ah, because no one should have to flee. ah! make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is dw news live from berlin, violence leave several dead at a prison facility in the iranian capital. i sleep billowed over the skyline in gunshots were heard as

a fire broke out in prison. 4 people are reported dead and dozens more injured. also on the program, ukraine says it still holds the strategic eastern city of but but the fight has intensive brushing. forces have repeatedly tried to seize it, but have so far failed. ah. a michael ok, welcome. officials in iran save for inmates or dead after night of clashes at of in prison in tehran. the victims allegedly died of smoke inhalation. during a fire, dozens are set to be injured. hundreds of anti government demonstrators are being detained in the prison. iranian officials have denied a link to the protests that have swept the country for weeks. ah,

flames illuminate the night sky on the outskirts of tehran. even prison, infamous for holding political prisoners is ablaze. i'm sure it's loud bags could be heard. oh, my city, go, uranium stay, tv, broadcast, images of the prisons gutted interior adherents, governor claims the inmates for the destruction. i had a letter that eva fire was caused by a fight between prisoners in a sewing workshop. how you see a workshop was set up to create jobs for prisoners. it's a whole study. even prison holds many of those recently arrested for protesting. iran has been rocked by people taking to the streets. anger of the death of gina must armine, while in police custody. the government says to fire in the protests unrelated that the place is prompted more people taking to the streets. ah,

armine shouted demonstrators gathered on the road leading to the prison carmine, the slavic republic. supreme leader is a target of some demonstrators. they see massive figure behind the deadly crackdowns on descent in the country. so far, the government's response as done little to stop protest like these floor on this, i am joined by the job usa toys. it's hope. oh, who's been following this story? she's traveled extensively to iran over the past 8 years, reporting for d, w. tracy. what can you tell us about the recent events at even prison in tehran? while at the moment it's very hard to verify when say what exactly happened last night and even prison. because it's very hard to verify the videos and the eye witness reports coming out of iran at the moment. but when the fire broke out, and these shouts of death to the dictator were heard, many people in tehran hoped it might have been the prisoners themselves that said the prison on fire to escape, while others feared it was the security forces trying to kill inmates. so that's

why many people into iran made their way towards of, in prison, which is in the north of, to run in a residential area actually to block the speeds and to make sure that not more security forces could rush to the scene or take your prisoners away the other way and, and video is published and social media also show that you guys might have been hired in front of evan prison with family and friends of the inmates were gathering to demand their release. and many, many gunshots could be heard as though, as i said, it's hard to verify all of that. at the moment. ashley, since internet was shut down in many areas of the capital. but i guess it will take some time to find out what exactly happened and it was gay last night and to run. you know, you know, the government was very quick to deny that there was any connection between what happened at the prison recently. and of course, he's widespread protests that we've been seeing across iran now for days. what are you hearing? yeah, as you said,

like the islamic republic judiciary says it was the clashes between inmates that were convicted for other crimes. and, but most iranians and experts do not believe that at the moment, voices are shared on social media of people inside of, in prison, from people who are able to talk to them. and they suggest the classes might have been. and what 7, an 8 of evan prison and these appear to be exactly the ones where the political prisoners are being held that were captured like during the last round of protests in the last couple of weeks. so students, journalists, artists, lawyers, people like that. this is with raising eyebrows. this is what the raising eyebrows there. and as i said, all of that is not verified at the moment, but it wouldn't be the 1st time in its history that the islamic republic actually kills its potential political opposition. back in 1998 in thousands of prisoners were killed according to human rights groups. and one of the man responsible for that was in the death coming to you,

the so called one back then is now iran's president abraham racy. so i fear there's good reason for many iranians around the world to be worried. and that's why we saw big spontaneous gatherings not only into iran, but around the world. also, he and berlin in front of the foreign ministry of iranians, trying to raise attention to what's happening inside yvonne and evan prison at the moment. many, many thanks to you, our in house, around expert, teresa trump, some other stories making headlines around the world at this hour, protesters into niches capital tunis have clashed with police during a 2nd night of anti government demonstrations. rival political movements have joined forces against the nations long running economic crisis. they accused president ty, side of attempting to turn tunisia back into an autocracy. thousands are marching in paris to protest shoring living cause and government inaction on

climate change. protesters are demanding higher wages and want energy companies to pay taxes on windfall. the rallies come at mid ongoing strikes at fuel refineries in depots that have led to widespread gasoline shortages. you on must the world's richest man announced that his company will continue to pay for starling satellite . internet in your credit is, comes just a day after you said space acts could not keep funding. the project strongly has been vidal, to ukraine's communications, as it fights against russia's invasion. president latimer zalinski says fighting around the eastern city of buck, mood has intensified in ukraine. pro russian forces had previously announced their you're moving closer to the city and making gains, but zalinski says it is still held by ukrainians, exhausted residents, or without electricity or water. and many say they're desperate for the fighting to

end ah, on the road into the city of back moot, there are constant remind is that the front line is just a few kilometers away. inside the city, russian missiles repeatedly ran down and i will give them to the my sister is under this rubble go quick. as of i, no one comes to clean it up. your nobody is up with them. everyone is afraid because of this, right? it just was in our missile hit the neighbor's place nichoela. the father was killed by shrapnel though better than the house was head tucked on and it burned down but the hurdy. unless belinda buck mood sits at a strategic point in the door nets, grades and of the dumbass. ukraine has been making significant territorial gains in the countries east in recent wakes, but russian backed forces say they're moving closer to the city. those are just got a very difficult situation, persists in for the net, scanned lance regions to most difficult to seem a buck direction,

but we hold our positions. residents say they don't have electricity. gas, all water venturing outside for supplies is dangerous. some residents say they're angry at both sides and just want the fighting to end. i mean, we don't need one or the other. we don't need more than look like we just wanna live at home. that's all we do. ukrainian and russian troops dug in across the region. the people still in back moot can do little, but hope to survive another day of the war. meanwhile, in russia, gunmen have killed 11 people and wounded 15 others in an attack at a training signed for the russian military. it happened in the countries be able to go out region which borders ukraine, their shooters open fire during a firearms training session for volunteers preparing to be deployed to fight against ukraine. the russian defense ministry says they were nationalists from the

former soviet republic. without naming which one, the ministry also says the shooters were killed in the attack. let's go straight to journalists. petra caused love in riga, a pet at some independent russian media. outlets are reporting that the number of casualties is actually much higher than the official figures. do you know anything about that? as far as the situation is not, not transparent, the russian defense ministry reports are there, there were possibly more than 10 people dead and proximately more than 10 injured. but in fact, the small, independent russian outlets reports that there possibly could be twice more people there during this incident in russian military base in belgrade region to spell it out to us. why? why would, if, in fact, it's the case,

why would the russian russian officials try to minimize the numbers? well, this is a good question because if we look at look back in the beginning of the war, seems that the russian officials and russian ministry of defense they're trying to like to cover not to tell the real reasons the and the, the real numbers of people casualties and dead ones. so this is quite a traditional strategy of russian officials and today. so they are trying to to make it to not so loud. what we've learned about the gun minutes. notice this is a good question because again, officials the do not report any details. what has happened. so we know only from officials that something like happened on saturday morning and possibly the tech was a kid by. this is the quote by the terrorists. but the small russian media,

independent outlets, just not going to go report to the, the possible reason was the quarrel on the religious, religious base. so. so the volunteers who were training in this military base before going to create some of them. they decided they, they didn't want to go. and in the end there was a quarrel. and some, some of these volunteers, possibly 2 or 3 people, they decided to, to attack the russian military because of this quarrel. so that's what, that's what you're hearing, could be a possible motive. but there's no confirmation about that. let me put something else out there, assuming that that's just speculation. putin's decision to mobilize new troops as proved, unpopular with many russians, and as exposed internal criticism of the war, is you're also talk that this may have been an extreme act of protest. this is possibly one of like the,

the global reason because russian armies electing the people the soldiers and put them in the kremlin, trying to mobilize more and more russian men. so as far as there is a lack of, of soldiers, they're trying to, to mobilize people from our, from the former soviet republics. and as far as we know from this media reports, this is possibly the people who were promised to have a right or for russian citizenship after they go to war. so there was such an ad in russian army, so they will do. it's very simple. after the people they joined the russian army and joined the military operation. so globally, it could be also the reason understood many thanks to you journalists,

or patrick cars love for your perspective in your time. much appreciated to china. now we're present in shipping ping has warned of difficult times ahead and called on his delegates to support him resolutely speaking at the communist party congress, she repeated his goal of bringing the shelf governing island of taiwan under chinese rule by force if necessary. she is on the resolution of the taiwan issue is a matter for the chinese people to decide what we insist on striving for the prospect of peaceful reunification with the greatest sincerity and with the greatest effort to me. however, we will never commit to abandoning the use of force and we be served the option of taking all necessary measures. the communist party is expected to hand leadership, paying an unprecedented 3rd term at the congress or than 2000 delegates or attaining the week long event where beijing lays out its domestic and foreign

affairs policies for the next 5 years. in response to she's remarks, taiwan stated that it would not back down on its sovereignty or compromise on freedom and democracy. our technology program shift is up next. this time looking at how robots are used to boost workplace inclusion. a michael local in berlin from me and the rest of the team here. really appreciate your time with us is more news at the top, the next hour. every day for us and for our planet.