version in political we are here for you with reports and background information about to put false figures on everything you need about the 2022 world cup on d w. the almost 3 months since the death of gena masa armine over 400 protesters have been killed with an 18000, have been arrested, and 11 have been sentenced to death and show trials without any due process or access to proper legal representation. now the iranian regime and its disregard for its citizens, basic human rights of hits, a tragic no low. and the early hours of thursday, this man 23 year old mawson shikari, was hanged. and while this is the 1st known execution in relation to the mass

demonstrations rights groups, fear that if there is no robust international response, now many more will fall under cough really, him berlin. and this is the day ah, this is not something new in the islamic republic of iran. you to west thinks will just hand the country over to the protest this on a, on the line of position and anger against islamic republic. i'm designed for a car driving companies in the political system remains lively on active. we need the international community's attention on this and we needed to go far beyond just the same old same old of we're outraged. and also on the day after 10 months behind bars in russia, basketball star,

brittany griner, is freed in a prisoner swab moscow, released her in exchange for a notorious arms dealer, known as the merchant of death. she's safe, she's on a plane. she's on her way home from wants to be known justly detained in russia. hel loaner on tolerable circumstances. britney will soon be back in the army of her loved ones and, and she should have been there all along. welcome to the day monson. shikari was 23 years old. he worked in a cafe. he loved music and wanted to live in a free country. to day, he became the 1st known person to be executed by the iranian regime for his participation and anti government demonstrations. shikari was hanged in the morning, only 3 weeks after a sham trial without proper legal representation and waiting for a chance to appeal his sentence. fears are his execution might only be the beginning of a new escalation of the regimes crackdown behind these walls and t. ron's even

prison. a young man was reportedly executed. iran's judiciary claims he injured a police officer during the protests. but observers say this was a show trial. it was broadcast in installments on state television, the 23 year old, and neither an independent legal defense nor the opportunity to challenge the verdict. regardless protests against the iranian regime are still going on for 3 days across multiple cities, many businesses and on strike. people on the streets report, a massive deployment of police and malicious store owners preferring to remain anonymous. say there have been targeted intimidation attempts with we were severely threatened. if we left the store closed, they would shut down. our cafe completely angles. iran's president r e z continues to blame other countries influences for the ongoing protest. he

reiterated that point when he addressed pro regime students at a t. ron university. as i work out then you're west thinks, we'll just hand the country over to the protest as you donna, but no on the reigning students would never let that happen. it's not even a pause from his supporters, but the majority of students are his fiercest critics. cellphone footage shows them protesting against raise the and the regime outside the university. you have no honor, they shout repeatedly, not only in the capital, but at universities all across the country. and the demonstration show no sign of dying down. behold a mary. magdalena is director of the angio around human rights and joins me from oslo. welcome to the day loss. and shikari was only 23 years old and protesting for a better future. why did he have to die? yes, that's actually a question. many people are,

can ask her rightfully because they're if b r to believe what the running authority, his claim. he and he endured her one of the militia who was facing people. and he blocked a road. but to, you know, even that we cannot live because he didn't have a fair trial. he, he was subjected to torture in some of the video footage broadcasts at, by the iranian media, you know, there was in sign of injury on one side of his face. so even these confessions extracted from him they were under torture. so basically he was like many iranians demanding his fundamental human rights and the right to live a normal life. and he was executed for that. his family says its execution came unexpected to them,

and he was actually hoping to be able to appeal his sentence. what do we know about the circumstances of his hanging and the timing of it? you know, you run in traditionally or on purpose. they give hope to the families to make and b is the silent and not to talk about the children so that they can execute them with the least possible political cost. and i'm afraid what happened to more centric ari and the time of execution, that normally executions are taking place around 5 am. and what you know is that he to get that was to others were transferred to solitary confinement a couple of nights ago. we don't know who the 2 others are and what happened to them. but and you know, we have been expecting executions of, we know this regime that they use that kind of to,

to spread fear. and we have been waiting for this, but it was shocking. it's always shocking when we wake up and here terrible news like this. this is of course intimidation tactics by the regime, but it's also a dangerous gamble for them isn't. it doesn't go into anger, many people and presumably drive even more people to the street. absolutely, and i think as you say, it is again that because previously, you know iranian authorities, people are in power like mr. ac gap can participate thinking math execution of political prisoners in the past. they have managed to make to spread fear and transfer this feeling of hopelessness. but this time is different to what we have heard from iran and also iranians across the globe. people are much more angry and much more detail, mind so, so as you say,

i don't think they are going to get the effect that they are expecting from people . and i hope that the international reactions will also be in line with their reactions from them. what can the international community do to help the iranian people to contribute in one way or another to stop this? is it now iranian regime has crossed a line. do you have escalated the violence that i've been using against people in the last 2, almost 3 months by shooting at protests? there's now the are, they have started hanging detained protesters. and i think this means that also international communities should elevate the level of the reaction one step. i think every country knows what they can do to send a clear signal to the run, you know, so it is that it is an acceptable. so what we used to do until yesterday,

it is not good enough because iranian regime had crossed a line. if we don't react appropriately, we might say mass executions of protest says there are thousands of them in the prison. now, what kind of sanctions or movement on behalf of the international community would you, would you think would be efficient to create some leverage over the regime and condemnation that have come to day with strong wards, from some authorities like the german authorities. i think they are very good and, but you know, all countries in the east, in western europe and many posts of all, they have a normal diplomatic relations. we still have other kind of relations with iran and authorities trade relations. and i think again,

every government knows how to i take it one level up, it can be imposing more sanctions. it can be a downgrading kid diplomatic relations. it can be freezing some other relations. but what is important is that dease specific execution gets a very specific response. no done, mary margaret, down from iran, human rights joining us from us low. thanks for your time. with you. ah! she is safe. she is on a plane. she's on her way home. that is how you as president joe biden announced what his administration had been working on for 10 months. the release of basketball star, brittany greiner from custody and russia, she was freed, as part of a prisoner swap with the u. s. a. to time olympic gold medalist griner was arrested in moscow back in february and sentenced to 9 years in prison on drug charges. she

recently had an appeal rejected and was transferred to a remote penal colony in russia. she was released and exchange for a victor bout and notorious russian arms dealer, detained in the us for over a decade. and the high price paid for griner is release as cast renewed light on the fate of another american held in russia. paul whelan, a former us marine who was arrested in 2018 and is accused of spying grinders. wife charel was at the white house for the announcement. she expressed her deep emotions and her gratitude for the help from the bite administration. stay my family as whole, but as you all are we're, there's so many other families who are not whole and still b, g is not here to say this, but i will gladly speak on her behalf and say that b g and i will remain committed to the work of getting every american home including call, whose family is in our hearts today as we celebrate b, g, b,

a home. we do understand that there are still people out here who are in doing what i endure at the last 9 months of missing tremendously their loved ones. so thank you everybody for your support and see there's a happy day for me and my family. so i'm going to now right now. thank you. and she surely wasn't the only one smiling there for more we can bring an air and so on. he's chief legal analyst of esquire digital. welcome to the w. how much pressure was on the us to free greiner? after 10 months in russian detention, there was an enormous amount of pressure, and this pressure was mounting month by month. there's actually very interesting parallel between what happened a year ago with a lot of brittany spears. his own fan starting the free brittany movement and brittany grinders and starting another fried brittany movement, her fans over social media as well as traditional media, kept a lot of pressure on the u. s. government not to put this on the back burner.

efforts to bring her home as you, as you just pointed out, have been going on ever since she was 1st attained in mid february. why do you think this will happen now? well, as president biden talked about this morning during that press conference with cheryl griner, the united states, i believe really has been working on this as a priority item for a long time, prisoner swaps are very, very delicate things, and i don't believe that they're ever done in isolation between 2 nations, i'm quite confident that the united states had the guidance of some of their allies, including germany in trying to bring this to a conclusion, which very mercifully very luckily for everybody involved. it did so brittany was able to step on us soil this evening and be home for the holidays. let's circle back here for a 2nd and look at how exactly brittany greiner did become a pond in russia's political game. she was the perfect one. and just as russia was

getting ready to evade the ukraine, brittany had played 7 years for you. m m c, you catch framework and talk to your team in the russian league owned by a russian. all right. so she was very well known as the kind of superstar player she was in the russian league that she was in the w n. j. it's also very important for people to understand that the reason top american players play international basketball in europe is because they can her between 4 and 7 times their salary playing in places like russia. so russian you exactly where she was. they knew that she was there for 7th season, and she was absolutely the highest profile, american athlete, male or female, to be in russia. at that time, she was a perfect palm. now the man, the us freed and exchange for greiner was once considered by the d. a one of the most dangerous people on earth. how big of a win is his release in exchange for greiner, for russia, the release of victor boon is a massive public relations when for if you just take

a quick look to see thing on russian state media is absolutely being held as a huge victory of russia and all of the ideals of the former soviet union in the united states, both sides are placing this as a huge win, which of course is nothing new and a prisoner small. but there's no doubt that releasing victor about is being seen by putting as allies, the wind. it's trying to put some oxygen back into the war effort from the public relations and the spin perspective. and you may get a few weeks of very good internal press out us. do we know anything about how brittany griner was treated while she was imprisoned in russia, or will we have to wait and, and hearing from herself. the 1st thing that's going to happen with her landing in the united states is debriefing with us authorities and part of the questions are

going to be how she has a lot of people in the united states. i've done a lot of media today including american sports, radio, or hypothesizing. how quickly brittany griner is going to get back on the court and be a superstar, after what she endured over the past 10 months, emotionally, spiritually and physically. it could be a very, very long roads recovery, even though she's back home in the united states. now her being slot for victor, both for the us was a big compromise because they actually wanted to get 2 people back home didn't they? the white house says that russia is treating griner is case differently from that of pol whelan, a marine veteran who has been imprisoned in russia on espionage charges since 2018 . what do you think it'll take to bring him home? it's going to take a lot more my understanding from a couple of inside sources today is that russia made it very clear to united states that it was either going to be a one on one swap. and that only one was going to be pretty greiner. the problem

with the poll whelan case, and i believe everybody needs to maintain pressure over media and social media to keep this in the bible and ministrations front window rather than the real window is that paul whelan was involved in the espionage business. that's not to say that he was a spy, but he was involved in the intelligence business. and of course, he has the background of marine russian seeing this is a very, very different case than brittany greiner, who is simply a superstar aaron solomon chief legal analyst and as choir digital. thank you so much for those insights today. thank you for having me. ah burton's royal family is bracing itself for revelations from a netflix documentary series on prince harry and his wife megan. a couple known as the duke and duchess of sussex are no longer serving members of the royal family. at the 1st episodes debuted to day, amid expectations of damaging claims about british royal life. it's really hard to

look back on it now and go with the netflix doc, you series harry and meghan promises an unprecedented look at the life of the duke and duchess of sussex. a suitably dramatic trailer in which prince harry draws comparisons between megan and his late mother. princess diana sparked mixed reactions ahead of its world wide release. many royal fans were eager to hear their story. others annoyed at more complaints from such a privileged pair. i was some called out discrepancies in the trailer footage, the royal family was reportedly bracing itself for further revelations. megan marshall's marriage to prince harry in 2018 was dubbed a modern fairy tale and hailed as the chance to modernize the monarchy by welcoming a multi racial woman. but already during their courtship, the couple complained the american former actress was frequently the target of

criticism in the british press. in early 2020, they stepped down from their role as senior royals and moved to north america. an explosive interview with talk show host oprah winfrey in march 2021 stirred controversy even further. a couple of claims of mistreatment and racism sent shock waves through the british royal's leaving harry further estranged from his family. the last time they were united was for the funeral of their grandmother, queen elizabeth the 2nd, last september. shortly thereafter, harry and megan announced the release of the netflix documentary part of a deal with the streaming platform worth over $100000000.00 us dollars. knows the full truth. we know the features ah, among ordinary britons there's mixed reaction to harry and meghan's netflix theories. people in london and windsor happen sharing their views. so i think

they're really brave what they've done, like speaking out against families, we discuss. so fair play for them to do enough. yeah, i think i think is a good thing. it's important to tell your side of the story. i was where as 2 sites . so yeah, give it to the job fair play. i think people, when she gets to once they started to leave, but in the beginning, no, i didn't. i didn't see any. so to crisis them. but then you know, you, we don't safe behind closed doors. i think she needs to have a bit more. um we spent the roll family, i think that are good for, for i think it's a shame that come to wish spray of pop culture commentary around say a song vedo is watched the highly anticipated 1st part of the series for us, ron, say 3 hours of netflix and spill, do we know the truth now? any bombshell revelations, we, a lot of it was shared in the documentary stuff we've heard before, especially in the over interview. but there were some big revelations,

for instance, a fact that the fact that thomas marco wasn't going to attend via t, m z. and so that was a big room and we were also like smaller, shoot, i'll say of revelations like the fact that they met via instagram. apparently harry has a fence to as a leading to be sure the new nuggets what the really should that we know before this documentary. okay, so we're learning more about them than about a royal drama. what, what impression did you, did you have of them because this is a very close look at their life, right? yeah, of course they're the ones behind the doc maneesha w portrays. i'm in a positive light. ah, my thought it was was goodish. it shows him as reliable, and it shows him as willing to sheer more about themselves than ever before. we get to see the kids. i'm waiving we haven't before we get to your, you know, on arches voice are also here of from adore. ragland americans,

mom as she speaks about, you know, just her, you know, witnessing the relationship was, and so it been that we knew things that we went on about the couple. and we learn more about the yoga family and, and in their relationship with the press. and how are harry, describe this as, quote bribery. so lots of interesting onto perspective, right at the palace was understandably nervous before this came out. but really, you mentioned the oprah interview there. is there really anything left to throw at the palace at this point? i don't think there's much more much, much else to throw up at the palace. i do think boot documentary was quite handed in his assessment of the palace and its role in slavery. and so i think that's actually the most damaging part about this. and he gets people to come take a step back and look at this family in its history and how destructive it's been. there also seems to have been some behind the scenes drama. harry and meghan

changed their director half way through the production process. do you know what that was all about? yes, so the initial directory garrett. bradley wanted to film them in their home and apparently be objected to that. so that's how they ended up with linda garbus, who is the, the current director. all right, is it, is it watchable? it sounds like it was you know, the set was seen and the thing was that by them they called the shots and portrayed them in a very favourable light. is this 3 hours? well spend, would you watch the next 3 hours or is, is basically of publicity stunt 3 hours very well spent was really, really good watch and i think people are going to love it. so after breaking out of the royal family, they did build their brand somehow around telling their truth, right? and this has been done a fair amount of times. now the oprah interview the show harry has

a book coming out, or what do you think is next for them? and i think it's just more tell you, i mean, harry is a royal who's actually never worked like a regular job like you and i. so this, this kind of has to be the, the way, and i think the book's gonna be successful. i'm sure they can find new ways to new to share their live. i think that the public interest in them i is kind of insatiable. i think that's just how it is i with the rural family. so we're just going to see more, you know, tv shows and things of that nature. and megan has a park area which gets hotter to rose larry. so i think this is the new bernoulli mean run day is on radio, entertainment journalists based on the us. thank you so much for that. ah, now i want to take a look at one teenager in the southern us who is making headlines with his new job jail. and smith has been elected mayor of his hometown of earl arkansas. after

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ah ah, those dw news line from berlin, iran execute a protester for participating and recent anti government demonstrations. on a 3 year old will send shikari was hank this morning. despite this video on social media shows, people are still taking to the streets and protest. also coming up for a month and a russian person, brittany growling or is.