ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, humanitarian workers on trial in greece. 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 my friends, crossing the mediterranean, also coming up russia's war tears,

ukraine's young guest from the arms of their parents. keith says 12000 children have been abducted and taken to russia, dw visits, one family that has been reunited, and nato and the european union enter a new chapter in their cooperation. spurred by the war and ukraine, europe and the u. s. lead alliance pledge to work closer together and bolster support for key. plus prince harry's long awaited memoir, finally, to bookstore shelves, readers to grab their copies and hoped for revelations, from the closed door lives of the british, well family, from which he and his wife megan famously distance themselves. ah, i'm sarah kelly. welcome to the program. a trial has begun increase of 24

humanitarian workers to say that they were trying to save the lives of migrants. crossing the mediterranean sea. the activist faced several charges including espionage, and forgery and face up to 8 years in prison if convicted, they denied the allegations, 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 right groups accused greek authorities of also turning back refugees in desperate conditions. volunteers have been helping migrant landing on the coasts 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 that's given 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 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 the trial. 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, which it also makes will 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 they are just to help her face, her charges, criminal, or, or others in an effort. allstate, to death 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 grace o'sullivan, an irish member of the european parliament is on the great island of less boast and

told me earlier 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 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 our, my genie and who is considered the security risk here in greece. so in any case, the judge she went to and she, there wasn't 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 sean binder was there on the other monetary and looting whitney who is 70 years of age and they am waiting and waiting and waiting for a for an inch. 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? well look, if you were to meet someone like sean binder, you would know that this is not a criminal as any of the others. so they just need to let go. are 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 m b p? so i deleted in writing a letter to the commission which was supported by $89.00. i am just asking the commission to recognize the criminal to my actions. be your very with it today. he's going more to the situation, but it also does raise the question about your external borders prepared this different member states to support the member states need to migrate

a couple things. if this is not going to see if you'd like or will continue potentially increase. therefore, the unique needs you have available so that we can meet people with respect to our support. and that's why on your boss today to support your binder and the other who are facing these charges. we thank you so much for joining us to share that message. grace the sullivan with the view from leslie. appreciate here watching deed of ian is still to come. the refugee crisis in asia t w, from course from indonesia where a growing number of ethnic ro hinge are landing their perilous c journeys. it lasted 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 brazilian luis ignacio lou that

his silva was speaking after a mob supporting his predecessor diane bow, sonata, ransacked the presidential palace supreme court and congress building. lou that 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 coo 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 narrow,

dismantled their 2 month old protest camp as ordered by the supreme court, but many remain firm in their opposition to the new president. love on those of the show me 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 out a 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. and so paolo and other cities, they're also angry and are demanding accountability. with these people have to be punished. the bosses have to be punished. you know, people who are funding them off to be punished. brazil is so 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 said that was a mistake which must not be repeated. and here are some other stories making headlines. at least 17 people have died in peru and clashes between antique government protesters and security forces. over the past month, the demonstrators loyal to the jail from president h o castillo, have been demanding the resignation of the new president. deena blocked large parts of the u. s. state of california are under flood and mudslide warnings as a series of storms heads. all residents of the town of monta seato home to many celebrities have in order to leave. 12 people haven't killed so far, and more than 100000 homes have been left without power. there have been scuffles between german police and climate activists in the western village of lou tarza.

the protesters opposed plans to take up the uninhabited village to mine. ho need that. they've rejected warnings to leave and police plan to evict them from wednesday. about carrying nearly $200.00 will hinder refugees has landed in indonesia after a perilous journey that apparently lasted for weeks. growing numbers of ro hinder have been arriving in indonesia. they are trying to escape over crowded camps in bangladesh where they fled persecution across the border in myanmar. it's their 1st hot meal. after more than a month at sea, the almost $200.00 will hinder refugees. half of the women and children departed from a refugee camp in bangladesh and early december. just before reaching indonesia, they ran out of food and their boat developed engine trouble. 18 year old mohammed pfizer and his sister are just glad they made it. yes,

this is the one of us died in the booth is 9 years old. he died on the would not get in right. medicine. he that a little again withdraw him on the sea. even once on land, the ordeal is off not over. according to the united nations $26.00 refugees died of dehydration and exhaustion in our tre last month. the toll of weeks at sea, simply too much. the majority of the old people, muslim ruins, have really prosecuted by the military and buddhist majority. mia more more than 700000, have flipped their homes to neighboring bangladesh since august 2017. from bear. many have tried to reach indonesia or malaysia more unexpected soon. yeah, the couple among the muscle fishermen and the authorities have seen more vessels at sea light nipple memo. we can't confirm this at the moment idea. but considering

that the situation in the overcrowded camps bungler dash is getting worse. and it's clear that people will increase and we try to move to a better place in your godaddy about my country. ah, looking demons. i didn't want them to be made. some 200 people died making the dangerous journey last year, making 2020 to one of the deadliest years for ruined ger refugees. fleeing to indonesia. and now we had to ukraine, where russian troops and mercenaries have stepped up their assault in parts of eastern ukraine at the center of the fierce fighting as the city of bock mood, 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. russia's invasion of ukraine has also made victims of the youngest people,

in cranes as 12000 of its children have been abducted from occupied territories and taken to russia. he w. a manual, a child found one family for whom the separation has finally ended. reunited at last. ok. 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 oxen as daughter to russia to understand how this was possible. we travel near paula tarver 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 on the front line. last september,

a widow oksana had left here barbie's. her parents, somewhere she thought was safe over the mariners, had elusive, made the home when i was injured in all my possessions idea full, you were burnt. i couldn't contact my family immediately. and i said, 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. yes. that 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 their hood 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 clar, 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. and then we arranged the travel itself, or you haven't to go through european countries than bella, ruth, russia, and napa, and then return with the children. this time it took families organ will not from colorado thumbs didn't we could, while he ever was in russia. oksana ford 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, 5 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 water. don't sure. mom, maria kitchen has that them. we the thing, let oksana no longer talked to her brother. she hoped to go back to the front line was but for now she and yoga are making up for lost time. move cilla, miss. woods, goodness that digital us them altogether all day long. especially now that it's the holidays we communicate a lot of sharing a lot and also related to ukraine, the e, when nato have signed a deal to step up cooperation and made concerns of russian aggression. moscow's invasion of ukraine has added urgency to the deal. you know, secretary general against oldenburg signed the agreement in brussels,

alongside the head of the european council. sean michelle and the commission president are still a funder line. they've committed to were closer in support of international peace and pledged to further mobilize their political, economic and military strength. last, you know, development comes despite concerns that boosting the use defense foster could undermine the u. s. lead nato alliance. correspondent jack carrick is covering the story at nato headquarters and we asked him what the steel hopes to achieve. well, i think broadly it is 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 corporation that much further on it is a diplomatic success to managed to get turkey, which is the nato and cypress,

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 the continued the continuation of the war countries around the world and especially in europe and in nature the european union are starting to rather than a sort of cop launch 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 success by nature 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 on nato alliance. members is key. finally, getting the arms. it's once. well, not quite yet. the big discussion now is about the leopold 2 tanks, that sort of thought 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 in 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 big ukraine summit on february, the 3rd, and that will be a big issue that the w as jap, eric and brussels. thank you. well, it's already a best seller of the day that it had bookstore shelves. prince harry's memoir, spare has finally gone on sale. after a flurry of interviews and leaks kept building, the hype, readers thirsting for a british well, gossip wasted no time. getting those 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, mama, 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 reads about it more about the truth of what goes on behind the palace walls. i feel like counting, they are a tory secret family. i want to be able to cleans the picture myself. see for myself 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 all there is always been this competition between us, wordly, they pitch the whales is right. which came when him and on, on our against the sa success man, my wife. they always pushed us against each other. a punch case for murder against each other really way that i can protect also, 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.

and i asked our london corresponded beer, get mass, whether people are buying it, especially considering there's been days of leaks revelations and a netflix documentary already. 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. barragan's. 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 filled 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 add straight positions, and he wants to be the one who to who tells his story. and it seems almost like a cathartic moment for. and 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, who's been war damaged by this book? here again, would you say on the, the royal family's 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 den. king charles pers work prince william, but most of all, it's been a harry himself say 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. coming up next on d, w, news, asia phasing claims that is being singled out unfairly over restrictions targeting

travelers from china. so how sensible are they relate? plus large parts of pakistan are still under water after last year is devastating. floods dual visits, one community that says not enough is being done to help them recover. jared, re, it has all that more after a short break. i'm sarah kelly in berlin. thank you so much for watching. take care . ah ah with

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