is this a motions? architecture is kind of a mystery. believe me. starts december 25th on t w. ah ah, this is d. w. use live from berlin. moscow reaches out to its closest allied rushes, defense minister meets beller, russian leader lucas jenko, and sit down with his counterpart to discuss the war on ukraine. also coming up, we check in on the world cup. in kat are where things go,

shall we say messy for the australian team, looking for a spot in the quarter finals that's coming up later in sport. ah, i'm monica jones and bill and welcome to the program. and we begin with breaking news from iran. were local media reporting, the country has abolished it's morality police. the announcement comes after months of nationwide demonstrations triggered by the rest of gina masa armine. the young woman died after being taken to police custody for violating iran strict female dress code. iran's attorney general told a major state news agency that quote, morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary will bring more on this story during the course of the day. russian defense minister sag enjoy go

has travel to belarus, to discuss the ongoing war in ukraine. he met with belarus, leader, alexander lucas, shank over said to the 2 nations half a single army. shall i go also met his mince counterpart and signed and amended security deal. russian forces half deployed from belarus. bella recess, its troops, won't fight in ukraine. early i asked our dw correspondent, nick connelly, keith, what ukrainians think of the visit. we'll have see any citing of top russian officials there in minsk is something that is followed very closely here from keith. i think for now we haven't seen or heard anything that would really make people more worried, particularly here, actually in contrast and kind of the opposite direction. we have seen russia dialing down pulling forces out of belarus and taking them to the east of you. crimes have to be losing so many boots on the ground, leading so many soldiers in recent months. and i think there's definitely a desire from the russian side to get even more in the way of technical assistance

we've seen boilers handing over lots of soviet era weaponry, doing lots of repairs on russian weapons, also training new russian recruits. so that is if it's something that lisa lucas shanker, i think, is willing to do, but as for something more serious, as for potential attack on the ground from bella roost, which is only a 100 to close. as you know, air, you know, as the crow flies from here and key of, i think we're not seeing any major development there yet. but definitely there's a desire on the part of russia to keep that tension there. and to kind of, you know, keep ukraine force ukraine to god that border and you know, spend as many resources doing that as possible. right? i mean, bella arisen present. lucas ankle has stressed again and again, the belarus will not enter the war in ukraine, but in a, in the long run. i mean, how long can he say no, to putin? well, i think there is a lot of in speculation. how much space he still has to decide, i think for now we're seeing that all the kind of sociology, all the kind of polling even kind of, you know, private polling anonymous polling shows that there is no willingness among bella,

russian society, no enthusiasm for this war. no willing send their own troops, but definitely, you know, bedroom is open to russian forces. they're sending missiles into ukraine, propellers. they're using barshan air bases. and i think most the experts you talk to will say that in the long run year, putin will probably have to push luc jenko aside if he wants to use the bellows as the kind of jumping board for full scale invasion and get belarus and forces involved for now, he's been now doing very well. it basically sitting on kind of both chairs at same time, keeping his country kind of some wiggle room himself while you're doing enough to get money. ants other support from moscow to keep his own population in check? am and i think for now it looks like his carrying on that faithfully successfully. i'm very briefly nick, because we also heard the french president manuel mccaul commented on possible negotiations between russia and ukraine and to put as so called security guarantees into play. what more can you tell us for now,

there's very little detail on that. i think there's a sense here and key of that as always, a mental nicole wants to play the kind of intermediary and kind of show more openness to russia's demands than say, the americans or the brits. i mean, there's also a lot of worry that he is somehow willing to give them some kind of play, some, some kind of room to demand guarantees from ukraine in the past. that's been that the demand that ukraine wouldn't join nature. i think that is off the table now, but there is a sense here that he is wanting to give, like, put in a face saving way out of this war, potentially at the cost at no cost to ukraine. interest. right now, connelly their reporting from kia. think as much neg every year in moscow, various winter traditions, and festivals take place on the run up to christmas. but this year is not like every other year. and many russians are looking forward to this festive season as a welcome distraction from the war and ukraine and the stress of international sanctions lacing up the ice gates again. for many in moscow,

it's the most wonderful time of the year. even this year, in the shadow of war, this is russia's largest ice rink, but because of the special military operation as it's called here, the new year and christmas festivities are being downsized. this year we'll go to very loose, very senior sleuthing evolution. we've decided it won't be a big celebration this year, but we're providing our space for moscow heights to come here and spend time in this festive setting, homo spirit, as presently enough, richard frozen. for a long time, people in russia were able to ignore what was happening in ukraine. but since the mobilization, the military operation has become part of the everyday reality here rather than i suppose had basic i think when you look at all of this, you could be fooled into thinking nothing's going on. i think people can't constantly live and stress and have to distract himself somehow. but you know that

something terrible is happening. i can't understand how you can condone war and everything that comes with it. rather a few dare to speak so openly about the invasion of ukraine. those who criticize the military live in danger. we also meet young russians here who follow the propaganda and support putins actions that are safe, exit good manners luncheon this year wasn't confusing time for russia. the introduction of many thank since the beginning of special operation, but i completely support my country in this. and if you look at it historically, you crave was always russian going little schema. most people tell us, they just want peace and an end to sanctions. this winter, no one on the rink is completely care free. but for a moment, people can allow themselves to forget about the uncertain future. and here's a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. el salvador

us government is intensifying its so called war on gangs around $10000.00 soldiers and police have sealed off the entire town of soil pango on the outskirts of the country's capital. the operations goal is to search for suspected gang members. international human rights groups have criticized the government crackdown measures . garza security forces have reported to israeli strikes and the south of the strip . a military training side in con eunice and an area in rougher. the israeli air force said it was targeting sides belonging to the palestinian group, hamas. it comes after a rock. it was fired from the palestinian enclave towards israel. any territory able cannick eruption on indonesia? main island of java has forced people india by villages to evacuate their homes. authorities are preparing shelters, and people have been warned not to travel with an 8 kilometers of the crater of mound. sir merrill volcano last erupted a year ago, killing more than 50 people. ah,

ah, the wealth cabin guitar argentina asked through to the quarter finals after beating australia to one the sa cruz acquitted themselves well, but argentina had a genius on their side. this was the biggest middle eastern mismatch since david met goliath, australia's artisans versus the artistry of leonor messy. and the soccer ruse soon saw his genius on 35 minutes when messy post to leave australia keeper, matt ryan helpless. but ryan was the architect of his own. don't fall when argentina made it to just before the hour. leon alvarez was on his pure touch in a flash, he made it to nil. ryan needed his teammates to dig him out of a hole and they got a lucky break when craig goodwin's wild effort afflicted an offensive. fernandez

game on and the aussies nearly scored a shock equalizer. but amelia martinez blocked brilliantly from gara, and qu, all in the 7th minute of injury, time massey led the celebrations in front of argentina's rock as crowed, whose expectations will be even higher their site in the last 8. and in the early match, the netherlands became the 1st team to make the quarter finals playing the west. the dutchman scored twice in the 1st half and never looked back. memphis to pye struck 1st. the orange army was in full voice as the game finished seagulls to one aunt oliva, who tacky is with me. here in the studio. she is of course, covering the wild card with d. w. sports a lima. good to have you here. let's start with our argentina. and the miracle or the, the genius, cold, messy. so he's, he is the one leading that was a very messy of performance. you know, he was needing and setting the tone in midfield from the get go. and it's really nice to see him and, you know, dribbling past defenders, you know, that typical,

messy and magic that we know of him and his ability to make these. maisie runs into the final 3rd and of course he was rewarded for it. you know, he scored a gold and that was actually, i know this is very hard to believe, but that was his 1st world cup knockout goal. wow. yeah. i know he scored so many kind of can you tell me a legend without doing that? yeah. yeah. and of course, that goal help argentina, you know, to advance for the quarter finals where they will face where they are now up against the netherlands. but also for, for, you know, messy. this is his 3rd all of the tournament. and i think if he keeps this up, um, he could possibly also become a candidate for the golden boot. that of course is always the player that was the most goals at the tournament. but there's a lot, personally on the line, felina, messy at this tournament because like we all know, he's 35 years old. and this cut, there's a lot of speculation that this very likely will be his last shot at abroad. and she wants to go out in a blaze of glory, who can know?

yeah, i will just feel every off of what we had. the other round of 16 match from saturday, the united states that they put up a decent fight they did, they did. and it is something you have to give the united states a credit for me. now, the 2nd youngest team at this tournament, the youngest, in the knockout stages. and every time when i watched them, there was never any shortage of height and spirit. but i think against the netherlands, they really met, they matched. i think that just kind of showed the gap in quality is although the united states, you know, dominated possession. they just didn't know what to do with it. and they played right into the hands of the netherlands, who of course, were like, look, you guys can have all of the, you know, the netherlands are ruthless on the encounter attacks and, and, you know, we saw that but united states, i think this also goes back to the group stages, i think they just struggle when it comes to breaking down very organized defense defenses. but of course, you know, i would like to end this on a positive because united states has never had players on the caliber of christian pool. a sake you know, best in mckinney and i think if they bill on this her in to really interesting to

see where they will be in 4 years time when they co host the world cup. you know, i'm at home along with canada and mexico and of course something else is happening before. and we have 30 seconds only here for you to tell us what we expect today, or france up against poland. france of course, eager to retain the world cup. but that's dell be really difficult at the last side to do so was brazil in $900.00. $62.00 england also one of the tournament favorites . they are up against shinagle and england. of course. they were semi finalists 4 years ago. they were run us up at the euro's recently, and of course they want to enter 56 years of heard. but if there's one thing we learned from this world cup on a car that's that upsets of every possible alamahood tacky there of dw sports. speaking to me earlier, new york city is searching for an assassin. some one with the means to exterminate the cities, rodents authorities, offering an annual salary of up to $170000.00 us dollars for the right person to take up the job. seeking candidates with good communication skills and

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rodent boom has been partly blamed on more sidewalk dining. in response to the pandemic mer, adam said any one with the dr. and killer instinct needed to fight the cities rat problem should apply for their dream job. while not my dream job, this is did all the news fly from berlin reporter is up next where we meet for german football fans in kata. i'm monica jones from me on the use team. evelyn, thanks for joining ah, every journey is full of surprises. we've gone all out to give you some tips on the indian.