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this is. high drama in south africa as president zuma defies his party's order to resign he says he's being victimized. by the end of the day. also on the program. german journalist and huge show has not been held in a turkish prison for a year without charge of his detention relations between. maybe hope for his release from. the flying tomato. off the podium and the winter
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olympics we'll tell you how american snowboarder shaun white. celebrations in ethiopia the government releases some political prisoners and drops charges against others and what's behind this new. film festival we preview some films and ask about the impact the need to debate is having here in germany. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. south africa's president is hanging on to his job despite an ultimatum from his party that he leave today or face a no confidence vote in parliament speaking on state television jacob zuma described the a.n.c. these moves against him as unfair and said their arguments are wrong. president zuma remains defiant in
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a live television interview he responded to his party's calls to resign i need to be friendly jst on what i have done unfortunately. no one has been able to provide what is it that i've done so i found it very strange that. you know moscow. because. we now have three new president must comey. not to follow in any policy of the in c. there's nothing more that makes. early is in his party the african national congress agreed to remove him his refusal sets the stage for a no confidence vote in parliament a high ranking party official said the motion is already scheduled for thursday and decided to recall him since taking office in two thousand and nine zuma has been accused of numerous corruption scandals including making some deals with the
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influential gupta family on wednesday an elite police unit raided the family's luxury home in johannesburg detaining three people. the captors are accused of using their connections to the president to win lucrative state contracts and several of them his relatives work for the family's companies two raids tourism's i think you got to the time it's about time this happened i think when one has been waiting for it we've been wondering why. it hasn't happened but now that it's happening i mean it starts good and as i say you know about time it happened i hope any hidden secrets may come to the surface and it will give a lot of people in our country a bit of peace of my family and hopes that moving forward with south africa will be a bit of an easier task than just dr post and that's what was going on and heard about it in the news and i just think it's quite
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a watershed moment in south africa to come in with this what's going. to zoom a successor would most likely be deputy president and a.n.c. party chairman cyril ramaphosa he'll have to tackle rampant corruption and cronyism to revive his party support ahead of next year's elections. journalist jason burke writes for the guardian newspaper in great britain he's covering the story from baghdad is back welcome to day w does president zuma have a point despite the with of corruption that swirled around him for years he's been convicted of nothing and they and say hasn't demonstrated that he's breached any of their roles. no i mean him for a variety of reasons one is that he's always the intellectual liability and that's not just politics are pretty much every indicator in terms of the health of the economy. unemployment crime has been heading down
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pretty dramatically on day is nine year old so as simply a question of mismanagement there's also even if there's no actual conviction in the courts there are also something not a one hundred counts of corruption hanging over jacob zuma which had just been reinstated and the public protector is kind of constitutionally mandated independent. and he has accused. all being. involved in what she told state capture which is they affected in crop a relationship between. the presidency and business families particularly while on the good he heard about. and that is pretty data surely worrying allegations deeply concerning she said geisha means of ministers being bribed or attempted to be brought into a whole scale of corruption incompetence and states your jealousy is so there's
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plenty to go on even as i could be action but in a in a well ordered democracy if your candidate has been rubbish at running the country you choose a different candidate to fight the next election you don't drag a sitting president out of office as mr zuma might say what's the rush. well the rushes in the election which is coming in twenty nineteen and they have to get a move on i mean the problem in a sense is yet to calla sentences the moment you have the head of the a.n.c. which is several since december and then you have jacob zuma with a very different approach to power and politics who is currently president now one of them is go to go and the party has affected he said that it's jacob zuma who's going to go he can't stand in the next election anyway they want graeme opposer in that process that he can start campaigning but a new face on the eye and say try to rehabilitate his image among the voters
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and zuma doesn't want to happen just the current contest which team of those like he's lost and so the next step is a no confidence vote in parliament ah the a.n.c. and the opposition cooperating on this. yes very reluctantly the no confidence motion is actually in opposition motion the a.n.c. and so they are going to amend it and therefore be a party to it if you like this is a nightmare scenario for the a.n.c. i mean they're voting with the opposition against a a.n.c. grizzard and a senior member of the and then movement so it's a pretty bad situation to bid that they hope the. well there's certain and they want to be certain that no confidence vote will pass by tomorrow afternoon probably by friday cyril ramaphosa will be the new president of south africa and everyone could put this chaotic and pretty unpleasant episode behind jason burke in
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johannesburg thank you you thank. germany's foreign minister has called for a german turkish journalist being held in a turkish jail to receive a fair and speedy trial then his huge role was arrested a year ago suspected of terror and espionage offenses and has not yet been charged so it. comes after turkey's prime minister suggested there may soon be some movement in the case that he's usuals continued detention a solid relations between. this maximum security prison in istanbul is where denise is being held one year after the journalists arrest and no formal charges have been made so why the state nation it's a question for which turkish prime minister banally you'll hear him has a simple answer. it is not my decision to make but the courts. i hope
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that he will be released soon. and i'm confident there will be development soon. critics are don't feel that the judiciary will treat you case fairly. but you drams remarks have given germany renewed hope. in this time of domestic that there will be a judgment soon. and i hope it will be a favor we've been working for weeks to ensure that happens. it is now up to turkey's high court to decide if one year will mark the beginning or the end of you just incarceration or go to pay for f.v. f.t.p. party and parliaments human rights committee welcome to day w. germany's foreign minister and the turkish prime minister say they are looking forward to the developments what do you expect. well thank you for having me i think it is
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a slight and small glimpse of hope actually to to hear that it might be giving some developments in the case of dennis yourself on the other hand i think we can expect more than empty words that is what i'm expecting at the moment so i hope that this time it won't be empty words but actually a speedy release of denis you tell and also the other journalists but only yield or who has quite properly said that this is a not a political matter this is a proper matter of turkey's judicial system and it's out of his hands what's wrong with that well i would hold against that that you did him and also president i do on used to say and also still saying that the turkish media is the freest in the world and i think that is a joke compared to what we're hearing and seeing from dennis you jails imprisonment
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so this is what i would hold against that what more practically a government do if. another country is holding one of its citizens for for whatever reason what more can the government do well i would go as far as saying that at this certain point the e.u. accession talks with turkey between e.u. and turkey are pointless and if there is no more than empty words at the moment that we can that we can choose from i would like to see the german government enforcing were trying to get these e.u. exception tog's stopped as long as there is nothing more from turkey than these words so you believe the case of done as usual is so important that the german government should say to turkey we will we will we will block your attempts to get into the e.u. unless you release him. i would say that this is an example dennis you jealous case
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is an example for many journalists being being held captive being held for doing their job for speaking freely and this is one concept of the e.u. of the european union and if a country doesn't cherish these these obligations i wouldn't say that. it is it is practical for it to start or to go on with the succession talks good to have some thank you for joining d w thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has said the work on a new middle east peace plans fairly well advanced he was speaking after signing a five year aid package for jordan president's trying to reverse decades of u.s. policy in december and he recognized jerusalem as israel's capital. at least one person has been shot and wounded in an incident involving base vehicle the u.s.
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national security agency is at quarters near washington d.c. police to one person into custody officials have secured the area and local media are reporting there is no continuing threat. go through there israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has hit back at the police recommendation that he face corruption charges it is scribed allegations that he accepted bribes as biased and extreme with holes like swiss cheese israel's attorney general has not decided whether to press charges. they're watching d.w. news live from berlin still to come in just over an hour real madrid rail madrid will be out to defend their champions league crown when they take from paris in the first leg of their round of sixteen tie i will bring you a preview of that big much. business news now with helen humphrey taking a look at how the u.s. markets are responding to the latest inflation data some surprising data coming out
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there u.s. stocks putting back off a stronger than expected inflation data set mostly down in the initial trading that we saw on wall street now consumer prices will haul for eight percent up in a january driven by higher closing costs on a spike in the cost of car insurance the annual rate held steady two point one percent though market movements haven't been too dramatic yet with the poor retail sales report going some way to offset those inflation theory is. well the data came out just ahead of the market close here in europe so here's what our frankfurt markets reporters host about the european market reaction. that's right. the reaction of the retail sales in the united states being a bit slower mitigated the effect of the inflation but you know everybody was staring so decidedly and waiting so intensely and anxiously for the inflation figure when i saw that two point one percent figure i thought that's going to make
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the dax tank and the euro starts and wall street and the euro and that's what happened initially but it's amazing it's been a long time since i've seen of recovery like this basically the dax being sent to jail not passing go not collecting two hundred dollars and immediately the get out of jail free card again. some people you know what do you make of this recovery inflation and rate fears of the market no but there's scrambling themselves for a really plausible explanation but this does show is the market still really nervous. a financial correspondent he brought in frankfurt that now an international donor conference to raise funds to rebuild iraq after years of conflict has wrapped up in kuwait iraq happen hoping to know major investments from its allies in office three days when it managed to secure all thirty billion dollars in aid of pledges not figure still falls far short of the eighty eight billion dollars that baghdad is seeking and needs now the war against the so-called
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islamic state reduced numerous iraqi cities to rubble it'll take a lot more money and tying to breathe life back into the nation and its economy. rebuilding a country after decades of war doesn't come cheap iraq estimates the cost of close to ninety billion dollars. q.h. the nation hosting the conference is one of many countries making financial commitments. for three days to announce the state of kuwait's commitment to support our brothers in iraq by commissioning a one billion dollar loan under the mechanisms of the kuwait fund for economic development. but it's not all about loans iraq is especially keen to attract companies to do business it's offering projects in almost every area of its economy including the energy sector siemens
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c.e.o. joe kayser told t.w. his company is rebuilding for power plants about securing the availability of electricity is iraq's biggest challenge at present. the conference is taking place just two months after the country declared victory over the so-called islamic state it's not the government is hoping will convince international businesses that now is the time to invest in the country's future. well for more on this now and to understand the scale of the reconstruction need. joins us now now she traveled to iraq on several occasions and reported from there good to have you with us i give us a sense about the scale of the deconstruction that well as you mention him and i've been to iraq several times. one of the more recent times has been in march of twenty seventeen right when the battle to liberate mosul was going on we were we were not we did not go inside the city of during during the fighting but we were
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stationed about twenty kilometers out at one of the camps where. the residents of mosul were coming out right after the city and just by the stories that people were saying you could imagine the amount of destruction i spoke to one woman whose child was four months old and had weighed half of how much or how much it was supposed to raise so severely malnourished. and some of the things they said the city had been under siege for months no food no water hospitals completely flattened schools so we're talking about. iraq's biggest second biggest city after the capital baghdad so to have a city of that importance completely completely destroyed just gives you an idea of the amount that needs to be done to rebuild the country two and a half million people are still displaced within iraq today and we're talking about the tale then of one city for example what you witnessed there in was that we know that thirty billion dollars has been pledged at this conference it's hot off of
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what baghdad says it needs are we seeing donor fatigue and if so why i mean part of the reason why is that the international community has or had already invested in developing and helping iraq in the past years i mean iraq has had political problems for for for decades and so that's part of the problem for example between two thousand and three and two thousand and sixteen the united states alone has spent something like sixty one billion dollars in development for iraq six billion of them completely vanished and one billion were wasted so part of it also has to do with the mismanagement of some of these funds right now we know that iraq is the oil rich country its economy relies on it we also saw those oil fields outside mosul go up in flames during the conflict the price of oil has also tanked doesn't want to get back into that game all the money alternatives. it's hard to tell i mean in this conference of. the government there were two thousand private
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companies that were there to show their projects and to introduce them to private investors so there it's clear that the government wants to diversify but we're talking about things like infrastructure transportation these are all things that private investors need to regain confidence in iraq's economy so i mean the will is there but it's about how to make it how to make it happen it's also important to remember that it's not just about the money the money is important but iraq is. unfortunately a sectarian country there are a lot of internal issues that need to be dealt with before you can regain that kind of the kind of confidence from private investor you talk about that confidence how attractive is iraq right now anyway for best. said not very attractive iraq suffers from intense red tape travel within the country travel to the country is very difficult it's also on transparent transparency international ranks iraq as one of the ten most corrupt countries in the world so it is it is difficult for
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investors to later to look at iraq and say this is a place where we want to invest however. health iraq is a healthy region i mean we saw this entire wave of terrorism with isis in iraq have fallen perhaps other countries with nifong as well so on the one hand it's difficult to get people excited about investing in iraq on the other hand it is important to try to get this country back on its feet absolutely key for stability in the region as well as i even great to have your insight thank you you thank. day five of the winter olympics. snowboarding legend has added another goal to his tally nick mechanic live has not been competing but can tell us all about the action i wish it was me as do i i sure what we're talking about on top of the podium again how did you do it it was actually incredible how it went down as half by because you know him he's
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a household name he's been this is his fourth of lympics and in the pictures we're about to see you see the speed he first had going into the half pipe in the mouth of he managed to get off the side that's why we go see. the girls turning four times all together and i guess they would talk about chloe came to it three times he did four and he said after the event that this is the first time he's actually cleanly landed the trick at any ever and it just happened to be today had he was planning on doing it but he needs to do something special. almost perfect score of ninety seven point seven five to win his third of them a goal when you see how extensive he was because of course he missed out on medals in sochi four years ago who's very very disappointed about that and finally getting a gold again he talked about that trauma from sochi and also talked about this victory listen listen to what he has to say some stand there sochi with the winning runs in my hands i just couldn't deliver it's like today was a it was a deja vu situation of the same thing i'm standing there but i'm so proud to say that i've kind of like found the love of the sport again you know to my friends
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through my family people that support me and i was able to stand up there in and deliver the performance that i knew i could. well got him now let's talk about germany leading the b. medal count and beyond shock six goals in the latest was today versus today actually the seventh is by our expenses of us making it seven now he won seven the nordic combined as the name suggests it's a combination of two sports of ski jumping and cross-country skiing in the ski jump he's not particularly good finishing fifth but then in cross-country skiing you see him who have number five just with a picture he's incredibly good at his strongest event of the two in the middle of pack and then this wave breaks the way he leaves these competitors in his wake and edging out what harvey along the finishing line to retain his gold medal he won in sochi four years ago it is the first time that someone has retained this medal in thirty eight years so quite the win for him he was understandably ecstatic as well
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said i was thinking about shaun white having done all those flips and you say he was excited about it that's a long way to go out a very dangerous thing to do to come here with nothing sort of in do it for meanwhile britain's team accused of cheating. cheating but there was questions were there was it was questions over arise about their skin suits for you know if you see them bobsled you see skeleton they have various tights skin tight suits receiving is here and so there's been into this kind of started yesterday american saying that this suits once that hearing to the rules of the rules state the no elements whatsoever may be a task outside under the race suit and these particular suits have been developed by the english institute of sport with that and with the techies and what they have is a turbulence effect so what they essentially create is a second layer above the skin above the suit which stops drag means that the content of the athletes can go a lot faster when they also have is drag resistant ridges which we've seen for example in swimsuits at the olympics you see those white lines that stop dragons
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they can go quite a bit faster now these suits are also custom made these athletes all go through three d. lays a stands to make sure this suits. actually for every point of their body fits really really tight which means they can reach to speeds of up to one hundred fifty kilometer out of kilometers per hour and this is actually expected to give them a second advantage over their competitors somewhat what's the one of the americans well going on about so well they were they thought that something that added to the suits to make that happen well it has but it's within the rules and that's it so it's all ok the international association has said they're out to compete at the end of this week on friday ok so america should have it right. now to clive relieve you of the odds of football real madrid will lock horns with paris on johnson ice in the first leg of their champions league round of sixteen tie much of the media attention has focused on whether p.s.g. as most prized asset name out will make a sensational move to the spanish club. neymar was the most expensive
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player of all time when paris signed him from barcelona last august it's no secret the trib have had their eye on the forward ever since he was thirteen and they still interested in bringing the brazilian to the spanish capital despite him scoring twenty eight goals in all competitions this season he hasn't always been happy in paris for now he and his team mates will be focused on stopping me from winning a third straight champions league title. historically with twelve titles they've made a trajectory that we all admire and we want to get to that level it's an opportunity to show where we are and where our progress can take us. in the first coach to ever successfully defend the champions league trophy. in madrid. last season but now his side to seventeen points behind league leaders barcelona coach finds himself on the hot seat still he's not letting that into
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a distraction. what i can control is what we're going to do on the pitch we're just going to prepare a good match and play well. for. success in the champions league for real madrid would go a long way towards guaranteeing job security facility in sudan. this is data from balance still to come russia is threatening to block access to you tube and instagram after new corruption allegations were published on the platforms social media as well tell us more. safe life on the high seas wasn't rough enough baltic sea fishermen now also have to contend with the followers that every move for. business updates. i don't forget you can always get d.w. news on the go just download. got out from google play well for me apple store i'll
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but they also admire people who want to stay here and who decided to create something. beginning in peace time who are the people making it possible what needs to happen if tolerance and reconciliation are to stand a chance. darkness cities after war starting march tenth on d w. i'm phil galen is our top story this hour south africa's ruling party has told president that he will face a no confidence vote in parliament on thursday unless he resigns today zuma says the island seems given him no clear reason why he should resign describing treatment of him as unfair. prosecutors in ethiopia have dropped charges against two bloggers who criticize the government they were arrested four years ago on charges of inciting violence it's the latest in
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a wave of political atlast is being announced by his government. last month opposition supporters have also been celebrating after one of the leaders was released from prison. of the thousands of opposition supporters thronged to the local stadium in adama to welcome home their hero of the. god recollect galba credited his release from jail to people power of the he called on supporters to keep up the pressure on the government and our struggle should not stop until no single prisoner fighting for his rights is left in the federal prison they should be free. of the law it's not enough that they free one or two the should set free those who are fighting for truth justice and equality who should be freed one by one from that home of deaths. the checklist and charged of inciting violence for his role in two thousand and fifteen
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protests over property rights in the overall mia region. the many of your rebel ethnic group which makes up more than one third of ethiopia's population revere back for speaking up for their interests. as a hero not only for romeo but he's an example for all of africa like nelson mandela or rosa parks i'm very happy that we should continue the struggle with strength. back to lewis freed in the middle of a three day strike across a romania to press for the release of opposition activists and journalists who are still in jail. so what's behind this move from the if you have his government's a spring in back from day to mark service in bonn welcome six thousand political prisoners i've been released over the last few weeks why. it's because the demonstrations in and regions for third the government to do so
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even yesterday there was a huge demonstration all over oh yeah even those steamers traditions reached on the outskirts of seoul business was not i do you and transport was how did for the last couple of years such times a few more stations happened in ethiopia so government was force led by such kinds of more stations and from the pew from parties and such and such kind of. questions ok so despite this apparent people power if you hope a state affiliated broadcaster says those prisoners are being released to having undergone rehabilitation training which sounds rather ominous what does it mean. that you have really dish and training is based on the constitution they said that it's about the constitution but most of those political leaders and even journalists chris that the training is more preaching the idea
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of ruling party so it's all about preaching i don't edge of the ruling party but many people when they are released they criticize the government they ask for a fair and free election within the last couple of days so this rehabilitation training doesn't seem to have worked what about those concerns that you know you mentioned their freedom of speech and greater democracy as well as releasing these people from prison is the government actually addressing those concerns. it's hard to tell about whether the government addressed those questions but so open the parties and also do want to demerge demonstrators have been asking for a greater democracy effort and free election and also a fair and of a fair distribution of power and the way it is so the government promised to address this comes after questions within the last couple of years that there are
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so many training this so many. meeting this with and ruling elites but still there are so many questions from the demonstrators in rome aspecific and the end are moderate amount of regions that you talked about the fact that so many people came hours on the streets of the government felt itself was forced into letting these people out what boldon people to take to the streets in the first place. many of the protesters the demonstrate the administrators. the fair and free election and also some of them failed to that are marginalized by the current government so that's what is the basic question. in our marriage and also there are so many great quest questions regarding to the government institutions how the security apparatus
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in good in the way of protest has happened in different parts of the country so there are so many questions within the country could show he thank you for joining us i shouted back. thank you very much. now russia is threatening to block access to you tube and instagram after. the valley published a new corruption investigation a line russian media authors use what was social media giants to delete damaging content about a powerful business which contained develop this report from a social media desk with more of a call not the first time exciting volley has caused a stir in russia tell us more about what's going on this time now is definite i mean he made his name even before running for president by doing these entertaining videos on his you tube channel that expose corruption and russia and this is just the latest one but it seems to be getting more attention than usual from russian authorities and you'll probably see why now that we show you the video this is
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quite an explosive one here it is it was released last week and it uses footage from the instagram account of a female escort to show a secret meeting between a russian oligarch and a russian deputy prime minister this was aboard a yacht in norway in two thousand and sixteen and a volley says that this meeting is a clear example of corruption and it also alleges that information about the twenty sixteen u.s. election was exchanged between these two parties on board the gentleman there they admit that they were on that boat together but they deny all the other charges here that video has been viewed now more than about five million times on you tube most likely it's accusation about the election that is getting a little bit more scrutiny now from russian of the ok now russian authorities want instagram and you shoot to take this footage down they do russia's media authority is demanding now that all media companies within russia delete any photos or videos that are related to that meeting the deadline to act is actually today and it seems
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as if the big companies are already starting to comply with this order in fact you can see in this tweet and now that was sent out today by one of all these t.v. producers she says she received this letter on monday from you tube itself and she . it's here that the russian communications watchdog has told you tube which is owned by google that they're demanding that they remove the live broadcast that was done by end of only on this topic the final line of the letter there actually says if you don't delete this content google may be forced to block it meanwhile instagram which is owned by facebook they've already taken action those photos and videos that were originally uploaded by the escort have already been removed by instagram neither company has commented but does look like they are already complying with these orders so what does this tell us about the state of the freedom of the russian the i mean it's interesting i mean this is just the next step now in kind of a broader crackdown on internet freedom in russia but it wasn't always that way i mean if you look back a few years russians had a fairly open a fairly uncensored internet that changed though two thousand and twelve big
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anti-government protests and those were largely organized on social media so that's when russia started to see the internet and social media sites as perhaps a threat to the government so they started cracking down banning websites like me then we could pedia and read it they started demanding that internet companies they are if they want to operate in russia they have to have special servers that stored data about russian internet users there in russia so presumably the government could then access that information if they want to so this is really changed recently under putin worrying certainly for internet advocates and the interesting thing is you know you tube was fairly untouched fairly uncensored until now so we'll see what happens if this changes it's a big tool especially for alexina vali does a lot of live broadcasts on these anti-corruption videos so if that changes it could hurt his campaign as well that's want to keep it cold doesn't like you for. this is didn't even use still to come german electro pop pioneers craft rocket
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following in the footsteps of artists like can't let it go in with a who's been playing live at the kremlin palace in moscow and take you inside their sold out concert. some see this as a day for romance for others it's just a cupboard full gimmick however it's back looking at the business behind valentine's day with a look at the business behind the times a day we feel but whatever your thoughts on the day millions of people buy into it with millions of love is around the world giving bouquets of flowers with europe in the grip of winter if you were lucky enough to receive one chances are no flowers came from somewhere warm and sunny like kenya in fact the cut flower industry is key to the country's economy but competition from a neighboring ethiopia is putting business at risk. at the old syrian flower farm in central kenya all these stem to beauties are processed by hand from harvesting
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to bundling to packing for transport. tons of flowers are prepared for market on these work tables. the company's director hamish kerr runs a well organized and highly efficient operation each flower arrives in stores no later than two days after their cut. people line up outside the packing facility every day looking for work the regional economy depends on flower cultivation where more than three off housing people we are neither when it comes to have ethical trade so we're paying off slow off the highest in the industry we're providing housing medical school doing so in terms of the flowers that we produce they are putting money into people's pockets. the flower industry is the country's second most important sector after tourism. five percent of its economic output comes from
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cut flowers. here at lake ny bhatia growing conditions are perfect for twelve hours of sunshine per day cool nights fertile soil and enough lake water to keep the more than fifty flower producers here in business. the kenya flower council in the capital nairobi however is concerned about cheaper competition in neighboring ethiopia the head of the association says the ethiopian government is attracting investors with price dumping they get access to land they get heavy subsidies on even freight let me give you an example we can't land our flowers in the us at three point five to four dollars a kilogram. big europeans on this sub today's plates on their own and in every plane land. shouldn't we. don't speculate. mazza result farmers are leaving. this flower grower abandon operations here to
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move to ethiopia low cost operations to the north are endangering the industry in kenya with jobs and economic growth at stake. if the exodus of companies continues at this rate that will be bad news for the flourishing flower sector in kenya. all right now much of asia is about to shut down for several days for traditional new year's celebrations as the year of the dog begins that all chaotic scenes as millions of people make their way home but not for splashing a cash on gets the market in hand always old city is awash in red and gold the colors of the tet or new year's festival red is for luck and gold for wealth in the new year for retailers it's the most important shopping season as people buy gifts for their loved ones and decorations for their homes to welcome the year of the dog. it's also high season for the city's forests.
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we have a peach flower branches and come quite trees to bring a warm and joyful atmosphere to our homes during tet that be they had their teachers when trees bud and flowers blooming it's the time for families to come together to celebrate and welcome a new year. now wait what the op. in china two people have been on the move for days millions of migrant workers in shanghai scramble to find a train seat those who haven't bought a ticket aren't going anywhere the huge crowds are the least of those worries he faces a thousand five hundred kilometer journey to see his family. time headed back home i hope my whole family can be together or i'd like to eat dinner with them. it's a sense of relief for me it's only
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a short reunion one but it feels perfect but it's only. after the big shopping spree comes the quiet the festival last almost a week in china vietnam singapore taiwan and many other countries. right now some say it's a dream for others harsh everyday reality the life of a fisherman on the baltic sea now not only do they have to brace rough winds and stormy seas to bring in their catch they also have to be equipped with a special app that monitors their every move not to protect the fisherman but the court during the breeding season. a blustering sized westerly wind here on the island of food means any low tide fishing is the question today from now before the fishermen even step aboard they're both they have to activate their new muffy up it registers every net put out to sea to make sure they don't fish deeper than twenty meters and to start the college during the two month breeding season for the
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fisherman it's a step too far. we work with nature every day we know how deep we can fish there's no risk that a couple of fisherman are going to endanger the current population. if. the new scheme also means that every fisherman must have a smartphone the first few tests have highlighted some teething problems. if you don't have any internet then the up turns itself off which means you have to write in the log book how can you manage to do that in time when you're busy out on deck . the federal agriculture agencies say they created the op to make the fishermen's lives easier the fishermen say they'd have preferred to be paid a bonus to start fishing during the breeding season. well from the fishing to film festival time right in germany feel has more. yes suburbans their own film festival the brother valley begins tomorrow filmmakers the stars from around the
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world are descending on the german at capital and it's the first international festival to take place since various allegations of rape and sexual misconduct well made against a film argo harvey weinstein another big hollywood names. reports the me to debate about sexual violence has also range berlin's red carpet. where the red carpet will be it still looks like a building site. construction crews here are racing against time with just a few hours left until everything has to be ready for action. during the girl in film festival the red carpet right behind me is the most glamorous place in the german capital it's where actresses from all over the world pose for the proper artsy in high heels and low cut dresses at least they normally do this year though things could be a little different the debate about sexual misconduct in the film industry has
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reached the belly now and some women want an example set right here on the red carpet. no high heels but relaxed natural beauty that's what actress and when i left shin once she supports the initiative nobody stole a dress code on the red carpet she says it's. part of an outdated view of the world . via his ability to matter much as that the cameras capture have a huge effect on people all around the welt on women on children on everyone who sees them. a lot. and women are portrayed as though they can only be attractive and successful if they have a certain look. on the scottish nish to bust. festival director dita kozluk has its own take on the debate. always give us your feel immediately there are lots of initiatives and this is one of them
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and it's an important one. for you not for him i can only encourage every woman to wear whatever she wants it begins i doesn't mean there has never ever been a dress code for the belly nala i'm not about to reject anyone and i certainly won't be rejecting a woman wearing flat shoes you know what i be turning away a man wearing high heels. thank you. most likely the opening film will be without any here to whatsoever acclaimed director wes anderson is showing i love dogs the first animation ever to open the betting on . get out of here and don't come back. not the belly not a would be unthinkable without an iranian film. the concept of it which is a closet and somehow movie this year director money huggy looks at states elect listing film directors pick is an ironic turbulent comedy.
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refugees and migration will be true in themes at this politically charged film festival gemini's christiane pets sot tells the story of a refugee if you win world war two reflected in the fate of those who are fleeing today. movie lovers can choose from a total of three hundred eighty five films over the next ten days. whether it's serious art house or popcorn entertainment standing in line for the tickets is more than worth the wait. tuesday night in moscow the credit was booming to the sound of cruft rock electro pioneers from one of the most influential german bands ever quite a statement that kind of helps that from. welcome as they were performing a live so it really was an event absolutely and possibly this time even more
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because even more so because the last time they performed in moscow was back in two thousand and four so over fourteen years ago and there was quite a run for tickets the show was definitely sold out months and then balance in our report was there so before we talk for a thing with have a quick impression of what it looked like. performing in the great hall of the state kremlin palace here where the communist party once held its congresses the german electronic band warned of the dangers of atomic weapons and energy in front of six thousand russian fans. the stage show was minimalistic with the only movement coming from the three d. images projected behind the musicians. in the field or communicate with the audience the way rock musicians do for instance when they toss their drumsticks into the audience so young things like can you hear me cough back everything is
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a monologue after the chief. but that's all part of the craft that concert experience captured on their live album three d. the catalog which just won a grammy award. yet the worst i don't believe that winning a grammy means very much to crack of course it's not bad to win an award like that but that sort of thing is no longer very important to them. and the grammy awards. the band's references to state sponsored surveillance seemed to resonate with the russian fans. they left the concert with positive reactions. because the three day show and the quality of their music were great we don't regret it coming. it's great that the guys made it here again. like the computer beatles it was such a great event they'll probably never play here again so it was wonderful to be here
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. back have left their fans in moscow hoping it won't be another fourteen years before they come back. back in the former you. yami award that we heard mentioned there was just last month obviously for best electoral them for that three d. catalog and i think that really underscores their relevance still today because they also got the grammy already for lifetime achievement back in two thousand and fourteen. with the judges noting at that time how ahead of their time and is ingrained it's intriguing that they've become so influential given their relative best could've been anyone on the stage it's true you don't get a lot you don't get a lot of interaction from them. they've always been sort of the kind of stay in the background guys and let all the pictures work for themselves but one of the fans described them there as the computer beatles and a lot of the critics are definitely. very. much in agreement that there are very
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few bands other than the beatles and contract that actually had the kind of influence that they've had in terms of what how to determine what came after i mean without cost track you know there would have been no new wave no rave no techno no house a lot of elements of hip hop would never have existed the way we know them so you know they were also essential for a lot of bands in terms of david bowie order yellow magic orchestra and let's just have a quick listen to their very early signature sound that was cause for so much inspiration.
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so you can hear there you know a lot of the elements that were so original at the time for instance the complete nonuse or refusal of traditional instruments everything was electronic song structures don't follow the traditional rules the introduction of german lyrics into pop music because of that was really new at the time and their relevance today is almost sort of more pronounced for all of the developments that we've seen especially when you see that they're using robots back then in the early seventy's that interesting because they were very much pushing ahead with this concept of merging man and machine and what could be more timely today with all of the focus that we have on on artificial intelligence and yeah it's very interesting and their recent their recent tour. that resulted in that album three d. catalog came together for an extended tour that they did in major museums an opera
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houses and that was really very much like creating and curating their own massive retrospective sort of they're still very much in control of their game and still up there as well done very well done so the powerhouse that sarah carry our whole view of our of the day.
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disappeared thousands of people kidnapped tortured and murdered until nine hundred ninety six. victims of the one to man in military dictatorship. their loved ones are still fighting to get justice for them. in their feeling. against forgetting. when
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the government declares war on freedom of the press what can be done. journalists in these huge it has been in a turkish prison for a year now he's german colleagues are fighting for his release. politicians and now the european court of justice has taken up his case. cheney's eugen and the french of journalistic freedom chip. we make up over a week what does of half of that found out that if i were on the civil service or. the want to shape the continent's future to. be part of it and join now from youngsters as they share their stories their dreams and their chairmanships. to seventy seven percent and platform for africa charge.
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the ok news i was going to be uncivil to. the goals of the so-called. change heads up to this town soon boosts a budget surplus to. play. people and put big dreams on the big screen. movie magazine on the w. m t created movie milestone. was an instrument of propaganda and persecution. it underwent a bankruptcy and restructuring. but it still turning out films today. germany's biggest and oldest film company. boasts cinematic history from the german empire to the present one hundred or so from the start of the feb eighteenth.
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lead. plaintiff. this is the w. news live from bar len high drama in south africa as president zuma defies his party's order to preside he says that he is being victimized the a.n.c. says go by the end of the day we will take it to parliament. also coming up german journalist denis you chalo has now been it held in a turkish prison for a year without charge his detention has soured relations between berlin and on caracas now there may be new hope for his.

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