ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin bent on keeping control of the ukrainian stronghold fuck looked. while some analysts say that it is not worth the bloodshed, we meet ukrainian fighters who tell us why it is also coming up to political

tension. ease in israel after benjamin netanyahu puts a controversial judicial reform package on hold. but opponent say they will not stop protesting until the legislation is drunk altogether. and in solitary confinement and facing execution for demanding basic rights. friends of the dissident, iranian proper tomorrow, tell us of their fears for his safety. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. ukraine's defense ministry has welcomed the arrival of british challenger 2 tanks in the country. defense minister alecky resin, a cough released this video of himself riding in one of the newly arrived tanks.

london has pledged to send 14 challengers to cave and recently completed training, ukrainian tank crews. berlin announced on monday that it had also delivered 18 long awaited german leopard to battle tanks to ukraine. now in the countries east buck mood has become a symbol of ukrainian resistance, albeit one of the bloodiest. some criticize the ukrainian leadership for the decision to keep on defending back loot, but many ukrainian soldiers in the area say they are willing to pay the heavy price for its control. he w correspondent mac vendor went to meet some of those fighters. you have to move fast. we're heading for the frontline. the russians are very close to the jones is one of them 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 shows us gun them usa jose, who the enemy is testing them. he says, preparing for something. snipers and mortars posed a constant thread, moving anywhere as dangerous. in the next foxhole, we meet a 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 throws not a loose t shirt fish for huge shirt. yet he grad castillo. m.

to who utilize the issue of the weekly idiot supplies. so yes, foolish guzman didn't lewis, if you start to finish a 1000. huh. despite all this, the soldiers here will keep fighting back. moved, not far away, must stand. so just larva tells me you times and commend you. some of the luck with either of these professional is leaving little he sick in brooklyn, murderers with him up him can law will yoke when we just go home, flog assured nice dorothy. he should, he would be a to boost nick thomas at as in the willie willie co who boy knew each a shopper would not be linear, but only one is what we did a minute adelcia,

reuben murphy, and for both sides, bottled remains a strong symbol. full yeah, well the enemy is dying, our morals high that and they're stupid enough to sell to russians. victory like capture in the behold in the beginning of florida were trying to capture a key fob for days high to give buzz, gave stance heidi q stance. and now they're trying to sell ma, what you can tell at ward. the 2nd almena will look like farrell from over here. critics though argue buckman 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. an abandoned 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 nigel. since its strip now injurious from artillery, and in this place in this, the position for him to be fearful. so 2 ballads injurious l. so because we're, we're provided in the city. and so our enemy uses go scornfully thorough a sold or since we feel more cases, 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 be able to come in more professionals and every kinds of stuff know what he or she should do in this case. so we agreed in some owen, protocols for, for helping me an hours drive away from the trenches, come a tourist station visits from family and hear wives and girlfriends return to safety and men headed back to the frontline, the price for a boat is high, but ukraine is willing to pay and that report was filed by correspondent mac sander who is now and keith earlier, i asked him how ukrainian soldiers manage to keep that morale high under such difficult circumstances. right. so i believe if you see that your fight and your

sacrifices are not in vain, most is definitely helpful. just to give an example of the city of buck motors still being pounded by the russians. but they reportedly had been focusing some of their attention. the further south down the line to another city of the fca. and this will show to the troops in both of ukrainian troops that the russians have not been able to push through. and this will most likely have given them a boost of morality. and then of course, having good equipment, having good fighting circumstances, having good leadership, definitely helps. and speaking to these guys, asking them for what motivates them. pretty much everybody said, we don't want any inch of territory going to the russians. we don't want any more occupied ukrainian land by the russians to in order to prevent we saw in other parts of the country. remember in liberate of his own. we found out about torture chambers. you remember the pictures from boucher bodies of murdered civilians lined up in the road. so this is actually what they're fighting from what they want to

prevent and this is what keeps them going. and that was max and are speaking with us after returning from the front lines. let's get more now. we are joined by marina. my are on a defense analyst who is joining us from king's college in london. thank you so much for joining us. he has called the defense of bach mood, a military necessity. how do you assess the situation on the eastern front? oh, thank you for having me. the situation around the move remains to be very difficult for the ukrainian forces. and according to some reports, the russians us till pushing, despite the fact that the speed of their offensive on buck mode has slowed down and put for the ukrainians. it is important to hold a city because they risk their entire defense line collapsing. and because so much has been invested already in buck mood, it would be unwise to withdraw the forces right now. and we know that the russians

are still struggling despite the fact that they have all roads under their fire control. they're still struggling around trust cpr. so the situation is incredibly difficult. bob in the risk claiming to, to have me the advances on taking the on steel planned. so we were just waiting to see what is going to happen. and as wagner said, what, what for russia is important is to destroy the capability of the ukrainians among the counter offer. so they want to inflict as many casualties as possible. let's talk about that potential counter offensive because germany has confirmed that it has delivered the promised leper tank. britain also delivering its challenge our tanks to ukraine. where are those likely to be used in buck mood for elsewhere? well, that is a good question because there are a couple of possibilities were these tanks might be used. however, we have to bear in mind that we still need to wait out how the fight for the move

will play out before those things can be used. because right now supplying book is difficult, as i said, because of russians are controlling the roads. now that the, the use of the tanks will probably most likely make sense as part of the combined arms operation for the premiums. and they are better off to be used during the possible counter offensive. and one possibility would be continue with a contra offensive to retake the territory last or in the wrong. but the other possibility, which is logistically, more complicated, is to go towards many top or maria pull in the parisha. how about the fighter jets? because we know ukraine has been asking for these. the likes of poland has committed to sending them. where can these make a difference? these would be precisely used for the counter offensive because the tanks wouldn't

be used on their own to maximize the fact, there was a need to integrate air and land forces. so ideally the ukrainians would use the tanks and mechanized infantry on land and close air support using the fighter jets that the cricket who says will be getting only sand. can they successfully mount a counter offensive, or they have more chances to mount a success of successful cultural fans? so, and it is difficult combined arms warfare is difficult, and we have seen that russians have miserably failed at a last year. so there is hope that the ukrainians will be able to conduct such operations. thank you so much for joining us to share that expertise. marina myra defense analyst at king's college to london. we appreciate it. thank you.

and here are some other stories making headlines. dozens of migrants have died after a fire at an immigration detention center in northern mexico. more than 20 others were injured in the blaze of the facility in the border. city of c dot products authorities have launched an investigation into the cause of the fire 3 children and 3 adults have been killed in a school shooting in the us city of nashville, issued or entered the private christian school pairing to assault style weapons and a pistol authority say that the 28 year old suspect was killed at the scene by police firefighters in spain are still battling the country's 1st major wildfire of the year. the place that broke out on thursday in eastern valencia has already forced 1800 people to flee their homes and burnt through. $10500.00 acres of land, strong winds are complicating efforts to extinguish the fire. hundreds of thousands

of people are said to join another day of protests and strikes and france nearly 2 weeks after president manuel mac raul rammed his pension reforms through parliament . public fury shows no sign of abating, but mackerel has refused to budge on the deeply unpopular pension. h changes political tension and israel appears to have eased the day after prime minister benjamin netanyahu put a contentious overhaul of the judicial system on hold. his move came in the wake of spontaneous mass protest and a far reaching general strike. netanyahu says that the delay will allow time to reach a compromise, and that factions oppose to netanyahu are preparing for negotiations. but it is far from certain whether consensus is possible on the issues that have galvanized as really opponents in unprecedented numbers. 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 forms. ah, you go a tune out of a sense of national responsibility is locked out of a will to prevent a rupture among our people. i have decided to pause the 2nd and 3rd readings of the bill in this session of the connection. in order to give time limited and reaches that wide consensus, wonderful, go. immediately after the announcement,

the union called off the strike, but the suspension was not enough to send protesters home. not a big deal with the law. just making a break in order to come back stronger than the people to plan to reform. 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 mac latisha donald israel's parliament is now set

to discuss that judicial overhaul in its legislative session next month. and let's bring in dw correspondent rebecca readers. he joins us now from jerusalem. so rebecca, with the planned addition overhaul being put on hold. how big of a victory is this for the protesters of about 24 hours after prime minister benjamin netanyahu sacked his defense minister that sparked the sort of spontaneous protest. these added protests on to the already 3 months of weekly protests. and of course, that a nationwide strike that you heard about there in that report that almost paralyzed the country. he came out as we thought he would and announced a pause or a hope of the legislation, but not actually throwing legislation out. so the question about whether or not the protest is going to stop coming out remains to be seen. you heard some voices there in the report. nice. at least went to lots of people yesterday. who said that simply pausing this legislation would not be enough. they want it completely off

the table if not all the way to actually saying that they want the government to step down or to to maybe force new elections. so i don't think the, the answer the short answer to that question is, i don't think we're going to see an end to these protests. what would a real solution need to look like, rebecca? because i mean netanyahu has rejected previous compromises. protesters have as well . he has, he has yeah, well the president's, you know, tried to put forward a compromised plan a few weeks ago that was batted out straight away. netanyahu saying he wasn't even willing to look at the compromise deal. now he's obviously being forced to, he's had to bow to the pressure, but it's hard to say just how, how, how a compromise could be found 2 sides of the country. so split the 2 sides being so far apart. we also had protested, come out last night in favor and support of the legislation. so you've got really people on both sides of the aisle and they seem very far apart. finding a compromise is going to be difficult and of course netanyahu having to keep his far right factions the far right factions of his coalition,

happy. and there say that these legislate, this legislation is going to go through unchanged. so just how a compromise is going to be found really is anyone's guess rebecca, readers in jerusalem. thank you. another news, amnesty international has released his annual report on the seat of human rights world wide to bay. the report criticizes quote, the double standards of countries that have condemned 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. now, am see also highlighted the war in ethiopia as t gray region where the death toll is unknown, but many of the hundreds may be in the hundreds of thousands. it condemned the iranian regimes, brutal response to widespread protests as well. let's get

a closer look at that now because a dozen people are ra rather around, a dozen people who were involved in those protests are said by the iranian judiciary to be facing the death penalty. one of them is the iranian rapper to marsh sal i. he was arrested in october last year after the start of the women life freedom demonstrations sparked by the death of a young woman in police custody. d. w spoke with a close friend of his about the case and the fears for his safety. his lyrics are the reason why too much spans love him, and iran's courage rulers hate him. in his music video publishing october, he predict stared down for 20 minutes. i didn't. it was on the budget rules on a ton and van, tens of thousands in iran took to dest, reach to demand an end of this nomic, unpublished hill, pretty room 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 of being killed every day about 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, a 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 darling to see a hash through loss to was because i would before 38 days. we were unaware of too much 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 away due to torture and pressure because made us all angry and upset, lies the hash when i can law. and in my opinion it showed how weak this regime is. chad, how pathetic they are, that they resort to force like this, turn on any better yet as their course finished and then a half, i shall. colorado more to last syllabus lulu me shed our will go. $150.00 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. the 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 march. his previous arrest was accompanied by violence hunter. 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 head, skull and eyes dialed. it was almost every canada with that, and they hit his head on the ground. tra la la la. yet they even heard one of 2 marches replacement to was i think one of his ribs was damaged and broken at the time. is that what his amboy sent or see, madame de too much because dan or speak la 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 loud on social media. they are campaigning for his release, making sure the wars of their rap here who used to be pairwise are echoed around the word so let's get more or less. we are joined by julia to fall from the amnesty international chapter here in germany. she's joining us in the city a welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us. and i'd like to just begin. we know that you released your annual report and iran, of course,

one of the areas that you talked about. he detailed some really barbaric punishments. iran capital punishment torture prisoners, having their fingers amputated. the human rights situation. there has, has always been bad. has it gotten worse since this recent crackdown on protests? yes, it has deteriorated a lot. we have heard about 22000 people who are arrested in our during the protests . and so many people are determined really, to change the government and support also women's rights. and the reaction has been terrible with killing people using lethal weapons to crack down on protests and the death penalty using the death penalty. so the situation is very bad. you have details or human rights violations also elsewhere. i'd like to turn to elsewhere in the world, in fact. and one of the criticisms actually that amnesty levels against the double standards, you call it, of the west in responding to russia's invasion of ukraine. what does that refer to?

it refers to the fact that the states have had a very quick reaction and strong reaction on the rush ration aggression. but in other cases, like, or other countries like saudi arabia or egypt the, the responses have be not the same. so i think the russian, the reaction on the russian aggression has to be a blueprint in how to support refugees, how to lead refugees in how to react very strongly on human rights violations committed by these countries. and we think also the u. n. system has to be used to criticize the countries who commit violations of human rights. so what concretely would you then like to see because, i mean, you know, it is a different situation. one is the invasion and the crossing of borders and another area is, is mass human rights, very serious human rights violations. so tell us what concretely you would like to see from the west in these other countries with regard to saudi arabia and egypt.

yeah, we think for example, the russian aggression could only happened because the violations committed by russia before in syria and in other countries have not been that there was no reaction, not enough, not a strong reaction to it. and it's really important to make sure that you, human rights are applied universally, and that there is no difference between the different countries. and we think the human rights council can be used resolutions, special operators and the reactions have to be very clear in public debates. also in the security council and to make sure that human rights violations and impunity do do, do not prevail. ok, thank you for clarifying. i'm just quickly we only have 30 seconds, but i have to mention your report. it is a very bleak picture overall, but also it has the bravery of millions. is there any cause for hope?

yes, i think the hope is that many people also in the last year went on the streets. we have the example of iran, but we have many other countries where people went on the streets and protested. and i think it is important for all the states to support these protest support people who, who protest end to react in a, in a way which is not violent against these protests julia do her joining us from amnesty international. fortunately, we have to leave it there, but thank you so much for your time. thank you for the invitation. up to date on the w news at that kick off with with

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