ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin to night, allegations of corruption and bribery reaching from could tar to the top of the european party. we are europeans, we would draw defeat, cold van boats, parliament president, robert them. it's all the had strong words today for foreign powers trying to by

influence becomes after police and charged for people in connection with alleged rivalry. also coming up tonight, european union, imposing further sanctioned on iran over human rights abuses after a rainy and authorities executed a 2nd demonstrator linked to anti government protests. and will have the remarkable story of a british teenager whose incurable leukemia has disappeared. and it's all because of a revolutionary new therapy. ah, i bring gov, it's good to have you with this on this monday, the president of the european parliament has denounced attempts to undermine the parliament and the european project by what she's calling the enemies of democracy . are better met, so today delivered

a speech to the parliament strossberg and announced a wide scale investigation declaring that nothing would we swept under the carpet. she was speaking after one of the parliaments, vice president eva kylie. so was charged with corruption over allegations that world cup host could tar on the page. huge bribes to influence, not e u policy nation time. the greek and b. p is what a for people arrested in connection with the scan it then i'll come it. here's more now from the european parliament president today make no mistake the european parliament their colleagues, is under attack. european democracy is under attack. and other way of open free democratic societies are under attack. i want to good at our correspond barbara hazel. she is in strossberg forest. could he be to you barbara? so barbara, this is a moving story and it looks like the police investigations are getting wider by the

hour. what more do we know tonight? indeed, things keep on happening while robert met sort of a speaking here in strasburg, at the belgium police did more searches at 10 offices within the european parliament in brussels, were searched hotel rooms, apartments, and further offices. and what did they find more and more money in $1.00 of the hotel rooms connected to one of the suspects, a $150000.00, plus in his suitcase in an office. another cool 100000. so we are obviously heading towards the 1000000 in cash sloshing around in connection a to this whole a bribery and corruption scandal ended. so the police hasn't said whether they are finished. this might yet evolve and, and sort of carry on to more people apart from the 4 that have been put into detention. our suspects at this point in time. but we don't know whether this is all the circuit might yet be widening. yeah. and either the,

the allegations here or that atari officials paid members of the european parliament basically for good p r. at a time when katara could use some good p r. is there any way that the european parliament jan prevent this type of bribery from happening? moving forward, they really do have to, i mean, they need stronger oversight. there has been a gap in anti corruption measures within european parliament. so heart, what is regulated is the lobbying may be even sort of bribery or by corporations. my businesses who have interest in late legislation that is, that is being made here in the european parliament. so derek devotees are relatively strictly regulated. but 3rd countries that's a wide open door. there is simply nothing they could so far do whatever they wanted . so there are people here in parliament who say we have to look at other countries apart from katara. we know that as

a by john and this throughout the last years has been very busy on many fronts, politically, trying to bribe people to gain a better reputation. and the same holds true, of course, for russia and maybe some others. so this story isn't over, the parliament will really be busy with looking at the details here from months coming. and the big problem is, it's not only the frustration and disappointment of parliamentarians have nothing to do with this. but the big point is the soft power of the you are people in parliament rests with the moral high ground they can occupy in say we of fighting for european values. if they lose that, they really lose a big part of who they are and what they can do in europe. yeah, that's a very good point to make it abuse. barbara visally to night in strossberg over. thank you. your barbara was talking about that soft power. here's an example, the european union imposing further sanctions on iran over human rights abuses. it

comes after raining authorities executed a 2nd demonstrate are linked to anti government protests. why she, dresden ronna. vars was found guilty after allegedly stabbing to security officers to death during the demonstrations. human rights groups have warned that protesters are being sentenced to death after sham trials with no due process. the news came early in the morning. maggie teresa ross, nevada, had been executed after a show trial maggie were rights group say he didn't even receive legal council. this low resolution security footage was considered enough evidence to convict him . the court claims chose the 23 year old attacking to members of a pro government militia. the young man shown here in a private video was charged at the end of november. he was hanged less than a month later active, his se that run of ards family had not been informed. but he got an offer last week . another young man, most sane shikari, us,

became the 1st person to be executed for taking part in the nation wide protests. as a result, thousands of iranians took to the street and cities across the country to once again demand an end to the islamic leadership. foreign ministers, meeting in brussels, sharply criticized the executions. germany's top diplomat on elena burbock said, europe is on the side of the innocent and iran. they have mittens, excellence made these new sanctions. we took aim at those who are responsible for these executions and for def, violence against the innocent people on what that is. first and foremost, that evolution that he got gotten, but it's also those who tried to intimidate are punished people in the bed manipulated videos. i'm so she's done. order my dad to pushed off. at least 9 other people have been sentenced to death. human rights organizations say they could be executed at any time. more now i want to brian, sarah, bon,

bonded. she is with the german institute for global and area studies in hamburg, germany, she specializes in iraq or it's going to have you on the program. i want to talk about much dressed, a run of ard was being sentenced to death after being found guilty of murdering 2 members. of the security forces with a knife. wouldn't a crime like this get the death penalty in any country that does have capital punishment to be i guess the, the question really is, is this something that is extraordinary in iran i thank you for the position and then the point about these executions is not whether according to the law, if the person actually committed the crime to, you know, should be punished and capital punishment or not. but the point about the issue is that there is a lack of access to just trial. and most of this confession because that the bad it

is given by the confession of the person out there. and most of the competitors are given under torture on their special violation of human rights that are being used by security prisons in iran and give us to those that are being arrested in their protests. so whether these, if this matter actually happened or not, will have been receiving a different issue. the issue that is now shaking the european politicians, the people in iran is that there is very little evidence that this, that people have actually committed these crimes. and there is very little transparency in their trials. you know, i mean, there is that this claim, there's no due process, new justice at all. and considering that and considering the fact that we know that demonstrators want to continue going out on the streets and protesting. do you

think that these executions are going to make these demonstrators think twice about continuing with this project? do you think it's going to stop? well, what, what the government, the government official jargon versus cities and then sentences, is that preventative basic and preventative execution? so in other words, they are meant seen by the public as a strong signal, that continuation of the armrest is going to have a more killing and more bloodshed. but the immediate reaction, actually we have seen any of that. and the 1st execution was not really a preventative, and i think anything it was more anger and a pricing, especially in that neighborhood where that person was living and was arrested in town. and i would expect the same degree of continuation in the city of mash hard to win. the 2nd victim was executed as will take place. of course,

it will have an impact, but i would imagine that it's very hard to say because it to convince people that they should, they should stop. right? because there is also a very open debate within the and over the execution. just today there was in public event held in one of the most conservative universities in between 2 very pro, regime is questioning the legal aspects and the legitimacy of execution . so i would imagine that to stay there, as you would with the struggle using this preventative execution. or preference that there are bonding, helping us to understand and giving us good context about the events that are taking place right now in iran, we appreciate your time today. thank you. spy. let's take a look now, some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world,

the german parliament is reviewing it. security after law enforcement agencies foiled a suspected could overthrow the government last week. so politicians are calling for a tightening of gun controls. dozens of people were arrested in grades in connection with the alleged for right conspiracy. taliban officials say that police killed 3 people who stormed a hotel in the afghan capital cobble wendy. more than 20 people. the hotel is popular with chinese business visitors, indonesia government as foreign taurus will not face prosecution under a new law that criminalizes sex outside of marriage. last week, the indonesian parliament unanimously passed the new legislation which also benz co habitation among unmarried couples. now there are concerns that the changes could hurt the country's economy by discouraging tours from visit early in the war in you great. many europeans were enthusiastic about supporting

ukraine and taking in some of its refugees. but 9 months in and that enthusiasm appears to be waning as food and energy costs are rising. a new study shows that just 40 percent of europeans are in favor of supporting ukraine, regardless of the price. roughly the same number of things that support should be restricted. germany has welcomed more than a 1000000 ukrainian so far this year. many are still living with people who opened their doors to them at the start of this war. ah, yes, i eat them all alone. we don't give anything away the day making biscuits and learning diamond at the same time. if he not, and her daughter victoria had been living in berlin for 8 months. at the beginning of march, they had to flee from the wall in ukraine. since then they've been staying with hika or yes. yeah, lemme see, it'll move. so if it had been just my mother and me, we probably wouldn't have made it. but we have hika. she knows all about the

paperwork and has taken a lot of time to help us. yeah. we, we really appreciate that and i'm grateful for it. oh, i thought what she's saying, well, that out of the mother and daughter have been very lucky in germany. they live in hike us guest flat with a small kitchen and balcony. the one room apartment is nice enough, but victor leanne dear fina dream of their own 4 walls. for now, they don't want to go back to ukraine. hercules blit, ideally we would like to live in a 2 room flat, thought it just a bit bigger. it wouldn't have to be so nice or have such of you. and i would take any kind of job to be able to pay for it. so you should youll hikers happy to help them. ha, she gets on very well with the 2 ukrainians, but that they would stay for so long was not the plan. she wants them to find their own flat also because it would give them more independence as conflicting

at their many things that the flat a simply too small for. it starts with the washing machine which they use at our place and other things where there's simply too little space on the i have apple would salinas plots if if they have to move out of hikers place, they would have no choice but to go into emergency shelters like so many refugees and germany. finding a flat and berlin is almost impossible. hika has decided to let them stay with her for the time being used. by his law we were simply lucky hung, if an angel came down from heaven and we were lucky fellow, irina and victoria will be safe here with hika for the next few months. it's not a teenager in the united kingdom is cancer free after undergoing a new treatment for leukemia. it's called base editing and it involves altering the

patient's dna. doctors say that the breakthrough has huge implications for the future of treating cancer. oh, the teenager at the center of a medical breakthrough. after all conventional treatments failed doctor's fear, ellis is leukemia was incurable. with few options left, alyssa volunteered to be the 1st patient to undergo an experimental treatment known as basic 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, so obviously the, the new field in medicine. and it's fascinating that we can re directing in system to fight cancer. doctors say this treatment only scratches the surface of what base

editing could achieve. they believe the technology could help fight a wide range of diseases. hello, i've helped other children as well. that they might, that the children might be able to get cured because of 3 such died in pot and all these be loser is still being monitored just in case the cancer returns. joining us tonight from cambridge, massachusetts, in the u. s. is one of the inventors of base editing dr. david lewis, professor and director of the american institute of transformative technologies in health care at harvard university professor. it's good to have you with this story as got the attention of the entire world. it's got the hopes of everyone up as well because we all know someone who is battling cancer. he was his wife has been touched by cancer. can you explain to was non scientist, how does base editing work? sure, so. so base editor is our machines. molecular machines and we engineered trying

from components in nature and in our laboratories that convert one d n. a letter to a different letter of our choosing in the vast genome. they can be targeted to a specific sequence of interest, where they then rearrange the adams in one d n, a base to instead become a different dna days. so base editors can correct the misspellings that call genetic disease or make other times it precise single letter changes that can be useful for fighting to be such that. so if you're, if you're correcting then the mistakes will end, which that's what we understand cancer cells to be any way that result of a mistake in cellular reproduction. are we talking about then being a step closer to having a cure for cancer?

i think scientists and doctors are really reluctant to use the word cure when it comes, especially to treating cancer. because cancer by it's very nature is constantly evolving to try to revise our medicines. but in this case, the doctors did not simply attack the cancer by trying to change the d n, a sequence of the cancer cells. instead, they took a much more clever approach. one that is built on the work of many, many scientists and you know, on college years, it's called in which we made precise base at it in a donors t cells that then to reprogram those cells to go after a list of cancer without harming a list. of cells. so that approach proved to be very effective in treating melissa and 6 months after treatment. she doesn't have any detectable cancer. of course that doesn't necessarily mean she's cured for life, but we're all hopeful that her cancer free status will last for the foreseeable

future. and we know that when someone has had cancer is cancer for you goes into remission. there's always a chance of cancer coming back. let's say that in the case of alyssa, that that cancer does come back using this new treatment, this new technology. would you be able then to once again, go in and change just a small portion of her d n a to once again, turn off the new cancer? are we talking about maybe having to go in maybe several times each time the cancer is able to regenerate itself? the most powerful, and perhaps the most exciting aspect of base editing is that it is simply a way to make precise single letter changes in the dna of human cells or any other kind of self. without matter. it's not limited to being applied to anyone disease and in fact there are for clinical trials ongoing right now to treat for different

diseases and for different countries using based out of in, in the case of alyssa, she already went through a treatment and more standard treatment for cancer that proved unsuccessful, so she's already lived through get fortunate experiences receiving a cancer treatment that then results and they cancer coming back. and thanks to the leadership and the vision of dr. what same thing that you see, you know, versus college london? he's the one who led the clinical trial to say ok, perhaps we should try this experimental new therapy that you designed on a letter to give her the best chance of recovering. yeah, well it's definitely given people all around the world. reason for, for hope moving forward and a lot of that has to do with the work that you have been doing. we appreciate your time and your insights tonight, professor david lou from harvey for your interest. thank you. thank you. when out to south america, bruce, new president is to ask congress to bring elections forward by 2 years. the liberal

artes announcement followed protests that were sparked by the impeachment last week of her predecessor, pedro castilian demonstrations over the weekend turned violence to teenagers died at least 5 people were injured in a remote community in the and these mel thorough is political tension, spilling over is protesters and police clash? these crowds in lima, among thousands of people who turned out across the country, demanding that president dina polity stand down. minority has only been in the jobs since wednesday. she was sworn in to replace lyft as president pedro castillo after he tried to dissolve congress and was later arrested, outraging his supporters. it. but only that company. at 1st, we demand the freedom of our president pedro castillo, 2nd. that congress. this rotten corrupt congress is closed, that

a constitutional assembly is convened. and thirdly, that peru declares a state of emergency that i am. the protests escalated over the weekend with deadly clashes in the southern city of under homeless. the crisis prompting bassetti, a former prosecutor who served as custio's, vice president to announce early elections a, the cd blocks. you mean? like i have decided to try and reach an agreement with congress to bring forward the general elections to april 2024. there was me in the coming days i was seen to bill to advance the elections and we were able to reach an agreement and parliament on the pin on this. but i think comes in so other bullets what has bullied the got it. but if in fact the near peruse, right, leaning congress held an emergency session on sunday to discuss the crisis, but had to be suspended after physical altercations broke out,

peruse head 6 presidents in the last 6 years, including 3 in a single week in 2020. the length of dina below artie's ladyship to be decided by voters. if peruvians can wait that long necessary ryan council has safely splashed down in the pacific ocean of the coast, mexico. that ends a 25 day test flight around the moon. the un crude mission wraps up phase one of nasa's new artemus lunar program, which aims to put astronauts back on the moon by the year 2025. so think america's new ticket to ride to the moon and back pair shooting into the pacific. ryan nasa's capsule, a ryan makes it splashed down or of nasa journey to the moon, comes to a close or ryan back on earth. 3 weeks ago or ryan was blasted off to the moon carrying mannequins as an, as part of a test run called our to miss one. we run the data that's retrieved from

a ryan will help unlock the new era of space exploration 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 its been inspected. it will be transported to san diego, california. it and nasa is planning to follow up with artemus to in 2024 thera a historic mission that will take humans back to the moon for the 1st time in half a century. ultimately, nasa says it's plan is to establish a permanent base on the moon. and from there, the launch mission friend to mars the plan is to get ready to go with humans to

mars late in the decade of the 20 thirty's. 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 on the moon than what about the north pole? finally, hundreds of people dressed as santa took part in a charity run in mexico over the weekend. it took place in zap upon the mexican state of olive scope, and it was done for children who were in need. last year's event was canceled because of the pandemic that makes this years run even more special, even more fun. remember, santa claus is coming to town. i just reminded the top story. we're following for

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