ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin to night, the mayor of ist and bull sentence to nearly 3 years in prison. a court in turkey today, finding the popular opposition leader who was seen as a challenger to president air to want guilty of insulting officials. the effectively banned him from political office also can make up to night. russia

lodge is more drawn, strikes on the ukrainian capital, ukrainian forces, say that they shot down 13 iranian made drawings during the attack on keith's city center today. and sewing tech giant metaphor, encouraging violence, a group of ethiopia to file a lawsuit against facebook owner. they say it's algorithms are promoting aggression and hatred and ethiopia. civil war ah, i'm burned. gov is good to have you with us, the mayor of if stem bull has been sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison, effectively benny hip from running for political office. now the center left at graham, in my new mo lou is a popular opposition leader who has not you seen as a challenger to turkeys, conservative, president, wretched tie up, heir to what the court found him guilty of insulting public officials after he

criticized officers who unfold the results of his symbols, local elections back in 2019 a. he denies these charges and says that he plans to appeal i want to go now to our correspondent dorian jones. he is in his damn ball, dorian, so i'm talking through his what, what's behind this sentence to death? while it is pete to the government, they insist, sir, may i am all o insulted or an official public official, and that is against the law in turkey. he was convicted and has been sentenced. now the opposition, they totally this credit, this argument say that this is purely political. are they say the to the fact that he's seen a memorial as a potential challenger to add one a next year's presidential elections? it underscores, this is an attempt to remove him from the political field on top of that the was he

use case, official, public officials, he call them falls for over turning his initial meryl of victory in his sample in 2019 and banning political officials through the court is nothing unusual, i mean m all lose the architect of his victory, the head of the c. h p. in his temple on a covenant journal. she's been banned from politics for a tweet against president of one. and on top of that, in 2016, the leader of the country, 2nd largest opposition party sanity demetre. he's been in jail under a case which the european court of human rights was called, politically motivated. and dorian it. so how much power then or how much power did mister m o lu? have of these are the wretched tire better? why? i mean, how much of a threat is he really to the brother for you have to understand his, his victory in 2019 and taken control of it. stumble was a political of quite a 25 years at once or a k p party. and it is islamist,

predecessor had an iron grip on the city. it was impregnable. no 140 could ever be taken by the mammal. successfully united a very defined opposition. the conservatives laughed kurdish parties. he pulled them together in a thick. this will coalition that's defeated earth once a k p. i'm removed fully, so jewel in the crown for us on the 2nd most powerful position in turkey. and that in many ways has shake the opposition going forward, turned it into a powerful force. now is a threat to old one on em, all in many ways is seen as one of the architects for that. and that's why he seen such a rival and it's going so high in the opinion polls and how he's appealing his conviction . and that can take 2 years, so he still has a possibility if he selected his candle to challenge. but if the process is expedited, which some people believe there are now other challenges, the mayor of encore is also see the families doing very well in the polls. the opposition really believe they have a chance and in many ways it all goes back to him. i'm old victory and it's tumble . and, and the opposition will they continue to feel that they have

a chance after what happened today amid is this this decision? is it going to have a chilling effect flung on the country at the moment is galvanized in opposition. it was a mass rally following the there the verdict here in istanbul, many of the coalition of opposition party leaders came in including marrow oksana, to leave the powerful e polity, which is a key coalition partner of the c h. b in opposing her to one. she delivered a speech to the large crowd, saying that in the night is antoine. as man was removed from office of a reciting a poem and sent to jail. after that, he went on to lead his party to become into paris, prime minister, and then president. she said turkey's heard that song, and that song aids again playing again to rock truth rolls of applause. many ways i see that this could be a spree, bold, uniting your position to bring down the one in june elections next year. over there, you will be following the story door. you jones force, and i believe you from the symbol dorian, thank you. with an in ukraine authority,

you say that they have warded a russian drawn attack on the capital key. defense forces shot down all 13 iranian made drones targeting the he sent her to debt missile attacks were also reported in harkey. stone esque and separates this president of keep clear, the broken cloth from her window like her. many of her neighbors with whom were shaken this morning. as fresh young launch stones, i pick up their windows shattered as gold. when brought freezing temperatures like winter's coming there. how can people survive, my lord, what do they want from us? they did not like mccraney and lo, forgot his own little russians. no, let bruton die locker. that's what i didn't do. i went to him, but it was this to me personally, all, all the on the, for all,

a nearby building has been badly hit and cars crushed. you green faced the damage with that deal. as ukrainian air defensive shut down it on made russian jones still, and that's to show terrors began with the launch of 13 shy had drones. she didn't. all 13 were shot down by ukrainian air defense. but well done. i'm proud of you had seen the show. fresh air has recently been using long range methane attacks on residential areas. it called them military attacks. keith called the russian strikes war, grind thing. moscow is intentionally targeting 70 or it looks good or corresponded only quarterly and key. believe me to you, nick. let's start with this morning's drone attack on key. what more do we know now?

this is a surprisingly small attack by the standards of the last few months, 13 drones down. as you mentioned there, that is significantly short of what we've seen in previous weeks. and there's different expectation or hope here in ukraine that basically russia is just running out of these drones running out of missiles. these turns on themselves would be, these are fairly cheap weapons, but $20000.00 each. their only hope for success is basically by overwhelming ukraine's defenses through sheer number now doesn't seem like they're able to do that. and yet, largely key of went about another day during wartime, without much of a difference, power stayed on the water, stayed on. there wasn't any noticeable impact on people's everyday life taken care of. so a sense of this is the country that is just getting use these attacks and is getting increasing better at dealing with him. you know, that's one point and it's a country that would like to have patriot air defense systems to defend itself with . we know that the united states has said that he plans to send patriot air defense systems to ukraine. how would that change?

you creeds, defense capability i mean this really is kind of the holy grail to something that ukrainian politicians, ukrainian societal figures have been basically asking, begging, praying for since the beginning of this war. especially in those 1st few months where the kind of clamor here from ukraine was closed, the ukrainian skies protect us from the air. what patriot would allow ukraine to do is also to deal with ballistic missile. so right now, all systems that ukraine has, including western systems, they are aimed at dealing with drones. and also with cruise missiles that fly kind of parallel to the ground, ballistic missiles go really high up in the sky, and the busy full to earth with huge speed are lot harder to deal with. and for the most longest time, most western people, countries decided what convinced that you can't just didn't have the capacity to learn to deal with a system like picture in a hurry. but i think crane has now proved those critics wrong, has proved that it's pretty good at dealing with these kind of complex challenges in ours. and let's talk a little bit about money this week. there was a donor conference held in paris, more than a 1000000000 euros,

and financial aid has been pledged for ukraine up to help it rebuild. once this more is over, what, what's been the response there is if there a feeling that it's nice, but this is a little bit of putting the, the cart before the horse was it. these funds are aimed at 1st kind of 1st and foremost to deal with this winter and typically get this country through the winter. it's slightly more than the ukrainians asked for. but again, as always, the question of delivery is, it's actually going to arrive in the kind of time frame promised, or is the kind of bad track record with foreign positions. especially tony, up here in care of nice words in front of the cameras. and then the realization takes months, but definitely there is a sense that there's growing understanding of quite how pressing this isn't that people are getting their act together about sending money. but in terms of the kind of rebuilding off to war, i think that's going to be a question of not just tens of hundreds of billions of euro's people here in ukraine. a very certainly hoping that

a lot of that is going to come from russia's assets are frozen, or they realized that, you know, they just isn't the willingness of the capacity in foreign countries to just handle that money over. yeah, it's a very good point to cali. tonight with the latest from keith nick, as always, thank you. investigators in belgium say that they've seized 1500000 euros in a series of rage linked to a corruption scandal at the european parliament. now the greek socialist member of parliament, eva kylie. you see, you're right there. she is one of 4 people arrested over alleged payments, bribes from guitar. they've been charged with accepting bribes and exchange for that you favors for the gulf, stay highly has been stripped of her role as a vice president of the european parliament. she inventory officials deny any wrong doing, hauling discriminate. they blew them. even kylie did not appear at each scheduled court hearing earlier today in brussels or correspondence. jack parrot in brussels,

told us why we understand that eva kylie actually didn't turn up at the court today . that's been officially confirmed by the belgium prosecutors. the understanding is that she requested a delay to her pre trial hearing and the instead it will happen on the 22nd of december. her lawyer, however, said that it was because there was a strike in the prison and a miscommunication between the prison and the prosecutor's. office, the men she couldn't get taken to the court today. what we've heard, we've had to confirm the antonia pan, very the former italian ne p who's involved in this scandal. the who's the head of a, an geo who fight impunity, which is sort of the central n j that's involved in this case that he's remaining in detention. as is eva kylie's boyfriend, her partner with him. she has a child, francesco georgie, another man who is linked in the case that shows an office. he's the boss of another n g a that shows an office with fight in impunity. he's been released on the tag,

so he's got an electric tag on his, on his ankle, so that, but still charged. all of them, all 4 of them with corruption, money laundering, and participation in a criminal organization. it abuse jack here. if you're reporting from brussels, let's take a look now, some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. floods and landslides have killed more than a 120 people in and around the congolese capital kinshasa. days of heavy rain have left people in homes, berry officials say much of the destruction it houses that were built without official permission. 4 people died when a boat carried migrants got into difficulties and freezing temperatures. off the south coast of england, dozens more were rescued. more than $40000.00 migrants have made the journey across the english channel so far this year. more than ever before. the 1st ever summit of european union and southeast asian nations has begun in brussels. at commemorates 45 years of diplomatic ties between the 2 regions, and it highlights asia's economic ra. he was looking for new trade and investment

opportunities. kosovars and prime minister, i'll be in court. he has assigned an application to join the european union. the process is likely to take years and depends on normalizing relations with neighboring serbia which applied for membership more than 20 years ago. recent protests by the serbian minority in kosovo, have led to clashes with police, a group of ethiopians sewing facebook owner metaphor, allegedly promoting violence in ethiopia as a civil war. of the case includes the son of an ethnic to grey and professor who faced repeated death threats on the platform. the lawsuit says that facebook ignored request to remove the violent content that the company is directly responsible for his death. a respected chemistry professor shot down outside his

home in the mar region of ethiopia. he was allegedly targeted after several posts on facebook called for his death in a lawsuit against meadow, the parent company, a facebook, the son of professor marez marez claims that facebook failed to honor request to take down the post. now his lawsuit holds the u. s. company responsible for his father's death. why did he think of a man to take down up? was that calling for them? i doubt somebody. why was it was left out for a year? something is wrong with the way whether it's the content. and because my class of need is that is lack of investment and funds and what that is on, especially for african countries when you compared to other regions. we are getting the secondary sheets meant the professor son abra marez says facebook inaction amounted to racism. i'm also a stand up to say african,

this matters. so it isn't a i do. this is not against racism that promoting. and i says and by the actor, so he wants us. so i so, so my concern and i will feel better directly responsible for our father. so my father's mother meta has responded with a statement saying the company is working with experts in ethiopia to find and to lead hate speech. there they did not say why their system appears to have failed. professor murray over more. now i'm joined by rosa curly. she's a director of foxglove, that's in geo that says it stands up against tech giants and governments that work with them. it's good to have you on the program tonight to me this case gets to this big question, right. who was really to blame here?

the creator of hate speech or the platform that gives hate speech a home yeah, that's right. this case is challenging. the viral hate that is being spread across facebook, which leads to people dying and the content moderation. decisions that have being taken by facebook are matters of life and death. and as you just heard from abraham, that was in tragic. he had a case of his family and his father, who was brutally held off to, to doc sing, toast were placed on facebook. and although abraham repeatedly reported them, they were not taken down. we are demanding that changes a mate to the way facebook deals with content moderation in part to do with the social that software design, requesting that changes are made to stop promoting viral hate and to de mopes and meet all the violent incitement that is happening across the facebook platform,

but full so to staff and value content moderators. nairobi is the hub of the content, moderation in relation to about 500000000 users in africa. and it's crucial . the content moderation, individuals who are doing this work a properly valued properly paid, and that there's a vast increase in number for the ethiopian market, which is a hunter. the country has a 117000000 people. facebook currently employ when t 5 content moderators that you won't fully inadequate mean that the numbers there are striking and but i wonder, the how you're going to get facebook to change. when it just announced that it's laying off 10000 people world wide. it's saying it's doing about it's a business decision on what you're calling for. would require more, not fewer people in absolutely work. and this is an incredibly wealthy

company that can absolutely it forward to employ more people at 2 demands were making. one is about amending their software design because at the moment facebook as a curated space and viral hate is being promoted by the company. we're asking them to stop that, and also to employ vast numbers of additional content. moderators the 25 content moderate, as i just mentioned, in relation to ethiopia, those 25 only speak 3 of the 85 languages. currently spoken in ethiopia, this is completely unacceptable. it is leading to deaths in ethiopia, and it has to be stopped. and we very much hope the kenya and courts will step in and now do that was a cooling. it's good to have you with this in it's good, the good your for spoke to ron this story and i don't think this is the last one we will be talking. thank you. thank you. hello. it's been more than a decade since avatar smashed box office records. and push the limits of filmmaking

. technology now it seek, we'll is hitting movie screens avatar. the way of water is up. it's the follow up to james cameron's epic tale about an environmentally conscious species exploited by humans. it's nearly 15 years since home. a marine, jake sally, became his avatar and joined the not the tribe wired to come to us. he and ne, teary i now parents to my family. but when their home is again threatened by humans, the family flee to an underwater refuge and must learn new skills to survive and system. teach them our ways in avatar the way of motor ac to zoe saldana and some worthington reprice there. rose isn't a cheery and jake with jake's journey, and this may be as easy, still a warrior, but now he's a dad, so still reckless. and he's got

a bigger responsibility now, stepping back into playing a teary is something really special to me. his character is the character that i feel kindred with in so many ways i learned so much about her. i gave so much of myself to her, so getting to revisit her to reincarnate her. it just feels like it's against the keeps on giving. fans have waited 13 years for the sequel. the 1st film east pioneering motion capture technology to reproduce. the act is every movement. the follow up does not on the water. a feet of engineering that took years to develop the cost even learn diving for that under water scenes. it was a huge technical challenge. the writer director james cameron, i was lawyer, is more complicated, more characters, right? we had a lot of new tools that made it easier in some regards. we had to figure out how to do water. it all movies called the way of water, but we had to figure out the way of water for performance capture and procedure. we

make it absolutely seamless, which i think we accomplish. and that's part of the dream. like wonder, the cost again increase sigourney weaver. this time she plays jake in 19. he's adopted. daughter, teary. i feel her family centrally reversal seem so reliable and it just you become part of this family when you go with us through all these different challenges and different high points and it's an incredibly immersive. oh, so one of hollywood, most expensive films advocate done. the 1st film was the highest going thing of all time. but the pandemic has changed the new, the going landscape. and i have a town, the way of water will need to be a mammoth. it's just to break even i let it go down to the w scottsboro. he's our movie grew. i know you've seen this movie on your pin for more

than 10 years to see it's got i heard that james cameron said that he would have to clear at least $2500000000.00 just to just to break even on this movie. so is it going to deliver? is it gonna live up to the height? well, i think in terms of the visual spectacle, it definitely does live up to the hype. i mean, some critics have complained a two's a bad water pun that. this the story here in avatar we have water is a little bit shallow. i'm, but my argument against always you don't get on a roller coaster for the dialogue. you know, james cameron doesn't really to steadily, he doesn't do ambiguity. what he does is visual spectacle, and on that level avatar, we have water and just the livers. i mean it provides us unbelievable immersive cinematic experience. probably the most immersive experience i've had in the movie theater since probably the, the 1st that are yes, the good port you're going to see the way of water. you're not going to see the,

the way of wagner, of the 1st avatar it was, it was cram break. yeah. out sophisticated. are the special effects in this new sequence. it's interesting because the 1st 2030 minutes of this film is more or less the same world that we know from the 1st avatar. it's a sort of this rain forest on this alien planet, pandora, and it's visually impressive, but it's nothing really new, nothing we haven't seen before. but when the film shifts and moves under water, really, that's when it comes into its own. and that's where you really see this new technology that cameron has talked about that he used on, on this film. and it really sort of pays off a weight. it's along the technology to catch up to his vision. i mean it's, it's just sort of an incredible visual experience. it's probably not going to have the same sort of impact on the whole cinema industry. the 1st avatar did, which sort of set off this wave ridi movies. but i think though, it shows that this technology, when used by master, like james cameron, creates

a visual experience almost unlike anything else. ok, what is it going to get people to go to the movies? you know, i mean, we're, we're coming out of a pandemic. i mean, everyone would like their film to, to be the next top gun to it. is that what this is going to be able to b, o has to be actually a lot more than talk to you if it really wants to make his money back. this film is that the bar, so high cost least 400000000 to make probably as much of that to market. it has to make at least a 1000000000 or more worldwide drill just to break even, to really make a profit. it has to go over 2000000000 of probably worldwide. that's a huge asked. but you know, if anything from being in this business into a reporting on the, for so long, you never bet against james cameron. i remember people think titanic was going to be a flop. i'm every bill saying the 1st avatar would would fail miserably. and so he james cameron, has people wrong again and again, and i think this might be the 3rd time. yeah, i mean, he definitely has the cinematic midas touch that is for sure. scottsboro is always

got thank you. and he is a reminder of the top story we're following for you. this outward the mayor of is stem bull has been sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison. that effectively bands him for money for office again, next year. the center left at grim m. o. lupe was found guilty of insulting public officials in 2019 a ruling that opposition critics have condemned as politically motivated and ukraine says that it has thor today. russian drone attack on its capital keep defense forced to shut down 13 iranian may drones today, targeting the city center. and don't forget, you can always get the w news on the go. just download our app from google play or from the apple app store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news.

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dangerous game. people overseas that yeah, we are here were patrolling area and the cards are being re shuffling. has the best had russia is quite active economic in the arctic. if you see something that looked like james bond, it has to do with starts december 23rd on d, w rushes . jewish community has been watching the war in ukraine with mounting along. but most of kept silent, fearing state reprisals if they spoke out against the kremlin. and yet, as the fighting intensified, a senior figure in the community felt that silence was immoral. so he fled moscow after 30 years, as the city's chief rabbi, in order to speak freely.