any thing she was proud of, it was to be a steel walker. is his business to come with you for life? who are the winners and losers? globalization, where do we stand? starts january 5th on d, w. ah, ah ah, this is, do you have you news live from berlin? russia strikes ukraine's liberated south, least 10 people are killed as shells target. hassan, ukraine's president calls the attack terrorist. also coming up the taliban order, all non governmental organizations to stop employing women in afghanistan. latest

ban comes just dates after a similar one on women attending universities. and protesters take to the streets of paris for a 2nd day after a gunman killed 3 kurds in the capitol. prosecutors have charged him acting with a racist motive. ah, i mind bluecross. welcome to the program. as some of the world celebrate christmas, this year's fast of season and ukraine will be a gloomy one. a russian strike in the southern city has shown as killed at least 10 people and wounded dozens of others. the city has been the target of constant rushing shelling since ukrainian troops regained control of it last month, a warning to our viewers. the images in the 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 destroyed loved ones left behind me. here or will you or noon or one of the people killed was selling me to the market. worried won't you just went out on the stairs to have a smoke of pool was blood there we were referred but we just dragged him here. he was dead. you article full will know flu. 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 that 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 30 analysts. let's see. mel melnik to tell us more about the latest russian attack and hassan. this is not the source of numbers, thanks on different signaling cities times and, and trades. and just just what we seen order was almost 10 miles every time the russians could shoot. but i think of the battle, don't they start to strike your citizen organs?

and this is a typical carriage, the tactics alexi. can you tell us more about ukraine's current ability to send off attacks like the ones we saw, capstone 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, the each and the actual result in show you how to q for and but the same time it is a 100 percent unity. but this is for emily. think me sales points as 300 and they still use it from the distance like 100 kilometers. 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 longer range missiles. as you mentioned, your brain is trying to defense to minimize rational possibilities, not just military authorities, but civilian targets. and that's more worse than the greek, mainly more i mean, you did about the chance is to destroy national pollution russian stocks. and this is the only way to me you might, can. i mean, you might, and a fully eliminated was renewed support behind the pain in the national them probably believe that some kind of english

nations ships would solve this problem. it's not completely while alexi manic and keep with the latest strategic picture. thanks for joining w. thank you for having turned out some of the stories making news right now. most 2 dozen people have been killed in russia after a fire broke out at a private nursing home. dozens of firefighters fought to control the blaze in the iberian city of kent. already said the care home was operating illegally and have vowed to inspect similar still at least 9 people have been killed in south africa after a truck carrying liquified gas exploded outside johan osburg official save and hanker scrape. the lo bridge sparking a fire that triggered the blasts. the explosion all burned down to houses and damaged by hostile temperatures have clung to cross large parts of

canada and united states. as an arctic front gripped the region. heavy snow and blizzard conditions have disrupted one of the years busiest travel periods. nearly 6000 flight canceled. most of the united states is under some kind of weather warning. the taliban, i've ordered all foreign and domestic and g. o is in afghanistan to stop employing women. they allege yet, there are complaint. some women were not wearing his job. damn comes days after the taliban ordered universities to close to women, prompting level outrage and protests in afghanistan, journalist other t fees in cobble. he told us what this band means 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 also 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 cobble and prices for everything including food are going up. it's a huge impact. you know, it's an economic impact to 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 and 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 like this is just another strike. another limitation on them. you know, they're 14 and younger, you know, wondering what their future will be. so that is the ban regarding the job. 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 protests in a host and ning their hard candid, and i'll and hot, you know, we've seen faculty members quit, we've seen entire faculties for instance, 3rd, 4th year computer science students in kabul have said they will not resume their studies. the medical students and ending there are universities that they will not resume their studies. more than 60 faculty and staff had, you know, resigned from their post day, you know, did the impact of that? you know, people are not taking this quietly. you know, the, in 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 up after these last 2 edicts, members of the kurdish community of clash with police in paris on a 2nd day of protests over an apparent racist attack that killed 3 curds there. on friday, thousands of people gathered in central paris to demonstrate lease fired tear gas after violence broke out. a gunman carried out fatal attack on friday, firing on a kurdish cultural center at a nearby cafe. earlier we asked you, have you corresponded sonya font gar in paris, the cause of the anger or we've seen spill out of the streets. the demonstration to today was called by the goodish democratic council of france. this is an umbrella co dish body that is headquartered in the country faith center that was attacked yesterday that shooting that shooting kid,

clinico dish political activists and those those killings have reading. and since most of the goodish community here, many of them feel like to be targeted yet again, because this attack comes just take a nearly 10, excuse me, nearly 10 years after the mode of trico dish women after this in the same neighborhood in paris. and that until did, at the time, the co founder offer our floor to pick a key, a group and good feel or are simply feel that the french authorities have not done enough to investigate those. are those killings. now there was a judicial investigation in france, which did charge a turkish man with those suspected assassinations, but he died in custody in 2016 before his trial could be held until i think many people to day in the kurdish community are feeling that the french authorities of not investigated those models properly. they're not doing enough to to protect them, as was illustrated by yesterday shooting. so i think many of them are really feeling unsafe, of

a kind of sense of feel has put the community. and at the demonstration today, we also saw many people pointing the finger of blame at turkey saying yesterday, shooting was politically motivated. though i have to say that the stage we've seen no evidence of that. finally, santa is preparing to bring the children of lebanon a little bit of christmas joy. before he did though, he made some time to speak to d. w, about his important mission. johnny, how once takes christmas very seriously. every year for march onwards, he lets his glossy black beard crow and then he widens it in december. he loves to be santa, for the local children. to me, this is the most wonderful time of the year. her giving me her happiness and joy, join us, and return i would like to give her. the ceiling does happiness to the children and the people whose needs johnny has devoted his free time to making

people's mind for more than a decade. it's barbara the santa's little helper interest, warming the i t worker into a convincing father christmas. this is the 1st round of meeting. i have to be a 5 year my and my head. i have to do it between 57 pine to reach the perfect life so i can be the center each time johnny has to cover his head with aluminum foil and brief throat. oh. 2 0, don't me in the life in the devastating explosion 2 years ago at the port of fatal . despite the tragedy, he remains full of hope. but things and lebanon have got to look worse since them.

just like johnny, the vast majority of them have been. he is living in extremely hot conditions. the country is facing the worst economic crisis more than 3 decades. and recording the 2nd highest inflation in the world would the absence of basic public services like water and electricity. ah, but christmas has always been a big occasion in lebanon with christians and muslims lived together. christmas electric anesthesia christmas is all about joined happiness. it is full of color and life and much needed in these hard times. how should adam had as little bit valid medulla law them christmas makes people happy? i say gather and celebrate together with bellagio at home. hey, monassa is emma, this is mark taylor. it unites people from all religions. it's joyful, just like they moved oh without. but i'm beta, you know, the situation, the lebanon is not a stable, but we're here to give hope to the people and to tell them that we're staying 11 on

we're not leaving. do says johnny's 1st event of the year at santa his aim is to help boots children to forget the troubles and have fun shooting to festive season. most kids certainly deserve a little bit of fun. this time of year and all year round. we hope you are to wear garbus if it's christmas or just december 24th for you. that's all for now. world story. just off next. a tune for that was more for you at the top of the hour. and wayne woodcraft. i sure watched. ah. every journey is full of surprises. we've gone all out to give you some tips one day in the footstep.