w mm ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. kremlin back officials tell her san residents to evacuate ahead of a you premium offensive. rocha's new general admits his troops face a difficult situation as pressure from ukrainian forces grows in southern and eastern regions. also coming up on the shower heroes. welcome at tara airport for an iranian climber who competed without

a headscarf. but there is concern that she may yet be punished for breaking erewhon strict rules for women's attire. ah, hello, i'm claire richardson. thanks so much for joining us. russia's new commander in ukraine has made a rare acknowledgment that the situation in regions the kremlin recently claimed it had annexed, is quote, difficult. russian forces are struggling to maintain their grip on strategic positions in the east and south, amid and offensive by ukraine. kremlin backed officials in her son have told civilians to evacuate and are reported to be leaving as well, saying they expect a ukrainian push to begin soon. the yellow areas that you can see there, show territory already re taken by ukraine. so what was the now at what general survey, sir o, v can told russian state tv about the pressure his troops are facing or have so

more calls going approve. the situation in the area of the special military operation can be described as tents. the enemy is not abandoning its attempts to attack russian forces such oh it was is that it is your horse? madonna. situation around her song is difficult to professor dorothy, the listeners our further actions and plans regarding the city of her san itself will depend on the military and tactical situation. i repeat, it is already very difficult, and i will as of today, mercer again this morning both her and while russia appears to be preparing for a ukrainian offensive in the south, it continues to press ahead with its strategy of targeting energy infrastructure nationwide. ukrainian officials said missiles strikes and shelley have left more villages at towns and parts of 2 cities without power. a wave of attacks on tuesday

also took a human toll. officials in the southern ukrainian city of mc alive, 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 was fit not to did wanna move for us when 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 center while we were a bit farther away. listen to those conditions for many ukrainians. the past 8 months have been a 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 them. that there were 2 boys at least shot 2nd 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 up to permit italy only blockers. sure, and i'm liam, or air defense was the key topic in my speech to european foreign ministers. stella said back she mizaku,

my appeal was particularly telling even since sirens were sounding and t. the denial when i had to join the meeting from the bomb shelter, healing and the was that the 1st time a minister has participated in this crucial meeting, restore it from a bomb shelter, which is still more glitch, almost a ceiling, a lovely little place going to pull my t as look recap. 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 i spoke to dw mathias ballinger and asked him for an update on the situation in ci of best morning where it was a quiet night here in p. if wood, we've heard about her attacks and you closer to the front line on cities down south . brenda, 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 the shower head, drones. so it was quiet today, but that doesn't mean over yet. and we've heard that the commander of russian forces ain't 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. ah. 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 you can saying now that this is that, so 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 2 things to really not good look for the russians there, and that we might see something either a retreat or a re take by the ukranian army in the next few days. to tell us more about these evacuations. we now kremlin backed officials in the harsanyi 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 to evacuations. deputations of people into russia, as we have seen them in other parts of the, the occupied territories that directions with forcibly drive people out of there

and relocate them to russia in order to maybe assimilate them later 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 as much as valenda in ukraine's capital. thanks so much for that update. let's bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world's hong kong, new leader has delivered a debut policy speech focused on security and revising the city's economy place. john lee was appointed in july by china following massive and at times violent pro democracy protests in hong kong which contributed to an economic downturn. lee has

been sanctioned by the us for his role in beijing's crackdown on freight on us yellow. how to late but devastating floods have hit venezuela. central eyeglass state after a down for on monday caused a dam to overflow. locals were forced to abandon their homes. at least 3 people were killed. pushing the death toll to more than 50 after weeks of rain across the country. and iranian climber, l not wreck copy husband welcomed back into the wrong by cheering crowds after her sudden disappearance at a competition in south korea. there had been concerns for her safety after she competed without wearing a headscarf, a breach of her rounds mandatory dress rules for women athletes. a competitive climate, illness recovery is back in a ran, greeted by a bouquet of flowers and cheering crowds outside terren air horse. but it's unclear whether any of this is staged and water fate is now she

appeared without a headscarf during a competition in south korea the weekend. you know that the islamic republic mandates that all female athletes where the he jab, recovery his claim competing without the head jab was unintentional and she denied report 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 as 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. i'm concerns are being raised her with the authorities as well. and what we have to stress is that women should never be prosecuted for what day, where there's to should, they should never be subjected to violations such as arbitrary detention or, or any kind of violence. which regards to what they were anti government protests in iran spot for the death of a woman in the custody of the country is notorious morality, police. i've entered a 5th week. now the authorities, treatment of another woman, will be closely watched and missouri bihari on iranian canadian journalist and an editor of iran wire dot com. earlier told me what he makes of elms, reebok recopy, arriving back to iran, tweet heroes, welcome. this is a film that we have seen so many times in the past. that's a courageous iranian does something says something against the regime. and then she

and her family europe, horrors into making a confession saying 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 married in order to protest or choice. her solidarity with the women of iran war protesting and then she was poor. and as far as we know her family, especially her brother who's is her manager and she's, he's very close to her. they were forced into making her apologize. and then as soon as she arrived in the rod, she was greeted by 2 state t. v reporters who really ad questioned her like an interrogator. not like

a journalist. and she had to repeat the same thing that she asked for us. we know she left the airport of 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 on. 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 4 decades. so

this is before iranian, this is not something new. and i heard that you reports are said that each might be corps for millions of iranians who seen this before. they know that he, that the confession was course and these crowd of people who welcomed her at the airport, celebrating her at who are these people. these are already in iranians who may not have known a laws up to a few days ago. i did not know her a few days ago because right 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 out 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 wear a scar for one competition. they did not have to make any comments, but they made it into a big build. and as a result, illness has become a symbol of resistance, the hero, and that's why pounds of people went to

a mom home, any airport this morning and greeted her like a hero. thank you very much, my dear bar. i appreciate you taking the time to speak with us. thank you. that's all for me for now coming up next as a dw documentary about the digital art market and terry martin will be back in 45 minutes time with head lice, thanks much for watching. i have been that done. i have been better because we tried to to show 3 of face mafia all over the world. environmentalists are in danger. the enemy ruthless corporations, corrupt government agencies and criminal cartels. targeted environmentalists in danger starts october 29th on d.