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

suggest to pro ukrainian group carried out the attack on the natural gas pipelines under the baltic sea and tensions in moldova, ron high, many in the country neighboring ukraine, are afraid of being dragged into russia's war of aggression. and their critical that president corpse. ah, and he keeps mckinnon. welcome to the show. the 8th of march marks international women's day out. this is not only an opportunity to celebrate women and the progress they've made, but 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 that the situation is still very dangerous for some we have this exclusive

report from terran, we've blurred the faces of people appearing 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 the risk, but it's still against the law. so to talk about it, we go inside higgins yog ward are there were many reactions to me, not wearing that he jap people looking at me pulling faces, or even coming up and insulting me. you're merely ating me, all very kindly and sentimentally 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 did that, and i go hats off. ya know, when i was here in von off to ron's push shopping malls,

it's plain to see women varying what to where they want in friendly coexistence, refusing to be divided by des slammed republics ideology, no matter what they've chosen for themselves personally. then he says, i'm going to do them 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 about 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, as i think about him and i wish about history. 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 the white to choose. it's the mandatory his job that

they see as a tool for oppressing them. said m as alejandro i personally would not whether he just i just had an image for them. the jobs are and i turn in my opinion this practice of not wearing it doesn't just mean that we are now physically. freya, also are, has seen those if is, if you are in hong any, it's actually a form of resistance figure. and the issue of the he job has taken on a special meaning korean war will not in a hospital, i'm calling myself as special meaning most people hearing to ron seem to either share or at least no longer mind. highlighting that the rift is not among iranians, but between them and their leaders. i speak to freedom of expression researcher and iran, expert mazda ali, ma, danny, is from the oxford internet institute. she says, the islamic republic is waging and information war to down play. it's cracked down

on women's rights activists. a few weeks ago, the united nations human rights council and 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 downplaying 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 nash streams 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, they 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 ends, 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 genome assa. a mi ni uprising began in september, massa alley madonna, from the opposite internet. and she, thank you so much for taking the time, speak to us today, and aid to ukraine's president volota may zalinski has denied that he was involved in the destruction of the north stream gas pipelines. the under c pipelines which brought russia natural gas to germany will blow not last september,

us and german media citing u. s. intelligence have reported a pro ukrainian group may have carried out the attack. the kremlin, meanwhile, has dismissed the allegations as a quote attempt to rig 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 landscape has denied any involvement by cave. russia, meanwhile, has dismissed the report for miss re spoke to somebody else. i could over see that twice to divert public attention and avoid a 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 blast placard 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 oligarchs. i mean, let's get 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 a political financial reasons essentially to help undermine payden'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 belong 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, 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 some more am joy now bye up and it's correspondent, benjamin alvarez. grover sh. and jim, 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 that 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 that has not been any information yet about this official investigation 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 a, 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 in a diplomatic level. of course, that's also, i think, why keep reacted so quickly to this report saying, even if it is a ukraine in 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 will mean that the relationship between the both countries would of course, be affected by this. yeah. now the nordstrom gas pipelines, they were a project run by the german and the russian government. can you remind us plays 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 center roland for many. it's a 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 nordstrom one in nordstrom to because the 1st pipeline was inaugurated in 2011 by now former german tough langler merkel. the 2nd one, the german chancellor, will laugh shoals and had a certification and he took it out only a few days before russia and baited to crane. but the criticism was really strong with this project with many saying 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 van tried to distance itself from brush and gas. that was pretty difficult because it was so dependent of the gas that was sent over then. but this blame game in to come back to the 1st question, sought it immediately after this class. we had keith pointing at most calls, saying that they were involved in moscow. so that's not the case. they pointed it towards the u. k saying that the in 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, the blaming has been ongoing. since we had this incident september of last year, he w political correspondent, benjamin alvarez, grava. thank you so much. now the russian, what wagner paramilitary organisation is claiming that it has captured the eastern part of ukraine's embattled city of buffalo city has been at the center of intense

fighting over the past several weeks, despite military experts saying it has little strategic value to russia. ukrainian president, the modem is zalinski, has said the army is determined to defend the city, and that losing it could give the russians a road and to the rest of easton ukraine. boots of borkman. i asked her correspondent, i mean, se, says in keith, what he's heard about the wagner mastery grapes claims that it's in control as the eastern part of back moot. 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 ukrainian troops, have told media that they believe the fall of buff mode to russia is inevitable. zalinski has been very adamant and 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 crime, a tourist and slower janski's. so that would be a major drawback for ukraine cash. and the un secretary general antennae. terrorist is in keith right now. can you tell us what can we expect from his me saying that 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. the w correspondent, i'm in a seat in keith, thanks so much that i mean our concerns in moldova, that russia could be trying to undermine support for or even topple the country's pro european government. although the board has ukraine to the south, and speculation is rife that moscow is eyeing the country's international airport in kisha. now, the mold open government has said it would blow up the runway rather than let the kremlin capture it. although it also has a breakaway region in the east, that's trans nice trio. well sources are backed by russia. d. w max on the went to

a moldova controlled enclave in this russian back region. and sent us this report. an hour's 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 mo, lavolle, to an enclave in the breakaway territory trans mistrial. the strip of land on the border with ukraine. that claimed independence from the capital casing now in moldova, more than 30 years ago. and ever since has been backed up by moscow. victor bish lag meets us at 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. was on a learned that life is short, the meal, new spirit. victor is worried that moscow aggression against ukraine might affect things here on a chest together. i hope this year that the whole world will defeat putin host the russians, and the army owns bill. and i hope that all these tanks and soldiers stationed here, including this ghost republic that will disappear because of boma with us. but 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 capital, pissing our foods, are hot. people wanting to protest against them of the open government are blocked by police. anger,

economic hardship is overlaid with fears. president maya santa could provoke russia, where were transist you. the protests are organized by the pro russian short party and authority. see, nurse need 40 could get the that we are afraid that she will drag us into the war. yeah. when i ball and my myers sand you keeps talking about trans nice drea. my aunt will not 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 sullen to his 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 hear this one could also hear it up in illinois to protest or funded an orchestrated by russia with the help of

local oligarchs, according to the government and casey, now the chronus, using this widget of oligarchs, ah, to try to disturb blind stretch animal dover, 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 the goal that mold of and citizens have set for us in the election towards european integration back in the east. today's a special day for victor bush, lag, and his fellow veterans. they gather in the place as they once fought. and remember those who died. it is the 31st anniversary of the beginning of war. this goes of the blood, you see war takes every one civilians and even children, may god have mercy on their souls, life. they are not looking for war. they say. but should it come to them by the

light? they will be ready at arrest that tim all day. then based gen las diana papa and asked her about the likelihood of a russian back clue in mo, data recently, or the president of the republican mall. job on my, i sound or sad that she received some documents from line that you can or inside, which show russia lane run work for a coup here in 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 this to zation here in moldova. and the confirmation of my a sanders was brought to a sale going on every week or even twice a week. sometimes what is concerning is the 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 out of july 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 lying to the water bar to more than want to

drink. one year of the work new ash had many time that they don't support ukraine and to help ukraine to reinvent 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, an armed conflict in that will do them to be more specific in trans nice draft. but all 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 an armed 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 and russia. i've talked to many people in the region to side aside. say that it, russia would come here, they would welcoming it. and even though russia is not physically present,

they will do about the word, the propaganda manipulation going on. and it is quite hard for the west to fight with this kind of incense, diana pope. and he's now thank you so much for your time. its time now for a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. police and demonstrators have clashed and george's capital tbilisi protests were taking place against the government bill. that critic say would restrict free speech if enacted into law, the bill would force media companies and and g o is to register any links they have with entities outside of georgia. you has condemned the legislation. residents in the central philippines have reported nausea. dizziness in villages close to the location of a major oil spill. that happened last week, the incident occurred off the coast of min. doro island, an oil tanker sank after experiencing engine trouble in rough seas. the german

foreign minister and alina babcock has said that states must respect the sovereignty of iraq. she's currently on a visit to the country. burbock singled out iran for its missile attacks saying that it was not only oppressing its own people, but was also pushing the security of the wider region at risk. some sports news now and in football, bearish adornment, have been knocked out of the champions league. chelsea one through to the last 8 with a to novick train, london. that leaves by munich with the chance to be the 1st german side through the quarter finals. the barbarians will host patty sandra. mom on wednesday. bye and have a one go lead going into the game in munich, but will have to contain the likes of linelle massey and kilian and bobby buyers have had an up and down history with p. s g in the champions league. back in 2020 by and defeated p s g to when the chip is league final. 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 germans, i takes a slim advantage into wednesday night, but p a she to was well in the form of killing him in bob a. 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 clearly killian killian to clover the gun. i think the whole world likes watching them play has been so. as far as the game is concerned, we're not going to be watching his extraordinary talents. we're going to stop him from doing his job and albert's muscle on the. and i think if our plan works out gland of he won't have much funds. nitish basil since losing the 1st leg peers she have won 3 straight in league are buyer and have been equally successful in germany

. head coach julian now guzman says buyer and season will be measured on how they perform against p. s g. who will be without name are despite missing one star, there will be a constellation on both sides of the pitch come wednesday night amber that you are up to date eco. india is up next, looking at the impacts of water gas estate and how to cope with them. i'm a new cooper mckinnon in berlin, on the whole, on behalf of the whole team here. thanks so much for watching d. w. ah ah, with

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