right, i got a little mix in the arctic if you see something that looked like james bond, it has to do with starts december 23rd on d, w. ah ah business dw news coming to you live from berlin, a landmark deal to protect nature, delegates at a un summit in montreal, reach agreement on halting the loss of biodiversity endangering life owner also coming up. so they could see of slavery in the netherlands, the country built an empire by enslaving hundreds of thousands of people abroad. is

it time to apologize and clubbing and chip despite the war? young people in ukraine turn to dance and music to escape the horrors of daily life . plus dramatic world cup final in kata ends in big $34.00 argentina. the penalties shoot out when sparked wild celebrations on the field, and in when the salaries will speak to our correspondent ah lauren terry martin, good to have you with us. we begin in montreal where countries at the u. n. bio diversity summit have struck an important deal to protect nature. the agreement is the most significant effort to protect vital ecosystem safeguarding 30 percent of the world's land and sees deal also promotes agricultural reforms,

provides critical financing to save bio diversity in the developing world. beatrice christopher oh, from our environment desk is covering the story force. beatrice a 190 countries have struck a deal to protect bio diversity. this deal is being a hailed as historic. what makes it so significant? many environmentalists are saying that this deal is our last chance to, you know, reverse the threats on our biodiversity, which basically refers to all living things on earth. so if we look at the situation right now where thousands of species are under threat of extinction, are insect numbers are plummeting, our oceans are, instead of fighting. the situation is very dire and our ecosystems are under enormous pressure. so this deal could change the way we farm the way we do business and the way we protect our animals and plants. the steel was hammered out in a series of really tough negotiations. i mentioned

a 190 countries getting them to agree on something as is really seem to be what, what were the biggest point of contention. the biggest content point of contention by far was financing. and that's something we already saw, the climate talks, which are also un talks and in egypt and november. because it really boils down to this, that poor nations want richer nations to give them more financial aid to help them in their conservation efforts. especially because these developing nations are the ones that really are home to some of the most outstanding biodiversity. for example, if you think of the amazon in south america. so these negotiations got. so he did at one point that delegates from poorer nations walked out of the negotiations. okay. so how much of a game changer do you think this deal will really be? do you think that it can actually help stop the relentless degradation of plant and animal life on the planet? if this deal becomes a game changer, really depends on the way we implemented the way that governments honor the

promises that it and the commitments that they made. and these negotiations because as we've seen and other history deals before. for example, the, the paris agreement in 2015, which focused on climate talks, these commitments are not always honored. i mean, really big promises were made in terms of global warming and, and parents at that point on the way things are going right now. we're not honoring them. so with this deal we also got to see, okay, we made the promises, but are we going to walk the walk? you mentioned the, the climate shot negotiations that are been going on. we've says in seeing those, there's agreements broken. how does this deal on biodiversity plug in to the whole notion of climate change because they are, of course closely related. exactly. experts are saying that they're completely inter length and that to fight climate change. we also got to protect our biodiversity, especially ecosystems, as such as for us. so to come back to my example of the amazon, the, this like massive rain forest is absolutely crucial to absorb carbon from the

atmosphere because this keeps the atmosphere from heating up. so the more we deforest, the more we threaten our climate also, and similarly for us to protect our m, r, the more we pollute. and the more we admit that also as a massive threat on our biodiversity interest. thank your much for your insight. that was beatrice crystal from, from our environment test. thank sketch. up on some other world news headlines now . at least 31 sailors from thailand's navy have gone missing and see their warship was patrolling the gulf of thailand when it ran into strong tides. late on sunday and rescue operations of hold at least 75 sailors out of the water alive. and another potential disaster at sea was averted, whence relying his navy rescued more than a 100 rou, hinge or refugees of drift. in the indian ocean authorities say the trawler

carrying them ran into engine trouble. members of the muslim minority regularly risked their lives to escape hardship in myanmar as well as refugee camps in bangladesh. ukrainian forces say they shot down 30 drones during an early morning attack on the capital key and city officials say critical infrastructure was hit, but didn't give details. hours earlier video emerged of russia's defense minister survey showing who purportedly inspecting russian troops in ukraine. though it's not clear where or when the footage was actually taken, it's released comes ahead of blood of your proteins 1st visit to neighboring battle roost in years. russian present is due in minsk later for talks with original ruler, alexander lucas. shanker short while ago i spoke with our correspondent nick connelly and keith, i began by asking him about the drone attack on the capital this morning. well,

it was very loud this morning, about 45 am. there was a lot of anti aircraft and he missile defense systems making a lot of racket here. people really having to ask themselves whether to get up, whether to go to their sellers and look for safety or stay in bed. because the alert was but 3 hours. so this is basically the kind of reality that people have to deal with here. asking themselves weighing up the dangers and the risks themselves or getting a night sleep before a week of work. of which of these have become routine here. and we saw something similar last week where there was a smaller drone attack followed by a missile attack, a bigger missile attack, the following days. as of a suspicion here that this was about working out where ukraine's defenses are trying to position them, trying to get those locations to then use the missiles more effectively the next day. the kind of big dilemma here is that these drones are very cheap there. it's believe to cost about $20000.00 each. so from the munition used to shoot them down is more expensive than the drones themselves. the russians have lots of them and

can use them freely and the damage hasn't been so big and keeps larger with power. would stay, but definitely the expectation here of more attacks of that kind of come. so more attacks of that kind to come. but there's also a lot of speculation, nick about what russia's next steps could be in this war. russian media reporting that vladimir putin will make a big announcement this week. what is ukraine anticipating? well, not only that, but also his visits to bellows to day expectation that he's gonna put more pressure on. a barouche says, a ruler, a little lucas jenko to potentially send his own bella russian troops into battle against ukrainians to maybe start another land offensive against ukraine. from there, after all, caves, only 100 kilometers from the boilers and borders. this is all very close and very worrying for ukraine. and this has been used as a threat as a kind of diversionary tactic in the past to try and get ukraine to spread itself more thinly in to take trips away from those crucial battle fields in the south in

the east. i think this time though, people are taking it more seriously. there's more fear that this might actually happen now, given how badly russia has been doing in the last couple of months. and there's generally a sense that finally putin is willing to escalate further, that he's willing to risk more russian lives. the ukraine say about a 100000 russian souls already died during this war. and that this is not the end. there's no going to be any kind of interval now of the winter, but they're going to see more fighting and more losses as this, which continues. nick, thank you very much. is always our correspond nicolai there in the ukrainian capital key. la crane's capital is enduring a tax and from russian missiles drones almost every day. but despite such attacks, residents of t if seemed determined to try to live, know a normal life, including going to clubs and partying. as our reporter matched sunder found out, there's no getting away from the fact that q is a city at war but sometimes it's important to

try life here, the city continues were the po, deal, neighbor. now this may seem like your ordinary residential street, but don't let yourself before. she was chuck over here. this is a massive generator that is connected to an actual club breakdown that alley club there right now is filling up with people. want to live in ordinary life via just for a couple of hours. let's have a look. the 11 p m curfew means it's an early start to have come to party at hotel. this could be a grungy club, almost bearing the world with advice that it's not even 7 o'clock and it's already pretty busy. the main floor is filling up. it is a rare opportunity to dance, even if it's chilly. most you are keeping their coats on to those who have come.

this is more than just a night out. but the bottom and i feel good. this is a life now. it's just the we already tired of reacting to muscles full in my mouth . that 8 people already tired of the war of this pain user can act, keeps us going. i feel good. i thank god that i'm here. i'm and cave and i can see and hear all this in the media. yeah. wasn't, wasn't that you hadn't bought it? there but then oh, so it seems, this is a purely part of partying and cube at the moment. just seconds ago there was massive rave going on. now there is a power cut. the big generator outside soon does its work though. and we had downstairs where there's a different by oh my,

oh, chris gotta wraps about the war and ukrainian identity all the dia coordinate, a make love, but not to moskowitz. that's what philosophy get put back in the city and go hi, this is kind of down. mclaughlin. it's so loud. we have to tell you that i shaw wasn't got it. i believe the music is a powerful force that can influence not only people's moods, but also your feelings during the war. that's why you should sing when it has really, if you need to speak, must be what you need to shout, but not besides what they did not get a job that on them of chat. yes, somebody azalea of thought, which of the will the other to me i served in the military for a year. so i understand how important it is for the people that there's music that inspires them to live on is at the dodge. so just imagine days ago

these people were sheltering because the russians were attacking key with rockets. and today they say they need to go out. they need to feel happy. they need to celebrate a little bit, live a little bit, and to be honest, feels good to see that the netherlands is preparing to start the process of apology for its role in slavery to day. hundreds of thousands of people from africa and asia were enslaved and sold by dutch merchants. over the centuries, the dutch had an extensive colonial empire, including at different times, areas in southeast asia, africa, and the america's slave labor was used throughout its colonies and proceeds from the slave trade, helped fund the countries 17th century golden age. government ministers are visiting 7 former colonies in the caribbean and south america today. prime minister mark router is said to give a speech on slavery in the hague. it's the latest step in a long,

heated debate over the colonial past of the netherlands and its role in slavery. remind reminders of this dark chapter in the country's history are easy to find. when jennifer tosh walks through amsterdam, she sees a history on the walls. she is a direct descendant of people enslaved by the dutch. now she takes people on walks to show them the past that is hiding in plain sight. well, it's everywhere. i mean, where we're standing right now is at the heart of what's referred to of the golden benz, the wealthiest part of the city were the founders of the dutch east and west india company in society of sir anom, where they lived there. they had their mansions here, people like tosh, whose families come from and slave, people has spent decades pushing for an official apology for the past and the damage. it did. the fact that the dutch only had a small share of the trans atlantic slave trade should not matter. she says, the dutch have centered themselves so much as exceptional, not like the british,

not like the french, not like the portuguese. it's given this impression that well, we weren't so bad, you had 5 percent compared to world history. that's not that much. and it wasn't here. it was always somewhere else out of out of sight, out of mind that sort of nostalgic wave romanticize in history has left people thinking what, what's all this fuss about? reparations. the netherlands was among the last countries in europe to abolish slavery. before they did, it's thought the dutch enslaved more than half a 1000000 people, historian pepin, brendan, things the impact of this remains. we have to think add a much broader and more systemic level and see how that special placed at a metal and still still has an economy in the world. a minor country with a sort of an outsized financial and service sector.

quite a central place in the global economy. it's a legacy of it's slow to revolve much in colonialism. following the lead of a number of big cities including amsterdam, prime minister, michael may apologize for the whole country. the proposed fund of $200000000.00 euros would pay for education and awareness projects aimed at reducing racist thinking. slavery could not exist without a motivation why it was that the white europeans could not be saved, but black africans could be right. so there is a foundation of racism there that ties it's, it's legacy that we still live with. that black last met our protests in 2020 head . china light on that racism in official apology would be a good move forward. says tosh. it is important step in the process, but we can't stop there in terms of education and real societal understanding to assess the journey has just begun. earlier,

i've talked to linda noise now. she's chair of the board at the national institute for the study of dutch slavery. i asked her why this apology has been so long in coming. i think the reason is that the, the nash unsafe history was a history that was hidden for a long time. for, for 4 years, for centuries, people thought that the slave history didn't matter for the economy, that it wasn't as bad. and holland have a little part in it. so if you don't, you know, so if, if the history is not acknowledged, then they use the need for apologies on there also. and i think that's the reason why we have to wait 160 years, almost. there's more to this apology than just saying, sorry, the dutch government plans to spend 200000000 euros, understand unrelated education and anti racism projects. what impact do you think

that will help when there is not enough knowledge about the history of, or either the descendants of the attendance of knowledge and but i must say, i don't like to talk about the amount because i think it's very important to see what the impact is of history and then say we say everything that we, that we see around us that involves a racism, institutionalized racism, comes from the history. so in order to know what to repair, you have to study. you have to make a decision because you have to read also in those countries where the

system of slavery was, was, was brought to a 30. and then we talked about the judge for the caribbean part if i don't answer them. so i am satisfied in the fact that the id that is id, that something has to be to be repaired. i'm not sure if i feel that the way it is brought now is the correct way. i think there should be in the self to see what has to be done and there have been a lot of studies right. it because the impact of this history, when thank you very much for talking with us. that was linda noise mail from the national institute for the study of dutch slavery is a quick look at some other stories making news around the world. a south african president cyril ram, oppose a has been reelected as the head of the ruling african national congress. is,

might facing the worst corruption scandal of his presidency. remo hosa fought off a leadership challenge from his former health minister. you'll continue to serve as the head of the an c for another 5 years. state kept and many are wondering whether twitter owner, ellen musk will make good on his promise to step down as c. e. o. now after launching a public poll on his own future, voting ended a short time ago with 57.5 percent abusers saying he should go. twitter has seen a series of chaotic changes since must completed his $44000000.00 takeover in october. police in el paso and the u. s. state of texas are moving migrants out of public spaces. as temperatures fall below freezing, the city's mayor has declared a state of emergency has hundreds of people who cross the border from mexico. i've been sleeping on the streets as you probably know, by now,

argentina has won the 2022 football world cup in contact the final against depending champions france had fans on the edge of their seats as it went into extra time. and then a penalty shoot out a match is already being seen as a classic. leona massey opened the scoring early on after argentina were awarded a penalty and not long afterwards, it was unhealthy. maria doubled the lead for the south americans in the 36th minutes. the game seemed over until with just 10 minutes to go. killian and by pe scored once from the penalty spots and just 2 minutes later again with a beautiful sighed volley to sent the game to extra time. there it was missy who gave argentina a 3 to lead with his 13th career world cup gold before another, and bought a penalty equalized the game. again. his 3rd goal of the final made him the top score of the tournament and took this absolute thriller of a game to the penalty shootouts. however,

argentina were the ones to keep their cool, converting all for penalties while france missed to the south. americans, when the world come for the 3rd time, while it's lilo missy's 1st title, and what was his last ever world cup match for morris spoke to dw sports, correspondent, mark meadows in caught up. i asked him about the key factors between behind argentina's success. well i think in the final it was there a quick start? i mean that was a fantastic 1st half margin tina to be tune a lot. i actually think it's probably the best half of football either seen from a team in a will took final somehow france got back into it, killing and buffet only the 2nd man to score a hattrick in a will cook final. but it wasn't enough. argentina prevailed, and obviously leonor messy was a big reason for that. he was named player the tournament showing what he's done all through this world cup. and he's achieved a life long dream. he has finally wound the one thing that was missing from his

glittering c b, a world cup winners metal. now i've written a piece for d, w dot com, saying that he can now be classed as the greatest male footballer of all time. i think many fans would agree with that. the previous or argentina captain's, who in the woke up was diego mar doner back in 1986, a year before messy was even born. okay, you're there in doha. give us a taste of the atmosphere. what was it like there after the game? well, i got to the stadium 3 hours early and the metro was absolutely rammed. it was actually a little bit dangerous and there was some trouble and some injuries, but it settled down. and then inside the stadium, it really was an electric atmosphere. the argentinian fans outnumbered the french hugely. that's mainly because a lot of migrant workers that lived here in cattle were supporting argentina, basically because they love messy. lots of argentinians had come for the game as well. they were absolutely ecstatic at the end. let's listen to some of the fans

after what was, what many people think the greatest wilcock final ever integrated earth still alive after such a much? it was so intense are so many matches in one same one or the 1st time was just amazing football then and my base just a monster incredible. and to get through. ah, when a d i by the end i about is just incredible. amazing. or we would have loved obviously to win, but still we didn't give up and we are proud of the team. all of them we don't like to lose oh file nor to tell you. we're proud of the french gym. oh, so something has been a good. i think they could have done better. i love my job. i love my wife. i did everything together. i came, i saw and i got good food, her big headed back to what i was. i was mad taking it back to world island. so the friends there got to experience and exciting buying all, but the tournament itself was highly controversial. mark, how do you think it will be remembered in years to come on the

field? it was a great tournament. we had a record number of goals, 172, that will probably increase for the next will cope in 2026, which is played in the usa, mexico and canada. that's because it's being increased to $48.00 teams. and there was no hooliganism here that's unique really. it was probably largely because of the fact that alcohol is not so easy to get hold of. but of us off the field, there were lots of controversies, the migrant deaths in building the stadiums. the fact that cat are accused of buying the rights to host a world cup long ago, which they deny, but otherwise, they'll think it was a good tournament. and they probably now gone to bid for the olympics. now, i'm not sure what's going to happen next, but we'll see whether they win that olympic bid. i think what is the recurring image of this will cup will be lena messy. lifting the trophy now he had an arab

robe on top of him. that was given to him by the fee for president and the image of keta. he looked a little bit uncomfortable wearing it. and i think that shows who's in control after all. messy place a p s g owned by cutter, the w's mark meadows. they're indo har. thank you so much mark. now it's that time of year when baking enthusiasts are in their element tend, if gingerbread is your thing, then this is for you. the annual just christmas gingerbread house competition took place this weekend and stockholm a popular part of festivities in the swedish capital. the homes of gingerbread dragons robots and pac man or among the entries. but the winning design was the home of the iconic swedish fictional character. tippy long stalking from the children's books the same day to watching the deputies

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