ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, no end in sight to brushes, destruction of ukraine's infrastructure. president fulton tells german leader olaf shoulds by phone that such attacks are inevitable. schultz presses put in for a diplomatic solution to end the war. as soon as possible, also coming up iran ramps up threats against journalists covering its harsh crack. down on nationwide protests the regimes targets even include reporters outside of

the country. and there's another huge shock at the world cup in could tar germany are out. pansy fixed band finally got a win bead in costa rica, but it wasn't enough to stop them from heading home. fans are devastated. i can't describe as it's like empty. they're lost 30 minutes. i was just looking him up. been old being old things. painless. corbin with blue i'm sorry, kelly, welcome to the program. more threats to ukraine have come out in the last hour in the phone call between russian president vladimir putin and german chancellor, olaf schultz. according to the kremlin potent told sholtes that attacks on

ukraine's infrastructure are inevitable, and he accused the west of pursuing destructive policies. berlin says sholtes, urged bruton to find a diplomatic solution to the war as soon as possible. that's fair. our corresponded hand front who is in berlin, and d, w, russia, analysts, constantine, egret, who's joining us from the with winning capital vilnius. and hans, i'll begin with you. tell us a little bit more about the german reaction. pretty scuse, the german chancery confirmed that the phone conversation took place that a token are and that's a show. it's criticize the attacks by the russians on infrastructure, on civilian infrastructure in ukraine and germany would continue to support your cry and weapons and in financial support. so that it could defend itself against russian aggression. there was also an appeal to the rational president for the pro magic solution. and the german chance really emphasized that this would have to

include the withdrawal of russian troops from ukraine. there was one point on which the 2 leaders agreed. both statements mentions of the deal for the export of grain from ukrainian harvest through the black sea. they're both emphasized that this was an important agreement that should continue under the supervision of the united nations constantine. i'll turn out to you, you know, with your analysis, what do you think the intention might be with this statement and what should the west expect from the next look, any cool like that, and especially, any call mentioning, ah, urging peace talks is seen as a sign of weakness in the kremlin. so when put in his weakness, he wants to show strength. that's why he told childs that attacks will continue because of a ukrainian attacks and russian infrastructure, which were actually not very numerous to put it mildly. and i suppose that putin

still sees a winter had him, and he hopes for a disruption in europe, and what's even more important. he hopes that the grain population will start pressuring its own leadership for some kind of peace deals. he's fire a name with what you want as a result of hardship. and secondly, as long as he has weapons, even while fairly primitive ones, and he will continue to destroy ukrainian infrastructure. you know, people frequently ask what is put in strategy, put his threatened re is based now on the capacities he has. so if has capacity to continue destroying ukrainian infrastructure, he'll continue to do that. thank you so much, constantine, i get and hand plant for the steam coverage and other esna's appreciated. or meanwhile, ukraine's military says that russia has pulled some of its troops back from front lines near the southern city of hare san. but original governor said friday that 3

civilians were killed by continued shelling of the area. they also warned that a russian aerial assault is being planned which could worsen shortages of water, electricity, and heating across the brain. d, w is yon phillips sholtes, visited 2 towns in the countries east. there were people who he operated on the injured down here, and he helped women give birth at times. surgeon, judy quits in yourself, was the only doctor left as is you and was under heavy fire. he was in charge of everything. this is upstairs. patients still arrive and medical stuff have reclaimed some of the less damaged rooms. but the coming months are weary. linda zamora, good, good. we've got to survive the winter period. now modern, we've got to somehow maintain our medical care at a higher level during that time or more the new way. unfortunately,

we cannot rely on the hospitals, centralized heating system anymore into the missouri. but we've started to buy electric heaters, ton known to do it. at least an easy on the attacks are already weeks old. it's a different story and coupons around 40 kilometers north. several people who were hurt by artillery fire, the more the we've visited. this is where they would normally go and attack ruined the local trolley clinic just a few days before the injured have to leave town. yet the head doctor shows us what is left office office provided for your for john wooten moore's. and there's simply no excuse for this, said i, it looks like they want to destroy the civilian population. there is never been military personnel at the poly clinic, only civilians, no one. maybe we just provided medical treatment to normal people in need of all those movies. the hallmark workers not saving them wrong, done them hewing at one of the few 80 amps in the town that still works. those normal people see their home being destroyed or wrong them and that the temperature

draw couldn't been recorded partition every day. when you leave your home, you see new devastation and this was such a flourishing city. once i get no room, what of my village? i to time had a very nice medical center, but it doesn't work anymore, but sometimes doctors visit them, but we don't have any doctors of our in any more literature. dr. sinclair says he's looking for a place to set up a temporary clinic. but he says the russians didn't just damage good building, india, lou, the keeper of the people who work in our medical facility have to come under fire 3 times. now. imagine 3 time was frankly, people are frightened so, so on the grounds, russian destruction of civilian infrastructure fields increasingly like a strategy for the people living here near the front. it could become a matter of life or death. and i spoke with our corresponded john phillips sholtes

in ukraine, about the hardships on the ground and asked if keith was getting the international help, it needed to ease its possession. yes, they are getting help with their getting her from international organizations. but sometimes even more importantly, they're getting head from countless small volunteer groups and almost all the places we stay. i see medical volunteers trying to help are spending their own money on necessary equipment. but the big problem is, some places are just too dangerous to work at, even if you're willing to take go risks. and this creates new challenges. of course, you can just go into a town very shortly. you have to quickly deliver the materials. and this means that you really have to make sure that it reaches the right people. and so it's not going to to, to any wrong place. and tell us a little bit more about that because we understand that the whole of the country

are there are patches that are suffering from shortages of electricity. water heating tell us a little bit more about the efforts for the ukranian government to help at citizens . it the government in the past days has a set up to around 1000 to emergency centers. and these centers, people can get free electricity, they can get free heating, they can even get some basic medical services, and it's also impressive how fast technicians can often repair damaged infrastructure bads. with every russian attack, of course, it gets more difficult to repair the infrastructure and they're still hundreds of thousands of some say, even some, several 1000000 people without electricity. it's at the same time the government is trying to upgrade its air defense, of course, to make sure that less missiles had hit

a civilian infrastructure about a lot of challenges at the same time to handle protocol. and russia has attacked other ukrainian infrastructure again and again. um, where do it, does the situation go from here? it's going to be a very hard and cold to winter for ukrainians. that's for sure. and they have those a center for this emergency center of but everybody knows this is probably not going to be enough a to, to make sure the people ag or it can be warm throughout the winter. a lot of people say that and they, they are even really thinking about leaving the country for the winter. now the government is repeatedly telling people to stuck up on, on warm clothes. but even all those dark perspectives don't seem to change the did you the determination of the people here?

a lot of people even say the country will even fight harder throughout the winter. john phillip shelton key. thank you. harrison. their stories making is south africa. as president, seal rama. poster has entered crisis talks with the head of his governing and see party, the leader is under growing pressured to step down or face impeachment proceedings . then rum poses accused of breaching anti corruption laws. and the alleged cover up of a cash burglary at a farm that he owns. a group of u. k. lawmakers are visiting taiwan where they met with taiwanese leader to discuss regional security and boosting ties between britain and the self. hulu island. beijing considers taiwan part of its territory and described the visit as a gross interference in china's internal affairs. authority say that flooding and southern brazil has killed at least 2 people. rescue crews are trying to evacuate

hundreds of families trapped in their homes. some had to be airlifted to safety. search teams are also still looking for dozens of missing people after a landslide hit a motorway. earlier this week, iran has been ramping up its threats against journalists and dissidence as its struggles to contain the flow of often anti government information. as iran is rocked by protest, dissidents are fighting a constant battle to stay ahead of iran's intelligence services and get information out. the committee to protect journalists say that 62 journalists have been arrested by the iranian regime for reporting on the death of deena musser. i'm a knee who died in custody of the morality police in september. this means that many people rely on foreign media outlets for independent coverage of events going on back home and eat up is person service is one of them. ya know, she wanted for 8 weeks in a row, nil of fargo law,

me and her colleagues have been closely following the crack down on the protest. any wrong? what is their task 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 they receive video footages from inside your own problem streets of iran. and of course, we have some sources. we have some connections and some reliable sources that that's a published, a video that's 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 citizen. citizen reporters. with this material, d, w person language team produces dozens of videos and articles every day. thanks to bypass software such as tor or syphon people in iran can access the w's content. and in spite of the regimes efforts to block foreign media,

they tried to prevent pictures and image just reaching us. and if we tried to prevent our content to reach people in the wrong, but it doesn't work because what we're seeing the contrary, that we have a lot more or even 4 times more reached. and we have before the protest again. but their work comes with the price t w's person language department has been sanctioned, with a travel band by the iranian regime. many here still have family back in iran. they are fearing for their safety. for the, the regimes arm seems to reach all the way to germany. some team members have even received personal threat. 3rd, but tend to tell you over to me, the threat should be taken seriously. because in the past 43 years, the law republic has repeatedly attacked its opponents in exile and with terror attacks and kidnappings, including journalists and political activists, where she can imprisoning and torture is part of the regime daily routine. michigan, man, but this behavior makes me focus even more on my journalistic work 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. i'm, i'm of what they call it an ongoing revolution that could last for months or even years. i been one. and earlier i spoke with debbie as dallas, i laugh she is head of the persian service and i began by asking her the kind of threats that her team members have received. and this rides was you witnessing right now is a threats and of different quality for it to give you an example, we have a colleague, we're all or a lot of is instagram followers have been called by iran's intelligence, asking them or wanting from them to unfold this journalist and also telling that they have plans for him and calling him a more had a beer, which i have to maybe explain is

a war against god. and even right now we are witnessing any wrong. many protesters who have been detained or too famous wrappers are charged with this verdict a bit, and it can lead also to death penalties that we have with that also in the past. so this is one case. another case is that the police has informed us actually about a list of a journalist being targeted by islamic republic and, and one of our colleagues has been, has been on this list. so and what in general is happening and, and is increasing? is it trying to put pressure on the family's back end? iran, threatening them in order to make our journalists year to silence them and to kind of maybe report less critical and be less active. and, but the police in germany really takes these threats seriously,

appears to be our attempts here at, at intimidation. so yada explained to us, you know, when we're, when we're looking at people in iran, when they're trying to get information such as what you're articulating is happening right now. where are they going? is this mostly now over social media? absolutely, social media is a is crucial at the moment. i think we would not be able to report without social media because the a da media landscape, any round it. there is no free press. it is just the state media is the state news agencies and they are trying to control the narrative for it for, for the last 43 years. but it's getting harder for them because people are out there and they're only weapons are doing mobile phones. they are filming, and they are sending us the material and the videos of what is happening there. and just to give you an example, and how important this is, there has been, i will leaked al, you're fired by an activist group called black report. and,

and it makes very clear that iranian officials are saying that date, they call it the media of war. that they have failed and doing so because of social media and it that they will investing will be investing and future more on that actually. how do you work with your sources and iran? and, you know, we have to, of course, at the moment there is we have no journalists working for us or directly because this would put anyone in danger. of course we have sources, but it's very important for us to protect them. when we get video material off of scenes of maybe a brutal crackdown of protests, of course, we have to verify them very well that we have the expertise to verify and earn to and then put that in a context and, and publish this video. but what i have to say is the people who run right now are very brave, even though they know that the, just for filming they could risk

a life, and there are risking the lives. we also see people filming scenes of protests and brutality. and then being shut themselves while filming, but they still continue on restore, get these images. and we also witness a lot of people like also german, not, not all journalists, but especially like actors, artists being out there. and you know, wanting us to see that they are, they speak out ok, jada is out of action. joining us our d w's head of the persian service. thank you so much. thank you. oh. and now with football, germany are out of the world cup in could tar, as despite fit in costa rica for 2 and a thrilling game in which germany took the lead and lost it. then we took it. but it was cold comfort as their fate was decided on another patch. costa rica and

germany lined up for one last chance to move out of the group phase. as stephanie for pub became the 1st woman to referee amends, world cup match. germany play the 1st half, swarming forward, and got the games 1st. go on 10 minutes through surge. can every one mill late was days past half time, but they soon came to regret not having more on 58 minutes. wilson tahita put costa rica on level terms, the underdogs and their fans riding and unexpected emotional high. and soon on cloud 9 when the ball was squeezed, past germany, goalkeeper men will know it. as costa rica took the lead, was not a big limit. the l. betty, a stadium, a sudden costa rica breed the place in the last 16. germany settled down though and struck back another 3 times. but the atmosphere fell flat as would spread, the japan were beating spine. the wind was in vain, and germany a hitting her. and here's how that result went down with german fans who followed

their team all the way to guitar. i can't describe, i feel nothing. it's like empty there. last 30 minutes. i was just looking him up and hoping o things been with score, but unfortunately not. and i'm just, i'm so very disappointed. jeremy. it was a great game. so dramatic. i were very disappointed that jeremy's out again, it was video, nice of you know, speed actually up. if you said water. right, you can compare these 210 is heartbreaking. it about you can compare us to which i think i used to go through. it looked at us, we are coming and coming in always going home early in the times. it hurts is horrible. you know, in germany, country sorta country like germany, football county, like germany, can be losing 2 times in a row and a round of strong cumberland and to pan pulled off. one of the great world cup performance is a stink spain and another major world cup upset and top in group

e and the process. everything seemed to be going to plan for spain when alvarado loretta made it one nil early on. but a stunning goal from rit pseudo on made it won all the substitute had only been on the field 3 minutes, but his shot was too hot to handle. and all to naca sealed their latest world cup shock with the winning bull at 51 minutes to pan managed to hold on pushing germany out and sending their fans into a frenzy. and let's take a look at the final standings and group e after that topsy turvy night, a football under dogs to pan go through after topping the group, having beaten both germany and spain. spain qualify for the knockouts too, but germany joined costa rica in making the early trip home. so let's get more of these results. we are joined now from d. w. sports by my ts book was let me here in the studio. first of all, we have to talk about germany's disaster. yeah, i make no mistake. this is

a disaster for germany and i think the most boring thing for the t miss. you can see the decline since the woke up when in 2014, which everybody thought germany is going to be a force for the next century or even longer. but since then we had the disappointing out in groups that already in 2018 in a group where there should have progressed easily. and the same thing happened here right now, and i think performance is from germany weren't all too bad in the 1st game. against japan, they just have to score the 2nd goal and then it's a whole different result, but they did not. and then if you don't go the goals, you conceded in the back, japan won that game and then germany gave it out of their own hands. it was in their po anymore, think it was a decent enough performance against costa rica and also against spain. but overall for germany, it's just not good enough and with the ambitions they have. unfortunately, they really questions have to be asked about this ward and also about the management. how about the old guard? what does it mean for them? well, thomas miller, let's start with him. he's been one of the main figures in this germany team for

a long, long time right now, but after the game, he already hinted that he might retire. so he said, if this was my last game for germany, i just wanted to let the fans know that i always loved to play for my country. so he had a tough time before being omitted by former coach to live. then he was recall now by car and coach hands if lake he was injured for a couple of months before going to the well called maybe that didn't really help him. so maybe this is the last time we seen in, in germany jersey and a couple of others. manuel, no, i the captain innkeeper, he's 36 as well. so if he is going to play another woke up at 40, i highly doubt that as well. didn't a gun said after the game? i don't want to speak about it right now. so maybe it is time for a really like a. yeah, the new guard coming up and there is some tell. and jamal was the allah woke up for on. so germany has some young talent, but maybe now it's time ready for swap of generations. tell us talk about japan. we had to talk about upin. i mean, they're through after tapping the group. did anyone see that coming? no one, seal it. tell me. i'd certainly did not and unbelievable their performances, so you have to see they be germany, former world champion and the beat spain,

another former world champion, both games, they went down one nil and they came back to when the game to one. so that shows the fighting spirit of this japanese outfit, and they're deservedly through and they even had a hiccup in between. like losing to costa rica, completely surprisingly, which blew the door wide open for germany again. but when it counted japan was there, the counter or take the pace, it was just fascinating to watch this team like over achieving really they faced krasier next in the round of 16 graciously in the world cup final 4 years ago. and i'm sure that the men from crater will be on very, very high alert. after seeing these japanese performance is so far the aspect from did of the sport. thank you. you're watching t w news coming up on the w news asia, the taliban welt. on a foreign female politician and sit across her at the table and honor, i'm thinkable for afghan women today under taliban and an

afghan human rights activists recounts her weeks of torture and abuse at the hands of her jailers. that's all we have time for us to stay with us. we can indeed for dw asia, we'll leave you now with some more images of the agony of german fans at the world cup wednesday morning, another early exit, and the ecstasy of japan as they celebrate the mother of stunning when i'm sarah kelly in berlin. thanks for watching. take care. ah ah, a

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