at frankfurt airport city managed by fraud lou sh ah ah, this is dw news lie from berlin, victory in the philippines for a journalist under threat with truth, when jeff, with a court acquits nobel laureates, maria rossa, and her news outlet wrapped, lot of tax evasion, charge is widely seen as politically motivated. also coming up,

prosecutors investigating a major, you, corruption, standalone strike, a deal with a key suspect. the former you lawmaker antonio pan, very well reveal details of the bribes paid and the parties involved. ah, i'm glad else as well come to the program called the philippines has acquitted journalist a maria ressa on and her news online outlet wrapped lot of tax evasion charges wrestle was joined winner of the nobel peace prize 2 years ago. but her globally recognized reporting on her nation's violent anti drug campaign made an enemy of the former president rodrigo to 30. it's not the end of the war for nobel prize winner maria risa, but she has won

a significant battle. speaking outside the court, she struggled to hold back tears black dame, fax, when truth. when jeff, if, when major emotional lamp brace a co found that the online news side wrapper and used it to expose philippines, president rodrigo, to test his abuse of power and growing authoritarianism to test it. tried to discredit rattler on from them on like the american review it with it and the philippines judicial system was weaponized against marissa and her associates. the 59 year old has been battling a series of cases filed to to her vocal criticism of the former president in 2021.

maria theresa jointly won the nobel peace prize with russian edits a dmitri murata, for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression. it was the 1st time since 1936 that the peace prize went to a journalist. what's wrong? i guess what this just shows is that that the nobel peace prize committee realised that a world without facts means a world without truth and trust. and if you don't have any of those things, you certainly can't conquer corona virus. you can't conquer climate change. i've been saying that she still faces 3 other criminal cases, including a cyber libel conviction, currently on appeal for which she could face nearly 7 years in prison. and the high court tokyo has upheld the not guilty verdicts previously handed down to 3 former executives over their role in the 2011 fukushima disaster. a lower court had

previously cleared the 3 tokyo electric power company executives of negligence over the disaster that unfolded at the fukushima nuclear power plant. following the earthquake and synonymy in 2011. it is the only criminal case have arisen from the tragedy was, was nuclear disaster, since? sure, no bill. now let's bring a journalist, nebraska who is the following events for us in tokyo, on the former type go. executives have just been found not guilty again. how do you expect this verdict to be received in japan? but to be honest, i don't really expect much at all. and i don't think there will be much media go beyond the kind of brief news flips, so to speak. and i think that will be more or less it's, i think the media will report it as it is 30. and then those people will forget

about it quite quickly, except of course, for the groups that still fight against nuclear power. but compared to the general population, they're really just, unfortunately a really small, small group outside of the circle. so i don't really expect much of a nickel big reset, to be honest. so if both of government and the former tapco executives have been declared not guilty, it who bears responsibility for the focus shima disaster, does anyone bear responsibility for it? yes, that's a good question. and i think they've been trying to kind of deflect responsibility to scientists saying, well, you know, who can really tell whether the predictions are accurate or not. and i mean, there's also history in, in japan, these sorts of incidents are called cases have been dragged on for decades. and i wonder if we'll ever get a sort of definite answer to this question. so what does this say?

this verdict is repeated not guilty, verdict, what does it say about the relationship between industry or the government and maybe even the judiciary in japan? i think we can see quite clearly that there is still a very strong relationship among these groups and the nuclear village as it's called, is very strong in japan. i mean, we've seen that despite all that's happened, we seen reactor restarts and all that. and what surprises me is that people seem to forget that even like tokyo was really, really close to disaster and only escaped through sheer luck, i would say. and despite all that, people seem to want to put the whole thing behind and, and the nuclear village, as i said, is still strong and is becoming stronger again. so yeah, that's the situation. you journal, a sunny block there in tokyo for us. thank you. you're welcome.

or speculation that you as president joe biden might run for a 2nd term, but he is facing mounting problems on top of the classified documents scandal. a new republican majority in congress is on the attack w respondent. conf not tells us why the latest political fear in washington could have global repercussions. do. biden's very own classified documents, scandal continues to unravel into a political drama. why fi material next year, quarter? what were you thinking? in his defense, the u. s. president keeps repeating this one from 9 people. no, i take classified documents or classified material. sure. the timing couldn't be worth 5 and his expected soon to declare that he'll run for a 2nd term as president this scandal office political ammunition to republicans who

now leave the house of representatives. they see attacking biden as their top priority. and vow that incorporation would come at a higher price. so plenty of political drama in washington. so far business is useful, but it could affect the rest of the world as well. the pressure on biden and the republicans vowing to own the advance their own agenda is going to affect how the us acts or doesn't act abroad in the spotlight. ukraine. much of what we see from the far right is political theater. but they're going to be attempts to cut a to ukraine, which would be a agreed miscalculation. we want to help the ukranian people and push back against russia, but we want to make sure that we're spending r u. s. tax dollars. well, our partners in europe really need to step up and make sure that they're carrying their weight, ah, carrying some of the load with the ukraine. the huge support,

the u. s. has sent to ukraine so far has somewhat found up america's global influence. but it's stronger opposition at home will we can biden's ability to act and others may have to pick up the slack. i think that the binding administration has time to opportunity at the luxury to focus abroad for the last 2 years. so we'll have to shift their focus to more domestic issues. science allies might feel that very soon, do biden, could see his ability to act in tenacity limited by the political battles back home . by default, this means europe would have to take more responsibility, ready or not? the president of the european commissioners promised that support for ukraine will continue for as long as it's needed. addressing the world economic forum in the swiss resort of doubles was la on the line told the gathered political and business leaders that europe took less than a year to free itself from what she call that dangerous addiction to russian energy

. her address followed that of ukraine's 1st lady, all in arsole ensco. the ukraine. how sin diverse, the horrors of war made visible with photos, videos, installations and presentations during the international business gathering. ukraine and the russian war of aggression are dominating the summit alongside the major issue of climate change. our generation which are totaling point. confronted by truly existential problems, climate change exploitation of nature, nuclear possible incidence or even horse, extreme poverty and virus. the ukranian 1st lady has come to divorce to speak out on behalf of her country and to draw attention to the dramatic situation in ukraine. it. yep, the thought at this, if the,

how does the world expect to reach climate neutrality shipper if it can't even stop the burning down of how ukrainian cities? this is what russia does with its artillery miss isles. iranian drowns. if you all know that russian aggression was never intended to stop at ukrainian borders since this war could progress and ignite a wider crisis if ukraine loses, if show her sort of net of her russia aggression is driving you appear nations to help you crane he, you commission president earth lavonda, lion outline massive support from the european union. we work hard with ukraine on any topic that is helping the economy. we have for example, and security lanes. 60 percent of the grain of ukraine has been exported via these rules are violent through the european union. all for example, we have synchronized our energy grid,

electricity grid with the ukrainians. so we're doing everything to keep the economy up and running, to support financially, to support militarily and of course morale. but the war in ukraine has fanned the flames of energy and food crises. the question now dominating this year's world economic forum is what more can be done about it? turn out to have a look at some of the other stories making headlines today. emergency crews in the ukranian city of ne pro say they've ended the search for victims of a russian missile strike on an apartment building. 45 people are confirmed, dead bombing on the weekend was one of the was deadliest single strikes against civilians. a republican state house candidate in new mexico has been arrested in connection with a series of shootings. albuquerque police alleges that 39 year old sullivan pena paid for men to shoot at the homes of 4 state officials. all democrats,

police said they had evidence. benya had also fired some shots please in true and anti government demonstrates as have clashed in the tampa. so lima, demonstrators are calling for the resignation of the country's president dina will warranted through has seen weeks of anti government protest that have left thousands of people. dead friends, none believe to have been the world's oldest person has died aged 118. the sill randall who took the name sister andre, when she joined a catholic ford in 1944, was born on february 11th 19 o 4. she died in her sleep on tuesday at a nursing home in tula. a formal omega implicated in a corruption scandal that's engulfed. the european parliament has cut a deal with to cooperate with investigators belgian prosecutor say the former m e p

. p r. torno hung antonio pansy as agreed to work with authorities in exchange for a reduced sentence. he is the alleged ring leader of a cash for influence scheme linked to cut art and morocco, and also told us that really he has the w corresponding jack park in brussels. with more about the deal antonio upon very has taught with prosecutors. well, it's a real, real bomb shell in this investigation. and in this case, essentially what antonio pon very has agreed to do is to tell the authorities everything about the corruption ring that is that right at the heart of the scandal, how they worked, how they financed, how they were structured. and very crucially, he's agreed to tell them the involvement of known and unknown people that he himself admits to bribing. so this means that this investigation is very likely to get much, much broader. there will be some very nervous people in brussels and probably around the world watching and waiting to see what pans ary is willing or must

actually is part of the steel. now, to tell the authorities in exchange, he's going to have a prison sentence. we do know that he will be put in prison, but we don't know the length of it that it will be reduced. also, he'll receive a fine and all of his profits from the corruption scandal will be confiscated from him, which the authorities have said today are estimated to be about a 1000000 euros dw, as jack barrack reporting from brussels. and that's it from me. and the news team for now don't always even beardsley has the businesses, right? people and trucks injured when trying to flee the city center. more and more refugees are being turned away. families with demonstrated people.