the arctic, if you see something that looked like james bond, it has to do with starts december 23rd on d, w. ah ah, this is d w. news line from ballet in russia launch is more drone strikes on the ukrainian capital. ukrainian forces say they shot down 13 iranian made drones during the attack on keep city center. also on the program trading large sums of cash for favors in the european union. that's a charge against greek law maker uber, kylie, and 3 others. over

a scandal linked to world cup, post guitar, at least $120.00 people die in the congolese capital kid shops after having rains trigger land slides and sink holes and in football, argentina book that place in the world cup final with a 3 nil went over croatia, thanks to the attacking prowess of being all messy. and julian alvaros, they'll now face ira france, all morocco in sundays. ah, i'm feel gale. welcome to the program. we begin with the latest brush and attacks on the ukrainian capital authorities in caves. a drone strikes on the city center damage several buildings. ukrainian forces say they shut down 13 iranian made shot had drones similar to those used in other russian strikes across the country. we

saw the tax but also reported in hockey. you've done nets, can sappers you. this settlement of keith cleared the broken glass from her window like hers. many of her neighbors at home were shaken this morning. as fresh young launch stones, i pick up with their windows shattered as gold when broad freezing temperatures like winter's coming here. how can people survive? my lord, what do they want from us? i do not like training, and lo, forgot his own little russians. no, let me die like what i didn't do. i went to him, but it was this to me. yes. all right. all the on the, for all a nearby building has been badly hit and cars crushed. you korean thief, the damage was got killed as ukrainian air defensive shut down it on made russian

jones stood a monster. should terrace began with the launch of 13 shy head drones, children. all 13 were shot down by ukrainian air defense. but well done. i'm proud of you. cim busher fresh air has recently been using long range methane attacks on residential areas. it calls them military attacks. keith called the russian strikes war, grind thing. moscow is intentionally targeting 70 and we can join our correspondent, nick conley, who's a, in the ukranian capital. welcome, nick. let's start with this morning's a drone attacks. what more can you tell us? while this is the 1st stack of its kind quite some time, not as big as the waves we've seen in recent weeks and as you are there and they were all shot down those drones. but that doesn't mean that this is without danger . for civilian succeed. when those drones are shot out of the sky by you cranes,

air defense, that means large bits of debris falling to ground. and that's in the office to little damage to civilians. and also to me as soon homes for now, no casualty in here, but this has been pretty busy day elsewhere, lots of strikes in for so on the see that ukraine really took back seavent damage to the government building which existed by president a couple of weeks ago the russians really were reminding everyone they are just on the other side of the river and very in close range and able to use artillery rocket artillery to attack anywhere and stay there. so basic, this is just another day for ukraine to pretty much got use this, but the important take away from all this is that here in kimberly's, there's been no impact on the power supply power. so long water is still in the taps and there is a sense that this is a country that is getting used to these attacks and getting better dealing with him . and now we've had this announcement from us officials that they're planning to send these patriot to ad defense systems to ukraine. how is that likely to change or ukraine's defense capabilities? i mean, if this really ends up happening happening in

a kind of time frame that makes a difference. ukraine right now, this is a huge deal. there's something that ukraine's have been asking for. basically, since the beginning of the war, when they were calling for nato to close, to protect ukrainian skies, that was dismissed. the time it was said that this was a system, it is just to technically complex for ukraine's military. something that can't be taught to ukrainian forces in any kind of short time frame. i think you cranes proven out on time again that it is able to deal with pretty skates weaponry in a hurry. and yet the major difference here is this. a system can actually deal with ballistic work it so busy all the other systems that ukraine so far received from germany, from the united states and other countries. they deal with drones. they deal with cruise missiles, but they don't deal with the ballistic rockets that fly really high up in the sky and basically fall to the ground vertically. they're picking up the speeds of a totally different magnitude. and you know, potentially a lot more dangerous for ukraine when it's trying to protect the civilian target. so, a lot of optimism here that this is going to happen, which is worry about how long it's going to take and how many of these units are

going to get my and, and this way got international donors of plants, more than a 1000000000 euros in financial aid for ukraine and so is ukraine are getting better help it needs to rebuild but it's not a question of rebuilding it. this is about basic patching up the damage that russia is inflicting on a weekly basis. this is actually modular, more than the grains of 4 to get them through the next couple of winter months of seat. we have no idea how many rockets rush has left and how many detects they can keep on organizing this talk of them having to get in rockets from around because their own rockets are basically running out. if you look at the bigger picture though, to help the ukraine has got, there's lots of questions there about delays. promises being made from the t v cameras and then not materializing, materializing months later. so there's definitely a kind of sense of urgency here that basically the ukraine needs more help. the government budget is really in a difficult place basically. but economy has already contract by 3rd and is likely to contract further. so there's a lot of question now on your grades to promote on ukraine's public speakers to

just make sure that european countries actually get on with sending the money over and basically financing the government continues rather than now to belgium. but investigators say they've seized one and a half 1000000 euros in a series of raids linked to a corruption scandal in the european parliament. greek socialist, emmy pe, ava kailey is one of 4 people arrested over alleged payments from guitar. they've been charged with accepting bribes in exchange for you favors towards the gulf states. kaylee has been stripped of her role as a vice president of the parliament. she and katara officials deny any wrong doing by choice. and they all were correspondent in brussels at jack parent told me more about the court hearing. ah, let me just bring you up today. we've just in this last few minutes had it confirmed by lawyers working on this case. that actually eva, kylie was not present in court today. there has been a shield around this hearing a just after it wrapped off for about 2 and

a half hours here in brussels. we find out that she wasn't present, but that her 3 co defendants, 3 italian men, were present here in court today for this pre trial hearing, we have no explanation as to why the form of vice president of the european parliament wasn't here. but we understand that she will have a hearing now on the 22nd of december, as i say, it lasted about 2 and a half hours here at the court. nobody as far as i'm aware. so any of these people come in or so any, any of the 3 removed from the court, the hearing is now over and we're waiting for more information from the belgium federal prosecutor as to what exactly has happened in this hearing. and is that unusual? a jack, would we normally would these proceedings normally be would press normally be excluded from court like this? my understanding is that that is that there is some normality around this. but there seems an additional layer of secrecy and a shield of opaqueness taking part in this. and we don't know exactly why that is.

i say we're waiting to hear a little bit more. we know that 1500000 euros in cash was find in private residences. as part of this, we don't know if this is some attempt to try and separate the case, separate the charges before the trial a had taken place. the prosecutor told us that the 4 of the defenders were charged with the same thing. so participation in a criminal organization, money laundering, and corruption, we're gonna have to wait and see exactly what has happened in this trial to see if potentially the 3 men may have been released on bail. we still have no, it's a nation. as i say, there's a super shield or i miss and it's very clear that the authorities want to keep cameras off the faces of these people. and if no matter what, even if they were granted bail, in this case, they would be taken back to the prison where they're being held. i'm released from there within 24 hours. that's the deal. so it wouldn't be the case that even if

they were released they would have moved free from the prison right today to defend the trial later on. we don't even know if the trial is going to take place. this was a pre trial hearing as i say. okay, so for suspects, but it is looking likely that this scandal extends beyond those people. well, there's a lot of work in the frenzy of people like me trying to find out whether this goes further. that whether there are other people implicated, i had it confirmed by the kentoria authorities who flatly denied participation in this corruption scandal. they said that they think that it was some sort of conspiracy hatched by the morality of the emerald. his deny that the question is, does this go further? does it involve other countries, potentially other m. e p's as well. thank you. about jack, jack parker, outside the court in brussels. the more than a 120 people have been killed by floods, landslides,

in the democratic republic of congo. heavy rains hit the capital, kinshasa city of 15000000 floods obstruct way homes and damage major roadways. it happened before sunrise, according to residence here in a shanty town outside kinshasa, an unexpected flash flood, and then the ground gave way, bearing homes were causing them to cave in and as the neighbors fell on us while we were sleeping, the kids pulled me out quickly. but the others died on the spot right next to us. by the morning, an entire segment of this major road had disappeared. several people were buried in the debris. in some cases, entire families were killed when their homes collapsed. not i find it hard to bear will you will deny people. i have no strength to bury the dead bodies and is up in a month, perhaps the conga leaves,

government will be able to provide me with help. one guy, many of those whose lives were spared in this disaster saw the possession swept away in the raging water. but i was like your sources if i watching that we are constantly. we've lived here for a long time and now the houses that washed away may, for example, i don't know where to go with the children. i've been a widow since 2015, and now my house is gone with the rain. i can't find one of my children. i'm the poor women and i don't know where to go. i've lost almost everything. i only have the clothes i'm wearing when i got your voice. control is one of africa's largest city. it's growing rapidly, and many new residents live in shacks, built in flood prone areas with inadequate drainage their calls for the congo these government to invest in infrastructure to make these neighborhoods safer. as climate change makes disasters like this more frequent claiming ever more life.

and we can speak to journalist jonas a gathering and can shop at welcome to d, w. jonas, and what have you seen? yes, so as you can see, the situation out was little better the sun us out again. but you really need to keep in mind that yesterday's situation was really terrible. f f, you've seen in those images with something even when i wanted to go to work. i needed to take a motor bike which took me through the deep waters. and i've just been speaking with a colleague in, in my study has not had the, this is one of those areas where a role has been split into 2 pieces. so this means the whole connection to the congo central province is cut at the moment. is one of the major roads to provide, to provide goods from the porch to the capital. and in those neighborhoods, the situation is still a big issue. so people are still looking for dead bodies for people. and,

but unfortunately, the heavy rain is gone. and the presidents are fillings, jessy, katy has blamed climate change and cold for more international support was asking for what's needed if so, i don't. i think he means the 2009 um copenhagen summit because he said that if enough money would have been spent back, then you wouldn't have these kind of roll problems to date and back then. $100000000000.00 were promise you the, the most affected the most binaural countries are with regards to climate change and lots of the money never arrived at these countries. and so he's arguing that that's one of the big problems on my right now, that there's not much money to make these countries prepared for climate change. so

we have a death toll at the moment of around a $120.00 dozens more. died in floods and land slides back in 2019. is that something about kinshasa that makes it particularly vulnerable to extreme weather? definitely. so, mean there's one thing which is very general, it's a region with tropical rain polls and if they come, they hit very strong. that's one thing. but it's also a big problem off, off, off, bad governance. so for example, if you take the, the huge influx of people that are coming into the city, that it's not report at all. do you take care of all these people's people are constructing homes and houses at, at places where they don't have normally they, they shouldn't construct. you see people too close to small rivers and candidates and there's also another aspect of human waste. people are putting lots of garbage

in these candidates and so often water stock and what has problems to evacuate. so it's a question on the climate conditions. yes. but there's also a problem of governance. thank you for that journalist jonas getting in kinshasa. the pleasure of the world health organizations emergency chief says china's explosion of corona virus cases is not due to the easing of beijing's is strict. they are coping policies rather the rapid spread of coven 19 cruise control measures are effective. china now says it will stop reporting asymptomatic cases of code. 19. as soon as they become impossible to track, seems like these were hard to imagine in beijing just a few weeks ago, parents in sick children crowding corridors at this pediatric hospital. but scraping china's strict coven restrictions has come at

a cost and waves of illness. and now spreading through the city, link the cues forming at clinics and demand for medications. skyrocketing this pharmacy among many to have run out of flu medicines and coven teeth. the impact of opening up is still being felt. but this is the price be be for being freer. it feels like it is convenient to go out and go to places. but for myself, i must be more cautious because there is no protection for us outside. now it is essentially that be, improve our awareness in self protection yaki goal i hold others even within the cues are in stark contrast to beijing's eerily quiet streets and shopping centers. illness has been hitting work as hard and a shortage of delivery drivers means packages. a piling up the past week has seen a massive transformation and china's coven management. domestic travel has opened

up. positive cases can isolate at home. and the government has scaled back its tracing im, tasting now or authorities. as scrambling to react. as the virus spreads, shall more than 14000 fever clinical have been opened in hospitals. and more than 33000 clinics have been set up in community healthcare institutions. toggle us and our son longer in fictions, are expected to spread across the country in the coming weeks. as people who haven't been able to travel were turned to home, towns and villages. the world health organization wanting china faces a very tough and difficult time. is it a just to living with a virus? little socrates trying so hard to stamp out. ah, at the football woke up in katara argentina convincingly big croatia, 3 nell and the 1st of the semi final clashes croatia upset brazil in the last round

. and we're hoping to continue their improbable run, but linelle massey and his teammates proved too much of this semi final was bound to be the last shot at world cup glory, 3, a legendary player, either argentine as we know, messy or co h as luca mudrinich, despite croatia controlling much of the ball early on argentina were the 1st to break through with william alvarez's bullish run, forwarded by a clear foul with the whole world watching. but his keeper, too nervous to look. leo massey stepped up and ripped home the penalty. one mill argentina with 34 minutes play and just 5 minutes later alvarez was again scratching through a sea of legs. this time no one dared to take him down to nil. late in the 2nd half, it was messy lighting up the pitch. dancing threw crashes defense to lay the ball off to alvarez and finish things off at 3 nil. messy has again carried his country

to a world cup final, this time against either france or morocco. meanwhile, muddrick knows he'll never lift the cup. so who will join argentina and sundays? final france all brockovich asked for correspondent danya barcelona. i told me it was made argentina stand out and cut her. hey there. so lena messy. it was really the key to argentina's success. i mean, there is a reason why he's considered to be one of the greatest players of all time. and he really made a big statement yesterday. he is the player who masterminded and inspired argentina's performance, obviously against croatia. he scored the penalty shot. the 1st goal that made him argentine as all time leading goal score, but not only does he score goals, he creates them as well which he did after that yesterday croatia, they really had no answer to messy it. there defenders could not even get close to

him. now, of course argentine i really believe that it's the time that their leader wins the world cut. of course this is the trophy that has eluded him. his entire career. and if he were to get his hands on it, it would really put an end to debate as to who is the greatest player of all time, and his teammates will do anything they can to get in to lift it. idea of a semi final takes place to not writing champions of france against the upstarts, morocco, what should we expect? france. morocco, of course, is the typical david versus goliath clash. of course, france coming into this game. the favorite probably the favorite to win the entire tournament. of course, they're the raining champions. they are really looking to defend their title something which would be amazing if they could do because it hasn't been done in 60 years in modern football. and they really do have the death and the squad to be able to do that, of course morocco, the underdogs, but they're not going to be too worried about that. they have

a solid squad. they're very difficult to play against. they haven't conceded a goal from opposition in this tournament. they're still undefeated. and of course they did sent home both spain and portugal. so they're really riding a wave right now. and the stadium will definitely be in morocco's favor tonight. and i sort of american funds because they've got tremendous support from their own fans on from across the of the album. muslim world, which was, be pretty inspiring. the fans fair morocco are absolutely amazing at this well cut. i mean, in morocco they love football. this is really big from rock and football, of course, the 1st african side to ever make it to the semi finals of the world cut. but morocco is a special country, of course, because it's not only an african country, but it's also an arab country. so they have the support and they're playing for and representing over a 1000000000 people. and you can really feel that here in doha,

there's so many thousands of fans who have come just to witness and be a part of this history. so tonight we are in for an amazing atmosphere in the stadium. i thank you for that, daniel, down your boss and owner in doha backing point to say or is it so the time and thousands of anxious argentina fans are waiting to find out who joined them and sundays. finally, it's been 36 years since our last world cup triumph, and i believe this time will be there time. once again, any signs of uncertainty for argentina, fans quickly went away when a spot in the fido was guaranteed. oh, i am really happy, really happy. we turn this round, there was 3 nelly, other time against croatia, and now we won 3 nell, and on sunday we will win again. this is leonor message. yes. this will be massey's final world cook fair and believe his date with world cut destiny will have

a happy ending. not like in 2014 when argentina lost in the final to germany. jolena well, an enormous emotion. the truth is that this team is incredible. how good they are in each game. we started by losing in this world cup, but we had a lot of confidence in his teen always gives everything. it's an enormous joy to play again in the final. and i have no doubt that we're going to have a great game out of the city center of where those areas has been buzzing for a return to 1986 when argentina had their last world cup success. so died semi final sees morocco against france, and the french defending champions are widely expected to go through to the final of sunday. but this of course is by no means a done deal. so let's find out more about support from the rocco, the world cups. first, african and 1st arab semi finalists and a team few believe will make it this fall. the streets of rabbit,

morocco's capital, were bedlam after the winner of portugal for moroccans reaching the world cup semi final is already a dream come true. on the streets truly much. we watched all the games and we gathered around 200 or 250 people all americans that it was wonderful and we are really proud of it on is here. the atlas lions above the 1st nation from africa and the 1st from the arab world to reach a world semi final. that means they're not sure to support long live morocco, a free arab nation. from here in garza, i say this will be a cup for the arabs. for morocco we will turn in support of them without blood and souls illegally because it's a historical qualification, not only from a rocco pop, but for all africa. we're proud of morocco. leopard in some place here tomorrow, given the french speaking nations, historical links with tonight's opponents,

there are even many in france with split loyalty is to, we call it, it's historic. you could say, let's hope it's going to be a good match for both of us. i hope morocco will go through though. i'm a bit more fill morocco. i don't know why. you don't have the pistol marks of morocco have toppled european royalty in the form of spain and portugal to get this far. but france represent their toughest challenge, yet. the holders and favorites defeated england to reach the final 4. and in killen, m pappy bows the star of the tournament. yet morocco have conceded only one goal so far not on. i'm not going to try and set up any particular tactical plan to counter and pappy, unfortunately for us there's more than just killian france also has other good players. yeah. packet. young. if morocco can find a way to stop and buffet and coat, one thing's for sure. the st parties, what only be taking place in roberts, that sits your up to date. i'll a more world news at the top of the hour coming up next here on

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