something our children won't be able to enjoy fresh air. ah, you are a 3. d starts november 3rd on d, w. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, ukraine's president accuses russia of planning to blow up a vital hydro electric deck for the demure zaleski warrens, hundreds of thousands are in danger of flooding in the occupied harrison region. also coming up us lawmakers ordered donald trump to give evidence about that january 6th storming of the us capitol. the former president is required to appear

next month to testify on his involvement in the violent riot police in iran say they've arrested dozens of protesters in the southeast. public outrage continues rights groups say those in custody are at risk of torture or even death. ah, i'm told me you're like, well, welcome to the program. the battle for ukraine is now centering around a massive dam on ukraine's denito river cube has warned russia it'll hit back harder if russia blows it up. president vladimir zalinski accuses russia of planning to destroy the dam and to send flood washed waters, rushing towards hundreds of thousands of people. and water for the dam is also vital for cooling. europe's largest nuclear power plant in is apple. regia mosque

was telling its citizens that if the hydro electric plant is destroyed, ukraine will be at fault. the massive kafka hydro electric power plant in southern ukraine with its huge water reservoir, may soon become a weapon of war with devastating consequences. according to the ukrainian president russian troops supplanted mines in the dam. he says they are planning a false flag operation to trigger an enormous flood james. okay. and that will be, this is one of our largest energy facilities. so pretty much the dam connected to this hydro electric plant holds 18000000 cubic meters of water forest is given only a fresh terrace blowed up more than 80 settlements, including hassan will be in the zone hit by the flash flooding. boom, blue. hundreds of thousands of people would be affected in food in these issued a day more was thursday up. the expanse of water north of the power plant has been

nicknamed the sea. over 240 kilometers of the denise per river are held back by this dam. last march, russian forces took over this site during their invasion. now, 7 months later, the russians are maintaining a defensive position in the region. experts say that the russian military may think that breaching the dam could cover their retreat from the right bank of the disney per river and prevent or delay ukrainian advances towards care sun. within russia, news sources are saying that it is not them, but ukraine that is planning to blow up the dam. i asked roman, gone to ranko from dw russia and eastern europe service. what it would mean if this dam were destroyed? well, 2 things would happen. first and we could have very many civilian casualties. probably tens of thousands,

hundreds of thousands of ukrainians could be affected. it gives you populated area and is flood. we don't know how high maybe one, maybe 2 meters high now will more than 80 and places like smaller villages, smaller towns and the studio persona. so. so we haven't seen anything like this in ukraine or in the former soviet union. so it will be a huge catastrophe. of course, there will be also consequences for the energy supply because there is a power. this is a power plant. and there could be consequences for the atomic power plant. so that the stream and which is also important for russia, there could be consequences for that can now, which is providing water from the priority, but to the korean peninsula, and by russia in 2014. so russia actually has no interest in blowing up. and militarily, this is the 2nd aspect, this would slow down both sides,

so it will make the ukrainian offensive slower and it will make more difficult for russians to retreat if they want right within both sides accusing each other of having plans to blow up this dam. is it really just a matter of time before it actually happens? no, i don't think it's per destined to happen. my assumption is that russia has actually mind that the dam. but 1st, let's let a different purpose that we might think. i think the russian purpose is to stop your crying from shelling that damn with rockets of missiles because there are very few bridges over the river. it is very wide, and russia needs those bridges to retreat or to advance. so ukraine has been showing the biggest and plenty of ski bridge in the city, all kinds of song itself. but russia could signal if you, if you show there's,

there's down or you could damage it and then we can no longer use it. so we put some explosives here, so you see what will happen if you continue. i think this is the actual reason behind it, right? i was in russia, actually, a part of its plan has been to carry out attacks and ukraine's energy infrastructure recently. what does that tell you about about their strategy? well, the right actual new granular infrastructure as we speak several cities. i hate again, included possibly the capital key for the key of region search cities in the south and some others. so it's a sign weakness. it's a sign of some weakness, rush, weakness on the metal front and rushes trying of course to compensate those losses of territory had in september in the north by the city of harkey, the 2nd largest city of ukraine. and it is time to gain time to, to wait until that mobilization the president put an order will show effect on the

bus from an current, gunter, and co thank you for speaking to us. or let's take a look at some of the developments in the war. britain, france and germany are calling for the united nations to investigate where the russia has used iranian made drones to attack ukraine. they say the use of such weapons would be, would breach a un security council resolution. you are a secretary of state antony blinking says a washington would pursue any opportunity to engage in diplomacy with russia if it sees an opening. but he asked that his see no evidence that moscow is interested in ending the war in ukraine. still in the us, where lawmakers of ordered donald trump to give evidence at the inquiry into the january 6th attack on the capital. the congressional committee has told trump to

hand over documents and testify under oath. next month. it says there's evidence that the former president personally orchestrated, excuse me, the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election hours earlier. trump's chief strategist, steve baton, was sentenced to 4 months in jail for refusing to cooperate with the investigative committee. doubly correspondent carolyn eci, more has more from washington dc. the timing is quite interesting. the special committee investigating at the dairy 6 attack on the capital is running out of time in less than 3 weeks to the midterm. elections will take place here in the united states am and the outcome of these elections will probably change the majority in the house of representatives. meaning that the republicans might then be in power and they are of course, are going to dismiss the select committee, investigating the general 6 attack on the capitol because many of them say this is a political hand of donald trump. so the committee is trying to get things done

here as fast and as soon as possible. and for them, it's a race against the time police have arrested at least 50 people in the south east of iran, after protest as attacked banks and demonstrated against the government. the protest continue in the country 5 weeks after the death of a woman in police custody, which sparked public outrage. meanwhile, iranians outside the country, calling on western nations to do more to help those protesting the latest adoption of anger in it on in foot is recorded on friday, hundreds of andree protesters in the city of the head on jaunt debt to the dictator in jeff vince to ayatollah khomeini, this time the trip public's leader, the wave of public descent, tripping it on in the week of the debt of gina martha, meaning violent police custody is highly unusual. in this, for dest, from the capitals they had on a man, has claimed a billboard to speak of 50. the ad says the earth bears gold. he is writing and

plastic steel, decoded, it on invoices outside the country, like the national council of resistance of it on, have been stepping up their own protests, such as this one in brussels. close to where you need us. we're holding a to d summit. you're asking that you can community on youtube or a union childers there. tones warner in your resume and what they are and people are asking him to see any wrong or asking regime change. they don't want any appeasement with his regime in an address to the un security council, the suite, the u. s. me, it's nuclear. the eyes of the entire world are on iran right now. courageous and brave iranians from across society. women and men are protesting the death of massa. i'm mary. they are protesting the fact that she was killed by the rainy and morality police for the crime of being

a woman. but it on has warned western governments not to interfere. good, we can iranian women are smart, though educated, dedicated and patriotic, an or their of their rights. they also understand how to engage with the government in a peaceful and constructive manner in order to advance their rights. therefore, we advise those western states that they are not required to act as guardians or caretakers of iranian v. men or speak on their behalf, yet speak on their behalf. is what many of those protesting want given the scale of the challenge, their faith in standing up to the dock to see which has ruled their country for more than 40 years. now let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world. china's communist party congress has begun. it's closing ceremony. the week of closed door meetings are set, the national agenda for the next 5 years. the party approved an amendment to its

constitution that boosts president she doing things power and could pay the way for a 3rd term. asked party leader sri lankan lawmakers voted for constitutional amendment to limit the president powers the new law. it was a key demand of the protest movement that forced a former president to resign earlier this year. the amendment transfers some powers, such as appointing officials to a council of leaders. georgia maloney has become italy's 1st female prime minister in its 1st for the far right leader. since the 2nd world war. maloney's brothers of italy party won last month's election but needed support from other parties to form a coalition government. she is named of cabinet, including moderate figures in italy's presidential palace, the 1st woman to leave the country takes the stage her far right

coalition is now set to govern. after receiving the green light from the president who were going to warner thought did law delegates finnegan balsa. they got the delegation composed by the leaders of all the political forces of the center. right . coalition, west. i met with president matter a lot of them. i thought and agreed with him about the need to give this nation and new government in the shortest possible time will all over there are no. oh, let me order them. but we'll see, believe it because of many urgent issues we face both nationally and internationally. when i li, i live alone, there lots generally like much of europe. italy is struggling with the cost of living crisis, exacerbated by record inflation. soaring energy costs and rising interest rates. it's unclear whether maloney's coalition of far right firebrands will be able to steer the country back on track cracks between them have already begun to appear even before they've taken office while maloney is ardently pro

ukraine, her coalition partner mateo. so vini is a long time admirer of the russian president with ben butchering and shock waves ripples through italian media. when an audio recording emerged from maloney's other coalition partner and former prime minister, silvio berlusconi in it, he said he had reconnected with his old friend vladimir putin and that the 2 had sent each other birthday gifts and warm words. that triggered an ultimatum from maloney for either support ukraine or don't join her government though some fear the countries entering choppy waters, outgoing prime minister, marya druggie, says the relative strength of italy's economy should give the new government a good place to start from you. i. i mean, i would make it and i had never made even in the past too much out of the southernmost. thou jose, how one thing school. if drug is not there,

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