this is d.w. news live from. crisis to ministers and the prime minister's chief of staff caught up in the investigation into this is specter contract killing an investigative journalist daphne. also on the program the hunt for the fees involved in germany's dresden jewel heist there is still no trace of intruders to stage the country's biggest post-war robbery making off with priceless gold and jewel encrusted artifacts. deadly earthquake overnight killing at least 20 and injuring

hundreds a search and rescue operation has begun to free survivors trapped beneath collapsed buildings. the rock and rap were sentenced to a year in prison for insulting police and social media sparking protests about freedom of expression in the country. welcome to the program we begin in malta where the prime minister's chief of staff is tourism minister and economy minister of old stepped down amid a growing scandal surrounding a murdered journalist. was killed in a car bombing in 2017 after reporting on corruption in the country. keith schembri chief of staff to the maltese prime minister resigns 2 other ministers swiftly left office conrad mitzi and chris cardona here on the left why the explanation from

multis prime minister joseph muscat regarding his chief of staff decision to quit. she said this would enable the government to go ahead with its work serenely mort said in some suspect that what's really behind all this is the murder of stephany. a popular journalist described as a one woman wiki leaks killed in a car bomb attack 2 years ago she had become known for exposing cronyism within the country's political and business elite among others she accused all 3 of those who've now quit of corruption her murder has been met with uproar in malta and around the world 3 men were arrested for planting the car but it's little more was done protests escalated was last week a suspected middleman elfin talma has been arrested by police but the prime minister granted a pardon for help find the murder mastermind then the next morning maltese

businessman you're going fenech was apprehended on his luxury yacht allegedly preparing to flee after he'd heard that town was willing to talk he too is now reportedly seeking immunity in exchange for cooperating with the police. and now 3 ministers once accused. resign. many in malta say that their government is corrupt and want prime minister muscat to go he denies any involvement want to get his family go further saying that muscat is protecting those who were behind her murder. let's take a closer look at this with afros a journalist with the times of moulton he joins us from the capital of the letter welcome to d.w. why do you think these 3 senior government figures have stepped down. sluggard i mean this is just this was i have to say it's most probably the most ignorant fool theory and mostly for the sake of this list at least since you number

shift in 2004 since it was a reason why all of this happened all of a sudden it was like ok it was really slow to those who didn't have been close for these 3 figures especially if you feel stuffy family and. who is a minister one of the facilities line for years for sleep since when to 16 when the service sick but service in the system brings its own fire from the front of a fire stand they have a secret phantom a company and this is just like finished treated you know and eventually the day from from their midst i just think they had sailors said they were doing nothing wrong but eventually back started managing the most damning fact was this time last year when this america did their 50 something it was going to. use hasn't been since accepted bribes to return for the awarding of a lucrative forward station contest to the permanent. leading force feeding i'm the new priest close to

260 students figures. in the service kenny it is not even the last we learned new the furnace was arrested. and there was. a few but i didn't and then we'll let others. have their lingo didn't thank you damning evidence on this. point i make there is. going to have to pay for it going to. we're going to have to leave it that it's a very it's a very poor line but we thank you for your time here with that they dump it and perhaps we can try again later when a 2nd chance is about to but for now thank you. let's move on here in germany the hunt is on for thieves who made off with the priceless 18th century jewels in the city of dresden places still combing the scene the green volved museum searching

for clues that will lead to the robbers while the museum officials are still trying to work out exactly what's missing treasures that even the french king louis the 14th was said to be jealous of the gemstone sets of the saxon prince elect 3 of them have been stolen the material value is estimated to be in the millions the cultural value is and calculable and they fight and it's a unique collection the biggest saxon treasure of the 18th century which is at the heart of the cultural heritage in this country right now that's just a few years ago the museum's previous direct acclaimed sophisticated alarm system was on par with fort knox but on monday this threw a spanner in the works around 5 am a fire in an electricity junction box near the consul suddenly plunged the building into darkness and the thief struck. you could also. the perpetrators entered through a window facing the castle square cut through the bars smashed the window pane and

targeted a specific display case. between a. surveillance video shows them breaking the display case the guards then called the police but when they arrived just 5 minutes later the perpetrators had already fled potentially using a car which had later been found in an underground car park and set on fire me. i considered the security measures in place at the state collections in the dresden castle to be excellent and extensive we can now see that this wasn't the case experts believe the alarm system may no longer have been state of the art when i had to meet them and one could have quite simply prevented such a break in with a decent security strategy mechanically and electronically the security was not sufficient. reason to lie so what will the thieves do with the jewelry the most likely scenario is

a simple one you did of the receives will break the individual stones out of their casing live then change their cut so that their origin is no longer recognizable. then they will try to sell them on the global market by. an upsetting idea for those who hold these cultural heirlooms dear one small consolation the museum's most valuable jewel is the green diamond currently still safe and on loan in new york let's go to correspondent karen tilton who's at the music or welcome hour and there is a press conference. what did we learn. well yes there was and what we've learned so far is that officials from the museum and also police investigators are of course still pursuing all possible avenues of investigation but one area they're increasingly look i'm looking at rather is a question of whether or not these thieves actually may have had an accomplice within the building or some type of inside information now the museum's chief of

security recently said that the assault on as he put it the security system was a well planned prepared and executed executed attack on the museum security service and he also said that given the just how quickly they were able to break in the building you have to remember they only spent around 6 minutes with them building it indicates they should really be looking internally to see if they had any type of leaks or maybe type of i mean in a system inside the building which made that attack possible and made it made them able to carry out the attack in such a quick quick period of time. for the robbers. well right now we're told that police investigators are looking at $33.00 main crime scenes i mean as we heard there in the report of course the forensics teams are still working within the museum itself they're also looking at a fire that was set in a power box just around the corner from museum now as you heard in the report that was used to actually turn off the lights outside of the building and there also are

some reports that may have compromised the building security system itself there's also the question of the getaway car police have confirmed that the car that was found burned out outside of the city center was indeed the getaway car but unfortunately finding that actually raises more questions than it actually does answer because now we know that the perpetrators actually changed cars at least once but the question is now open to the changed cars in the one car did that change in the multiple cars that leave the city in different directions or is it all just a big distraction so finding the car is a case of one step forward 2 steps back. they we're headed in the record that they . like it to be a broken up what are they saying about vats that. well that does seem to be the theory most investigators are operating under currently i mean we're told that that if the thieves actually do try to break up these artifacts that actually be more difficult than you would expect especially because many of

the jewels in diamonds were cut and prepared using an older style of cut which any jeweler any serious jeweler would instantly recognize but that doesn't mean the thieves won't try it and the real tragedy i guess for the city of dresden for the museum as well is that any attempt to alter them for sale would actually destroy the the jewels in these artifacts historical and cultural value and that would represent a major loss for the people dresner for the museum as well and there are lots of of course the museum all thought. exactly sure what's missing here this and you wonder will how come that day. well that's due in part to the nature of the forensic work that's going on with inside the building i mean it's still an active crime scene of course which means museum officials have not really been allowed to get a good look at what's inside the case we've been told they were briefly allowed in earlier in the day and could take some photos but you have to remember there are 97 different objects that were present in the case and it's going to take a while for them to actually go through and take a catalog of

a what has actually been taken also complicating the issue is apparently many of the jewels themselves were sprayed with some type of white substance police think it was actually the residue from a fire extinguisher in an attempt to. kind of get away some of some of the traces they may have left behind and that's also complicating the matter. is in the interest in finding here thank you now take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world at least 39 people have been killed in flooding in the capital of the democratic republic of congo. kinshasa overnight causing the landslides near the university at least 2 bridges and part of a major broad collapsed the search for missing people it's ongoing. a protester has been shot dead in the iraqi capital baghdad and any others wounded in the south of the country made escalating anti-government protests the demonstrators in. streets to prevent government employees from getting to work the demonstrations began in

october directed at what protesters claims are corrupt political class. executive says the government will reflect seriously on the results of the weekend's municipal elections but so pro-democracy candidates make massive games the territory has been rocked by months of violent protests against beijing's rule . landslide victories being seen as a clear rejection of muslims handling the. use of the arm rest. rescuers in albania are racing to find survivors after a powerful earthquake struck the country early this morning or thought to say at least 20 people have been killed and hundreds more injured the magnitude 6.4 if i'm struck about 60 kilometers northwest of the. it's the most powerful earthquake to hit the country for decades. with some people trapped alive rescuers were carefully trying to stop the rubble from collapsing further that

means sometimes working by hand it can be painstakingly slow in this race against time to rescue survivors of the worst earthquake to his help ania in 30 years a survivor pulled out of a collapsed building in the coastal resort of duress but many were not so lucky. that it was an orphan to maine a child's body is found. the quake struck early on tuesday morning when most of the people here were asleep in bed. not a very heartfelt in my bedroom went to my kid's room and the door just slammed on me and i hurt both my arms this is horrible there were. numerous aftershocks followed the main quake adding to the fear and causing further damage albania is one of the poorest countries in europe and its neighbors were quick to offer help

teams from its league recent romania are already helping in rescue operations. using hand signals rescuers ask the silence as they listen for cries of people trapped under the wreckage many people are still missing their families are hoping and praying they will be found alive. the european parliament is due to vote a wednesday all members of the new york commission commission president elect roh sort of time has had trouble. putting together with several countries dominates rejected in the early stages now she hopes brussels will finally approved a new commission made up of members representing the majority of a new states i a salary of relief over a very close win back in july it was a lot of fun and got approved by a margin of only 9 points i feel so on notes and i'm overwhelmed and

i thank you for the trust you placed. the slim victory was a strong 1st indication that the road to the new commission would be. very bumpy indeed because after she got approved this happened. first the hunt garion and the romanian commission candidates were rejected by the european parliament before they could even be heard on top of that c.v. the french commission hopeful got the thumbs down after 2 long and painful hearings . but the real problem was that it took romania a long time to nominate a replacement but eventually they did and their candidate passed just like the replacements for a mission station hungary with neighbors baucus and france to be king but you know

that's the end of the story what. no no. of course there's always the u.k. prime minister boris johnson kept bringing the low blows and refused to nominate a commissioner despite being in the in the you for a while longer that punch could make the whole commission illegal but the commission's legal services think they found the way around that. so does this mean fundal lyons commission will finally be approved by the european parliament. here's someone who should know the head of the biggest political group in part of. the proposal from was a love on the line is a good ones and an ambitious commission who wants to deliver on the people told us that in the election campaign on climate on economic strengths and on digital so that is good and the p.p. will fully support so we have unity in the support for the lions commission. so it

looks like it was enough and a lion will finally be able to celebrate. but not for long in this parliament there won't be any easy wins for the new e.u. commission. now to morocco where a quarter sentenced a rap star to a year in prison for insulting police on social media sparking outrage amongst human rights groups the ruling against known as good now it was issued by a court on monday report on a hospital here close to the welcome order so walk us through what happened so the charge against him was insulting the police he was arrested after live streamed himself complaining about mistreatment by police on the streets during that video he used coarse language to talk about the police he has also said later that he was drunk at the time now these are the official the official charges against now we

that led to this one year prison sentence but his defense team say that that is not the real story they say he's being targeted for a music video that he released which to other rappers just days before he was arrested. this. video has been viewed $15000000.00 times already on social on on you tube rather and in if they were about social issues in iraq oh youth unemployment corruption and it also appears that they are attacking king which is a criminal offense in oregon ok so how has the ruling been received what human rights campaigners have condemned the ruling amnesty international for one day calling it a flagrant assault on freedom of expression they say that it shows that those who dare to openly criticize the authorities will face punishment. dozens of protesters gathered outside the court we were sentenced and many of them which chanting long

live the people which is the title of this music video and one of the other up as who. pair in the video he has also spoken out he is known as lazaro he said that they didn't do this to create a control travesty but he said that they're saying what most americans feel and are too afraid to say themselves so what is the status of freedom of expression in iraq now there are no laws that protect freedom of expression in morocco but they primarily apply to the press and always. legal team they tried to go they wanted to have him tried under these laws but the prosecution denied that because it's not a journalist but even for journalists it's not it's very straightforward in morocco journalists have been arrested for. for their for expressing their views they've been arrested for covering recent protests now morocco is number is rated 135 out of 180 countries in the world in the press freedom index so

discontent with authorities is growing in the country a lot of people want to see political change so what these rappers are expressing those grievances are often the grievances of people so the question now remains what effect this arrest will have all of that discontent or will it feel it's not for them thank you. now were to germany thousands of farmers were across the country have converged on the capital berlin causing serious traffic jams in and around the city there angry about the government's agricultural policies and the fighting plans to introduce stricter protections for insects and the environment which they say will threaten their livelihoods. tractors as far as the eye can see farmers have descended on berlin blocking the big city traffic police say more than 5000 have arrived from

across germany the farmers are angry about the government's recent changes to agricultural policy. that farmers are the nation's bogeyman they're blamed for everything we damage the climate he poison the groundwater. cattle farms do indeed emit more than 7 percent of greenhouse gases in germany and they are blamed for the die off of insects due to pesticide and fertilizer use. that's why the government issued guidelines on protecting insects and the environment in september but farmers say the policy package kills agriculture. referring loans for farmers are the nation's bogeyman they're blamed for everything we damage the climate we poison the groundwater. we're demonstrating so the people can keep having high quality food that stays fresh not just food from

a prom that comes to us leaves minute as muslim and so on strength but the german government is under pressure e.u. guidelines for more environmental protection must also be implemented here in order to maintain biodiversity including for insects and to make farming more eco friendly. existence farmers ability to make a living is at risk when there is no biodiversity they're extremely dependent on the pollination done by insects that's why it's absolutely in their interest that both the climate and biodiversity are protected. no farms no food no future the farmers fear for their livelihoods already only 1.4 percent of all jobs in germany are in agriculture and demonstrators fear that number could we don't even further. cranium filmmaker sophos finally picked up the european union's top human rights prize when he was awarded a sack or of prize last year missed

a sense of was in jail in russia in september he was freed in a prisoner swap with ukraine he said he accepted the award as a tribute to all ukrainian political prisoners in russia. oleg's cents off spent 5 years in a russian prison camp in the arctic circle russian investigators accuse the ukrainian filmmaker of planning terrorist attacks in 2015 cents off was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he had publicly protested against the russian occupation of crimea international observers called it a show trial now free he has traveled to the european parliament to accept disaster off prize which he was awarded a year ago during his detention. you know. i do not accept this award as a personal one but as a tribute to old ukrainians who are political prisoners in russian prisons.

in september a sense of was freed after a prisoner exchange between russia and ukraine he has long campaigned for human rights in his home country and was a key figure in the ukrainian revolution of 2014 for over 30 years the european parliament has been awarding the prize to individuals and organizations which fight for human rights this year's award will go to see the we go human rights activist who has been sentenced to life imprisonment by china in a recent 2 day trial. this is d.w. news these are our top stories to multis ministers and the prime minister's chief of staff of stepped down over a growing scandal surrounding a murder journalist. who was killed in a car bombing in 2017 after reporting on corruption in the country a family accuses most us government of protecting people involved in her death. 2 powerful earthquake in albania has left at least 20 people dead and hundreds more injured the magnitude $6.00 events struck early on tuesday about 60 kilometers

northwest of the capital tehran rescuers are searching for survivors amid the rubble. of ours is in germany hunting the robbers who stole invaluable artifacts from dresden green vold museum on monday thieves made off with many priceless 18th century jewels but museum directors now say the robber stole less and was initially feared. thousands of farms are written into burnham tractors to protest against the government's agricultural policies as a plans to introduce stricter protections for insects and the environment go too far and threaten their livelihoods. this is d.w. news from burdensome all of us on twitter at the w. news or visit the website the w dot com. i'll have more world headlines at the top al coming up next kick off or about to get much state of the.

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