the left, it's tracy. ah, the legal hearing, their dreams. ready to meet this week on d. w. ah, ah. this is the dublin years live from berlin, ukraine's president accuses russia of planning to blow up a vital hydro electric dab. go to mirrors, zelinski one ones, hundreds of thousands are in danger of flooding in the occupied house. one region also coming up police in iran, said if arrested dozens of protesters in the southeast as public outrage continues

rights group say those in custody are at risk of torture or even death. ah, and i am told me your logical welcome to the program. the battle for you create a centering around a massive dam on you crazed. an e pro river cave has warned russia it'll head back harder if russia blows it up. president villa dimmers the lensky accusers, russia, planning to destroy the damn and send flood waters rushing towards hundreds of thousands of people. water from the dam is also vital for cooling. europe's largest nuclear power plant ends up a regia. moscow is telling it citizens that if the a hydro electric plant is destroyed, ukraine will be at fault. the massive kafka hydro electric power plant and 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 versus given only a fresh terrace blowed up more than 80 settlements, including hassan will be in the zone hit by the 1st 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 disney 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 damn, 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 rahman gun to ranko from deed of his russian eastern europe service. what it would mean if this dam were destroyed? well 2 things would happen 1st and we could have very many civilian casualties. probably kind of solven's, 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 we'll plan 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 for a slightly different purpose that we might think. i think the russian purpose is to stop your crying from shelling damn with rockets, missiles because there are very few bridges over there. new per river 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 san itself. but russia could signal if you, if you shell 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 on ukraine's energy infrastructure recently. what does that tell you about about their strategy? well, they're right, the actual new granular infrastructure as we speak several cities, again, included possibly the capital key for the key of region search cities in the south like us and some others. so it's a sign weakness, it's a sign up with some weakness, rush, weakness on the metal front and rushes trying of course to compensate for 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 gun to ranko. thank you for speaking to us. and let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. china's week long

communist party congress has ended. the party has approved an amendment to its constitution and training president cheating ping's position. he's expected to be handed a 3rd party leader. the committee investigating this january 6 attack on the u. s. capital has subpoenaed donald trump lawmakers of order the former president to hand over documents and testify under oath. next month, the committee says there's overwhelming evidence that trump personally orchestrated the effort to overturn the 2020 election results. police have arrested at least 50 people in the southeast of iran after protestors attacked banks and demonstrated against the government. the demonstrations continue in the country 5 weeks after the death of a woman in police custody. that sparked public outrage. meanwhile, iranians outside the country, calling on western nations to do more to help and to ensure the safety of those

arrested. the latest an option of anger in it on in for disregarded on friday. hundreds of angry protesters in the city of the hidden chant debt to the dictator. in deference to ayatollah khomeini, this land that republics leo, the wave of public descend, tripping it on in the week of the debt of gina martha armine violent police custody is highly unusual. in this, for dest, from the capitalist they had on a man, has claimed a billboard to speak of 50. the ad says, the earth bears gold. he is writing and pled steel, the gold it on invoices outside the country that 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 duty summit asking that european community to run you over a union the childers are told warner in your resume and what they are in in peter

law school in the season here on oscar regime change. they don't want any appeasement with it. an address to the un security council, the suite, the u. s. me and 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 masa. 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 with iranian women are smart, though educated, dedicated and patriotic, and or their of their rights. they also understand how to engage with the governments in a peaceful and constructive manner in order to advance their rights. therefore, we advise those western states that they are not to require 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 steel of the challenge, the faith in standing up to the dock to see which has ruled their country for more than 40 years. now joining me now in studio a see mess about. she's a presenter and reporter with the ran into national television. thanks for joining us here on the up the news. as we saw him out reports, you know, the protest had been going on for weeks. now. this is unusual and iran. om, what do you think is giving people the courage to come out on the streets and protests like they are human dignity, then the main chanting has been woman life freedom. so i think this was the time that people 1st that enough is enough, like killing a 22 years old, get on holiday in terror, just because she was not covered properly on acceptable. this was something that

every single iranian family could relate to. and finally, there was a moment that stated like, i mean everyone was extremely frustrated, extremely angry. and this feeling like that a 22 years old was beaten to death. and then the government lied brought extreme anger amongst people. so everyone took to the street. it started from the court, a son like prudish populated areas that massa came originally from. and then the bravery came from the family because they were not intimidated by their pressures that they were getting from the security forces. and to bear the bravery of the journalist who they went, they dared to go and cover it. neil of her hummadi, the journalist who covered this story, a does result, castro, hospital inter on she is still in prison. she's arrested primarily don't know what is happening to her on the interrogation, but she was brave to do it. yeah. and you talking about this issue,

even the truth of the story and how to even get that out. journalist are at the forefront, but obviously under severe restrictions in iran, how is the story actually being covered in the local media? the having that that, that the will other the room to be able to cover it. but the outside media have a like a little bit more freedom in terms of like a reporting. it's weird that it's shut down of internet be have had like iran internationally. one of them be up in on the story for weeks non stop reporting on that yesterday of their nouns that i mean they put like it is levied republic put b, b, c, and iran international under sanctions. to day i heard one of the judiciary wanted the journalist to be listed as a terrorist groups. so this is, this is how they try to intimidate people covering it an inside or so there has been like massive bravery. amongst journalists. everyone is trying to do their parts inside and outside. yeah. and speaking of inside and also go to protest in

iran build also got protest abroad. yes. how are these being seen? the international condemnation of what's going on? how is that being seen, particularly by the regime? and of course they're not happy with it because i mean the earliest finally, bits of truth on coming down side. finally, people are listening to the, to death like a grief or very dance. and the sense of unit is that we see inside there on is i did on, i mean did they were over is like this sort of things that, that when the government was saying that if i'm not there, there would be internal. what if i'm not there, there would be lack of securities, et cetera, cetera. now you can see that people inside iraq are like, i'm in different sections or there are supporting each other. inside and outside. you see the master restoration that was in toronto. we will have something to date, that organizer are expecting, like more than 100, thousands to participate. so these 2 are covering everyone every iranian try to do

something, anything that they can. all right, journalist to see most of that. thank you for your analysis on the story. thank you . to italy now where the 1st woman prime minister, georgia maloney is being sworn in at the presidential palace in rome. and we're going to take a look here. those are live pictures from the integration in rome. maloney's brothers of it's the party was the top vote getter in italy's national election last month despite its neo fascist roots. now maloney has formed a governing coalition with former prime minister silvio berlusconi is conservative for to italia and mature. salvi needs league also. party with far right affiliations, and this will be the country's 1st far right government. a world war to me throw things up for you.

yes, but if you daily alert it. right, let's take a look at our top story. reminder of our top story. ukrainian president village immerse lensky accusers, russia planning to blow up a major dam on juniper river. and st. floodwaters rushing towards hundreds of thousands of people. moscow says that if the dab is destroyed, ukraine will be at fault up next is our documentary statement for more news and told me on last week or 2. i have been threatened. i have been better because we try to to show the faith mafia all over the world. environmentalists are in danger. the enemy, roofless corporations corrupt.