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this is deja vu news live from berlin the german parliament is holding its first session since elections last month and it's the biggest and the most right wing in post-war history the new lawmakers include the far right alternative for germany
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it's poised to shake up the bum as dog will talk to our political correspondent about what we can expect also on the show. after the deadliest bomb attack in somalia's history a generation that's grown up with civil war is saying enough is enough there were get izing to demand peace. china's president xi jinping makes his power move communist party members go to make his vision for the country part of the constitution will a year of she see china become a global superpower. and the last russians are pursues forbidden love putting his throne of rest of the film matilda the pixar nicholas the seconds affair with a ballerina we'll tell you why many russians fear the movie premier could spark a violent reaction. and christiane rinaldo adds another trophy to his collection he's been a little pieces footballer of the year. i'm
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brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show well it has been a month now since germany voted in a new parliament and today the lawmakers will be coming together for the very first time we're still waiting for a new german government coalition talks just started last week here in berlin so what can we expect in the parliament today well first of all we're talking about the biggest parliament ever in germany the number of lawmakers has risen to seven hundred nine that's because of the country's electoral system and that makes it about ten percent bigger than the last parliament now the other big difference is the number of parliamentary groups last time there were just for this time around there are six that's because the free democrats shown here in yellow are back after failing to make the last parliament and the far right f.t.
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they're the party in blue they're the alternative for germany they're represented in the parliament for the very term first time now they are the nation's third biggest party right now for more on the first day of the new parliament let's cross over to our political correspondent thomas sparrow thomas this is the first time in a modern german history that we're seeing a far right party at this level in the german parliament what can we expect. well we can expect initially many of the debates to be shifted to the right but we can also see that for some of the other parties in the german parliament the appearance of the a.f.d. the arrival of the poses a very big dilemma and that dilemma is how to react to them they can't simply ignore the provocations after all brian as you yourself said they're the third biggest party in parliament and they were voted for by twelve point six percent of the electorate on the other hand they contract to every provocation they hear from
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the f.t. because that could boost the profile of the f.t. and that would certainly move the debate even more to the right when we look at what they really would like to do the other parties so obviously there's a big dilemma for the traditional parties here in the bornless stock and that's one of the very interesting aspects that we will see in the next few years what the f.t. will do and how the other parties will react to that ok so it's fair to say we can expect a certain level of acrimony in the chambers as debate moves forward you know this is this is also going to be the biggest parliament in german history in fact the biggest legislature of its kind in the western world does that mean it's going to be unwieldy will it be a dysfunctional parliament. not necessarily i mean if you look at the current parliament of the previous parliament the one that ends today if you world you had four parties there the two big parties of the grand coalition and the two parties
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in opposition the two parties in the grand coalition obviously had a very big majority and some people said that that caused among other things debate in the parliament to be rather dull where i can assure you that that debate in the parliament starting today will certainly not be dull and that's something that analysts say that could make things a bit more interesting to see different opinions represented in the parliament but obviously that could also mean that finding consensus will become more difficult to see anything interesting on the on the first day what's on the agenda thomas for the opening session. the opening session will set the framework if you will for the work of the parliament in the next four years and on the agenda in particular we can expect the election of the president of the german parliament it's expected that it will be the current finance minister. also his vice presidents if you will will be elected and very interesting there will be to see whether the candidates of
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the. will get the necessary majority to be elected as one of the vice presidents that's under no circumstance and at this point i will know a lot more when we go live to the opening session later it's a very thomas sparrow at our political studio thanks very much for now. while it was the deadliest bombing in somalia's history and this drone video footage shows the sheer scale of the destruction the blast in mogadishu left some three hundred fifty people dead hundreds more wounded now this bombing was also a watershed moment for a generation of somalis who've grown up with civil war they say it's a call for small as everywhere to work for peace. help your brothers that's the message printed on these red headbands. the red symbolizes blood
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we demand an end to somalian bloodshed it hurts us so much. these young somalis now live in the kenyan capital nairobi but they still feel close ties to their homeland their parents left to escape the civil war that's been raging for almost three decades. the young people here are collecting money for the victims of the massive truck attack over the years they've grown far too familiar with tactics. their actions make people flee they're destroying their own country and they're making it ungovernable that's our problem. the attack in mogadishu on october fourteenth was the deadliest yet in somalia al-shabaab is widely believed to be behind it the terrorist group has been active for ten years most of their attacks are directed at security forces or the government so far has not claimed this attack. and this is
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a must see been president a number of people have died i think it would be foolish to comment on claimed responsibility for these a tug knowing well that almost one hundred percent of the casualties was civilian. and again there's a huge huge. on the somali street the group's name translates to the youth but now somalia is real youth are channeling their anger into public protests in defiance of government orders. these young somalis are volunteering to coordinate care for people wounded by the bombing they also counsel victim's relatives and continue the search for those still missing. we're not all terrorists we're not the ones who kill people we're not indoctrinated. some take hope from the fact that so many are helping and protesting. i hope this tragedy will finally unites us. but somalia is far from
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united and peace seems a distant dream it's a failed state where clans and warlords hold much of the power african union troops are supposed to guarantee security but that's hardly the case recently elected president mohammed abdul mohammad is largely powerless it's still unclear if he can bring peace to a country that's riven by corruption and tribal conflicts. now for a look at some of the other stories making news today u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has paid a surprise visit to iraq where he met with prime minister hyder all of body the to discuss reconstruction projects after the removal of so-called islamic state from major urban areas they also discussed the kurdish independence movement the country's north earlier tillerson visited afghanistan to discuss washington's new strategy for that country. in malaysia the two women accused of killing kim jong nam the half brother of north korean leader kim jong un visited the crime scene
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authorities brought them to the airport as part of a reenactment of the fatal attack along with prosecutors lawyers and a trial judge the two women have pleaded not guilty. kong's democracy protest leaders nathan law and joshua wong have been released from prison on jan on bail the two were jailed in august for their roles in the anti china protest of twenty fourteen known as the umbrella revolution plays a lot of things as supporters and said he and wong were due to appear back in court on november seventh. well u.n. donor conference has raised some three hundred forty million dollars for a range of refugees but the sum has fallen well short of the target agencies say is so badly needed the u.n. has warned that the number of broken your fleeing a new wave of ethnic violence and million more will soon exceed one million well every day more refugees streaming across the border into bangladesh and its
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government is struggling to cope. these refugees are biding their time on the border and so they can cross into bangladesh's overcrowded refugee camps the ranges are mostly minority long persecuted in buddhist me and this mother of three says we traveled for six days to get here they tortured us and set our houses alight we weren't allowed to harvest our rice. fields. there is great suffering in the camps around six hundred thousand rangers have fled into bangladesh since the end of august despite the aid coming in food is scarce there aren't enough sanitary and medical supplies and the aid organizations fear the situation will get. we'll need to provide food to a million people in the next few months this is we need money for this. that's why u.n. aid agencies organized a conference in geneva to call for more donations around three hundred forty
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million dollars have now been pledged to deal with the crisis has about ninety million more is still needed germany hasn't promised any more money it's already contributed around five million euros in the summer. meanwhile the un's relief agencies are calling for increased political pressure on me and marta solve the refugee crisis the solution is the voluntary safe and dignified return of these refugees to myanmar but in order for that to happen some important processes need to be carried out in particular the real tribulations of citizenship both humanitarian and political aid in needed to end the plight of the rangers. this is dead of you news still to come on the show a prominent russian radio host and journalist was stabbed at her office in moscow her suspected attacker says he had a telepathic connection with him. while hollywood's culture of sexual harassment
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and its cover up are finding an act go in european politics the swedish foreign minister margo balls thrown was one of the first to speak out telling a newspaper that she was groped by an unnamed top level european union politician sweden's equality minister has made similar allegations the male staff of the european parliament have also reported being sexually harassed by lawmakers at parliament as you discuss the issue in a special session. always bring in our correspondent in brussels now charlotte charlotte i can you give us some details of the allegations that have emerged. yeah none of these allegations been documented in the british newspaper the sunday times it reports that over twelve young female aides have come forward so far they list allegations ranging from inappropriate text messages to physical harassment some of
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the allegations that we've seen are relatively shocking i'm just going to read you one of them actually one of them involves a twenty four year old assistant who said that a german m.e.p. stalked her in meetings and eventually made unpleasant advances few of the men have been named so far according to the newspaper they range from there from across party spectrum and some of them include former ministers in fact one that one name that we have heard is a form of french environment minister he's accused of chiding twenty one year old aide he's seventy one years of age for not going to dinner with him and she says she was scandalized by the nature of the text message and never replied none of the women who have made these allegations have yet identified themselves they say that they're worried about repercussions repercussions on their career this feeling of
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powerlessness and not wanting to come forward is something that is very prevalent in the sunday times report what is the you been saying about all this would have been occurring on that end there in brussels. yeah the european parliament president has given a statement he said he is shocked by what he's learnt and has promised to to fully find out exactly what it is that's gone on here he said that he will crack down on this with the harshest punishment on any measures on any members who break our rules he pointed out that there's already an advisory committee looking into alleged harassment in the european parliament is not specific to sexual harassment but he says nevertheless they've been no reports thus far but he has said that they will look into this but that there'll be a debate on wednesday with a resolution expected to come from that social media has been playing a role in shining a light in this very dark corner we just we have the me too movement for example
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the us has has that gain any traction here in europe. yeah well in fact according to the sunday times the women that it spoke to said that they would directly influence by the fact so many women had come forward in the harvey weinstein case the hollywood producer who's alleged to have harassed a large number of women they said it was it was the confidence of those women that gave them the confidence to come forward with seeing repercussions like that not just in europe but around the world i think women who wanted to speak out against workplace harassment. showed briefly if you could what about the laws do they vary a lot of across the union. they do vary a lot at the moment and that is something that is going to have to be looked into i believe in the next coming weeks and months as more information is found out about the number of women who are facing harassment in the workplace perhaps we could in
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fact see it's heartening up of utils across the e.u. show itself until in brussels for us this morning was planning on that looking into the story thanks very much robert. well the location where women are most likely to be harassed is the workplace marga as a solace or also just pointed out there bryan and of course most women prefer to stay quiet about sexual harassment because they're too embarrassed or because they think society will blame them rather than the perpetrator so officials the to sticks are rather hard to come by but according to one poll by germany's federal anti discrimination agency in twenty fifty nearly one in two women was exposed to sexual harassment as defined by law more than half of them were harassed at work amongst others through salacious commons contact or sexually suggestive e-mails
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business parties seem to be the ideal playground for some men who see these gatherings as well an invitation to make inappropriate advances but not only parties can be tricky at least one in three women feel harassed in corridors and elevators now here's the story now of one young woman dealing with harassment in germany's corporate world. communications graduate catch any dorm i was overjoyed when she landed a top job right after college her colleague seemed nice as did her boss but soon enough his behavior changed she's asked not to be shown on camera. he began complimenting me. he'd say things like you look really grace who are you dressing like that for is it for your boyfriend or your husband are you married they were really personal questions. her boss would call her into his
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office several times a day often for no apparent reason he'd always close the door she felt increasingly uncomfortable and wondered if she herself was to blame. last year germany introduced tougher sexual assault laws antidiscrimination rules aimed to protect women from sexual harassment in the workplace trade unions have welcomed such moves many large companies now employ women's representatives but there's still a long way to go of a guardian client longer term in smaller companies and individual branches an issue hasn't really caught on yes in down the area relatively little has been done since of course it's harder to implement things when there are no works it handles pushing for it that's definitely a problem when it comes to handling this issue being on top of most. many women including cuts in the dorm or are too afraid to report inappropriate behavior.
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he used to try and get me to sit beside him after some time he started touching me first my arm then my knee. the crazy thing was that he had photographs of his wife and kids all over his office. erica schreiber has represented many women who've been sexually harassed at work. she understands why many of them choose not to speak. naturally many are afraid that they'll be bullied that they'll be accused of lying. some women feel ashamed of what happened or also as they feel helpless the charm that plays a big role. and some of them fear they'll be let go without a tough new photo ops to the presence of the. cut my took a leave of absence after confiding in her doctor and a friend then she quit her job she hasn't returned to the office since she's
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still waiting to get her employment certificate as her boss wants her to pick it up in person. getting around to busy central london is already testing but now for drivers of older polluting vehicles it just got more expensive as well in a bid to tackle c o two emissions the british capital has joined the ranks of european cities making it harder for polluting vehicles to take to the roads unveiling a new tax on them. drivers in central london are used to paying extra to be on these roads now another fee may be added for the teacher hardship or toxic charge will be an additional eleven year olds on top of the ten year old congestion levy they already pay. and the idea is to encourage those for the most pollution vehicles to stop driving into the heart of london and if they do drive into parliament they've got to pay an additional teacher these the cost of driving into
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london the harbor that is twenty one pounds fifty but not everyone will come to the new levy some business leaders feel that it could affect small businesses especially those in london and near the british capital it's a big impact on business in london the southeast that effectively by extension the rest of the country so everyone's affected by this whether the new fee will indeed reduce traffic remains to be seen but what is clear is that london like many other cities has taken steps to lower the vehicle emissions. one step to lower harmful emissions is reducing the number of cars on the road that's what singapore is doing starting next february bringing in a growth cap another step is the creation of new technologies and our next report takes a look at synthetic fuels being developed by a company interest in all they need is carbon dioxide water and electricity to create a liquid energy carrier called blue crude. steel plants emit here
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huge quantities of carbon monoxide but a new technique promises to turn the potential pollutant into a source of clean fuel. sunfire a company in dresden has developed a way of using that otherwise harmful gas to produce an eco friendly fluid called blue crude. on its own it's already an alternative to fossil fuel but further steps can produce other products like in . diesel aviation fuel. a diesel is a synthetic fuel which hardly has any emissions it's groundbreaking but there are concerns. as keep craft. and there are concerns from some quarters that approving our kind of fuel would hamper the development of immobility. we don't believe that we believe both can be used alongside each other. but as long as something one
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hampers the other then it will be extremely difficult to succeed with this technology. a process known as electrolysis allows surplus electricity from renewable sources to be transformed into a synthetic fuel. synthetic fuels like a diesel don't require new infrastructure tanks and gas stations and conventional internal combustion engines can continue to be used. albert alba's is doing research on the future of mobility at the cultural institute of technology he says politicians are too quick to side with the electorate mobility and declared the end of the combustion engine. he's calling for an open discussion that incorporates all kinds of technologies he believes blue crude which is based around hard to gin has a lot of potential. and of us not
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a sustainability built hydrogen economy requires a long and strategic approach is what my view it's clearly the solution to hydrogen in its different forms refined into fuel combustion engines to generate mobility of thought these workers interest in are hoping someday to mass produce a diesel in places like norway such a breakthrough would take their electrolysis process into the real world. now prominent russian radio host remain. in an induced coma after a knife attack brian has that story that's right there's a lot of questions out there this morning about this case monica tachyon a felgenhauer still in hospital right now she worked for a radio station in moscow often critical of government policies now her attacker is in custody a police investigation is underway meanwhile journalist groups are expressing concern. a news room on high alert the attacker shown here
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being let off by police reportedly sprayed gas at a security guard in order to enter the offices of independent radio station and how much armed with a knife. after being arrested he told investigators he has a telepathic connection with touch on the fellow that she has been harassing him. what is the deputy editor in chief of the station and anchors a daily political talk show for both a joke from it is everything is back to normal though everyone is deeply saddened so i want to point out that the attacker knew exactly where he was going he went through to touch on us office and stabbed her in the neck that's what we know she has a stab wound it was a lot of blood. is critical of the russian government and is often referred to as one of the last independent media outlets in the country just under two weeks ago russian state television showed a report accusing the station of receiving foreign funding including from germany france and the us an accusation which editor in chief has denied. the t.v.
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report specifically mentioned touch on the fellow. according to preliminary information the reason for the assault was personal and maybe we will review all the versions of what took place. several people have been staging one man protests outside in support of fed can go the only form of protest that doesn't need to be officially authorized in advance here the demonstrators point out that case is not the first of its kind in russia. both these some journalists are beaten up some are stabbed some are some killed it's a dangerous and brave and in some ways a thankless profession. so i came to support and express my position that this is absolutely insane you can then you go. with the news that journalism is one of the most important professions for our modern society and unfortunately
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it's still one of the most dangerous professions. fisi russia's journalists union has called the attack a blow to freedom of speech the country's investigative committee has opened a criminal case for attempted murder against the suspected attacker. this is. on the show a new vision for china at this year's communist party congress is in pain moves to be china's most powerful leader since chairman mao the country's modern day founder and all those named footballers your own words will tell you who netted the other prize. we're back after a short break. to go to the borders legal minds. neighbor coups and turn things around
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the soviet union is breaking apart. the members of the russian federation would have to find their own way politically and economically. saluki it was an incredibly difficult task not misadventure it was just a mugger's he was a lie because if you kill lections where frauds that's the privatization was robbery. the soviet union's heritage we're just russia stand today and moscow's empire our series starting november fifth. welcome again your news our top story at this hour the german parliament has been renovated ahead of today's session the first since national elections held last
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month the bonus bought the tog must now see germany's biggest parliament ever with seven hundred nine seats in the far right if de the alternative for germany will enter the chamber for the first time as the country's third biggest party. while today in china the nineteenth congress of the communist party comes to an end and when delegates leave that summit the political course will be set for the world's second biggest economy through the year twenty twenty two now this man is the dominant figure at the congress of president xi jinping five years after his election. as party chair he is now at the height of his power and he can point to some real successes although economic growth has slowed at six percent it is still the envy of many an industrialized nation now he's also fought rigorously against corruption in the country it's and demick and likely saved the communist party from going under as
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a result now when it comes to foreign policy china has flexed its economic its diplomatic and its military muscle showing that it wants to play a decisive role in world politics however hopes for the liberalization of domestic policies have not been fulfilled opposition and critics and china are as oppressed as ever all the talk more about what's in store for china i'm joined now in the studio by bernard bartsch an asian affairs expert at the bertelsmann dition thanks so much for being with us this morning good morning as usual thing now has the same status as chairman mao in the country's constitution just how powerful is he. well he didn't ping is definitely as powerful as he could wish to be in a system in a party where his predecessors were ruling as first among equals is not first among equals he tipping is first but that doesn't mean that he can roam is world leaders
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mouthed it there are a lot of constraints and there are very high expectations and he will have to deliver especially on the economic front ok what are the other members of the politburo expecting him to deliver what do they want to say well they want the party to be the powerful and in control he has secured that you've talked about the corruption campaign and that gone a long way to securing the authority of the party but the main challengers are the economic reforms and then to be be honest he hasn't delivered too much yet ok the corruption is you know in terms of economic reforms as difficult to get to those reforms without fighting corruption are you saying he hasn't made the progress china says it's made in fighting corruption. he's definitely done a lot but this anti-corruption campaign which has been hitting signature policy for his first term. has gone
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a long way to. breaking the power of rival factions it's been a very powerful political tool but it has nothing to support the rule of law quite on the contrary the rule of law is really in retraction and show ok this is one of the big questions is the rule of law and freedom of the press if you don't have those two things how can you really have a successful economy i mean those are the foundations aren't they that's exactly the questions that we are asking ourselves china is doing ok it's managing its challenges it's not really solving them and we as germans as europeans we want a successful powerful china a failing china is the last thing that we want in current affairs and that's why we are so worried about the reforms really stalling stagnating he has created stability but he has not really pushed economic reforms and social reforms forward
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ok when you had the bertelsmann foundation research china he says he has the ability i'd like to go through a list of things like ghost cities cities that are built huge massive complexes with no one in them the aging population unreliable economic data how can you really know and get a handle on what's happening in china that extremely difficult and to be honest i think it would be much better for china experts to go to quite some length to talk about what we do not know about china because that's a lot than just talking about what we think we do know one of the biggest problems in dealing with china is that there are so many blind spots where we just don't have the data that we need to make a really good assessment of what is happening ok in spite of this lack of the. do you see china becoming a superpower in the next five years at the end of this party session the next twenty twenty two it's definitely becoming more assertive on the global stage and
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it should be it's the most populous nation on the planet but claiming superpowers they does and gaining superpower status are two very different things because if you want a leadership role globally you need some other countries who want to follow you and especially china's neighbors a very very of china's intentions and a quite suspicious so i think china is going to become stronger it's going to think that superpower status internally but it's not going anywhere near rivalling the u.s. any time soon bernard botch asia expert at the bertelsmann foundation thank you so very much for your insights this morning thank you very much well the murder last week of an investigative journalist in malta has drawn international attention to politics on that tiny you mediterranean nation dafna is work focused on investigating alleged government corruption and politicians apparent links to organized crime later today the european parliament is due to discuss press freedom
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and the protection of journalists in light of that murder. the area where daphne koller want to go was killed has been cordoned off so forensic experts can comb the scene f.b.i. agents have come from the u.s. to help. a car bomb killed the investigative journalist just one hundred metres from her home. she'd made a number of enemies with her relentless reporting and received many threats her family's lawyer has angry words for the prime minister of malta and others in high positions. is joseph or scott depresses prime minister that he himself referred to death for the as a hate blogger as a person who lied as a person who disseminated fake news he was the person who led a vicious character assassination on the car when they got it's a for more than twenty years and for no to come as if shedding crocodile tears it's
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a story late you should have acted much before they conducted her research as part of the journalist group working on leaked documents known as the panama papers her findings suggest that the prime minister's wife under stake in a shell company registered in panama that engaged in large scale money laundering kalita said her claim was based on papers discovered by a bank employee chart found documents in the safe to pay two documents both of them declarations of trust. by individuals the nominees who has a says an egg renting in the name of mrs michelle miscount references to this company a grant appeared in the panama papers. earlier this year during a session of the european parliament in strasbourg m.p.'s asked how malta could maintain the rule of law amid allegations of corruption. the prime minister
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dismissed these concerns along with allegations some people in this house have referred to a story totally outright lie. that has been directed against me my wife and my family and i marveled at the idea that some extremely knowledgeable members of this house as they can this think this. and repeated it. for months later daphne. was dead. a green party member of the european parliament is calling for action from brussels. the patient knew when the european union can carry out infringement proceedings against malta are inquiries from the european commission have gone unanswered for four months that it's high time this process is initiated. back in
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malta many unanswered questions to what extent of the island's leaders and gauged in oregon iced crime how credible are the allegations against the government and why was daphne killed. at a makeshift memorial outside the courthouse in the capital one of the people paying his respects is. a conservative politician. he was among those who came under heavy criticism by the journalist. she didn't have to die she needn't have died and all this could have been avoided if the rule of law in our country did not collapse in the way to has such that even scandals as big as panama papers that took people to justice from countries in countries from germany to brazil. were ignored in our country just because they
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involved the top most politicians in our country well definitely exposed for this and she died for it. the allegations are numerous corruption tax havens a refuge for the mafia and seventy thousand offshore companies and the sale of maltese passports many citizens believe the rule of law is on shaky ground along with press freedom. jacob org an investigative journalist worked with for a few years including the panama papers he's still shaken by her death. and this is obviously is going to hit it like you said is going to might remain at the back of our minds with the accounts that it's intimidate us and stop us from doing our jobs just more of these media we need to get off again the only two people if i think people are these stories it's you know the best testament will be good for the family. it's unclear whether her killers will ever be found many multis
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have their doubts but they hope the european union will be jolted into action as a consequence of the murder of daphne don't want to go. action to talk about that here in the studios christoph dryer from reporters without borders it's an organization that promotes freedom of the press and freedom of access to information thanks for being with us this morning i christophe this murder has taken everyone by surprise what does it say to you and your organization about malta and the ability there to report on allegations of high level criminality where it certainly says that reporting about these kind of allegations is quite dangerous and credit risky and unfortunately it also says that there are people in malta who think they can silence people in this way by killing them and i think they can get away with it so that's pretty bad thing to see the american f.b.i. is on the island to look into this murder who else do you think should be involved
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in the investigation. i think the first ones to to try to resolve this is really the authorities it's up to them to show now that they are interested in able to to solve this and bring to justice those behind this crime but the fact that there are outside investigators involved is certainly a good sign because it gives some credibility and independence but now it's really up to malta to show what they can do it's up to malta what would you organization like to see malta do to protect its journalists. well there are a lot of questions one of them is of course there were reports prior to this attack that is going on now it was and under threat but the most important thing now is really to bring to justice those behind this crime to in order to prevent the creation of a culture of impunity in malta is a concern a culture of impunity and it is it is certainly is really seen this in other
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countries if we look at the recent history of italy. there were a lot of mafia murders there also against journalists and so this can yes this can reproduce itself and this is a real concern now because of the european parliament will be discussing the safety of journalists in the european union in general later today what do you want to see come out of that discussion i think one thing we'd like to see is certainly to. the european parliament. and demands of its member states to do you you member states to prevent this kind of thing and bring to justice those beyond the matter i mentioned italy bulgaria's also certainly a country where we have similar concerns frets against journalists and the other thing is that we have a international campaign for a u.n. special representative representative against impunity and for the protection of journalists and i think it's clear commitment to that would also be very helpful ok
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that officers are exist right now you'd like to see creators and that would be an office. that would bring the necessary political weight to to bring countries that are hesitant. prosecuting this kind of crimes to act because of dryer from reporters without borders thanks so much for being with us. well after much anticipation and protests the controversy all film about the last russian tsar is set for release this week the movie tells the story of star nicholas the second and his affair with a polish ballerina named matilda but the tale has angered some hardline nationalists and some orthodox christians who view the czars of st a series of violent incidents targeting filmmakers as russia on edge as this love story makes its debut. the romanov family secret
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a story of forbidden passion when nicholas the second fell in love with a ballerina a film premiere that's made many russians nervous. with the good news is the premiere of matilda was held peacefully here as a very fair miss mary in sunday to spirit and this is despite the fact that this film a lot of controversy in the russian. tension was high on opening night one hundred police officers got of the select audience security measures more typical of an airport where a place many feared an attack director alexy should tell had received multiple threats but he remained defiant. yeah i'm not afraid i have good sense triumphs and the process of sides of. the opera mainly has to do with a few sex scenes that depict a week. is about to lose his throne over matilda a simple dancer. that was too much for russia's
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powerful orthodox church which canonized son nicholas the second after his murder a nine hundred seventeen betraying him this way is an offense to the religious sensibilities of the faithful that's according to russia's parliament the duma. natalya parklands skier a duma lawmaker started the campaign against matilda. what do you have against this film that is installed saints who embody a healthy family a proper family relationship our family values. news in the order not to cause offense one must be able to strike a balance between artistic freedom and the rights of our citizens to their religious feelings. some of these offended citizens seem to take inspiration from parkland sky his campaign they torched movie theaters like here in the city of your . catherine berg a car belonging to the director's lawyer was set on fire in moscow.
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initially the church didn't comment on the violence the german actor who plays nicholas the second avoided the premiere after a hate campaign by religious extremists he sent this video message instead. group. so you are. two of. the film's success remains to be seen but it's already gained plenty of notoriety from politicians and the church critics of the mighty russian orthodox church say the church is trying to act as a moral sense and is further infringing on social life in russia a life in a beach bland theater productions sometimes disappear from the program and entire exhibitions closed as they say it's almost impossible to stage cultural events
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without cries from people claiming to be insulted and enraged. a lot of parties in the british capital last night football's world governing body fever has held its annual awards ceremony in london and the portuguese star christie arnaldo named player of the year after winning the spanish league the champions league and the club world cup with real madrid dutch striker liga martens received the wins player of the year after leading holland to victory at euro twenty seven rio madrid's sit ins and dan chosen as best coach after a great full season of management and event his legend john wayne to befall picked up the best goalkeeper after incredible twenty five clean sheets for a club and country last season. ok for more on the fifth best awards i'm joined now
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by kyle mckinnon from our sports us born haven't can you tell us first of all the difference between the fifa player of the year and the ball indoor well door goes back to one hundred fifty six actually and was the premier award and award ceremony for years and years decades and decades until two thousand and ten. the big pocketed fifo came in and cold branded and called it the ballon d'or awards for about six years they spent about fifteen million euros on that sixteen seventeen year old million euros on that and in two thousand six hundred they decided to go off on their own and create their own entity finances had to have something to do with it i'm sure they can sell their own t.v. rights so they have this big spectacle themselves the ballon d'or is still probably for old school guys at least like me the premier award to win and that comes up in a couple months but this one is a big deal and they bring in and they wine and dine the stars and they love it and they love it and they love it when the fans love it there what do you think about ronaldo winning again stunning. stunning he's
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a stunning player no question he was going to win i think and he won easily with votes from the from the fans from players from coaches and and the like and so they bring those all together in this award ceremony by the way and that's why perhaps it's got more fan appeal ok so there's a lot of input into how the the winners chosen right and that helps i mean the fans are twenty five percent of the deal and so bringing in rinaldo as the as the winner was a was a pretty fine you know entity because of course he's forty eight games this calendar year forty four goals he raises the level of everybody he plays with every every team he brought to portugal to a european championship in twenty sixteen a club championship the champions league and league has championship in twenty seventeen so no question he's the guy he's the man right now even with a messy having a great year and not just for portugal fans of course you know they love him don't they they do they do all sorts of the dera what about the best women's player legal martin's fine player she is
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a striker and twenty four year old up and comer she led the netherlands to a championship in the european championships as you suggested a great player for barcelona club as well a bit of controversy in the nomination process and a suggestion that people still doesn't have it going on. on as far as the women are concerned because the nominating process include carli lloyd of the u.s. but also this unknown player from venezuela who plays at the university in florida in the united states and the question is why was this person nominated with all the other players in the world nominated was like it was as though megan rapinoe of the u.s. as an old male and stale organization because they just they don't know and probably you know how did they come up with this one name out of all the names they could have come up with as she said they don't care about the women and that was a big concern going into this but at the same time martin's a worthy a worthy worthy winner ok talking about mel and still shining not that still really
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is. jon would you befall chosen his best goalkeeper turning forty love that guy hasn't won a champions league yet but is a fabulous player he beat out man well neuer of germany and. as well neuer has been injured and so that was a big big part of that issue but gender is a fabulous entity he's a great great personality i should say the nadine's it on who we saw earlier it was coach of the year as well after just a year and a half he's a three time winner in the as a player now a winner as a kosher pick up those very common thanks very much all right well the german cup returns that i am one game with potential for an upset sees minnows magdeburg take on mighty dortmund log burned had huge success and decades gone by becoming the only east german team to win a european trophy that was back in one nine hundred seventy four but more recently the team has dropped down the leagues and they're currently recovering in the third
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division but the visit of dortmund is a chance for them to relive the glory days. it's all face is the game of his career his team welcomes dortmund and while the current bunch is legal aid is a clear favorite for the match battle hopes the club can use their underdog status to spring a surprise he went out across front and nobody expects anything from us we can enjoy this game it's sold out the floodlights will be a little bit loud in the stadium and the fans will push us on and we've got to take that energy and use it. magda berg was a footballing powerhouse back in the east german league but those days are long gone now the state of saxony and how it has no teams in the top two legs the game against dortmund is a red chance of footballing glory for the region the tradition started sensational that we've managed to get ourselves a game against dortmund we're really excited and there are plenty of other people in saxony and helped her excited. there are last year's opponents aren't in the best of form dormant have taken just one point from their last two league games and
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continue to disappoint in europe. coach peter bush is frustrated but sees the mark to bear game as a potential turning point. and how at the start of the season we scored every half chance now even obama is missing big chances the little things like that decide games you can see here but i'm certain that if we can be back to back tomorrow it will help us in the bundesliga to. a win for magda berg would be their biggest since their victory over byron in the cup in two thousand and provide the great underdog story of the season. let's get your mind of our top story at this hour the german parliament has been renovated ahead of today's session the first since national elections held last month the bundestag must now seat germany's biggest parliament ever with seven hundred nine seats in the far right and will be entering the chamber for the first time as the nation's third biggest party. thanks so much
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for being with us are we going to finish with one of the great songs from the musical hair which is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this week we're going to leave you now with aquarius thanks for being with us. was.
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