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shikari is hacked as iranian court sentence, 5 more men to death for allegedly killing a member of the revolutionary god. despite this video on social media shows, people are still taking to the streets and protest in central terran and authority . say they'll make more arrests, the day off to one of germany's biggest anti terror operations. for decades 25 people remain in custody. accused of being part of a conspiracy to launch a code. plus getting up close and very personal with to retired worlds. prince harry and megan marco, launch that multi $1000000.00 documentary series with view is expecting a damaging claim about the british royal family. fantastic. ah.

i'm and you cubes. mckennan. welcome to the program. u. s. basketball star brittany griner has been released from custody in russia as part of a prisoner swap with the usa. at 2 time olympic gold medalist greiner was arrested in moscow back in february and sentenced to 9 years in prison on drugs charges. she recently had an appeal rejected and was transferred to a remote penal colony. her release comes as part of the high stakes prisoner exchange. the seized the usa hand over notorious russian arms dealer. victor about u. s. president joe biden confirmed on thursday that verena was safe, and on her way home. and d w 0 shadow joins me now from riga. dw has been reporting from reagan since that must go, bureau was shut down. good to see you. uri the news. we're just hearing that the u

. s. basketball star brittany griner has been released from prison in russia. what more can you tell us while a grinder was arrested shortly after the war began in february, officially she was arrested. you mentioned it on drugs or drug charges about her arrest was a huge scandal from the beginning, especially because she got the comparatively harsh sentence. and she was sentenced to 9 years in prison colony for drug procession. or from the beginning washington considered her political hostage or even curtains, personal hostage. it seems it seemed like her detention was some sort of revenge on the americans for the support for ukraine in the war. grider was probably also an issue in russian u. s. negotiations about the lifting of sanctions on russia. the fact that the, the as basketball star has now been exchanged certainly doesn't mean that there is

a political so between the 2 countries. but at least it could point to some movement in the deadlock to us russian relations. after all, the 2 presidents by the end putins recently said that they would be open for meeting. so maybe this is a small sign of good to be on. the exchange that you're talking about, the swab carried a heavy price, didn't it mean in exchange, the usa handed over a notorious russian arms dealer, victor, about what more can you tell us about him? oh victor box is a former soviet officer who was apparently in arms dealer are reportedly who build up his business failing military plains, old due to the plains left on some fields after the collapse of the soviet union. now he is a, so in fam is that he go to the, in the name of the merchant of death, actually was arrested in 2010 and ex, extradite from thailand to the u. s. m. he claims he's just international

interpreter in the travel business. that's all we know about him so far. all right, d, w, you're a rash, s o in riga, thanks so much for the update. the u. s. president joe biden says that he's spoken to brittany griner on the phone. his how he reacted to the news of her release just a short time ago. she said, he's on a plane. she's on her way home. after wants to be known, just detained in russia, held on tolerable circumstances. brittany will soon be back in the army of her loved ones and, and she should have been there all along. this is a day we worked toward for a long time. we never stopped pushing for her release. and took pains taking tends to negotiations, and i want to thank all the hard work in public service across my administration,

who worked tirelessly to secure her release. aaron has executed the 1st of the protest is detained after participating and recent anti government demonstrations. medicine. shikari was hanged on thursday morning after being accused of wounding a security officer. during the protests in september. iranian courts have passed more death sentences just this week. 5 men have been sentenced to death accused of killing, a member of iran's revolutionary god. behind these walls and to ron's even prison, a young man was reportedly executed. iran's judiciary claims he injured a police officer during the protests. but observers say this was a show trial. it was broadcast in installments on state television, the 23 year old, and neither an independent legal defense nor the opportunity to challenge the verdict. regardless protests against the iranian regime are still going on for 3

days across multiple cities. many businesses have been on strike. people on the streets report a massive deployment of police and malicious store owners preferring to remain anonymous. say there have been targeted intimidation attempts with we were severely threatened. if we left the store closed, they would shut down our cafe completely emerald, iran's president ra easy continues to blame. other countries influences for the ongoing protest. he reiterated that point when he addressed pro regime students at a terran university has. i won't care then your west thinks will just hand the country over to the protest as you donna, but no on the reigning students would never let that happen. so i recorded applause from his supporters, but the majority of students are his fiercest critics. cellphone footage shows them protesting against ra, easy, and the regime outside the university. you have no honor, they shout repeatedly,

not only in the capital, but at universities all across the country. and the demonstration show no sign of dying down by mood. a merry mug adam is director of the india here in iran human rights. and we asked him whether executions are unusual in iran. unfortunately, it's not unusual. you know, in the eighty's, the same people who are in power right now, they were involved in mass execution of political prisoners at that time. at that time, you know, they even didn't pretend to have a court. they could arrest people and execute them same evening. now, because of the political cost, they need to know you are some time on, on these short trials. but unfortunately, revolutionary courts note there is no due process, right? close door. and they basically don't have any loss so, so,

so the sentences are already decided before the actual court and that was the director of the n g o iran human rights. we're going to take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. israeli troops have killed 3 palestinians and adorn, rayed on suspected terrorists. palestinian authorities described clashes in the city of gin in, in the occupied westbank as fierce has been an increase in violence in the region following several attacks on israel is south korea has ordered a striking cargo truck drivers to return to work. those who refuse could face up to 3 years in jail, or a maximum fine of 30000000 watts around 22000 euros. south korea's government says a prolonged strike could begin to hurt major export industries. and more arrests are expected here in germany, after dozens were detained in raids across the country yesterday,

the targets are suspected supporters of a far right movement that rejects the legitimacy of the german state. the country's federal prosecutor said the conspirators had fantasized about forming a new german army and installing a minor aristocrat as the country's new 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 school go 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 science prison several months now this year about how much darker house, because of the mounting evidence. laquita lions were a violent overthrow, mid motion, and that to me with a useful reference of shortening. and i was time to bring in the police angel 30

prosecutors since i boomed d good hoffman, mussman. 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 ripening up the abyss of de sterren perspective. david 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 armed wing, you know, and among right spirit, the affinity to weapons. if a given suzette, this gap is and is a fine eagle of mine, buffet 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 planned to install this woman as justice

minister, bergen. my exact vin command 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 quote confirmed that she was released from her duties on wednesday the high school got a fall right extremist, deeply and to 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 and turning off now as long as i have stayed now, a member of the german bundis taka chancellor live shows his social democrats welcome to the w, mr state. now we've just seen one of japanese biggest anti tara operations for decades. how worrying is the threat from these fall right extremists?

well, i think it's pretty worrisome to see that so many people joined together have an armed way and tried to overthrow the government. yet on the other hand, it shows that we are prepared that we observe these things and that the police and the authorities are on the place to prevent things like that from happening yesterday. there was a very successful raid so that the group could be a group. we could end their existence. so you say the governments for is prepared, but in the long the tub. what will the government's response b to this threat from the extreme right? well, i think we have to talk about this more openly and conflict that there are pros of democracy, especially in the right ring of political spectrum. and we have to observe that very closely and that people should use their legal demonstration rights,

but they should not join together with extremists. and on the other hand, i think it's necessary that we make a clear cut between democratic parties and those right wing activities. that's also something the conservative party has to worry about, or has to be more careful about a drawing clear lines where the democratic spectrum ends. i just want to talk about something that you tweak said, today you wrote the people belonging to the extreme bright advice though the movement have no place amongst javanese, public, such and such as the police, such as the armed forces. so how can the government enforce well, 1st of all, we really have to be more careful whom we ring into public offices. for instance, who are the people that are able to join the army, who people on courts. and we have to find out

if there's somebody who says, i'm member of the iceberg, for instance, or of the right wing a f t party, which is a wide range stream is party in the one to sack. and that should not be comparable with the public office, and we have to prevent those people to be able to join those public offices because otherwise it can become very dangerous if they have influence enough to become a threat to our democracy. ok, so obviously this will mean much, much place to monitoring that obviously is happening at the moment. i mean, i presume that would mean monitoring extremist views online on social media. i mean is enough of that happening? i don't think there's enough happening yet, but it's also in task for intelligence services to have

a close view on what's happening there. as you might know, they already observe the activities of the alternative from germany. and one of the findings yesterday was that there were close links between that i spoke to c and d, a f t r, which always times to be a democratic party. but it's not. as i said, i think our democracy really has to be very careful that we don't miss anything on that side and we should be liberal, but we should not toner, tolerate the intolerance chairman, member of parliament. i've stayed now from the social a democrats. thank you. so much for taking the time to speak to us today. thank you . the trial over germany's biggest ever accounting scandal started today in munich. why a cods for my ceo and to former executives will take the stand there accused of

hiding nearly $2000000000.00 of missing revenue. more than 2 years after the collapse of the financial technology company, the scale of 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 executive 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. renault looking back,

but very much looking at the future. and i thing, but that then i make of growth in the next 10 years, will totally all perform what richie from last winners. 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 last huge sums auditors and german financial regulator. baffin faced heavy criticism for ignoring early warning signs about wire cart bound 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. now prisons, royal family is bracing itself for a netflix documentary series on prince harry and his wife megan the couple who are known as the duke and duchess of sussex and no longer serving members of the royal family. the 1st episodes debuted a few hours ago with expectations of damaging claims about british royal life. it's really hard to look back on it now and go. walmart. the netflix docu 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 the 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 step 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's 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 grand mother, 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 d w london correspondent bergen mass has watched the 1st episodes and she joins us now. good to see bergen. so tell us all about that. what were the best bits and, you know, was there anything that you saw that is going to make the royal family tremble? there are definitely some bits that will get the royal blood boiling. i mean, william and kate are not for a trade in a very, very warm manner. you know, harry and mac and are really talking about their own relationship and how they're surviving against the odds and how it's such a strong loving relationship. and, and, and william and kate, are they come across it from, from this narrative as a bit formal as a bit steve. so you can really feel the rift between those are 2 couples,

and that will not go down. well, what for me stands out though is, is really the tragic story of, of prince harry. he speaks very warmly about his mother and the grief that he still experiencing from having lost her at such an early age. that really still just shines through. he speaks about her compassion and her warmth, and her embassy empathy. she's a pres, quite prominent part in the 1st a series of, of this documentary. and he compares megan with his own mom suit. so really it's her, it's pretty much a love letter to his mom, but also it is about the modern monarchy and it is quite a big or historical sweep against modern britain and monarchies wrong. it sounds like some mer, pretty roar, emotions. the 1st episodes were obviously just released this morning and the interest around the world is huge, isn't her?

well, yes, i mean the people are watching. it was beer. it was released this morning at 8 o'clock i. i certainly started watching at a to one. and i know others have been to it's generated a lot of media interests of british media. i'm particularly these are some of those tabloids that are criticized quite a lot in this documentary. they generate article after article, some of them quite critical of what's already been mentioned or seemingly privileged coupled being unhappy about their treatment. but then there are others also on social media who are admiring. ah, harry and megan for being so open about their own dive and about the obstacles that they've had to overcome. he w correspondent berg at math in london. thank you so much for those insights. now there are no israeli, all palestinian teams at the world cup tournament. in catawba, israeli palestinian conflict has found echoes on the ground in the country with

many arab supports as taking the opportunity show their support for the palestinian cause and israeli journalists and fans have been subjected to abuse on the basis of their nationality. there. 2 0, good use and social media showed people refusing to, to like us to ease rightly journalists covering the kettle, world. com our job is challenging. we deal with some hates from the other fans here. when our, our people, you know crew members, they want to go live on tv. that sometimes they're not attacked, but people go around them and and shout for palestine with madison. their flags, many friends in cattle have shown their support for the palestinian cause. and on wednesday moroccan players became the latest to do the same after their famous

victory over spain. meanwhile, nicholas, there's only gonna be a number of these riley's have found the reception from some arab supporters, unwelcoming. it's the 1st time is riley's, are in category numbers with direct flights, connecting tel aviv to doha. but cattle is not one of the 6 arab countries that maintain formal relations with israel. many people in is where to say, it said this woke up. this is a full of hey to there is this. so if you want to say, veil of ignorance, people don't know each other only from the media and the thing, collies, right, is our bother. all our lives are bad. and you know, the situation is much more complicated. the, the best cure for hate is always getting together, get to know each other. speak, speak to one another. i think this is the key. and now things will not get solved during a one month world cup. but maybe getting to know better the other side than the standing listening. that's what's important as ever. these tournaments,

the confluence of coaches, has produced moments of harmony and understanding. but 2020 two's competition was short through with political tensions long before it began. and a microcosm of global discord was perhaps always another inevitability at cats, hawes world comic and his reminder of the top stories were following for ye, the united states as secure the release of basketball star, brittany greiner from russian custody as part of a prisoner walk. the usa will handle the russian arms dealer victim bought in exchange. and iran has carried out what is thought to be the 1st execution in connection with recent anti government demonstrations. no san shikari was hanged for participating in the protests. as iranian court sentenced 5 more men to death for allegedly killing a member of the revolutionary god. you are watching the daily news and coming up

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