ah ah ah, this is the w news live from berlin, fresh shelling and it has all the cuts off the power and leaves to people that solving ukrainian city has faced repeated attacks by russian forces since it was liberated in november. also on the program b, u leaders meeting in brussels confront challenges including that war on their

doorstep under bribery scandal, the heart of european politics, german lawmakers to draw attention to the jail, the rain, the protestors facing execution by calling for the lease. and by telling their story, german tele star forest backer 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 jo. ah i'm so gale. welcome to the program. we start in ukraine where the man of hawkins says, russian forces have hit the cities that critical infrastructure. authorities also reveal that 2 people were killed in an attack in her son that also knocked out the power. and strikes on the energy network across the country have left millions of

people to face a harsh winter without heat or power, with heating water on an open fire. it's become routine for allowed the scaffolds thing i home in the eastern city of obamacare, which is tripped out power and running water to create a whole. russian troops are just 5 kilometers away. but she's determined to stay here. mm hm. and endure into something other than that. i wish i had some can't made so much but days and i made for it's cold. oh, but we stay survived the winter and then it will w compose. all i want is here with here in the fatten 30 of caisson visit and that also, 5th thing i did you struggle. 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 temperature with 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 of 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 law correspondent nick connelly in keith. tell 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 with queuing to get bread with you in to get help with heating their homes. people getting generators are all

stoves to heat names. 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 the 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 is 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 phipps on the city administration building has been hit. the very same, placed it fully. mm. zalinski quince present, came to visit was, hasn't been re taken by ukraine troops or the russians really doing their best out . 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 for song and then again through those strikes from russia today. now total blackout, so really tough times and looks people i think, who maybe would've been thinking about returning to hassan 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, underground 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 the goals, shocks being beaten up. so there's a sense that there isn't really much reason to expect russian troops to have behaved any better in console than they did in other parts occupied ukraine. and, you know, as the weeks progressive associations go further, a lot more of the stories now. unfortunately, up,

thank you for that new economy in queue or russia's invasion of ukraine, triggered a certain and massive humanitarian accidents since february, more than a 1000000 ukranian men, women and children have registered with authorities here in germany. now a new multi year study is trying to document what they've been through. researchers of interviewed thousands of ukrainian refugees who are now in germany, trying to gain insights into the challenges of integration. things like accessing services and finding school places. and they are documenting the psychological impact of these experiences. alaina rover, flared the war, and ukraine. and i live here in berlin. welcome to the studio. thank you so much for joining us. now i understand you've been here since may 3 or 4 months or enter the war. what prompted your decision to seek asylum here? actually. and when the war began, and my friends decided to leave to the village in by the kids because we thought it

would be more safe and safer. but it was. and that decision because that me, which was occupied by rational folders and being part of a tray city of heating and etc for weeks. and we couldn't escape because our every car which tried to fleet it and that village was shot by russian soldiers. but one day with $62.00 escape and we decided that we need to go song, go somewhere for me, going to stay safe. so my friends, so i decided to come to germany because they were looking for any country in a family that can accept them. and they reached julia on one of the websites she offered for the whole family to come here in the lane. and

basically there are 3 families, they leave in one house, but in separate plates. they accepted us as a real family. they helped us a lot with our papers financial help. they treat us like a family and i'm not going to lie that i will be grateful to those people to the end of my days. so they and so how many of you made it out together? 07 people, me and you so you were in this business village. how did you, how did you escape? how did you get past the russians? ah, there was a green way or how should i call it when your cranium? military force provides that whole a safe curren with succeeded to, to escape that day. right. and so you arrived in germany,

how you found the process of navigating a german bureaucracy. it sounds like you had help. yeah. i had a really great help because it's really complicated to get into papers, documents, and etc. once you you're in a foreign country. so our german family, i call them germany and really helped us a lot to, to go through to grants and etc, to get residents per me, registrations and cetera. how, how, how difficult would that have been if you, if you hadn't had your german family here? oh, i believe more complicated. are you doing? you strange falls in a different language. yeah. no 1st point. and the 2nd point, once you are fully in your country to escape the war, you're maybe lost. you just can't keep your brain and ok. now i should make the

1st step, the 2nd step in such a upside down. yeah. so you need somebody to be with you and guide you navigate you and what is that? like i, i understand you, you worked in p r and ukraine's. i wonder your, a successful businesswoman been the next? you're asking strangers in a foreign country and a foreign language for somewhere to lives and something to eat. what is that change? like in actually i think on ludovic, koreans fills this way. you're like creating a temporary life. you know, you're like, ok, the world is crumbling, but no one, dale, the back to crane will built the new live better future cetera. but now i need to

think of grade in my temporary life. like, you know, you're treated as a temporary, a search, the one that you will return. oh yeah. yeah. i think so. but i, i suppose i cannot answer this question like 400 percent because ah, you are building a temporary life. i in different country and then once the war will be finished, of course you want to go back to homeland, but still you have your life here as well. so i think a lot of ukrainian so they can see drain the way how you can leave for both countries. nino whole land and your 2nd country. and have you left anyone back home in ukraine? ah, yes. my parents, because basically we're from law ganske. so it's the 2nd time risk in experience in the war and my parents, they don't want to leave the crane. they're like,

it's too much for us to leave our but you know, you're still in contact with bessie flores. we thank you for joining us and outlining so clearly what that terrible decision is a lie. i wish you well, thank you and i never thank you. thank you warn you. great is dominating the agenda as an e. u summit in brussels, where leaders are considering the new package of sanctions against russia. the 27 member states are almost unanimous in their support for ukraine, with the spillover effects of the war of deepened divisions on issues like record high inflation. and the growing energy crisis, ukrainian president vladimir savanski, join the meeting via live link and appeal for more advanced weapons. a cindy? i correspond the bad to regatta is following the summit and i asked him how unified the e. u is in it support for ukraine 10 months into this war. but in principle,

the unity is there, all 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 her full of mercy 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 pushed over some of their own interests . and there's also no unity about the nines earth 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 and maybe until to friday, morning and out. another major issue of course is the corruption scandal that say, hey, they a, you, parliament will take a quick listen so. so the new reforms that were announced by the parliament peasant 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 a strengthening of the parliaments whistleblower protection systems. a ban on all unofficial friendships groups. a review of the policing of our code of conduct rules and a complete and in depth look at how we interact with state counties. okay, 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 have 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 build. now be mandatory and also include foreign government. so far governments could approach parliamentarians without herb going to that register. and also parliamentarians are asked to open and their tax returns and also their, their, their asset to have before and after they leave parliament. so that parent can check if they earned money from some dubious sources. all this is done, although it's not clear what actually happened in that scandal. m, 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 for this and in which direction this will go on. i thank if that band band rigate in brussels. has a look at some more stories making headlines around the world. the european central bank has raised its lending rates by half a percentage point to 2.5 percent. that's a 4th consecutive increase since july, as it tries to fight runaway inflation prices across the 19 countries that use the euro of sort, driven by rising energy costs since russia invaded ukraine. this is in the u. k. have states an unprecedented strike up to 100000 members of the ro college of nurses walked off the job for a day describing the action as a last resort in their fight for better wages and working conditions. the action is part of a wave of british walk out. an irish member of

a un peacekeeping force has been killed in southern lebanon. 3 others were wounded when their convoy came under attack. it's not known, launched at the attack, b, u. n. has begun an investigation threaten space agency has called off a space walk of the international space station after detecting a coolant leak. nasa is working with russia to repair the problem and says the station crew are not in danger. space to iran, which of course has been shaken by anti regime protests for 3 months. now at least 2 people have been executed in connection with the demonstrations and activists. a warning that others faced the same fate. now german politicians are doing their part to raise awareness of the plight of some of these political prisoners. but that we don't have the portal as get your dollar peter. this is sam and yasmin, a rapper belonging to iran's curtis minority, famous not only for his music,

but also his criticism of these land republic. whether he was arrested by the regime forces in october, while protesting and sentenced to death for allegedly harming national security. his family is afraid he could soon be executed or this is my cry for help for justice. for god's sake help me. i'm not a ticket and i am 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. as our bones, i might have sent a letter to the iranian ambassador here in germany, and i expect there seemed to be released and not to be executed because his execution could happen. any dana audience when middleburg 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 own re was the 1st one. she is publicly speaking out to help save too much sally, another well known rapper whose reportedly being tortured in jail without access to the lawyer, he requested recess updates about his condition and is glad that so many colleagues are now joining her. well, and under stan chart, not a far among them i experienced empties and inexperienced and peace, conservative m. p, 's and progressive and peace. what unites is, is that we really want to give these people a face. does the same say their names, and that is exactly what we do with those for whom we take responsibility, anything for david and found what about him? member of the german parliament. norbert watkin is another sponsor. taking on the case of mister finelli, 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 on their freedom. does this, i'm the freedom of iran with this and this is a historic mold in it. 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 who are successful fired for the monte, puts you on on mention some folk, the butter. and while sanctions and other political measures are being discussed, what 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. a german former tennis ice forest backer has been freed from a british prison and is on his way back to germany. in april he was jail for 2 years and 6 months for hiding hundreds of thousands of pounds of assets after being

declared bankrupt. the 55 year old was originally required to serve at least 15 months. his lawyer said, is not released, received an early release and is not subject to penal restrictions in germany. i spoke to carl norseman in the london and he explained why boris becker is being released and deported just 8 months into his sentence. i there fill. 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. that'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 so looks like this will be a long time in terms of when you laugh a 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 of 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 asset

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, the for they are supported and now for background is 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 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. the clip just dropped yesterday on that, so this will only serve to increase that spotlights on board. becker, thanks for calling last month. in london, after woke up in katara, where morocco's dream run has ended after writing champions, france defeated them in wednesday semi final. but morocco did make history by becoming the 1st african or are obtained to reach the sammy's last. neither francis attack proved overwhelming. given the history between morocco and france, this encounter was always going to be about more than football. but shortly after kickoff frogs, often a cutting reminder that everything boils down to what happens on the pitch. and the

writing champions would be no pushovers, tail and, and is made at one mill just 5 minutes in olivia. he routes 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 alia, meek probe, the french back line with a spectacular chance just before the break. but it was france largely on the back foot in the 2nd half who dash morocco's dreams once and for all, substitute randall colo maloney finish things off at 2 mill fronts. we'll hope to keep the celebration going by retaining the cup against argentina, while a half broken morocco have already written history. well, they w caught up with some fans back home in paris as they celebrated into the night. oh, well, this is

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 i is reminded that top story of this crime says 2 people have been killed by russian shouting in half south. the southern city has faced repeated the attacks. i'm russian forces i sent you, cried recapture in november and you leaders are meeting for their

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