emotional architecture is i believe me starts december 25th on d w. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is the w news live from berlin. the corruption scandal strikes the european parliament. police in brussels make arrests. as prosecutors say they're targeting an influence. peddling scheme by the gulf states. also coming up, the man suspected of killing his mother and then taking 2 people hostage. it did

police in the german city of dresden say he died of were in sustained when the hostages were free. ah, i am jared right. thank you for your company today. police in belgium have arrested 5 people, including european parliament, vice president, eva kylie. the greek socialist m e p has been expelled from her party. kylie is being investigated as part of an inquiry into corruption and money laundering that involves a gulf state could tarry. authorities are investigating for other lawmakers, we're also detained. prosecutor said they were looking into payments and gifts given to people in strategic positions in your decision making. in favor. there's been a number of around this democracy, but the focus is on her. eva, kylie,

who that in europe, she belongs to a greek socialist party and is one of the vice president of the european parliament . now she's being prosecuted in a corruption prob, seduce, he blew disease versus special, correct me, money laundering, and criminal organization which concerns potential corruption from a personal state as you go into your compartment. the purpose of the bribery was to try to change the political or economic decisions off to your apartment. we could do better than what the media reports name katara asked the state allegedly buying influence. kylie met guitars, labor minister in november, shortly before the world cup started the labor in a video posted on twitter, she sent the european parliament recognise and respected top parliament bullying to try and accusing them of corruption. there's the goodness. katara is

a throne rather in labor rights, abolishing a fall and reducing minimum wage. despite the challenges that even europe and companies are denying them for the love they committed to a vision by choice and they open to the world. this is despite international concerns that thousands of migrant workers could have died, building the tournaments stadiums. kylie has been expelled from her party at home and her parliamentary group. what happens to her next will be up to belgium system of justice. i'm at the latest on this investigation earlier i spoke with the w. corresponded jack paris in brussels. well, it's getting ever, ever deeper. we know that 600000 euros in cash was confiscated, that potentially eva kylie's. father was trying to get some of that cash out of an apartment that's been widely circulated in belgium media. and i have it on

exclusively for the w that potentially the categories are themselves investigating the labor minister that she was pictured with in that report just there. and also the un bassinger to the european union. i suppose those are the 2 people that would initially be investigated. victories are simply saying officially that they're, that they are just investigating where these links are and exactly what might have taken place. the belgian authorities are continuing their investigations and there are a number of offices sealed in the european parliament. now let me bring you another angle to this. i just did a bit of digging into the voting of the european parliament. eva kylie, attended a meeting of the libra committee. this the human rights and sort of the issue is the so legal committee of the, the european parliament. she isn't a member of that committee, but she turned up on december the 1st to a vote, which was about visa liberalization for katara, and she wait combined, and she voted in favor of that. and i, me,

p are able to go and vote in different committees and put their voice is heard that it is a sort of additional pile of evidence on top of the very positive statements that she's been making about cattle publicly in the european parliament. it's starting to sort of a big weight of information is starting to come in, which is starting to stick against her in this investigation. certainly some very serious claims that have been making against that have been made against either kylie jack. i kind of wanted to ask you about what kinds of charges can be brought against members of the european parliament. you know, if they're in hot water as she is, don't they have some kind of diplomatic immunity? yes, there is diplomatic community for city members of the european parliament. they often can't be extradited for instance. but in this case, because they are corruption allegations and specifically related to her work as a member of the european parliament, the immunity will not protect her,

especially when it's related to a belgian investigation. the question is, how wide will this go now, members of the european parliament meeting at their plenary in strasburg next week . and there will be votes. left group of the european parliament is saying that they want to vote tabled on this to get a full debate in the european parliament plenary, which i mean you could vote against that would be a bad look. and also there's another vote on potentially, on the visa liberalization of thursday, where lies will be on that piece of liberalization. for cathy, this all in the middle of catalyze will come all very interesting. indeed that was d w jack paris in brussels. jack, thanks here in germany, a man suspected of killing his mother and then taking hostages have done, has died of wounds sustained during the effort to free his 2 captives belief in the eastern city of dresden. they say they discovered the body of a woman in an apartment. they say her 40 year old son killed her,

then fired shots into the offices of a radio studio. and lastly, took an employee and a child hostage in a nearby shopping center. offices evacuated the building and cleared people away from the city center. dressed in near by christmas market was also closed. gunshots were heard during the operation to free the hostages, who were released. and ha, joining me here in the studio is g w political correspondent, benjamin others. gruber benjamin. hi there. how did the story unfold? so you mentioned the 3 incidents we have one in the early morning, around 7 a. m police officers went to this house, found the body of the 62 year old, a woman without finding her son. there was immediately the main suspect of 40 year old that then try to gain access to a radio station in a building close to dressed in city center. and from there on he took this hostages . we have the information, the police try to contact him,

try to get him to surrender. but then there was this action that by police and he then died after the wounds that he suffered. it's not clear if the way, if he wounded himself or it was police who actually shot him, but he's that and both hostage is the same. so it ended basically when, when this man was, when this man died and then the hostages were released. that's right. yeah. that was in the, in the shopping center in the city of tristan, they cordoned off the area and they said, even though this whole situation is over and there's no danger anymore. they, of course investigation still continues. there still haven't opened the shopping center, but the nearby christmas market and everything. so they started to normalize the situation and try to find out what actually happened. okay, do we know anything about the suspect yet? they have said it's a 40 year old german man. they say that he is, is psychologically unstable. they are still investigations and going to see exactly how these unfold. it of the 3 incidents, one that is not yet clear what actually happened when he tried to gain access to

this radio station. they also published a statement saying that no one was injured from the staff working there, but that is concerning. of course, if you try to gain access, they said that it shows that all the security that the implemented that showed that in this case they would guarantee for them not to gain access to that if he is actually or possibly tried. also to gain access to have an interview to show in that before we continue to the shopping center, i've got about 30 seconds left. been human. this is of course, a really busy time of year addressed and isn't it? it is indeed a very busy time. a lot of people are around, especially on the weekend, especially when it comes to the christmas market. and there is a fee, and many people are thinking about what happened in, but i just thought that was a christmas market in berlin with a fall right terrorist attack several years ago. we can still see security measures that are still in place in christmas markets to avoid something like that happening again. indeed, benjamin alvarez group, our political correspondent, thanks so much or they're going to go to you,

ron now protest as they have taken to the streets again this after a man was put to death in the 1st execution over anti government demonstrations. mawson shikari was hanged on thursday after what observers described as a show trial demonstrations broke out in multiple cities as the protest movement heads into the 3rd month. activists. a warning that at least a dozen more around in protest is could face execution, including the well known wrapper too much to lackey who was forced to make a confession on state media. will cba key be as an iranian german writer, filmmaker and activist who focuses on women's rights and religion in iran, where she was born and raised earlier. i asked her where she expects this to go. as neither side is backing down. it's a very ugly situation and the regime exactly knows that they cannot survive, but they are still killing people,

a drowning regime. the only answer they have is to kill people and they want to, in my opinion, they want to gain time to get their money and their possessions out of the country . we have heard news in the past 2 days and we have had news from right in the beginning of the revolution that the high rank islamic republic leaders are already transporting out their possessions, money, gold, jewelry and so forth. and their families with private and secret fly lights. and now the talk to venezuela, who gets her mission to live there with their families and they try to get out the positions. i think they are just trying to again, this is, this is the absurdity of this current situation these days, like you said, very rightly everybody knows. in the beginning it was only as saying this regime is

done this time the revolution will win. but now everybody knows, even they themselves know that they are not going to come back to power anymore. but they are still killing people. it's just to gain time. it's just because it's like a fly that you have killed and it's fighting at cbre. i wanna just her ask you finally about this execution of madison shikari world leaders, including here in germany, have condemned his execution. dave announced fresh sanctions against iran. do you think this is going to make any kind of difference at all? you know, i think whether it makes difference or not at this point is not even important. but what is crucially important? what is crucially important is that these socks and the leaders of

the islamic republic, the criminal to the murderers, the child will still read hers. that they know that they cannot to make one single step without the world seeing it, and without the world reacting to it. and i think that's what the house and i am grateful to every country and its people and its leaders and governments who actually do react every step that these criminals teach. and we are grateful for your time. that was a filmmaker and activists, se russia cube. thank you very much. thank you for giving the people in iran voice and i am just a loud speaker. thank you. ah, well, the anal macy's world cup hopes are still alive after argentina one day quote, a final against the netherlands. the south americans were 2 goals up with 7 minutes

to go, but i need it. they ended up needing penalties to beat a dog, a dutch side. argentine supporters had to stand firmly in their hands as they looked to leon. l messy to carry their country into a semi final, and it was the captain who and pick the wps defense with his 1st half rouble to no will. molina held off for the day to put his team in front. in the 2nd half mark as a cooney was brought down inside the books. and bessy make no mistake from the spot . the result would told of settled. but with 7 minutes left this header from substitute vick horse begun to fight back. when it was thick horsed again, who leveled the scores deepened to stoppage time microscopy. taken free kick after that he don't you shoot out hunting keeper. any martinez is heroic. gave his

side the advantage they needed to pick themselves. replacing the semi fatal keeping macy's world can dream alive and breaking the thought of their hobo opponents. and you're up to died coming up on d. w and documentary series doc film is it's 3 communities devastated by earthquake war and nuclear disaster and finds out if normal life can ever return. i'm jared raid in berlin. i'll be back in 45 minutes with more have the woke up in the top exact in sporting tim