a cuz it is kind of a mislead me. wholly this current starts december 21st more d w. ah, ah, this is the w news live from berlin. anti government demonstrators take to the streets in iran after the 1st execution of a protester there, calling for an end to the regime and fear that authorities will carry out more executions. but look at the iranians who also face death for speaking out off on the program. the balance of power in the u. s. senate is in question as u. s. sen,

persons, the neighbor, lives the democratic party. and the big shock and the world cup and guitar as brazil are out in the quarter finals the tournament favorite news on penalties to croatia. ah i'm bringing the mohammed welcome to the program. protestors took to the streets in iran again after a man was put to death in the 1st execution over anti government demonstrations. moisten. shikari was hanged on thursday after what observed was described as a show trial activists or warning that at least a dozen more iranian protests as could face the same fate. but that hasn't stopped them from speaking out against the government. barbara debt to company processes sheldon's or her done friday. they also took to the streets in other cities like

here and routes a one day after the execution of a 23 year old demonstrator be okay. the fathers are also facing the death penalty. the most prominent rappa too much delay he, he was arrested nearly 40 days ago. the musician was forced to make a confession on state television, a common procedure in iran for thought, no matter. washington, some barracks, mostly lieutenant music conspired violence. that was my mistake somewhere. i apologize to all of you and to society about june on friday afternoon. we visited his uncle in po hm. in germany, where he runs a coffee shop. naturally, he's watched the confession video. he told us his reaction, his cetera, for his hash and a feeling of hatred of rage towards the islamic republic. on 2nd, monday down, what i saw in this video in boot is that too much didn't speak voluntarily. wagner get the voice of too much was not one that was full of energy and joy to express

his inner feelings that it is sorted that who knew whose ruinous threadbare, no boss yet beyond the corner. while so lay he has not yet been convicted. dr. hamid gal hassan lou has already been sentenced to death. he was convicted of participating in the killing of the militia member at a protest in the city of carriage. despite his denials, the doctor and his wife are arrested and beaten in the night. according to his brother who lives in amsterdam taught us then the hutch michigan, that in for off his ribs are broken during dojo. ah, one of the ribs injured his lungs and that caused and done or bleeding it off and injured. barely the radiologist had to be operated on 3 times. his brother told us shortly after he woke up from the last operation, the 53 year old was sentenced to death. his wife was forced under torture,

to testify against him. the only proof that slay he is alive is his false confession. you know his uncle is deeply concerned. the family hasn't been able to visit him since his imprisonment. 2 cases out of many, the highlight the brutality with which those in power in iran are dealing with processes. nevertheless, many iranians agree that it's worth fighting for throw live in fi. i will i let speak to daniella sep, airy. she is an, a rating and activist based in germany. it's good to happy with us, your anti w news. now, in that report, we've just witnessed a number of testimonials, of the situation, escalating in iran. could you just bring us up to speed on what activists and protesters have been telling you from, from iran they're telling me that

a regime is trying to frighten them. but what we see in the videos, we get what we hear from the people. what we read from the messages they send us is that the courage is way greater than the, than the fear. and that's what we seeing also in, by the side on happening. today's yesterday, it was one day ago. where did people, what was his son and i went out on the streets again, went out to protest again, even though week by week they are getting slaughtered by the regime. and we see that included some we see that in here and we see that everywhere in the country, people are not letting the regime threaten them. we all continue to see more heavy handed tactics by the government. what does this mean for the protesters living there? the government already announced that they are getting harder and more brutal

against the foresters, but you see it's about surviving for the people in iran. it's about the bare minimum. it's what freedom and surviving. and because we know that the people know that they don't have a future with this regime. so that's why they still go on the streets and protests . and also they know if they stop going out of the streets, then that's it. then 18000 people and more got arrested will be hanged, just like most in shikari was hanged a few days ago. now more western sanctions are being imposed on iran. will this make any difference? i hope there will be full sanctions on the regime this time because what we have seen from the european poem and so far was like, i don't know what it was. it was like, for example, the morality police cache shot was sanction ice. and the 1st packet, but that's, that's weird because the gas to shut the morality,

police doesn't have any money to be frozen. they also don't have money to enter the european union because they said, we won't let them enter anymore. that was good. the sanction i have them as a symbol, but it's for me it's better to also synchronize the whole rouge regard. the g. c. responsible for so many debts, not on iran, but in the whole words. it's for me, it's important to sanction the regime. for example, the $272.00 petitions that voted for the execution of all these political prisoners. and that's what i'm, what, what i'm, what i'm missing in the sanctions, the european parliament is doing all the time. and that's what i'm hoping for for the next sanction. package that the regime will be sanctioned. i asked ok, diana has a very speaking to us in germany. thank you so much for your time. thank you. well, let's take

a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. belgian police have arrested 5 people, including a european parliament, vice president. local media reported that it was part of a corruption investigation into alleged influence. peddling by katara greek socialist emi p. eva. kylie was suspended by her party following her arrest. prosecutors said they were looking into payments and gifts given to people in strategic positions within the parliament. i was a former minneapolis police officer involved in the killing of george floyd, has been sentenced to 3 and a half years in prison. j alexander qm pleaded guilty in october to aiding and abetting manslaughter. june is already serving a federal sentence for violating floyd's civil rights. for as new president has appeared on national television at a military ceremony, as she attempts to secure her grip on power. dina bullets, a replaced ousted leftist leader petro castillo. earlier this week,

casio supporters are staging protests to demand. his return and polity is facing colds for her early elections. now in the us, arizona senator kirsten cinema has announced that she is leaving the democratic party. this comes just days after the democrats increased their slim majority in the senate cinema will register as an independent and has emphasized that she will not sit with republicans. she also plans to continue her committee position through that via democrats, and is expected to continue costing most of her votes with them. or he is what the white house had to say about cinema's move. the way we see it in understanding it does not changed a new democratic majority of control of the senate. and we have every reason to expect that we will continue to work with her successfully. and the dw is carina. 2 more has more from washington dc. they are probably right,

the democrats will still have a slide majority in the senate, even if cinema does not vote. as a democrat cinema has not specifically said that she will still caucus with the democrats. but she has said that she won't vote a with senate republicans, and this means that democrats will probably still hold the majority of 51 to 49 in the upper chamber. however, even if a cinema continues to cast most of her votes with the democrats, she will probably also separate herself on certain issues like we have already seen in the past. let's keep in mind that as she has always voted in an independent manner defending some party priorities, like for example, same sex marriage but also opposing others like a minimum wage increase seen him or herself. and has he cleared in a video where she was announcing her decision that nothing is going to change for her? we know that she is also still holding her democratic a committee assignments, as you just mentioned. and effectively this means that she will be probably an

independent, probably aligned with democrats, like other senators, like bernie sanders are from a vermont or angles king from main. ah, now to the world cup and could tar and 5 time when as brazil are out of the tournament after losing to croatia in the quarter finals, corrosion held enough to win on penalties, offer a tense period of extra time. meaning brazil's wait for a 1st world cups since 2002 goes on the crowd inside the education city stadium had watched more than a 100 minutes of gold. a school where noble solo effort, fortunately broke the deadline for brazil. a slick passing move, culminating in his 2nd goal of the tournament one that looked like a certain winner. ah, in the 170 s minute croatian substitute,

bruno petrovich converted his team's 1st shot on target. a deflection from martinos ensuring that croatia would be heading into a 2nd successive pendency shootout. and for a 2nd successive time, it was they who prevailed while croatia hammered home clinical sport cakes. brazil twice failed to convert. it was martino smith, that finally settled things sending croatia into the final for once again. the runners up in russia have high hopes for guitar. while ne mind coat are once again heading home empty handed. and in 5 days, other quarter final argentina knocked out the netherlands on penalties off to the dutch produced a major come back during the game. argentina led to no, but the netherlands came back to equal eyes. in the 11th minutes of stoppage time, i took again to a shootout where argentinian keeper any martinez saved to penalties and forward. now tara martinez then stepped up to send argentina through to the semi finals.

are now joined by a d w. sports dentist. currently in dough. hi, danielle barcelona danielle argentina looked like they were going home, their home and dry rather. how did they end up in that penalty? shoot up. so everybody in the stadium during the 90 minutes pretty much thought that argentina had this one in the bag. you know, they had to know lead. it was pretty comfortable. but actually if you know anything about football to nil is probably the worst lead. you can have because it gives you that false sense of security and comfort now everyone thought it was over except for netherlands, who fought back. they managed to tie it up and send again to extra time and penalties. now unfortunately, some fans had actually started to leave the game before the 90 minute, and they were unable to get back into the stadium. so they did miss the extra time

and the shootouts, but i was in the stadium yesterday almost $90000.00 people. let me tell you the atmosphere was absolutely ridiculous. the stadium was shaking each step argentina takes further. the belief really increases that this will finally be the time that messy will win the world cup and the world cup failure for brazil was a pretty disappointing talk. us about talk us through that situation as well. yet for brazil, this was an absolutely massive disappointment. coming into this game. they were the favorites actually coming in to the entire tournament. they were favorites to win everything. there was a lot of believe here, every fan we talked to the center, he said that brazil would probably win. this woke up. they have such a talented team from the goalkeeper all the way to the attackers. so it was extremely shocking for them that they went now of course, we know that they do struggle against european opposition since they won a tournament in 2002 each time they've been knocked out by

a european side. now of course croatia is not an easy team to play against the last tournament. finalists, so massive disappointment for brazil right now. all right, that is dana buffalo, 9, doha keeping a close eye and that will cup for us. thank you so much. we'll touch back with you later. thanks. this is denise lie from berlin. coming up next is a 5 taking a closer look at the lives of disabled athletes. i thought check. i'll see. you said with power games on the melting ice reporter tracks down the arctics. major players with you see route begins a dangerous game. people overseas that yeah, we are here. we're patrolling the area.