oh, this week, d w ah ah, this is the w news coming to live from berlin kremlin back to officials tell residents of how san to evacuate ahead of a ukrainian offensive brushes. new general admits his troops face a difficult situation, as pressure from ukrainian forces, mounts in southern and eastern regions, also coming up a hero's welcome at tehran airport for an iranian climber who competed abroad without a headscarf. if there is concern,

she may yet be punished for breaking around strict rules for women's attire. and in his policy debut speech, hong kong new chief executive says he will troll the world for talent and a bid to win back for an investment. but he signals no let up on a political crack down that his driven thousands away. ah, hello and terry martin, good to have you with us kremlin back to officials in the hassan region say they are planning a large scale evacuation from the region ahead of an expected ukrainian offensive. russian forces are struggling to maintain their grip on regions. they claim to have annexed in the east and south yellow areas here on our map. ah, show territory retaken by ukraine. their kremlin installed leader in house,

on se authorities plan to evacuate 50 to 60000 people. over the next week, the russian back administration is reported to be leaving as well. meanwhile, russia's new commander in ukraine has made a rare acknowledgment the russia is under pressure from ukrainian advance in those regions. let's listen now to general sergey syrup. beacon speaking to russian state tv. i have some uncles on the situation in the area of the special military operation can be described as tense. the enemy is not abandoning its attempts to attack russian forces. so it was, is that since your horse mother, i'm a situation of and her son is difficult to prefer to the of the listeners. our further actions and plans regarding the city of class on itself will depend on the military and tactical situation. i repeat, it is already very difficult and i will as of today no sooner. so during this minor

plus the off more let's bring in our correspond inky of mathias bellinger. but he is the commander of russian forces in ukraine, admitting there that things are difficult around your song. what do we know about the military situation there? yeah, this is not only him, but also the heads of the head in the vice head of the house on region installed by the russians are in the occupied territories. they've also warned that a, an offensive by the ukrainian army was a that they were expecting this. and i had to have said that ukraine has drawn out tens of thousands of troops in the region. we don't have any confirmation from the ukrainian side, but that's not unusual. the ukraine is have been preparing for this for a long time. and these, i admit the, the fact that the russians are now admitting that something is the,

had that they expect something to happen might be a sign that they either plan to retreat or that they seriously think that they are what might not be able to hold against the ukrainian attacks that they pro kremlin authorities in sher san are said to be a back you waiting themselves and have called on residence to get out. what can you tell us about these evacuations? mathias. yeah, we've heard several a cause to leave the, the region from these authorities to either go to the left bank or further near a river. so here on is on the right bank and these territories, that would be the 1st in the ukrainian that i would be on the right bank. and of course the reverse chrome other regions that russia has occupied there. we're relocating people forcibly to rush up, possibly to assimilate them there, which would be of course, a war cry. there are indications,

mathias that russia is reaching out to other countries for support. talk to us about that. yes. when talking mainly about iran. we've seen these attacks on key, for example, this week, but also on other places in ukraine that have been carried out by ukrainian so called come because the drones loitering munitions, that's jones that can fly over terry tree. they loitered there and then they hit that target. they have proven to be more effective for the russians when they try to hit the 1000000000 targets mostly. and because more difficult to intercept by defense with most differences are designed to just the planes are rocket and the pattern which latrene ministers used to fly is a bit different. so lead time to adapt your premise. they shut down more than $200.00 of them. but if you doesn't got through we also hearing that russia was replenishing is dr. rockets and iran not significant. that would mean that russia

has really used up much of their own rocket. and here thank you very much. corresponded mathias putting a there in the ukranian capital q. well iranian climber and those record b has been welcomed back into iran 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. that's a breach of iran's mandatory dress rules for women athletes. 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 water fate is now she appeared without a headscarf during a competition in south korea the weekend,

you know, they, these lamps, republic mandates that all female athletes where the he job recovery his claim competing without the her job 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. and 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 is to should they should never be and subjected to violations, such as arbitrary detention or, or any kind of violence. which regards to what they were anti government protests in iran, sparked by 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. earlier we spoke to monsieur bihari about this, he's in a rainy and canadian journalist and an editor of iran wire dot com. we asked him what he makes of on those record, be arriving back in iran to a hero's welcome. this is a film that we've 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 corps 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 or solidarity with the women of iran war protesting. and then she was course as far as we know her family, especially her brother, whose 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 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. i was marcia bihari, they're a journalist and an editor at iran wire dot com. now to hong kong, where the chief executive, john lee has delivered his debut policy speech, emphasizing the importance of security and covet 19 restrictions. lee also addressed plans to boost hong kong economy. was appointed in july by beijing after massive pro democracy protests, which were followed by a crack down territory then suffered in economic downturn. lee has been sanctioned by the us for his role in the crackdown on pre ropes. humble puppy hunting cause we asked dw, is phoebe calling about? john lee is plans to continue with the hardline policies of the past several years while and john, these very fast policy has come at

a time when paging is holding as most important party congress in beijing that john lee. i'm actually reference this policy as a policy i tries to students me in speech and say that beijing's instruction is a guide for hong kong. and that one of the most important aspects is about national security. that a more meshes a week ordering, safeguarding national security is proposed in this policy address that are in the coming feel guess we're expecting. and other additional sets of national security legislation in a local version of that is now in preparation to regulate espionage and leakage of national secrets, et cetera. and only is also proposing to and that's more law to regulate cyber security on the will so called false information and the crowd funding activities, etc. so we expecting more restrictions are in his term. and but the fact that john lee at didn't gave an exact time frame of these kind of flow. and next mon match

these shows a kind of our facilities that facing what light to reserve light, particularly when hong kong and china, i facing huge economic challenges that they would like to see what that kind of problem fast before on the national security matches one of the world's biggest literary about the frankfurt book fair has opened its doors this year, spain as guest of honor, despite being europe's 5th largest economy is plagued by high unemployment on inequality. 3 spanish authors have written books reflecting on life as women in a country that was once a dictatorship and still has strong attachment to conservative traditions. author, anna eva, seamen grew up in the rural area of castillo la mancha. her family had humble beginnings. the fact that she was able to go to madrid and study was considered a step up. but due to the financial crisis, the author lost her job 3 times in a row. by her late twenty's, she'd had enough and wrote an angry book fair dea,

a book of memories. yeah, here that was there. and concrete things we've really gone downhill by my parents were able to buy a house and start a family at the age of 20. and my yodi, the majority of my generation can't afford it at 30. we can't even consider it blended. elena may day has written a social novel, a deeply psychological study that tells of the barriers of the spanish class system . it follows the lives of 2 women, grandmother, and grand daughter, maria, who grows up in the deeply conservative atmosphere of franco's dictatorship all her life. she does menial work, but she continues her education opening up a new world for herself. alisha story on the other hand, is one of decline. once upon a time her family had money. now elisa works at the train station in a kiosk, alicia and maria to women struggling to make ends meet in a world where everything revolves around money that they don't have. after the

franco dictatorship, there were a number of authors who jumped at the chance to write about issues that moved them . rosa montero is one of them. a legend since publishing her 1st novel in 1979 about a journalist raising her son alone, and searching for direction in the post franco era. it was so emanating literally where i began to say it openly, things that we couldn't have said before, because eh, may, may, a novel appears 4 years after as franco's death. and before you couldn't talk about the real life, rosa montero has published nearly 20 novels to date, non fiction, short stories, and children's books that have been translated into many languages, often with strong female characters who struggle with men. and with a society they continue to see as unjust. rosa montecito, anna, eat a seaman, elena middle, 3 women writers, campaigning for a fairer spain. and for women to be able to decide for themselves what kind of life

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