ah, we don't do something our children won't be able to enjoy fresh air. you are a 3 deal. starts november said on d w. ah, ah ah, business dw news live from berlin digging in for the heaviest of battles. the crane says the russian troops are preparing to defend the largest city under their control in the strategically vital region of hare san also coming up defying the regime. iranian activist called for mass protest as

a traditional morning period and where the 22 year old woman killed in custody for not wearing for a job correctly added to point and say that it is the national security threat and could threaten public order and safety. so why is germany allowing china to take a stake in its largest port in hamburg? ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. a senior ukrainian official says that russian forces are digging in and preparing to defend the partially occupied southern region of hare song. ukrainian troops have been forcing back the russians and retaking land in the region for weeks. now they are closing in on the russian forces in the west bank of the ne pro river kremlin backed authorities have been moving civilians to locations for their east ahead of the ukrainian advance. but an

adviser to president lensky says that moscow is strengthening its front line and not preparing a retreat from parasol. i spoke earlier with d, w correspondent, and t funny the char, who is following the latest developments in and around hassan and russia's attempts to hold the frontline but only to all the lines cetera. but they are attempts to actually break. so to break through those ukrainian positions as well, which clearly tells you our indicates that russia doesn't only want to be on the defensive, but actually make kit or slow down the ukranian counter offensive there. and if you look at her so city, why? 82 important strategically, why is it that fierce battle expected over the control of the city? we have to understand that he's been occupied by russian forces from early march. so quiet pretty much at the beginning of this food kit invasion that of questions

actually have been proposed at 2 of the ukrainian government by various people. why that was possible to take out of city from early on. that's something to be answered obviously wants is, war is over. right now. the focus is a full ukrainian forces. how to liberate harrison city. and obviously if that's going to happen, then they do have that's very important land cory door established again towards crimea with their next crest. and we should be too old to take on crimea something that ra, she's not just going to simply lead, go off. there is a fierce battle accept expected over her some city and over the control of these very important regional capital of the region. tell us a little bit more about the ukranian counter offensive just more broadly speaking. funny because i mean the ukrainians. they have had the momentum in recent weeks. certainly just over the past couple of weeks they have been able to liberate about a 90 settlement. at least that's the information we received here from the

ukrainian government 90 settlement. this is on the west and part of the new port river because the way you have to imagine here has in region it is being basically separate as through the nipple river. so you have one part of the region on the west and back. the other part on the eastern bank and to the eastern bank, this is where the russian forces actually move thousands of ukrainians to expecting these a battle to at o 2 to to intensify of course in the next a couple of days. now the fact that ukraine is speaking about 90 settlement, of course we cannot verify these numbers. we cannot even tell you exactly what's happening in house and city right now. simply because it is not possible for international or even for local jolly's to axis. russia occupy territory or link just a very limited way, even is it possible to access the ukrainian controlled part of house and region to everything that we can say at this point, that the battle over that important region and per se,

all of that capital of hassan region has the city, namely, is going to take up quite some steam and a couple of days. and the question will be, who is going to actually take control over house and see if you will of course, thanks of thousands of civilians there. a bearing the brunt of the spiting from both sides, ukrainian on won, and russian on the other side, funding for char and keith. thank you so much. now, activists and iran are staging protests to mark the end of morning period for gina masa, ahmed me, the young woman who died 40 days ago after being detained by overruns morality. police demonstrations have been gaining momentum despite a crackdown by security forces alleged to have killed hundreds including children. the rallies are being led by women and girls. they have been burning their head scarves and confronting riot police on the streets. many of the protesters are calling for the overthrow of the regime and the supreme leader,

ayatollah ali ha minay. he alleges the demonstrations are being orchestrated by foreign governments and are part of an effort to undermine iran. he is also vowed to punish the protesters. and as we report, the ayatollah word is final in the country. ah, debt to her money, death to the dictator. the slogan you here in iran street protests. it's directed at this man. i a toya ali company, the supreme leader of the country. since the beginning of the unrest in september, he has belittled his critics. the protests by iranian women and girls are controlled from abroad. he claims in battery, made his either candidate by bits quart hired that all this was planned by america caught on the faint, quoted as you move surfing zionist regime, that j. e n. its followers. the harmony has fought all his life for

a wrong to be an islamic state of god and to remain so he began training as a cleric during his childhood. in the 1950s, at that time, iran was ruled by the shaw an autocrat who severely limited the influence of religion in the country. how many joined the ayatollah khomeini is opposition movement, and was arrested a number of times by the shaws secret service. when khomeini led to his lamp revolution in 1979 and overthrew the shot to the cheers of millions, homogeneity rise in the newly established regime began. khomeini died 10 years later and company was chosen by the religious council of experts to succeed him. since then, he has been the supreme authority in iran, although there are regular presidential elections in the country, in which hominy also votes. but in the end it is he not the president who has the final say in all decisions. and he has made his positions clear time and time again

. in foreign policy, he sees the usa and israel as arch enemies, and he has repeatedly denied the holocaust who has cuz domestically he relies on censorship, strict surveillance and a security apparatus that is supposed to defend the ideals of the islamic revolution under hominy. the iranian revolutionary guard has become an important power factor and notorious a lead force that has repeatedly put down protests in 2009 after reading the presidential election and again now in the protest, following the death of gina masa armine hominy backs the crackdown, got them in the late thought they could approve the tree of these la mac republic. in the on that small tree has now turned into a massive tree. any one who even thinks about the uprooting or is treating that is completely wrong? how many once said that he is ready to sacrifice everything for the revolution and islam wrong, and he has always defended his power with harshness and resolve. a

cyclone has hit bangladesh, killing more than a dozen people around. 1000000 residents happen forced to evacuate bangladesh and other countries in the region are regularly hit by cyclones. but research shows climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels is making such storms more intense and more frequent. must some let's house in feathers. bungler dish have been badly affected by the flood of water has still not completely defeated. she tries to protect what has been left undamaged, that we somehow managed to save our furniture from the water by creating a dam. but some $200.00 worth of fish from our pond floated away. we are happy that at least no trees fell on the house like that, and i thought you will fit that on tropical storm has left large swats of

agricultural land under water. poems of homes have been damaged fish, leaf washed away. millions are without bobo and many i still beaten for help. the capital tucker is also flooded. to show dr. with have to push that away. he goes through the water roy gonna noodle the storms and the reason we really struggle with kathy all the time starting monday to get off. so it's very difficult to drive a trish also before it shouldn't. country is prone to natural disasters. thank a fee climate change, it's making storms more frequent and destructive. but people like ma, summit fee. they have been left to faith, the devastation alone by and here are some other stories making news around the world. britain's new prime minister richie sooner has appointed his cabinet snack

has kept jeremy hunt on as finance minister vowing to fix the you case. economic crisis sooner has also re appointed to well a bay for men as interior minister. just days after she resigned from liz trust is government id da says that it's ending its partnership with american wrapper kaya west over anti semitic remarks. the germans sportswear company called comments by the wrapper, quote, unacceptable, hateful and dangerous. at least 6 organizations have distanced themselves from kaya west in recent months because of his controversial remarks. new video has emerged showing the lead up to china's former leader, being escorted away from the communist party congress, whose in tao was seated next to president. cheese in ping on saturday before being led away. the move has both stoke speculation that who was upset that some allies had been stripped of power. china's ambassador to south korea says the 79 year old

was tired and taking a break. the german government has given good a green light to a controversial chinese investment plan in the port of hamburg china state shipper . costco will be allowed to buy a steak, although smaller than originally planned. china has been keen to build up overseas, influenced by buying up european critical infrastructure. 6 german ministry is rejected. the plans intelligence agency is also advised against the sale. sholtes as coalition allies on the opposition also opposed zeal. and some wireless van steven beardsley has joining us from today. the business. so tell us steven, our cosco minority interest lower than was expected. but, and, you know, what does this decision in general mean for chinese influence in the port of hamburg, which is crucial infrastructure for the country as a haul? yeah, it means that their influence grows on this as a significant stake. um that,

you know, it's one of the most important terminals were there was just one for a while, the group but sure brought me here you will. the further use can be do see that i'm as said, there's love to have as much ration i'm of so there he have no, but isn't it right? in fact too big to 20 percent being the german. okay. it is current to increase their steak to anything above 24.9 percent. then there will be another review from the german government. ok, and what is cosca has the same in time or publicly we haven't heard anything from cosco during this whole debate. the german government says that it's been in discussions with them throughout you know, there was some speculation that hasn't speculation that if cosco doesn't like the

outcome of this review of that, it could threaten to take business elsewhere. it's hard to say to what extent that's true, you know, what find that same capacity in rotterdam or antwerp what it has in hamburg right now. it's hard to say at the same time, you know, we have to remember that chinese companies, they often also take a long view when it comes to investment in foreign companies. they begin with smaller stakes and then they work their way up. we've seen that time and time again . so it's hard to imagine that they won't be willing to accept this and not as in germany, of course, all around the globe. we have been seeing in our chinese companies buying up and crucial infrastructure, we have to say. so the debate over european and business and german business ties somewhat broadly speaking isn't going away as i go. in fact, it's really heating up. we've seen this in recent days in recent weeks, especially in this german governing coalition. and given the state of politics right now in china, she, jim ping having secured his 3rd term, it's already been an era of sharper elbows from china. and now taiwan is likely to grow more and more prominent on, you know, on the horizon. so there's speculation,

especially given what's happened with russia and ukraine. i think the government here doesn't want to be in a situation which feels like it's heavily dependent on chinese business on the one side or the other. whether that's chinese investment, critical infrastructure here, or businesses that are heavily dependent in china. and we see that we have different we have different sort of arguments in the coalition right now. we're seeing that come to ahead. we've seen that there have been suggestions to review german business investment in china. there was a huge debate that came out of that. so this is all happening right now. it's probably going to continue for the near future. absolutely, steven beardsley from did that the business putting it on to context for thank you so much. you're up to date and d, w. thank you so much for watching. mm. i believe because we try to to show the face.