the for the rest of the world, us say of the also rise starts january 18th on dw, the welcome to dw news here, our top story is coming to live from berlin. russell attack suprised capital again, authorities in cuba, save. they shot down 5 russian missiles and dozens of drones with at least one person kills moscow, says it used to long range weapons in retaliation for an earlier ukrainian stripe. also ahead, formal members of syria's armed forces surrender their weapons, hoping to become part of the country's new order. we'll hear from a former general who wants to work with the rebel leaders and gaus as children in need. kids who should be in school instead of spending their days,

lining off and fighting for food and water. the . i'm clear, richardson, welcome to the show. russia husband bartered ukraine's capital with ballistic missiles. and what is just calling a retaliatory attack officials in t of say at least one person was killed in the early morning strikes, and that's 6, a diplomatic missions were damaged. russia claims the strike was in response to an earlier ukrainian attack using western supplied missiles. you commission president or stefan design has condensed the russian bombardment calling it's heinous. we've dw sonya found a car in cuba. she told us more about the attack. i would say it was incredibly load early this morning with multiple beans. and todds really, according a 12 to city, and that was, of course, you creating a defensive as they tried to,

you know, intercepted shoots out what officials now, so you will 5 east come there, but the stick besides and of course the deputy off those besides landed on buildings landed on streets causing multiple files, a party seals that have been wide spread damage in the city. the reports of several calls on fire, damage the keys to get the structural and follow supplies. what, what's the holding up? the historic church in the city that the security damage and a building that housed a, you know, 7 funding missions were hearing the embassies of a baby up. what's a good one to need to among others would also severely damaged in this lesson. swipe this morning with windows and doors load off, but no casualties or both of them. and rushes. investigative committee in turn has said that ukraine has attacked a town in the course region of russia, a killing and wounding several people. what more do we know about this? what we haven't heard yet from the create in the parties on

this alleged rockets attack on the city of the risk in the cost region, allegedly using high mazda of elk. it's what we do know is that previously you created all me has confirmed that it has used high mazda rockets systems to destroy the bridges of engineering equipment belonging to russian troops. in the course, screeching. we have heard in recent days, from ukraine's come under chief antics on the 5th scheme. was indicated that you know, your freedom forces are facing and i'll to back to the back forth with the ongoing ground defensive in the course region. the she says they're facing renewed assaults by russian troops along with small screen troops of water, you know, kind of a, fighting heavily together in cost. and he says they are using s likes as well as devastating light bomb of light bumps in the region with also joining the pulse that's, you know, ukraine is losing some ground in that cause region. then this is significant given that the reports are due, queen likely wants to hold on to

a chunk of tailed pre enforced use as a bargaining chip ahead of any kind of a possible piece, stokes and sonya, is there something to the timing here? why are we seeing this kind of escalation just now? with the russian defense industries says to these messiah tackled keith was in retaliation to an attack earlier this week, by you creating forces using us, supplied attack him from the side on the chemical blonde. and gosh, as vol stuff, for instance. what today is attack is certainly a grim reminder that russia is saving east. it has sufficient stock so, but it's going to stick besides the launch this kind of attack and a force this attack and keeps today comes just a day off the roof replaced. and luxury faulty has to be the 1st conferences to be where he again emphasize that the expected nothing short of a complete the range of from ukraine. so i think this is a, we, for the russian president, the whole string to intimidate, to queen. i'd really d model ice. it's population as gives up for the holiday season for christmas.

although a symbol some good one. thank you so much for your reporting. that is dwone correspondent sonya fall in the car in care of each and every day. and ukraine. families very loved ones who have been killed on the front lines. but as christmas approaches many are trying to create a fast development spear despite their own losses. dw max sander reports from high keys. no parents that have to bury their child gets here and how it happens every day. this woman have to wait for more than a year for this. the russians only recently handed over the body of her son, alexi. with his art, he will always be with us. you have to cure his spirit, will remain with us forever is nominated.

these are the graves of ukraine soldiers. how many have died remains the secret of this part of the cemetery has just been extended and the grand scheme of things, the soldier's death is a statistic. for family, it's everything. i don't understand anything. yes. i need to come to my senses to understand. push to it's empty with i with him. i think it is. i'm proud of them. i always miss the rotors desk with church close by a group of family and friends. 10 degrees of on 3. she volunteered in the summer and died in the winter. killed during his 2nd combat mission. the group brought flowers and it can at his favorite beer. they took everything. emily was

a good person. he was cheerful, kind the soul of the company to check on friday. they talked about his love for life, probably coach the children's football team and how the war has changed to them. so it could be in order to you could, we are united by loading for our country and these are those of maybe the end to be hadn't come. we wouldn't to understand how much we love new training and okay, but if we hate to the end, the meet who came, who destroyed our country, who makes so children and grandchildren often we will never, ever forgive. many people like and 3 and alexi have been killed trying to defend their country as the prospect to the 4th year of war looms. many are asking how much longer they can keep going. with the country slowly burning out. and the future of allied support, unclear. even so this christmas

party, this full of lights, they've been absent for the last 2 years. but now the decorations are back in the safety of the metro saint. nicholas wilkins, children and parents to enjoy music and dance the, the 1st time to think about other things. the ready think is and we must do this so that our children, even into such a terrible time for our keys for ukraine would be it would be at least for one hour, i should get the children forget about it. so for me, this is the his spell seems to work on the adults to

this is a miracle in which we believe that peace and quiet will soon come, we believe in mary codes just like children. we want to believe in it. the children's wishes this year are simple to go through to see that the war ends, but certainly prove more complicated to fulfill than others. the report by detail these correspondent max center to syria now and the 1st us diplomats have returned to damascus since the fall of the acid virginia. a syrian official says the delegation has held a positive meeting with the new leader of all shamrock. as a former army officers are being integrated into the interim government, they've been told

a hand over their weapons or face prosecution and money or happy to give up their guns. one former general from the western city of homes has been speaking to deed of these correspondent mohammed tray to are you still in your scene? was a general in bushera, a subs for me. please here looking for redemption of many of the officers from the now defunct regime is seeking a new beginning in a new seo you are, you still served in the military for 38 years. he says he was in the air force defense division and did not take part. and so you just loved the civil government this with this with, i'm not scared lubo. and why would i b as in a little more things are going well, and then no one heard us and then i'm going out all the time. and no one stopped me or questions a lot due to my husband, but i'm here for a settlement so that no one out of control could hurt me if i knew i had the or no,

once i do the settlement time free to go wherever i want plus i have to go to the website. this will allow me to move to and i have the police headquarters here in the western city of homes is serving as one of many reconciliation centers that the new government has established across the country. former officers come here to turn in their weapons and military id cards. please stand on the 4th of the old boss to pause for a new civilian items. when they come here, x, y, z, officers are given some penalty receipts like this one. with these receipts, they are told they can go back to their daily life safely. for now, the interim government says that late, so they will look into any alleged participation in crime like torture. the

new dfac to forward these offer. we assurances for those hesitant to show one of your has the both the ad on del autoplay. hmmm, cuz they were not involved and atrocities they can rejoin the army immediately if they want to. i'm not on zillow, but those who have blood on their hands got to have them and were involved in violence against the syrian people will be legally prosecuted about a new after that about yeah, they can be included in society and reclaim their civil rights. you might have football football if any guy me that's on the streets nearby, show the damage done by serious civil war and evidence of atrocities, surfaces every day for the new care take a government says every one we get a 2nd chance or you saw has accepted the new reality, it's a moment of to brenda. and so 5

a one bedroom above college. it's early time for me to retire anyway. what does i know that i'm going back to normal life is i'm good enough in this development. just age i can't work and reconstruction. i mean like the youngsters who have done lucas. so i have to look for office works about america. it may be in a supermarket or a mall to do the finance itself. my eyes have you. there's a sudden even so the office to work with the new regime. it seems you may find a place here that we appreciate your presence here and we value your expertise and we hope that it would be beneficial for us. god willing a general no more. based on yes, he goes to build his future. germany's foreign minister and alena bear bulk has called on turkey to help stabilize the

situation in syria. bare bach has been meeting before administer. how confident in ankara. turkey is pushing to disarm the main kurdish lead party in northern syria. the s b s. it sees them as an extension of the kurdish workers party. encore is main domestic enemy. bare bulk has warranty, but the serial must not become what she calls the placing of foreign powers. dw is because of course not, is travelling with the german foreign minister. she told us how germany is viewing turkeys efforts to isolate kurdish in groups in syria of the whole germany. most of all wants to prevent any further escalation in any fragmentation in sierra. and that's also something that turkey says it once. it doesn't want an unstable, segmented state next door. at the same time, it does not want to see any kind of desire for independence of the kurdish people,

but also now in this moment of instability. so it appears to be seeking the moment cooling for everybody to stop cool for anything with any curtis group and the groups. and that also includes the y d g which is a group that is in charge of holding tens of thousands of a i. s is the most terrorist and that they themselves are seen as a factor for us to produce in particular by the americans. and this complicates matters to great degree. and the open question now is, which way talkie will go after just surprised by its own significance in supporting this rebel grouping that toppled the side regime and what it will now try and push for its own interest of potentially a buffer zone and see whether it will help bolster as a new syrian power brokers of the moment. but as you can tell,

the situation is still unclear and it. 6 keeps tune between its own appetites for seizing the moment and western allies cooling. so not pushing the limits and not risking a further fragmentation of syria. mikaela customer reporting, they're now doctors in gaza say at least 30 palestinians including children have been killed in the latest is really airstrikes. mediators are still working to secure a ceasefire between israel and tomas for children and gaza. that deal can't come soon enough. most of already lost family friends and their homes and with schools closed, they're also losing their education. this is how you doing this is 10 years old. is how many of us driven from the ton in northern gauze at the start of the war? now they lived in mix of tents and century casa. i need the,

my wish is to go back to school and they get inside of them so that we can write and learn. but the israelis want us to be ignorant. we want to learn and become doctors that never got them. now instead of going to close the cues up at one of the causes charges kitchens to get his family to help in the k. yeah, we had never been to a charity in our lives. and now we go there to get food. we had money to buy food, but now we have to go to the soup kitchen. this window has to go to several places to get enough for his company, and to must fight for every fight. how much is also 10 years old? he can barely carry. is emily's daily supply or food to buy wait in line for an

hour or 2? and if i don't get water, we might die of thirst allowable fee to mrs. his old life and his school and to live in constant fear of the i'm afraid of the war and of the rockets and i'm afraid for my future end of returning to school that it will be both after waiting so long. how you doing is exhausted and stay hungry. and i wish to work with and i'm afraid of the bombing and everything. but i and the game and i want the ward and so i can go back to our home and back to school cousin. have the future is gone now there's nothing left. i'm just the one that ha, we're going to get a what i'm, we're gonna have one of thousands of kids here watching the allies slip away with little hope that things will get better anytime soon.

valuable then is a communication specialist with unicef based in gaza. she told us more about the situation there. the stories that you just highlighted of these 2 boys. sadly, those are and isolated to stories. it's um, it's a daily reality for all children and guys. so what are i drive through to? so the central part or, or the norris of guys. so i see hundreds of children, q waiting for bread for flour. you may have heard of 2 at less than girls were crushed to death. at the end of november, the un supported bakery just across the street from our municipal office, and that really sums it up. people queuing and fighting over food. i see children sketching through the garbage, looking not just for food scripts, but also for any material they can use to sort of strengthen their shoulders or

shoulders are made of all sorts of materials, whatever people can get their hands on cloth, blanket plastic. it doesn't keep people warm children or cold, there is they're sick and children. so looking in the waste for um plastic to burn, especially in northern guys where there's no cooking gas. and so people have nothing to, to actually cook on these children. they should be in school there. these children are also deeply, deeply traumatized, over 14 months of, of booming into this war. and we do have time to bring up to speed with some other world news headlines or us lawmakers are running out of time to avoid a government shut down. a revised spending plan backed by president elect donald trump, failed to pass a vote in the house of representatives. democrats and dozens of republicans projected the bill of government funding expires at the end of friday. the next time when he's law makers clashed in parliament as members of the president's political party, broke into the building. they wanted to block voting on opposition bills,

which would make it harder for voters to ours to elected officials, seen as on 5th, leaving the swedish authorities say they've made important fines while investigating the suspected sabotaged by a chinese ship. it's alleged, the crew deliberately dropped the freighters anchor over the bed of the baltic sea for more than $100.00. 60 kilometers, cutting internet cables that link for nato countries. and a gas tank or explosion has kills at least 4 people and injured thousands more in the city of tri court in western india. the blast followed a collision. witnesses a, the explosion produced clouds of smoke and caused a tale back along the road. a court in sicily is due to announce its verdict in the trial of italy's, deputy prime minister mateo, solving for refusing to allow a migrant rescue boat to dock in 2019. so benny was interior minister at the time

he prevented an aid agency ship called the open arms with 147. my friends on board from dawkins on the italian island of length produced the open arms remained at sea for over 2 weeks. prosecutors are seeking a 6 year prison term for solving who was the leader of the right wing anti migrant league party. prime minister, georgia maloney has expressed her solidarity with solving a so let's get the latest on this case from journalist, alina trevor. tony in bro, welcome. what more can you tell us about this case? and what might we expect here? i can tell you, it's been a very, very, very long day. people went into court this morning at 8 39 o'clock in the morning. so there's a 3 judge panel that has been, i'm in a room all day. uh,

you know, temper rating on the case and the verdict was expected in the afternoon as the hours cost. it would be delayed a bit farther expectations, well, $1800.00. now, $1900.00 in cost. um so, you know, everyone is just waiting and see to be fast. um, it's a very, very tense atmosphere because it's a very high profile case. it's a long, small case and a space. every one is with verizon simply waiting to see what the outcome is. so we don't have a decision as soon as we had expected. but tell us a little bit what the government's stance is on all of this. to go so uh, you know, sort of a, me at the time, watson, terry, and minnesota. and of course, he is actually been charged, been tried for kidnapping and uh, for uh, failing to assist those out to see, failing to assist the 147 migrants on

a ship on open arms that were people that had come over from libya. and he had prevented them from talking to run to the ship from docking and loved to do so. and a piece of this lead to an outcry on to mount a terry. on grounds on there, there's a lot of state care because aside from the individual case, i'm international low and national low the we off seeing a conflict between the needs, the humanitarian needs of people out to see at risk of the lives of national sovereignty. and as please, so be going in this morning was a defiance. he said he was proud of what he had done to that. he basically, you know, indicated that he very much to by what he did, which was basically preventing the shipment. okay. uh, 2 weeks and the

a time and government 1st uh in, in the pool moves comments made by a child in premier uh, draw up to a middle and e as close to turn in the home. a secretary county dorsey have very much back to him, but nor indeed they todd and governments of the european nations, especially nearby nations, the very much watching what the outcome will be. lots at stake here. thank you so much for bringing us up to speed as journalist elena trav, attorney in rome. so now briefly to france, square supporters of issues as political who was raped by dozens of men over the course of almost 10 years have been demonstrating an oven young, where the trial was held many disappointed by the sentence as imposed on some of the men convicted of abusing her other cause ex husband dominique was jailed for 20 years. others between 3 and 15 years. campaigners want a change to frances rape was to include the word consent as indeed,

obviously. so louis has more on the protest and having your loved ones, they put it on their solely verity with those pretty cool. they also here to show how disappointed they are with the sentences i'm the down. yes. today, many of the assignment is gathered here in albany on today. already hoping there will be an appeal trial, which they say they would again follow very closely. and now just before we go, a quick reminder of our top story at this hour. at least one person has been killed and a russian missile attack on ukraine's capital key of authority is a 6th diplomatic missions have been damaged. the russian defense ministry says this price was in retaliation for a premium of tax using missiles supplied by the west. and

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why did they have all the time? that a good, just expedited trace amount, where on the lessons the, some german woods make it into the global vocabulary. and that i can think of a recent example of cause life shorts. the gym chancellor, quaint the 10 titan vendor off to russia's full scale invasion of ukraine share that can you think of a couple of examples? demeron was international use. wow. that's the usual kindergarten. i guess but nothing at all that side geist and that's a sudden the change on the german honest is also really pretty tons of all these days. yeah. but there's also kitch, for example, you know, the gang a is a dumb.