about the universe and the rest that were series. 40 to the answer. almost every thing this week on t w ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin. russia's biggest air strikes against ukraine in weeks 21. civilians are killed in one apartment building alone as drones and missiles hit targets. nationwide, president vladimir landscape condemns it as a night of town. also coming up, families in iran,

criticize the authorities over poison the tax on thousands of school girls. it's been going on for months now and it's still not clear who's responsive sports. we look at the women's team are be like, see, who have been promoted to the business, the guy and conceal their 2nd tier title this week at that and a lot more coming up in sports. ah, god ovals welcome to the program. russia has launched its biggest strikes against ukraine in weeks. cruise missiles and drones have hit several cities killing several civilians. ukrainian forces are preparing a counter offensive in the war using new weapons delivered by the western allies. the biggest loss of life inflicted by the latest strikes is in the city of oman,

south of keefe, please say 21 people including 2 children were killed when rockets have struck an apartment block. 6 there still in shock after russian missiles destroyed their homes in the early hours of it, 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 emotional bully with we had the sound of a plane taking off. 010 minutes later there was an explosion of very, very at 1st i was confused as to hang on that and then there was a 2nd explosion here. all you, my mouth glass flew towards ass off of so i quickly covered myself with

a blanket and asked my husband if he was alive or not. but you really got this through the window. we could see that everything was on fire. it's hard to find words to describe it was after that, we gather la things and went outside to send it, but a dorothy, some of his knowledge, but obviously below oh, emergency services managed to rescue several people from the rubble presidency. lensky called the attack a night of terror and condemned to targeting civilians, ukrainian forces, say russia launched 23 missiles on the cities of woman on nipper, 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 rush and drones were 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 to

w correspondent, calmly is in key. if i asked him earlier about the state of ukraine's air defense systems, right now, we 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 how much 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, there's 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 severely limited to hear tom tom, again, ukrainian officers talking about their frustration. so 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 that seemed that russia was running out of these missiles that they were having to take missiles of the production line directly to the front lines. there was no

stocks left, but it does seem like now off to 50 days or so over pause that russia once again has enough missiles to really make ukrainians basic be be afraid of it on the hill . it's are and let's talk about the timing of these 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 how vulnerable they are. once again to put pressure on the government to come to the negotiating table to come some kind of truce on rushes terms, that sort of thing. rushes 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 lazy, kind. remember, 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 i can see crane was dropping. once again. you have stories like this images like these on the front pages worldwide. and i think this is not really going to be in rushes interest in the long term in terms of them wishing the west to forget about ukraine and allow them to put pressure on ukraine. lucon val, correspondent in keith. thank you very much, nick. that's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines today. emmy ranty astronaut sultan on the audi has become the 1st arab to walk in space is expected to spend around 6 and a half hours on the space water in march on the audio embarked on a 6 month long mission to the international space station aboard a space ex, walking tennessee, as coast guard has recovered the bodies of 41 migrants who drowned, trying to reach europe more than 200 people have died in ship, breaks off the tennessee and coast. in the past 10 days,

some morgues are running out of space. for frances has warned against rising nationalism in europe. the head of the catholic church is making his 1st official trip to hungary speaking to government leaders in budapest, he said, accepting migrants across the continent would be a christian virtue. frances also urged rejection of what he called self referential forms of populace. no, any iran families are accusing the authorities of failing to stop a month long campaign of poison attacks on schoolgirl. more than $13000.00 cases of gas poisoning have been registered. and this is a national says attack of targeted $300.00 go schools. some government, critics believe the poisoning, so you tell the ation for last autumn nationwide, and he region demonstration,

but it's not clear was responsible around supreme leader toler holly from a ne, has describes the poisoning as an unforgivable crime. begging sharah. he is a rainy and british activist based in london and i asked her how frequent and widespread these poisonings have become is started around the figures of november. the 1st case we've seen what it is 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 problems 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, 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 a feel goes on the get a balls or bringing down the pictures of the supreme the day or not reading her job at the, the day off the list will be be and that's been happening on databases now in the country that happens in their schools as well. so we know the supreme, the day before the year them from month ago said that the school goes, needs to be punished. med into punishment, shouldn't be harsh, but they should be punished for the videos. i don't want to be off the docs, the 30th of november and these teletubbies 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 some sort of hand in that tax. couple of them, the journalist reported, i mean, i talked the no one case of the door to who went to the school after the i talked

to the court and phil med spend it outside and they've been, i've talked about 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 be d as 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 then you look at the patterns of the tax, you know, the pattern of behavior by the islamic republic. it's not often 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 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 it happening while you're using cctv cameras under 3 eyes. the woman who are not reading of a there monday to the job isn't really complicated. like, how can you know that, how's that possible, then you don't know who's behind is that may ensure i have an iranian british activist and campaign up a rapid rise up the football pyramid is nothing new for germany's most controversial club, arby lovesick. while the men's side are largely seen as germany's most dislike club due to the link with energy drink firm, red bull, it's quite different for the women. they have secured promotion to the bonus,

legal, unconcealed, and 2nd tier title this weekend. our b live says have carried bonus thinker, aspirations, since they launched their women's team in 2016. their goal, slow and sustainable growth to the top of women's football. with the backing of the men side, lights ish was able to attract top players from teens in the area and supplement their roster with talented youth prospects. after a tough friend in the 3rd division lives ish needed, something more on your mit tab, joined the club in 2019, the former germany international who has won almost every trophy football has to offer began as a player coach law. they achieve promotion that same year. now they've achieved promotion to the buddhist lager. their success combined with a fairy tale run in the german cup, has ignited the interest of fans in the region. while their men side is fiercely criticized,

the response to the women side is largely supportive. that's mostly due to differences in fan culture and the financial reality of the women's game where more investment is needed and therefore seem positively. women only clubs have struggled to survive and clubs back by men sides are more sustainable and overall good for the growth and development of women's football. on the things we'll see how lights ish fair in the boonies they got. and if they continue the sam trajectory, as the men who now compete for titles will depend on how much the club decides to invest in women's football. fan in the boonies they got matchups will be more high profile and could lead to inc. criticism about the club, but for our be lifes ish, at the moment, all thoughts about the future, i focus solely on the catch ground. swanson come, i have some more news from the world of sports. in the n. b a, the boston celtics edge, the atlanta hawks, 128212484 to victory in the opening round playoff series. the celtics will

face philadelphia next up in the conference. semifinals with game one coming on monday, tourism all the united states took the title of the world serve leagues margaret river, pro event in western australia. it was the 2nd win of the season for the tokyo olympic champion as she builds up for the paris games. next year and before we go, as though in the german city of hamburg, as released the 1st pictures off a polar bear on that because boys born last december to paula been named victoria who was also born there in 2002, 0 says the campus healthy lively, and a lead mother and baby will be shielded from the public for now. but a monitor will allow visitors to see them in that enclosure.

in watching d w. news is a reminder for our top story. russia has launched its biggest miss all and drawn strikes against ukraine in weeks 21. people were killed in one apartment building alone. the city of mom grants president. a lot of miss lensky has condemned the attacks as a night of tara. and that's it. from me and the new scene brent golf, we'll have a well news update for you at the top of the hour. coming up after the break, all documentary, i've got office in berlin for me and the team. i thought would there be a 3rd in the red? it's 10 times more holocaust survivors in postwar, germany for them life after 945 through today has been starting a new and processing the past. the ongoing struggle.