ok, so get ready for the break. 042. the answer to almost everything starts january 15th on d w. ah ah, is this d w, news? live cumberland, humanitarian workers on trial in breeze. they faced charges of espionage and forgery, and could spend years behind bars. the activists say that they were trying to save the lives of migrants crossing the mediterranean. also coming up,

brazil's president and a ransacked supreme court, luis ignacio, and the syllabus surveys the damage from his predecessors of orders. he bows them behind the violin will be punished, plus rushes more tears. you praise the youngest from the arms of their parents. he says that 12000 children have been abducted and taken to russia, the w visit, one family that has been united. and prince harry's long awaited memoir, finally hits bookstore shelves. readers grabbed their copies and hope for revelations from the closed door lives. the british 12 family from which he and his wife megan famously distance themselves. ah, i'm sarah kelly, welcome to the program. a trial has begun in greece of 24 humanitarian workers who

say that they were trying to save the lives of migrants crossing the mediterranean . the activists faced several charges including espionage and forgery, and face up to 8 years in prison if convicted. but they deny the allegations saying that they were only trying to save the lives of migrants in distress. now, greece has taken in thousands of people seeking asylum over the years, but rice groves accused greek authorities of also turning back refugees in desperate conditions. volunteers have been helping migrants, landing on the coast of less was increased like in these images from 2015. the aid workers say they are 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 ask of him renovation. 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 returns greece to help others arriving from the sea. she was arrested and charged in 2018. john bender, an irish national and certified rescue driver, was volunteering on the same rescue mission and is also among the 24 facing metro. and of course we want to go to trial, we're desperate to go to trial because what we did was legal and we need the judge to acknowledge that we need to get through this because until then, there is

a shadow of doubt not over me alone, but over anybody who does search and rescue 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. would also make sure that we give a strong measures of such malaysia should not be allowed. it's a, it's a pattern across europe pushing in other countries as well. the people who are there just to help her face, her charges, criminal, or, or others in an effort or stays to dare such a humanitarian assistance. but the greek authorities say they are 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 missing in the mediterranean sea. last year alone. and earlier i spoke with grace o sullivan, an irish member of the european parliament,

who was on the great island of les both and told me how the trial began. yes, sir, i was in the courtroom as this morning when the preceding doctors and it was quite chaotic to be honest, people in the room and the judge and residing in the court was a going with normal procedures. make sure that all of the individual and that she had their paperwork and a number of issues were actually in the room. some were not present, including 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 now to the case when she was out today and again on friday. but your binder was there on the other monetary and including your witness who is and 7 years of age and they am waiting and waiting and waiting for a for an engine. this horrific as the international bass miss allegations on their lights are on hold. so what is your message then? what do you make of 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 or any of the others. so they just need to let go. sorry, you need to let go of this. they need to put this case and behind them be an allow you 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 and the p? so i took the lead in writing a letter to the ordering committee. busy which was supported by 89 r m e t's just asking mission to recognize that these areas criminalize. so through my actions be here very witness in today. he's going more international attention to the situation. but it also does raise the question about your external borders prepared this all the different member states. i'm the support the member states lead to, oh, my one thing is,

this is not going to stop the positive, my grades will continue on potentially increase. therefore, the needs to be ready, it needs to have the facility is available so that we can meet people, which dignity and respect are most to try to support them. and that's why i'm here in less busted h to support sean binder and the others who are facing these charges. we thank you so much for joining us to share that message. emmy p. grace of sullivan with a view from less bo. so appreciate it. you know, at cdw, new still to come on the program, the refugee crisis in asia. the w reports of indonesia where only numbers of ethnic hinge are landing after perilous c journeys that last for weeks. at 1st, brazil's president has vowed to identify and hold responsible. those behind sundays attack on the government district and the capital brazil ya, luis,

ignacio little. the silva was speaking after a mob supporting his predecessor chad while sonata ransacked the presidential palace supreme court. and congress building lula also visited the scene of the violence or 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 yet. 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 of the show. 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. if would asked the vote for one more day. but other brazilians are equally vocal, and their support for their elected government. turning out by the thousands for pro democracy rallies in sao paolo and other cities. they're also angry and are demanding accountability. these people have to be punished. the bosses have to be punished. you know, people who are funding them have to be punished. brazil is so much bigger than what we saw the other day. those people do not represent pizelle. 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. democracy protestors say that was a mistake which must be repeated. and here are some other stories making headlines. at least 17 people have died in peru and clashes between anti government protesters and security forces. over the past month, the demonstrators loyal to the jailed former president pedro castillo, have been demanding the resignation of the new president. dina will not large parts of the us state of california are under flood and mudslide warnings as a series of storms hits. all residents of the town of monta seato home to many celebrities have been ordered to leave. the people haven't killed so far, and more than 100000 homes have been left without power. joe biden is in mexico for

the 1st time as you as president to attend the north american summit talks with canadas, justin's widow, and mexico's andreas. manuel lopez of our door will be dominated by illegal immigration is climate change and drug smuggling. on monday, lopez over door urge leyden to end when he called the abandonment and disdain of latin america and the caribbean. maybe got it. just a boat carrying nearly 200 ro hinge refugees has landed in indonesia after a perilous journey that apparently lasted for weeks. growing numbers of ro hinge a have been arriving in indonesia. they are trying to escape over crowded camps in bangladesh where they fled persecution across the border and me on mar. it's their 1st hot meal. after more than a month that see the almost 2 hundreds will hinder refugees. half of them women and children, departed from a refugee camp in bangladesh. in early december,

just before reaching indonesia, they ran out of food and their boat developed engine trouble. 18 year old mohammed pfizer. his sister are just glad they made it. yesterday in magic, i not got it. one of us died in the book. he's 9 years old. he died of not getting rice and medicine. he had to live with ohio. lucy. even want on land, the ordeal is off not over. according to the united nations $26.00 refugees died of dehydration and exhaustion in our che last month. the toll of weeks at sea simply too much. the majority of the boat people are muslim. ruins are heavily prosecuted by the military and fullest majority. mia, more, more than 700000, have fled their homes to a neighboring bangladesh. since august 2017 from bear. many have tried to reach indonesia or malaysia more. i expected soon. yeah. and a couple in wilmington,

bazaar fishermen and the authorities have seen more vessels at sea line. yeah, we know, we can't confirmed this at the moment. but considering that the situation in the over crowded camps in bangladesh is getting worse. and it's clear that people will increasingly try to move to a better place that any of them, any up on my uncle ah, looking them into anything we might. some 200 people died making the dangerous journey last year, making 2020, to one of the deadly use years for ruins or refugees lead to indonesia to ukraine. now, where russian troops and mercenaries have stepped up their assault and parts of the east of the country, as the center of the fierce fighting is the city of buck moot, which is one of moscow's main targets for control. it 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. and russia's invasion of ukraine has also made victims of the youngest people. ukraine says 12000 of its children have been abducted from occupied territories and taken to russia. he w. as in manuel, a charles found one family for whom the separation has finally ended reunited at last, oak santa and her daughter, uva. it's nearly a year since the 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 pull tabs in central 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 under frontline. 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. and 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 of her, if it took 4 months to get her back. he asked as vision, i immediately filed a complaint with the police and said, 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. sir, are 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 their children are. volunteers from the n g you save ukraine will assist them in the complicated process to get them back. a piece latoya car mama's vermont was started to organize the trips to russia after been contacted by mother's report. in the abduction of their children, we organized the necessary documents and covered all expenses related to passports and translations. then we arranged the travel itself. you haven't to go through european countries than bella, ruth, russia and napa, and then return with the children. this time you took families,

oregon will not from college at a thumbs, didn't way you could while he ever was in russia. oksana fought for the chance to talk with her that danielson barely 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. i've chef on that and i knew of she ran to school there. she was treated well, but she constantly said, mom, i want to come home with her. what i don't sure. mom maria had shown as that them we the family look santa no longer talks to her brother. she hopes to go back to the front line or but for now she and ever are making up for lost time. move. silly mistook guns to throb digital, past them altogether all day long, especially now that it's the holiday. who communicates hello to sharing a lot of times and also on ukraine. the even nato have signed a deal to step up cooperation amid concerns of

a russian aggression. moscow's invasion of ukraine has added urgency to that deal. nato secretary general young stoughton berg signed the agreement in brussels alongside the head of the european council, sean michelle. and you commission president priscilla funder line. they've committed to work closer in support of international peace and pledge to further mobilize their political, economic, and military strength. and development comes to spite concerns that boosting the e. defense posture could undermine the u. s. lead nato alliance. joining us from nato headquarters in brussels is correspondent jack character of the you, of course, and nato already working very closely together. what does this deal hope to achieve? well, i think broadly it is the symbolic, frankly, to start the year showing unity between the nato military alliance and the european union. the 2 organizations sharing many members. but the underlying thing here is

that actually they've managed to get a deal signed a joint declaration signed and published for the 1st time since 2018. and this is really while it might not push this sort of cooperation that much further. it is a diplomatic success to manage to get turkey, which is in nato and cyprus, which is in the european union, the have that long standing to the cold conflict to both sign up to this. and i think that's really as, as this invasion into ukraine goes on and continue the continuation of the war countries around the world. and especially in europe and in they turn, the european union are starting to rather than a sort of carte blanche in favor doing everything for ukraine and i starting to use their own diplomatic pressure on their own domestic issues. and i think that's what we saw here, but it is being considered a successful nato, an e u. and in the meantime, there has been quite a bit of movement in recent days on weapons for ukraine among certain individual and nato alliance. members is key. finally,

getting the arms it's wants well, not quite yet. the big discussion now is about the leopold 2 tanks, the a sort of full to be the, the best times in the world. countries like poland and france and spain want them to get them. but that german made and germany has a salon clause. that means it decides where those tanks goes at the moment berlin is reluctant to sell those tanks. that's a big question. the european commission president as love on the line was asked about this directly. she didn't really sign herself up to a position on it since she said ukraine needs to get all of the weapons. it needs to defend itself. there's a bigger unit, ukraine summit on february, the 3rd, and that will be a big issue that d. w is jap, eric and vessels. thank you. it's already a best seller, the day that it hits, but sort bookstore shelves. prince harry's memoir, spare has finally gone on sale. after a flurry of interviews and leaks kept to building the height, 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. no ma'am. after weeks of media hype, people hear a keen 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 of my soap see for my soul when i hear his story in his words, because at this point, a few like the british media 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 the 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, their sibling rivalry, something he also brought up in a string of interviews with british and u. s. broadcast as to promote the book is over. there is always been this competition between us readily. they pitch the whales is right. which came when i went on on our against the sa success man, my wife. they always pushed us against each other. a punch came from murder against each other really 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 truth will 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. not spraying correspond berrigan mass who has the view from london burger. there have been so many leeks, so much discussion around this book now it's out or people buying it. i've called my own favorite bookstore here in central london. i was sort of on a normal high street and they said that people have been buying the book this morning. they expecting more in the lunch time trade. and people also had been pre ordering the book. and we also know that on amazon it's the best seller in the u. k . and also in the u. s. so yes indeed, it is. the book that people are talking about and both sides of the channel. i believe the royal family is famously private. bear again, why do you think prince harry has chosen to bear his soul like this?

what has he been saying? prince harry has given all these interviews in the run of, of the publication of the book, and he was asked several times. why do you actually do this to your family? you're saying you want reconciliation, but why do you lay bear all the secrets? and it seems to me that he's really adamant that he wants to tell his side of the story. as he put said, he feel aggrieved, he feels that he and his wife have been briefed against by members of his own family. and he names his stepmother, camilla in particular. and it seems that he was really heartened that now he wanted to basically, ah, be the one who to who tells his story. and it seems almost like a cathartic moment for him. he comes across in the interviews with somebody who has really thought about it long and hard on who is at ease with his decisions. at least that looks to me like this from the outside. has his family responded,

no official response and we are also not expecting any response. and this is been one of the criticisms that am, has been thrown at harry or why are you, are you doing this to, to a family who can't really respond in the same way because it's on the heart of, for any member of the u. k. royal family to you to really splash out their private life in such a bore away and in the documentary and interviews. and now in this book has been ward damaged by this book. here again, would you say um the, the royal family reputation or harry? if we look at the opinion polls all the royals have taken a blow. there's been pauling by the respected organisation, euchre, and all individual members of the royal family have taken their dent. king charles pers work prince william, but most of all, it's been at harry himself so it might have been cathartic for him,

but it has not made him more popular, at least not here in the u. k. you get mass in london. thank you so much. you're watching t w news coming up next. close up, zooming in on the many other challenges faced by brazil's new president. i'm sarah kelly in berlin. thank you so much for watching. take care with

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