this is d.w. news live from berlin police identify the attacker who killed 2 people one london bridge police confirm he was a convicted terrorist fender being released from prison passes by tackled the man armed with a knife and wearing a fake suicide vest before police arrived and shoot him dead. because our city of london has again been targeted by terrorism. and political turmoil in malta as the crisis sparked by

a murder journalist reaches the very top of the government prime minister joyce if must got his reportedly planning to resign imminently 3 years close colleagues have already increased over the full hours. and fridays for future goes global again thousands of young people tank party rallies around the world a call to action comes ahead of next week's climate summit. welcome police have identified the man who carried out friday's stabbing attack in london they say it was 28 year old man who killed 2 people on london bridge he was later shot dead by police khan had been convicted in 2012 for terrorism offenses and was released from prison about. here

a guard meanwhile several onlookers captured friday's incident on a mobile finds some being praised as heroes for tackling khan and pinning him down . members of the public pin the attacker to the ground. one of them taking away the knife used in the attack police a cold and a rowing quickly it's just been about 5 shots there's another 1. 10 i phones me who i. call moments later the police shoot again. my heart. as you would expect due to the nature of the incident we responded as though this was terrorist related i'm now in a position to confirm that it has been declared a terrorist incident. by witnesses were visibly shocked. it was extremely frightening yeah but if you don't know what to do you know you

have that i'm sorry i just i don't want to do it right why is gunshots going off and wanted to take in. london's mayor denounced the attack. terrorism is cowardly and evil we must and will stand united and resolute in the face of terror those who seek to attack us and divide us will never succeed and the british prime minister said he wants sentences for serious crimes to be most strongly enforced again i have long argued that it is a mistake to allow serious and violent criminals to come out of prison and it is very important that we get out of that habit and that we enforce the appropriate sentences for dangerous criminals especially for terrorists that i think the public want to see. this is the 2nd terror attack in

this part of london in a little over 2 years earlier this month british authorities lowered the national terror threat level from severe to substantial questions will be asked in the coming days whether that decision was premature. well earlier we spoke to eyewitness a levy a bizarre in london she told us what she saw as police responded to the attack. well i was on my way towards the rich and i was coming up on my bike i had explosions there at the time i can we assume that it was gunshots but then the police came and stopped all the cars and i thought it was because of construction i wasn't really thinking and continue going straight on to the pavement and then all of a sudden floods of incredibly panic people are just hoarding towards me and literally sprinting for their lives and i was just so confused and didn't know what was happening and to start running with them and sort of asking what was going on and

one of the people screaming it was gunshots it was gunshots and so that more people started running and it was just a matter of time oh oh. and there's been another stabbing attack this time in the netherlands police in the high say 3 people were injured in the incident on the city's main shopping street they say it's unclear if the attack was terrorism related. well multiuse media sources are reporting that prime minister joseph muscat will resign quote imminently his government has become increasingly imbroglio in the political and legal crisis sponsored by the murder of journalist daphne. she was investigating government corruption when she was killed in a car bomb attack 2 years ago. at 3 in the morning prime minister joseph gave a press conference he was upset by the investigation into death. as murder and the

alleged involvement of his close colleagues for us this was not just a murder this was a major case that shook our democracy many people greatly doubt that actually did everything possible to solve the murder of journalist. she was killed by a car bomb on october 16th 2017 last week the investigation into who contracted the murder led to the maltese energy entrepreneur your can finish allegedly he had transferred money via dubai to companies in panama these companies apparently belong to most cuts tourism minister conrad miti and his chief of staff keith embry both resigned earlier this week. co want to go ahead researched suspected corruption at the highest government level this week many demanded most cancer resignation they say he has blood on his hands because he trying to protect officials ollie's release or stay through it all feasible one sentence we

investigated found no evidence and released him and they want us to believe that according to maltese media most cut intends to announce his resignation soon. with the murder of journalist duff me. and the ensuing scandal has exposed a swamp of corruption and organized crime. is in malta and we asked her what it would mean if the prime minister does go. that would just be a mere beginning i mean of course people here want justice that's what they always screaming at those demonstrations now justice justice they want people to go to jail for the murder bought everybody here knows that. the disease kills so much deeper there is this mafia like concrete action of people being sort of doing business together and doing favors for each other and doing criminal favors for each other and covering up money and laundering is rampant on the island there is

a whole cozy no economy that has developed that laundering illegal money from russia from the near is from from everywhere really and it's streaming through the island passports are being sold to russians to chinese to all the guards from wherever who wanted a european passport for a big sums that there are no controls in place this goes on and on and the whole economy and the political elite here are sort of totally in connected and there is this network really that is just an crusted in society and all this will really have to be torn and people the normal citizens here in malta really want that and they say we have lost our dignity we need to regain it and we want to be a democracy. now to some of the other stories making news around the world in south korea a pop star. has been sentenced to 6 years in prison for raping

a woman with another style. secretly filmed the rape and shared the video online. choi was sentenced to 5 years in prison. rescue crews in albania of winding down their operation to find survivors of choose days deadly earthquake the operation is now focused on the beach collapsed beachfront hotel in the port town of. 49 people have been confirmed dead across the region rocked by the 6.4 magnitude earthquake. and it's been announced that buildings new international airport will finally open at the end of october next year it was supposed to open a 9 years ago but it's been playing by mismanagement corruption and structural problems the project to build a new also billions of euros. to me

right now where prime minister. says he'll present his resignation to parliament his offer to step down comes a day after 40 people were killed in the latest clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters the death toll since unrest broke out in october has now surpassed 400. a victory for protesters here celebrating in baghdad the prime minister says he will resign amid relentless protests they've been demanding change since october in some of the country's most sustained and deadly clashes. i am. over 400 people now dead many of them unarmed 2 young men and a staggering 17000 have been injured. most of the dead were killed by iraq's security forces. on thursday alone 'd over 60 people

were killed after protesters set fire to the rain in government building the protesters see the political class as corrupt and a puppet of outside forces especially iran. i'm off to thursday's bloodshed iraq's grand ayatollah alsa stanny used friday prayers to urge the prime minister to go. yes and no way out. we call on the members of parliament from which this current government has emerged to reconsider their options in this regard oh archie he may have a shot. but for the protesters it's just the beginning to do more for the minister to send a message that the resignation of prime minister margaret is not solving the entire problem the problem is about the system that brought him in they would be delusional if they think they can use him as a scapegoat and that the people will withdraw from the streets after his

resignation you know with the most. violent clashes continued on friday in the holy city of najaf just this news circulated that the prime minister was resigning the funerals continued to testament to the government's brutal response to this protest movement. where young climate activists have taken to the streets around the world for the 4th global fridays for a future strike they want governments to step up their efforts to cut carbon emissions here in berlin thousands of young activists protested in the city center . in berlin it might have been the consumer frenzy of black friday for some but on the streets here and around the world people were on strike for fridays for future a party atmosphere pervaded alongside the placards some took a dip in the city's river spray to draw attention to rising sea levels others simply felt compelled to demonstrate that it is and why are we here well there is

a massive climate crisis and no one is doing anything it's crazy that this is all things look in the us washington to have the younger generation on the streets although perhaps not in such numbers. but the message was the same. we're asking leaders to take action on the climate crisis that it needs. they were holding a future up to demonstrate to the public and to our leaders everything that we're going to lose in a climate crisis and everything that we've already lost. on the other side of the world in australia the call to arms of our house is on fire let the protests a metaphor for some but for others here in sydney it's a painful reality. by .

the. residents living on the front line of this crisis and the effects apparent if you saw the brotherhood the shape of the self some people couldn't come out because of this this is. really really telling people not actually. i mean it's so bad in india the roots of this movement were clearly evident in the turnout with an impassioned call to galvanize the youth into something of a revolution. does he feel it is really really important for 208 box in the movement not just right is a new generation because it's all about the system change and it's about finally getting your way says it's about to moving this obsession on environment really making them more and more overt to nobody's making. south africa to have

demonstrations with some laying their bodies on the ground to make a statement about the impact that black friday's rampant consumerism is having on a global ecosystem. next tuesday dubi africa and one kenyan man's mission to make his country free of h.i.v. i'm jarid varies by. i'm secure in the they were not hard and in the end is a me your not a lot of the and more who was into that. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers what alliances are the what's your story. 'd and what numbers and women especially are victims of violence in. part in.