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the the, this is the w news live from berlin, ukraine's president condemns a deadly russian missile strike on the city of cub of tourists. coordinate officials say that at least 10 or dad and many more injured and the attack on a crowded restaurant. also coming up is operating a nuclear power plant is in the middle of a war zone. we will hear about the risk,
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the weaponized, europe's biggest nuclear power plant, and ask whether the latest instability races the nuclear threat, plus classes in paris after police shoot dead a 17 year old following a traffic check president my call calls the killing inexplicable voices of defiance and be occupied, westbank dw, meet the palestinian militants and jewish settlers living in close proximity and conflict. the i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program and president below to here's the lensky has condemned a russian missile attack that killed at least 10 people in injured more than 50 out of popular restaurants in the eastern city of chroma torres, 3 of those killed were children. responding to news of the strikes, the kremlin said that it only hits military targets. it's
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a best thing pizza restaurant in downtown cremmit task, reduced to a smouldering mess of twisted metal and broken glass. the massage struck committee evening at the popular shopping plaza, making civilian casualties far more likely. emergency workers laced in and out to the restaurants, shots, and remains placing debris and looking for survivors. while others offered comfort to those in distress. among those killed was a 17 year old go and 8 months old baby was also reportedly injured in the attack. what does the 3 of you that's what i see destruction every way i see see power. this is the 21st century. i can't even describe it. first, my son was killed in the will. and now this is what the street and he's not the
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address president. the zalinski describes the attack as an act of terrorism. i am arose, but of each manifestation of terror proves over and over again to us and to the whole world that russia deserves only one thing. for all, it has done the feats and a tribunal fare and legal trials against all russian murders and terrorists. introduced cremmit to us is one of the largest urban centers in the east, still under ukrainian control. less than 25 kilometers from the front line. it's been a regular target of russian besides, since the ball began, some will see the targeting of civilians as a sign that moscow is trying to project an image of power and strength is about so the people are clement to ask. it is yet another style combined of the hostile forces, just within striking distance and dw special correspondent abraham is in keys.
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she told us earlier about the significance of the city of crematory as well from a tourist is you know, as the report mentions, one of the main urban centers that it's still under ukrainian control and they've done vast region. it's about an hour drive from the other villages and towns along the front line. and so because of that, it has to come to sort of defect to ukrainian capital of the done bus is also become a hub where families, you know, wives, daughters, children of ukrainians, fighting on the front line come to to meet their loved ones briefly, you know, go for a coffee, get dinner or something before their loved ones have to go back to the front lines . and because of that, even though it's quite close to the front line and in a very, very dangerous place. i mean, i was in coming towards a just a couple of weeks ago and the sound of showing doesn't stop even though it is not
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dangerous. it's always full of civilians. and sarah, and i think what some notable about this particular attack is that it wasn't an attack. it was in the building wasn't struck with debris. and it was really, you know, hit by a mis island. this kind of tells us that it was probably forget it specifically for being a civilian hub. and so even for a town that sort of used to being at the it's so close to the front line and being in such danger. this attack is quite unusual and very tragic and also, um, yeah, we have to mentioned in the front lines. ukraine is continuing with the counter offensive. give us an update on how that's progressing. well, there was, of course, the me, in russia that we saw on fold over the weekend. and the, the hope here in your brain was that, that, that me, that chaos in a, in russian lines would create some sort of window opportunity for you to make
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significant advancement on the front line. we've heard president zelinski say that the troops have made gains on all fronts, but he didn't really specify what that means. we know that ukraine has managed to recapture some small villages along the line, but we haven't really heard from you create new leadership about any sort of game changing strategic gains because of that window of opportunity that them you need may or may not have present it but we did also see president to lensky on, on mondays, visit the dawn, passed very close to the troops taking southeast with them, haven't clocked in at gas stations congratulating them honoring them, calling them here us. so there's certainly a very concerted effort from the premium site to project confidence on the front line at this time. but it remains to be seen what the gains of these past couple of days have been. it's just something that we're going to have to continue watching the w special correspondent, a get abraham and keith. thank you. and ruth,
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and claims 5, a load of mirrors, lensky, that russia may be planning a terrorist attack if this operates here. nuclear power plants have been rebuffed by the kremlin as nonsense. the white house this week also said there is no indication of an imminent threat to the plant by russia. never the less concerns remain over the safety of your biggest nuclear power plant. it's under russian control and fighting around the site has intensified since ukraine's counter offensive began the recent destruction of the nearby coast to them. and the draining of the reservoir has also increased concerns. here's more, it's before russia's invasion of ukraine. the soviet builds up for reach a nuclear power plant, produced a 5th of ukraine's electricity. but now 5 of its nuclear reactors are in code shot down because it continued shelling of the pond. the 6 is set to be in,
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halt, shut down, meaning the power unit is heated to a 2nd level, but he don't need generates from old power o 6 react to those still need more to pump through them to cool the nucleus a few. without that, there's a big risk that the fuel will overheat, causing a melts down the could lead to a nuclear disaster. that will, to comes from a cooling pond that spread by a huge reservoir. but that reservoir is drying up. off to the nearby kirchhoff cut down was blown up at the beginning of june. there are also claims by ukraine that the dom that protects the plants cooling pool has been mind if damaged, even more water would be lost. and that will to is also needed to keep the use to
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nuclear fuel that's been through the react is cool. also key to protecting the plant is a continuous source of power. electricity is needed to ensure the cooling pumps used to pump water around the reactive can operate with the plans as low as powers several times due to fighting in the region. that's meant it's been forced to rely on diesel generators, which only have enough fuel for around 10 days. that pro reached yeah. is a ticking time bomb. and let's get more. we are joined now by daria adults, dakota. she is a research fellow with the proliferation and nuclear policy program at the royal united services institute for defense and security studies, or we'll see. thank you so much for joining us here on the program. how big is the threat posed by this operates a nuclear power plant right now. i mean, as you said,
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there are 5 reactors there. now. cool. shut down one that stone hot shut down. i think it would probably be foolish to assume that there's no chance that russia would with the engineer and instead of that. so do you think it's worth considering the risk that thought it might um, either through there might be an accident, legitimate accident at the facility? so precisely, what are some of the reasons that you pointed out, or russia may look to generate an emergency situation and take advantage of that? so i think, i think the risk is real potentially what some release of radiological material, although not necessarily. um, so i think i think it's worth not underestimating the the risk that's there. what are the key vulnerabilities that the plant also keeping in mind, the recent destruction of the car kolscott down. uh yeah, so um,
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as i said some dom we're outlined quite a while and, and, and the report leading up to, to my comments. no, but the water supply is probably the most obvious vulnerability at the moment. so as was mentioned, the fuel, inside the reactors and the spent fuel and taking out that needs cooling and water levels in the reservoir have dropped significantly. there is still water supply to the facility. and as far as the international atomic energy agency has said, as far as other expert to some of the key safety systems at the facility, and there's few others concerns over staffing issues. the staff are working under incredible dress. so there's concerns around their, their ability to, to maintain the facility safe, considering the stress that they're under and considering that there is a shortage of stock as well. tell us a little bit more about the efforts to show up the facility. i mean, you mentioned the efforts of the international atomic energy agency for it, for example. um, you know, also much being do done to try and deter the nuclear threat from moscow. um,
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just walk us through what you make of, of what's being done behind the scenes right now. yeah, there's, um, there are some efforts going on like you said. so the international atomic energy agency is, is present at the facility. so it's keeping an eye on what's happening at the facility, the director general of the agency visited, i guess a couple of weeks ago now. as well as i said, there are safety systems at the facility that create some redundancies, both for water supply and supply of electricity, scissors generators on site. the question for me is if russia decides to generate an incident, uh will it maintain those systems and allow those safety systems to function as they should. there's also been a draft resolution for the, for the us senate last week as well. so that essentially outlined
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a number of circumstances in which nato's article 5 should be in both including the dispersal of radioactive material to nato territory, which i think is a helpful message to hopefully help deter russia and, and send a message to, to moscow that there will be an action in case of an incident and are able to cover preparation and nuclear policy expert. thank you so much for joining us. thanks for having me. angry protests have erupt. it in the power suburb of no tie after a police shot dead, a 17 year old during a traffic stop. and you clashed with officers in the suburb overnight setting their kids on fire and hurling fireworks. police used to your gas and response and made dozens of arrest. police alleged that the young motorist refused to obey in order to stop his car. and officer is under investigation for manslaughter after firing
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at the driver for a french president, the manual my call says that the shooting was inexplicable. the interior minister expressed his sympathy for the teenager and his family, but condemned to being so in violence as she to example just as i'm following this drama, as there is no other word when a young man dies, there being some acts of urban violence last night that i come down with any you take, most police have a rest of the 31 people mostly in the whole defend region in the falls and in the regions use, i'll say more, but mainly a wrong on to, to, to be seen as like 24 police man have been windows that gets on divide 40 cars where burned to so don't isn't up as he told the police. that's broken independent journalist catherine field who is joining us now from paris. catherine, walk us through the incident on tuesday when the teen was pulled over by the police . yes. uh it was around 8 30 in the morning. is it non town which is
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a sub to just on the edge or hers? uh, he was stopped by police. the police say that he appeared to be wanting to drive off to say the police check. they said that uh he was not uh, not being corporate to the tool. but of course, we've seen the video now that has been circulated on social media, which shows that the police drew the guns that they said to him that they were angry at him. they held him at gunpoint for some time and they said to him that they were going to shoot some in the head. we don't quite know them. what was said from the driver's side of the police didn't shoot. he drove off and off to civil me to be called crunched, and he died at the scene. the policeman, as you said, has now been taken into custody and is being investigated for menstruation. is there a sense there that the government is doing enough to ensure accountability? you know, really when you look at the figures, say for example 2020 to do
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a record 113 people killed in front of after refusing to stop. so police traffic checks, so what's being said though, is just not enough is being done. let's not forget that in 2017, during that whole stage of terrorist attacks here in front of police rules on opening fire on cause were relaxed. it was then may the police could fire vehicles if there was a fleet vehicle and if that vehicle in the drive opposed danger to security. so it is being said now, particularly by the opposition, poland, terence, that these rules need tightening and also more needs to be done within the police force to understand these communities understand why a 17 year old would be working as a delivery boy during the school holidays how common are such instances of police violence? unfortunately, they are very, very common. i mean,
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let's just look back to these dates back to already 2005. when we had almost 3 weeks of violence in northern paris suburbs of to 2 young boys don't light off of it. being fleeing from police also 2020. we had several nights of violence and the power of suburbs after again, young man was shot dead by police. so it was very common. and it does seem to be something that none of the, none of the interior ministers are the is none of the politicians. none of the community leaders have actually managed to bridge the gap between police and the youngsters of these communities who feel that the police feel far too is just don't take into account their lives and understand what sort of lives they're leading, catherine field, thank you. so much for your reporting. thank you. the un security council has urged israel and the palestinians to avoid actions that could further
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inflamed tension in the occupied westbank. there was a growing international concern about escalating violence that's been some of the deadliest in the region that it has seen in years. w correspondent, rebecca rivers went to the west bank to talk to people on both sides of this conflict. so if the supposed to be won't be is riley military calls, a routine operation. soldiers rated jeanine refugee camp to arrest suspected militants. but they were met with unexpected assistance. violence in these righty occupied westbank is taking on a new and warring form as a spot where a large roadside farm was designated damaging and his ready vehicle as it was retreating from gen, named cab and injuring several soldiers. it's the 1st attack of its kind in several years. and as a result is riley military say they may have to rethink the tactics,
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belong to the as ever it's civilians, line gas, and talk, man and his family to the who get caught up in the escalation minute this deal came down from the stairs and came here and during that raid, his teenage daughter was in a courtyard when it is right, the military vehicle drove by. i say after this, she was uploading this video to snapshot when the bullet came. so did was standing like this, she was filming like this, and then the bullet hit her here. the is riley military says it's investigating a family i convinced she was killed, buys, right, a gun file. elsewhere in the occupied westbank, there was move on the palestinian militant group in mos says they carried out this attack in response to the rate engineering to of a gunman opened fire at this roadside restaurants near the jewish settlement of eli killing for his right the citizens of land mcgill's shop, the attack us came from there. one came here and the other one went over there,
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forgot assurance. he was 1st to be hit. the girl who was with managed to run away special things to god. and then the terminal was entered and fired inside another one of our students was hit. and the last question. yep, no, telling me the phone shut on will be dollar fan for that. but again, the despite the attacks and the risk to their lives, the settlers say they aren't going anywhere. um, but as you can see here on the top of the mountains, this is one of the ancient place that was mentioned in the bible. in fact, they were intent on expansion. we're not afraid. ah, we know that this is our homeland, this is our home. and you find for your home and we'll do whatever is need to stay here to build, to grow, to add more life, to add more grief to those bear mountains. after the restaurant shooting the government showed its continuing support for the settlers. a day off to the attack
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here in la prime minister benjamin netanyahu announced the authorization of a 1000 new housing units. here in the settlement, a decision he said in his statement was a direct response to terrorism. another response was these modes of extreme settlers rampage through palestinian towns torching property and threatening residents. sometimes in the presence of his rainy soldiers, it's a so the risk relation in a cycle of violence that looks to be accelerating back engine in camp. these palestinian fighters, tell me the situation is getting worse. they are trying to kill everybody they can over the camp, they've been directing these kind of pains. an attempt to blind is ready surveillance, drones, while they buy their time and prepare some battle. we're going to fight as long as we can, so that's what's gonna happen. they are using rockets v as in plants,
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the using was all, all there are man i but we, we don't stuff. they are going to continue as long as we can. then, if not us, our children, their children, we will continue. that's the feeling on both sides. this was close by and is randy drone targeting militants, the 1st aerial attack against palestinians in the west bank in a generation. the next chapter in this bloody conflict is being written to i'm the and that was the w's. rebecca writers report getting there. and we should note that the palestinian mosque group is considered a terrorist organization by germany that you and the united states. let's get more now. we are joined by in europe zone. shine. she is and is really american journalist and a senior analyst on is really palestinian affairs of the international crisis group . thank you so much for joining us. you've been covering this region for more than a decade now. how do you assess the mood and the security situation in the occupied
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westbank at the moment? well, i would say that the mood and security situation in the occupied west bank is always quite bad. and there upticks and flows such as we are seeing now in which the greatest posted in casualties last year and this year is higher than probably in a decade due to continue just really rates. and now we're also seeing that as rallies in settlers in the west bank are also starting to once again become casualties and this conflict. israel's current coalition government includes far right parties who are supportive of settlers, how challenging is the escalation within this current political context? you know, of course, these really government will say that it's interested in some kind of uh, you know, resolution down the line. but an attorney on his national security adviser recently set in an interview that part of the reason that novice and jeanine and the
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occupational s bank have become no place to talk to me. and when he calls terry again, or because there aren't jewish settlements in those areas. so i, you know, i think is really policy of continued expansion continued occupation. and defacto annexation is a huge driver of violence in this crisis. what if we focus on the janine camp itself and we have to mentioned that here, you're sharing your views here. um if we're focusing on the janine camp, palestinian militants used a roadside bomb against. and as really raid is that use likely to turn the is really military from entering the camp, or could it have the opposite effect? i mean, we're talking here about the strongest military power in the middle east, up against unoccupied population. and israel has become quite a customs and the last decade to very little or no resistance. and they're also posted in authority, is, has lost much of its power and ability and legitimacy. so you have, you know,
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a situation in which 2 sides are not equal. and in, in the paradigm uh, you know, posted into who can arm themselves are arming themselves and we'll try to resist. and i believe israel will continue to up. it's a, you know, it's, it's ability to what do you see does routing out tears. so i think this will only escalate, i don't think it will deter either side. yeah, exactly. but as well as when say that they're, they're reading out to her, each side has their own arguments. and in this context, we look at the overall picture. now it's 2 decades since the 2nd intifada, the palestinian uprising. how confident are you that we're not heading now for a 3rd? while i think the framing over 32 photos problematic because of the fragmentation and the the extent to which israel has managed to fragment and divide the post and in communities of the you know, between guys of the west bank, jerusalem post to me and citizens of israel, you know, elections were supposed to be held in may 2021. they were called off. they haven't
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been held. so talking about a 3rd into fridays, problematic in the sense that palestinians don't have the ability to organize efficiently on the political leg. busy much less on an armed level. so i think you're going to see uh chaos. and if you think that chaos is a 3rd into further than that, you know, you could call it that. but we're seeing is definitely in entrenchment of patterns that we've seen for decades now. and unfortunately, you know, i don't see a getting better or the escalating. thank you very much for joining us to share your view. as we mentioned, you have been covering this crisis for the past decade. your i was on shy and from the international crisis group. we appreciate it. thank you so much. i. so here's a quick reminder of the top story that we're following for you this hour. you creating an official say that at least 10 people have been killed in a russian missile strikes on the eastern city of on the tourist. more than 50 others were injured in the blast with struck a busy restaurant. the kremlin denied hitting civilian targets. of next made in
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