ah ah letter, we are prudent, probably imagine the stage a go a lot different. while he was busy signing into law, the illegal annexation of 4 ukrainian territories. it was exactly there that keys troops pushed into areas that had been beyond their reach since the beginning of the war is not entirely clear where russia things it's illegitimately enlarged territory now starts and ukraine ends, but the kremlin keeps the door open for further land grabs a vague announcement that god a clear response. ukraine calls it the act of a collective mad house and keys allies slapped russia with fresh, fresh round of sanctions on the call for life in berlin. and this is the day. ah,

we will. we though ukrainian friends, however long it takes today, i am proud to announce a new security assistance package. and now it's the time to keep track to help the ukrainians to face down the invader to provide ukraine with more weapons, ammunition, and equipment that it forces are using so effectively on the battlefield. this is a moment to stay the course and to signal again to our ukrainian fence. we stayed by your side as long as it takes you crane can. when you crane must win. a new crane will way also on the day beaten, abducted killed women and girls in iran refused to be silenced by authorities violently cracking down on their protest movement. garnering respect and solidarity

around the world, the hands of the redeem of the more last in iran, is stained with blood. neither history, no a law or god almighty will forgive you for the crimes against humanity that you are committing against your all citizens. ah. they will be with russia for ever said kremlin spokesperson. dmitri pess coughed a day as lottery boot and signed into law his illegal annexation of parts of ukraine. roughly the size of portugal, the ukrainian president begs to differ. his forces continued to liberate settlements and formerly occupied areas, pushing russian troops into a hasty retreat on the day put and tried to change the facts on paper. keith changed them on the ground, claiming major breakthroughs in 2 of the annex territories. her son and the south and lou husk in the east view,

the ukrainian flag going up again in a recaptured village in the hockey region. risky for just one of many places back under ukrainian control. as a result of recent advances, the blue and yellow flag is also back flying overhead. here in the strategic eastern city of lemon as locals q for aid ukrainian troops retook the key hub in the dynette screeching over the weekend. just hours after rushes, president putin announced the illegal annexation of the whole region. signs of the fierce battle fought here recently, as well as the months of russian occupation are everywhere. with russian troops forced to retreat here and across the south and east. and with a chaotic military mobilization sparking widespread criticism, putin said that changes will be made to the conscription rules for students villa.

but despite all the recent setbacks, moscow hasn't lost its power to strike far beyond the front lines. as residents of this city, just 85 kilometers south of keith were reminded on wednesday. do you prefer work up to a buzzing sound? i woke up, but i heard that sounds getting closer and closer. one of sibley went somewhere near my house. it exploded. according to officials, at least 6 so called kamikaze drones struck buildings, including an army base in the area, injuring one person. while moscow has ramped up its use of suicide, drones, which keep claims or iranian made since september wednesdays attack was the closest they've come to the ukrainian capital light of the most recent developments, the european union has agreed to impose new sanctions on russia. these will include

a cap on the price of russian oil exports. the security threat from russia is also on the table at a meeting of members of the european parliament in strasbourg. the u commission president has told emmy peas, that member states need to step up the security of their energy infrastructure was enough on the line also said that you is now ready to discuss of price cap on gas as prices sore. and winter approaches. all of our correspondent mac santa followed the session and the european parliament today and send us his assessment the european parliament this time around has not adopted a final position on russia's aggression against ukraine yet. but from following the debates of the plenary, it seems evident that across political groups and across party lines, there is an understanding that russians claims to ukraine are illegal. they are null and voided. they don't change any facts on the ground. they're having some very strong statements by me piece some took to the stage, took to the podium to call russia a terrorist state. now the common understanding seems to be that sanctions are

needed. some political groups have been asking for more. in addition to that, the conservative block, for example, has been calling for weapons deliveries from countries like germany and france to st tanks to ukraine. the left, on the other hand, has been asking to reopen diplomatic channels in addition to sections. but bottom line here is that the european parliament and the you say that russia's claims to ukraine, this annexation is illegal and should not be tolerated. oh, moving on to iran, where there has been no let up in the anti government protests that have been sweeping the country. the death of 22 year old, martha armine after being arrested by the morality police has sparked the biggest public challenge to iran's clerical leaders. and over a decade, dozens of protesters have been killed by security forces, all for demanding. basic rights are defiance and the face of the brutal crackdown

is being met with solidarity around the world. power o d. c university. students in it on are chanting women life and freedom. it's a slow context touching the hearts of many white, including members of the european parliament. the hands of the redeem of them were lost in iran, is stained with blood. neither history, not a law or god almighty will forgive you for the crimes against humanity that you are committing against your own citizens. until the women of your on off we, we are going to stand with you. d n g m as id. when them lies, freedom, friends, 3rd flag to get their nash adults extending their support with this symbolic act. oh you dont the clerical leadership see its western enemies are behind the and d government demonstrations. these people have taken to the streets to support it

on supremely dead, ayatollah hominy. and the countries strict dress court. oh, he job was the excuse of our enemies to destroy our unity. the u. s. and e. aesrael are the root of all this unrest, just because they cannot fight us. they are trying to attack us by creating internal problems. but the anti government buddhists eat on show no sign of lifting up full weeks on this lee to speak. you posted online, appears to show female students heckling a member to feed on spastic force. that much fear it, but a military organization is blamed for the violent crack down on the demonstrations . the death of my son meaning has clearly exposed the fort lines that exist if law me, country, and that on to willingness to brutally crush any opposition that challenges. it's

bubble that's bringing as it a prison. she's a human rights researcher and writer focused on iran miss for is unwelcome to the day and you have extensively studied women's rights movements in iran in that context. where do you place the current protests? yes, thank you. i think that is women's rights movement. iran that is and basically it's over a 100 years old. so it's that i see those months that we see today at the streets, the protest as a continuation of many years of resistance and struggling against the discriminatory policies of the public. but also a continuation of the protest movements against the government, a violation of multiplicity of rights. and you see in terms of protests in 2017, 2080, in terms of women's participation. you see women in many protests,

the contemporary iran and the quite actively so, but i think it's being so gender and women's rights not, not only being about women's rights, but being so intertwined with the political and a grievance for political demands. the entire nation is unique. so for example, in their revolution, women were present industry that they rebels in the 1979. but many said that there are no such gender demands from that previous, previous a government. would you say that women taking the lead in this protest movement is a sign of a greater shift in iranian society? i think that women taking the lead in that process is a sign up iran that iranian peoples maturity. so women and iranian people that reach the point that they do not think that freedom is attainable

without women's rights and women feeling the 5 in iran. and that the women's rights is not attainable under the current regime under this law group. so there for women's rights and freedom and along with a series of other rights. so she can only can civil political rights have come together on this street with women at the center of it. demanding for essentially what i think is a better future and more dignified future. and also i like to hear the role of the use alongside it is very dangerous for those participating in the protest to publicly talk about their part in the movement and the repression they've suffered at the hands of the authorities. you're in portugal, but i bet you're in touch with a lot of people back home. would you mind telling us what you're hearing from friends and activists in or on?

yes. what i am mostly in law is that the ordinary people who. 6 before and for example, on my social media, i've never seen them putting anything political remotely political you know, even posting, for example, like a letter that they have received from the court to attend as a result of having it. and that the protest are they bluntly, you know, posting anti government slogans and, and so on whenever they have access to the very limited internet accident particular in a very difficult situation. because the iranian regime is not only addressing people who are in the streets, they're actually going after people that they consider maybe when so in the expansion of these programs, whether they're journalist authors activities and so on and they arrest them from home. so for example, i know a few activists personally who are currently in jail and nobody knows of their

exact whereabouts. this is currently a leader list movement is that an advantage or disadvantage? i will say it's yet to be seen, but it has its pros and cons. what i think is, is as so and so hopeful about this movement is that it's so grass, so ok, so organic, and i think that's what makes it a very powerful, very collective in a way, in terms of it's not having to leave. my worry is because of that very systematic and systemic repression and the violence against the people against the use of lethal or even if there was a leader, maybe there could be more strategy on what's next. but at the same time, i feel that we have to trust those incredible young leaders on the ground

and just trust that they are be very strategic about what they're doing and that they know what their next move will be. and to honor and respect to whatever it is that they will do next, for example, that they can to put that on to strikes. i think there's a lot of wisdom behind that, and that's leadership just may not be individual based leadership. it's more like a collective grass level it how important is it for this grass roots movement that it be covered by the media around the world? i think it's critical is absolutely critical because my, the way i talk about it is that why is this a good public shutting down the internet restricting the internet so seriously? and so the, the early, every time there is a protest in recent years in iraq because they don't want the world to know because they want to be able to kill people without the world knowing about it. and so they

don't want the world to watch and when the world watches, i think it does in the long run, give some level of protection today individuals, why raising their lives some, i mean at least that there is a little bit of a fear that some of the you know, that the, what they're doing will have consequences. but also, you know, iranian women use and the right people really want to be hired by the world because they, they don't think that they're going to ever be hurt by their own them. and so the world here, perhaps places like that un and other my life organization. countries like germany, good things more seriously about holding this law, make republic syria accountable for human rights researcher as a present on the protest in iran. thanks a lot. thank you. ah,

toughness and now we're women. 2 are refusing to be silence despite mounting repression and violence from the rolling taliban since the militants return to power. they have turned afghanistan into the world's only country where girls are forbidden from attending secondary school, solely because they are girls. but even studying where it's allowed is dangerous for a young women last week, a private education center and cobble was blown up by a suicide bomber. nobody has claimed the attack that according to the un left over 50 people dead. most of them girls and women of the has are a minority. the women who took to the streets over the bombing demanding security, freedom and equal rights faced yet more violence. dozens of young women standing up for their roy to be better protected and to have an education taliban officials real sticks to break up the crowd than gum fires heard and the women scramble in panic.

the protests were in response to a bomb attack on a private education center. in kabul, a suicide bomber blew himself up in the women's section of agenda. segregated hall was students were preparing for university entrance exams. most of the victims were girls and young women who belong to the minority has ara community 19 year old. why here was in the classroom when the attack happened. 2 of her friends and the teacher were killed. she managed to escape. she says she won't be intimidated. mortalities because that the only thing we have is education. education is our weapon and they want to take this weapon from us. i am, i want to study law and management and diplomacy because i want to be an influential politician buddy. that's it was like why?

yeah. oh melbourne. in also had big ambitions now have photos in her school books. all her family have left of her. i shall can get my daughter used to joke with me and say, and i will study until one day i become president or a lawyer and serve the people of afghanistan. let their phone but she was martyred . you're done with his napkin. oh my, the nene was one of the young women killed in the attack. her family pray at her grave. and her sister vows that she won't give up. will cunning of really worried? it is hard for us. all the schools are closed for girls either that or by she. how did i see that this is very painful, but we will continue with the lessons and we will never give up or stop and on test limb, we didn't, i don't bellanca up or even brutal attacks like this one haven't crushed the resolve of young african women to keep up their fight for an education. let's

keep talking about these brave young women and bring and see my mom. she's a veteran human rights activist. she served as the minister of women's affairs in afghanistan after the overthrow of the taliban. she's also headed the independent afghanistan human rights commission. welcome miss. the more it's a pleasure. and let's start by talking about that a tac last week. it was the bloodiest since the taliban take over last year. what's your reaction as an advocate for women's rights and a member of the as our community will i think it's still for genocide. it's not the new one. it's not the only one. i just thought it would be the last one. but if you see that it was last year's such a big explosion in front of the school, then some of the girls who survived survived that back in 2021. they would kill them this one. this shows how bernard are these people are and then 1st,

because this is the 2nd one because of their birth. and because they're getting education can you imagine and any people should be punished because they're getting education. and unfortunately, as you said, the son is the only country that the officially could been on guards education from 7 to 12 grade, the telephone trying to violently crush the protests that followed the attack. but the women don't seem to be deterred. where does that fearlessness come from? well, i think that if you see, after the government collapse last year, that all you people who are on the street were dormant, i mean, they were small number. but it shows that the they want to resist and they went pretty them and they won't work. and they want their rights to nice. and, and so this time with the,

the killing of these goods and not so much going on in the region. and the protest scenario, and actually we keep saying that maybe they are inspired by asking price by them. and there's no doubt that they have an impact on each other. and that it shows that the people are really in woman particularly oh, really tired of erasing from the public life. and the, from the life that they have is, is this a sign you think that despite all their efforts that holl bond won't be able to undo all the advancements of the past 20 years in afghanistan. but i think they tried everything and they tried to silence woman, but the, i believe that we of course to the complaint and say that we have lost a lot everything almost what we achieved in the last 20 years. but i think this is the sign that they cannot. 5 take the knowledge from that and they cannot really

impose the restriction on freedoms and rights of the people who would put had it with terrorizing people. and that is a good sign. that is a hope for the future of the country. and i think it's the, i feel i salute that my sister is in and it's on and also in that on who really take the risk and coming out for, for human rights and for quality in for freedom in our region. you now live in the united states. how are you keeping up the fight for, for women's rights in your home country? well i think i believe that if we need to continue and continue this struggle i, this is not 1st time that i become re for g. i was referred you for 17 years and pakistan and i continued to help on education and health or whatever. i could give them knowledge and i believe that not giving knowledge is the most strongest tool

to fight for inequality and fight for rights and for either men or any country, including in my country. so i think i lobby at least, but i really feel vulnerable that i'm not in the country and i'm outside of the country. i feel the pain. i feel that the situation that my people are in. and i think that the international community silence, or only condemnation is not enough and make me like whatever is going on and i understand it has an impact on the other word and we are on. it is the case and a father, son is a collective failure. then we have to stand for this. because if we are not free enough on a son, i don't know how that people would think that they are free. it is an act against human dignity. what would you like for the international community to do to elevate the voices of african women and girls?

i think they have it. first of all, they have to really stand with the people and not only the woman in the front, but also the minorities who are under attack and particularly the has on it. it's not new, they have done it in the 1st government and, and continue to to be their case for more than 100 years. and i found the added issue. i think i called on the community that to promote accountability and justice for all of these international crimes committed enough on his, on his top the cultural community. because if he stole the culture in penalty enough on his and i think the other part of the world will benefit from this justice because in justice and honest. and i think his injustice there really. so if you were doing promoting accountability, justice and in war, president crimes against my niecy enough on, i think it would have been much better word today rather than just doing and

watching. and i think the international community can put pressure on, on being engaged with them and then put pressure on them on issues of human rights . we cannot really negotiate with probably one on issues of human rights and protection of the rights of some people in minorities in the country fema summer. she's a former minister of women's affairs in afghanistan. thank you so much for your time tonight and all those insights. thank you so much and that is our time for today, but as always, the conversation continues online. you'll find us on twitter at w news and myself at nicole underscore for us. so please get in touch with us there and we will be right to engage you and keep talking for now though i am the entire team here on the day. thank you so much for spending part of your day with

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