ah ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin, tragedy athens immigration center in mexico. heartbreaking scenes after a blaze kills tons of people at a facility on the border with the united states. authorities say i've launched an investigation also on the program funding the cranium 50 of back more it's well,

some analysts say it's not worth the bloodshed. we made ukrainian fighters who tell us why it is fresh class. it's between police and protesters in the french capital as tensions over president of macros pension performed oil over under solitary confinement and facing execution for demanding basic rights friends and the dissident to rein in reference to marsh. i tell us of beth fears for a safety ah i'm fil gail. welcome to the program. and he's 40 people have died after a fire broke out at an immigration detention center in seo robbed juarez in northern mexico. dozens of others were injured in the blaze, which started shortly before midnight. with archie save, i believe some of the migraines set fire to mattresses after hearing they would be

deported. it was one of mexico's deadliest fires in recent memory. 60 men were being held at this facility near the us border. the fire took dozens of flies and injured others. many are still waiting for news of their loved ones. i have been waiting for their father then we started seeing smoke everywhere. everybody ran away, but they left the men locked inside. the video film from within a facility shows how some people were able to escape our sleeter rows of bodies were brought outside. i see many people laying on the ground and i don't know what to think. they tell me nothing. mexico's president andreas manuel lopez abra door also addressed to place, claiming the fire was started by migrants fearing to partition in the

shadow called johnny. thus, they put maps at the door of the shelter and set them on fire as a protest and did not imagine and that it would cause this terrible tragedy that is, that there really is garcia in recent weeks, authorities, treatment of migrants has also come under fire tensions are rising as the united states and mexico are battling to cope with record levels of border crossings or endless here. null solar fear, se made multimedia freelance journalist and she joins us now from mexico city. welcome to d. w. and, and see, we heard the mexican, their president, they're blaming a migrants for starting at this fire, which kill so many. and what's your take on, on this official version of events?

yes, this is a terrible tragedy of where at least 40 migrants have died in mexico. in a series of tragedies, migrants have died in massacres, where they have been kidnapped and killed. my guns have died when they are being trafficked and trailers that collapse. it's almost every single year. there's a mass tragedy like this. unfortunately, in mexico, largely due to restrictive migration policies that are in conjunction with united states of migration policies. many people both are local journalists that are on the ground into that quarters on the border as well as migrant advocates have been saying that the many of the migrant that died are largely guatemalan and 28 of them were guatemalan and then perhaps many others are been as well and that they were swept up yesterday during some migration raids, where's believe that many or half were requesting fair change on the streets or for whatever reason? and that they, the migrants said that they were not given water all day. and that,

that is why they were protesting. nothing about deportation. that they were protesting the in, you mean conditions with in the migrant detention center. and that they were locked in and that is where they of allegedly had lit these of mattresses on fire. and then no one, let them out is also believe that the fire men took a long time to arrive on the scene. and that it can't just be blamed that the migrants themselves wanted to die in a fire. they were protesting in human conditions in russia they were being held. and so we know that migration from mexico through mexico into the united states has been a big for the political issue for many years. i have mexican authorities been handling yes, it hasn't been exacerbated in the past few years of both with

a program that was introduced during the a global pandemic. and under the trump administration, that was called, remain in mexico. where was believe that mexico is considered as the country for migrants to wait in as they are trying to apply for asylum in the united states. so they start their process in united states and then have to wait on the other side in mexico, in many cities where they fall, prey to kidnappers traffickers. and just in general, that want to take advantage. but also it's important to know also during the trump administration, trump essentially forced mexico to comply with whatever the u. s. ask for imposing, threatening to impose larger tariffs on rocco and all inputs from mexico if they do not comply with us migration policy. so in general, mexico is just an extension of the u. s. of your policy. ok. with, with the u. s. policies. thank you for that. and this year and as you know,

sort of in mexico city. thank you. thank you for having me on another ukraine, which is welcome the arrival of british challenger to tanks. defense minister alexey resonate cough released this video of self riding on one of the newly arrived vehicles you case from mr. k. a 14 challenges and recently completed trading ukrainian tongue cruise, germany announced on monday that it had delivered 18 long awaited leopard to battle tax back worse. and the east, if you crane has become something of a symbol of resistance, will be one of the bloodiest ukrainian leadership has faced criticism for its decision to continue to fight russia for control of a region of such little strategic importance. but many ukrainian soldiers in the area say they're willing to pay a heavy price. a correspondent mark xander has been to meet them. 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 on from here to the other side to where the russian enemies are. it's just, just roughly about 150 meters that's the russians firing back. the soldier behind the machine gun feels the pressure. la, shy since gotten them youngster, who's a who? the enemy is testing them. he says, preparing for something. snipers and mortars posed a constant threat. moving anywhere is 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's 6th birthday. i asked him how he copes sasha thrash night a lewis. d e. a. g shirt. fish for hebrew, e at yahoo, grad castillo. m. 2 happily. bless. michigan's, the weekly 30th to push to india. foolish, grassy didn't. louis. if you start to finish the throws despite all this, the soldiers here will keep fighting back. moved, not far away, must sand. so just lava tells me so some of them lossless. i does these professional ladies little. he sick in brooklyn,

murderers with him of him can law will yoke. when we shall go from fog assured. nice dorothy he, she would be a coupe, loosening from those that are in the willie willie co who boy i knew each a shipper would not really no, but only one is what we do to be able to valuable murphy. and for both sides, bottled remains a strong symbol. full. yeah. well, the enemy's dying our morals. i missed 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 key for, for days high to give buzz. keith stance honeycutt stance. and now that trying to sell ma, what you can tell at ward the 2nd all mean the world looked like for real from over here. critics though, argue bottom what 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 abandoned building now with field hospital. here doctors work round the clock to save lives, their position and the danger zone is crucial. wounded or brought you directly from the front line 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 sent that strip now injurious from artillery. and in this place in this, the position for into a fearful sort of board injurious l. so the cause are provided in the city. and so our enemy uses cause conflict to our

soldiers sent for we felt more cases for reasonable modes, 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 stuffs and oh what he or she should do in this case we agree it and some horn protocols for for halton an hours drive away from the trenches come a tourist station visits from family and here. wives and girlfriends return to safety and men headed back to the frontline. the price for a bucket is high, but ukraine is willing to pay a pick up at this point.

then a with a domain t a saga moser, who's a, a military and security analyst at a king's college london. welcome at to d. w. and this battle for back motes already now that the longest and bloodiest of the war, what are the biggest difficulties of facing ukraine at their, in the east of the country? i think that the greatest challenge, if we think about more in particular is the fact that, you know, some of the, you know, russia could take control over the access roads to back making it harder for supplies to, to reach the city. and also to gain access to our consenting scott, which is to the south to the south west from boston. and that we're also open the road potentially to come my door to the north of more towards young. so russia is really trying to circle very effectively more from both sides,

but they're not to be able to completely close a city. and therefore ukrainians are able, stating to sort of hold on by that slowly and slowly losing, losing ground. or those, not surprisingly, over the last few days a week it has been found out that the ukraine has of managed to push back the russians up, especially in the northern parts when i least would stabilize the situation. but i think the southern part more is more vulnerable. and the, if you can be commander of your credit ground forces. alexa, ski as part of the video himself telling you soldiers, a bad job is to wear down the overwhelming forces of the enemy. i mean, for heavy losses on them. surely the odds are stacked against you crying in this particular battle. a party. yes, because i russians are, you know, using are not to force as just us in quarters or need grinder. so just ski not explained that are not of oh and mainland equipment. and therefore,

that has made it harder for ukrainians to sort of to, to have the upper hand because they have been more careful with the amount of man that they need sort of saying to the front. although we're not, not, they have suffered to also quite significantly in terms of casualties. they're like, what is important about the comment that was made of i, that generally is a question that one of the objectives on a very significant one of these. but you're more dis, really to exhaust russian forces on to make it harder for them. and not only talk brown's father about to be weakened when ukraine carries out it's counter offensive, which is expected to happen in the next month or, or maybe, you know, weeks we don't really know the dates. so i think it is relevant to walk to the general i said in terms of trying to wear down to exhaust to weaken, i rushing closer so that then when the offensives are carried out, that their rush,

i'm frances, are, are not, you know, the russian positions are weaker, and i think one could argue that one of their risks is if the russian sort of take up defensive positions and strength and defensive positions and then it's harder for ukrainian suit to break those. thank you for that. or the trade security understood m a t a 2nd ago. so kings college learned to thank you at france ridge to say the 10th day of strikes and demonstrations as hundreds of thousands of people protest against the government on popular pension reforms. nearly 2 weeks after president macro push, the changes through parliament, public fury shows no sign of subsiding police in paris and not deploy deploy tia gas after protesters looted stores and started fives. presidents is refused to back down on who so deeply unpopular move to increase the retirement age to 64. my correspondent lisa louis is in paris. welcome lisa day 10 of these current

protests and they don't seem to be running out of steam while absolutely, however, the numbers have gone down a little bit. when you look at example, exempt, for example, at the different sectors where there is still strikes on going at the number of the percentage of the participants has gone down in the electricity sector and the transfer sector, et cetera. also, the number of people that have turned out to day across funds has gone down compared to last week's rec, her day, how, whether they are still quite respectable. the teen c, 700002 1000000 people turned out to demonstrate against the pension reform. today, you know, according to the unions or to the police, and that still means that means obviously that there is still a lot of people who are against this reform, that the anger is sick. it sits quite deep here with people and they're really not happy about how the government has gone about this. and who are the protesters who

is out on the streets? phillips extraordinary is actually all sorts of paper, not just people from the far right from the far left, or the usual suspects that to not to demonstrate lots of people that never demonstrated before. and even people who used to vote for him on my car, his vater base is really angry with him. you know, when well educated people managers, there will saying, we're not happy about how the car has gone about this. those who are against it, who are always against the reforms, obviously not happy that he push the reform through. and those who think he should have done the reform thing. he has no power left and he has, he's really weakened with his government. so it's very difficult to see how my, my car, the president of france will take this forward. how he will leave the country for the coming for years until the net residential elections such as looking at this in terms of us presidential elections. i wonder if you could tell us briefly how unions can change the mind overdetermined president who's not standing for re

election. well, that's the big question really, you know, and they are trying to insist they're trying to continue to demonstrate what's kind of certain though, when you look at the polls, is that the one party that seems to be benefiting from all the scales in the streets is the far right has from them or not, you know, at that party for example, if there were a dissolution of parliament, they would really grab more seeds than beforehand. so it seems like a, you know, my causing in the polls. the left is risen, losing in the polls, but the right is rising the far right, at least. i actually said lisa luce parish lamens international hasn't released its annual report on the state of human rights around the world. and their report criticizes what he calls a double standards of countries that condemn russian aggression in ukraine, but then tell a blind eye to human rights violations. elsewhere report describes the ukraine

conflict as a possible wake up call for the world to unite around human rights. and universal values, amnesty also highlights the war and if you're pres t great region where an exact death toll is unknown, but maybe in the hundreds of thousands. and it condemns the iranian regimes. brutal response to widespread recent protests with around a dozen people who are involved in those protests said by the reigning judiciary to be facing the death penalty. one of them is the iranian rapper at too much salad. 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. he w, spoke to a close friend of his about the case and fears for his safety. his theories are the reason why too much spans love him and you rose courage, rulers hate him in this music video publishing up till there he predict,

stared down for 20 minutes. didn't it just about you. some of the tommy by 10 van tens of thousands in iran took to the streets to demand an end of this nomic. you're probably still pretty room too much join them and encourage others to do the same for that quality. believe in this revolution, enjoying 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, the 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. but i like

to see a hash through lost and was because i would before 38 days, we were unaware of too much on that. and it was quite clear to us that they were torturing him during this time. and jimmy corner slattich, as i said, that his shake, his face, which had lost weighed due to torture and pressure that made us all angry and upset, lies the hash when i cancelled the law. and in my opinion, it showed how weak this regime is to tell you how pathetic they are as well that they resort to force like this. and on any matter yet, and there coarseness and and a half or so caused more to last syllabus lunar michelle arm over $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. they charge that carries the death penalty. and because he hasn't even

recovered from the injuries he suffered during an earlier detention. what as of one i miss it goes on mister. he said he unfortunately was just like this time to match his previous arrest. i was accompanied by violence under your horror sunday. he read you a new year too. as he said 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 carrier with her and they hit his head on the ground. her 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 envoy said? i see, madame de too much, he has done nor speak. garcia did as she cast, but while iran's rulers might be able to silence to march himself for now nickina and many, many others are being loud on social media. they are campaigning for his release and making sure to wars of their wrap here who used to be peer voice

r e called around the word a phillip luther as a senior research advisor for amnesty international. he joins us from london. welcome to the w, so that the amnesty latest report will start in iran. you detail some quite barbaric punishments. there anything from capital punishment and torture to business fingers being cut off. has iran's human rights record worse? and since this most recent crackdown on protested, i think it's fair to say that the answer is yes. i mean, what we saw in the wrong last year was really extraordinary. a response to the unprecedented uprising against it, with the security forces using the munition metal pilots beating against protects this. it was no need sample of course of states using on your for 4

seconds. he's full credit testers and 2022. amnesty figures based on it's monitoring 156 countries around the world, the allegations of unlawful use of force in the 85. so from a racist progression to move on to other countries where there was a new legislation restricting the right to protest in writing with it was very serious and you report the also criticize is what he calls the double standards of the west and responding to russia's invasion of you christ. so explain to us what, what you mean by double standards over that. what we think that the pilots of the response were actually a blueprint for how to address massive human rights violations, whether in conflict or other situations. so the vote to condemn russia for its

active aggression really important the international criminal court, opening investigation. immediately western countries opening up that borders to ukrainian refugees. these were very positive. we saw some of the same countries who were exhibiting those positive behaviors towards a distraction, in crane, knowing or being complicit in great violations, committed elsewhere by their allies, such as saudi arabia, egypt, and israel. for instance, they just refused to confront the last time that you minutes, palestinians every day their lives in is run by palestinian charity. the use of apartheid as an expression i know is one that amnesty has used, but is contested. we're out of time. going to leave it there, but we thank you for joining us, philip luther from amnesty international. thank you so much. thank you.

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