so much to lose shattering the glass ceiling women in architecture. this has to be really, really good. starts of april 20th on d, w. ah ah, this is dw news live from bergen. israel launches is strikes on multiple targets inside syria is rightly military stacy targeted sides belonging to the syrian army . it comes off to rockets were fired from syria into is riley controlled territory over night, and follows dies off escalating tensions. also coming up china since shapes

and thousands of 5 digits towards taiwan as part of military exercises by gene calls the drills, a stern warning to the island nation, which considers a breakaway province. ah, i am jared. read. welcome to the shark. israel's military says it's jets have struck targets in southern syria in response to earlier rocket attacks. the s drive heat a syrian military compound and right are systems in the area from way the rockets were fired, israeli army says it holds the state of syria responsible for all acts carried out on its territory. at least 6 rockets were fired from syrian territory towards israel overnight. some landed inside the israeli occupied golan heights,

but no casualties have been reported. dw correspondent in jerusalem tonya claim and gave us more details on what happened overnight. well, there were 2 garages of rockets being fined according to reports here, 6 markets in total, one late on saturday night and one barrage, early on a sunday morning, a launch from southern syria at the israeli occupied golan heights. 2 of them are we understand landed in open areas in israel, one or landed in a jordan. israel initially responded with artillery and also with a drone as strikes targeting the rocket launchers that's according to an army statement. they later also set the decade out. additional strikes, targeting a military compound radar systems artillery posts of the syrian army. so sir,

in state media reported plaster or near the or syrian capital of damascus or in their state media there. we also understand that the home front in israel and has said that there were no injuries or damage, but residents in the occupied colon heights were asked to stay near safe, a safe zones and to stay and foam shelters were opened in the area. okay, tonya, as we know, tensions are always high in the region there, but they've really, excuse me. they really reason in the last couple of days. could you put this into some wider context for us while? absolutely, i mean that firing sir, came after days of escalating violence in east jerusalem. a mainly after israeli police raided or at least twice a very sensitive holy site or in east jerusalem. the alex are compound.

there was a response from a militant groups in garza, rockets verified a southern israel, and then we had on thursday, it was rockets were fired from lebanon, and then israel retaliated. but i have to say this is a rare, a rocket strike from the syrian territory because usually what we've been seeing here in the past years, israel is actually carrying out a lot of airstrikes on syrian territory. they are saying, are there one to prevent iranian entrenchment near their northern borders, so they keep on targeting in a weapon? storage is an infrastructure in assyria. they usually do not officially acclaim these attacks. but in recent weeks, are those areas have been intensifying and also have contributed to more tensions at the northern border. and given the whole context, of course, you know this will also, of course,

add to the tensions already here in the region. d w's tanya kramer in jerusalem. tanya, thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news today is riley's have taken to the streets in the latest round of protests against the government plan to limit the judiciary powers demonstrate to say the proposal is a power grab the weekly rallies are continuing, despite ongoing negotiations to find a compromise between opponents and supporters of the law. the last surviving prosecutor of the nuremberg trials that brought nazi war criminals to justice has died, been firenze, help secure numerous convictions of german officers following the end of world war 2. afterwards he pushed for the creation of the international criminal court. firenze was 103 years old. police in iran say they are installing cameras in public spaces to identify and punish women, not wearing

a headscarf authority say, the move is to protect the countries strategic law. a growing number of iranian women are choosing not to weigh headscarf in the show of defiance. more than 30 children taken from russia, taken to russia, i'm sorry, from occupied ukraine, had been reunited with their families in ukraine. the save ukraine charity group organized their return. he uses more than 16000 children have been deported to russia since the invasion of ukraine. one year ago, meanwhile, ukrainian president followed them is lensky says he believes his country has made good progress on the past towards national membership. it comes after lithuania promised, inviting ukraine to the block at and at the alliance's summers in july. speaking in his nightly address, lensky also thanked poland for feeling the commitments it made to deliver tanks to

the country. meantime, you can intelligence reports, say russia has largely failed in its attempt to destroy ukraine's unified energy system. we can speak now to franklin, which, who served as an officer in the british royal navy reserve. today is a military analyst, frank. it's great to have you back on, there's a bit to talk about in terms of lent the lent skis, speech. let's start with these tanks now. as we know, western tanks have been on the ground in ukraine for a few weeks now. do we know if they're making any kind of a difference yet? good morning, john is the issue with taxes to for 1st of all, present zalinski was refer me to the polish donation of refurbished russian times, which actually quite high quality the credits of use those with great affect particular on the front over the last few months. but of course, most people now concerned with the leopard challenger and later on a branch,

american abrams tax. the issue with those jobs is that there are too few. i would assess and i'm not alone in this, that we're probably talking about high, high double figures somewhere between 50 and 100 of these. they will be extremely effective. but the problem is that that effect could be very localized because not enough. you kind of asked or 3 to 500. so that got problems is now for just $1.00 to $100.00. i think for the supply so far won't be sufficient of itself to make a decisive difference locally, though they will be extremely effective. but as the will goes on, of course, those numbers will increase their effect shortly. so ok, so, so we can expect to see more of an effects as, as you can get more of these tanks. as you say, let's move on to energy u. k. intelligence is saying, rush is largely failed in its attempt to destroy ukraine's unified energy system. how important to the ukrainian defense strategy is it that,

that russia has failed to, to dismantle this energy system. well, it's central because of course, other tricity found all of the military and civilian activities. the objective of this campaign was, was strategic. it wasn't in terminology, a strategic act on pay. and objective was to undermine the whether the kind of people to fight, obviously if it's cold in the winter it's, you're going to get cold. it freezing winters undermined. morale. this fails to do that. i think almost every observer of every historian and a power expert predicted it to fail. it's very difficult to, to dismantle estates, electricity infrastructure without really good information. really precise targeting in an awful lot of equipment or rockets, and bombs and so forth. but also the cranes have shown themselves to be extremely resilient, you credit system,

which of course is essentially founded on $980.00 technology to be very easily or relatively easily fixed. so they failed. most people predicted that it would, it's been a waste of energy and munitions on the part of the russians. and of course, as we are now coming into the summer, the issue of cold, dark nights, no longer applies, but with respect to the civilians. of course, that's a minute military analyst, frank, lead ridge, frank, always great to get your insights. thanks so much. thank you very much. john. meantime rushes invasion of ukraine has forced over 8000000 people to flee their homes and seek refuge with their european neighbors. in many cases, government support for refugees has been slow as authority struggle to handle the influx of people. but across europe, volunteers have stepped up to feel the gap did abuse to re, shorts has this story from vienna in case any one doubts that one person can make

a difference. ask ukrainian refugees in vienna for whom one name has become a lifeline, tanya. find tanya, my or they say she will help you. that's the advice lillia was given by another refugee and she deposited her teenage son in vienna alone before returning to the front line in ukraine. she said it can you help for my son? this is my one a child and i i dont oh want it there dear. hugh was killed in this war. tanya meyer found herself in this role somewhat by accident, displayed an earlier career in investment banking. for years she'd been mostly a stay at home mom then russia invaded ukraine february 24th. a woke up burst into tears cried the whole morning and then like, i just started following what was happening. someone wrote me, hey tanya, if you're in vienna, like you should go help at the transition go there. they need russia are ukrainian speakers fluent in russian meyer helped ukrainians arriving in vienna. many of whom

had just a few belongings and plastic bags and a little if any cash. she started buying things for people out of her own pocket. but the level of need quickly became overwhelming. the state response was super slow and completely chaotic, and they were waiting months to get any money from the austrian government. that's where the idea was born to crowd fund grocery cards of 50 euros each. together with some volunteers, tanya myer created a website and started pleading for funds on social media. she puts every penny into the gift cards, mailing many by hand and posting photos of the food recipients. by so far about 4000 cards have been delivered. i was so grateful and i wrote her a diner. thank you so much because 50 or every time it was a big amount of money. you know, when you came here and you don't have money, you don't know what is going on with us to get that money from the silly says tanya meyer also helped him find housing when he and his mother were homeless. now he volunteers as her online group administrator,

i lot of people need help and like danny, i can do everything by her own so, i mean, there is not enough resources to like only one person. aging has sent warships and thousands of 5 digits towards taiwan after launching 3 days of military exercises. many of crossed the median line that separates the self governing island from the mainland. badging has called the drills a stern warning to taiwan, which he considers a breakaway province wargames around taiwan. beijing claims these exercises are being held to protect china's national security. chinese gunship diplomacy is nothing new to many taiwanese agenda. i think many of us have gotten used to it by now. the feeling is like, here we go again. just you'll go either down and do i hope i can remain free to do whatever i wish and say whatever i want to do on page 0 is the most recent

escalation comes after tie. when he's president sighing when visited the united states, where she met with senior us officials, something that greatly angered beijing. now, a new american delegation hasn't turned visited the island democracy, and their message is clear. democracies must stand together and is the house foreign affairs committee chairman. i sign off on all for military sales, including weapons to tie one. and i promise you, madam president, we will deliver those weapons on mainland china. many people support the communist party stance that taiwan is a breakaway republic. t. i'm a young ayla. let's take taiwan with military force within my power. personally, i think i would join a war against tiwana walker, and even if i were just carrying cannon shell, la jolla, those who knew it was, i think the united states has always been very cunning. sometimes they won't let

themselves suffer. because i don't think the united states is really going to fight us out with thousands of on a, or maybe some tension of the chinese coast has been mounting for years. taiwan has become the focus of a growing struggle between beijing and washington. an escalation could have devastating consequences and your up to died up next on world stories d. w meets the eye work as helping harmless migrant workers to 5. the cold winter nights in india is more d, w dot com and on social media at dw d. i'm directory, thanks for watching with come have a fee to dis, county, the highlights you every week in your in box subscribe. now assign.