oh, recognize where exactly was fun. i've learned a lot our culture history. all their d. w. travel extremely worth a visit. ah ah ah . this is dw news live from berlin, iran condemned for executing anti government protesters. the islamic regime hangs another 2 prisoners detained during nationwide demonstrations. many others face execution. also on the program. orthodox christmas ukraine,

a holiday troops declared by russia fails to hold the violence. so i do, congratulations. i and the republican kevin mccarthy is finally elected as us speaker, after no less than 15 rounds of voting ah on pablo for lily as welcome to the program, the european union has condemned around for executing to men allegedly involved in anti government protests, state controlled media say they were convicted of killing a member of an official militia. amnesty international has called their trial a sham aimed at intimidating other demonstrators. for people are now known to have been executed over the recent unrest. protests began following the death of a young woman arrested for supposedly not wearing her head scarf correctly. these 2

are the latest victims of the war. the islamic republic is waging against its own citizens. mohammed miti cut me at 22 year old former karate champion, and mohammed jose me a 39 year old worker who coached children in his free time. both were convicted and sham trials, where they weren't allowed to choose their own lawyers or even see the alleged evidence against them. the evidence expert say, just as bogus as their confessions at by iran state media. magnetic irony was in fact had been on hunger strike for past 4 days in protest or to being denied access to his chosen lawyer. the other person's a lawyer, a court appointed lawyer, was, was reported saying that when he met him in prison mohammed rossini and his,

his client was in tears reported to torture. and even the court appointed lawyer in this case had said that this of his, his confessions you know, had no really legal standing given that it was extract extracted under, under torture and pressure changes in the home. and she for weeks, their friends and family hoped they could be saved. or i kindly asked the members of the to do, sorry. i bake you please remove my son's death. said please, i, who is our house. mm hm. they're called where echoed, not only by iranians, around the world, but also by politicians. here in germany, haggling book, a green member of parliament was a sponsor of color me and campaigned against his execution. this new executions will have consequences at the moment is not pretty clear which shaquanda grims exec

that will be what there will be consequences. we won't be quiet the german government, nor the you will be quiet till this violation of human rights within iran. people are also nod, remaining, quiet, fresh, protest, supplant, and many refuse to be intimidated. what i have been hearing since the 1st hangings since the 1st executions in december, and also this morning talking to friends in iran is that they are just in shock of course, but also really, really angry because the regime just keeps killing young people. most of the people were on death row right now are really young people and most of the protesters have been killed or young people or even children. so i can see that there is a lot of anger and i do not think that the strategy by the reason regina is actually going to work on social media. this video is spreading since the executions mohammed medical army, dancing with his family matters, anti government protest or say don't die. and they vow they will not rest until

those responsible for his and other killings out of power. or were now joined by nadia sharma. she's a member of the german parliament and a political sponsor of mohammed her seine, who was executed in iran. nadia, thanks for joining us on d. w. absolutely. m horrific news am from around today as a political sponsor. you've actively campaigned against the execution of mohammed, her seine, and we're fortunately, his life has been taken. what are your next steps now? yeah, we have, we couldn't, can't stop right now. we have to go on and visit the what is happening in iran, on one side, what the torture and, and try a shame and so on is what is going on there. and also on the other side, how many people are on the streets, protesting against the regime and taking action. so this is very important for us

to go on and make it visible, what's going on and the revolution is going on in iran. so to make the people yeah, to give them a weiss in the world. nadia following these a, this execution center have been calls on social media on you, another political sponsors to make the german government recall the iranian ambassador and expel iranian diplomat. would you be in favor of taking such action we have to go on to find more ways to go against the regime and to take more action. i wrote several, several letters concerning my yeah, sponsor partner. so about his situation and to ask for his release and to get access for his own lawyer and so on. so and i won't stop doing it at the moment and we have to discuss more action

also, i'm going to start ok. so there will be more discussions essentially, but the e u has also said that it's a polled by the new executions in iran that they, they've imposed new sanctions on iran recently. but considering these latest executions, how effective are the sanctions? do you think? i think they are one step after another to put more pressure on the regime. and this is very important that the us doing it, united. so i'm very glad that our foreign minister and you know about taking more and more action on the level. and we, as a german members are members of the german bonus tech. we will support our foreign minister to on with this plan on that level because it's so important that you are going on united in this on this topic. but not yet. we've mentioned the sanctions i mentioned before, these calls on social media for for example,

diplomats to be expelled and so on. and do you expect any action to this extent to take place from the german government or even the i think we as a parliamentarian, we will discuss on this case and i'm in my opinion, we have to go on to make more sanctions against individual persons not only the, the terrorists list wasn't going to you level what kind of complicated because of you. right. but to have more sanctions against individual iranian leaders, it is so important to go on with that and me and my colleagues will bring it up to the discussions and the german going was talking the next times. now there are a member of the german parliament and a political sponsor for mohammed jose. me. thank you for joining us on

d. w. thank you so much. orthodox christians have packed churches for christmas services. the festivities in ukraine have been overshadowed by the ongoing war there in keith hundreds, attenders, a service at a monastery, which was under moscow's jurisdiction before the invasion. on the frontline russian troops also held services. president vladimir putin called a christmas truce, which ukraine and western allies rejected you properly. oh, well did you corresponded the manual? shes in keith says ukrainians have been marking the orthodox christmas, but there is no real truce. well, i apologize. been quite interesting to witness that i've been here for a few weeks now. so are we? does the 2 christmases any so, so and my generational dinner, generational sorry m mata younger ukrainians house at the break in day majority christmas on the 25th of december,

while older generations will celebrate to day. so that means that families often celebrated christmas twice, and it's something that has been allowed by the ukrainian orthodox a church, which as said that a di sierra given the sick. i'm some susie 20 to these fancy aids itself, from the a moscow, a patch for our k to enter, and they are low dose to celebrations on the 25th of december and to day for an orthodox christmas manual. what's the status of this so called sees far well, he just said it's a so called ceasefire a scene from kia because a really a d swore doesn't start for ukrainians. they're still being invaded by their neighbors. they neighbor, russia as some colleagues who are on the front line on the moment from agency a fee said that's a artillery fires were continuing. there were reports of all shelling on had

a son yesterday of firefighters died. they were targeted by russian as selling was the russian side, saying that he was ukrainian, or shedding ongoing. so really there is no christmas choose. and you know, we have the reaction from german for a new. so i'm not a, not bamberg staying, boutwell e for me put a really wanted that, you know, a choose this would be, you know, as getting the troops out of that ukraine that people won't feel safe because of a christmas truce. and that's very much pretty much how people feel here. thanks. emanuel emanuel, shes in keith. let's take a look at our, at some of the stories making headlines around the world. dozens of people were killed in a gun battle during the capture of the alleged mexican cartel leader or be the oak was man. he's the son of the drug, lord known as the chapel. guzman was captured in the city of calia, can thousands of marched across paris to show their anger over the killing of

3 kurdish activists. a decade ago. the march comes just 2 weeks after 3 more activists were killed outside a kurdish cultural center in the french capital. prosecutors say the killings were racially motivated. china has blocked the social media kinds of hundreds of critics of beijing's handling of coven 19. the government has ended lockdown, quarantines, and mass testing. the easing has brought a surge in new cases. the u. s. house of representatives finally has a new speaker. kevin mccarthy was elected after days of turmoil. the republican was sworn in despite fierce resistance from right wingers in his own party. mccarthy clenched a victory after 15 rounds of voting. the animal, kevin mccarthy, of the state of california having received a majority of the votes cast, is duly elected. speaker of the house of representatives. after days of

deadlock and 15 rounds of voting, kevin mccarthy finally secured enough support to love the 3rd most powerful job in us politics. the republican struggle to win the votes needed for a majority as an arch conservative faction of his party held out there were heated scenes in the chamber when mccarthy supported mike rogers almost came to blows with fellow republican mat gates. ah, after taking the oath of office install,

mccarthy swore in new members of the house elected in luck, november's mid term elections, to the se, educator speaking shortly afterward. emily mccarthy gave a controversial bank to a former president of asia. i do want to, especially thank uh president trump. i don't think you should edge, anybody should doubt his influence. he was with me from the beginning. somebody wrote the down while you was there and he was all it. but these celebrations over the culmination of this protracted leadership struggle a likely to be short lived. mccarthy had to concede some powers to those in the rights of his party. who will now have an inflated influence on big ticket issues, including government budgets, immigration policy, and how much congress is prepared to spend, to continue to support ukraine. in south korea, tens of thousands of braved bone chilling temperatures for

a chance to get their hands on some fresh trout. the annual ice fishing festival seed anglers dig through a frozen lake north of the capital. so those were feeling particularly adventurous . jump into the freezing water to catch the trout with their bare hands. a little bit of, oh, all right, well that's all for now coming up next sports life. a special ation looks at hi boxing can help get people's lives back on track. i'll be back again tomorrow and from the rest of the team to take a oh will you become a criminal.