tv DW News - News Deutsche Welle January 14, 2018 12:00pm-12:15pm CET
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this is g.w. news live from berlin tunisia is on a beach is it marks the seventh anniversary of the arab spring g.w. funny shot in choosing this for us as fresh protests get underway. that the people and that's. going to take to the street to call for a cut of the revolution there are fears the situation could escalate has been north african nation struggles with deep seated economic problems also on the problem
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kitty also points number for you a shamefaced apology from authorities in hawaii this after a message is mistakenly sent out warning of a missile approaching the island panicked residents feared for their lives for almost forty minutes before the arrow was corrected we'll tell you what went wrong . and the first baby panda ever to be born in france makes its public debut that is just outside paris at just five months of age he's already calling his way into people's homes. hello and welcome my name's christopher spring a good to have you with us fresh protests have erupted into his year as the north african nation marks the seventh anniversary of the arab spring uprising that toppled its former dictator. a lead. since monday tunisians have been demonstrating
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against price rises and tax hikes as the government struggles to solve deep rooted economic problems ahead of today's demonstrations g.w. funny for china has been talking to the family of a man killed during a protest earlier this week. there's not much to do in this small challenge closer to the capital city of tunis unemployment is high especially among the youth we are into board about one in three young people does not have a job life has become expensive and the local markets are nearly empty these days people are fed up with the economic situation in tunisia inflation was already quite high and now there is an additional price hike for basic goods like vegetables and fruits and it's in places like this one in villages and towns just outside of the capital city tunis the frustration of a prize fights for basic goods could easily turn into a revolt against a government. people who do not have much suffer the most under the austerity
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measures in effect to reduce to blooming state deficits this woman leaves the market didn't empty back then and from what they have been used before her father. i didn't benefit from democracy we are so tired of this because everything became so expensive the government doesn't care about and. people have been taking their anger to the streets over the past two weeks they are showing the yellow card to the government the red card will follow they say if things don't change peaceful demonstrations turned violent one man died during clashes with the police. he lived here into borba in this house we are meeting his uncle he takes us through the entire family. the mother is under shock she's concerned that the death of her son hum's he was in way her daughter tells us why. they don't want to tell the truth that the police killed my brother the official autopsy will not tell
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the truth the government is afraid that this could result in another revolution. if . the circumstances of homs is death remain unclear what is certain is that he took to the street to demand a life in dignity a job some stability. that's not possible in this country the politicians want to fill your pockets they don't care about the people if they want to put me in prison for what i say i'm not afraid left you know on a bad call. most people don't feel like celebrating the anniversary of the arab spring for many democracy didn't result in economic prosperity they were hoping for . that report there from did all these funny for cianci is now austerity protest in this funny give us an idea of what the atmosphere is like at the moment.
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a few thousands of people have gathered here for the empty austerity demonstration to come on city in tunis and the people are just about to leave they are going to go to demand haven't you heard the officer ceremony is going to take place to mark the seventh anniversary of the arab spring not and that's going to be the big question whether the anti government protests is going to come from the song by the all fishel any bursary celebrations nobody knows but so far everything is quite peaceful people are chanting are shot people are saying power back to the people and things that change if things don't become better economically devotee to continue to take to the streets and to go for an economic revolution a second revolution after twenty loven in tunisia and funny tunisian government has announced plans to increase aid for the country's poor is that enough for the protesters behind you. one jocose the been talking to twenty
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three who came here from suze in the center of the of course all know suz has been a target for terrorist attack in twenty fifteen she said aid that's just lip service what she wants is a perspective what she wants the job she wants a decent to live and she says people are not going to stop the demonstration until this entire finance law is dropped altogether so all together people are saying that this is not enough of the government is trying to promise right now they're saying they do not believe politicians anymore after all this is government number . or not and that he's trying to turn the situation around in this country. and why is government number nine finding it so tough to to address his economic problems the country international acclaim seven years ago after the arab spring introducing democracy but apparently not able to address the economic challenges.
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right it's a combination of various factors of as i've just mentioned this country has been ripped off by different terrorist attacks through out the recent several years after twenty eleven due to that of course tourists are staying away and tourism has been a very very important income in this country at the same time of course if you have not governments people from foreign countries are not going to invest into this country because they consider it very in stable and structural difficulties as evolved between the north and the south so it's a number of problems that are coming all together at the same time of course the country's on the pressure right now because the i.m.f. has given two point nine billion u.s. dollars to tunisia in return for tougher reforms so the government is under pressure not just by the people who are here on the street today but also by the i.m.f. by the international law and to deliver those tough reforms ok sunny many thanks. in tunis. the governor of hawaii has apologized to residents of the
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u.s. island off to an emergency misawa was mistakenly sent out yesterday the governor saying a state employee had pushed the wrong button which then sent a text message to hawaiians warning them that an intercontinental missile would soon strike the island over this against the backdrop of international tension of north korea's ballistic missile program. warning sirens well out over hawaii. right here. for nearly forty minutes it seemed like the world was about to end a text message was sent to people telling them to seek shelter and stressing that the missile alert was not a drill. hawaii's governor quickly apologized for what turned out to be a mistake made by workers manning the state's emergency warning system. you know
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this should not have happened we are investigating the sequence of events that occurred right and never risk meeting emergency management it was a procedure that occurs at the change of shift where they go through to make sure that the system is working and and employed he pushed the wrong button. and that triggered a false alarm sending people scrambling when we got the alarm we're actually to find around the thirty sixth floor there's no towel and we didn't know what to do my friend just wake me up he said he lets someone can you know why he didn't go to sirius when it's just three. one professional golfer in hawaii tweeted in anguish as he took to shelter in a bathtub with his family please lord let this bomb threat not be real he wrote. north korea's boasted it has missiles which can reach why he. and with nuclear tensions between the u.s. and pyongyang already running high the false alarm is
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a reminder of what's at stake. and what can happen with the push of a button. ok let's catch up now with some of the other stories making news around the world in a rainy an oil tanker that to be burning in the east china sea has sunk according to chinese state t.v. three bodies have been recovered but twenty nine crew members remain unaccounted for the blaze broke out after the tanker collided with a cargo ship a week ago. israel says it has destroyed an attack tunnel built by the palestinian islam as a group hamas the tunnel which ran from gaza into israel and egypt was bombed by israeli forces late on saturday a checkpoint for goods entering gaza was closed prior to the attack it's not known whether there have been any casualties. the french dairy group like thomas is recalling twelve million boxes of trying to baby milk and eighty three countries after a salmonella outbreak at one of its production plants some three dozen children
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fell sick in france after consuming the milk families of the stricken children announced they plan to sue the company. and protesters in south africa have found allies several h. and m. stores after the swedish retail giant used a controversial picture of a black child on its website h m m issued an apology and withdrew the picture after it spawn tallit geishas of racism on social media. staying in south africa cape town is facing a dramatic water shortage car washing and the watering of gardens have both been banned and or thought as a people to limit showers to two minutes or less a drought is to blame last year recorded as the driest in decades and this is all prompting fears that cape town could become the first major city in the world to completely run out of water. so residents of new landscape town this spring owned
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by a local brewery has been a blessing with water restrictions imposed on households in the city here people can get an additional twenty five leaders free of charge. once a week in their food for cans of twenty five liters and been a huge hit for drinking purposes i've seen some parts happening here and this is before day zero so i can imagine people get quite upset when there's no water day zero is when the city will run out of usable tap water cape town steve out is closed down is currently at thirty percent capacity if it drops below thirteen point five percent city authorities will turn off the faucet in all households. we would only then supply two critical. places such as hospitals and was obviously also to what we've identified as pod sites places where people
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can come and collect water and there would be about two hundred of those scattered suitably around the greater city water sources guarded by the military it's the worst case scenario for cape town and as each day passes without rain that reality inches closer experts predict day zero will arrive at the end of april. now animal lovers in france are over the moon at the moment over this young chap over here his name is yuan mang he's just five months old and he's the first baby panda ever to be born in a french suit is also fast becoming a media sensation despite what i think can only be called imperfect climbing skills . seems like the young man still has so what on his climbing skills maybe it's better to say on the ground but the time being. the five month old best debut in france has attracted
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a lot of attention. never as an animal gotten as much media coverage and never has been and will been followed as much on social media beauty as you. must have crowns turned out for that is a bad day being and he didn't let him down putting on a show during playtime with mom. when is it touching. it's a joy it's even better than that it really makes us happy. it's touching. we see similarly. for young bad the wild is full of challenges lucky moms then with a helping pool. ok
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