a bit targeted environmentalists in danger starts october 29th on d. w. ah ah ah . this is dw news line from berlin flooded. we are putting declares martial law in for ukrainian regions. announcement tightened moscow's grip on territories that russia illegally annexed last month. meanwhile, putin's top general in ukraine admit that his front line troops are facing difficulties, also coming up,

bracing for blackouts. ukraine says it'll start restricting electricity supplies and warrens residents to prepare for temporary outages. as russia continues, its assaults on ukraine's power infrastructure and a heroes welcome at terror on airport or an arabian climber who competed abroad without a head scarf. ah, but there is concern, she may yet be punished for breaking a run. strict islamic rules for women's dress. ah, i'm the cough relate to our viewers. joining us on p. b. s. and the united states and around the world. welcome russian president vladimir putin has declared martial law in the 4 regents of ukraine. that moscow illegally annexed after a series of discredited boats just weeks ago, kremlin,

back to officials in her son, one of those regions announced it would move civilians out of the area ahead of unexpected ukrainian offensive a step that could amount to force deportation. jackson was one of the 1st ukranian cities to fall to russian forces. now ukraine is preparing to retake control these images by a russian and sold official claim to show fortifications outside the city. as russian forces are retreating from have sun. vladimir putin blames ukraine for defending its territory, gives him cuz the cave regime refused to recognize the will of the people rejects any proposals for negotiation, as gunfire continue, so civilians di you've not nearly alluded could in declared marsh law in the 4 ukrainian regions, said moscow legally annexed jose mickely marrow. we're working on solving very complex, large scale tasks in the to ensure security and protect the future of russia to

protect our people that she kinetic. who did the move was seen as a clear response to reason military setbacks as ukraine counter offensive advances of san marcos. growing up in 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 such oh it was is that her sister who was 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 to day nursery ordinance again this minute plus her put ins decree came on the day that russian and sold officials in the ukrainian city of her son announced they would move civilians in anticipation of an imminent ukrainian attack a short while ago,

i spoke to investigative journalist and rider catherine belt, and she works for the washington post and is the author of the 2020 book buttons people. i asked her when she makes appearance, declaration of martial law in the annex territories. and he's obviously very worried about this ukrainian counter offensive. it does look like the very, very close notes taking care. so and, and he's sort of making steps to make it clear to his population that this is ukraine's aggression, not russia, aggression. and in fact, an advisor to the defense ministry has said that he's worried that what the russians are doing to preparing the ground for kind of a mis inflammation campaign. he's worried that this evacuation is preparing the ground, brought some kind of bombing attack, which then the russians could blame on the cranium. so there's all kinds of shuffling going on. but really, the bottom line is the last, the preaching is going to be very big blood every little makes is

a further escalation of things. if you just digging a deeper and deeper hole for himself, or can he actually turn the tide of the war? you know, it's very difficult, obviously he's already been backed into sourcing the mobilization of his own people . you'd always promised that he was never going to have to do that. it's a deeply and popular step which really undermines the foundations of his own presidency. his legitimacy is president, is based on his popularity and ready by bringing the war home to russians. now, bringing it not, not like it was popular women russians because they were watching on this as if they were watching a football match on tv. but now they're risking the life of their loved ones. people who might not come back from the front to be barely trained and equipped to fight mean craniums. and really he never want to measure that. he never wanted to take, and it's already leaving him very vulnerable to purchase within his iep and by

declaring martial law is also in a way, admitting that russia is in fact at war something that he's trying to avoid until now. by labeling it a special military operation, hasn't he? what could be the domestic repercussions of this? you know, i think, i mean, with each stage over the past month as russia has lost more and more territory ukrainians, which is sort of preparing the ground, it seems with the recognition of what he's called as special material peroration as a war. first, we have mobilize ation now the marshal, who are in the ukranian regions and kind of a semi marshal status even within the russian regions itself on the borders. ukraine is going to be strict and all isn't for any comic mobilize ation to support the effort. so the wireless, it's creeping closer and closer to that and really having

a big impact on his standing in the lead on among the population. there was a recent opinion by the criminal public opinion foundation which found that 70 percent of russians and now very, very anxious about what's going on. he's really bringing, bringing the situation home to russian says, i think his position is much more for terry than it's ever been in his entire presidency. who is still on board with this war. he wrote a book called people who are poor people. at the stage, you know, we're seeing divisions emerge within the, in the, around him. of course there are hard liners who are pressing pretending to act against ukraine. i mean, he himself, was, sees, this was that he began almost by accident because he believed that, you know,

at the 1st sight of russian troops, president lensky of reclaimed, was just run away. i didn't think he ever in the business that 8 months on he's still be fighting this war but has gone on. he's backed into a corner or a hard liners, such as if guinea, pretty goose. in a long time, i let his from st. petersburg, who has sent his own messen, me into the site and ukraine. there is another whole cold nikolai popular ship, who is the head of versus security council, who was very instrumental in and paving the way towards that's more in ukraine. he told who turned just days before and now infamous security council meeting, that's the u. s. with using ukraine of the platform to destabilize russia and undermine it. and he told or put in that we are a task is to defend a russia sovereignty and territorial integrity. pretty much tell includes what to do. so he's definitely

a hawk. but there are definitely those within russia's economic and now who are becoming more and more a gasket? what's going on in the summer? they were perhaps content to that, the will rumble on in east ukraine. they were hoping to divert trade to china and india and avoidance of western sanctions. but that's becoming ever more difficult and seeing who to lose territory. and that's not just a loss to his popularity it's, it's kind of a loss to his standing within the leaks and suddenly he is coming back. game has been going to great lengths to place the blame for russian defeats on his defense minister. but he is the commander in chief of the russian armed forces. so are people starting to point fingers on him? well, we've seen some reporting out of the u. s. i think from some, some colleagues who said that of content have,

with personally taking command of all me, that he was actually issuing orders in south trying to sort of, kind of in bagel himself into the day to day operations. so at some point it's going to come back to bite to, i mean, so far, most of the criticism has been directed at his military chiefs, but i think that's getting harder and harder to keep the lid on, especially as we see this constant retreat. katherine belt, an investigative journalist and writer, pleasure speaking to you tonight. thank you so much. ukraine says it will begin limiting electricity supplies as russia continues. it's assault on the countries, the energy infrastructure residents are being told to limit their electricity use from 7 am to 11 pm or face temporary blackouts, or corresponding funding for shar went to the town of o crying car, 50 kilometers from cave. the town lost power due to a russian strike last week,

and is now facing more of the same. gladys love is proud of this wood stove. he built it during the war last week, yet to use it for the very 1st time. when i, when we were getting ready for winter, when, when we expected that there will be an outage at some point or shelly on critical infrastructure, ordeal, grammar, bloody slough, and his neighbors in a claim on your key turned their garage into shelters. they are building fireplaces, in case the energy supply goes down again. like last week when russia hit roughly one 3rd of ukraine's electricity and heating infrastructure. many parts of the country including acclaimed cal, we are plunged into darkness. people in this town are not struggling to find alternative means to power and heat their homes before winter, and possibly more blackouts arrive. nobody here believes that the war will end any time soon. and many feel helpless. show that the light is full of how can i prepare

for this is everything i use runs on electricity when it is minus 20 degrees and there is no power in this cold weather. this will be really bad, valuable. it was a bon here called through there, but if i have blankets showing you, show you and some fruit of that, it does not need to be cooked. give notice that had a lot of course here city officials have said they will buy generators that john, of which are an activist here, says there's not enough money to supply every one. much of that. the cost of that is our call to save energy and the electron that he was she a steak into social media, to advise people what to do when from william or low. they will tell people how to decrease consumption in peak hours. you must switch off the stove, the cattle, the heater, the boiler, and the washing machine whirl a bridle massena puts that. they showed up that way you can safe electricity and avoid a blackout in a double split. the vila with gluten blood is left can afford a generator, and he stocked up on food on like many of his fellow citizens, he's better prepared. he's more worried about others. marcia, probably him was,

these are problems here. they're not even close to the problems on the front line. was the one that's why we mostly don't think about ourselves. god, we think about our grammys. are grandpa wobbles pensioners. i'm the guys in the battlefield. use a dr. political. no one here knows exactly what winter will bring, but everyone wants to make you through a. so take a look at some of the other stories related to russia's war in ukraine were falling for you. the european parliament has given us top human rights award, the sahara prize for freedom of thought to the king in people and their representatives, european parliament, president robert m at sala said ukrainians for risking their lives for european values. european union states have backed sanctions on iran after drones, apparently manufactured there were used by russia and strikes on ukraine. they use as 5 individuals and 3 entities will be sanctioned. the individuals concerned will

be banned from travelling to the you and have their assets in the block frozen. the rain and climber illness recovery has been welcomed back in terran 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 round strict islamic dress rules for women. in competitive climate, illness recovery is back in a ran, greeted by a bouquet of flowers and cheering crowds outside tear an air horse. 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 her job recovery has claim competing without the her 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, a spark speculation that her statements may have been coerced. even the un 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 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 iran spot for the death of a woman in the custody of the countries notorious morality police of entered the 5th week. now the authorities, treatment of another woman, will be closely watched. now what would you do if you were injured but to afraid to go to the hospital? that's a dilemma. many protesters and iran face these days, many injured demonstrator say they worry about being turned over to the police and have been forced to look abroad for help. yvonne security forces continue their crackdown and protesting. yet iranians are still on the streets, calling for the country supreme leader. i told her how many to quit. hold him personally responsible for the death of gena, marcia armine,

the 22 year old iranian kurdish woman who died in police custody in september. they know they're risking their lives and even those who are injured avoid hospital treatment for fear of being arrested. ah. then health comes from 10000 kilometers a doctor came. i me honey. and iranian american doctor is chief of internal medicine at the clifton springs hospital in new york. he offers medical advice online, so people send you pictures of the injuries and how do you con, call to get in contact with them? how do you answer the questions? if i can help them over instagram, ah, sometimes i ask for images of their leg or their arms. i look at it to the best of my ability. i tell them what to do. ah, then i have a team of doctors that i've built relationship with over the last 3 years doing

over it. and i feel like they're safe and, and i connect the 2. so i mean, you can talk a little bit about the most common injuries you are seeing. the most common are wounds from pallets of it. they can be from bert shots, majority or birch charts because they're multiple anywhere from 20 pallets to 50 to a 100. and now i'm seeing injuries with paint gun where the actual bullet is metal. it's not from a paint from staying a. i'm seeing a larger wound with necrotic surrounding. they don't penetrate inside the body. but again, if they don't take care of that wound, it can become infected and it can be sceptic. i'm also seeing a lot of 2nd and 3rd degree burns from electrical baton that they're using. a lot of these burns need medical attention like i v antibiotics i v fluids, large bruises throughout their body from fighting with the police are falling down

while they're running away. my biggest fear is the law supply of antibiotics and also tetanus. maxine, because a lot of these individual would need this boosters and are running low in that. how many messages to you? good doctor, i extrapolated based on an hourly message close to 302500 messages a day every 24 hours is no sign of an empty ron's protest. so the government's christ on that number is only likely to increase the head of the world health organization as urgent action is needed in the field in region of t cry. in order to avert a genocide civil war between the government and neighboring erin tre on one side and the t grab people's liberation front on the other has been fought since 2020 violence has intensified since a truce broke down in august. here's what the w h o g said. this is

a health crisis for 6000000 people and the world is not paying enough attention. i urge the international community and the media to give this crisis the attention it deserves. there is a very narrow window. now to prevent genocide, i repeat there is a very narrow window. now to prevent genocide into gray. the un has warned that the fighting and t cry is spiraling out of control and has repeated its call for an immediate cease fire. countless people are at risk of going hungry as the fuel be in government tightens of lockheed. lillian women prepare food for troops on the front line for our safety and survival. they charge for to grow television commerce. for nearly 2 years,

war has been raging between to grice, regional rulers, an ethiopian and eritrea troops. the to grey forces a practically surrounded and addis ababa is severely restricting humanitarian aid from entering the area of the flogger. this the block of you and human rights commission has documented the 8 blockade and went to a record came out just a few weeks ago. and it details for the 1st time, very clearly by the way that you feel pee inside has been using hunger as a weapon. it wasn't. and it's of course, explicitly criticizes that socrates yet does not wish and orders. this is sure, a year ago to grind fighters had driven out ethiopian military to much celebration . now the city, one of the biggest into gray, has been recaptured by ethiopian in eritrea and troops. there is no new footage. hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians are estimated to have been killed since the beginning of the conflict,

largely out of the site of the world's media. the un says more than 5000000 people now rely on food aid, nearly 90 percent of the population. every 3rd child is suffering from malnutrition, and infant and maternal mortality are also much, much higher than before the conflict. the devastated health care system has made the situation even worse. we're ever is remitted. is there any funky and according to the original, his amazon educational proficiency was because of the story. the region was already suffering from the effects of climate change. now with the conflict, the crisis is rapidly becoming a humanitarian catastrophe. ethiopian journal, a samuel got a chew, has been following the conflict, and i asked him what the situation is like on the ground antique right at the moment. what we know at the moment is it's getting close. the ethiopian forces

are getting close to mccully. they have recaptured the town of sherry, which is the town that's the home or for the head of the t. t. p. live diversity on dr. deborah tian. so they're getting close. there doesn't seem to be any willingness to compromise on this conflict that began almost 2 years ago and has affected millions of your parents even famine that really defined ethiopia, the 108485 faith europe and famine seems to be coming to this region and ask where we are at the moment, and there are reports of people being deprived of access to health care, which a soft food education and financial aid. how does the ethiopian government justify that blockade? will they throw up and government is blaming t p a left and t p left as countering the argument that it's them that's preventing aid from arriving to the region of the great, it's not just to gray,

that's been affected by this conflict. it's also aha. and are far, but the open government has said once the culture towns like charee and alameda, they're going to open a humanities her and corridor to assist the people love her really suffering as a result of this conflict there. they have also had part of amara will be accessible to organizations like w, f, p to ensure that food aid woods, cider wood finally arrived to this region that has been deprived of much of the basic humanitarian need that's really needed in this region. eritrea has become a major player in this conflict. can you explain what the neighboring countries role is and all of this? well, they so can prime minister a year ago said that there are chance are getting involved to really fight for the interest. he has said from parliament that there's fear that they might take over or there might really outreach their borderline and come to to guy and really

disturb a or the t p. i left my come to eric she and side and really disturbed the interest . so for chia so he's been saying that they're only involved to really keep their interest in tact. but. busy t p f has been saying that they're involved trying to perhaps, you know. busy create some kind of genocide, but the children government has insisted that's not why they are involved, but they're involved to really keep their interest in tact. but again, this conflict i have to highlight has really affected millions of 50 pence. the u. n. has been echoing the problem in terms of how many millions have been. busy have been become victims of this really violent, this war that began 2 years ago. and it's not just facing ethiopia,

but thousands of the children have be heading to the sudan, looking for some kind of safety net, just really not available at home, yet them peace negotiations have been post found just recently. is there any hopes reaching a compromise and through negotiations and reaching piece there has been rumors that they are going to have some kind of peace negotiation happening in the south africa. the last a negotiation that was to have taken place in south africa. 1 the head, the former president of kenya, who kenyatta has said that he wasn't consulted enough to really push this negotiation to move forward. that he left has been saying that they have been consulted in care of in terms of their logistical support that's needed to transport them. to south africa, to really sit down with the children side and agree on some kind of cease fire. but there is a uniform like understanding between both sides that this war,

unless it stopped or slowed down, is going to be our 50 minutes of your bents. on both sides, samuel get a chance we can test from there. okay, thanks. thank you. and a quick reminder of the top story we're following for you today. russian president vladimir putin as the cleared marshal law and for regions that were illegally annexed from ukraine last month. the decree, titans, the kremlin, is hold on those areas which have been seeing a ukrainian advance in recent weeks. you're watching the news from berlin, i'm to call for the state you. and now after a quick break, i'll be back to take it for the day of the say that ah, with

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