and certainly alice services be our guest at frankfurt and bought cd, managed by front, bought the welcome to the w news. here. our top story is live from berlin for those kind of close ex husband has sentence for 20 years in prison. the woman at the center of a mass rape trial, that is shocked. the world leads court saying she still has hope for the future. also ahead on our program, ukraine's president for a lot of years. the last pedro is e use leaders in brussels. he says, european security guarantees will not be enough to protect him print and that nato and the u. s. must be involved and the california declares an emergency over the rapids spread of bird flew. the 1st serious human case is also confirmed in

louisiana. the i'm clear, richardson, thank you so much for joining us. so many probably call me ex husband of the french woman at the center of a mass rape for all that his shots, the world. how's the been sentence now to 20 years in prison? that is, the maximum term for his crimes. available in france was 50 co defendants were jailed for between 3 and 15 years. at the end of a grueling months long mass rape trial for she's out of political in that time, she's become a symbol of strength. and resilience and a feminist icon sleeper sofa evicted to the unrecognized victims whose stories often remain in the shadow

job. it was, i want you to know that we share the same cry then going by. was this with i would like to express my deepest gratitude to all the people who supported me throughout the so to you need to to know the city play the book. thing one. yeah. it's your testimony that moves me and i've grown from the strength to come back every day within the stage. these long days of hearing serial is on the deals is a believe on when i opened the doors to this trial. on the 2nd of september, i just wanted to side you to be able to understand the proceedings be so to which i've never requested that decision. this is, you know, shake off shows, i know, have confidence in our collective ability to cross the future in which everyone and the women and men are like, the only can live in harmony with natural respect. and i'm just standing on them and they don't know they split it like once they all show. richard. thank you very much on this dominique political, the ex husband of, she's a political,

was sentenced to the maximum term of 20 years in prison for his crimes. they include rate and drug and his then wife. almost all of his 50 co defendants were found guilty of rape and given jail terms ranging from 3 to 15 years. less than prosecutors demanded. dominique petticoat made contact with dozens of men on an online platform and recorded the abuse in hundreds of videos and photos of the convicted man come from all walks of life and range in age from their twenties to their seventy's. they've become known, and friend says mister, every month, most denied they had raped. she's had a political the case of sparked a fierce debate in france, a bad consent, the laws regarding sexual violence and the behavior of man. oh, just based on the up was it, i hope there will be

a before and off to this trial for all the victims of domestic sexual sex is the violence that the article is again. okay, i'm not sure it will change things, but i hope it does. i know, i hope, judicially. it will stand as an example too. so. so i found me called the, the law and exam from the end of a historic trial, one marked by the bravery of she's at a penny. cool for helping to shift shame away from those who suffer sexual violence to those who committees for more on the story i spoke to my, you know, certainly all skate vice president of the french feminist association owes the from the news law. i asked her if she was happy with the sentences. we are happy that they were recognize the problem in this case because we know that 90 percent of the rates accusations are, are not classified. they're classified results. pursuit. but what, we're not happy, it's about the very lenient and very small combination for a certain of the accuracy. we know that to just happened to call is being for using

instruction for this case. and we have men who have raped who have a sentence, who gets about 3 years with a lot of suspension. so we're, we're life 30, most the largest to win the nation would have been held for all of the people who have raped her. so you're think these terms were too short, according to the institute of public policy, a parents based thing tank, 86 percent of the cases of sexual violence in up to 94 percent of rape cases are entirely dismissed in france. when you look at those 2 facts together, do you think french authorities are too lenient when it comes to sexual violence? yes, and there is not investment enough in the finding out the proof to convince people . so normally on average, the person who gets a convicted for raped gets about 10 years. so in this particular case, the seeing all the things that made it a worst case, we would have counted all the things would have incurred a pendant that is the same as the average, which is 10 years. 41 percent that does get condemned with what we need its funds

for the investigation. so the 94 percent of a rape cases did get archived result any pursuit is because there is not a money investment to allow people to research into their investigations and just for international audience to better understand where does that funding come from? who can make that available. okay, so uh, currently we have a, we sent over 60, some of these associations, a position for a lot cutting to go. so a large close sizes law that incorporates all the items that we need, including a psychological co, pretty much for the victims. and at the moment from the state country debt funds, the less of compared to the other european countries investigation. so we're asking for 244000000 to help us combat of sexual violence against women. tell me more about what is in that plan. what measures would you like to see put into lots to help combat sexual filings?

so we would like, and particularly that is there is a training in specialization for mazda is tots for police, meant for anyone who was welcoming to women who were coming forward and telling this story. and would also like, especially by sports, who would like of the money as well for the accomplishment psychological or for all the victims in for it in front of a population as well. and also to do prevention and information programs. so in order to deconstruct the gender stereotypes that begin this continuum of violence, that culminates with rape and the 70 side, a lot of one was also writing about this case was what it said about french society . when you look beyond those pacific measures more broadly at french society, do think that it too has to change. yes. because the days the real time state contributes to this type of violence, it must continue to is constructed against this notion that we made our inferior and that they are worth less than their objects. so we can see that out of all the

men who have come to take advantage of these, the crime, and together with the dominican political, even those who have refused to take part in it. none of them have alerted the police in a period of 10 years. this will be effective and left a post and in a situation that was very dangerous. and over a period of 10 years, not one person, not one man have come forward anonymously to the police to denounce these. and the fact that interest outside of co insisted that this trial be held in public. how important do you think that was to get attention to this case and open a debate about sexual violence? this was mine to we are only talking about it internationally because of her choice to make it public. and it's a very brief choice because we know these 2 methods attached to the victims of sexual violence. and this is very important for us. it's not every woman who is in this position. she's happy to quote is a particular type of victim in the sense that there was material proof and features of all the rapes that she had suffered. she's also a very, let's see,

integrated in society. so she's a why to me, to class he through sexual grandmother. so these are supposed to be treated in a way that we probably can't empathize with her. but we extend our inputs each other victims to work in that position where they cannot speak publicly about what has happened to them because of the stigma attached. well, thank you so much for joining us to speak about these important issues those my unites are now sca vice president for the french apartment association was a if somebody's want. thank you again. thank is to well, president, for a lot of years lensky has been pressing the european union to do more to support ukraine nearly 3 years into the war with russia. joining on e u. summit in brussels, the landscape said european security guarantees will not be enough to protect you agree without the backing of nato and the united states under donald trump. air raid sirens as russian drones attack keys almost 3 years into the war. these guys

are still far from safe and ukraine's president is still busy asking allies for more support and security guarantees. he struck a positive tone when asked how you felt about to trump taking office in january. welcome, donald. what can i say? which fears the trump may push for a quick deal to end, the war and force give to capitulate where the backdrop to all the wind skis talks and brussels on to chose his words carefully. can you imagine, for example, we actually spot everybody, i, b, c, 's 5. yes. and can you imagine that into mazda, which and we'll come back, cause everybody. we need to have real plan, strong position us. and i very much county that we will, will have unity between the united states. as i said, and european leaders, unity is often to for each among those you leaders. and even as

a wednesday made his case, hungary as prime minister victor oregon, known for criticizing ukraine and cruising up to russia, was busy promoting his own blonde for a christmas cease fire. one which keeps says he has no mandate to make the left side and change the numbers on the new foreign policy chief made her view clear any at 1st for negotiations too soon will actually be a bad scene for, for ukraine. the only other actors in the world are carefully watching how, how we act in this case. and therefore, we really need to be as strong and faced with questions on which concessions ukraine might talk to making the future. germany stop to it's tried and tested lines, stuff obviously, so self comfortable,

not give off stuff i think is completely inappropriate. the some and discussing what should follow is a 3rd and 4th step. we're not thinking about what will happen soon. and i continued support for ukraine is important here, a clear course that there's no escalation of who does not develop into a will between russia and they turn the switch to and also extortion and also the laptop. this is likely the last time zelinski will meet you culture parts before the change of leadership in the white tice. 2025 may well mark a turning point. and so wednesdays challenge is making sure rushes war turns and ukraine's favor. we have our corresponding jack parents reporting from the summit in brussels. he told us that e leaders are not just worried about donald trump's position on ukraine to that. it's not, i mean, it's a really interesting one. that deadline of the 20th of january, when he's in olga rated, is really important in 1st in ukraine because of the issue that he says he wants to bring about the end of the war within 24 hours of taking office. that's what's

donald trump has said, and there's a suggestion that european peace keeping force is that's what the united states seems to be. thinking of your p and peacekeepers would go into ukraine to sort of retain some kind of peace keeping force. now european leaders, the 20 to 26 of them out to be a manual micro on the french president isn't here, but the others unlikely to really want to talk too much about what that will look like. if they mentioned that as an idea, then it could be seen as pushing the ukrainians to the table to have tools. so that's a really, really big issue for the europeans. a trying to get on the same page, trying to understand what they're going to do when from comes in to office and not only on ukraine, but also i cannot make the donald trump said that he wants to put terrace on impulse of products into the united states during his campaign, he said that tyrus what his favorite was and he's good. so that means that the european leaders are gonna have to look into exactly what that means. specifically

the gentleman call me cuz they're exporting to the united states market. and that will be top of mine for them, no doubt. tell us a little bit more about what other issues are being addressed at this meeting. yeah, it's an interesting, this one sometimes you need is they come here to make decisions. and sometimes they come to knock heads and get an idea of what's going on, and that's why one of the topics is the e u, in the world. and so they're looking at many different issues. things like migration is also on the agenda here. we also have discussions to say, matt, and i'll tell you, but we've had the george and elections which just seemed georgia ton against his pop into the european union, big issues in mo, data. and that also going to be obviously talking about the situation in syria. this is the 1st time that they're getting together since the photo class are all a side space even damascus. and what is the discussion like there are, have they've been talking about the possibility of a syrian refugees returning home to their country. are there any announcements we could expect on that? yeah, i don't think we're going to get any announcements,

but there's be some interesting things that have happened. the austrians, for instance, have offered the syrian refugees living that were size in yours to return back to syria. it's a complicated situation to be offering refugees back into a situation which is still quite unstable in syria. one of the big things that the european union sort of has together is had arrived and decide is whether it will remove the designation for haste. yes, the new leadership in syria from a terrorist, obviously the issue doesn't designated as a terrorist organization when it's kind of does following the, the un, but the un still designate use them as a terrorist organization. so what will be your opinion do on that? and that's where it comes to the leader sort of getting together and having a decision. i don't think we'll get into 9 payments out of this summit that they will start looking into exactly what they going to do. how are they going to approach that disagreeing leadership, the new survey and leadership? we know that a series of the new m boy had some communication with them. we don't know how deep

that went, but the european union will have to have those discussions on the idea of refugees is over a 1000000 serial refugees. in germany, for instance, on some of the may want to be repatriated, some of them may want to stay that ra syrian refugees all across the european union . as a you need is appropriate going to one to find out what the others are doing and get on the same page. what types exactly what they're doing? we're hoping a little bit little bit more information. we'll come. isaac jack, thank you. as always for your recording, instruct, barracks in brussels to and froze it as a lot of air pollution has admitted security failings over the killing of a russian general in moscow. earlier this week, he made the remarks during his annual news conference put in there also said russia was not defeated in syria despite the overthrow of the outside regime regarding ukraine button said that he's ready to talk to president obama mirror zalinski. he also mockingly challenged the west to a high tech duel,

suggesting russia could stride cube with its new or ration of missile to see if the west could protect new crating and capital shots. of there's no chance to shoot down these missiles features that i get which deputy that's going to let you name some object. what saying here from and concentrate all their air defense and missile defense forces. there are a few livable people and we will hit it with the direction of the audio and see what happens when we are ready for such an experimental more experiment. they've got to use the other side. ready. got totally requested us to have these rigo bureau chief, you ready for chateau? told me more about putting this challenge to test russian missiles against western air defenses in ukraine. this response was given to every mark, the west, west claim beings. it's put in slate, to see people based on in the blankets too crazy or a stick. me style wasn't in fact an old and the style is it has just been slightly modified. so put an argue it says its own new weapons and so the development of the

old bonds and then she said what they had, it sounded to me quite spontaneous. not like a specific plan, but it could be understood as a signal to the best to made. the 1st of all is that the rush of wouldn't stop find firing or do you credit no matter how many invest in defense systems are working. very important is determined to keep fighting in ukraine, but in a sat. is that the situation? what's fundamentally changing in favor for that off an army? don't boss. when oscar, when russia would find them to recapture? well, re gains that off and region of course, because that was occupied by that you create an army putting didn't wants to give a specific date. uh, he simply promised that everything would be done properly and 3 kept charts for me is this as a signal is that the pick up to over the course region is not going as planned and asked on the piece with you create and put in was rejected to the short term sees 5, because in his opinion, ukraine is not ready for one. it's because russia $13.00 q south basically putting

repeated the same fee of this ukraine has. namely, that's the other side. would only got the forces power in the cease fire. just to fight even hold on. i would say these rico bureau chief, you reverse shadow. and when you take a quick look at some other stories making headlines, a russian court has charged a suspect in the killing of a senior russian general general e core, a target law, and his assistance. they were killed tuesday morning when a scooter exploded, outside a residential building in moscow. ukraine claimed responsibility for the attack. the it was back citizen was remanded in custody until february french president emanuel mccall and has been assessing the damage caused by psych loan shadow in the overseas territory of my own. troops are handing out food and water to victims of the most powerful storm to hit the island in 90 years. hundreds of people are feared dead. officials in california have declared an emergency over the

ramp and spread of bird flew in livestock. the 1st case of severe bird flew in a person has also now been confirmed in the state of louisiana, the h 5 and one virus is wide spread in wild birds and can easily spread to commercial, poultry and cattle. it has been detected in hundreds of dairy cattle hurts this year, and also in thousands of people. nationwide health officials say it's a generally only a concern for animals that most of those who had been infected had miles cases of more on this. i'm very pleased to welcome elena son, a health reporter with the washington post who can help us dig in here, a little more. united states has confirmed more than 60 human cases of bird flu since april watts. that's the case in louisiana, a parts. it's the 1st time that the united states has confirmed a severe case of illness. and in all the other cases,

people have not gotten that sick. this person is over 65 is in critical condition in the hospital and has some medical conditions underlying medical conditions that puts them at greater risk for complications. and so they had a briefing this week. unfortunately, we don't have a lot of details about what, what else is going on with this person for privacy reasons, but they do have severe respiratory symptoms related to the influenza illness. now the bird flu virus is also been spreading in dairy cows. the epicenter, of course, california, which has declared an emergency. how severe would you say of the situation there is as well, california is the largest mil producing state in the country. so over $600.00 very herds have been infected in california out of the total of more than $800.00 in the entire country. so, statistically speaking, you know, it is a lot,

but it is what you would expect in the state of california. the governor declared a state of emergency this time because it's spreading beyond the central valley to southern california. the state having an emergency state of emergency allows them to coordinate responses more and resources more, but it is definitely a serious concern. and last week, 2 cats in los angeles who drank rom milk that had been recalled by a company because h 5 and one avian influenza virus had been found and the milk died. wow. so this of concerned but you know, that's ron milk, milk that is past dry's because it's heated for a certain amount of time at the right temperatures in activates the virus. and that is why health officials ever since the beginning of this outbreak was 1st announced in the spring, have urged consumers not to drink raw milk. ronald also has

a ton of other bad digits impact syria. huge. the concern here though, must be that an uncontrolled spread that you might see and dairy cattle could then heighten the risk of more spill over into humans. is there anything that can be done to prevent that from happening to prevent it from spreading? yeah, well some things are already underway. um the usda finally has started a national milk testing program to find the virus before it goes to past or ization . that way it gives you a sense of where in the country the virus is moving. and because we think now many people think now that the testing is not enough in milk or in animals for humans, the folks most at risk are the workers who have interaction with cows and with poultry. so 61 schumann cases had been confirmed in the united states, all but like one or 2 or in farm workers. and for those workers,

they need to, the cdc has recommended that they wear the proper protection, which is the stuff for your eyes. gloves. because the way the virus gets in to you is like splash of milk into your eyes, your nose, your mouth into a virus can get into the body that way to increase that protection. and also they are urging those farm workers to also get the seasonal flu shot. seasonal flu is different from the bird flu. but if you're a farm worker and you get seasonal flu, that on top of that you get bird flu. the to viruses in the same person could combine swap genes to make another virus that is more lisa and more easily spreadable person to person. okay. huge risks to be had there. thank you so much for sharing your insights with us. but when a sun health for porter, with the washington post, thank you to the oldest known tablets inscribed with the 10 commandments has been

auctioned in new york for 5000000 dollars. the ancient marble slab was snapped up by an anonymous buyer. it's yours. sold under the hammer a piece of ancient history in great with the biblical rules given by god. to moses, for all the jewish people to follow, it is believed to be 1500 years old. it was only discovered in 1913, during excavations for the construction of a rail line. and what today is southern israel is the person who dug it up uh didn't realize its significance and brought it home and use it as a paving stone. it stayed in this person's column for about 30 years until an archeologist living in israel. dr. jacob kaplan recognized its importance and purchased it from this individual. the text list 9 of the 10 biblical verses

familiar to christian and jewish tradition with an additional command meant to worship on the say, quick mountain of the samaritans located in the westbank. for experts at sotheby's, this tablet is one of the most important things the auction house has ever sold. murder. these stones are incredibly rare. we have a census where we have found a total of 10. but all other 9 our fragments which contain fully part of the 10 commandments. this is the only one which contains the complete 10 commandments. this is also the earliest with the complete 10 commandments. as with similar antique objects, some scholars have questioned the origin and even the authenticity of the stone. the buyer who remains anonymous plans to donated to and is really institution to

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