that. what we will do is that we will respond to the actions of a rush or to god to some cruise and charged her on we will continue to call them to and this war, it was present that started this war. and this person put together. and this war tomorrow, while you're drawing is forces, we have to remember that if person to, to russia stop. so i think there will be peace precedence get on ukraine, stubs hard thing. ukraine will cease to exist as an independent nation. and we don't want that to happen. that's exactly why we approach support your group. and you can watch the whole interview here, tomorrow, or already now online at d, w dot com. and a rainy in climber who was applauded internationally for taking part in a competition without wearing the mandatory he job has allegedly apologize. illness

recovery says her head scarf came off by accident during an event in south korea rights activists now fear for her safety. her instagram account claims she's going home on a pre arranged schedule, anti government protest, and iran are now in their 5th week. and i'm joined now by a morale curry me. she's a ph. d candidate and social justice education at the university of toronto, an author of the book, the rain in green movement of 2009. welcome to the w. l. miss recopy, now allegedly confirmed. she's on her way back to iran, saying her he job fell off accidentally. what do you make of that? well, it's been over 10 hours that we have no updates for mail not. and the last update or so call update that came, was from her instagram account, as you mentioned,

in which she issued a statement or literately. what's her, we're not sure who was writing that message because you could have easily been someone else or she could have been forced to write that message. she said that you mentioned that my, my head scarf was an adverse, and li fell off and that i'm ok and that i am returning to the country. and she apologized for doing that. however, you already have also summoned, arrested, her brother, which can only be translated as a popish taking, making sure that she's coming back. and we also know from reports that the head of iranian climbing committee kind of trish into going back to their writing counseling. and then she was her passport with concert keys or phone was confiscated and then she used supposedly be returning to to her office. and we know

that she's going to go straight to ethan prison. and evan prison is as some of your viewers might remember the same prison that was on a fire last friday. and there are many indications that the government may have intentionally set fire on the prison or a created commotion there. yeah, this prison is, is notorious. and it's also where a lot of the detain protesters are being held at this point. how do you think authorities will treat her when she's back in iran and possibly in prison? now you suggest i mean, the fact, the very fact that we have not heard anything about her is quite boring. there is no definite answer as to how exactly she is going to be treated. what we know is going to be. so you're considering that, i mean there is,

she's basically m i a and there is, there is no news about her whereabouts. all we can do at this point is raise awareness international lead to hopefully put some pressure on the authorities to go easy on her. she was celebrated by protesters for what was seen as, as showing such bravery on the international stage and such defiance. how are people in iran reacting to the news of her disappearance? and naturally, people are worried. she was, as you mentioned, a celebrated before her calm demeanor and for confidently taking off their headscarf, which could be interpreted as solidarity worth. the, with the movement that is currently going on in iran, on the ground and,

and for, you know, becoming force and the match. rock climbing match in the world championship. my apologies, the asian championships. however, everyone actually is worried about her whereabouts and because people know what could be potentially expecting her. she's going, she's most probably going to be going to prison, have certain charges, she will most probably be forced to make a false confessions on national tv. it could be that her instagram post was also forced, and course to and so it's quite award some situation very similar to i might add to when the chinese tennis player

chung pay kind of made some declarations and then went missing. yeah. morale, carmine, thank you so much for your assessment. thank you. congo is home to your minds containing some of the purest gold. in the world, consumers in rich countries are prepared to pay high prices for the precious metal . but the miners who extract the gold are paying a price of a different kind. extortion and rights abuses are widespread and minds controlled by a violent rebel group. access for foreign journalists has been restricted until now in a joint investigation with the german magazine dash beagle. d. w. 's maria mila, has been in signed to rebel controlled gold mines. this gold may gleam brightly, but it is stained red with blood. people likely died for this precious metal

destined for the rich world's finest juries. the democratic republic of the 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 the hot tunnels that hit up to 40 degrees celsius. young man scrape out the gold bearing rock there earn barely enough to survive on to for fear of reprisals. this man wants to remain anonymous. when you go to work, you 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. i mean, you know,

even now the 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 when it's done, i do new my eyes and stuff with them. and on top of that, this mine is controlled by an armed group, the my, my tumor. according to a recent un report, the rebels demand what they call texas 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 the my, my a 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 the both the my, my young timber and local government official 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 finance, brutal attacks on an ethnic group who they see as their main enemy. the my, my claim the bunny language don't belong to the d r c. so they burned down the villages, rape and kill scores of people east and under were survived one of these attacks. well as to the core of a 2 ton of value, they found us and the place where we had sought refuge and they killed 3 people. sure now i am then young they murdered my father in law and injured my mother in law. nay. a 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 dozens displaced hundreds. now is that safe?

sheltering at a friend's house. rebel control of the minds means conflict gold. 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 dear sea to europe and america. at the moment we're discussing a lot with the government they. we took all artisan war coming to work here we, we, they would 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 and a who are are, can only appeal for an end to the trade and blood cold i can. and when i fear, when i hear their, my, my cell go to white people to buy weapons, to verify that is why they sell. the golds i live, you know, is, are,

and i want to tell these white people to stop buying from them. best buy. so they don't kill us. will these apartments? well, you're poor that for easter, it is a simple equation. as long as armed groups can re profits from gold mining, they will keep earning the cash to kill. and finally, running an average marathon is already too much for most people. what about running a race that takes $43.00 days and lasts for almost 5000 kilometers? that's exactly what italian athlete andrea mercado did as he won the world's longest foot race looping through the streets of new york or a 3rd street time. he got through 13 pairs of shoes in the rain, but in case you were wondering, it did get to sleep at night. and here's a quick reminder of the top story we're following for you tonight. a new wave of

russian air strikes has hit the energy infrastructure of ukrainian cities. rocket attacks knocked out power and key, and elsewhere. presidents lensky says, russia is terrorizing and killing civilians. that's all for me for now. next up is kick off with all the latest from the peninsula. again, this agent for that i'm the cough relation. thanks for watching t w. there's more news coming up at the top with ah, with

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