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into tap on your smartphone, smartphone users number children by 20 to imagine the impact you and your friends can have together we can end global hunger. please download the app. ah, this is dw news live from berlin. russians destined for the front in ukraine as reservists are publicly called up to fight in the war. activists say, the mobilization is far more sweeping than the kremlin is letting on, while ethnic minorities are being drafted in disproportionate numbers.
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and iranian authorities cracked down after 8 nights of unrest, sparked by the death of a young woman in police. custody gunfire is heard in the street in video, shared online deaths and hundreds of arrest are reported as a ron's president vows to deal decisively with demonstrators. ah and a warm welcome to our viewers around the world are michael ok. as hundreds of thousands of russians are called up to fight in ukraine, some men of military age are fleeing the country to avoid conscription. others have taken to the streets in rare demonstrations of resistance to the kremlin war in ukraine. the mobilization announced by president vladimir putin earlier this week
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has also led to accusations of discrimination by russia's ethnic minorities. they say they are being conscripted at disproportionate rates. ah, a few quick selfies and kisses. good bye. on a moss ghost reach. as this young man heads off to a military training site, he's among thousands being called up to serve in russia's war with ukraine, his wife friends over for one final hug before he boards the bus. i'm going to defend my country. that's it. how's my mood? it's excellent. what can you do out? of course, i'm very worried, but i support my husband's decision 20th russian authorities claim more than $10000.00 volunteers turned up at military enlistment offices across the country after vladimir putin issued the order to mobilize reservists this week. while some head off to fight others are fleeing the country.
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soaring prices for plane tickets, mean land crossings like this when on the border with georgia, are jammed with traffic. they travel by car on bicycles and even on foot to get out . georgia is one of a handful of countries which allows russians to enter without fees us will doing your right. you'll matters not that we're afraid. near the matter is that we don't like the situation. i do not like what they're doing and ukraine isn't. i feel sorry for our brothers. yeah, but i, i have many relatives in ukraine and i don't like this at all. ah, the order has led to several protests across russia. hundreds of arrests and accusations of discrimination in bery yatta, a mountainous republic and eastern siberia. some 6000 kilometers from moscow activist say the kremlin is placing the burden of the mobilization and the war
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itself on poor ethnic minority regions. i said this is julia, full scale mobilization is going on. it's in no way the partial mobilization that vladimir putin announced earlier on the shore. and we also think that it's a question of empire peyton, many times has positioned himself as an imperialist. everyone knows how empires treat their ethnic minorities like something that can be used in sports. some men in the region have reportedly gone into hiding. others have responded to the mobilization order by crossing into neighboring mongolia, but speak now with russia. analysts, konstantin edgar, who joins us now from the lithuanian capital, vilnius constantine, apparently the so called partial mobilization vladimir putin called for is in partial everywhere. but what more do you know about who and how many or actually
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being conscripted to fight in ukraine? well michael, it is partial probably with regard to the same bureaucracy which to logic sent from sudden level being exempted from from this mobilization ah, banking sector employees. because peter wants the financial system to work ah, over they claim the, the, the authority's claim that i t sex, people will also be exempted a box. there are many reports of people with i t sort of a specialization being drafted or rather being pulled up. it is of, i would say very traditional russian chaos because put in the system is a very much builds on a, basically bureaucrats ah, over ensuring themselves. and that's why the image of people pretty much everyone probably apart from these people i mentioned being are called up in shops on the
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streets. ah, that is something that is really happening. this system is trying to ensure that the 300000 people that put in order to be our cold up will be called up no matter what you know up until now we haven't seen much if anything that suggests there's a robust opposition in russia to the war in ukraine, is the conscription likely to change that over time? i think not so much the conscription michael lux, ah, oh, the cause of, of the, the, the, the, the, the prosecution of war. and before that, frankly speaking, it was, or on television for the majority of russians. now with so many people going to the front, ah, or you will start saying, well, kind of real deaths in the real coffins coming back home. that maybe let me be very close about it, maybe over time, will eventually change russians indifference to this war into something else,
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but do not wait for very quick fix. it will take time for the russian side to, to realize what is really how to me that is a russia analyst konstantin, angered as a ways many thanks. thank you. he is a look at a few other stories making headlines at this hour. china has accused of the us of sending, quote dangerous signals on taiwan. beijing issued the statement after a meeting between foreign minister y e and u. s. secretary of state antony blinking in new york. it comes after us president joe biden said american troops would defend taiwan if it were attacked by china. hurricane fiona has made landfall in the eastern canadian province of nova scotia, bringing heavy rainfall in windsor, nearly 150 kilometers per hour. fiona earlier battery, bermuda, and several caribbean islands killing at least 8 people. the storm is expected to be one of canada's most severe on record. protesters have been marching through the
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streets of nairobi as part of a global climate strike. to highlight the effects of global warming in new york martyrs called for more action on climate. while in berlin, demonstrators called on the german government to establish a fun to fight climate, change. the bodies of some of the migrants who died when their boat sank off the coast of syria had been returned to lebanon. syrian authorities say at least $86.00 people drowned, including many children, but the toll could be higher as volunteers are still recovering more bodies on the syrian coast. well, iran president has said the country must deal decisively with protesters after 8 nights ago. rest, iran, security forces are cracking down on the demonstrations which erupt last week after the death of a young woman in police custody. stake controlled media says at least 35 people
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have been killed with activists putting the number even higher. over 700 people have reportedly been arrested as the protest have spread across the country. hunger among iranian women, still raging. ah, they're burning their head scarves and defines that is unprecedented in this law, mich republic. it began with the custodial death of mos armine, a 22 year old, goodish woman arrested by her on so called morality police dozens are believed to have been killed in the unrest. i brought us have spread to cities around the world . i see you're in brussels. iranian women are calling for change in their home country. now they view men of your on they are not
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victim under industry to say me, never been victim. they try to make us as a victim. they try to control our body as an object of sex. they try to control or sexuality or bodies for dare, ideology for a jack to your critique regime me are to say the are against kill critique regime. need john 20 of thrashing me, want to overthrow decision masses become a symbol of the oppression that women have been facing in iran for 43 years. it's different this time because the countries united and they're all saying together, no more islamic republic of iran. it's this law make a republic versus iran and we're here to support them to do everything we can to be there. megaphone to be their echo chamber. back in there on the regime is organizing its own demonstrations overall to protesters and rioters that took to the streets are not ordinary people. they are trained groups that have entered our
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country to destroy the ruling system. okay, we definitely won't allow this to happen. and it is an outline working with a realtor, but there are few that the states response could go beyond counter protest. her aunt, she justice, call for security forces to respond to any further anti government protests with force. i'm joined now by cba shockey, german iranian authors journalist in filmmaker cba shockey, welcome. i'm curious despite internet restrictions, have you been able to reach your connections in iran and if so, what are they telling you about the climate there right now? well, it's of course very difficult always to reach people in iran, not just because of technical problems and challenges, but also because you never know who's listening while we're talking or writing. so we have to be very careful and i'm to every time i see these pictures
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and really move their story and because the messages i get from iran are very, very, very sad because of what we just heard here as well. the country is more united people are more united then before, maybe ever before in the last 43 years since this revolution started. but are still too many people who are too dependent on the government. and these people will do anything they can to prevent this government to be public or to thrown out or to the exchange. and then there is the 2nd. there is 2nd very, very important issue. a challenge at which is we don't have an organized real alternative. and we still have the trauma from 43
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years ago where more or less the same thing happen. the shop was thrown out of the country, but we didn't have a real alternative. and everybody gathered behind on a knee thinking and saying naively saying, well let's get rid of the shot, let him come. and then we will look for some one and then we will organize a force party and so force. let me ask you this a again, protesters have repeatedly been burning their. he jobs in the streets. that's powerful symbolism from iranian women. yes, absolutely. they are risking their lives despite the fact that so many women have been tortured, rate killed, imprisoned, and chased away out of the country, lost their huge chairs. these young women who were born after the
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revolution has started 40 years ago. these women are 203035 years old, and they are so courageous. i'm so touched by their, by their power and by their courage because anything can happen to them. ok, that is of author and filmmaker cba shock keyboard. many, many thanks. thank you. little change of pace. now to some football news in the nation's lee, germany surprisingly lost at home to hungry. the wind for the visitors means they need only draw with italy in their final game to win the group. an early goal from adam savoy was the difference between the 2 sides and seas. germany lose. for the 1st time since coach hahn's the flip took over 14 games ago. italy beat england in
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the groups other game, meaning germany, slip to 3rd in the table. they play last placed england on monday. that's your news. round up, up next, our documentary series doctrine on how science is playing and increasingly crucial, role in efforts to solve crime that again, after the break, remember you can get all the news around the clock and our website, d, w dot com and follow us on social media our handle is at d. w. news on michael. ok for me in the rest of the berlin team. many thanks for watching. ah ah, ah, the green you feel worried about the planet? i'm the old hosting of the on the green fence podcast and to me it's clear we.
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