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cutting out a german court sends a syrian colonel to prison for life for crimes against humanity. 34 victims. it's victory for celia and future oceania victims and their families take comfort in a landmark verdict against a man who oversaw dozens of killings and the torture of thousands. as justice is salt outside syria, we take a look at the scores left by the conflict and 11 year old, forced to scour through garbage tips to support his family and a royal relegation. britton's prince andrew was forced to hand over his royal and military titles. as he paces a potential civil trial for sexual assault in the united states. ah

hello, i'm terry martin. good. have you with us. germany has joined the list of countries reporting alma crohn as the dominant corona virus variant. now, accounting for over 70 percent of all new cases. that's according to the country's disease prevention center, the whole but call institute. with such a rapid spread, german health minister car lauterbach is urging those not yet vaccinated. to finally get the jab, germany saw a record number of new cove 19 cases on friday, with more than 92000 infections. experts say measures such as masks at wearing masks and distancing, have helped to contain the advance of all micron, but more may be required or more on this. i'm joy now by our political correspondent, thomas sparrow. thomas, we're seeing a record number of infections here in germany. driven by the army, chrome variant of corona virus. how is the country coping?

it's in fact terry, the 3rd consecutive day that germany registers record in the number of infections you mentioned already 90000 over 90000 new cases in the last 24 hours. and that trend is likely to continue the robert cough institute. the country's public health institute has said that they expect a strong increase in the number of cases driven by the army kron variant in the next few weeks. and as you can imagine, this is a scenario that is causing a lot of concern, not only among citizens. in fact, a new poll revealed that a majority of germans are really tired with the whole situation. also concerned about the whole situation, but also among authorities that are trying to identify what the best measures could be. there have also been reports here in germany about lab labs and test centers being overwhelmed. not all labs and test centers are overwhelmed. in fact,

yesterday, we were reporting here in berlin and we went to various testing centers. but there are concerns that if the numbers continue to rise, this could affect germany's overall corona virus strategy. under such officials are looking very carefully at how these numbers develop in the next few days and weeks . the german government thomas is pushing for mandatory vaccination. it's a highly controversial move. how likely is it that germany will actually introduce vaccine monday experts to say that it is highly likely that that measure will be approved. it's important, terry, to stress that that is a measure that will be decided ultimately by m. p. 's here in the oldest stocks in a german parliament, not by the government as such. so it will be interesting to see how that debate develops in the german parliament. if you judge the public mood on this, a majority of german certainly favor now mandatory vaccinations yet. it's

interesting to also point out that this is a change compared to the public mood a few months ago. if you looked at the public mood a few months ago, you would have noticed that a majority of germans were actually against mandatory vaccinations. the change has to do with this very delicate situation. and with the fact that many people understand that vaccinations are the way out of the pandemic. and that's also by the way, the reason why many in the german government and also many m p 's favor now. mandatory vaccinations to deal with the corrosion of iris pandemic. i was thank you so much. that was our political go, responded thomas barrow, while teachers in france have staged a one day strike over their frustration at rule surrounding the cupboard. 19 pandemic. around half of all primary schools remain closed on thursday. as the army kron virus, berry and fuels, one of the biggest infection rates in europe, teachers, and prance say they're facing an and manageable burden. they're demanding clearer

rules and more protection in the classroom. d. w correspond christine manuel reports from paris. if i'm to, the taste have become part of daily life in france and testing facilities are struggling to cope with the growing demand as cases skyrocket across the country in shelter called i. e. my, it's a huge workload. we have more and lots of people coming and many of them test positive facial by at 400 people that i test. there are at least 150 positive cases to we can see it's really coming back lamoya on 4th, many people are showing up at official centers like this one to confirm positive results of tests taken at home. i was tested positive by antigone this morning about 2 hours ago, something night. and i just want to be sure by them positive because i have no santa nothing's. so that's why i prefer to do a b c, a death in case that matches any was fake. actually it is, you go now i hope the 1st test i did was

a false positive because otherwise my class will be in quarantine for a week. and we won't be able to go to school. that would be no fun if abroad and he got up to him. millions of children are not yet vaccinated, and schools in france have been he is specially hard in this 5th waive with class closures. and staff shortages as infection sprayed on thursday. teachers walked off the job on mass of what they see is the government's failure to adopt a compare and policy for schools to manage the pandemic. for selected to face this health crisis, unit specific measures to be put in place or filtering systems, ventilation and pro. it's actually a mentor to say that it will sit, nothing has been done. oh yeah. and if it, much of the anger is being direct said at the education minister, jean michel, blonde hair, who pervert outrage by saying you can't strike against a virus as that virus rages. the government is planning to tighten cove at pos

rules to further restrict access to public spaces. for those who choose not to be vaccinated without a variant is still circulating within the fridge population. but the real reason behind the sharp rise in cases is really the only converts and how the experts here say it's going to peak in the middle of january. and that's going to be followed by an increase in hospital admissions. the w h o says half of europe will be infected with omicron within the next 6 to 8 weeks. authorities in france are hoping that the 30000000 booster doses already administered here will help ease the burden on the health care system. and here's a look at some of the latest developments in the crowd of iris pandemic world wide . washington wants to double its purchase of kogan 19 rapid tests to 1000000000. as the u. s. struggles with the on the chrome variant, spain will cap the cost of coverage,

self testing entered in kits at just under $3.00 euros. the government has come under increasing pressure over high prices. poor countries turned down around a $100000000.00 donated covered 19 vaccine doses last month. the when says that was mainly due to the vaccines nearing their expiration dates. and we've got some breaking news for you. just coming in. australia says it is revoking the visa, granted to tennis star, novak joker bitch, the countries immigration minister announced his decision just a few moments ago. he exercised his discretionary power after it emerged that jock bitch, who's unvaccinated, made a false claim on his visa form to play in the australian open. a court block, the government's 1st attempt to revoke the visa on a procedural ground. we hope to have more for you a little later in this broadcast. now, a german court has sentenced a former syrian military officer to life in prison for torture,

backed by the regime of basha allison. it's a global legal 1st. the court found on war ross land guilty of overseeing the murder of 27 people and systematic torture of 4000 others at a detention center near damascus. roslyn is the highest ranking syrian official so far convicted of the charge. his victim say he caused unspeakable suffering now on war. roslyn could spend the rest of his life behind bars outside the courtroom relief i am, i am so happy i am so happy because today it's victory, victory for justice as possible. it's victory for victims. it's victory for julia and future of celia. it's it said eric, ignition of the crimes committed the inferior and i think it's quite

a cave for their survivor that syrian who are read, heck did with these kind of. so i hope that he said these sentences and is that that will be as strong pays for her a future war. as a former colonel, in serious secret service, rosalyn oversaw a notorious prison in damascus. witnesses told of electric shocks, beatings and rape. he deserted his post in 2012 and fled to germany, where he lives for 5 years as a refugee, until one of his victims recognized him on the street. roslyn was found guilty on $27.00 counts of murder. those who helped bring him to justice say he's just one among many and that in accounting of the crimes of the syrian civil war has only just begun for more on this. i'm joy now by bent a sheller. she leaves the unit middle east and ma,

grab at the hind leg burrow foundation affiliated with germany's green party. thanks for being with us. doctor shallow. it's a landmark court ruling that's just come down and found it. finding and been guilty of brutal torture crimes against humanity carried out in syrian prisons. what to we know about the situation and syrian prisons today and the search for the disappeared. well, this is unfortunately, a really terrible situation. i mean the verdict has brought to light. what they are suffering from bad people might get the impression by the child that this is the end that it's a final situation. no, it's ongoing. arrests and course disappearances are continuing the situation and prison is terrible. and then people who have family member in prison are hardly ever able to digit or even transfer messages. so for all those companies, and it's tens of thousands who are still missing somebody,

it's good that it has been noted script that stories have been told that the german court acknowledged what they are going through with people in prison are going through that we really have to be aware that nothing that has ended on the contrary, human rights violations, and crimes against humanity are continuing syria. the regime responsible for these crimes against humanity is still in place. how strong is the assad regime today? less busy, as such, is not strong and to has borrowed a lot of the military might and power from its allies from russia and iran. without these it would be lost. it could never have made it to the point where it is and it would collapse at these would withdraw there. there is support. however, they are not doing so. and this is some encouraging elise to normalized with the regime, saying if it has such strong lice, it will say in power. and that of course is a very you bad to assign and put people in syria. i mean,

half of the population has been displaced and the course of the population is not even in sight the country. so how can you say it's a government that you're not governing? they have forced everybody to you. the either is surrender and to stay where they are or what just leave, and they will not allow people to return. doctors, hello, please do stay with a sod. i'll come back to you in shortly. but 1st, let's take a look of the situation in id live. the only syrian city is still in opposition hands. it's near the turkish border and was the scene of anti government protests and 2011. that escalated into war. after more than a decade of conflict and noah, shaky truce, hitler is still home to more than a 1000000 people and thousands of displaced families. many children in these families are forced to scrounge forcible ruckel and can hardly believe his luck.

he's found an old solar heating man in the trash and thinks he can sell it for a good price. it's hard for the 11 year old to carry it with just one arm. 3 years ago he lost his right forearm, but had to be amputated after a bomb attack. i know people don't like me because i'm so dirty that he look, i don't know the michael corona from amazon. yeah. but then whenever these people think i've infected them, every day, thousands of children scour the dumps in it live. they are society's weakest, and there's little else for them. in this crisis written region, the whole day they rummaged through the trash, looking for shoes, jackets, electronics, copper, cabling, anything they can sell with them if it's the only way they can support their families. grueling work, instead of education. in the new i get an education that and

i started going to school when i was a kid for 2 months now that we haven't been given any food in the camp. almost since it lip is the last opposition stronghold in syria. islamists control the province. despite the ceasefire, there are frequent raids and skirmishes with the syrian army. hundreds of thousands of syrians have lost their homes in the war. they now live in 10th cities like here and my rock miss ring in the north of england. this is where rock han lives. with his family. they fled the air raids on their village near aleppo. his father was captured by syrian forces. so now were con, has to feed his family. these chickens are all they own. good, while os ironing money on your own is difficult model. i think sometimes people help me carry the bags of trash i. my siblings help to widens some days. we find stuff explore other days we don't. while at the bottom know what the known bob

novak lanham, he heads off every morning, sometimes accompanied by his sister. fuzzier. the garbage dump is 5 kilometers away . when they get there, the real work begins. reckon often loses out to the other kids. they are stronger than him and let him know that at the end of the day, they take whatever they've managed to find to a scrap merchant near the dump, he drives a hard bargain and very few are and much lee. and i love, i don't like working with trash than is when i'd much rather go to school and learn something. and then when i grow up i could teach others. i'd like to be a teacher that would, that would be meaningful. it is dead. men say that is so, but that will probably remain a dream for a con and thousands of other children in it. dr. shelley,

you know, syria, well, tell us more about the situation and it live. it's winter there. what's life like for the people living there to day? what are their prospects for the future? it's terrible because all the children you've just seen here and most of the youth, they have no nothing in their life war. many of them did not have a chance to go to school and schools being deliberately targeted by the steering regime and the russian airports have been known for them as a place of insecurity, a place of death. and so what do you do with their generation that didn't have a chance to education that i mean, the humanitarian situation that they are going through are also getting worried by the moment that the winter is sitting in the heart and the economy is in shambles. all over the country, but it live, it is particularly terrible because the 2 to 3000000 people living there. half them

are just place. they have already lost everything before and so they don't have any buffer or anything that keeps them. so they are absolutely dependent on humanitarian debris. something are dependent on all those jobs you just see it live is regarded as the last stronghold of the opposition. who is the opposition in syria now and how strong are they? well so hold is media exaggerated because this is the last place where they remain in power. so to say, and it's mainly which is and islamists are group, i think for many syrian who stood up for a democratic free syria. this is not what they were dreaming off about. all the democratic forces have been eroded by the regime by isis and by the still miss groups that got much more support from the gulf states and that could roam freely because a 3rd party targeted them. so this is how the it would change the situation of

governance there. dr. schiller, thank you very much for talking with us. that was dr. bent, a shell from the highly boast if don't hear in berlin. thank you very much. now it's gonna round up of some other world headlines. now. the organization for security and cooperation in europe says dialogue is imperative to diffuse tensions in the ukraine crisis. the group has worn europe is closer to war than at any time in the past 30 years. this after talks between russia and nato failed to resolve differences of moscow's build up of forces near the ukraine border. the bodies of 19 guatemalan migrants killed in a road accident in mexico. last month have been repaired. 356 people were killed when a truck driver lost control of a trailer carrying more than 150 migrants. investigators are still trying to figure out what caused the accident. australian authorities are wanting people to stay

indoors as part of the country experience a heat wave. some towns in western australia have reported temperatures above 50 degrees celsius. one matching the countries record $71960.00 the extreme. he comes as climate scientists say. the past 9 years were among the 10 artists on record. in british media reporting, another party held it the prime minister's office while the country was under locked down. orest johnson is facing growing pressure to resign over staff events under investigation for violating pandemic rules. the latest gathering allegedly took place last april on the eve of the funeral for prince philip the queen's husband. now back to our breaking news today, australia says it's revoking the visa, granted to tennis store, novak junker bitch, the country's immigration minister exercised his discretionary power after it emerged that jock of inch who's and oxidative made a false claim on his visa form. in order to play in the australian open court block,

the government's 1st attempt to reduce the visa on a technical ground job, which now faces deportation. well, tennis journalist, steve pierce, has been following this all along and joins us now from melbourne. steve, another stunning twist in the saga. what more do we know about the grounds for the decision to cancel jacket, which is visa? yeah, well it, it is a twist, isn't it that we've been waiting for for quite a few days now, since joker beach had that 1st, when the courts more on procedural grounds, a few days ago. and it's just a, came through in the last hour that alex hope, the minister was in citizenship, has finally decided that to cancel a visa and on the basis was in the public interest to do so. i'm on health and good order grounds. the really what that means is on the basis of probably 2 factors.

firstly, on the grounds that think recent infection of carbon 19 as has been represented by novick job to which the federal government never, never considered that reason to be able to come into australia, unvaccinated. and secondly, they do have a 2nd reason to cancel vsl. i don't think they would because that just on these grounds at all, that he filled out his papers incorrectly on coming into the country since apologize for that. but i don't think that alone would be grounds to cancel the visa, but we haven't had the execs of the decision yet. i'm but it seems as if the federal government is comfortable that it will have a very, very strong case. shouldn't i make joke that she's legal team as they have indicated that they would challenge this as soon as this decision came through, but it literally came through in the last out, it's unclear the stage what, what the next event will be in this long running saga ok, but the australian open tennis tournament is still scheduled to continue. does this

an joke of inches hopes of defending his title there? how long could this drag on for so i wouldn't think it ends it yet. it's certainly not. and it's not what he or his team would have been hoping for, probably many people in serbia, but nevertheless it is also a move that was not at all on expected. they would have been preparing for this, and i would assume that they believe that they have a fairly strong legal case for ref, challenging this in the course. because the way that, you know, we will see these images around the world of chocolate practicing on road labor. rain or in his team looking confident and comfortable. and you can only assume that they knew this was coming or they suspected it was probably coming. and they have a legal challenge ready to go. that will allow him potentially to continue to take his place in the draw. but again, as it's been so often throughout this, it really is a 5050. who knows what will happen next? stave, thank you so much. that was tennis journalist, steve pierce there in melbourne. well,

britain's prince. andrew has been stripped of his military affiliations, and royal patronage is the prince will also stop using his royal highness title in any official capacity. and are, is facing a civil case in the u. s. over allegations he sexually assaulted a woman when she was 17, virginia. jeffrey is suing the prince, claiming he abused her in 2001 to prince andrew scene here with his accuser, virginia dufrane, 2001. it's the problem that just won't go away. the queen, 2nd son, now faces trial in the us after a judge refused to throughout the case against him. and you now finds himself completely removed from official royal life or to buckingham palace release the statement, stripping him of his military rolls. and royal patronage is he had already personally resigned from public duties in 2020, many in london. welcome the moved by the royal family. i think that if there's any

kind of deal or there's any chance that he's done it, then you know, maybe maybe as a good for closer remember to measure really happy verb, rural family isn't defending him anymore. but his private citizens funding is our guys side, which as reserves, but there's still a long legal battle ahead for andrew and his accuser, jeffrey, she says she was forced into sex with the royal by the late sex offender jeffrey epstein. and his associate colleen maxwell, who was recently convicted of sex trafficking both were long time friends of the prince, who was always strenuously deny delegations. but with the long and embarrassing saga set to become even more public andrews effective removal makes it clear that for the royal family enough was enough. you are watching the w. newsroom. berlin. just reminder of the top stories were following for you this hour. germany has joined the list of countries reporting, omicron as the dominant corona virus variant. now accounting for over 70 percent of

all new cases. as according to the countries disease prevention center, the whole but called institute. and in a landmark torture trial, a german court has found a former syrian officer guilty of crimes against humanity on war. ruslan was jailed for life for overseeing the systematic state sponsored torture and killing of prisoners in syria to washington w. news from berlin. it up next, it's to the point discussing issues facing the former soviet republics of ukraine. belarus and cause extent. i'm terry martin for me and all of us here at the w. thanks for watching. mm hm. ah,

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