ah, destined to forsake starts more changed on d w ah ah, this is dw news light from pearl in another russian missile strike on civilian infrastructure in view crime. a 5 story apartment building is almost completely destroyed. several victims were killed as they slip in the southern city of south felicia and international summit in india in disagreement over the war and ukraine, the russian foreign minister. so gay lover of blames the west of blocking a joint statement, also on the program,

a series of mystery poisoning cases at schools in iraq. there are claims hardline religious works could be trying to stop gills, getting an education. ah, i'm anthony, how walk into the program? we begin in ukraine where at least 4 people have been killed in a russian missile attack on an apartment building in the southern city of separation. a search and rescue operation is under way to find people still trapped under the rubble. president vladimir soleski has condemned the strike and vowed to drive all occupies out of you credit. the russian may sal hits overnight. turning this 5 story building into a mangold ruin of rubble and debris. authority say many residents here were asleep in their homes. when the attack happened with no time to escape

fluid, you could he, charlie, the people were scream or it was hot to hear, you know, which he was shocked. the rescue as came and the people were under the w. yes. need you half of them all on the virgin olive for rescue as the desperate search for signs of life is a dangerous one. but the reward is worth it to me, you're going to let me as more people are pulled from the rubble injured, but a life chillik, a man 30 years old. oh, he slept on a couch. bob got trapped by a concrete slab when the rock it hits the order for almost 3 hours. rescue is work to recover him from under the slabs. it will do me. he's alive and well. everything is fine of silver. but there is little comfort for those able to walk away from the ruins on

a waiting bus. they watch on his rescue as pig 3. what's left of their homes more lives now shattered by rushes, ongoing aerial assault on ukraine. and it's people of more in this, some joints now by they doubly corresponding nick connelly and keith nick, it's 500 plus kilometers from here. but what are you hearing from separation? the casualty numbers are still not conclusive. there's talk of numerous people still unaccounted for in terms of people living near binds of the wounded. we know that it was one pregnant woman who survived this attack, but there is expectation that because of thumbs could still rise. we also believe that this was a russian s, $300.00 missile. this is what was previously an anti aircraft and kind of air defense ballistic system that the russians are now converting all mass to attack ukraine positions. they're running out of other kinds of missiles, and this isn't a cruise missile. this is a ballistic missile that moves

a lot fast with lot harder to in set. and it's basically one, but feel like the procedure that early a couple of dozen clumped us away from front lines are basically pretty venerable to. this is not the 1st time separation and the surrounding region have been targeted by russian strikes. what is it about the city itself and its location, make it important for russia strategically? well, this is the capital region that russia, after all claims for itself that russia has an export of the parts that it currently controls and considers the entirety of the region to be russian territory . this is a very important logistics and industrial hub. not very far away. from the front lines that separated a power plant that's in russian hands is not far away. this is a central kind of hub for ukraine's home in the south, the country. so that is possible list. but also, you know, we saying that sometimes again, rushes weapons just all precise. so if they are attacking city like this, it even attacking more legitimate military targets. they have no way of guaranteeing but civilians are not going to be hitting all of this. and they

certainly not simply doing much to avoid them. so we seen tom, tom again, civil infrastructure, but also civilian housing being attacked, people losing their lives. and the city that has already lost a lot of it population. lots people are just simply not willing to take these risks and are leavings a patricia to a developing story. there are reports about an alleged attack by ye crying aligned soldiers on russian soil. what do we know about an incident in the russian town of brianna? this is a very, very complex situation for now. the russian government, russian, state media are accusing ukraine of sending saboteurs, quote, saboteurs into russian territory. basically they meant that the suggest will be that these are ukranian special forces and that they have seemingly, according to russian media attacked school, boston taking people hostage. but there are lots of very, mutually exclusive claims there. so lots of this seemingly shifting and no real clear picture of what the russian government side accuses these supposed it ukraine

saboteurs of doing. but then to make you think, even more complex, we've had this claim responsibility by an anti putin, russian group that is affiliated, as you mentioned, that a with the ukranian all me. so it's pretty difficult to tell what is happening if anything at all, but certainly as a real sense of fear here in ukraine that russia might take this. that with the crane side claims is this your full slag operation, that russian might take this as a kind of projects. so rally russians who and the flag to get them involved with this war. if it gets ukraine to get people engaged, to tell ordinary rushed, isn't that they also at risk from ukraine, so that a real worry here that this can be used for an escalation and that there might be retaliation attacks from the russian side in the days and weeks come, the w correspondent, mckinley keep. thank you. so let's explore these claims by russia about an attack in the russian town of brianna. ask further, and bringing the w moscow bureau chief uri we're shadow. he's now based in latvia

and capital riga because they w is banned in russia. uri pohden speaks of a terrorist attack. what are the russians saying happened in bryant? well, anthony, as nick just mentioned so far, the situation has remained pretty unclear as i have been reports from the ocean state media about alleged to us from ukraine who entered to one or 2 village villages in the border area and started shooting. and the governor of brians sat wants to be led, was killed, and a child was wounded. and according to other reports, armed persons have taken people hostage in a grocery store. however, this was denied a later as well. and then it was set as cool. boss had come under fire, but authorities denied this to ultimately, the russian youth agency task report that, that, that the group of similar to us includes several dozen armed people from ukraine. so all in all, we've been hearing many different reports and several disclaimers. we can only say that obviously a group of armed people appeared on the russian side of the border. there has been

obviously shooting and there was some injured or dead among the victims. you reboot . does the classification of the incident as a terrorist attack. mean for the area, look at terrorist attack is a higher level of escalation than simply armed robbery, especially from the point of the, of you, of the authorities. and terrorist attack is something that may be counted with special measures, which i state of emergency higher powers or the security services. and terror attacks are always within the competence of the secret services, which is the f as b and not as a symbol police are. but the all important question entity is, of course, was it a terrorist attack at all? and was it an attack from outside from ukraine, or an attack organized by the russian partisans or even staged by the if his be some high ranking ukrainian politicians or support this version and called the attack a classical and provocation asked,

i believe the situation then on the russian side of the border and is there genuine fear that we could see more of these type of incidence in the near future? while the entire border region has been a single or restricted areas in february last year, by the way, almost the entire south of russia is restricted area 11 russian airports has been closed for over a year and not without reason. there have been more and more shootings, explosions and allegedly, rockets attacks, especially in the last few months. of course, this cannot be compared with the suffering of the ukrainians, but life on the russian side is no longer easy and safe either. i think even if we assume that today's brown's attacks are in fact and intelligence staging, we conclude, we can conclude that the broader the blog here, the war for russia becomes the more reason moscow will have to justify this war if you crannies are behind it. that's also possible, then their revenge is justified from the gradient point of view in saw in may also

happen more often in the future. the double is you re received or thanks so much. a meeting of the g 20 countries in india has ended in disagreement of the board in ukraine. india's foreign minister said differences on the invasion could not be reconciled. us secretary of state antony lincoln spoke briefly with his russian opposite number. so the lover of lincoln underlined washington's commitment to help you find defend itself for as long as it takes the credibility of multilateral. and as antony blinkin was making, his rush an opposite number. so they love rob for the 1st time since the invasion of ukraine blake and criticized china for filing to condemn the war. the chair state by india today reaffirmed the declaration issued by the g 20 leaders last year in bali which and i quote, strongly condemned to warn ukraine and stress that is causing immense human suffering and exacerbating existing facilities in the global economy. and quote,

russia and china were the only 2 countries that may clear that they would not sign on to that text. for the thumb pack this with a devilish chief international editor, richard walker. it joins me in the studio, going to say, richard, no community, we're talking about what we don't have here. we just heard from secretary of state antony blinking. what more did he have to say? yeah, well, he's really pointing out the, the sort of gulf between the position that the u. s. in the west is kind of been leading in being critical of russia invasion of ukraine on the one side and, and russia and china on the other side. and what we're seeing here in this form, in this meeting of the g 20 in delhi today is a sign that the russian and chinese position in these diplomatic forest seems to be hardening. as we heard from tony blinking there. at the end of these meetings, you try to come up with what's called a communicate. so

a big text with all sorts of points in it, saying these are the things that we all agree on. and usually that given us a sort of a sign of has as the meeting been a success or not, you know, if you don't get a communicate together, if people can't agree on that is seen as you know, a failure. and indeed, it was not possible to agree on a final communicate that everyone could agree on. because russia and china objected to passages talking about ukraine war as we have until you break it. russian. china actually agree to those very same passages, exactly the same text which was in the communicate from the bali g 20 summit. so the summit of all the leaders of the g 20, which was only 4 months ago. so it's interesting sign that the u. s. a china and russia p to be hardening in their positions. we've seen china kind of making moves recently, starting to talk about like presenting what it called a position paper. it's few on what an political solution to this war could look like a position paper that was infused with its opposition to the united states. actually

blaming the united states for, for the outbreak of that war. so you have all the one had the russia and china kind of getting closer together. and china, potentially using its position on the ukraine as part of what is emerging into kind of cold war between us and china. so you really see like kind of express through this failure to get to communicate just how difficult situation the world is at the moment between these 2 polls. so what's the dynamic here? are the u. s. in europe alone versus russia and china is that, that simple world? not, not really. because if you look at the numbers here, you had russia and china objecting to these passages about ukraine war and the rest of the g. 20. not because they'd already signed off on it in bali 4 months ago. so it's really rush and china that looking isolated is w's. richard walker, thanks so much. the invasion of ukraine a year ago,

prompted a sharpie. you turn in germany's defense policy. chancellor of short announced a sharp rise in spending on the armed forces, now shelters told parliament what he believes have been achieved and what still needs to be done. it's been one year since chancellor. i love charles announced what he called that satan vendor at turning point for germany. shots is government committed to significantly increasing funding for german defense and started sending heavy weapons to ukraine, including state of the art tanks, taking stock a year after that, pivotal speech shots made clear germany will continue supporting ukraine's defense freedom lever. one thing, these does not mean submitting to a bigger neighbor. if ukraine stopped defending itself, it would not be peace, but the end of ukraine. but he said germany needs to increase the capabilities of its own army also by helping the production and purchase of weapons and ammunition

. but the lid defense minister historian and i are talking to the defense industry about a real change of track towards rapid planning oriented and efficient procurement of defense equipment for the buddhist vale and other european armies. feel a little pressure on the state of the opposition says progress is too slow. you see, i'm furnish to wish you quite rightly mentioned co operation with the arms industry and with european partners. the why were weapons orders. why were decisions not already made in the last year, either from links emits yogato from foreign z? ha. marie agnes scott zimmerman is chair of the defense committee and a member of the governing coalition. she says much has been achieved in the last year, but there is still room for improvement, is impulsively we're still not fast enough. we have to become faster on the one hand because of the war in ukraine. but also because we have an obligation towards nato, and that means more equipment or more repair snell. me,

a pelzer nod does only cause such a shift in germany's defense and security policy was almost unthinkable before russia invaded ukraine. the more work remains for the german government is to truly make good on its promises. with german chancellor, olaf shots also had a message for china and his address to the buddhist hug. earlier today, they dudley's chief political correspondent, lena hasa, sent us this update. a little i showed, sees china as the main player. one of the main players are together with india, perhaps in this conflict because as all of charges keeps pointing out, this is not just about russia versus ukraine. this is about an aggressive, challenging of the international orders, the international treaties, violating everything that the world order stands on. and which is why he says he needs the support from other countries around the world. and he reiterated again, how important it was that last week in new york,

the united nations in the general assembly passed a vote to irv with overwhelming support of the message. essentially, russia has to stop this war. this is to condemn these actions are not an acceptable . so in his message today, it will have swords as spoke about urban, china's message from last year, where they warned against nuclear escalation. all i've showed celebrated that at the time as one of his big diplomatic successes because he travelled to beijing and as he doing things that next to him when he, when he uttered those words, saying a nuclear escalation is something that we're strongly warning against. and the china still has not officially condemned of russia's war and has not to used its influence enough. says the german chancellor, the he also referred to that piece plan that china put forward last week where china warned against the use of nuclear, but also biological and chemical weapons. so there is a very clear signal coming out of germany here today that china should do more to

stop this rule from expanding and from letting an aggressor get away with these actions. and from nina hossa at the bonus tag. let's take a look now. some of the other news headlines from around the world. protest is in greece, are demanding information about a rail disaster which killed nearly 50 people. passenger train was traveling on the same track as an oncoming freight service increases. worst rel, accident the local station manager is under arrest. you a state department is calling on israel to design a statement by its finance minister. that's a little small fridge. the ultra nationalist said i palestinian village in the occupied west bank should be quote, a race that state department spokesperson need price describe this as irresponsible or to which says he was quoted out of context that also on vietnam's new president fall found to own as promised to crack down on corruption. the last later was asked it, i've allegations of wide spread graft among officials. vietnam is

a one party state controlled by the communist party to us astronauts and a russian cosmonaut are on their way to the international space station. i blasted off from cape canaveral in florida, also on borders and immorality. the 1st astronaut from the arab world, spending several months space around health minister says an investigation is underway into allegations that religious groups may be targeting school girls in a series of poison attacks. hundreds of girls have been thought to be poisoned by toxic gas at dozens of school. incidence began in november. several politicians have suggested the attacks have been carried out by groups opposed to girls education me. what of the iranian health minister says he's investigating these alleged attacks. i asked as a pause on iranian p h, the research at so us university of london, if the regime can be trusted in this investigation and no de ryan regime cannot be

trust. that is fine. and as the, as the world has seen, that the track record of their human rights violations ever since september 2022 until today. and as those of us monitor the situation organize your own closely for decades, know that this regime is that very much explicitly discriminatory against women and girl children, as well as other groups of iranian citizens. and it's quite requesting that currently speculations that perhaps while there is a good public claims that quote unquote, radical shiite groups behind it. as we understand that and maybe not 3 individuals as that. but this speculation is that perhaps this is part of the continuation of abuse against protest and potentially

a form of revenge against school children and girls in particular, who participated in my life. freedom of things every summer. as what i do, we know at this point is the government taking any steps to protect the school goals. i, as i understand, no, it is not doing so. in fact, as a is coming out of iran where you see, for example, that mother of a school girl at, you know, asking, demanding accountability and individuals who basically look like they're wearing either clothes of that. you know, there are no, you know, the police are beating her. a association of teachers have been calling for accountability and investigations and are also calling this potential i chemical, essentially

a chemical attack against the children. and so sometimes some families are scared to take their children to the hospitals. and so i do have this as you see very literally 0 trust in the government willingness to take adequate action in life, in line with what is happening. and even though this gassing of this school has started since november, and it only escalates and since this sunday, you know, they haven't use on time that had to do any. and you real investigation and no, or is their system as they talk for an actual in the independent investigation at this point. as of the girls education has not so far been a target in iran, as it has been, for instance in afghanistan. is this happening right now? do you think? because women and girls are playing a prominent role in anti government protest?

yes, i mean, you are right. i girls, education and women's higher education is, you know, and not that's all comparable, for example, to what's happening in afghanistan at least in the more affluent areas of the country. and there are things that country, but also one of the worries is that i'm a good public. it has shown on time and time again, even when it has, as you know, lots of progressive policies towards women are defined marginalized groups. and it seems that it's not serving, it seems as it does not shy away from reversing those policies to more backward policies. for example, many years ago iran was being applied by the international community for birth control plan. and i country session plan and it sounds like it's not, it's interesting, it's very rapidly a revised policy. i guess the women on criminalize

a potentially considering and reversing the it's education policy far as what i put on from. so s in the university of london. thanks so much for your time. thank you. many communities of britain suffering from the economic fall out of breaks it and the board do credit. but some are rolling brown to help themselves in one town in western wiles, locals have banned it to get the safe. i will love hardware shop from closure by taking their own stakes in the business. all appears normal in the small wells town of new toward home to just over a 1000 people. there are full paths, a handful of shops and a hardware store habits am after don't, please, as the child has, but just over a year of the break said residents received the news that harvard was closing after nearly 150 years and business. it was a bombshell every one was really, really,

really upset that we would lose it. no one could imagine life without their frying pans and kitchen essentials. so new put residents set about raising nearly half a 1000000 pounds. and to go over the shop themselves. who's now employees get help from volunteers who are not for profit organization, the profits go straight back off to cost and they're paying a small amount of fir shareholder interest. go straight back into the community. a helpful source of funding and tough times and, and post breaks at britain e. u. money is now solely missed in rural whales. new ports clubhouse, for example, was partly paid for by the u. the welsh government expects a shortfall of over a 1000000000 pounds over the next 5 years. so some in the region are taking the initiative. obviously the loss of european funding is going to be a blow, but we will have to north seek of the funding post within the community and

throughout government and u. k. government. a new port residents have stepped in themselves to say the heart of their community. more than 500 people now own shares and habits west wales which is predominantly rural, is seeing young people leave in droves. shops are closing everywhere and the cost of of energy means up. many small shops are struggling and our closing, we see in the news every day local shop suffering. but by having a community shop, we're working with over 500 shareholders to encourage them to support their shop. the people of new could have even managed to win over the british government, which is now planning to inject funds into the project with the community purchase . it feels as though people are taking action in the best way possible am and everybody supports it. the people of new court and their community own

haverton, have become a source of hope in a region that has seen its problems compounded by brags in local soap. their community initiative would benefit not just themselves, but also the next generation of new port residence. so for now, coming up next focused on europe, mates, the spanish village is taking the clothes off for charity calendar old to be revealed after a short break. i may have to be held thanks for watching and stay with us. if you can't with

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