The World This Week - Nato ups arms supplies as Putin targets Ukrainian cities, what next for this Iranian youth movement

Nato ups arms supplies as Putin targets Ukrainian cities, what next for this Iranian youth movement

10/14/22 • 45 min

After Russia's renewed blitz on 11 Ukrainian cities, western arms deliveries stepped up, with some authorities in Kyiv hailing this as a turning point. And, one month in, protests are still going strong in Iran, despite the supreme leader’s warnings. In the UK, PM Truss has sent her finance minister packing in a budget u-turn, hoping to salvage a floundering premiership. In France, PSG's social media offensive against critics of the club and even their very own Mbappé, has been revealed. Produced by Samy Vicente, Charles Wente, and Antonia Kerrigan

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Nobel Peace Prize, Russia’s nuclear threat, Iran protests, and UK's Liz Truss

Human rights watchdogs from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus were on Friday announced the winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, with the jury criticising Russian President Vladimir Putin's "authoritarian" regime as he wages war in Ukraine. Our panel of guests discuss what it means that these Putin foes will be bestowed with the prestigious award. We also discuss what a nuclear-armed Kremlin might do when feeling cornered? And while the West weighs Putin's nuclear-sized threats, air raid sirens have gone off much further east, in Japan, after a North Korean ballistic missile flew over the island and into the Pacific Ocean. And in Iran, the women-led protests against the regime this week took a new turn when a Swedish member of the European parliament cut her hair in the EU assembly to show her solidarity with the demonstrations, which were sparked by the death in morality police custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini. In Britain, Liz Truss' week ended better than it started. After a humiliating back-peddle on tax cuts for the rich, the new prime minister is mending fences with France. Britain had been warned of rolling power outages this winter. Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Juliette Laurain and Laura Burloux.

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Truss resigns, Iranian drones, Xi Jinping's third term, Benzema wins Ballon d'Or

All summer to pick a leader and just six brutally short weeks for it to all go wrong. Like clockwork, Truss announced her resignation just as EU leaders were congregating in Brussels for a summit. Italy is asking for a bit of respect after The Economist ran with a "Welcome to Britaly" headline, where Liz Truss is portrayed as a centurion holding a pizza pie for a shield and a forkful of spaghetti for a lance. Speaking of Italy, its president asked the far-right's Georgia Meloni to form the country's 68th government since 1946. Over in Ukraine, annexation claims are not enough for Moscow to reverse the momentum. Vladimir Putin has decreed martial law for Russian-held territories in Ukraine, this as pro-Kremlin authorities order the evacuation of civilians from the southern region of Kherson. Kyiv calls it mass deportation. Meanwhile, Ukrainian authorities want independent observers in to prevent the Russians from destroying the Kakhovka dam and inflicting untold damage. Ukraine has been on the receiving end of strikes by Iranian-made drones targeting critical infrastructure, ever since the explosion that damaged Crimea's Kerch Strait Bridge two weekends ago. Will Ukraine freeze to death this winter or lose its resolve? The prime minister of gas-rich Norway is accusing "foreign intelligence" of orchestrating drone intrusions, this as police there on Wednesday announced the arrest of the son of a close confidant of President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of illegally flying a drone in the Arctic region. He's the seventh Russian arrested in the past few days. A winter without Russian gas dominated an EU summit where leaders edged closer to a continent-wide plan on price caps and energy purposes, despite disagreement over current subsidies. On the sidelines of the summit, Spain agreed to scrap its call for a two-way gas pipeline through France. Instead, Pedro Sanchez, Portugal's Antonio Costa and Emmanuel Macron agreed on instead on plans for the construction of an underwater pipeline to be built and become operational within four to five years. The presidium of the Chinese Communist Party Congress is set to rubber stamp a third term for Xi Jinping, the country's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong. In the two-hour speech that opened the Congress last weekend, he talked tough on issues like Taiwan and trade tensions with the West. Thirty-four-year-old Karim Benzema is European footballer of the year. The first Frenchman to win the Ballon d'Or since his former coach Zinedine Zidane is also the oldest first-time winner since Stanley Matthews in the 1950s. Benzema led Real Madrid to Liga and Champions League titles this year. He is back in the French national squad ahead of the World Cup. Produced by Charles Wente, Juliette Laurain and Laura Burloux.