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[000:00:00;00] ah ah ah ah, this is dw, live from berlin, helping ukraine survive. a harsh winter of russian attacks france welcomes ukrainian officials and international donors to paris. their meeting to organize
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water, power, food and other forms of. also coming up, new details emerge about the far right plots to overthrow the german government. after the arrest of $25.00 alleged conspirators, lawmakers here how the group plan to build up their own army, make arrests, and even carry out execution. and the u. s. is about to announce a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion, a technology that holds the key to a revolutionary energy source. that's clean, plentiful, and safe. ah, i'm good. how does as well come to the program? representatives from dozens of countries are taking part in a conference in paris to discuss ways to support ukraine through the winter. prime minister, dennis me, how is representing ukraine at the meeting,
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which is hosted by a french president, mark the international conference aims to raise tens of millions of dollars to help keep ukraine fed warm and defended during russia's ongoing attacks. ahead of the conference t w's ukraine corresponded. nick commonly took a look at what support has been promised so far. and what has been delivered there when you okay in a vital continued support. ukraine, for as long as it takes into very beginning of the war. we work very hard together in order to have the grain to resist and to be resilient. and we, the european union stand here by them in these very difficult times, as long as it takes how generous of european governments really being 9 months into this warrant. it's doorstep in europe is only just caught up with the united states . the keel institute for the world economy says that you and european governments
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have now together pledged 52000000000 euros. better 48000000000 from the u. s. that might sound like a lot, but it's less than a 10th of what the eve is spending on its own post curve it recovery program. and then there's the question of timing. experts criticize that, it can take months for promises and outs in front of the t. v. cameras and keep to actually materialize for now at least, ukraine's government can still afford to patch up basic infrastructure after each new russian attack. but many here and ukraine worry their countries in such bad shape. they might soon need support on a whole different level just to carry on. and that's even before anyone starts counting, the cost of eventual rebuilding. europeans will be asked to make good on their promise to help for as long as it takes that could be decades dw, correspond eliza lewis is following the ukraine, a conference and prayers for us. and i asked her earlier, what stood out for her from the opening statement while am on my call, the french present started inaugurated this conference by saying this is
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a continued show of mobilization of support for ukraine in these tough times. he called our, the russian current strategy as cynical strategy. he said they are target in a civilian infrastructure because they are losing ground at the battle front. and he continued l y by saying that the international community would continue to stand by ukraine's site. and that a national, another international conference was already planned for next year in london to stand together and provide more support. obviously this conference compared to the other 3 conferences earlier this year is also especially as specifically targeted at providing immediate support during this very tough winter as temperature are falling across europe and especially ukraine. now, the ukranian, a prime minister,
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is also in attendance. there what message did he bring with him to perhaps? while he put some figures on the table, he said, or we need 1500000000 euros in the immediate future to get through this winter. 12000000 people are kindly disconnected from the power grid in ukraine, and he said he caught the russian strategy energy terror. he said that the international community needed to continue to support ukrainian forces and that specific things were needed, such as gas turbines and generators. and he also launched another appeal to the russians to say, you need to stop this war at one point, you need to come back to us really and talk to us. now, the french president monro mccoy, has at times drawn some criticism from ukraine for some ambivalent remarks regarding russia is hosting this conference and attended reconciliation. well, absolutely, my, my call has been playing
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a very active role in the mediation between the 2 sites. since the beginning of the war, especially actually even before the war, he tried to prevent it by talking to the russian president putin, to the ukrainian at president zalinski on numerous occasions. but he has been criticized for some of his remarks over the past few months. for example, just a few weeks ago, he said that russia needed a security guarantees. and a, i believe the international community was criticizing him for that. at the l. a. z has been telling us that these remarks should not be taken out of the context and obviously a conference like this one today is a show of support. and he also underlined that, you know, this was really a show of solidarity with your canaan forces and with the ukraine and government in paris to dubuque, responded to lisa lewis. they're in paris for us. thank you. lisa and germany revelations about the far right. plus to overthrow the government are at the center of discussions and parliament this week. further details have emerged about our
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group linked to the so called rice burger movement, allegedly planned to carry out their crew and suspect properties search. police found large amounts of cash and several dozens of firearms that were lawmakers heard. 25 suspects have been arrested so far. germany is dylan shock after last week's nationwide raids targeting far right suspects. it now appears their network may have been wider than 1st thought. members of the german parliament's legal affairs committee revealed that investigators found more than 100 letters of so called declarations of confidentiality from people who supported the groups cause the alleged plotters also planned to form more than 2 $180.00 homeland security units intended to become a new army, he zayden gans concrete,
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are they were supposed to make arrests and also carry out execution spoon under his shows. how concrete, the threat posed by this group really was last one reason call people on our scale . now, authorities are discussing potential political consequences. one hard topic is whether to tighten germany's gum laws already among the strictest in europe. intelligence agencies say the plotters had gathered a substantial number of weapons. but before making wide ranging political changes, lawmakers want more information. but if hardness fatima rests on the question of gun laws, i would like to understand exactly what kind of weapons are involved about and how they attempted to procure weapons before man. yet before we call for a tightening, we have to see if there is any problem at all in the legal framework. as it is today to dies, public officials deemed anti democratic could potentially be dismissed more quickly . this comes after revelations that a former m p for the far right a f d party was allegedly part of the plot. the former m p still had access to
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parliament. and they could now be strict rules for entering official buildings. you will and often as house sign or we want to be and to remain an open house also for citizens. i landed the same time. we have to guarantee security for all of us also for our visitors. and this means that not just any one can be allowed entry, common part in future, there will be closer scrutiny than has perhaps been the case so far. the plot to attack parliament brought back memories of a failed attempt by protested to storm the berlin building and 2020 authorities. and now debating which measures could prevent scenes like this. and more importantly, safeguard germany's democracy. did obvious political correspondent thomas sparrows . following this story for us and earlier i asked him what new information had come to lighten the investigation. while certainly many new details have come out,
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not only the fact that many more supporters and originally thought were part of this plot, or that more weapons that were found that initially thought in fact, around a 100 weapons were confiscated. but also that plotters had significant amount of money in cash that they had gold and silver coins. there are even indications that they could have a safety deposit box with gold bars. so this all is an indication that plans were indeed very serious. that plans were indeed in an advanced stage, but a different question altogether. gerhardt is whether those plans were close to being actually carried out. this is something very different if you consider the plans that were discussed and revealed with the actual potential impact of it. and the actual realization of that, and this is something what authorities have also been trying to reveal the fact that authorities are also prepared for dealing with such a threat. obviously in parliament they had been discussions about this. there will
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continue to be discussions also in the next few days as authorities tried to identify possible political consequences. thomas barrow there. thank you very much, tom turner to have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. a foreign extremist in germany has briefly taken 2 hostages in the prison where he is serving his sentence. he was injured when he was overpowered with staff. man was convicted of killing 2 people after he attacked the synagogue in the city of holler 3 years ago. in brazil, supporters of outgoing far i, president jubal scenario, tried to enter police headquarters in the capital, brazilian cars was set on fire during the clashes, which came after a court confirmed that paulson aro had lost recent elections to his left wing rival . it was enough you. lula, basil e. u member states have clenched a deal to fries you payments to hungary. the decision is based on corruption
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concerns and will be finalized ahead of you summit on thursday last month hungry said the european commission suggested fund suspension, was based on a quote misunderstanding and talking about correct corruption. the heads of all political groups in the european parliament have agreed to remove vice president, eva kailey. she and 3 others were arrested on friday in a corruption scandal and to cotton. kylie has already been suspended from the greek socialist party following arrest. her lawyer says she denies any wrong doing the parliament's president, meanwhile, as vowed to carry out an internal investigation describing the scandal as an attack on european democracy itself. 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,
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the european parliament their colleagues is under attack. european democracy is under attack. and our way of open free democratic societies are under attack. to your words echoed by the 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 standards and of independence and integrity. high level 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. our 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
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a vocal defender of the gulf country. they are highly even praised guitar as a front runner in labor right. it helped us world co post guitar has faced widespread criticism for his treatment of the migrant workers. who build new stadiums, their guitar has denied using any illegal means of lobbying. kylie 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 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 of 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
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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 cache, found in fresh churches by belgium pennies on monday. human rights activists, a warning that more protest as face execution, as iranian authorities violently suppress anti government demonstrations, much raise a run of arg was public. the hand on monday is death came just weeks after he allegedly stepped stabs to para military offices to death. during a protest, run of arg was the 2nd protest that to have been executed in a week. more than 18000 people are estimated, have been detained since nationwide anti government protest begun in mid september activists warned that at least a dozen people have already been sentenced to death in close door hearings. for more on this, we can bring in
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a sheer archive. she's an activist for journalist with bbc's person service needed . what, what can you tell us about these people facing the death penalty now and their alleged crimes? one of just one of the basic things that we have to understand is that these trials are quite gains, even the law is laws that are implemented the, the raw data being conducted and they don't have access to the lot of their family members. they don't even know what the charges and sons and daughters are facing and as well as in the case of and the other one is families when he told about the situation. so they didn't have time to say good bye to them or even go to, to the decision then to be able to use that the course of their day. it's been really quickly, fast pace child with people. and i'm really
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a small case of that. so like, for example, in cases of people bearing and they would dictate like, similar things and then now facing if you can, one of the things i think the reading government and there's no public government is trying to do is to use these cases as an example to downturn, to protest and create fear in the society as well as the signal to support or to say, we are good to support you the best team members, if you, if anything happens the event as simple as someone is talking about c, g a, in the middle of highway, when they see that, then they can face charges and, and they might get executed. there's a case right now, mindset drop and that he even the best human this and then allegedly been attacked by he is saying, i don't have any,
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any he against you to release what the government is, the person the case. now the man who was executed on a monday, he was a publicly hind of these taxes, tactics intimidating. the protesters have been no one of the things that they done, for example, in that case they said public is public. but it's done quite early in the morning for 5 o'clock and they bring their, their best c, r, a militia groups to be there as the hot. so the public that we are talking is mostly she rated public lightweight by their easy, as well as even from the you know what you're seeing on the ground. it didn't create that. what it is done with the public wanted people went down last night, the mash had the city of right now,
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that really comes it city. people chanted and protested in front of the family house in the support actually studied id policeman this tammy, and it was a pass the that kind of process in a conservative city as, as mash had in the actions execution. the minute shows. it's not working back to this megan sharika in london. thank you very much for your time. a major scientific breakthrough in nuclear fusion technology is expected to be announced in the united states today. for the 1st time, an experiment appears to have produced more energy than was needed to start. the process is hope that nuclear fusion will become an inexhaustible source of clean energy. nuclear fusion involves the same process that gives the thumb. it's energy bart experts caution that it will still take many years before fusion technology is
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ready for widespread commercial use and help us to get a heads around this story. i'm not on the studio about science corresponded doug williams. derek. today's expected announce what has been described as a breakthrough. is it? it is abrasive, it's a, it's, it's a big milestone because for the last 70 odd years or so that we've been doing your research into fusion, there's been this problem, which is the basic fundamental equation which is that the, the reaction that you're trying to cause the event that you're trying to cause has to produce in the long term for it to be economically viable as an energy source for us. later when they create plans, it has to produce more energy and you stick into making the reaction happen that with until now been able to make those reactions happen to make those fusion reactions happen. but we haven't been able to make them economically viable. we've had to put more energy into it, and we've taken out of it, and apparently that's what's expectedly. the scientists in the us are going to
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announce that that takes place to an event called ignition. it's sort of similar to the lighting a piece of wood in the fireplace that it can burn for a little while, but, but if, at some point it catches fire and burns all on its own, and that so this ignition appears to be what's actually happened. now in very basic terms, explain to of us and to me, what is fusion and how does it produce energy fusion is the process, the fusion is what powers the san as, as you just mentioned it's, it's the process of bringing together 2 atoms which really, really don't want to be brought together and fusing them together to form heavier atom. in this case it would be hydrogen to hydrogen atoms being fused together. if you remember your periodic table from high school, i don't the next the next heavy element which is which is helium, that, that process releases a great deal of energy. and it's also compared to conventional nuclear plants, which is fission technology. very clean energy efficient technologies have very heavy elements that you've been split. that process also have to energy. that's
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conventional nuclear energy. but fusion energy is a completely different as a completely different beast. so what still needs to be done before this miraculous new technology is available for us? well, a lot, you know, there's a joke in the industry that new that nuclear fusion is always going to be viable nuclear economic fusion is all going to be 30 years down the down the road. and they've been saying that for 70 years now. but really, the big challenge is this is a milestone as i said, but the big challenges continue to be actually engineering challenges. for example, the chambers that these incredibly hot and high pressure events happen, then they have to be able to contain it. also, the question is, how you capture the energy that's produced because you're producing a lot of energy in a very short period of time that has to be turned somehow from heat into electrical energy. that's not easy for conventional efficient plans. we have that technology in place, but we have to completely redesign everything it for a fusion plan to become
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a reality. could this development eventually help solve our energy problems? well, last climate change, while theoretically yes it it, but that's the great dream, right? emissions free technology, i mean with conventional nuclear technology, like for example, which power 70 percent of frances power grid. it's, it's emissions free and this would be emissions free in the same way, but it wouldn't be as dangerous that safety is of is a huge issue as well. it's fusion process is a fusion event. basically, when you take away the high pressures and the high temperatures that make it happen, it just stops unlike the runaway that can happen with conventional fission energy. so can it's over energy problems theoretically. yes, but it's going to be a couple of decades before it happens. doug williams that thank you very much. lou, argentina play croatia tonight in the 1st of the world cup semifinals as
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a team lead by this doll you know, messy and came into the tournament as one of the favorites bought croatia where the runners up in 2018 and have already and knocked out title content the brazil ah, you do have to go far into hard to find cheering argentina fans. their vocal supports is one of the reasons argentine or a favorites to reach this tournaments fine. oh. but this man, croatia coats that co damage wants to use that to his country's advantage. you don't put it that way, playing the great argentina. a terrific team lead by lino messy, the highly motivated, but they're under far more pressure than us at the moment. so let's go into what group pressure, not least because this is shirley massey's final chance to get his hands on the world cup trophy at his 5th attempt. he is argentine
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a star man and has the hopes of a country on his shoulders. but on a sort of this, and i took up a time at a lead at a, i think in us employee tapped in our leader, he's always pushing us and motivating us. i know he has that special advantage. and when we're on the pits, we know we have messy, and that's a great source of motivation. it helps us and you always know you can do more. ah expects these fans to bring the noise again on tuesday night loud and passionate argentina, hoping not to be silenced by a croatia team. it is no stranger to spoiling the party. ah. oh, the spy. that's huge fan support for argentina on the ground that can croatia pull off the upset. i asked it abuse both corresponded donna barcelona. i mean, croatia is
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a great side. they're very difficult to play against. they know that coming into this game, they won't be the favorites. argentina obviously will, and they'll have the momentum of the stadium on their side by actually croatia they produce some of their best football and most spectacular tournament moments when they have their backs up against the wall, they're going to be very compact defensively, very well organized. and they never, ever, ever stop running. now if the skin does go into extra time, croatia are the experts. 8 of their last 9 naco games have gone into extra time and therefore to 4 on penalties. so if anyone can handle it, it's croatia done about a loan of that. and finally some christmas chair from ski resort view. a state of mine, that's where whole host santos on. stephen snowboards hit the slopes to raise money for charity. more than 250 of them got some wrongs in before their busy christmas period begins and they'll be swapping their skis for well,
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