[000:00:00;00] ah ah this is dw news life from berlin. a surprise prisoner swamp rush releases about 200 ukrainians. most of them captured during the siege of mario put in exchange you crank, gives up a prominent ally of flatter me booth and also coming up the greatland's decision to mobilize hundreds of thousands of reservists to find in ukraine smocks protests across russia. ukraine's president calls for

a special war tribunal and lays out his conditions for peace with russia during a speech of the un general assembly and demonstrations escalate in iran after the death of a woman arrested by the morality police for the way she bore her head jap, ah, i've been for solon, welcome, ukraine and russia have carried out a prisoner swap, the largest since moscow launched its invasion. russia released the $200.00 prisoners, many considered heroes in ukraine for their role in defending the besieged city of money. all put ukraine released 55 russians among them. a close ally of vladimir putin homecoming after months in captivity with these prisoners of war, arrived in northern ukraine in

a deal brokered by turkey and saudi arabia. among those freed, our commanders of the as of regiment regarded as heroes in ukraine for defending the ass off style plant on the present, those from the new green to mister president d ukrainians. i am beyond happy for our return. who do i thank you. a lot poster. he was super important. the emotions are overwhelming. i thank you from all the armed forces and marines that defended as of style. being to do the, the shows us thought i was little the, as are fighters, were brought to turkey instead of ukraine. as part of the deal ukraine's president laid out the plan to suit the slothful omar grain. and the moral ukraine has agreed with turkey. i spoke about this with president of on that 5 of our commanders who are released from captivity will be in full safety in comfortable conditions under

the personal protection of the president of turkey until the end of the war. but we will provide their families with the opportunity to see them. lee is the name of budgets. the prisoner swap came as a surprise, but it had been months in the making. more than $200.00 ukrainian soldiers were exchanged for $55.00 russian troops and a pro kremlin ukrainian politician. 10 foreigners fried by the kremlin, were flown to saudi arabia. the kingdom says it's facilitating their return to their respective countries. and i asked either use ne, connolly, and khaki of 50 exchange can be considered a fair deal will definitely there's been a lot of criticism on the russian side that russia just haven't got enough people out of this. that this is basically weighing the kind of prisons the ukraine had to give up to valuing them to haile. and that basically, this is a deal on ukraine's terms,

may be one that was carried out to gain some kind of favour though russia with he took his present ed on and the saudis, who also it behind the mediation in this whole process. but definitely this is something that is not, wasn't expected here came as a big surprise. that is normally the way with these exchanges. if they work out, no one really outside of the process knows that can happen until it has happened. but certainly, lots of happiness, lots of kind of happy social media posts in ukraine. the sense that this was something that ukraine's come out with a lot of successes and basically everything it wanted. what about the timing of this? it did it have something to do with ukraine being in a better position to negotiate considering its recent gains on the battlefield. where you crazed that he picked up a lot more russian prisons of war. that certainly the case that exit from a hutch region was often so chaotic, lots of units were left behind, and the ukrainians are still finding russians that are hiding out and abandoned houses,

trying to find some way to get back to russia. but i think this wasn't an attempt by the russians to somehow in a crate could, will with more with we care of the situation right now that the mood, mood music between care in moscow is as bad as it ever been. i think this is definitely more about the mediators about sadie arabia, about turkey. russia is now crucially been on turkey for lots of things for getting things in and out of the, the black sea for lots of its trade or for buying its energy. so i think that's going to be more likely the reason behind this, rather than some attempt to improve things for drinking of moscow. is it also a signal of the desert position that moscow is finding in itself? am fighting this battle on, on so many a different france, not just on the battlefield, but politically as well. of course we'll defeat this is doesn't look like a sign like a scan of symptom of strength. just the same way as the mobilization looks like kind of desperate attempt to somehow compensate for the lack of boots on the ground

and the lack of people willing to sign up full entirely. i think you said you look at some of the people being exchanges. the commanders of the as of regiment who are in marry a poll that people, that russia has not recognized as prisons. war previously said were mercenaries and would be treated as such. we had foreign fighters who were condemned to death in the so called to his people to publix. and so there was a lot of heads being scratched in moscow. basically how it could be that moscow was giving up these people who, you know, just few months ago, were being held up as enemies of russian people who would face execution. and this is, know, is the kind of to change of mind to kind of a pretty radical departure from their previous positions that hasn't been explained by the russian government. and that is causing a lot of discontent in russia. analysis and reaction there from he w, corresponded nick connelly in hockey, russian police of arrested over 1300 people protesting against the partial mobilization of reservists to fight in ukraine. president vladimir putin says

they'll bolster his forces. western leaders say the reservists are desperately needed to replace rash and losses in a conflict the kremlin grossly underestimated. oh yes. vladimir prudence, lead is decree, is not going unchallenged in russia but the states crackdown is hard. nonetheless. i protest monitoring groups as mass arrests have been made across the country including in moscow. yeah. anyway, i'm not afraid and not a friend of anything. the most valuable thing that they can take from us is the life of our children. i won't give them my child's life. you wouldn't have called the mobilization necessarily an urgent. he accused the west of crossing a line by providing sophisticated weapons for you, grin her to nepal. i'd like to remind you that our country also has various weapons of destruction and in certain aspects, even more modern weapons, the nato countries. if there's

a threat to the territorial integrity of our country in order to protect russia and our people, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal. this is not a bluff a little bit. his is. the announcement has also triggered an apparent exodus of people unwilling to join the conflict. many of these russians arriving in serbia are still fearful of speaking in opposition to the war. i as me please you and i have a director because of my vermont and hope all is the seed and i didn't have problem in my country. but, but i want to say, i read on for you re, i, i want to please somebody still pollution. the price is a one way flights from russia has been skyrocketing since bought in speech. and

they're still selling out fast. russia says it plans to mobilize 300000 reservists . i asked xander, pa going at the german council on foreign relations. what effect that's likely to have moscow's foreign campaign? it will very much like not turn the time because there's number of 300000 is exactly rated. russia will probably not be able to pull these tubes together. they will be poorly and maybe even not at all the train. plus they will have a low moral. however, this does not mean that they couldn't be a valuable asset when it comes to secure in the occupied territories in ukraine against the ukraine offensive. so it's not turning to type, but it will much, much like the have some kind of employ. ukrainian, president lot of mr. lensky is appealed to the un general assembly to punish russia by removing its security council. vito in about anticipated video address, he laid out his conditions for peace. they include

a special tribunal to hold moscow accountable and compensation fund. soleski says the kremlin should pay for this war with its own assets. ukraine was create the 2nd day of the united nations general assembly, a conference dominated by challenges and crises, global food shortages, soaring energy prices, the dangers of climate change, all overshadowed by the war in ukraine. in a video address, the president vladimir lensky laid out what he called, the ukrainian peace formula, greedy, 5 non negotiable conditions, to end the conflict. and he needed for all 5 items of our formula, punishment for aggression, protection of life. restoration of security and territorial integrity, security guarantees and determination to defend. while south, i rule out that the settle man can happen on a different basis than they graham beast,

formal. but as ukraine outlined conditions for peace as the russia prepared for escalation, in his own pre recorded address to the nation, russian president vladimir putin made veiled threats to defend russia using nuclear weapons. u. s. president joe biden condemned putin's threats as reckless and called on world leaders to stand against russia and uphold the principles of the united nations because of nations can pursue their pearl ambitions without consequences. now we put at risk. everything is very institution stands for everything. but the sprite widespread condemnation in the general assembly, there's little that you and can do in practical terms. off of this as one of 5 permanent members of the security council, russia holds the power to veto any binding resolutions and millions of ukrainians

to flee their home. the european union is preparing you economic sanctions in response to russia, calling up reservists and announcing referendums in 4 occupied ukrainian regions. e u foreign affairs chief, joseph flores says the latest sanctions target individuals and certain sectors of the economy. they'd make up the 8th package of sanctions against russia. braille was speaking in new york, after meeting of the you, foreign ministers on the side lines of the un general assembly of business anchors . stephen beardsley spoke to or lake, or stank, or economic adviser to ukrainian president florida lensky, and asked him if putin's escalation will sharpen. e, you resolve? what we would expect after those staffs wish around that they can buy more scared? quite recently we are expecting more sanctions and more precisely to tell about samson. so i would say that we are expecting sanctions, which really, really hit russia in terms of their financial revenues. what happens?

we have 2 stops and then blighty money to leave the mirror put in. and his regime reach means for me that we have to stop everything in relate that to trade in russia in terms of energy. so energy sanctions, this is what is desirable and what we would love to see in beckett's number 8, this is really needed a brief look at other stories making headlines. a powerful earthquake is strong waste in mexico. tremor has been blamed for at least 2 days. new mexico city officials, a minor damage and land slides have been reported in the state of utah. a con you went back to court in cambodia has up held a genocide, conviction against the law surviving leader of the command rouge in 2018 q. someone was jailed for life on charges of genocide against ethnic minority vietnamese. about 2000000 people were killed during the command rouge's rule from 975 to 79.

most of the $230.00 pilot whales beached on the west coast of tasmania in australia . now did locals trying to help the animals before rescue team arrived, pulse of wales occasionally lose their bearings and beach in large numbers. the german parliament has begun investigating the bunched evacuation of troops from afghanistan last year. the committee is focusing on the many afghan helpers left behind during the chaotic withdrawal, putting them at risk of being targeted by the taliban. these images from afghanistan shot the world. afghans fleeing the country after us, german and allied troops withdrew, ending a 20 year mission. western backed afghan forces crumbled, and the taliban quickly regained power. to taliban were very strategic and they em . i think sometimes i had the impression they were already 3 steps ahead of our

a strategy and our negotiations. germany like other countries faced intense criticism over the long wars outcome. berlin is accused of having misjudged the security situation in the country. the failures and their consequences now a subject of a german parliamentary investigation. so i think this will be quite a sensitive issue and, and with very sensitive discussions. so they, i think am yes, maybe we need some clarity about what went wrong in the end. during the evacuation . critics say german organizations have abandoned many local staff members and their families, leaving them at risk from the taliban. more than $6000.00 afghans are still waiting to be evacuated to germany, a political corresponded. nina hossa has been following this story. nina, what exactly is the scope of this inquiry? well, the job of this commission is to assess what exactly went wrong,

but not just during that chaotic phase of the evacuation, but also what happened in the months before that who took the wrong decisions, when especially within the government that was in charge them, but also looking at why federal agencies got it so wrong. so this commission is going to look at the events between february 2020 and september 2021. so from when the circle doha agreement was signed between then us president on trump and representatives of the taliban. that was, of course, the starting point for the withdrawal of us troops and hence the withdrawal of its allies like germany, where germany like many others, didn't feel informed properly by the u. s. and then the official end of the military evacuation that was so chaotic in the end and the foreign intelligence service b and d is in special focus here. but that is one of the agencies where lots of misjudgment happened. just one example perhaps on the friday before the taliban conquered cobble. so 2 days before that happened,

germany is foreign intelligence service. the brandy was still saying behind closed doors, that they're not expecting the taliban to take cobble before the 11th of september . so that was of course, crucially wrong. and this commission will then also have to ultimately make recommendations as to which consequences have to follow because some people were in power then are still in charge. now, it sounds like a lot of digging has to be done and a lot of soul searching to when can we expect results? well, this commission is going to work for 2 years and that does seem like a long time. and, but it is important if you want to hold people accountable and if you want to avoid mistakes like that in the future, it does require a lot of work. they'll have to just go through a mountains of paper, work and be very diligent in their work if they want to draw the correct and lessons. if you just take the foreign intelligence service again, the b and d that i've already mentioned,

then now in the middle of transferring all that files to the commission. initially they had only 6 people working on that they've now got about 25. and they say that they can send up to $5000.00 pages per week to that commission. but that is just one of the many agencies and players involved in the decision making. and then and so germany has to assess the afghanistan mission as a whole to and it does have to learn lessons for the future. so it's just going to require a bit of time being asa on parliament investigation into the botched evacuation of germans and afghan helpers from afghanistan last year. iranian se televisions has 17 people have been killed in 6 nights of protests spunk, by the death of a woman arrested by runs morality police must. i mean, he died last week while being detained for allegedly wearing her. he jumped loosely, the protest, so the biggest iran has seen in years defiance against it on leadership,

women burning the headphone. it's different thought identity with martha armine, the young it onion woman who died in the custody of it on morality. police, her alleged crime not to wedding her head scarf properly. anger is white spirit protest, set it up to across it on, and women at the forefront. their demand waiting to hear concealing her job should be a joy, not a law. in it, on all of him, an adequate to cover that hits regardless of did fit here to the hitch about edge bar force has never been effective anywhere in the world and her job should not be a law on a job is a choice. it shouldn't be force what i like to wait. it either might not. a toggle was on martha's

a meaning that has outreach very white. the u. s. president joe biden, in his address to the un general assembly, expressed solidarity a bit that protested and with the brave citizens, the brave women of iran who right now are demonstrated to secure their basic rights it on faith. it is investigating that, that of martha armine and accused the west of hypocrisy. don't we're, i'm going to, does the double standards of some government, these of a human rights as the most important factor and the institutionalization on the violation of your own. right? so then in that we can sand honesty in it on protest. just continue to be there at a point of many been killed because committees also coiling that assistance by blocking the internet, making it harder for people to organize this more i spoke to i live at all in a judge,

a political scientist who focuses on iran and says the protests are about more than that, he jap. i mean, the women have been the 1st victim of this long republic since its inception, because of discriminatory laws against them. and also the obligatory a job as you say correctly there at the forefront of the current demonstrations and protests all over the country, but do not make a mistake here. these protests are far beyond the job issue. now, there are political and, or targeting the political system as a whole. so this is the real story. so it has, you know, this part was certainly related to the job and the legal crackdown against also women. i mean, at least in the case of massa, i mean e, but the protests are much more political than that. and as such, there are similar as you know, like nationwide protests we've seen against the regime know, kicked off by several grievances,

but becoming very political in the last few years. if they're about so much more than that. will the spark lead to a lot more much, much more of a threat at the regime? well, we are seeing, you know, incredible images and voted video footages from iran. there young people, students, women, both male and female. we're taking to the streets with immense rage and courage confronting and even attacking the security forces, including the police and the best seed militia. so this is quite, quite dramatic. so this is quite new, this kind of, for this kind of range and that we're seeing. so, and today of course, you're seeing, you know, the regime a blocking the internet in order to be able to suppress the protests,

even more leisurely and without the international community being able to see them in full. but i hope there are still images going outside and we have to, of course, pay more attention and times on the inside. is there a way it way seeing and hearing about this cracked out? will authority succeed in crushing this movement? well, we know that iran always deployed is heavy force an iron fist against a peaceful protesters and also against acts of civil disobedience. so this is no violence is the main instrument to deal with these protests from these long republics point of view. and we've also seen a brutal, brutal crack down so far with several people be killed and a lot more being injured. and now the nomic revolution guard court has pledged to,

to actually intensify this crime down at times when the internet is down. so a loss. we can expect much more violence from the states side against the protesters. u. s. president joe biden expires to sell the dowdy with the iranian protest is that the un general assembly is there more the international community can do than that? absolutely, and i think that, you know, the focus is more on the european capitals because they don't have this kind of a poison relationship as the united states has with iran. and it would be really a good sign of solidarity also for the peaceful protest for iran, if there were, you know, harsh criticism, voice by european capitals that we don't see so far. unfortunately, i'll, if i thought a new job around expert and political scientists, thank you for your insights. thank you. tennis now and no white joke,

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