ah, you won't pay taxation and politics starts october 21st on d, w ah, [000:00:00;00] ah dw is leih 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 with mounting fears over the face of an arabian athlete climber. illness recovery is missing after competing in south korea. without a head covering and anger and unrest and france over soaring living costs. tens of thousands join a widening strike to demand higher wages. ah, i'm not really sure good to have you with us. ukrainian president vladimir, 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 nationwide. officials in the southern ukrainian city of mika live, pool amends body from the rubble. a russian missile killed him, as he hid in the basement. his shocked neighbor recalls the moment of impact this with not so tidwell macpherson, we woke 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 neighbor died. unfortunately, he was a bit closer to the e p center. while we were a bit farther away, listen, raska dot issue for many ukrainians. the past 8 months have been a seemingly endless series of horrors, but one resident is comforted, his homeland. how's the moral high ground? no matter how much suffering moscow inflicts it in the villages of the worst,

that the russians get. pleasure from us, feeling bad, boucher to those 3 of them will they feel pleased to a new creature really? i think they want us to bomb and shell, their buildings, and so on. e 3, i leave her at us, but we won't that mom so we can show that we're different from that. would you that there were 2 boys at least shot jackie civilian residences and the only buildings targeted by the kremlin. russia also seems determined to knock out the national energy grid. the latest strikes prompt to decrease foreign minister once again to ask allies to send more air defense systems. them are probably the only one blocker. sure, and i'm william air defense was the key topic in my speech to european foreign ministers. stella said that she mizaku my appeal was particularly telling even since sirens were sounding and key, the didn't like when i had to join the meeting from the bomb shelter, healing and the was that the 1st time

a minister has participated in this crucial meeting was thought from a bomb shelter, which is still more glitch, almost a ceiling a lot. you're basically in the pool, mighty as a quicker ukraine's presidential. a dimmer zalinski says almost a 3rd of its power plants have been destroyed. russia denies deliberately attacking civilians. moscow says it is targeting ukraine's energy infrastructure, meaning millions could be left to face the coming winter without heat or power. i spoke to russian affairs specialist domain t less r graham also at kings college in london and asked her what's driving moscow's air campaign. i think most great trying to on the one hand, to sort of terrorize the population that has been part of moscow strategy from almost the very beginning of this military invasion. trying to sort of subdue people to finally try to give up on stop. 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 the, 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 that these elements are both coming together, but we'll let him or 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 russia started acquiring these drones from iran, that they could be of really very sophisticated and 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 killed us civilians in some cities on they have, you know, been able to heat up some of the military equipment off of the ukraine, an armed forces, but they are, they are not really a game changer. they are again, part of the sort of terrorizing strategy that russian is carrying out because i think they are not very easy to, to, to shoot down. but on them instead of on them on the budget feed a sphere, i think that the ukraine and forces are able to handle that so far. quite effective . you there is speculation. russia is using more drones because it's short of long range weapons. that foot 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, a sort of mobilized individuals are not very well trained. i have with their notes

of reports that they have been sent to the front without any kind of adequate of equipment. but also russia as you start out of its equipment, especially it's sort of me size. i needs precision guided me symes. 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 military 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 defense systems against civilian population. so that is a bit of a waste on it's a, it's a very odd way of carrying out on these military operation. and it kinda shows that russia is really not able to, to have the adequate equipment on that. it's air force is, are also adris goals of being shut down so that ukraine as a state, having an ability to counter or you know, the air dominance of russia,

russia is not re applied what we call our dominance and control of the skies. so that makes any sort of effective attack or defense much more difficult allows ukraine also slowly to move forward. we know there's been pressure on hiatus on, on the other new i sort of, russian generally asking people to sort of move out from the areas of credit on this also being pressures on lehman in the north and also on the goliath. so the ukrainians, it seems that they are still trying to push further, 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 and apparently equipment to build a rules. so that could open again i knew from did is not clear how many men are there. this talk about 9000 this talk about or deployment of tags on the delivery in that area. to again, maybe try some kind of attack on the knolls. it's not p a r d e n might create or, you know, addition and challenges will ukraine,

dr. domain telegram also from king's college in london. thank you so much. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. authorities in russia say the death toll in a war plane crash has risen to 15. a fighter jet plowed into an apartment building and the port of the ice near ukraine. the defense ministry says an engine fire caused the crash. the head of germany cybersecurity agency has been fired over alleged inappropriate lengths to russia. the interior minister says on a shoe bomb damage, public confidence in his quote, neutrality and impartiality. recent reports say he founded a security group that has ties to russian intelligence. danish police, they last month's nord stream, gas pipeline leaks were caused by powerful explosions. at least 50 meters of the

baltic pipeline is missing. investigators believe it was sabotaged. and iranian climber praised the internationally for taking part in a competition without wearing the mandatory his job has allegedly apologized. eleanor's recovery, he says her head scarf came off by end. during an event in south korea, rights activists now fear for her safety. for instagram account claims, she's going home on a pre arranged schedule. anti government protest in iran are now in their 5th week . morale curry, me is a ph. d candidate. and the university of toronto and author of the book, the iranian green movement of 2009. i asked her about the claim that elis recoveries he job, fell off by accident. it's been over 10 hours that we have no updates for him. l not and the last update or so call update that came with her instagram account,

as you mentioned in which she issued a statement or a literately. what's her, we're not sure who was writing that message because, you know, could have easily been someone else or she could have been forced to write that message. she said that you mentioned that my, my headscarf 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, do authorities have also summoned and arrested her brother, which can only be translated as popish taking, making sure that she's coming back. and we also know from reports that the head of variety and climbing committee kind of trish into going back to the iranian counselor and then she was her passport with cost whiskey that her phone was confiscated and then she used supposedly be returning to to her office and we know

that she was going to go straight to evan prison. and, 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 created commotions 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 as you suggest? i mean, that's the very fact that we have not heard anything about her. it's quite boring. there is no definite answer as to how exactly she's 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 reset, her morale, carrying me there. tens of thousands of french workers have joined a widening strike demanding pay heights to keep up with soaring living costs. the latest walk out is an extension of strike action and filling stations that has led to fuel shortages of protest, march, and central paris, reflecting, growing ingrid racy prices. unfolding livingstone does look normal nutritional the issue of salaries is top of the agenda. this isn't the number one priority of the french people you know, wanted for, for hostile workers are among those who say inflation is eroding the purchasing power. oh,

from that we see must be things that know as it was 60 percent of postal workers have a salary below the french medium amid launch? i mean, what do i do with a 2000 euros? go with 3. do i leave him at doris? out of the coat, i paid 2000 euros, and i have to borrow 700000. so with then the government president must change this with unions colson. work is in both the public and private sectors to strike on top affections that has disrupted frances oil refineries. and fuel supplies who weeks in it does accept deb, it's not acceptable. that minority continues to block the country and it's time to go back to work with the government is trying to get this situation under control. the strikes of the biggest tests so far?

president emma norma cross 2nd term and finally running an average marathon is already too much for most people. what about running a race that takes $43.00 days and last for almost 5000 kilometers? well, that's exactly what italian andrea mercado did as he won the world's longest foot race, looping through the streets of new york for a 3rd stray time. he got through 13 pairs of shoes in the rain and in case you were wondering, he did get to sleep at night and that's all for me for now. business with not has no limits. love is for everybody.