the less the fast, all these things in more and the new season of the fuck cost. to make sure to tune in wherever you get your pots costs and join the conversation. because you know, it's last matter the, this is the w news live from the in. russia says it has be some back, a military offensive by ukraine. moscow release of footage. it says chose russian forces repelling ukrainian, attacking the done yet screeching. he has not yet commented on the claim. meanwhile,

pro ukrainian or russian fights a step up their operations inside russia on groups loyal to keep, say they've kept soldiers in rushes at belgrade regions, and opposition, and then all sorts harry and states as russian police were pen on supports as of kremlin critic, alexei novelle. ne, we, we seen young opposition, politician on the ground and walks the fine line between activism under rest, the arm on youtube. thank you so much for joining us today. raska claims that it has stopped to military offensive by ukrainian troops in the don't yet region. the partially russian occupied region of eastern ukraine. russia's defense ministry says it forces killed 250 soldiers on sunday. the ministry released this drone video which could not be independently verified that it's

a force to show russian forces. forcing a large scale attack by 2 time battalions and all the mechanized units in cells in areas of done yeske. ukrainian officials who said they're ready for a major operation to push back, occupying forces, have not commented on the russian claim. and we can get some analysis from frank language who's a former military intelligence officer joining us from ox within the u. k. hi frank, and tell us what you make of russia's claim that it has repelled this major ukrainian offensive. well, good afternoon. um yeah, we can tell nothing from this video footage. it has no co stop. and even if it did all it shows it is as you will to see if the vehicle is being engaged. but upon the bile tell everyone to tack. 2 ordinance in no great numbers it later on in the video you see about the stilted russian officer claim,

all kinds of heavy casualties which are completely on have items. however, aside from this, one thing we need to be aware of as this campaign goes on, that will be casualties. but i think this is not an announcement of any kind of success by the russians, except the appropriate kind of like, okay, i did want to ask you about a new video that's been released by the ukranian defense and ministry. it's called plans love silence. we're going to take a quick look and then we'll come back to front the okay, that video that really released by the training on me indicating that they won't be a formal announcement of this much anticipated account offensive. so how will we

know if it's even started a bonnie, there are some indicators and i think we've seen these indicators. the 1st and most important is are presidents are landscape sad yesterday for the 1st time they're ready to go. the weather is good, the weather is important by the way, but ukrainians, particularly because of the reliance on precision wiper night. a informed by drugs which you need pretty good weather and also they are and vehicles we see shaping operations, which you've already mentioned by that meaning preparation this evening. deception of a russian pulse is confusion in belgrade. even the ground structure on moscow roll posit that information, information shaping operation. and we are also seeing records from the front of operations all across the south of ukraine just beginning. so i would suggest the old indicators would indicate that we all beginning this series of operations of the plan is called a counter pensive. okay, and let's just take

a moment to talk about its objectives. i mean, what would you say constitute success? as far as this counter offensive is concerned, while any military operation be a, just a section attack of, of, of 10 people or on the, on the, on the assault has orders and the orders will give objective sco any particular stage of the operation. for this whole country offensive as the sears account offensive, expensive operations, the straight levels of the tactical, the operational mr. teach at which of the 3 levels of war, the tactical level, in any particular unit may have, may have, we'll have an objective, but overall it may well be to take this portion of the land, put us in a position of say for example, take a city let's say miller to poll for example, or we take off much we take so that we don't ask who knows? so that's at the technical level. the operational level of the objectives will be to destabilize, rushing, forces to confusing confound, and defeat. at the statistic level, the objective of the operations are clear and they ought to set the conditions for

walkable and doable victory. and of course to sustains and maintain western face in ukraine and success the night by maintaining not flow of weapons of political support on you. so those are the essential objectives of this will be a long honda operation. this will not be over by christmas. yeah, i did want to ask you about the, the international response that we can expect to see. and if you crane doesn't make significant advances, see us as many of us that really they, they, they own the southern towns militarily, has made it very clear that they will sustain and maintain that support through 2nd, the same unless be honest and that's be blocked as i said outside, no operation, particularly assault operation, goes about casualties that are huge risks, and this will be set back and we need to be ready for that. but the ukrainians all

set up here for success. they have the training, they've got them around, they've got the equipment now they've got the leadership tops, most importantly, for this operation to succeed. so it will be set box pasco, western response. i think the americans are held fast. however, there's a major constraint to this, of course, and not to the political level that there is the election in the us next year. and the ukraine is want this done and completed by the special branch of frank. thank you so much. so it's frank ledford lead, which former military analyst in the u. k. thank you. thanks very much. now is slicing rages in ukraine that have been fresh reports of strikes across the board, a on russian territory to pro ukrainian on the groups all claiming to have carried out a series of operations in the region of belgrade, the fight to say that they are russians opposed to the kremlin, and that they claim to have captured soldiers inside russia. these 40 age released

by the pro ukraine. freedom of russia legion claims to show the sizes, entering a town in russia's belgrade region, along with the russian volunteer coal. they've claimed responsibility for a series of attacks inside russian territory. the group say they've captured russian soldiers and will hand them over to crania no authority. with flashing and shelling now on russia's side of the border. thousands of fled to belgrade cc from surrounding areas, which is not our time to back. you know, it was bombed very heavily, almost nothing was left. so now showing the destruction and done yeah, it's gone tv. that's how it looks in our ship back, you know, right. now we barely escaped. the shelling belgrade skills are not used, urging people to evacuate the border region. the town of shit back, you know, has being repeatedly showed from across the border while fighting is ongoing and know via trouble. jenko,

the tax on russian soil have drawn the attention of you have any per, goshen head of the russian mastery group. wagner and regular critic of the country's military laid it off to his success, taking the ukrainian cc of buck moved his threatening to send his fight is to protect russia. that looks like a bridge. why did we take back to move and rename it? you ask, you must, which you why a tens of thousands of people, our russian guys dying moving towards the west. and in order for us to stop giving away step by step pieces of the belgrade region, our more do less than land was empty. we'd be as far as he's in belgrade now, handing out a to to that are in people rushes war in ukraine is increasingly slipping. back across the board of russian police of arrested more than

a 100 demonstrators who took, took the straits to mount the bus day of the jail. the kremlin critic, alexei nev only demonstrates is held handwritten signs cooling. so his release, the human rights monitoring group i v. d info setting of only support has been detained in 23 cities across russia, including moscow and st. petersburg, the prominent opposition leader with jail, the fraud and contempt of court button. of all the maintains all the charges for trump top to silence and oppressions. government has paused increasingly tough flaws to stifle criticism since it's invasion of ukraine. so is it even possible to oppose the government in vladimir putin? russia dw, spoke with a local opposition. politician in moscow constantine called his focusing on community action like this, recycling dr. coffee, the local opposition politician for the moscow district of much ice cubes. every month he gets anywhere from 50 to

a 100 people together here to sort and recycle their garbage. recycling is largely uncontroversial in russia for now. so these are these did recently shut down the environmental organization. green piece openly criticizing the government . it's almost impossible. but konstantin thinks this kind of event can be a start. that goes just jackson. likely ecological campaigns can really unites people in these hot times. it's important to stay united and support each of us. and it's important to know we're trying to do at least some thing to improve about around us is an overwhelming majority of russians support president vladimir putin, at least according to government pollsters. increasingly draconian laws have made protesting against the russian government all but impossible, especially since the war and ukraine started even a post on social media criticizing the war can mean up to 15 years in prison before you leave me and live in a digital dictatorship like russia it's a kind of a person's every move can be traced to controlled the far it is can find that's

everything about that person very interested in very quickly if necessary. i think that right now, the may preachings opponents, the main task might be to get through this time and stay out of prison. taken to the barricades now is a bad idea of what he thought it was a most russian opposition. politicians are in jail or an exile, but that didn't stop 23 year old konstantin con. call from going into local politics just last year. he knows that the more public attention he gets, the more he's in danger. lots of activists who have stayed in russia are afraid. you don't know if the police will come in social home in the morning. unfortunately, because of the repressive laws being passed, it's dangerous to express your opinion in public its own unpleasant. we have to work in the conditions. we have the law level of accept flooded cost

plans to continue his monthly recycling drive. and he hopes to stay in politics. despite everything, he believes things in russia can change. kenya, look, senior is the associate director of the europe in central asia at human rights watch and want us to is how political expression is controlled in russia. welcome to the w, tanya. thank so much for your time today. and the report we just saw, it shows the russian authorities tracking controlling digital activities, making it challenging for anyone to voice that opposition. can you tell us more about the current level of digital surveillance in russia? yes, and you don't use specific issues in voltage on the one hand uh there is the word sensor shit that just the the war censorship legislation was adopted immediately fully on just as full scale invasion of ukraine in february last year did not see specific laws and thoughts,

one of them ended scratching the news. those russians will say, on the other $13.00, they exclude the t russian on bowling to all the charges, administrative charges. so this, the offense is punishable. we define that repeated offense wouldn't be liable for criminal prosecution decisions. you said news about that is indeed a trait. i know. okay. and the punishment is up to c t o in. just know at this point in time there have been 68 cases over criminal prosecutions. for 6, we did a list and 45 of these individuals being handed out in prison

sentences to give you one example you josh, who is about the program and promotional position politician was on the dell and his sentence of a get involved. he's in prison overflowed c a, b, b, c. before it's about russian war collins is shop and said no, no to 20. 22 was in to the official voice. this is 6 that have been for so then on 400 administrative cases on describe the exemption of voices on the list. a t t criminal prosecutions for repeat to disagreement. taishan tanya, basically a ton year if i could just interrupt you there. i mean, it's very clear that this is obviously impacted the oppositions ability to organize

and communicate. so i wants to ask you, i mean have, has the off position come up with any strategies to sort of adapt to guess around these laws. it's next to impossible or to get around this laws if you all situated inside gosh, okay, each new one, joe, this is tuesday is last through the fatherland. says these it's lee. oh, the crown in hub mall. tough. oh boy, the political opponents like missing them all the trial to the full scale invasion on the budget with the war censorship right now. a form of credit which is a process is essentially prosecute to the pads. okay. and if i could at all to, if i could just quickly oscar, are you looking ahead? i mean, the shut down of permanent rights group such as memorial, the laws that you've been talking about. tell us what the like for the future of

human rights activism is in russia mostly to do is as close to the soviet union as it could possibly get. i'm no, i'm saying not. 2023 in russia is a 1937. not just give a list the repression, eas, raging and human rights of fundamental feagins in the shop on the dentist sense, tanya and look. sheena from human rights sports. thank you so much for your time today. thank you. a gemini is defense. minnesota is in indonesia as poss, of his to as the, in the pacific region. or the story is, was greeted by his counterpart for those to be unto in the capital 2 costs. and now this is his 1st trip to asia as defense, minnesota, the store,

as well as germany to expand its role in the in the pacific. he's called the region t to promote thing, local peace. the next step on his tool will be in get out the w as chief political correspondent in the house is traveling with the defense minister and she sent us this update from jakarta. the gemini is new defense minister, far as the story is on his 1st trip. to asia since taking office, he wants germany to be more active and more engaged in the in the pacific. and he says that that includes defense. now i had the opportunity to interview him here in jakarta, in indonesia today. and he said that it is important that gemini needs to think about supporting democratic partners in this region more including with lessons he's traveling to india tomorrow. and he told me that he's not traveling a load. well, when i, when i, when i will arrive at and then yeah, i will be accompanied by a representative of the german companies, defense industry companies. and i want to send a signal with that we are,

we are willing to support our populace already live apartments like indonesia like india. and that include, for example, the way the way of the possibility of delivering simpler in, for example. so we'll talk about that without losing out of photos, the sensibility of the delivery weapons all over the world. we have to find a balance between delivering weapons on the ones on the one hand to our pop, those to our live would pop, loves and on the other hand, to control and to, to, to limit delivering of weapons all over the world. because we don't need really so much weapons anymore into what we should not have too much weapons. and you can watch the interview with the german defense minister in full rice off to this new show, or any time on the daily news youtube channel. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. and the

u. s. navy has released new video of what it cools, china's on safe, and the new, the in the taiwan strait this past weekend. the us destroy it and the full ground flowed to avoid colliding with the chinese vessel when it crossed the destroys, pulse making claims the worse away as its territory. the us and its allies say, the worse is on international as well. sorry, season china say at least 19 people were killed in a landslide in fish, one province pos of a mountain collapse near the city of lashawn, not in debris was sent, hustling towards the construction sites. all prices by a local mining company, search and rescue efforts have now ended. india's railway minister says a full c electronic signal appears to be the cause of a deadly trained car crash that killed at least 275 people. the collision last friday involved to passenger trains on the freight train. hundreds of people are still being treated in hospital in australia,

a woman child for 2 decades over the death of her 4 children as being pardoned kathleen megan full, big was fried. of the new evidence suggested children could have died from genetic mutations and congenital disorders. that death occurred within a 10 year period to put some clothes on this. and negotiations for upcoming global climate towards kicking off in the gym and city of bone. the 10 day may single focus on funding for loss or damage caused by climate change in developing countries, delegates will perpetual ralph decisions for the world climate conference. so cope $28.00, which is happening this winter. and due by a residence in the su dunn's capital, how to say that slicing has intensified in the city also the latest sci fi expired over the weekend. the us and saudi arabia are urging warring policies to agree to a new sci fi. but since slicing broke house in mid april,

multiple agreements have failed. the conflict has triggered a major issue, monetary and crisis in a country where many people were already struggling to how people who are still in how to dealing with the situation right now. the w talk to one residents who lives in alger, reese just a few kilometers from the slicing. as a matter, my boy always loves the tranquility at us from by the night a peaceful escape from the noisy streets of central cartoon. but now the come is deceptive. less than 5 kilometers away. the fighting continues unabated. done on the level psalms and straight bullets hit us. the sound of artillery has become normal for us. at 1st we were afraid and hid. but now we go out despite the warning noises, because we feel we're already dead anyway. so it's better to live our last day is

moving until god decides otherwise. the money out the i'm on kind of her before the war. mad to compute designs at the university and have to him, he hasn't received a salary for 2 months. so he has gone back to farming to feed his family. is landey inherited has now become a lifeline for him and others to because the markets are closed. com, so his produce. so he gets away his vegetables to other people in need. but it's not just food that's in short supply. who's the senate passed away because she couldn't get her medicine. she was only in our fifties. she was taken to the hospital, but there was nothing they could do. so we brought her home where she died and we buried her on the ups. you can hear fighter jets are in the air now. remind america visits this home neighborhood where crime is on the rise to one of his

neighbors. an elderly, disabled man was beaten up and dropped at gunpoint. random attacks, like these have been daily news, where the current situation is very bad. people live in constant insecurity and the state of constant panic and distress a month. only a few people are left in this neighborhood. walking the streets is dangerous. this is one of the few grocery stores that is still open for a few months. my suppliers are closed. once these lentils are sold, we won't get anymore. and if i do find something that will be expensive and i won't get much and that will the food prices have doubled. ahmed, we'll have to rush in the small portion even will to scares people to, to use one of the fuel working pumps on that hopes. other countries will put more pressure on the war infections if no, to end the war, then it leads to enforce real ceasefire motions. and so all good and the biggest

challenge now is to push through with a appeal of the international community to stop the war. this is very important to us because breaching armistice is lucky and continuing this tool of war is very, very dangerous. and hopefully that gives you the non, regardless of the, the social skills mer to discuss is leaving. have to him with a neighbor, but he can't afford to. and even if he could, the way out has become too dangerous. i don't know if he is for 3 younger children of its life, the money. so for now, he's waiting it out. we've got some tennis news for you now and at the french open ukraine's elena spencer, lina beach, darya cassette tina and refused to shake the russian's hand. so to lena returned to the game of to having a baby last october. she won in straight sets to reach the course of finals, where she will now play a bell russian. she is married to the french tennis saw. okay,

let me see. so the crowd locks neither off when she fails to 3 times, and cyrus have food all the ukrainians who have not safe and just see the resting place. and then football rail madrid have confirmed that the strike a korean ben zima is leaving. the frenchman who, schooled on his final appearance on sunday, is expected to move to saudi arabia. ben, z mazda parts, the spanish side. a legend having school 353 goals in all competition since joining at 21 from his boyhood club, neil only christiana, rinaldo has scored more goals for real. the 35 year old ben zima, $124.00 titles and the dread, including the champions league 5 times. this is a reminder about top stories for you today. russia claims that has spelt the military offensive bi ukrainian troops and the don't yet screeching. and most of

the russian control the region to the east and ukraine. russians, defense ministry made on verified claims that it's false as killed $250.00 ukrainian soldiers on sunday. and russian police of arrested more than $100.00 demonstrations. he took to the straits to knock the best day of the jailed kremlin critic unexplained of only human rights groups, say, novelle nice, of course, is what detained in 23 cities across russia. is that you're up to date coming up. next, we have an interview with the german defense minister bar, as the story is, is currently travelling across the in the pacific region. so stay tuned if you can, i money keeps mckinnon. thanks for watching dw, the

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