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on its controversial bill after 2 nights and protests and clashes with the police in tbilisi. the rolling party says that it is dropping the foreign agents fill, which critics say threatens free speech. and damage is george's faith to join the you. and concern in israel over plans to overhaul the legal system. people take to the streets, to challenge new government proposals for supreme court processes. protesters say it is a threat to democracy. supporters claim it reflects the will of the people. ah, i'm sorry, kelly. welcome to the program. russia has unleashed a master's missile attack across ukraine that has killed at least 6 people.

residential buildings have reportedly been hit along with energy infrastructure in the latest barrage keeps mayer metallic, which co says that there were explosions in the cities. southwestern neighborhoods and that emergency services were tackling the areas affected. it is not immediately clear how many missiles had struck targets, but in the western city of la vive, there have also been strikes there, which has largely escaped previously being a target as burgundy that he is onion, as it was joining us in the capital key. now, so, i mean, tell us a little bit more about the strikes that we've been seeing. many residents of kia, including myself, were woken up very early this morning by the sound of explosions. at least 2 places in key. if we're hit by russian missiles. this includes a thermal electric plant that supplies a heating and power to the city, and there are reports that about 15 percent of the city lost power. it's not an

exaggeration to say that most regions in the country were hit or were affected by russian strikes. overnight that includes odessa in the south har keith in the east geneva in the north and in the far west of the region of levine was also hit, where 5 people died when a missiles struck a residential suburban neighbourhood, just outside of the city about an hour outside of the city and that significant because this is the 1st time since the beginning of the war, that a residential area has suffered, a direct hit from russian missiles in the leave o glass. so this wave of strikes worse perhaps, particularly terrorizing to people in the far west of the country. and we understand that strikes have also cut power to the separate c at nuclear power plant. what's the impact there? power was cut to that nuclear power plant. we've had confirmation from ukraine end, russia. russia says that the operations are ongoing,

safely at the plant through the use of diesel generators. this is something that's happened several times before when power was cut and they can operate for about 10 days under the supplies that they have there. so russia says that everything is stable now, but the truth is that this is the 1st full scale war in a country with nuclear power plants. so we really don't know what the risks are in this situation. it's the biggest wave of an aerial attacks from russia in, in weeks, in areas like this in the country. what is the feeling right now in ukraine among civilians? there was a period of revel relative calm and central western ukraine because after a several months of attacks from russia to knock out the power grid here to cause blackouts in cities across the country. this had stopped for a little while bringing things back to a relative sense of normality here. but of course on the eastern side the

ukrainians are confronted with death and destruction every day. so i think for the west, this is really brought the front of the war home and reminded a lot of people that no place in the country is truly safe. i mean, as if in case thank you and harrison, other stories making headlines. pakistani police have clash with supporters of former prime minister in ron con, in the eastern city of la whore. the violence of wrapped it ahead of an election rally planned by con, that had been banned by the government. can't party later claims that one of its supporters was killed. but that hasn't been confirmed by police. the telling coast guard has rescued dozens of migrants after their boats got into trouble near the mediterranean island of lampa dosa rescuer said that there were no casualties. tens of thousands of migrants attempt the dangerous crossing to europe . each year on 3 palestinians were killed in an exchange of fire with his really

security forces in the occupied west bank. israel said that its soldiers had rated the village of java to arrest suspected militants. the deaths come amid escalating violence in the occupied west bank to his real now were a traditional restructuring effort has led to wide spread protest. proposed laws would reduce the powers of the supreme court and allow political influence in just disappointments. now crowds opposing these plans have been gathering in protest with critics voicing grave concerns about the role of law and calling the proposals a threat to democracy. while supporters of the plan say that they reflect the will of the people our correspondence of the temperature of some earlier protests which have gathered over recent days to confront the government's latest move. it's one of the many protest happening across israel. this time israel army, veterans,

and reservists have invited the public to demonstrate against the government's plans to change to legal system across the street from prime minister benjamin netanyahu office sigma bessler, a physicist is addressing the rally. these very scientists baris, that is most democracy is in danger. the new government trying to impose laws such that the government will be supreme to basically everything including justice. so why we are here to make sure that such a legislation will never bess, it will take us down below that, that hungary and poland and turkey and iran went before us. we just want to make sure that this is not happening here as well. just a few 100 meters away at israel kinessa the far right government is pushing through with its plans to trust. stickly curb, the powers of the nation's supreme court. parts of the legislation have already passed the 1st reading in parliament sim co hoffman from the far right village to

sign his party is one of the main architects of the tradition reform. he states voters have given the government a monday to go ahead with the controversial overhaul in november. first. a lot of people went out of the whole homes and voted, and they voted on exactly this issue. so to listen to that, there is a lot of people, but it is small minority israel that says is that this reform is not good for them . we have basically a quarter. it is an unbalanced and uncheck on like the other entities in with the government, which are checked and balance or we need to introduce checks and balances to says river system. the deponent disagree. they say the overhaul, the give, the government and power, and override israeli to dish or aris independence in little and there's no constitution in the state of israel and no declaration of human rights. we do not

have the 2 houses of parliament. we do not have a term limits for the prime minister the now and i'll be more and that's why in terms of checks and balances. many times we lean on the high court decisions. this law makes it impossible for the supreme court to oversee the candidate and the government's action as another protest. this time in front of the prime minister's residence in jerusalem. after weeks of demonstrations, people here are angry that their voices are not being heard. and legislation is being pushed through here because things are getting really radical with good enough people citizens. i would say that the bunch of stream you just do go over the parliament and they just want to buy their own laws. they don't care about us. they don't care about the public what we'll just keep coming here to stay with try you not the

way, but i mean you have nothing else to do and we need to fight for our country despite efforts, but israeli president isaac had spoken to others a meaningful dialogue on the issue has yet to materialize. the government insists the reforms essential and doesn't seem to be backing down. and dw rebecca readers is on the ground near ben gory an airport where those protesters have been gathered for hours to day. she gave us this update a short time ago. ah, that's right there. where i beg your ian as you say it is rather mine international airport protest is ag holding base resistance against dictatorship today. and you can say here a massive protest. they've talked behind me coming up, come right up into the airport to try and give you a good view. really loud. hey, everybody honking flying flags using megaphone to get their message across. they're trying to block the entrance to the airport. benjamin netanyahu department assess,

he's due to be here. he's doing a fine to italy today, and they're trying to pull this up around the airport, the course, benjamin and not who has trumpet and he's come by helicopter. and we saw them arriving a little while ago. so he is at the airport when he's due to meet the us defense secretary here. actually he was supposed to be that was a plan visit, but he was supposed to go to jerusalem to meet with the prime minister. but i've had to change the schedule because of this day of disruption. you can see behind me these people have been, we've been talking to them, they're really, really angry. they say that they don't have any other option, but to make their voices heard that they feel like that, that democracy is being taken away from them. and they're going to disrupt until they can find some kind of other outcome. and in fact, the protests have been taking place for several weeks. is there any sign that the government is listening? rebecca? that's right. these began in early january. sarah, this is nearly 2 and

a half months in today's weekly. and now more than weekly protest, i began just as a week on the saturdays and television. those protests were brushed aside by the government that they were just simply left the activists that they, the people who are unhappy with the outcome of the election. they were trying to brush them away, but now they protest have become more and more active to try and grange and to really kind of bring the controversy through a home. so in terms of whether or not these are going to talk to their home promises, the president of the country that hurts on he's trying to bring together the 2 side to some kind of compromise on the legislation. thing that they will keep changes to the supreme court, but not as extreme as what the government is currently trying to put forward. whether or not they're successful really remains to be seen. and if they're not, looks at that these kind of protests, ok, new rebecca, we have just 30 seconds netanyahu meeting with the us defense secretary today. tell us more that right here to discuss primarily escalating violence in the west bank.

also nuclear armament in iran. that's obviously very important topic for israel, but as i mentioned before, we schedule was changed the israel army that the out, the pentagon said will be changed because of the same disrupt. and so the 2 men will now meet at the airport and also meet the rally defense minister of the airport, which is behind me before he flies on benjamin and young record flying on to italy and often going back to the us. protesters meantime very clearly making their point, we see that they've actually shopped there behind you for a little bit. rebecca. right. or joining us just outside of been korean airport. thank you so much for your reporting. and georgias government says that it is dropping its foreign agents bill following several days of protest on wednesday night violence broke out in the capital to please see as tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to oppose the draft along the bill would have

required media and angie owes that received over 20 percent of their funding from abroad to register as agents of foreign influence. opponent say that it would limit free speech and marked a shift toward authoritarianism. georgia, formerly part of the soviet union, has applied to become a member of the european union and the needle military alliance. let's bring an dw corresponded maria cut a mazda who is joining us in tbilisi. so tell us a little bit more, was the foreign agents bill withdrawn because of the protest. ah, yes, our at 1st glance it looks like that of, for the past few days, we have seen a very violent blushes between protest service and the georgian police. so given these kind of fight done with by georgian people, the government really decided to drop the bill. however,

people and people seem very happy and cheerful. you know, to receive this news. however, there is some skepticism about it. we've managed to speak with some lewis and they told me that it's too early to say that the government is genuine about this decision because of important so far we have, we have heard only the rhetoric, but there were no additional actions taken as of now remind us of the major concerns about the law. well, why the law is widely seen as russia for an agent. legislation that it was introduced and russia allowed the crumbling to crack down on civil society and in georgia, there is a very much anti crumbling mood. and georgia sees this legislation as the put in legislation as the opposition posts. it's so they're really kind of they were

concerned about russia, the influence, and we've seen on the proto people who are saying no to the russian law. never back to the u. s. ceasar. so they don't really want to jeopardize the future by introducing this law as i sat there toy story to job the bail. however, us, we don't know still, if the law wouldn't be range, reduce later. how close in the georgia government right now to moscow? because, i mean, the former soviet republic of georgia in general has been moving away from russia sphere of influence. but many saw this proposed law as inspired by a similar russian law. ah, yes, i mean, a georgia allowed itself to flirt with russia sometimes. for instance, couple of weeks ago, georgian government said that it would be open to, ah, to restore the direct flights with moscow. and it was also are received with

a public opposition and that georgia today are condemning the war in ukraine officially conducting the war he crane, but not joining the it's not so sanctions make many believe that georgia is pursuing a strategic, strategic kind of policies towards russia. because georgia is not a rich country, and he doesn't really want to cut ties ah, with russia and the russian market is a really kinda attractive pie for georgia producers. so this is also something that the georgia p people criticized the government of maria cotton mazda in tbilisi. thank you. and here are some other stories making news u. s. senate minority leader. mitch mcconnell is in the hospital after a fall, me 81 year old republican was attending a private dinner at a hotel in washington when he tripped, in a statement,

his spokesperson said that he was receiving hospital treatment. so today, women across latin america have stage protests to call for attention to violence against women and abortion prohibitions. marking international women's day, tens of thousands took to the streets, including indigenous women, students, and workers. many latin american nations have some of the world's most restrictive abortion lawns. frances controversial pension reform bill has passed an important hurdle with the senate approving one of its key articles to raise the retirement age. the legislation must be finalized by sunday, if it's to advance. the government is seeking to raise the pension ridge from 60 to 64 in the face of strong opposition. turkey is now resuming talks with sweden and finland in brussels over their nato membership beds . after canceling negotiations with stock home over a koran burnt burning protest full to sweden and finland need turkey's approval to

join nato hooked with ratification from hungary also still outstanding. finland parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining nato. although helsinki says that it wants to join the alliance together with sweden, it is also prepared to move forward alone. god, i love you. what russell's bureau chief alexandra phenomena standing by. so what are the expectations from these talks today? well sir, i don't think that the expectations are really high. we know that delegations from all 3 countries will come here together. they will talk, we don't even know whether we, we, it's not clear, rather whether they are going to make a statement after their meeting. they were invited by nato secretary general leanne stolen though, and i asked him what his expectations are. and he told me that this is a process and that this process is not going to be concluded today. so i would say

that a breakthrough is rather unlikely, but so mac also said that it's important to half of these talks again, after a long period of silence, that this is a very important step. and we have to say that we looking back at weeks of back and forth between as sweden and turkey in particular. because finland is a kind of caught in between here and it is to turkish president. her rested ad one who has dug in his heels on sweden accusing the country of supporting kurdish militants of not extra dieting. people that turkey has a considered a terrorist offer and not lifting and arms embargo on turkey. and i just came back from as talk home this morning and officials, they're told me that they have already addressed turkeys concerns. they lifted to the arms embargo, they are about to introduce

a new tougher anti terrorism law. so the new ins talk hall not is not very good at the moment. and we also had a chance to talk to some members of the kurdish community there. but let's have a look at our report so that kara, dumont is not a politician, but as occurred, she says she cannot be silent. like many of her friends, she's worried that sweden's kurdish community will have to pay the prize for placating turkey and securing nate or membership for sweden. i don't personally think swedish government is going to to stand against her and say, look, those are integrated people. those are kurdish people. doors were political asylum seekers. if handled on one sit in sweden is desperate to get into the night too. yes, i do understand, but it shouldn't be costing him people who can't defend themselves for months. now . turkey has been locking stock,

hans nato albert claiming that sweden harbors kurdish militants and demanding the extradition of individuals. it considers terrorists the government and stockholm has already introduced changes to its security services and its constitution. and now, a new law will be put to a vote in the parliament supporting of financing a terrorist organisation could then be punished with for years in prison. the swedish government says, until now it's been hard to prosecute people, unless their actions could be cap holds to a specific terrorist act. they promise the law would not affect people just waving flags or demonstrating. but critics fear the government's main goal is to appease turkey. jessica, they're telling her member of the left part in the swedish parliament warns there will be repercussions. it's one of our main concerns with this sir proposal that you give away

a lot of the freedom in our constitution. and we think that we need to stand up for the basic principle in our constitution, whether we're the rights and the privilege shut to have. despite that criticism, the law is likely to be approved by the parliament. but no one from the ruling coalition was willing to speak with the w, a hat of the vote. the far right sweden, democrats who supported the government, were not so shy. force, there has been, oh there is me, needs fought for, for new legislation in this area. is matter and, and or it doesn't, ashton, whether such a collaboration is worth risking the country's reputation as a liberal haven for refugees to day. i am not proud. sorry. the swedish citizen because i feel that the sweden does everything last a sweden or sacrifice the identity of the country just for remember of the nato. and this is not good for the reputation of 3 though. according to a recent poll,

a majority of sweets wants to governments not to give in to turkish demands, but that doesn't really come forward. saba had kara dorman, she's concerned about what all of this means for her community. after all, she says sweden is now her home. so alexander, given that is finland likely to become a full natal member soon without sweden? well, finance chances are better than those of sweden that is clear with turkey signaling that they could move ahead with ratifying finland, sir natal membership a. but we also have to say, add, that's experts and nato officials here. don't expect anything to happen before the presidential election in turkey emit, may president edwin is heading into this very close election, and that is why or anything that could happen. it's probably going to happen after

that. d. w, brussels, garrity, if alexander phenomena, thank you so much. accordin indonesia has sentenced to football officials to one and a half years and one year in prison. they were both found guilty of negligence after one of the world's deadliest stadium disasters. $135.00 people died at the game between a raymar and paris a buyer in october of last year. these were the chaotic scenes that led to a football match, becoming deadly in total indonesian police $545.00 rounds of tear gas at the match . last october world footballs governing body fif bands, the practice inside stadiums. and for good reason, 135 people died in the resulting stampedes. this graffiti on the stadium was making the fans feelings clear. it was the biggest loss

of life at any game of football for almost 60 years. protestors took to the streets to call for a thorough investigation into the disaster. officials and indonesia had already pinpointed the firing of kick ass is the main cause of this damn pete. the police ought to blame other factors, including the stadium being over failed, and ex gates being locked shots. 3 police officers and 2 match officials went on trial, charged with negligence. the match officials have now been convicted and given jail time. the police officers await judgment. and here's a quick reminder of the top stories that we are following for you here on t w. news. russia has a least a massive missile garage in cities across ukraine. there have been explosions in key and across the country with energy infrastructure targeted the attacks. and don't forget, you can always get t w news on the go. just download our app from google play or from the apple app

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