we will stand with o ukrainian friends, however long it takes today, i am proud to announce a new security assistance package. and now it's the time to keep track to help the ukrainians to face down the invader to provide ukraine with more weapons, ammunition, and equipment that it forces are using so effectively on the battlefield. this is a moment to stay the course and to speak again to our ukrainian fence. we stay by your side as long as it takes ukraine can, when you quain must win on ukraine, will weigh also on the day beaten, abducted killed women and girls in iran refused to be silenced by authorities violently cracking down on their protest. movement. garnering respects and solidarity around the world, the hands of the redeem of them were lost in iran is stained with blood. neither history, no allah or god almighty will forgive you for the crimes against humanity that you're committing against your all citizens. ah, they will be with russia for ever said kremlin spokesperson. dmitri pess coughed a day, as letterman boot and signed into law his illegal annexation of parts of ukraine. roughly the size of portugal, the ukrainian president begs to differ. his forces continued to liberate settlements and formerly occupied areas, pushing russian troops into a hasty retreat on the day put in trying to change the facts on paper. keith changed them on the ground, claiming major breakthroughs in 2 of the annex territories. her son and the south, and the husk and the east lakeview, the ukrainian flag going up again in a recaptured village in the hockey region for just one of many places back under ukrainian control. as a result of recent advances, the blue and yellow flag is also back flying overhead here in the strategic eastern city of lemon as locals q for aid ukrainian troops re took the key hub in the dynette screeching over the weekend. just hours after rushes, president putin announced the illegal annexation of the whole region. signs of the fierce battle fought here recently, as well as the months of russian occupation are everywhere. with russian troops forced to retreat here and across the south and east. and with a chaotic military mobilization sparking widespread criticism, putin said that changes will be made to the conscription rules for students, bella. but despite all the recent setbacks, moscow hasn't lost its power to strike far beyond the front lines. as residents of this city, just 85 kilometers south of keith were reminded on wednesday. do you prefer work up to a buzzing sound? a woke up but i heard that sounds getting closer and closer. one of sibley had to somewhere near my house it exploded. according to officials, at least 6 so called kamikaze drones struck buildings, including an army base in the area, injuring one person. while moscow has ramped up its use of suicide, drones, which keep claims or iranian made since september wednesdays attack was the closest they've come to the ukrainian capital light of the most recent developments, the european union has agreed to impose new sanctions on russia. these will include a cap on the price of russian oil exports. the security threat from russia is also on the table at a meeting of members of the european parliament in strasburg. the you commission president has told me peas, that member stays, need to step up the security of their energy infrastructure was enough on the line . also said the you is now ready to discuss of price cap on gas as prices sore. and winter approaches. all of our correspondent mac santa followed the session and the european parliament today and send us his assessment the european parliament this time around has not adopted a final position on russia's aggression against ukraine yet. but from following the debates of the plenary, it seems evident that across political groups and across party lines, there is an understanding that russians claims to ukraine are illegal. they are nolan void and they don't change any facts on the ground. they're having some very strong statements by me piece some took to the stage, took to the podium to call russia terrorist state. now the common understanding seems to be that sanctions are needed. some political groups have been asking for more. in addition to that, the conservative block, for example, has been calling for weapons deliveries from countries like germany and france to st tanks to ukraine. the left, on the other hand, has been asking to reopen diplomatic channels in addition to sanctions. but bottom line here is that the european parliament and the you say that russia's claims to ukraine, this annexation is illegal and should not be tolerated. oh, moving on to iran where there has been no let up in the anti government protests that have been sweeping the country. the death of 22 year old martha. i mean, after being arrested by the morality, police has sparked the biggest public challenge to iran's clerical leaders. and over a decade, dozens of protesters have been killed by security forces, all for demanding basic rights. there. defiance and the face of the brutal crackdown is being met with solidarity around the world. power o d. c university. students in it on are chanting women life and freedom. it's a slogan that stretching the hearts of many white, including members of the european parliament. the hands of the redeem of them were lost in iran, is stained with blood. neither historian or a law or god almighty will forgive you for the crimes against humanity that you are committing against your own citizens until the women of the wrong off we. we are going to stand with you g i n g m i. lady, one them lies freedom, friend star flag to get beer. nash adults extending their support with this symbolic act. oh, in it, on the clerical leadership, faith, restaurant enemies are behind the anti government demonstrations. these people have taken to the streets to support it on supreme liter, ayatollah hominy, and the countries strict dress court. oh, he job was the excuse of our enemies to destroy our unity, the u. s. and e. israel are the root of all this unrest just because they cannot fight us. they are trying to attack us by creating internal problems. but the anti government protests it on show no sign of lighting up for weeks. on this latest speech you posted online appears to show female students heckling a member to feed on spastic force that much fear it, but a military organization is blamed for the violent correct down on the demonstrations. the death of my son meaning has clearly exposed the fort lines that exist islam country, and that on the billing this to brutally crush any opposition that jet and just it's bible. let's bring it as it was on. she's a human rights researcher and writer focused on iran miss for is unwelcome to the day you have extensively studied women's rights movements in iran, in that context. where do you place the current protests? yes, thank you. i think that is women's rights move in iran, that is, and basically it's over a 100 years old. so it's that i see those months that we see today at the streets, the protest as a continuation of many years of resistance and struggling against the discriminatory policies of the public. but also a continuation of the protest movements against the government. a violation of multiplicity of rights. and you see in terms of protests in 2017, 2080, in terms of women's participation. you see women in many protests, the contemporary iran and the quite actively. so, but i think it's being so gender and women's rights not only being about women's rights, but being so intertwined with the political and a grievance for political, the entire nation is unique. so for example, in their revolution, women were present industry that they rebels in the 1979, but may say that there are no such gender demands from that previous previous a government. would you say that women taking the lead in this protest movement is a sign of a greater shift in iranian society? i think that women taking the lead in that process is a sign up iran that iranian peoples maturity. so women and people that reach the point that they do not think that freedom is attainable without women's rights and women feeling the iran and that women's rights is not attainable under the current regime under this law group. so therefore, women's rights and freedom. and along with a series of other rights, social, economic and civil political rights have come together on the street with women at the center of it and demanding for essentially what i think is a better future and more dignified future. and also highlight the role of the use alongside it is very dangerous for those participating in the protest to publicly talk about their part in the movement and the repression they've suffered at the hands of the authorities. you're in portugal, but you're in touch with a lot of people back home. would you mind telling us what you're hearing from friends and activists in or on? yes, i am mostly in off. is that the ordinary people who before and for example on my social media, i've never seen them putting anything political remotely political you know, even posting, for example, like a letter that they have received from the court to attend as a result of having it. and that the protest or they lunch leave, you know, posting anti government slogans and, and so on whenever they have access to the very limited internet. actually this is a very difficult situation because they run in is not only addressing people who are in the streets. they're actually going after people that they consider maybe influential in the expansion of these folks, whether they're journalist authors activities and so on, and they arrest them from home. so for example, i know a few activists personally who are currently in jail and nobody knows of their exact whereabouts. this is currently a leaderless movement, is that an advantage or disadvantage? i will say it's yet to be seen, but it has its pros and cons. what i think is, is as so and so hopeful about this movement is that it's so grass. so it's so organic and i think that's what makes it a very powerful, very collective in a way, in terms of it's not having to leave. my worry is because of that very systematic and systemic repression and the violence against the people against the use of lethal or even if there was a lead there. maybe there could be more strategy on what's next. but at the same time, i feel that we have to trust those incredible young leaders on the ground and just trust that they are be very strategic about what they're doing and that they know what their next moves will be. and to honor and respect to whatever it is that they will do next, for example, that they can to put that on to strikes. i think there's a lot of wisdom behind that, and that's leadership just may not be individual based leadership. it's more like a collective grass level it how important is it for this grass roots movement that it be covered by the media around the world? i think critical is absolutely critical because my, the way i talk about that is that why is this a good public shutting down the internet restricting the internet so seriously and so severely every time there is a protesting reason. yes. in iraq because they don't want the world to know because they want to be able to kill people without the world knowing about it. and so they don't want to world to watch. and when the world watches, i think it does in the long run, give some level of protection today individuals, why raising their lives? some, i mean at least that there is a little bit of a fear. and then in the, you know, that what they're doing will have consequences. but also, you know, iranian women use and the right people really want to be hired by the world because they, they don't think that they're going to ever be hurt by their own them. and so if the world here, perhaps places like the un and other my multilateral organizations, countries like germany, good things more seriously about holding the syria accountable for human rights researcher as a present on the protest in iran. thanks a lot. thank you. ah, toughness and now we're women, 2 are refusing to be silent. despite mounting repression and violence from the rolling. taliban says the militants return to power, they have turned afghanistan into the world's only country, where girls are forbidden from attending secondary school, solely because they are girls. but even studying where it's allowed is dangerous for a young women last week, a private education center and cobble was blown up by a suicide bomber. nobody has claimed the attack that according to the un left over 50 people dead. most of them girls and women of the has are a minority. the women who took to the streets over the bombing demanding security freedom. an equal rights faced yet more violence. dozens of young women standing up there, roy to be better protected. and to heaven education taliban officials wheeled sticks to break up the crowd than gum fires heard. and the women scramble in panic. c the protests were in response to a bomb attack on a private education center. in kabul, a suicide bomber blew himself up in the women's section of agenda. segregated hall was students were preparing for university entrance exams. most of the victims were girls and young women who belong to the minority has ara community 19 year old. why here was in the classroom when the attack happened. 2 of her friends and the teacher were killed. she managed to escape. she says she won't be intimidated. mortalities get that. the only thing we have is education. education is our weapon and they want to take this weapon from us. i am, i want to study law and management and diplomacy because i want to be an influential politician buddy. that's it because like why? yeah. oh melbourne. in also had big ambitions. now have photos in her school books. all her family have left of her. i shall can get my daughter used to joke with me and say, and i will study until one day i become president or a lawyer and served the people of afghanistan that their phone is. but she was martyred. are you done while his napkin? oh my vanity was one of the young women killed in the attack. her family prey at her grave. and her sister vows that she won't give up. oh, can they were really worried? it is hard for us. all the schools are closed for girls either that or by she her that it is you. this is very painful. but we will continue with the lessons and we will never give up or stop and on fast limb, we do not go to lend on co up or even brutal attacks like this one haven't crushed the resolve of young african women to keep up their fight for an education let's keep talking about these brave young women and bring in sima samar. she's a veteran, human rights activist. she served as the minister of women's affairs in afghanistan after the overthrow of the taliban. she's also headed the independent afghanistan human rights commission. welcome miss them where it's a pleasure. let's start by talking about that a tac last week. it was the bloodiest since the taliban takeover last here. what's your reaction as an advocate for women's rights and a member of the has are a community? well i think it's still for june. the site. it's not the new one, it's not the only one. i just thought it would be the last one. but if you see that it was last year such a big explosion in front of the school. then some of the girls who survived survived that back in 2021. they were because in this one, this shows how vulnerable these people are. and then 1st, because this is the 2nd thing because of their birth. and because they are getting education, can you imagine and any people should be punished because they're getting education . and unfortunately, as you said, the son is the only country that the officially could been on guards education from $7.00 to $12.00 grade. the telephone tried to violently crush the protests that followed the attack, but the women don't seem to be deterred. where does that fearlessness come from? well i think that if you see, after the government collapse last year, the only people who are on the street or the women, i mean they were more number, but it shows that the they want to, they want freedom and they won were, can they won their right to the recognize and, and so this time with the, the killing of these very and not so much going on than our region. and that the protests in a movie, we keep saying that maybe they are in 5, i mean class by them. and they moved out that they have impact on each other and that it shows that the people are really and women particularly, are really tired of erasing from the public life. and the, from the life that they have is, is this a sign you think that despite all their efforts at holland won't be able to undo all the advancements of the past 20 years. and i've kind of done but i think they tried everything and they tried to silence woman. but the, i believe that we of course to the complaint and say that we have lost a lot everything almost 2 years in the last 20 years. but i think this is the sign that they cannot take the knowledge from that. and they cannot really impose the restriction on freedoms and rights of the people who would put had it with terrorizing people. and that is a good sign. that is a hope for the future of the country, and i think it's the, i feel i salute that my sister is in and it's on and also in that on who really take the risk and coming out for, for human rights. and for the quality inn for freedom in our region, you now live in the united states. how are you keeping up the fight for, for women's rights in your home country? well, i think i believe that if we need to continue and continue this struggle i, this is not the 1st time that we can do for g. i was referred you for 17 years and park and i continued to help on education and health or whatever. i could give them knowledge and i believe that not giving knowledge is the most strongest tool to fight for inequality and fight for rights and for either men or any country, including in my country. so i think i lobby at least, but i really feel vulnerable that i'm not in the country and i'm outside of the country. i feel the pain. i feel that the situation that my people are in. and i think that the international community silence, or only condemnation is not enough and make me like whatever is going on. and i understand it has an impact on the other word. and we are are, and it is the case. and a father, son is a collective failure, then we have to stand for this. because if we are not free enough on his son, i don't know how that people would think that they are free. it is an act against human dignity. what would you like for the international community to do to elevate the voices of african women and girls? i think they have it. first of all, they have to really stand with the people and not only the, the women and a fun, but also the minorities who are under attack and particularly the has, it's not new. they have done it in the 1st government and, and continue to, to be their case for more than 100 years. and i found the added issue. i think i called on the community that to promote the accountability and justice for all of these international crimes. committed enough on his, on his talk, the cultural community because if we stole the culture in penalty and our fontose and i think the other part of the world will benefit from this justice because injustice enough on a son. i think his injustice a really so if you were doing promoting accountability, justice and in war, president crimes against my niecy enough on i think it would have been much better word today rather than just doing and watching. and i think the international community couldn't put pressure on, on being engaged with them and then put pressure on them on issues of human rights . we cannot really negotiate with probably one on issues of human rights and protection of rights of the people in minorities in the country fema summer. she's the former minister of women's affairs in afghanistan. thank you so much for your time tonight and all those in science. thank you so much and that is our time for it today, but as always, the conversation continues online. you'll find us on twitter at dw news and myself at nicole underscore for us. so please get in touch with us there and we will be right to engage you and keep talking for now though for the entire team here on the day. thank you so much for spending part of your day with ah, with into the conflict. so, no sooner had president putin, amex, for regions in ukraine. the news troops were forced to flee from a key to one of them for humiliation. morgan lost on russian. come on for just this week from care of you who are short cropped up to the head of the person going to administration as you're crying back to the food and into a corner where he might use his nuclear arsenal. conflict zone next rating on d, w. a game where drink and whatever. what into our money coming out from you in waste is causing a lot of problems around the world. when it comes to identifying solutions i. t icon build isn't unlikely pioneer. i want to talk to you today about toilet the great toilet battle. in 45 minutes on d, w o. d u i might. and the pillar of sticks and society taxes the right to loving taxes and the obligation to pay them both inherent in the sovereignty of relation states and their citizens. but what happens when the power of taxation is undermined? 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