enjoy alice services. oh, be our guest at frankfurt airport city managed by frappe, bought ah ah, ah, this is dw news live from berlin, russian cruise missiles and drones hit again targets across ukraine. at least 19 civilians are dead and several cities. keith is preparing a counter offensive, hoping that new western weapons will help push back moscow's folks. also coming off families in iran, criticized the authorities of a poison,

the tax on stock thousands of school girls. it's been going on for months now and it's still not clear who's responsible we meet the hardware is from kenya competing for a chance to play at the world's biggest heavy metal festival. the legendary rocket and northern jersey. ah, lou, i'm gather as welcome to the program. russia has lost its biggest strikes against ukraine and weeks. cruise missiles and drones have had several cities killing at least 19 civilians. cave is widely thought to be preparing a counter offensive in the war commanders hope new weapons delivered by western allies will help push back russian forces. one of the cities targeted in the latest

stripes was room on that south of keith. 6 there still in shock, after russian misses destroyed their homes in the early hours of them. at 1st, all the glass flew out. everything flew out even the chandelier fell. everything was covered in glass and then there was an explosion and the cars started exploding . we quickly found our things and ran out, and then every one started arriving. several buildings were hit, one completely destroyed to you more trouble. it was, we had the sound of a plane taking off. oh, what? 10 minutes later there was an explosion of very, very at 1st i was confused as to hang on it, and then there was a 2nd explosion here while my mouth glass flew towards us, all of you yet quickly covered myself with a blanket and asked my husband if he was alive or not, but you really got this very the window,

we could see that everything was on fire. it's hard to find words to describe it was after that we gather last things and went outside to send it. but it dorothy, some of his dulles, but obviously o emergency services managed to rescue several people from the rubble. but the attack left many injured and at least 10 dead. among them. 2 children, president zalinski called the attack a night of terror and condemned the targeting civilians, ukrainian forces, say russia launch $23.00 missiles on the cities of women. on the pro where a woman and her child died. and in the key of region where an apartment was hit, ukraine says it intercepted all but 2 of the missiles to russian drones are reportedly also taken down. the attacks were the latest in a series by russia in recent days. meanwhile,

ukrainian forces are wrapping up preparations for a spring counter offensive. i'll correspondence nicolai is in kiff, and i asked them about this state of ukraine's air defense systems right now. they certainly are in a much better state than they were at the beginning of this war. but i think the reality is, this is a vast country. it really is more than 1500 kilometers from east to west and 100 kilometers at from north to south. there is never going to be enough equipment to really keep everything safe. and even if you do have the equipment, is the question of the munitions to make these kinds of systems work. they are in very short supply and the capacity in western countries to produce more is really limited to hit on time again, ukrainian officers talking about their frustrations of those having to basically watch russian missiles fly by because they just need to hold on to their stock so this is a really serious issue. i think the other interesting question is where the rush actually has enough missiles and dad seemed that russia was running out of these missiles that they were having to take missiles of the production line directed to the front lines. there was no stocks left,

but it does seem like now up to 50 days or so over pause that russia once again has enough missiles to really make ukrainians basic be, be afraid of her down the hill. it's our neglect or what the timing of his russian missile attacks, any idea why they are being launched now, is it just what you just mentioned to some of it could be just the fact they have these missiles, but there is also suspicion that this is part of a big campaign to really cause panic amongst ordinary ukrainians to really get those people who've been sleeping their beds and who i am now realize quite have hon, the og, once again to put pressure on the government to come to the negotiating table to come some kind of truce on rushes terms. that's what rushers pushing for. maybe with the help of chinese mediation. but i think it's fairly counterproductive. i think these things make people far away from the, for lazarus kind. remember that this war is still very much going on. it increases for, for the government inside the country and internationally. it makes russia look really, really bad. just as soon as it seemed like the attention was basically falling away

from this conflict. and the willingness from western countries to supply were consumed. crane was dropping once again. you have stories like this. images like these on the front page is worldwide. and i think this is not really going to be in russia's interest in the long term in terms of them wishing the west to forget about ukraine and allow them to put pressure on ukraine. meconium val, correspondent in keith. thank you very much, nick. now ukraine and the western world have been waiting for months for ukraine to begin a counter offensive against the entrenched russian forces in the eastern part of the country. but the challenges for ukrainian troops. i mence as they take on a much bigger military force. onyx report look, said what it will take to win back that territory and why it's taking so long to prepare draining near the front. these ukrainian soldiers are getting ready for the big battle to come. lanchen with gone more or less

ok with some difficulty. so we will work on that and get rid of the problems. what we found, the mines, we'll rehearse again and then it will be fine for them to have a local mold. getting ukraine's forces ready has been no small undertaking. many of the country's most experienced soldiers have died or been wounded in over a year of grinding combat with russian forces. that means the counter offensive will also rely on fresh recruits who haven't seen battle. and there's another big problem. northern williams. neither. so that's a moment there is a significant ammunition shortage either. we lack high explosive incendiary shells on, so tanks and artillery are unable to work effectively. estimate if she high explosives shells have much more destructive power and the damage radius is much bigger than armor piercing shells. and i do, but she usually committed to me,

but anybody filling the ammunition gap will be key and will take time. but ammunition is just one part of a much bigger and more complex machine. the ukrainians must coordinate tanks, infantry artillery, air power and engineers relying on communications and quick decision making. but they're up against considerable obstacles. if, as expected, ukraine pushes to the south to cut russian held territory and half they have to cross. the denise pro river fell face mine fields and concrete obstacles known as devils teeth. and that's before they reach russian trenches shown here in satellite pictures. while the russians will likely be shooting at the ukrainians the whole time that kind of push requires equipment and may explain the longer than expected buildup to the counter offensive. and they really been arming their military from the ground up. so originally was anti tank guided missiles, then it was artillery,

then it was infantry fighting because then it was tanks, your listeners, or remember your view, a story will remember all the tanks that go plays the beginning the year. and so each stage ukraine receives what it wants and look, i would do exactly the same thing. it's always an application. and then it asks for the next level of support. the problem for ukraine is that western support is not likely to last forever. the spring counter offensive, which may end up happening in the summer, has to show concrete gains to keep ukraine's backers happy and to keep the weapons coming. for more on that, let's bring it on. rush rots is a senior fellow secured security and defense program for the german council on foreign relations and john says now from budapest, hungary, now what are you? do you think are the biggest problems? ukrainian soldiers will face on the battlefield during a counter offensive need to face a complex set of problems. some of them have been mentioned before,

like the russian fortifications constructed all along the front line. russia so far, at least 800, kill my dog. the fortifications in some places moodily or from d. 6. so that's one. the 2nd is of course, the content shortage ordinary ammunition. the 3rd one is the coordination necessary or successful combined onto operations. something that you brain has not yet conducted in the scale. it needs to conduct in that during the upcoming times and before saying that, which is a temporary challenge, but still a significant one is climate and tearing. 1000000 ukraine, eastern ukraine, very constantly raining for several months already have turned into mud. there is also meter of water in the bottom of the country as it will take the course of the time or the ground dry enough for holding the heavier um tanks. so even sort of counter offensive still needs to be had it been,

it would have been already ready. they would still need to wait several more weeks for the ground to brian in order to prevent that tank from sinking into the model. now nato and other partners have delivered lots of equipment to your grand tanks on the vehicles, and i munition, ukraine says it has train 9 brigades for counter offensive. will that be enough to push for a real shift in the situation? there depends on how those 9 brigades are going to be deployed to combat to depends a lot on the come under control, and to be how you would be able to use these forces. my brigades constitute the course of that ever. or if you're in a constant great debate, i don't proper money. the warfare thinks it was a practice. yes, there is a significant chance that you will succeed. but a lot will depend on the brigade commander battalion commander, and how the combined on the operation is conducted. now, in our report,

we've seen the satellite images of russian fortifications along parts of the front line and eastern and southern ukraine. but also at the same time, russia is continuing its efforts to take full control of what are the kremlin priorities right now? what should they be plugged into criminal still hasn't given up the verb, the objective of taking. but what anyways, the 9th of may, the so going to be story day commemorating. so we had to be during the 2nd world war is approaching the criminal desperately need a symbolic victoria to celebrate on the 9th of may. so right now the short run, their objective is to put the rational flag on the bottom. on the 9th of me. meanwhile, they are preparing goals for the granite counter offender based on the location and distribution of their fortifications they expect do you encounter offensive to start in? does that for you here? region, adding from the north to south, aiming to the rational by territory to the heart, to be on the russian preparations must go calculate the disappoint phone plan,

the most important one during the counter offender. now we've seen another russian attack on ukraine, civilian infrastructure, pretty serious one. why does it keep attacking civilians when ukrainian counter offensive should be 1st on their minds? and the 2 things don't do not necessarily contradict each other. so attacking civilians is probably in the breaking ukraine. more are 1st, 2nd forcing ukraine to divide their air defense resources and also to fire, discard the available ammunition for the modern and the systems was the continental fans. it starts, it's highly likely that russia shift the focus of during the cider tags to the military targets, particularly logistical or targets. right behind the ukraine and counter offensive . aiming at cutting their supplies by the counter offensive hasn't kept gain momentum. so right now these attacks against civilian targets look like kind of a temporary feature kind of a temporary element, but wants to come up as it starts,

brush over, concentrate all their resources, all their veterans to stop decanter offensive, including of course longer and me side and kills me 1st, right under us rush there, a senior fellow at the german council on foreign relations. thank you very much for your insight. thank you. tom. now to have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world in here, authorities and indonesia say 11 people have died when the boat capsized among the victims of several children. search and rescue teams are still looking for passengers. voting accidents are common in the re our islands chain due to lack safety standards. he thought frances has warned, against rising nationalism in europe, the head of the catholic churches making his 1st official trip to hungary speaking to government leaders. the budapest, he said, accepting migrants across the continent is

a christian virtue. frances also urged rejection of what he called self referential forms of populism. he only got one australia, the oldest coal fired power station has been shut down. the 50 year old little plant supplied around 10 percent of the electric tricity to new south wales. the government wants to accelerate a shift to renewable energy. nearly 3 quarters of australia's power comes from fossil fuels. the conservative party that one finland's recent parliamentary elections is to start coalition talks with the far right anti immigration fins. party national coalition leader petrie, or pope hopes to form government with fins and 2 smaller groups. he would then replace santa marlin as prime minister to sedan now where the army and the rival per military. rapid support forces have agreed to extend

a fragile truce for another 72 hours. but there's been more fighting in the capital hard toom and other areas. hundreds of people have been killed in the 2 week conflicts. huge numbers of civilians are leaving the country. others who are unable to get out of running short of vital supplies. many countries are now evacuating their diplomats and nationals ah, and evacuation flight from saddam to attack. he. the relief at leaving the fighting behind them is clear. and this is what they left behind. signs of conflict in cartoon despite many ceasefire, sir, but i have no doubt of the army as fighting this paramilitary group. the rapid support forces in a deadly power struggle for control of the country, leaving hundreds dead and a trail of destruction. on

the street, the distant sounds of gunfire. residents risk leaving their houses to buy food. if there's any left i places selling flour or clothes and soldiers, no supply of flour for bakery and the available flower will be finished. in other bakeries, there are no workers, any movie, things are getting worse. what is available now won't be there to morrow. the fighting has disrupted fee distribution across sudan and damaged power lines and some areas around the capitol, leaving people without electricity or water. mozilla's on this, we're fixing the main power station for shambles. city to mother. while you are suffering oil, there's no water in the bucket. well,

the water plant will close lots of that, but we're the 10s of thousands of people have had to leave that homes with many heading for the border crossing with egypt at my home, my place because of the fighting between people at the same country against each other, this has never happened in sudan, and we never had this before. much longer than them. amid the escalating violence, more sudanese people will be making the grim calculation where the to risk staying or risk leaving. in iran, families are choosing the authorities of failing to stop a month long series of poison attacks on school girls. more than $13000.00 cases of gas poisoning have been registered and mr. international says the attacks have targeted $300.00 girls schools. some government, critics believe the poisonings or retaliation. all los altos, nationwide anti regime demonstrations. but it's not clear who's responsible. iran's

supreme leader, ayatollah ali harmony has described the poisonings as an unforgivable cry. oh, logan sharah. he is an iranian british activist and women's come women's rights campaigner based in london, i asked her how frequent and widespread these poisoning still are. so this started around the 30th of november. the 1st case we've seen was over the last year and they continue to grow since then. we had 2, almost 3 weeks of school holidays towards the end of march. but since school re open, we had them every day in almost every province in the, in the country. we've seen cases since november and it's quite widespread. are coming schools that had been attacked twice or 3 times. but the, but the thing that leaves most of the, the schools together is that in almost every school that be checked, there are,

there have been some sort of disobedience is either writing is still going to get a balls or bringing down the picture of supreme the day or not reading her job as a day off. the list will be be and that's been happening on databases now in the country that happened in the schools as well. so we know the supreme, the day before the some months ago said that the school goes, needs to be punished. we made it the punishment shouldn't be harsh, but they should be punished for the be the is. i don't want to be exhausted. the 30th of november and the solid. these attacks. so who is behind these poisonings? then always quite difficult to say go more than 100 people has been arrested by the government claiming they had come to hand in that tax. couple of them, the journalist reported on the no one case of the father and daughter who went to

the school after the attack to the court. and phil met, spend it outside, and they've been attacked out of that as well. we haven't seen any judgment on the, on the cases, but also some official mentioned that part of the people who were doing that were clues and allies of the government. and they've been guided and they're not going to repeat that sort of language which, which is a pattern that we've seen from day, even in the gene. they don't claim the responsibility and all these when they're doing something to dampen, to protest or something like that in iran will be. so b, d and they created quite a distance between themselves and the actual people who are, you know, taking the orders and i'm doing get to it gives them a kind of ability and that's the same case. but when you look at the patterns of the tax, you know,

the pattern of behavior by there is probably the republic. it's not profits to say it comes somehow into the government. and you also know all of the schools have ccp cameras, and it's more than you know, how many months it's like more than 5 months. haven't seen any food, take a supporting the claims that the government says that this has been, you know, or orchestrated by the foreigners. but at the same time we see a lot of already happening while you're using cctv cameras under 3 eyes. the woman who are not reading obeyed monday to the job. this is really complicated. like, how can you know that? how is it possible that you don't know who's behind is that tax? an iran supremely di until the time of day has condemned the poison and call for the perpetrators to be tracked down normally. normally, his word is literally the law in iran, but still no one has been charged with these crimes. so you do have the sense that there regimes is more than just tolerating these poisonings. oh yeah. so the

comedy is a speech is usually something like he would say he would or something like the school goes, needs to be punished. there are some cronies that will go off that and then usually this is the pattern i've been mentioning. usually after a while been been it is a lot of people in the country go against it and say like this shouldn't happen. he would come out and say something, yeah, this, this shouldn't stop, but actually stop. it completely depends on what he actually thinks and what the orders on the ground to support it. so it doesn't that they can time. it doesn't necessarily, they would obey or not very briefly face is it, is this campaign to intimidate girls? is it working? no, and that's the beauty of it, because even now, like you know, every day the school girls going to school without reading the monday to her job,

the know that they've been disobedient to the school continue as well. as on the 3 we noticed family member, the mom that a god based school school now, but, but yeah, it feels like there was a kind that people very scared and thinking about not sending this that goes to their schools. but there was a kind of come conscious in all around the country that they should go, alicia, resist and continue the resistance. they can sure. i thank you very much for the input. ever. some hard rock fans and performers flocked to northern germany to experience the world's biggest heavy metal event, the legendary bracken festival. most of the bands are from europe and the us, but a few metal hats in kenya. and i also back laying for the chance to turn their amplifiers all the way up at buck. ah, they scream, they yeah, they are heavy metal band saturday night in

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