it's tracy ah, meeting legal hearing their dreams. metty to me this week on d. w. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin fresh strikes on power plants in ukraine. power outages are widespread and both moscow and key of accused one another of plotting to destroy a massive hydro electric dam that could unleash devastating flood waters. also coming up, police in iran save arrested dozens of protesters in the southeast as public

outreach continues. rights group say those in custody are at risk of torture or even death. ah, i've told you a lot about welcome to the program authorities in ukraine's capital, say fresh strikes, have further damage if energy infrastructure in the country, se moscow and key of accused one another of planning to blow up a massive dam on the disney pro river. cuba want russia, it'll hit back harder if russia blows it up. damage to the dam could send flood waters rushing towards hundreds of thousands of people. 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 damn connected to this hydro electric plant holds 18000000 cubic meters of water is given always 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 issue to day one was thursday up. the expanse of water north of the power plant has been nicknamed the sea. over 240 kilometers of the knee 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 toward scarce on 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 tito of his russian and eastern europe service, what it'll mean if the stam were destroyed? well 2 things would happen 1st and we could have very many civilian casualties. probably tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of ukrainians couldn't be affected. it gives you populated area and is flawed. 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 city 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 the, 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 it's 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. we think 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 been destined to happen. my assumption is that russia has actually mind the dam. but of course, let's let a different purpose that we might think. i think the russian purpose is to stop your crying from shelling damn with rockets with 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 and the city will concern itself by russia good signal. if you, if you show this this 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? and 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, they're right, the actual new brand new infrastructure as we speak several cities, again included possibly the capital key for the key of region search cities in the south like and us and some others. so it's a sign weakness. it's a sign of some weakness, rush and 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 in order will show effect on the bus from an current gun to ranko. thank you for speaking to us. but let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world. italy has sworn in its

1st far right leaders since world war to georgia. maloney is also the country's 1st female. prime minister. brothers of italy party has formed a governing coalition with the conservative 40 talia, and right wing league. china's week long communist party congress has ended. the parties approved an amendment to its constitution, enshrining president, she doing things role and its opposition to ty, one's independence. she is expected to be handed a 3rd term as party leader, sri lankan lawmakers are voted for a constitutional amendment to limit the president's powers. the new law was a key demand of the protest movement that forced the former president to resign earlier this year. the amendment transfers some powers, such as a point in officials to a council of leaders. authorities in malawi have found 4 more bodies near

a mass grave discovered earlier this week. the bodies of 25 people believed to be if you'll be in migrants were found in a forest in the country south, on wednesday, near a route used by smugglers to transport migrants to south africa. the committee investigating the january 6th attack on the us capital has subpoena donald trump. lawmakers of ordered the former president to hand over documents and testify under oath. next month the committee says there's overwhelming evidence that trump personally orchestrated be effort to over to the 2020 election results. police have arrested at least 50 people in the south east of iran. after protesters attacked banks and demonstrated against the government demonstrations, continue in the country 5 weeks after the death of a woman in police custody sparked public outrage. meanwhile, iranians outside the country,

a calling on western nations to do more to help and ensure the safety of those arrested. the latest adoption of anger in it on in foot is recorded on friday. hundreds of angry protestors in the city of the head on jaunt debt to the dictator in jefferson's to ayatollah khomeini, this time the 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 this from the capital, the had on a man has climbed a billboard to speak of 50. the ad says the earth, bad gold. he is writing and politic steel, the cold 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 leaders, we're holding a duty summit or steering that european communities run. you over

a union childers or tone thornhill in your resume and what they are in, in peter law school in the season here on are asking regime change. they don't want any appeasement ready for you. 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 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. good organ, uranian demon are smart, though educated, dedicated antibiotic, 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 required to act as guardians or caretakers of iranian beaman, or a 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 is see mess about cheese, a presenter and reporter with iran international television. thanks for joining us here on did up the news as we saw him out reports, you know, the protest i been going on for weeks now. this is unusual and iran, i'm, what do you think is giving people was courage to come out on the streets and protest like they are human dignity. they're 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 or 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 bitten to death. and then the government lied and 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 there were not intimidated by their pushes that they were getting from the security forces and had to bear the bravery of de turner less who they went. they dared to go and cover it. nila hummadi, the journalist who covered this story at does result castro, hospital in gerard. she is still in prison. she's a visit primary. don't know what is happening to her on the interrogation,

but she was brave to do it. yeah. and you're talking about this issue of even the truth of the story and how to even get that out. journalist are at the forefront, but obviously under easier restrictions in iran. how is the story actually being covered in the local media? they are having that that, that the will are the room to be able to cover it. but the outside media have i like a little bit more freedom in terms of like a reporting, get rid, 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 up there now that i mean they put like it is limited public put b, b, c and iran international under sanctions. to day i heard one of the judiciary is wanted dorner list to be listed as a terrorist groups. so this is, this is how they tried to intimidate people covering it. and inside, also there has been like massive bravery. amongst journalists. everyone is trying

to do their parts inside and outside. yeah. and speaking of inside and i also got a protest in iran build also got protest abroad. yes. how are these being seen? the international condemnation of what's going on hasn't been seen particularly by the regime? well, of course, they're not happy with it because i mean the earnest finally, myths of truths are coming to our side. finally, people are listening to the, to dead, like a grief or very it is. and the sense of unit is that we see inside there on is i did on, i mean did they were over is like the sort of things 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 . the organizer are expecting like more than $100.00, thousands to participate. so these 2 are covering everyone every iranian try to do

something. anything that they can. all right, journalist to sima said that thank you for your analysis on the story. thank you. to coming up next why most apps on your smartphone are designed to be addicted. that's been our tech magazine shift. i'm told me a logical and i'll be back with a use update at the top of the out oh i have been the fact that i have been beat that i have been.