our services, ah, be all a guest at frankfurt airport city, managed by frappe. aud lou. ah, ah ah, this is dw news live in from were lin tonight, the mayor who won't be president. the mayor of his damn bowl sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison is seen as a major challenger to turkish president air to want, but could now be banned from running for public office after being found guilty of insulting public officials. also coming up tonight,

ukraine says that it has supported a russian drawn attack on its capital of keep defense forces shot down 13 iranian made drones targeting the city center to day. and a suing tech giant met for encouraging violence. a group of ethiopians filed a lawsuit against facebook's owner. they say it's algorithms promote aggression and hatred and ethiopia as civil war. oh, lou, i'm burned gov's, our viewers watching or pbf to the united states into all of you around the world. welcome. to night, a turkish court had sentence the mayor of if stem bull to nearly 3 years in prison, and that effectively bands him from running again for political office. the center left at graham m. o lou is a popular opposition leader who is seen as a made challenger the turkeys, conservative incumbent president,

wretched tie of air to want the court to day found him guilty of insulting public officials. he criticized officers who ignored the results of his temples. local elections, back in 2019 m. o. lou denies the charges. he says that he plans to appeal or corresponded doria jones in his temple. he told me what is behind this sentence? one of the speak to the government and 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 of one a next year's presidential elections? a under scores at this is an attempt to remove him from the political field. on top

of that the was he, you see 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'm a mom 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 rich attire better? what i mean? how much of a threat is he really to the bridge 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 to final position. the conservatives left kurdish parties. he pulled them together in a successful coalition that defeated earth won't take a p and remove all the. so julian offer on the 2nd most powerful position in turkey . and that in many ways has shaped the opposition going forward, turned it into a powerful force now is a threat to one on a mammal in many ways is seen as one of the architects. and that's why he seen such a rival, and it's going so high in the opinion polls, and now he's appealing his conviction and that can take 2 years. so he still has a possibility if he's collected his candle to challenge. but if the process is expedited with some people believe, there are now of a challenge to some mayor, 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 full on the country at the moment is galvanizing opposition. there 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 power as prime minister, and then president, she said turkey's heard that song, and that song, again, playing again to rock truth rules 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. when you will be following the story, dorian jones force and i believe from the symbol dorian,

thank you. in ukraine authority say that they thwarted a russian drone attack today on the capital key, defense forces shot down all 13 a rainy and made drones targeting the city center missile attacks were also reported in the cities with her heave. don't ask and separate. oh, this president of eve cleared the broken clouds from her window like hers. many of her neighbors home were shaken this morning as russia launch stones at the capital their windows shattered as cold wind brought freezing temperatures. like winter is coming or how can people survive, my lord, what do they want from us? i do not like mccraney and live for girls its own little russians. no, let me die like or is it what i didn't do? i'm going to him, but it is this to me. what is wrong?

let, oh, you know, for all a nearby building has been badly hit and cars crushed you green face. the damage with that deal as ukrainian air defensive shut down it on made ration. jones still remains to should terrors began with the launch of 13. she had drones, she didn't, all 13 were shot down by ukrainian air. defense of well done. i'm proud of you watching the show. fresh air has recently been using long range methane attack on residential areas. it calls them military attacks. keith called the russian strikes war, grind thing moscow, if intentionally targeting 70 or corresponding to kindly. and keith told me more about these drawn attacks. this was 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 the different expectations were hope here in ukraine that basically russia is just running out of these drones ran out of missiles. these turns on themselves would be, are, these are fairly cheap weapons, but $20000.00 each. their only hope for success is bessie, by overwhelming ukraine's defenses. through sheer number now doesn't seem like they're able to do that. and largely keith went about another day during wartime. without much of a difference, power stayed on the watch, stayed on, there wasn't any noticeable impact on people's everyday life, turnkey of. so a sense that this is a country that is just getting used these attacks and it's got increasingly better at dealing with them. you know, that's one point and it's a country that would white to have patriot air defense systems to defend itself with. we know that the united states have said that he plans to send patriot air defense systems to ukraine. how would that change ukraine's 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 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 the 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, were convinced that ukraine just didn't have the capacity to learn to deal with the system at patriot in a hurry. but i think ukraine has now proved those critics wrong, has proven that it's pretty good at dealing with these kind of complex challenges and hurries. and let's talk a little bit about money this week. there was a donor conference held in in paris, more than a 1000000000 euros, and financial aid has been pledged or ukraine up to help it rebuild. once this

more is over, what, what's been the response there is, is 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 turning 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. 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 to like with the latest from keith nick, as always, thank you. the united states is using a summit in washington d. c. to work on its image as a crucial ally to africa, almost 50 african heads of state and government are attending this summit. u. s. companies have announced more than $2000000000.00 worth of technology deals for a continent were china. china has become a top layer. use president buying is expected to announce billions more in support for africa. i emphasize shared success an opportunity because in africa 6 age united states succeeds quite frankly, the whole world succeeds as well. or it's at the u. s. africa summit is, are very young. we kill the kirchner, mckelly. we just heard you as president biden saying, if africa succeeds, the whole world succeeds. is there a long term strategy,

a long term commitment to african nations? here, there is, that's what the current president says, but african leaders got that here. i've heard that before, 8 years ago when barack obama held the fust at u. s. africa leaders summit and in between there was donald trump. so there's always a reservation here amongst african leaders that whether policy could be overturned and, and when joe biden went off at the u. s. president, there was actually a song playing here on the internal tv and it went when we get together, there's going to be good vibes. and i think that's exactly what the state department and the u. s. president wants to create here, because in the background, that is, of course, china, that is, of course, russia, we at hud, the defense secretary here speak of russia trying to destabilize the continent. and that's something you, what would be her hear from the president that this is all about strategic interests. it isn't, it's

a lot about business. there was an announcement that this would be a memorandum of understanding even for a joint trade area. but for now, that's a pie in the sky. what is certain is what showing that has been doing pushing its ties with africa, offering investments with no strings attached of is the us in a power struggle. right now, ford natural resources on the african con yes it is, but that's not what the american side wants to talk about. but i smoke, for instance, it to the president of tanzania here earlier. and he told me that they don't want to be exactly that just a place where the west gets their resources. they want to be a partners at i level and that is exactly what u. s. biden. is us present by that is promising. here the fulfillment is a host of agreements, many bilateral agreements that were signed here into paper. if you take it

altogether, it amounts to hundreds of billions, even although it remained unclear until the very last moment. hm. how much of that is actual government? money that's more round about $50000000000.00 us dollars, but it's not about money. that's what both sides is saying. it is about long term investments about creating jobs and creating something that will actually return on investment for many years to come for both sides. so this is a very big promise, it's also financial commitment from the us side. it with africa becoming more aware of its power in this sifting power, political g, a strategic game that we're seeing right now. and last but not least, one, every 5th person living on the planets in less than 20 years time is actually going to be from africa. so it is to be taken seriously. and that's exactly what the us government is trying to predict. that's right, that's lots of business opportunities. therefore, clubber entrepreneurs,

that's for sure. the killer goodner at the u. s. african summer in washington. okay, well, thank you. yes, let's take a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines. this. our floods in lands, winds have killed more than a 120 people in and around the congolese capital kinshasa. days of heavy rains have left people in homes, buried. officials say much of the destruction it houses that were built without official permission. 4 people died when a boat carry 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. that is more than ever before. investigators in belgium have seized one and a half 1000000 euros in cash in a series of raids linked to a corruption scandal linking to tar and the european parliament of the greek

socialist m e p. you see, you're right there. if a kylie, she is one of 4 people arrested over alleged payments received from guitar finally getting charged with accepting bribes and exchange for even e, you favors for the gulf state. i. kylie has been stripped of her role as a vice president of the european parliament. she as well as kentoria officials are denying any wrong doing. they bully them. every. a group of ethiopian are suing face books, owner meta for allegedly promoting violence in ethiopia. civil war of the case includes the son of an ethnic to graham 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 quote, 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 on a request to take down the post. now his lawsuit holds the u. s. company responsible for his father's death. why did he take over a month to take down up? was that called for them? my daughter, somebody why was that was left up for over a year. something is wrong with the way whether it's the content on because my class of me is that is lack of investment and wondering what that is on, especially for african countries when you compared to other regions. we are getting the 2nd drapes sheets men, the professor son abra marez says facebook inaction amounted to racism. i'm also the stand up to say as kind of smash. so even though they are, i guess dizzy,

i there against racism that promising. and i says, and by the i to say this once us so, ah, so, so michael, so a i, once it's booked back to the in that actually responsible for our fathers on my father's matter. 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 rosa curling is director of foxglove, which monitors tech giant. i asked her, who is to blame here the, the creator of hate speech or the platforms that give 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 are being taken by facebook are matters of life and death. and as you just heard from abraham, that was in tragic he the 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 for 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 cognitive 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 of what you're calling for. would require more, not fewer people in absolutely words. and this is an incredibly wealthy company that can absolutely it forward to employ more people at 2 demands. we're making one is about amending that software design, because at the moment facebook is 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. carney spoke underneath the ip, yet 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 curling. it's good to have you with this in it's good to get your perspective on this story and i don't think this is the last one we will be talking. thank you. thank you. it has been more than a decade since avatar smashed box office records and pushed the limits of filmmaking. technology, it's time now for of sequel avatar, the way of water. it's nearly 16 years since full, marine jake sally became his avatar and joined. none of the tribe wired to come to

us. he and ne, teary i. now parents talk 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. a teach them our ways in avatar the way of motor actors, zoe saldana, and sam worthington, reprise their roles is ne, teary, and jake was do it. ah, jake's journey and this maybe is he 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 that the character that i feel kendrick within 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 again that

keeps on giving ha fans have waited 13 years for the sequel. the 1st film, east pioneering motion capture technology to reproduce the act as every movement. the follow up does that on the water, a feet of engineering that took years to develop the cast even learn diving for their underwater 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, you know, movies called the way a water, but we had to figure out the way of water for performance capture and procedure make it absolutely seamless. which i think we, we accomplish that as part of the dream, like wonder, the cost again increase sigourney weaver. this time she pays jake in the team. he's adopted. daughter to i feel families, sunshine reversal seem so reliable. and

a part of this family. when you go with us through all these different challenges and different high points, and it's an incredibly emerson, i want to pony what's nice, expensive films, and get it done. the 1st film was the highest growing 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 in i asked you w's movie gurus got roseborough, whether the film lives up to die. well, i think in terms of the visual spectacle, it definitely does live up to the hype. i mean, some critics have complained a bad water pun that this. the story here in avatar way of 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 steadily,

he doesn't do ambiguity. what he does is visual spectacle. and on that level avatar, we have water just delivers. 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, good port. you're going to see the way of water. you're not going to see the, the way of wagner. 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, a 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 where it comes into its own. and that's where you really see on this new technology that cameron has talked about, that he used on,

on this film. and it really sort of pays off. they waited so long the technology to catch up to his vision. i mean it's, it's just sort of 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 reading movies. but i think it shows that this technology, when used by master, like james cameron, crates 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 coming out of a pandemic. every one would light 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 of the talk. i feel if it really wants to make money at this moment, 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 uh,

probably worldwide. that's a huge asked. but you know, if i find anything from being in this business into a reporting on the for so long, you never bet against james cameron. i remember he think titanic was going to be a flop. i remember people 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. is a recap now of our top story. we're following this, our a turkish court have sentence the mayor of his death bull julie 3 years in prison. a grim in mo, mo lube was found guilty of insulting public officials. you watch the w 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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