ah ah ah ah, there's a d w news line from berlin. the united states imposes new sanctions on iran. as iranian security force is intensified back down on the protesters. commemorating the death of gina masa and nini in police custody 40 days ago. also on the program, ukrainian troops hold off repeated attacks by russian forces in the eastern don

vash, regions report on russian soldiers reduced to one town to ruins. russia types the way for tougher measures. finding what it says is the promotion of homosexuality. both to say it's part of moscow's battle against western decadence. india's hunger levels are now considered serious. the global hunger index. there's more than 3000000 children malnourished in his government, rejects the fund. ah, i'm sure he'll welcome to the program. united states has imposed fresh sanctions against arraignment officials believe to be involved in the brutal crackdown on protests against the government. a protest worse sparked by the death in police custody of gena masa a mean the writes groups say the cut down on demonstrations. i have killed

a hundreds of people including children, memorial demonstrations were held across the country at the end of the traditional 40 day morning period. following was, i mean, hundreds gathered at the ceremony where she's very chanting slogans, calling for women's rights. and for the down for very, she security forces retaliated by storming her home town where they reportedly targeted protesters with tear gas and live on. her ram has retaliated against western sanctions by announcing its own black list of european union officials and media, including d. w, farsi service. a sal yelled at czar batch is head of d w. so fast he serves. she told me how staff had been affected by these new sanctions. oh, so far and we received her the message yesterday that we are with been put on the sanctioned list by the iranian foreign ministry. so far it is said that there will be travel bands for,

for staff after the w persian. and it can also, it is also possible, or at least this is, or what they say. dad's assets are, properties will be confiscated in any one. right? and i understand that i've been threats against members of staff. you know, there have been threads, i will, i will not go onto details. but we, we've, like, are actually every iranian journalist working out in iran, of course, but also outside of iran is targeted by iran's intelligence. and they have been threads and even in the, in the, in the last years, but now increasing. and during the protests and of course, it is a way to silence us to silence journalists from reporting on what is really happening on the grounds and trying to yet to put up then the ration of the rainy

and stage television of iranian state propaganda. and we are not doing this and it shows what important role we as journalists play in here. so does it 5 and you are you still able to get to news into iran? of course we are, you have to say, and maybe i have to ask to explain a little bit in did old persian our website and our social media platforms have been blocked in iran for the last years. what is new? is that instagram? what was free before the protest had started was blocked, it's blocked as well. so they're trying to avoid people avoid that iranians bring out the pictures and videos and outside, but still we receive all these pictures all these images and they receive our content on our program. because the raines, i'm very used to

a blocking by the government, so they are very familiar with proxy servers and how to, how to yet for truth prevents censorship. so we can, and we can see now is that since the protest have started, there is a huge increase of the use of proxy service like cipher, for instance. and there is a huge increase in our reach them. so we reached out and they are seeking for our information as well. i'd like to, to ask them just on that that point. how different are these process that we are seeing that we've been seeing for the last 40 years? because of course, are around the country that is used to, to protest you see anything different in this latest set? you know what his dead friend is basically when it comes to the reporting. of course, what is different is that we have a unity of people from all different layers of society. what is also different is that people, d, d don't let them,

they don't let even government to intimidate them anymore. so they are trying to put pressure on, for instance, to family members of young people, of young girls being, being killed by the government, but still they speak out. so m maybe in the past there was more and more fear, but now they do speak to us. they speak to us like foreign media outlets and like d, w, persian. and this is of course, what is a big problem for, for the government trying to silence people in the round, but also outside, and it's not working anymore. and of course, even the sanction d, w, persian is a way of intimidation and silencing but, and we will of course, continue doing what we're doing for the last couple of weeks and eat right years of course. but in this crucial times, it we can see once again how important it actually is right now for that is that

jaga are, but thank you sing out for others. our back of the w foster service of lot of movie landscape says his country's troops are holding out against the repeated attacks by russian forces in the east, a dumbass region. you credit president says the highest, the heaviest of fighting is concentrated around towns of div and back mort. was not hillary's been pounding backward for weeks, reducing much of it to ruins, but it ukrainian defend this amount to fierce resistance. meanwhile cave is continuing its counter offensive im partially occupied. suddenly house on bridge let's look at this with you, cried an american journalist, a military veteran. victor corolenko, a welcome to d w. i'm, we're hearing that the fierce is fighting a's in the dumbass region of ukraine at the moment. what sort of enemy is you kind of facing that? ah, the russian military is very weak right now because after the major counter offensive

that ukrainian army launched in september 1st and military is losing territory and it's moral is lowering down. so the enemy that ukraine is facing the is actually it is very weak and i think that ukraine and military is gaining the momentum to expel the entire russian troops from the occupied territories. and what sort of soldiers are they? i, i understand that, but there's been lots of use of comm scripts and a wagner group conscripts as well as we can see from reports and the videos dead to the surface from the russia. we see a lot of older man, that's where my bill lies from seville, said a life without proper training and down here protective gear, or even without enough ammunition, they are not prepared for the ground war and the land forces. so that's another

aspect and factor that ukrainian, the military's considering because as you remember, that famous french from their chief commander of the ukrainian forces. while it is a loosening general, he said that to be defeated, their professional russian army. and now we have to defeat the unprofessional one, just to ukraine. your forces are also advancing into brush and occupied that has on province. but the pace of their advance is expected to slow down as winter clothes is a yes, of course, because the right now it's a rain season in ukraine, especially on the south and your son region. so this is a logical slow down in the offensive, but i think that ukrainian military has a good chance to liberate your song area and this major city on the south in nearest time we. we cannot make prognosis because it all depends on the battlefield situation. but i think it is real for ukraine to liberate this key cd. this is the

2nd major cd occupied by russians after mario opal and half on city. and the ukraine has not taken a city of that size and strategic importance from russia before. yes you can, you are correct it's, it's a big city and the problem will be a, was the street fights, but i do not expect that the russians will be in the city and to be ready for street fights because they are cox on the western bank of the pro river without any re supplies. so this is a very risky adventure, and i don't think that russians will be fighting for this city. right. and we talked about the sorts of people that the russians are employing as soldiers at the moment. and part of that intelligence comes from looking at the states of russian prisoners of war. ah, yeah, we have

a lot of evidence is that a russian prisoners, they witness the low morale insider ranks of the russian military and brutality of their generals at top officers. so that's the situation. it's not the 2nd a top military in the world could talk to thanks. i was for joining us. ukrainian american journalist at victor corolenko. sure, thank you. german chancellor left. charles is holding talks in athens amongst the topics on the agenda of the e u energy crisis, and the turkish challenges to greece. his sovereignty of a number of violence in the eastern mediterranean, also featuring prominently and that the meetings are efforts to help you crane in its war with russia to this end. but it has been sending tanks to greece as dw, so many unexplained germany came up with the idea of supplying tanks to ukraine via 3rd countries. shortly after the start of the war barrel and wanted to help ukraine

and said it did not have the capacity to send tanks directly. some politicians felt it was unacceptable for german heavy armor to be used in a region where nazi treat sport in the 2nd world war. another argument ukrainian armed forces needed to be supplied as quickly as possible with systems for which they would not need training. so the plan was born, countries with soviet era military equipment would send that to ukraine and would receive modern material from germany to replace it. agreements like base have been announced with both lavinia and the czech republic as well as greece. holland has also sent many of its soviet era thanks to ukraine, but he's disappointed with what berlin has offered as a replacement. gemini has delivered some heavy equipment directly to ukraine, including self propelled how it says about the draw. now discussion and the delay

in agreeing these tank exchanges by a 3rd countries has led to cause. but berlin to bite the bullet and send its modern tanks directly. something that the key of government has repeatedly asked for. let's go more are not from a detail. is emanuel shies. welcome emmanuel. so clearly this was sparking differences between the european partners. exactly, we've just talked about the tanks. we see just how difficult it is to coordinate to decide a which weapons offend, to whom, and then which are pledge to ukraine in return. so there are disagreements when it comes to defense are about the quantity of things that are being sand about the timing as well. and of course, one of the biggest bones of contention in the european union is how to face the energy crisis. that is a result of russia's war against the ukraine. they are

a number of member states which ones to have a price cap on gas prices. this is something that germany oppose in this morning. all our shows was talking to a greet prime. oh, the greek prime minister, greece, or dont doesnt oppose does a price cap. so germany, it's actually quite isolated under european stage when it comes to that it does. a single handedly decided to unblock 200000000000 euros to try and phase the increasing prices. so europe has to have a show of unity, but we see there are many crucial issues. key issues, defense energy where well, they still have to agree on how to proceed. and there's an escalation amongst nato members that these, that lead us to trying to fix. well, yes, escalation between nato members. this morning, a law shows offered agreed in his support,

germany's support against the claims or by tara key or over the sovereignty of some of the greek islands, some inhabited and inhabited, sorry, greek islands in the eastern mediterranean sea. the chancellor said that this was an acceptable or for one and nato member to question the sovereignty of another. and to see one nato member making more or less vague threats. and this comes at a time where unity is crucial when nato is really trying to show unity. so another thing that has been discussed today in athens, between the chancellor and the greek prime minister, were intrigued by this idea of germany, which has always been such a hugely fro you country being so isolated amongst its a you and the nature of partners. how much of that is because of the nature of the coalition of it? there is currently ruling the country. well,

it might not be so much something that has to do with the coalition. but perhaps, you know, gemini has often been up or when it came to dealing with economy matters, in your opinion. you know, back in 2009, germany had become a huge the unpopular by forcing greece to accept 3 international bailouts to deal with its financial crisis. now germany is talking about solidarity, but we see that sometimes there's still very much, you know, make decisions on its own rather than consulting the partners 1st. we also so some do some, some these agreement with friends that were talked over yesterday with francis president emmanuel macross. i would say there are these agreements with in your opinion. and that being said, of course, germany is still striving for unity there. thanks for that w. m. i. rochelle, invented a rushes,

a step closer to toughening its laws. banning what it calls the promotion of homosexuality. and the 1st reading, the lower house of parliament, the duma unanimously adopted changes to an existing law from 2013, prohibiting what it called propaganda about non traditional sexual relations. under the changes any event or act seen as an attempt to promote homosexuality. online info or in public could incur a fine oh, these protest as a fighting for equal rights in russia. but demonstrations for l g b t q writes here, often brutally halted by authorities. one of the instruments of repression over the past decade has been the so called gay propaganda law introduced in 2013 authorities say it's needed to prohibit the promotion of what they call non traditional sexual values to children. now russia set to pass new legislation further restricting the l g p t q community by expanding the law to adults as well . you're watching to recruit is congress that says we don't live in

a democratic state of thought it was just i don't. i think that lawmakers in the doom are trying to convey the impression that they carry favor with this oppressive machine relation seeing air and the victims of this machine that is of the most vulnerable once the all coin is all l g b t q plus people with their calculus hopes for the new law that is already going through russia's lower house of parliament, the state duma will effectively forbid any positive references to l g p t q, topics in popular media and on the internet. activist fair, the new law is a further step towards state sponsored discrimination and repression and that it will leave the l g p t q. community even more stigmatized in russian society. rational source is closed down d w 's moscow offers. so it's now operating from the latvian capital reger, they don't use that unit re chateau choices from that. welcome your re to how would

these changes affect life for russia's, l g, b, t, q, community welfare. russia has long moved towards s state conservatism and of each everything west and has to be forward and gays, and lesbians on checks. so there are so often seen as of the embodiment of west and sin. now we are taking about a tightening as existing media and information low, which means that soon it will be prohibited to positively refer to any so called and non traditional sexual relationships, which means the same sex relationships, transgender and transactional topics on social media, on television, or in the movies or just to explain the rational law, make us call anything to do with l g b, t, q non traditional sexual relationships. and since any statement commanding on else to be q issues, that isn't as it is not negative, can be interpreted as positive and ultimately as propaganda or promotion. any public mention of algebra,

q issues in russia would soon be pro forbidden and punishable so this seems very homophobic law. and so why do this now while the country is fighting a war? well look at the official statement reference directly to the void ukraine, which in russia is still being called. so i have a special mutual duration. and according to the russian duma, this so called military operation even gave in you meaning to the law because it wouldn't only take place in the front lines, but also in the hats or minds and souls of the russian people. they say in fact, as do mercy, a deputies against are compared to as the so called are of those are, but he q law with a fight against so called and on the frontlines are, this is nothing you russia has fought so called gay propaganda since 2013 until now have a it has only applied to minors, but now is that the law comes in for us, as is so called propaganda built also be forbid among ideals. but the question is

why it's happening now when one of the unofficial lawrence is that the russian government wants to distract from other very important issues. for example, from the problems in ukraine on the front lines should moscow once again, needs to withdraw is truth there. for example, the debate about and l g b q law would present a welcome distraction. and if it brought support for these sorts of laws, or are there likely to be protest, i will, this tightening of the law fits into the general trend feel and to the rational duty q community has become accustomed to state sponsored homophobia over the past 20 years. and while there is no law with it directly punished, homosexual relationships as such, even though are the change to law will make an already difficult situation for the boris ah, but i don't expect any protest is simply because the russians are intimidated and taught unrestricted in their freedom of expression and it might sound harsh by the russian society now has a different problem such as mobilization. many people are still very afraid of.

okay, thank you for that. you're at uni rossetto and rig but i look at some of the stores making news around the world. now the southeast, asian foreign ministers are meeting in jakarta, discuss the political chaos and me and mom doesn't have been killed in recent weeks . no representatives from me and my are at the meeting as the countries military gender has refused to implement a peace deal that was agreed with us. in 18 months ago, time media tycoon and transgender activists at bought the miss universe beauty patent for $20000000.00. reality tv star and a jack upon the jacket you touched it, as is outspoken about being a transgender woman. annual contest was code by donald trump between 996 in 2002 and has been running for 71 years. were caught in australia has discharged the jury in the trial of a former government adviser accused of sexually assaulting

a colleague in parliament. as the judge said, the jury got access to details that were not submitted as evidence. ok sparked a major review of workplace culture in australia and the safety of women in politics. now to india, where figures show it is backsliding, and it's fight against malnutrition, newly released at world hunger index. now places that india behind neighbors, including a bangladesh, sri lanka, and me and mom, it's estimated more than $3000000.00 children in the country are malnourished. that's about half of them severely. d, w. 's madeira shouted reports every day, fix it or bliss, and comes to this education center for underprivileged children. her parents work as rat because a big reason they sent her here is the fee, nutritious meals. she gets theme is the case with many other children. aegis asia, the angel which runs the center has for years been trying to ensure not only good

education, but adequate nutrition for children coming from underserved communities. edna edwin, the project coordinator here says that in every slumped community they conduct a survey. they find roughly 80 percent of children to be managed. many kids and many families struggle in this area because of their financial status to then aren't able to provide good nutrition to their kids. under nourishment, child, stunting, child wasting, and child mortality has drank india, 107 out of 121 countries. and it has labeled the level of hunger in the country as serious. but the government has not deacon ready to distribute. the indian government has rejected the global hunger index report, calling it iranian biased and disconnected from ground reality. it also says the index deliberately ignores the efforts made by the government to ensure food

security for the population. deep us in her, a professor of economics says this claim does not hold any ground and that the index uses official government data. she says the report should motivate the government to review the measures they have taken so far. there are a number of policies in india addressing the issue of hunger minute which and but did our severe limitations to these programs fun? is that not everybody's covered that on the exclusions. and secondly, also that in terms of the nutrition content avoid, the government is distributed. there are limitations. it says it's time to pause and reflect on what more needs to be done. the teacher that the center agree at their end, they try to maintain height and weight records of all the children. and accordingly, big changes to the menu cover their nutritional needs. coming from severely deprived backgrounds. these children have found hope and nourishment till giving

them a chance to build a better future. india's cricket board has announced an equal pay policy from male and female cricketers, after electing a new president last week, the b. c. c. i decided that women's teams will be paid the same match phase as men across all 3 variations of the sport. india is the 2nd cricketing nation to adopt such policy following new zealand historic announcement. early this year, australia manns national football teams release the statement against guitars, human rights record becoming the 1st well cut participant to do so. in the video message players acknowledge that guitar has made some before but criticize the country's treatment of migrant workers. and members of the l. g. b t q plus community. 16 players called for the the criminalization of same sex relationships and demanded more rights for the 2 women and foreign labors in keta. and what was international is reminder of our top story. at this hour, the united states is imposed new sanctions against iran, the mash cameras,

the iranian security forces intensify their crackdown and protesters commemorating the death of kurdish women. gina massa, i mean it in police custody 40 days and did you up to date, i'll have more world news of the top of the our focus on europe is next. i've good with

ah. a who. who teens targeted attacks on energy supply? how are people coping with here in eastern ukraine inhabitants are preparing for winter despite broken infrastructure. there's a sense of courage in the, in is their hope in the midst of destruction. why focus on europe? the next on d, w. enter the conflict zone with tim sebastian, the death of

a young iranian woman in police custody spots weeks of violent protest in iran and around the world. mama miranda professor around university claims. the western nato aggravating the progress of fare. ron denies supplying jones to moscow. i take in the ukraine, russian war conflict zone in 60 minutes on d w b o i have been sent. i have been beaten. i have been taken straight did because we try to to show dirty, a face off all over the world. environmentalists are in danger. the enemy, roofless corporations corrupted government agencies,

and criminal cartels. with a design and targeted environmentalists in danger starts october 29th on d. w with hello and welcome to focus on europe. it is nice to have you with us today. it will be the hardest winter in our history.