of democracy ah, building the biggest thing in the world is the spirit of an architect. motions. it starts december 25th oh d w. mm hm. ah ah, this is dw used live from berlin, cutting loose from russian energy. germans to germany's chancello, opened the country's 1st liquid natural gas terminal with winter here berlin is scrambling to reduce reliance on russian supplies. but is it enough? in football,

croatia and morocco prepared to go head to head in the world cups. 3rd place playoff will get the lightest from cat r as the tournament enters its final weekend. ah, i'm jared ray. thank you very much for your company today. we're going to have those stories in just a moment, but 1st the breaking news. german police say that they have found some of the priceless treasures stolen in the countries. one of the countries biggest jewel fifths 3 years ago. you might remember that back in november 2019. a group of thieves broke into dressed in green vault museum. they made off with artifacts and jewels worth around 113000000 euros. the suspected robbers who are members of the building klan, they were arrested and charged and their trial began early this year. we're gonna have more on this breaking news story. as details come in throughout the afternoon,

staying here in germany world, the, our 1st liquefied natural gas terminal has opened here. it's a key part of germany's efforts to eventually when itself, off russian gas chancellor, olaf, shots, and other top officials took part in the official opening ceremony at the north sea, porterville, hymns half in the new energy infrastructure as part of germany strategy to import gas from other parts of the world to replace gas previously imported via pipelines from russia. sholtes praised the speed at which the project was completed. a 3rd of our time when we announced our goal to build an g terminals before the end of the year. like this one here in millions hoffen, there were many skeptic saying that's not possible. that will never work as good, but we prove the opposite of that young. indeed, we managed to build such a terminal in just

a few months terminal. yeah. and now we can see this vessel that will take on the task of turning liquefied natural gas into gas that we can use for germany's energy grid does. but that's an important step for our energy security on the phone with guns, guns will do w's political correspond. catherine lancaster is here with me in the studio. so catherine, tell us exactly what is an ill in g terminal. and how is this all going to work? so dary or you have to imagine is, is essentially, it's a big ship. it's a big vessel that ducks on the sore of germany, north sea. and then this vessel is been able to actually transform this shill. liquid gas back into the original state, back into gas. it takes a lot of energy. it takes a lot of technology. so it's really a big undertaking that's happening on those ships. which also means since their ships, they're much more flexible. so what we don't need right now is a pipeline,

and that will help us diversify or to help germany diversify away from russian gas . okay. flexibility. diversity i. where is germany going to be getting as gus from them? so for now it's still getting its gas from the european partners. b is spain, the, the netherlands, belgium. but that looks good on paper. as a matter of fact, much of that gas that goes into those ships that come from the european partners is actually of russian gas to, while we are trying to diversify way and to substitute the russian oil, we're actually also getting russian gas. and so it's very hard to not have russian gas in the mix and you know, to really get rid of this gas because it's via dieter, coming to germany anyway. and another thing which is on the horizon for germany is also a deal with carter. they've signed a deal just a few months ago, and we will, germany will be getting gas from liquefied natural gas from cut our starting in

2026. which means that is actually not helping termini for this winter for the winter of 2023 or that winter of 2024. okay, so there's still a few more years to go until they can really fully or even more diversify away from russian go. so catherine, aside from this ellen g terminal that that's been inaugurated to day, what else has the german government got planned to be far pets? energy infrastructure? so there are more terminals to be open this year to more in this winter. and in total they plan to have 11 l n d terminals on c and on land. and many critics say this is actually too much. we don't need that many terminals. we don't need that much fossil fuel energy infrastructure anymore. the government says, well, some of those terminals will be able to actually also treat green hydrogen. but that might be a little more complicated than the government paints it to be. okay. these things

always do turn out to be a bit more complicated than people think in the beginning. but that's a really great our wrap up of what's happening today at this ellen g terminal, catherine lancaster, l d w political correspond. thank you very much. thank you. to ukraine now where it's reported that air raid sirens have been sounding across the country to day. the authorities of urge residence to take shelter after russia carried out large scale missile strikes on the capital. keep on friday, ukraine is struggling to restore electricity and heating to residents in major cities. after the bombardments, the national energy supplier has said that these latest strikes have disabled half of the systems capacity. and it's warning that it will take longer to restore power . a 3rd of cubes, residents still have no electricity and half have no heating with these aren't the 1st such attacks on ukrainians and ukraine. civilian infrastructure and winter is here is the russian strategy working well. our correspondent emanuel shes

in. keith has more. what is lacking is the damage inflicted on the infrastructure. what is not working is that it doesn't affect resilience of people here. people you know, i get on life is almost as usual here. of course it's really cold. of course, you know, it's a very, a dire or very annoying to not have water to not have electricity, but people are telling me when i speak to them that i've met, at least russians are not here. and they are determined to keep it that way. they are determined to keep going, or regardless of the situation, of course, in the long run this winter, you know, is gonna last another few months in the long run. we could see a moment of population going west are also trying, you know, to go abroad, even a situation where son. but as of now, i cannot see people here like telling me that it discourages them in any way. and i just want, you know, russians to go away from the country. emanuel shines there. let's take

a quick look at some of the other world headlines today. china has seen a sharp rise in cove at 19 cases in beijing kind numbers of workers. there had been testing positive shortly after it measures were eased following public unrest. funeral homes are also overwhelmed and staff shortages are leading to delays in chrome. ations. tunisians are going to the polls for a set of, for a parliamentary election opposition parties of cold for a boycott. they're saying new electoral laws have effectively new should parliament . the vote comes as president chi. it continues to tightened his grip on power after voters backed a new constitution in july or peruse. congress has rejected a bill to bring forward elections after president pedro castillo was removed from office castillo, supporters or cooling his removal occur. and they've been clashing with police. 22 people have died so far in the protests. police

fire tear gas. it demonstrates as blocking an airport in southern peru. one of many protests that erupted across the country after lawmakers removed former president petro castillo from office last week. over 20 people have died in the unrest and rights groups accused the authorities of using excessive force in their response to the protests. the former president still has wide support, especially among peruse indigenous communities. and protests is brought trucks to a standstill at this border crossing between peru and bolivia. caramels as your little glistening valuable. we want the immediate dissolution of congress. we want dean apollo auto to resign this. and we want new elections as soon as possible. we'll hand to hand that last demand ignored for now off to peruse congress

throughout a bill to allow early elections. most of the can take a president, dina blue r t. a defied protested calls to resign and insisted that the government was still listening. look that you got on kathy meant those gang said i lament the tragic events that have ended the lives of several people in different parts of the country. this has to stop and say, well the, i don't know that that m. c, c o, my transitional government understands and is still listening to the demands of the millions of peruvians who have legitimately raised their voices. lexi, the, my main element, that is the was oh, in the capital, lima rally for peace. demonstrate is called for unity and dialog. it's not clear if the caretaker government can deliver that

to sports now and the world cup final between argentina and france takes place on sunday and the front didn't have enough to worry about trying to stop lea a no messy a virus has now hit their squad the flu like illness left 5 plays including defensive linchpin raphael van, unable to train on friday. but barcelona attacker was monday billy said he and his teammates were not worried and that he'd even been providing a little medical treatment himself. no, no, we're not afraid of the virus iowa public can. oh and audrey and robbie, you had a headache and a bit of stomach ache and i made them a little tea with ginger and honey. they were better. but no, we're not worried about that. and i hope everyone is on the mend and will be ready for the final to move a paper. and the 2nd to last match at the men football. well, comp sees morocco take on croatia tonight. we've 3rd place up for grabs. morocco will be looking to round off the historic performance of the tournament after day

became the 1st ever african country to which reached the world comp semifinals for opponents croatia. it's a chance to give captain lucas laundry to win in what will likely be his final world cup game. earlier i spoke with d. w. sports correspondent, done your boss a loaner in catherine. i asked her whether the croatia squad would be motivated by mortgages, weld cop farewell. i really don't think it's in this cohesion side to not be motivated. i mean, since they joined fever in 92, they've had incredible results in tournaments in the finished 3rd, in 98. and since $98.00, really only france and germany had more final for parents is than croatia. of course. the fact that it is luke ahmad is probably his last world cup game will be that action. one of the asian. i mean, luca mortgage is one of the best mid fielders of his generation. the years past and woocommerce, his contribution pretty much remains the same. he's got this incredible ability to dictate the tempo of the game,

of course is passing short ridge and long range is unbelievable. so of course this croatia side will want him to and his world cup career with another 3rd place finish. absolutely. now done. you. you've been seeing a lot of morocco fans during this tournament. i guess you're gonna be expecting them to be raring to go for the game today. yeah, of course morocco will be extremely motivated for this game there ran in this tournament has been so historical already in the 1st era, the 1st african nation to make it to the semi finals. and if they could win it be the 1st time that they would finish in 3rd place. of course it would be massive and they really have done so much in this tournament. and they have not had it easy. they've had to be incredible opposition, like belgium, spain, portugal. so i mean, you can see behind me this is the stadium. the fans are slowly starting to arrive. i did talk to some on the way here. they said they're already incredibly so proud of this team. but if they could win 3rd place, it would really just be the cherry on top of an amazing performance from them.

absolutely. now let's talk about the all important final we've just been hearing that the french squad has been hit by a virus. how important could this be for sunday's much? it's incredibly important. i'm in, in the final other world cut you want your players to be 100 percent healthy and 100 percent fit. so this virus, it started after the game against england, with some players coming down with flu like symptoms. then a couple more players have gotten it and they've been training apart. so france really doing everything they can to contain this in their team. of course, they haven't really been giving so much information. they don't want to give argentina any tips on how they can approach the match. so we don't really know that much about it right now, but let me tell you for a player to mr. fun all the work up, they pretty much have to be dead or i guess you're right and i guess we'll see who is playing tomorrow that's. that's done. yeah. barcelona encounter. thank you for

your reporting. is a reminder now of the top story we're following for you. german police side, i have found most of the priceless treasures stolen in dresden museum highs 3 years ago. artifacts and jewels worth more than 100000000 euros were taken. the suspected robbers, members of a 1000000000 gang, were arrested and charged and their trial began earlier to see. yeah. and it's more on that story on d. w dot com. you're watching the w news from berlin. i'll show reporter taking up arms against the military. and when to in the amar is up, next state you ah, ah, will you become a criminal.