offers, enjoy our services, be our guest at frankfurt airport city managed by frappe, bought, ah ah, ah, ah, this is d, w. news live from berlin around state media says the country supreme leader as part of tens of thousands of people who were arrested in anti government, protest rights groups remain skeptical. also on the program, us works to recover the payload of a suspected chinese spy building shut down over the atlantic at the weekend badging

born, there may be repercussions. crisis. what process at the 3 draws in a row by munich when they 1st, when does they get match this year to the 4 to victory? i vocals ah, i'm anthony howell broken at the program. we'll have more on those stories shortly, but we begin with some breaking news just in at least 18 people are reported dead in turkey. after a magnitude $7.00, earthquake struck the south of the country. 13 people have also been reported killed in neighboring syria. rescue teams are searching for people trapped in the rubble of collapsed buildings. turkeys, disaster management agency said the quake was centered in cut them and modest province turkeys. interior minister urged people not to enter buildings due to the brisk but after shops. tremors destroyed buildings in neighboring syria,

as will region is situated on one of the world's most active. earthquakes are now ran. supreme leader has reportedly pardoned tens of thousands of people detained in anti government protests. but human rights groups are skeptical of the decree, ayatollah ali khamenei made the announcement on the anniversary of the $979.00 is lemming revolution. but the pardon excludes people with international ties or any one facing spying charges, only 20000 people have been arrested in nationwide protests, which were sparked by the death of gena master armine while in custody. in september. i left a tele, measured is an iran expert and the author of a book around in an emerging new world order. he told us what he makes of the timing of his announcement. well, the timing is still, you know, at

a time when there is a relative calm of st, protesting iran, but we see the combination of strikes. so the situation has not really called for good. and we have to take such announcement from the supreme leader, but also from the iranian judiciary with love, you know, with lots of grains of salt because there is no indication whatsoever that among those who are going to be part in going to be political prisoners. we know that there are a lot of political prisoners in iran, and we also know that in connection with the protests, there are probably $20000.00 jails. and so what i see here and why would i could speculate about is something different. there are reports about reeducation of prisoners inside of iranian jails, and those are going to be free to could be used to work for the regime basically as

some kind of playing close. also, you know, being tasked with a future project. so i think the, the whole background, the whole story is a different one time for a break, look at some other stories making use around the world. the trial of 47 people accused of subversion as begun in hong kong. the activists are accused of holding unofficial primary elections to stand against prob, aging candidates. they were arrested following the introduction of a sweeping national security law that struck the territory of previously held freedom. tens of thousands of people attend to the mass held by pope frances on sunday, in a stadium in south to that sedans capital, juba. the pope used his visit to urge rival factions to make peace. he also spent 4 days in the democratic republic of congo. the danish capital, copenhagen, thousands of people had protested against a proposal to scrap a public holiday. the government wants to use the tax revenue generated from more

working dies to fund an increase in defense spending the night on member denmark is trying to meet the high, the fin spinning target required by the alliance russian missile strike, a new crime, 2nd largest city hockey has left at least 5 people wounded and damaged buildings in the city center. keith is close to the russian border, and local authorities say it's been the target of frequent miss. all attacks. emergency workers were on the scene, after 2 russian missiles slammed into the northeastern city of hart. keith reportedly hitting to civilian structures not far from the central plaza. several floors of the university were destroyed at a nearby apartment building was left uninhabitable. one resident said she and her partner only survived thanks to lucky timing on yet with which and we happened to have just gone into the bath friend and right after that had happened. my husband with covered and broken glass,

but everybody is alive. it's the main thing with moscow's forces have seemingly given up trying to capture ukraine's 2nd largest city. but they continue to bombard it, frequently hitting civilian targets. but a couple 100 kilometers to the south. the war on the ground is still raging with buck moot. at its epicenter. for months ukrainian soldiers had been fighting off an onslaught by russian forces, intent on resting control of the region. their line held through the depths of winter and into the new year. but now keeps as its fighters are slowly being pushed back toward bach mote. while they battle in the trenches throughout all ukraine's leaders are waging their own fight automotives for more support from nato allies. the said, bull green, they say the only way to push the russian offensive back is with more powerful weapons. after initial hesitation, pledges of tanks and long range rockets began to roll in from western allies with

deliveries expected to begin arriving in the spring for ukrainian soldiers. that might seem a long time to wait. especially with many analysts predicting that russia will intensify its assault as winter weather gives way to spring. it was navy divers are searching for the wreckage of a suspected chinese spy balloon. that was shot down off the coast of south carolina footage. it's down the balloon of the atlantic after it was discovered traveling across u. s. s. by last week, aging denied, it was being used for surveillance and condemned the shooting down of what it called, an unmanned civilian, a croft speaking on sunday, senate majority leader chuck schumer said he was confident the equipment attached to the balloon could be recovered and that intelligence authorities would be able to understand it's genuine purpose because it fell in relatively shallow water. there's a very good chance we can cover most of it and even

a chance to cover to recovery intact. and then we can learn a great deal about chinese capabilities and what they were up to from on this with him, kim is a specialist in surveillance balloons at the marathon initiative. think tech in washington. they say he has more on what kind of information the u. s could claim by recovering the balloon pilot. i mean, certainly the, just the payload itself is going to be something. and i think the chinese us, and this is a rather large package about the size of 3 buses. that indicates to me that it was something pretty sophisticated and i'm not sure if i were the chinese, i certainly would not want it. ability being examined. i u. s. intelligent. now the 1st question i had when i heard that the balloon was saying of the us, why would a balloon be deployed as a surveillance tool in the age of high volume and very high resolution satellites?

yeah, i mean show on the, on the ladder point regarding resolution. i mean, there's, you know, it's not entirely clear that this was a imaging satellite. it could've been for signals intelligence, you know, united states fly signal intelligence aircraft near chinese or a space not over it. but even though that satellites is still the nice white speak, you can get kind of better intelligence on, on. things like, you know, get me radars and stuff like that. and, you know, it's, it's possible that's what this balloon was intended to do. there's also advantages in terms of costs, you know, you don't need to pay for rocket. there's advantages in kind of persistence. and the amount of time to kind of stay over an area that i'm particularly the one that really well i kind of lower for moving around the world very so there's definitely reasons why they would want to want to use the balloon, especially given how much the technology would be with him just to underline the

point of the pentagon gathering evidence here. what are the exactly looking for and what real chance that i have a finding the store data. i mean, i don't know exactly and what kind of data they'd be looking for or storing. but at the very least, i mean, i'd be interested in the equipment and so on, you know, what kind of, what kind of what, what kind of be electronic did it have. so i think that would really be of interest . william came from the marathon initiative thing time. thanks so much for your time. give for fight. as the trying to control, dozens of forest fires in chile at least 23 people have died in the blazes and hundreds have been injured. temperatures nearing 40 degrees celsius during a summer hate while making the flames harder to put out spraying water out of canister to extinguish the fires with temperatures as high as 38 degrees and arrow

and clear the flames. keep spreading false. he said, yes, the wind picks up his direction and we'll look as if our whole reach is going to burn 5th. but the fire is threatening, move villages, police and the army evacuated local people to safer areas. the chilean government declared a state of emergency in 3 regions. the interior minister says the destruction from a week for fires is of a scale usually seen in a year or 2. and we have asked for international health and are in talks without the government's central model. yeah, contact them body olivia, sandy lows for the packaging industry has been produced for export in these via prone regions. spent decades. the rule materials come from a monet culture a fast growing eucalyptus trees that non native species dries out, the soils and helps the flames spread. once blaze the start. local people are asking what caused the fires. agari, toiling to someone must have started a fire,

a yogi, i'm and i was too late. you know? like i said, all we can do is wait until the flames reach us, but i'm keying it for when are the police are investigating? and there have been some arrests argentinian fire teams are expected to join the battle against the flames. in the next few days by munich finally got back to winning weiss in the buddhist league against wolf spurt. the defending champion started 2023 with 3 drawers, but they have dominated the wolves in recent times and this guy was no exception. as like hosted to a for to victory buyer munich, needed a victory in wolf spur to retake the table. leave. and kingsley co mom helped with too early goals. komatt put just enough on the ball. and thomas mueller play decoy to put barn up. come on 2nd was assisted by a buyer newcomer defender jo, alcuin silo showing his value at the other end of the pitch. by the 90

minute, buyers were up 3 nail thanks to thomas miller. a header off the free kick. in the walls, fans were not amused. the 1st half was all buyer. however, the wolf show a bit of bite from yucca kaminsky just before the break buyer and joshua tim, it was sent off for his 2nd yellow car just before the aramark in kim ich didn't like to call at all but it was buyer who struck again through jamal lucy, ala, to put the max out of reach lucy alo, winding his way, past the wolf, bird to fits before firing in. buyers for the wolves managed to pull another back, but it was too late to motivate. at that point,

buyers 1st league victory in 2023 comes in dominating fashion with the 4 to win over wolf spar on sundays. other game that abram and scored a 2nd strike victory in the lake wanting to nail at stuttgart after school his 1st hour in stake. i have raymond, a lead with that supposed struck and the one that goes didn't stop there either. often rounded out the comfortable when for bremen, in some style the victory moved them after it's in the table just to spots off the european places. and finally, revelers have gathered in the taiwanese capital, taipei to observe the lantern festival, but marks the official end of the chinese. new year celebrations. tradition is thought to date back over 2000 years. and 6 people lit lanterns off into the sky, thought to stabilize letting go of the past you. this is festival is the 1st since

taiwan reopened its borders following coding restrictions. and that is your news round up for this. our next faith matters about the secret hidden and then uncovered from an ancient church in east germany. enjoying that quest, after a short break, i'm anthony howard, in berlin. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more news headlines. if you need more before then this, the website, a, d, w dot com, the youtube channel, and social's, twitter, and insta. handle the need is at d. w. news. thanks watching and have a good sometimes the big jump right out at you t the highlights for human bucks every week. not the math. i tried several times. i went more than 6 times to greece.