where is india headed in? this is the moment to unleash on violet bars on these legacy starts january 28th on d, w. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, ukraine's interior minister is among the victims of a deadly helicopter crash in your queue. the aircraft went down and next to a kindergarten, local police say 3 children were killed. ukraine's president is calling it a terrible tragedy. also coming up a victory in the philippines for

a journalist under threat fax, with with, with the core to quit noble. orient, maria. reza and her wrap their news outlet of tax evasion charges widely seen as politically motivated. we'll get her reaction to the verdict in a few minutes. and prosecutor is investigating a major you corruption scandal strike a deal with a key suspect. former e, you lawmaker antonio pon very, it will reveal details of the a legend, bribes paid, and the parties involved ah, a marion evans dean. it's good to have you with us. we begin and you crane, where

a helicopter has crash near a kindergarten in a suburb of key of the exact number of victims is still being established. but we know that at least 15 people have been killed, including ukraine's interior minister, dennis modesty to ski. and his deputy, they were among 9 people on board, the helicopter police on the ground. also say that 3 children are among the dead. we can now speak to our correspondence on your phone, a car who joins us now from the side of the crash. sonya, what's the latest you can tell us. so i'm standing here near the side of the helicopter crash. this isn't bro body. a sub that is about 25 kilometers east off cave. and as you can see, probably behind me, the area has been completely caught and off that many police officers also members of ukraine's military not emergency services who have revised the deck tone call saying that about 16 people have been confirmed dead now,

including 3 children more than 20 people are hospitalized including 10 children. now, what we know here is that the sound of copper came down new or kindergarten, and then to building a multi story residential building. the governor keith says at the time the staff and children were in the kindergarten. now the impact of the clash goals to fire to break out around the kindergarten. we've seen the wreckage off the helicopter. they've been summed there's been some debris of mangled cause and trees. now it was zach and foggy at the time of the crash of residency. i've been seeing that there was a power outage at the time. there were no lights in the building around. now we don't have the details of what exactly cause this crash, but you know, you're creating officials who do flying planes and helicopters do now tend to fly low altered feuds because of the russian missile strikes since the beginning of the war. we're also hearing that ukraine security service has now taken all the be investigation into the crash. and they said that they're considering all possible

scenarios, including, you know, technical ditches glitches and you know, a deliberate intentions to destroy this across. well, as we mentioned, it was among the dead was the interior minister of ukraine, and he is the most senior ukraine and official to have died since the war began. and what impact is likely to have ansolaski government when news of this crash has suddenly come as a big sockhill precedent, the landscape to the on the telegram, i called it the dock morning called it a terrible tragedy and describe the loss of these ministers as you call them true patriots of ukraine. now, suddenly this is a big blow to ukraine because this involves the 3 main, goes off the interior ministry and in particular that you see them in a 2nd, sales dentist, 115 he was, he was leaving, he was a key member of president landscape cabinet. he was the most senior official to die

since the war began. and you know, he played a key role in kind of informing the public on the casualties caused by russian beside strikes. since the war began, he was familiar to go at the sight of devastation every time there was a mis i'd strike. but you know, you claim the officials. you're saying his loss will not affect the working off the ministry. reassuring the cabinet today will appoint an interim acting. interior minister to fill in his role is on the phone, a car for us at the sight of the crash in a suburb of key of thank you so much. let's turn our attention to the philippines where a court has acquitted journalists, maria, and her online news outlet rattler of tax division charges. regina was joint winner of the nobel peace prize 2 years ago, but her globally recognized reporting on her nation violent anti drug campaign made her an enemy a former president, rodrigo just here tay. it's not the end of the war for nobel prize winner maria

arrest. but she has won a significant battle. speaking outside court, she struggled to hold back tears. but could dave facts when when justice wins. major emotional galum for rest of the co founded the online you side rep la. unused it to expose philippines president rodrigo, to 10 days, alleged abuse of power and growing authoritarianism. detached, a tried to discredit. rap le ressa says he weaponized the philippines judicial system against her and her associates. the 59 year old has been battling a series of cases, filed you to have vocal criticism of the former president. these charges,

as you know, were politically motivated. they were incredible to us a brazen abuse of power and meant to stop journalists from doing their jobs. she still faces 3 other criminal cases, including a cyber libel, conviction currently on appeal for which she could be sentenced to nearly 7 years in prison. and we're joined now from manila by maria. reza. mister as a thank you for taking the time to speak to us on d. w. ah, 1st of all, congratulations, you have been facing these charges for 4 years. so how do you feel after the acquittal? oh my lord, i mean for years and 2 months, you know, it hits um it, i had hoped this would be what it is i it would have taken

a stretch of imagination to have me did a conviction, but there was a lot at stake, not just for rattler at and the philippines. but in terms of what this meant for our development, for rule of law, for press freedom a how do i feel like the sun is coming but we know, unfortunately, you're not completely out of the woods yet. you are still facing a number of other charges that could possibly lead to long prison terms. if you are convicted, do you expect to be acquitted on these charges to ah, the worst 7 criminal charges that i was facing on the when the marcos administration came in, they were all initiated under the tier to administration in less than 2 years. i posted bail 10 times, right? 10 arrest warrants. of course, this is the very 1st time since 2016 that we actually won

a case on, you know, as you can read the decision, pretty ludicrous charges of this this mean. it's the end of it. not yet. but it is a really good beginning for us, and we hope that with these for tax evasion, charges thrown out, there's a 5th one that's related to it. we'll hope to get a similar verdict and that one and then a cyber libel has moved the fastest it's at the supreme court. now. again, i hope for the best will in the past, you have said that the philippines legal system has been weaponized against you. and at the same time, you've also criticized the role that's played by social media and trying to demonize you. can you explain what you mean by that? i think this works hand in hand. what we saw beginning in 2016 was the weapon ization of social media. it's almost like fertilizer that's put in place before the

attacks come top down. so the lies come out. you bottom up on social media, in our case journalist equals criminal. you say that lie a 1000000 times, it becomes a fact. and here's the other part on social media. it's, we already know from 2018 studies that lie spread at least 6 times faster on social media than these really boring facts that journalists give. so this is kind of the fertilizer on the ground. a year of that than a year later, top down from president to chair to himself who repeated the meta narrative journalistic was criminal. a week later we received our for subpoena by 2018. we got a shut down order and. and then it went 14 investigations that year by $21910.00 arrest warrants in less than 2 years. and here we are today, we're still fighting. we're still doing our jobs. cost 10 arrest warrants in 2 years. all of this must take a real physical and also emotional toll on you. how are you coping?

embrace your fear. this is a phrase i wound up using a lot. it's something i explained in my book how to stand up to a dictator. look, ah, i think when the government uses the law against journalists as a way to, to stop journalism. ah, they hang a damocles short over the do sure utilization. and our goal always was to make sure that we continue doing our jobs like that wasn't there. and you know, during the deterred administration, starting in 2016, it almost felt like they were using a bulldozer to try to stop us from carrying out our jobs. you know, hit, this is the line, the line that's defined by our constitution. we linked arms and the phrase we kept using is hold the line, right. we were not in a voluntarily give up our rights. and it was something i used to say to filipino citizens if you were being harassed, intimidated, hold tight. hold the line. journalist, maria reza,

joining us from manila. thank you so much for your time. thank you. european union lawmakers have elected a replacement for a scandal head vice president who's facing corruption charges. lawmakers elected mark angle from luxembourg. he's a member of the left of center socialists and democrats group in the parliament. he also had the backing of the 2 other largest groups in the parliament angles, predecessor greek, m e p. ever. kylie is one of 4 people with links to the parliament or under investigation. they are charged with criminal activity including money laundering, detail, please, alexander phenomena has the details. they are back at work in strasburg, but not back to business. as usual. the corruption scandal dabbed as katara gate continues to royalty european parliament threatening to undermine the very

credibility of the institution. a lot of damage has been done to the parliament due to that corruption case. but of course it's corruption. it's a crime or so justice, the belgium and european justice will make their job whenever you meet people, they ask you about the corruption toys and not about to political work. and i think this is sir, a big damage or in the repetition, in the work of more than 700 members. in december, belgium, police raided homes and officers of incumbent and former members of the parliament, bags of cash were found for people among them. eva k lee, one of the parliament's vice presidents were arrested. they have been accused of taking bribes in exchange for favours for co. tar and morocco, accusations the countries deny heidi hotel is a finish politician. and as kaylee used to be vice president of the european parliament,

she did not fit very well into the opinions of her her other social democratic colleagues in the bureau of the european parliament where we were colleagues. so that i could observe that them she had her own way. some questions about if she had some sort of private interest, maybe sometimes went through my head. rightly as a consequence of this candle, the parliament president robert tar met. sola has proposed new rules against corruption, including better control of who has access to the chamber and its members safe. emmy peas would also have to declare their assets and who they meet. when discussing legislation, a good start says daniel point who is representing german greens. but he points out that the problem was never elac of rules is lots of the rules we have are good to the member states. we have reasonably high standards of transparency and integrity in the institutions. but we also need to enforce them and forgot. we need an independent body to check on on ethics rules. would an independent body do the

trick? there are different proposals on the table. would some members of the european parliament warning the freedom of their mandate needs to be protected too. but given the seriousness of the accusations, most hearsay now is the time for action to restore the trust lost in this capital. i'm brussel 0 chief alexander phenomena who filed that report to joins is now from strasburg. alexandra, as we've mentioned, d. lawmakers have now chosen mark angle to replace ever kylie. what can you tell us about this new vice president? well, he is a former teacher from luxembourg, and he is a member of the group of socialists and democrats here in the parliament. he was there a candidate, he describes himself as a fighter for social justice for climate action, as somebody who fights for equality and for the rights of the l g, b, t, q,

community. and he also says that he is a team player and he was selected today. however, there is some controversy surrounding this vote because some members of the european parliament were demanding from the socialists and democrats to give up their pos because their vice president pos because of the whole corruption scandal . and because of the fact that eva kylie was a member of the group, however, at that socialist democrats said there is that is not an option. and so the vote went on that sir, could sir, however, explain why a mark angle was not able or anger was not able to secure the majority of the votes in the 1st round and next a 2nd round was needed. while there is one former lawmaker implicated the scandal

who's now agreeing to cooperate with prosecutors, what can you tell us about him? well, we are talking here about a former italian e lawmaker who has struck a plea deal with the belgium. prosecutors, antonio pan. terry is going, as the prosecutors are hoping to reveal some crucial information and is ongoing investigation into whether foreign states such as cattle or morocco, tried to influence to parliament's decisions. and according to his lawyer, he already admitted to having bribed, fellow lawmaker who is already under the investigation and for whom that prosecutors have already requested immunity to be lifted. but why this plea deal is such a bombshell is the fact that of course,

we expect more details to emerge and more detail is to be revealed. and to you have this question on your mind when we, when you talk to lawmakers here, whether any of them might be getting nervous because of the new revelations that we expect to be revealed soon. well, all of this, understandably, has cast a shadow over the opening session of the parliament. but we know it's also not the only order of business. it's alexander what else is on the parliament agenda today . on the parliament's agenda is also discussion about the european union's foreign policy. and here in particular, of course, russia's war on ukraine with lawmakers expected to vote on a non biding resolution to coal for the establishment of a special tribune. all tribunal to prosecute alleged war crimes committed

by russian forces in ukraine. alexander phenomena. thank you so much for that. yon russian is the world holocaust, remember and center in israel. this year the center turns 17 and to mark the occasion. it's holding various commemorative events, including here in germany, situated on the mount of remembrance in jerusalem, yaga sham explorers, the history of the holocaust, the magically and chronologically its chairman, danny dionne once vowed, never to set foot in germany, but has since reversed that decision. he'll finish company, an exhibition of artifacts from the holocaust being put on display in the buddhist . talk the german parliament here in berlin. in an interview with d. w. rebecca readers. diane spoke of his reasons for changing his mind about visiting germany or is that interesting? do sedation, not many, just do it these days, but that still exist dog joe's that keep it small part of it wall in go to the park

man, feed their home not painted. why? in order to remember the destruction of jerusalem 2000 years ago, every time they see they remember that general's linen was destroyed 2000 years ago than the temple was destroy. that's the reason i did it. it's my stain on the, on the wall. and when i look at the map of the places i visited, they see a white stain on the map of europe in germany. and i remember why i don't visit germany. it's to keep, to give my respect to the 6000000 jews that were married. but the same reason that prevented me from visit to germany this day is the reason that brings me to germany now was chairman of the machine. because the chairman of yet, by visiting germany, i have the ability to amplify remembrance of the show to amplify the respect that

the spade to the victims. not only on a personal basis, but also the much larger base in a mother to basis because it will be reported that the scene that and exhibition will be seen by many persons. so it's basically the same decision, the circumstances change, not my decision. you can find the full interview with the rush. i'm chairman than a day on, on our youtube channel. or you can watch it later here on d. w. well, it's the mission of yon boshamp to make sure that the horrors of the holocaust are never forgotten. most israeli school children visit yad vashem to learn about what happened to so many millions of jews under the nazi regime dw joined one of the groups on their visit, learning about the holocaust at g at the sham israel's holocaust memorial. in jerusalem. young israelis like this group of friends, h,

13 to 16. find out more about the holocaust or the showa as it's known in israel, from their own family history. but also through the annual memorial services and in school where a visit to yan fish m usually caused by the age of 14. i think bringing here young students, my age, teenagers, and how many people to come and see it and realize, and, and social media, or facebook insta is much better coming and seeing and in person to experience the whole museum here with the photos. it's much more meaningful, it's connecting you to your roots and has a very big effect at the heart of the remembrance center of the individual stories of the victims and the horrors of the showa. but the center also deals with the nazis rise to power and anti semitism. an issue that is just as relevant to day. nearly 80 years after 6000000 jews were murdered by the german nazi regime. most

survivors are no longer alive. but bringing back history and stories close to the younger generation remains important. i think was jessica or jasmine. i think that as time passes, the question is why is it important? why is it interesting for me that why is it relevant? soon? we won't have anyone who can come and say it happened to me, but i won't be able to say it happened to my grandfather or to grandparents of kids in my class. this demand from yard was sham and from israeli society. and from every one dealing with it to think on, redefine why it's important why it's relevant. so lemme devante at the very end of the memorial, the whole of names it gives a face and name to the victims. most of them never received a grave to remember them. 4 and

a half 1000000 names have been discovered so far, but many remain unknown even to this day. any more, it's my 1st time in the museum. it's interesting to see that it doesn't only focus on the holocaust, but really about how it all started. we were told it starts from people from actual people and it's important to remember the power surge rainbow lisman in. i was very surprised by how it's constructed. sure, oh, and from the explanation we got that it's built like this on purpose. when they go on with closer on the shape of a man, it really helps to experience the plants and what's mom sure is kosher. i'm ashamed missile for sure. well, that is the aim of yan vash. m. it's name means a memorial and a name for every victim, a commitment to keep their memory alive for future generations.

let's take a look now. some other stories making use the sour tokyo's high court has upheld the not guilty verdicts for 3 former power company executives over their role and the fukushima nuclear disaster. a lower court previously cleared the 3 men of negligence, following the 2011 earthquake and st. nami that flooded the plants reactor is causing the worst nuclear disaster since chernobyl. brazilian president lula da silva, has removed 40 troops guarding the presidential residence after expressing distrust in the military for failing to stop the storming of government buildings on january 8th. lula has suggested that some security force members were complicit in, allowing the mob of j your balls in our supporters to attack the buildings. police in peru and anti government demonstrators have clashed in the capitol. lima demonstrators are calling for the resignation of the countries. president dean blew

our team through has seen weeks of anti government protests that have left dozens of people debt. all right, some sports news now ant antennas. there's been a shock exit that they australian open, defending champion rough on a doll has bowed out in the 2nd round to an opponent who has never cracked the top 40 in the rankings. a $22.00 times grand slam champion was already trailing the match against american mackenzie macdonald. when he appeared to suffer an injury, no dull tried to play out the match bought his movement was clearly effected. losing and $0.03. with a defeated dol misses a chance for a 3rd title at melbourne park. you're watching the w news coming to you from berlin. a reminder now of our top story in ukraine, at least 15 people have been killed,

including the ukrainian in interior minister after a helicopter crash near a kindergarten and apartment block close to the capital. key of officials have also confirmed that 3 of the dead are children of next is eco africa with a look at what's being done in guinea to protect chimpanzees. i'm hearing that i was doing. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more headlines for you from me and the entire news team in berlin. thanks for watching. mm. ah, with

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issue with a wide range of projects to protect to pansy with pico africa. next on d w. o . in an excuse of interview with donnie dionne director of the yard wash him holocaust memorial. you vowed that you would never visit germany. what are your expectations? we have to think together how to continue to keep the flame of all the posts to remembrance allied. now he's visiting germany for the very 1st time, the exclusive interview with donnie di today my at 2315 u t. c. on d. w. o become a criminal. ah, franklin may all ready know who's

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