and young people clearly have the solution. the future is 77 percent every weekend on d w ah, ah, this is it'll be your news live up from burly. russia stands accused of crimes against humanity and trying to freeze ukraine into submission. president lensky urges the united nations to condemn what he calls moscow's energy terror. russia, as late as missile strikes, knockout heating power, and water supplies. also coming up on the ship. as the un human rights council

holds an urgent meeting on iran's brutal crackdown. we look at how even the smallest signs of descent are costing people their lives. turkey threatens a ground offensive against the kurds in syria after launching missiles strikes this week. the u. s. and russia are both calling for restraint. and in the world cup, they are calling it the miracle of doha. japan's to one surprise when over germany sends fans filling out onto the streets and even brings calls for a national holiday. ah . hello, i'm clare richardson. thank you so much for joining us. ukraine's president holiday moore's. the lensky is urging the united nations to back a resolution condemning what he calls energy terror. russia has won fresh rocket

attacks against the ukrainian energy grid, which the lensky is calling crimes against humanity. russian missiles have killed at least 7 people and knocked out power nationwide. and blackouts have also hit neighboring moldova. this latest russian air assaults was brutal, devastating, and wide spread. little remains on this street invest garad, a town on the outskirts of keys, which took a direct heads, though to call this place home, left to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. so i am looking for pats left behind in the chaos of the shelling here while others try to clear away the debris amongst the ruins of a residential building. there's no electricity and no water and no sign that russia is going to stop any time soon with today with the scary

his name, it was very loud and terrifying. you could hear the strikes so many wake them so many houses ruined. people have nowhere to live, no where to sleep. it's cold. i can't explain it. what foam you were also human beings. around 70 missiles were lodged by russia, this time around reeking more damage on ukraine's already crippled energy system. here in the cap at so many have lost power, and the city's mer says at least 80 percent of residents have been left without water. and they are not alone. cities right across ukraine are dealing with blackouts and problems with water supplies. in the wake of the attack, ukraine's president's address the un security council in new york insisting it's time for the well to act. i really need their c g. what russia wants to achieve

with such strikes should not cause confusion anywhere in the world. have him older and energy terror little is comparable to the use of weapons of mass destruction. we muscle all right. when the temperature is below saver outside, and his hens of millions of people are left without electricity. iris is give her heat some water hub. yeah. as a result of russians missile, they're hitting energy facility of sla beth woody. this is an obvious crime against humanity. broadly, lou jealous presidents zalinski, says ukrainian people are unbreakable and they will get through this war. but just how much more of this can they really take our correspond at nick connelly told us how people in care of our coping after these latest attacks. okay. as you can, might be able to see it is very cold in here. we basically had an abnormally warm autumn that went on and on and on and kind of all these discussions, all these threats, even the 1st russian attacks. they somehow didn't hit home quite as strongly as to

has been the case over the last week. and especially since yesterday, because babies basically people could cope quite well without heating even with our lectures. he was bearable. that is definitely different. now the snow is here and it looks like it's gonna stay at least in care of and in northern regions. this was steve, you sets of the scale, the 1st time that all of ukraine's new capacity patients, including the ones on ukraine control dirty, had to automatically switch themselves off from the grid. disconnect themselves for safety reasons. and as we believe now, the national grid basically disintegrated into lots of regional grids. there was no connectivity for quite some while because so much from structure have been hit russia sending 70 cruise missiles it ukraine, 50 or so knocked out of the sky. but at least 20 reached their targets. and there's a sense now that now increasingly, these are gonna get worse in terms of the, the time that ukraine's left without power, without water. and every time it's gonna take longer to repair. and that ukraine is, are busy running out of the kind of spare parts needed to make this all work. and

yeah, without parts, without money from outside, basically isn't in a state any more to keep this going. but there is extra and extraordinarily levels of resilience. and this kind of images doing rounds on social media of tramps being pulled by tractors, all kinds of kind of on standard kind of solutions. and no real sense yet the people are kind of giving up or resigned to this resilience among ukrainian people . is the ukranian government also getting enough support from its western allies? well, is definitely a lot of criticism here in ukraine about western promises, especially european promises on aid money, especially being promised to net not reaching ukraine on anything like the time scale promised it foreign portions coming here, promising money. and then, you know, having their photo up and going home again. and there's also lots of, i think, for the justified anger about the can levels of finance coming from european countries compared to the u. s. just you know, think about this up till that, you know, the last kind of major run of statistics. the european union,

either by actually or through the e had given just about 55 percent as much aid to ukraine as the u. s. even the discovery on europe's doorstep there is money coming, extra funding from germany and other countries. but still the numbers are pretty modest if you compare it to the kind of money being spent on covered relief in the you. and in a sense here in ukraine that you know, european countries have to up their game unless they want to see hundreds of thousands of maybe millions of new refugees arriving in their doorsteps. if your life becomes unbearable this winter, you have to have that there still could be talked between russia and ukraine to put an end to all of this. i'm attacks like these, what impact they have on potential peace negotiations. what on the one hand, we have very tough frederick coming from prisons. lensky from the government here. and we've had foreign leaders basically accusing russia of state sponsored terrorism of these attacks on infrastructure that is directly civilian and has nothing to do with ukraine's military in its ability to fight directly. so as of near toughing of the line there and seemingly no real potential for any kind of

serious political talk. sometime soon, on the other hand, we just had news that there are talks going on between russia and ukraine. indian i cherub, emma, gert, that they're talking about prisoner exchanges and also potentially reopening a pipeline that brings basically the kind of chemistry, the kind of products needed for fertilizers, so crucial for farmers across the world have really been struggling with without those russian fertilizers. so kind of the car tantalizing prospect that for all this kind of escalation, basically here in ukraine. incredible loss of life on the battlefield. that there is still some kind of communication going on. and that at least people who are taken prisoner here on about of his ukraine a have a pretty good chance of getting home earlier than any one really would have thought possible. thank you very much at update that our correspondent nick connelly reporting from keith and even as russian missiles, rain down on ukrainian cities, a bitter fighting on the front lines continuous in the south, ukraine's military is digging in and reinforcing its trenches in anticipation of

a renewed russian offensive it's cold and wet in the trenches, dark by ukrainian soldiers. faraday shows as his position a tunnel system, made of planks, dirt walls and cement. bunkers, frontline soldiers could fall back here if necessary. hollinger frontal mortar woods. this could be the new front wind. any moment, not sure, that's why we need these lines of defense everywhere in your bottle. in this case, you can't underestimate the enemy, missouri man, board seniority war. the soldiers are convinced that the russians who pulled out of southern ukraine are joining the battle in the don't ask region where ukraine says the fighting is most intense. that means it's time to reinforce, the trenches will just come on. now. we had to improve them for poacher. the earth

becomes loose every time it rains your words, marbra were putting down new wooden planks and strengthening the whole construction room off to one position at a time. a door to door. authority says he wants to wait for the russian troops to come and fight for his children and his family. a few kilometers away. faraday unit has its headquarters, 3 meters below the ground. 8 men and a dog sleep here is his work, the water and mud trip through the ceiling. sometimes there's electricity, internet, and even news from outside. for example, about the latest russian airstrikes in be, feel still, some were me. so i'm from a city that was bomb to day of good, they hit a maternity ward the so we don't feel anything any more. both. no fear mister rosalind is a will no busy. dmitri says they've held this position since the summer,

keeping watch in the trenches and sleeping in the bunker all the while keeping close contact with the front line. also, no group was a little sonia chosen. the situation there is still difficult to recruit. we're taking losses just like our enemy means weaker, but we can't pull back from our position for women. the more imbroglio, steroids, as long as the war goes on, or until other orders come, they want to stay here. they say waiting under ground. while poland is asking germany to send patriot anti missile systems intended for the polish armed forces to ukraine. instead, germany proposed sending the weapons to poland after 2 holes were killed by a stray ukrainian missile. or saw initially welcome to the offer, but now says the u. s. made patriots should go to ukraine instead. he has reacted with his use. he has them. but germany's defense minister has poured cold water on the idea. as, as one switch dish gets in wooten to us, that poland can rely on allies standing by each other,

even when in difficult times aga and especially poland in its exposed position, we own justice. that was one we offered support with air defenses. and patriot missiles had to be of these patriots are part of nato's air defense. i like it. that means they are intended for nato territory. and if they are deployed elsewhere, that has to be discussed in advance. it's about and on most us for here. mid donato on min aaliyah can push bonbon and i'd like to pull in our political correspond at matthew moore, who is standing by at the german defense ministry. matthew, what is the german government's a read of what poland is doing here? hi clay. yeah. the mini didn't see out loud, but the feeling here is that paula does kind of playing politics with this issue. you mean this would be a huge escalation. the patriot missile defense system is a nito, and it's part of a neat or integrated defense system as we heard. and it would involve essentially,

liter, for the 1st time in this war, walking collectively and grunting defense, and bringing ukraine into ne twos to defend system. for the 1st time when, as we heard berlin believes this would be a decision for me to. i like to discuss em among each other and, and it's not really a decision for berlin to take unilaterally. so there's a feeling here that poland has been quite cute by appearing to kind of to throw that back to that, to germany, to say that, that we could give this to you credits. and so it's not for them to well for this thing to see that a public rep on this issue playing out among nato members. america, we're now 9 months into the war in ukraine. i was gonna ask you, if there is still disagreement among nato members on whether to send more weapons to ukraine. yeah, been the definitely this to this disagreements and as you there, the feeling is that these disagreements should be, should be aired in private as disagreements over whether you st. heavy weaponry,

pan panza and, you know, tanks, et cetera. but over this issue, it's quite specific. it's because for, for, for 9 months or for in recent months, you neat while i have acted independently to send and high tech defense, meso systems. but again, with the patriots, that would be something quite different. and there's a fear here that by having this discussion of in public and this is what i think, am bothered, the german defense minister today. and the estonian defense minister to said we shouldn't be having these discussions in public. we should be, we should be discussing as privately and doing so in public essentially hands power and to russia to vladimir putin, as well as to william defense minister said m. so yet there are disagreements of course, but the feeling is that they should not be broadcast and aired, sought to openly as the r m of as were seen with this case. thank you very much. that's did any political course on it, matthew, more for us. the convenience be now it's mother world news headlines.

china says new cases of cove at 1900 infection have reached 31000 nationwide. a record that has prompted authorities to impose targeted lockdown and closures in almost all major cities. china 0 coven policy has been under intense pressure in recent weeks as case numbers have surge. malaysia's king has sworn in the former opposition leader and was given to him as the new prime minister and more center left coalition when the most in the election. but not an outright majority. brazil's election authority, meanwhile, has rejected a call from outgoing president gyre both scenarios party to review the presidential election run off results. officials say the party did not present any evidence to support if claim of electoral fraud and coastal and serbia have reached a last minute deal to end a dispute over vehicle license plates because of a wanted to find ethnic serv drivers using serbian,

issued plates negotiators in brussels agreed on new measures to avoid the route escalating and the un human rights council is deciding whether to investigate iran, the crackdown on anti government protestors. chevron has accused western nations of lacking the moral credibility to preach about human rights. but the counsel estimate 14000 people have been detained by iranian security forces during 2 months of protest. and germany's foreign minister and elena bar box as the people of iran need protection. that is why we are now proposing bed an independent and impartial un mechanism to be established to investigate these human rights violations. so that those responsible can be hold accountable. because impunity prevents justice. justice

process, this justice for son, justice from others. they have names gina, i do fidel, me new today's about them. today's also test of our courage here in the united nations about our courage to speak out. well, lou saint mckinnon of human rights watch says that the united nations can still investigate even if iran doesn't cooperate this fisher up to on iran, which has been in existence for a number of years and has never had the corporation of a government of iran. so we don't expect that iran would support and cooperate with an investigation established now by the counsel. ah, however, we know, you know that that's not an uncommon situation. there are many mechanisms established by the human rights council where the country concerned does not operate other examples being yamaha and north korea and so on. so, and there are other ways of course, of doing these sorts of investigations,

remote investigations. so speaking to witnesses and victims remotely, and of course, using information that's available publicly on social media. lots of videos for the photograph. testimonies, which of course need to be verified can be used to, to do criminal investigations. and the key here, of course, is that this would be an impartial debate, independent investigation, and so give it a great deal of credibility while turkish president wretch up tie up to one is threatening to launch a ground offensive against kurds in northern syria. turkish forces have hit hundreds of kurdish targets in air strikes across syria and iraq, turkey plains kurdish militants for a recent bombing in its stumble. russia and the u. s. are calling for restraint. turkish missiles, once again raining down on kurdish area. turkey has been waging a war with cody's militants for decades. the codes inhabit a mountainous region struggling 5 countries,

including iraq and syria. the largest number live in turkey, where they fight for self rule has always met a brutal response from ankara. turkey as blaming kurdish forces in iraq and syria for a bombing in e stumble earlier this month, which killed 6 people the could of denied involvement. but turkey has responded with the tax in iraq. and chiefly northern syria. here, turkey or pro turkish fighters already control some board areas shown here in blue . president rich of ty of ed one wants to expand that area and his targeting land controlled by kurdish forces and their allies shown here in yellow. the kurds killed in turkish as strikes here are allies of the us and winced mental and driving back militants from islam state group and syria. but turkey sees no

difference between the kurdish fighters here and the outlawed p. k. k terrace group . the kurds for their part of fighting back as they've always done firing rockets into turkish controlled areas. in northern syria, the united states and russia are urging turkey to show restraint. but so far, those calls are going unheeded. on some other news now, while they identified the omicron variant of covered 19 and immediately raised the alarm. but instead of being praised, the african scientist behind the discovery found themselves scapegoats on the receiving end of death threats and to travel ban the botswana. harvard aids institute is one of the leading h i v research institutions on the continent with some of the best virology tests, including sickle leila model. when the pandemic hit morrow and his team turned their focus from sequencing h, i v to cove it. and in november 2021,

they made an unusual discovery, a new pattern with a high amount of mutations. the omicron variant. they reported it immediately. i think isn't it a lot of what they sell maybe infections? ah, the only unfortunate reaction was within a few hours few days that many countries in southern africa were blacklisted. almost 2 years into the pandemic, the world once again went on full alert, borders were closed flights to southern africa cancelled. and suddenly those who discovered it became scapegoats even receiving death threats. a lot of people say you scientists have big mouths look what you have done. and it was very uncomfortable. a few hours after it was discovered in botswana, scientists here in south africa, sequenced it to toyota. olivia was one of my oldest ph. d supervises. now they

closely collaborate on their research. that's what was from them. it showed that the african can become a scientific leader on, on, on the pandemic response which surprised many countries in the world but, but, but did not surprise us because that's big investments that we have been doing. especially people, but also in big labs and equipment for the past 20th to olivia is one of the leading scientists in the field of viral outbreaks and is also from the global south. what surprised him was how busy the north was with itself during the pandemic. and effective air travel bands. so i think that was very, very, very said how they would, they had the chance to respond to a global problem. and they decided to respond with an nationalistic approach with the didn't help. despite these challenges moyer unto olive yerra, continue their work. proving that leading medical research is also done in africa,

and that europe can learn lessons from the continent. ah, time for an update of from day 5 of the football world cup in cotter and a switzerland have edged cameroon, wanted know braille, and bolo scored the only goal, ensuring it was a former bonus legal player, rather than a current one who crops the headlines. ah, now and proud. this is cameron's 8th who had cut appearance and it started on the right footing camera room where the more dangerous side at east in the 1st half. when the next try catch eric maxine chapel morning who have been red hot for by and the season had several good chances. but he was unable to replicate his cup success to day. by one explanation, eager player did form a chalka and napa, who would read em. buelo broke the debt log. a subdued celebration from the 25 year old who was born in cameroon. before relocating to switzerland,

switzerland nearly added a 2nd. go late on in the end one gold proved enough for them in their fans with em bowl or the difference maker. and to chip hands staged a stunning come back to beat germany to one. the surprise victory made ways for the winners back home, fans are doubling at the miracle in doha. and there even calls for a national holiday a to one week tween that wasn't quite expected in japan. and the fans came running out to the streets of tokyo to celebrate, oh, they're still lord, a come. we'll definitely when our next match against coaster rica specific with just they will not visual. i want them to break through the group stage and aim for the trophy. ah, japan, teen the blue?

some are i beat germany. the full time will cook champions. the game turned around and the 2nd half as japan scored to late goals. both came from players who play for wonderfully got clubs in germany. also canada, of course, the win over germany is very important. but since the team's goal is to make it to the semi finals, the next match is really important going on. so i hope they'll reset themselves and prepare for the oh, well, and the other game in that group, spain destroyed costa rica, 7 mill, putting them in japan, in a strong position to reach the la 16, our sport correspondent, jonathan harding, and doha told us what the results will mean for germany's chances. oh, nothing good. i think if he, oh, toughest opponent is going to win 70 turf and he puts germany in a tough spot. the. the biggest issue for germany now is that on the david they play spain to plan pay play costa rica earlier on. and if japan, when not the germany know that they absolutely have to win, or they'll be going home and facing a worse woke up than in russia,

which is hard to believe. but that's where we're at with this germany team right now. that's because he's jonathan harding, reporting there from pish har, was a day is a thanksgiving, the biggest holiday in the united states. and after 2 years of disruption this year is seeing travel volumes and back to normal. and even beyond, several airlines are exciting. their busiest day since before the pandemic, the american automobile association also says roads will be at their most crowded in years. a travel safely for all those celebrating. you're watching it dw news. a quick reminder of our top story before we go. ukrainian president zalinski has urged the un security council to back a resolution condemning any forms of energy terror. after his country's electric grid. it was battered by a new wave of russian muscles. the strikes knocked out power and heat in several cities and caused massive blackouts in neighboring wall dopa. also, the un human rights body is debating whether to launch an investigation into

a ron's brutal crack down against a 2 month old anti regime protest. the iranian government slammed the meeting, saying western nations lack the moral credibility to preach to others on human rights as update at this hour. thank you so much for joining us with ah, with

just across the border in epic, hardy is kicking off where attendees can enjoy themselves in a way that would be impossible back home. people from iran travel to eastern turkey by, by a short trip to taste freedom. that can also be dangerous a on d w. oh,

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entire continent. a variety of cars. so what on this, so all the focus, the move and shake is visionaries and make us when binding the meaning of modern africa. is that on d w with this is focus on europe. i'm la babel allah, welcome to the show. relations between europe and iran are deteriorating fast.