the mapped out shows the geo political reality. the on the board is what makes things the way they are mapped out, navigating a changing world. now on youtube, the business date of are you near is life from berlin. a rebel leader become a serious new prime minister mohammed all this year. we'll had an enter a month already until march 1st of 2025 experience continued to celebrate the end of half a century of repressive rule. also coming up, we take a look at turkey's role in the fall of the syrian regime and how is benefits from the house for, for charlotte and dw investigations collaborate on a pro, uncovering alleged client fraud. the pro found evidence that a program and a cleaning cleaning on the oil industry offered an opportunity for a 1000000000 euro scheme linking germany and china

the welcome to the program. a syrians continue to celebrate the fall of the asa and regime. the country now has a new intern, prime minister mohammed, and all this year previously governed a small rebel controlled area and serious northwest. it takes over from the previous prime minister who has been working with the rebels to coordinate the transfer of power since the fall, the government of a share is tasked with forming a traditional government. them says it's time for stability and complement. the 30th the, our corresponded mohammed tre to is in damascus. and upon his arrival here in calendar jubilant scenes in the streets of the syrian capital. here in the centre, welcome of stuff in the oh my, yeah, the square. as you can see,

neither of these young men are spending on a syrian army to inside the army left here in the middle of the 3. they are just tempting for freedom of the the we are still happy. i don't have any want to to talk about. it just doesn't have, you know, we can, we can do everything. we transfer the return or show up today because we can do whatever we want. we can do the i can 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 fall over to phase, but my point is treating everyone is,

is happy. people are approaching us due to the rest of the gunfire. so everyone is watching the chic about their emotions. they just want to express their popping us about the downfall of the regime. 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. it's very much he has a bad he's in the city of his saca in the northeast of syria, montana mohammed all this year has been appointed interim prime minister. who is this man and how have syrians? you've talked to been reacting to the news yeah, this man was responsible for the, the administration of the did with the governor rage where it h t, as was located before. busy the they marched suit m oscars, and he was a man who,

who was known for administrating it efficiently and in the, in the professional way. so that this region could establish the structure is needed in order to, um, the total assets. and then he has no appointed and t shirts and strengths and feelings between even the administrators. so the kevin administrators and even the regions and the new government and damascus in order to establish in the moscow's and who is similar to that of h t. as in the lip, and yeah, i think many people expect from him stupidities and the goods and stay but transition. but not all of the syrians are, are happy or, or, or are we looking positively into it towards this new, a administration which will last the end, at least i'm to 1st of march because some of them see him as a religious, important, religious figure. and personally, and it,

let's see what's responsible for religious, faster there. and there for many people, a little bit frightening whether he might be, if a man who would establish a strong implementer, his name is lewis, about so far as account. uh, we do not have an idea of what would be the real outcome of his administration. yeah, if this is indeed a very tense time for this area and across the road, how confident are the people you've been able to meet that these limits? rebels essentially will bring stability a yeah, it's not sure because uh the currents in the area where i am and they, um, uh, facing heavier checks from the m as in a mini shampoo. who is a bank to buy cherokee. they are in different locations and trying to push forward to the good is region. for example, in mind, beach close to the outside river is rather than per bond to collapse,

just are expected to happen. and it also close to our place here of on for me just from house like the and they are also, i'm. busy taking a kurdish and s t f fights or positions. so um, yeah, it's not sure whether the new government and the moscow's will have really a control over the whole territory and the control over every melisha which is involved in this methods because they're really, um it's, it's not the one was malicious. talk with the there were many inch interest and many different goes those journalists mathias and, but speaking to us from his soccer in syria. great to have you on the show. but he has thank you so much for that to thousands of syrians hoffen returning home from neighboring turkeys as the fall of the asset regime. more than 3000000 people escaped to turkey after the start of the civil war in 2011. many of them are now

hoping to return, despise the political uncertainty. turkey has given shelter 2 more syrian refugees than any other country. and economic crisis means they face rising and time migrant rhetoric and even violent attacks. there are corresponding julia hahn. is that a crossing on turkey's border with syria? i asked her a short while ago what the situation there was today. well, we have been here yesterday around the same time of day at this exact folder 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 process of many syrians living here in turkey. you have to know are originally from a let 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,

is just about an hour's drive here from the turkish border into syria, and no turkish authorities have not disclosed any figures about how many people have in fact returned in the past few days since the full of the said regime. but to the turkish interior minister. yes. as 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 trips with ortiz of 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 syrian faxed to their home country. but migration expert, the more cautious saying the rep petri ation process could take even years because many people, obviously they have build up lives here in cherokee, 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 are 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. so this president add one a to support the position in syria is one of the big windows from the full flash law side. so if you could kind of bolster, it's the rich in shaping, see the future and same strength and its position and negotiations over able to get a sense of that. here's how turkey ended up in such a strong position in less than 2 weeks. opposition fights is from the islam his tie up to here i, shaun group together with turkey back rebels, toppled aside through gene searching years after his crack down on the anti government protest. united syria,

civil to rebels capture 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, we nearly 1000000 people with massive good. $12000000.00 come. we'll have to leave it a joke, share, and many associates on return to the level 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 als throughout facade, calling him a matter of fact, my position forces in syria's northwest. it's highly improve the salvation of food of altered at this cain and the speeds observed results at least some sort of a a c, a purchase. she supports a or at least 3 nights. so how does kathy benefit from all 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 3000000 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 about sham this. it shall be a good 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 took online. it took a whole new cycle and all that outside is gone to god willing. we will take them back and decide to get the you know, she doesn't show up isn't having both of them aren't going to eat. what i'm going to drink is important that i'm going my home. my home is just for you. city a is a free and fair to 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 again scottish

fighters trying to sell them from the turkish florida. this is send local coder civilians cleans the safety. the offensive also allows to key to push back service fighters and spacing them from strategic positions and weakening the code. you said yes, which took you to keep use as a security threats june to with things we've done. p. j. k. these apparent quinn's don't come without risk, so add one in the longer term concord is not controlled. he is in this high apache i son, which is officially considers a terrorist. and it remains. i'm clear if to, if he wants to expand his insurance in the area, no control side goes extending insurance over it, then you the capture. it's a 2 attorneys, that's clearly i level, which is a huge city woods demand suspension. it couldn't make and put into getting better investments. proctor my and turkey spice experience in managing areas under its

defect to control the northern syria as being a fraud with the changes which we did locate this content and even violence resist . now it looks like ad on hand has been strengthened. twilight, iran and russia has lost regional influence with their ally of sub semis. but the political battle to serious future has yet to be decided. julia there now appears to be a ceasefire between the kurdish fighters 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 back 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 places they are in the area, according to one hormone, is where i have kills 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 paid 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 in west and 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 therapist present had a phone call with a german chancellor yesterday with the u commission. she what the u. s. 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 a quick look down some more stories making headlines around the world today. police in south korea, great at the office of president units of joe 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, and air strike has killed more than a 100 people at a market. and so don's north star for the attacks hit the town of cub can be uh on its weekly market day. and people from nearby villages gathered to shop is one of several deadly incidents in fighting between the army and the paramilitary. are assassin group in the united states, a man charged with a murder. 5 health insurance ceo and new york has contested his extradition to the states at a hearing and pennsylvania, the suspect, struggled with deputies and shouted while being led to into court. as motive

remains unclear, around 6000 people in the us state of california are under evacuation orders as the wildfire spreads in the molly blue area. fire officials say strong winds are complicating efforts to stop the blaze as it threatens buildings, including the campus of pepper dine. university authorities have shut off power across the city. not turned out to be a huge carbon credits are portrayed 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 investigators, together with german public, broadcaster, etc, as reveal how german authorities were deceived. 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 where it's vacant and project just purely on paper. like out of senior, you only need to forge of basket of new documents and you gain hundreds of millions of bureaus and return. the projects were submitted under a german scheme, allowing companies here to meet their admission targets by investing in carbon saving projects abroad. in the months long investigation dw and 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 is shouldn't 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 projects 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. this 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 is an estimated $2000000000.00 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 in the federal environment agency who deals with all of these projects, the type of a concept protecting code data and any detailed uh into context satellite images. either we cannot say for sure whether the auditing companies were in on the fraud. 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. but 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 be missing. so the inspectors didn't do their job. absolutely not. or even was the order time should be suspended entitlements within these companies. so just to become part of the deception that would be a worst case scenario of the german environment agency has placed $45.00 projects

under suspicion and says it is now working to resend as many of the credits as possible. the program is 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 w as investigative team and he has put and 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 aging comments. the companies 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 comm credits and uh that they have been founded by a former official. so somebody was working in the state or organizations and the energy system and the energy policy sector. and she has come to the founded 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, this program is for oil uh for oil production for reducing competition that oil production. so that would, should have phrased on both the road of aging. com should have raised alarm bells. and we also see that most of the pros, 6,

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 the 2 companies were responsible to ensure that these a projects were properly. um yeah, to inspect these, these other projects. 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 do now 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 ortiz, 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 weren't able to get this through. the, the alarm bells didn't probably go off because they were not stuffed. or they did not have that their own was not, was not big enough in control yet. 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 directly via the 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 the 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 and damage to this confidence because uh, certainly these come credits. they are not as, as one of our interviewees told us, demo discounts and bacon is not something you can touch them. 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 gym and organized scheme. it's, it's a, it's, it's, it's all done by german north 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 trading 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 their job this time, but 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 more often than not, the absence of humans can be good for others, bases of animals and the case of gray seals is allowed 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 has been secluded in the hope it would allow the colony to grow. it's now home to about $400.00 of the threaten sales. this winter is breeding season, has already seen the birth of 80 pups and more are expected to join them in the coming weeks phone system. we have a 1000000 pups, people, and aloofness. and before we go, let's get you a quick reminder of our top story. syrian rebel leader mohammed alba share has called for stability, and call him after announcing his appointment as the country's interim prime minister. this comes as variance continued to celebrate the end of half

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