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oh god that is a. little over. the human rights. d.w. . this is the day of the news live from berlin f.r.s. wave of unrest in the middle east after trump says they're going to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel violence flares outside the u.s.
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embassy in beirut as protesters express their rage at trump's break with decades of policy also coming up. winners of the nobel peace prize receive their of ward for work toward banning nuclear weapons and issue a dire warning for the future. and the turkish german journalist who has spent the last three hundred days imprisoned in turkey on international human rights a we'll look at the dangerous still facing activists. thanks for joining us i'm. we begin with some breaking news the german newspaper building is reporting a large amount of munitions have been found near a christmas market in western bread and we will be bringing you the latest as more comes in. from the news and the fresh fallout from the u.s.
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president donald trump's decision to recognize israel's capital violence has flared with police saying a palestinian has stabbed an israeli security guard main bus station and in lebanon security forces have fired tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators outside the american embassy in beirut. fires outside the u.s. embassy in beirut a sign of the rage against the u.s. president and his plans to relocate the country's embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem it's a move the arab world calls open aggression against the palestinians and a threat to regional stability. it doesn't matter what donald trump and the u.s. administration decide jerusalem will remain the capital of arab palestine forever. and of course jerusalem is arab it always was arab and it will stay that way.
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also tens of thousands chanted in wave flags on the streets of the moroccan capital robot to show their support for the palestinians and denounce american and israeli aggression in paris french president and urged israel's benjamin netanyahu to negotiate with the palestinians and called trump's move a dangerous threat to peace netanyahu dug in against the criticism it's always been a couple in jerusalem it's never been the couple of any other people so i think the sooner the problem students come to grips with this reality the sooner we will move towards peace and this is why i think president was stored and so important for peace. that peace is unlikely in the current atmosphere as palestinians continue to march in gaza and the west bank violent scenes like this in bethlehem suggest it won't be easy to diffuse their outrage. as events of
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micron israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says add that the sooner the palestinians accepted that jerusalem is israel's capital this inner there will be peace and i asked our correspondent in jerusalem tanya kramer how an idea who intends to make that work well that is really a good question because that is really a nonstarter for the palestinians they're saying well we are also a reality here and they want of course to see. for lay to be the capital of the future state so it was quite uncompromising stance to echoing also the words of the u.s. president who had recognized drew semester capital of israel last week so also a rather straightforward statement by the french president in this press conference he was basically reiterating again that france is opposing this recognition and he also the israeli prime minister to make some gestures towards the palestinians for
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some is talking about a possible settlement freeze so you also had very clear verts to mr netanyahu on this issue. some of the other stories making news around the world. several thousand people have marched through kiev ukraine in support of opposition politician mikhail. they demanded his release on the impeachment of his rival ukrainian president poroshenko. was arrested on friday he's accused of receiving money from an all the gaar close to the russian government because many have denied the allegation. a major flare up of southern california is the largest wildfire has triggered new evacuations around two hundred thousand people have been forced to flee their homes and nearly eight hundred houses have been destroyed forecasters they go stay dry winds will continue to fund the flames for at least
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another day would. in romania thousands of people have protested legislation that critics say would make it harder to punish high level corruption the country's parliament is in the process of approving a series of laws that protesters say would bring the justice system under greater political control. of the winners of this year's nobel peace prize have received their award during a ceremony in oslo the group i can have spent more than a decade working towards a treaty to ban nuclear weapons but the group has warned of the dangers still facing the world today saying that a moment of panic or carelessness could be enough to start a nuclear war. activists gather in to celebrate the witness of this year's nobel prize the international campaign to a bullish nuclear weapons. they see this a what a spiteful and timely. the campaigners have received
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a nobel prize at a moment when much of the world once more as worried about the changes of nuclear war. as the norwegian royal family looked on the chairwoman of the nobel committee and at them their price. it was an emotional moment for the activists the nobel committee has recognized the decade long campaign to secure a ban on nuclear weapons over one hundred countries have signed a treaty to thought effect but the world's nuclear powers including the united states haven't yet and neither has north korea a moment of panic or carelessness a misconstrued comment or a bruised ego could easily lead us to the destruction of entire cities the story of nuclear weapons will have an ending and it is up to us to decide what that enemy will be. will it be the end of nuclear weapons.
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or will it be the end of us. the ceremony was attended by survivors of the hiroshima bombing setscrew thurlow was a teenager then she lost friends and family on august the sixth one nine hundred forty five. today she dedicated the nobel prize to them and to hundreds of thousands of others who died that day so. each person had the main. each person what's loved by someone let us ensure. that their deaths were not in vain. and on the other side of the world people in humor gether to think i can feel it's work damn sh if people i can skim pain then perhaps one day the world who no longer have to fear the bomb.
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today marks the three hundredth day in a turkish prison for turkish german journalist and su child the turkish government accuses him of writing terrorist propaganda but the german government says he's been detained for political reasons near his newspaper says is being held in a four by three. much of the time he's been kept isolated from other prisoners. hundreds of human rights workers are currently behind bars and turkey human rights activist. recently returned from istanbul after being held there for weeks shall also parts in his berlin home. now on his way to germany to reunite with his family after spending nearly four months in a turkish prison and the weeks since his return he's been trying to readjust its continue doing my relaxation exercises which i did before going into prison during
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prison i'm doing it still it's a lot of talking with friends with colleagues it's also just getting back into normal rhythms like taking care of the children etc they human rights activist was teaching a seminar in istanbul when he was unexpectedly detained by turkish authorities during his time in prison he learned to come to terms with the rules solitary confinement is maybe the strictest one had for several days but also there. i was treated mainly was respect for the guards i had great great inmates in the way . who were passing through similar situations like i did and for me it was very important to feel the solidarity from the outside as well from the fellow prisoners activists and germany and turkey demanded his release now despite not being back in germany the trial against him in turkey is continuing in his absence he's charged with having supported an armed terrorist organization and many others
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are still imprisoned in turkey looking into the judicial system and the judicial procedures see that for a lot of the political detainees that the situation is rather unfair the trials are postponed there are sometimes not even until now there's a lot of solidarity from my side and i hope that i can say the same that i would love to say the same that as you said a few days before my release like you're going to be out soon. now recently received a peace prize for his work as a human rights activist. and for more on this we're joined by marcus baik oh he's the general secretary of international here in germany mr baker thank you for joining us. now is just one of the eleven human rights activists that was facing charges related to terrorism there. he's free now what about the others.
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why ten of the human rights defenders who are rested with him free currently. the chair of the tucker section of amnesty international still in detention and still faces not only does accusations but still actually is is in detention and the rest of tama clearly as as a representative of an independent international organization is not only an attack on his. but it's an attack on human rights in general has he been right stay and also today for his three hundredth day behind bars we're talking about the german turkish journalist and a few chel what kind of a condition is he in right now do you know now being in prison for true on the days just for doing your job just for being a journalist is a condition in itself and the international community is challenge
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to do everything it can to bring the turkish authorities to release them as you chair but also the other journalists who have been detained for so many months are there many other journalists behind bars there for the same reasons it's nearly up to two hundred journalists and media workers who have been detained by the turkish authorities and who face observed allegations in the cases and who also see that their rights are often not well recognized jewing the process and jurisdiction of executions there going on and now let's talk about the broader picture and it's of course even right stay activists say turkey is a prominent example of a democracy turning into a dictatorship what does that mean for human rights around the world is a trend that we need to be watching out for and this international currently
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observes two key trends one is that governments and political groups try to do human eyes entire groups declaring to have far less human and staff all. trying to really not acknowledge that they of course have all human rights and the second trend is that human rights defenders doles people who stand up peacefully for human rights are being targeted increasingly so we've seen over two hundred eighty human rights defenders being killed. and it's increasing trend and the world community is challenge to really stand by these peaceful human rights defenders especially on this day thank you for coming into her life those worrying trend stop is marcus vaiko the secretary general of the international here in germany. and just a reminder of the breaking news story that we are following for you berlin probably have said that they are ruling out the possibility of terrorism following reports
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from the german newspaper bells that a large amount of munitions have been found near a christmas market in western burnet. and our show the bundesliga follows after the break where we'll be discussing brosius dart gun firing paid to bosch and replacing him with pay just out there they also have all the sundays games including what turned out to be a blizzard of goals and blizzard conditions in cologne's relegation clash with the firebrick. all that and more coming up you're watching in detail the news coming to you live from berlin i'll be back at the top of the hour with mornings. are not over out and they will also.

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