on the railways, after members of the uk s biggest rail union, began another 48 hour strike. coming up. the qatar world cup has been the best ever according to the president of fifa. coming up in sportsday on the bbc news channel: we ll have more on the future of worcester warriors, as their proposed takeover is rejected by the rugby football union, leaving their return to professional rugby uncertain. at least three people are reported to have been killed after russia launched scores of missile strikes against civilian targets across ukraine. nine energy plants have been damaged, and officials in the capital kyiv said the city had been hit by one of the largest missile barrages since russia invaded. emergency blackouts have been introduced across ukraine, with the mayor of its second largest city, kharkiv saying there s been colossal damage, which threatens to leave people without heating in freezing
occupation earlier this year. meanwhile, people in the capital continue to suffer emergency blackouts after moscow targeted the country s energy grid. 0ur correspondentjessica parker reports now from kyiv. just outside kyiv, signs of remembrance. in this area, russia is accused of killing hundreds of civilians during its occupation earlier this year. moscow has denied targeting civilians. at irpin bridge, the church of england s most senior cleric came to see the destruction for himself and had a robust message for president putin. there will be no peace until we stop lying. you ve got to tell the truth, however painful. there can never be a way forward built on lies. meanwhile, in the south and east, the fighting goes on,
power back on for customers. it s been a slow push but a steady buildup to dealing with some of the issues that came from the massive missile strike that took place here on wednesday. that being said, the system itself, with the situation is still very difficult. there are schedule emergency blackouts. earlier in the week, you have energy officials say they were hoping that because they were able to get some of the systems back online. they could also limit some of the planned schedule emergency outages. this is a constant difficult struggle for people in this country. we saw in kherson, shortly after that city was liberated. there was a situation where all of the infrastructure there were so badly damaged that people were having to consider whether or not they could stay and survive the winter months without access to water. without heat, without power. now in that city, we re seeing a situation where on top of concerns about just having basic things in your house like
reporter: yeah, alex, it is cold, it is winter. we had the first snowfall across the country this week and we ve gotten new numbers from the prime minister who says nearly half of the energy system is out of order. when you ask where the power is back on, really these rolling emergency blackouts are in place across the country. i m looking at a very dark capitol city of kyiv and as the evening goes on, we can tell which neighborhoods have rolling blackouts. people are telling us that they have blocks of three or four hours of power on and three or four hours with the power off. we went out to one of those suburbs that was occupied by the russians, hit very hard, very early in the war. the first five weeks of the war. and i was surprised. a lot of the buildings that were heavily damaged at the beginning of the war have not been fully
rolling emergency blackouts because as they suffer their defeats and setbacks on the battlefield, the russians over the last couple of weeks, as we ve seen, have been attacking civilian infrastructure, which basically means the heart of the energy infrastructure, which is designed to really try to get the people here to essentially cry uncle. i ve been speaking to them. they re nowhere near that. they re absolutely clear that whoever s responsible for their pain is in russia, not here. and they say they re going to stand firm until they win. that s the feeling here. it s going to be a very cold winter in so many places. really tough. great to see you there. up next, the top ten cnn heroes of 2022, everyday people changing the world for the better. you ll meet them.