amini died after being in police custody, and to me this uprising, i see you know, i don t think these are women and it is a women-led activist, but it s not that women are protesting the hijab law, this mandatory law where you have to cover. they re protesting this way of life. they are saying enough is enough. and so this idea of being in the streets you know, i remember being a teenaged girl, having to worry about the religious beliefs, seeing if i was covered enough, ensuring that my legs were covered and my hair was covered. the fact that these teenage girls when you re raised consciously and subconsciously in this world where you think you have to cover yourself, to free yourself, to me the courage that takes but how fed up they are. iranian women have been protesting the hijab law in one way or another for the last 43 years. but think about the fact that 65% of university graduates are women in iran, 70% of subgraduates are women. if these women had the freedom t
before the war, is really different to what happened to be in reality. the famous kyiv in three days never happened, just because this regiment where the dmitry served has encountered massive losses, and therefore they had to retreat. what we definitely know is that the russian army is not what it s been pictured before the war by putin. andrei, thank you very much for speaking with us. thanks for having me. live now to dr liana fix, fellow for europe at the council on foreign relations. good evening to you, great to see you. so we ve been hearing about the story of a defector there who says many of his colleagues in the russian military are not aware of what is happening will stop what we know more generally about the state of the russian military? so more than one year of war
missile crisis, extending up to today and there s no such thing as a small tactical nuclear weapon, and if a nuclear weapon, small, medium, large, god forbid, was ever utilized in this war by putin, the catastrophic effects of that weaponry would collapse the global economy, specifically beginning in europe and extending through the globe. so, it cannot happen on a financial level, but more importantly on a humanitarian level kit not happen. so, joining us now from ukraine is nbc news correspondent erin mclaughlin. what is the reaction there to president biden s comments? reporter: last night we heard from president zelenskyy calling for preventative strikes to deter president putin, the president s spokesperson quickly clarifying those remarks this
1,100 people on it from different parts of eastern ukraine, all fleeing west. many of them leaving behind parents, grandparents, invalids that refused to leave or were not in a position to get on these trains or men of fighting age who are not allowed to flee the country. so while there is some relief at going, there is still the fear that they may not ever be able to go back to their homes. john? ivan watson, critical reporting for us. grateful for it. thank you, ivan. on those trains, women, children, the elderly, the ill, targeted. targeted in war by putin and russia. tragedy as you can hear everywhere inside ukraine. but so are some remarkable stories of resistance. grace under wartime pressure. ed lavandera tells one of them from a town on the outskirts of mykolaiv. reporter: in a small village on the edge of town, 88-year-old vera walked out, armed with her
on the eastern part and the land bridge from crimea over to odesa. there s a couple implications. first of all, we talked really in the opening days about the russians committing to this long, grinding war like they did in chechnya. they attacked tkpwrgrojn grojnyd it. what do we do to stop the expansion of this war by putin. there are three players, the russians, ukrainians and nato. what are the implications for the russians if this goes on years? . well, it s going to be very interesting to see. of course the russians and the russian people, they are controlled by putin. so he will send whatever information he chooses. great victories against the nazis throughout ukraine, that sort of thing. in reality, though, a lot of military experts say it will be really, really hard for the russians to have any significant