ah ah ah ah, it's the dw news, live cumberland, humanitarian work 1st face trial in greece. but if you see somebody in the water and the reaching a handout told you, you would obviously put your hand out as well and pull them in. as soon as you've done so, you've committed the same crime as i've committed, charged with espionage and forgery. they could face years in prison,

also coming up russia's war tears, you've cranes the youngest, from the arms of their parents. keith says that 12000 children have been abducted and taken to russia. he w a business, one family that has been reunited and brazil's president in a ransacked supreme court. louisa nazi luna da silva surveys the damage from his predecessor supporters. he found those behind the violence will be punished. plus prince harry's long awaited memoir, finally hits the book store shelves. readers grab their copies and hope for revelations, from the closed door lives of the british royal family, from which he and his wife megan markelle famously distance themselves. ah,

i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. a trial has begun in greece of 24 humanitarian workers. you say that they were trying to save the lives of migrants crossing the mediterranean sea. the activists face several charges including espionage and forgery, and face up to 8 years in prison if convicted. but they deny the allegation, saying that they were only trying to save the lives of migrants in distress. greece has taken in thousands of people seeking asylum over the years, but rights groups accused greek authorities of also turning back refugees in desperate conditions. voluntary is have been helping migrants, landing on the coasts of less was increased like in these images from 2015. the aid workers say they're doing the only right thing, saving lives. but greece says what they're doing is illegal to day. the week authorities are prosecuting $24.00 humanitarian activists on charges that include

espionage and forgery. they could be jailed for up to 8 years among them, sorry martini a syrian activist base in berlin. in an interview in 2019, she told d w. and no chip inside that have been that because i want to help people and that's giving motivation. she became known around the world after her and her sister's refugee story to europe was made into a netflix film. the 2 sisters had fled the war in syria and crossed the mediterranean sea to greece in 2015 later settling in germany. but she returned to greece to help others arriving from the sea. she was arrested and charged in 2018, john bender, an irish national and certified rescue diver was volunteering on the same rescue mission and is also among the $24.00 facing metro. or would you'd, if you see somebody in the water and the reaching a handout to hold you, you would obviously put your hand out as well and pull them in as soon as you've

done. so you've committed the same crime as i've committed human rights organization. amnesty international is supporting martini and bender during the trial. it says the charges are baseless and is cooling for them to be dropped. we should also make sure that we give a strong measures at such malaysia should not be allowed. it's a, it's a pattern across europe pushing in other countries as well that people who are, they are just to help her face, her charges, criminal or, or others in an effort to state to dev sir humor, volume assay, sons, by the greek authorities, say they're overwhelmed by the number of migrants, they argue that organizations helping migrants are encouraging more to come. the trial that commences today re open the question of how european countries should respond to the people who make this most dangerous journey. nearly 3000 people died or were missing in the mediterranean sea last year alone. and joining me now from the greek island of less versus grace of sullivan in irish member of the green

party, in the european parliament, welcome to d w. and thank you so much for joining us. we understand you were present in the court unless both today. what were your observations? yes, sir, i was in the courtroom as this morning when the preceding doctors. it was quite chaotic. be honest. people in the room, the judge and residing in the court was a going with normal procedures, make sure that all of the individual accused and that she had their paperwork and a number of if you were actually in the room, some were not present including sar martini and who is considered the security risk here in greece? so in any case, the judge, she went to and she,

there was an issue potentially in terms of joining the case again. and but as she moved forward, she is listening to the case when she was out today and again on friday. but children binder was there on the other monetary and including a witness who is 70 years of age. and they are waiting and waiting and waiting for a for an engine. this horrific as the international basements allegations on their lights are on hold. so what is your message then? what do you make of patients being made by the greek authorities against the likes of sean bender and the others will look if you were to meet someone like sean binder. you would know that this is not a criminal as might be any of the others. so they just need to let go talk to

you need to let go of this. they need to put this case behind them because i'm allow your monetary and then not criminals get on with their lives. so i'm hoping that we see the charges and yet charges are washed. how do you support them as an m e p? so i deleted in writing a letter to the commission which was supported by 89. although i am just asking the commission to recognize the criminal to my actions, be your very witness today, he's going more to the situation, but it also does raise the question about the external borders prepared this

different member states to support the member states need to migrate a couple things, this is not going to stop, the oxygen will continue on potentially increase. therefore you need to be ready to have. so this is available so that we can meet people with respect to our support. and that's why on your list today to support your binder and the other who are taking these charges. we thank you so much for joining us to share that message m e p. grace of sullivan with a view from leslie. appreciate here are some other stories making headlines. at least 17 people have died in peru and clutches between anti government protestors and security forces. over the past month, demonstrators loyal to the jailed, former president pedro castillo had been demanding the resignation of the new

president. deena blocked a large parts of the us state of california are under flood and mudslide and warnings as a series of storms hits. all residents with the town of montecito home of many celebrities. they have an order to leave there. 12 people have been killed so far, and more than 100000 homes have been left without power and attempt at the 1st satellite launch from western europe into space has failed. the u. k. rocket took off from a modified boeing $747.00. but scientists said an anomaly prevented it from breach in orbit. we're actually getting the mission by the company virgin orbit was due december 9 small satellite space to ukraine. now, were russian troops and mercenaries have stepped up their assault in parts of eastern ukraine, at the center of the fierce fighting is the city of buck moot,

which is one of moscow's main targets for control. this has resulted in heavy losses for both sides. in recent days, british intelligence reports suggest the russians are making progress in the area. although ukraine continues to defend the city. now, russia's invasion of ukraine has also made victims of the youngest people. ukraine says that 12000 of its children have been abducted from occupied territories and taken to russia. d. w. a manual, chaz found one family for whom the separation has finally ended. reunited at love of summer and her daughter year ever. it's nearly a year since their last hugged oksana is a combat medic for the ukrainians. but her brother is a separatist. while she was on the front line, he took his family and oksana as daughter to russia to understand how this was

possible. we travel near pearl tavern, sentra ukraine. oksana moved here after her house in the east was destroyed by russian miss eyes. she preferred to not bring her daughter twain to view. oksana is still recovering from head injuries sustained in backward on the front line. the last september, a widow oksana had left here barbie's, her parents somewhere she thought was safe over the mariners had elusive, made the from when i was injured in all my possessions id phone, you were burnt. i couldn't contact my family immediately in a so when i finally found an opportunity to call my mother, i found out that my own brother had taken my child to the territory of the russian federation at nebraska lee. this knitted at 30 rav it took full months to get her back. the, as that as vision, i immediately filed a complaint with the police. and so i knew that if i didn't sold this at the official level, i would never see my daughter again in there. heard, and i'm

a military person. so there was no way i would have been able to go to russia in my brought the didn't want to return. my daughter getting out there. this is where ukraine's parliament commissioner for human rights investigates abductions and deportations, or just the law. this is part of the entire war crime system and genocide of the ukrainian nation, which the russian federation is carrying out more ukrainian children are forcibly deported. russians are trying to resettle them throughout the territory of the russian federation as quickly as possible. you can often take months for families to even find out where the children are. volunteers from the n g you save ukraine will assist them in the complicated process to get them back. a beast, latoya car, mom was very nervous, started to organize the trips to russia of, to been contacted by mothers reporting the abduction of their children. we organized the necessary documents and covered all expenses related to passports and translations, and then rearranged the travel itself. having to go through european countries than

bella, luce, russia, and napa, and then return with the children. this time you took families organ will not from god of jetta. thumbs didn't way you could while he ever was in russia. oksana ford for the chance to talk with her that danielson ballier. eventually he gave me my daughter's new phone number and began to allow her to be in touch and to give her some internet. so i could talk to her some times 5 chef on that than i knew of. she ran to school there, she was treated well, but she constantly said, mom, i want to come home and have what i don't show mom my or kitchen as then them. we the thing lay it ok. santa no longer talked to her brother. she hoped to go back to the front line was but for now she and you have out are making up for lost time. miss cilla. miss woods goodness, to thread the hitch and past them. we are together all day long, especially now that it's the holiday who communicates hello to shame

a lot of times. now another news, the e u. n. nato have signed a deal to step up co operation amid concerns over russian aggression. moscow's invasion of ukraine has added urgency to the deal. nato secretary general against oldenburg signed the agreement in brussels alongside the head of the european council chung the shed. and the you commission president ursula funder lie. they've committed to work closer in support of international peace and pledged to further mobilize their political, economic, and military law drank as your course run. a development comes despite concerns that i posting the e use defense posture could have undermine the u. s. lead nato alliance. brazil's president has vowed to identify and hold responsible. those behind sundays attack on the government district in the capital, brazilian louise ignacio little da silva, was speaking after a mob supporting his predecessor child bussed at auto,

ransacked the presidential palace supreme court and congress building lou. the also visited the scene of the violence. the president of governors and supreme court judges joined together in a show of unity inspecting the damage to government buildings attacked by protesters a day before. at a meeting with governors, lula criticized the military for not trying to stop the demonstrators who are openly calling for a cou. no, we are not going to allow democracy to be taken from our hands. it is the only way for us to guarantee that all the humble people living on the edge of society, sleeping on the streets, that they have the right to eat 3 times a day and the right to work under the watchful eye of police. supporters of former president bosa nero, dismantled their 2 month old protest camp as ordered by the supreme court,

but many remain firm in their opposition to the new president. la knows of this home, how can we let a person like lula govern the country? am i supposed to live under communism? i was born under the green and yellow flag and i will die for it. they put as the vocal order, but other brazilians are equally vocal and their support for their elected government. turning out by the thousands for pro democracy rallies, and so paulo and other cities, they're also angry and are demanding accountability where these people have to be punished, the bosses have to be punished. so people who have funding them have to be punished . brazil is how much bigger than what we saw the other day. those people do not represent brazil. we represent brazil. ah, some demonstrators chanted no amnesty. they don't want the government to brush this

challenge to democracy under the rug. like what was done after brazil's military dictatorship in the name of reconciliation pro democracy protestors say that was a mistake, which must not be repeated. and for more on this story, let's bring in francis francis. she has had of d, w, brazilian service, and bon, are we likely to see justice for those who are behind this attack? so it's him, sarah. first of all, we're seeing a change of attitude and the government. the government was very criticized for being to soft on this protest when it started. this brought us like we saw the openly call for a coup for a military intervention because they don't accept the results of the elections. and the government was being very soft with them saying that they are part of democracy after what we saw on sunday. they conclude that it's not. and now they are taking a strong hand in conducting these investigations. we have over a 1000 people who are arrested. the camps were dismantled, his to flee,

but dismantled, and they already froze. the assets off a 100 of about a 100 companies were suspected of being involved in financing the invasion on sunday, as well as the spread the fake news about all that. you also have the head of the police in brazil, the federal district who has removed to the police was criticized for being completed with the vision and with the violence. so yes, i see that we have lots of actions taking place now to show a strong hand against this movement. and i'd like to pick one of those actions. you've mentioned it there. we also saw in our report authorities clearing the pro bowl sonata camps all over the country. what impact is that likely to have? well, i guess it will depend on how strong and how fast the movement can recover in the social network. it's where they mainly operate. they have lost a lot of support from moderate conservatives now. who wants to dis them some

distance themselves from what happened on sunday. and they are trying now to change the narrative of what happened. they are seeing that there were left in few traitors in this movement in the vision and these person, this people have carried the acts of violence, but it's clearly a fake news. but this, what is your kill 18 now? so the narrative on the social media will define how the movement will go on, but for sure, they have lost a lot of support from moderates. conservatives, the attacks on government buildings and we've seen that they have sparked counter protests. how strong is the support for lula right now? well, luna has already the support of domains george he of the country. he was elected president. you have a minority that's very loud and angry at carrying this kind of protests of violent protests. so la, la has a lot of support in the, in the population already. he gain it,

i think support in congress for moderate conservatives who don't want to have anything to do. what happened on sunday. so it increased his support from the politicians even from the positions from the opposition. he has the support of the international community. we saw like presidents from all over the world are manifesting their support for lulu. and i think he gain also led to legitimacy to track down this movement that into them aquatic something that he was very careful to do before. and now he has everything in hand to don't tolerate, does movement anymore. debbie is francis france. i with more on the situation in brazil. thank you. iran has sentenced to jeff. 3 more people accused of killing security officials during antique government protest around supreme leader, ayatollah ali. how many says that those executed?

we're guilty of treason. the u. s. says that it stands with other nations in demanding an immediate end to the death penalty. it's the knight's iranians are most afraid of these days because that's when the islamic republic carries out executions in prisons like this one in college. people are gathering here to show their support for the inmates among the crowd, the parents of one of the prisoners, muhammad, or but lou, the 22 year old, has been sentenced to death and transferred to solitary confinement, along with 18 year old mohammed, brawny for allegedly killing a member of these lamb republics armed forces. who about whose mother says the trial was a sham and that her son had nothing to do with the incident. not everybody knows that they deliberately put this in my son's prosecution file with the aim of heading. my son,

that's not right there. committed an injustice experts agreed quoting official documents from the case leaked in october. and one of these 2 men just mentioned wonderful, but little his court documents were leaked in october and even there, just one week after was arrested. you could see that the, the regime said we need to execute him and we need to expedite this whole process. so that he can, can be executed and there was before any, any court proceeding before anything even happened. so we can see that they, these executions artist purely to intimidate people and to stop the protests. instead, they're driving people on to the streets. also here in berlin, where activists gathered in front of the german foreign ministry, they feel the government is not doing enough to pressure the iranian regime and assessment shared by members of parliament as well. i think one very important

thing is that am the islamic revolutionary guard corpse. they are responsible for the death and torture of the p that are protesting and iran. and they must be held accountable, accountable, and germany can not wait for other members state, but has to act on that. and the islamic revolution revolution neri gotch cops must be listed on the e, tara list immediately human right groups. believe this could affect these law mac republic. international reactions pressure can still save my mama, mama group and his lives. but again, we know also that the running authorities need to execute need to implement this is to spread fear in the society because they haven't managed to control the process. now about 4 months, they're still continuing for the time being mouse,

protests appear to have slowed down in iran, but the anger is still mounting. in college, protestant stood their ground, despite gunshots being fired. and they vowed to be back chanting until the molars are gone. our homeland want to be free. now where it is already a best seller, the day it hit bookstore shelves. prince harry's memoir, spare has finally gone on sale. after a flurry of interviews and leaks kept to building the hype, readers thirsting for british royal gossip wasted no time in getting their copies. this shop in london's victoria station opened at midnight to be the 1st to start selling. one of the most hotly anticipated books of the year, loma after weeks of media hype, people here with him to finally get their hands on a copy of prince harry's memoir, and make up their own minds about his story. i expect to be able to read about it

more about the truth of what goes on behind the palace walls. i feel like county, they are either tory secret family. i want to be able to paint the picture myself see for myself when i hear his story in his words, because at this point i feel like the british meteor all radicalize in the british public against prince harry. according to the prince, the ghost written memoir is an attempt to tell his own story. after years of spin and distortion by others, the book made headlines long before its publication. it contained some explosive revelations about the royal family and their treatment of the prince and his wife megan passages from the book were leaked before its release. in one of them, harry describes having a physical altercation with his brother, prince william, this sibling rivalry, something he also brought up in

a string of interviews with british and u. s. broadcast as to promote the book. is all there is always been this competition between us readily. they pitch the whales is right. which came when him and on, on our against the sa success man, my wife. they always purchase against each other, a peach care provider against each other in any way that i can protect us in whether i can correct those mistress is by writing something the truth in one place . how much harry's truthful hurt the royal family and its image isn't clear yet. they have so far declined to comment on any claims made in the book. for now read us, we'll have to decide whether the book that's been causing a huge stir worldwide before it was even published lives up to the hype. quick reminder now of our top story here on dw news. greasy trial begins today for 2014 man

a tarion need workers who say they were trying to save migrants lives in the mediterranean. they are facing charges of espionage and forgery. the activists face up to 8 years in prison if convicted of next on d w. it is a kick off special with the 1st part of honestly got mid season review is due with and without in the meantime i'm sarah kelly and breland. thank you so much for watching. take care. ah

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