ah ah ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, rusty weapons, and little training for front line combat. moscow is now sending newly mobilized soldiers into battle. as more signs emerge that russia's military is now on the back foot in ukraine. also coming off the man on the bridge, a civilian and keith narrowly escapes a garage of air strikes and tells all correspondent what it was like and how it's

changed his life and another blow for press. freedom in turkey, as the government passes, a controversial law that it says will stop the spread of disinformation. critics won't. it will silence silence dissident voice class, new insights into the fight to free julian, a sorry, she will speak to the wife of jail. wiki leaks. father, as he's short listed for the use talk human rights price. ah, i'm glad office. welcome to the program. just weeks after russian president vladimir putin announced a parcel, military mobilization, new recruits on are arriving on the front lines in ukraine. but how well equipped are these troops to fight ukraine's forces, which appear to be continuing their advance through russia's lines t w's. killian,

by our reports, that while moscow may be able to enlist hundreds of thousands of civilians, it doesn't seem to be able to supply them with enough weapons, close ammunition, and even food rusty weapons and squalid conditioners, loosely shudder issues or that will that threatens from lead you, these are just some of the images that have been circulating on russian social media and telegram chats showing the things that mobilized russian men are having to deal with a tampon. do you know what it is for? you stick it in a book and it expands and stops the bleeding hard to be done. what dmca? these pictures also from telegram allegedly show residence, bringing supplies to a military base and over subversive moscow mobilization efforts are not going to plan. soldiers are missing sleeping bags,

food and medical equipment. we found groups on russian social media where relatives of russian soldiers are sharing pictures of the equipment they are sending to the front. we reached out to russian soldiers, but couldn't get any to appear on camera for an interview. when asked why they are going to war, one of them replied, i'm not looking into the causes of this war. if i was mobilized, it means that my motherland needs me. i am a simple soldier. the question why and what for is not my responsibility. russian lawyer, mux ione chief, says, social conditioning like this dates back to soviet times. and as part of the problem. and he had, the majority of russian people are not ready to go to war, his little e, but there's a willingness to rely on the government's decisions. is it because there is

a belief that authorities know better from seeing the people don't think critically . first, they don't understand that when the government is using them as cannon fodder looked at it, it was shamay. ah, it's been 3 weeks since russian president putin announced a partial mobilization. since then, hundreds of thousands more russian families have been drawn into the war. and early on i spoke to the w correspondent, kenny on by in regards to her, which is where we are now covering rush after moscow bureau was shut down by the kremlin and asked kil, young why put his mobilization doesn't appear to be going so well? well, i do think this is known because it's been a topic on russian state media. it's circulated on russian social media. and of course the news is getting back from egg from family members that have been drafted . and so what do russians think about it?

well, i think we've been hearing from moscow that people are really, are buying the state propaganda that russia, as indeed in an existential struggle with the west fighting a proxy war in ukraine. so voices that we hear from moscow are saying, you know, someone needs to defend us. and, and so i think really what we keep hearing is that people are indeed on board. in regards to the social media footage, i would like to add that the footage from our report is from the beginning of the month. and so that the social media footage. and it has seemed like seemingly dried up now. so it looks like the russian ministry of defense is indeed, exerting some damage control and trying to keep em, you know, the material that is getting out from the soldiers from ad reaching the public. now, president putin has just appointed a new general survey, sir, a vixen who is now leading the born ukraine. how is he changing things?

or general sergei sort of vicki has had a long career and the russian military. he is known for a crew in 1991 where a 3 protesters were killed under his command by soldiers under his command. he went on to fight in tajikistan, in the 6th 2nd chechen war and it's syria. he made a name for himself for being the man who gets everything done, no matter what the cost of lead to civilians. and now that he has been placed in charge of the operation in ukraine. or we can say that the most recent strikes against civilian infrastructure against the civilian centers really also bear his handwriting keon by there in reger. thank you. calling for several days now. russia has been launching as strikes across ukraine. but one incident and keith drew many people's attention and was shared a lot on social media globally. you may remember seeing these images of this glass

predict pedestrian bridge, that's a key of landmark and the blast that nearly destroyed it. you may have also seen the solitary figure, who had a very, very lucky escape that and our correspondent, but he has billing a managed to track down the man on the bridge. every morning before work we hi lupita takes a walk through keith's riverside parks across the scenic loss bridge, built a few years ago. last monday was no exception. it was an extraordinary beautiful autumn day. course. i was standing on that balcony over there yesterday of it was 18 minutes past 8 in the morning. that was the date which in launched more than 80 misses at ukraine surveillance cameras court. the moment the high low was lucky. wonderful. she was yes,

there was standing at the other side of the bridge, opposite explosion near that bench over. and the pressure away from the explosion went underneath the rocket. he just next to the bridge on the walkway in the park. 3 days later, the crater, the rocket left has already been filled in. workers are repairing the rest of the damage. the bridge is slightly damaged and closed off to the public for now. hey, man, you're famous now. the video him on the bridge went via gradient view report. wish you a guardian angel harlow says he has recovered well from the show, but also didn't see just started value lash more. he understand that you need to leave every day to its fullest and not to put things off until later. they did

that in the 4th you, sir. so for ever just after the bloss, he went to his office like any other day. you're watching the w news still to come. i'll be speaking to the wife of jail. wikileaks found a julian a sash, but 1st we're located at the increasingly hotline tactics being used by police in iran to crush anti government. but now it's time to take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. british finance minister clancy quoting has been fired. wanting was only in the job for 6 weeks. is announcement of sweeping tax cuts triggered turmoil on financial markets . the conservative jeremy hunt becomes the new finance minister. nigeria

and university lecturers have suspended an 8 months pay strike. over 2000000 students have been unable to study many half protests against the lecturers will quote, at least 11 people were killed when a boss hits an explosive device. in molly, the government has been fighting and she hottest insurgency for years. thousands have died. the conflict turkey's parliament has now passed a controversial media law, which could involve jail time for those thought to be spreading this information. the legislation was approved with a votes of president recipe out adeline's governing party and a nationalist allies which together hold a majority in parliament. the bill amends press and social media laws with the aim of combating fake news and is information. but critics fear it will be used to crack down on democracy and freedom of speech. judy in the national press,

freedom groups have warned that in a country where ada one has already drastically curtailed freedom speech. the latest provisions will further restrict the space for criticism of him that these informational law designed by arden and his inner circle is the versed attack on press freedoms in turkey, not on the press freedoms, but free speech in turkey because it will give the go or months just and other power and other tool that can be arbitrarily used against journalists, and anyone who is just voicing their opinion on, especially on social media. and from on this, let's bring in our correspondent julia han in istanbul. jojo how our journalists in turkey reacting to this new legislation. what does it mean for your work as a journalist or fellow reporters here in turkey. tell me something very similar. they are bracing for a fresh government crackdown on independent journalism and freedom of expression

this time, particularly targeting digital media. they also say the timing of this so called disinformation law was no coincidence. it is aimed at, they say silencing criticism in the run up to next year's elections here in the country, which are widely seen as the toughest campaign faced by ridge of ty of add on in his nearly 20 years and power. many here are particularly concerned about one provision in this larger legal package because it stipulates up to 3 years in jail for people, journalists, but also ordinary social media users who are deemed to have spread misleading information online about turkey. security, for example, with the intention quote to create fear and disturb public order. now, critics say this law is giving authorities here in the country, just another tool to arbitrarily jail people. and that will lead as a consequence,

a to self censorship, immensely increasing. swenson's, if he's taken a pose out of rather than put his playbook there, almost the entire commercial media landscape and turkey is already controlled by the government. while more critical. ok, let's face intimidation. why does turkey need another disinformation? logan well, the turkish government has been arguing that it is necessary to fight this information and fake news, particularly on social media. that is a narrative. they have been pushing for quite a while, a president. edwin said that he is trying to protect, let me quote him here vern horrible segments of society from rising digital, fascism and fake news. we also hear the argument that other european countries have laws regulating social media. but here in turkey, concerns are with the implementation and critics say that digital media, in particular have been one of the few remaining strongholds for free speech.

youtube, twitter, instagram are very popular, especially with younger people and that the government is now trying to tighten control on digital media in order to secure power. you very much dw correspondent, you johan. in istanbul, there security forces have a gun fired on anti government, protested in iran. a crackdown on demonstrations had failed, has failed to deter thousands from taking to the streets. the death of a young woman held by iran, so called morality police, her set of weeks of serious on rest gunshots, asada shopping, sent in the hut of to hit on police and managed to disperse a group of demonstrators. some were isolated and arrested also into head on pauses by try in vain to protect a young demonstrator who was facing an arrest. police pull him to the ground,

threatening his help as with pointed weapons. regardless of the risks, the protest against the law mc leadership in iran are continuing according to reports, protests took place in at least 19 cities in iran on wednesday the repeated chance death to the dictator protests are said to be particularly violent in the province of kurdistan. eye witness said, police and militia were targeting demonstrators with life, ammunition activists reported for dest. tuesday night alone. this would raise the number of victims to more than 200 among them 20 children and young people. iranian president, abraham, are you see at a conference in casa austin with russian president, putin, and turkish president ed dawn repeated. the official narratives with goddess over the protest are being controlled by foreign countries. enact gotta pay in our community since the americans have failed with her policy of sanctions and militarization nash, washington and his allies are no resorting to

a policy of destabilization for him to write him all the iranian. she does sure, he has announced even harsher punishments against demonstrators. thousands are set to have already been detained without legal assistance. lawyers who are protesting against this and take it on were dispersed with tear gas. at least 4 of them were arrested. that's i'm looking at some of the other stories making headlines today. 3 swedish center right parties have reached a deal to form a new minority government. the swedish moderates leader, we'll cost us on the says his party will join the christian democrats and the liberals in the government. the far right sweden, democrats will conditionally aback the coalition of getting off without being powerful sound rearing. debbie lebanon's, president michelle owen says he has accepted a maritime border agreement with israel levitt and will regain hundreds of square kilometers of previously disputed territory. and the mediterranean sea,

including several offshore gas feels the deal was broken by the united states. flash floods have swamped hundreds of homes in australia southeast some parts of the country have received more than 3 times. their average rain for october rainfall in just 24 hours. hundreds of families have been ordered to evacuate as more rain is forecast in the coming weeks. there detained wikileaks found our julian, a sorry, has been short listed for the used top human rights award. as the sucker of prize in a moment will have the opportunity to speak to his wife stella morris. she's here in berlin for the german premier of a new documentary about the fight to free her husband as he battled us, demands for his expedition. first, let's have a look at the film. it's called he tucker, ah, supporters to julian assange gather in london to show solidarity.

ah, he has strong support from those who are committed to press freedom, not least, his form, a lawyer. now his wife. this is an enormous, monumental injustice of a man was being persecuted by the authorities were using the course of the powers of the state in order to try to punish him for doing the right thing. in the journalist, editor and activist who founded wiki leaks and who was behind majorly, including u. s. army intelligence during the iraq war is now at the center of a new story. ithaca, a documentary focusing on a sanchez barbara john shipped and his fight for his release is receiving its german premier while a sandwich is kept in a high security prison in the u. k. awaiting extradition to the u. s. where he may yet stand trial for espionage and really the film has some high profile

contributions and the intensity of a very personal story. we're here from this is only come about because we have a child unless you wanna get even if the film explores family barnes and its use of press freedom for against the backdrop of a songs is restricted movement from ac legos, london embassy and 2010 to his arrest and incarceration in okay, jail in 2019. where he is now a, waiting for an uncertain future. now joined the study here by stella morris julian assertions, a wife, welcome. and thanks for joining us. young t. w. news at stella last line of our report. was awaiting an uncertain future. ah, what are your hopes and fears for julian suture? while an uncertain future an uncertain present. join has been in

a high security prison for over 3 and a half years is not serving a sentence and he awaits the outcome of the extradition where he faces possible prison sentence in the u. s. for 175 years at the fact that he's even in prison is completely a huge travesty of justice. and i'm increasingly describing the process itself as the punishment and as a means to keep him indefinitely in a prison as punishment. now before we go further into that, when did you last? see julian and how is he? i saw jolene about 9 days ago or 10 days ago. but on saturday last week he was diagnosed with cove it. so that means that he was placed in 24 hour lockdown, locked in his cell continuously since saturday. today's day 7 of solitary confinement essentially. so we don't know how long he's going to be under those

conditions yesterday. now this morning when i spoke to him, he was still testing positive. so you can just imagine the harsh conditions of a high security prison and on top of that getting co vision and added to that being confined to your cell 24 hours a day. now, as you said, high security prison, he is so co category a prisoner that bell mars notorious prisoner britain, or what are the conditions of his incarceration there while he is in his prison cell for over 20 hours a day. sometimes it's been much worse. like now where he is 24 hours sometimes he or generally he, he can go to the yard for an hour a day and get a fresh air. but, you know, he's fighting this monumental legal battle. there's a lot of complexity involved. he's his ability to communicate with his lawyers is impeded by the fact that he's in us high security prison. i mean there is no comparison to fighting a legal case that your life depends on from within

a prison cell. and for what reason, julian's not a violent anything. he's a publisher. and the case against him is completely outrageous. so he is forced to fight with both hands tied behind his back. no say he's, he's not a criminal. the u. s. justice department says he's a criminal hacker charged under the espionage act. the human, the european parliament though, has just named julian to the short list of his soccer off prize. would it occasion to human rights and freedom of thought. but he explained that contradiction. well, because it's a political case, you can just see bye bye the by the contrast, the obama administration during the that time the spokes person for the department of justice. in fact said julian assange, it's a publisher, not a hacker. and there is no way that we can prosecute assange in a way that does not set a precedent for the rest of the press. and the obama administration was not prepared to do that. but what happened was that the trump administration was

precisely because this case sets a precedent for which the administration can go after any one in the press and even the foreign press that julie is lost, trillion citizen, australia's attorney attorney general says his case has gone long enough, and he says he's what he calls private talks with a biden administration, you know, how hopeful there could be a resolution to this. it's clear to me that this and to everyone, i think that this is not a legal case. it's a political case. and so a resolution has to come from the top has to be the different administrations, the different governments talking about how do we end this because it's in nobody's can interest that this goes on, the u. k. is seen for what it is. it's imprisoning. a journalist on behalf of a foreign power, the u. s. has, is continuing this case that was brought by the trump administration. that is anathema to everything that the u. s. says it stands for 1st amendment press freedom, open democracy and so on. now there's

a bit of change of government in australia, the new government you recommend doing enough, but the only um, the only test the only outcome, ah, that is enough is julian's freedom. and so far that hasn't happened, but of course, julian's life is in the hands of politicians. so i am loath to criticize them to openly because i know that his fate lives in their hands. and i hope they're doing everything they can to get him out as soon as possible. and what do you say to critics who say that julia brought his all on himself, but trying to avoid justice back when swedish prosecutors sort of for questioning on, on sexual assault charges. while the swedish investigation has been discredited by the un working group, an arbitrary detention which found that it was actually an abusive process, that they were acting in a way that was keeping julian arbitrarily detained because he was always offering

to be to cooperate. and it was, in fact the u. k. authorities who told sweden not to question him. there's a book about it, the u. n. special repertoire on torture, niels meltzer, did a whole investigation. anyone who's interested about this aspect to the case should read the book. so what are the next steps, what, what is the, what is your hope? what can be achieved next? what is it, what is achievable? well, raising julian's case of is essential public awareness of the the screening of ithaca at the berlin human rights film festival. it had a standing ovation last night. it was an amazing reception. the nomination for the soccer of prize being short listed is incredibly important. and all of these things contribute they built my ability and our ability to keep this case on the agenda and to make sure that it is inescapable for the decision makers, the people who can actually decide to bring it to an end to do something about it.

very briefly, the other message for jordan support us, other than that they're doing amazingly that we're we're reaching a lot of people on saturday last week we had over 7000 people around the u. k. parliament. both sides of the bridge and it was an amazing show of support. thank you very much for joining us. ended up the news seller morris, went to the innocent under my belt, the top story we've been following for you today. russia has begun sending its newly mobilized soldiers into battle and ukraine. there are reports, they lack basic equipment and training to meet the advancing ukrainian forces. you watching d. w news coming up next after a short break in d. w and use asia. china, she can ping is said to become a leader for life determined to achieve what he calls the chinese dream

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