the just education makes the world to make up your own mind. made for mines. the state of the new year's life from valen, just as pretty close ex husband's sentence to 20 years in prison as a mass of rape trial in france was petticoat was in the avenue court to hear the verdicts. 50 other man have also been found guilty of at least one offense in connection with the case for the shock. the was also on the program women's rights activists. sincerely, i tell dw what they want from the new latest, as the country 6 to rebuild after the full of assets and rescue as pull unexplored, a life from a caving into a in a difficult operation. but the mission also alicia's trading systems, the

i'm feel welcome to the program. we start with breaking news from friends where she's having petticoats ex husband's has been sentenced to a maximum of 20 years in prison. he was found guilty of drinking and raping his for my wife and nearly a decade of recruiting thousands of strangers to join him. 50 other man has also been found guilty in connection with this case. and people drop it outside the coffee and avenue to show solidarity with them is probably going cheer this year, right? the driver's last a more than 3 months and spoke coles with tough measures against sexual violence. dw correspondent lisa luis is out because in avenue all in southern friends, welcome lisa. tell us more about these verdicts as well as the

birthday square from 3 to 13 years. for some people that will mean that they actually have to go from prison right from here, the courthouse to print to the prison and then others, actually they have a part in their sense of size parole. and some of them have already spent time in prison. and so they're not going to prison right now, sir. as you might see behind me writing, you know, lots of journalists waiting for reactions by, you know, the lawyers, the, the defense lawyers and also possibly bias. you said pretty cool and have comedy that we're listening in inside the court room a, when the verdicts were spread out, seemingly very, very tired, exhausted after 2 months of or do you listening to these era stay in and out? there were certainly feel afraid. release that they finally showed us all day at the, at at least a sentences found it down, but not always what the accusation,

the prosecutors had been asking for. so some people will be unhappy about what they've heard here today. it must have been very 10 saying that as of ethics were being red house. well indeed, you know, depending on where you look, the family seemed, again, very stress, very tired. but then the families of the, to some of these people are why is there a breakdown in tears, some excuse to so now condemned, they react to it in and i'm very, very frustrated so that they were found guilty at least of 2nd participation. second, charges on that as well. so why now lots of police here today at this close house. i'm a son between 150 to 200. so about 3 or excuse to make sure everything goes smoothly. and right now people are trying to ex, so trades of the acute from the core eyes. we use this over the, so it's

a very complicated situation with many people around me. joe is trying to cover this, but also people trying to get out of here, right? and you said some straits to jail, do any, get the option to appeal, or is that is they have 10 days to say if they want to appeal or not some i've already come out saying, no, we're not going to see if this should be the end of it, and i also need to be somehow fixed on what's, who's going to happen actually in the coming years to me. but you know, we should know more within 10 least 10 days at the very latest that is for the life of them. so that many of these men claim, but they didn't know they were taking pots in sexual assault, and clearly the court didn't buy that argument was hardly know united. so what they were saying, basically that is that they so it was a game between as you say, pretty cool and all right. and now ex husband,

that the words that she was seeing on the game. although she was in no time snoring, she was unconscious. she was sleeping so it's very difficult to find them really, how you can think about a woman who actually cons to, to you is giving you part consent. but they were all you and you know this. i thought this was a game and she explained it like that to me overseas, so many pretty cool. the ex husband he was saying from the very saw no, they should also be found guilty if i'm found guilty, mind you. he was thought he was condemned to trying to use in prison and not right away. but shortly after hearing that sentences, he wrote down the chairs and this is a case, it is very much changed to the discussion around sexual assault and in france. while absolutely, you know, this case has really been in the limelight in front and also brought as i'm saying, you know, i'm not so sure on this covering the verdict here today, but also covering, you know, the quote, do i do or do you these for months and feminist asking for example, for

a change in law, or at least some of them, as they are saying, you know, that the, the rules of common sense, for example, should be exchanged, really, you know, they're offering for an active ruler, concerned about me. and so if you don't give you a clear agreement on any sexual ox would be considered sexual assault. all right, so some people asking for that either. so saying, you know, we need to change our educational system, women neg, got a voice from a very, very young age, need to understand that goals. well these are not there as they cannot just do what they want. the same goes for, you know, husband and wife, that should be, you know, a rethink, some soul searching on what consent will actually mean. so many people are housing . this quote has come to the end here today. this quote case might be a watershed forefront, but also maybe for the world. thank you. nathan. nathan,

louie in avenue. we'll take a look at some old stories making headlines around the world is now the defense forces of claimed responsibility for asked strikes on who feet military targets, including poets, an energy infrastructure in yemen. a huge fight of massive plumes of dogs smoke up in film as a power plant in the capitol center. 5 strips of distributing food and water, 2 victims of cycling chito in mail at the store. the most powerful for 19 years websites and time neighborhoods. when it hit me, i have a nice weekend officials here. hundreds of people a could have died. manual friends present a manual macro is expected to visit this week. health officials have confirmed the face in the 1st known sylvia case of birds flew in the us patient. the viruses spreading through farm animal populations and just let the government of california

to declare a state of emergency that's a syria where it's still unclear what shape the country will take them out of your sod version as full and writes organizations according on the countries new rulers, to protect the rights of women and of minorities, the w's at abraham, and rama john mccarthy. i've been talking to women fighting for a better future in the syrian capital, damascus. we invited women's rights activists from many different backgrounds to tell us what they want for the new syria. and despite their differences there, united in their aspirations for the future state building. so i want to speed up a quality for all citizens, regardless of race, ethnicity, sect, or do nomination. do i want the constitution to treat everyone equally? i want a civilian personal status laws. i want the same custody rights over my children,

that my husband had fun when we started adding even to associate with number one in guy, one to him in laws. electra laws citizenship laws and here since laws most around children with unknown lineage, these children should be registered under their mother's name, please. and my interest, i have no reason to be having to get this process because i want to gender sensitive constitution. when i'm the in laws to give women freedom, both in private and public life, have also given these hopes, these women are also worried about what a possible is looms take over. might mean shock because i'm a healthy larry the most about out freedom of freedoms as women, citizens my policy. i worry that we have just changed the name of the machine and that we would get a new dictator and a different form. we had a military authoritarian dictator. i worry we will just get an islamist one. i

worry about political as some, i am not against islam itself. i am a muslim. what highly the are equal to the front door. the worst scenario would be extremism. physical got an experience similar to the tear on experience such as after the fall of the shop or on the phone on that the simple, the sho, get on out on the streets. optimizon is what reams. among serious i didn't feel afraid, the fear is gone. we have now started to build a future in missouri, alice and so i'm, i think the situation is better. my children were far away from me. now my daughter is back in syria after 9 years had been had that is, are consistent with, i mean a lot and it looks like i said, i'll have somebody in your on how we as a young people hope to rebuild syria, how the small, the, and kindly allow him to measure and situation is greater than right, compared to what we expect it to be high, i can the sodium everywhere you go into mass like the one behind

many children and women celebrating the fall of what started as women activists. regardless of background, also tell me there's still a lot that needs to be done for them to get the syria of their dream packet are gathering with the activists. some are already making plans to make their dreams are reality stuff. and now we have been training now. i mean we have attended workshops and so on. but many other women, if not have the opportunities we have had, we have had to work in a horizontal way on concepts that we can present to all women for awareness and community. so, the way that, let's see that we need to work on psychological support, especially for families of detainees. the people who have seen their children return as an skeleton, southern a bomb. but in the back of their minds,

they're also thinking about what to do. things do not go their way beyond the way now have the freedom to proceed. so we will go to the streets and do that. if there are laws against prizes, then we will just place will emigrate. so this will be going to have a non he and most of them with organ international organizations and not just about them. so certainly dialogue on the domestic level. and on the international level, it's something that these women would welcome, but it's not something that we're seeing happening in a, an a concerted way right now. and what is this uh, interim government saying about women's futures in syria? well, we've heard the leader of each to us, you know, give it a very comforting statement about the inclusion of everybody in the new syria and not not include a lot of specifics. however, there was a interview on the web, the new uh, tv station, just a date or 2 ago with spokes person of the current is hearing political

administration. and he gave some pretty alarming statements about house and see if there was a warrant. for example, he said that he doesn't really see women in a go like the ministry, but the minister of defense, according to him, women have, you know, biological limitations that would limit them from, you know, exercising a job, life administrator, like the minister of defense. he also said that women would not know who doesn't see women involved in senior roles into judiciary. like being judges went, of course syria already has female judges. and he also said that he, he does not see the new political administration imposing that to job a non most the one in which of course leads the question to what about most of the women like the ones that we spoke to in that report? who may not want to cover their hair. so certainly there's a, there's, there's some alarming statements coming from some members of the current political administration that are causing quite a bit of english among women here in syria already. h t. s has been running it live providence since 2017. what is like life being

a like for women that as it has been restricted, there are restrictions on, you know, jobs that women can take. there are restrictions on what we mentioned, where it's a pretty conservative a part of a, of the country that's according to women's activists that we have been speaking to . if they say, it's not that women are not allowed to work, that sort of their jobs are limited to, you know, projects with which they can sustain themselves. of course women have borne the brunt of this a conflicts many of their partners and fathers and sons dying in the war. so they've had to sort of economically separate themselves. but what factors tell us is that they'd like to see a more, a more effective role for women in that region as well. so it's, that's anything to go by. you know, things would have to be different for the rest of syria, for sure. that's according to women that we've been spoken speaking to here. so i can stop i, i dw correspondence, and abraham in damascus. here in germany,

lawmakers have been focusing on a plan to protect the constitutional quote from extremist forces across positive proposals. cool from the formation of the call to retirement rules until them then, so the judge has to be constrained in the constitution. the moves in response to fears. nothing or 3rd, tammy and potty could soon gain enough power to interfere with the judges. 3, there's a sense of urgency inside the german parliament. these days. elections are around the corner, and populous parties are on course to do well. no law, me cause one to fortify what they see is a weak link and the foundations of their democracy. it isn't, i know we are a stable democracy, but to ensure that it stays that way we should make this amendment to the basic law in order to secure our democracy even better against. and it means of the constitution's plan. it's not about insurrection. it's more like that sued in the

us. it's about the constitutional court. some in germany, fuel tax on did you additionally, like loosing and pulling that hungry could, shouldn't happen here. home brought thoughts on this one is germany, meet this, not it, which worked well for the last 75 years busy and then in with a in other countries that there are 2 main lines of attack by right wing populist and right. we can get stream is one, is the free press on the other is the independent judiciary, which is why you have to expect that and there is any possibility they will try to damage the court keeps month as well, can go to he investigation superseding. even though the tasks of the top court, i've been trained in the constitution of basic law enforcement provisions about how it works or not, for example, term length for judges. the retirement age or the procedure for a pointing judges are set by an actor parliament. that means they can be changed by a simple majority under the new plan. those provisions with being trained in the

basic law which requires a to start majority to change. so this is a high hurdle to ensure that the tried and tested structures that the constitutional quote i maintained. that's to stop a party like the far right toll tentative for gemini, interfering with the courts. guy's actions, do you mind that i missed is a pattern of mine, so i have no no sort of lawmakers point to the f. b a legit attempts to submit the rules in the state parliament of to ring just as evidence of their intentions. the b 2 are classified as a suspected case of right wing extremism by security services. see the proposal is, are necessary. yeah, i'll be a, if the naturally speaks out against this. because as we recently saw an effort, it uses every opportunity to make the democratic state institutions look batch off . but he said he wants to own spect, i'll say. and so that's it. interfering with the top court would go beyond making

institutions look bad, which is why law me, it goes back and these new safeguards will hope they are never needed. that's got more from a political correspondent to julia sally, who's at the german bundles talk. welcome julia. how is the parliamentary about going? of all the vote has taken place and we're now waiting for those results to be announced that we can expect to that of the parties in favor of this measure will have the numbers to approve it. the that group is made up of the parties that were part of the coalition government here in germany, but also of the main office vision party, the city of the christian democrats. and there is a sense of urgency to get this reform approved because there is this feeling that it has to happen quickly before the elections that are coming up in february, especially looking at the far right a if the a party that is currently pulling in 2nd position and who could become increasingly

relevant within the party. and that is why the other parties wants to shore up the constitutional court and make sure that the changes to its structure and the way it functions and the way it is elected or kept that bay. and especially in a country like germany that has a specific sensitivity to also retiree and ism and possible moves toward authority are also are it's harry and is and because of its past. and how is the sri i asked a how they were reacting to these proposals? of the party is against this reform. we've heard some from some party members who have said that the reform is actually a threatening the rights of the oppositions. but it is hard even for the sd itself, a far right party, who that is in parts been classified as extreme is to say that this, that they are open to the, against this reform. so actually the main position of the party has been to say

that this a reform that these changes are actually irrelevant. they're not needed that the constitutional court is already protected enough and that there are already measures that of protected. and that actually that there are no clear attempts to try to actually threatened the constitutional court. so they say this reform is really just irrelevant. just explain to us why the german constitutional court is so important. yeah, well in an international comparison, it is quite a powerful court. it is there to the decree whether any legislation goes against the constitution. and if that is the case, even if the legislation has been approved by the parliament, the court can declare it's void and it can't come into force. and it can also decide whether a party is unconstitutional and therefore it can band a party from a being active in the parliament and in general, in general, in political life,

in germany. so quite some important tests. and so far as the way the court is structured, the way the court is elected, all these measures were only included in a normal piece of legislation and not within germany's constitution, something that is the case in other countries in europe, for example. and so therefore, the need to one to anchor these structures within the constitution so that they can only be change with a 2 3rd majority making it's harder to apply changes that couldn't damage the courts. independence and so it is based cool is this verse is past, is that it is not done, the constitution is changed or the most steps to, to go through. so part of, of the, of the measures of proof today have to be also approved from a germany's upper branch of parliament, the buddhist scott, which is made up of the leadership of the jeremy's different states federal states

. but it is expected to also be approved their parties to expect to also have a majority in the blue stripes, and at that point it will have to be certified by the president. and it will officially be in the german constitution. ok, thank you for that. do let dw political correspondent julius, i've done a is up at small world news, so soft in the us. why the supreme court has agreed to hear take talks, appeal against the law that could bind the video. i'm sharing platform in the country. if it's chinese, parent by stance, doesn't sell it. just as is we'll hear arguments on the 10th of january about to web of about unlawfully restricts free speech. 11 people have died, one to 2 were injured in a fight as a cafe in the vietnamese capital handling. emergency workers rescue 7 people before the 3 story building was destroyed. please say the rest of the man suspected of staffing the place deliberately. officials in nigeria, sy, several children,

died and move injured in this time period. the holiday fun facts in the south west of the country. the fed been organized by a high school in aber, down the capital of ohio state. the state governor says i was responsible for the events humphrey arrest. the incident where unexplored has been pulled alive from a cave. the rescue mission involve more than a 150 volunteers, led by the italian alpine and k rescue. cool. it's the 2nd time a top, the piano has to have to be rescued from the same case system. the end of over 3 days stuck deep underground injured. but it live speed. the ologist or ta via piano has dozens of volunteers to thank for getting her out of the be so blown up from 10 to cave. you know? yeah. the same but a lot squadrons at all. we always had

a team in the cave working pretty good on that. there were technicians who are in charge of moving the stretch argument at certain that about a lot versus one of these were teams of 10 to 12 people on it. but then we always had a doctor and nurse with the patient with the injured person. ok. i did this case a we had to white in a narrow passage near the spot where the accident happened. and then uh, 5, bb, g all the way is which i certainly do that for via visa, blowing off $110.00. okay. system is located near the northern natalia and city of better gama. its some 500 meters below ground, with rescue words having to navigate their way through small tunnels and use explosives to reach or a cave. or on top of the piano was exploring an unchartered area of the cave when she felt several meters enjoying herself. it's the 2nd time in less than 18 months . she's had to be rescued in the same cave system which has sparked some criticism

in italy. the boy, it's unfair to criticize people who have the end of the day in our 1st and foremost, not conducting scientific research. i'm glad you got off that it shouldn't difficult, pretty my to light at the end of what had been a very dark tunnel for all times the piano. time now i have to recover from her ordeal. let me remind you of the breaking news. we started the show with a she said, pending cause, the ex husband has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and a mass right child and friends, dominique petticoat, drugged and right to school. my wife emilia a decade, 50 other man have also been found guilty of at least one offense in connection with the case was petticoat waved her rights to an embassy as brick. i'm a here folks, the minds of sexual get hot out 1st. we'll have

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