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so you. do something for your country but you're still the blackcurrants with a. rough road you're really starting to some return home d.w. . this is deja vu news live from berlin a triumphant arrival for zimbabwe's incoming president anderson and non-god make his makes his first public appearance since returning home from south africa his
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path to power made possible by the stunning resignation of his predecessor robert mugabe at non-god while is due to be sworn into office on friday. also coming up justice for the man known as the butcher of bosnia a u.n. tribunal sentences former bosnian serb commander of rochel blodgett's to life in prison for atrocities committed during the bosnian war. and what is next for germany has politicians here seek a way out of the deadlock created by failed coalition talks could the social democrats be rethinking their opposition to governing together with angela merkel's conservatives we will have the latest on the negotiations. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us. zimbabwe's former
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vice president everson has arrived back in harare in preparations to take power after president robert mugabe's shock resignation. had fled to south africa earlier this month after being fired by mugabe a short while back he addressed his supporters outside of the headquarters of the ruling zanu p.f. party. crowds in harare a welcome home their hero. and emerson and god failed to disappoint. it didn't take him long to connect with his supporters boris of. course. we. didn't know you i mean. this. was. his return follows
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a historic day in zimbabwe on tuesday the speaker of parliament announced that robert mugabe had resigned after thirty seven years in power. harari celebrated the beginning of a new chapter in zimbabwe's history. today though all eyes were squarely on the one guy. he's expected to be sworn in as interim president on friday. in the midst of political changes the african union took a more cautious approach. is a transition must be a short term one as to constitution provides for elections in july and these elections must be free democratic inclusive where everybody is allowed to run. the vote is expected to be held by september two thousand and eighteen what shapes and bob way will be and by then will depend a lot on this man. from well let's back and journalist wade to lovo who joins us
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from harare for more so ray we just heard a pretty rousing speech there i think it's fair to say did the former vice president tell the people what they wanted to hear. if i'm just reading in the form of vice president definitely having a rebound or a common use for troops to winning over the people that are ticking for two years or two and after you know after the mildly almost two weeks under speaking to the usual job speaking into taking over i mean i just incredible macgyver as a former president clearly showing every line in the sand that he is now in charge and he's ready to choose chart a new way forward for smugglers that there can exceed those that i tended to live happy and pretty used at ten p.m. and he and he is talking vietnam which. but surely i mean when it comes to a new way forward a lot of people must have concerns about that because this is
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a man he was the right hand man president mugabe for a number of years what is the mood there in the country especially because people want change. well certainly we can take away the fact that he had been by prisoners from a prison record we got tried for fifty years. but i guess the mood right now is not an easy one of giving him a chance they want to give him a chance and want to give him a clean create on which he can begin to talk over in a way for us and and we need speech addressing them. as the form of pretty and i. very strong indication of how you intend to. and that you know from the from i need. to know where it happened no. need to watch it you need it and then you need to for zanu p.f. and the country. let's talk
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a little bit more about what might happen now to the old later years of the country robert mugabe and his wife the first lady grace do we know what is expected for them in the future. we haven't had any official communication from those being in charge of the country that mitchy but we do understand from those in a close with being the mugabe. that the president before oprah has been intense to remain within the country and. choose to leave zimbabwe is going to be allowed to seek medical attention is the ago to go to singapore and malaysia that we understand is going to continue and he's doing this going to continue running as well. which being the country and i understand that basically he intends to even allow as a private citizen way to love you with the latest from harare thank you so much for your reporting. rock
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a lot its the former bosnian serb army chief accused of leading the massacre of eight thousand muslim men and boys in the small town of seven itsa has been found guilty of war crimes crimes against humanity and genocide judges that the u.n. tribunal in the hague have sentenced him to life in prison the atrocities that lot of has been convicted of took place during the bosnian war back in the one nine hundred ninety s. his sentencing caps off years of efforts to bring him to justice. and july nine hundred ninety five stood before the cameras in the un designated safe zone of srebrenica and assured bosnian muslims that no one would come to harm. twenty two years later when he was sentenced to life in prison by the international criminal tribunal for the former yugoslavia for the genocide that so nearly eight thousand muslim boys and men from the typhoon murdered. the conviction of the former bosnian serb general was met with relief by the victims' relatives. but for
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those like i was the owner of it who lost two sons and two brothers it brings little consolation menace the same about so many since those killed their own my brothers they are all my sons they are all mine. they were the same age as my sons . i have no one left not even a neighbor. but it just son darko said that his father was appeal the ruling. he said. this is not the court this is a nato commission. and i must say. that. trying to criminalize they go and there were sort of been people in times of civil war but the chief prosecutor surged ramat said lot of it was no war hero and rejected accusations that the tribunal had driven
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a wedge between bosnian serbs and muslims some today weakly discharge which is a verdict against the serbian people. my office rejects that claim in the strongest terms not just guilt he says he's and he's. others would say it is not it. he was defending his people. this judgment demonstrates that nothing could be further from the troops logical no spend his life behind bars after being found guilty of ordering the worst atrocity in europe since the holocaust. and joining me now from london for more on this is what founder and chair person of the u.k. based charity remembering seven it's i thank you so much for joining us this evening we know that the tribunal that it found guilty of war crimes and genocide so what does this mean today for the survivors i mean how are they seeing the
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significance of the sentence. well the survivors and the mothers. that i've spoken to put them there is some consolation because this man has been sentence really you know it was the chief architect behind the genocide behind you evilness that was promoted across bosnia herzegovina but certainly this this because those people who perished in the genocide those children those buoys they connect with people. and you know this is genocide is one of the worst crimes you know. that humanity can experience and this is what happened in our lifetime in europe and that genocide those unspeakable atrocities they were actually captured and a single iconic image that opened the world's eyes to what was happening and we
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just want to show it now because it shows an emaciated prisoner held at a serb concentration camp that prisoner managed to escape his torturers here he is at the court in the hague today where he saw radicals being brought to justice. and mr azmi that leads me to my question because your organization that wants to raise awareness of the genocide in bosnia what lessons can be drawn from this tragedy which you say. well we must learn the lessons from certainly so that hatred can lead to genocide and then we live in boring times where we have a far right organization promoting hatred particularly to focus on islam and muslims almost in this lifetime not that led to the genocide that most names do we have said never again in the whole course so we need to teach people through commemoration through memorials as well as through in schools teach
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children about the consequences of. the thank you so much for joining us this evening to tell us a little bit more about that important work that you are doing to raise awareness walk me we appreciate it thank you. let's get a quick check now some other stories that have making news around the world the presidents of russia turkey and iran say that they have agreed to keep working on a peace process and syria russia's vladimir putin said that the syrian government is committed to a peace process and free and fair elections earlier this year the three countries helped to negotiate a partial truce between syrian forces and the opposition. six syrian man who had been arrested in germany on terror related charges have been released authorities have suspected that the men were planning an attack but now federal prosecutors say there is no sign of preparations for an imminent terrorist attack or that the men are members of the so-called islamic state. international airplanes and ships have
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joined the search for an argentine submarine that went missing a week ago but experts say that oxygen levels on board may have dropped to critical levels the argentine navy says that the ship's oxygen would last one week if that sub was still intact. german tennis legend boris becker turned fifty today becker took his first wimbledon title in one thousand nine hundred five when he was just seventeen and went on to win five more grand slam crowns in a glittering career he has been remaining busy with coaching and poker interests while also generating occasional controversy in his retirement. while the lebanese prime minister saad hariri says that he is putting his resignation on hold after the country's president asked him to reconsider and allow time for more dialogue i rarely attended independence day celebrations in the capital after returning to
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levanon late last night it is nearly three weeks since he suddenly announced his resignation while in saudi arabia lebanese officials accuse saudi arabia of forcing her to resign but he has yet to confirm those allegations. and for more on this i am joined now by ben to sheller she is the beirut office director of the heinrich all foundation welcome to you so why is this change of heart do you think taking place from horary well it was very a group that today he would be here in lebanon today we're celebrating the lebanese independence day and all parties here has had a console a celebration if you would not and the bird it's very rare that he came and he delivered the message and he said he is going to engage in all of here i mean this was that saudi arabia was behind his move and there for. a signal to the lebanese
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population was i'm here for you and i went to my first series or the other the parties what to do to solve the nice crisis i want to talk a little bit more about that role of outside powers like saudi arabia and iran what do you make of the role that they are playing in this. then it is a small state that has always been the focus of regional powers and therefore how to reduce movement the future movement is backed by saudi arabia we have a lot of other movements that are backed by iran and i think given the controversy these two have in the region lebanon is one of the battlegrounds at least the turks late for them to find out. so is the crisis would you say over now what do you anticipate her various next level. well the main aim of all political activity and then who is to have the parliamentary elections desk if you
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will for maybe next year this really will be very bad because that pollinate has extended its mandate several times and now we're looking forward to these elections and they for one thing the crisis as such is not over but at least and a very important step has been done by having him back here so there is a possibility to discuss the issues at stake what's the feeling on the ground there in lebanon i mean what sort of reception did the people give her area when he came back it was a very warm welcoming back also in the weeks before we already saw a lot of posters and all the streets of beirut to high poster is a good image of heavy saying we're all we here and there really was a large effort of political parties and activists here to stress on the importance of his return to focus on the future of lebanon and to shallow director of the beirut office for the heinrich all stiff dung thank you so much. thank you.
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well daniel and terry is here now with some business news and we're talking about a big hack in silicon valley that's right sorry it's a massive data breach which affects millions of customers and yet kept it under wraps for a year your name email address and phone number could be among the big data the right having app even paid hush money to keep it quiet now new york's attorney general is looking into the case and a federal level investigation could also take place. not only did he know about the hack and keep it from authorities it paid the thieves one hundred thousand u.s. dollars to keep quiet goober isn't the only company to be extorted by hackers experts say yet firms in the u.s. and u.k. are required to disclose breaches to the government that means could face have to fines or stay the cover up also expose the firm to customer lawsuits. more seriously it raises questions about hoover's management at
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a sensitive time the company's trying to change a reputation for recklessness following a string of scandals under founder and former c.e.o. travis colonic it's also pushing for a new round of investment the fact that they refused to tell people that tens of thousands of drivers' licenses that all of this personal data was around floating around outside of its control only reinforces the impression that people have this is a company that doesn't care about what happens to its users data customers say the latest revelations make the money easy on comfortable for them now it's a little disappointing i mean as a consumer i mean i you who are now at it had no idea this was going on but will they actually leave valued at nearly seventy billion dollars the company is already the largest ride sharing service in the world and it's continued to grow despite past controversies. that means the latest scandal for over may just be the latest bump in the road. u.k.
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finance minister philip hammond has the an enviable task of trying to relieve the burden of austerity in the country while reducing borrowing and the timing couldn't be worse in his autumn budgets today hammond lowered his country's five year growth forecast that's huge the uncertainty caused by breck's that the country's decision to quit the european union has resulted in a sharp fall in sterling and an increase in inflation now to set aside three billion pounds for bracks at contingency plans. employees of bankrupt lynn have taken to the streets of the german capital to protest against job losses their futures hang in the balance under the company's new owners last stanza and easyjet. they say they've been forgotten hundreds of former air berlin employees took to the streets to vent their frustration the airline's insolvency has left them in
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a peculiar kind of limbo. part two on here mission began and he put it today we're calling on politicians to take responsibility but this is about a company takes over as the facts stand today eighty percent of us here are flight crews we've no work anymore we were let go conditionally which means we're not entitled to social welfare because we weren't officially fired i don't think people realize this is because i've got it in for me and more than anger especially at the decision to guarantee payments of up to four and a half million euros to former air berlin c.e.o. told must think i'm on. many people accuse the company of breaking promises. a lot of reasons we're back to square one people need to apply for new jobs from scratch not other companies which makes sense but we've been counting on being kept on with the same salaries as had been promised this hasn't happened and that's a great shame. the protest took place as air berlin's bond holders learnt that
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they're unlikely to recover more than one percent of outstanding debt as a result of the company's insolvency meanwhile the future of thousands of workers remains up in the air. and from bitter talks in berlin over an uncertain future to something completely totally absolutely to say pretty much the same thing but just on the political front because i want to talk about those failed coalition talks here in germany which have catapulted the country into unprecedented political uncertainty president frank my r. has been meeting with party leaders to find a way out of the deadlock meanwhile pressure is growing on the social democrats they have the second best results on election night but have so far ruled out joining angle americans conservatives in a grand coalition but that position it is becoming increasingly difficult to maintain have a look. at the conservative c.d.u. c.s.u.
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bloc working together with the social democrats and the federal government the only team also formed the new one there's already support for a new edition of the grand coalition the conservatives want to stay in power. we need a partner who at the moment still refuses to go along the s.p.d. needs to quit putting so far s.p.d. party leaders have shown no interest in governing on election night they ruled out joining a grand coalition something they reiterated after the collapse of the recent coalition negotiations. we are showing we remain unafraid of new elections. in view of the results of this year's elections on september twenty fourth we will be available to enter into a grand coalition. but germany's president is increasing the pressure he even alluded to the s.p.d.
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as a rigid stance during a visit with schoolchildren visiting. those who barricade themselves behind assertions as we're now witnessing can only be reached with great difficulty later . there are even rumblings within the s.p.d. itself not everyone is thrilled with the possible role and the opposition president president steinmeyer has made a very clever announcement he said that we now have been called upon to talk i always very much favor coming to decisions at the end of talks and not at the beginning. i'm on point. even the would be governing green party thinks the social democrats should not refuse in spite of everything. and most importantly that i probably won't work to their advantage to enter into a grand coalition again that's the dilemma but this general refusal to negotiate is unacceptable. s.p.d.
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chief martin shultz has probably started to reconsider suddenly he is reported to have said that the s.p.d. will put the country's interests ahead of its own shorts is due to meet president on thursday to turkey now where the trial of eleven human rights activists on terrorism related charges resumed today in istanbul among the defendants is tanner chelates the chairman of amnesty international in turkey now kill it says still behind bars eight other activists including german national pit astroid not were released on bail last month all of them deny the charges against them our correspondent yulia han has this report from istanbul. their supporters came to make a point this banner says justice for rights defenders. it's a reference to the eleven activists on trial. many of your friends have gathered here rights defenders from turkey and other
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countries like brazil the us india ireland and germany. in this stand on. it has nothing to do with the rule of law this is a politically motivated case the court is just following the decision already made by the authorities. most of the accused had previously been released from detention including the german national. he's seen here at the rear before he flew home last month but this man was kept in custody ten or kill at the chairman of amnesty international in turkey he's accused of having links to the glenn movement which turkey claims was behind last summer's attempted coup and is classified by uncorrect as a terrorist organization. aiding a terrorist organization similar charges have been leveled against tens of
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thousands of people here in turkey since last year's failed to military coup the government says the prosecutions are necessary to maintain stability in turkey and the region but the activists and their supporters believe their trial is aimed at silencing all critical voices in turkey. the trial further inflames the already heated relations between turkey and the european union at the same time it sends a clear signal to the people of turkey according to another of the accused. church the director of amnesty international. the founding human rights group human rights group or guy has never been an easy task i would chose. it's concords dangerous as well put the right thing it does also serve. to standing got people can be accused of ridiculous charges kept in detention for no good
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presumes the accused have long campaigned for human rights in turkey the question now is whether that campaign can continue if found guilty the defendants could face fifteen years in prison. a quick reminder now of the top stories that we have been following for you before we go zimbabwe's former vice president emerson among god has arrived back in the rain in preparation to take power after president robert mugabe's shock resignation and non-god well have fled to south africa after being fired by god or earlier this month he'll be sworn. and this president on friday. to date now on news i'm sarah kelly in berlin thanks for watching i'll see you next time.
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enter the conflict zone this week conflict zone is at the u.s. army seoul in first training area is a very are our guest is lieutenant general ben hodges commander of the some thirty
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