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this is d. w. news coming to you live from berlin another government shutdown in the u.s. the second time this year funding runs out despite a bipartisan push to pass a budget bill wrote republican senator blocks the measure that long will this closure last go live to washington also coming up wall street drops
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again and world markets follow with the dow jones now down more than ten percent it's officially a market correction we'll tell you what that means in business. just hours before the twenty eighteen olympics kick off in south korea the official north korea delegation touches down including kim jong un sister is her visit the sign of a fall or just a political ploy. but it's not all about politics the olympic flame is in the final few stages of the torch relay and on its way to the opening ceremony of the twenty third winter games. plus the nigerians forced to flee deadly clashes between herders and farmers we'll take you inside the latest player of a conflict that stretches back for decades in the country.
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hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us the u.s. government has shut down again after a rogue senator singlehandedly delayed a vote on the stopgap measure to keep the government funded for another six months senator rand paul held up a bipartisan budget agreement that raises government spending the most observers expect this impasse to last only a few hours u.s. senate has reconvened and is likely to pass the measure and then go to the house of representatives for a vote in time for government offices to open as normal in the morning. take a listen to senator rand objection to this budget deal today the senate will vote on a bill that will add one point five trillion dollars to the debt over the next ten years the dirty little secret is the republicans are loudly clamoring for more military spending but they can't get it unless they give the democrats welfare
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spending so they raise all the spending it's a compromise in the wrong direction. well while washington braces for another short shutdown no there's been more trouble on wall street shares have dropped dramatically again has the latest as far as they say terry when wall street sneezes the world catches a cold and as we saw during global markets spasms earlier this week that is very often true everything seems to be just fine until thursday when wall street sneezed again the dow plunged more than four percent last night combined with monday's losses the slide it overall slide of more than ten percent officially puts the drop into market correction territory asian markets followed shanghai is down for an office and the sharpest drop in the region. after the global market rally earlier this week and investors were warned of increased and more frequent volatility moving forward and that's what they're getting as seen by the dow's return to the
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red on thursday some analysts say that algorithm based trading and preprogram sell orders are to blame others point to market based indicators first u.s. investors fretted over a potential rise in borrowing costs as inflation picks up on increasing wages and they were anxious over the government shutdown but some investors are taking a longer more sanguine view. or in one of these environments right now what do people have to realize the stock market and the economy are two different things. and the technicals of the stock market are going to fight the fundamentals of an improving economy maybe for the rest of this month there's no doubt that the economy's improving and there's no doubt that some of the. repercussions of the tax reform plan and the lower regulatory environment probably haven't even worked its way all the way through the market yet there's little sign
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of an impending recession and thus a bear market or sustained sell off isn't expected either but that appears to be cold comfort to asian markets they're following u.s. stocks into negative territory to pan's nikkei saw a slump of more than three percent and chinese stocks are on track for their worst day in almost two years as cash seeking investors dump stocks ahead of the long lunar new year holiday weekend starting next week. right over to all financial correspondent who's standing by at the franklin stock exchange where trading has not yet started but daniel is the u.s. government shutdown contributing to this volatility. well garrett i asked this question early this morning to one of the first investors here showing up at the stock market she said in a normal market situation she would have said clearly no but we have really seen this a very high volatility market
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a market that is extremely nervous extremely under president she was telling me also issues like this can really give the market some problems and we have to talk about what is happening for the second time this week wall street has been dropping many and bester is also are telling me that this cannot just be about interest rates at the moment that the market is really pressure. but you also have to keep in mind that we are still on a very high level at the moment and it seems when you look for example to the level of the gold price this morning also to the oil price that investors there are warry but they're also not panicking those numbers if this would have been the case would be way up. down here want is a market correction where does it stand on the richter scale of financial earthquakes. yeah market correction that in many cases is actually considered as healthy. is
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a correction of ten percent mostly in the negative way of course from the peak then the bear market would be a level of twenty percent and then we would see a crash so yes a market correction can be painful but certainly it could be even worse talk about even worse if everyone is so nervous right now what's keeping us from heading into a proper crash or sustain bama could. well i think what we have to remember the following if for example i'm generally twenty six by the time we still saw a peak happening somebody would have invested one hundred us dollars we would still be as a level of ninety dollars at the moment and well in general the world economy is doing very well yes we might see interest rates hikes happening and we might see also a little inflation happening because of higher wages and less people being unemployed but the world has not completely changed also after keep that on mine today is
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trading there is going to be rather difficult again investors will be even more nervous because it's as i said the second time we're seeing this happening today but also the yesterday the market in frankfurt was already struggling because of this situation the first focus is also showing that most likely will be starting in the red numbers but we also don't expect a crash market happening here today certainly an interesting day on world markets today thank you very much done in frankfurt. and i'll have more business news a bit later in the show but first back to terrorism or well it's interesting day on wall street interesting day in washington to go hard with the another government shutdown looming at least for a little while we've seen these senators in washington having a difficult time passing a budget bill yet again costing phenomenon has been following the proceedings
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all evening there in washington hello to you causton any idea how long this shutdown is going to last. well most people here expect that this shutdown might last only a few hours basically there seems to be majority in both chambers of congress for this bill which is of course is based on a bipartisan deal between republicans and democrats in the senate and it was simply held up by one senator rand paul who used senate procedures to delay the bill but basically this will not stop the bill after it has passed the senate if you will of course go to the house of representatives there's a bit more uncertainty there because there has been criticism from both republicans and democrats about some provisions in the bill or things that are not in the bill
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but basically the odds are still good that this shutdown is over before actually most people go back to work on friday morning what is this impasse about why are the republicans and the democrats having such a difficult time agreeing on a budget right now one of the main sticking points. well the main sticking point with this deal for the republican side there are some conservatives who are against spending more money for the states to spend more money anyway and this bill provides for higher spending limits for both military and non military spending so some republicans think there should be more spending and all that some republicans think more spending for the military is fine but not for the welfare programs which the democrats insisted on to agree to this bill on the democratic
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side of course the main point is that they said there is no mention of immigration reform here there is no solution for the so-called dreamers so young immigrants who painted yes illegally as kids and democrats want to have a solution there that is not in the bill so that is why so many democrats are reluctant to vote for it ok now so we get two government shutdowns within a matter of weeks there in the u.s. what does this tell us about the current state of the union in in washington. well the political system in washington is in a deep crisis this system depends very much on the readiness of members from both parties the two main parties in congress to compromise for the moderates to come together because there's always been this element of some members on either side of the aisle not going with the party line because here in the us and them as
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of parliament are not so much dependent on the party or the party leadership they are dependent on the voters back home in their constituency so they have always been some members who voted against the party line this is why the system depended on moderates from both sides working together and to compromise and these days there are less and less moderates and more ideologues and that is why the system gets nothing done or very little done ok thank you cause indeed i mean cause and phenomena in washington. now moving on to the winter olympics we've got the opening ceremony in china south korea ninety two nations are taking part in the games including north korea athletes from the two koreas will mark side by side under a unity flag at the opening ceremony that's going to happen in just a couple of hours a plane carrying senior officials from the north arrived at south seoul airport
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just a short while ago the delegation includes kim the sister of north korean leader kim jong il and she chunked the other members of north korea's high level delegation are fairly powerful people as well kim is the younger sister of north korean supreme leader kim jong the thirty year old oversees the ruling party's propaganda efforts to boost her brother's cult of personality south korean papers often refer to her as the ivanka trump of north korea now ninety year old kim young naam is the country's formal head of state just one notch below kim in the power hierarchy he is the head of a high level delegation to the winter games the vice chairman of the workers' party of korea is choi we who serves as a resource on north korea's politburo with kim jong il he leads efforts to recruit
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and develop the countries of talent now that there's also someone that he's the whole point man for reunification talks with south korea he spearheaded the january delegation that results in north korea taking part in the olympic games or correspondent jason strother is in china for us today jason what is on kim jong un's sister's agenda during their visit at the winter games. i wish i knew what she had been on her mind right now but i can tell you what everyone is talking about here. miss kim you know jiang and vice president mike pence actually speak to one another when they are having dinner hosted by for south korean president moon j.n. . group because they're pinning ceremony this formal gathering is to appen already the north koreans have said they're not interested in talking to the americans mike
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pence while saying that the trumpet ministration is ready to put new sanctions against the regime has indicated that there could be some wooer room for him to speak with the north so there could be some real tension at that dinner where you have high level north korean and american officials in the same room very unusual what does kim appearance mean jason for relations between the two koreas. certainly it's a big move for appealing young to send someone within the kim family to south korea as you noted there's never been. a better send it of the kim clan down here in south korea although south korea has sent the presidents to the north on two occasions i have the north has never had a reciprocal visit. between this dinner gathering tonight and another meeting tomorrow back in so i'm sure president moon and miss kim are going to have
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many discussions about future cooperation although it seems unlikely that denuclearization would be on the agenda. jason was so much media attention focused on the visit of that north korean delegation are the hosts of the olympic games there in the south not concerned that the athletic competition itself will be overshadowed. and there's no doubt that the athletic competition right now is overshadowed by north korea. the young china games have been generating some international media attention. as it was but one him jungleland said of the beginning of this year that he was willing to participate and the north and south declare that they would back into the stadium later tonight together under a unified flag and also field a joint women's ice hockey team that's been all be attention on that's all the attention focused on the games right now and i'm sure. the government would rather
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have a deal on the sports and the athletics and the camaraderie but when north korea is in bad and anything they always take center stage jason thank you so much jason strother there for us at the winter olympic games in china south korea. with the final countdown to the winter games a rush of last minute preparations for host south korea in china we'll have a final decision on the doping scandal that has dominated much of the coverage in the run up to the games in just a couple of minutes but first let's take a look around the olympic venues and those who are looking forward to the event most. the olympic torch is on to the home stretch. the final few stages of the flames journey brought it ever near its hip young chang and the games opening ceremony as the torch made its way along the coastline athletes and
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fans were gearing up for two and a half weeks of winter sports action with expectations high. the german house in pyongyang is up and running and here come finance in a good metal hole is so high that the champagne is already on ice everything here is sets out to give competitors and supporters alike a taste of germany a long way from hug. for organizers it's about making sure everyone has a good time. that's not going we want to welcome many happy guests and see many sports stories written and watch many happy athletes who are truly enjoying their time here. meanwhile in the capital so too controversial figures made their entrance impersonators of donald trump and kim jong un have arrived in south korea with a message of peace and friendship. it seems like the olympics event like this has started a dialogue between north korea and south korea which i have to think that dialogue
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even if it differed produces a little bit of shouting between people is better than people shooting each other up a lethal tropic can. they will do you think talk to probably go home because in my opinion they're pretty much the same people. an unlikely friendship made reality by the people in chiang games and with official opening of events just hours away people here will be hoping diplomatic relations can piggyback on the feeling of good will to make the winter olympics more than just a sporting success. tell the court of arbitration for sport the c.i.s. has turned down an appeal by forty seven russian athletes and coaches to compete at the winter olympic games the russians. had been banned from taking part in the international olympic committee over state sponsored doping in sochi four years ago they argued they'd been wrongly excluded from the games but said the i.o.c. its decision wasn't unfair or just really too. well here to talk about all this
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is jonathan crane from d.w. sports agent this story's been back and forth all around since the court of arbitration first reduced the sentences last week was this the expected outcome i think we've come to expect the unexpected with this story but certainly the i.o.c. is breathing a massive sigh of relief because after days and weeks of uncertainty we do finally have some clarity and i think this will be seen as a win for the i.o.c. because it's essentially got its way those athletes that it wants to compete at the games are competing and those russians it doesn't want to commit the games on so in the end the cast was very clear cut there have been some rumors overnight that maybe some athletes would be allowed to compete others wouldn't so at least we do have that clarity let's not forget that there were two groups here those athletes who had that bans overturned by cast but also another group who hadn't been banned for doping they included the speed skating fix on
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a highly decorated speed skater so the reasons for their exclusion were unclear and this is what the russian lawyers tried to argue that the i.o.c. criteria for illegibility was unfair discriminated against individual athletes but the i.o.c. is maintained all along that it doping ban doesn't necessarily or the lack of doping ban doesn't necessarily guarantee an invite and as regards here that is what cathy is also decided to. be traitors of constitutes the process. to establish an invitation list of russian athletes to compete olympic athletes from russia would not be described as a sanction but rather as an eligibility decision. so where does this leave us with the opening ceremony what are we going to see there leaves us with a hundred and sixty nine russian athletes who compete as independents and they span a olympic athlete from russia so the opening ceremony in
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a few hours will see them with the olympic flag should any of them win a gold medal well here the olympic anthem in the russian anthem but that's not forget that this in itself has stirred some controversy because some people were saying the i.o.c. has decision to allow these athletes to take part doesn't go far enough that the punishment should have been hostile it should've been a complete ban on russia taking potshots people say if that happens then we wouldn't have any of this mess and all this to infer who can compete and who can't lots of criticism even from within the i.o.c. dick pound who sets out while to the world anti-doping agency said we talk more than we walk more attention has been paid getting russians to the games than dealing with the conduct of the i.o.c. with its found balance between punishing russia and allowing clean russian athletes to take cause and i think crucially the bottom line for the i.o.c. this cast has meant we've avoided a situation where some athletes of the crowd hanging over them will be competing in these games well we see some walking in less talking when the games get under way
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today jonathan crane from sports thanks so much. rescue workers in taiwan are searching for seven people missing in this week's deadly earthquake the six point four magnitude quake tilted this twelve story building on a forty five degree angle all seven people are trapped in a hotel on the bottom floors of the building. activists say airstrikes in syria is eastern guta near the capital damascus have killed over two hundred people in the past four days bloodshed has led to the united nations to call for an urgent ceasefire to evacuate civilians and deliver humanitarian aid. they're being parliament has expressed deep concern about the human rights situation in turkey and a resolution you lawmakers urge president russia type out on to lift the state of emergency him pose after the failed military coup in two thousand and sixteen they say it's being used to stifle opposition in the country
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small business there's now with doubt thank you very much terry. germany has its foot firmly on the gas pedal granting a permit for the north stream to natural gas pipeline from russia the first pipeline of the north korean family runs across the bottom of the baltic sea from russia to me in east germany its sister project running alongside will double capacity of the route which currently stands at fifty five billion cubic metres critics say it will increase europe's energy dependency on russia ukraine is said to lose out most at present over half of russian gas exports to the e.u. pos so that country but for how much longer. by the time russian gas flows through these pipes it's already traveled thousands of kilometers from siberia on its way to customers in central europe this compressor station keeps the
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pressure in the pipeline stable ensuring the gas reached its destination for the west at least for now. this plant run by ukraine state energy company nafta gas was built almost forty years ago and is now coming to the end of its working life as ukraine struggle to maintain its position as the chief transit country for russian energy it needs to upgrade the infrastructure a pilot project financed by torture bank and underwritten by german export guarantees will see the multi-million euro compresses successively replaced but the question is will they ever really be needed. the north stream pipeline linking russia and germany directly across the baltic sea here is set to be joined by second connection to construction is due to get underway later this year the new pipeline will be able to transport some fifty five billion cubic meters of gas equivalent to two thirds of the gas transit in ukraine on average in recent years the project critics in ukraine argue that north stream two would mean more than
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just empty parking lots and lots of transit income. they say will increase europe's dependence on russian energy and allow the kremlin to put political pressure on its former eastern european satellite states by halting supplies without endangering deliveries to its big western european customers feel that something north strange backers including former german chancellor and current chairman have consistently rejected saying the deal is purely driven by economic considerations and provides additional capacity rather than a replacement to existing pipelines the head of ukraine state energy company is adamant his country has more to lose than just transiting called if north rim too is built will be devastating we believe clean air wait for a full fledged russian aggression against ukraine we are fighting to stop russian troops it's the eastern border but if there is no transit of gas there is no risk interruption we believe russian will be. well for us but just
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a matter of months to go to construction on north korea to get underway ukrainian hopes now resting brussels and washington to finally translate their vocal opposition to the project into action. forbes magazine has just published the first list of crypto millionaire that is a ranking of the richest people in digital currency at the top is chris lawson founder of the block chain network report he's worth an estimated eight billion dollars also on the list cameron and tyler wink of oss between brothers who famously feuded with facebook founder mark zuckerberg and later founded a digital currency exchange forbes calculations were made on january nineteenth that's important to remember given the recent volatility and plunge of digital currencies like bitcoin. that's all your business is back to terry thanks. you are watching the news still to come egypt's archive of
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resistance activists published their trove of videos from egypt's twenty eleven revolution saying they want to stop the government from rewriting history. class and much more coming up in just a couple minutes here on. kickoff like. take football personally. knew him. personally it took many lives no you shan't i love story in this yellow line from bullied to friend nick fielding a new talent maybe one even he reveals his future claims in an exclusive interview with. sixty minutes. the top
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harder to find grazing land for their livestock are taking over farmland by force or than five hundred people died last year and in january of this year alone more than one hundred sixty people lost their lives the situation is particularly acute in the state have been nearly one hundred thousand people there have fled to refugee camps we sent our reporter into the heart of the conflict. fama crystal from a k o six also that mother only has to do it floor to rest on about two weeks ago herdsman at tech their village forcing them to flee to mark already the provincial capital now they are living in a school that's on the construction. they have access to water there. but are still waiting for food medical care and mantras to sleep on. so disappointed so i'm not happy i don't even want to leave i can go back i would
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also let me go but then he goes no it's a robot so he's good us who are here we also bought him both who are living the life i'm all for is. the attackers kills two people in christopher's village the rest have fled. the humanitarian crisis in the new state keeps unfolding there's already seven camps that are open for internally displaced people but more and more of them are leaving their villages looking for security. under the protection of security forces we drive into the house of the conflict zone. everywhere we go they have people fleeing the hertz man. on doubtless coming killing destroying our property because what you're not here now.
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for for security purposes are people. who. come into canada coming on days coming in night. so. we see one desire to deliver after the next the same kind of images we know all too well from the book region in nigeria's northeast. we are right now a village called brand new estates and like a lot of the neighboring communities and villages this one here is deserted most people have left the community because they're scared to further attacks and precious. the governor of been away complains about insufficient security forces in the region. he blames the government in the capital even though he is a member of the ruling party. and i don't have state police i don't have states army i don't have. the air force. supposed to just give.
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the need for. presidency and i basically your party is failing the people here then well as far as i'm concerned this is accomplished. in a visit to a refugee camp the governor defends his approach to solving the problem. last year he passed a law forbidding shepherds from moving about freely with their livestock. so this however does nothing to curtail the number of attacks it only increased tensions from one day to the next the ruling deprived galba husseini of his livelihoods. unable to put his cows out to pasture you had to buy feed for them but since he lacked the money to do so he had to sell most of his thirty cows at below market price. and the captive market in market would be a hussaini is one of the few hurts men from the yes newsgroup who has state's most fled for fear of being attacked most farmers don't differentiate they consider the
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traditional full on you hurts men to be criminals the situation is threatening to become an ethnic conflict. right i'm here but i'm feeling afraid because i can walk out and say that we're all fine for the show i was sharing. and we hadn't seen them go she didn't run a full line. to kill you and i'm not. saying what revenge revenge but in probably. a family as they keep it as the key. and i doubt even exists right the quantity. the government in maku the proposes solving the problem with what they call capital colonies free land for herders provided by the states shepard husseini likes this approach so it's most farmers like christopher buckley you are against it's with the two sides digging in the government is overwhelmed christopher and his family fear they will be stuck in
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this camp for a long while to come. living in old age seven years ago thousands of egyptians took to the streets of cairo to protest the regime of then president hosni mubarak at the same time a handful of young activists called. decided to document the events of what they call the egyptian revolution now this vast collection of videos is online as an archive of resistance. eight hundred and fifty eight hours that's how long it will take you to watch every single video in a new online archive on the top of your square uprising in egypt the project called eight fifty eight is dedicated to documenting how every day people experience that time in egypt's history the anonymous collective that built the site they say the egyptian government is trying to change history and has even begun removing references to the protests from textbooks. history's
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a battleground. the concern contested space for narratives we felt we had a responsibility to do something in the face of our history mythologically and systematically distorted and rewritten by those in power hundreds of people contributed footage most of it shop between two thousand and eleven and two thousand and thirteen their interviews personal accounts pictures of peaceful and violent protests as well as thousands of photos and documents all searchable a new way to bear witness to the view on the ground of egypt's revolution. a time when these no space to talk about what happened and no way to punish these images this is an act of breaking the silence of the house of syrians mission is to preserve their version of the quote revolution and eight fifty eight is their offensive in the new conflict over the revolutions narrative.
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well here in the studio to talk about this is my colleague abraham from our social media desk good morning good morning now mousse arena it's an anonymous collective do we do we know anything about the people behind of course there's quite a lot about the people behind the city is actually a very well known entity from egypt so called revolution twenty eleven. did all kinds of projects during this time between twenty eleven and twenty fourteen things like media training organizing from screenings in the square when the political climate still allowed for that. kind of activity they had other projects i mean the archive that we're going to talk about is one of their projects but they've had many others that organize campaigns against military trials for example it's important to mention that they're staying i mean they're choosing to stay and not i mean for security reasons of course but because the group really believes in their collective identity and don't want to personalize their work but in terms of who they are they had an office in downtown cairo between twenty eleven and twenty
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fourteen where they held these events so the anonymity is more for their identity than anything else and now because of the political climate in egypt so it's a known entity in the people in egypt maybe maybe very well be familiar with the organization by its name given its activities i'm now they've been around understand since two thousand and eleven why now with twenty seven twenty eighteen why publish the archive now well there are two reasons for that i mean i'm not a spokesperson for the group but i can tell you what they told me. this is not the first time that my city has published material but this is the first time that they've published it in that kind of organized way i mean when you look at the archive it's categorized by date by event by keywords etc so to have to have that mass of documents put in that organized way this is this is the first time we're seeing it however they've put out videos before it also has to do with the fact that initially when they started filming the purpose of filming was completely different they thought that egypt would have some kind of restored of justice phase
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after the revolution and they thought that this this video material would be used in court cases that never really happened but they had all of this material and you can imagine eight hundred fifty eight hours is a lot of material to go through and it takes time to index time stamp it verify it make sure that the people are cool with showing their faces so i guess that's why it may be took them some time but time the first time they publish material ok now on their website fifty eight mysterians says the. the group aims to loosen the state's grip on history what's the narrative of the egyptian government that when it comes to the events surrounding two thousand and eleven what egypt has been through a number of governments since twenty eleven but i would say all of them have had a pretty bad track record. explain what this uprising was i mean from the very beginning i mean i remember watching television in twenty eleven and the state t.v.
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had this camera had this camera on this empty bridge saying look people are at home and this was on january twenty eighth when protesters were literally taking to hir square going through the security forces and dominating the square and these images that we see here in the background organizations were also brightest of abstentions robson absolutely and the egyptian state back then was not very was not very honest with that narrative and there have been many attempts to since it's there are too many details but just recently just on january on january thirty first president of the at the his city quote said what was done in egypt eight or seven years ago will not be repeated what has succeeded then will not be success will not what did not succeed then will not succeed now so i guess it's very clear not even referring to not even recognizing that at the time people had demands that were very simple a short a identical to me it is bread justice. and freedom and these things
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still are not there and the state is still not recognizing them so the government is trying to keep a lid on it as are were i would prefer not to see another revolution of that kind the other is watch how dangerous is it in egypt today to publish documents the way that mr greene talks well media work in egypt these days is not the safe thing to be doing i mean since may twenty seventeen i think there been more than four hundred websites in egypt blocked these include amnesty international reporters without borders and actually fell a web site not the main web site but one of the each of us affiliated web sites reporters without borders also categorizes egypt as one of the world's egypt as one of the world's biggest prisons for journalists and we've gone it just has gone down the world press freedom index to two points i think it's at one hundred sixty one right now so. pretty dangerous but i think i think they're pretty determined as
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their name isn't listening which means we're determined and they're determined to continue their work thank you so much abraham from our social media desk. guinea is among the poorest nations in west africa still suffering from the legacy of a series of dictatorships that ended only in two thousand and ten one blogger there is trying to promote discussion of how to improve problems across the country from motorcycle smuggling to unhygienic conditions at a slaughterhouse blogger sally billy sal exposes issues that the traditional media don't cover in his homeland. from navigating cyberspace to protecting one's privacy these guinean students are learning all about the benefits and the risks of the internet and social media. yeah. there are downsides if you post a photo on the internet and then try to delete it it's still possible to find it.
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one day when we have good jobs these photos could damage us i mean people. the free internet crash course is run by sally bialy so the trained computer scientist regularly comes to schools to pass on his knowledge to students and even . the internet has changed my life because i've learned how to use it properly what is it that means that it can help you get ahead and continue to educate yourself for me i was still a student when i got my first job over the internet. that's how i understood how it can be used to get ahead. don't you complete bullshit the truth will be on see. a second job soon followed his first sally now makes a living as a programmer. he is also a passionate blogger. he tackles issues that the mainstream media won't or can't address the press in guinea is under constant surveillance and the head of guinea's
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media supervisory body is none other than president afrikander his former campaign manager. on his blog village who are two point zero zero sally tracks the use of public funds he also wants to provide a platform for guinea's youth to share their views his friends from the blogging group support him whenever they can. out first i was a bit skeptical i said it was a crazy idea but i like the concept he had his vision. i have mine and the others had their ideas it was a bit difficult for us at first until we understood each other but we all want to bring about change we all want to help and support our young people that's why i got involved. calming for a change and a free press bloggers and reporters took to the streets and connect me late last year it's not uncommon for the state to block
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a broadcast this time an entire radio station was shut down. documented the protest is not intimidated by the authorities despite his previous arrest in his hometown. for shooting pictures of another demonstration at the time he was accused of portraying his country in a negative light. you know so did the bloggers have a poor reputation in guinea some people think that we want to hurt our country that we want to spread a bad image of guinea first but that's not true i grew up in i studied here i want to stay here and set up community projects to help my country. sally wants to encourage his compatriots to stay too he firmly believes that positive change in the country can only come from guinea instance else. breaks that opponents in the u.k. have launched a campaign aiming to persuade britons that a second referendum on your membership is needed campaigners argue there should be
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a final vote on the deal with brussels this time voters would know what a future outside the e.u. would actually look like but it seems few people believe that brags it can actually be stopped stephen grey is determined. determined to stop bricks and. every day he sets up shop right opposite parliament he's taking time off work until he it seems his goal. is the lords every window is one of the lord's offices they. forget we're here with two new studies suggest that sam who voted for breakfast now regret that decision that's extra motivation for stephen grey and others like him should there be another vote for the people. they're going to have an end goal they're going to see a charge of what they are actually voting for there has been
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a slight shift in public opinion and marginally more people would now vote to stay within the e.u. however the shift has not been dramatic enough to persuade many m.p.'s here in the house of parliament to actively campaign for a second referendum it would be up to members of parliament to pass legislation for another referendum vera hobhouse is a liberal democrat m.p. her party is one of the smaller ones and they are campaigning to overturn bracks it the leadership of both big political parties are committed to what appears to be more and more. and the people need to understand whether that is really what they want do they want to have the travel restrictions to work restrictions are there actually happy that our economy might go down the too many pro european campaigns lobby online rather than in front of parliament they often run by young people posting with hashtags like e.u. flag maffia and there are petitions to parliament too. but outside
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one of london's big universities feelings amongst the mostly empty breck's of students are mixed as to whether they would like to have another say. we've already made a decision and i think as a stick or something like that instead of changing our minds hopefully free i think a second chance is what we currently need so i think it would be really beneficial i was on their mind side but i believe that we've already had one day by a second debate is just going to lead to more people asking for. referendum and then it's never going to and even here in central london where the overwhelming majority voted to stay within the e.u. people are not too enthusiastic about another referendum and in mall bricks and leaving areas outside the capital the idea finds even less traction. so it seems likely that stephen grey will remain in iraq the lonely voice outside parliament for the time being but that does not deter him in the slightest right.
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reporting there well the report you've just seen is part of the d.w. series road to break that our reporters lars show. us are traveling around europe and the u.k. trying to understand the full impact of the upcoming divorce between britain and you have more special coverage on our home page that's it d w dot com. turning now to the mountain of kazakhstan among a region whose people may have been the first to ever strap on a pair of skis for locals they're still just a wintertime surreal but a necessary skill to get around the snowy landscape tourists are increasingly flocking to the time area to get some lessons from the locals. time out on tens and northwest china are off the beaten track. this is the kind of
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place where you might cross paths with a real mongolian nomad in the snow. it's so cold that the cobs kept inside. they're only brought outside at feeding time. it's mostly farmers who live here. and most of them have skis. numerous ethnic groups live in the altai they understand each other speak each other's language and all of them learn chinese. and ethnic to van lives in this house with wife three children and his mother. they also house tourists and the sama.
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mother who is herring and speech in pad explains how difficult nomadic life was but still beautiful. we're doing better the. road to our village was built we're getting a few tourists. we can now make ends meet. with ski bindings made of. sun and our route has made his way home from school in the late afternoon the skis are rustic wooden planks with fuck kickers on the undersides they help grip the snow when climbing and glide on downhill stretches. i'm going to look at what do you want to be when you grow up. how you look at ski
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racer. it's hard to keep your balance on what in skis. but enrolls father is a good teacher. training in the afternoon is the best part of the day. scientists believe skiing was first developed in the altai mountains. in. the early morning light in the village of com reveals chinese tourists from afar who are gradually discovering this remote region. one. we're from guangzhou all in southern china and we heard that this is
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a wonderful place. it's absolutely beautiful here. though male has always never snows and joe we've traveled abroad but this is the first time we're having a winter vacation in china everyone should see this landscape. europeans are also among those visiting the region's oldest ski resort. the directive to develop the outside ski industry came from far away beijing. says. this is a very unusual skiing a very light year in ski but i think going downhill is pretty difficult to imagine going to be something but. it takes some getting used to. i think it's very.
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the locals are extremely skilled on their skis. they're quick uphill turning and descending with only one stick. the europeans are fast with their high tech equipment but when they put on the altai skis they're a little bit slower. it's definitely much harder to ski on these than on mine i'm more wobbly on them. i've been on stuff airable. the turks and the locals are united and i love with skiing and their admiration of the fast landscapes job the locals hope the not trolled beauty of the altai who remain intact for generations to come . and watching t.v. news coming to you from berlin we have more news at the top the hour of course you
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