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i'm so gale. welcome to the program. we begin with the growing international concern of the escalation of the war in ukraine. in the last hour, the secretary general of the united nations opened a session of the security council in new york by describing the latest developments as dangerous and disturbing pointing to a catalogue of cruelty. antonia good terror said allegations of human rights abuses must be thoroughly investigated. he also criticized the russian leader vladimir putin is veiled threats to use nuclear weapons. ged is, was a bass. i have said from the start as the season sales war has unlimited potential to do terrible harm in ukraine and around the world clear on the floor and bone saw the idea of nuclear conflict. once unthinkable has become a subject to debate. this in itself is totally unacceptable. both all nuclear arms

states should recommend to the non use arms, total elimination of nuclear weapons, even the poor guy receive more dollar us in love. ashanti debris correspondent mckayla cooper at the un in new york. welcome mckayla. let's start with the secretary general's a speech. what did you make of it? well, that was a quite a clear condemnation of rasa once again crossing that red line of making more or less veiled and nuclear threats. that is clearly a threshold that is also is seen the un secretary general to speak about a war against a human rights. also citing the atrocities committed that always stressing that there needs to be a thorough investigation and evidence is being collected as we speak. but at the same time, it is a tell tale sign of increasing isolation of russia at, with the overwhelming majority here, having voted in favor of voting. zalinski,

ukraine's president to be allowed to make a video link message. and that can be seen as a sign of solidarity. in a short while ago we heard you a secretary, said antony, blinking in the un security council that is talking about ukraine at to day or a calling on oh, security council members to take a stance particularly on that nuclear threat. but given rush owes a veto of any un sanction, including those against itself. is there any, what is the point of today's security council meeting? well, let's put it this way. there will not be a resolution because that would be blocked by russia. it will also be nothing like un peacekeepers are being deployed. that would be even a stage further. but what is clearly happening here is that rasa is getting a reality check on where it stands in the world. and we have seen vladimir putin weakened in recent days, also struggling in its sphere of influence along its southern border. and new

conflict is rotting also and as a by john at cost on also less and less feeling tied to russia. so vladimir putin is seeing his authority tested and quite clearly here on the world state and it doesn't get more world stage than the un. patience is wearing thin. also, amongst potential allies, i now say like india and china who do have an interest to have some kind of count a weight against american western dominance in the world. nobody wants war. and that is the one resounding message that russia has to hear here with us. do you to hear from russia's form and celebrate? is also due to speak a very shortly. yes. what while respecting to hear from him organ speculating care whether he will she stay in the room to hear everybody else out and my expectation would be that we will see

a repeat of the claim. that rossa has made that it was itself defending itself against the nuclear threat from the west. that would be my expectation. this is a battle of narratives, but it is safe to say this has been going on for very long time. no matter who you speak to, they won't have any more of it. and frankly, when you speak to countries who have much more immediate threat of climate change of hunger sparked through climate change. but also being exacerbated through that conflict in ukraine, 44 percent of grain alone coming from ukraine and rosa for the african continent. you get the sense that patience is wearing thin, that what is seen as a regional conflict in most areas of the world has such devastating effects elsewhere on many populations, potential destabilizing governments. there. thank you for that. i'm here at cooper in new york. keep your eye on that meeting across a day. and of course you can follow the entire un security council meeting life on

our youtube channel. now you cried in russia, have traded prisoners in the biggest swaps since the start of the war. a russia released more than 200 captives, so many a seen as heroes in ukraine. fighting in the siege of mario po, you cried, set free of $55.00 russians, including of close ally of vladimir putin. o coming after months in captivity worth 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 as of 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 pro

store, he was super important. the emotions are overwhelming. i thank you from all the armed forces and marines that defended as of style. hoping to do the, the shows us good. i'm slow, the as our fighters were brought to turkey instead of ukraine, as part of the deal. ukraine's president laid out the plan to suit the slough, billamore green, 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. levy is the name of budgets. along with the fried russian troops. this man, victor met the check, was also released. the pro kremlin ukrainian politician is a close ally of russia's president vladimir putin. 10 foreigners fried by the

kremlin, were flown to saudi arabia. the king them says it's facilitating their return to their respective countries. we get more or less from d to be correspondent, nick conway and hock if and ne you crime. welcome nick. at this present a swap seemed to spring out of nowhere but was presumably some weeks or even months in the making. what exactly, i think that's the nature of these exchanges. if you don't hear anything before they happen, if they take observers by surprise than they're usually the successful ones. when you start hearing little leaks about negotiations going on. that normally means that one of the sides feels like they are not getting enough out of it. and they often end up not happening, but this is definitely a big coup for volume zalinski, few cranes, president. this isn't a change on a bigger scale than anyone can imagined. and it definitely has left lots people here in ukraine and was in russia asking what's in it for russia, because it definitely seems like that most of ukraine's demands requests have been

met and not a lot coming all the way round. i'm what more can you tell us about the your prisoners who've been released to normal and we have some foreign fighters, some to brits american citizen mothers who were sentenced to death in the so called danielle people's republic. just in the summer there was a lot of publicity about that. lots of claims are from the russian press. from those up to tell there is about, you know, these people being, are not being treated with normal prisoner of war conventions. these being are basically people who've been hired, get hired guns and who would be treated as such. that there was also the commanders of the as of regiment. that everyone will fully remember from marable, from those intense intense weeks of fighting. and when they were trapped in that field, plants are basically under siege for which the time with huge loss of life. and russia had basically announced that there was going to be a show trial and that they most likely would also face than of penalty. and this just hasn't happened for some reason. there's speculation here that the russians

wanted to our basically do a favor to text president edwin who wants to kind of be seen as the big mediator, the big peacemaker. and, but lots of had been scratched asking to why russia has been willing to do this much. it doesn't really seem to add up. if you look at who they got, they got the small number of officers higher ranking soldiers taken prisoner here. and ukraine and victim, and we took this pro russia politician form a politician here and ukraine, who's been incarcerated now for a couple of months. and he's his youngest child has vladimir putin as a godfather, says a personal link there. but it basically was seen as this was someone who was co yesterday's man who didn't have that much influence any more. the idea that you know, his being freed and sent to russia could somehow do much russian cause doesn't really stack up. so lots of questions still open, but a sense here, the ukraine, off the back of this counter offensive and time where, you know it's been pushing russians back quite a speed and gone. a big scale has now got this further,

kind of phillip in this further bit of p, r for ukraine's population, who now obviously of 6 months of war are desperate for good news and now have some pretty unexpected images on their t v new site. and it are ukraine's that recent territorial gains i likely to have strengthened its hands during these negotiations. i don't really think so. maybe the opposite. it feels like he had the mood music between moscow and here is as bad as it's ever been in this war. there's no sense that moscow and key of are going to get together behind the table to negotiate both are still convinced that they can win this on the battlefield am. and yet, the only argument would be that ukraine is picked up even more russian prisons. war of the lots of russian soldiers were left lined by this kind of pretty hectic retreat. so there is definitely more in the way of russian soldiers that ukraine can exchange in the future. i think the, the best explanation i've seen so far from alice is that this is about those mediators, the saudi, her prince and edwin. in turkey,

this was some attempt by the russians to create some good will for things that they want in the future. i thank you. that next date of the correspondence, nick conley, in hoc, if is look at a couple more stores making headlines around the world. european union's foreign policy chief, joseph burrell, has announced that the block will impose an 8th set of sanctions against russia. the decision follows an emergency meeting, a foreign ministers, reacting to the kremlin disorder to mobilize reservists. earthquake has struck western mexico killing at least 2 people near mexico city, official se damage and lance lives have been reported in the state of mitchell. a can you and bout court in cambodia has upheld a genocide conviction against the last surviving leader of the camera room. regime, a cue, some fun was jailed from life over the mass killings and ethnic minority vietnamese . or under 2000000 people were killed during the command lucia's rule in the 1970s

state television says 17 people have been killed during the week of protest. so the death of a woman arrested by iran's morality police, a mazda, a meanie, was held for allegedly, fighting to whether he job properly protest or the biggest iran has seen for years . defiant against it on leadership. them in a burning the head expressing thought identity with martha, a mean the young it on in woman who died in the custody of it on morality. police, her alleged crime not to wedding her headscarf properly. and there is widespread protest that adapting across it on and them in, at, at the forefront their demand waiting to hear concealing his job should be a choice. not a law may need an oil of him in

adequate to cover that hits. they got less of that fit. he had to hitch about edge of our voice has never been a, if any weight and the weight of that. and he job should not be allowed on the bus saying that your job is a choice. it shouldn't be force. what i like to wait it or this might not a my 3rd a meaning that have outreach, right? right. the u. s. president joe biden, and 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 british rights. it on faith. it is investigating that debt of martha meaning and accused the west of hypocrisy. judy around, consider the double standards of some governments. these are human rights as the

most important factor and the institutionalization on the violation of your own right. this is done in sound honest. in it and protested, continue to be arrested. there are reports of many been killed. the government is also coiling that assistance by blocking the internet, making it harder for people to organize protests. let's look at this with another pause and who's a human rights researcher. the university of london are focusing on women's activism in iran. welcome to the w. how dangerous is it for these women to protest? so openly undertake off a headscarf sir as part of his protest. i thank you so much for having me. i would, if i want to answer your question a simple and short way, and the danger is that they will be the next master. i mean, and they will be the next to will be killed to be injured, to the arrest that to be detained at the minimum,

to the identified by the iranian regime to be harassed along with their families to potentially lose their job to get expelled of universities and so on, so the risk is for them to basically lose any privileges that they may have a current circumstances in iran to lose their freedom and to lose their life. and so what is it about this case? this is so and raised women, this is, this is push them to take these risks. i think i met many, i lost the iranian women, millions of us, i would say see ourselves in massa and nasa went through an experience by being stopped by that morality police and being taken to a detention center. and that i would say most iranian women, regardless of their age, i have experienced if they have lived in post revolution in iran. so the trigger

was that, you know, i don't either certain moment in time, you know, the case became public enough. and because we, we, we, we, the family bravely brought us to the hospital room with the photos that they were releasing. and so we where we have family as she was dying, as basically she was dying in the sense that she was killed. i thought i had no can reset and we, during those moments, those hours iranian women and i would say men because a lot of men have also lost many. i have seen there the women in their lives. the related by them are i like the police, the near i'm, we saw ourselves, we saw lots of i cell design. i was being killed and i think that was an important moment. and i think you're then social media and, and internet play that you draw as well as the fact that there are so many other

grievances in the country at the moment that it just sort of data points. it was a trigger pointed menu. it and so someone who was, who was born and raised in iran, you know, you see yourself or you completely empathize. yes, i would say that it's, yes, it's even probably beyond emphasize they, we really see ourselves in mass. i'm not in the run today, but i imagine that all of those women who are, you know, taking this guy branding this guy. some of them are also been sounds voluntarily bailed, but still are in the process because they are objecting to compose a veil for people who don't believe in on. and they they, they think of themselves as master of the next for the previous master. and i also want to say that these protests are not only about their anti compensating,

they are not only about women's rights, are indeed about nations, grievances against a very merry repressive establishment called this long ago. i'm so in the last minute of this interview, is there any chance, do you think that the government will give away either on the issue of vials or indeed any of the other items on your list? absolutely not. the resume has over and over and proven capacity for regression for killing people and for not allowing any grievances to try to see any kind of food taishan. so unfortunately, i don't think that the summit, the public will understand that it has to be flexible and it has to be able to allow justice to prevail and to give their rights in order to survive it. it's ironic lee will try to survive by repressing but in the long run. it's a movement that has started a few years ago,

which i think will will be speech this establishment if they find a way to bow to people as the man. thank you for joining us and i like that. so clearly i wouldn't pause and thank you. so to come here on d w, teresa document a document to art shows it draws to a close after being dogged by accusations of anti semitism has the reputation of the world around estimation, sustained lasting damage. now the 1st of the german parliament has begun its investigation of the bush evacuation of troops from afghanistan last year . it's focusing on mary afghan assistance left behind during the chaotic withdrawal, making them targets for the caliber. these images from afghanistan, shock, 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 for 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 the 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 and yes, maybe we need some clarity about what went wrong in the end. during the evacuation critic, se 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. d w political correspondent dina hasa told us more 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 these commission is going to look at the events between february 2020 and september 2021. so from when they 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's foreign intelligence service, the b, andy 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 who are in power then are still in charge. now, in a hot germany's world round exhibition of contemporary art documentary has this year, been mired in controversy and scandal. organizers are spent the past 3 months defending themselves against accusations of anti semitism and censorship. as the exhibition draws to a close, we take stock and assess the damage done. hello. 2 this year,

instead of inviting establish does the document to wanted to highlight artists from countries without major art markets, all curated by the indonesian art collective rang group up. but those lofty goals were soon overshadowed by a scandal that shook the art world and that the cause for political sanctions classes. classic anti semitism, obvious anti semitism is not what i expected. a banner from the arches collective charging party showing anti semitic stereotypes. jews depicted with the faces of pigs, an orthodox jew wearing nazi symbols. it was quickly covered up then taken down in animals. this can't happen in the country like germany, with its history and the responsibility it bears. it wasn't just the banner. there were other controversial works, including a video installation showing blatantly antisemitic palestinian propaganda films. critics called for the document to remove the work from the exhibition. the ruined

group of collective officially apologized, but insisted they saw the job as networkers and organizers and not as curators or sensors of the artists on display. none of us were clean as a curator if people call us loretta. oh, we don't cook this ice, but we never caught our same face a curative. some have defended the group saying they did what they were invited by the documentary to do show the art world in the group. ne perspective of artists in the global south. ah, actually they showed to everybody a vision of the world from another point of the world in all saw, you know, it is known as though local, myself collective nasa and corporation which is through the controversy probably

helped boost attendance at this year's documentary. and the networking and exchanging castle between the invited artists and collectives worked much as intended. but the scandal may have done lasting damage to the image of germany's largest and most declaimed art show. oh, is reminded our top story at this hour un secretary general has described the latest developers in the war and ukraine as dangerous and disturbing antonia good terrorist told the security council in new york. but talk of a nuclear conflict. he's totally unacceptable. and said that allegations of human rights abuses must be thoroughly investigated and set you up to date. i'll have more world news at the top of the our next here on the w focus on europe. looks at the future of the commonwealth, of good with

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