[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, let's see the news line from berlin bend on keeping control the ukrainian stronghold. buffalo thumb analysts say it's not worth the blood shed.

we meet the ukrainian fires who tell us why it is also on the program. benjamin netanyahu puts israel's controversial judicial reform on hold. he says he wants to avoid civil war, but protesters said they won't stop until the reforms are dropped altogether, not to be doing with also coming up in solitary confinement and facing execution, or demanding basic rights. friends of the dissident, iranian robber too much tell us of their fear or his safety. ah, i'm not really sure it's good to have you with us. german chancellor or last shot says his country has provided ukraine with 18 leper to battle tanks in line with a pledge made earlier this year. along

a way to german made vehicles were handed over to ukrainian forces at the border. a decision to send them to support key was made in january following months of debates. alba mote in easter ukraine has become a symbol of ukrainian resistance. i'll be it one of the bloodiest. some criticize the ukrainian leadership for the decision to keep on defending backbone, but many ukrainian soldiers in the area say they're willing to pay the heavy price for his control. he w, corresponded max sundown when to meet some of those fighters. you have to move fast. we're heading for the frontline the russians are very close to the telling us is one of the, or the most forward position on this part of the front line. and from here to the other side, to where the russian enemies are, it's just, just roughly about 150 meters.

that's the russian swearing back. the soldier behind the machine gun feels the pressure mercer shy since gotten the news that jose who the enemy is testing them. he says preparing for something. snipers and mortars posed a constant threat, moving anywhere as dangerous in the next fork. so we meet the man with a call sign taxi driver. he joined the army. when the war began. william nikolai, he hasn't seen his family for months. yesterday, was his son 6th birthday. i asked him how he copes sasha last night a louis wish the ear shatka fish for hebrew. e g. he grad castillo, m. to who you bless. vision of them quickly. idiot. to push through india foolish,

grassy didn't lose. if you started a pinch of throws. huh. despite all this, the soldiers here will keep fighting back. moved, not far away, must stand. so just law tells me you times. are you. i'm a lot with either of these traditional living little he sick brooklyn murderers with him off him. kayla. we'll come. we'll just go from fog assured. nice. dorothy hastening would be a coupe looseness on those that are in the willie. willie co who boy knew each a shipper would not really no, but only one is more to the minute adelcia who than murphy blister and for both sides, the bottomless remains a strong symbol. full. yeah, well, the enemy's dying,

our morals high that and if they're stupid enough to sell to russians, victory like capture in the behold in the beginning of florida were trying to capture key fob for days high to give us leave stance high tickets. tense and now they're trying to sell ma, what you can tell at ward the 2nd almena will look like for real from over here. critics though, argue bottom one is no longer worth the price that ukraine is paying and lives were taken to see what that looks like. we can't say where we are only that the fighting is very close and abandon building now with field hospital. here doctors work round the clock to save lives. their position in the danger zone is crucial. wounded or brought you directly from the frontline and stabilized so they can survive the trip to the hospital. this man suffered

a shrapnel wound to his abdomen surgeon to me throw and his team get to it immediately. half an hour later he stable enough to be moved. the teams here perform up to 80 operations every day. last insurance case, this is said nigel, who sends it srp now, injuries from artillery and in this place in this position for into a fearful sort of ballads injurious l. so because we're, we're provided in the city. and so our, in the me a use of course, corns like thorough a sold or since we have more cases for reasonable mullets injuries. demitra ran a company for clinical testing before the war. now he chooses to be here in a windowless room that smells of wounds and sounds like war, but they're making a difference. he says and to we are becoming more professionals and every kinds of stuff. and oh,

what he or she should do in this case we are great and some owen protocols for for health and an hours drive away from the trenches. come a tourist station visits from family and hear wives and girlfriends return to safety and men head back to the frontline. the price for a boat is high, but ukraine is willing to pay a short while ago i spoke to lack santa how found this report. i asked him about the told a relentless finding has on soldiers and what struck him the most speaking to them . right, nico, so when we set out to do this report, essentially we're trying to get a bit of a sense how the fighting in, in the round buckman is affecting those who are holding the line and months after defending months since they, after, since they began defending bach,

13 months into the war since the beginning of the full scale invasion, which was struck the most is that the morale, at least among the fighters we were introduced to seems to be very high. despite all the hardships being in these cold, dirty trenches, seeing their comrades diving separate from their families, they still believe in what they're doing and we speak about craner resilience quite a lot. so you see a lot in civil society. you have a lot of stories here also among the ukrainian troops. and so that's actually justified. but i think just from, from seeing what we saw there. one thing i like to point out that gets forgotten sometimes also is that this is a country that is also suffering that is heavily traumatized. and that is going to have an effect going forward as well. you touched on it, there's death fear loneliness, day after day. what did the soldiers tell you about how they managed to keep going throughout this? all right,

so i'm just regarding the situation in bottom, it appears that the russians are focusing a bit less supporting, less resources into the town at the moment, not throwing everything at the ukrainians that they can right now. so shifting a bit of a focus to with southern town of the fca. so i imagine that im, seeing this on ukrainian side will give you a little bit of a boost of morales seeing that. what you said that your sacrifices that you had. the fence has, has proven successful so far, but apart from that, i mean having good equipment, having good leadership, it's a bit impact on, on morale for sure. and then also when you speak to sojourn, asked him why they are doing this. they tell you, they don't want an inch of land to go to the russians. they don't want a territory to fall into russian hands in order to protect the civil population or to not see what we saw. for example, butcher and other places of ukraine. from the torture murder of civilians and rapes, to keep the country safe and keep the country crania like san antonio from keith.

many thanks and mike martin is an expert on war and conflict and a senior visiting fellow at kings college london. he gave us his assessment of how much longer the battle of boat could continue. i think by at a reasonable analysis, a back loot should already have folded into the russian forces website. when you look. ready the sky and of resources that the russians have tried in sweat, in terms of men and materiel. i think the fact that the ukrainians is still holding it. and your correspondent i spoke to this is an amazing testament to their bravery and resilience. and they have, they are united in the purpose of holding back moods because it gives them other options in the future on the battlefield, elsewhere and new crime. we've heard commanders visit at the front line to solve what they call problematic issues. what are at this point, the biggest difficulties for the ukrainian military on the eastern front?

well, around back to the russian forces hold 3 sides of the city . so like a see if you like around the city and the most difficult problem for the ukrainians is supply. the russians holds the 2 main roads into bottles, and so the ukrainians that had to get a mission in and casualties out a lot of different supply routes. so that's the biggest problem that they're facing, the maintenance. let's talk about a supplies of different kinds. germany and also britain have now delivered heavy battle tanks the brain. what does that mean for the fighters on the front line? well, it means very little specifically for back loot. because you don't want to use tanks in an area because they're very vulnerable to ambush. so what's happening is back is being held and the tanks are being prepared. the crews trains the formations brought together, so the ukrainians can launch

a counter offensive somewhere else in ukraine. so that's the significance of the tanks in the army vehicles that have come from the west. over the recent months. ukraine has a case of russia taking both stage by stationing nuclear weapons. they are tactical nuclear weapons, as was announced a couple of days ago. how the stable i think, could to move be for benefit. i think that's the, i think we've seen a lot of this over the year of the conflicts with threatening, you know, to move nuclear weapons round to use. and i think there's a very interesting statement from china. once this was announced that peter was going to be storing these weapons in belgium, china reiterated that nuclear states, the use of nuclear weapons is untenable. no, nuclear was, can be one. i really think this is just more bluster from putin. it doesn't actually mean and the thing for the battlefield. martin. many thanks. thank you.

israel's foreign minister benjamin netanyahu as puts the overhaul of the judicial system on hold, falling a day of unprecedented mass protests and a nationwide strike. that yowse as the delay will allow time to reach a compromise with critics of the reform. but it is unclear whether the suspension will be enough to appease the large number of opponents. they argue that weakening chords oversight of government could undermine israel's democratic tradition. ah, protesting a plan to overhaul the countries judiciary proposed by the government. but benjamin netanyahu, an estimated $80000.00 demonstrators, took to the streets inter russo him alone. for nearly 3 months now. hundreds of thousands of people have taken port in weekly protests. but on monday, thanks to can you turn after the country's largest trade union declared

a general strike paralyzing the international airport. finally, netanyahu announced his government would temporarily halt the controversial reforms . you go, it's not of a sense of national responsibility is locked out of a will to prevent a rupture among our people who i have decided to pause the 2nd and 3rd readings of the bill in this session of the connection. in order to give time a bip and ranges that wide consensus will go. immediately after the announcement, the union called off the strike, but the suspension was not enough to send protesters home. none of these with the just making a break in order to come back stronger than the people to plan to perform. israel is judiciary involves

a series of flaws to limit the powers of the supreme court at a time when netanyahu himself is facing corruption charges. israel's opposition said it was ready for real dialogue, but not without skepticism. in willis, if he tries anything, he will find hundreds of thousands of patriotic israelis who are committed to fighting for our democracy. the shallow israel's parliament is now set to disgust at judicial overhaul in it's legislative session next month. let's have a look now, had some other stories making headlines around the world today. north korean leader kim jong own has urged officials to ramp up production of weapons. great nuclear material is call came as the inspected no smaller nuclear warheads at the country's nuclear weapons institute. jungle has carried out a spate of weapons tests this month. a med joined us south korean military drills.

3 children and 3 adults have been killed in the school shooting in the us city of nashville. a shooter entered the private christian school carrying to assault style weapons and a pistol. authority say the 28 year old suspect was killed at the scene by police authorities and the state of mississippi have mobilized volunteers to help clean up the aftermath of last week's devastating tornadoes. they've been tasked with delivering basic supplies and restoring electric power. at least 26 people were killed and hundreds displaced by the disaster. at least 20 people are dead. after a bus crash and southwestern saudi arabia, the bus was on its way to the muslim holy city of mecca when it collided with a bridge and burst into flames. crash comes as many set out on pilgrimages during ramadan. and watching dw news, filica, a french break dancers who will trying to back olympic gold when this, or is become

a discipline for the 1st time ever. up before that i'm a senior national releases. it's annual report on the state of human rights world wide today. the report criticizes quote, the double standard of countries that have condemned to russian aggression in ukraine, but turned a blind eye to human rights violations elsewhere. it calls the conflict in ukraine, a possible wake up call for the world to unite around human rights and universal values. amnesty also highlighted the war in ethiopia as t cry region where the death toll is unknown, but maybe in the hundreds of thousands of condemned the rain regimes. brutal responds to widespread protests around a dozen people who were involved in those protests are said, i the iranian judiciary to be facing the death penalty. one of them as the iranian robert to march the lay he was arrested and october last year after the start of the women life freedom demonstrations sparked by the death of

a young woman in police custody. he w spoke to a close friend of his about a case and fierce or his safety, his director or the reason why too much spawns love him. and iran's courage rulers hate in his music video publishing. october, he print the stair down for us to hear a bit of head on meconium vivian sugar. did any type of it was on it's just about you will send it over to tom if i can. van, tens of thousands in iran took to dest, reached to demand an end of this nomic republish, till pretty, grew to march, joined him, and encourage others to do the same ballpark quantity. believe in this revolution and joined the young people who are now on the streets who we hear are being killed every day. we are burning, but we will not let the flame of this revolution go out tomorrow, wednesday, 26th of october,

all over iran. just 4 days later to march disappear until weeks later, it video emerged which very deliberately not showing you now. in it, he's blindfolded and forced to apologize. in an exclusive interview with d, w, a close friend has described how the video brought even more distress. the dialing to seal hash through lost the ones because i would before 38 days, we were unaware of too much on them. and it was quite clear to us that they were torturing him during this time. jimmy corner slattich, as i said, that his shake, his face, which had lost, weighed due to torture and pressure. besides, made us all angry and upset, lies the hash when i law and in my opinion it showed how weak this regime is. how pathetic they are. as well that they resort to force like this and on any better yet as their course in isn't than a half i shall corrosion. what have i syllabus, lulu?

me should advocate 150 days after his arrest to march is still in solitary confinement . in one of iran's many presence. his friends fear for his life because he is indicted with corruption on airs. they charge that carries the death penalty. and because he hasn't even recovered from the injuries he suffered during an earlier detention. what i said, when i miss it, guy is on the same city. unfortunately, i was just like this time to match his previous arrest. i was accompanied by violence. how do you hold it? and i, he read you a new year too. as he sat in a youtube video, when he was arrested 10 people surrounded him and they hit him on his hat, skull and eyes dialed it was or was that a canada with that? and they hit his head on the ground. jack la la la, yet. they even heard one of 2 marches replaced his, but to was, i think one of his ribs was damaged and broken at the time. is that what his amboy

said asi madame de? too much he has done nor speak law safety does she cast? but while iran's rulers might be able to silence to march himself for now, making and many, many others are being allowed on social media. they are campaigning for his release, making sure to wars of their rap here who used to be peer voice are echoed around the world. am i now in the studio by our iran expertise? i top i today. they're good to see you. a brave rapper who joined the protest now behind bars, do we know anything about how he's doing right now? not very much. we know he's been in solitary confinement ever since he got arrested earned. we know from other prisoners how horrible that can be. especially when you're already injured when you go in there. so just like to marsh was and but unlike many other political prisoners to mash does have a lawyer of his own joys. and we know he got to meet him a couple of times and speak to him. and after that, that lawyer spoke about to mass cora to strength, that he's still keeping his head up high. that is,

he's apparently not that of fred. and despite the fact that nobody knows when his court date will be, and despite the fact that he's been charged with waging war against god and corruption on which both carry the death penalty, there are countless reports of human rights abuses in iran in prison. do we know anything about what's going on behind these walls? not that much. and that's because many of those political prisoners, especially the high profile ones, are in solitary confinement with little or even no contact to the outside world. but what we do know from leak c, c t, v footage, and also from reports from former prisoners who are then released is that especially in the beginning of a detention in the so called interrogation period. m. systematic torture, use sexual assault to make the prisoners confess things they never did. and then later, these so called confessions are then used in court in systematically unfair trials

to convict them of things like corruption on earth, for example. and so in the last couple of months, this year, a lot more than $140.00 people were executed. some of them for drug charges or crimes like murder, but some only because they took to the street to demand. freedom to match is one of many brave people who did just that right. take to the streets, demand more freedom, demand, human rights. what motivates them to keep defying them? well, every day after day, anger, mostly many people just have had enough of the islamic republic. you know, many of the people protesting that are young and they know from social media or t v. how other people, their age live around the world, what freedoms they have, what opportunities. and they're like. they don't want to be denied all those freedoms any more by the old men ruling over them, especially since the families of these old men often live in the west and enjoy

these very freedoms. iranians inside iran do not have. and the human rights situation in iran has been criticized basically since the founding of the islamic republic, or even before actually and when under pressure in the countries, if your credit rulers resort to even more violence, we know that and that's what they're doing right now. so in the 1st month of the protest alone, like hundreds of people were killed, tens of thousands were arrested. and that shows that the rallying cry of these protests, which is women, life freedom, is still very valid and more urgent than ever. maybe that is out of our in house, around expert. thank you so much to the world of sports now, when the 2024 olympic games open in paris, the stated aim is to bring the sports into the streets. and no discipline belongs on the pavement. more than break dancing, which is said to become an olympic sport. the very 1st step, dancing in the streets has long been about more than just fun for

b girl sissy. next summer. the 15 year old wants to use her break dancing skills to win a medal for france. cubans breakdancing is my life. it's like breathing like eating. it helps me express myself and i spend my passion ever since i was a small child doesn't, but i can't imagine not break. dancing is me. will bustle. breakdancing originated in the united states as part of hip hop culture in the 19 seventy's when young people would challenge each other on the streets in 2024, they will battle each other at the paris olympics. kilian lives on reunion. the 21 year old travels regularly from the french island to train with his national teammates, to libby to defend. i'm used to taking part in compositions alone. the island, the small ball of late, all that when you live on re on young, you have to come to the mainland to make progress. possessive clemency, bci. the training schedule is tough. power, speed,

and technique are required for 8 hours a day. the olympic judges give points for specific criteria, yet the dancing is always free style and on beat. critics say that becoming a sport has created restrictions, but others see it as a chance. almost. i think we can benefit from it also it's a real small discipline, more support for the athletes from doctors and so on. that's something we've never had a competition before article but shortly from wasn't on. the athletes must also make official appearances. they have to tell their story and represent france as a leading breakdancing nation. they don't yet know which one of them will get to compete found, but that was, that was he led over me dancing. it's about sharing my art with other dancers and with the public, hip hop beats echo, and the famous music do or say for a show battle is a preview of what to expect at the games of fresh spin on sport in grand locations .

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