ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, kremlin back officials tell harrison residents to evacuate ahead of are you printing an offensive brush? as new general admits his troops face a difficult situation as pressure from ukrainian forces groves in other eastern regions. coming up on the shower

heroes, welcome at 10 ron airport for an iranian climber who competed without a head scarf. but there is concern that she may yet be punished for breaking iran strict rules for women's attire. and in his debut policy speech, hong kong new chief executive says he will troll the world for talent in a bid to win back for an investment. but he signals no let up on a political proc down. it has driven 1000 away. ah, hello, i am claire richardson, a very warm welcome to the show. russia is a new commander in ukraine, has made a rare acknowledgment that the situation in regions the crime when recently claimed it had annexed, is quote, difficult,

and forces are struggling to maintain their grip on strategic positions in the east and south, amid and offensive by ukraine. kremlin backed officials in the harrison region have told civilians in the city of harrison itself to evacuate, saying they expect a ukrainian push to begin soon. the yellow areas you see here show territory already retaken by ukraine. and we'll have more on these statements coming out of russia about those evacuations in just a few minutes. but 1st, let's take a look at the latest airstrikes to hit ukraine. officials in the southern ukrainian city of micro live pool, a man's body from the rubble. a russian missile killed him, as he hid in the basement. his shocked neighbor recalls the moment of impact with not so tidwell macpherson, we woke up at quarter to 2 in the morning because of a very loud explosion. it's impossible to describe the hood to so much dust. we

were in the basement. we crawled out through openings in the ground, and neva died. unfortunately, he was a bit closer to the e. p. seemed to while we were a bit farther away, little scottish for many ukrainians, the past 8 months have been as seemingly endless series of horrors. but one resident is comforted his homeland. how's the moral high ground? no matter how much suffering moscow inflicts it in the bullshit of the worst, that the russians get. pleasure from us, feeling bad, boucher to those 3 of them will they feel pleased to a new creature really? i think they want us to bomb and shell, their buildings, and so on. e 3, i leave her at us, but we won't that mom. so we can show that we're different from that william. that there were 2 boy at least shots, actually civilian residences,

and the only buildings targeted by the kremlin. russia also seems determined to knock out the national energy grid. the latest strikes prompt to decrease foreign minister once again to ask allies to send more air defense systems. them appropriately overwhelming blocker. sure, and i'm liam. air defense was the key topic in my speech to european foreign ministers. stella said back shami zak. look what my appeal was particularly telling, even since irons were sounding and key. the denial when i had to join the meeting from the bomb shelter, healing in the was that the 1st time a minister has participated in this crucial meeting was thought from a bomb shelter, which is still more glitch, almost a ceiling, a lovely little place going to pull mighty as a character ukraine's presidential a dimmer zelinski says almost a 3rd of its power plants have been destroyed. russia denies deliberately attacking civilians. moscow says it is targeting ukraine's energy infrastructure,

meaning millions could be left to face the coming winter without heat or power. earlier asked dw matches bowling r for an update on the situation in key of this morning? well it was a quiet night hearing keith with we've heard about an attack sun you closer to the front line on cities down south. and we've also heard that for russia was procuring more weapons from iran. these strikes in the past week have been carried out a big part of them with these iraq iranian showerhead drones. so it was quiet today, but that doesn't mean over yet. and we've heard that the commander of russian forces, any ukraine is admitting that things are difficult in occupied regions. i, should this be read as an acknowledgment that things are not going according to plan. definitely, i'm. the ukraine has been attacking the hair. san regional has been pushing forward

on the hassan region for some time. a western intelligence has released the information last week and that they expect her son to fall within these days for ukraine to take back this major city. the only major city that russia was able to conquer since february, the only administrative center that russia was able to conquer since last winter. and so what he can saying now that this is that he expects things to get difficult . at the same time, the regional administration that has been installed by the russians on these occupied territories is calling for people to leave the region or talking about evacuations. that means that things do really not good look for the russians there, and that we might see something either a retreat or a retake by the ukranian army in the next few days. can tell us more about these

evacuations. we now kremlin back to officials in the hare sana region saying they are evacuating for towns. yeah, that's, so there have been to 2 of these officials have talked about that. so i'm, the fear here in ukraine is of course, that these might be forced evacuations. deputations of people into russia, as we have seen them in other parts of the occupied territories, that directions would forcibly drive people out of there and relocate them to russia. and in order to maybe assimilate them they to, to, to the russian society. that would be a war crime. that's the fear. yeah. we don't know exactly what is happening there. how many people are being deported if they are deported? how many people are evacuating voluntarily? because there will be fighting. of course, there is a reason for people to leave these areas. we don't have the information,

but there's a lot of anxiety about these moves and ukraine's capital. thanks so much for that update. and nichol. i petroff, a senior research fellow at the chatham house, thinktank and london told us more about the precarious situation for russian forces in ukraine. i say, okay, they have actual military as well as president puts him on preparing public opinion to the fact that russian army, well least share song and other not to me exist on this. so it's very simple. the trade off, the russian army in last, last month, but military, really, it's almost not possible for russian. i'm have to keep a come from you see an imminent failure for russia in the her

son region. do you think the recent bombardment of ukrainian cities is also a move of desperation on the part of the kremlin? yes, right. and we do see the war of attrition. and it's understandable that destroying your grain infrastructure. we're trying to destroy ukrainian civilian infrastructure and the infrastructure russian army is pushing hard pressure on to city lives on a be full, we are meeting the idea is to push your cranium in direction of negotiations or ceasefire on russian conditions and ukrainian. a president zalinski claimed on tuesday night that russia's dependence on using drones made in iran, shows that russia is militarily bankrupt. what do you make of that claim?

i would say that if all lead russia now is not go to literally bankruptcy or it's moving in the direction a weapons accumulate. so it's not by chance that we do see them with c t. lilian, which comes out of storage is a reproduce of those. so he's to gauge it weapons which it lost them, which is which it is losing during the war. now put an husband placing blame for russian defeats on his defense minister. how long do you think it will be until people start pointing fingers are putting himself who knows? today the res meeting of the security council and there are some rules,

most likely replacement law be in it. but it's understandable them from the very beginning. just didn't show that he's what is his decision? and that's why i am that the idea that he can scape goat in a military commanders. although investigation when command this before the appearance of the newly appointed gates drive, you can absolutely not. i think it doesn't look well as baz full responsibility for. busy for all those players wage petroff with chatham house in london. thanks very much for that insightful interview. and iranian sports climber alive. recovery husband welcomed back into iran by

cheering crowds after not wearing a headscarf during a competition in south korea, causing concerns for her safety. she told reporters that not wearing the head job was unintentional, sparking speculation that her confession had been coerced. a competitive climate illness recovery is back in iran, greeted by a bouquet of flowers and cheering crowds outside terren air force. but it's unclear whether any of this is staged and what her fate is now she appeared without a headscarf during a competition in south korea the weekend. you know, there, these lamps, republic mandates that all female athletes where the he jab, recovery his claim competing without the head jab was unintentional and she denied reports she'd gone missing for around a day after the event. i was unexpectedly called and i had to compete. i was busy putting on my shoes and technical gear

and that caused me to forget to put on the job i had to where then i went to compete with. fortunately, i come back to iran with peace of mind. although i went through a lot of tension and stress so far, thank god, nothing has happened with the last comment, a spark speculation that her statements may have been coerced. even the wind has spoken out about her case. we are aware of that case and we are following it closely. um concerns are being raised with the authorities as well. and what we have to stress is that women should never be prosecuted for what they wear on theirs to should they should never be and subjected to violations, such as arbitrary detention or, or any kind of violence with regards to what they were anti government protests in

around, sparked by the death of a woman in the custody of the countries notorious morality, police prevented a 5th week. now the authorities, treatment of another woman, will be closely watched. i'd like to welcome at missouri, bihari, an iranian aiden journalist and filmmaker, also the editor of iran wire dot com. so we have no trace of ella's rec hobby for quite some time after she left sol. now she appears to have arrived in toronto, a hero's welcome. what do you make of this? this is a film that we have seen so many times in the past that a courageous iranian does something says something against the regime. and then she and her family, there are coerced into making a confession and said that they made mistakes and exactly the same thing happened in the last 2 days. so elma did not wear her head scarf while she was competing. it was not something that could happen accidentally because women in iran,

especially her generation. they grew up very good scarp. it's like me, not wearing like eyeglasses accidentally, that cannot happen. so she did not very, in order to protest or showing sir solidarity with the women of iran war protesting . and then she was course on us for as we know her family, especially her brother who's is her manager. and she had, he's very close to her. they were forced into making her apologize and then as soon as she arrived in iran, she was greeted by 2 state t. v. reporters who really at questions her like can interrogate and not like a journalist. and she had to repeat the same thing that she asked for, as we know, she left the airport oh, peacefully with her family. and hopefully this is the end of the story that they are not going to bother her again. you believe not wearing the head job was an intentional statement that she was pressured by the authorities to make this

statement. you yourself were imprisoned in iran in 2009 and forced to make a televised confession. um, does this bring back memories of that time? it does, and when you look at l as a space in danger view, she did on iranian tv this morning when you look at her eyes and that's wandering around and it's just, you can see the scary in her eyes. and it's as if that she's trying to remember what she has been told to repeat. and you can see, and this is something that we've seen hundreds of times in the past for decade. so this is before iranian, this is not something new and i heard that you reports are said that each might be cores for millions of iranians who seen this before. they know that he, that the confession was coerced and these crowd of people who welcomed her at the airport, celebrating her at who are these people. these are ordinary iranians who may not

have known a laws up to a few days ago. i did not know her a few days ago because rock climbing is not a very popular sport in iran, but they run in government. he's a master of shooting itself into foods. she. they made a hero order of laws by forcing her to apologize by making it making her job into a big deal. if they just let that story go, she didn't wears car for one competition. they did not have to make any comments, but they made it into a big build. and as a result, ill mouth has become a symbol of resist hero. and that's why pounds of people went to a mom or maney airport this morning and greeted her like the hero. thank you very much, maria. ha, ha, appreciate you taking the time to speak with us. thank you. and hong kong, a chief executive john lee, has doubled down on security and cove at 19 restrictions during his debut policy

speech, we also addressed plans to boost hong kong economy. me was appointed in july by beijing falling massive. and at times of violent pro democracy protests which contributed to an economic downturn, lee has been sanctioned by the us or his role in the crack down one. freedom was ogo use on zillow. and i spoke with a dw, is phoebe kong and asked her about john lee's plans to continue with the hard line policies of the past several years. well, john, these very fast policy, it has come at a time when in beijing is holding as most important party congress in beijing that john lee actually reference this policy as a policy address to students me in speech and say that the beijing's instruction is a guide for hong kong, and that one of the most are important aspects is about national security that are more meshes a week ordering, safeguarding national security is proposed in this policy address that are in

a coming few years we're expecting and either additional set of national security legislation in a local version of that is now in preparation to regulate espionage and leakage of national are secrets, et cetera. and tony is also proposing to enact small laws to regulate cyber security on that was so cause forth information and the crowd funding activities, etc. so are we expecting more restrictions are in his term? and but the fact that our john lee at didn't gave an exact time frame of these kind of law enactment match the shows the kind of our facilities that beijing, what light to reserve. i'd like particularly when hong kong and china facing huge economic challenges that they would like to deal with that kind of problem. first before on the national security matches. and phoebe that crack down on restrictions has already taken a heavy toll on hong kong economy. i've left what was once one of the world's

leading business hubs struggling to attract talent, what strong lees planned to turn hong kong business fortunes around? yes, hong kong is now suffering from a very serious economic downturn because of a sera code that policies as you, as you can see, m theory wearing a moth as a compulsory meshes the hong kong is really a lagging behind, is i'll reach an o and global competitors in the post cove at iraq. so a john lee are or so prioritize. ah, boosting hong kong competitiveness by attracting overseas happens in these very fast policy. i trust that the government is going to lower the threshold of a recruiting overseas hands and also to introduce our new set up like a min ah unlimited. og number of visas for those high paid overseas professionals. and graduates from the top 100 universities in the was so those have some of the batches that are hong

a home governments would really like to re attract highlands from around the world . ah, especially when hong kong have already lost all over 10, over 100000 of professional with and our hong kong residents, most of them the working labor over the past 2 years because of the political turmoil and also the seo covey policies. so a comic boosting is, is definitely a huge challenge for showing the different a fact that he has nearly no experience in our economic policy making before he took off as these dear. so that would be an order like major hearts for, to hop on governments to do in our, in the very 1st time of john the i thanks very much to brit for bringing us up to speed. phoebe cong reporting for us from hong kong. let's turn to congo. now it is home to mines, containing some of the purist goals in the world. consumers and rich countries are prepared to pay high prices for the precious metal. at the miners who extract the

gold are paying a price of a different kind. extortion and rights abuses are widespread in minds controlled by a violent rebel group. access for foreign journalists has been restricted until now in a joint investigation with the german magazine dash legal. d. w is marian with her, has been inside to rebel controlled coal mines. this gold may gleam brightly, but a disdain red with blood people likely died for this precious metal destined for the rich world's finest juries. the democratic republic of congo has some of the purest gold in the world. but experts say almost all of it smuggled out of the country illegally. that often means links to armed groups and human rights abuses. it all starts here in suffocating les hot tunnels that hid up to 40 degrees celsius . young man scrape out the gold bearing rock. they earn barely enough to survive on

for fear of reprisals. this man wants to remain anonymous. when you go to work, he just pray to god because we're feeling like it's a death sentence. often it is when the minds cave in 6 years ago, more than 20 people were buried alive. when i was there with my 3 brothers and other miners, all of them were trapped inside the mind being, you know, even now their bodies are still inside. when i was sad both really down, then it was nice, but i can't be sad for long. i have to earn a living identical as nissan. i do new my eyes and stuff with them. and on top of that, this mine is controlled by an armed group, the my, my, yeah, catawba, according to a recent you and report that the rebels demand, what they call taxes from each worker. it beat me up with an iron rod because i couldn't pay that tax. they threw me into

a mud hole for days with no food. i was imprison there with 6 other people. he lost 10 kilograms. he says other minors tell us similar stories. they say that my, my are never, far, even now they're hiding further up the mountain because they were informed we were coming. this is the 1st time journalist have access this mine both the my, my yahoo! timber and local government officials declined our interview requests. it's widely known that the rebels often work together with local authorities and even share profits with them. but with the money they also fine and brutal attacks on an ethnic group who they see as their main enemy. their my, my claim, the bonham will linger, don't belong to the d, r c. so they burned down their villages, rape and kill scores of people east and under were survived one of these attacks by little who had concern of value. they found us at the place 7 had

thought rescue and they killed 3 people that they murdered my father in law and injured my mother in law. the night call me. both of them were over 80. she says she and her family were forced to march for days with no food. then they took her husband. she never saw him again. later, she learned he was hacked to death with a machete. they killed thousands displays hundreds. now is the safe sheltering at a friend's house. rebel control of the mines means conflict. go. but that's not deterring this business man. the purity of the precious metal has convinced him soon he plans to open the 1st gold refinery in the country and export from d r. c to europe and america. at the moment we are discussing a lot with the government, they will check all art is and war coming to work here. we will,

they will try and trace how is going on, and maybe it will help. i hope it will help, but ensuring authenticity will be difficult. traitors tell us, they fake certificates to hide. the real origin of the gold is done under who are i can only appeal for an end to the trade and blood. i can, i mean i skia, but i, my, my go to white people to buy weapons. that if i sell the gold i live, you know, is a, and i want to tell these white people to stop buying from them but, but, so they don't kill us will, least until we're that for esther. it is a simple equation. as long as armed groups can re profits from gold mining, they will keep earning the cash to kill my of my reporting there. now just before we go, let's get a reminder of our top stories at this hour. the russian general in command of

forces in ukraine has made a rare admission that russian troops are under pressure in eastern and southern regions reclaimed by the kremlin as annexed. and there's been a heroes welcome at tara airport for iranian climber, illness recopy. after she competed without a headscarf by human rights groups are concerned that she could face punishment for breaking iran strict rules for women's attire. that is your news update. or i'm claire richardson in berlin for me in the whole team working behind the scenes. thanks so much for joining us. ah ah, with

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