this is dw news, you can get lots more on our website. that's d. w dot com. ah, sirens howled across ukraine to day as russia launched a new wave of missile strikes targeting the country, civilian infrastructure. several people, including at least one child, have been killed and power has been knocked out all the way to neighboring moldova, the renewed attacks have been met with fierce international condemnation. the clearest message today came out of the european parliament were legislators overwhelmingly voted to recognize russia as a state sponsor of terrorism on nichol ferla, him, berlin, and this is of the day ah, killing civilians destroy infrastructure using systemic violence and intimidation.

it is thought to recognize the russian federation for what it, it, the pariah, a menace a rogue state and its state sponsor. to observe. the more the russian army is being pushed back and defeated on the back with the more it is targeting civilian objects with an attempt to frighten the brain. yeah. society and we get it refilled. we vote now on the resolution as a whole. barocha vote is opened, vote is close and it is broadly adopted for reservation also on the show as the iranian regime cracks down on opponents at home. it's also increasingly focusing on dissidents and journalists abroad. so that, that's that,

but the television, me, the threats should be taken seriously. because in the past 43 years, these law make republic has repeatedly attacked its opponents and exile with terror attacks and kidnapping, including journalists and article activists, english chickens. ah, ukraine. when to eerily dark to day after and tense, russian bombardment knocked out power and water, and most of the country. the ukrainian army says more than 70 cruise missiles fired in quick succession hid critical infrastructure and residential buildings and sites across the country. 3 people were killed and keith after a missile hit their apartment block. according to the mayor of the capital, at least another 11 were injured. the strikes also caused ukraine to shut down. it's 3 remaining nuclear power plants as a precaution. after they were cut off from the energy grid earlier, a missile strike in the upper reach of region and hit a maternity hospital that attack killed

a newborn. that was only 2 days old teeth pulled from the rubble of what was the maternity ward. this doctor was fortunate to make it out alive, but the russians strike that flattened his workplace did take the life of the baby . he was there to deliver. it's mother was rescued. just the latest casualties of yet another attack on a healthcare facility. moscow has long denied targeting hospitals and clinics, but the world health organization has recorded moulton 700 attacks since the start of the war. 9 months ago. russia's repeated attacks on energy infrastructure. i'm making it hard at the doctors to provide care at those hospitals that are still standing here in has san that falls to work by flashlight as they try to save a teenager whose hand was blown off in a russian strike without power for the elevator. he has to be carried up 6 flights

of stairs on a stretcher, to reach an operating room lit with only emergency lights. glover with missy. it's hard without an elevator, hard without light to get the child to the 6th floor. no water, no heating. working in the dim light doctors amputate the teenage is left on his mother waits nearby, inconsolable he give us, they shoot at civilians at children. we didn't call them hair and didn't kill any of their children. so why are they killing ours? but with russian attacks continuing and winter beginning to bite hassan residence, the facing shortages of water, food, and other essentials, many a, making a difficult choice. and joining the government's voluntary evacuation effort.

boarding bus is to seek safety further from the front lines. i 1st guess tonight is eula mendel. she served as the spokes person for ukraine president volota mir zalinski from 2019 to 2021. she's also the author of the fight of our lives. my time with zalinski ukraine's battle for democracy and what it means for the world which was published in english in september. miss mendel, welcome to the day. you're in key at the moment. we can tell that the power doesn't seem to be so strong, it almost looks like you're, you're working with torchlight there. can you tell us about what happened there today? hi, thank you for having me. yes, i'm having allies from my old broken tal. it's gone and i'm having to can go here just to try to make this broadcast, but in fact, my connection connection drops all the time. so i'm not to worry about it right now

. i don't have like, i don't have heating and i don't have water for the last 6 or 7 hours. i don't complain. it's like happening all over the country and we know that we are working hugely on restoring everything that was broken today because russia send at least 70 me styles and 5 can because that was of the run in production to huge ukrainian facilities, the electricity facilities and of your facilities and our team and north of the country are working really hard to try to restore everything we have read your results because we know that in the west is fully restored, like the residents have everything already. but in keep 80 percent of residents feel, stan at me, you know, without anything without alive or heating. so this is our reality in your reality here. and in the rare, we fight with candles and our bank trying, you know, to go through they and to enter the winter is as much as possible, you know,

with any kind of energy or sources. many people who own houses they re to generate just absolutely sold out. but even the back of for me to go while i'm here without like heating and wardrobe for 67 hours. my family has some region that you mention have been living in fact, way for weeks and weeks and the shelling, very even award. just new reality. we cannot get used to eat and it's nothing last . but can we watch bratia dots to ukraine these days? i don't want to talk about your hometown curse on for a 2nd. how did you feel when the russians withdrew from their let me say that. yeah, that was a huge relief and we all had a lot of emotions. i have really very close, relatively there and we all cried hugely. we really celebrated this, but it was,

you know, such an emotional moment. i really when that when you, when we will reconnect with each other at the same time rusher test or in my c t, my home town in frontline c t. and they really huge re, shall the cd and kill the bill. and i've heard the story that you told about new born in the body shop was killed by russian shall leave. let me say that my mother is a doctor. she worked with the keys and right now she has to keep from that we john, and one of them is 13 years old who came to the hospital several days ago and he doesn't have one hand anymore. the other one is also the only wounded by the 3rd one died today, unfortunately because of fresh and selling. he was wounded in he had any again, reality. i'm trying to send him the parcel because my mom has 4 newborn keys who were left there and she doesn't know what to do. she just takes care about them in the hospital. and they don't have just, you know, hygiene things or food baby food. so i'm trying to offend there the car sell,

but it happened that the cues for getting the parcel like a really huge hundreds of people and the we such a huge shelling that we are afraid. that's why my father, you know, can be damaged or anything will happen. so we try to get this bar so different ways . but yeah, it's like a terrifying, but i need to say that everyone who i'm talking in key in other regions or even even have they say that they're very happy that the right no russians anymore. they, they don't want any kind of russian who's russian or russian world as, as a russian propaganda said. and they said, we know this is the period of lives that we need to know. it's a very difficult one. it's a dangerous one, but we can go through that. yeah, you mind asking what people are telling you about the time under russian occupation . you know, it's like the atmosphere of constant fear and ease existence in the balance between

life and gas. you know, like, my aunt is a teacher and she had a lot of generations of students, and one of her students was killed in a 2nd just in a moment because shrapnel from russian me style was flying, evolve their houses and a strep. now got into the window and he killed her immediately. and other guy who helped to restore electricity that was damaged all the time on to go talk shelly, when, when she was living there, he was heavily beaten and needed to leave the region. again, i mentioned that people were leaving without any resources and they were even afraid to go out. if you talk about the mammals. i was talking to young females and they were so scary to, to be there when to go out because they knew that there were a lot of reports about great beings. and you know, this is a terrible thing. and of course i've heard about a lot of tortures, but what i know that people whom i know they disappearing. and this is another kind

of trauma. you don't know what the people are alive, are they you know, tortured. can you how that, what happened to them? and again, let me return to the 5. the russians were taken away. a lot of kids. this is terrible experience. so they want to take this for you born keep that were born in ukrainian hospital and were left by abandon, but their mother and my mother didn't allow that, which i feel here. why? like her personal hair. we took a lot of her resources. yeah. so this was a terrible experience and no one wants to have back given all that you and your fellow ukrainians have been through and are still going through. what does it mean that the european parliament classified russia as a state sponsor of terrorism? what does it mean to you? smoke russians, they cannot defeat ukrainian army on the battle ground. and this is such a low in sash, such

a disgusting type of behavior when they start fighting ukrainian civility, ukrainian maternity, hospitals, and keys. and this is nothing but territory is what's happening here. so we welcome this decision. we are grateful for this understanding and we hope that these will help with trig thrush and war limit it war and russia will not have this resources to continue its terrorist actions in your crave. you know, we are fighting here not just for the lance. i'm sure that know you were p and come, she wanted the border with russia. russia feels like non stop a bowl with its imperialistic ambition. so what we want, we want actually to finish this talk rocky and not to allow each to go to our democratic country. we belong to the real world, and we want this to be recognized. we want to be free and independent ukraine. we don't have much time left, but i do want to ask you how important the 400000000 dollar military aid that the

us pledge today to your country is how important that is in this endeavor and the war effort at this point. you know, this is very bad to recognize and, but he can do nothing just like be grateful to this today. ukraine fully depends on the western partners financially military with every means. unfortunately, ukrainian economy is destroyed and we do not have resources to fight russians on the battle ground. so we understand that this is one warm proof that the united states and the western world stands with us and will help us to move, you know, to defend our democracy. well i, we are very grateful and we plan to stay with united as much as needed because if we don't stop ration now and just democracy pen, just lose to all talk with c. and this is something that we cannot allow to happen,

julia mendel, from our sports person for ukrainian president, will let me lensky. thank you so much for a time and all the best to you and your family. thank you for having me. ah, more than 2 months brave iranians of all ages and walks of life have been taking to the streets, calling for freedom equality and the end of islamic rule. and for more than 2 months, the regime has been escalating its violent response to the demonstrations. dozens of protesters have reportedly been killed in the last week alone. today, the u. s. sanctioned another 3 iranian officials over the bloody crack down and to morrow the un human rights council will hold an urgent meeting to consider launching an investigation into the crimes committed in the name of iran's rulers. oh, down with the dictator. that's what iranians have been taking to the streets for voicing the anger about human rights violations by the islamic republic,

and demanding an end to theocratic rule. resistance against the system, however, is something the regime shows 0 tolerance for its security forces designed to protect the pair. ricks against opponents are attacking protest of all over the country most violently in the countries ethnic minority regions, like curtis ton or c stunning baluchistan. it seems that as protests have escalated and spreads and actually even smaller towns and villages now joining the proteins, the regime seems to be making resorts to, to more violence using combat ammunition straight to the south of the protest. and as a result, we have more and more casualties. oh, more than 300 people have been killed, according to human rights groups, including more than 40 children. in many cases their relatives are forced to

pretend dead deaths were accidental. 7 thousands others are taken away by the security forces and end up in one of the countries notorious prisons, along with other political prison of like human rights activists. snuffling fo 2 d all has their own ocoee, where they are subject to torture. according to family members, from various army basha can g harmel, she was saying of asia kenya, these la mic republic enjoys the silent torture of hussein and the mental torture of my parents. you can hear matter. the people are satisfied with the torture. if something happens to my brother, again, the entire system of the islamic republic is responsible. his homage on 40 islam, he must often families are not even told where their relatives or what's happening to them. so some come to the prison every day, demanding information or release of their loved ones are released that is anything but certain. and a ranch ariella protesters can be charged for waging war against god,

a crime that may result in the death penalty. some have already received that verdict, the amys, to maintain or even build up the barrier of fear that the needs in order to rule a country where people don't want them. so death penalty is the most efficient tool to spread fear in this essay so far that fear is not putting protest us off. they keep going to the streets, determined to continue until the regime falls. day after day d, w, foresee department has been reporting in depth on the protests in iran, censorship and internet blackouts have turned, gathering and verifying information into a highly challenging task. but throughout the reporting, another challenge has emerged. they themselves have moved into the focus of the iranian regime. no, no, no. she wants it for 8 weeks in a row, nella fargo law,

me and her colleagues have been closely following the crack down on the protests and iran ceremonies their task, but to amplifying the voices of those that the iranian regime is trying to silence . to day they have received footage of a young woman who committed suicide after having been detained by security forces. almost every day. the receive video footage is from inside your home from the streets of iran. and of course we have some sources. we have some connections and um, some reliable sources that, that's a published of videos that recorded by the citizen report this because as you know, we don't have free media inside iran. so that's, that's the value of the citizenry. so most citizen reporters with this material, d w's persian language team, produces dozens of videos and articles every day. thanks to bypass software, such as tour or syphon people in iran can access t w's content. in spite of the regime efforts to block foreign media,

they try to prevent pictures and they were just reaching us and they put tried to prevent our content to reach people in the wrong. but it doesn't work because what we've seeing is the contrary that we have a lot more or even a 4 times more reached and we have before to protest began. i think bailey, but their work comes with the price. t w's persian language department has been sanctioned. with the travel band, by the iranian regime, many here still have family back in iran. their fearing for their safety hung up the low for them. the regimes arm seems to reach all the way to germany. some team members have even received personal threats. that said, but that the die of as you, me, the threats should be taken seriously. because in the past 43 years of these law make republic has repeatedly attacked its opponents in exile with with terror attacks and kidnappings, including journalists and political activists, russia kensington, imprisoning and torture is part of the regimes, daily routine bias,

michigan man. but this behavior makes me focus even more on my journalistic work done and encourages me to be a voice of the people in iran. despite threats, sanctions, and internet censorship. they will continue to inform as best as they can about what is happening in iran, how mama was they call it an ongoing revolution that could last for months or even years. i've been one who, as france, i had gulker here in a rainy and political scientists and an assistant professor at the university of tennessee at chattanooga. good to see you. we see every day how these lama regime tries to quash internal opposition. but how does it go about arranging critics outside the country? oh, i did a soldier public, you know, as a repressive of dorian regime, have used the transnational repression from the beginning from 97 to 9. when they came to the power, they try to maintain to power through the repression of the ring and inside of the country that is much easier for them and their oppression. iranian critics,

and you know, political activists are outside of the country, india, sparrow. they did it in 43 years. the, you know, without stopping. this is not a new phenomenon. they try to identify the political activists. they try to troll them to try to escape them to try to you know, in some cases they try to kidnap and kill them. the whole idea is try to keep them silence in order to maintain the political rule is a these efforts are expanding. hauser? yes, this is an ongoing process, but whenever this lemming republic feels threaten mostly because of the polluted or because of you know, a revolution that is happening inside of countries di or panicking and they try to, you know, extended their, their own reparation. reparation. you know, outside and inside of the countries, if they feel not threaten, you know,

the level of their oppression will drop a little bit. continue for the most active political activities or dissident, but right now because of the iranian were protest, elaina revolution 2022. the are completely freak out this limited republic. you know that this is a very different situation compared to the other round of the porter. so they are trying to extend and you know, intensify their oppression inside of the countries. right now we know that more than 70000 people have been arrested. we know that add to the more than 400 people have been killed, according to the officials that se, and outside of the country, the trying to send, you know, the treating her email and messages to the rainy. and george melissa damien. active is to academia, to make sure they are silent in this time of the crisis. how are dissidence and defector and then the factor is monitored? they are using those online and offline technique, you know,

online to try to hector or online or con jimmy. they try to resend it. you know, for example fishing, you made dick try to identify the, the new active is a special in 2022 dick. try to tool them. if you there are active or the store teaching and academia they do is try to send the image chance of their meeting or cow, they try to put her, her pressure on these people. and of course, you know, physical surveillance. we know that this learning republic has their own agent not only uranian agent, some of them, or the sheer muslim from parker, some from lebanon, from, or org, that you're working with as long as you're public security forces, trying to identify, you know, and monitor the lenient activities and also of the countries and if necessary, try to eliminate and kill them. who white the picture, your painting sounds like there is no safe place or arrange decedents to live. it isn't true that the regime will always find them if it wants to. there is you try

to actually push this idea that there is no safe place and to be honest, you know, there is no 100 percent a place. but we knew that the country that her closer to you on the neighbor country are much more dangerous for the union activity, is be, should it because day, or mostly corrupted authoritarian regime. so when you have a dictatorship in the nearby, you're going to use it much easier to, to kidnap the political activist suspicion. for example, in the case of ruin laws that in, in, in turkey, in iraq or the iranian activities in turkey. eastern europe also is not very safe for the union because of the corruption and lack of the rule of law vis, or europe and united states much more safe. but, you know, as you said, there is no 100 percent safe place for leading an activist. thank all car political science as an assistant professor at the university of tennessee or

chattanooga. pleasure speaking to you tonight. thanks for having me. thank you. ah. germany's oldest christmas market has opened again after a 2 year hiatus caused by the corona virus and demick. the streets unmarked in the eastern city of dresden dates back to a royal privilege. granted in 1434. the name of the market refers to the traditional christmas cake from dresden. this year, organizers baked a special cake, 2 meters, and $22.00 centimeters long. representing this year 2022. the market stays open until christmas eve, the breast restrictions in new marble middle. awesome, awesome. well, you'll get an answer time already, but as always, the conversation continues online. you will find our team on twitter at c, w news and myself at nicole underscore. 40 for now though, for me and all of us here on the day. thank you so much for spending part of your day with

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