are plucky. they re canny. they re very clever. they re not going to attack directly into the main defensive positions that the russians have established on the east bank. there are a range of areas even further aft east where they mige able to attack the russians. that s what the ukrainians have done throughout this war. and i can pretty much guarantee one thing. whatever the ukrainians do, it will probably surprise us. yeah, indeed. always fascinating to read your analysis, mick. thank you so much. mick ryan there in brisbane for us. appreciate it. thank you. well, a suspect is now in custody in connection with a blast in istanbul, which turkish officials are calling a terrorist attack. you see there the explosion going off and the terror it leads to. turkey s interior ministry blaming kurdish separatists for carrying out the attack on sunday. at least six people were killed. more than 80 wounded in the explosion. it happened on a busy street in
operate there than it would be in turkey because turkey has really been in conflict with kurdish separatists for now four decades. this conflict has cost some tens of thousands of lives. it has also made istanbul and other countries real targets for terror attacks. six people have died, that includes a married couple, includes a mother and her 15-year-old daughter, and a 9-year-old boy who was with a male relative. the good news is that of the 80 people who were injured and initially sent to the hospital, the vast majority of them have been released, though at last word five were still in intensive care, christine. arrests mounting this morning. thank you so much, scott mclean. princess cruise ship is docked in sydney, australia, with 800 covid positive passengers on board. officials say the cases are mild or asymptomatic and infected passengers are isolated.
help us, even the doctors and hospitals did not dare help us. but the doctor secretly visited my husband at home. i hope we win. i hope iran becomes free. the protest were triggered by the death in custody of a young iranian kurdish woman, mother amini, who had been detained for not wearing the hijab properly, the police say she suffered from sudden heart failure but they have reportedly beaten her, her father says she had no prior health problems mahsa. earlier, it was reported that areas of the majority kurdish city oshnavieh near the border with iraq have been taken over by demonstrators. authorities say they have regained control of the town. they accuse kurdish separatists of stirring up kurdish separatists of stirring up unrest in iran and say they have launched a cross border artillery attack on militant basesin artillery attack on militant bases in the kurdish region of northern iraq. iran has rarely seen widespread protest like this over a civil rights issue
aforementioned m.p. of the swedish parliament i mentioned before. and it s one of the situations where even though these people aren t actually kurdish, turkish citizens, the fact they might in some way, ankara says, have some allegiance to kurdish separatists, represent a security threat from turkey s point of view, they say. all of these kind of negotiations on that legal side are going on behind closed doors. but what analysts say might actually be happening is the kurdish community, particularly in sweden, isa, is getting caught in a bigger game, one that can involve bigger geopolitical sessions turkey might be after, ending an arms embargo or getting the right to be a fighter plane contract a few years ago. there is a bigger game to play. kurds and swedes feel they are caught in the middle without much of a say. isa? i know you ll keep us on this meeting.
of their own. ninas dos santos reports. reporter: locals are uneasy that they have been dragged in to sweden s nato negotiations. of course we re scared, this man says. we re caught in the middle, says other, and not being given a say. weeks after its application, sweden s plans to join nato remain in limbo thanks to turkey which claims that kurdish separatists operate from these shores. that is something sweden denies, yet ankara is still trying to extradite dozens of people including members of sweden s own parliament, most of whom have no links to turkey at all, like this man in this room born in iran and iraq. edwin is saying if you are a kurd and you want freedom, you are a terrorist. that is not true. no matter where you come from, if you are a kurd, you will have problems with turkey, this man