goes through the sky starts march 23rd on d, w. oh, ah, business day that way, news line from berlin gun mann in tel aviv was 3 and what police call a suspected terror attack. the shooting comes amid anti government protests and israel over efforts to overhaul the judiciary. critics call the proposals a threat to democracy, the board of se, they reflect the will of the people also coming up georgia, you turn to over as controversial foreign agent bill. the government backs down under pressure over a russian style wall,

which critics say with stifled free speech. when protest continue over fears the government is on an authoritarian path. and russia unleashes a massive missile attack on ukraine, explosions in peeve and across the country. target energy infrastructure and hate residential buildings. we'll get the latest from our correspondent in the ukrainian capital. aah! i'm a call for leash. welcome to the show. we started israel where police say they have a quote neutralized a gunman who shot and wounded 3 people in tel aviv authority say they are treating the shooting as a suspect, a terrorist attack israel and media say the alleged shooter was killed at the scene, a shooting took place in a popular night life spot in the center of tel aviv, where

a palestinian attack killed 3 people in april of 2022. this comes as israel deals with widespread protest against efforts by the new right when government to reform the judiciary. the proposed laws would reduce the powers of the supreme court and allow more political influence in the appointment of judges. crowds opposing these plans blocked roads leading to israel's main international airport. the disruption force, both prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and visiting us secretary of defense, lloyd austin, to change plants. and we can go straight to d. w correspondent, tonya kramer, who was following all of this into russo. i'm, let's start with the latest tonya. what do we know about this attack? well, as you said, there have been a day of mos protests with the organizes cold a day of resistance, but shortly after 9 local time, 9 p. m local time here is shooting attack happened in the center of television.

that's on you can go streets as you said. it's in the area with a lot of coffee shop, restrooms and bars, where people are going out and re understand from megan. and i don't the emergency services that 3 people were wounded. one of them and unconscious critic transferred to hospital snow in television. the police said the police, the shooter with a neutralized, he was a short. and this is another to attack a tough day. and the police as also now are cold and people, you know, clearing the area. i'm mainly 2 hours to deal with the situation there. so a shooting attack again in the center of tel aviv thousands of israelis came out across the country today to show their anger at proposed judicial reforms. and are

these unprecedented protests that we've been seeing for a couple of weeks now already, and likely to push lawmakers to make a compromise? well, i think the protest is today, as you said, that has been ongoing now for almost a 2 months and have made it very clear they are. see this as a threat to a israel democracy, to the democratic institutions many to the nations supreme court. they want this, these government plans to stop and also they want the government to stop this very hasty process and pushing this legislation through the kinessa through the israeli a parliament we have seen tonight. and another unusual address of the israeli president isaac, has, again addressing of the nation after this day of protest. it was a very emotional address. yes. been saying that he is really bleeding with all sides to come to compromise. we know that he is working on

a compromise with different stake holders. he said this could be very thing he actually called the right wing and it just government basically dropped the legislation as it is right now. passing a to turn instead to an agreed upon one that was tommy kramer in jerusalem. we seem to be having issues with the sound there. i apologize for that. now we want to take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. in nigeria, at least 6 people were killed when a train plowed into a public bus in the commercial capital, lagos, state rescue agency says the bus driver, apparently trying to beat a warning signal before the approaching train slammed into the vehicle. 74 people were injured. rescuers and catalonia and spain say they fear the worst. for 3 people trapped deep down on line near barcelona. local authorities say there has

been no sign of life from the workers since part of the patasha mine collapsed thursday morning. indonesia has presented the sight of its planned, new capital to the public. the city will be called no san tara, its men to provide an escape from the congestion and pollution of the current capital jakarta. but critics say the massive construction project will displace indigenous people and destroyed natural habitats. in georgia, the ruling party has dropped a controversial foreign agent, both falling 2 nights of violent clashes between police and protesters. despite the u, turn thousands continued to rally in the capital tbilisi tonight, they fear the government wants to put georgia on a path towards authoritarianism and away from its goal of joining the european union. the draft echoed a russian law used to silence critics and protesters bound to resist what they

called government attempts to drag the country back under the kremlin influence the aftermath of the buffalo between protesters and police is visible on the streets of tbilisi and the demonstrators of one for now, the ruling georgia dream party is backing down the government chairman confirming that they will attract the draft for an agent law. the critics claim is on democratic google. trish, i got the legislation we brought out for the 2nd hearing and during that 2nd hearing it will fail on let me once again make this political statement. the law will fail, but now on voting for it on this will resolve. the issues had looked at that. what troubled armstrong, the legislation would have required. and jose and independent media who received more than 20 percent of their funding from abroad to declare themselves. foreign agents protest is clashed with police for more than 2 consecutive days. 50 offices were injured and more than 70 arrests were made on thursday alone

. demonstrate to set the law is reminiscent of existing legislation in russia that has been used to crack down on descent and that it could damage the country's relationship with the european union. the opposition say that the fight may not be over a little bit with polka, who holds middle georgia. dream has not come up against a political power, but the power of the people snellville and they had to retreat mode. you're going to talk about this, but we need to keep our protest going on since jordan dream may try to cheat room couple of newer sylvia. healthy sluggard. opponents of the george and government say they will hold them to their word. he w respondent. maria kat demantzy isn't to please stand. i asked if the protesters don't believe the government will keep its word on withdrawing the controversial legislation. ah, yes. nicole, people are still coming to rest the valley or the parliament of parliament square.

aware, the process has been going on for pasa 3 days and i know we've spoke to some of the practices and they saw that they don't really believe the government any more given that the allowed such a bill, you know, being discussed event in parliament. so they are saying that they don't have any trust to the ruling party, georgia dream, and they won't surrender until the law is a legally withdrawn from, from the parliament. we also have reports that demonstrators detained during anti government rallies have been released. can you confirm that? what are you hearing there? yes, so you know, they organize us aside. some of the protests are detained protests. those were released early on people who are, you know, dancing, taunting and taunting freedom freedom to georgia. and you call. it's very

interesting to observe how anti legislation, anti foreign law a foreign agent legislation became a very kind of pro european riley, anti crumbling riley people who are saying never back to russia. we will not surrender until we, you know, we'll get to the european union and today people are really, really happy, but still very vigilant. they're following what the government's response would be . i want to know what you mean of today's official announcement that parliament will be shut down for several days. the announcement read due to the damage inflicted by violent protesters to the parliament building. now it is parliament that has to formally withdraw this controversial bill. it does not contribute to the distrust that these people out there on the stream are voicing.

yes, actually not anymore because we have, we've just received a statement from the parliament saying that tomorrow there will be a hearing in the parliament at 12 o'clock and they implement parents will be discussing, you know, important issues not specify what exactly, but people here are saying that it might be foreign agents law with sale, as i said, the suspicion is still there and to tomorrow we will see how georgia or position a position do this for in or agent long works out in the and maria their month to into believe c. thank you so much for that update. georgia formerly applied for a new membership less than 2 weeks after the russian invasion of ukraine. so i asked viola on com on a member of the european parliament for the german green party if georgia is in good graces after dropping the foreign agent. bill well,

i wouldn't say so. so 1st of all, i mean we have a long list of reforms which need to take place before the commission will assess the country is ready for a candidate status. but regarding this for an agent law, we need 2nd voting on that. so now there was the 1st voting it was actually not this draft. it was already voted in by the majority of the present and peace and the parliament. and it's not such a regulation that the government can just say they withdraw, but it needs a separate procedure in this, in the parliament. and then we can definitely say it is withdrawn by the pollitt by the majority of the parliament. and that needs to be done. it looks like this. this procedure will take place tomorrow or will at least get it tomorrow. but how much

damage has all been done to to lease is ties with brussels? no, absolutely. i mean, what we have seen, it's extremely unfortunate. i mean, you know that the majority of the judge and population of the judge and people more than 83 percent are in favor of the you integration process in favor of any kind of candidacy membership perspective or at least those weston are direction and active. but the ruling party acts definitely against this perspective does every thing in terms of rule of law, in terms of media, in terms of now there's for an agent, but many more actions being taken actually to undermine the will of the people to undermine this perspective. and to see this, how this is paula rising for the last 2 weeks and month is extremely tragic to,

to observe that nonetheless, the georgia dream party says it remains committed to the country's e u membership. but how does that go together in your view? well, this is a service, i mean to be honest, everything they do is just the opposite of what they claim all what they say they want to do. and people recognize that people understand that this. unfortunately, government does not act in favor of the will of the people, but rather for whatever interest i don't know which interests them represent by the office. the not the majority of the people who would like to see a different horse and a different direction. yes, they reject who were with us in the european parliament in the difficult for the last 3 and a half years. but even find

a day that we can meet and exchange. so there is no appetite whatsoever on the georgia dream side. on the ruling rocky side to find the proper way, how to cooperate with us in the european parliament, neither in the european institution. and that is, as i said, extremely unfortunate. there has been a lot of talk about how much this so called foreign agent bill resembled russian legislation used to silence critics in, you know, georgia very well. does russia really have that much influence on the current georgian government? i was always very reluctant to state this kind of, i mean this very clear and harsh statement to say that there is a clear influence coming from russia. but what does very up this is the influence, the desk and full campaign,

the smear campaigns. the attacks on civil society on international partners, such as the us, such as we all those friends of georgia being attacked very systematically. and i don't know why they do this if they really would like to see themselves as a, as a, i mean the country is part of the club as member of the club. they wouldn't do so thought this, the something is going completely wrong, whether this is only because of the russian influence, whether this is only somebody else in the background steers, this pro says, i can't say, but it's a very dangerous development that's, that's for sure. and i do understand why people in the went to the streets and, and, and took actions here. so the bill is off the table, but the question marks remain viola from com, one member of the european parliament. thank you for your time. thanks for having

russia has unleashed a massive missile attack across the ukraine, killing at least 6 people. missiles struck residential buildings and knocked out the power supply to separate. europe's largest nuclear power plant in the ukraine says the plant is now when reconnected to the power grid in the capital, keith mayor mentally clinical at 40 percent of residents are without heating. following the bombardment. at dawn, smoke billows across keys, skyline, the ukrainian capital, just one of several regions hit by a barrage of russian missile strikes while people was sleeping. we woke up to a very strong explosion. it fell like it had struck the house next door or somewhere very close. but we didn't immediately understand what it was. we ran into the corridor. reduce starlight. i'm fed up with it. i can't determine any mortal. no

mercedes, good. how can you do this? he bought the merchandise. how's that possible for the names are different and they're not human. i don't know what to call them. we will kick off their friending the children for their traumatizing time. if it's, if you're chronically, at least 5 people were killed after a rock, it struck houses in the levine area. there were also reports of fatalities in the region of cason. russian missile strikes also force the zapper, which is a nuclear power plant, off the grid. this latest attack on europe's largest nuclear power station is causing huge international concern. this is the 6th time that this up. what is your nuclear power plant has looked all off site power and

has had to operate in this emergency mold. let me remind you. this is the largest nuclear power station in europe operating for the 6 time under emergency diesel generators. what are we doing? this was russia's 1st mass missiles strike since mid february. it says it was targeting ukrainian infrastructure, but yet again, it's left ukrainians. counting the debt. he's met his billing as in k, when i asked him about the separation nuclear plant and how dangerous the situation there was. yeah, it seems that power has been restored power, power connection that these connections are very important because that's how the plant cools out. even if it's switched off of the fuel still needs cooling

and this cooling the system is powered externally. if the power is cut, then there are generators. these generators are said to have fuel for 10 days. so for 10 days the power can remain calm. but at some point, it needs to be re connected to the grid. it was another massive attack on infrastructure on several regions of ukraine, including the, what is your region. and that's how the power line. there's only one line remaining, connecting it to the ukrainian grid. how this power line, how this connection was current. we have just heard news of new shelly in the region. so this remains a dangerous situation. this really a is something that keeps happening from time to time. and so far these, these stations, they do have security systems, but of course,

the more they are distress, the more likely any failure becomes turkey is resuming talks with sweden and finland over their nato membership beds, after repeatedly objected to swims, application, the 2 countries need approval from turkey to join nato, from hungary to an approval that is also still outstanding. finland's parliament has voted overwhelmingly in favor of joining nato and says it was prepared to move forward alone. although it says it would prefer to join the alliance together with sweeter. will you watson and it always, terry shells, as in brussels and has been following the talks at the nato headquarters, terry, this is already the 3rd round of talks on the 2 countries bid to join the defense alliance. has there been any progress leading up to these talks? well, nicole, the very fact that they had these talks is progress because turkey cut off communicating with especially sweden, after

a right wing activist burned qur'an in stockholm. in january turkey said that it would no longer even discuss ratifying sweden's bid to join nato. so the fact that when secretary general un silverberg, called the sides to have negotiations to day at nato headquarters, that in itself was progress. but beyond that, we don't know a lot more. and in fact, the head of sweden's negotiating team, oscar stands drum, came out and said that, you know, he didn't even have a lot more details about the timeline about what turkey was thinking. let's hear what he had to say after today's round. will you see that that turkey recognized that both sweden and finland has taken concrete steps in this agreement, which is a good sign. but we don't have any specific details on when exactly it would have and that's because we were asking time. and again, do you think it will happen by the nato summit in lithuania, in july?

that's the deadline that nato would very much like to see these 2 countries joining the alliance. and you are very fluid and diplomat speak. this to me at least sounds like progress, but also like we're non all the way there. is that a correct assessment? that's more than correct where we don't even know how far we are because turkey has kept it is cards quite close to its chest about when it might allow sweden to join . as was mentioned earlier, finland is basically in the clear and may be given approval by turkey and hungary in, in the next month or 2. but when it comes to sweet and turkey continues to say that that sweden has to take steps which, which the swedish government and nato itself say have already been achieved. but turkey says, for example, that sweden was cracked down further on the p k. k. a group that is recognized as a terrorist organization, but nonetheless,

the swedish government cannot stop from holding rallies from, from carrying its flags. another point that distinguishes these 2 countries is that in finland, it is illegal to burn the qur'an and in sweden, it's not. that's why this incident happened in january, and the swedish government doesn't feel it can do that. turkey is saying, until you do that, you know, we don't consider you a real ally, so we're not even sure how far along this timeline that we are right now. terry schultz joining us from brussels. thank you so much. a court and 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 people died at the game between a rima and person by an october of last year. these were the chaotic scenes that lead to a football match becoming tightly in total indonesian police $545.00 rounds of tear

gas at the match. last october, world footballs governing body thief bands, the practice inside stadiums. and for good reason, a 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 sara investigation into that is after officials and indonesia had already pinpointed the firing of kick ass is the main cause of the stamp. though the police ought to blame other factors, including the stadium being over filled and exit, the gates being locked shops, 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. before we go here is

a reminder of the top stories were falling for you at this hour in georgia. thousands continue to rally in the capital to boise despite the ruling party dropping a controversial foreign agent to build a draft echoed a russian law used to silence critics. protesters fear the government wants to put georgia on a path towards authoritarianism. and russia unleashes a massive missile bar, eyes on cities, across you frames and explosions, and keep and across the country with energy infrastructure targeted in the don't forget, you can always get the w news on the go. just download our app from google play or from the app store, and that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world view as well as push notifications or any breaking news.

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ah for months reporting about the war and ukraine had been focusing on the eastern front, but last night, russia and a stark reminder that it is waging a brutal war against all of ukraine. several civilians were killed in a series of attacks on keith, her son, and even le b. less than a 100 kilometers from nato's polish order. after a period of relative common reports about russian shortcomings on the battlefield, the kremlin is flexing and muscle by firing an unprecedented number of hypersonic

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