Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

The Kremlin keeps upping the ante but are all Russians on board.

I asked Fiona Hill, the former White House Russia advisor.

And protesters won't let up in Iran. We get a glimpse of what's going on in the streets

despite a near total internet blackout. Then another visit from the Goon Squad.

In her new book Candy House novelist Jennifer Egan

revisits the world of her Pulitzer Prize-winning blockbuster. Plus, workers are

starting to come together and raise their voices and say enough is enough.

The AFL-CIO's first female leader Liz Schuller talks to Michelle Martin about the surprising

number of Americans now seeking to unionize. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Montfort in London. It's day 223 of Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine

and the Russian president is again upping the ante. It's believed that he'll move

this week to annex the areas under Russian occupation,

after claiming an overwhelming mandate in what's been called sham referendums there.

Ukraine, Europe and the US reject the whole process.

And Kyiv says Putin will even try to make residents

there fight for the Russian military

and against their Ukrainian brothers.

Meanwhile, inside Russia, people mostly men are voting with their feet

they continue to flee the country in droves

desperate to avoid Putin's forced mobilization as we hear now from correspondent Melissa Bell at a

border crossing. To the safety of Georgia, they have walked or cycled, carrying what they can in their tens of thousands.

Not Ukrainians fleeing the war, but Russians fleeing the draft. I came because we don't know what to expect, says Dennis.

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