[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah, this is dw is coming to live from berlin. no christmas truce in ukraine, chiefs commander in chief warns of a new russian onslaught as moscow steps up the misery for the civilian population. meanwhile,

european union leaders and brussels agree on 18000000000 euros and fresh aid for ukraine and a 9th package of sanctions against russia. also coming up as nationwide anti government protests continue in iran. even the niece of the supreme leader has condemned the regime. she is one of thousands of protesters in detention and cataract gears up this sunday's world cup final. despite all the pitch excitement, the tournament has also been a controversial one. we ask whether it has been a success for the host nation. ah. hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. ukraine's commander in chief is warning of a fresh russian assault on the capital key of in the coming weeks. both sides have indicated there will not be

a christmas cease fire. moscow's latest strikes on civilian infrastructure have knocked out critical power supplies in the cities of cassandra and i keep 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 hoc eve prompting the city mer to urge residence to stay in shelters, investigate his m wall crime, prosecutors on site. soon after to inspect damage and collect evidence of seriousness. also, russia conduct strikes on civilian infrastructure. as you see as was the warehouse was completely empty. there was no connection to the military whatsoever. not 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. grandma should under the kremlin, realised that in the short term, it's impossible to achieve victory in the war pneumonia with us. it's seeking to turn the conflict into a prolonged armed confrontation aimed at exhausting ukraine and our partners later . they were now concerned 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. joining us now for more all the military situation in ukraine is mike martin. he's a war studies senior fellow at kings college london. good to have you with us. mike . ukrainian officials say they expect russia to launch another large scale offensive early next year,

possibly aiming to take the capital q. do you see that happening? i don't actually see that as very likely i'm firstly, i don't think the russians have that intent. they've. they've very clearly signaled that they're interested in the dumbass in the country. i think their designs, on kiva, and secondly, i don't think they have the capability. russia at the moment, very much on the defensive in ukraine and to launch a huge, another offensive all the way round coming from better route i think is unrealistic . that has been reported that the u. s. is preparing to send patriot missile systems to ukraine. do you think that would be a game changer? the patriot missile system is a highly effective anti aircraft system. and so what it would do is enable the ukrainians to at the moment that sort of shooting down about 70 percent. the missiles are coming that way, they can increase that coverage and knock out almost all of the missiles that are

heading towards ukrainian cities. is it going to change the balance of the war? no, because the russian attacks on the crating cities themselves are not changing the strategic balance of the war. but it will mean that a lot more you creating civilian, survive the winter. what about battle tanks? mike? there's ukraine is begging for battle tanks. germany is under massive pressure to send them why nobody sending battle tanks to ukraine they, it's a very good question. um, do you grade needs these tanks in order to go on the offensive that a large scale and they are somewhat complex and have quite long logistical tail. so it's not just a question of the tanks. you need the crews and the logistics and the fuel to run them. but i wonder whether these fall in the bucket of is this escalade tree, if we include these in the package. but i think eventually the west is going to get

round to sending main battle tanks to ukraine. russia says that sending patriot missiles would be an escalation that would have consequences. what do you make about i think that we've heard this before from russia. so when we were sending anti tank missiles, systems, i said that was escalator 3. then when we sent long, the range artillery, the high mars everyone's heard so much about that was escalates re, russia says that everything is escalate 3. the question for the west is, i think most mostly what we end up doing is thinking that things ask later and then sending them anyway. so the quicker that we send them the better and the shorter the time until the war ends. mike, thank you very much. fee analysis that was mike barton, senior fellow in war studies at kings college, london. i hate the european union meanwhile, has agreed on a new 18000000000 euro aid package for ukraine at

a summit in brussels. leaders also drew up their 9th round of sanctions against russia. travel bands and asset praises are being extended. bolan's prime minister arrived at the summit, threatening to derail the whole thing on the table, an 18000000000 euro aid package for ukraine. potatoes from or the etzky was unhappy over several other measures. but compromises were made. every sink voss have proved macro financial assistance, money for hungary and minimum vexation for a company, so called fella 2nd. the 2nd bill is so there is no need to come in the process. i sing the result. this most important, the ear was able to create a price cap for russian oil globally last month to try to stop moscow from profit hearing from soaring energy prices. but this time, the leaders in brussels, we're only able to pass on plans for a similar cap on gas to energy ministers. meeting next week. officials did rob

a stump, a 9th set of sanctions on moscow, which include black listing, nearly $200.00 more people and banning investments in russia's mining industry. the perfidy or such as the russian strategy of destroying ukraine's infrastructure and exposing its citizens to a brutally cold winter may not and will not succeed. the vote can afford come. the summit was overshadowed by a corruption scandal engulfing the european parliament. one of its vice presidents accused of taking money from cat off of favors here, a promise to retype corruption. as of today i am putting together a wide ranging reform package to be ready in the new year. so this will include a strengthening of the parliaments whistleblower protection systems, a ban on all unofficial friendships groups. a review of the policing of our code

of conduct rules and a complete and in depth look of how we interact with 3rd countries. b, u is winding down, is business for the holidays. but before leaving leaders decided tackling the migration crisis in southern europe will be their priority when they get together again in the new year. dw, special correspondent, iowa abraham is covering solid for us and brussels. i asked her how much of a strain the ukraine war was putting on european unity. what he talked to european leaders, all of them will reaffirm their support for ukraine. but when you look at the details of their decisions, that's where you see some cracks in that unity, if you will. we saw yesterday, belgium and the netherlands, for example, on the sidelines of the conference seeking exemptions on russian import imports of fertilizers. obviously that is a sign that it, you know, the economic strain of the sanctions is perhaps starting to show in these countries

. there's also that 18000000000 euro aid package that you mentioned earlier. that itself was a difficult want to get through. i mean, initially hungry had vetoed that package and it did that because the european union was withholding recovery funds from hungry because hungry was not complying with rule of law. clauses of the european union and compromise was reached on that. and some funds that it has been agreed that some funds will be released to hungry in exchange for its approval of that packet. but then after that, poland came around and said, well, i mean if a hungry can get its way and get something that it wants out of the european union by blocking this packet. well, maybe we can get something out of it as well. and so you do see there that there is a real danger that political interest of individual countries can get in the way of action when it comes to that solidarity. but definitely when you speak to leaders, they'll tell you they have a united front let's catch up on

a few other stories making headlines around the world. today. a landslide is crashed through a campsite and malaysia, leaving at least 12 dead and dozens missing. officials say around 90, people were at the campground when the slide hit in the early hours of the morning, the doing at least 7 more people have died in clashes between peruse, military and supporters of ousted president pedro castillo fresh, wrote protests broke out after a court extended costeo's, pre trial detention to 18 months. castillo was removed from office and arrested last week on charges of rebellion and what his orders say was a legislative who several journalists who cover twitter and its owner, ellen must appear to have been suspended, are banned from the social media platform. they include reporters from the new york times to washington post and cnn. twitter gave no explanation, but musk appeared to accuse journalists of sharing real time information about his

whereabouts. iran has condemned the european union for imposing new sanctions. hubbard's response to anti government protests. the e u announced measures targeting around state broadcaster, its army chief revolutionary guards commanders and a cleric. protests of swept, he ran since the september 16th death of a young iranian kurdish woman in police custody courts in iran have sentenced 11 people to death in connection with the protests. with the 1st 2 people executed in the past week, more than 18000 iranians had been arrested, including those are close members of the family of ayatollah khomeini. his niece is one of the sharpest critics of the supreme leader. ah, it's difficult to get a full picture of life in iran right now, but when a video is published, the eyes of the world are on it. not since the islamic revolution have the iranian people made their voices heard so loud and clearly and at such great risk to their

lives. ah, hawkins, i'm on on with among the fiercest critics. the supreme lead his own niece. no more, very dame would at cammie, has spoken out harshly against her uncle, and called on foreign governments to cut all ties with terror on him. the ye, mr. boy draw a is on how yos are they that can oh, free people be with us and support us that you government stop supporting this murderous and child killing regime on dangerous words in the islamic republic for where she was arrested for dawn. very day, more at cammie is currently in jail and iran, where according to her lawyer, she'll spend the next 3 years opposition to the supreme leader runs in the family ferry day more at cammies late father was a prominent critic of the iranian regime. her brother is an activist living in

excel and france. this branch of the i toy his family doesn't want anything to do with his hotline religious policies, or his crack down on descent. ah, the unrest in iran has been going on for 3 months, and the rate on the streets has only increased in this video, people in tehran can be heard, chanting, i'll kill who ever killed my brother and death to the dictator after man was executed for his role and the protest. oh, it's tiny glimpses into iranian life like this one that show that the ultimate determined isn't enough to silence the reigning people. all the ayatollahs own family spring and cba sure keep here. she's in rainy and german rider filmmaker in activist her work has focused on women's rights and religion in iraq where she was born and raised. welcome to the program. she but we're her. the i told his own niece,

they're saying that the people around are no longer afraid of the regime. do you think that's true? i think that's absolutely true. good morning. and the people don't have anything to lose any more. at 60 percent. 5070 percent. nobody knows the exact numbers are below or at the polity rate. they don't know what to eat, they don't know where to live. what are they scared? and one thing that has happened more and more in iran is that islamic republic has more and more and broken into houses, arrested people without any reason. and lately we seen executing people because they have blocked a street with a garbage, been somebody is being executed because they block the street in

a garbage been so with the garbage been. so you can do whatever you want to do, you might be executed. so why not go on the street and demonstrate the reports that children are among those who've been arrested and being, are being held as political prisoners? what can you tell us about that? that's the saddest part of the entire history of my country. a 15 year old boy who has been shot wis spraying weapon and with the ammunition still in his body, is kept in prison and his parents can not see him. and now they even threatened to execute him. what kind of human beings do that? they are not human beings. the european union has just announced new sanctions on the islamic republic. a, do you think? do you think that the regime in tehran cares about this, about its image on the world stage?

that's a very good question. i think that whether they care or not, i don't care and we don't care. we just have to continue with the sanctions, especially with the political sanctions and the financial sanctions that hurt the single people who are part of this government of this murderous government. and we have to close the embassies, we have to so the people who worked for the iranian regime for these law make republic out of foreign countries out of europe, out of the united states. we have to close all the institutions that have to do with them or work with them or for them and they will be hurt if they, if they react now or if they, if they feel the sanctions now doesn't matter. we have to take bigger steps and more effective effect effective steps for them to be really hurt. so we got

sanctions being stopped up. we're also seeing more in executions taking place in iran, or the protest or continuing what, how do you think this is going to end? it's very difficult to say 3 months ago. nobody would have thought that the next 3 months will be full of fighting on the street. and normal people with empty handed, no weapons go on the street and face the, the brutal regime of these la mac republic. nobody can say, but one thing is for sure this government will never again come back into place, will never again have the same power that they had before. and these people will not stop to fight until the end. so in a certain way we can say the end is foreseeable until this government is in place. the fight will go on. she will thank you very much for talking with us. that was german,

iranian filmmaker and activists. cba shockey. thank you very much for giving the people in iraq the voice. sh. now with argentina and france facing off in the final of the world cup on sunday, the tournament is drawing to a close and while it's been a thrilling tournament in itself, the, the, the entire thing has failed to entirely shake the controversy that surrounded it since counter was announced as host 12 years ago. so has the tournament been a success for the host nation? shortly before the world cuts opening match? viva president johnny intent, he no midi bold proclamation. this fever woke up a tournament of peace and unity would be the one that brings the world together after some difficult times while the jury is still out there. some things are already clear. it's the most expensive world cup of all time costing roughly

200000000000 euros. it's also the most controversial enlarge part due to katara the labor conditions. thousands of workers reportedly died under unexplained circumstances building infrastructure workers death mid tournament meant those critiques haven't fully subsided guitars. treatment of women and homosexuals has also been criticized. this came to a head when fif a ban teams from wearing the rainbow. one love armed band, germany's protests before their opening match highlighted this tension. the eyes on the circumstances around the tournament were already mad. it's taken the whole world for a right and the politics of it are sickening. the controversy has not fully eclipse the tournament on germany. t. v ratings dropped nearly 50 percent from the 2018 world cup. deeper reported that viewership is largely up, especially among participating nations. some symbolism has been less controversial . morocco has displayed the palestinian flag after its matches without reprimand,

highlighting how the 1st ever world cut the mere up world has helped spurt pan arab solidarity. our act actually, broadfoot were closer to the out, awarded from football every that'd be out of country more than it was for those that needed to katara. it's certainly been a unique world cup. hello. there was a lot of countries there and the, the term and, but right now it being here. it's been organized incredibly well. the countries small size means accommodation is hard to come by, but stadiums are close enough to one another that pens are never far from the next match. you know, i'm lucky enough to have veins 18 games which is pretty special because now i get to being a fan, you know, normal world cup. you'll be lucky if you see one game a day. i might be one game every few days. and while this tournament has undergone more criticism than any other, much of the focus has indeed been on the football. whether or not that's

a good thing depends on who you ask. showing me now in the studio is dr. either steinberg is a middle east expert from the german institute for international and security affairs. good sir. again. now before this tournament started, critics were saying that it was a clear case of sports washing that cotter was using this tournament to boost its image and distract from its human rights record where they right where there's critics right. i don't think so simply because of the concept of so sports washing assumes that the host country know is that something is wrong. and in 2010 the cutter is didn't, didn't really see what was coming there. didn't believe that anything was wrong in katara, and i think that's a clear difference to states like russia or china who have used these big tournaments in order to wash that image abroad. but where the countries had to realize that the,

at least the western world thought that something was wrong in car double standards were being used in judging this tournament, particularly by the west that the west was condemning carter's human rights record . while at the same time, very eagerly buying it's natural gas. what do you make that? yeah, well that's the category and the galaxy position. and there is some, something to it. i mean, we have seen our interior minister lambasting the cut over human rights situation. and at the same time, her own government and her own party was very eager to get katara gas. i think it's at least understandable that the countries think this way. although of course, international politics is usually like that this tournament cost, i am told somewhere around $200000000000.00 euros. carter went out of its way to

get it some say they corrupted lots of officials in order to finally get it. why was it so important for carter to get this tournament? do you think that they got out of it? what they were looking for? well i, i think this tournament was a tremendous success for cutter cutter in the beginning or a cutter. in general. since the mid 19 ninety's wants to get out of anonymity because it believe that the invasion of kuwait in $1090.00 was partly due to it's not anonymity in world politics. nobody or many people really didn't know where these he's we're and that has changed. now, katara wants to get protection out of being known to the whole world. and so it build security relations to the united states economic relations to china. but it also, it also started to soft power campaign, and this was the culminate combination of this strategy. so this is a,

a boost for carter itself. what about the wider region, the gulf region, and the arab world in general? do you think, what do you think the legacy of the tournament will be for the region? well, power relations have, have changed. it is that's not only due to the world cup is also due to the, the, to the new profile of katara in international energy politics, especially now and how that russia is partly partly out of the game. but we have seen a region where saudi arabia was clearly the lead nation in the persian, or at least on the, on the southern side of the persian gulf. that has changed a little bit. cutter has enhanced its profile. it's not only a regional power. ok, well it's, it's, it's a very important regional state and it has entered the word stage and it will remain there in sports politics. but especially,

especially in energy politics for some time to come get or thank you very much for being with us. give us time bye from german institute of international and security fairs. now we've got some breaking news coming in, a giant aquarium in a berlin hotel has exploded, sending hundreds of thousands of leaders, water, and 1500 tropical fish spilling out under the st. footage. shared by hotel guests on social media shows the broken, 16 metre high structure and glass covering the floor around a 100 firefighters have been deployed. local media are reporting that 2 people were injured. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. ah, with a,

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