tv Our World BBC News October 15, 2017 9:30pm-10:01pm BST
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this is bbc world news, the headlines. the number of people known to have been killed in saturday's bombing in the somali capital mogadishu has risen to at least 230. it is the worst terror attack on civilians since al—shaabab began its insurgency. the british frames, theresa may will meet the european union's chief negotiator, michelle barny and the head of the negotiations, juncker onp monday. downing street say it is pa rt onp monday. downing street say it is part of the european union's build—up to the council's summit on wednesday. projections in austria's general election suggest that sebastian kurz has led his conservative people's party to victory. earlier counting puts kurz‘s party on just above 30%, putting the 31—year—old on course to become europe's youngest leader. the bbc understands that a third british woman has come forward, accusing the hollywood film executive, harvey weinstein, of sexual assault. at ten o'clock reeta chakrabarti will be here with a full round up of the day's news.
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first, over a million refugees have entered germany in the past three years, more than anywhere else in europe. our world investigates the impact on the country and the migrants themselves. more than a million refugees are now in germany, having escaped the brutality of the world's war zones. for two years, we followed a syrian family in their struggle to adapt to life in a small east german city. and a german family also struggling to adapt to refugees moving into their hometown. there is a problem with racism all over germany. it was never away and it grew and grew.
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then to travel on to germany, where their initial reception is likely to be a warm one. certainly those who arrived at munich's main railway station last night were greeted with cheers and applause. but what happens to them after the applause dies down...? gera in the former east germany, a small city almost completely unfamiliar with immigration because of its isolated communist history, home now to a new population of refugees. around 2,000 are expected to arrive in the next two years. hello. wow!
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are you going to show me round? daham al—mohammed, his wife hourda... nice to meet you too. i already met you guys in the corridor. i'll have another shake of your hand. oh, wow, that's a big one. and their children mohammed, seirta and the littlest, nour, are among them. beautiful, beautiful, yeah. they show me videos of life in deir al—zour in syria, before the war they fled. daham worked in electronics in syria. hourda is from a family of farmers.
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da ham was imprisoned by the syrian regime, accused of being involved with rebels. he suffered beatings while locked up. daham fled, making the epicjourney overland across europe on his own. he got asylum in germany and his family were flown over by the german government as part of family reunification. 0h, b. b. hey, clever, what's this? across germany, half a million people apply for asylum in 2015. in gera, a small army of volunteers fills local community
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centres to welcome them. the arrival even spawned studies. local academic anna stegmann is looking at their impact here. being a former gdr state, federal state, they are not experienced at all with any kind of lifestyle or ethnic adversity before 2012, i would say. proportion of migrants is still below 3%, and this is not what it's like in the west german cities, for example. since they don't have any knowledge about them, they are quite easy to be manipulated by the extremist parties. do you think there's a problem with racism in a town like this? yes, there's a problem with racism all over germany, and it's increasing.
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it was never away and it grew and grew. watching as these huge changes unfold are the heinz family, mum daniela, dad dirk, who's lived his whole life in gera, baby pierre, sofia and tarina. and, on a trip to the city centre, dirk and daniela find refugees are already a key political issue in gera. vying for their future votes are both the far right afd, who are anti—islam and broadly anti—refugee. .. and the far left die linke. these guys are pro—refugee. it's now december, and that means, for the first time ever, the al—mohammed family get to experience a german christmas market. if i come back in six
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months, what do you want your life to be like? 0pinion polls are turning, people are getting more and more worried about what we will do about the massive influx of refugees into the country. 1.1 million leading in... today in gera, a demonstration by a far right protest group expanding all over germany. their chant means, "deport them". "people should go to the toilet in front of refugee homes." we're allowed to film. excuse me. can you stop blocking our camera? and the black and the white,
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i won't touch it, the black and white are northern pressure, and the white and the red are southern pressure. i'm here because i love my city, i love my country. what are you worried about? i'm worried about my family. i worry about my race, the german people, that they lose their normal land. the crowd shouting now, "we don't want refugee homes."
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200—ish against the refugees. dirk wasn't demonstrating in gera, but his views towards refugees have hardened since i was last here, and he thinks it's especially unfair that germany is welcoming so many compared to the uk. lots of people will argue that germany is doing the right thing by being more generous. how many children in the school? we have 299, and 12 from other countries. and how many refugee children? three. some of gera's other residents, like headteacher fred hamman, are adapting to life with refugees more comfortably. this is nine—year—old
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mohammed, daham's son, who's just started school, his classes entirely in german. are you talking to the pupils about refugees, about who they are, where they've come from? some people in here think that's too much, they are problems for us and so on. but i haven't got a problem with them. children are not responsible for all the problems we have around the world. and so we have to welcome the children. i want to help them. that's it. the increasing hostility towards refugees in gera is a worry
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for the al—mohammed family. there have already been ten attacks here on refugees in their homes and, after school, talk turns to returning to syria, a subject daham and hourda don't agree on. you want to go back to syria? so this is a big debate. hourda wants to go back and you want to stay. daham is still learning german,
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still training for a job, desperate to work. radio: whether merkel or schulz becomes chancellor, one thing is certain. the german political mainstream is set to move to the right. dw, berlin. a year and a half on and daham finally has the job he was waiting for. everything here is so complicated. stefan is daham's new boss. we had the idea of looking among
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those people who came in 2015—2016. we assumed there would have been quite a few qualified workers. why did you think that? because here the saying is the syrians are the engineers of the middle east. by late 2017, daham's daughter, nour, was about a foot taller. and the population of gera is visibly changing. the number of people in the city defined as foreign has doubled from around 2500 in 2014, to almost 5000. a third are syrians. when did you open? we opened... hello! the al—mohammed family have been allocated a bigger house now. because there's a new baby, their first born in germany. mohammed, can i sit next to you?
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you're so german! apart from her getting noisier, how has life changed since i was last here? september's german elections saw huge gains for far right party the afd, alternative for germany. in gera, they won more votes than angela merkel‘s party, who won. so there's another one. a party with posters like these took almost 30%. look how big you are!
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hello. dirk and daniela don't even usually vote. in fact, dirk hasn't for decades, but this time they both turned out for the afd. what does the government need to do to make you feel happier, to make you feel like people are integrating more? do you think your views are racist? for daham, for very different reasons, life is also increasingly frustrating.
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he got asylum for three years, but the rest of his family have a different immigration status, a protection status, and have to have it renewed every four months. it feels like life is still very difficult. do you think it would be any better anywhere else? do you feel like this whole journey is easier for men than women? do you feel like you've had to make a huge sacrifice? hell loach this is the time when we
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ta ke hell loach this is the time when we take a look at the weather for the next ten days. —— hello there. i have to say it is getting off to a turbulent start. stormy weather across western areas particularly for the next 24—36 hours. the middle pa rt for the next 24—36 hours. the middle part of this week looks quieter but then we'll see more strong winds, more heavy rain pushing in by the end of the week. let's focus monday's weather first of all. we have been watching hurricane 0thelia. in the south—east, it will bea 0thelia. in the south—east, it will be a different storey. spells of sunshine and temperatures up to 22 01’ sunshine and temperatures up to 22 or 223. but particularly across northern
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ireland, we are concerned about the weather through the second half of monday. a met office amber "be prepared" warning for the strength of the wind, widespread gales, gusts of the wind, widespread gales, gusts of 80 miles per hour in places. heavy rain causing travel problems. perhaps even power cuts. strong winds too across the north—west. by tuesday morning, the potentialfor a swathe of strong winds across the central belt of scotland. if you do have travel plans it is woerted keeping in touch with the forecast and also check any —— worth keeping in touch and check any travel delays in yourarea on in touch and check any travel delays in your area on your local bbc radio station. as we go through tuesday, the winds only easing, more rain into the south later, in between a slice of dry, brighter weather with lighter winds and a cool feel to the weather. look at the chart for the middle of the week, tuesday into wednesday. the isoba rs middle of the week, tuesday into wednesday. the isobars more widely
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spaced which shows the winds will be considerably lighter. areas of wet weather trundling eratically northwards, dry weather and spells of sunshine, temperatures around 12-18. but, it of sunshine, temperatures around 12—18. but, it looks like things will step up a gear once again into thursday. this frontal system, an area of low pressure developing along it, pushing its way in from the west. the timing open to questions to some extent. likely to see some brighter weather in eastern areas and temperatures around 12—17. now we push that frontal system through during thursday night. a little bump of high pressure. something quiter temporarily. but here is another low lurking to the south—west wla. does that mean or friday? not a bad day for many, spells of sunshine and showers. but things turning wet and windy down towards the south—west and as we go into next weekend, things, once again, look pretty turbulent. a strong jet stream, strong winds high up strong jet stream, strong winds high up in the atmosphere racing across the atlantic and in this dip in the
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jet stream is where we'll develop oui’ jet stream is where we'll develop our next deep area of low pressure, could see heavy rain and stwroingeds likely in southern areas but look what happens next, we try to build a bridge of high pressure in from the west. what that means beyond the weekend into the following week, yes, spells of rain and gales most likely in the south but i am hopeful we'll see longer, drier interludes by that stage but in the meantime stormy weather on the way over the next 24—36 hours. police in britain are now investigating claims of sexual assault by three women against hollywood film executive harvey weinstein. against hollywood film executive the actress lysette anthony says she was raped by weinstein at her london home in the late 1980s. she was raped by weinstein at her he has also been accused by two other women of assault in london, the most recentjust two years ago. other women of assault in london, also on the programme tonight... other women of assault in london, a cabinet minister says if food prices go up
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because of a no—deal brexit — british farmers will produce more. authorities say over 200 people are known to have been killed, following yesterday's bomb in the capital of somalia. austria elects a 31—year—old as its next leader — he could need the help of the far—right to form a government. of the far—right and hurricane 0phelia heads for ireland. troops are mobilised and schools closed.
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