the the this is the don't even use lie from berlin. ukraine claims responsibility for killing a top russian general in moscow. eagle, or carry off the head of russia's nuclear and chemical forces was killed by a bomb planted inside an electric scepter. also coming up, thousands of syrian doctors have become indispensable to jeremy needs health system hospitals and i fear major shortages if they decide to return home. and the democratic republic of congo filed a lawsuit against apple. the african nation says the tech giant is using the legally mind to minerals in its devices. the

problem fully ass welcome to the program. ukraine has admitted to killing a senior russian general in moscow. lieutenant general, eager carried off was the chief of russia's nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces can read off and his assistant were killed when a bomb hidden inside an electric scooter exploded. outside an apartment building in the capitol, russian investigators are treating the attack as a terrorist. act dash cam footage shows the moment an explosive device killed. general igor keira laws and his assistant outside of moscow apartment building investigators are searching for clues to piece together the circumstances of what appears to be the targeted killings of one of russia's top military leaders by

ukraine. the bomb was so powerful that it shattered several windows and damaged the front door. shortly after the attack, the ukrainian official said, keep security service was behind it. most of this was a really filigreed job. i don't know how else to say to ensure i take my head off towards the special forces with accomplish this task section to meet you. but it's no secret that we have a fairly extensive network and russia shipment, which is coordinated by the security service of ukraine, which is the main intelligence directory, quote. and the special operations forces of the for an intelligent surface pros. it can you feel that much big technical parts east, which we saw you alls with russian authorities said the explosive device was planted inside an electric scooter and was detonated remotely. the deputy head of russia security council vowed revenge with one solution, but a law enforcement agencies must find the killers in russia,

and everything must be done to destroy their paymasters in key. in each total, it was like a sugar paymasters are also known. they are the military and political leadership of ukraine was great. this we have looks as well as your carrie law was the head of the russian military's chemical, biological and radiological weapons unit. he was also considered a key figure, why you've been russia's war against the crane. so thought a lot of those just a day before he was killed. so she knew cara love was charged and up sent to you by ukrainian court for russia's use of band chemical weapons in ukraine. and he had also been sanctioned by britain for using chemical weapons on the battlefield. washington as well. a little earlier, i asked don't use russian affairs analyst konstantin exit if this is a huge cause for concern for president vladimir putin, perhaps even a humiliation for well, it is accumulation, although i must remind you,

pablo that russia is not a democracy. so there is a process putting, being censored, but parliament or some kind of opposition relatives arriving of the of the gates of the kremlin boss. of course, if you look at it from the perspective of russian official, uh, an event like that's only 10 to mountains from moscow. oh, sorry from the drum and uh, is of course, uh, basically demonstrating weakness and pretends and ability to control his own capital. so i would say internally, it definitely is a blow, although again, nothing. it will not change anything politic. all right, well, the deputy head of russia security council to me treatment, fedex has a value to find the counters inside. quote, everything must be done to destroy their pay masters and keys. so is this russia basically saying that it's going to go after political and possibly military

leaders in ukraine? oh, well 1st of all, let's not pay too much attention to the was a former president and prime minister madrid if he's kind of late and no voting the russian hierarchy really. uh, and he's not come on doing anything. but i think that there is a hint to you of a possibility of a reciprocal operation in the cranium capital. however, public. if you look back at least 3 years of full scale invasion, one can see that your brain, i think, really has a network of agents that can do sub with josh in russia. we're haven't seen anything done by the russian agents on some of this scale in your brain, which gives it a suspicion that although they do not possess such a network, oh alternatively, they may think it's just in effective for them to go for some schools that's kind of operations, my hunch would be that restaurant is not just in possession of a similar network of agents that could perform that could execute such operations

and constantine. what's the reaction being to the killing in russia and russian media is, is it being covered extensively to well state media did coverage ended gave all the necessary statements by. ready the prosecutors and then the policeman say, and we will find the culprits. but what, what, what else do we expect in such circumstances? if you're looking for us on social media and relatively independent bloggers that you have there is a lot about, it's in a social media, it is news of the day in the restroom. that actually 1st photos, interest video from the c p a. the on a, on independent media channels were relatively independent media channels on telegram and other social media. yes, i think it did kids, this is, did kids the politically active pulse called the rational side to both those who

post whatever those could support him. because of course, it's not every day that they have left and the generals blown up. uh, just if you're deliver those away from the brother. and so of course it is news of the day and i think then lots of people are saying that this is a hole in buddhist, but supposedly impregnable security. all right, we leave it there. they don't use konstantin agra, joining us from the lithuanian capital feelings to a district court in helsinki has just dealt the criminal a blow that could mean more than 34000000 euros worth of russian assets in finland are sold to benefit ukraine. there are concerns, moscow will retaliate, but officials and finland say years of building national resilience to russia. mean it's means it's ready for anything. d. w. 's. terry schultz reports just marked a 107 years of independence from russia. the more

aggressively moscow behaves on each side of the 1300 kilometer border. the more assertive it becomes a recent example. helsinki judges ordered the seizure of russian government owned properties, worth 34000000 euros. they are honoring and international legal judgment. the balance of moscow guilty of stealing billions of heroes worth of assets from ukraine's national gas company, natural gas, in the 2014 illegal antics ation of crimea. the company has identified russian and properties like these in several countries, asking local courts to seize them. but so far, only finland has done it. i don't know whether in some countries they are thinking about wait a minute, we have a state on the opposing side and each the rest the state should be i, should we not, you know, render an, an award? unsure of how russia may react, the attorneys who filed the case for natural gas and inland won't appear on camera

as a security precaution, but they don't tied the reason. they took the case for free to use our skills, our profession, to help you create defense minister on the heck in notes. this decision taking money out of moscow's pockets helps finland to. we have to do all the measure what we can to kind of 5 put down the russian war economy for his part hacked and then has blocked new sales of property to russians and said, a near total band is coming soon to better prevent malign actors access to critical infrastructure and supply chains. now we have seen that there are some of the several cases where suspicious actions behind these equations. pins are famous for keeping cool heads when making decisions against which moscow may retaliate and for maintaining their preparedness to a very high level. or in this case, a low level tends know that some 90 percent of the population can be housed in

these underground bunkers. if something bad happens up there, most of finland's, underground shelters, used for leisure during piece time to even sustain a nuclear attack, adding to officials confidence. the fundamental lesson is, if you've taken care of your own society, it's resilience. it's easier to be somewhat more proactive up early at the independence day ceremony was her grand father, even 11 year old elona offers a reflection on this less than what they used on our new people had been working hard to build families and not having a she says all right, and that's why it's a great country. now. he had a long time to take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world and is really striking. garza has killed at least 8 people from the same family, according to palestinian medics. let's try kit, a house in kansas city central neighborhood. the israeli army said it was targeting,

i have some innocent in a terrorist infrastructure side. prime minister benjamin netanyahu says that is really forces will stay in a buffer zone on the syrian border, including the summit of named term on until an arrangement is made to ensure israel security. he made the comments from the mountain summit. it was the 1st time a saving is ready, meter entered syrian territory are to so turkey will get an extra 1000000000 euros in e u. funding to support the syrian refugees. e european commission president or so the founder line made the announcement following talks with the turkish president frasier of type or the one in ankara. she also sent brussels would intensify its engagement with syria's new isn't misled rulers warning against a resurgence of the so called is lot make state in the days following the time full of serious dictatorship, people have gone to the countries. prisons to look for relatives who are locked

away under the regime rights groups say that more than 15000 people have been tortured to death. our next report follows of mine who cannot revisit the place where he was incarcerated and tortured for weeks because he had received money from relatives abroad to this unassuming building in damascus, a notorious prison where people disappeared and were tortured. now relatives are searching for their loved ones, going through documents scattered inside and outside the building. so they do it even. this is faddie, ive daugherty who spent weeks here. he says he was arrested because of a suspicious banking activity of that. i mean, no. let's see, almost all the they arrested me and wanted to charge me with robberies. episode of the asked, what do you do? i said, i'm a truck driver and i was with my father at the hospital and i receive money from my parents and my brother in turkey. so i don't know, but they thought that i was an agent because i have money transfers in my account on friday was moved from prison to prison. conditions were grim abuse,

rampant prisoners chained together. the fate chartered me to say something different, to charge me and take more money. but i stuck to my word and the truth. i'm sure they treated me badly. so as i look at, i mean he and his fellow prisoners created a calendar to keep track of time since they couldn't see the sun from the eventually he was able to bribe guards to release him. and he says he was one of the lucky ones with the lose with a lot of the people without money spent 5 to 9 years in agra. prison me either over the summer and they still have to pay a fine at the end. everybody the nonsense month. now the guards are gone, but it will take a long time to piece together what happens to other prisoners. the unlucky ones were still missing in the syrians, make up the largest group of foreign doctors here in germany around 6 times. and i live and work here after fleeing the civil war in their homeland. and we'll have to

the full of the aside the regime. the german government wants syrian doctors to stay saying their work has become indispensable for the health care system. the i'm, this is a far cry from is words treating war injuries in the syrian civil war. but in 2015, a lot of stuff left of the mass cause hospital where he'd worked to come to germany . now a doctor on an emergency war, just east of berlin. the 38 year old treats very different injuries. still the german hospital now feels like home. it feels like a big family. that's why i need it actually. and we have like we, we, we experience a lot of things together like emergencies, some they are about and worse than others. some of this are great. so that's what i liked this identity ross. i need also, and i get it here in addition to a great team, so i couldn't ask for more as doubts as one of the around 6000 syrian doctors in germany who work in hospitals or doctors offices. syrians make up the largest group

of 4 and doctors in the country, and now the sudden fall of the aside regime has raised the question, what would happen to germany's health care system if these doctors begin returning to syria? yeah, me then a con, consult is on a fuss selections that would have the same problem in almost all the hospitals where vacancies are difficult to fill because of demographic trends. we have an aging population, including among doctors who are leaving the profession, and relatively few younger ones are coming in, which is why we are dependent on doctors from e. you know, you countries, i'm movies. oh, that's hospitals. supervisor says he has become an essential member of her team. she says is experienced back in war torn syria, set some a part. but if he returned, she would lose a valuable colleague and a friend. i don't think our house system could so wife is all those colleagues from

other countries would go back home to even now with all this or in doctors here in our hospitals. we were looking for colleagues as das was overjoyed when you heard about the end of besides regime. but he says it's too early to tell whether he'll go back. i can tell you i or i can assure you of there's not me like many other of sir young people in germany, not only doctors, but syrians in general, a blog to go back to a home which is stable, where we can live like in p as in victor to so if our home could provide that in the next few years, i think a lot of people would consider going back today as off has german citizenship and says it's place right now is in germany doing the job. he loves but he is full of optimism for serious future and says he can't rule out. going back one day. more than a dozen people are reported dead and hundreds injured after

a powerful or it's quite hit. besides pacific island don't find a way to the 7.4 magnitude quite stroke about 30 kilometers of the coast. yvonne watkins main island cctv footage showed the moment the quite shocked at the capital for the villa. rescuers are looking for survivors under collapse buildings. a to 90 warning was cooled off, less than 2 hours after the tremors. local residents is a the damage to the waters pool viola. this is the billabong building, one of the chinese goals and ctf. this collapse. i will put the rest of your team in that now are rescued when they're trying to get some people out. wait for a walk on the route. there's definitely some people in the hopefully still a lot. we're trying to get some machinery out at the moment. the engine people have been arriving at the hospital. some reports of casualties

and building have the civil embassies, including those of the u. s. person from any zealand was significantly damaged. the quake triggered several land slides near an international shipping terminal. much of under was whose communication networks have been knocked out with the full extent of the damage still imaging to the southern african nation of mozambique in our residents. our cleaning of damage from cycling chito. the storm claimed at least 34 lives there. drone video shows the extent of the damage with flatten towns and vegetation classrooms and a number of schools were destroyed as well. the storm made landfill on sunday, after pushing through the south western indian ocean in the early part of the regions sites long season or current bd from it saves the children, told me more about the situation on the ground after sites on chito hit mozambique

. it's quite bad, especially for those villages that are, that were in the direct parks. and so just as you've seen and that for to jeep is showing, many people have lost the homes. a lot of schools have been damaged as the clinics house points. and that sort of thing. so for many people who in the 1st place, look quite poor and they, they are not suffering. there's this new impact on the lights. tell us what are people in most need of right now? so they, they really need food. they need water and obviously they need shelter as the rainy season now. so you know, they need to have a place to shelter from the right and do it in the longer to the going to need the materials to rebuild their houses. but also quite

a lot of people have lost the crops trees in st. trees that kind of thing. and so that will be needed. they will need seed and siblings to replace all of that . yeah, sure, we're just seeing the images there of the devastation. it looks absolutely awful and tell us what concrete measures are. save the children taking to help people on the ground. so say the children's teams have been out um almost immediately looking at what the needs are and meeting with people to, to see with the greatest needs are and they already have in, in place in pain. but some items that can be delivered immediately. those kinds of things are an immediate need, this of enabling people to, to be able to survive. and so the main thing that they will,

that the teams will be doing is ensuring that children are protected in a big storm like this. it's, it's terrifying for children and quite often in the midst of all the chaos they can get separated from their families, the teacher. and so that will be a main focus in a short to longer term. obviously it will be a contribution to repairing those damaged buildings. especially the schools and, and then some of the, the longer chain recovery for those families to. all right, well leave it there. well hopefully people can get back to us soon level of normality soon. thanks for joining us on the don't even use that a current bt from safe to children. joining us from the most of the capital and i filled out here are some more stories making the news carl rese could vanish in as little as a decade impacting nearly a 1000000000 people who benefit from the marine ecosystems. as, according to

a landmark e u. n. a report by global bio diversity experts, it says fast warming sees over fishing and ocean pollution. put carl reese on course for extinction. but as a waiting activist, full watson has been released from detention after denmark refused a japanese extradition request. watson had been detained in greenland, which is an autonomous danish territory on a japanese arrest. warrant is accused of damaging a waiting ship in the antarctic. in 2010. the democratic republic of congo has filed a criminal case against apple subsidiaries in france and belgium. the african nation accuses the tech giant of using so called conflict minerals in its computers and smartphones. the eastern d r. c is rich in minerals like 10 tons of them and tungsten. these minerals are often extracted in unofficial mines run by armed groups. un experts on human rights

activists say those militias are responsible for massacres of civilians, mass rapes, and looting. apples denies the allegations and says it does not directly source its primary animals. or christoph marshall is a lawyer representing the democratic democratic republic of congo in belgium. he has lined what the complaint is about. so uh, today we just, uh, uh, filed a criminal complaint with um, investigative judge here the court of brussels. and so the accusation that is made is um, possessions of money laundering, also, consumables. and also the fact of misleading the consumers on the origin of the products to all settings. all right, so if the d r c things there are conflict minerals in apple products does not also mean that you're pursuing, you're also legally pursuing the suppliers. no,

so the thing is that it's still that we've seen that the, that apple is using brother minerals is just that we base or analysis on numerous reports problem. and g o is of course, but also officiated reports from united nations. i mean, everyone knows and we member, i went up to them quickly to come to nothing privacy with showing his awful phone saying everyone knows that in this phone, the blood mineral. so the fact that this region of the world tivo is now new, were let's by drug minerals. these are facts. now, next step after having said that, is to show that after the noses and the auto directory uses real minerals in the supply chain. and that's what it be demonstrating the complaint. now, earlier this year, there was a case in the united states were plaintiffs tried to hold all tack of giants, a comfortable for as a separate issue for child labor in coal. both mines in the d. r. c. that the case

was rejected. are you hopeful that your case will be more successful as well? i'm completely convinced after what we've been doing with all the teams here, legal team in belgium, but also a legal team in the u. k. in the us and the company's team and differentiating the legal teams that we have enough evidence to show that brought me the rules that were gathered on some mines where there are some international crimes committed step. those brought me the rules were actual sold to fund raise the afterwards gave what were put in the supply chain of apple and apple knows that. and if you want to can mention the facts that we mentioned the complaints. but we are pretty, pretty sure that we have all the evidence. we need to bring apple to a criminal trial and built to tell us more though about the end goal here. so what exactly do you want to achieve from ad, from this case?

would you like to see an end to these products being used at not just in, at the new york city, but in other countries and for these lowest to be sort of at it. and basically followed what i've seen the goal. i'm representing the state of google, so the goal of the republic is to show to the consumers. that's the don't do the project they're having to has is contaminated by international crimes and to show the world of the international community, which doesn't really care what's, what's happening and keep or seen such yeah. as was 1000000 of the that the situation has to come to an end. and that this conflict is mainly driven by this industry of those minerals. and that's what the view is she wants to show to the world just. and of course, trying to put an end to the situation as d r c is considering that the system that has been put in place. but i'll pull up and folder organizations to control the origin of the minerals is not working very

well. even more than that, it's a complete fader. very interesting speaking to a lawyer, christopher, my sean, and joining us today from belgium. and that's all for now. stick around because i'll be right back to take you through that date. we'll be looking at finding accountability for us as for crimes in syria. i'll see you in just a few minutes. the

rushes invasion of ukraine has left the russian minority, latvia, and shock. the war has transformed their lives into a delicate balancing act. as they try to preserve the russian language and culture, while also demonstrating the loyalty to the latvian states. conflicted identities, those in 45 minutes on d w. the

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you lost on the run. starts december 18th, on d, w. the in the days after the full of syria is long time dictator, bashar of assets, families rushed to prison, liberated by rebel forces in the hope of finding their loved ones. the brutal methods used by the regime to torture and kill. and the extent of it are now coming to light for syrians at home and abroad. the issue of justice is an important part of serious transformation. but how will the country's new leadership deal with the task of seeking both justice and containing harmony in syria? on probably the us in britain, this is the day i.