in motion, i believe he starts december 25th on d w. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. fresh shelling in cassandra cuts off the power and leaves to people bad at the southern ukrainian city has faced repeated attacks by russian forces since it was liberated in november. also on the program, a new leaders meeting him brussels confront challenges including that war on their doorstep and a bribery scandal,

the half of european politics. german law makers draw attention to the jailed iranian protestors facing execution by calling for their release. and by telling their story and german tennis stopped, boris becker is released from prison in the u. k. formal world number one was jailed this year for hiding assets after being declared bankrupt in our faces deportation to germany. ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program. we start in ukraine where the man of hawkins says that russian forces have hit the cities critical infrastructure. authorities have also revealed that to 2 people were killed in an attack on hassan, which also knocked out the power russians drive on the energy network across the country. have left millions of people to face a harsh winter without heat or power,

with heating water. when an open fire. it's become a hotel for the hosting i home in the eastern city of palmetto. beach is shipped out powerful in running water to really oh, russian troops are just 5 kilometers away. but she's determined to stay here and endure. so looking at them, i wish i had some can't made so much but days and i made up it's cold. oh, but we stay survived the winter and early boulevard group was all i want is people here in the fountain city of kasan resident that also facing ideally, struggle from russia continues to pound to 50 recently liberated by ukraine with limited supplies, waiting in long youth is now part of daily life is more so the law, the pharmacies are closed. this one here in the city center is the only one open

international aid. if a lifeline for thumb, this center is providing food and relief from the freezing temperatures. i'm inside what they call a resilient center. outside is raining, it's freezing and it's dangerous. inside. thanks to the efforts of the government, thanks to the efforts of so many who given so much support to the people of care. so we're beginning to see live starting a girl, but fact center can't help all the ukrainians currently in need. it will be a punishing winter for many lack of respondent. nick connelly in keith told me more about these latest russian attacks of what we understand. this was an attack on a humanitarian aid station in the center of tallow, people accusing to get bread, which hewing to get help with heating their homes. people getting generators of old stoves to heat. yeah, it's pretty cold here already in ukraine. and deb,

this is once again proves that basically nowhere in for the sun is safe. this is a city that faces off against russian troops on the other bank of the river. and they can hit anywhere in the city with normal artillery, but also with rocket artery. of which they have a lot when center to deaths, one doctor as it's been reported, and one local who was there queuing for supplies. and yet this isn't the only time just yesterday an 8 year old boy lost his life in for song. the city administration building has been hit the very same, placed it fully. mm. zalinski cranes present, came to visit was have some been re taken by ukraine troops or the russians really doing their best. now shoot, showed that this is not a city that is somehow kind of through the worst that can cause somehow concentrate on rebuilding the power supplies had just been restored to the majority of people in capsule. and then again to those strikes from russia today. now total blackout, so really tough times there looks people i think, who maybe would have been thinking about returning to have some for the boss, ukraine now thinking twice. right. and once more,

there are allegations of abuse perpetrated by russian soldiers. we've heard from the ukraine government ombudsman for human rights. he has reports of teenage boys. they're being kept for days if not longer in sellers on the ground being kept without water, water only being given sporadically. it obviously kind of fits with the kind of stories you've heard before. we were in san just about a month ago and we met people through it spent weeks underground without any allegations of any kind of charges being produced. their families with no clue as to where they were. a lot of people still missing people being tortured with lexical shocks being beaten up in the sense that yet there isn't really much reason to expect russian troops to have behaved any better in concern than they did in other parts occupied ukraine. and me as the weeks progressing invitations go further. lots more of the stories now. unfortunate turning up. okay, thank you for that. nick, nick connelly and keith while the war in ukraine is dominating agenda at an

e. u summit in brussels, where leaders are considering a new package of sanctions against russia. the 27 member states are almost unanimous in their support of ukraine. but the spillover effect of the war of deep and divisions on issues such as record high inflation. the growing energy crisis, ukrainian president vladimir zalinski, joined the meeting by a live link and appeal for more advanced weapons. and it will be the lady that corresponded band reagan is following that to summit, i asked him how unified the e. u is in its support for ukraine 10 months into this war. but in principle, the unity of their old 27 leaders commit to help or ukraine more in the next years to come. 8 for humanitarian things, 8 for the budget, and also ammunition and weapons. the leaders will talk about this request from are followed immediately lensky, the ukranian president. they also are considering to deliver more heavy weapons or

even anti rocket systems, like the patriot system. a but, or the devil is still in the details when it comes to money. poland is now blocking a package, an 8 package, or for ukraine, about 18000000000 euros of budget help for next year, and 5000000000 for ammunition and weapons. the poles of the poets, of somehow black mailing the you the you to push through some of their own interests. and there's also no unity about the 9th. oh sanctioned package. again, sir, russia, the baltic states are demanding more and hungary is demanding less. so there's a lot of bargaining and bickering still going on, maybe until friday morning and out. another major issue of course is the corruption scandal that say, hey, they, each parliament will take a quick listen so. so the new reforms that were announced by the parliament's president roberta met solar and then come back to you. as of today, i am putting together

a wind ranging reform package to be ready in the new year for this will include the strengthening of the parliaments, level a code of conduct rules, and a complete and in depth look of how we interact with state countries. ok, so let's talk about that interaction with 3rd countries at bands b and parliament is just adopted this a resolution specifically on 3rd countries or what they decided were parliament stroudsburg is somehow mirroring the announcement of mrs. metzler. taliban says there shall be no donations or no money coming from 3rd countries to members of parliament. any more, all business was katara will be stopped for the time being and also the lobby risk . register that is already existing for the parliament will now be mandatory and also include foreign government. so far governments could approach parliamentary

without a going to that register and also parliamentary as i asked to open and their tax returns and also their, their, their asset. they have before and after they leave parliament, so that parent can check if they earned money or from some dubious sources. all this is done, although it's not clear what actually happened in that scandal. and mr. and mrs. j . kaylee, the greek m e p in the center of the scandal, still denying any involvement and that, and to her boyfriend, he admitted that he is part of a criminal network. and we will see next week when the, the judges decide if for this and in which direction this will go on. i thank of that band band rigate in brussels. live in parliament is also voted to recognize this genocide a previous policy of the soviet union that stuff millions of ukrainians to death resolution recognizes the other more famine of 900. 3233 as an artificial famine

cause as i say, by a deliberate policy of the soviet regime as a genocide against the ukrainian people correspondent barbara vassal gave us her take on this historic vote. it is an act that is supposed to anchor the hollow, the more in the history books, because this was a largely unexplored and partly forgotten, as part of the ukrainian history and off the genocides of the 20th century. and only in recent years. and historians have come and explored what happened then and have said this is an atrocity. this is something that rushes dictator starling, sort of initiated deliberately in order to break the spirit of ukrainians. if one aspect was the collective ization of farms. and so what happened was that his, a,

his functionaries took away all grain and all life stock from ukrainian farmers. and the figure is how many people died through that. they vary between like 3000000 and the 547000000. nobody really knows, but whole stretches of the countryside were completely depopulated because people were starving to death. and the other aspect was, of course, that starting already then wanted to break the political resistance and the political spirit in the sense of national identity of ukrainians. so this is what's behind the senate, the, the resolution, the european parliament, except the to day. it means that this is now increasingly going down as effect in international history books. where so far it has been just a site aspect by proposal. we'll take a look now it's more stores making headlines around the world. european central

bank has raised its landing rights by half a percentage point a to point 5 percent. that's the 4th consecutive increase since july. as the central bank aims to fight at runaway inflation prices of sold across the 19 countries to use the euro, driven by rising energy costs and russia invited ukraine. this is in the u. k. of staged, an unprecedented strike with up to a $100000.00 of them have walked off the job for a day describing the action as a last resort. the fight for better wages and working conditions. first of a strike by the wrong code of nursing and members, is part of a way of british walkers an irish member of the un peacekeeping force has been killed in southern lebanon. 3 others were wounded. women convoy came under fire. it's not clear who's responsible. the union has launched an investigation of a 3 months around has been shaken by anti regime protests. at least 2 people have

already been executed in connection with for demonstrations and activists. a warning that others face the same fate or german politicians are doing their part to raise awareness of the plight of some of those political prisoners. whatever they don't have the broader picture with only a p. look, this is some uneasy. a repre belonging to iran's kurdish minority, famous not only for his music, but also his criticism of these land republic. whether he was arrested by the regimes forces in october, while protesting and sentenced to death for allegedly harming national security. his family is afraid he could soon be executed. oh, this is my cry for help for justice. for god's sake help me. i'm not particular and i'm not able to have my voice hurt. who can speak out about my pain? somebody, please help me. a cry for help that did not go unnoticed. he and germany, carlos casper, a member of parliament, has taken on political sponsorship of yassin,

and is now amplifying his mother's calls for his release. the sarbanes, i have sent a letter to the iranian ambassador here in germany, and i expect were seen to be released and not be executed because his execution could happen any day. now audits, when we did bar and caspar not the only one in the past few days, dozens of members of the german parliament have become sponsors of political prisoners and their number is growing. your one re was the 1st one. she is publicly speaking out to help safe to match the li, another well known rapper who's reportedly being tortured in jail without access to the lawyer. he requested recess updates about his condition and as glad that so many colleagues are now joining her well and others, dan chart. less effort among them i experienced empties and inexperienced m p. 's conservative m p. 's and progressive and peace. what unites as is that we really want to give these people a face. there's the saying say their names. and that is exactly what we do with

those for whom we take responsibility in meeting for david on fan. what on of, on im? member of the german parliament. norbert watkin is another sponsor taking on the case of muster for nearly a well known human rights lawyer who is now in prison, himself to raise attention for his case and also to send a signal of support for other people like him in iran to see how might seal that they have a goal that they're not giving up on via freedom yet. they are freedom. this is i'm the freedom of iran with this. and this is a historic more minute a possibility for chain then. so that's why the european should be alert and make their small, modest contribution to make this revolution for freedom and emancipation of the people. it was successful. i hope, for the emergency puts you on fun. mention some folk, the proctor and while sanctions and other political measures are being discussed, that can and his colleagues will keep making as much noise as possible to make sure

was a man to marsh must offer. and all the others stay alive. with jesus, near is the human rights lawyer and director of the atlantic council strategic litigation of project. i asked her how effective political sponsorships like those we've just heard about, can be we think it's very important to raise awareness about these cases, but also to elevate demands that are more concrete around, for example, recalling ambassadors or downgrading relations with countries that do have diplomatic relations with iran, just like germany. we think it's incredibly important because a very strong political signal needs to be sent to the iranian authorities. otherwise, they may, may not stop the execution that they have planned. and we know that there is roughly 40 young individuals who are well,

if they are not already will be on death row for the charges against them. and why would that be effective against a government regime that seems to have embraced its position as a para in the international world? why is the, the outside world, tony? it's about further on iran, likely to change their minds with nothing like this has changed their mind so far. well i think saying that the islamic republic believe is that it itself is an international pry as yes to know. there are some activities that the government engages, and that certainly signal that, you know, they're, they're not necessarily engaging with their actual community. but then there are a lot of other forums within which they're actually quite engaged. and so to i do think that their reputation in their heads does matter a bit to them,

otherwise they wouldn't be so active at the united nations. they wouldn't, for example, have been in the have to address the assembly of states parties about their legal system. you know, there are still many ways in which they seek to present a different alternative view of what they believe rulings should be and they try to reshape those norms in that way. so actually i do think it would send a very strong political signal if countries that have diplomatic relations with the atlantic or public would recall their investors for consultation that was done once before. i mean, it's been done before. notably in the early ninety's when there were the nikos murders. so the murderers of iranian kurdish dissidence in berlin. and germany undertook similar measures then. and it had an impact on getting the, as on the public stop assassinating political dissidents on european soil. all right. do you think anyone is ever likely to be held accountable for what is

happening now in iran? well, what we see is that certainly at this juncture, it won't be happening in domestic court with the violent state crackdown on protests back in november 2019. nobody was actually ever nobody in government who was responsible for those data we've ever held account in any meaningful way. and we haven't seen that so far either. so the authority is, are very keen on executing 2122 and 23 year olds who are in the protest, but they're seemingly not keen to investigate at all the state security forces that have disproportionate force and have disappeared, teenage girls. so the power that could be possible, and this is relevant for germany, is really looking at universal jurisdiction option should any of these mid to lower level perpetrators leave the country and enter the jurisdiction. and in germany,

there's been several alleged perpetrators that have come to germany over the years, but the german authorities and the prosecutors never took action in terms of issuing arrest warrant or issuing indictments based on complaints. ok. so there is a possibility you see that thank you so much for joining us. a guest room near from the atlantic council strategic litigation project. ah, ah, german not for mattie's ice. forest backer has been faithful. a british present ab is on his way back to germany. in april of this year, he was jail for 2 years and 6 months for having hundreds of thousands of pounds of assets after he'd been declared the bankrupt. the 55 year old was originally required to serve at least 15 months, but he's a lawyer said is not received an early release and is not subject to any penal restrictions in germany as get more from corresponding to call last month in london

. welcome a call. why is it been really so early? either phil. yeah, the big news here is that boris becker being released early, only serving those 8 months of a 30 month prison sentence. and it is that, that word deportation that we can refer to here, boris. becker is a german citizen, and despite living in the u. k for about a decade did not apply for british citizenship. so he apply actually will be used under a early release program for foreign citizens. the actually will be deported back to germany. this is something that's meant to reduce the over crowding in u. k. prison. it's not quite as rare as you might think around. a 1000 similar cases took place last year in the u. k. but he will be sent back and there will be some conditions of the biggest one is that he will not be allowed to return to the

u. k. for these 10 years that will be the point of which he can begin to apply. again, she returns or look like this will be a long time in terms of when you have to stay in germany. if boris becker does want to come back, but only serving 8 months of that 30 month prison sentence, and he is now on his way back, being deported to germany and remind us why he ended up in prison in the 1st place . was he mentioned at the beginning this stems from 4 charges of water being referred to as bankruptcy fraud. essentially, he was accused and convicted of trying to hide millions of dollars and of his assets that he owed to creditors in the bankruptcy case. he was tried earlier this year, making lots of headlines, obviously in the u. k. and in germany convicted in april and then sent him to 30 months in prison. in fact, he served some of those months just down the river here,

not so far away from his apartments in south london. but that was the case that put him behind bars. he really was serving time in prison, was then transferred to a lighter duty prison. that is meant for these sort of for nationals before they are deported and now forced back on his way back and he stayed in the spotlights for years after each. he retired from playing tennis. where does he go from here? he did, and that's spotlight, not fading away, obviously. anytime soon he's going back to germany. there are rumors that there are some standing offers for him to join the german tennis association. we do believe that he'll be flown back to germany on a private flight on a private jet that's been paid at least in part by a german television station hoping to get that big 1st interview with boris becker . there's also an apple tv documentary about his wife that will be released soon that's being produced by a couple of oscar winning directors. a clip just dropped yesterday on that,

so this will only serve to increase that spotlights on boards. becker, thanks for the call call. last month in london, they woke up in katasha and morocco's dream run has come to an end painting champions, trans defeated them in the semi final clash were auto made history by becoming the 1st african or arab team ever to reach the 70s. last night, the front of the attack proved to be too much. ah, given the history between morocco and france, this encounter was always going to be about more than football. but shortly after kickoff france, often a cutting reminder that everything boils down to what happens on the pitch. and the writing champions would be no pushovers. pair. hernandez made it one ill just 5 minutes in olivia. he reads 12 minute chance further show the atlas lines torment

best defense might finally be vulnerable. despite the early deficit, morocco didn't fold. yeah, that elia meek probe, the french back line with a spectacular chance just before the break. but it was frogs largely on the back foot in the 2nd half who dashed morocco's dreams once and for all substitute randell, colo maloney finish things off at 2 nil fronts. we'll hope to keep the celebration going by retaining the cup against argentina, while a half broken morocco have already written history of fans back home in paris celebrated the achievement of well into the nights and we caught up with some of oh, vera, a blue the bible bravo to the moroccan tonight. it's not only france that wins,

but all of the french speaking people and we are proud of their performance at this world cup and we are together. americans will be with us in a final a so as a reminder of our top story at this hour, ukraine says 2 people have been killed by russian shelling and has song. the southern city has a face repeated attacked by russian forces since it was recaptured by ukraine in november. the latest reaching for the final summers of the year in brussels to fall out from the ukraine war is likely to dominate discussions with inflation, energy, and sanctions. all on the agenda. i set you up today. i'll

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