ah ah ah this is dw news lie from berlin. iranian security forces are reported to half open fire at protesters in our masa. i mean nice. hometown thousands have traveled to be near her grave, marking the end of the morning period following her death in police custody. 40 days ago. also coming up,

digging in for the heaviest of battles. ukraine says russian troops are preparing to defend the largest city under their control in the strategically important region of pears. ah, monica jones and berlin. good to have you with us. we're receiving reports that iranian security forces have fired guns and tear gas that protesters in gina massa . i mean is hometown gina massa mini is the woman who died in police custody 40 days ago today marks the end of the traditional morning period. and this video from earlier which d w has verified shows thousands of protesters at the cemetery chanting slogans against the regime activists. a security services warrant miss, i mean, is family against holding

a ceremony. demonstrations elsewhere in iran have been gaining momentum despite a crackdown which is said to have killed hundreds of people, including children. women and girls are leading many of the protests and are being confronted by ride police on the streets. witnesses across iran have spotted a heavy deployment of security forces. and many of the protesters are calling for the overthrow of the regime. and the supreme leader, ayatollah ali khamenei. he says the demonstrations are being orchestrated by foreign governments to undermine iran. and that protesters will be punished ah, deaths the harmony death to the dictator. slogans often her during rounds street protests. it's directed at this man. i itala ali, how many the supreme leader of the country since the beginning of the unrest in september. he is belittle his critics. he says the protest by iranian women and

girls are controlled from abroad in brown music. it is quite clear that all this was planned by america izzy and the fake usurping zionist regime and their followers. read j. lear. so eunice, the harmony has fought all his life around to be in his lamp republic. he began training as a cleric during his childhood. in the 1950s. at that time, iran was ruled by the shower, an autocrat who severely limited the influence of religion in the country. how many join the ayatollah khomeini, he's opposition. movements that in 1979 overthrew the shar to the cheers of millions. ah, how many died 10 years later. and how many was chosen by the religious council of experts to succeed him?

hundreds since then he's been the supreme authority in iran. there are regular presidential elections in the country in which i'm a ne, also votes. but in the end it is he not the president who has the final say, ah, and he has made his positions clear time and time again. it is and rooted in foreign policy. he sees the usa and israel as arch enemies. you don't all but he has repeatedly denied the holocaust good at doing as domestically. he relies on censorship, surveillance, and security forces to defend the ideals of the islamic revolution. no force garden, under harmony, the uranian revolutionary god has become a notorious force that has repeatedly quashed protest. oh, including in recent weeks, following the death of gina masa, meaning in police custody. harmony says he backs the crackdown younger than they

thought they could. rip out the roots of these landing republic, but that small sapling has now turned into a massive tree. anyone who even thinks about approaching this tree is completely wrong runcle wrong and how many want said that he is ready to sacrifice everything for the revolution. and for islam, and he is always defended his power with few compromises. the reigning government has imposed sanctions on german politicians and institutions, including dw farsi service, dw director general peter limbo, called the move unacceptable. i expect politicians in germany and europe to increase the pressure on the regime. lim book said the fact that we appear on such a list now will not stop us from providing our uses in iran with reliable information. early aspect to even in sir a member of the european parliament and a swedish politician of kurdish descent,

she gave me her perspective of the events unfolding and iran. this is actually how pressing and regimes a dictator is the react. instead of understanding that it needs to be an end on the blood back that he has started, and the economy and the regime of the law, they are targeting those defending democracy and human rights. this means that the, you and the member states need to increase their sanctions against them less and included. also, i should say their families that are living in peace and freedom in their western countries. so will increasing sanctions really do the trick. last week you imposed fresh sanctions against them. morality, police, as well as several iranian officials, now to the people though in iran, those who are risking their lives. why should they believe that the sanctions will bring about any real change when past sanctions happened?

the section that were adopted last week with just one step and we were of course hoping that the situation in and around we change that to be a dictatorship of them unless will understand that the oppression that is taking place in the country cannot continue anymore. and that there will be a change, but we see that there is not, there hasn't been a change. and as we have stepped out and increase our sanctions against to team, we also need to continue doing it against them or less. because when it affects their lives and when it affects their family's life, then i think they will understand that they will not be able to continue the suppression against women against minorities, against the population in the countries as they have been doing and t now. but the pilot sanctions on top of sanctions and so far, no real effect, certainly not 11 wishes for that looks like the you can't really do much more against such a regime. i would not say that it's piling and sanction or rather shows

that we need to show our strength even more that we haven't acted. and now that i would like to add that as i mentioned, see more sanctioned increase sanctioned but also against the families of the new less and those behind the fix situation right now. but i would also actually like to see a u. p in union that understand that then maybe it's time to actually also expand the ambassadors of the european union. so my answer to that is that we haven't done enough. well, thank you so very much for your time european parliament member and just we just social democrats, it's you, they're speaking to us from brussels. thank you so much. thank you. let's take a look at some of the other stories making use around the world. hundreds of syrian

refugees have returned home from lebanon under a repatriation scheme that the government had forced. during the pandemic. lebanese authorities say it's voluntary, but rights groups are concerned that refugees may be pressured to return to the water country. a lack of clean water and a health system devastated by more than 10 years of war, a fueling a deadly cholera outbreak in syria. united nations says more than 24000 people across the country have contracted the highly contagious disease. with he is, he could spread across the middle east and you report from the u. n. world material . logical organisation shows that 3 named greenhouse gases hit record highs in the atmosphere last year. the report labels, agriculture is a major source of the greenhouse gases, nitrous oxide, and methane delegates from around the world are to meet for climate change talks next week. at the club, 27 conference in egypt, attentions rise over the war and ukraine. the kremlin says,

russian president vladimir putin has monitor strategic nuclear weapons drills, us officials say they received notice of the exercise which involved a practice launches of ballistic and cruise missiles. moscow said it was a simulation of a massive retaliatory strike after a simulated attack on russia. ukraine's defense minister says the counter offensive in the southern harrison region is proving more difficult than in the north east, due to the weather and the nature of the terrain. ukrainian troops have been forcing the russians back and liberating land in the region for weeks. they are getting closer to russian forces on the west bank of the ne pro river and are expected to soon attempt to retake the city of her son. anticipating the ukraine in advance kremlin back to authorities have been moving civilians to locations for the east. but an adviser to president lansky says moscow is strengthening is frontline in her son rather than preparing to retreat any our correspondence

manufacturing key if analyzed the situation in hassan for us and asked her whether russian forces have changed tactics since they reasoned withdrawal to the east bank of the ne, prog river depends on how you look at it. the very fact that during the run of phase, if he to what seems very imminent right now, this fight over harrison city that we is going to control house. the city is russia going to maintain control, or is ukraine going to liberate the regional cap? the regional capital? this very far, what seems to be a likely now within a couple of days and has made russian forces a change, some of the tactics for one. they are basically encouraging a local ukrainians in the regional capital. they are to join a local militia. now you really want to just how voluntarily local ukraine is. they are going to join a local militia. that is then likely going jobs pick up the guns against ukrainian forces. also, they have moved tens of thousands,

according to russia and information about 70000 people across the nipper, a river that is basically separating the region between at the west and east and back. saying that this is important because of what is supposed to happen there. in the capital, which is more intense shelling and so on. what, when it comes to the question will also russian forces withdraw from the capital? no, certainly not. also, the ukrainian government pointed out just today that there is no indication, no signal whatsoever that the russian forces are going to leave and just handle the house and city the jobs. he's very much connected to the fact what role that regional capital plays for both ukraine by the way, but also for russia, i just want to remember make the of us remember, they are recall that it's been occupied by russia from the beginning of the school getting ration from march 2nd, this year. our nato allies have been stepping up military deployments and eastern europe. romania shares a long border with ukraine, and it now host to one of nato's new battle groups. the country has pledged to

increase its defense spending by almost 10000000000 euros in the next 4 years. d, w was invited to fill military drills by the romanian navy in the danube. delta romanian infantry marines. performing a would be counter attack in an exercise. drill on the river, bank of the den delta. this is europe's 2nd longest river. it flows into the black sea where romania may be gods, an area of 30000 square kilometers. since russia invaded ukraine on the 24th of february, romania naval force has increased its presence in the area of the log on its own. we, on the edge of the e, u and nieto. here we have a common border with ukraine, our killer branch of the daniel. we are less than 300 kilometers away from crimea, and less than 40 kilometers from sleek island. it is

a volatile security environment close to our borders, but the menial naval forces have the capability to guard multiple security of each and every remaining citizen was out of every citizen belonging to the alliances and structure. we are part of the origins of ocean japan all over the new threat level as a result of russia's aggression in ukraine has made otherwise routine drills like this more intense. especially in this part of europe. the so called east and flank of nato, where the alliance has beefed up its presence following russia's full scale invasion of ukraine in february 2022, nato reinforced its multinational battle groups in poland and in the baltic states . the alliance also agree to establish for more in bulgaria, hungary, slovakia, and romania. this has brought the total number of these battle groups to aid extending nato's forward presence from the baltic sea in the north to the black sea

in the south. nato now has some 40000 troops under its direct command in eastern europe, 3 quarters of them in those 8 battle groups. but these drills about reading these romanian navy troops who will likely be the 1st to get caught up. if nato decided to deploy forces along the coastline of the black sea, and that's all from us for now, coming up next d, w, news, asia are looking at growing unease after chinese company gets to go ahead to invest in germany's largest port stadium. ah, he's a master of the artist confrontation. this is ra, a veteran of verbal combat. i mean, you're gonna really, i try the undisputed champion of tough political talk. you trying to frighten people? no, i so far everybody understood.