ah, buildings, the biggest thing in the world is the spirit of an architect. thing motions. she just can't starts december 25th on d w. ah ah, this is the w news, live it from berlin tonight, allegations of corruption and bribery reaching from could tar to the leaders of the european party make no mistake, the european parliament their colleagues is under attack. strong worry was one of the parliament president,

but the vice president and she has been suspended suspected of taking bribes from guitar in exchange for good policy and good p r. also coming up tonight, the european union opposing more sanctions on iran after yet another protest was executed in the country. and the remarkable store of a british teenager, whose previously incurable leukemia has disappeared. and it's all thanks to a revolutionary new therapy. ah, i'm regard to our viewers watching on p b s in the united states and to all of you around the world. welcome. on this monday, the president of the european parliament has denounced attempts to undermine the european project as one of the largest corruption scandals in the history of the

e. u is now being investigated, or bedroom at solar to day spoke after one of the parliament's vice president eva kylie was charged with taking bribes from a golf state. understood to be could tar, which is hosting the world cup right now. the greek member of parliament is one of 4 people. he was arrested in connection with the scandal. the parliament of the european union rocked by the worst corruption scandal in its history. the institutions leader stressed the gravity of the situation for the block. 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. to your words echoed by the e. u commission chief, the allegations against the rest. it is a question of confidence of people into our institutions and this confidence and

trust into our institutions needs highest standard and of independence and integrity. high level in you official stand accused of alleged involvement in a bribery scheme in which the gulf states guitar may have been trying to influence their political decision. a member of parliament ever kylie is understood to be among those charged. she's one of the parliament's vice president. recently, she had become a vocal defender of the gulf country. they are highly even praised guitar as a front runner in labor writing world. co post guitar has faced wide criticism for miss treatment of the migrant workers who build new stadiums. their guitar has denied using any illegal means of lobbying. pylee remains in police custody along with 3 other people. she has been suspended from her duties as vice president,

as well as from membership in her party, the vice president, all the facts, the e u parliament president law says she's determined to crack down on corruption in working with relevant national. this is a test of our values and our systems and colleagues, let me show you that we will meet this test head on. there will be no impunity, none. those responsible will find this parliament on the side of the law. and i am proud of our role and assistance in this investigation. there will be no sweeping under the carpet. a snowballing scandal with reports of more suspicious cash found in fresh searches by belgium police. on monday i spoke with our correspondent barbara visa. she is in strossberg france, where the european parliament is. i asked her about the latest developments in this

evolving investigation. indeed, things keep on happening while roberta met sort of a speaking here in strasburg, at the belgium police said 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 a 1000000 in cash sloshing around in connection a to this whole 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 you know, the,

the allegations here or that could, tory 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 the 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 was 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 for the european union is imposing more sanctions on iran over human rights abuses. it comes after iranian authorities executed a 2nd demonstrator linked to anti government protests. my g dressed

a run of artie was found guilty after allegedly stabbing to security officers during 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, what's 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 as say that run of ards family had not been informed. but he got an office 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 met in violence made these new sanctions. we took aim at those who are responsible for these executions. and for def, violence against innocent people on what that is. first and foremost, that evolution that he got gotten, but it is also those who tried to intimate date of are punished. people in the bed manipulated video. i'm so she's done. auda, my dad to push off at least 9 other people have been sentenced to death. human rights organizations say that could be executed at any time. sarah was who bond is with the german institute for global and area studies in hamburg. she specializes

in iran. she talked me through the case of margie dresden, run of art 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 by capital punishment. or not, but the point about the issue is that there is not evidence is access to just trial and most of the 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 and iran . and you've been with us to those that are being arrested in their protests. so whether these, if this matter actually happened or not, would have been receiving time spent is an issue. the issue that is now shaking

european a politician 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 them? well what, what the government, the government official jargon versus that a sentence sentence says, is that preventative basic and preventative execution? so in other words, they are meant seen by the public as a strong signal that it continuation of the armrest is going to have

a more killing and more bloodshed. but the immediate reaction actually we have seen in the office and the 1st execution was not really preventative. in fact, if 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, when 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 that was in public event held in one of the most conservative universities in between 2 very

pro, regime is questioning the the legal aspect of the legitimacy of execution . so i would imagine that the state, 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. let's take a look now, some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world this hour, the german parliament is reviewing its security protocols after law enforcement agencies foiled a suspected coo to overthrow the government last week. so politicians are calling for tightening of gun control walls. dozens of people were arrested in raids in connection with an alleged far right conspiracy. tell me about officials say that police killed 3 people who stormed a hotel in the afghan capital kabul. mooney more than 20. the hotel is popular with chinese business visitors. indonesia government says that foreign tours will not

face prosecution under a new law that criminalizes sex outside of marriage. just last week, the indonesian parliament unanimously passed legislation that bands cohabitation among unmarried couples as well. there are concerns that the changes could hurt the countries valuable tourism in a fire has engulfed a shopping mall in moscow. the 2nd such blaze and it's 4 days. it happened on monday that destroyed a store in the east of the city that sells, building materials in home improvement. good. this follows a similar fire that broke out on friday at a shopping mall just north of moscow. now to south america, peruse new president is asking congress to bring elections forward by 2 years. dina, below our taste announcement followed protests that were sparked by the impeachment last week of her predecessor,

former president pedro castillo demonstrations. over the weekend. it turned violent to teenagers. died and at least 5 people were injured in a remote community in the end these mount ah throughs, political tension spilling over his 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 boulevard. he has only been in the job since wednesday. she was sworn in to replace lift as president pedro castillo after he tried to dissolve congress, and was later arrested, outraging his supporters. but he made alida 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 this cd glass. you mean? like i had 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 will send a bill to advance the elections and we will end to reach an agreement and parliament can and i live, but i think comes in. so i go for a foot of has bullied the, got it within that a little 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 had 6 presidents in the last 6 years, including 3 in

a single week in 2020 the length of deena below artes leadership to be decided by voters. if peruvians can wait that long, early in the ukraine war, many europeans were enthusiastic about the supporting ukraine and about taking in refugees. but 9 months into this war and that enthusiasm, it is waning. a new study shows that just 40 percent of europeans are in favor of supporting ukraine, regardless of the cost. roughly the same number think of support should be restricted. germany has welcomed over a 1000000 ukrainians so far, many are still living with people who opened their doors to them at the beginning of this war. i lie no eat them all alone. we don't give anything away. the day making biscuits and dawning german at the same time. if he not, and her daughter victoria have 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. oh, we have the enema, stay at home. okay. 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 paper work and has taken a lot of time to help us piano vivita. appreciate that. and i'm grateful for it. i don't know what she's saying, but it out of the mother and daughter have been very lucky in germany. they live in hika guest flat with a small kitchen and balcony. the one room apartment is nice enough, but victorian d. athena dream of their own forms. for now, they don't want to go back to ukraine. hercules, but 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 to have such a few. and i would take any kind of job to be able to pay for it. so you should, you'll hika is 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 a fair, 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 they simply too little space like a buckle. what celine's plots is if they have to move out of hikers place, they would have no choice but to go into emergency shelters. like so many refugees in germany. funding a flattened berlin is almost impossible. hika has decided to let them stay with her for the time being diesel. i thought we were simply lucky hung. if an angel came down from heaven and we were lucky,

irina and victoria will be safe here with hika for the next few months. but 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. dr. say that this breakthrough has huge implications for the future of treating hands. oh, gave us 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,

so obviously the, the new field in medicine. and it's fascinating that we can redirecting in system to fight cancer doctor to 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. i know that i've helped the children as well. that they might, that the children might be able to get cured because every such died in pot and all these bills are still being monitored just in case of the cancer returns. when dr. david lou is one of the inventors of base editing. he's professor and director of the american institute of transformative technologies and health care at harvard university. i asked earlier to explain just how base editing works. sure, so. so base editors are machines, molecular machines that we engineered,

drawing from components in nature. and in our laboratory 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 atoms and one d n a base to instead become a different dna base. so they senators can correct the misspellings that cause genetic disease or make other kinds of precise single letter changes that can be useful for finding disease such as the t cell leukemia. that was that. so if you're, if you're correcting then the mistakes in which that's what we understand cancer cells to be any way the 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, 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 make precise based 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 based 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 about matter. it's not limited to being applied to any one 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 the case of a less,

she already went through a treatment more standard treatment for cancer that proved unsuccessful, so she's already lived through the unfortunate experience of receiving a cancer treatment that then results in the cancer coming back. and thanks to the leadership and scientific vision of dr. was same, same that you see out university college london. he's the one who left the clinical trial to say ok, perhaps we should try this experimental new therapy that you designed on alyssa to give her the best chance of recovering? yeah, well it's definitely given people all around the world. reason for, for her 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 heart. thank you for your interest. thank you. ah, well, the football world cup in guitar is on a rear wrist day. the next matches will be the to my finals with teams hoping to

make it to sundays. final of footballs, most important championship. the 1st of the sim ice takes place tomorrow evening. that is argentina against croatia, then wednesday evening, seize my walk or challenge defending champions. france. morocco have certainly been the biggest surprise of this tournament and their fans have brought some of the best atmosphere. our correspondent max merrill is in could tar. but on the page, an underdog story that's inspired, loads across the world, the 1st african semi finalists ever had a war, wild cup tournaments, and off the pitch. the fans have just been marvelous, 15000 moroccans live here and could saw and many more tens of thousands expected to be here and could saw roaring them on in the stadiums, but also in the streets after that last, when again, cause honking their horns across the streets of tow, how with people leaning out with morocco, flags, and in soup walk, if the main market of doha of fans gathering not just moroccans and egyptians also

saudis and algerians celebrating together. so while this political tensions between these countries at the fans here have come together, it's been quite marvelous to see. and as i say, an underdog story that we always love to see in football. i was max mural. they're reporting from guitar spain, dana, and build their new national team coach after the countries. disappointing last 16 exit at the world cup. lewis del forente is the man replacing the wheel and link it who left after the world cup. del lafuente previously coached spain's under 21 side . he defended himself against a lack of top level experience, pointing to his work with spain's youth teams and some of spain's best young plates . you're watching the to be news after a short break. i'll be back to take you through the day. stick around. we will be right back with

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