ah ah ah ah, does this dw news lie from berlin? russia continues its brutal barrage in ukraine, hitting cave and curse on the southern city that ukrainian force has retook only 2 weeks ago. sustained the heaviest bombing to date. also coming up. authorities in

uganda take steps to curb. the spread of the bowl of iris curfews and travel bands are in place and public institutions are post plus a scheme and germany is helping to make it easier to prosecute the cases of sexual violence while reducing additional trauma to survivors and the world cup. the host are out and the iranian national team and it style and protest ah, after threats of reprisals, players half heartedly sang along to ron's national anthem. the team then went on to beat whales to know ah, i'm nicole for relief to those of you joining us on p b. s. in the united states and to all our viewers around the world. welcome. officials and carson say at least 15 people have been killed in missile attacks on

the city in ukraine, south. the attacks are the worst the region has seen since it was re taken 2 weeks ago by ukrainian troops. the targets include homes and commercial buildings. her sons, governor says hospital patients including children, are being evacuated due to the constant attacks. a quick warning, this next report contains disturbing images. the damage remains of another rush, an attack on ukrainian homes, like so much of his song, there is no power here. and the latest deadly shelling came during the night. emergency lights help reveal the devastation to residence while paramedics rushed to help the injured look. but also still these were shells completed. the keyboard howling cookies carry and there were a lot of spar like viola, rush and missiles,

rain down right across here san homes court fire sending ash into the air and littering the streets with shattered glass. here sun is on the front lines of this war. just 2 weeks ago, ukrainian soldiers forced russian occupies out of the city and across the denise pro river dollars russian soldiers, now escalating this, shelling on her son's homes and infrastructure. any celebration of the city's liberation was short lived. it's tears and good byes for these families . as they leave some having withstood 9 months of russian occupation with the luck of from a full bombs fell right next to our house. and it's too dangerous for my daughter. so i'm taking her to safety in poland driscoll authorities urging residents to leave the city if they can, to help ease pressure on badly damaged infrastructure review. they are taking

revenge. they want to turn capstone into a new mighty or poor. we didn't do anything wrong with. only half of ukraine's energy needs are being met after the latest russian strikes with no heating winter has become a weaken. as supplies and infrastructure continue to be pummeled by rushes, shelling ukrainians, embracing for more dark days and heat hid away. a correspondent young full of shots is in the east of the country near the front line, and he sent us this update with the mess of wife of missile attacks on civilian infrastructure across ukraine. it is sometimes almost forgotten, that fierce fighting continues on the front lines in the east here in the eastern part of hurricane region, very close to the russian border. so just getting ready for the beginning of winter and all the challenges that brings with it. temperatures can drop to minus 30 minus 32 degrees in the coming weeks most. so just say that this will probably mean that the battles get less dynamic,

but nobody thinks that fighting will stop any time soon. power outages across your craner taking or tall on both troops and civilians. jo, it sincerely on it is a national security expert and former u. s. government advisor. and earlier i asked him how effect of russia strategy of targeting you. ukraine's energy grid is likely to be it is very effective and it's, it's objective to terrorize and to punish the ukrainian people. it doesn't appear to be effective in the overall russian goal of breaking the will of ukrainian people to resist and with it breaking the will of the west to support the ukrainians. it's clear that the russian army is over extended and exhausted, but it still has a mass of manpower, a mass of artillery that prevent the ukrainians from advancing much further at this point. and it prevents them from consolidating their gains near the front line. as

you can see from the terror artillery rounds that are being pummeled into, into hershawn, these can do a quick stream damage. and the russians have hit upon a strategy that is both terrifying and effective. they have taken down at least half of ukrainian electric grid and much of the water and, and other power supply eyes of ukraine. this is causing tremendous misery for millions of ukrainians. so far, however, it hasn't actually affected the ukrainian war effort. at the fact that these russian recruits are often ill prepared, inadequately whipped for the front lines and also poorly motivated. what effect could this have over the coming months? well, i would not rule out a new ukrainian counter offensive that could have a similar impact to that, that we just saw in the liberation of hair shawn, or that we saw 2 months ago in the breakthrough in the hard key region. that is,

the russian army is fragile, it is over extended. it is poorly equipped, as you say. so even though they're watching tens of thousands of recruits, that they just picked up literally off the streets of russian cities in the last few weeks these, these are, these are not motivated troops. these are not well equipped, well trained troops. so it's possible that the ukranian strategy of not attacking frontally, but of hitting the lines of communication hitting the supply networks, could lead to some breakthroughs. i'd be looking at the little hands province up in the upper done boss region and possibly near here sean itself. as they try to get at the artillery rounds that are punishing that city, it might be possible to cut off those artillery brigades that are on the eastern side of the knee pro river in order to stop that kind of terror bombing. i don't expect the winter to result in

a decrease in ukrainian counter offensive operations this kind of terror or tactics or the russians a to brutal for the ukrainians to ignore. yet, at these russian troops are under a command of a highly unpredictable man. in 2015, you published a book titled nuclear nightmares. and how close are we to nuclear nightmare? there are 2 nuclear threats we face in one is from the shelling of their nuclear plant at zap arisia, which continues to this day. the head of the i a is extremely worried that we're on the brink of a nuclear disaster there. and this is potent goal, he wants to again, terrorize the ukrainian population, try to get them to surrender, at least agree to a cease fire. the other is the risk of nuclear weapons. i actually think the risk of nuclear weapons has decreased. it was much more. we much, we worried much more brought in the 1st few months of the war. we heard almost daily threats of nuclear weapons then that those threats have decreased. and we

don't see any, any possible scenario, whether it be a military significance to the use of nuclear weapons. it's hard to imagine a scenario where a potent could use a nuclear weapon and gain a military objective if anything would increase his diplomatic and economic isolation. and might bring nato directly into the war. for those reasons, i believe potent would be very hesitant to use a nuclear weapon at this point. i believe there are a lot of people on this planet. happy to hear that assessment jolts or, and see any of the council on foreign relations. thank you so much. thank you for having me. and here's a look at some other stories making this around the world today. you commission president, it was enough on the line has assured ukraine that the you will intensify. efforts to provide support to the country's power grid. half of ukraine's energy facilities have been damaged in recent weeks by rushing, shelling, causing widespread power and heating outages. young activists in sweden have sued

the government for taking insufficient action against climate change. the activist march to stock homes district court to file the lawsuit which is supported by 600 young people. it asked the court to determine whether the country violated its citizen rights, whether it's climate policy. a global summit on trade and endangered species has approved a plan to protect sharks. the plan includes $54.00 different species and aims to reduce the cruel trade and sharp fence. the proposal was adopted by 183 countries as well as the european union. china has reported another record high of daily cove . at 19 infections were the cases exceeding 32000 authorities have imposed fresh locked downs and closures and almost all major cities in line with the countries. controversial 0 covered policy authorities in uganda have closed schools around the country and a bid to curb the spread of the abolla virus. although the number of confirmed cases has decreased in recent weeks, the government has also introduced

a nightly curfew and a ban on personal travel. many markets bars and churches are also closed. the virus has killed more than 50 people since the start of the outbreak in september, including several health care workers. now adding to the problem is the fact that there is still no proven vaccine against this particular strain known as the sudan ebola virus. i asked dw, reported julius morgan, why in uganda, about the race to develop a treatment? this is a strange virus on it's so disturbing scientists because they have not yet identified an effective vaccine for it. we have hud talks from the world health organization and ministry of those. that vaccine trials will be starting very soon. whereas this is not the virus that has queued more people. hot of the volumes that have killed more people, especially in west africa. this one comes now with a completely new challenge because at least in west africa,

eventually the fond of oxy. but for the sudan virus, this is darnell bullard virus. the scientists are still looking for that solution. so it's a very strange stream, and it's still giving scientist here, dick. hopefully the trials will be successful. now to the issue that he w is covering across the entire day, gender based violence, according to the united nations. every our 5 women are killed by members of their own families. today is the international day for the elimination of violence against women. the u. n. is launching 16 days of activism aimed at raising awareness of what it says are alarming rates. a famous sign that's when women or girls are murdered simply because they are women or girls. the un says 45000 women were killed by family members last year alone. the highest number was in asian countries followed by africa, but it's a threat facing women around the world. here in germany,

around one in every 7 women experience rape or sexual assaults in their life times . but few instances are reported because make them fear, they will not get adequate help from the police. and if cases do come to court, only a fraction end in a conviction. a new scheme in germany has a way to address that and help reinforce cases against perpetrators of sexual violence. it happens every day, sexual assault, rape, or severe injuries caused by gender based violence. almost 10000 cases were recorded by german police last year. but many cases likely go unreported because the perpetrator is often a partner or x partner and the scene of the crime is often their home and was it was with wasn't when, for example, something of this nature occurs in a family, an instance of domestic or sexual violence then people are afraid of destroying

social structure. so i'm disturbing the family piece room is reported and that can cause huge problems within a family or within existing social circles you. so people say, i'll just leave it to unless it's live or guns farm. evidence of a sexual assault such as spam, dna, own clothing, or photos of injuries must be secured as soon as possible. that happens automatically when there is a police report. but survivors of rape often just want to forget what happened. and that can mean destroying all traces of the perpetrator in the east and german state of brandenburg as well as in other german states. more and more hospitals have been taking a different approach for several years now without involving the police. those affected can have themselves examined confidentially and anonymously, by a gynecologist or a urologist. hospitals have forensic medical tools to secure evidence,

including clothing, dna, or photographs. that evidence is kept on file for 10 years. at the same time, the women offered immediate medical assistance and put in touch with the victim counseling centers. it was a limit to miss owens. this system is useful in cases of re trauma to zation. so when the whole thing happens again, the 1st time and even the 2nd time it happens that i may not have wanted to record it is this may be the 3rd time i do want to a month, and then it is possible to access old cases. so to speak and the current context. and since i'm not going over one few cases of rape in germany, a reported than in other european countries, perpetrators often get off scot free. the project wants that to change, even if survivors only have the courage to go to the police much later. a short while ago i spoke to ali that lo hunter,

ne though she's the co founder of feminists iep math dot org and berlin. a group of voluntary researchers looking into famous sides. i asked her about the difficulty of collecting data when gender based killings are so heavily under reported. yes, exactly, it's a well, thank you for having us here. and we are not only based in germany, we are online projects, so many people are abroad with some other members are also in the li, i'm the pony. it covenant he's not recognized and therefore there is no data and he's not report it. as i mean i watch. therefore we collect data from newspapers that are made. so information we get to these cases through google are learned. and then we percent of the cases that we get every day to, to the tool and how many cases have you been able to document this year so far?

this year so far we have collected a 181. but we have 2 colors that we register, ok, women and 75, because we want to see also what are the other patterns. so he's not only about $25.00, but $75.00. we have it recorded so far a 125. to clarify also we can see there for many fight, not only a intimate fight her intimate 75 cases. we have register so far the year, 86 cases. and that would be at the hands of a partner or a former partner. yeah, usually intimate feminist id to find out a couple that had thought of the relationship. this is a tremendously important task you're carrying out, which is the government doing this? yes, but it's like it has happened in or it happens in many other countries because the

government, very simple. the rick and i problem it is the work of activities or civil society word that perform these because it is all the ones that are suffering and also the ones that want to find pollution did. so yes, you should be the definitely the states, but when they take notes, even recognize the problem of the case with germany that for many years it has been recognized that at all, that's the 1st problem that we are challenging. and to what extent is this an issue of framing, you say it's not really recognized as, as a problem in germany, for instance, domestic fem, asides are often treated as a private matter rather than a broader societal issue. yes, i think that's the thing in this question. the 1st one is like the frame in the importance of naming these crimes such because the german government has

the night to collect data on any size on there, excuse me, that it is not a creamy, not because they were eat in germany. therefore, they don't have the, the power to record the numbers and also because the convention does not address concrete, the pipe. they also kind of cute of not registering the cases which from our perspective is not even an argument. and the other one is like a premium. i mean if i, our committee are related to that, i will call it the intimate, i mean the psych son in law program. he's also a problem because then you'll ever raised the true wrong answer. title aspect of the problem is through that he's also there is a couple people and they will but also from the, from the society when we have a problem or justify the problem. say like, ok is because these women in

a relationship with this person or is because this woman a step that's the violence in the 1st place. it curve all then we are. this is, this is high. tell us that the researchers a media side are speaking about and they, they will contain a lot of many see map dot org. thank you so much for your time. thank you. back to the world cup now where the 2nd round of group matches has begun and grew a. the netherlands went up against ecuador with both teams. coming off a win in their opening matches, the dutch opened the scoring and the 6 minute cody dark ball with a strong strength from the distance with his team on course to be the 1st to qualify for the knockout stage, bud ecuador approved the had come to play and in their 2nd half their captain enter, valencia scored a tap in for a final score of $11.00. and that means katara are out

after only 2 games the 1st time. this is ever happened to a world cup host nation. i spoke to our correspond and daniel barcelona, and dora, and asked her how big a humiliation this was. this is utter humiliation. it's an absolute disaster. so the 1st host nation to lose multiple group stage games. they're the only the 2nd to go out in the group stage. so for them, it's a total total disappointment. after all the time they had to prepare and all the money that they spent on this tournament for them to go to the gruesome is, has been a shock to everyone. now, i mean, in their 1st game, they did not look convincing. they looked unorganized. they didn't look sharp, and in their 2nd game also the 1st half, they look that way. they did pick it up in the 2nd half. they showed that they could play, but ultimately it was too little too late because in a tournament like the world cup you have to perform right from the very beginning.

some guitar fans we spoke to after the match were so disappointed they said at least they thought their team would make it out of the group stage. we've seen a lot of empty seats in the arena so far. can you tell us a little about the atmosphere in the stadiums maybe compared to other competitions we've been to is there is a lot of talk about attendance in the state is because some gays, we've seen that there have been some empty seats. now some people are saying people might be exaggerating these numbers a little bit, but these empty seats, you know, for a number of reasons. so fans who have bought tickets, they might not be here. also, the lot of the empty seats are in the lower part of the stadium, which is where often times are the more expensive tickets or sponsors or special gas. and they might not be showing up. now here on the ground in doha, there's ticketing centers for those matches and there's been a lot of disaster. so like line ups and then some technical failures. so people

weren't able to get the tickets. but ultimately, the atmosphere in the games that i've been at has been nothing but amazing. right? we don't have much time, but i do want to ask you about iran who got a big and to nil when overweight. but again, the on pitch action was rather a secondary listener. it definitely was, i mean, you ran in national team finds itself in a very difficult position right now, because all of the unrest that's happening in their country. but they also find themselves on the world stage, but ultimately they did win the game and they find themselves in a good position moving forward in the tournament despite everything. diane barth. alona, thanks. now ron's football teams, refusal to singer national anthem was bigger news than the score line in their 1st match. now they're singing again after what appears to be immense pressure from the government. just one sign of a huge risk iranian people are taking to show their descent and a world cup,

overshadowed by human rights issues. these iranian fans in the stadium wanted to seize the opportunity and draw attention to the bloody crick don't on protests happening in their home. country, but their message, women, life freedom, was not welcomed by fi fun cut up and removed. just like iranian flex alter, to hide the symbol of the islamic republic. the team's decision to this time sing the national anthem, albeit reluctantly. assign of the immense pressure the play asunder, and the you mediation, painful to watch for many in attendance. for others, it's a symbol of giving into a regime they don't approve of, especially since it comes just a day after they form a t med voyager for re was arrested in iran after training session with his club full. that was a stop there. 40 is of kurdish origin and his repeatedly criticized the oppression

of women and minorities in these law, mac republic. now he's facing charges for tarnishing the reputation of the national team and spreading propaganda against the state. that mexico 41 of the more than 15000 people authorities in iran have arrested since the protest began in september . more than 300 iranians have been killed according to human rights groups. and every day security forces attack, protest us all over the country. it has created a rift through iranian society, that's also on display in cato, outside the stadium, supporters of these law, mac republic, try to silence, anti government protest us and hide them messages, turning the match itself into a sideshow. and so the iranian team managed to defeat wales on the pitch and yet disappointed to many of their fence for not standing by them.

even if you're afraid of creepy crawly, these ones might just the light you. a new exhibition in france has put some giant illuminated insect sculptures on display to highlight the importance of bugs in our ecosystem. 50 beats who wrapped. i don't leave so brightly colored beetles and a honey b. r welcoming people took did want to rush awkwardly colorful. it's joyful. you we see yellow, orange these superb colors. it shows us that we live in a wonderful world. maggie, you exhibition not only aimed to shoot a remarkable beauty of disdaining creatures. it also highlights fame button joy, deeply in our environment. her pull, the whole system of life on earth is based on this microscopic by diversity which

we often ignore and which is essential to us all. so if visitors can be made aware of that, if they come out of the sick suppression with this idea, we will have achieved something was ha, ha, ally young scientists say around half a 1000000 in thick species, i'd at risk of extinction getting the use of pesticides and increasing the number and size of green space if i some measures that could help save them and for more diversity you're watching the w news. there's a quick reminder of our top story today. officials in the southern ukrainian city, of course on say at least 15 people have been killed and missile strikes. attacks are worse than the region since it was re taken 2 weeks ago by ukrainian. i'm nicole friendly. stay tuned now because after a short break, i'll be back to take you through the day of to see that with with

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