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warns we won't be pressured police and immigration officials move in the clear almost four hundred refugees from a camp they're seeking asylum in australia but they fear they won't be safe at the alternative accommodation the government is offering. also coming up emmerson men god one prepares to be sworn in as president of zimbabwe he's promised full democracy but will the crocodile as he's now deliver we'll go live to harare. and germany's president turns to score of the president's time are one meet the leader of the social democrats martin chose to try to persuade him to consider joining us for going markel in a coalition government will the president prevail. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us police and immigration officials in papa new guinea have moved in to clear almost four hundred refugees from. an

abandoned immigration camp the camp is on man asylum which is part of papa new guinea it has been used to house refugees hoping to get to australia but it was closed at the end of october after the papa new guinea supreme court ruled it unconstitutional now some of the migrants refused to leave because they feared for their safety at the alternative accommodation. they want to kill us they chant this mobile phone footage captures asylum seekers in a controversial australian run detention center in papua new guinea one that was officially shut down three weeks ago now police have entered the compound they ordered those remaining to leave. shocking scenes of distress the crowd tries to revive one man who has collapsed. the show. these pictures show police attempting to clear the man s.

island center almost four hundred people have refused to leave the camp citing fears for their safety many tried to evade the authorities australia detained refugees arriving by boat in the controversial facility and shut it down after a papua new guinea court ruled it unconstitutional australia now wants to rehire them in another camp on the island. the people at the. regional processing center which has been closed by the p. and three authorities who leave and go to the alternative accommodation that has been provided. the they should have by the law and the lawful authorities of poppy new guinea. there are alternative facilities that have been made available with. border security and medical services. supplies that is sorely lacking at

mannus refugees say police destroyed their belongings and took away food and water stockpiles adding to the utter squalor and which they have been living here. let's get more on this story with. me from melbourne she's a human rights lawyer and a campaigner for the human rights group get up and thanks for joining us tell us more about what is happening on the ground at the man asylum camp this situation is absolutely horrifying as you did shows today i am fortunate only now we have more than four hundred refugees who have been languishing in every day commissioned to teach and seem to you know and have a brace of menace on being forcibly moved to alternative facilities in a town they face a dangerous assault in that town and the protests of mortals who feel that this is a strategy is problem and they do not deserve having six hundred million pushed

into their terror so we have refuting is now facing a very very horrifying choice which means a slow day for a stay inside the detention centers and potentially. outside tracing violence and instability on an assignment schenn activists as yourself have been very critical of the australian government's practice of sheltering refugees on man a file and the government however says it is trying to stop people smugglers and to deter people from making the crossing from indonesia to australia don't they have a point. crossing by sea is dangerous but ultimately will be struggling the government has been doing is violating international law and spending almost nine getting in a struggle. to deal with its true thousand people who have come by boat to a struggle and not as you well aware europe the number is global refugee crisis are far beyond that from what you see in a strivings i small country very trying to the problem massively overacting

slightly violating international law with impunity and deter any fully two thousand men women and children in absolutely despicable conditions for the four years what do you suggest australia to do with this new camp that's being suggested is that being seen as unsafe by the refugees themselves what should the government do at the moment the international agencies operating in the space are absolutely clear and we concur with them the responsibility using the striving in government to evacuate these made a few minutes to bring them to a straight near where that can a white country recently options which in the variable at the moment these people by starvation that have no there is absolutely medical problems in the camp. actually in the camp and on medicine itself and the p.m.t. government is absolutely unable to come to these period when in fact it is not

their responsibility we are trimming what is happening a humanitarian crisis and calling on the international community to pressure the striking government to your neck its responsibility in the situation. from human rights groups get up thank us so much for joining us on our program. thank you very much. now zimbabwe's former vice president emerson magog has promised full democracy after he's sworn in as president on friday he's back in harare after returning from south africa where he had fled after being fired by the then president robert mugabe but gaga had previously been a supporter of mugabe and critics called him a ruthless operator but that didn't bother supporters of the ruling zanu p.f. party who turned out to greet him. ecstatic crowds in harare welcomed home their future presidents. and their missing men and god why didn't fail to deliver. it didn't take him long to connect with the

supporters. of. the emerson. the u.s. senator who was there for you both joining me from suits exist but you. got to get. we were good was putting them down. who. was going to be. was there are going to be new yorkers. its return follows a historic day in zimbabwe on choose dead the speaker of parliament announced that robert mugabe had resigned after thirty seven years in power one was the runner and celebrated the beginning of a new chapter in zimbabwe's history. but now all eyes are squarely on men in god

well. 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 has 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 i will be in by then will depend a lot on this man. not to some other stories making news around the world mean more in bangladesh have reportedly reached a deal on the return of her hinge or refugees living in bangladesh more than six hundred thousand have fled their homes and me and mar amid a violent military crackdown this year the details of the deal have not yet been

released. palestinian political rivals fatah and hamas say they have agreed to hold elections by the end of two thousand and eighteen they'll be joined by a levin other factions the last parliamentary elections were held in two thousand and six and won by hamas sparking a palestinian civil war the two sides have been leading to firm up a reconciliation agreement. you're watching news still to come germany's president prepares to break the coalition deadlock president steinmeyer hopes to persuade the leader of the social democrats mountain child to join a chance or angle americal in government is he pushing out an open door. but first german industrial trying to send cook reporting strong yearly earnings earlier today christophe is here with more on that soon indeed the figures were much better than analysts had expected it was reported a big increase in revenue and earnings before tax are up by almost

a third of one point nine billion euros the company's european steel business controverted a large chunk ever is precisely these operations that matters meant to merge with the steel business of indian competitor tata now workers here in germany fear that the merger will eliminate more jobs that the company says. tousen corp forms the bedrock of german steel making but the company's planned merger with tata steel has left employees feeling like they are on shaky ground the tie up is likely to result in about two thousand job losses in germany. the issue has even sparked debate in the german parliament members of the social democrats say the government should have intervened earlier. this morning. are there it's fun clear if this merger will help secure steel production in germany and europe. it seems as if this is about shedding

a profitable. one that's no longer of interest to the group as a whole. in the senate is good steel production accounts for well over seven billion euros of income each year at towson corp steel made products like elevators are worth almost as much products made for the car industry and so called industrial solutions are also lucrative but the biggest unit by far is material services. a merger is the company's response to overcapacity in the steel market worldwide to some corp and believe a joint venture will make them more efficient but workers feel their futures are being put on the line. earlier i talked to some cops chief financial officer of don't care cough and i asked him why the company wanted to merge its european steel business with tata when the segment is profitable and substantially

contribution to overall results one thing one clearly has to say about steel markets if we look at the recent past i'm going forward as well it is a volatile market so you see periods of good good earnings and of worse earnings and the underlying issue of that is that we still have overcapacity in europe and in china and what we want to address with the joint venture is clearly these underlying things to make it a stronger business in europe overall and therefore more sustainable for all involved parties be it the work force be it the companies and the onus that was you know care cost chief financial officer of to cope. now the holiday season is just beginning christmas decorations have already gone our luxury department store goom there are some unusual gifts this holiday season christmas it seems

isn't just about world peace and love after all is offering a military themed set of decorations includes ornaments hand painted with the machinery of war instead of four goes for about two thousand rubles which is the equivalent of about thirty euros the unusual merchandise received a mixed reaction from shoppers. and i know why but to sue me with more on the efforts to form a government here in germany thank you christophe well the president is due to meet the head of the social democrats to try to break the deadlock over forming a new government that's after talks collapsed last weekend between chancellor angela merkel's conservative and two other parties the leader of the social democrats much in short has so far ruled out any possibility of joining a new coalition under chancellor merkel vice president. also a social democrat is expected to urge him to reconsider that stance today a leading member of michael's conservatives the acting defense minister as the left

underline has also urged the s.p.d. to enter into talks here's what she told christopher spring yesterday. this is from the line is germany in a state of national crisis no because we do have a constitution that is wise and realizable and that is working with a lot of checks and balances so we have an unusual situation but it is manageable. do you think the s.p.d. is going to be able to continue refusing to join at least exploratory coalition talks with your party with the conservatives here in germany well my personal opinion is that if you have been elected as a party your voters wanted you to fulfill a program you have been voted for so i think all of us the democratic parties. are obliged to at least talk to each other and to try to sit down at the negotiation table and this is what i expect from the social democrats so you think

they're going to come and talk to you i hope so tomorrow the leader of the social democrats will see our president and i hope that he will after that meeting he will be accepting to enter in at least talks to explore whether we could go into coalition talks and what would the conservatives what would chancellor merkel be able to offer the social democrats to get them into another government well i'm pretty experienced with coalition negotiations it's where fifth time i'm sitting now with that so this is a long process so you don't start by offering big things but you start by talking and to find a common position from which an you develop project for the future what germany needs what europe needs where our responsibility for the world is and then you define the details the other option of course will be a minority government is there anything that you find attractive about the perspective of a minority government in germany i'm very skeptical about a minority government because my experience is that you need

a stable strong government first of all to push forward common projects but also in an. a moment of a crisis and we have seen many crises the euro crisis the refugee crisis we had different other difficult situation you need a very strong and a government that is determined to step forward and for that a minority government is not to get one last question there has been criticism of chancellor merkel style of negotiation that it perhaps hasn't been effective enough you were in these negotiations what's your view of her style of negotiation i have seen her i've seen are highly concentrated very balanced actually the greens were very satisfied with her style of negotiation and liberals as long as they have been in the negotiations were very satisfied too. she was acting in the same way we know her from international negotiations and we know that in most of the cases

was able to find a good solution why was she not of able to find a good solution this time because it's not only depending on the chancellor there are four parties and all four of them must have the will to govern together are you suggesting the liberals never had that well. you have to ask this question to the liberals at the very beginning and we've been sitting together for four weeks i was convinced that there was a strong will and all sides so it was we were quiet surprised when they walked out of the room on sunday night this is from the line thank you very much for talking to dublin news thank you so much. let's bring in our political correspondent now hans bryant he's also been following this story for us hi hands the president as we measure from my he's meeting with the s.p.d. leader martin shultz today this could be the last chance to wrangle some sort of compromise and avoid new elections how do you think the conversation between these

two will go today do you think the s.p.d. could change their minds. there are indications that the s.p. d.s. at least prepared to enter insight into some sort of talks with the conservatives we have to remember that frank the state president or the federal president in germany is also a social democrat he was foreign minister of this country for many years in the grand coalition government with uncle americal so he knows very well what his party is getting into if it in enters another second or further grand coalition but he has been taking his role as president very seriously and as president what is important is the good of the country and not the good of his own party and he's been pushing very strongly that. elections fresh elections should be avoided and instead all parties that have been elected should take that mandate seriously and

try to form a government including the social democrats the social democrats have refused until now hans why do you think they seem so determined to avoid a coalition government with chancellor merkel with the last four years so damaging to the party. yes i think one has to say that they were which is strange in some sense because during these past four years a lot of social democratic content has been put into this government and has been transferred into laws had three has been transferred into reality. the grand coalition did not mean that the social democrats had to give up their program atic interests but it did mean in some sense that the party lost its own profile in a sense anyone who works together with uncle america somehow seems to merge into the background seems to disappear and some sense. of this taking a lot of the credit for all those things and the election results at the end of

september showed that the social democrats lost a lot of support amongst the voters and one reason for that was that voters felt the parties were kind of colluding the two big parties are colluding with each other and not really emphasizing their differences anymore so if no deal is reached and there are fresh elections who stands to win and who stands to lose. i think the big parties cannot really reckon on winning very much neither the social democrats nor the conservatives there would be movement possibly amongst the smaller parties and there is some concern frankly that the right wing populist the alternative for germany who just entered parliament for the first time with a very good showing might in fact increase their showing in another election because of the feeling amongst voters that the big party is the established parties are simply kind of could looting and playing with a vote as well what about the liberal free democrat fans they're the ones who walked out of talks and there was a notice in ality about that but is there any chance that they could have

a change of heart still. very small chance of that their party leader christian lin has been giving interviews in the last couple of days and he's emphasized that he has always been skeptical of the kind of government with three small parties and the conservatives or the possibility of forming such a government and he says najaf to having attempted to build such a government for the past four weeks. there's no chance that they would really enter such talks again i think the free democrats feel that new elections would be to their benefit could be to their benefit as i said the smaller parties looked more positively on the prospect. political correspondent hans front covering this for us thank you have. now staying here in germany political activists have pulled off a thought provoking stunt they've built a replica holocaust memorial right next to the home of a prominent far right politician who had criticized the original holocaust memorial

in berlin that politician named beyond hooka hasn't reacted so far but the activist leading the project has demanded that hope and kneel in front of the original memorial and beg forgiveness for germany's actions in world war two here in the heart of berlin the memorial to the murdered jews of europe practically invites political discussion most see it as a fitting monument to the six million jews who died in the holocaust but others say germany should not be reminded continually of its past. burin hooka of the far right alternative for germany party has called the memorial disgraceful his comment prompted a berlin based artist collective to build a replica of the memorial inside of her his house in there in gita. i don't either in january he made his speech about the disgrace to

a monument so now we have to build an extension of this monument for him right in front of his eyes. ok no that's on the advice move on out we want to help them understand that the guild that he feels is ok and that it's important to take responsibility for the skilled so that he can let it go from inviting to. pick who was unavailable for comment but the mini memorial could be there for a while yet authorities say it does not breach any law. to sports now in football's champions league where byron munich out already made the knockout stages but one to one that belgians and are left to give them a chance of top spot the big drama came off the field as biron fans through fake monkey money summer here on to the pitch and held up banners to protest against the one hundred euro cost of tickets robert love and osceola opened the scoring after fifteen one minutes in under left rallied to equalising through sofia on honey on

sixty three minutes but just minutes later her in time to listen bagged the winner for biron if their ninth straight win the since coaching a pint just took over the reins last. let's take a look at all of wednesday's champions league group phase results as we saw byron beat under like where as a group rivals p.s.g. slammed seven celtic elsewhere chelsea booked their ticket to the next round with a win over. roma no goals between you ventus and barcelona which puts the spaniards through and there were wins for sporting basel and c.s.k. moscow. the europa league is back in action later tonight with german side hoffenheim and how to berlin knowing they will be out if they lose cologne still have a chance of progressing to the knockout stages but host premier league heavyweights arsenal alone are really struggling in the bundesliga sitting bottom with only two points from twelve games they're also bottom of their europa league group but

a win against arsenal would reignite their qualification hopes cologne coach is also hoping the game boosts their confidence for domestic football as well let's listen in. right now we have one more opportunity to build some faith in ourselves a positive result. on the one side for the europa league group but also for this sunday's bundesliga game but the arsenal match is about a very special opponent in a very special coaching a great setting here and simple it will be a great game and. kinds of want to push. and there's just one final sports item emotions were high at the champions league match up in sylvia not only because of the home teams comeback against liverpool but also because the coach eduardo bedi so told us players that he has prostate cancer but he so is forty eight and he reportedly informed his players at half time they were down three no at the time but they fought back with three goals to gain the draw after the last goal was

a vs what rush to celebrate they did so she will undergo tests to determine what treatment is needed. are minor now of our top stories that we're following at this hour police and immigration officials have moved in to clear almost four hundred refugees seeking asylum in australia from an immigration camp and papa new guinea they fear for their safety yet the alternative accommodation offered. and emerson meant god has promised full democracy ahead of being sworn in as zimbabwe's new president on friday he had just returned from south africa where he fled after being fired by robert mugabe. don't forget you can always get news on the go download or out from google play or from the app store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and you can also use that to send us your photos and your videos thanks for watching it every will be right back at the top of the hour.

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