this to me and they go back to me to and chat with you want to know their story, migrants clarifying and reliable information for my grants. ah ah, this is the w news live at from berlin tonight. the mayor of you won't be president, the mayor of ist and bull sentenced nearly 3 years in prison. a seat as a challenger to turkish president air to want, but could now be banned from running for public office after being found guilty of insulting officials. also coming up, ukraine says that it has forwarded

a russian drawn attack on its capital. keep defense forces shot down 13 iranian may . drones targeting the city center. ah, i'm burned. gov is good to have you with as a turkish court have sentenced the mayor of ist and bolt to nearly 3 years in prison. effectively banning him from running for political office. now the centre left, a crump, m. o lou is a popular opposition leader. he seed as a realistic challenger to turkey's conservative incumbent president rich, apply your bear to what today the court found him guilty of insulting public officials. he criticized officers who unfold the results of ist and bulls local elections. back in 2019 m. o. lou says that he plans to appeal

to w's corresponded dorian jones as it is there. ball. he told me what's behind this said one of the speak to the government and they insist, sir, may i am all o insulted or an official, a 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 saying that this is purely political. are they say the to the fact that he seen a memorial as a potential challenger to add one a next year's presidential elections? a underscore. so this is the attempt to remove him from the political field on top of that, the words he use, case official, public officials, he call them fools for over turning his initial meryl a victory in his stamp on 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 siege pianist campbell, john a couple of journal. she's been banned from politics for 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 lou have of these are the rich attire better? what i mean? how much of a threat is he really to the prison? or you have to understand his, his victory in 2019 and taken control of his stumble was a political of quite a 25 years at once or a k p party. and if he slammed, predecessor had an iron grip on the city, it was impregnable. no 140 could ever be taken by the mammal of successfully united a very to find an opposition. the conservatives laughed kurdish parties. he pulled them together in a successful coalition that defeated ug won't take a p. i'm fully so jewel in the crown for it on the 2nd most powerful position in

turkey. and that in many ways has shaped the opposition going pull, turned it into a powerful force. now is a threat to ode one on in mammal, in many ways is seen as one of the architects for that. that's why he seen as 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 selected his candle to challenge. but if the process is expedited, which some people believe they're on out of a challenge, as a 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 all goes back to him. i'm all of victory and it's tumble and, and the opposition will they continue to feel that they have a chance after what happened today amended? is this this decision? is it going to have a chilling effect hung on the country at the moment? it's galvanized in opposition. it was a mass rally following the day. 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 one. she delivered a speech to the large crowd, saying that in the ninety's earth won 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, it's again playing again to rock truth rules of applause. many ways i see that this could be a spray bold united, your position to bring down the road one in june elections next year. when, when you will be following the story door, you jones force, not with the lady from the symbol dorian, thank you. in ukraine authority say that they've afforded a wash and drawn attack on the capital key. defense forces shut down all 13, a rainy and made drones that were targeting the city center missile attacks were also reported. the cities of her chief don't ask and separates this president

of keep clear of the broken glass from her window like hers. many of her neighbour of home were shaken this morning as fresh young launch stones at the capital their windows shattered as gold when brought freezing temperatures. if my winter is coming or how can people survive, my lord, what do they want from us? i do not like mccraney and live for garages, all let the russians know, letter di lockers. i didn't do anything to him, but it is this to me personally, you throw that on 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 ration jones,

still to should terrorist began with the launch of 13 shot had drones. she didn't. all 13 were shot down by ukrainian air defense. but well done. i'm proud of you. she busher fresh air has recently been using long range methane attack on residential areas. it called them military attacks. keith called the rush drawn attack. this was a surprisingly small attack by the standards of the last few months, 13 drones down. as you mentioned there, that is significantly shorter, 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, 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 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 tearing here. so a sense of this is the country that is just getting used these attacks and get increasing better at dealing with them. 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 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

a 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 the system at patriot in a hurry. but i think crane 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 for 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, asphalt. but again, as always, the question of delivery is, it's actually going to arrive in the kind of time frames promise. there is the kind

of bad track record with foreign positions, especially tony, up here and key of nice woods 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, very good point to cali to like with the latest from keith nick, as always, thank you. investigators in belgium have seized one and a half 1000000 euros in cash in a series of raids linked to a corruption scandal that connects could tar with the european parliament. the greek socialist member of parliament. you see, you're right there. etha. carly is one of 4 people, arrested over alleged payments from guitar. they've been charged with accepting

bribes and exchange for e. you favors for the goal state. kylie has been stripped of her role as a vice president of the european parliament to the whole things on eva. kylie did not appear at a scheduled court hearing earlier today in brussels. our corresponded jack parrot in brussels, told me 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. and then 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 the 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, laundry, and participation in a criminal organization. i was jack parents reporting from brussels at the word to help in could char, raining champions, france have beaten, finds the underdogs, morocco to kneel, and their semi final clash, the or non does open. the scoring was just 5 minutes gone and randall colo moloney bag their 2nd go with just over 10 minutes remaining. france will now face argentina in the final this coming sunday, or corresponded lisa louise at the arc of triumph in paris. at least i would

assume, i mean i see it behind you, but i would assume that they have got to be reasons to celebrate their tonight. well, exactly, and the party is just starting here. lots of people are gathering their cars. actually, hong k. you can see french flags. you can also see american flags, you know, in the restaurant where we were watching the match. there were french people, there were also by nationals. i understand that both sides were sharing, obviously the moroccans were in favor of a morocco. but with this, they were still happy for front to get through to the finals, as at the heart was beating for both sides really. and so what we're expecting here is a big party right next to this place that the saudi there. lots of people are now gathering here, and they will have a huge party all night long. i think just like to see behind me,

i can see right here behind you there. i did. i know that a lot of police have been called out. i mean, there have been mornings, a possible unrest, right? absolutely. at the interior ministry sending has said to $10000.00 additional police forces across france, about $2500.00 here in paris, $5000.00 the whole paris reagan. so you need to see that really expecting things to happen, that they expecting ryan to happen. and actually, obviously those are quite worried that people, fans might destroy things. you know why they're celebrating that has happened in the past. but it seems that france is prepared for that tonight. yeah, well, let's just hope it's a safe and harmless partying that we're talking about tomorrow. lisa lewis in paris tonight, lisa, thank you. you're watching the w news. after

short break, rob watts will be here to take you through the business news. another wire in us interest rates. i'll see you tomorrow with people in trucks injured. when trying to flee the city center more and more refugees are being turned away. families please on the theory for the.