is russian warships and bell with all sorts december 23rd on w. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, durban authorities foil in alleged plot to overthrow the government by force in the biggest anti terror operation and decades. police arrest dozens of suspected members of a far right. were those taken into custody, including judge and

a former member of the military. also coming up china repairs to live with cove. it in a major policy shipped beijing announces and easing a persona virus restrictions nationwide. with less mandatory p c r testing and home foreign team for those with milder symptoms. and a major upset at the world cup morocco keep their pool in a penalty shoot out knocking out football powerhouse spain. ah, i'm sorry, kelly. welcome to the program. german authorities have foiled an alleged plot that aim to toppled the berlin government by force. dozens of arrests were made an overnight raids that spanned the nation. they targeted suspected supporters of a far right movement that rejects the legitimacy of the current german state.

investigators say that a plan to seize power has been in the making for over a year. it is the biggest anti terrorism rage in germany for many years. on wednesday morning, some 3000 police raided more than a 100 properties in several german states and arrested 25 people. all of them suspected members or supporters of the so called case book, a movement, their goal, a crew data in germany. they wanted to overthrow democracy. germany's interior minister nancy fairs are said. the investigations provided a glimpse into the quote, a bit of a terrorist threat from the gaithersburg, familiar members of the militant iceberg are seen, are united in their hatred of democracy, of our state, and of people who stand up for our community. this is why we're taking action against such endeavors with all the consequences of the rule of law. if they had succeeded, this man was to become the new head of state pain with a choice,

a descendant of an aristocratic family from eastern germany, who still uses the symbolic title of prince heinrich. the 13th the entrepreneur from frankfurt is said to be the ringleader. she would have been installed as the new justice minister, bigot mac vin common, who was a member of the german parliament for the far right alternative for germany party. until last year, she has since resumed working as a judge or to berlin court efforts to remove her from her position because of her involvement with far right. extremists failed earlier this year. the rice burger a far right extremist, deeply anti democratic movement. its members reject the german state and its democratic system and are prone to violence. german authorities estimate that the scene consists of some 20000 people. between 2015 and mid 2017 alone. more

than 10500 crimes are said to have been committed by so called christ booker and d. w. political correspondent, julia sow deli is at the scene of one of those raids. julia tell us a little bit more about the searches and arrests where you are. yes, this is where the a one member of of the network a who was a former member of parliament for the a f d far right party. and who is still a working judge here in berlin. this is where as she was arrested and where her a, her house was searched and we've always, there still police present. you can probably see a here behind me. we see police officers going in and out of the house, but a lot of the possessions that were found in the house. a colleagues here told me were taken out earlier, quite a lot of things and bags, and boxes and, and taken away from here. but there is still some police activity going on,

but the rates have been going on since the early hours of the morning. this is only one of many raids today. what is known about the suspects and their motives. so we've heard that there are 25 people who have been arrested a and a but there are still another 27 people who are suspected of being a part of this network. and what we've heard also from the piece at the ritz suppose a ring leader of this network was this a descendant of this noble family who is also an entrepreneur in frankfort. and the plan of this group was the, basically over throw the current democratic order in germany. they had planned to storm the german parliament with weapons and put up a rest of politicians. and that way disrupt the democratic order. they had already started setting up. ah, what looked like

a shadow government that would then take power once they had carried out the qu, they were organizing, shooting trainings for their members. they were trying to enlist new members, especially those belonging to the armed forces and to the police who have weapons and are trained to use them. hang real, was the threat of a coup against the german government? well we hear that the, the network started forming at the latest in november of last year. and that investigations in the network started in spring of this year when authorities received a tip from the intelligence service of the state of hassan. here in germany and the, the group had already started at planning all of this in practice. and that the, the intentions of this group were quite a significant, they really planned to put in place a cool and the ringleader of this group had already, according to the prosecutors,

a reached out, for example, to representatives of russia here in germany. while the, because the group saw russia as the one country who could help them negotiate this new order, new government that they wanted to install in germany. and also given the size of this operation to dismantle this group. it seems like the threat was quite a significant julia. so deleon, berlin, thank you. in other news, china has announced its most significant using of corona virus restrictions since the pandemic began 3 years ago. it says that it would allow home quarantining and milder cases and that mandatory p c r testing would be reduced. the major policy shift comes in the wake of nationwide protest that strict covered rules and significant disruption to china's trade and economy. waiting and long queues to get dusted, dis,

been foot routine for millions of chinese people. if now finally changing in a major shift in its strict corporate policy. china has announced new, relax truth, poor you'd, you go through with the exception of nursing homes, hospitals, child care centers in schools with a you can proof of negative desert resolves, health, goods and drown calls will no longer be required. people with mild symptoms are no longer required to guarantee at government facilities for travel within china, there is no need to show a negative test result and whole neighborhoods being locked down due to just one corporate infection. that do is a thing of the bust. it's a lily for residence, fed up about living under harsh rules browser. my main complaint is that it was so boring when i was logged down at home, all you do the word to her. oh i life has become less complicated now. because now

we don't need like a difficult 19 tests to enter office buildings. this the best time to go on to florida until the flow for the frustration became visible when corporate restrictions were blamed for a deadly fire in an apartment that led to reared protest across china. be bill demanded an end to cathedral corporate policy and more political freedom. the unrest has largely been great by the state, but it's not only public discontent, but growing economic pressure that has pushed china to east the harshest corbett restrictions anywhere in the world. and earlier i asked journalists fabian, crutch, moore and beijing, how big a change this is? this is a game changer. i think this is purely a pandemic or a paradigm shift. look where we came from just until last week. are we all were afraid that you know, when we tested positive or,

or were only earth suspected covered case that we would get transferred to her a current teen facility. and it would have to spend a weeks there or, or that our neighborhood would get locked down. nothing more of that now. and every one who's infected in his mouth symptoms can just stay at home. also, the city wide mass testing is basically suspended. i mean, until last week or every 3 days we had to get tested to only visit a supermarket and now basically only an hour, elderly homes or hospitals or schools can ask for a p. c, artists of the rest. this basically opened it is really a huge shift and also a big relief for many of us who live in china and basically had a lot of unpredictability in our life and a whole a basically we're getting closer to living with the virus. does this now mean the and or at least the beginning of the end of the 0 covered policy? i mean, it doesn't sound like they are covered anymore. yes, i think you're right. and even though of costa, a government is

a little bit cautious in the i don't know explanations and they have not officially announced the end of the record. but for me it's quite yet because the recalls it consists of re tracking every case and am containing the virus completely. and this will not be possible any more. i give you several examples now because we don't have to test every 3 days. there are a lot of covert cases that are not a report the system i know personally many and every chinese that i know have a lot of colleagues or acquaintances who are positive right now, but have not report then picked to the neighborhood committee or to the health commission, so right now the numbers are not reliable anymore, and it's simply not possible anymore to contain to fiber. so basically it's a reality that are, we are away from a 0 cobit and it's of course a month long process, but i think it's reversible. how much is this being seen as a public health policy decision, or is it more political because after this widespread protestation realized that the population would no longer accept 0 colored restrictions?

well, i mean, officially the m, the propaganda era apparatus a saying ok now we discovered that other omicron variant is not as dangerous anymore, and that's why we're changing our policy. but i think the timing suggests very clearly that it's a reaction of the public anger that you know, has culminated over those protests. and, and i also actually the economic pressure that is also not a to underestimate because the trait numbers from today, they're really em disastrous. and i think there was a lot of pressure to change the policy. otherwise it wouldn't have changed now because we are in the beginning of the winter and also the chinese new year. the season is coming soon. that's where millions were hundreds of millions of chinese will travel to their home, towns to areas where the medical system is really very rudimentary. so it is really not an optimal timing to open up fabbing customer and beijing. thank you. and here are some other stories making news around the world. us senator rafael

warnock has defeated his republican challenger, herschel walker, and george was run off contest for a seat in the senate. his win gets democrats and outright majority in the senate. warnock, thank georgians and god and his family in an emotional victory speech. he will serve 6 years as a senator until 2028. donald trump's family business has been found guilty of tax fraud by a court in new york. the former president's company was convicted of hiding money, that it paid to executives over a 15 year period. it faces the fine of $1500000.00. the u. s. judge has dismissed a lawsuit against saudi crown. prince mom had been so non for his alleged role in the murder of journalists, jamal her soaking. the judge said that there were quote, credible allegations of the prince's involvement. but he said that he had no power to reject the u. s. government stance that the prince had sovereign immunity as

a foreign leader, lina un secretary general, antonio, good headed, has urged the government to end what he calls an orgy of describe destruction as a bio diversity summit kicks off in canada at its opening in montreal. good head, as warned, humanity has become a weapon of mass extinction, and that it must change course. the many experts are calling the summit a final chance to save the world species and ecosystems. as we know them. the bones of an elephant porch for its 5 rain kenya. images like these very visible reminder of the thread that humans pulse to animal and plant life. for a station, changes in land use, the climate crisis and pollution are also taken a big tall. about $1000000.00 species are currently at risk of becoming extinct due to human activity. this not only threatens to degrade ecosystems further, but also dangerous our own welfare. we depend on bio davis,

therefore the food we eat there, water we drink this edwards pressure of on b medicines we take for a spend 70 percent of cancer. drugs come from by diversity on nature. the u. n. by diversity conference was sent on how to protect 30 percent of land and sea by 2030 scientists stress that this target is needed to prevent the collapse of ecosystems and human prosperity in the future. the biggest threat is us human beings and then less our relationship with the nature changes. the situation will continue to deteriorate. i'm saying saw because 97 percent of the global biodiversity is degraded as the result of human action. we need to take urgent measures to protect ourselves from ourselves, experts argue,

but who will cover the costs. some emerging and developing economies such as indonesia, india, brazil, south africa, entered democratic republic of congo, tend to be particularly rich in by diversity. but these countries argue that they lack the resources to expand their conservation efforts. they are demanding financial support from rich nations. we don't want to see a target which has absolutely no hope of implementation. scientists say there is no time to lose. however, even if the cop 15 participants set an ambitious target, it can only be the beginning. none of the by the versity objectives agreed at the 2010 convention, have yet been fully implemented by the global community. at random joins us now from our environment. task, he's been following this for us. there's so much at stake at this conference, just walk us through what it is for ultimately with conference, with about stopping the destruction of,

of the planet of the life on this planet. and i've just heard in the report where a long way of actually achieving those goals. so i mean, just to give bit of context, the biggest scientific study of all the life on the found just a few years ago that nature is declining at unprecedented rates. and the rates of which were pushing species to extinction is getting faster and faster and faster. and so, so the thing that this conference for tra, if the party that this conference trying to agree on a policy is to do things like protecting but percent of the land and sea from human into fair and doing things about the huge amounts of fossil fuel subsidies, another environmentally destructive subsidies that essentially tax pay of using government using taxpayer money to put into the destruction of the things that we rely on. and other, other policies include things like 40 big companies to disclose kind of the impact of having major. why should we care? it's a good question and if one, but i think scientists, when i try to find

a spot that i often struggle to get very clear on that, i mean the 3 way that you can look at it on the very 1st level is that we pay for it, so we pay for it today in terms of things like when pollinators, dion, the price of rise, mcquease, i, these going birds going? all of the things mean that we're actually directly suffering from the, the added cost that we don't, we don't see with our direct noticed, but it's happening there in the background. second thing is that it could massively cause collapse of the system. so when we talk about things like climate change, we know things are getting worse and worse, and we know the bone that we heat the planet. we know that the was but with biodiversity loss and wildlife loss. it's on a whole nother level, the chance of just keeping an entire kind of ecosystem on which we relied to get good food, that massive consequences. and so things like them, it's becoming more likely have we expand into untouched love essentially, you can link things like locked down over pandemic, which we've just become very used to a glove he is to things like the way that we treat nature. and i mean, birth thing,

and i don't want to make light of this, but why i read this morning with pollinators for some crops, are kind of not really necessary for things like rice and stuff like that. mays we can get by if we don't have burden while beats kind of pollinating things with other crops that a bit of dependencies, a fruit not sabotaged or things like that. but with chocolate. chocolate is entirely dependent on while pollinators, if you, if you destroy nature, you don't have chocolate. and it's not just something that affects our kitchen and like our snack lunch. it also means anti industry, good, clap, get glass. okay, so it really matter. so there is definitely a need for urgent action. i didn't write, john, i know you're, you're following this further, so we'll get updates from you. thank you so much. and now a look at some other stories making news. a police officer has been killed and several other people injured in a suspected suicide attack on indonesia main island of java. a man blew himself up

shortly after entering the police station. indonesia, as police chief says, the bomber had been previously jailed for terrorism and was affiliated with an islamic state inspired group. more than 150 people have been injured as a result of one train crashing into the back of another at a station near barcelona. in northern spain, most of the passengers were attended to by medics. i've seen no serious injuries have been reported. argentina's former president has been sentenced to 6 years in jail on charges of corruption. christina fernandez to care center was found guilty of embezzling $1000000000.00. between 20072015. the corruption case has divided the country. her supporters say the trial is politically motivated. she is expected to appeal. ah portugal

r through to the world cup quarter finals after thrashing switzerland 61 in their round of 16 match in a dominant performance. portugal took a to nail lead into half time before putting another 4 goals past switzerland goalkeeper john summer. after the break, gonzalo ramos was the standout scoring a had trick. well, christiane, rinaldo only started off the bench. the 2016 european champions will play morocco in the quarter finals. and that match will be morocco's 1st ever quarter final at a world cup. after they knocked out spain in the round of 16 earlier on tuesday, after a goal list 120 minutes. it all came down to a penalty shoot out winners. morocco are now the last arab team, still competing and guitar morocco with a better start to the game. but 12 minutes in asha for came his free cake, went over the bar half way through the 1st half spain with the big chance to take the lead. but the crossbar and morocco housekeeper bono, were in the way,

and the play was eventually rolled off side. on the brink of half time, a pin point cross font knife ugh, where it in the books. but his header went over the bar. spain dominated the 2nd half and it almost paid off in the last minute. but bono came up with the safe and the game, my 2 extra time. both team set chances to win it within a 120 minutes. but spain's keeper, who knows the man stood strong against valesh dedira, and the post was in the way of spain slate. the game went to a penalty shoot out at morocco's keeper bono became the man of the match, saving 2 penalties before i came me scott, the decider a disappointing end to the work up for spain. morocco go through to the quarter finals. and here with me in the studio is dw jaffar abdul karim. first of all, what a game? yes. how much does this mean to morocco? now? i mean we, we so everyone is the celebrating and american fads are really super as celebrating

and they're all over dara world. everyone is so happy, so proud. anda, enjoying, i would say enjoined the woman and what's happening this now, and this is on one side. and i like what's going on and people are really celebrating. but at the same time that we don't have to forget about also the other side or for what's happening and katara when it comes to human rights labor rights . and as you b t rights and day, i was there and i experienced it very well organized. and there, well coordinated tournament and people really enjoying people really having fun from all over the world. and dad, this is one perspective. but on the other perspective, when i was on the streets and dad talking to a young person to a worker who is, i think he was from bangladesh and i. so i asked him like, how long do you work every day? and he was like for 16 hours, and he gets $200.00 a month according to what he told me. so this is the other side of the tournament.

so depends on which side who is looking at what side. and it is a something that of that its like needs a lot of discussion, although we're celebrating. but we don't have to forget about it is about basic human rights. what else are the local saying? when you talk to locals, they have a different perspective because the locals, there are, i think 300000 out of more than 2000000 people living in katara. they say give us the chance. we're very happy. we're very proud to be the 1st to muslim country and a narrow country to host this tournament. now it's not about the human rights. it's about giving us a chance to show you that we can organize such and such and tournament. so celebration is yes, coming together is ok. but when you address human rights, then they don't they say no, that's not true. that's not happening. we've been working a lot of a lot of issues and for now we want to enjoy it. and it's not about the human

rights. and when you talk also to the arab fans, especially that i talked to when i wasn't katara, this was also their impression. they were like the western countries are now criticising us. the media coverage is bias. even some, some talk to us as daughter, very like why are you addressing why you're criticizing? and i just try to tell them this is our job. this is our job to look where is a human rights abuse happening? it's about, as you b t writes is about a labor, right? we have to do this. and at the same time we can talk that it's celebration, but both are possible. i don't think it's in either nor it's an end. so let's get a little more specific. yeah, because i mean, particularly here in germany at the world cup has come under a lot of criticism. so when you're talking to people, how has the german coverage been perceived? they're on the ground in the target driven coverage, according to people i talked to is being seen as very bice, they, they see that the, the media coverage, they say they and they said it's not neutral according to what they say. but i try

to expand it because i'm also part of discovery to tell them it is our job to look on the human rights abuse. and then the other thing is they have to differentiate the politicians in germany are being perceived differently because they say the media is criticizing us. the politicians, the government is trying to have gas deals, an energy deal deals with us. and then you have the other side of germany because it's good to differentiate is about the people and the citizens of germany. i talk to some of them who are now in katara and they were like, we don't care what the media and germany is saying. we don't care what the politicians are saying we want now to be there and enjoy the tournament. and we want to support this was almost one week ago. we want to support this of the bunch of but the perception from our offense and katara is, is it's all germany. and i think here we have to differentiate. the media is different from the politicians different for the people of germany. and we as the media, it is our job to look at things that not everyone is looking at. and this is part

of yeah, for our job. but people are criticizing this. it's not being i, it's not being look at that something that's your job. they thing, or you're being paid, or you're doing this because some time because some interest of politics. why did you, did you do that? when russia was hosting the tournament? why didn't you dow, in china, with hosting the tournament? you can see i can talk a lot about it because it's a, it's opened up a lot of controversial discussions. definitely. it's an interesting perspective you having down the ground speaking with a lot of people there, dw jaffar abdul karim. always good to see you. thank you. so much and we'll talk again soon. thank you for date ended up in his blue. ah ah

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