hey, jackson. it's october 21st on d, w with this is the w news line from berlin, ukrainian troops re take more territory as i advanced towards as a balance against retreating the russian forces. president zalesky says his troops have liberated dozens of towns in the past. week and then are pressing a counter offensive on 2 fronts. east and in the south. also on the program,

who had to go with protests in iran, as women and girls brave a government crackdown to demand an end to oppression. european union considers new sanctions. palestinian refugees in lebanon are few, forced to flee. we talked to one man risking his life to make the journey cheap. europe and the smuggler was helping ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program. ukraine says its forces have retaken towns in the south and east of the country. and regions at vladimir putin declared last week would be russian for ever. ukrainian claims have not been independently verified, but officials in stole by moscow half acknowledge setbacks in the house on region. ukrainian forces are also advancing in the east after capturing

a key town in the north of dynette region. credit present volume is lansky has signed. the decrease declaring talks with russia impossible with vladimir putin as president. a social media video shows the ukrainian flag flying in the northern clark, if region and ukraine's army released this video of its flag flying. and carson in the south. we keep counter offensive continues to push forward. doing well today, the offensive movement of our army and all our defenders, continued unity. there are new liberated settlements and several regions to my fierce fighting continues in many areas of the front jungle. but beyond the victory, the cost of war emerges. here and the man we captured by ukraine at the weekend bodies of russian fighters lined the streets. ukrainian soldiers must also collect

the bodies of their own. is out of the we fight for our land for our children, so that people can live better. but all this comes to very high price. residents like 85 year old valentina, struggle to make due with what little they have left. the russians may have been forced out, but daily life here remains grueling. which them already fed up with. everything is for peace tranquillity, and for our children and families to be a life and healthy with a family home in towns lately, man, things are far from normal. but there are moments to pause and reflect on what the success means for their future. mike martin is a war studies fellow, what kings college london, i asked him how big

a sat back these latest ukrainian advances are for russia are these are very significant and so on in the south. the cleanings have been preparing this advance for several months now and, and it's a strategically important city on the right bank of good in the pro and up in the northeast. the ukrainians have cut through several russian supply lines and which enable them to take the man as you said, new instruction. but there's actually a couple of other towns that hopefully they'll take in the next couple of weeks. so these are quite significant advances by the ukrainians. very similar to the significance of what we saw in september when they took is you i and these advances in 2 areas at the same time, seems to have taken the russia completely by surprise. yes, i mean it shouldn't have taken them by surprise because the ukrainians have been telling the russians that they were going to attack in the south for several months

. but the problem is, what we're seeing now really is the problem that russia has had throughout the war, which is they've never had enough troops. they invaded with the 150000 you'd probably need about a 1000000 to invade ukraine properly. so when the ukrainians attack on 2 fronts, it stretches the russians very thin and gives the ukrainians much more options than it gives the russians. so winter is coming, and russia has announced this partial mobilization. how important is it for ukraine to gain territory before those take your fact? i don't think the partial mobilization is actually very important either the russians can rush the troops since you can quickly in which case they will be cannon fodder or it can take 6 months to train them properly. but that will be decided by that point. i think winter it is, is very important because warfare slows down, the claims will want to get to a point where they can have proper defensive lines. the other thing was, i think you mentioned in your introduction, rushes just had these 4 referendums in these different regions declaring as regions

to be russian. and they've now been annexed by russia. ukraine is doing by re taking this territory, which is in those full regions, is on the scoring. how ridiculous those referendums were. you mentioned in your, in your answers. now that there's no waiting for these, these russian troops to be mobilized. because that will be decided. that's in the next few months you believe that these advances are back to decide soon. i think the war is definitely going to be finished by this time next year. and the question is exactly where the ukrainians get to before the winter. as you said, things are going to slow down, but the likelihood is that the ukrainians will take the russians out of class on the whole of that bank, the deeper river. and they will have made significant sponsors into the east into the dumbass. i think crimea,

which is really the most important place for the russians, will probably have to be settled next year in the spring offensive math in that war, studies for at kings college london. we'll take a look now at some of the stores making news around the world. start it with indonesia were present. joker, widows visited. the city of milan, decisive last weekend, deadly stampeded a football match. he met with victims relatives and promised to find what he called the root cause of the disaster that left at least 131 people get south korea. i'm united states have conducted miss out drills in the sea of japan hours after north korea launched a nuclear capable missile over japan. washington condemned john young's actions as reckless residence of japan's northeastern regions were ordered to take shelter. as the miss out flew over the country, tech millionaire ellen mosquito, to go ahead with his plan to buy twitter after the company took him to court to

force him to go through with the 44000000000 dollar deal that he tried to back out of the lease agreement with the world's richest person in charge of the highly influential social media plus iran's president abraham races called for national unity in the face of ongoing anti government protests. he played the unrest on the us and israel, echoing comments by iran supreme leader anti government demonstrations continue to spread to universities in high schools across the country. and began after the death of 22 year old master and baby on her address for allegedly violating leads. and i'm in the public strict dress code. meanwhile, people here in europe are also taking to the streets to show support. ah, europeans have come out and solidarity for women leading the fight for justice in iran. here in paris over the we can thousands rally to support iranians facing

a brutal regime at home. european parliament president met solar echoed their message, paying tribute to women who give everything in their fight. we are with you, ma sammy and you will be remembered just like how dis me knew as i left hun on f. i a death masa, naca and many, many others for women, for life, for liberty across party lines. european lawmakers are showing their support almost with us. it's totally unacceptable and 21st century look said that to one woman can be killed for the fan that they'd our rights solidarity matters, but words won't be enough, says the peas guest of honor, french, iranian sociology. professor, as at a kion, i think that you, that you should take really measures a to show that you any and regime that's a democratic societies and democratic regimes are supporting the plight of iranian

peeper for democracy. and for freedom. the european union's top diplomat, joseph barrell said that you will continue to consider all the options at its disposal ahead of his speech. some member states have been more precise. embassy e o countries are preparing action against terror. germany, france, and others have submitted proposals for e o, sanctions against members of the iranian regime. this includes travel bands and acid phrases. the iranian government has silenced protests before an external actions have done little to stop. this swedish m e p. ali spark hunker says the, you should not repeat past mistakes when ramping up pressure on iran. the most important thing is that we are very ala was that the sanctions at risk to make, they ran and people suffer even more. so we need to make sure that the section in the 2 books are pointed at their regime at the people responsible for the violence,

the killing at the moral police. and at those people, high impala, we need sanctions are for the member states to the side. but the majority and parliament seemed determined to send a strong signal to help make this happen. like a hundreds of thousands of palestinian refugees have fled to lebanon over decades because of military conflict in neighboring countries, like syria. according to the un that are almost 480000 registered palestinian refugees in lebanon, almost half of them at live in refugee camps where conditions are said to be dire. because of over crowding, and poverty, palestinians in lebanon are regarded as stateless and don't have the same rights as other foreign nationals. meaning they're barred from working in a number of professions and aren't allowed to own property. with countries, economic crisis is not forcing many refugees to try and leave the debris report.

mohammed, traitor, reports now on one man's desperate struggle to reach europe. fever. he sparked his bag and is ready to go to la la rob a boy. he is a young palestinian refugee who was born and raised in the banana. oh, despite the risks of wylie, who doesn't want to be identified, has booked a space on the next boat that will attempt to illegally sale to europe. but but a failure i must leave, i am forced to i have no other choice even if they give me an inflatable tire to sail anywhere cypress, or turkey or italy, i had no problem to take it. i just want to leave, i'm desperate. i love him. as a lebanon's, acute economic crisis is forcing many people here to try to get out. according to the u. n. more than 3 quarters of people living in the country are set to be in poverty. unemployment is rising, and public services are in a critical state. with

a country regularly plunged into darkness due to the electricity blackouts as well, we do not have access to basic things like water and electricity, let alone the high price of bread. i used to buy bread for 1500. now it costs $25000.00 during the day. i'm up to 75000 at night. how can i survive? i barely make $300000.00 per day. life has become so hot here. most of the palestinians in the ban on live inside close knit refugee camps inaccessible to the lebanese authorities. it is often a shelter for alcohols and a safe haven for human traffickers who organize illegal bought trips to europe. to smuggler organizing of wireless trip refused to meet us in person, but we convinced him to speak to us over the phone. hello. hello. hello, hello, i am a smuggler, and i arranged my graham day trips from lebanon. i mainly sent families and i

charge $7000.00 per person. every person signs a release form, so i'm not responsible for any one, even if the boat sank is not my responsibility. it's absolutely not a crime. i'm helping people find a way out of lebanon, who can bear to live here. there's nothing left in lebanon. there's been a huge increase in trip. cecia. people know all to well the terrible risks involved in trying to get to you. but almost every day, both carrying migrants are illegally setting, save from lebanon, migrants are risking potential death if they leave, but says a body, if they stay, it will lead to certain that and since your updates get hot, alpha will have more well news at the top of the hour before we go to la has created a new national park to protect thousands of flowers in the, at the common desert. it's a dressed, sunniest as it in the world. every few years it comes to life have

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