banning them from attending university girls to that correspondence. that future has been taken from d. w speaks with a brother on the radio man sentenced to death for his attached involvement in anti government protest. swipe also face use and bleak future in prison. ah, i'm show gail. welcome to the program. ukrainian president vladimir lansky has confirmed media reports at east. he's on his way to the united states is expected to meet with us president joe biden, to address that congress. it'll be his 1st trip abroad since the russian invasion at washington will use the visit to announce the delivery of more advance to weapon systems to keep presidents zalinski has taken every opportunity to appeal for more money, aid and military support. since the start of the war in ukraine, either one hosting world leaders in the capital keefe, shannona virus. or when addressing governments and international institutions with his face, appearing almost daily on multiple screens. in almost 10 months of fighting, though, he hasn't left the country until now. the lensky is due to meet with his us counterpart, joe biden, in washington, and address congress. the one you say it's a visit fraught with security concerns in a letter sent by us. how speak can nancy pelosi on tuesday, members of congress were urged to be present in person on wednesday night session for a very special focus on democracy. the trip comes a day off to the ukrainian precedence unannounced visit to the front line to meet troops in the city of bach loot that he handed out awards to soldiers and was gifted a ukrainian flag making this statement. just moments later, lou portals visited, the enemy is increasing his army and our people are braver and need more powerful weapons. we will pass it on from the boys to the congress, to the president of united states. you are grateful for their support, but it is not enough, but united with them. but washington is one of ukraine's biggest supporters. and what happens here now could be crucial with us politicians preparing to vote on a spending package that includes around $45000000000.00 in emergency assistance to ukraine. i wasn't a correspondent mckenna cousin, told me more about that. i surprise visit well, as we heard from a senior official of the administration a, we can expect an in depth strategic discussion. a during a sit down between president biden info to me at the lensky where they want to talk about the current situation, but also potential steps ahead and very concrete. the we also heard from that official, there would be $2000000000.00 worth of assistance. fresh assistance announced and also, and that's quite key. at one patriot air defense system is due to be delivered and ukrainian troops are due to be trained on that. and that is seen as a potential game changer, not just for the defense of ukraine who's been asking for this for very long time, but also in relations with russia, with their having been a pushback coming out of moscow. a warning even not to use this patriot system, which would become a legitimate target at the russian se. and once again stresses that this is a proxy confrontation indeed. and with this modern system is due to be used in the future is also seen as a show of solidarity and can also, as well be understood as a very much do thank you to the u. s. public which has already sent as some $50000000000.00, was a 1000000000 us dollars worth of assistance towards ukraine and is expected in this budget that you should be decide on in congress to do the same again. yeah, great news for vote for both a lead as a i suppose, with the us being ukraine's most important to us back in this conflict. it. absolutely, it's a good deuce, who wrote ms. lensky, but also is seen as something that was very much expected in congress. and new congress is due to coming in january. we don't expect the support overall to complete the fate, but there is an element of public fatigue despite the fact that the majority of americans is in favor of assistance towards ukraine of supporting ukraine. and whether that supports it will come as thick and fast as it has done over the 1st 10 months of conflict. that is still an open question. and that's why this budget being passed and getting congress to pass this swiftly and decisively is so key fob loaded me as lensky as much as you, as president biden. continuing to rally the international committee that's terminology that's being used here and also it to continue to do whatever it takes . and this is the place by president biden, as well as not doing anything without ukraine, not talking over ukraine's head. and this will be the symbolism towards russia. i hear from that from a kind of company in washington. i must bring in the r ukraine corresponding to max xanda, who's in a cave on this welcome max, a houses near spring receiver. yes, so of course, this is big news, the ukranian president leaving the country for the 1st time since the beginning of the war. and many here in ukraine are waiting for more assistance, especially assistance in weapons deliveries from the west, and hoping that now this visit or perhaps can help secure this. now, a lot of people at the same time are also asking why zalinski in person traveling to the us. why is he putting himself at risk? why is he not talking over the phone to president biden, or addressing congress via video link. as these things have been done in the past, but the disregarded this is as a wider parts of his strategy to brewster attention for the cos and that is to secure air defense weapons we just heard on the ukrainians happen pushing for and the patriot system. a u. s. made very powerful session system that could add an extra layer of security to the training their defenses. i'm, as you know, the ukranian cities are all over the say, all over the country, not just a key, but a vessel and all the other parts of the country have been heavily attacked by russian rockets. and yet air defenses is dire, needed at the moment, and this is one of the hopes of that this might be an outcome of the trip kinds of talk a so that the latest there in cave and indeed in easton ukraine. right, so just a couple of days ago on the night from sunday to monday, hearing key if we saw another attack with iranian made cunning got drones on ever since. and the following days. situation regarding the power outages regarding the outages of centralized heating. i seem to have become more difficult. russia is at targeting the civilian infrastructure as you know. and right now if you walked a series of key if at night and the streets are only eliminated by the few cars that are still going by pedestrians with their their flashlights, you have 2030 floor buildings that are completely pitched black in the dark. so give at night really seems like a ghost type town in some parts. and if you look further east on there, still some fierce fighting going on along the front line on the russians have been for weeks and months trying to take the town of buck wood. there's intense fighting going on, russians and ukrainians are engaging and trench warfare and artillery doors. we visited the area and spoke to some soldiers there on the ground. they were telling us that russians are sending their mobilized recently mobilized troops as, as in waves to tire the ukrainian defensive positions and then only to send more specialized forces later on. so there's really intense fighting that goes at a huge human cost at the moment. but not just soldiers are impacted the civilians to i'm when we were there we witnessed the aftermath of a missile attack on the city of come a task. and as a hard, that is said, it is also incredible to witness how civilians are dealing with these kinds of attacks. there is quite some services resilience thereafter tell you, but see for yourself as we brought this report the front line is more than 30 kilometers away. from this town than eastern ukraine. but every now and then from a coast itself, terms and towards all of the aftermath of last night's attack, a russian rocket landed here in about 20 minutes past midnight. most likely, a russian surface to air missile was used quite inaccurate, but at the same time, extremely powerful to several of the single round with a devastating effect. the blast wave took away the roof of the neighboring college and glowed every window in the vicinity. the volleyball field inside the gym. once the training ground that cometh thus cursed, volleyball team, now covered in endless charge. the power lines to have been destroyed since the beginning of fall. this has been part of the russian strategy across the entire country on new dot. it's 95 percent of reasons strikes have talked that submitted infrastructure. i don't know why they're shooting into the city. why they're trying to injure us, citizens in the market. their aim is not to liberate anyone. if they would put it, you know, they want to kill ukrainians and destroy a nation lisa mitchell to not from nobody was killed in this. but i tell you a cushion audio of a lost everything she had. oh, she shows us the ruins of which is hours ago. had been her home here. yes. oh yes, but the young. no, i'm nearly always here a minute. yep, a lot, but when it happened to him i was away visiting my family. lewis villa natalia knows that despite everything, she got extremely lucky. i've never been a yellow them up for the last few years. i lived here alone with my younger son, young lady, but he died in january and then the war started in february. like his room was the 1st one you entered with. and i slept here. no, i yeah. with natalia does know yet what she will do. she is 67, a pensioner with no other place to go. but even if she did, she says she wouldn't want to leave kraemer post. outside the clean up continues. soon the road will be repaired. by the evening, power will be back. despite the horrors and hardships ukrainians have learned to keep calm and carry off and smack xander reporting from commer task. now to afghanistan, where the country taliban rulers have banned university education for women, it's the latest blow to women and girls who have been stripped of many basic rights since the militant group seized power last year. united states and the united nations have condemned the moves and it'll bring further isolation to the taliban government. but they appear indifference to the international outrage. the news comes as a huge disappointment to thousands of african women and girls, especially those who took their university entrance exams just 3 months ago. it further restricts women's access to formal education. after already being banned from secondary school, at the united nations, there was condemnation of can a sense representative. they're not the taliban picked for ambassador, criticized the band. i regret to begin my remarks with the very unfortunate news about the taliban. st directive just announced banning all woman from attending universities throughout afghanistan as if the situation was in dire enough. this announcement now marks and new law in violation of most fundamental and universal human rights. a spokesman for the un secretary general said that taliban was failing to keep their word what it is. it's clearly another broken promise from the job. and we have seen since their take over and it also in the past months, just a lessening of the space for women, not only education, but access to public areas. their non participation in the public debate. after the taliban took over last year, universities in afghanistan began separating classes by gender and introducing separate entrance points. now the right to even attend has been taken away from the united states, says it will do its best to hold the taliban to account any way it can condemn the strongest arm. this unassigned unacceptable stance will have significant consequences or the taliban and will further alienate the taliban from the internet community and deny them the legitimacy they desire. that's kind of stone is struggling economically and has repeatedly called for international assistance, but without the participation of its female population and society. a lot of outside assistance may be hard to come by. will i asked a journalist to alley le chafie in kabul? if the taliban had given any reason for this latest restriction on women's rights, ah, they haven't given a reason. as far as we know, anyone who has tried to contact any official within the government, all they will get is an answer of yes, it's true, but nothing more. no other comment, no reasoning, nothing of the like and you know about now why now? the timing in itself was suspect, you know, i came late in the evening last night around me, 830 that everyone come came to find out about it. and i came, you know, essentially on the day when most people were ending the school year, most boys and girls and they were receiving their grade and their results for the year. and we're trying to figure out, you know, what, what happened next for them. obviously for young girls who were finishing to 6th grade in 32 of the 34 province as it was already a sad day because they had no idea what they would do beyond that. um and now for all of the other ones is yet another blow. because now it means that essentially in 30 to 34 provinces, you can only go on to the 6. you can only hope to go up to the 6th grade i. if you are a young girl in school, right? so 6 drive out about his girls up to what age? $1213.00. right. and so given those restrictions on, on those young girls that were imposed earlier and said at the time to be temporary, i guess these latest restrictions and should come as no surprise. and i, as i suppose people are now wondering what, what else are is going to happen. what is the next move against women? i really, yeah, obviously it, none of this comes as a surprise just given their track record. and as you said, given what they've said and done thus far, but that doesn't make the blow any less powerful or any less sad. you know, last night i was with my family including, you know, 2 young female relatives on 22114. and they will dis, actually turn to me and said hello, we're done. this is it, there's nothing left for us. and you know, any chance any hope that they had of doing anything of making anything in these, these are the daughters of fi. now, educators of female and male doctors, male government workers of, you know, business like day entrepreneurs. and yet now they feel as if they have no future and their younger sisters. obviously also, you know, yesterday received top scores in their school. but, you know, they kind of looked at them and wondered if they realize what the impact of all of this was ali lateesha in cobble that's like look at some more stories that making headlines around the world. something in the united states where a congressional committee has voted to release report on donald trump's tax returns . it's expected to shine a light on the former president's finances, including the amount paid in tax. mr. trump as long fought to keep information about his finances, confidential ill on musk, says he'll step down from his role as c e. o of twitter. once he's found replacement attack billionaire had promised to abide by the results of a twitter pole in which more than 57 percent of users voted for him to resign. the changes he's introduced. social media platform have been heavily criticized by uses and by advertise throughs. congress has back to plans for early elections in the bed to defuse the political crisis, sparked by the ousting president pedro castillo. debbie address is wrong. the country says removal and arrest those who still needs to be ratified in a 2nd. human rights activists urging iran to stop executing protesters. authorities have carried out a number of death sentences since the demonstrations against the regime began more than 3 months ago. one of those currently waiting to be executed is gather a sandler for allegedly bring involved in the death of a member of the security forces. his wife was also arrested and tortured before being given a lengthy prison sentence. the w has been speaking with garad, her, her son, his brother, who lives in the netherlands. i mean, and from santa gara has saint lou, a married couple with a very bleak future acts horses, why saw photos of them in court? he thought i was so shocked, i need it looked like they had aged by a decade or 2 in just 3 weeks with docile picture. i mean, gary has had lou was sentenced to death. his wife at santa to 25 years imprisonment. the couple attended a ceremony at the start of november to honor had east no jaffe, after her death 20 year old had ease was shot during a protest in the night after the ceremony. the couple were beaten and arrested in front of their 2 children by iran's voluntary militia, the bas each. they were accused of participating in the death of the member of the bazaar militia during a protest. gary's brother, who lives in the netherlands, says his life has turned into a nightmare. he has to say the last time my brother called me, i couldn't take his call inside. i had planned to call him back the next day, sent out, but i didn't it without him was they said the father besides anna alexander as at them, i can't forgive myself now to get up. oh, it's always a, a sand gary house and lou says no evidence was presented in the trial of his brother and sister in law. he added that there was no proof for the accusation that his brother kicked the killed member of the militia. the only evidence for the death sentence was spots on his co worst confessions under severe physical and mental torture confessions that facade i even denied in court. i mean his brother has x rays showing the physical abuse. his brother was subjected to. several ribs were broken from the torture and the fractures caused his left long to bleed money and he had to go to court in that state. i thought he went straight from hospital to court. yes, because of the torture. he had to undergo 3 operations. he had barely recovered from the last one when he was brought back to the court. when, despite the severe torture, bahamas never confessed to the murder be heading into fall here booth give out on this fuel. when we were kids, our biggest dream was to wake up and see a lot of snow on the ground. that would have been the best thing for us. as of now, i get up every day hoping or dreaming to see a meter of snow and thought santa and having free washing with her. i look straight to my phone 1st thing in the morning for news. good news. i start my day with that hope we're hearing that from the brother of an iranian man who was in danger of be executed. speaking to us here at the w and we've just heard about death sentence has now been lifted. let's consider this with that mouth. moved, i'm merely muggy down who's and iranian human rights defendant and director of a neu based non governmental organization, iran human rights. welcome to d, w. m. you must be very pleased to, to hear this news. thank you for having me here. well, yes, this, so this morning to several iranian newspapers reported about lifting up the removal of the death sentence. although they say it's possibly removed at the order of an official official normally who has the authority to do that is either the supreme leader or head of the judiciary in south. but the family hasn't received any official notice yet, so we are not sure. but if that's the case, of course, we are very happy, but we also know that they are a dozen other waiting or at risk of being executed. and, and of course, the international attention around the case makes it more difficult for the authorities to actually conduct execution. and you think about that, but obviously we're speculating at this point. but do you think about who's about might be part of the reason why this executi