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the the, this is dw news lie from berlin. germany's chance i condense a brutal attack on one of the deputies a lot shows cause the attack on social democrat mathias echo a quote director democracy after he is severely injured in an assault in the city of dresden. also coming up, las representatives arrive in egypt for gaza, spar talks on the table. truth terms, proposing a fault to israel's offensive and gaza in exchange for the release of is really hostages and palestinian prisoners. and canadian police charged 3 indian nationals over the killing of a 6 separatist near the city of vancouver. and a case that has sparked in diplomatic crisis between india and canada.
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the crowds has been attacked while campaigning in the eastern city of dresden, which he has at the is a candidate in the upcoming european parliament elections for transfer. elect schultz as center left s t. he was attacked or putting up campaign posters. party officials say echo was seriously injured and required surgery for them. for more i am joined now by the toby's political correspondence. alex guest, alex um the chancellor has said that this is quote, a threat to democracy. could you briefly run us through what actually happened and how did this attack unfold? just like it, he was out on a companion move in for his social democratic party when full suspect says
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approached and they started to insult him and then they attacked him for no reason . he now would have to undergo surgery and we'll have to stay in the hospital at least until coming week until the coming week. and the suspects us still on the run, according to an i would just be ports those 4 suspects from the appearance quickly to fire, right extremist groups. but this is not yet consumed by, in your cover to all the police and very close to the attacking yesterday. actually, another physical attack has happened at targeting the young man companions of all the cream party and it was lucky to be a less specifically attack. but the police say that it is likely that both the textbook conducted by the same suspects. given the chancellor as comments about a threat to democracy, are we seeing a shift in germany's political climate or well, maybe it's not. it shift. the set climax of the development that we have been
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seeing over the last months and do use a just and sex and you know, and we have 30 reports of the cases of violence against all the patients uh, just this year. and this is part of a big trend in germany, in some districts of germany, biling by them to tax against politicians. they have tripled since 2020 the recipe and also harassment of politicians is also on the rise. with the most prominent example, being the case of the german economy minister of a topic when he was reluctant from leaving a terry bye aggressive from us and something very similar. it happened earlier this week to the vice president of the german problem in country building. they got when leaving a containing event. let's not forget germany has lots of very recent history of fluoride violence against politicians while even mounting and the kidding of a may. uh like i looked in 20 the 2019 excuse me,
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from the conservative party. the tendency makes yesterday's case so urgent in particular because it really raises the question, how to protect politicians campaigning for the upcoming elections. the german and german has been mc further said that if it is true that this political motivation behind yesterday's attack against mucky is accurate, then it would open a new dimension of n t democratic biden's and even the german trans that would actually, and we, we heard some earlier use set this as a threats to democracy and he also agreed basically to what some members of the social democratic party is upset when they were blaming. also the fire, right? a if the pod is being eaten director responsible for this attack because they are constant use of hate speech against political competitors, dw with alex. yes, thank you very much. i is turning now to our other top story negotiators in egypt have resumed talks aimed at reaching a ceasefire and gaza and
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a deal to release the remaining hostages, held by him off the tops and cairo involved the u. s. culture and egypt. the talks are taking place as israel threatens to launch and offensive on the city of rafa to proceed from us militants. it holds responsible for the october 7th care attacks. so 1500000 palestinians are taking refuge in the southern city, the u. n. and the u. s. have warned against the operation. the truth proposal 6 to help fighting and exchange hostages for palestinian prisoners since the october 7th attacks the relatives of hostages, kidnapped by him, oz had been fighting to keep the focus on getting their loved ones home for months. prime minister netanyahu confirm it has been an immense pressure to bring the hostage just back. it is known about the feet of the diamond,
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$130.00 hostages, still headed in gusto. the number into its board civilians and soldiers, to young children among them. but dozens of cost to disciples seemed to be dead. at the end of april, from us release features of 2 hostages, one of them was keyed seeker lee was obviously my father today only makes clear a tool of us that we must reach a deal as soon as possible and bring everyone home item onto the delete as if this country watch this video and see how far the crying out for help the and are you satisfied in november last year. so 105 hostages, redone home main lieberman children and dual nations. including 30 type, almost during a week long boss and fighting the hopes for the tooth would toyed and on hostages
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would be the least by both sides accused the adult of breaking the dumb and fighting dizzy on december 1st for the families and during months of hope and heartbreak, all eyes on the ground and dogs, many desperately hoping for the tooth that would bring back their loved ones. earlier we asked the middle east expert daniel garrett lack how he viewed this latest round of see spar and hostage negotiations. i think this is probably the last chance that with this consolation with involvement of egypt caught in the united states a hostage deal could be negotiated at nothing. but it's clear for everyone, the americans have put into huge. they have invested heavily and you put huge pressure holes on these really side. i've heard from the egyptians that they have also changed their pasta on how much they have. the, of course, always been very critical of how mazda and, and also those the pressure. but what they've been doing in the recent days is quite unprecedented. we see we've seen the head of egyptian national intelligence
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of us combo travel to israel. now we have the most allegation in cairo. so i think everyone is very much serious about the proposal. however, um, previously the negotiators have observed that whenever they came very close to a deal on both sides as the categories that there is really at the homicide, sabotaged it. and i think this, there is, there's great expectations, but also a high degree of frustration. now they're talking about numbers, the 30, the number of hostages, the even a tearing situation of the hostages. what is important now is that they choose some sort of a deal to prove that the mechanism still works. a quick look now at some other stories making headlines around the world, kenya and tanzania are on alert as tropical storm today and makes its way towards africa's eastern coast areas in terms of near have already been hit by blackouts and heavy rain recent flooding across the region has killed some 400 people and displaced more than 200000. the us justice department has charged congressman henry
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choir and his wife with a septic around $600000.00 in bribes. the couple is alleged to have received the money to advance the interest of him as or by johnny state own energy company and a mexican bank. the texas democrat has denied the charges in italian, and g. o says it has rescued 87 people from the boat in the mediterranean sea, off the coast of libya. rescuer said those on board. the overcrowded vessel had run out of food and water. according to the un, over 3000 people died last year trying to reach a year of via the mediterranean. canadian police have arrested a 3 men over the murder of a c, except protest in vancouver at last year. investigators said they are also putting possible ties between the suspects and the indian government. deli had no immediate response to the arrest, but has 4 months denied involvement. the killing has become the center of
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a diplomatic spat between canada and india. 10 months after hardy seeing the jars killing canadian police have their main suspects. 3 indian nationals living in canada, a beneficial say they're still looking for others who might be involved in the murder, including agents of the indian government. and we'll underscore that today's announcements are not a complete the account of the investigative work currently underway. their a separate and distinct investigations on going into these matters. certainly not limited to the involvement of the people arrested today. and these efforts include investigating connections to the government of india. relations between ottawa and delhi have been tense since the jars killing last june. india labeled him a terrorist for his role in the 6 separatist movement, which seems to carve an independent state college done out of parts of india and
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pakistan. seeks in canada and india have accused the indian government of a political assassination. in september, canada, as prime minister said, there was reason to believe and a conspiracy. over the past number of weeks, canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between agents. so the government of india and the killing of a canadian citizen. for dave, seeing major called the allegations absurd and unsubstantiated and expelled dozens of canadian diplomats about the prime minister and arrange remotely later told the financial times that he would look into the allegations. but so far, no findings have been released. the thousands of orthodox christians in jerusalem or celebrating the annual holy fire at ceremony at the church at the whole lease apple car. this plane is believed to have the miraculous leak handled inside the 2
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the jesus and his use to light the candles of believers. this, your celebrations have been dampened by the warrant in gaza as majority of those in the church are palestinian christians, many palestinians who would normally join had been unable to access jerusalem from the west bank given is really bad and processed in place since october hundreds of thousands of madonna fans are gathering in rio de janeiro for the popstars 1st concert in brazil and over a decade. the free event is being staged, as a thank you from the singer as her world tour comes to an end. while the concert doesn't take place until saturday evening, the anticipation along papa come on the beach has been building for days. the stage is effect on the world's most iconic beach as rio de janeiro protest to welcome the undisputed queen of pop. over a 1000000 people are expected to gather on cobra,
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combined to beach. on saturday evening. as mcdonough closes, has celebration to with the free concepts the vogue senior was spotted rehearsing on friday evening with lucas, keen to catch a glimpse of the star. who done the green balaclava, she prepared for such a day show. the 8000000000 comes that in 12 years and the locals are already in the policy mood. the i have always loved him. i don't know. i grew up with madonna. it's a great opportunity to be here and see the diva live. it's amazing. you see, my mother in law has everything. she has
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a great voice. music is political and changes lives. and we thing about madonna is incredible. she's the best city official said. the event is expected to bring in around $50000000.00 euros for the local economy. and why we might all be living in the material world mcdonough funds, not all material goals. here's a reminder of our top story. german chancellor all of shows has condemned and attacked on fellow social democratic mathias echo calling the incident quote, a threat to democracy, act up was assaulted by multiple assailants while containing in dressed and that's all for now. sports life is up next to looking at the 39 year old armenian gymnastics icon, who is still competing at the highest level. thank you for watching. the
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