alive, not just a season 3 of our award winning documentary theories. her women in asia. mm. mm ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. ukraine fights off a new wave of russian strikes. air defense tracer fire lights up. the sky over keith, as ukraine says that it has destroyed more than a dozen incoming missiles. also coming up. i don't agree with vladimir putin regime with which instigated this war against ukrainians were like brothers too

often. we meet a russian student who fled house arrest and his country and her country after becoming another victim of the kremlin crackdown and opposition add more fighting, reported ensue dan's capital, despite rival military forces, agreeing to extend to cease fire, the un warrens of a humanitarian crisis as tens of thousands flee to neighboring countries. ah, and i'm sarah kelly, welcome to the program. ukraine says that it down to more than a dozen russian missiles in the early hours of monday, ukraine's military said that its air defense systems intercepted 15 out of 18 era launched cruise missiles. while the missiles did not hit the capital, they damaged buildings and left dozens wound in eastern ukraine. russia's defense

ministry says that it carried out strikes on ukrainian military sites, and that all its targets had been hit. the w corresponded economy, who is in keith told us more about the air strikes. this was a very loud night hearing here. lots of anti aircraft systems working no attacks, successful on kill, those rockets were all shot down. but in other parts of the country, we've seen some significant damage to property, but also to people's lives. with those reports from the east, nearby pro, over $130.00 wounded in an attack on an industrial unit. the houses nearby coming up with sco, severe, severe destruction, severe damage to those homes, people suffering under defects of smoke. there was reports from the west from kaminsky of a antiaircraft systems how to work there. so it seems like the extent of this is a bit bigger than we initially thought. but the kind of big conclusion to take away from this is that 15 of those 18 russian crews. michelle's worship dialect

religious proves once again, that ukraine's antiaircraft systems are in a much better state and they would 3 months ago. his 2nd wave of mrs. strikes on ukraine since friday is, is what we have seen to day at neck and tell us these attacks appear to be picking up in the past days. why now some people have, as you'd mentioned, there said that this was connected to ukraine's expected counter offensive of able to saying, because the russians can, i think we saw towards the end of the winter that they were running out missiles. the missiles that were shut down of ukraine when they were opened up and the serial numbers were checked, turned out. they had just been produced a few weeks before and basically being said from the factories to the front lines. and now after almost 2 months, month and a half of basically a bit of quiet away from the front lines. no real, massive use of those cruise missiles. now it seems like russia has once again built up it stalks and isn't a position to use is missiles. nick, what's the situation on the front line, including and button so in buffalo will be to see endless.

endless, basically street street house to house fighting. this is a very bloody or very shocking, the theatre of this war. some place where the battle's gone on way longer than any one had expected. it seems that most of the center of the city is now in russian hands, but ukraine's are still there and they are defending their route in and out their supply route. every couple of weeks you get reports, the russians trying to take control of that roach. right? in circle, ukrainian forces and then being pushed back for now, it seems like the ukranian troops are still able to secure that crucial route in and out. but i think it is a question more of when, rather than if russian troops take buckle in full. but we don't know the price of all this. it seems like russia is definitely not doing much to minimize its losses . their huge losses on the russian side, and potentially far fewer losses on the ukrainian side. but as always, we don't really have a chance to over proof to check and to kind of be 100 percent. sure about those figures d, w correspondent, nick connelly and keith, thank you so much and rushes,

crackdown on opponents to the war. and ukraine has been well documented, but lately the kremlin has stepped up efforts to stifle criticism, leading to what some are calling the widest campaign of repression since the soviet union. recent targets have included people alike, alexia crits, you over a university student who has put under house arrest for anti war post san social media. but as our next report shows, she's one of the lucky ones out of her shackles and on the run. alissa, clifford salva gets goose pumps. when she thinks back to the moment she freed herself from house arrest and fled from russia to europe. embarrassed as if it, if a right before i escaped, i was afraid because stupid, thoughts kept coming into my head. like what if this doesn't work and a rest me would i have to run for miles through the forest dylan yet. but she

succeeded from bella. ruth alyssa was able to enter the e u by car to lithuania, where she was granted asylum. she knows of her escape attempt had failed. she would likely be in prison. by now elisa had been waiting under house arrest for the courts. verdict the charges were serious, discrediting the russian army and justifying terrorism. her crimes handing out anti war flyers and condemning the warn ukraine in a private chat with her fellow university students. oh my own way to buy that was my protest. i chose the most harmless methods for it. well, at least that's what i thought. i don't agree with vladimir putin regime which instigated this war against ukrainians who are like brothers to us. radical

lathan. edward alyssa is one of the almost 20000 russians who have been punished for their anti war stance. the most prominent among them is opposition leader vladimir kara mazda who strongly criticized putin and publicly denounced the war in ukraine. another russian was sentenced to 2 years in prison because his daughter drew an anti war picture like alissa. he also tried to flee russia through bela bruce, but he was caught and arrested. a careless joke or critical post is all it takes to get a knock on the door from the secret service, the f s b, and possibly end up behind bars. the russian parliament has also tightened a law to make it more difficult for young men to avoid being conscripted. it's made

it trickier to leave the country like, oh yes i did. she believes repression and russia will get even worse because of the kremlin fears its own citizens. process of hearing that what if all the young women who were against the war had taken to the streets and gone to the kremlin? yeah, it's clear that people must be intimidated because of this pretty classroom growth, and that suits to russian regime very well at the moment. at his, his credit in la elias as dream is to become a journalist in another free or russia perhaps that wouldn't have to remain a dream. and that report was by year a shadow d w. as former mosque of era chief here he is now in riga. as d, w is banned from reporting in russia. he told us more about how it is easy to be accused of treason or discrediting the army and russia. oh yes sir. any one

who publicly shows that he or she disagrees with the policy of vladimir putin actually risks being prosecuted by the law. because most of putting policy is his war against granted. consequently, most of the protests against it and the russian media have hardly talked about social problems, health problems, economic problems, for a long time. such problems are glossed over. most of the reporting in russian media is about the circle, special new to the ration, and that's what this coin is. war is called in russia and rushes alleged to enemies in the west. and anyone who doubts the sense of purpose of the war and ukraine and dust, so not only in his mind and his head, but publicly risks ending up in courtier. how's the cracked and indian by analyst geary? i mean, is it inc seen as a sign of here on the part of putting well such draconian punishments and we are talking about thousands of russians by now. such punishments obviously

have one aim which is intimidation. and it's obviously important for the kremlin to show that anyone can be punished, starting with caramel resign, well known russian oppositional addition. we saw him in the report down to a simple young woman somewhere in the northern russia. unless you're herself give the answer to your question. in my report, if not only she, but all young women in russia took to the streets, it would be a mass protest which the criminal most likely fear given that next year russia votes for a new president, putin is going to run again. it's not just the russian intelligence service flying on people. there have been reports of some people reporting on their friends on their neighbors. i mean, this is stuff that, that you know, was seen during the stolen era. how widespread is this? well, wouldn't speak of a mass phenomenon in this context, according to russian human rights or human rights activists em over the 5700 cases of prosecution for so called discounting of the army. fewer than 200

are based on reports from neighbors and france. and there are such cases, and these 200 alone are bad enough, but they are not to must denunciation as in the days of years of style and not yet because one thing is clear, the more oppressive the system is that the more such cases are there i can be in the future and the case of alyssa group so or from petra's of odds, is one of those cases nowadays. yeah. here ever shadow. thank you so much. here are some other stories making news around the world. may day protests and france have turned violent in the western city of nineties, where demonstrators clashed with riot police. tens of thousands across france have been marching against president manuel mac calls pension reforms, which include raising the retirement age by 2 years to $64.00 voters in his becca san have approved a referendum that will allow the president to remain in power until 2040 the

government says that the referendum would also usher in human rights reforms. electoral officials say that it was backed by 90 percent of the voters. but international observers say that the referendum lacked genuine political pluralism and competition. a powerful tornado barrels through palm beach gardens in the u. s, state of florida causing widespread damage. the storm brought strong winds and overturned cars and damaged homes. no injuries have been reported so far. u. s. regulators have seized control of the troubled 1st republic bank and struck a deal to sell its assets to j. p. morgan chase 1st republic had assets was about $230000000000.00, and more than a $100000000000.00 and deposits. it is the 2nd largest retail bank to fail in u. s. history. in sudan fighting has been reported in the capital cartoon despite an agreement between rival military forces to extend

a ceasefire agreement. the truce is meant to provide relief for civilians caught up in the fighting. now in its 3rd week with tens of thousands trying to flee. the united nations, as warning of a humanitarian crisis that could impact all of use africa, 8 tons of medical supplies, enough to treat over a 1000 injured people. i hope this will be only the 1st of a number of vouchers doug will come. we'll be extremely crucial for the hospital to the hospitals, to be able to cooper for the needs of thousands of people that are flocking to their doors and waiting to get medical assistance. but the conflict shows no sign of easing. shortly after the warring parties agreed to a 72 hour truce, violence broke out again in the capital her tomb. while foreign governments are

scrambling to evacuate their nationals, thousands of sudanese are seeking refuge in neighboring countries. but many have no choice but to hide in their homes amid rapidly deteriorating conditions. we hear the sounds of artillery it can fall in the street in front all the one behind . when maria, shall we have to sleep on the floor. there is no water, electricity, there is no food. my theme, why murphy, for her mom in addition to food shortages and yos, war and that sedans, health care system is on the brink of collapse or nike for all li, i'll get many working and trained minds in the health care sector are fleeing sudan because there is a withdrawal of many engineers and non ingenious due to direct attacks swimmer by all means it's a disaster leg imaginable. boucher either abilene fiarty in one of them or even before the fighting adopted,

a 3rd of sudanese were dependent on some form of humanitarian assistance. now fears are growing that a prolonged conflict could spread to the broader region. it has suffered multiple conflict in the past decade and climate change has left its deadly mark as well. with severe drought and one of the world's worst food insecurity crisis. ah, as the country moves deeper into crisis, sudanese people are brought are calling for international action to and the violence coming up next. it is asia with my colleague, the rash vanishing. ah, i would have your 30 day. it's 10 times.