ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. russia only says a massive missile barrage on ukraine, explosions in key and across the country target energy infrastructure and hit residential buildings. will have the latest mark correspondent in the ukrainian capital. also coming up in georgia,

backtracks on its controversial bill after 2 nights of protest and clashes with police in tbilisi. the ruling party says that it is dropping the foreign agents bill, which critics as dipole free speech and damages, georgia's bid to join the you and concern in israel over plans to overhaul the legal system. people take to the streets to challenge government proposals to check the supreme court's power. protesters say that 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 massive missile attack across ukraine, killing at least 6 people, residential buildings have been hit as well as energy infrastructure in this latest

garage now keeps mayer of metallic that go said that emergency services were tackling the explosion sites in the city southwest. your neighborhoods many other cities, including the vive, were also het, although how many missiles made their targets is not clear. correspondent, i mean, as it is in the ukrainian capital key and told us more about the missile attack. many residents of kia, including myself, are 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 straits overnight. that includes odessa in the south. harkey 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 neighborhood just outside of the city about an hour outside of the city 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 vive, o blast. 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 and 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 un stolen berg, the head of the nato military alliance is warning that the ukrainian town of buck moot may fall to the russian forces in the coming days. it is the latest indication that keeps grip on the town is slipping, as russian mercenary forces claim control of the towns east. but key for its part says that it will do all it can to prevent russia from taking bartlet. he will only reveal his alias to us commander kurt speeds through abandoned villages. these are the fringes of the battle for back moat. a perilous desert of mud shots are fired. her daily lives in our mission is to wear the russians down as much as possible and it's working. we're seeing that they're losing strength and, and not in the position to start major attacks elsewhere. kurt has hidden his ukranian commandos in the ruins. well, they plan,

they tell us to ambush russian units his father, nicola, is among the group. look, amanda is a commander, but a father is a father at home. i am the father. here he is, my commander. the rumble of an approaching tank interrupted the father, son discussion. curt moves on. he would rather stay on the move when the russians are so close by on the way, he shows us his infant tree, his supply of military equipment. somers lament the hardest thing is that every day we are losing the best people in this war that ukraine didn't start. everything else can be overcome. when we lose comrades that spurs us on live, we have a goal. why did someone have to die? we don't win that you want, so we have to win like a movement. and now they're preparing for their next battle on the front of back,

moved and hear some other stories making news around the world. 3 more rail officials in greece have been charged in connection with last week's train collision that claimed 57 lives. a supervisor and 2 station master are facing charges of negligence in the countries worst, rel, accident. another station master was charged earlier. great prime minister carry, awkward mental turkeys, has promised absolute transparency in the investigation. 3 palestinians were killed in an exchange of fire with israeli security forces in the occupied west bank. israel said that its soldiers had rated the village of java to arrest spec suspected militants. the deaths come amid escalating violence in the occupied westbank and in israel age, additional restructuring effort has led to widespread protest. proposed laws would reduce the powers of the supreme court and allow political influence,

injustice appointments crowds. supposing these plans have been gathered in protest with critic voicing grave concern about the will of law and pulling the proposals, a threat to democracy, or supporters of the plan say that they reflect the way the will of the people. our correspondent took the temperature of some earlier protests which have gathered over recent days to confront the government's latest bills. one of the many protest happening across israel, this time is really ami veterans and reserve is 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 presler, a physicist as addressing the rally these were the scientists baris, that is rose. 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 pass. 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 is not happening here as well. just a few 100 meters away at is rounds. kinessa at the far right government is pushing through with its plans to trust stickly curve. the powers of the nations supreme court. parts of the legislation have already passed the 1st reading in parliament, sim kaufman from the far right village to sign his party is one of the main architects of the traditional 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 with that is small minority israel that says is that this reform is

not good for them. we have basically of course, it is an unbalanced and on check 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 to secrete, they say the overhaul, the give the government unchecked power and overwrite israeli to dish or aris independence and, and, and there's no constant 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 actions. 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 in the country with good enough people citizens. i would say that the bunch of streams 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 love with try another way, but i mean, nothing else to do and we need to fight for our country. despite efforts by 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 d, w is rebecca writers is on the ground near ben gory an airport where protesters have been gathered for hours and gave us this update. that's right there where i

beg your area. and as you said, the main international airport purchase is holding the resistance against dictatorship today. and you can see here a massive protest they've tucked behind me coming up. they come right up into the airport to try and give you a good view really loud. hey, everybody honking flying flags using mega phone 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 flying to italy today, and they're trying to cause this up for around the airport. the course, benjamin and not who has top at in 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 at the airport. he was supposed to be that was a plan visit, but he was supposed to go to jerusalem to meet with the prime minister. they'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 were happy with the outcome of the election. and i was trying to brush them away. but now these protests have become more and more active to try and brains and to really kind of bring the controversy through a home. so in terms of whether or not these are going to compromise the president

of the country. so he's trying to bring together the 2 sides 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, you, 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, the federal was changed. the israel army off the south, the pentagon said will be changed because of this. they've disrupt and search the middle now mate at the airport and also meet the rally defense minister at 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 reuters joining us just outside of been glory and airport. thank you so much for your reporting. georgia's ruling party has been forced to think again. it has announced that it will drop it's controversial for an agent draft bill after international criticism and 2 nights of violent clashes between police and protesters. georgia, formerly part of the soviet union, has applied to become a member of the european union and the nato military alliance. up against the riot police battling for the future direction of their country. now it seems their voices were heard after another night, a violent protest into georgia capital tbilisi. the ruling party announced they

would withdraw the foreign agent law. for 2 nights the police tried to disperse, to crowds defiant protesters waved e u, flags rejecting a draft law that they say is reminiscent of existing legislation and russia that has been used to crack down on descent. critics say the law which would have required and g o's, an independent media who receive more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to declare themselves. foreign agents is undemocratic. the draft law didn't just stir public anger at a beat on the bill in parliament on monday, and it was law makers getting into draw

a use representative for foreign affairs. had warned the bill would be bad move for the country. now the government seems to have caved, withdrawing the draft before it could become law. but this alone will likely not put an end to popular protest. many are calling for formal denouncement of the bill and a release of protesters who were detained by the police. and earlier i spoke with t w correspondent, maria cut of mazda in tbilisi, and i asked her why this law faced so much opposition. the law is widely sienna, as a rational for an agent. legislation that was introduced in russia allowed the crumbling to crack down on a civil society and in georgia, there is a very much of anti crammed in mood and georgia. see this legislation as

a put in sov legislation, as the opposition puts it. so they're really kind of a, they were concerned about russia's, the influence on a, we've seen a, on the proto people who are saying no to russian law. never back to the u. s. ceasar. so they don't really want to jeopardize the you future by introducing this law as i sat there towards the authorities job the bail. however, we don't know still if philip wouldn't be arranged to reduce later. and here are some more world news headlines to officials and indonesia have been given prison sentences of 12 and 18 months for negligence. that led to one of history's deadliest stadium stampedes. $135.00 people died in october last year when chaos broke out. after a football match in east java province and investigation found that police had worsened the chaos by firing tear gas into the crowd. us senate minority

leader mitch mcconnell is in the hospital after a fall. the 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 treat. turkey is now resuming talks with sweden and finland in brussels over there. nato membership bids after repeated objections by uncle route to stock holmes application, o sweden and finland need turkey's approval to join. nato got an approval from hungry is also still outstanding. finland's parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining nato in helsinki is prepared to move forward alone. although it says that he would prefer to join the alliance together with sweden. gout, i love it. you wasn't. russell's bureau chief alexander phenomena is standing by. what are the expectations for to day stalks?

well, sir, i don't think that the expectations are overly high, but at least her representatives of the 3 countries are talking again, and that is important. after a long period of political silence natured, she fiance stolberg told us, and he also said that this is her process. and that he doesn't expect this process to be concluded today. so at breakthrough is rather unlikely and really, really have witnessed weeks of back and forth between turkey and sweden and finland his more. oh, for sort of caught in between here and it is a turkish president recipe ad one who has duck in his heels on sweden, 1st amending the country a to lift and arms embargo on turkey. and then also accusing freedom of supporting kurdish militants and that p k. k, an organization that is designated as

a terrorist organization by the u. s. and the european union. and i just came back from stockholm this morning where we had a chance to talk to you to, to officials there and 2 experts. and they told us that they have already addressed her turkish. took her turkeys concerns. they have lifted her, the arms embargo, they are about to introduce a new tougher anti terrorism legislation and to particular members of the kurdish community, there are very worried about the current direction that a sweat sweden is heading. but let's have a look at our report. so bad car i do, man is not a politician, but as occurred she says she cannot be silent. like many of her friends, she is worried that sweden's kurdish community will have to pay the price for placating turkey and securing nato membership for sweden. i don't personally think

swedish government is going to to stand against turkey and say, look, those are integrated people. those are kurdish people. doors were political asylum seekers. if avalon wants it in and, and 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 blocking stock haunts nieto. bert claiming that sweden harbours 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 or financing a terrorist organization 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 should to have. despite that criticism, the law is likely to be approved by the parliament. but no one, some the ruling coalition was willing to speak with the w, a hat of the vote. the far right sweden, democrats will support the government. we're not so shy. force there has been, oh there is me, needs for, for, for new legislation in this area is matter and, and her, it doesn't, sir. it isn't harmful that, that,

that all. so i fulfill expectations and, and am or contribute to, to a better collaboration or diplomatic year relations to turkey. that swedish kurdish activists question whether such a collaboration is worth risking the country reputation as a liberal haven for refugees to day. i am not proud to read through the citizen because i feel that the at sweden does everything last a sweden or sacrifice the identity of the country just will be a member of the nato on this is not good for the reputation or 3 them. according to a recent poll and majority of sweets wants to governments not to give in to turkish demands, but that doesn't really comfort. 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 it begs the question, alexandra,

is finland likely to become a full natal member without sweden? well, this is a very realistic option. i would say, especially with turkey signaling that they could move ahead with ratifying finland's membership, even though they still have objection to sweden's membership. however, of course, both country sweden and finland still say they would like to join the alliance together. because that is what makes sense for the security of the region. and nato officials here also are not in favor or they're not in favor of splitting up a process. however, they would need to accept that if it's going to happen, we have to stress, however, that experts are saying that it's not likely to happen any time soon. president

ad one is heading into a very close presidential election in mid may. and it is not likely that anything could happen before this election. he w, brussels bureau chief, alexandra phenomena, thank you. as a reminder of the top stories we're following for you, russia unleashes a massive missile garage on cities. the prompts ukraine. there have been explosions and even across the country with energy infrastructure targeted in those attacks. of next d, w, 's, asia the divide between women in pakistan over what their future should look like. and why many families of those killed in the indonesia stadium crush are disappointed in their justice

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