ah ah ah ah, this is dw is leih from berlin, no christmas truth and ukraine. keith, commander and chief, one of the new russian on floors in the weeks to come as possible, stepped up the mystery for the civilian population. european union leader and profit agree on 18000000000 euros in fresh age for ukraine. and

a 9th package of factions against russia and supporters of petals often lead a federal castiel step up and demands for his release of 14 him in custody for 18 months on charges of rebellion. ah, i'm no massage asked while welcome to the program. ukraine's commander in chief is wanting of a fresh rush. an assault on the captain cube and the coming weeks. both sides have indicated they will not be a crystal ceased bio moscow's later strike on civilian infrastructure have knocked out critical power supplies on the 15th of kasan and khaki. ukrainian infrastructure is coming under almost daily russian bombardments this among the latest attacks with rockets severely damaging

a warehouse in the northeastern city of hark, eve prompting the city mer to urge residence to stay in shelters. investigators and war crime, prosecutors on site soon after to inspect damage and collect evidence procedures . also, russia conduct strikes on civilian infrastructure. as you see with the warehouse was completely empty. there was no connection to the military whatsoever. not as although there is called the maya in southern ukraine and the liberated city of her son, emergency teams do their best to tackle a fire after more shelling, according to officials here, the city is now completely without power. for those who remain life is a daily struggle. after nearly 10 months of war, the un high commissioner for human rights is now wanting that more strikes could lead to a further serious deterioration in the humanitarian situation. miss, i strikes on civilian infrastructure, including energy facilities and hydro,

electric power stations. i exposing millions of civilians, especially persons in situations of vulnerability to extreme hardship. during the winter months. over $10000000.00 consumers are facing cuts in electricity, and millions are cut off from a regular supply of water. and russia has rejected a proposal of a christmas truce with pro moscow officials in the occupied city of don't ex, blaming ukraine for this attack. an apartment building and a hospital among the buildings damaged in the shelling. a senior ukrainian military general now says russia is digging in for a long war in ukraine and still wants to conquer the entire country. criminal should only the kremlin, realizes that in the short term,

it's impossible to achieve victory in the war. no more, lou. thus it's seeking to turn the conflict into a prolonged armed confrontation aimed at exhausting ukraine and our partners. there were now concerns that any new russian assault could come from neighboring bella bruce, his armed forces continue to hold combat readiness drills close to its border with ukraine. t w corresponded nick connelly is in cave. he told us why russia claims that it is only hitting military targets, don't add up. well, obviously they are so timing that this is about basically depriving ukraine's military of the power and the logistics to make their successes on the battlefield happen. obviously that up doesn't really cut a lot of ice when you're here on the ground and seeing the kind of targets that are being hit. but i think there's a level to which they basic given up trying to create a kind of coherent narrative people here in ukraine from the west. they basically know that that audience is lost to them. so this is all about the story to people

back home in russia who may be want to believe what they told, and people in 3rd countries or maybe don't have an ability to really fact check those claims. and i think is also just a conviction in moscow that they are just so big and they are so important because of their nuclear stages, their seat at the security council that basic people have to talk to them, whatever they do, whatever the kind of war crunch potentially committed by their trips in ukraine at the end of the day, outside pals, the u. s. europe will come and speak to them. so there's basically not much of a kind of perceived, impulsive occur, kind of need to really stick to the ordinary rules of war. they can basically get away with that really seems to be what they think the european union has agreed on . and you 18000000000 your or a package for ukraine leaders meeting in brussels also drew up the 9th round of sanctions against russia. travel lands and apple trees as are being extended measures also target banking in mining theater. zation ukraine's president will order me as a lengthy, renewed his appeal amore advanced rapidly miserable in la portia. v. d w

correspondent, alexandra. when norman was at the summit in brussels, she taught me more about the latest to action against russia. well, the new package of sanctions is 1st and foremost about tightening and widening existing restrictions and other punitive measures against russia. more individuals and entities will be lack listed. 3 additional russian banks will be sanctioned and for more russian tv channels will be taken off the year in europe. and for the european union as they say, it's also important to cut rushes x's to all sorts of drones. but there will be also, oh, also exemptions included in this sir package of sanctions exemptions for russian fertilizer produces that was so important,

especially for germany and france to have those exemptions to make sure that russian fertilizers that are needed in africa for instance, can be exported there in order to save africa from feminine. so those exemptions are also included in this new package of sanctions. but there was something we've heard. the leaders could not agree on the gas price cap. well, that's right. there is no breakthrough on that topic, but the leaders are increasing the pressure on their energy ministers to come up with a solution next monday to and this month's long dispute. and we are hearing from our sources that they are moving forwards to a compromise that the will be a prize cap and mechanism that however can be then suspended in there is any risk or any danger to add the security of supplies. so that is the

direction where there are moving beds, we need to wait for next monday and the energy minister is to come up with more details on that. so the hope for some progress next week, at least on those disagreements. but are you members at least united on continuing the support for ukraine? well, i think when we look at the outcome of this, a summit, new sanctions, but also a huge financial aid for ukraine, 18000000000 euros that ukraine is expected to get next year. we have to say that the leader is here state united. however, we also have to add that that is that more about that well, bosnia herzegovina has been granted sir candidate status. and we have to stress here that this is a country with the existing political and ethnic tensions. and this is also a country that has seen a lot of russian interference in internal affairs. so by granting bosnia

herzegovina, a candidate status, the european union is saying, we want to give you this, a european union membership perspective. but we also a want to counter russia's influence in the region d, w, f. alexandra phenomena following the thumb. it for us in brussels, thank you. let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. to know. thousands gathered in a fan will protest against the court ruling that within the left leaning mer to jail. for insulting election officials from immemorial is widely seen as the challenger to providence, death of fire. as one the european central bank has raised its lending rates by half a percentage point. the bank is trying to bring down inflation driven by forwarding energy costs. since the invasion of ukraine, millennial running out of beans cabinet has approved a bill,

allowing them and even thinks of yell theme during the month. if you try to call in sick to walk. if it's approved by parliament, the bid lebell that'd be the fullest of its kind in europe. tornadoes generated by a massive storm system have killed 3 people in the u. s. state of louisiana. a hospital was badly damaged. new orleans also somewhat extensive property destruction the supreme court imperial has ordered the else to trust and federal castillo to remain in detention for 18 months. charged with rebellion. as your supporters have stepped up, nationwide, protests demanding his release, and the designation of his replacement de now will active authorities had enforced a state of emergency has demonstrated to stop to trade. and dorothy d. w, corresponded, unequal reese is in the proven capital, lima. she told me what's happening on the streets there. well,

at the moment to day, we see that some protests here in the capitol in lima are intensifying. i've seen hundreds of people actually walking up and down the city center. and there's the high presence of police. and there's also a high presence of military in the streets right now, which is possible because of the state of emergency that for you as currently in so far, one from what i can see apart from a few disruptions. these protests here this evening are still peaceful this could to, however, change in any moment. and if we look further south in the country to protest, there also continue. the military is on the ground right now to try to dissolve these protests and also to try to dissolve the blockage that is happening on very many main roads here in peru. and this also means that for example, hospitals are on red alert are right now because they don't receive the medicines and the oxygen that they need for their patients. and also we received the news of

a child who has died today because they weren't able to bring him to the hospital on time because the road was blocked. so this is quite another dimension, yet in this conflict of a time. and those are some dri of consequences, bad, and we can hear the sirens going off behind you as well. but what comes next? best bedrock of, theo, have there been any kind of a declaration yet? the judge just a few minutes ago has confirmed that federal castillo will remain in city for 18 months. this is the preventive detention, and it took him a bit more than 2 hours to explain all the evidence that they had against him and why they took this position. i'm one of one part of it is that there's a high risk of a fleeing. if we remember correctly last week, he was on his way to the mexican embassy to ask for political asylum when they caught him. and the other reason is also that a bit of a patio found. he was very conscious of what he was doing last week when you tried

to dissolve congress. these are only 2 of the conclusions that the judge read out and now will be the request here. it looks like that he will remain in a prison, and there will probably also come a trial where he is gonna be accused of a rebellion of consideration of the disrupt of the public peace as we see it protests to you in this last week. and also of the abuse of power, and this might mean that he receives 10 to 20 years of prison. if they find that he is guilty of all these accommodations that are dw nicole address in lima. continuing to follow that story for us. thank you for your reporting. nicole farmer tennis is boris becker, has been released from a british prison and bought at home to germany. becca was cheered in april for hiding hundreds of thousands of pounds, despite been declared bankrupt. the 55 year old was given an early release from a 15 month sentence. now brazil might have had a 4 foot,

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