berlin. european football's governing body blocks plans to light up in rainbow colors. uefa rejecting the show of solidarity with hungry's lgbtq community because of the message's polical context. also, it is being called a germany's biggest postwar fraud scandal. it was exposed last year.

now a parliamentary committee severely criticizing the chancellor's govnment for failing to stop the global scam. and should the crime and environmental destruction be on par with genocide? activists say fines are no longer enough and perpetrators should end up behind bars. and cambodia adventurers missing travel on board the royal railway. but the trains do not go where you might expect. ♪ i'm brent goff. to our viewers on pbs in the united states and to all of you around the world, welcome. we begin tonight with european soccer and the rainbow. european football's governing body uefa has refused a request to let up munich's stadium with rainbow colors wednesday, when germany takes on hungary.

the rainbow colors have to do with legislation passed in hungary last week that bans the sharing with children of material portraying homosexuality and gender transition. uefa refused the request to eliminate -- illuminate the arena because of what it called its political context. reporter: pictures of the allianz arena from january, decked out in rainbow colors in memory of the gay men and women killed in the holocaust. this week, munich's mayor wrote a letter to uefa asking to use the same color scheme as a statement against home a few bit -- against homophobia and transphobia when hungary come to play germany. but uefa said it would decline the request because it would be a political message to protest a new hungarian law that rights groups have described as anti-lgbt disco nation. it has -- discrimination. >> it is shameful uefa for bids us in munich from sending a

signal for tolerance, for respect, and for solidarity with the lgbt iq community. reporter: the head of the german parliament sports committee has also weighed in. in an interview with dw, she accused uefa of having noble goals on paper no intention of standing up for those values in practice. >> i think the city of munich really offered a great opportunity to fight against discrimination. but uefa really does not show ambition to stand up for equality. they just claim it. reporter: uefa has suggested alternative dates for the rainbow colors in a later round of the tournament, when hungary are unlikely to be plain. -- playing. brent: for more now we want to bring in felix tamsut. is this, what we just heard, is

this a case of uefa saying one thing but doing another when it comes to the values of inclusivity? felix: if you conser people's reactions to uefa's action, mt certnly, yes. uefa just about two years ago, uefa used its official twitter account to come out against homophobia and discrimination against the lgbtq community, saying some do not feel welcome in football. it would bed the question if they do not feel welcome in football, where does it come from? and if you take the decision, which is very clearly, say, putting a sign in favor of the lgbt community to the backseat instead of showing on the biggest stage possible, then it would beg the question what are

uefas values when push comes to shove? that is what people are asking online and in germany. brent: there has been a lot of talk today that uefa is trying to preserve its relationship with hungary, with the government of hungary. is that the case? felix: many people argue so. it needs to be said that hungary has been uefa's go-to country for certain covid restrictions. last march, both legs of the champions league tie were played in budapest to circumvent the german government's florentine restrictions. -- florentine restrictions. -- quarantine restrictions. in the u.k. going forward, the more the panmic goes on the more uefa has an interest of

keeping this relationship going. brent: we have also heard a lot about hungarian fans during this tournament. are there concerns about their behavior tomorrow in munich if the rainbow-colored lights actually appear? felix: it needs to be said we are talking about 2000 fans who are expected to travel from hungary. some of them, according to munich police, are being labeled as problematic. we don't know how they are going to react in practice. their numbers are going to be significantly smaller than the ones we have seen in budapest, but police are basically getting ready for all scenarios, accoing to their statement from earlier. brent: let's look into the future. we know uefa is still planning on london to be the location for the semifinal and the finals in the euro 2020 championships, despite the delta variant. that is the stand tonight.

could that change? and if so, what would it look like? felix: it could definitely change. we he already seen several european leaders speaking against hosting the semifinals and the se and lucly. -- andhe finals in london. other leaders have spoken out and demanded more carefulness in the planning. budapest is being toud as a host,s we disssed previoly. it's definitely bound t change. this discussion is far from being over. brent: felix tamsut, we will be talking with you later on in the day. thank you. felix: thank you. brent: now here's a look at some other stories making headlines. irn's -- iran's president elect ebrahim raisi has given his first public speech since his victory. a rapid coronavirus campaign will be his concern from day

one. more than 83,000 iranians have died from covid-19 since depend ike began. protesters in myanmar have taken to the street and support of a group supporting ousted leader aung san suu kyi. since the army seized power february 1, communities have been taking up arms to defend themselves against military virus -- violence. more than 800 civilians have been killed since the coup. in spain, nine imprisoned catalan activists have been released from prison. they were jailed for organizing an illegal independence referendum in catalonia four years ago. the spanish cabinet approved the prime minister's request for the pardons, made, he says, to bring reconciliation. last year, german payment processing company wire card fire -- filed for insolvency after admitting the fabricating

sales figures and mr. present in nearly 2 billion euros in assets. now the german parliament's committee of inquiry into the scandal presented its final report. they examined whether the federal government and supervisory authorities failed to take action over obvious wrongdoing by wire card executives. but critics say the report made present -- may present more questions than answers. reporter: this was a key question facing the committee. many across germany's political divide lay blame at the door of the finance minister. his ministry monitor the work, which according to the final report, look to the other way when it came to wire card. >> there are very clear abuses here. and of course he is primarily responsible. and he must face up to it. >> in my opinion, we often got

too much of a backseat in the public and political discussion. we had a team of members who obviously acted with criminal energy. and of course that makes the situation difficult to supervise. reporter: wirecard was a service provider for online payments. it was seen as an innovative german company, but its sales figures were not real. in the end, a 1.9 billn euro hole emerged itheir balance sheet. there were warning signs for a long time. the immediate reported inconsistencies. but year after year, auditors gave the firm the green light. he did not investigate allegations of wrongdoing. >> the fraudsters were well organized, but not perfectly organized.

and there were weaknesses in the way they falsify documents. you could have seen that. reporter: former wirecard boss marcus brown is now in custody, and the former coo is on the run. re than 22 billion euros of market value was destroyed by the fraudsters because they share christ -- the share price crashed after the scandal came to light. investors paid a heavy price. brent: germany is marking 80 years since the nazi invasion of the soviet union. the surprise attack on june 22, 1941 would open the biggest and bloodiest front of world war ii and end in the complete destruction of nazi germany. by the end of the war, an estimated 27 million soviet citizens had died, including 14 million civilians. from its beginning, operation barbaro's as the invasion was called, was conducted as a war of annihilation. the germans also treated soviet

prisoners of war brutally. they were executed, starved, or died on forced marches. the nazis took some 5.7 million soviet prisoners of war over the course of four, years and it is estimated more than 3 million soviet pow's died, making them one of the largest groups of nazi victims. reporter: step by step, combing the forest for traces of the war. >> this is an md cartridge from a german plane. --- an empty cartridge from a german plane. reporter: for 40 years, galina has been searching the area in her home region with a metal detector. she often comes with her husband to look for remnants of what is known as the great patriotic war here in russia. there was a soviet airfield nearby. these forests and fields where the sight of -- the site of

fierce battles. they died protecting moscow from nazi forces between 1941 and 19 42. many of them meant sing -- missing in action. she digs in her free time. it can be dangerous. it is lucky she is a trained bomb diffuser. sometimes see finds -- she finds shrapnel. >> the earth hides all these interesting secrets and traces of past. remains of people and traces of vehicles. just imagine, we are walking along this wonderful forest, and there's a skull out of a trench. it does not say whether it is russian or german. it has to be. no matter what. -- it has to be buried no matter what. reporter: she has made many finds. she has collected them in a museum called a soldier's fate, in her hometown southwest of moscow.

three years ago she found a bomber in a nearby swamp. the remains of three soldiers were inside. using archival information, she's finally managed to find the relatives of two of them. today, the commander of the plane's crew, will finally be reunited with his family. he was 24 when he died. he was missing all this time. >> it's very emotional for me that he will be returning home. when i was little, my mother said my grandmother used to cry when he -- she looked at his photograph. reporter: for galina, reunions like this, several generations later, are emotional. >> we weep on each other's shoulders. you cannot really find the words to say. the communication is happening on an emotional level. of course people keep just telling me thank you, thank you.

sometimes people say why do you dig? why disturb the dead? i think they are somewhere in the ether, faceless. their souls are restless. reporter: every year, galina sets off on her search again. the are people like her across russia. people here stays the -- say the war is not over until the last soldier's body has been buried. galina has made that her life's work. brent: south korean president moon jae-in has met with the new u.s. envoy for north korea. he said the u.s. hopes the north will agree to new talks, despite a statement from the powerful sister of north korean leader kim jong-un, dismissing hopes of a meeting. in france, a woman is on trial for killing the man who raped her for years as her stepfather before later becoming her husband and pimp.

her story has moved campaigners against domestic violence, with hundreds of thousands of people signing a petition calling for her release. a un committee has recommended the great barrier reef be added to a list of endangered world heritage sites. the body blames a decline in coral on climate change and is urging australia to speed up action to save it. this has prompted an angry response from the australian government, which has been trying to keep tourist attraction off thendangered list. that brings us to the growing movement to put acts of environmental destruction on par with war crimes and genocide. an increasing number of activists, lawyers, and politicians want what they are calling ecocide to be punishable by the international criminal court. they say making this a crime would deter companies and governments from harming the

environment. instead of paying fines and compensation, perpetrators would be liable to arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment. that would be quite a change. my colleague leonie von hammerstein join just now at the big table for a closer look at this. it is good to see you back in the studio again. where does this idea of ecocide come from? leonie: the term was coined in the 1970's. the premier of sweden accused the u.s. of ecocide over its use of agent orange during the vietnam war. the deployment of the herbicide created extreme environmental destruction, and millions of people were disabled. the push or criminalize it at international levels for many years, up until a couple years ago, mainly thanks to the stop ecocide foundation that pushed for this, but also because of public awareness of the acute list -- acuteness of the climate crisis has been shifting.

with climate organizations taking place across the world, suddenly war leaders are discussing this new concept of ecocide. there are pushes at the national level to criminalize destruction of the environment. brent: you talked about agent orange, we talked about the great barrier reef. what current or past events would be labeled as ecocide? leonie: that's the interesting thing. the ecocide foundation convenes a panel of experts who have come up with what they call legally robust definition, because it is pretty hard to define what the crime could look like. i am going to read it to you. they presented it just today. they say ecocide means unlawful or wonton acts committed with knowledge there is a substantial likelihood of severe and either widespread or long-term damage to the environment being caused by those acts. what we can immediately think of that would mean are mass deforestation of the amazon rain forest.

the deep horizon oil spill. really massive, like, massive destruction of the environment. brent: the definition you read there, it is fairly clear. why has it taken so long to come to this legal definition? questions on the table. what magnitude does it have in order to constitute ecocide? then how do you address climate change? climate change is the consequence of a series of acts of discretion -- destruction on ecosystems. but who do you hold responsible for that? and will humans be harmed, or is it just enough to destroy nature? all of these questions were on the table and questions the lawyers have to reckon with. brent: it will be interesting to see how people can press charges and get to that stage. as always, we appreciate your reporting. thank you. china's cctv camera network is

the largest in the world and surveillance has only become more extensive and pervasive in the pandemic. one artist wonders though if it is possible to walk down a beijing street without being caught on film. he made it the focus of an art project. take a look. reporter: the yardstick and a measuring device are his tools. he's documenting sveillance in beijing. >> i have taken a picture of every camera. its focal length, the angle, its attribute. i have identified every brand and model so i had exact data for all of them and i could figure out which area is covered by it. reporter: he wanted to learn

whether it was possible to walk along one street in beijing without being caught on camera. once he had established a route, he recruited a number of volunteers who would crouch and squeeze in the shadow of 89 cameras. for one kilometer, they needed almost two hours. videos of his project have been censored. they are now only available on websites outside of china's mainland. deng himself has been forbidden to distribute them. >> of course i am disappointed. you are investing a lot of words and thoughts and trying hard to make it work. you express your ideas. it becomes like your child then suddenly you are prevented from publishing it, from letting people see it. that is certainly disappointing. reporter: deng has been detained by the police several times.

he has been working on privacy and surveillance issues for years. it's a problem he thinks exists not only in china. in his latest project, he looks at how much people reveal of themselves on the internet. he has published a provocative profile of himself, with very personal data, including his passwords and details like his love of pork. in china, surveillance has become even more invasive since the outbreak of covid-19. in order to track possible infections, citizens are now required to scan a qr code that registers them whenever they enter a building, public space, or even a taxi. the rules might be relaxed occasionally, but they are immediately enforced again after a few cases of covid. >> you can see it shows your health status, and with the chickens -- check ins, it can

check you throughout the city. my condition is normal, no problem. reporter: the apps are but one of many measures china has taken to fight the disease. life is pretty much back to normal in beijing, and deng, a surveillance critic, is not oblivious to the reason why. >> we have to make an ethical decision here. is life or privacy more important? i think in this case we all came to a clear decision, life is more important. that is the ethical decision technology allows us to make. for deng, a fine line defines what extent of surveillance is acceptable. he's one of very few people in china who still insists on discussing where that line lies. brent: amazing. let's look at some now developments in the coronavirus pandemic. india has distributed a record

8.3 million vaccine doses as of monday in its campaign to inoculate all adults. italy will drop a requirement that people where face masks outdoors beginning june 28. and organizers of the tokyo olympics plan to allow the sale of alcohol, a decision has drawn criticism from locals who are still not allowed to visit bars and pubs. and north korea says it has tested more than 30,000 people, not a single covid-19 infection. experts doubt the claim because of the country's poor health infrastructure. in cambodia, like in so many places, pandemic restrictions have brought travel to a standstill. with cases surging in many parts of asia, the borders have generally been throws -- closed. but one transport company found a way to offer travel addicts taste of what they have been missing. reporter: what looks like a

grand adventure is actually a journey to nowhere. this train is not leaving the station, but instagrammers can rack up likes by just staying put on cambodia's royal railway. >> when we come out to take pictures and have coffee, it helps reduce my stress. because during this pandemic, i stay-at-home most of the time. and there was a lot down so it is really stressful. reporter: train travel has largely grounded to a halt in cambodia's capital city due to coronavirus luck downs -- lockdowns. but when restrictions relax, the train cafe is a favorite backdrop to come and strike a pose. selfie takers can then relax inside with an iced coffee and

more screen time. afterlife under lockdown, the cafe owner says customers just want an escape. even if the scenery stays the same. >> we converted to passenger carriage into a train cafe. we did not make a lot of changes to it so 's original look would not disappear. because when gusts -- guests come into the train cafe, they can have the same feeling like when they are riding a train. reporter: and for this taste of adventure, you do not need a ticket. all you need is attitude. brent: in the german city of cologne, two endangered lemurs have found a new home at the zoo. meet ziggy and justef. they are typically found in madagascar are but their is threatened by hunting and the

destruction of the natural habitat. they are likely to become star attractions, not least because of their human-like qualities. you're watching "dw news." i will be back in just a moment to take you through "the day." tonight, american football, european football, and the lgbt community. are we near the end of the rainbow? we will explain. i'll be right back. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

♪ >> welcome to live from paris. world news and analysis from "france 24." these are the main world news headlines. the bundesliga reacts against the ban on the rainbow lighting at the munich stadium where germany will face hungary. already under investigation for racist chance agnst france last weekend. we have analysis to come. the taliban takes control of the key district in afghanistan's northern province. the insurgents have captured more than 50 of 370 districts in afghanistan since may. th