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latest band come to just dates after a prohibition of women attending university. ah, my bluecross welcome to the program. some of the world celebrates christmas, this year's festive season and ukraine will be a gloomy one. a russian strike in the southern city of cash sonus killed at least 10 people and wounded dozens of others. city has been the target of constant russian shelling since ukrainian troops regain control of it last month. warning to our viewers, the images in our next report may be disturbing hassan's city center on christmas eve. normally at this time of year, this square would be bustling with activity. this year, a russian missile has left the streets, strewn with bodies and blood,

and distraught, loved ones left behind. lulu here or play really or no answer or one of the people killed was selling me to the market. worried? well, he just went out on the stairs to have a smoke pool was blood there. we were referred but we just dragged him here. he was dead. you article fall from your clue. president zalinski says there are no military facilities in the area. he accused moscow of simply killing for pleasure. russia denies targeting civilians but it does admit to targeting ukraine's energy infrastructure. for months of the power grid has been battered by attacks that have exposed millions of civilians to bitterly cold temperatures. it's

a gloomy christmas eve in ukraine this year. russia says it has no plans for a cease fire during the holidays. as people across the world get ready to celebrate ukrainians are still fighting for their survival. earlier asked security analyst alexi melnik to tell us more, but that latest russian attack on her son, this is not the 1st number thanks on different ceiling cities and, and trades. and the just, just what we seen order was almost animals. every time the russians could shoot, but i think the battle, don't they start to strike your citizen organs? and this is a typical terrorist. the thanks alexi. can you tell us more about ukraine's current ability to send off attacks like the ones we saw have? so, and others that you've mentioned in texas. the only way to protect civilian is

cds. big cds from shelling from a multi function to the distance each and at least from there. but i don't actually want to be so in showing you how to use for and but for the same time the, this 100 percent duty. but this is for emily. think me sales points, it has 300 sit and they still use it on the distance like 100 kilometers. sorry. right. so what is ukraine able to do to defend against those kinds of attacks? we're hearing a lot about all the equipment that ukraine is, is asking for, and some of it has received. how effective is ukraine? ukrainian force is able to defend from these kinds of attacks, whether they are m l r s, or whether they're

a longer range missiles. as you mentioned, your brain is trying to defense to minimize rational possibilities, not just military targets, but civilian targets. and that's more than the group men may have more, i mean, you show them the best chance is to destroy pollution russian stocks. and this is the only way to mean you might, can, i mean, you might fully eliminate was russian, you're paying the national probably believe that some kind of initiation. and if you do shit solve this problem, it's not completely while alexi manic and key with the late a strategic picture. thanks for joining w. thank you for having russian strikes have also repeatedly targeted

ukraine's utilities outside the capital. keep organizers have set up what they call invincibility centers. these are places that people can charge their phones work or simply warm up t w's. manual shock has more voice. so is a suburb on the outskirts of keith. victoria survived a russian occupation and now must survive the winter constant as strikes on power facilities, catholic tricity, and running water to his entire building. so he makes do as best as he can do is get the good deliver. i'm good at you. we feel bottles with hot water somewhere. i already hit a hot water bottle. as for food for the fridge, we try not to buy anything like that, but i'm just to go into the cool part from just as we speak, a surprise. the power comes back on and so does the heat for a while, at least whenever victor doesn't have electricity. he comes here

a small prefab installed by the authorities, so that residents can charge their phones and warm themselves up around the stove. a short drive away is butcher. the city council is now a rallying point for those resulted ek tricity. it is one of thousands of wide presidents. zalinski calls invincibility centers on the father of a back to the butcher. city council is now a social hub where a generator works and where you can charge fines. and most people don't come here for social services, but because there is no electricity at home, no water at home. here you can collect water, you can connect to the internet. here resident study work and stay in touch with the relatives online. velva for very long online. those invincibility centers are crucial for ukrainians to simply survive.

the arid siren goes off. but here, nobody seems to care any more. need them here those. i don't really like to be sure i would rather sit at home with the light on, but you need to charge a phone so you can call your relative more more they hadn't done before. you, shamela dorado shoppers, only thing? yes, felicia, i came to recharge my mobile phone. i just want to pay my utility bills. and most all, i just want to contact my loved ones is what it is yours, archer. you saw him in a blish, human cliff, still kilowatt. the butcher city council relies largely on the nations to get to the winter for a foreign n g o gave this generator. but it's not powerful enough to cover all the needs back into capital keys, electricians work day and night to repair and maintain disagreed. but despite all their efforts, the situation remains critical for him. but at the, with the strategy is 1st of all, to restore the electricity supply. however,

we can so that people have some, we can't always stick to schedule or return equipment to how it was before the war . but the temporary solutions like planned power cars are working, so people are getting some light to their homes. but the capacity that existed before the war is no longer there. and that's a problem along the way. anybody are doors out of you want me, my e, senior prob level a problem that is likely to continue to out the winter here, with temperatures often dropping well below freezing and no end in sight. to rush in air strikes. turn out of some other stories making news right now. least 9 people have been killed in south africa after a truck carrying liquefied natural liquefied gas floated outside. donna's pick official, say the tank or spray the low bridge spark. you fire that triggered the last explosion. also burned down to houses and

a damage the nearby temperatures have plunged across large parts of canada. united states as an arctic front grips the region. heavy snow and blizzard conditions have disrupted one of the years busiest travel periods in the 6000 flights of and canceled. most the united states is under some kind of weather warning. members of the kurdish community of classic police in paris day after the returns were shot and killed their gun and shot 3 people at the a kurdish cultural center and nearby and friday, what police say is a race attack the taliban of ordinance, foreign and domestic in g o, z and afghan, a standard stop employing women. they alleged their work planes that some women were not wearing the job. them come days after the taliban or universities to close to women in global outrage and protests in afghan journalist,

the t v. as in cobble, he told us what this ban could mean in practical terms. it's huge because if you think about it, you know, it's just basic logistics every time. there's some kind of an emergency every time there's some kind of a need, you can ignore 50 percent of the population. obviously anywhere in the world. a woman is better capable of serving another woman, you know, whether that's going into the home delivering medical center where delivering mental health in delivering anything. and you have to remember that it's not just the recipient, it's also the workers because there are so many households where the soul breadwinner is a woman. a lot of those women worked in n g o and now they're effectively out of a job out of an income as it gets colder and colder and trouble prices for everything including food are going up it's, it's a huge impact. you know, it's an economic impacted societal impact, humanitarian impact. it's

a moral impact on morale impact. i was just with the head of the gynecological doctors union for i was trying to, she had no idea what to do. she didn't know what to do with her office. she didn't know what to do with her workers. she's even scared for the future of her clinic. you know, her daughters were scared, you know, like this is just another strike. another limitation on them. you know, they're 14 and younger, wondering what their future will be. so that is the ban regarding the n g o. and there's also been this ban regarding universities. what's been the fall out there? it's been huge. you know, we've seen protest in host an anger, har can dodd and, and talk to, you know, we've seen faculty members quit, we've seen the entire faculties, for instance, the, the 4th year computer science students and couple, after they will not resume their studies. the medical student and our university

said they will not resume their studies. more than 60 faculty and staff have resigned from their post day. you know, the impact of that, you know, people are not taking this quietly. you know, the m, the, both of these are very heavy blows for people, people thought like, you know, we're going to wait, we're going to wait and eventually it just became too much. it became too obvious that things were going in the complete wrong trajectory. there was no hope of you know, things looking even a little bit after these last 2 eat it was journalists tc in cobble. now china is battling a surge in cove in 1900 cases. bloomberg and financial times, i think leaked chinese government documents have reported that some 250000000 people were infected during the 1st weeks in december. chinese already here to be downplaying, the severity of the current wave. despite searching cases, they maintain there have been no new deaths or be wrong is from the school of

medicine, a national taiwan university. she told us why lifting restrictions despite the consequences was inevitable. i won't days a mistake because you have to open up at some point it's, it's impossible to have the society be close down for such a long time. and we've seen that from protest everywhere. so, but the issue is trying to didn't manage as a step wise opening up. they should actually stop there a good nation, at least for the 3rd or 4th dose in to a certain population, your compensation before they actually opened up step by step on that. now it seems that all the object code in a policy with at least all of a sudden and even the testing boost, which actually would be very helpful now for the community to a break. it's all good. so it's kind of possibly whether or not there

is actual leadership down as well as every level in china. now for the control, we're going to leave it there for now. coming up next though, is dock found looking at vladimir putin with rarely seen video material. you want to stay tuned for that. of course we have much more for you at the top of the hour, so don't go anywhere. go to the com and instagram and w news course on twitter. more with an interest in the global economy. our portfolio d w. business beyond. here's a closer look at the project.