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hey, won't pay checks, engine ticks starts october 21st on d, w. ah, this is the w news coming to live from berlin. to be put in says brushes, mobilization of civilians to fight in ukraine is almost complete. while protein claims there is no need for additional recruits, more evidence is emerging that brushing forces are now on the back foot in ukraine . also coming up,
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british prime minister list trust scraps plus tax cuts and sacks for finance minister. she's hoping to call raffled financial markets and anger over a controversial new media law in turkey. the government says it to stop fake news. critics warned the legislation will silence dissenting voices. ah hello and welcome. i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. russia's president vladimir putin calls says the call up of army reservists he ordered to bolster his forces in ukraine is almost complete. 13 claims, more than 2 thirds of 300000 personnel on the call up list have already been mobilized. speaking after a regional summit in cas extent, putin also sent russia does not want to destroy ukraine,
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and there's no need for massive new air stripes. but ukraine's recent counter offensive in the south and east has highlighted weaknesses in the russian army. while moscow has enlisted large numbers of civilians, d w's, killian by our reports, that it doesn't seem able to supply them with enough weapons, clothes, ammunition, or even food with rusty weapons and squalid conditioners recently share issue with 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. you know what it is for. you stick it in a book and it expands and stops the bleeding hard to predominate. what's the and these pictures also from telegram allegedly show residence, bringing supplies to
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a military base, inova subversive. moscow's 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 were going to war, one of them replied, i am 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, i'll, you'll need jeff 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
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ready to go to war, even e. but there's a willingness to rely on the government's decisions. it because there is a belief that authorities know better phone seen the people don't think critically . thus they don't understand that when the government is using them as cannon fodder looked at. 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. earlier i asked security expert demitria, moreover which what he thinks of burton's latest comments on winding down the mobilization and suspending massive airstrikes on ukraine. one the attacks front, it's very clear that the russians did not have the precision guided munitions to sustain the rate of fire that we saw in the last couple of days. many, almost a 100 missiles a day at various targets in key of which are not even
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a strategic targets. many of them civilian targets. war crimes that are being committed with these strikes is something that russia just can't afford to do it for long periods of time. so they're clearly trying to conserve munitions, so this is not done out of gesture of good well, on mobilization front. they may have mobilized hundreds of thousands of people, but the problem was training their san train recruits or recruits are trained with just a few weeks of training into this war, commanded by officers are exhausted. that have been on the line for 8 months. it's really dangerous recipe and unlikely to achieve a successful property. there's a look at a couple of other stories related to the war in ukraine. rushing back to officials are telling civilians to leave the occupied house on region, blaming ukrainian shilling. he denies targeting his own citizens and says, the evacuation is a cover for mass deportations. ukrainian forces are still retaking territory in the area. elan mosques,
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space x says it can't keep funding ukraine's star link internet satellite service. the company wants the u. s. military to take over the costs mosque has found himself at odds with presidents lensky. after of suggesting ukraine make concessions to russia and exchange for peace. now to the u. k and the british prime minister lose cross has sacked her finance minister and scrapped time planned tax cuts. dross is aiming to comb financial markets worried bar the government's economic plans. another political earthquake shaking london not even 50 days in office. and prime minister least truss has already sacked her most important loyalist finance minister quasi quoting. i have acted decisively to day because my priority is ensuring all countries, economic stability. as prime minister, i will always act in the national interest. this is always my 1st consideration.
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many see quieting as escape goods. both he and truss wanted to radically low a taxes to boost the economy. i'm not going to talk the additional rate of tax today, mister speaker. i'm going to a bullshit altogether. they didn't say he would pay for that financial markets panicked. mortgage rates shot up and pension funds faulted when journalists asked her why she didn't resign, trust repeated the same refrain. what credibility do you have? what i have done to day is made sure that we have economic stability in this country form a foreign minister. jeremy hunt now takes over britain's finances. trust says she will, scraps some of the plans, tax cuts. this is unlikely to reassure her conservative party. she herself might to be pushed out. next. critics say at least trust sacked,
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her father's minister to save herself. i asked her london corresponded bigot mouse where this leaves the prime minister. very difficult situation for her. she had to fire closet quite tang. he was one of her long standing political allies and he executed the so called mini budget, but she was definitely behind it. they're politically, very much aligned. it was trust is 1st mistake to you, not explain how she is going to fund all these packs cards. but her 2nd mistake was that she, when she became prime minister, she really didn't make an effort to have a cabinet of unity. so she sacked a lot of people who previously sat in the cabinet and replaced them with people loyal to her. so now she's facing a situation where there are a lot of m. p. 's will have an ax to grind and powerful in the party m p. say there's an awful lot of plotting going on. people are really in her own party
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trying to dispose of her this is a critical moment in the u. k. there's massive pressure on the economy, the currency, the government, the monarchy watched the mood in the country right now. barrett well, yes. a lot of people are really suffering britain as a country with a high in quality as it was, but now it's facing like other countries. it's facing the brand of the worn ukraine with arising energy, our prices, a lot of people don't know whether to heat their homes or to put food on the table . so heat or eat is not just the slogan, but it's really the reality for a lot of people. so for a prime minister in that situation for a government then to come and cut taxes for the richest and society makes them look almost toned of. so a lot of people don't really and don't, don't really think that the government understands the pressure that people are
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under and that obviously makes them feel unhappy with the government list. trust this personal ratings as a prep, prime minister are an historic low is only one about $1.10 britton's things that she is doing a good job. and the conservative party is trailing far behind labor in the opinion polls. and this is also why conservative and peas are thinking that she will have to go or a lot of empties or thinking that because they do want to win the next election. very good. thank you very much. shar corresponded berg master in london. turkeys parliament has passed a controversal new medial law people deemed to be spreading. this information could be jailed. government says it's to stop fake news and misrepresentation. critics fear the law we used to suppress democracy and free speech. telephone numbers aren't matching a phone with a hammer to protest, a controversial law and people rocker by sent out
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a warning. thank you lou. you have only one freedom left the smartphones in your pocket, which have instagram facebook. youtube, which you can communicate with. today is october, the 12th, if the law passes in the parliament, you can break your farms and throw them away like this. but the bill, which was proposed by the ruling a k party founded by president regis play a board of on was passed despite the warning. and it doesn't just further restrict expression on social media. it could also pose a serious threat to freedom of the press, allowing the jailing of journalists for up to 3 years on what critics say are vaguely framed. disinformation laws. no one understands or what any of those words are. i mean, and the legal term, sir, because said there's no definition of anxiety. i to fear a panic, for example, are under total. and it's not clear who's going to decide what the formation is
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misleading. turkey already has a low press freedom score. it's arbitrary jailing f journalists and the acre parties control if 90 percent of press have landed it into a 100 and 49th rank, among a 180 countries on the press freedom index in 2022. what's traditional media already severely restricted social media has served as an alternative platform for news, but that may soon change under the new law. the this information law can be described as the last nail to the coffin of a press freedoms. in turkey, it gives complete the arbitrary power to arden and his man are to restrict free speech to jail people including journalists, and also to remove content from from digital media,
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which remains as the only archives of good information in turkey with elections nearing many fear, the law will be used to silence critical voices in the media. and open air festival of arts and technology is transforming the check capital prague into a giant illuminated canvas. what are the center pieces of a moving tribute to civilian victims of the war in ukraine? the blazing headlights of a burnt out car, light up a street scape in the cheque capital prague. the vehicles are real imported directly from ukraine. first hand witnesses of human struggle and survival. maxine volkoff skis, tribute to victims of the war is simple but effective. we are bringing yearly for girls with the full stories of the owners, and i thought it might be kind of symbolic in these days, her shoulder, the moments of the brutality of war in between the other installation. the owners
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of these cars survived but lost everything they owned, even the vehicles, positioning in the city is meaningful. you out of the money on skin i miss key would be the town hall and them and the libraries like girls symbols of knowledge on politics. and the, these cars of smoldering here for her in waiting for it. congress points will be below you looking at the details and then might go for a reader. stories of people like to escape war. the installation is one of over a dozen illuminating landmarks across prague during the sig, no festival, a 4 day showcase of the visual arts and technology, the 10th anniversary edition features, eco friendly, low energy lights and lasers. the organizers hope it will inject some levity into the increasingly minutes of 2022. the light symbolizes hope.
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and her siblings also sort of future. and i think in these dire times, which are kind of stressful to me, but a lot of people, it brings a different perspective, maybe a little bit of joy that people need you're watching d. w news from berlin, coming up next to got a documentary for you looking at how jaguars are repopulating argentina. i'm terry martin. thanks for watching. i have been threatened, i have been better because we try to to chaudry of face of mafia all over the world . environmentalists are in danger the enemy.

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