ah ah ah this is the w 9 from berlin digging in for the heaviest of battles ukraine sets russian troops bearing to defend the largest city under their control. in the strategically important region of hassle. also on the program, raining activist called for more protests as the traditional morning period. gina

masa, i mean he and she died in police custody after big arrested for allegedly wearing a jap incorrectly. i'm the franco german motor at the heart of the european union, appears to be suffering malfunction. we look at what's behind the current calling of relations between chancellor sholtes and president macro as they meet in the french captain. ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program. russian forces are digging in and preparing to defend the partially occupied a southern region of hare sun. now that's according to a senior ukrainian official ukrainian troops have been forcing the russians back and liberating land in the region for weeks. now they are closing in on russian forces on the west bank of at the ne pro river. anticipating the ukrainian at france kremlin back starts,

is have been moving civilians to locations for the east. but an adviser to president lansky says moscow is strengthening its frontline in her son. rather than preparing to retreat. i asked a correspondent, funny for shar, in key of how russian tactics have changed since a recent withdrawal to the east bank of the denise pro. we're hearing that they're setting up, or they're in the midst of setting up a local militia in harrison city is you may indicate that they are running out of people literally, that they want locals actually to join russian forces to help fight ukrainian forces. and this is exactly the worry that people, hattie all the wife. what if it comes to the situation it's been already do reported by the way, from the don bus region that local ukrainian civilians have to pick up the weapon actually fired other ukrainians. now we do not know exactly for this very moment, what is actually happening in that regional capital, simply because there's no access for johnny smith comes to russian occupied

territories, at least for the most part. what we do know that ukraine is continuing is counter offensive, and even though we're just here right now, due to bad, rather, a debt offensive is also experiencing a little bit of a slow down. why, at the same time, russia that they're not just going to simply give up on harrison city or the region as a whole? yes, they have been repelled from certain our scores of, of villages and settlements over the course of the past weeks. but at the same time, to definitely want to make sure that they can maintain control of a harrison city at the biggest, see the actually that they've been able to control from a pretty much the beginning of this war for march 2nd. so what is happening in terms of counter offensive from ukraine and russia trying to defend their positions? it's hard to get a complete and clear picture. but once again. 1 filtering is certain that russia is not just going to easily give up on the strategically important regional capital. let's look at that a funny. so what is it about the city that means bases where russia is going to

make a spam throughout the whole of this region. of course, was it starting point to ukraine, is that if you zoom in on that map you see is on the southern part of ukraine. you also see that house on a house in region is establishing basically land cory door to crimea. this land core, your important to us, your forces right now. this was to supply the forces with weapons to make sure that they can continue to advance from the southern front while for ukraine. of course, it is crucial to maintain to control again over the entire region specifically over her city. because with that, the actually would have the chance to advanced further to the south. and it may be even to get a grip on crimea. something that's been an ax more than 8 years ago in 2014, so mostly ukraine and for russia, it really comes down to our city. when we connected through the question,

that's how the war is going to continue. a lot is going to be decided how the next phase of this war is going to be like, depending on who is going to have the upper hand here over, has the city feel funny, official, and key. thank you so much. i now to iran, where activists, the staging protest em up the end of the morning period for gina masa. i mean a, the young woman who died 40 days ago after being detained by the country's morality police at the cemetery in her home town in kurdistan. province more this martha day with more demonstrations. this video from today, which the w has a very fight, a shows dozens of protesters at the cemetery chanting slogans against the regime activist, say security services, wadhams that means family against holding a ceremony. and demonstrations have been gaining momentum despite a crackdown which is said to have killed hundreds, including a children at women and girls are leaving many of the protests and are being confronted by riot police on the streets. witnesses across the country have spotted

a heavy deployment of security forces. many of the protesters, according to the overthrow of the regime and the supreme leader, ayatollah ali come and a, he says, the demonstrations will be orchestrated by foreign governments to undermine iran. and has a promise that protested will be punished. ah dents to hum a ne, death to the dictator. slogans often heard during iran street protests. it's directed at this man. i a toller ali humanae, the supreme leader of the country. since the beginning of the unrest in september, he has belittled his critics. he says the protests by iranian women and girls are controlled from abroad in battle, mediator canada by bits quartz hired that all this was bland by america, caught on the faint, quoted as you mazar being zionist regime,

red j the and his followers the i'm a ne, has fought all his life for iran to be an islamic republic. he began training as a cleric during his childhood. in the 1950s. at that time, iran was ruled by the shaw and autocrat who severely limited the influence of religion in the country. company then joined the ayatollah khomeini is opposition movement. he was even arrested several times by the shaws, secret service. companies rise to power began when khomeini led the islamic revolution in 1979, and over through the shaw to the cheers of millions. establishing hominy as part of the new regime. khomeini died 10 years later and homei 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 come

a ne, also votes. but in the end it is he not the president who has the final say will. and he has made his positions clear a time and time again. you don't, you're in foreign policy. he sees the usa and israel as arch enemies, and he has repeatedly denied the holocaust domestically. he relies on censorship, surveillance, and security forces that are supposed to defend the ideals of the islamic revolution under harmony. the iranian revolutionary guard has become a notorious force that has repeatedly quashed protests, including in recent weeks following the death of gina masa armine in police. custody company says he backs the crack down earlier than in the late thought they could approve the tree of these la mac republic. in the one that small tree has now turned into a massive tree. anyone who even thinks about the uprooting this tree that is completely wrong on as ease harmony once said that he is ready to sacrifice every

thing for the revolution and for islam. and he has always defended his power with few compromises. megan should okay, is an iranian activist and campaign of women's rights who's now based in london at welcome to at d. w. let's, let's start with your reaction to the these 40 by old protest. what goes through your mind at when you see a visa women girls matted boys are on the streets there. a really heart warming to actually see this amount of bravery on the streets of the rod. if they're really proof, i cracked down. as you mentioned in, you may think report that the government doesn't just stop at anything. they just kill people on the trees. we just received the picture of a mom that has been killed in, in a car in front of her child, just because she was filming, with her mobile phone. its really, really cold on the street. and the main thing, pictures that they are seeing of the number,

a massive number of people going down on the streets and protesting it. there's no way to describe it as how we are feeling what we are doing outside the run. and we're just trying to beat a voice and support them and find a way to give them more encouragement and feel to be able to continue asking for what the asked for not much we can do as outside is other than the kind of emotional support. but i think the outside column and the international community can do much bigger things and they haven't got to that point kit. ok, when they are taller says that these protests are controlled by the us and israel. what's your response? oh, this is, this is like been repeated. it's like a tape recording that has been repeated for 43 years. so nobody actually believe. and the truth is,

when you see the people on the street taking their life and to children at the schools high school, they've been beaten to death. there's no way that a government outside would say it's called or do it would affect the people and what they're doing it's, it's something that is coming from their lives, experiences and there's no, there is no outside force that can tell people how to deal with this situation because if it was that they could have done it much earlier or stop it now from happening. it's something that as a new agent that has been exposed to that database is when i was living in iran. and then i moved outside as well in different ways. i can guarantee that there is no hans playing outside that can actually encourage people to take on the street. so. so looking at the brutality crackdown and there are some reports that more than

$140.00 people have been killed. if we presume that the regime will not back down and will continue to kill you, if you go out on the streets, what is the most that protesters can hope for? i think what processors are asking and demanding right right now from the slogans are asking is, is a strike overall in all the sections of the country. but it's a really difficult thing because a strike worked really well. 43 years ago when islamic revolution happen. so the oil industry went on on this right, that you know, different parts of the country and, and that led to the class of government. what happened to you in the for decades is that you in economy change massively and part of it, especially after the sanction. so it's not a centralized economy anymore. it's in the hands of the g. c. it's like a small group. this is the revolution i got, so it's,

they basically run the country and the economy of the country. so going to try on in the oil fields doesn't actually mean anything. it could be a good, i would like to, to press you on this. so we have a crackdown and we have angry protesters on the streets. we have a call for a general strike, which you say, you think is unlikely to be effective. how does this end? if the regime says we will not back down and we will kill you if you keep this up. i think the most the thing that we are pushing for it's yeah, try to do this, right. but the most important part is getting the people who are close to the regime, just stop working with them and be under side. i see that the number of brutalities that happening and the streets, it's leading to a lot of people, their cronies, their children, to just try and stop supporting them. and i think that that support stops.

everything would change. good talking to you. thank you for joining us. not knowing that so clearly iranian activists and women's rights campaign, and then sure, okay, we'll take a look at some of the other stores are making a news around the world. hundreds of assyrian refugees of returned home from lebanon under ivory population scheme of government. pause during the pandemic. lebanese authority say it's voluntary, but rights groups are concerned that refugees may be pressured to return to the war torn country. new video has emerged showing that the lead up to showing the lead up to china that former leader, being escorted from the communist party congress fusion towel was seated next to president. she's in picking on saturday or being that away. the movie stokes regulation that mr. who was upset that some allies have been stripped of power. china's ambassador to south korea says the 79 year old was tired and taking a break. brittany to prime minister richie sumac has appointed his cabinet. jeremy

hunt remains finance minister, promising to fix the case. economic crisis is the student has also re appointed so on a braverman as interior minister. the days after she resigned from this trust government the german government is reportedly ready to greenlight a controversial chinese investment plan in the port of hamburg. but local media, say china state shipper, costco will be allowed to buy a steak, although small of them originally planned. china has been keen to build up overseas, influenced by buying up european critical infrastructure. 6 german ministers rejected the plans and all 3 intelligence agencies advised against the sale. chancellor sholtes, his coalition allies and the opposition also opposed the deal. well, the german chancellor is meeting for talks river french president, a manual macro in paris relations between the leaders of the used biggest

economists a tense, i mean disagreements, your defense energy and trade policy. the talks come after a regular joint governmental meeting was postponed. last week. francis finance ministers also admitted that relations are strange saying that a reset was needed. he wasn't your mistake with us join that date of the correspond lisa lewis. she sat barely st policy in paris, wherever meeting the house begun. oh welcome. lisa. today was supposed to be a very different sort of meeting. indeed, it was in a, it was supposed to be a big bilateral meeting between the 2 cabinets of the 2 countries. one of these meetings needs to happen, according to current rules, according to the current treaties between the 2 countries, at least once a year. now the al is he has been quick to say no. the meeting was not canceled by be that as it may, it was pushed back to early next year. and that might be,

that is actually being read as a sign of how frosty the relations are between the 2 countries. what we're seeing here today is all assaults the german chancellor, visiting a man of mccoy, at the alizae palace behind me. they're having a quick lunch there. having a quick chat, there will be no presser. there will be no common statement, no separate statement, and that really shows to what extent the rift is large between france and germany at this time. so the talk a sort of of the problems and i, because a visa, 2 key players were in the are they a you, what are the main differences they're trying to? i'm not absolutely. i mean, it's always been difficult to find common ground between france and germany. there are many domains in which they do not agree when it comes to the economy when it comes to energy when it comes to defense. but obviously in the current contact of context of the ukraine warf rather than russian invasion in ukraine, we're facing an energy crisis. we are facing an economic crisis. many,

several countries of the european union will face a recession at next year. these 2 countries are not finding common ground as to how to respond to the crisis. both sides are feeling that, you know, one country, france and germany are trying to goat alone when it comes to energy. just to give you an example, they're not trying, they're not finding a common mechanism to limit energy prices when it comes to defense. it seems like at germany rather wants to go for international technology, american noise, early technology, which france wants to create a european sovereignty. you know, built it common defense policy based on the european technology. it seems they can't really agree on much, although it's urgent actually, they need to find common ground in order to respond, respond to the current crisis. we are talking about just 2 countries to national leaders out of 27 in v e. u. how much does it matter for the block?

if those 2 out of $27.00, adding a few difficulties well, you're right is not just 2 countries. it's the blocks to biggest economies. it's crucial that they find common ground. mind you, it's really difficult for them to agree on anything. it's always been really difficult. but when they do find a compromise, all the other members, member states of the european union come aligned, align behind that compromise, and, and when france and germany don't agree, the e you can't really move forward. so it is very crucial for the 2 leaders behind me to, you know, to come to an agreement, give each other a hug, and pay the way to find common ground for featured shit decisions within the european union. all right, we'll wait for the pictures of that happening are for our lives louis in paris. thank you. is

a look at so source making news around the world added as, as its ending its partnership with american rapper, county west of anti semitic remarks. the german sportswear company called comments by the rapid, unacceptable, hateful and dangerous. the 6 organizations distance themselves from mister weston recent months because of his remarks. the german cabinet is approved to plan to partially legalize cannabis. the germans would not be punished for possessing up to 30 grams of marijuana or for growing limited amounts and selling it to adults in license shops. countries health minister says the changes must squared with the law before legislation is put forward. now report by one of the world's leading medical journals says that climate change is threatening people's health around the world. the lancet annual count down report found that the heat related illnesses, food insecurity and the spread of infectious diseases are all being worsened by the continuing use of fossil fuels. it makes

a point that extreme weather conditions are increasing globally with heat related deaths increasing by 2 thirds in the last 2 decades. but of course, office as also say that immediate action on clean energy could say could still save millions of lies. well, dr. marina romanella is research director for the lancet to count down report on to one of its co authors. welcome to the w, dr. are we talking about the health of everyone everywhere being adversely affected or mainly poor people in countries far away from the worst polluters? hello and thank you so much for having me. that's a great question to start with. that is a misconception that we generally get that people understand that he's only the poor, the vulnerable that are being affected by climate change. but we're seeing through the detainer report and to the live experiences that climate change any impacts on health have been felt in every single country around the world. this is not just

the problem of the poor of the vulnerable. i think in europe we've seen that very clearly with a flood last here just how much clement disinfecting us the drought this year. her have also been impacting on her health very heavily hearing their u. k. where i am, that has been very evidence. so this is a problem that has been felt all around the world and, and now we were hearing about the energy crisis and the cost of living crisis. that is also now compounding with the impacts of climate change and affecting everyone to lead today. so that's the real tight be if the effects of, of climate change around the world. what about the health effects were but, but your report talks about that's really what are i was getting at. are we seeing those being equally distributed, or, i guess is that just worse in, in, in poor countries far away, 4 countries are definitely more affected, more vulnerable because they have weaker defense lines. but high income countries as to whether it's becoming more extreme are also being heavily affected. when i

talk about extreme weather events, i'm not talking about buildings, i'm not just talking about the damage of infrastructure. i'm talking about the direct injury, the death that they generate and the end of mining of the social economic conditions that are health depends on where thing in high income countries, extreme heat weight, as we've never seen before, the u. k. heat, 40 grease this year. we had not expected that to happen in decades, and that is already happening now. we've seen also the heat on the year before in the us that generates an enormous death toll. i'm high income countries are high dba, another to the extreme temperatures, in particular because they tend to have aging populations high incidence of chronic underlying health conditions and therefore a very valuable population to the worth spec to heat like heat stress and the leaf and heat stroke for it is definitely up there, so i knew you talk about the war a new crime in your report, which is having some unexpected day effect on the one hand. dramatic increases in

fuel prices are forcing us to use less, which i, i would imagine everybody thinks is a good idea, but on the other, it's encouraging countries like germany, benevolence and austria to reactivate or to delay the transition away from coal fired power plant. you, this is enormous concern because we're seeing countries backsliding to what a few us and to the detrimental effects that they come with. we'll also seeing families turning back to the use of biomass in their homes because they just cannot afford electricity anymore. or the energy that comes from the grids. so we're seeing that because of these compounding energy crisis. now media's around the world are being more affected by energy, poverty, by the lack of access to clean renewable energy. and therefore, the health impacts that come not only from the air pollution of dirty wealth, but also from the lack of access to the energy they need to keep their home at safe temperatures. to refrigerate their food, you have light to study,

to get educated. so it is having compounding impacts again because of the delay of the adoption of the numbers that we've been calling for for so long. thank you so much for joining us. dr. dr. marina romanella from milan sits at count down the fort. thank you. now to bangladesh, when a psy clone has a head killing more than a dozen people around a 1000000 residents have been forced to move to safety at bangladesh. other countries in the region are regularly hit by cyclones. but research indicates that climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels is making such storms more intense and more frequent. my family's house in southern bangladesh have been badly affected by the flood of water has still not completely defeated. she tries to protect what has been left and damaged with. 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, and i saw you sit down. tropical storm has left large swats of agricultural land under water. thousands of homes have been damaged fisheries washed away. millions are without bobo and many i still beaten for help. the capital tucker is also flooded to hard drive with have to push that away. he goes through the water roy gonna noodle the storms and the rain. we really struggle with kathy. all the items are in a needling it off, so it's very difficult to drive at rehearsal. the felt ation country is prone to natural disasters. thank a fee climate change. it's making storms more frequent and destructive. but people

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