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a closer look at the project with to analyze the fight for market dominance. get us to the head with d w business beyond ah ah, this is debbie news live from berlin, high level corruption at the european parliament. police reportedly charge parliamentary vice president in connection with pay for play scandal. b, p was among 4 people detained on suspicion of taking bribes from world cup post. also on the show ukrainian investigators and hockey say they're collecting evidence
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showing that russia used especially destructive bombs against civilians, a possible war and splashed down to ryan the unproved. nasa capital return successfully to earth put the u. s. space agency. one step closer. returning astronauts to the modem. ah and we will corrupt welcome to the program if kylie, one of the european parliament's vice presidents has reportedly been charged by police in connection with a corruption probe. the use legislative branch already stripped kylie of her powers . belgian police are investigating whether european union officials took bribes from cut are the host of the world cup. belgian prosecutors expanded their corruption investigation into members of the european parliament over the weekend,
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announcing at least one more suspect. and the search of yet another home belonging to a lawmaker. according to belgium, media, greek, m. p. eva, kylie was one of those charged european parliament had already suspended all her duties and responsibilities as vice president. we need to understand exactly who was involved and what they wanted from these m. p. 's. and what the belgian authorities reveal in the coming weeks and months beyond the investigation europe miss now decide how to deal with color. the country allegedly behind the bribery, the parliament had been preparing negotiations. that would make it simpler for guitar. citizens to travel to the you without a visa. on one hand, we have to make sure this process wasn't influenced by corruption. we also have to show that an attempt to attack democracy has tough consequences, including not using the visa process on the common meetings between the european
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parliament and guitar, such as a trip planned for december have been cancelled it. tara government has rejected accusations of bribery insisting it worked solely within the framework of international law. interview correspondent jack patrick has been following the story from brussels and he told us earlier how the corruption charges have shaken the european parliament this week session of the european parliament and stroudsburg is going to be a major one in this context of these 4 people having being charged for corruption, money laundering, an participation in a criminal organization and they include according to belgium, media reports widely that that is the vice president of the european parliament now removed from that position by the parliament, eva kylie, a greek socialist m e p. and another number of her connections, including her life partner, a former italian m e p, and another head of an n g o, as well. the human rights n g o base to hear him in brussels. the question is exactly how deep this goes.
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there's a lot of public information showing sort of gleaming votes where the gleaming speeches story, where a tiny spoon spoke very much in favor of the guitar. he government and what they're doing regarding labor laws. your so was in attendance at a vote in a legal affairs committee that she actually doesn't sit on, but she actively went to vote in favor of liberalizing the visa process for categories and citizens entering the european union. the category embassy, the mission to the european union is called, has called all of these claims baseless. they say that they work, institutions, we institution. but there is this swirling sense of these connections. and that 600000 euros in cash. that was fine by police on thursday friday night is going to be a real indicator, real part of the evidence that goes forward. not the belgian authorities being very tight lipped about this, that not really naming people than not expanding too much on the charges. and
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that's obviously because investigations are going to be going probably for some time trying to ukraine now. in hart keys, ukrainian investigators are gathering the remains of russian weapons used against civilians. they hope their work can support bringing war crimes cases to court. it's a different kind of graveyard. a thick layer of snow covers these pieces of metal laid out next to each other. many responsible for lives lost in the conflict. a sombre illustration of the intensity of moscow's attack on the city of hard case since the beginning of the war. ukrainian investigators are collecting every fragment as evidence. they suspect russian troops used cluster bombs against civilians and are building a case to take to the top war crimes prosecutor is a story i hope our findings will be used at the international criminal court was january. neither. russian forces 1st started pummeling hardship with artillery and
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missiles, 9 months ago, killing and wounding civilians and damaging hospitals, schools, and homes. in the past few days, ukraine and officials say areas close to the city were hit again. the attacks destroying residential homes resists with your purchase fields and private houses. here. we don't even have a supermarket or school school. i don't know why the attack, which one should look into to include neighborhoods like his are not only at risk from misses from above. the remains on unexploded cluster bombs pose a major threat to a un report has found that both russia and ukraine have used them in the war with civilians caught in the middle, paying the ultimate price. let's turn out some other stories making news right now . the turkish and russian president had a phone call to discuss strengthening the black sea grain deal turkey's rights of type air to one has been
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a go between in talked with vladimir putin and ukraine's president vladimir zalinski. the agreement allows ukrainian grain exports, which russian attacks and a blockade stopped for months. pakistan's military says heavy gun fire and shelley from afghanistan has killed 6 civilians at the home on border crossing in the west of pakistan. the busy crossing which is used for trade entrance, it was closed for several hours. it was the scene of similar clashes last month. u. s. and scottish authority say the libyan man, accused of making the bomb that blew up pan am flight one o 3 over lockerbie scotland in 1088 has been taken into custody oblong. leah mohammed sued, was charged with by the u. s. for the bombing 2 years ago, or 259 people aboard the flight from london to new york or chills. serbian president alexander book chick says he wants to diffuse tensions between
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kosovar authorities and ethnic serbs and kosovo. he met with members of the national security council in belgrade and saturday. sir protestors blocked major roads in northern kosovo. for a former sir police officer was arrested and now let's look up. nasa's artemus won a ryan capsule slash down in the pacific ocean off the coast to mexico. it returned from a 25 day test flight around the moon. the vehicle hit earth's atmosphere at a mind bending 40000 kilometers an hour. though this one was on crude nasa is aiming for missions with astronauts as soon as 2025. so thick america's new ticket to ride to the moon and back pair shooting into the pacific. ryan nasa's capsule, a ryan. so that makes it splashed down or of nasa journey to the moon comes to a close. oh ryan, back on earth. 3 weeks ago or ryan was blasted off to the moon carrying
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mannequins susan as part of a test run called our to miss one. we, the data that's retrieved from a ryan will help unlock the new era of space exploration a by. and i don't think any one of us could have imagined the mission, the successful. but we had a very successful flight test. we now have a foundational deep space transportation system. and while we haven't looked at all the data that we've acquired, we will do that over the coming days and weeks to a u. s. military helicopters and a group of boats approach to capsule after it splashed down after it's been inspected, it will be transported into to san diego, california. it thing in these mission and nasa is planning to follow up with artemus to in 2024 therapy historic mission that will take humans back to the moon for the 1st time in half a century. ultimately,
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nasa says it's plan is to establish a permanent base on the moon. and from there, the launch missions to mars the plan is to get ready to go with humans to mars late in the decade of the 2030 ish. and then even further beyond, and we know from what we're finding from the james web space telescope, that it is a very, very large universe out there. 50 years after the iconic apollo 70 mission. nasa is one step closer to setting up camp one on the moon than earlier i spoke to astro biologist, chief calling and began by asking him what knowledge and data nasa hopes to gain from this mission. well, you know, having worked there, there's 2 times during the mission that you get nervous, shall we say one is the watch. and the other is if you're bringing something back
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when it comes back into the atmosphere. and so there were some nail biting as they did, they did exactly as they plan to do it. they came closer to the target than the you to so all round it was the perfect day that bad math fair in speaking of math. we have been here before the u, the u. s. has sent astronauts to the moon before long before computers and the kind of technology we deal with today. what is so challenging, given all this technology, all the advancements we've made in the, in the decade since what so challenging about going back to the moon? well, you know, i remember those landings when i was in high school. so there's half a century between that me in this me. and if you look at what has happened in terms of what we can do in this world. now, you may have things that look similar to like, you know, the old volkswagens had that shape and then i would say this capsule looks like the old ones, but it could do many things that you could not do with the apollo councils. it's less the most important thing. the 2nd thing is, the way we're going back to the moon. this time,
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we're not racing. the soviet union. we're going back in a planned fashion that will go back again and again and again. not just america we, i keep getting asked about nasa's mission. yeah. had nasa's logo on it, but it had a european service module, has all kinds of experiments from all the world on it. and when we do go back to the moon, there's going to be americans and europeans, a japanese canadians, what not all walking in the mood so that the challenges and the differences are not just engineering, but also societal. how and why we're doing this careless canada. how and why are we doing this here on earth? we have a climate crisis. we have worn ukraine, we've got inflation of got economic issues. there's so much that governments, not just the u. s. government governments around the world has to be doing to take care of their populations. why does this matter for ordinary people beyond just the inspiration aspect? well, again, i can just go back in time to the sixties and they said, you know, the different version of the same thing. you know, why are we doing this when, till the black and i, i would just fast forward a bit. and i mean,
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we're all excited here in the us that this is happening in canada, in europe, and so forth. but i would still the question back you why or why is india spending billions of dollars to put her person in space wise china doings? why are with the new artemus accords which brings had several dozen nations in why do you see cell as little countries like gonna and depaul flying satellites up? the space station is because of the technological advantage. it does give you, it is inspirational. that is important. but also it's now something where space is now something that virtually any country in almost any high school and he were the world to do. so, this is a natural thing that now we can say, well, what are we going to do? let's go back to the moon. we didn't finish what we need to do there. let's go back . all right, let's go back. indeed, astro biologist, keith cowan going where he's gone before, which is the w. it's going to see again with a teenager in the united kingdom has been cleared of cancer after undergoing
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a new treatment for leukemia. it's called base editing, which involves altering the patient's dna. dr. say the breakthrough could have huge implications for the future of treating disease. o gayden, the teenager at the center of a medical breakthrough. after all conventional treatments failed doctors feared alyssa's leukemia was incurable. with few options left, alyssa volunteered to be the 1st patient to undergo an experimental treatment known as based edison. the cutting edge procedure involves genetically engineering new immune cells that hunt down the cancerous 16 months on the cancer is no longer detectable in alyssa's body. it is extremely exciting. and so obviously this the new field in medicine. and it's fascinating that we can redirecting in system to fight cancer. doctors say this treatment only scratches the surface of what base editing could achieve. they believe the technology could
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help fight a wide range of diseases. and i, i've helped other children as well that they might, that of the children might be able to get cured because of the research that i've in pot and all these be, lisa is still being monitored just in case the cancer returns. but she and her family are grateful for the extra time that it has both them. up. next, we got a documentary for you about a successful oper. singer was decided to give up the glamorous life and were trained as a caregiver for the elderly stated people and trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away. families played on the reason for the credit on it is with demonstrated.
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