ah ah ah, this is d w. news coming to live from berlin. a deadly strike on the southern ukrainian city of zapper reach up. police say at least 3 people are dead after a russian missile. it's a 5 story apartment building while people sleep. also coming up g, 20 foreign ministers meet in delhi, emit divisions over the war in ukraine with host india, making

a plea for global unity. plus we asked what's behind a series of mysterious poisoning cases and he ran the best cation is looking at claims that religious groups might be trying to intimidate the iranian girls, seeking an education. and we meet the people working to save undocumented migrants from dying of dehydration as they try to make their way across the texas wilderness . ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. a russian missile has hit a 5 story building overnight in ukraine, southern city of zappa, reach, killing at least 3 people and wounding several others. the cities acting mayor says the apartment block has been almost completely destroyed. rescuers are searching for survivors. short while ago i spoke with our correspondent amy as if is in kia.

it gave us this update on the attack ins operation. this happened very early this morning, when many people were asleep and unlikely to seek shelter in a bomb shelter. we've heard that all 5 floors of the segment of the apartment building were destroyed in this attack. that at least 3 people have died a credit according to the ukrainian government. but that death hall might rise, as several people are in hospital receiving treatment. at least a dozen people were saved from the wreckage, but rescuers are still looking through to see if more people have survived. what we've heard is that the missile used might have been an es 300. this is a soviet era surface to air missile, which is not intended to hit ground targets for russia. has reportedly been increasingly using these missiles as it runs out of a long range ballistic missiles. now parisha and the surrounding region. there are

regularly targeted by russian strikes. why is that area important for russia? strategically, amy this is a key city. it's the capital of the region of upper region, and it before the war it had a population of 700000, making it one of the largest cities in ukraine. it strategically located on the de nipper river as well. and it's about 50 kilometers north of the southern front line . so if russia wants to push ahead more towards central ukraine, this would be a key location for them in a disaster for ukraine, although that's not likely to happen any time soon as it's well protected. we keep hearing amy and about russia attacking apartment buildings in ukrainian cities. is it clear that russia is striking civilian targets deliberately aiming? now, that depends on the region in ukraine here in t of and in the west. it's

a very rare occurrence. but we've seen in recent months, a several incidents of this happening where a russian missile hits ukrainian civilian apartment, building m as in a crime, a tourist. and more recently in denise bro, we're over 40 people died when a russian missile hit an apartment building. and what russian say and what the pro russian media has been reporting is that these were missiles shot down by ukrainian air defense and that they were not attended to hit civilian targets. but what is also clear and what the ukranian government repeatedly says that russia has almost nothing to lose by these incidents which terrorize civilian populations, they have nothing to lose but the price of the missile. and in this case, the missile was worth almost nothing. terry amy and thank you very much, our correspond amy s if they're in keith many ukrainians have lost family members as result of russian missile attacks. surviving relatives are left

to grieve while also trying to offer some stability for young children orphaned by the war d. w. is funny for char reports from kiff. this family portraits shows alive that no longer exists. the father died of a heart attack just before the war. now the mother is gone to you. grandfather gregory is now in charge of the boy who was left behind. i'm sorry, we official. i heard the explosion. i was downtown at the time to them last year and then videos started circulating on telegram need your property. he'll smell yeah much. so i started calling her to nibble, but there was no connection. and i knew it was her root. she would take it up all the time. it was october tenths when a russian rocket hit ox. santos corin keith grigory got to the scene quickly. security officers kept him away from the wreckage,

which is good of shape. they told me there's a burned car and human remains on the front seat and i asked, is there any one on the back seat? the answer was yes, everything is burnt in. it does nothing left except mattel casually. it's happened right here at this intersection. gregory was right. asana had been on the way to hospital where she worked as a cancer doctor, and the reason why there was nothing on the back seat just before the attack, she had dropped off her child at kindergarten. today there is nothing left to remind people of the attack. the road is one of keeps busiest and was quickly patched off of santas. family is only just starting to put the pieces together with the form in adon, almond is, is the life i knew was over. and another one had started to deal with the ocean building. but how do i carianne's crystal? what do i do next week? at 1st it was very hard because i know that we can't give what a mother can with

a chance, and then there was a moment of despair. what will we do? will we be able to do this? and then our realised that no matter watch, we have to do it in an effort to offer gracious some continuity his grandparents have kept oksana apartment and moved there to be with him when he added can we once, will the war be out for an i told him yes, it will. will we? when i'm sure of it? i said, we'll all the soldiers come back. yes, they will. i said. and will mom be coming home? i had to tell him your mom won't be coming back yet by gregory is consumed by the challenges of raising his grandson. his message is abroad. one without the from the thing is not every one is going to remember my daughter. but it's important that they see the hearts that are happening around us at 320 it's telling oksana story has become his attempt to call on the world to not become numb,

to rush as brutality. and to understand what he does to families like his the war in ukraine has dominated the agenda at the meeting of foreign ministers from gee, 20 countries in delhi. but according to russia's foreign minister started lopper up, there will be no communique, u. s. secretary of state antony lincoln's as said he expected most of the g 20 to continue to back ukraine and that he had no plans for bilateral meetings with his russian or chinese counterparts. but russia and china did hold a meeting on the sidelines reiterating their ties and rejecting what they called western threats and is no render. mowdy meanwhile, used his video address to say the group needs to reset to resolve global glass current global issues. we must all economic dark

mode. the liberalism egan, cries is today the ext williams of the last 2 years for a man so grassy climate change. find a me that of them and vol. clearly, sol bag global going on had fe, asti, w's, delhi bureau, chief m rita cima. what the indian prime minister meant by that statement? jerry, he said when the architecture of global governance was set up after the 2nd world war, there were 2 main names to prevent conflict and war and balance competing loyalties at the same time, developing international cooperation. he said, in this case both these aims have not been met and the greatest consequences. he said, well fred, well, the developing was so he wants to set this agenda very much. and this summit as the

voice of the global south, he also acknowledge that this is the time of immense global tensions. and he said each person has their own perspective. and position with the delegates is a huge, huge conference here about 40 delegations. and he said to them that they should come together, overcome their divisions and work together and look at what you nice them, what device them for more we have our chief international editor richard walker with us in the studio or richard. we heard that the russian foreign minister suggested there would be no final communicate. coming out of this meeting. what can you tell us yet? so the meeting is just wrapped up. we've had said a lot of the russian foreign minister as the 1st of the pharmacist to come out and speak to the press. and this was really just in the last 1520 minutes or so. and he did indicate that there was no joint communique. and now we've heard from the indian external affairs minister, so also equivalent to foreign minister s j shanker. he has also said that there is

not a joint communicate. there is what's called a chairman statement. now just to explain what is the joint communicate, the sounds like kind of really dramatic lingo, basically the test of any of these kind of big multi lateral meetings that, that take place. you know, have they succeeded or not have they made progress or not? we usually the test of that is could everyone come together and say, look, we've set down all of the things that we think in the statement or communicating the sort of french wording of diplomacy. we can all sign up today. and so usually you would say, well, if there's one of those, then the meetings been assessed. if there isn't, it's been a failure and it looks like there hasn't been and the sticking point and we were here. we haven't heard the details yet. still coming out very likely to be how the war in ukraine have reservation of ukraine is being dealt with, obviously, but the russians, they got chinese, they're who are sticking very close to the russians. huge differences between them

and the west and india trying to sort of find a way through this diplomatically looks like it hasn't worked out. we're going to be looking at the details. so no joint communicate coming out of that meeting. that's quite something a richard. india is prime minister. he clearly wanted to focus this meeting on the needs of the global south. whereas other members are particularly the united states at the meeting where we're preoccupied with ukraine and wanted to bring, keep that on the agenda. or were they able to, to bring both of these things to the table? yes, so you can tell from what the engines are saying, what we heard from the rental mode or civil average was describing there. the indians would really quite like to sort of put the ukraine war in a box kind of compartmentalize it to one side, say ok, we can't agree on that. let's talk about these other things because these are important things that matters to the most vulnerable countries in the world that have just been ignored for too long. things like food security, energy security, so that the west comes back and says, well, the thing is,

you cannot disentangled it because the warren ukraine is making food security worse by disrupting it. food exports, regular is making energy security more precarious because because of the impacts on, on the oil market, you simply cannot separate these things out. it seems that the g there was a g 20 finance ministers meeting last week where india try to sort of find a way through this. now at the g 20 for ministers, it's also tried to find a way through this. and it seems that it hasn't managed to that basically the west is saying, we're not going to accept some kind of like outcome from these meetings that down plays the war. and the russians and the chinese saying, we're not going to accept. and the thing that caused russia is the bad guy. for sure. thank you very much. our chief international editor, richard walker. now, iran's health minister says an investigation is underway into allegations that

religious groups may be targeting school girls and a series of poison attacks. hundreds of girls are thought to have been poisoned by toxic us around 30 skins across the country. the incidents began in november when several politicians of suggested the attacks were being carried out by groups opposed to girls educational positions. oh, lord, to you. or more of this, some joy now from bon bah, new la, far girl ami, she's a journalist with the w's parsi language service. none of our what can you tell us about these poisoned attacks on girls schools? yesterday was the worst day since the beginning of is a tyson add the reading province bit 9 schools to ron b. a schools and lauriston did find the school, had the highest number of boys any so far, and according to their investigations are 30 experience of the mystery of health. and there was nitrogen gas in their release poison and, and,

and i didn't do that. i can send a few days ago, a large number of female university students in the dormitory, in broo, again, which is a province invest iran, there poisoned answering, hailing gas. this strange smell. does it appear that this really is a campaign as some have suggested an organized campaign to attack girls education in iraq actually to poison a tax which was started from 1st december is what we know. so for in the city of gold, which is really just a teeny ron and then 10 days later it spread to other cities in different directions in the country and in turn, a bigger and bigger like what happened yesterday to ron and other major cities like care mom sean grew jared in based on other provinces in and north and south and east of iran. it shows that it might be something like that. and some activists

assume it would be an organized attack to make the school environment unsafe for a school years. any idea who could be behind these poisonings? ah, there are some functions by white groups and act to be at that the regime wants to take them w responding to all this. is it taking steps to protect girls who may be at risk? i can say not at all and they never respond properly and, and they always try to, i mean, i'm just distract people and then they attack on the protesters and yesterday, especially into iran, there was a video published on social media that plainclothes forces grabbing one students more there from here here, because she wanted an answer and safety for her child in an educational facility, but they did nothing actually in of her. thank you very much. that was a w,

near the far galani info sketch up on a few other stories making headlines around the world. this our, the estate department on wednesday called on the israeli government to disavow a statement by finance minister bizarre le smoked rich, the ultra nationalist had said a palestinian village in the occupied westbank should be quoted, were erased, harden in state department spokesperson ned price said this was irresponsible smokers, said he had been quoted out of content we seemed in these provocative remark. vietnam's new president upon tongue has promised to crack down on corruption after being sworn in on thursday, his predecessor had to resign a bit infighting in the ruling. communist party centered around allegations of graft. it is a one party state controlled by the communist party. now to greece, had the stationmaster who was on duty when 2 trains crashed,

head on their claiming dozens of lives is due to appear before a prosecutor later. the 59 year old will have to explain how a passenger train with around $350.00 people on board was allowed to run on the same line as a freight train for several kilometers before they collided. rescue teams are still searching through the wreckage at the site. as we're continues to identify the remains of those killed. the greek prime minister has said, quote, tragic human error was mainly to blame for disaster, which is now spark protests across the country. and go on the streets of athens. after dozens were killed in greece is dead, least trained, crush. ah, students in desolate nikki also demonstrated on wednesday evening as a cold for accountability. this cctv footage shows

a moment later on tuesday evening when 2 trains collided in central grease with carriages bursting into flames. emergency teens and rescue crews worked through the night and in thick smoke. searching for survivors, scouring each broken carriage by torchlight for signs of life. and the bodies of those killed in the crash. those who escaped with their lives described the moment of impact. we gladly you said what is alex with that he has brought you a little while. i go to the bed, but i am a gull obama. we heard a big bang like it was 10 nightmarish seconds. unable to get it and were thrown around in the wagon. eventually falling on our side, some of the commotion stopped,

and there was panic cables everywhere. my van hispanic oscar law, the of the fire was everywhere. your life it was unable to get as we're rolling. we were burning gothic fire was everywhere. that the v. god. god though you as we landed a fire up did right next to was this man his or hall. we managed to get out through there. we were. after visiting the scene, the greek prime minister said those responsible would be held accountable. if negotiating for going to justice will do its own work or finish all responsibilities will be assigned. or. meanwhile, the stateful, stung by the families of the victims, we will mount our children, our siblings, our friends, to feel we will remain united in this tragedy as well. yes, i think that over official said some of those killed can only be identified through genetic testing. so for the friends and relatives of those missing

an agonizing weight, the news goes on. america's southern border with mexico has become a flash point for illegal migration, and people willing to risk their lives to get to the u. s. one con, county and south texas knows the human price of those illegal crossings only to well. brook's county is where the highest number of undocumented migrants die after crossing the border. as they make their way north, many get lost in the vast texas wilderness as they try to avoid security checkpoints. the combination of high temperatures and a lack of water can prove fatal. v. w visit a local and cio trying to save lives. a sign of death. boulder is hover above the you a saw the border a see a lot of bone id mar phone. this time it was just animal bones, but often eddie canal is finds the bodies or remains of migrants.

a decade ago, he founded the south texas human rights center. it's volunteers help migrants who risk their lives in the desert. to day, a group of new volunteers has come to find out how they can help. we need other pros, it doesn't cause migrated up. his approach is to set a water stations along the migrants routes in the desert. many die of dehydration snake bites or from drinking contaminated water is up in the local school, eddie, the water boy constantly people are coming through. this is one of the ranches where people come through a lot, migrants ah, for some reason other they touched this ranch once they weighed in circum circumvent the checkpoint. whereabout,

i would say 5 miles away from the checkpoint. to this day, the organization has installed more than 100 water stations in the desert. calley. fernando us help installed the 1st one, trading he's been able to save many lives, many have perished, but he has been able to save many lives in less than 2 decades. brook's county has recovered the remains of nearly up 1000 migrants. oh line families of the missing and turned to sherry benny martinez asking for help. some have been searching for their loved ones for months or even years. within 72 hours it won't be like that. okay, so full body, everything still intact to got flish for sheriff martinez. the solution to the problem is clear. we have to go draw back and secure the water for ok. you stop them at the water. this, we will have all this mission person skus,

actually were the top 5 instead of texas for mission person. but 80 things simply closing the border. when sto migrants from coming, instead he fears it will push them on even more dangerous routes. increasing the death toll and the pain of the families south, texas brooks county is a barrow ground for a lot of my this a work that has to be that nobody else is doing. it will continue it. you know, hopefully you know, they'll be more resources for this type of work. he needs resources. until then, eddie hopes his efforts bring a sense of relief to a national tragedy. saying in the united states, a string of back to back winter storm says lashed the u. s. west coast bringing blizzard conditions and heavy snowfall mary areas of california that are unused to icey conditions. the states famous yosemite national park has been closed indefinitely and in southern california,

record breaking snow falls had brought widespread destruction. for some, it brought pure unadulterated joy. met led on the hill, and i thought the skis me, you'll say a playlist though. whereas noah, dis, like 30 years, will good to become a key the game end real kids to played the most of the rest. no fall in this part of southern california, just east of los angeles. but the winter storms have also caused serious problems with nearly a meter of snow. in some areas. major highways had to be shot in the blizzards knocked out power to thousands of homes. emergency cruises, scrambling to shuttle food and medicine to communities, cut off by the snow. our county fire insurance and public works credit can deliver

medicine and food to those that are still housed homebound, we know that roofs are starting to collapse. we have elevated this situation into a unified command with all of our emergency cooperators and every available resource that we have at the county and the state that they can provide will be thrown at this incident with more snow expected in the coming weeks. residents will have to brace for the harsh conditions to continue. this is dw news from berlin. just reminder of the top story we're following for you this. our, a russian missile has hit a 5 story building overnight in ukraine's southern city of upper reach. you killing at least 3 people and wounding several others. the cities acting mayor says the apartment block has been almost completely destroy. i'll be back at the top of the next hour with another full news bulletin. meanwhile,

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