this document trees on you to see the world i already subscribe. now to d w documentary with ah ah, visit dw news live from berlin. russia unleashes a massive missile barrage on ukraine, explosions and key and across the country. target energy infrastructure and residential buildings will have the latest from our correspondence in the printing

capital. also coming up concerned in israel, over plants to overhaul the legal system. protesters say that government proposals to change the supreme court process are a threat to democracy. supporters claim they reflect the will of the people. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. russia has unleashed a massive missile attack across the crane that has killed at least 6 people. residential buildings have reportedly been hit along with energy infrastructure in this latest barraged keeps mayor of italy could go says there were explosions in the cities, south western neighborhoods, and that emergency services were tackling the effected areas. it's not immediately

clear how many missiles have struck targets, but the western city of levine was head, which has largely escaped being a target. i mean, s s is standing by with the view from the capital keep for us. so i mean, total would be more about the strike stay we were awoke in this morning by the loud sound of explosions. now at least 2 places in key. if we're hit by a missile strikes that includes places near the center of the city, including in a thermal electric plant was, provides heat and electricity to the city of kia. about 15 percent of the city was cut off from power this morning, but it's not an exaggeration to say that almost every part of the country was hit by a russian missile attacks over night. that includes places in the south that includes places in the north lake journey of and in the eastlake har keith. and also the far west like levine, which has been considered

a very relatively safe city to be in. this is where are many western politicians meet their ukranian counterparts, but there wasn't a missile that landed in a suburban neighborhood. now this is significant because this is the 1st time that a residential area in levine suffered a direct hit from a russian missile. we've heard that at least 5 people have been confirmed dead there and we saw images of rescuers pulling people out of the rubble. so this attack has been especially shocking to people in the western city of levine. we're also hearing, i mean reports that the strikes have cut power to the separate tier nuclear power plant. what sort of impact could that have? the state nuclear energy operator said that power was cut off, but that the power plant is operating on the diesel generators. right. now this has happened multiple times before and the power plant can operate for at least 10 days

using these generators. a don't forget that russia is operating the plant, they are occupying the plant or not. and so these were not result of direct strike on the plan and the situation seemed to be stable at the moment. but don't forget, this is the 1st full scale war in a country with nuclear power plants. so no one really knows what the risks here are . and there seems to be a while this seems to be the biggest wave of air strikes from russia in recent weeks. what is the feeling there in ukraine? i mean, of course on the eastern front line the ukrainians are confronted every day with death and destruction. but here and key of and in the west there was relative calm for about 3 weeks. that was after months of similar attacks like we saw last night that were knocked out a lot of the cities off the electric grid causing blackouts. but that had not been the case for a few weeks now, but it seems that this marriage of attacks has brought the war home once again to

many ukrainians, and reminded everyone that there are no safe places in this country. i'm in s f in key. thank you. and yen stoughton barb, the head of the nato military alliances warning that the ukrainian town of bar mood may fall to russian forces in the coming days. it is the latest indication that keeps grip on the town is slipping. as russian mercenary forces claim control of the towns east, but keep for its part, says that it will do all it can to prevent russia from taking backward. he will only reveal his alias to us, commander curt speeds through abandoned villages. these are the fringes of the battle for back moat. a perilous desert of mud shots fired her daily luxury. his mom, our mission is to wear the russians down as much as possible and it's working. even we're seeing that they're losing strength and not in the position to start major

attacks elsewhere. kurt has hidden his ukrainian commanders in the rooms. well, they plan, they tell us to ambush russian units his father, nicola, is among the group. a commander is a commander, but a father is a father at home. i am the father. here he is my commander. the rumble of an approaching tank interrupted the father, son, discussion. curt moves on. he would rather stay on the move when the russians are so close by. on the way, he shows us his infant tree, his supply of military equipment, summer school. and the hardest thing is that every day we are losing the best people in this war that ukraine didn't start. everything else can be overcome. when we lose comrades that spurs us on live, we have a goal. why did someone have to dive? we don't win that you won't be so we have to win like

a mother's name. and now they're preparing for their next battle on the front of back moved. and here's a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. georgia government says that it is dropping its foreign agents bill after 2 nights of violent protest against it. opponent say that the measure which resembles a russian law would have limited free speech and marked a shift toward authoritarianism. the proposal had received initial support endorsed parliament earlier this week. 2 officials in indonesia have given prison sentences, have been given prison sentences of 12 and 18 months for negligence. that led to one of history's deadliest stadium stampedes. $135.00 people died in october last year when chaos broke out after a football match in east java province and investigation found that police had

worsened the chaos by firing tier grass into the crowd. now we had to israel, where government proposals to overhaul the legal system, have sparked major protest with some calling the proposals, a threat to democracy. supporters said that the plans which reduce the influence of the supreme court and allow political influence in selecting court justices are the will of the people. others have grave concerns about the rule of law and minority rights. one of the many protest happening across israel, this time is really ami veterans and reserve is have invited the public to demonstrate against the government's plans to change to legal system across the street from prime minister benjamin netanyahu office sigma bessler. a physicist is addressing the rally. these were the scientists baris, that is rose. democracy is in danger. the new government trying to impose laws such that the government will be supreme to basically everything including justice. so

while we are here to make sure that such a legislation will never bess, it will take us down below the hungary and poland and turkey and iran went before us. we just want to make sure that this is not happening here as well. just a few 100 meters away at is riskiness at the far right government is pushing through with its plans to trustingly curved, the powers of the nation's supreme court. parts of the legislation have already passed the 1st reading in parliament sim ca hoffman. from the far right voted to sign his party is one of the main architects of the traditional reform he states. vote as have given the government a monday to go ahead with the controversial overhaul in the november 1st. a lot of people went out of the whole homes and voted, and they voted on exactly this issue. so to listen to that, there is a lot of people, but it is small minority israel that says is that this reform is not good for them

. we have basically, or is it is an unbalanced and unchecked on like the other entities in with the government which are checked and balance. so we need to introduce checks and balances to say services to the deponent disagree. they say the overhauled the give the government unchecked power and overwrite israeli to dish or aris independence and, and there's no constitution in the state of israel and no declaration of human rights . we do not have the 2 houses of parliament. we do not have term limits for the prime minister now and a little bit more. and that's why in terms of checks and balances. many times we lean on the high court decisions. this law makes it impossible for the supreme court to oversee the kinessa and the government's actions. another protest this time in front of the prime minister's residence in jerusalem after weeks of

demonstrations, people here are angry that their voices are not being heard. and legislation is being pushed through here because things are getting really radical in the country . we feel that we're not good enough people, citizens. i would say that the banjo for 3 me just to go over the parliament and they just wanted my own laws. they don't care about us, they don't care about the public with try another way, but i mean, nothing else to do and we need to fight for our country. despite efforts by israeli president isaac had spoken to others, a meaningful dialogue on the issue has yet to materialize. the government insists the reforms i essential and doesn't seem to be backing down. now by d. w correspondent rebecca writers who is close to ben gory an airport where

protesters have been gathered for hours as we've seen. rebecca, they call it a day of resistance. what have you been witnessing? that's right, tara, where i beg your ian. as you said, the main international airport purchase is holding this resistance against dictatorship today. and you can see here a massive protest they've come behind me coming up. they come right up into the airport to try and give you a good view. it's really loud here. everybody's home. can flying flags using mega phone to get their message across. they're trying to block the entrance to the airport. benjamin netanyahu department assess is due to be here. he's doing a fine to italy today, and they're trying to pull this up around the airport the course and know who has top at in. he's come by helicopter and we saw them arriving a little while ago. so he is at the airport when he due to meet the us defense secretary here at the airport. he was supposed to be that was a plan visit,

but he was supposed to go to jerusalem to meet with the prime minister. but it had to change the schedule because of this day of disruption. you can see behind me these people have been, we've been talking to them, they're really, really angry. they say that they don't have any other option, but to make their voices heard that they feel like that, that democracy is being taken away from them. and they're going to disrupt until they can find some kind of other outcome. and in fact, the protests have been taking place for several weeks. is there any sign that the government is listening? rebecca? that's right. these began in early january. sarah, this is nearly 2 and a half months in today's weekly. and now more than weekly protest, i began just as a week on the saturdays and television. those protests were brushed aside by the government that they just simply left the activists that they, the people who are unhappy with the outcome of the election. and i was trying to brush them away, but now these protests have become more and more active to try and

brains and to really kind of bring the controversy through a home. so in terms of whether or not these are going to compromise the president of the country that hurts or he's trying to bring together the 2 sides to some kind of compromise on the legislation. saying that they will keep changes to the supreme court, but not as extreme as what the government is currently trying to put forward. whether or not they're successful really remains to be seen. and if they're not, looks at that these kind of protests, ok, new rebecca, we have just 30 seconds netanyahu meeting with the us defense secretary today. tell us more that right here to discuss primarily escalating violence in the west bank or nuclear armament in iran. that's obviously very important topic for israel, but as i mentioned before, the federal was changed. the israel army, the pentagon, said will be changed because of the same disruption. so the 2 men will now meet at the airport and also meet the rally defense minister of the airport,

which is behind me before he flies on benjamin and young record flying on to italy and lloyd austin, going back to the us. the protesters meantime very clearly making their point. we see that they've actually shopped there behind you for a little bit. rebecca reuters joining us just outside of been gloria and airport. thank you so much for your reporting and coming up next year and the news it is business with my colleague, janelle, do me allowance. would you stay with us if you can for that? in the meantime i'm sarah kelly and let's thank you so much for watching aah with our flying river.