The defense ministers of Poland and Lithuania have said they are committed to helping Ukraine repatriate its Ukrainian men of fighting age who left the country to avoid being sent to the battlefield. We talk about it with Tonia Mastrobuoni of La Repubblica. | Iranian dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi was sentenced to death for his involvement in protests in Iran in 2022. A metalworker from Isfahan in central Iran, Salehi has become the face of the Iranian uprising, a rapper whose lyrics oppose the crackdown , injustice and poverty. One of his most famous political songs “Rat Hole” of 2021, long before the murder of Mahsa Jina Amini, addresses the corruption of the Iranian authorities and the impunity of their actions. “You are a murderer if you hide a murder. To cover up a murder, you have to step on blood,” he sang, with words even more poignant after state security forces killed more than 500 Iranians following the September 2022 riots. According to Some analysts say Toomaj’s songs represent the feelings of a generation of young Iranians who ardently and persistently seek the “fall of the regime”, feelings that shake the government as it faces the harshest opposition since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979. We talk about it with Luciana Borsatti, journalist and author of the books: “Iran. The time of women” (Castelvecchi 2023), “Iran in the time of Biden” (Castelvecchi, 2021) and “Iran in the time of Trump” ( Castelvecchi, re-edition 2020). | In New York, one of the city’s largest hotels, the Roosevelt Hotel in downtown Manhattan, closed during Covid. Its approximately one thousand rooms, a few steps from Fifth Avenue and the famous Grand Central Station, have remained empty for three long years. Now, Democratic mayor Eric Leroy Adams, in office since 2022, has decided to reopen it and transform it into a refuge for migrants and asylum seekers arriving in the Big Apple. We talk about it with Francesco Neri, journalist and collaborator of Radio3. Giulia De Luca at the microphones.
26 Apr 2024
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