ah ah ah ah, this is the w news coming to live from berlin. a fresh barrage of russian ass strikes, hips, ukraine. at least 3 explosions are reported to have struck the capital cheve, while other targets include the jorge and odessa regions, leaving some areas completely without power. also on the show with nationwide anti

government protests building up in iran, the niece of the supreme leader has condemned the regime. she is one of thousands of protested in detention and a giant aquarium bursts in berlin releasing 1000000 liters of water and devastating the lobby of a downtown hotel. the huge tank has been home to 1500 tropical fish. ah i manuscripts mckinnon. thank you so much for joining us. ukrainian, or sorry, as he say, russia has launched another major missile attack on energy facilities and infrastructure witnesses cited by reuters news agency said at least 3 explosions struck the capital. keith are the targets included the cost cock eve and odessa regions. and

ukraine's rail operator says a number of lines have been left without power. and the latest strikes come as ukrainian military and civilian leaders. a warning that the kremlin is preparing for a new wide scale offensive as early as january ukrainian infrastructure is coming under almost daily russian bombardment. this among the latest attacks, with rockets severely damaging a warehouse in the northeastern city of hawk eve, promising the city mer to urge residence to stay in shelters. investigators in war crime, prosecutors on site soon after to inspect damage and collect evidence. us is just of selves, russia conduct strikes on civilian infrastructure as you see as the warehouse was completely empty. there was no connection to the military whatsoever. launched as a lover is called the mire 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. messiah strikes on civilian infrastructure, including energy facilities, and hydro electric power stations are 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 dun acts,

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. graham with the kremlin, realizes that in the short term, it's impossible to achieve victory in the war number with us. it's seeking to turn the conflict into a prolonged armed confrontation aimed at exhausting ukraine and our partners. there are now concerns that any new russian assault could come from neighboring bella, luce, whose armed forces continue to hold combat readiness drills close to its border with ukraine. and to discuss the latest on the military situation. and ukraine were joined by military analyst, frank lead witch, who is in oxford in the u. k. it's good to see you. frank. ukrainian officials are

reporting a major new attack by russia today. the saying at least 60 missiles were fired across ukraine. and they're saying that they expect russia to launch another large scale offensive early next year. how likely is that? well, and you know, i don't have the information rush you credit intelligence has, i can see no purpose for your credit. high command making statements like this, if they didn't have very good reason for doing so. but looking at it from the outside, it looks to me that russia may have the opportunity once the ground gets frozen, to try to tackle new credit forces. it would seem to me though that that's very likely to fail because you kind of seem to be ready for that. and i would be a bit surprised by the way to see the ukrainians get the jump on russians in early the new year. i think that's equally likely. pulled out clearly. they're not going

to for us about that. let's see what happens. it's been reported that the u. s. is preparing to send patriot missile systems to ukraine. if this did happen, what effect could this have on the war going forward yet? so you've just a question that the value added, so to speak, that patriots have is the ability to shoot down ballistic missiles once the fall out as it were. if you forget that the terrible part of today's attacks can clear and the intelligence comes out, be very interesting to see what kind of weapons he used or be a bit surprised to see this or the next attack, iranian, or russian, ballistic missiles being used as a far harder to shoot down, and that's the advantage patriot will bring. it will be able to protect installations at tons of cities against the only the problem is not so much what patriots bring when it's how much patriots, how many will be deployed. and i suspect that won't be enough to provide full coverage. us needs really to step up on all fronts,

including on patients. which by the, by the way, i don't think of yet been confirmed. we expect them to be confirmed. russia is saying that arming ukraine with patriot missile, that would be an escalation and would have consequences. what could that mean? not too much. i think this is more sabre rattling, the consequences it will have for russia will be that they are, they're the edge. they haven't ballistic missiles, won't be negated, but will be seriously blunted. they are expecting, i think, early next year took for an influx of new arabian weapons, as well as, of course those that they make themselves. and those will be ballistic missiles. that's the key weapon here. it's very clear the ukrainians can shoot down the shaheed massage that state the delta drugs that we see, or what we see sometimes on television can't see ballistic missiles coming that very difficult to shoot down. so what the russians are afraid of, i think rightly so, is that this will blunt that edge. now,

rush is limited in the escalation. it can, it can bring. if there is escalation, i suspect it might be in the cyber domain or even on the battlefield in conceivably non conventional weapons. like i was thinking chemical weapons, i doubt that i think the simple simply more, more saber rattling. there's nothing inherently different from about patriot than other misses have been deployed. they're just slightly more capable. all right, thanks so much frank. that's military analysts. frank leverage in the u. k. as in you now, iran has condemned the european union for imposing new sanctions over its response to anti government protests. the e u announced measures targeting iran state broadcaster, it's army chief revolutionary guards commanders and the cleric protests of swept iran since the death on september. the 16th of the young iranian kurdish woman in police custody courts in iran have sentenced 11 people to death in connection with

these protests. the 1st 2 people were executed in the past week was an 18000 arrangements have been arrested, including close members of the family, of ayatollah ha minay. now his niece is one of the supreme leaders, sharpest critics. 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 leaders. oh, nice, very dear, murdered cammie has spoken out harshly against her uncle, and called on foreign governments to cut all ties with terror on regime is the boy draw a is on her yours or the that you know the most free people be with us and support

us though that you government stop supporting this murderous and child killing regime on dangerous words in the islamic republic, or whether she was arrested for a faraday, more at cammie is currently in jail and herron where, according to her lawyer, she'll spend the next 3 years opposition to the supreme leader runs in the family very day, moran county's late father was a prominent critic of the iranian regime. her brother is an activist living in exile in france. this branch of the i a toys family, doesn't want anything to do with his hotline religious policies or his crack down on descent. the unrest in iran has been going on for 3 months and the rate on the streets has only increased in this video. people into iran can be heard chanting, i'll kill whoever killed my brother and death to the dictator after man was

executed for his role in 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 raining people. all the ayatollahs own family. as we just heard that the niece of iran supreme leader is one of his harshest critics. and so is her brother activists. mac moon mar at connie has lived in paris the more than 20 years. he was the one who published her video message to the world. or had connie sat down for an exclusive interview with d w's farsi department. and he told us what makes the last 3 months of protests. so very important. monday, we're going to have been an in house, a use of iran. we have now realized that what this regime said about the former regime was a lie, a just because they have told many lies listen,

and now they're lying about their daily routine zillow need along with about the economy to region where there is about everything and of course about political issues in dunwoody, who's my legal this. they kill people in the street. so they're more than, i mean, and then they say those people had a stroke and died or the actual nicholson yahoo edition, 62. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. a landslide has crashed into a camp site in malaysia, leaving at least 18 dead. and dozens missing. officials say around 90 people were at the camping ground when the lamps, light struck in the early hours of the morning. he was president, joe biden has told african leaders his government is deeply committed to africa's future. wrapping up a 3 day summit in washington biden promised to travel to sub saharan africa next year. his administration has pledged to invest $55000000000.00 in the continent

over the next 3 years. now japan has unveiled plans for its biggest military build up since world war 2. the government says it will double defense spending, bringing it up to the nato standard of 2 percent of g. d p. japan's move away from a self defense only stance comes as it seeks to counter regional threats. it plans to acquire a long range missiles capable of striking china beijing set the plans under mine bilateral relations. and i'm very pleased to be joined now by tom. he co 20 good. she is a professor at k or university graduate school and formerly a special advisor to japan's late prime minister sions, though. are they professor dana? good? she could you give us an idea of how significant this announcement we just heard about? is it is not only significant, but long overdue, because the street address and zip code that you'll find around japan requires much,

much more insurance. premium. japan is an immediate neighbor to russia, north korea, and china. that sir, not something that the you could envy and russia is one 3rd of japan in terms in terms of economy. but china is growing still fast, and it's already 4 or 5 times as large as to pounds economy. and china is 10 times as big as russia, as regards gdp. now none of which has ever exercised the democracy and investing all of all of which are investing very much heavily in nuclear arsenal. so it's significant, but a belated action. this is made very clear that the main driver for this military buildup is the perceived threat from china and also north korea. and, but doesn't this military build that by traditionally pacifists,

japan actually risk escalating tensions? tensions have already been escalated very much by china daily. it's a dave the phenomenon that china is conducting a very much coercive auction around the japanese territory waters and russia. 8 go it should go without saying that russia's building up its arsenal and military capacity also on the eastern end of it's a huge land mass. so it's a belated response and much, much more has to be done. can you tell us how this and obviously major policy announcement is going down at home in japan? 60 percent of those polled do recognize that there is a growing need for japan to build its defense capacity in conjunction with its

allied network such as with the united states. but when it comes to how to found those build ups, there is a division of sharp division of opinions at the moment. now japan is also actively seeking closed corporation with the u. s. for example, to deter threats to the established international order. can you give us a sense of what that co operation would look like? the united states has the largest ever military footprint, a sol lee in japan. so without japan, united states could achieve very little when it comes to its engagement in the indo pacific area. japan's chosen to be a force multiplier in that sense, by bringing itself closer not only to the united states, but also to australia and india, and u. k. france and germany also joining forces for that matter. professor,

tell me he go to any good. she thank you so much for speaking to d. w. thank you. now here in berlin, at least 2 people have been injured and over 300 had to be evacuated after this giant aquarium that you can see behind me in a hotel in the central center of the capitol. shattered sending over a 1000000 liters of water and 1500 tropical fish, spilling out footage shed on social media by guests staying at the radisson blue hotel shows the broken structure and glass covering the floor around. 100 firefighters have been deployed. the parent accident happened early on friday morning when many of the hotels guests were still sleep and businesses were closed . d, w reporter anna sir hasta, is covering the story for us. and earlier, she spoke to emergency services at the scene of the accident in central belin. indeed, there is loads happening here now just a moment ago berlin,

mayer francisco giff i, she passes. she's also here to talk to those emergency services and find out what happened. so obviously the police here are still investigating as to what caused that rupture in the aquarium at the moment. they're not supposing a criminal act, but rotter an accident. and you can clearly see from the emergency services here that they're very relieved in a way because obviously this is a huge incident. but the timing, so at 550 local time this morning meant that the almost 400 people staying in that hotel just here behind me. most of them were still sleeping in their beds. so it also meant that if this could have happened at another time, like in the, in the later morning hours, the damage here would look completely different. also the road behind me is a major get through in the city. and it seems like know, vehicles, luckily where

a close when this rupture happened. but you can see just from the debris that's lying around, that it must have been a huge force with which that water came out. and everyone is asking what, what, you know, what about the fish? tell us more about the fish the aquarium and all the fish living in it? well, and indeed this was the world's largest, a freestanding aquarium 14 meters high. and as you mentioned there, 1500 exotic fish living in it, and the specialty maybe of this aquarium was that you could ride this elevator through the aquarium to see those fish. unfortunately, this is what emerged to services here. are telling those fish half perished in the incident, they were washed away together with those 1000000 leaders of water. the water is now mostly underground and it's still not really possible to assess what has happened with the fish. also because that the very 1st floor is completely

devastated, but the, a c, live aquarium, the large aquarium next door that has no electricity of the time speaking an emergency services had to cut that out. so we have to see what happens there as well. all right, we'll have to leave it there, did only report to answer us day. thanks a much now the football world cup is now drawing to a close with argentina and france set to face off in the final on sunday. and while the matches have been thrilling to watch the tournament has failed to entirely shake the controversy that has surrounded it since cattle was announced as the host 12 years ago. so has the tournament been a success for the host nation? he w danya barcelona, has this report from castle shortly before the world cuts opening match deeper. president gianni advent, you know, made a bold proclamation. this fever woke up a tournament of peace and unity will 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 in large part due to katara the labor conditions. thousands of workers reportedly died under unexplained circumstances building infrastructure. a 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, if a band teams from wearing the rainbow, one love arm band, germany's protest 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, while in germany t. v ratings dropped nearly 50 percent from the 2018 world cup v for 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 them. europe world has helped spur pan arab solidarity. i actually brought were closer to the out of were it 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 around 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 been to 18 games which is pretty special because now i get to being a fan, you know, normal world cup to 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. pardon me here in this he did his talk about the world cup is detail. he used to farmville kareen. welcome to the studio, let i thoughts with those who say that this well, well, copies all has been all about in a way for guitar to boost its an edge and to distract from its pool human rights record. are they right in saying that i would, i see also this as part of the perspective marketers want and the categories want. because when we look today at, at the tournament you have 2 perspectives. one perspective is stars point of view. they want to show that we are able to organize such a big event and to be also and to be honest, when i was there, it is very well organized and you have a very multicultural meeting and

a big party and people celebrating that's the one perspective this also leads to that most arab countries, most arabs, and also most, most muslims are very proud that katara has 1st a conscious 1st nelson country organizing it. so they got their push, they got their image day, they had their po to a sport washing image. this is one perspective. well, if you see it from the other perspective, let's say from the human rights perspective, from labor rights perspective, from the edge b t writes perspective. den, it is not what katara has achieved because when you, you could be there, you could enjoy, you could have fun, you could enjoy everything and there's a lot of parties going on with just so people now people are celebrating but, and he is the but don't mention human rights don't mention g b t rights, and that's exactly what happened to me. like when i was working in one of the streets that we so now in squatter, which was middle door and everyone go there and oh, from all over the word. then i tried it, okay, but what do you think about the eligibility rights?

and one love was that was forbidden isn't algebra to rights, it's part of human rights. why are they not allowed? et cetera, et cetera. then the discussion is over. and also another perspective, a very practical perspective, when i look at to cotton, according to what i see is they are able to organize such a big tournament. but when i talk to one of the labors were working on the streets and cleaning the streets. i was like, can you tell me like how are your work conditions? and he was like, ok, i work 16 hours a day. this personal, this, this person i talked to, but i get around $180.00. so you are able to organize. but on the cost both, what does this a perspective of another perspective that is clear now after katara how much we need a dialogue between the western and let's say the are of contents. because looking at the arab conscious, an arabs and muslims. since if they say, okay, you want us to be the where you see the word and from your perspective, from the western side. but we have another perspective. we don't support these and

we thought we don't support desk and also double standards. on one hand, germany comes and the politicians say, we're going to have gas and energy. just going to ask you about those double standards actually, because there was a huge amount of coverage wasn't era. yes, it is human, right? yes, ism, and all of this western countries really happy to openly criticize katara, yet they're still very happy to buy gas from good. yes, and this is exactly the point where when i talk to categories and to arabs, they say, go on it's, it's a double standard. like on one hand, they want to have the profit from the economy. but when it comes to respecting our culture, respecting our, our, our values, they see a different and they said from their perspective. but there's also been very important point. human rights are not western and they are not arabs. human rights are universal. and this is the 2nd level of the discussion we should talk about that heard from the other side, from the arab muslim side. i cannot say human rights are western and the worst and cannot also say the way we see it is the right thing. and this is also very important, i think this is the post katara phase to see how all came to be very visible.

there is a kind of different perspective to values, but what to do, that there is still a dialogue and, and, and talking together to each other and respecting the most important thing is respecting human rights because it's the right of every person to, to get the right some really big topics that will be no doubt tone on our st after this. well, i, i'm sure of that is a just that will carry him. thank you so much for that. really interesting. my pleasure. thank you. all right, we will be moving on now and we are up to date, in fact, ah, with

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