amazes the world with his building an architect of emotions. architecture is kind of a mystery. believe me, daniel lee biscuit and starts december 25th on d w. ah ah, this is d w that lie from berlin. a corruption scandal strikes the european parliament. police in brussels arrest former and current. any peace over allegations of bribery involving world cup host cutter. and a man is dead after taking 2 people hostage in the german city of dresden police

suspect he earlier killed his mother. also england out france and the defending champions claimed the last remaining spot in the world cup. let me find it. ah, i might go cropped welcome to the program. the lease in belgium have arrested a vice president of the european parliament. eva, kylie is one of 5 people implicated that a corruption prob, involves world cup host cutter. the greek socialist m e p has been expelled from her party and stripped of her vice president status. others arrested include current and former parliamentary officials. prosecutors say they're looking into payments and gifts given to people in strategic you positions who is in favor. there's been a number of arrest 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 probe said don't do see poor sort of stephen versus the better correct me, money laundering, and criminal organization which concerns potential corruption from a personal state as you go in the european parliament. the purpose of the bribery was to try to change the political or economic decisions off to your argument. we could do better than what the media reports name katara as 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 tars progress in labor reform, high and low. she made similar comments during

a speech at the european parliament later in november. they accusing some members of parliament, bullying, ty, 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. you corresponded jack parrot has more from brussels. we're. we know that the content from the guitar reside that they are investigating on their side. i have sources close to that. who have told me that actually that meeting that we heard

about with the labor minister, that the labor minister himself is being looked into and also the, the victoria ambassadors, the european union as one might expect. i was hoping doing some digging through some european parliament vote some find that a vote in the lee. but libra committee has called, which is like the legal affairs committee that ava kylie on the 1st of december turned off to a vote that was related to e. d. u visa liberalization for qatar and voted in favor of allowing that liberalization process to move forward. she's not a member of that committee. so on top of that speech that she made in the parliament that appear there, appears to be a growing weight of sort of public evidence coming out against her. it is important to say that the belgian authorities are investigating this heavily for other people have been arrested including a former m e p from italy. and they, there's also these widespread reports of 600 will confirmed reports by the belgian police that they confiscated 600000 euros in cash. one belgian newspaper is saying

is reporting that eva cody's father himself was actually trying to get some of that cash cash out of an apartment. the authorities had managed to stop him. this really is turning into a very, very deep scandal. try out some other stories making news right now. this one person has been killed in a dozen or missing after an explosion at a block of apartments on the channel island of jersey. police say the fire has been put out, but rescue efforts are still underway because of the bloss remains on no thousands of supporters of bangladesh, his main opposition party of taking to the streets of the capital dhaka. the nationalist party is demanding new elections and the resignation of prime minister shake. i seen the party accuses the government of a crackdown on activists, which it denies. hong kong for democracy, media tycoon, jimmy lies been sentenced to nearly 6 years in prison for fraud, relating to beast,

violations, lies, company ran the apple daily newspaper which closed in 2021 after police raid human rights campaign, or say the case against him is a vendetta by beijing, a hostage taker is dead after police moved in on him in the eastern german city of dresden. is 2 hostages, escaped on, hurt. police say the suspect suffered from mental illness and earlier had killed his mother. hundreds of officers took part in the police operation which spanned several hours and several locations before ending here at this shopping mall in central dresden, after phone negotiations, failed to convince the suspect to surrender himself. and the woman and child he had taken hostage police stormed the shopping center from vedo. so socio, he was hoisted under like a hook. i don't know whether it's heard no much. and then the sound swift alarming

the frozen icy. your address. 2 homes i song with other people you, this is only when the station i have to resign with centuries. alex, this is jasmine rolison. please say nobody else was harmed during the operation. earlier in the morning, the suspects 62 year old mother was found dead in an apartment outside the city. police say her death is linked to her son's rampage, which included an attempt to break into a local radio station before heading to the mall at about 9 am. police described the 40 year old as mentally unstable. are investigating the circumstances surrounding his mother's murder and the hostage taking the winners of between 22 nobel peace prize have collected their wards, rights activists from ukraine, russia and belarus. one this year was a strong rebuke of russia for its invasion of ukraine. repression of civil liberties at home and support for the authoritarian bellow russian government. it was supposed to be about peace. the handing over of the most prestigious nobel

prize in norway's capital oz low. but in her introduction, the head of the nobel committee spoke about fighting repression. we meet to day to celebrate. oh, the know both. i says, we meet at a time when democracy and freedom are in decline globally. and when there is a brutal war of aggression in europe with disruptive global effects and the world needs those admirable individuals and groups of people who are who at great personal sacrifice, challenge, repressive off authorities and stand up against aggression in pursuit of democracy,

human rights. and peace. this year's prize went to 3 winners. alice be ascii, a jailed by the ruse and activist who was represented by his wife, the russian human rights organization, memorial and the center for civil liberties in ukraine and jo, dival crashing you. yet can you do what you to little people in ukraine want peace more than anyone else. but peace doesn't come when the country being attacked lays down its arms. that is not peace, it's occupation. the focus doctor, the democratic world, is used to making concessions to dictators. and that is why the readiness of the ukrainian people to resist russian imperialism is so important is alisha, will you, they, we will not leave people in the occupied territories to die and be tortured people's lives. cannot be a political compromise, fully feature them. compromise some gold medals for the winners who will then go home to continue their battles. ah,

at the world cup and cut out france have completed the semi final lineup. the holders beat england to one to stay on track to become the 1st team to retain the world cup since brazil. in 1962, the last remaining spot in the semi finals was up for grabs. as england faced france. and it was the defending champions who had the strongest start o gillian, tro my knee fired his team into the lead in the 17th minute, his long range effort nestling into the corner beyond the reach of keep a jordan pick foot. where because you seca was brought down inside the box in the 2nd hall hurricane habit home, the resulting penalty to become his country's joints. top scorer o toine bought his fringe counterpart, came up with a swift reply from his record go score. and if he has your roof headed, he saw it back in front with just 12 minutes left on the cloak. england would get

another chance to level things when mason mouse was bundled, either by t o n, and as the captain came, couldn't repeat the trick from the spot. once again, accosting penalty miss seals england's fight while their road ends here. the holders are into the final fall in france, his opponents in a semi final are morocco who beat portugal, one nil and made footballing history by becoming the 1st african team ever to reach the last 4 morocco took the lead in the 1st half thanks to a towering header header from yusef and siri, from there on the underdog, sat tight and defended their lead. shall felix had the best of portugal chances in the 2nd half, but he was denied by the moroccan keeper. rocca's when dashes, christiana renados, dreams, as lifting that world go he w,

correspond max merrill is in doha. he told us about the party atmosphere among the thousands of barack and supporters there. oh, the party is raging on here. and so lucky of the market in doha, well, broken funds are joined by supports is from egypt, algeria, saudi arabia and cuts off in the basking in the glory of making a semi final the 1st at a time an african team is made at that this fall at a wells cup and coach while he did a good auggie had said he wanted to make the continent of africa proud wanted to show what our african coaches can do at the highest level. america have shown against countries like belgium, croatia, spain and now portugal. what they can do, what they made of a different performance today, showing tactical mouse well in the 1st half they were much more talking. and then the 2nd half, they sat deep and sucked up the pressure different to how they played against spain showing they can adapt to their opponents. now a semi final awaits and they have every chance to be pushed on by the support of so

many supports as in kids, all 15000 americans. we live here an estimated 35000 moroccans overall here in the country, pushing that side on filling up the stadiums. and as you can hear, a massive part of the atmosphere here as well. so a big opportunity from rural coat to make even more history. supporters back home america were, as you probably expect, ecstatic over their teams. history, triumph, ah, people across the country into fans zones, to watch their t dump portugal out of the tournament. these are the scenes at one venue in casablanca, and i have a mouth watering, semi final, against france, to look for and in brussels, which is home to a large moroccan population. d. w reporter abraham spoke to fans about their teams

latest when and the bigger social tension that is spilled out under the streets there during this world cup. oh, yeah, russell's here is absolutely an electric rocking fans are elated for the historic with double time with jim. we are so pay about you over here in the middle east, on the overall model go. we are very happy. we all, we all support model. there is also a human gene of volunteers would be the just to live right next to me. they have to come here to call you and to make sure that they're celebrating with a few meters behind me in that direction with most of the pan in that direction. ah, patsy has sometimes been accompanied with pleasure, but these volunteers, you tell me they're here to make sure that that doesn't happen again, not to be at the us. my roots are moroccan. we don't want the image of moroccans to

be negative because of some people that are here to sabotage the atmosphere. we're here to keep the peace and keep people calm. so don't keep common play on an stay tuned because up next we have sports life. the life of disabled sports men and women between the big events like the olympics, when the spotlight isn't on their sports, that's up next we'll have more few after that break of course d, w dot com and dw news twitter instruments where you want to get the latest, i'm waiting for corrupt, actually watch with a she's got any issues with all say what grade a.