there dw chief political correspondent, nina hossa has been following the subject. she joins us from our parliamentary studio here in berlin. nina, does this decision come as a surprise? was it being taken? now? it doesn't come as a surprise to be honest, antony, it is something that the germans debated very heavily after franz pulled out its troops. that decision was made in march, and then the last french soldiers left in august. and since then, really, the debate has been waging here in berlin, where people have been saying, we are some of the last soldiers stationed in molly and we are having problems with the current government in molly. and it is getting increasingly difficult for us soldiers. there. we don't get the necessary support from the molly government. so what are we going to do at the same time? of course nobody wanted a chaotic withdrawal. and this is something where they seem to have found a compromise. there was an emergency and an emergency meeting in the chancery here in berlin. earlier this afternoon between the chancellor, the defense minister

the protests were triggered in september by the death in police custody of 22 year old ma hossa, a meanie who was arrested for wearing her head score too loosely. and early i spoke with miriam clarence since october of 2020 her mother. no heed to garvey has been imprisoned in iran, and i asked her how her mother is hello. and 1st of all, i want to salute the break people off iran and announced my solidarity. and my mom is right now at the women being off notorious evan prison. she was recently on medical law, but despite not completing medical treatment, she was brought back to evan prison on november 13. and this came up of the relationship between germany and they slamming republic. i'll be ron escalated because my mom is a german citizen. but tell us a little bit more about that dual citizenship because as he mentioned, she is german. iranian, how does that help or hurt her case? and unfortunately, they slam with, with public oberon has a long history in using do all foreign nationals as bargaining chips and negotiation with the other country. in our case, this is germany. so since my

hossa beg has worn out from her son. the ukrainian commanders said that they haven't ruled out any russian provocation or at the fact that they can actually take this seriously because they're saying actions speak louder than words for weeks. now. the ukrainians have been saying that russians have been reinforcing their positions in her saw that their soldiers, russian soldiers have been putting on civilian coals, taking positions gay, getting ready for st. battles. and even until last night, the ukrainians was saying, yes, the russians have said that they are going to withdraw. but at the same time, they're putting it, putting an extra troops into duck or san region. i mean, my russian president vladimir pierson will not be attending the g 20 liter salad in bali next week. russia is expected to face criticism from the west at that meeting about the war in ukraine. moscow says the foreign minister sag elaborate will attend, and person may appear by video link, who as president joe biden has hailed the democrats performan

think the main reason behind this is they are obsessed with breaking them and they are, they cannot hossa. how can, how do they didn't again, parts of the story in taxes by prison. and i think this is really one of the, one of the, what the motivation behind how the regime and the, the, are in pence on breaking people. and they want understand people who are the onto the end of their story. again, all of this and i want to thank you for speaking so bravely so candidly and for all of you joining us today. i do want to leave our audience with this tweet that i found quite inspired and how much so fun. posted this to twitter saying there's a picture of him and his father, thing for prisoners. birthdays are painful reminders of the years that oppression has robbed them. of and he's turning $35.00 today wishing of course that for his dad and i like to be released. this is the story that we're going to continue to cover here. of course, at the stream. i want to thank you, alice sent, saying on one of her being with us, follow us and streamed on al jazeera dot com online. ah, motivated and more