living conditions in their country and inspiring the world with their ideas. only valley africa. watch go to w documentary. ah ah, is indeed a blue news alive from berlin, ukraine's president orders more reinforcement for the defense of bach much regional commander's vow to continue their fight for the embattled city even as russian forces tightened their grip on surrounding areas. also coming up on the show, the language is the language of this is the only language which i understand

because we can go s talk, there's read together, allow him to go. ukraine's former president give d w his view on the war, insisting that peace depends on a ukrainian military victory and offer a wave of suspected poison attacks, hips. iranian school girls, teachers lead rallies, calling on the government to take action. ah hello, i'm claire richardson. thank you for joining us. president vladimir zalinski has ordered military commanders to send reinforcements to help you. craney and troops defending the besieged eastern city of bok motes and ukrainian authorities say only a few 1000 of the original 70000 people living in bach moot, remained. there the battle or the eastern city is now the longest and bloodiest of

the year long war. russia says seizing back that would be an important step toward capturing the industrial don bass region. western defense officials say the city has little strategic value, but a victory there would be symbolically important to russia. the fighting has been so intense in black mood. one ukrainian commander described it as utter hell. now instead of retreating, these troops will reinforce their positions and attempt to reclaim lost ground. they're determined to save this city. but the enemy is also unrelenting. yeah, but my, when i go it was for flu or the political think faith through moore's forces. it us to justify the aim of their so called special operations. will you please before but i think we broke down a bargain. cute is important because it cuts across roadways and it's higher ground for with football from its height. everything here is open for the russians,

so it's important for both us and them. morgan was when we'd learn market, please let me call it so many of them are dying, hire. i don't understand why doesn't you know, be sure that you're not russia's expected spring offensive, could hit a snag with apparent disunity in its ranks part of its quest to capture ukraine's. don bass region has been fronted by mercenaries from the wagner group, who've emerged as rivals of the russian military, even though they're supposed to be partners or exams resilience good. but wagner's own, i have jenny, pre goshen, and alo vladimir putin is now warning his fighters might not be able to hold on. because moscow has not replenished their ammunition in what they you do we, if we retreat you, then will go down in history forever. as people who've taken the main step towards losing the war, roberson way, whoever wins,

control of back move will not have much of a city left. after 6 months of fighting, it's buildings are in ruins, and most of its residents have fled. still as one of the oldest cities in the don bass region, it remained symbolic. although the only visible symbol right now is one of devastation. or earlier i spoke with former ukranian president petro porsche, and cow. i asked him if he sees any room for a diplomatic end to the war. as both sides appeared to be doubling down. in bartlet deloach, it look like feel we even more we had already do have vetted diplomatic negotiations with it, very professional. oh, depressed. these negotiate armed forces, so she's great. this is exec i'm forces ok brand with assistance of the potash, threw them away from key of the attack of the car to give region. an elaborate that

from the russian troops and do it by the successful attack on capsule. you see that this is a effective and these diplomatic language which put in on the stand. this is not rotten or english or german. it best language is the language of strength, and this is the only language potent understand. because putting though s paw is read together, allow him to go. so for that negotiation and for the piece deal, we have at 2 main factor factor number one and i am very much happy to hear bad from the chancellor solace, and pres them biden in washington. this is the editorial integrity of ukraine cochin should take old. he sold from ukraine, antenna, and 2nd factor of the piece him victory used this sustainable security situation on the continent. and everybody understand that you are not just the

system ukraine you invest in, in your own german, british, italian, french security, and ukraine pay now for the very enormous price. but we would be more than happy you can and find out any other nation in the world who wants peace more than we ukrainian, but put him must be stopped and we need to deepen, denies germany differ denies. europe depth denies the world, patrick, harsh and go speaking to me earlier. our russian court has sentenced the founder of an opposition social media channel to 8 and a half years in prison. to be true, even office found guilty of spreading false information about russia's military. now, in russia, any one perceived to have discredited the russian army could already face it for coney and prison sentence. and the parliament has recently given initial backing to expanding that law to also cover fighters for the mercenary wagner group. anyone

who criticizes russian soldiers in ukraine, whether they are fighting for the russian army or so called volunteer unit, could soon face a long prison sentence. a law punishing public defaming of the military has been in place for a year now. but that's likely to be expanded to include so called volunteers or mercenaries which look good, which is through. are these volunteers that are mentioned in the same breath as russian soldiers? super? no, let me see what it's not clear and didn't who they mean, and that worries me a lot lately about yourself. if the new amendments would cover private armies. if jenny precaution, the founder of the wagner, a mercenary group, has asked the russian parliament to add the term volunteers to the discredited asian law. not many of precautions, soldiers, army, i, former prisoners,

he personally recruited. oh, we need your criminal talents. just with you, i myself served 10 years in prison before i became a russian hero, held these your careers and i have a few more talents now that helped me a lot in life. i emerging from i graduated louis, complain that since the war began, the russian parliament has passed a series of bills aimed at stifling descent. took in his book. it's not just about the wagner group, it's all from you. i think the idea behind the amendment is to broaden the scope of law enforcement in general. well, over him, any criticism of military special operations will be punished won't be the punishment under the new bill would be draconian. up to 15 years in a penal colony. ah, this is this from

a legal point of view. this is simply absurd over statements. even if it's just one sentence or, or single piece of information that is judged to be false. even though it's very likely to be correct on such statements. a given huge prison sentences. we haven't seen anything like this since the 1950. for sharp jo together. ah, the new amendments have already been fast tracked, flew parliament, lay to this month. there is set to be approved by the upper house and signed into law by president putin. let's bring you up to speed now with some other world news headlines. the new york times is reporting that new u. s. intelligence indicates the nordstrom gas pipelines may have been destroyed by a pro ukrainian group. the paper cited unnamed u. s. officials, the undersea pipelines which brought russian gas to germany were blown up in

september 2022. it's still unclear who carried out the attack in paris protesters of clash with police as millions of people across france have gone on strike to protest president microns plans to raise the retirement age. almost all train and metro services were suspended and schools across the country were closed . it's the 6th day of strikes over the proposed pension were reformed since mid january. israel has killed a palestinian man who acts as a shot dead to his railey settler brothers. here at the palestinian village of who are last week palestinian authority say 6 palestinians were killed in the raid by israeli forces in the occupied westbank city of jenny. at least 14 people have been killed in an explosion at a 7 story commercial building in bangladesh of capital. darker dozens, more people have been injured. rescue efforts are going the cause of the glass is

not yet clear. well teachers in iran have lead demonstrations following a series of a ledge school poisonings targeting young girls. there have been several 100 suspected cases involving more than $100.00 schools since november. some of those affected has even needed hospital care. now this video, recently posted online, appears to show parents voicing their anger outside an education, ministry building and tech run. iranian officials say the girls are being deliberately targeted, possibly by hard line groups supposed to close education. and you'd have these choices proper joins me here in the studio for more. because of the said terrible story to we know more about what authorities have said about these poisonings. well, so far they haven't said that much. supreme leader ali combination said that these were big and unforgivable crimes and that whoever's responsible needs to be severely punished. but this lemma republic,

security forces haven't come up with any more evidence or any more details. instead, members of the government were quick to point the finger towards the countries so called enemies. so that's usually the united states and israel. and some even suggested that that might be the girls themselves that are causing these symptoms by being hysteric. so, does that reflect reality though? i mean, you've reported extensively in iran to have a sense of what iranians think is behind these poisons or who is behind them. no, iranians certainly have a total different feeling. they, i totally believe it's the government that's behind all of that, or at least the government being complicit in that because they say, i mean, it's very unlikely that in a country where a security forces able to track down and arrest people for taking part in the protest just hours later or for not wearing a headscarf or even for buying spray paint. it's really impossible that alleged crimes like these are taking place all over the country again and again without the government knowing of it or being able to prevent that. so that's very unlikely and

some even say that it might be a way to scale or punish these girls. because if you remember, it was young school girls who were the driving force behind the anti government protest. we've been seeing since last autumn. yeah. and against that backdrop, do you think that these case could re energize those protests? absolutely, i mean, if you remember why these protest started in the 1st place, that was the death of a young woman who was previously detained by the so called morality police. and then then died there and now is even younger girls being targeted in that insight schools of places where they should be safe, where the government should be taking care of them. so that's definitely making people angry. so we've seen protests over the weekend and we seen protests today in cities like adobe, for example. and these protests, people are once again and saying women life freedom. so that's the rallying cry for these protests and against the backdrop of these alleged poisonings. of these young

school girls, this seems more urgent than ever. yeah. can you tell us a little bit more about these protests what they look like? who's taking part and does it seem like they want to keep going on into the future? and the weekend that was mostly parents, as we saw before, like demanding answers and demanding access to their children. because apparently the schools were even locked after these attacks. today it's teachers that have called for protests in front of education ministries, for example, and for tomorrow, which is international women's day. and that number of groups have called for huge protests all over the country. thank you so much for that update. that's tracy proper with me. we'll be keeping an eye on these developments. you're watching tito news from berlin. here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you. president vladimir zalinski has ordered military commanders to send reinforcements to help ukrainian troops defending the besieged city of bock moot, doubts were emerging over the strength of russian forces, amid reports of ammunition shortages. and don't forget,

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