ah ah ah this is the w news line from berlin. the biggest financial fraud in german history comes to courts 2 and a half years after the collapse of wire card. prosecutors, i'm to prove that former executives worked to hide nearly 2000000000 euros and missing revenue, also on the program with archie. so they'll make more arrest the day after one of

germany's biggest anti terror operations, but decades 25 people remaining custody accused a big part of the conspiracy to launch a left shoulder marks his 1st year in office as the german chancellor with the war in new crank covian divisions here in valid. look back on what's been a tough year for him and his coalition government. i'm getting a close and very personal with a couple of retired royal's prince harry, max records, their multi $1000000.00 documentary series. if you are expecting damaging claims about british royal ah, i'm fil gale. welcome to the program. the trial in connection with germany's biggest accounting scandal has begun. the former c e o and 2 former executives of

wire card will take the stand in munich, accused of hiding nearly $2000000000.00 of missing revenue wasn't 2 years after the collapse of the high flying financial technology company. the scale of the fraud has been described as unparalleled in german history. this is the man at the center of the case that sent shock waves through germany's financial and political establishments. marcus brown, prosecutors accused the former wire card seo and to top executives of orchestrating a massive criminal act to defraud investors. he faces charges including falsifying financial statements, market manipulation and breach of trust. he's been in custody for more than 2 years . after its founding in 1999 wire card, enjoyed a fairy tale rise by 2018. the online payments firm had become one of the 30 most valuable companies on the frankfurt stock exchange realtor. looking back but very

much looking at the future and i thing but that then i make of growth in the next 10 years. ah, will totally outperform of richie from last 10 years. rumors began circulating early on about fraudulent activity, but barely any one wanted to listen wire card success story. it was just too good. then in 2020, after an independent investigation, it became clear. almost 2000000000 euros had vanished from company accounts or only existed on paper wire cards, big deals, faked or staged. the one time darling of fintech filed for insolvency, investors lost huge sums auditors and german financial regulator. baffin faced heavy criticism for ignoring early warning signs about wire cart brown denies any wrongdoing. he's instead pointed the finger at wire cards. a former c o yan masonic who has reportedly hiding out in russia and wanted by german authorities,

will los altos from dw businesses of the court in munich. he told me more about the trial. while we do half germany as large as sir financial fraud and its history. so obviously we have an appropriately big trial here with a lot of public interest to there's a lot of media here, but also spectators. and in fact, as so many the proceedings had to start over an hour late because it just took a while for everybody to file in, including one of the defendants who came in with everybody else. whereas the 2 main defendants, that is sir mr. brown, who we just saw in the report as well as oliver belen house, who was the head of the wire card subsidiary in ado bye. they came in through a back door because they are actually sitting in jail already here in shuttle ham prison, which is the adjacent building here to the court house. so of course then of proceeding started with some formalities and with the reading of the indictment and quite an indictment. it is phil. i have it right here. it's almost

a 100 pages long or so are quite a big document that they are going to read over the next couple of hours. probably all day. interesting here. how detailed it reports on all the fraud, how the company was billed, how it was all stacked, one company on another. and i would think it is really hard if you're the see all of this company like in this case, marcus brown was how to pin this on somebody else or seeing as the defendant does. he did not know what was going on behind the scenes. he only learned about it all from the media, so it will be quite interesting the case sir, to see how it will be brought to trial here and how it will be discussed. and we have one of the defendants absent, or how significant is john mass alex or the fact that he's not there in court? yes, he is, of course, the key person in all there says, i just said he is the one that see all. marcus brown says he did it all,

and it is pretty clear that yes he did. and about a week before the company went belly up, he took a private cheque to bella, rose and fled the country. and now he is supposed to be in her russia. the german government, of course, wants to have him arrested, an extradited, which under the current or political environment will likely not happen any time soon. of course, it is a problem that he is not there. the prosecutor came out earlier and said they wish he was here by the week just couldn't wait any longer. we need to get this trial started, obviously. and that it will make proceedings a lot harder because you have 3 defendants here. that will all say that a we were only involved like on the side lines. it was all young marcel ex, doing and with how out him in question or so to be questions. it will be really hard to figure out who did what and who knew what at what stage. ok, thank that last last house or from d. w business. the more arrests are expected,

after dozens were detained in raids across germany yesterday. the targets are suspected supporters of a far right movement that rejects the legitimacy of the german state countries. federal prosecutors said the conspirators had to fantasized about forming a new german army and installing a minor aristocrat as the country's leader. it's the biggest anti terrorism rate in germany in many years on wednesday morning, some 3000 police raided around 150 properties in several german states and arrested 25 people. all of them suspected members or supporters of the so called the high spook of movement. their goal occluded, time germany. they wanted to overthrow democracy of young diesel or perking new york to exclude t from us. now we have these groups in our sites for several months now's year about how much darker house, because of the mounting evidence to laquita. why on this were a violent overthrow. it from an that to me with

a useful reference of shortening. and i was time to bring in the police angel 30 prosecutors since i booked the good hoffman. muslim german authorities say that the network was made up of both political and a military wing. they had planned to invade the german parliament and use violence as sir dr. essex lightning up the abyss of the state in perspective this desert association. we saw here gap and they were being planned for transmitter cities. louis that we're not harmless, elysa, because in addition among these associations, there was an arm to wing and among right spirit. the affinity to weapons is a given. suzette, this gap has andes, a fine eagle of mine, but roughness and am. if they had succeeded, this man was to become the new head of state highly voice, a descendant of an aristocratic family from eastern germany, who still uses the symbolic title of prince hind. rick 13th, the entrepreneur, based in frankfort,

was named as the ringleader. the group plan to install this woman as justice minister bergan my zach vancammeron was a member of the german parliament for the far right alternative for germany party until last year. she then resumed working as a judge at a berlin court. earlier this year, efforts to remove her from her position because of her involvement with far right extremists fe. but the court confirmed that she was released from her duties on wednesday. the heis burger afar, right extremist, deeply, anti democratic movement. its members reject the german state and its democratic system and a prone to violence. german authorities estimate that the scene consists of some 20000 people. while the uli edna from the institute for strategic dialogue is author of the book going down the secret lives of extremists. we asked her if she thought the right program movement had been underestimated. to some extent, yes,

i would say that the authorities in germany have increasingly focused on the rights for the movement and they created actually a new category for classifying anti government extremism, or they call it democracy, legitimizing extremism. last year in 2021. that has been rising awareness because the movement has grown and has expanded massively over the last few years. the origins of that ice, the movement are already in the, in the 1980s. but reading the last few years, they have really gained ground and have also become more dangerous, and radicalized towards violence problem is that we, we have in germany, we have, i'm 20, around $20000.00. i still go. and 5 percent of these are estimated to be prone to violence according to the police and to the security services. so these are that, that means we have at least 22500 people who might be prone. and of course in this plot, we saw that there is

a very strong overlap also with the q and non conspiracy smith community of q and non, where we have also seen high willingness to resort to, to violence, not just in germany, but also abroad in the us, of course, we had the ties to the january, 6 storming capital riots and in germany we also this is not completely new because even a few months before the capital riots, there was an attempt at storming off the german parliament and there was a high involvement of ice, the end of q and on it here and there. so this doesn't really come as a surprise, but it's still shocking to see that the large scale of this, of this operation and of this plot, julia edna from the institute for strategic dialogue in london. we'll take a look now it's about storage, making news around the world is ready. troops are killed, 3 palestinians and adorned radon suspected terrorists. palestinian authorities

described clashes in the city of janine and the occupied west bank as fetus has been an increase in violence in the region following several attacks. all these writers, new protests in iran has sprung up in the center of the capital tetra videos posted on social media appear to show shops being fired near as are the square. the unrest comes as iranian sate media announced that the 1st announced the 1st execution of a protest i had taken place. vladimir putin has acknowledged that his war on you cried, could turn into a long term process. russian president was defending the conflict after the ukrainian military allegedly carried out a series of drone attacks. deep inside russia. he added that he would not mobilize additional troops on out all of shelter and his government was born in exactly a year ago. the 2 and 16 years of a conservative rule here in germany, a coalition of social democrats, the greens and the free democrats to power on

a platform of change. but russia's large scale invasion of ukraine in february meant they had to abandon some of their core principles, not least with regards to power generation. so after an o, a baptism of fire, a polar 16. take a score of olaf shots is difficult 1st year. for 16 years, he was the think of germany, anglo merkel felt solid, dependable faith until 2021. when this guy took over, all of so it's brought in a coalition government of left wing as liberals and greens. they promised b changes. but with a government just 77 days old, russia launched its full scale invasion of ukraine. tate. every year we are experiencing at turning point. the new dance le laid out a series of major promises to deal with

a new political and economic global reality. so decades the mighty german economy had relied on cheap oil and gas from russia that had to change and fast. so gave renewables a big boost, hunted down oil and gas deals abroad. and built l. n. g terminals at home. he even extended nuclear and coal power generation, although the government's green element prevented them from going as far as the opposition wanted. our business when it comes to nuclear and renewable energy, he stayed way behind germany's capabilities. the government also spent $200000000000.00 euros to protect german customers and companies from price rises. the ukraine war also meant germany had to decide what to do to help that we will deliver 5000 how mr. ukraine. and even though he later dramatically expanded this, many remained critical of sorts. his efforts just kind, there is no german lead european coordinated support for ukraine, for example,

with battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. on a major problem, the german armed forces didn't have much to give away. in that same speech, swords authorized a $100000000000.00 euro special budget for the armed forces. none of those things were on the agenda when salts was elected. he and his partners came to office with a raft of progressive policies. they abolished an article in the criminal code banning doctors from advertising abortion services. they introduced the 1st ever l g, b t q plus rights commissioner. and they said to make immigration to germany easier and even legalize recreational cannabis use. it was a baptism of fire, thought we'll have so, and his new government, all that came from the war in ukraine. the ongoing pandemic and the economics fall out from both. but some of the lessons learned are already being applied to the

next major challenges, such as how to deal with germany's dependency on china. they're still a lot to do. well, you saw our chief political correspondent at nina hossa in that report. she joins us now. welcome, nina. so the, the chance was policy on the ukraine was, had plenty of critics domestically and internationally, hasn't it? well, absolutely. the german government was seen as way to reluctant initially. and by many, i mean just take the question whether or not germany would deliver heavy weapons to ukraine. that was something that we were talking about for months here. and this criticism was initially voiced extremely loudly by the ukrainian ambassador melnik . but it also came from the opposition and it came from members of the 2 parties that chose is in a coalition with they all saw the chancellors standing on the brakes. and when george then eventually did give his okay to delivering tangs of also, for example, the air defense system iris he to ukraine,

then ukrainian officials did thank germany on several occasions. and here in europe, it appears like the polish government in particular has made it, it's trademarked publicly, criticize germany, uncharged, for his handling of the war. so what would you say of albert chancellor's strongest and weakest points? well let's start with his weaker state, so definitely got to be the way that he communicates in public. now he doesn't come across as charismatic. he's not a good public speaker. sometimes he comes across as arrogant. and it's interesting that his demeanor is completely different when the microphones are off or when he talks to normal citizens and not us journalists, then you sometimes get a glimpse of his personality. and also of course, many in europe, i'm not sure whether shows has got europe's interests in mind, or germany's only, and he did have to throw some of germany's core principles overboard at records

beat this year. and he was very busy dealing with keeping the shop together at home during his 1st year. so that is definitely going to be something that will be watching very closely in his 2nd year. how much does he really and have europe at heart and in his interest? but his strongest point is that may not seem like it, but he is very confident. he's very convinced he's got things under control and he does appear to tackle international relations with much more of a vision of what germany strategic interest really are. then say uncle michael did . he did have things largely under control has made major mistakes. that will sounds obvious, but it's not when you're dealing with such a multitude of crises as all of shots has done in his 1st 12 months. thank you, nina. nina, hasn't. i, chief political correspondent of president of peru has been arrested on charges of rebellion and conspiracy. after being ousted by congress, pedro castillo had tried to dissolve parliament and installed an emergency government

hours before he was due to face impeachment vote. countries of former vice president r dina blew out a has now been sworn in, asked the countries as the 1st woman to leave the country tear gas and turmoil in lima. after a day packed with political drama. it began early in the morning with petro castillo's announcement that he was dissolving parliament ahead of its 3rd attempt to impeach him. since he took office in 2021. his announcements for demonstrations on the streets, mass resignations from his government and defiance from the opposition dominated congress. it moved up the impeachment vote, which passed with only 6 votes against vice president dino. but what day was sworn in as peruse 1st female president, shortly after, in her 1st speech to parliament,

she didn't mince words about castillo's removal. the admiralty, there has been an attempted coup data, an attempt to promote it by pedro castillo, which has not signed an audience in the institutions of democracy, and on the streets, open up yellow bag in lima. many demonstrate his back. his removal network on there got castillo, is tried to run away from just it eiletha. he's opted for the last resort. we're trying to dissolve the congress on, get it. but supporters of castillo, who's 17 turbulent months in power, were marked by 5 cabinets, 6 criminal investigations, and to earlier failed impeachment attempts with furious you book probably from the beginning president pedro castillo has not been allowed to work with president castillo has been slandered. that's why we're going through what we're going through now, was why this corrupt congress needed to be dissolved any article that he was

elected by you or the previous people, not just lima, the people or the whole country, the whole of peru. and they have to learn to respect the will of the people or castillo who left the presidential palace after being removed from office when the union has been arrested and charged with rebellion and conspiracy. if convicted, he could face years in prison and britons royal families pricing itself for a netflix documentary series on prince harry and his wife megan. a couple known as the duke and duchess of sussex are no longer serving members of the royal family. first, at research debuted a few hours ago and expectations of damaging claims about a british life. it's really hard to look back on it now and go. walmart, happy. the netflix dark, you series harry and meghan promises an unprecedented look at the life of the duke and duchess of sussex. a suitably dramatic trailer in which prince harry draws

comparisons between megan and his late mother. princess diana sparked mixed reactions ahead of its world wide release. many royal fans were eager to hear their story. others annoyed at more complaints from such a privileged pair. i was some called out discrepancies in the trailer footage. the royal family was reportedly bracing itself for further revelations. megan marshall's marriage to prince harry in 2018 was dubbed a modern fairy tale and hailed as a chance to modernize the monarchy by welcoming a multi racial woman. but already during their courtship, the couple complained the american former actress was frequently the target of criticism in the british press. in early 2020, they stepped down from their role as senior royals and moved to north america. an explosive interview with talk show host oprah winfrey in march 2021 stirred controversy even further. a couple of claims of mistreatment and racism sent shock

waves through the british royal's leaving harry further estranged from his family. the last time they were united was for the funeral of their grandmother, queen elizabeth the 2nd last september. shortly thereafter, harry and megan announced the release of the netflix documentary part of a deal with the streaming platform worth over $100000000.00 us dollars. no knows the full truth. we know the features ah the show in detail because for the budget at mass in london who's been watching the 1st episodes that welcome bergen. it's a tough job but someone's got to do it at what were the most interesting parts exactly. fell 8 o'clock in the morning watching netflix. sometimes the job's really, really hard, but no seriously. it's an incredibly, are dramatic story and so loves they painting the picture of, of

a love that really is surviving against the odds about a british press and have been harassing megan markland particular about the royal family that were not particularly warm out towards the royal capital and about elements of the british public, on their insinuating, basically, racism and you know, it's about their love story. but underneath all that, underneath all these, i'm sometimes maybe a bit cringe ye personals snapshots and about their incredible love that they do like talking about, i think underneath what for me stands out is, is really a quite a sad story. it sir. the past, no tragedy of prince harry, a boy who lost his mother much too early and he are. they opened their documentary old. so really with our princess, diane and friends, harry talks quite moving the about, his mom about her warmth and her empathy and her compassion. and how he is found all this again in his wife so. so really underneath all their drama and all the

glamour there is this sad story of, of a boy who lost his mom. and in a way, you still grieving and why they relieved this now. well, they have stepped down from royal duties over 2 years ago, and pragmatically probably one has to say that they have to make a living. they have to carve out a new life for themselves, and they have a lifestyle now in california, quite lavish lifestyle. and the viewer does get to get some glimpses, sofa feeding chickens and picking roses, and it does look all very, very beautiful. so this has to be funded and there are rumors that $100000000.00 were paid for this. but this only room is nothing is confirmed. so that's definitely one are part of the equation. they need to fund their new life and they need to cover the new role for themselves. and, but also i think they're really east this element that they want to tell their

story. and prince harry says we were never able to tell our story and now they're going to great lengths to tell they are part of what they belief is, is been quite dramatic. love story. and so burger turbo gets at mass in london is reminder of our top stores at this hour. the tribe in connection with germany's biggest after accounting scandal has begun. why cards for m a. c e o. and to former executives on trial in munich, accuse of hiding maybe $2000000000.00. but the missing revenue resar expected after dozens of people were detained in onto terror rights across germany . the far right suspects, i believe, to have been plotting me out to overthrow the government and to install a new head of state. and you can always get d w news on the go. just download that app from google player from the apple apps

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