>> hello and welcome to the journal here on dw in berlin. >> it's good to have you with us. here is what is coming up in the show. jubilation as a probe lands on a comet. >> china and the u.s. pledged to cooperate on climate change despite other major differences. >> and a close up look at the barbaric treatment of women by the islamic state. ♪ flex it is an historic moment for the european space agency. it has landed a probe on the surface of a comment, the first

time that has ever -- on the surface of a comet, the first one that has ever been done. >> they're also concerned most of it is possible it is not securely anchored on the comet. first, this report on a journey that began 10 years ago and cost some 1.3 billion euros. flex after hours -- >> after hours of trepidation, this, try -- cries of joy from the control room in darmstadt. a seven hour dissent from the mothership, rosetta. -- a seven hour descent from the mothership, rosetta. the probe had safely landed on the surface of the comet.

>> [speaking foreign language] >> a successful landing was far from certain. the terrain of the landing spot was also no -- unknown. meaning, it may not have been able to attach itself to the surface. as well as that, scientists had to work out how to aim the probe at a 4000 kilometer long target at traveling at 6000 kilometers per hour. it all went to plan. this first image beamed back shows the rosetta probe above. [applause] >> today, we have demonstrated that we are the leading industry and research centers everywhere. we are the first to have done that, and that will stay forever. thank you very much. [applause]

>> now it can begin work collecting data. comments were formed at the same time as the planets in our solar system, more than 4.5 billion years ago. scientists hope that examining their makeup could shed light on the origin of planets, and perhaps even life on earth. >> the science desk is standing by for us at esa michigan control -- mission control in darmstadt. there may be some problems with the probe. >> yes, the problem seems to be -- what seems to be known so far is that the harpoons were supposed to dock the lander to the planet and they have not properly connected. that does not necessarily mean there is a problem because rosetta could still be standing on three feet. it seems to be why we saw the jubilation.

-- it seems to be, which is why we saw the jubilation. but there has been a delay. whatever that means, obviously, the people at michigan control are actively working -- at mission control are actively working to see what they can find out about it. >> if everything does go to plan, what are scientists hoping to find and when will they be able to start analyzing data? >> the analyst nation of the data has started already -- the analysis of the data has started already, because it has been coming in since the dissent of -- the descent of the lander. at 1900 central european time, this time has passed. we do not have the pictures quite yet. maybe we will see them soon, but we will have to wait. the general data is less problematic because it basically

keeps coming in constantly. >> how long are we expected -- expecting the probe to stay on this comet? >> the lander has battery power for at least 64 days, and then a has reserve batteries for another 60 days. that is the timeframe it can operate without solar panels. it has a limited amount of solar panels. technically, it could actually work longer than that, but it's not clear that it will work because the comet itself emits a lot of dirt and they can mess up the solar panels so that maybe they do not get enough sunlight to work. but the experiments are scheduled to be concluded possibly within the states. the orbit around the comet will

have a much longer lifetime, because it has solar panels and can stay there for probably well through the summer. >> you just touch on this, but what are the risks facing the probe? is there any activity on the comet that could damage the lander? >> the probe is in meeting a lot of gases -- is e-mailing a lot of gases, various kinds of gases. the closer it gets to the sun, the more gases it emits. these gases and whatever it takes with them are the biggest dangers for the lander itself. however, in the first days it will not be a problem. >> thanks so much for joining us. x in other news, the un security council has announced it will meet later to discuss the crisis in ukraine. this comes as ukrainian forces prepare for a possible new

offensive by separatist rebels. >> at a meeting of the ukrainian cabinet in kiev, the defense minister said rebels were amassing their forces. major troop movement have also -- has also been observed by cooperation in the country from europe. moscow denies the claims. our correspondent joins us from kiev. yuri, what is happening on the ground right now? >> it is difficult to say exactly what is happening on the ground. we have these kinds of reports, three days of reports from the organization for security and cooperation, which is a monitoring cooperation. they report unmarked trucks, 43 vehicles from the russian -ukrainian border in the direction southeast. on the way to the city of mario

paul -- martin hoople -- mari upal. i think we would be better advised to wait for evidence. secondly, they are only able to control two checkpoints of hundreds of checkpoint. the osc says they cannot do any monitoring beyond the residual 400 kilometers, so they have to be careful. >> winters in ukraine are notoriously harsh. ukraine gets half of its gas supplies from russia. is that now under threat? >> i don't think there is any danger in terms of gas supply from russia for ukraine, because the contracts between the gazprom andany ukrainian company that is buying gas for all of ukraine continues through march of next year.

the situation is much more serious for people in ukraine. -- in if the crane --isti kraine. they say if russia is so caring about this landscape, russia has to supply the gas and electricity for the territory. people are getting scared about it because it is getting cold in ukraine. >> what is happening on the diplomatic front? >> well, i don't want to impute any intentions to the ukrainian government right now, but these statements about russian movements, russian vehicles, tanks, and weapons into ukraine are coming today at the right time, because today the security council in new york is discussion the situation in ukraine.

their tactic behind a statement, it should be a diplomatic front instead of the military front in this country. >> thank you for that update from kiev. >> they are the world to biggest climate polluters, but on wednesday, china and the u.s. land -- announced plans to curb carbon emissions for the >> a called it an important step forward in u.s. china relations. president obama urged other nations to take equally ambitious measures to tackle climate change. >> they were both work to cap there we has definition the next two decades. it came on the final day of president obama's visit to china. >> the move marked a milestone in climate change policy. china agreed to start reducing its carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2030, and the u.s. promised to cut emissions by over a quarter by 2025 compared to 2005 levels.

the two leaders also agreed to work together more closely to prevent a military confrontation in the pacific. despite their differences, the talks showed the u.s. and china still have interest in common. the chinese president xi jinping envisions a future with the two nations envision each other as equals. click the construction of the new star power relationship between china and the u.s. is beneficial to both our nations. it will help to maintain peace, spitzer the -- maintain peace, stability, and for the region and hold -- the whole world. >> he also -- president obama alluded to the events of hong kong. >> the united states as a matter of policy encourage people to express themselves and encourage

that the elections will take place in hong kong, and that they are transparent and fair. >> xi jinping responded by saying correspondent should not interfere with foreign affairs. >> obama joined leaders for a gallant -- gala dinner, but will not take part in the official talks until thursday. they will discuss immigration, territorial disputes in the south tennessee, terrorism, and ebola -- in the south china sea, terrorism, and ebola. his visit began in china and will end in australia. >> moving on to business news now, five major banks in the u.s. and europe have agreed to pay 2.7 billion euros in fines for attempting to minute late currency markets. >> the currency trading market is huge with around 4 trillion euros of currency trading hands every day.

>> the five banks that are -- that agreed to settlements are american citigroup and j.p. morgan chase, britain's hbc -- a just royal bank of scotland and ubs. >> today, tough action to enough corruption in the financial world. it is part of our long-term plan to fix what went wrong in our economy and in our banking system. >> the banks have acknowledged improper behavior by employees first of a number of traders were fired or suspended by cook -- because of colluding with others to fix rates. >> fines are a decision of the independent board of the royal bank of scotland. i think generally, the banking

system needs to reflect on the very justified public anger. >> currency minute relation is just one of the serious misdeeds banking regulators have been investigating post up some of the banks find today have also been fine for interest rate manipulation and their roles in a timid -- and activities that led to the financial collapse. they are considering other financial institutions, including german banks suspected of currency manipulation. >> time to look at how the markets -- markets performed on wednesday. the dax in germany was down by more than 1.5% closing and 92.10. the euro stoxx 50 was down even more, getting close to 2% down. the dow where they are still trading in new york is just slightly off. the euro is slightly off against the dollar. >> we have to take a short break. coming up, the german government is planning a new law to crack down on doping.

have more. >> there is an olympic bid on the way. >> stay with us.

>> welcome back to the show. the world health organization says the official death toll from ebola has risen to more than 5150. there has been a seat deep increase in new cases in sierra leone. >> and the who -- a steep increase in new cases in sierra leone. >> and the who has a hospital under lockdown. new cases reported just a day after saying there had been no cases since a child died in morocco in october. the systematic rape and sexy raillery -- slavery is the reality of thousands of women and girls at the hands of islamic state fighters. back in august, they swept through northern rock -- northern iraq.

>> women live in constant fear of their lives. >> the refugees in northern iraq. this is no life, they say, living on the run, in constant fear, and tormented about lost wives, sisters, and daughters being held by islamic state extremists. qasim managed to pay the ransom for his wife and youngest daughter. it took a lot of money and involved great risk. and although he now has them back, he cannot be happy. two other daughters are still missing. >> i don't know where the terrorists took them. i know that their suffering is horrible, indescribable. today, i wish they had never been born. >> just how ghastly his daughter's fate may be can be seen in the islamic state

propaganda videos like this one. jihadist talking about slave markets and serial rape. last week, is released an official pricelist for girls and young women. the bureaucracy of barbarism. in a city in kurdish iraq, we are introduced to seven young yesterday women. they tell us what they went through in three months of activity -- captivity in syria. somehow, they managed to get away. >> there were 130 of us in a single house. they bought and sold us as they liked. they beat anyone who resisted. some girls had their arms broken. all of us were put on display again and again. then they made their tort -- their choices and took whoever they wanted. >> these women had hoped to find relatives in dahook.

they did not know that islamic state fighters had massacred their families. cliques basically, i just want to die. those men raped our bodies and our souls. my heart is dead. everything is finished. >> many young mothers were abducted with their babies. the islamic statesmen threaten to kill our children -- the islamic state men threatened to kill our children if we did not go with them. what could we do? >> one man says the islamic state fighters took one of 1000 women and children from his village. he is determined to get them back. >> in all, they have kidnapped around 5000 yazidi women and children. and the world just let them do it. a few europeans they kidnapped and the world is upset. no one cares about a few yazidi.

>> but they hope that the west will help these that are rescued get over there,. >> -- get over their trauma. >> police have made 10 arrest and search almost 40 homes in a nationwide sweep. >> nine of the men were arrested in and around cologne. prosecutors say they are part of the germany-based network that supports islamic state. they are suspected of recruiting fighters for i s, helping those recruits travel to syria and raising money for is often by criminal means. >> there are burglaries at schools and churches and other buildings. they took anything that was relatively easy to convert into cash. >> germany's interior minister says the arrests show the government strategy is working.+ he recently outlawed any activities in support of islamic state, but he warned that

islamic state remains a threat in germany. >> we are watching about 200, maybe 230 people we consider to be threats. that means they are people we believe could possibly plan attacks. next the ministry estimates about 1000 more people are islamic state sympathizers. but he warned it was virtually impossible to constantly track all of those individuals. flex female -- a female suicide bomber has blown herself up at a training center in northern nigeria. witnesses say at least one person apart from the bomber has died. >> it happen in a village in the state of niger. it is a second attack this week. on monday, at least 48 people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated explosives at a school. >> police say the extreme is group boko haram is behind the attacks. they want to set up an islamic

state in northern nigeria. >> here is a report from abuja. >> these are men and women are learning arabic in a school in abuja. but today, it's a bit more difficult than usual to concentrate. their teacher has just told them about monday's suicide bombing on the school in the north of the country. the students have plenty of opinions on the attack, and on boko haram, the militant group that carried it out. click i feel so sorry for them, because you go to school to learn, -- >> i feel so sorry for them, because they go to school to learn, but in the end the end of being harassed, kidnapped, or killed. >> we need to all do what we can do to protect the students. >> they kill people unnecessarily.

they will come to the fruits that what they are doing is not good. >> outside, children continue to play at -- in the schoolyard. but their teachers are afraid. their safety cannot be guaranteed. >> what we do is to pray to god to protect us. >> this lone guard is solely respectful for protecting the school after government pledges came to nothing. >> more than half a year ago when 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped by boko haram, the government promise to step up security in schools. the has happened since. schools that can afford it hire private security firms. many state schools are closed. the fear of attacks is simply too great. >> this small group of activists don't want to accept the situation any longer. they started demonstrating against government in action seven months ago when hundreds

of schoolgirls were abducted by boko haram. the latest attack has made them even more angry. >> there is not any form of security the government has put in public schools in nigeria. that is the duty of government, to inform its citizens. im not aware of any school that has any security right now. >> people here are hoping the government will finally introduce some security measures before it is too late. >> a mosque in the west bank and a synagogue in northern israel have been hit by a two separate arson attacks. >> police say that synagogue suffered light damage while an entire four of the mosque was consumed by fire. local authorities blamed jewish settlers for the burning of the mosque. tensions have flared between the two in the last few weeks over a disputed holy site in jerusalem. next the german government is

planning a new anti-doping law -- >> the german government is planning a new anti-dipping law for athletes that use bad -- banned substances. >> coaches will also be subject to punishment. it's part of the wider effort to crack down on doping, especially as it gears up for an olympic bid in 2024. >> the public would be more interested in backing and olympics on home turf here if they thought sports were cleaner. >> pushing themselves to their limits, whether on the road or on the running track. but not all athletes rely just on hard work to get to the top. and germany's government is saying that needs to change. greg athletes who dope will be covered by this law and could -- >> athletes who dope will be covered by the fine could receive jail terms for up to three years. >> currently, if you're in or blood tests show traces of

performing -- performance enhancing drugs, athletes can only be banned from competing. they want to raise the stakes. >> by making athletes and those pulling their strings criminally liable, we want to make sure that doping is not just a sporting matter, but criminal offense. society on the whole considers a criminal. the would complement and not replace the roles of sports tribunals. >> the tests for finding out if i -- if an athlete has dubbed would be the same. -- if an athlete has doped would be the same. >> it is important to increase the pressure on dopers and upping systems. back in only happen if we enforce the sports rules. >> but first, there will be much discussed with institutions. the bill will go to parliament in the spring. >> the highest administered record in the netherlands has ruled that amsterdam can go ahead with its pre-christmas

saint nicholas parade complete with actors in black makeup to portray the pete character. >> it forces a negative stereotype of dark skinned people. some find it amusing for children while disturbing -- distributing sweets, the court said it did not have the authority to ban the parade. that is all we have for you on the journal this edition. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

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