some cases to great ideas concerning consumers to apply and get in the is the state of the news line from berlin. a syrian rebel leader as a point to the countries new prime minister mohammed alba share will leave an interim authority until march 1st of 2025 siri. and celebrate the end of a house century, a repressive rule. also coming up we'll take a look at turn case rule and the fall of the syrian regime and how it benefit from the al serra bizarre on the side. and the w investigators collaborate on a pro, uncovering alleged climate fraud. the pro found evidence that

a program aimed at the cleaning of the oil industry offered an opportunity for a 1000000000 euro scheme linking jeremy and china the welcome to the program. it's great to have you with us. as syrians celebrates the fall of the outside regime, the country now has a new interim prime minister mohammed. obviously, year previously governed a small revel controlled area. and serious northwest study. she takes over from the previous prime minister, who has been working with the rebels to coordinate the transfer of power since the fall of the government. of a share is tasked with forming a transitional government and says it's time for stability mean and consequently a newborn and good, you know, we've corresponded mohammed tre to it has arrived in damascus. and has the latest on the abrupt end of half a century of oppressive rule under the assad family here in the center off the most

stuff in the, the oh my, yes, the square. as you can see, i mean there's these young man not spending on a 1000000000 all the time that they all mean up here in the middle of the 3. they're just tempting for freedom of the the we are so happy i don't have any want to, to talk about it as also have, you know, we, we can do everything we test for the return watch. so with the summary today, because we can do whatever we want, we can do the i can scrape. so i'm in damascus and defend throughout the city for the 1st time in my life. my

1st impression is it's a bit k o, k o, all over the face, spots are born of treating. everyone is happy. people are approaching us due to the rest of the gunfire. so everyone is approaching chic about their emissions. they just want to express your happiness about the downfall of the sod. raheem you can see, you know, everyone's fighting tensing for freedom, celebrating on in the sense that the syrian army left there in the middle of the square. so that's, that's my 1st impression. thousands of syrians have been returning home from neighboring turkey since the fall of the side regime. within 3000000 people escaped to turkey after the start of the civil war and 2011, many of them are now hoping to return, despite the political uncertainty. turkey is given shelter to more syrian refugees

than any other country in economic crisis means they face rising anti migrant rhetoric and even violent attacks are corresponding julia. how does that a crossing on turkey's border with syria julia, yesterday, we saw scores of people crossing the border into syria. what's the situation there today? well we have been here yesterday around the same time of day at this exact border crossing. and today i see less people lining up here waiting to return to syria. but right behind me, you can actually see how people, families with small children, with their belongings are being a processed at many syrians living here in turkey. you have to know are originally from a lot po, syria's 2nd largest city, around 40 percent of the refugees here. so many people we speak with here or telling us that's where they want to go back to a level. in fact, it's just about an hours drive here from the turkish border into syria. now terms

of forward he's have not disclosed any figures about how many people have in fact returned in the past few days since the full of the i said regime. but to the turkish interior minister. yes, just they said that turkey has stepped up. it's capacities to accommodate such border crossings from previously around the 3000 crossings a day to now 15220000. the churches authorities have also opened up an additional border crossing. so now there are 6 of them that reflects the expectation on behalf of the turkish government, that there would be rapid returns of syria and faxed to their home country. but migration expert, the more cautious saying the rep petrie ation process could take even years because many people, obviously they have build up lives here in turkey. they went to school to university, they've set up businesses. so they risk a lot, leaving all that behind. and many people also telling me they are cautious because they are just so many uncertainties. they're across the border in syria. what kind

of syria will, are we going to see? that's what, of course is on people's mind. here on the tucker side, now internally as president of narrative type, air to on has been a long time backer of the syrian rebels and it's widely expected for him to seize this as a moment of opportunity. let's look at how that could panel to this president add one a to support out of your position in syria is one of the big windows from the full flash. i said. so if you could kinda upholstery the rich and say things to the future and same distress and its position in negotiations over able to get a sense of here's how turkey ended up in such a strong position in less than 2 weeks. opposition scientists from the issue of his tie up to here i, shaun group together with talking back rebels, toppled aside through gene. so teen years after his crack down on anti government protest. ignited serious of the rubbish capture of the main northern city of

a level. neither took his folder before pushing all the way to the capitals. i must post. it said, august and the 3rd run away. leaving behind the syria, when nearly 1000000 people were massacred, 12000000 uncomfortable had to leave it a joke shed and many associates on my return to revel what a color kutrovitch edwin's government has so far denied any involvement in the rebels operation. but add one has long pushed for the else throughout. besides calling him not a rough and backing up position forces in syria's northwest. it's highly improve the situation at the well 3rd. at this. kane and the speeds observed results at least some sort of uh, uh, vacation reports, or at least 3 nights. so how does tech he benefit from all of this? you can see one way here at the turkish florida with some syrians have gathered

with their families, their belongings, suitcases ready to head back home, back to syria. add one can make good on his promise to return many of the free 1000000 syrian refugees. turkey has hosted for more than a decade, anti immigrant sense and then does live here in the country and add on has come under increasing pressure to send people back. this, it sounds like a deal i'm going to damascus now to see my family. i haven't seen them in 14 years, an adult is go now i will see them and they also have to go online. he took all home those like now that outside is gone, god willing we will take them back and decide to get the you know, she doesn't show up is not important. what i'm going to eat. what i'm going to drink is important that i'm going my home. my home is just for you, syria, is it for you? and that's it. add one is also looking for a security benefits. in northwest syria. he's pushing ahead with plans to establish what he calls a security course or so he backed rebels and launched and offensive against scottish fights is trying to sell them from the turkish florida. this has since the

local code or civilian sling safety, the offensive also allows to key to push back thirty's fighters and spacing them from strategic positions. and we're going to produce says a c s a which you don't, you don't have use as a security threats june to it seems to be to the p. k. k. b, a power in quinn's don't come without risk to add one in. the longer term concord is not controlled. he is in this higher the i some which is officially considers a to is closed and it remains. i'm clear if to, if he wants to expand his insurance in the area now controlled by the extending influence over then you the capture. it's a tooth res box to the bowl, which is a huge city woods. the mines essentially economic and political events, investments from to mike and turkey's past experience in managing areas under its defect to control the northern syria as being

a fraud with changes which we did locate this content and even violence exist. and now it looks like ad on hand has been strengthened twilight, ron and russia have lost regional insulins with their l. i a sub semis, but the political baffled to serious future has yet to be decided. julia there now appears to be a ceasefire between the curtis spiders and syria, and the rebels supported by turkey is that in turkey's interest, as well as the seas for is according to the car dish, s b s groove. who said it was a us mediated initiative to guarantee quote, the security and safety of the civilians in the area. uh but uh, i think the overall security situation there remains voltaggio turkey beg rebels have over the past 2 weeks or so for those kurdish fighters trying to push them

away from the turkish border. because on cross sees elements among those curtis groups, as allied with the p k. k, which has waged a decades on insurgency here in turkey. and is considered a terrorist by terrorist group by turkey, but also by the european union. so it remains to be seen, but the violent collections there in the area, according to one hormone, is where i have killed more than 200 people and they have just displaced many. so this is sort of speak a 2nd offensive that has been playing out there near the turkish border in, in recent days. and that's some, something we should definitely also watch out for. although of course, the main attention is on the areas that have been captured by the main islam is group the h t s. the most schools i level and other big cities. what role do you expect for syria to play for turkey in the future? as well, um, i think the question is the other way around what role my turkey play for syria in

the future? and there is of course the obvious issue of reconstruction and rebuilding syria after all the destruction devastation off the loss nearly 14 years. this will be a massive, massive challenge, very costly. i can well imagine that turkish construction companies would want to get involved. but i think the money for all of that must have to come from elsewhere because of turkey's ailing economy to just name one reason. but i think leaders and western capital say, have understood that when it comes to serious future, they just have to talk with on crime. that's what we're seeing now. the trip is present, had a phone call with the german chancellor yesterday. with that you commission chief with the us government there have been talks and i think that's what we're going to see. continue to happen because negotiations over syria's political future, they continue and they are not over yet. that was really on. thank you so much for your reporting. always great speaking to you and here's

a look at some more stories making headlines around the world today. and eric strike has killed more than a 100 people at a market in 2 dogs. north star for the attack hits the town of kafka b, a on his weekly market day when people from nearby villages gathered to shop to several deadly incidents and fighting between the army and the parent military are assess group is rarely prime minister. benjamin netanyahu is taking the witness stand in his corruption trial for the 1st time. he faces longstanding chargers in 3 separate cases, a fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes, which he has described as observed as the 1st time a sitting is rarely prime minister, has given testimony as a criminal defendant in the united states, a man charged with the murder of health insurance theo in new york has contested his extradition to the state of a hearing in pennsylvania. the suspect struggled with

a few days and shouted while being led into court. his motive remains unclear. police in south korea have read at the office of president young, so fuel in connection with his failed attempt to impose martial law. last week, the raid comes a day after parliament voted to appoint a special counsel to investigate the case. law makers are scheduled to hold a 2nd impeachment vote on saturday. carbon credits are for trade as a tool to help make the polluting industries cleaner. but now it seems they've also provided a unique opportunity for a 1000000000 euro fraud. village scheme includes carbon credits from germany and oil fields and china dw investigations together with german public broadcasters that they ask for real how german authorities were to seat. it all started with a tip off. a chinese company had developed environmental projects at oil fields in china that were supposed to save millions of tons of carbon emissions in reality.

and inside our told us, they were part of a 1000000000 euro fraud. setting up a real project cost tens of millions west faking it project just purely on paper like out of thin air, you only need to forge a basket of new documents and you gain hundreds of millions of heroes in return. the projects were submitted under a german scheme, allowing companies here to meet their emission targets by investing in carbon saving projects abroad. in the months long investigation dw in its partners, adf acquired thousands of pages of project documents, and compared them with satellite images and photos. we found 16 projects which should not have been eligible under the germans, came a my because they were not building something new. take this project in china's sions. young region. the station collects gas that would otherwise be released during oil extraction. saving more than a $120000.00 tons of carbon emissions

a year. the application lists the planned project start date, september 2020. but satellite images from 2019 so that the plant was already there . the 4 l. n g tanks are clearly visible. truck tracks and the security flare suggest that the site was in fact operational more than one year before the application in germany was filed. his project should never have been approved. it's not acceptable for the plan to already exist before the application was submitted. and yet, germany's environmental agency green lighted it, as well as 65 other project in china, their total market value as an estimated 2000000000 euros. the agencies president direct messner, told us that none of its employees ever visited any of the projects in china. they relied on the audits conducted by private companies. we only have 3

colleagues and the federal environment agency who deals with all of these projects, the type of a concept protecting code data and any detailed uh, and they context satellite images. either we cannot say for sure whether the audit and companies were in on the front. but what we did find were many in consistencies in their reports. take this project, which was supposedly visited by auditors 7 times in their reports, they confirmed that the installation consisted of 6 big storage tanks and 12 generators. with satellite images and photos we acquired only ever show for tanks and for generators. besides very unlikely names, victor was on the side facing tanks, cons to be missing. so the inspectors didn't do their job. absolutely not. or even was the ordered firm should be suspended. been type elements within these companies to just become part of the deception that would be a worst case scenario. the german environment agency has placed 45 projects under

suspicion and says it is now working to resend as many of the credits as possible. the program was close to new applications. the full damage has yet to emerge. one thing, however, is already abundantly clear. it didn't take a lot to defraud a system that was supposed to make a dirty industry, a little cleaner. and i'm joined now by the head of the that we use investigative team and he has 30 now he's our former correspondent in china and was part of this investigation when he is good to see, you know, who is behind this alleged fraud, who was deceiving, the german state. so the interesting thing is that on the 1st glimpse, uh it was many different chinese oil companies at but behind it. and we found that in the documents and consulting roles or in other roles, was one company called badging comments. a company specialized on comm, offsets and on consulting companies that want to reduce that carbon footprint. we know that they have been in the business for at least 15 years and the business of,

uh, these com credits and uh that they have been founded by a former official. so somebody was working in the state or organizations in the energy system and the energy policy sector, and she has come to the phone at this consultancy. and it seems that most of the projects that i know under suspicion has been filed by this company. you have spoken to members of the german government, in your opinion, do you think they did their due diligence when it comes to oversight? i mean, many people have told us that they should have been alarmed when they saw that so many of these projects when coming in from china, china is not a major oil producing country. and these are, these program is for oil uh, for oil production for reducing competition is that or production. so that would, should have phrased along both the road of aging comm should have raised alarm bells. and we also see that most of the projects have been audited. by one of the 2

companies, and that's where of where of course, uh, the major blame lies because it's these or detained companies who are responsible to ensure that these a projects are properly. so you have to inspect these the, as a project and there has been something has gone wrong there. of course many allegations towards these companies. they will socrates themselves, have a minor role in controlling this, but that's a failure by design they, they, you know, and these companies, they do find out why the alarm bells didn't go off at any stage of this process. i can give you, give you a definite answer to that. um, uh, this is something that remains to be investigated by uh, of course, uh, the authorities and also by a prosecution because of course something was there. but what we found is that knowing the system with a few tweaks, people were able to get this through. the,

the alarm bells didn't probably go off because they would not stuffed. or they did not have that their own was not, was not big enough in control. yeah. but now this fraud caused billions of yours worth of damage. where did that money go? as far as we could find out, the companies in germany who bought these credits, paid badging. com directory via a as far as we know via a substitute the or, or as a company in hong kong, a bank account in hong kong. so we do not of course know where the money was stiffened off to other people who might be involved in this fraud. but most of the money seems to have ended up with major com. there is a sense among the general public that carbon offsets are a bit of a cop out for big polluters. what do you think your investigation and, and what might come after will do to the confidence the public has and these kinds

of schemes for that has definitely been damaged uh to this confidence because uh certainly these com credits they are not as one of our interviewees told us demo discounts and bacon is not something you can touch. they rely on confidence. you need to be confident that you are paying when you buy such a thing for reduction of kaufman. this is an otherwise there was this. so of course, now the scheme is a very limited german organize scheme. it's, it's a, it's, it's, it's all done by german, off ortiz, in germany. offsetting comm credit, somewhere else in the world. that's one of the peculiarities, and mostly also maybe one of the vulnerabilities of this particular system. but in essence, all the com tracking systems rely on the same thing. you need to trust that these or just just do that job. and if it turns out that they have not done that job this time, that will have good grades repercussions for the whole system. that was the head of our investigative unit. once he has put in

a and you can find the entire investigation on youtube, on the line at 8. okay. all right. make sure to watch it. and the on now to the war and ukraine nearly 4 months since your grand entry was moved into rushes curse grange and come under say they're losing ground. the crane holds less than 2 thirds of the territory and captured while russia is making more games, thought heavy cost. the w's rebecca renters reports from close to the front line where you create in soldiers, whole more heavy weapons will make a different close to the russian border with making our way to ukrainian tank repair position. they were in a cluster of trees in a bid to hide from russian reconnaissance drones. this tank has just returned inside your credit in territory. a little over an hour ago, it was inside russia battling on the front line. it's a british challenge, a tank they and all the western supply weapons has been crucial in ukraine's fight . and the men here need them to continue of which are the most have their different

opinions and whether to give a support turn off to continue supporting ukraine or to stop. everyone here is worried about us as of the we'll see that support drive top. alexandra, is it no doubt his life will get even honda? what's the news as well? it will be very difficult, very difficult, but we will fight with what we have and why in which was early. so the soldiers from the 82nd separate air result brigade spearheaded the operation pushing into rushes coast region this summer in an attempt to take back the lost territory. russia has mounted accounts for offensive fact find estimated 50000 troops that include soldiers from its allied north korea. so it's not entirely clear if the north koreans have taken part in financing. and then you know, officially we haven't seen the sex even if the all, the just imagine the a that doesn't change anything. one thing it does seem to have changed is wisdom

countries policy on of ukraine using long the range weapons they've supplied inside russian territory in november of the months of waiting. you can go up the go ahead to stop firing us. attack comes into the coast region. it's not clear how dramatically this will change things, but the soldiers same off the mistake, the missiles will help in the long run. the who for the given the being it then they'd be and i think it will take some time here. but until we see the results of the long range weapons usage and they will not put them on that awesome. these websites are aimed at destroying any mean logistics and weapon supplies is to put you on your vehicle. but when they will have an in sufficient supply of our munition food, we have to park water and the rest of the dispatching. and then we will see the results for one year with the so so hard after thought that gives us the show up. so he thinks those hopeful results will be important for you. christ position in

any negotiations to in the will no printed bit from we also both of them. in my opinion, the curse corporation is an ace card that some with the model as well as a huge motivation board. not only for our man kicked them off, but for the whole i'm forced to hide in a more green square yard of yes. and the scale of the operation might not be that big. our field, most movies as well. this is enough. how many so many folks within the ukrainians can hold on to enough of russia's coast territory long enough for it to function as an ice? cod is the question that no one he cannot answer. and finally, more often than not, the absence of humans can be good for other species of animals. and the case of grace feels that allow them to thrive on a small part of the english coastline. these are the 1st pictures of the seals that live on a former cold war weapons testing site and stuff of the site had been secluded in the home. it wouldn't allow the colony to grow. it's now home to about $400.00 of

the threatened seals this winter. as breeding season has already seen the birth of 80 puffs and more twins are expected to join them in the coming weeks as offer. now john is again at the top of the next hour. the

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been cpg, whose number of visitors produce for me. so dates, waste, disposal has been a complete mess. now supervisors are so was to bring water to the chaos. 10 waste, one thing moved. mountains of fresh eco india. in 16 minutes on dw, the, enjoying the views, and come to take a look at these l t. v highlights. every week inbox. subscribe, now this city is hungry for the future. so i'm seeing in southwest china 32000000 people live here. many of them are young.

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