this is deja vu news live from berlin and protests on the streets of kiev after a dramatic escape police arrest former georgian leader mikhail saakashvili but are forced to free him by angry supporters now he is marching to parliament to demand

the resignation of a president that he says is soft on corruption we will get the very latest live from kiev. also coming up the fight to preserve historic landscapes and utah conservationists and native tribes joined forces to fight an order from donald trump slashing national monument areas by up to ninety percent. and german foreign minister gabriele urges europe to be less dependent on the united states he says it is time for europe to become more assertive in the world. plus a fresh twist in the trump russia saga u.s. investigator robert mueller demands deutsche bank release data on accounts held by president trump that is part of miller's probe into russia's influence on presidential election. and decision day for russia's winter sports stars the international olympic committee gets set to rule on banning them from the upcoming . winter olympics will brusha pay

a high price over allegations of state sponsored doping. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us chaotic scenes on the streets of kiev today that is after police tried to arrest mikhail saakashvili he's a former georgian leader who has become an anti-corruption campaigner in ukraine and a thorn on the side of president petro poroshenko now police they detained saakashvili but were forced to free him again when his supporters surrounded the van that was holding him our correspondent nick connelly was there we'll have an update from him in just a moment but first here is what he saw. early morning hide and seek in the rooms above kiev's my town square except the man being detained by on mock special forces is

a former president and one of ukrainian president petro poroshenko is most vocal opponents. as news of the rate spread on facebook within minutes a crowd had gathered on the streets below but still there was no word from the police as to why he was being detained. his arms tied behind his back second really had one last chance to address his supporters calling for president bush and co to face impeachment. but it was one second he was bundled into a car that the confrontation between police and his supporters really got going. street ornaments rubbish bins even park police cars were all fair game as the crowd tried to prevent second release forcible departure. in the meantime ukraine's prosecutor general finally got around to answering the question on everyone's lips why no such a big operation and why now second sweeney he said they colluded with exiled

ukrainian oligarchs preparing to subvert the country's government. for more let's cross now to nick connelly who we just heard there his standing by for us live in kiev nick some dramatic scenes that we witnessed there tell us a little bit more about how saakashvili got away could happen there well just a matter of minutes after like that three weeks really was on the. our correspond there nic connelly as you have heard there we have lost the line with her him we're going to try and cue that up a little bit later in the show because we would like to hear his firsthand perspective as we mentioned he witnessed you know those moments when saakashvili got away he was being detained by ukrainian authorities there in the country will

try and check in with him a little bit later but in the meantime let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world the lebanese prime minister saad hariri says that he has withdrawn his resignation after reaching a deal with rival political parties the decision comes a month after hariri announced his shock resignation from the saudi arabian capital riyadh the move through lebanon into a political crisis. a fast moving wildfire in the u.s. state of california has forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes the blaze in ventura county near los angeles broke out on monday and was fanned by strong winds authorities say that it could soon threaten a city of more than one hundred thousand people the cause of the fire is not yet known the u.s. supreme court has allowed president donald trump's travel ban on six muslim majority of nations to go into full force the court's decision lifts injunctions issued by lower courts the ban prevents most travelers from iran libya syria yemen somalia and chad from entering the united states as well as some from north korea

and venezuela. spain's supreme court has withdrawn an international arrest warrant for catalonia as former leader carlos pushed him on and four of his cabinet members pushed him on is frex his supporters addressed his supporters rather via video link from brussels on monday where he has been in self-imposed exile since october's legal tech liberation of independence the court in madrid says that it has withdrawn the arrest warrants because the politicians have shown a willingness to return to spain. our correspondent pablo foley l.e.o.'s is tracking the latest developments from madrid for us so pablo just walk us through what happens if pushed him on and his four deputies returned to spain are they free men. sarah well it's highly unlikely that they would be free men the minute that they enter a spanish territory because at the end of the day the supreme court judge your anna

has said the charges against him are have haven't been dropped what's been dropped is just simply the warrant for their arrest outside responded territory so if they do return despite the fact that they have said that there is that they do want to return to spain and it is likely that i mean these charges that are still against them one being rebellion which carries a pretty hefty prison sentence of up to thirty years and of course addition will still stand so once again the million dollar question is will they were turned and if they do will they be arrested immediately and given the seriousness of the of those charges and the consequences that could potentially follow why did the judges seem so short today that the five politicians would return at all. what of course let's not forget that we have the cutline regional and actions taking place on december twenty first and it's a rather almost bizarre situation in the sense that two of the main candidates one

being at catalyst is in belgium and his former deputy in the regional government. is still in prison here and not far from where i am here in madrid and at the end of the day what they want to do is they want to return to spain and they want to be here for the twenty first of december and the day before and after the speech that he gave to his supporters in barcelona and across company on monday catalyst pushed them on and essentially said to people that this was a decision between you know. a future council and republic or action tin ewing with a stage which basically doesn't identify with the catalan people ok problem with the very latest from madrid we thank you so much for that analysis on the situation there. thanks or. would like to return now to our top story as we mentioned protests on the streets of kiev after

a police arrest of the former georgian leader mikhail saakashvili let's bring back our correspondent nick connelly in kiev who witnessed that arrest and the subsequent escape we have to mention of saakashvili nick tell us a little bit more about what you witnessed and how he got away. because up there well this is extraordinary thing. being detained in poking into a mini van and his supporters blocked the buses. but several hours and then when things like going nowhere they managed to break through the police cordon who him out of the. get him out well you know out of. there was he walked through my down and is now ended up with one of the great ball of the rather way he's holding them a person calling for the person through the basement. i think for people who are not familiar with ukrainian politics this may seem a bit capitulate because what is a former president of georgia doing mixed up in ukrainian politics to begin with

quite really was president of georgia till late twenty thirteen that's when you'll remember when my done revolution happened in ukraine where the pro russian president yanukovych was driven out of office into exile and after leaving office in georgia tech s.p.d. rocked up in kiev and started to promote his particular brand all liberal libertarian pro-west reforms are the first to go well with your brain visit versing because they were allies the custody was made governor of the death the region but they didn't pull it out and that's pretty now says that forcing going is government pulling back all those reforms and that just as corrupt as the government before so this was a love story between saakashvili in the current ukrainian government the sense our and now saakashvili is we have to mention a very foreign port and voice when it comes to the opposition in the country what is happening on the streets now an economy i mean how much of a threat does he poses now to the government of petro poroshenko. so the million dollar question so far as a relatively. modest demonstration outside parliament i mean you have to remember

here the second really has been in the valley ok opposition supporters think of the last few months being relatively stable and quiet the thing here is not could be that it's not just really here is the in the printer attention that he just becomes a crystallization point for people who are opposed to a different reason that this attempted to arrest it proved to be the spark to bring people out for all kinds of reasons to oppose the current government so it doesn't necessarily have to be just these actually supporters but a broad coalition of people who are disappointed by the lack of reforms by the difficult economic situation and the general feeling of tiredness of several years of conflict in ukraine with no real end in sight nick just briefly remind us of what the charges were against saakashvili to begin with so the prosecutors here are being very tightlipped it seems that they implying that he was trying to essentially set up a coup with exiled ukrainian oligarchy against current government but so far we haven't had much meat on the bones that we're expecting to hear more from them in

the coming hours p.w. correspondent nick connelly live on the scene there in kiev where as we mentioned supporters of saakashvili marching on the parliament calling for the government of petro poroshenko to get tougher on corruption a moving situation there nic thanks so much for your reporting. let's turn now to yemen where people have slowly started to emerge in the capital city sanaa after five days of. a five day wave of deadly violence bombed out cars hints at the fierce fighting between former allies that have turned against each other the u.n. says that saudi coalition warplanes led at least twenty five airstrikes on sanaa overnight the country's former president ali abdullah saleh was also killed in the fighting. and earlier i spoke with jamie mccall track the u.n. humanitarian coordinator in yemen i began by asking him what the situation is like there on the ground in sanaa the last five days people have been under serious

fighting in the prisons of their own homes on able to get medical treatment and then war and food supplies to notify children and people very difficult circumstances this is eased up over the last twelve hours or so but there's been no strikes all the same the situation on the ground is very uncertain people don't really know what will come next people are bracing themselves for more air strikes there were twenty five last night one various buildings in the center so they believe populated areas and right now we're trying to see what humanitarian assistance we can deliver. the populations have been affected i want to talk a little bit more about the humanitarian situation i mean we've heard dire reports of food shortages cholera in fact we hear that nearly a million people are infected with the disease there that's an estimate produced by your organization in fact do you see any hope of getting citizens the help that

they need. well i mean the blockades been in place for about four weeks now and that has actually exacerbated three years of conflict and not time the we've turned up to a situation where you've got threat of famine for seven million people who don't know how they're going to feed themselves the families on a day by day basis they depend on the international humanitarian community at the same time we had one million people or most who are affected by color there's a direct consequence of the collapse of all the health systems in this country and because of that people are very very precarious situation anything that exam is there such as the five days of conflict the blockade all of these things just makes the challenges all the more complicated for us to deliver assistance to those populations populations need to assist the poor of a died a while it was opened very narrowly and we go into course one commercial on one humanitarian it wasn't enough we need the fuel to come through there right now if we don't have fuel and it runs a few weeks more color a lot will probably will bring assistance and this is an essential commodity for us

specifically the death of salai how do you see this playing out i mean how do you see this impacting your humanitarian aid efforts in the country well i think it's a very uncertain situation normally in yemen because no one quite knows how things are going to move on now with the reported death of the former president salih it's uncertain no hope of this previous the lines will function and what the reaction will be from the government of yemen so delay coalition we are a very are very concerned about the cause and might make our difficult work a real challenge to get assistance at a time when people are starving or suffering from color and other diseases are breaking no so the death of former president salih i think is only added another completely complicating dynamic to very complex situation. jamie mcgoldrick

the un humanitarian coordinator there in yemen thank you so much for telling us a little bit more about the situation there at the moment in sanaa and in the country as well we appreciate it you're watching news still to come on the program taking a tough line on paying the international olympic committee decides today whether to ban russia from the upcoming winter olympics. but first potentially a german link to donald trump's alleged dealings with russia first what's the story it seems like germany's largest lender deutsche bank has been dragged into an investigation into russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election last year a number of media outlets are reporting that special counsel robert muller who's leading the inquiry has asked you to release data on accounts held by a president and his family the information was demanded by subpoena after daughter rejected demands to share the data from the u.s. house democrats in june citing privacy laws the bank has lent the trump

organization millions of dollars for real estate ventures in the past. but i spoke to our financial correspondent contribution and frank for the home of the bank and i asked him how the traders and investors have reacted to the news. well you can be sure that many of the bankers here in frankfurt gossiped and talked about this topic today during their lunch breaks as it was only a matter of time until something like this would be reported it's been known for a long time that the bank had strong business relations with donald trump and with his real estate business that in fact it was the only large bank in the united states which would give donald trump credit after he produced a number of impressive insolvencies but now with this subpoena of special investigator robert muller it looks like a few more ingredients are added to the crime story deutsche bank was involved in

money laundering witching volved russia money was transferred from moscow via london to new york and the rumors are now that somehow trump or his family or maybe michael flynn the national security advisor of donald trump might have had something to do with this. still in the headlines for all the wrong reasons are investors concerned briefly if you can. yes they are concerned they do not sell off the share shares of storage of banking great amounts today a bank has said that it fully cooperates with the authorities in the united states well not the only case where it had to seek corporation with authorities there that's true enough thank you very much cora who is there in frankfurt. more than two dozen nations could be named on a blacklist of european tax havens later today that's part of an e.u.

bit to crack down on tax avoidance finance ministers are meeting in brussels to approve the final list commission appear moscovici says he hopes a list of about twenty tax savings will be adopted with another forty being named on the gray list those will be encouraged to make reforms being named and shamed isn't just bad for the country's reputation it also imposes additional disclosure requirements on multinationals that are doing business business with them. colleagues all the chosen pill is following the talks in brussels charlotte what's the latest have a agreed on a list and who's on it. get off get out yes we do have news now that there is a list of these countries that are considered tax havens by the european finance ministers seventeen have been named on the so-called black list let me just give you a couple of them that are on that as well rane grenada south korea is one of them and of also trinidad and tobago just some of the seventeen countries and now today

we've also heard that there are not another forty seven countries on a so-called gray list now that's a list of countries that jurisdictions that finance ministers have come up with who they say currently known co-operative when it comes to the tax rules box their countries that have promised that they will take action that will reform the tax procedures and they are hoping will not then end up on not to try to blacklist from finance ministers today talking about what these countries have to do what are the consequences of being on this blacklist. well that has been some concern that there aren't any real major consequences for being on this blacklist other than of course reputational damage which i guess some countries underestimates when it comes to how serious that can be a couple of commission is actually have spoken out since the announcement of these these countries saying that they would have liked to have seen e.u.

finance ministers go a little bit further there are some fears that while serious this agreement doesn't really have any teeth beyond the fact that it's possible that some e.u. funding can be affected for the countries that are on this list has there been other criticism as well about the unknowns. there has indeed now one of the faces critics so far of this announcement has been oxfam they released a report not so long ago and they called it a blacklist or whitewash they've been incredibly critical they said that thirty five countries at least should have been on this list not the seventeen they've also been very critical of the fact that no e.u. countries are on this list oxfam says that have the e.u. finance ministers applied the rules that they use to judge these seventeen minutes is to they were in member states that a couple of other countries would be on there to multi luxembourg for example so they've been very fierce in their criticism of this a fall gelatos a bill in brussels for us thank you very much.

and that's it for me for the moment to have more business later in the show for now it's back to sound it's make or break for russia's winter sports absolutely in fact all eyes today gary hart are on switzerland that is because the international olympic committee is meeting there in order to decide whether to ban russia from the twenty eight thousand winter olympics with just ten weeks before the games begin in south korea the i.o.c. president thomas bach said that the executive board are assessing whether there is enough evidence for russia's state sponsored doping of olympic athletes to justify the unprecedented move the i.o.c. has recently handed down lifetime bans to dozens of russian athletes after its investigators revealed a massive operation to high performance enhancing drug taking. the twenty fourteen winter olympics in sochi were a chance for russia and its president vladimir putin to burnish their reputation to host where the game's most successful nation winning thirty three medals in all but

since then a dark shadow has been cast over their success by none other than gregory put a chunk of the former chief of russia's anti doping the poetry he claimed the russian athletes were systematically doped samples which would have tested positive for clean ones with the help of the russian secret service because of his admissions which uncovered most his post and fled to the united states. the i.o.c. reacted thus far. it was he will react with ciro tolerance in order to protect the cleanup fleets whoever is involved in this within the reach of the i.o.c. will be sanctioned the world anti-doping agency has been tougher wada commissioner richard mclaren to investigate the claims in his report the canadian lawyer accused the russians of widespread state sponsored doping one and demanded they be

sanctioned the prove mclaren presented in his report was not enough above and the i.o.c. . they set up two commissions of their own to re-examine the allegations the i.o.c. pilot led by dennis also the switzerland has twenty five russian athletes over the last few weeks including a limb pick goldwing cross-country skier alexander like. he and others plan to appeal the decision at the international court of arbitration for sport. what will tuesday's meeting bring more individual burns that would allow russia to take part as a team and. some of suggested the russia can compete without the national anthem and fly how with the russians react to that plenty of questions for the seats once or as soon as possible. and that decision on russia's olympic fate is expected in just a few hours time emily sure when is in moscow she is following the latest developments so emily how do russians see these doping allegations

well recent surveys shows that about half of russians think that russian athletes didn't take any performance enhancing drugs only a minority thinks that they did and it's the same with the question about whether there was a state sponsored doping program about half of people think that there is that there definitely wasn't and only a minority think that there was and my impression talking to people here though is that many people think this is basically about politics rather than about sports and there is a growing feeling here in russia that there is some kind of a western campaign going on against russia you know there are these sanctions there are these widespread allegations of of russian hackers hacking all sorts of things all across the world and then there are also these allegations of doping so people sort of seem to feel that this is a part of a western campaign against their country and given that emily what is likely to be

the reaction of the russian government if there is an i.o.c. ban. well so far the reactions from the russian government have been rather muted they've taken on a sort of wait and see type policy the kremlin spokesman said that they won't make a decision until they have the official information from the international olympic committee and in fact they said that they might even wait for that decision to come to them in writing so they're sort of biding their time trying to buy time even and the sports minister of. course said that russia will work with any decision that comes but that he hopes the decision will be objective and that the reaction from the russian side should be not emotional but objective as well but he also said that they are prepared to fight a legal battle if there is a ban and the kremlin spokesman. also said that they would protect the interests of russian athletes as much as they can so it's likely that russia would dispute of an

how about the athletes themselves only if there is a ban would they be prepared to compete under a neutral flag well it's hard to know i suspect that a lot of them will be hoping that they won't have to make that decision especially since the signals from above have been rather negative when it comes to that option putin himself said that that would be a humiliation for russian athletes to have to compete under a neutral flag and basically hinted that it wasn't really an option the deputy prime minister and former sports minister school also said that a neutral flag would not be permissible but that the decision would be up to every athlete themselves whether or not to compete so of course they're getting kind of pretty harsh signals from above not to compete in that case but you know they'll

have to decide for themselves but it would be rather hard to seem patriotic if they did in the current mood here i'm really sure when in moscow thank you. you're watching d.w. news still to come on the program pollution in delhi reaches grim new heights that is as a tree lankan cricketer a sri lankan cricketer vomits on the pitch during a smog hit test match. all that maher we're back in a few minutes. argentina for decades farmers here have been using a controversial herbicide like to say. now cancer and birth defects are on the

rise as are the voices protesting against the use of chemicals in agriculture people here are speaking up. like this a distinct children of argentina. in forty five minutes on d w. the whole d w one up. for in focus global insights the news out for local heroes. d.w. made for mines. their black and living in germany. has reminded what that means on a daily basis presenter like this not being able to blend in and all risk. taking hollowed out a group and being you know different than the rest. she travelled across germany to meet other black people and to hear their stories. it seems as.

though i grew up in a white family in a white neighborhood it was definitely a challenge. she decided to put me up for adoption. so the main thing was to keep your head down and your mouth shut of course of the phrase like this i could never completely disappear if you see all these stereotypes about africa it's good to see you. do something for your country but you're still the black guy with an. afro germany starting december tenth d.w. . welcome back here with t w news i'm sarah kelly in berlin our top story police in kiev have bungled the arrest of anti corruption campaigner mikhail saakashvili

after. bundling him into a band police were forced to release him by angry protesters. now we head to the indian capital delhi where severe pollution has caused sri lankan cricket player to vomit joe. in a test match between the two countries players have been battling terrible smog over the past four days with the sri lankans donning face masks in order to stave off the toxic caves in fact earlier today fast bowler serangoon lacma was overcome after just three overs of vomiting and returning to the dressing room the u.s. embassy in delhi reported that the air quality index is around four hundred that is fifteen times the world health organization's safe limit let's cross over now to our correspondent in the indian capital katia kepner so katia tell us these levels

why are sports events like this even taking place with them at such alarming heights where sara i would say because there is much too little or too low awareness about the toxic air here in delhi there is too much action being too little action being taken and there have been others big sports events that have taken place in the last couple of weeks alone the delhi half marathon for example where thirty thousand people were running through the city all you have the future on a seven thousand word cup happening in the city despite warnings of various different actors that the boards youngest sorcha stars are exposed to this toxic air so only now after the sri lankan cricket does have set a sign of clear discontent a certain discussion has been but i'm not too optimistic that this discussion would lead to any change now rising pollution levels they are not uncommon during these

winter months what measures is the city taking and how effective are they. well i would really laugh to speak to you have are different effective measures that have been taken in the last couple of weeks but actually there has not much happened so far it's definitely no election issue or topic of evolution in the city so it's not on the agenda of any political party and this leads to a really strange atmosphere that nothing really has changed and that again and again and after a couple of weeks everybody. beginning about it and the media is reporting on it but then nothing changes they have been some action plans implemented by different states and honda also in whole or in north india but at the end are the measures are not really enforced. business leading to the situation that you are again and again delhi faces the same toxic air card to capture in delhi thank you

german foreign minister gabriele has urged his country and europe to become more assertive on foreign policy issues and less dependent on the united states traditionally close ties between berlin and washington have soured since u.s. president donald trump took office at a foreign policy forum in berlin gabriele said that the traditional view of the united states as having a protecting role is beginning to crumble let's invent it was the us will nonetheless have to remain our most important global partner publisher of there's no doubt we will need and will cultivate this partnership in the future but it alone will not be enough to protect our strategic interests of the us withdrawal does not stem from the policies of a single president and the situation is unlikely to change even after the next election so there should be no doubt that germany and europe will need to do and

risk much more than in the past. for more let's bring in correspondent mckayla who is standing by at a parliamentary studios in germany and we also have a man who is joining us from brussels so mikhail i'd like to begin with you because you were actually at the speech a little bit earlier by gabrielle and he seemed to imply there that his statement is not about trump if it's not about trump what is it about. well he appears to see more of a symptom of something that is happening do is to to now it must be said that he is currently in the function of the caretaker foreign minister as germany is struggling to put together a government here there might be another grand coalition that might see him as a minister but that's not certain that also wanting to shift one of the pillars of german foreign policy essentially posing this as a wake up call for the need to take more respect of bonds ability for its own interests and europe to pull together because as he said you're really doesn't

carry much international weight that is quite something for someone who will not most likely be in charge of actually shaping this very policy and of course this is also a clear message to the united states that germany is not really going to go along with everything that germany is recognizing that there also is an element of competition in this transatlantic relationship now post even and he doesn't really expect that to change so quite a sober analysis of what the future holds both for germany and the e.u. max does it appear as if the united states has heard that message have they reacted to it because we know for example the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is in brussels today. until isn't already said something today together with the chief diplomat of the european union federica marine and he replied indirectly if you will he didn't refer to cigar gabo himself but he reiterated that security is strongest when partners share their part of the

burden and that points to the main problem of what is it my god with the german foreign minister is saying and that is the millet military part of the cooperation between the united states and the european union or within the framework of nato and then that's where it gets interesting because later on of course the foreign ministers will meet in the framework of nato meaning seeburg i'll be able but it will be there rex tillerson will be there also and both of them know that nato only works because the americans shoulder well the dirty work the real fighting the germans usually say will provide training will provide medical assistance and that only works because the americans do the other part of that and goblin that was that and that won't change in the next years because it takes so much investment and so much efforts and you need to convince for example the german public to do something about that so what he says the europeans do know but to really change it especially the military part extremely difficult not very easy to shift those dynamics there

mckayla what's the view from germany is there the political will to execute some change here and just generally speaking the comments from gabrielle are they any different from what we have heard before because for example i'm going to merkel you know she had a similar tone this past spring in a speech that she gave as well. yes in fact she said that her assessment after she visited donald trump was that as she put it the days where you could just rely on others are over now. he picked this up he said there is no space anymore on the sidelines of global politics that brady the european union and germany must discover itself more as an actor in this field and that also included the risk of failure the clear message here also is i think max put it really well very concrete terms you can see it in nato basically nato would not be able to function without

the united states europe actually currently as an international player is struggling to function because it is torn so many ways internally and god will actually said that the only nation he saw with a long term juice to teach it policy right now was china and that said let alarm bells ring in berlin brussels and d.c. keylock of now with the latest from berlin and max hoffman there in brussels we thank you very much for both of your analysis on this transatlantic relationship and focus today we appreciate it saudi arabia turkey and palestinian leaders have spoken out strongly against any u.s. recognition of jerusalem as the israeli capital american officials had said that president trump could make that announcement this week trump had promised during his campaign to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem muslim and arab states have said that any such move would threaten diplomatic ties in the middle east. and u.s.

president donald trump has ordered the biggest rollback of public land protection in the country's history trump announcement shrinks to wilderness national monuments created by past democratic presidents in the state of utah by at least half a move that's got pro development lawmakers pumped and environmentalist see the. some of the most glorious natural wonders in the world those are donald trump's own words to describe this federally protected land hundreds of thousands of hectares that make up bears ears and grand staircase escalante. on monday trump took the rare step of massively shrinking these two national monuments the move could open up vast spaces for mining and grazing trump argued the lands protected status is federal overreach.

because some people think that the natural resources of you to should be controlled by a small handful of very distant bureaucrats located in washington. and guess what they're wrong was. but not everyone in utah is cheering over trump's clawback. thousands of protesters lined up outside the state capital to protest the announcement environmentalists say it's an abuse of presidential power and native american groups say the move places ancient cliff dwellings and other sacred sites on the land in jeopardy they have filed lawsuits to block the order. trump has already called for a review of twenty seven other national monuments. with the aim to slash them to.

well it is holiday season a time for buying gifts but also giving charities and n.g.o.s use the run up to christmas for year and donation appeals often with videos made for t.v. and online yet not all appeals are so tastefully done and some actually objectify the very people that they aim to help let's get some more on this now we are joined by our social media editor carl last man who is with us here in the studio so carl we understand that an aid watchdog is actually calling a lot of these these most offensive ads out yeah i mean this is kind of like the oscars for bad fund raising videos that you don't really want to win the award though this is a norwegian student group they hand out an annual award it's called the rusty radiator they've nominated three of these videos this year from aid organizations that they say are the most offensive of twenty seventeen they say that you know these are well intentioned films but they really play on stereotypes in the end up kind of offending or dehumanizing the people that they're trying to help them we

have a few clips actually of some of these videos take a look at what this organization is saying and this is from the disasters emergency committee an aid group and they're trying to help children in yemen here but the watchdog group says it objectifies it shows nameless and faceless victims the young and it oversimplifies the problem we have another example here and this is by the u.k. a group called comic relief and its edge here and here the video is simply called edge here and meets a little boy who lives on the streets and it really does portray him as the so-called white savior kind of coming in to save the day standing over these young boys here who are sleeping in a boat and in the in liberia and he even offers to pay for them to sleep in a hotel we spoke today sarah with the president of the group the s a i h they hand out the award her name is beyond to or gordon she told us why videos like these are so problem at. well we are exposed to all these candidates in ads again and again

and it reinforces stereotypes but it also makes us more empathic and we feel hopelessness because we don't see that anything's progress you never see any positive results from the money that for donating it was seen a lot of good candidates over the years where we see that it's also possible to play on emotions without playing on guilt and pity but at the same time we also see that many of the big organizations are still using those outdated methods i received from the eighty's and the rusty radiator award will be given out on friday along with the golden radiator that's for the aid organization actually does a good job in presenting their video but you know you mentioned earlier crawling all of these organizations they are trying to do good they do have good intentions so you know how do they respond to be being put in this negative light i mean it seems like this critique is actually getting through some of these agencies overspending including the head of one of the biggest groups comic relief and

actually sent us this statement from the c.e.o. herself liz warner and she writes this will serve as a constant reminder of the need to stay as relevant as possible going forward and to give a voice to the people that are affected by the issues that we care about that's really the main thing there i mean look it's also fair to point out many of these groups are struggling for money to get donations and these sort of videos are an effective way to do that let's get proactive here tips to avoid these pitfalls no one wants this rusty nail or whatever you call their estimate right i mean is it organizations it's people as well travelers volunteers that go abroad especially from western countries they can be guilty of that as well and this norwegian group has released a satirical video with dues and with don't see how to avoid this sort of thing and take a look here just a few tips that they've provided really how to avoid so-called poverty porn taking selfies. with underprivileged children for example just to get more likes on your

social media accounts so they say always ask for consent when you take a picture and avoid taking selfies all together and really does make you the center of the attention rather than the people that you might be their. last on our social media desk thank you. you're watching d.w. news still to come finland has its antennae area independence is being celebrated in a colorful way things there are about to turn very very blue robin merrill for culture media culture desk will be here to tell us more. but first it is over to gary hart and the irish trade issues that have helped sink the brags that talks that's right around the latest talks have failed yet again the major sticking point now is the i'm resolved border issue between learned and northern ireland has just indicated some thirty thousand people cross the invisible border every day for work goods go backwards and forwards without inspection of the brakes republic of ireland would

remain in the european union while northern ireland as part of the u.k. would have to exit britain my have to reintroduce a so-called hard border with customs checks for goods people and services and that is a huge lorry for northern ireland's dairy farmers who depend on easy cross border trade . milk is northern ireland's most important agricultural product but uncertainty over what will happen when britain leaves the european union has left many farmers on edge especially those who currently trade with and travel freely to the republic of ireland which is staying in the e.u. because of the way the whole system set up there will be tariffs there traded on the european quality standards at the minute or standards won't change they'll be as high as ever they are but. those are present barriers for creating this product in the future and the fact that we don't know is the difficult part in addition

agricultural products from northern ireland are heavily subsidised it remains to be seen if the support will continue after breakfast. a major industrial sector depends on. the luck patrick company purchases and processes six hundred million liters of milk from farmers on both sides of the border annually the supply chain is going to be massively disruptors there is going to be farmers who have no place to send their milk now because their processing unit is on the other side of the border and the processor cannot bring that cross the border because he's going to have to pay a price. in excess of fifty to seventy percent like patrick exports milk powder worldwide as well as roll milk to a baby food producer in the republic of ireland their main customer is china which insists on the e.u. quality label breakfast may challenge these relationships. what is absent here is

a clear vision for britain and for northern ireland in a post break that scenario can somebody somewhere stand up and tell me and tell all of the members of this society what better situation is going to prevail in the post breaks the scenario that current. northern ireland's opera culture sector life in the balance as farmers wait to see if a deal on the border question can be reached. first there was false then the likes of dime none now b.m.w. could also be caught up in the diesel gate scandal complain group environmental action germany has protested b.m.w. come to the conclusion that they emit more pollution on the road than in lab tests the environmentalists point to a possible so-called defeat device designed to manipulate the test results and have forwarded their conclusions to authorities b.m.w.

denies the allegations. and this is on a fellow in loch land right up in the north of finland it is a mystic and a holy place for the local sami people there and last night it was lit up in blue to mark the beginning of celebrations and one hundred years of independence for. robin merrill is here in the studio for more on this in ten years before of course we talk about this big anniversary here you have to give us a so to speak potted history yeah ok the grand duchy of finland was part of the russian empire until nine hundred seventeen the russian revolution of course and the head of state the grand duchy finance head of state had been that he was forced to abdicate so he's no longer the head to stay should mention at this point that

finn him was the first european country to give adults the right to vote in one thousand nine hundred sixty so they all julie voted for an independent finland that's the very basics. and a very i mean a young country only one hundred years here what is so surprising culturally speaking about the country well let's get a couple of cliches out. way first of all vodka drinking the renowned for drinking of vodka but you see they sweat all the alcohol out in their solos because they have more saunas than any other country in the world per capita it's evidently the best place to live if you're a mother according to save the children fund they've got a reputation the finns are being very hard working and they're the biggest coffee drinkers in the world which is rather surprising perhaps this however actually comes in with the scent teeny because today on the eve they've been soaring car aged old companies are encouraged to give their workers

a coffee break round about not actually exactly now so they should all be doubting tills for a bit because the very hard work of finally of course finish design is what finland's terribly famous for and the best way to illustrate that is with some pictures calls. irena constance is a designer who wants to shop in helsinki is designated design district. design in finland. it's very democratic so it's you can say that it's almost every household has some classic design piers so you actually grow up with the. design classics have changed little over the years in finland practical and timeless clia forms and durable materials. a collection made for the hundredth anniversary of independence in finnish bulletin. we are very

near nature. we like simple things our nature is quite clean and and poor and simple so it's its functionality but still. a beauty with simplicity maybe. natural motifs have long been at the core of much finished design. furniture designs of the 1930's a still popular today in the my nine hundred forty s. and fifty's toppy revolutionized industrial design with his ice classes. frank's robust and timeless works. road design history with his public. finish design has never been the latest. with nature is inspiration and functionality simplicity and an attention to detail

the style could well continue for another hundred years. robin what else comes to mind when you think about finland culturally speaking. for made the most wonderful compilers especially his symphonies which really. we are part of the national identity that beautiful music but also if we come up to date i would think about his charisma he's over my shoe over that shoulder there isn't it yeah and this is him and his film the other great phenomenon music of the norman phenomenon the leningrad cowboys with a wonderful question that sort of. point to choose this. he by the way carries marquees out for a two prize prisoner latest film at the european film awards this week and that's not it that is of course the other thing finland's famous for musically heavy metal bands that more heavy metal bands than anywhere in the world and this. naughty so excuse my mouth but yes this is

a bad for the gold lodhi they made history in two thousand and six by being the only hard rock band to win the euro vision song contest with those wonderful mosques their identities is still not known they still wear the mosques so why did musical spectrum and speaking a wide spectrum as i was really surprised to hear that the finns have their own tango they do do which came to finland just before independence which is quite apt and is based on the argentine tango and there's a competition every year with over one hundred thousand participants when you think there's any five million people in the country they're all dancing the tango and tonight by the why should mention they're all going to put their blue lights on the whole country is going to be blue dogs or the very beginning but the tango is the thing and when will we know the winner of this competition the winner of the winner has happened earlier this year and i'm afraid that's what it was you got paid. for all the mail from our culture desk thank you so much for telling us a little bit more about this big centennial lots of celebrations lots of blue we

appreciate it you're up to date now and news i'm sarah kelly in berlin and before we go now we would like to leave with some pictures of those tango dancers that we mentioned in finland enjoy. thank. you thank thank you. thank thank.

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