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a ah this is the w news alive from burling today on international women's day. we are turning the spotlight on the state of women's rights around the world. if someone who doesn't think like me or dressed like me, doesn't have freedom, then i don't have freedom either. in iran, for example, many women say they're seeing more liberties on the streets,
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or the transition is very much a work in progress. also coming up on the shelf un chief antonio good tash meets ukraine's president lensky, to try to extend a great deal aimed at easing a global food shortage. more on the bombing of the north stream gas pipelines. tea denies involvement after media report suggest a pro ukrainian group carried out the attack and protests turn violent in georgia as capital tbilisi. anger mounts after the countries parliament signal support for a law that critics say couldn't muzzle the press and stifled efforts to join the european union. ah, ah. hello, i'm clear, richards and welcome. today is international women's day, an opportunity to celebrate women, but also an important time to highlight argos that women around the world still
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face. now in iran, for example, the situation remains dangerous for women, especially given the controls of the so called morality police. but months after women 1st hooked to the streets in mass protests, they have achieved some of the freedoms they're fighting for. we start by bringing you this exclusive report from tech ron, and you'll note that some faces have been blurred for their 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 dis, university student. many women are taking theories, but it's still against the law. so to talk about it, we go inside taking the odd would a, 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,
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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. yeah, no one. i'm of the show here in von, off to hans push shopping malls, it's plain to see women varying what to where they want in friendly coexistence, refusing to be divided by to slammed republics ideology, no matter what they've chosen for themselves personally, many says granting i didn't 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 dressed 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 already i and then i wish about his skin. and so in the past 5 months,
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many religious women have joined to protest as well as men not pointing against a job, but for freedom equality and are 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 just, i just had an image for them. the job sat and i turn, in my opinion, this practice of not wearing it doesn't just mean that we are now physically. freya also has been visit your in the hall. jenny, 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 know a horse to build on one of my study as well as special meaning most people hearing to ron seemed to either share or at least no longer mine highlighting debt the rift is not among iranians. what between them and dear leaders?
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and i'm very pleased to welcome guessing, near the director of the strategic litigation project at the atlanta council, a think tank. she worked on prevention and accountability efforts for human rights violations. thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us the past few months in iran have seen powerful women lead protest that started after 22 year old gina max. i mean, he died at the hands of the morality police. where are things gone from there? have these pro has been effective in bringing change? well, what we saw was that there have been powerful movements on the street to really demand a change. and iranians are not just asking for reform. they are asking for the islamic republic to go. i think there's an understanding that reform has been tried for decades and really hasn't gotten anywhere. i think at the very least now the
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globe is very aware of the oppressive system. any ron, but we have a long way to go to be able to match accountability with the reality there and to ensure that women are women and everybody else in the country are able to live with their human rights and dignity. and so we have a long way to go. you see this as a call for regime change? we have of course, in time and time again, how brutally the run in regime cracks down on women protests. if i just a few days ago, we had this disturbing video emerge. you also shared it on twitter. it allegedly shows brutal handling by security forces of a mother who took part in protests against recent poisonings of school girls across iran. i can you tell us why the regime resorts to violence against women like this so often? well, we've been receiving reports of the allegations of poisoning of hundreds of school
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girls. there's been reports that up to 5000 students have thought medical treatment for those. and i think it's a very concerning escalation, regardless of who the perpetrators are. and there's still some investigation that needs to be done. of that. it's a very concerning escalation because it really is an attempt to take girls out of education and to take them out of public space. and you ask why it is that the islamic republic is violent towards women. it's because there is a system that is designed to dehumanize and repress women. under the law, women are worth half that of a man under the law. their testimony is worth half that of man. and this really is a system that is a can to gender apartheid. there are calls from women now ask and any ryan women together and international lawyers to recognize the crime of gender apartheid under international law. and that is certainly what does that play in the
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atlantic republic today? let's talk a little bit more about your work as a human rights lawyer. how difficult is it to document and then prosecute right violations in a country that is isolated as iran the issue with the ron is that it's a closed society. and so, unlike other countries in which i could go to the field and conduct investigation with witnesses and victims and survivors, the violations and investigate where those purported act plays. we don't have the same access to crime scene as we do perhaps elsewhere. but the positive news is that there is a lot of digital evidence that is now readily accessible in today's time. so this wouldn't have been possible decades ago. there is a way to analyze a lot of open source information and to be able to conduct interviews virtually. i think where things need to catch up though is in the jurisdictional issues. so iran
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is not a member of the international criminal court. there is no regional court by which we can prosecute our interrogate these violations. so we have to be creative with the legal means and methods that we use to seek accountability against these perpetrators of atrocity crimes. well, thank you so much for taking the time to join us and explain that that is due so near with the atlantic council. we went secretary general, antonio gutierrez and ukraine's president voting. there's lensky have called for the extension of a crucial deal with moscow that allows ukrainian grain export. speaking after talk and keep the lensky stress at the black sea green initiative was vital for the world. quoterush agreed saying the agreement was essential to global food security . the deal allows ukraine to ship grain from its black seaports and russia to export fertilizer and food. it's set to expire on march 18th, and moscow has signaled that it might not let the deal continue. let's get more
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from our correspondent mathias learner and keith. but he has, what more can you tell us about what president lensky and human secretary general patricia said on this was a meeting where both of us basically the 2 sides that agree that this meeting has to be extended were meeting. so these were not difficult talks, the difficult part is russia that has attached some demands to its a possible agreement to an extension of this, a great initiative. this was a very symbolic meeting, where both were a showing their, their, their commitment to extend this. and can you tell us a little bit more about what exactly is at stake here with this deal? while this grain initiative was started last summer, this was after russia had in the beginning of the war,
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blocked all ukrainian port and gray could not be shipped out leading not only to tremendous losses of the great economy, but also ford shortage. and that was a reason for the un and turkey and many other actors to push russia to unblock these ports. and then the 2 sides agreed on 3 sides, a turkey and the un on one side, a with separately russia and ukraine agreed to establish a mechanism where ships would safely sail out of ukrainian ports. ukraine would either open a pathway for them or, or guide them through these waters that were mine, that ukraine had mind, and russia had mind, and russia committed to not attacking them, and then they would be inspected in turkey. is dumble. so that to russia could make sure that no weapons are shipped in, or nothing else is shipped out except those goods that have been agreed to. and
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that worked pretty well. russia tried once to withdraw from this agreement, saying that they did not feel committed any more, but a ship's it was in november, ships continued to sail then despite russia withdrawing its guarantees and russia eventually re committed to this agreement. it's of course, a major, a way for russia to pressure on ukraine to pressure also on the west and other countries disagreements at that out on the claim, but also the world needs. and that is why these negotiations, every time that disagreement ends, it's always, it has been extended so far for 3 months each time. each time the disagreement ends that they are new negotiations and russia. we also see some leverage to get through some other g moms like uneasy move sanctions,
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not for the crew coach will start to search about some exempt from sanctions by disagreement, but for maybe other sectors that affect also their expos. thank you so much for that update. that's d w correspondent, mathias, belinda and keith. and for the view from russia, we can now cross over to dw correspondent jennifer polco, who's covering the kremlin for us. she's joining us, of course, from the lobby and capital rica, because d w has been banned from reporting in russia. jennifer, the un secretary general saying it's critical that this grain deal is extended. but that obviously won't happen without moscow on board. how likely is it that we're going to get them on site to extend this steel well, about the renewal of the deal? it's still unclear. we don't know because russia is very quiet about its opinion from a western perspective. of course, it's pretty simple why the deal needs to be extended. it is because of the food prices and inflation rate that would remain stable if moscow is on board with this
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deal. but if russia will agree to it, we're still unclear about that. and can you tell us a little bit more about what demands russia has made it to agree on an extension? yes, in march or russian foreign ministers, yet a gale of off end, his turkish colleague met. and they discussed a policy possible extension of this deal. and russia and left off stated that they will only consider a renewal of the contract if russian agricultural and fertilizer producers needs will be accounted to as well. so they need to be, it count, accounted for. and what else was important is that after laughter of stated, that even though there are no sanction on russian food and fertilizer exports, there are some major issues when it comes to payment and logistics. so for example, last year, 250000 tons of russian fertilizer. where kept and here in latvia and
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a port because of western sanctions. but moscow stated another demand they one to reopen and we start using an ammonia pipeline that goes through ukraine in order to public produce more fertilizer. but if you crane is going to make any concession in this regard, is still unclear. thank you so much for that. update that's data. these correspond, jennifer pucca will an aide to president zalinski has said ukraine was quote, absolutely not involved in the destruction of the nord stream gas pipelines, the undersea pipelines which brought russia natural gas to germany were blown up last september on tuesday, the new york times, citing anonymous u. s. intelligence and german media citing german officials reported that a pro ukrainian group may have carried out the attack. the crumbling, meanwhile, has dismissed the allegations as a quote attempt to rig the news. this recording is from the moment after the nodes dream pipelines exploded and started leaking. guess
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countries have blamed each other for the damage since september 2022. now, new intelligence suggests that a pro ukraine group was behind it by the coin you, an aide to ukraine's president will order me zalinski has denied any involvement by cave. russia, meanwhile, have dismissed the report for miss re spoke both in muddy as i could over. see the 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 stuccoed nearly half a year into rush of invasion of ukraine. various players could have had something to gain from the attack expert say, those include russian oligarchs. i mean, that the oligarchy, with a powerful,
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biggest in russia, right up until just about a year ago. lots of very wealthy, influential, and networks people would have political, financial regions, essentially, to help undermine putin's war effort, recover maybe some of what they had lost. meanwhile, us officials have said it isn't really too early to draw conclusions, and it, 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, 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?
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but perhaps the biggest question who is benefiting from it? and will we ever know? well, let's take a look now at some other news making headlines around the world. tens of thousands of protesters have stage demonstrations across greece to express their anger over the country's worst train tragedy. in decades, striking transport workers, students and teachers are urging the prime minister to resign over the head on crash. they called 57 people a week ago. residence in the central philippines have reported nara and dizziness in villages close to the location of a major oil spill. that happened last week, the incident occurred off the coast of endorse island. when an oil tanker sank after experiencing engine trouble in rough seas and authorities in the georgia capital t of lucy have attained at least $66.00 people demonstrating against
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a controversial new draft law. the law dubbed the foreign agent bill received backing from parliament early this week. opponents say that if passed the law would limit free speech and mark a shift toward authoritarianism. there, calling for fresh protest this afternoon. georgia at boiling point for these demonstrators. it's become a battle for the future direction of the country and they're willing to fight for it. the violent protests here in the capital tbilisi response by george's parliament, giving the initial green light to a draft bill. which critic say tramples on, press freedoms and basic civil rights. they claim it's a russian style law that would require n g o z and independent media received more than 20 percent of their funding from
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abroad to declare themselves. foreign agents scuffled broke out when it progressed with a clear majority in parliament this week, the ruling georgia dream party say it improves transparency in the country. history, georgia is president solomon rubbish, really. who's an independent but was backed by the georgia dream party and her run for office went against the government and expressed her support for the protesters . speaking during a state visit to the us, she said the demonstrators represent a free georgia which sees that future in europe and will not allow anyone to take away their future. rolled out on a small move on the u foreign policy chief to separate warren that the bill was incompatible with you. values and standards concerning words for georgians at a crucial time for their country future. the european union is currently
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considering george's application to join the block. let's get some news from north america now and a for us citizens kidnapped by suspected mexican drug traffickers to have been found dead. lot to others have survived. authorities are still investigating how the 2 americans died. the 4 friends had driven into mexico last week because at least one was plenty to have cosmetic surgery there. the 2 survivors have since been returned to the united states. for close friends on a road trip to mexico gun down and kidnapped, only to made it back allied, escorted by a caravan of american and mexican officials. hopefully those michigan mexican authorities handed over to us authorities, the woman who was unharmed and the man who was injured on the international bridge
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between brownsville and matamoros gunman open fire on the group in the middle of traffic in the border city of my tomatoes, the friends crossed into mexico on friday with some of them seeking more affordable, cosmetic procedures and stead they were caught up in the cities deadly turf war between powerful drug cartels. as news of the abduction spread, the kidnappers reportedly moved from place to place to evade rescuers. and on the general problem of the cartels looked, cartels are responsible for the deaths of americans that we are fighting as hard as possible, the da and the f. b. i are doing everything possible to dismantle and disrupt and ultimately prosecute. are the leaders of the cartels and the entire networks, other paid to pena, mexico's president, offered his regrets to the bereaved families, e. b, m. of us. we are very sorry that this has happened in our country and we send our condolences to the family and friends of the victims and to the people in government of the united states. i said us gonzalez. yes. but lopez opened
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a door also said the incident would not have generated nearly as much attention. had the victims been mexicans and not us citizens. let's get some sports news now and in football barissi adornment have been knocked out of the champions league by chelsea. the english side, one to nil on the night in london, advancing to the quarter finals to one on aggregate germany international chi harvard scored chelsea's decisive goal with a controversial re taken penalty. it was norman's 1st defeat this year after they had $110.00 matches in a row, while dot meant english norman's english midfielder. she'd bellingham called the decision to retake the penalty. a joke now, his coach, it entire touch was more restrained after the game and wouldn't be drawn into criticizing the referee. let's hear from both coaches now starting with touch is
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kind of games, inches and moments are deciding. are you going to the next want on up and her to day. there been some moments who had been a bit unlucky, of course, but this is also part of the game. so we won't complain about the situation really . we knew that we have to show to talk performances, but to night charity score twice. we haven't. and so we can't complain about getting to opt out of future players. we're tremendous to support. we're tremendous . we ought to be against a team that do so well. 10 games on the bouts. when i'm pulling up the 2 games, i think we deserve to go through all dark men's champions league exit means. byron munich now have the chance to be the 1st german side through to the quarter finals . they host a perry sancho man tonight with a one goal lead going into the game in munich. but they will have to contend with
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the likes of lino massey and korean pe. 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, by an earnest, similar situation, the german side takes a slim advantage into wednesday night. but p a she too was well in the form of keeley m. m 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 clearly killian killian declared that he got, 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
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line off, he won't have much funds. nitish buzzer since losing the 1st leg. pierce ye have won 3 straight in league ah. buyer and have been equally successful in germany. head coach julian angles man 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. that is one to watch. and before we go, here's a reminder of our top story at this hour. today on the 8th of march, people in iran are also celebrating international women's day. many women in iran say they have made significant gains in the past few months, but they stress that their situation is still very dangerous. you're watching picked up news coming up next in d, w. news,
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asia. why the u. n. warrens that online hate could reverse progress for women and the wrestling squad in india, training women to dominate the sports. that's up next with my colleague melissa chan. and of course, if you want more news analysis, can find that on our website at d, w dot com, also check out our social media channels. the handle you need there is acting up. i'm play richardson or lynn for me and the team was behind the scenes thanks for watching. ah, with
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