ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin international women's day turns the spotlights on women's struggles around the globe in iran, many women say they're seeing some new found freedoms for the transition is very much a work in progress. and the dangers are still clear and present. also on the show more mysteries surrounding the bombing of the north stream gas pipelines. media

reports suggest a pro ukrainian group carried out the attack on the natural gas pipelines under the baltic sea and tensions in moldova run high. many in the country neighboring ukraine are afraid of being dragged into russia's war of aggression. and that critical of their president's course ah, i minute groups mckinnon. welcome to the show, the 8th of march marks international women's day. now this is not only an opportunity to celebrate women and the progress they've made. it's also an opportunity to highlight the struggles and the dangers the women around the globe still face in iran. for example, many women say they have made significant gains in the past few months, but they stress the situation is still dangerous. for some,

we have this exclusive report from terran and we've blurred the faces of people in this report for their own safety. this would have been impossible just 6 months ago, walking distress of to her on, in your own choice of clothing. now it's not an uncommon sight any more like this university student, many women are taking dairies, but it's still against the law. so to talk about it, we go inside the yard ward earth. there were many reactions to me, not wearing that he job people looking at me pulling faces or even coming up and insulting me. you're merely ating me, are very kindly and sentimental. he advising me on what they consider, right. my. but my biggest achievement from that period was that i became normal in the eyes of those around me in what didn't go hats off you on

a one on one of the show. here in von of to transpose shopping malls, it's plain to see them and varying whatever they want in friendly coexistence, refusing to be divided by to sloman, republics ideology, no matter what they've chosen for themselves. personally, manny says, i'm going to do that. this is how i show my religious identity to people. i'm fine with this. i'm comfortable. but i think that if i don't fight for the individual, freedom of the person sitting next to me, i'm actually destroying freedom, has been better. if someone who doesn't think like me or dress like me doesn't have freedom, then i don't have freedom either. because freedom is not for anyone. if it's not for everyone, i also think about him and i wish various units. and so in the past 5 months, many religious women have joined to protest as well as men not fighting against a job, but for freedom equality and to white to choose. it's to mandatory her job that

they see as a tool for oppressing them and said m as an individual i personally, i would not whether he jump tracks. i just had an image for them to joke sad and i turn in my opinion and this practice of not wearing it doesn't just mean that we are now physically freer. also are, has seen those if is, if you're in hong any, it's actually a form of resistance figure. and the issue of the, his job has taken on a special meaning crazy board or not in a hospital corner. my son is a special meaning most people hearing to ron seemed to either share or at least no longer mine, highlighting that the rift is not among iranians, but between them and dear leaders. join now by freedom of expression were such and iran x. but masa ali madonna from the oxford internet institute. i'm also welcome to the w. 3 days ago you tweet says,

and i quote here the islamic republic is in a full scale information war to of to skate it's heinous. crimes. can you explain this to us? are you essentially talking about the iranian regime, hiding its treatment of women in particular? yeah, i mean, a few weeks ago, the united nations human rights council opened with iran's foreign minister who outright denied the events that have happened since september. he denied that peaceful protesters had been killed or arrested or persecuted in any way. so that information warfare is at play. they are down playing the way that they have been treating women. they have been making efforts to distract the prop public a few months ago. you know, they let out some news that they were removing the morality police. and of course, this was a untrue statement. as you know, women were continue continuously being persecuted,

arrested. they have been developing new technologies to be more efficient, morality, police using surveillance technologies to arrest and ticket women who don't wear proper had job. so it is very much an effort to appear as if everything is fine. and this is very much a campaign that the islamic republic has underway to resettle things both internally and externally against them. so you've spoken about these anti government protests that have been taking place for months now in iran. can you tell us how well is this protest movement doing in, in keeping the iranian people aware of its, if its aims and its messages and its message to the world? well, you know, like we've pointed out, women have been at the forefront of this struggle and there have been some incredible women's voices from inside iran who have declared this is a revolution from now street to today. the human rights lawyer who has been in and

out of jail for years. now i guess mohammed the in fact now i guess mohammed to mark international women's day, put out a statement from jail outlining know the massive costs that women have been paying inside jail, outside of jail, to stand against this regime. and the fight continues. so it is a very clear desire to and you know, this system of, you know, so might say gender apartheid, this system of human rights abuses of corruption and poverty that the islamic republic is very much undertaking against its own people. and the struggle continues. and the message is very clear, especially from these very well known women who have paid such heavy as such a heavy price even before the no matter a mi ni uprising began in september massa, a madonna from the opposite internet. and she, thank you so much for taking the time, speak to us today. thanks for having me now,

an aide to ukraine's president the law to me as a lensky has denied that keith was involved in the destruction of the nord stream gas pipelines. the under c pipelines which brought russian and natural gas to germany were below not bloss september, u. s. and german media citing u. s. intelligence have reported that a pro ukrainian group may have carried out those attacks. the kremlin, meanwhile, has dismissed the allegations as a quote attempt to rick the news. this recording is from the moment after the node stream pipelines exploded and started leaking. guess. countries have blamed each other for the damage since september 2022. now, new intelligence suggests that a pro ukraine group was behind it by one you as an aide to ukraine's president will order me of the lensky has denied any involvement by cave. russia meanwhile,

has dismissed the report. for miss re spoke both and maria's, i could over see the twice to divert public attention and avoid of proper investigation. nod stream pipelines, $1.00 and $2.00 carried natural gas from russia to germany. their destruction of the points seen here has been shrouded in mystery. the blasts occurred nearly half a year into rochelle. the invasion of ukraine. various players could have had something to gain from the attack expert say, those include russian only galks. i mean, we get that the oligarchy with a powerful, biggest in russia, right. up until just about a year ago. lots of very wealthy, influential and networks. people would have political, financial reasons, essentially, to help undermine putin's war effort and recover maybe some of what they had lost. meanwhile,

us officials have said it isn't really too early to draw conclusions. it belongs to 2 or 3 countries that are investigating exactly what transpired or german allies, our swedish and danish partners as well. they've open investigation into what has happened. they, those investigations are ongoing. as we always do, we're going to let those investigations play out before we comments on any potential findings or conclusions. there are many marquee questions, who ordered the attack, who executed it, and who paid for it? but perhaps the biggest question, who is benefiting from it? and will we ever know more enjoy now by appellate correspondent, benjamin alvarez crew vash. and let's start with this joint investigation by 3 german, a media outlets bringing to light some of this new evidence. can you tell us what

exactly did they find out? so they cited concrete information, they spoke about 6 individuals, 5 men, one woman, they said that the nationalities are unknown, that they found to it falsified passports. they rented a yes from a firm in poland, allegedly belonging to you. ukrainians then departed a port in the northern part of germany, and that this year was then located in near a, in island near a danish island. so that's information that we had. there was another report by the new york times, also citing this pro ukrainian intelligence. but so far, the german government has said that it read these reports, but that from the swedish and also from the danish counterpart, the has not been any information yet about that official investigations into the incident. okay, so yes, and we have to oversee reminder of yours that we do not know who's behind the explosions. however, given these investigations, this information coming to light could all of this trigger a shift at all in relations between and between berlin and key?

it would definitely strain the relationship that not only germany, but the western world has whether ukraine was with supplying them also with a weapon system with, with helping them also on a diplomatic level. of course that's also, i think, why keep react? it's so quickly to there's reports saying, even if it is a ukrainian group that we have no information about, there was no involvement by the ukrainian government. but of course, that will mean in case this, it is a confirmed somehow that would mean that the relationship between the both countries would of course, be affected by this. yeah. now the north string gas pipelines, they were a project run by the german and the russian government. can you remind us, please of the role that these pipelines played between germany and russia in the lead up and in the early stages of the war, they played a central role in form, needs the symbolism of the dependency that germany had had in the past with russia now they moved to other sources of energy. we have to make a difference between nodes from one in nordstrom to because the 1st pipeline was inaugurated in 2011 by now former german talk langler marco. the 2nd one,

the german chancellor, will laugh shoals m had a certification and he took it out only a few days before russia invaded to crane. but the criticism was really strong with this project with many say that it's not just that there is gas being sent from russia to germany. but this a geopolitical aspect, that russia will be able to then have a lot of influence over germany. that was one of the big problems when germany then tried to distance itself from brushing gas. it was pretty difficult because it was so dependent on the gas that was sent over then. but this blame game into come back to the 1st question, sought it immediately after this class. we had keith pointing at moscow saying that they were involved in moscow. so that's not the case. they pointed it towards the u . k saying that m london was involved, they denied it as well. we have another media investigation saying that was the u. s. and now we have this other investigation. so the, our unconfirmed reports, we have to say that. but of course, that blaming has been ongoing since we had this incident september of last year. he

w political correspondent, benjamin alvarez, grava, thank you so much. how the russian paramilitary organisation wagner has claimed that it has captured the eastern part of ukraine's embattled city of batman. the city has been at the center of intense fighting over the past several weeks, despite military expert saying that has it has little strategic value to russia. however, the ukranian president vladimir zalinski has said the army is determined to defend the city. and that losing and could give the russians a road into the rest of the east and ukraine. and our correspondent in chief is amin se, i mean the head of rushes, wagner mercenary group, if any provision is saying that his group has now taken full control of the eastern part of that mood. can you tell us what you are hearing there?

ukraine has not confirmed this. what they have said previously is that there is street fighting between ukrainian russian troops, which implies that the russians do have control of at least some of the city. and now military analysts, as well as some ukranian troops have told media that they believe the fall of bark moved to russia is inevitable. zalinski has been very adamant in denying this said that his military headquarters are unanimous in their decision to continue to defend bar mood and to even send reinforcements. now reinforcements would also be needed if you crane wanted to initiate a tactical retreat from the city. that's because only one road remains open to them to flee that city. that's the road heading west, which if russia captures it in zalinski, has made this point. russia would be in control of that road and this heads to more populated and more strategically important cities like cromer tours and slower yards. so that would be a major drawback for ukraine. k a u n. secretary general antonio terrace is in key

eve right now. can you tell us what can we expect from his me saying with the ukranian president today? his main goal here is to protect green shipments out of the black sea on behalf of vulnerable countries that depend on these shipments. if you remember, at the beginning of the war, green shipments were stuck there in the black sea because of fighting going on. and gutierrez, as well with the help of turkey negotiated a deal that would protect ships coming through out of the black sea. this prevents the price of grain from spiking which has directly led to hunger crises, in a lot of countries, especially in the global south. so that's his main aim here, but what's also significant is that he didn't go to moscow before and he doesn't plan a trip to moscow after. so this is sending a signal at least to ukraine, to zalinski that he's also coming as a friend. w correspondent, i'm in a seat in the case. thanks so much for that. i mean now in ukraine's

neighbor, moldova, there are concerns that russia is considering an invasion. speculation is right, that moscow is eyeing the countries international airport. and tis, now, i'm older than government has said it would blow up the runway rather than let the kremlin capture it. although that also has a breakaway region in the east, that's trans, nice trio. well, authorities are backed by russia. he does, he is max under. went to a madeau. them controlled enclave in this rushing back to region and sent us as report an hours drive from old dover capitol. russian soldiers, they're huge to keep frozen. a conflict over who controls the other side of the river. most of it. we're heading to mobile vaults on enclave in the breakaway territory trends mistrial. a strip of land on the border with ukraine. they claimed independence from the capital casing. now in moldova, more than 30 years ago,

and ever since has been backed up by moscow at victory, bish lagging me to set the village museum, victor and his friend or veterans of the transmission train war. they fought for them all dove and government against separatists back by moscow. it ended more than 3 decades ago. but victor says it changed everything. a little wilful, so good. so up until then i was one person. and afterwards i was a completely different one. lesson a learned that life is short, the meal nigger. so bravery, victor is worried that moscow's aggression against ukraine might affect things here on a chest together. i hope this year that the whole world will defeat putin, the russians. and the army owns bill. and i hope that all these tanks and soldiers stationed here, including this ghost republic will disappear because of a boma with the split it. the enclave feels vulnerable. it's small donovan,

but it is surrounded by russian control transistors. a complicated unsteady situation on the outskirts of the capitol, pinching our foods are hotter. people wanting to protest against the modem and government are blocked by police. anger that economic hardship is overlaid with fears. president maya santa could provoke russia, where were transist you? the protests are organized by the pro russian shore party and authority. see nurse need pretty could get the that we are afraid that she will drag us into the war. yeah. when i ball and my my myer sand, you keeps talking about trans nice drea, monotony well, we cannot talk about this while there is a war so close to us. at the heart of the protests

hostility towards president solander was clear. people here are not worried about russian aggression. yo yo, i've never been to europe myself, but i've traveled to russia and i would say that in russia it's better because they don't try to harm us. like the people in power do here. this one could also hear it up in illinois. the protest are funded and orchestrated by russia with the help of local oligarchs, according to the government and casey. now, the chronus using this widget of oligarchs, are to try to disturb light stretching, mold over and they in turn, are now going are generally funnel resources to try to pay for this protests. i'm confident that we'll be able to not only withstand this challenge, but also prevail and move towards the goal that mold of and citizens have set for us in the election towards european integration back in the east. today's his

special day for victor bush, lag and his fellow veterans. they gather in the places they once fought. and remember those who died. it is the 31st anniversary of the beginning of war. middle schools of the blood, you see, war takes every one civilians and even children. may god have mercy on their souls, life. they're not looking for war, they say. but should come to them by the light. they'll be ready. we can cross now to freelance journalist diana pope, he joins us from keith and now the capital of mother diana, can you tell us how likely and it is that they could be a russian backed crew in moldova recently, or the president of the republican mall build on my ass, i'm do a sad that she received some documents from line that you can or inside,

which show russia lane run work for a cool period. we'll do that. according to my assigned was words, some certain political forces such as the pro ration party, cold, sure, are trying to provoke mass distributive nations here in moldova. and the confirmation of my a sanders was protest struggling on every week or even twice a week. sometimes. what is concerning is information which came on monday, when about 80 young people were detained on the airport of the public on one of us cabinet okey, you know, when they came back from turkey where honor to lead, they participated in some a military trainings funded by this pro russian short party the party, of course, in idle those locations by them will do an official said that they are sure that these actions are coordinated by the kremlin. and this happens because more delays still partially controlled by russia. first of all, we had to break away region. oak turns nice to know which claimed its independence

more than 30 years ago and were rush. i still maintaining troops, as they call it, to pacify, but actually to maintain pressure almost in our companies. we heard in our report, people voicing phase about being dragged into the wall. i mean, what about a russian invasion? how great is the risk of something like that? well, even though moscow officially rejects those kind of claims. discussions about the possible involvement of the republican will do lying to the water bar. it's more than want to drink a one year old word, new ash as many times that they don't support ukraine and help ukraine to we in that moved over the next. what is actually concerning the claim? so more school during the past few months, when they said that ukraine would be the one quiz planning and aren't conflict in that, we'll do them to be more specific insurance needs. but our people look to the past

claims of moscow when russia said something, but then acted in a completely different way. so they, our people are concerned that russia could be the one who is planning on conflict in trans nice truck. you should also keep in mind that a part of our population is still in the town, dick, after the soviet union and seeing that the best future is with russia. i've talked to many people in the region to side aside. say that if russia would come here, they would welcome it. and even though russia is not physically present, they will do about the word, the gang manipulation going on. and it is quite hard for the west to fight with this kind of insight. diana pope and he's now thank you so much for your time. and some sports news for you now in football, garage adult went have been knocked out of the champions. leach chelsea 13 to the

last 8 with a to know that train london. that leaves by and me and with the chance to be the 1st chairman side through to the course of finals, the barons will now haste. patty. sasha mar wednesday. bye and have a one gul lead going into the game and munich but will have to contain the likes of linelle massey and kelly and empathy. buyer have head in up and down history with p. s g in the champions league. back in 2020 buyer defeated p s g to when the chip is league fido. the following year, the 2 met in the quarter finals in p. s. g advanced. thanks to the away goals role this season byron earn a similar situation. the german site takes a slim advantage into wednesday night, but p a she too was well in the form of killing him in bar pay. the fleet footed p as she winger wasn't 100 percent in the previous match by aren't aware of the danger he brings, say they have a game played as one spectacle for me. the most spectacular player at the moment is

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