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this is g.w. news live from berlin a fourth term in office for russian president vladimir putin he thanks to supporters in moscow with results giving him over three quarters of the vote we will get reaction from the russian capital as well as the view from brussels. also coming up turkish fighters raise their flag in the syrian town of upstream their victory follows liking advance against kurdish militia the fighting has displaced more than eight hundred and fifty thousand people will ask what's next. and
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berlin seeks to repair relations with warsaw the groundwork has been laid by germany's new foreign minister and today chancellor angela merkel heads to the polish capital and expert on eastern europe tells us what's at stake. plus a day of drama in the bundesliga leipzig hosted runaway beaters byron munich and beat the bavarians first time ever. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us. vladimir putin has been reelected to a fourth term as russia's president your final results give him around three quarters of the vote out of moscow rally he emerged to thank his supporters. sure thank you for your support. this victory demonstrates how much we've achieved in
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the last eight years under very difficult circumstances. this victory demonstrates the hope and the trust of the russian people that we will work just as hard and just as responsibly and just as effectively in the coming week yes that letter i put in there addressing crowds at a rally in moscow and many saying that his victory was of course a foregone conclusion some potential candidates were barred from running including his most vocal opponent alexina volley our coverage begins with this report. was to. russia's current and future leader vladimir putin was met by jubilant supporters when he made a brief appearance near moscow's iconic red square. i see above but i guess it was you know he later joined in the election celebrations of his campaign headquarters
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and then it was back to business spicy by. official results said more than seventy six percent of russians voted for putin his reelection was never in doubt but voter apathy and calls for a boy cost could have compromised his legitimacy opposition leader annexing of on the he was barred from running urged his supporters to boycott the election in an attempt to undermine the results he highlighted the ways putin was trying to boost his number. in the past few weeks the government has been doing anything it can even using its civil servants to get people to go to the polls. in the end official tallies put turn a sneer sixty percent but some question if the turnings was really that high hidden cameras installed to prevent election fraud show signs of forged ballots that had already been filled being. submissives a few dozen such incidents have already been report says. even ahead of the
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election independent monitors said they'd seen an alarming rise in complaints people trained their employers were pressuring them to vote especially when it came to states owned companies. seeing how people were bussed from their workplace to the polling stations on election day that's a violation of the rules. so there may be some other game sions of fraud the outcome of the election won't change putin will still have another six years at the helm of the country. and for more let's bring in our correspondent in moscow gary with shadow who is standing by with the very latest in europe you know we've just seen there the criticism of the democratic process in russia what is the state of that democratic process especially in this most recent election. why was there i would say this time there was an
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attempt at least to make the election as democratic as possible and you electoral commission was established video cameras in the polling stations were installed to observe the election also lots of election observers from very different sides to the point but despite all the seemingly democratic innovations the russian opposition to report the thousands of manipulations during the election the injury or goal loss reported the ballots having been handed to down several times also as their observers war hindered we've heard about cases where universities pressure to their students to vote at their workplaces rather than their homes in an effort to control their participation particularly affected too must go said because the book and the republic of bashir in the euros video published by the kremlin critic not only on his website shows clearly how fake ballots war stuffed into ballot boxes in a polling station in the far east of russia for example ok so many reported
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violations there we also have to mention that we've we've also heard about voter intimidation as well taking place at the polls and here you know of course the next question is what will any action be taken here or word will these violations or these reported violations rather largely go unpunished. well i only heard of one case where the head of the polling station was fired certainly the cases that were documented by video are also being investigated but of course not all of the two thousand and five hundred manipulations bits of the election observers actually have detected yuri when putin gave his expect his acceptance speech i mean it was it was a relatively short and sweet acceptance speech we have to mention one of the things that that he said was he promised his supporters success. what do those who have voted for putin what do they have to expect from him now. i mean the important question sara is of course what's coming in the next month as will the putin system
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go on a will protests grow in the country will mr putin foster success so will liberal or conservative forces win in the kremlin russia needs urgent plea modernization through the two in the years that have passed the country hasn't developed that much neither economically not politically even culturally people in russia face more and more censorship and ultimately regression so russia needs a modernization. and that is something that. putin's main opposition alexina vali has also been you know beating the drum over as well have we been hearing from him as well i mean he was you know he was not allowed to run in this election. or yes i said i've only says that he very much down through the official numbers of the turnout he calculates with up to eighteen percent or less so less than fifty percent of the turnout all and all he hasn't called for any protests against actually we have an extremely cold winter this year and even these weakened to when
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you face minus or be faced minus twenty degrees here in moscow you have to be extremely angry to hang around to of the streets for hours to express your political teachings but one thing is for sure in the next future of only want to give up you obviously will continue to fight against putin together with tens of thousands of his supporters today there are sixteen eighteen years old or twenty in six years there will be twenty one twenty five twenty six those who really are going to have a say in this country after this election said. gary of the shadow in moscow thank you. all meantime today the foreign ministers of the european union are meeting in brussels and the russian election will certainly be on the agenda there as well max of mine is standing by with the very latest so max the old president now set to be the new business as usual here. in a bad way you could say that because of course the west the majority of the
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european union countries know exactly what putin is capable of just think of crimea so it seems impossible to rebuild trust here because the west quite simply does not trust putin and has no reason to trust poutine at least for some countries you have to say this is the case because the larger countries like france like germany and the e.u. institutions feel that way but make no mistake you have some of the former soviet republics in the east of the european union like hungary that seem to be drifting towards putin and russia again and this complicates matters even further for the european union so up get ready for another bad six years between the e.u. and russia and let me talk about another bad six years maximum book of that name because some some are saying that putin's tone is increasingly confrontational toward the west we have you know issues with regard to ukraine syria despite case
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in the u.k. we've seen sanctions before can we expect a new round here and will they actually do anything well that the confrontation with the west seems to be working for putin at home and that's exactly why those sanctions are working in a way but they're not in another way let me explain it canonically those sanctions that the e.u. together with the u.s. i might add put in place seem to be hurting russia they seem to be bugging putin but at the same time that helps and say point the finger towards the west and say look they're hurting us so this is in his playbook although the sanctions are working as they were designed now if the e.u. decides to put on more sanctions where are we heading probably into a vicious circle this is not going to get better because to make it better you need to have goodwill both sides and the thing that seems to be lacking on the side of putin is certainly goodwill and that's often what the view from brussels thanks max . time now for
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a quick check of some other stories making news around the world authorities are warning people in southeast australia to remain alert as wildfires rage in the region the blazes in victoria and new south wales have destroyed dozens of homes and forced hundreds to flee it's thought that they were sparked by lightning and then fanned by hot dry winds myanmar's leader aung san suu kyi has received a ceremonial military welcome on a state visit to australia the trip comes amid international criticism of suchi for her response to the rohingya crisis some seven hundred thousand of fled violence in myanmar since august australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull and said that he will raise human rights issues during the visit and two people have been injured in an explosion austin texas the blast follows a series of parcel bombings in the us city this month in which two people were killed authorities have warned residents not to touch on expected packages
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all to syria now where turkish forces have taken control of the northern town of free and it's been the target of turkey's two month offensive against the syrian kurdish militia it views as terrorists the fall of our frame marks a major victory for turkey but it has left thousands of civilians homeless and desperate. it was the moment turkey had been fighting for this town had been controlled by syrian kurds for the past five years now it's the turkish flag that waves over a free in. the turkish backed forces captured the center of the town on sunday these fighters are proud to have ousted the kurdish militia known as the people's protection units or y p g. turkey claims the y p g militia or an offshoot of the kurdish nationalist p k k group and as such are terrorists and a threat to its national security. across the border news of
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a free news capture was met with jubilation by turkish president after one and his supporters. most of the terrorists have already fled with their tails between their legs our special forces and members of the free syrian army are cleaning the remains of the traps they left behind in the center of the free in the symbols of trust and stability are waving instead of the ranks of terrorists. turkey was also quick to start wiping out traces of kurdish identity in a free in. one of the first sections of the turkish backed fighters was to demolish a statue commemorating a legendary kurdish figure. the currents remained defiant with an official warning that the war with turkey had now entered what they called a new phase. was that the how what forces an f.n. will be a nightmare for the turkish troops and its allies the resistance in africa will continue until the liberation of every inch of the town and until the return of the
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residents of afrin into their villages and homes. what the idea. for the civilian population of a free in turkey's offensive has been devastating more than one hundred fifty thousand people most of them kurds have been forced to flee for their lives in the last week as turkey attacked the city from the air and the ground for the battle of the us we fled because of the airstrikes in the bombardment of villages by the turks there is no united nations or international community anymore they have forgotten all morality what can we do is civilians is amongst the country. until the recent turkish attacks a friend had been a safe haven during syria's war now in its eighth year after the capture of a free it's unclear what will become of those fleeing the town and if or when they will be able to return to their homes. and for more let's bring in correspondent
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dorian jones who is standing by with the latest developments for us dorian tell us we just saw some of the civilians there fleeing the city what is likely to happen to them. well that's a big question now as many as one hundred fifty thousand believed to have fled to the town in the last week or so in the run up to this turkish operation where they are now is normally quite knows they are believed to have fled south to the syrian regime controlled area in villages around there we're getting reports of there not have been allowed to proceed to the kurdish regions more to the east of syria and there are also reports of many have an eternal drinking water for the last two days so there is growing concern for the humanitarian situation facing these people and it has been pointed out even if they are allowed to proceed east to the kurdish controlled regions this is the next area of target for the turkish military operation for so for these people it's a very uncertain future absolutely turkey has vowed to push the kurds onward and
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further east in fact and in the wake of this turkish victory in offering this syrian kurdish militia for their part they say that they are starting a new phase of growth of warfare what is that likely to mean. well that's the thing everyone is waiting for in fact there was quite a big deal of surprise that they did leave our firm that was his expectation that they would fight a long and bitter struggle in the town the war that they would fight to the last breath but in the last few days they appear to have changed their minds and now they say they're going to engage in a long guerrilla warfare in this region they say they know this area well they have their forces all over africa and they say they're going to make a nightmare for the turkish forces and the syrian militia militias that they are backing so everyone will be waiting now as will turkey to will there be a new wave of operations and that in many ways could determine what turkey's next act will be will it be to proceed further east all be forced to consolidate its
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position in for and dorian i just want to ask you a little bit more about how this area was was taken by turkey in fact because i mean these turkish backed forces they they basically went into a frame with little resistance why was that. well that's well but that is something people are asking increasingly here in turkey there was this expectation as i said that they would be very bitter battle these are deeply experience of fighting urban warfare the syrian militia fighting the islamic state very successfully for the last few years and this is fueling some speculation possibly that there was some sort of deal that syrian militia said they withdrew because of humanitarian concerns they didn't want the city reduced to rubble and civilians killed in there but the fact that they did withdraw and they did appear to withdraw with impunity the turkish forces didn't appear to prevent them from leaving is leading to speculation of some sort of deal and also the fact that the day that this was taken was the martyrs day in turkey that was very fortunate for
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the turkish president he has made a lot of political hay out of this so there is this speculation although both sides will categorically deny any kind of deal ok so some changing dynamics there on the ground in syria dorian jones putting it all into perspective for us thank you dorian. and elsewhere in syria president bashar al assad has visited army positions in eastern and near the capital damascus official footage shows the president greeting soldiers and telling them they were quote fighting in the whole world's battle against terrorists the syrian observatory for human rights says the syrian government is in control of eighty percent of the area while civilians continue to flee eastern ghouta in their thousands. well christopher cover is here now with some business news and christophe we're talking we are
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talking tears indeed and it's just a matter of days until new u.s. import tariffs could come into effect and we're talking as early as friday this week now with the clock ticking washington's allies are scrambling to seek exemptions european countries have already threatened to retaliate with their own customs duties on u.s. products now germany's economy minister is in washington for talks currently the e.u. trade commissioner will follow on tuesday and if the u.s. terrorists cannot be avoided business leaders fear their effects could be disastrous. supply and u.s. tariffs would hit europe's steel industry particularly hard germany's new economy minister says a trade war must be avoided at all costs so he's off to washington for emergency talks and says he's willing to make concessions that's the problem with the current situation is that there is a risk that we will get into a spiral of uni lateral actions that runs counter to the idea of global free trade
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and it would mean turning away from what we have been doing worldwide for the last sixty years we have to talk to one another not criticize each other publicly we have to try to find compromises germany's pro-business f.t.p. party says trump may have a point it's calling on europe to reduce its own tariffs but i think he has legitimate positions but we contact set that he's addressing european protectionism by introducing protectionism of his own the solution should be clear rules open markets a new talks about transatlantic free trade he would be best for i'm going to medical to do this face to face but trump doesn't just want compromise on trade from the europeans he's connecting the issue with other demands such as an increase in military spending the post communist left party calls this blackmail and says the answer is for germany to reduce its dependency on exports. no g twenty finance ministers are meeting in argentina's capital one as itis alongside the looming threat of a trade war the air is thick with the fear of
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a currency dispute now more than a year after donald trump came into power the u.s. dollar has shed about fifteen percent of its value the weak dollar makes u.s. products cheaper and therefore more competitive on international markets experts say the weak dollar is the key reason behind the strengthening of the euro the common currency now worth one dollar twenty four and it's more than it's been more than it's been for about three years and that's bad for you and european companies who want to their exports on the world markets and making their goods more expensive now finland has been experimenting with universal basic income for just over a year now theoretically and revolutionary idea for all people to receive money for nothing as automation makes less and less work available in finland they are trying to see if a guaranteed basic income will motivate the unemployed to take up paid work but
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that's not quite the idea behind a universal basic income but the finnish study is attracting a lot of attention. he had a call come to an informal law in northern philanthropy cvs the basic income. he used to work in i.t. but was unemployed for four years after the company he worked for shut down he feels too old for start ups and thinks his skills are too rusty to apply for more senior programming jobs now he wants to become self-employed and the basic income provides the necessary safety net go along. for jobs in the i t industry we're pretty well paid. and going self-employed is risky. but i've wanted to be my own boss for so long and now i finally have the chance to give it a go. and to bronchos he now sells high end chocolate. so . he offers the confectionery to look free food stores in or law.
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the products are imported from other countries like germany he set up an online shop from home which he hopes will make his small business a success your statement of how low are one or if you just want to sit on the sofa at home and you can use the basic income to carry on being lazy and not even find a job but for people like me who want to work it's very motivating. marmaduke or her grandmother who are one of. your core has given himself a year to make the business turn a profit because even with the basic income it's hard to make ends meet in finland . the finnish government is being cagey about the results so far. how the two sides and test subjects choose to use their basic income will only be
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evaluated after the end of the test phase in over a year this model could play a big role in the future labor world. so we can't predict where the job market will change in the future or automation might mean there isn't enough work for everyone and then we need to really think about how to rearrange our social security system. right yes can in from time pair the basic income means above all one thing security the former hotel employee hasn't found a permanent job for a long time despite applying for one hundred and fifty in the past year she comes to the city library several times a week to look for work online but it's hopeless she says she's too old i'm not qualified enough at all my bar mom to him that. i don't leave work to less than
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a month last year. i did odd jobs here and there than normal trying to help someone move house yesterday for eight hours just these typical temporary kinds of jobs. they do. i let makes doll's house furniture which she's hoping to sell. she doesn't know what she'll do when the basic income stops. and it's back to sara thank you so much christoph we're going to have to ecuador now for its striking colonial architecture which is one of the crown jewels of its tourism industry millions of people come from abroad every year to take in the sights of this south american country but in one case the industry which generated the wealth to build these tramaine towns is proving its downfall. is a former gold mining center in the andes mountains in the south of the country and it has been long closed or it's rather it's mines have been long closed which are
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now coming back to haunt the locals slowly crumbling into the honeycomb ground that it stands on as a rumor sits in the n.d.s. in southern ecuador a mining town but also a tourist magnet. the architecture still shows off the town's old wealth earned from four hundred fifty years of gold mining but this paradise is crumbling residents are worried about their town and their own existence marco galveston and his friend he took us to you know our local tour guides. you know. the limit you know it's all of the problems that mining caused. the. school is one hundred two years old and know it's collapsed. illegal or even worse on reasonable mining came so close to the surface that's part of the school
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just fell and we. had to build those the whole thing. was dangerous everywhere here . and we have to assume that similar things will happen elsewhere in tone that it was. so rumor made serious concessions to entice the mining industry to stay but there was no oversight or coordination of tunnelling companies tunneled wherever they saw fit now buildings in the town are increasingly under threat even the public hospital is crumbling markel galvez is personally affected his own apartment building is right next door where you think when the hospital was evacuated because of mining and its consequences. you can see the cracks in the facade those are the effects. the ground is totally hollowed out here. the government had to declare the hospital a dangerous area where personnel and patients were at risk. you're watching news
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our correspondent no drugs or it went to tar tar stan about eight hundred kilometers east of moscow where he followed a group of election observers in the city of cars on he sent us this report. second off i was up early organizing her day the history student had a busy time ahead of her volunteer ing as an election monitor for the independent voters rights movement dollars. needed as each there's the first witnessed time nelson different to what happens in my country i see myself as a patriot which is why i want to do something to make the presidential election a bit more honest it's most noticeable barrier. loss would love to have had two election monitors in each polling station but with a population of more than a million cars and simply had too many for goal is to cover at this station they only had one observer and election monitors from kazakstan who were supposed to be
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here took a long lunch. a short walk away is the office of alex enough and outspoken kremlin critic. stuff they were in close contact with election observers. no fear of dmitri if it distrusts russia's election commission she doesn't believe the elections could possibly have been fair and transparent. to carstone you small villages didn't touch any election observers sometimes they say they have one hundred percent voter turnout and all of the votes are for the ruling party that's impossible the polls have closed earlier at this station voters were observed being bussed in a troubling sign in the relation to. election observers saw what is known as carousel voting with people being brought in on buses to cost multiple ballots thoughts happened three times but for a group with this is the work of the national theatre as
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a voting might be over but goodness going over still isn't done she's keeping an eye on the count. and let's get more now from moscow we're joined by alexander of the open russian movements they are pro-democracy campaigners thanks so much for joining us thank you now alexander we just saw in that report from because on there are hundreds of polling stations apparently not many of them have observers what do you make of that. well unfortunately civil society is not that active and russia we really don't have a lot of observers in our polling stations and as long as there is no observers in the polling station that means that local election comedy may do everything they won't with the with the results of the election it usually happens. well through
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all of the russia because for instance i had an experience and observing these elections and i saw a lot of examples when action comedies were just you know like thinking like well we have a lot of observers let's let's just. not make that guy into frauds old fashioned frauds when you just put a lot of ballots onto the cameras and you don't care about that so the frauds for instance in moscow became more sophisticated they're not that i'm sorry for that we're stupid as they used to be in two thousand and eleven and twelve yeah and you know there's also to your point there's also video apparently circulating that allegedly shows ballot box stuffing and also reports of voter intimidation can you tell us a little bit more about that well of course there were a lot of you know fraud the old fashioned fraud when you just put
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a lot of ballots in in the box in front of the camera but it used to happen in regions not not not in big cities as st petersburg and moscow. and of course we have to fight for for our recounting in such and such a while. stations in such a pulse. yeah and you know it's not only your assessment of the situation our correspondent as well me on tracks or if he was prevented in fact from filming although he had the relevant permits he describes the situation as chaotic what do you think could have been behind that well you know all the election comedies are usually willing to show the good result for for the regime so they are not usually being given the direct instructions they're just being giving the instructions to make everything possible for the better
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result so that's why they from time to time. make their own initiative. and from time to time it looks really chaotic. and that's why they decided that i mean the regime decided that in big cities there are too many observers there are too many journalists that's why let's do that more sophisticated and big cities and just please don't cure in the regions you may just keep making frauds and everything's going to be ok. no one's going to be responsible for that and we see that according to this elections unfortunately that this system works so we have a lot of observers in moscow and there are still a lot of frauds but they have a bit different you know color so we have to fight this fraud but in the general the general line became you know. well the regime tries not to
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give you two even to take part in elections because easier to prevent you from taking part in the elections. alexander we mentioned at the beginning that you're from the open russia movement just to elaborate for our viewers it is funded by mikhail khodorkovsky a well known and outspoken opponent of the putin regime just walk us through your aims your political aren't you you want putin gone now we are. civic movement in russia and our aims are remaining is or protecting human rights and spreading truthful information through all of the russia and teaching public poll addicts you know so it's kind of a education name human rights project. alexander solo v.f. of the open russia movement we thank you so much for joining us this afternoon.
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thank you. well now germany's newly reelected chancellor angela merkel will be in poland later today for what could be a tense visit relations between berlin and warsaw have been chilly since poland's law and justice party came to power in twenty fifteen but there are also signs of a thaw for example on friday the new german foreign minister heikal moss called on poland to take its place as one of the european union's leading decision makers mosse told warsaw officials that eastern e.u. states should take a leading role in brussels most also called for the reintroduction of the so-called weimar triangle a policy forum created by the foreign ministers of germany france and poland in one thousand nine hundred eighty one. and for more i have joining me here in the studio is veronica pryce mayor koch a eastern europe specialist at the european academy in berlin thanks for being with us. we just saw there foreign minister heikal ma seems
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to have been laying the groundwork at least for chancellor merkel's visit do you think that you know we could see a revival here of the weimar triangle and what would that mean i mean at least we are trying to to to really make a good try again in some form of negotiations or talks on the european level between france germany and poland and because we really need to do it now we have well we are one year ahead of elections to the european parliament the overhead of brecht's it so this is really the time now to talk about a future shape of european integration of waters going on through how and what direction the e.u. is going to develop so i thing yes the courtesy visits that merkel is going to say is very much about the question of how are we going to cooperate in the europe in what direction we're going to go and speaking about what direction if i could just to remind our viewers in this trial as a concept this was really founded it was meant to symbolize the reconciliation
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between poland and germany also to reassure the latter of its central role in new europe along with france a more eastern europe in fact but then we had the law and justice party take over in poland and that has presented significant challenges hasn't absolutely i've seen fifteen so since lho in just came to power there was no meeting of triangle on the official level of foreign ministers for example so yes we may hope that there will be a shift or there will be a shot slight change within this year. and two to really push the talks on the on the high level a little bit further poland for its part though would probably point the finger in the other direction they would point to germany they would point to chancellor angela merkel's refugee policy being very critical of that of course i just want to play you know i'm going to merkel spoke on friday after a meeting with the swedish prime minister about that specifically let's have a listen. we expect
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a common european asylum system can be negotiated and agreed by june and we will make this expectation clear at next week's meeting of the european council so a lot at stake there and just to remind people you know we heard there germany sweden also saying that the european council must agree on a common european asylum system by june that is the deadline in fact warsaw firmly opposed along with hungry the czech republic now austria italy also critical can the chancellor do anything to persuade her polish host which you say definitely not today today is really like an official course of visit saying hello i'm here back i'm back on the scene again and i'm really willing to. catch up on quite a lot of european challenges and what definitely will be are the talks also on the european level on the question how are you going to cope with the migration crisis but on the other side it is also very important to push world to talks on different
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european levels digitalisation aung. joints extra towards the east crying russia and so on and so forth so not only to concentrate on the problems like the problem of rule of law in poland like the problem of the migration crisis and and refugees but also trying to build up for our of where all sides could work together on really topics that are common challenges and international security internet security and civil and getting all sides to work together i mean i don't mind if that comes with some veiled threats also i mean the power of the purse strings is really an important one chancellor angela merkel had something to say about that i just want to. know when you structural phones are redistributed we need to make sure that the distribution criteria in future reflect the commitment of regions and communities to take in and integrate migrants. it seems like
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a veiled threat as we mentioned you know if you don't take the refugees you don't get the money yeah and something that warsaw is likely to listen to of course not and of course there will oppose. you all you need to have the subject on the agenda saying if you want to get the money if you want to get the structural forms if you want to play a certain part of the european level you need to stick to the rules so this is maybe a cart. we will see how homemakers going to play out his cards maybe poland will come with another idea saying well we are not going to get some refugees in but we are going to invest more money in for example study lising refugee camps in yeast so there's always a chance that they will somehow try to play with this card so that's what they want to see and in what direction the negotiations on the move and the wild financial framework will be well we will see we have still two or three years to go so this not really defy just starting how big is that fight how big are the refs right now because i mean i just wanna bring in something about the poland's minister for europe said he said that you know when it when it comes to these photos on refugees
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that they will have serious consequences for you unity i mean those sound really like fighting words here would poland seriously consider splitting europe or leaving it definitely not leaving seriously consider really to to show off their position is saying you know the europe of national countries that we can be a piano commission very strong national states strong rights to national problem and since it was supposed to poland very much go forward to this point but there will definitely not risk this unity of the union for that case but we can really. expect that the negotiations on the on the money will be very very hot at the end of last year we have to talk about a move that the e.u. took against poland they launched sanctions procedures against the country over judicial reforms introduced by the law and justice party i mean they were highly criticized a lot of threats were made. that. could see warsaw stripped of its voting rights do
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you think that the e.u. though will actually make good on that threat. i think the threat is a slash as you are not using the last point of threats and distinctions so was the european commission is playing i was reading those saying well we see there are some things not going right in poland which is absolutely true but they of course do not want to use the sanctions because it's actually very destructive both for poland on for the european commission but i mean that rhetoric is that enough though to get poland to make some changes more in the favor of democracy well i think this will be economically directly and so so this will be something like through the problem of rule of law and poland for the next three four five years or something like this and i think both sides are very unhappy about the situation of what days so much at stake in the relationship we thank you so much for on a price my our coach and eastern european specialists at the european academy in
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berlin we thank you for your insight. well now let's head to kenya where plaintiffs in a class action suit against the owners of a lead smelting factory are due to give evidence today the factory has closed but plaintiffs are seeking compensation and demanding a clean up of deadly pollution our correspondent catherine a month ago sent us this report from the village outside mon bossa affected by the pollution. there will be a moment. that unocal is home from another round of treatment she's taking part in a clinical trial to treat lead poisoning here in kenya the city. doctors tried to clean her blood using dialysis the catheter is inserted in her right shoulder it could be her only chance to stay alive the lead poisoning has cost her two kidneys and two children. until i started getting sick in two thousand and fifteen coughing
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my skin was a cheek and i couldn't walk. i had six children three of them also got lead poisoning two of them died. in two thousand and seven metal refinery opened a smelting plant bordering kathryn's neighborhood we know who. in the years that followed at least twenty factory workers in one hundred children died of lead poisoning the pantries closed in two thousand and fourteen but the aftermath is still coming to light we know who still has dangerously high levels of lead in both the water and soil. blood tests reveals that i mean a key has levels of lead more than eighty times to the point considered a health concern she suffers from a small and thyroid gland and. my brother and father worked at the smelting company
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i would wash their clothes and handle the batteries and waste they would carry from the factory while cleaning the house and if the liquid would pour out of the batteries i would be the one to clean the mess when. i didn't know it would affect me because it wasn't good enough and as a supply of. medical treatment is a luxury in all we know who many who live here struggle to put food on the table the nearest hospital that treats lead poisoning is in south africa catherine was fortunate to take part in a medical trial i really is still waiting for her health concerns to be addressed. but there may be a just end to this story and very mentally defender phyllis a me too has launched a class action suit. victims are seeking compensation of thirteen million euros as well as a clean up of the contaminated land now phyllis is expecting at least ten witnesses
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to testify she hopes that this case will set a precedent on how to deal with social injustices and pollution in the country. it was a great weekend of blunder sligo football here in germany and to talk about some of the highlights i'm joined by yanick speight from deed of use for theft he is with us here in the studio what a weekend it was yeah it was an entertaining weekend there were no less than twenty six goals across the nine games but the big match up was between runaway leaders by munich and chinese like hopefuls. and luckily enough we have a look at the game selection our viewers all the action. the start of this match was more notable for he was on the bench rather than the pitch top scorer robert leavened bosky one of six rescued by brian palmer out hospital left out his captain and sent it back really all been among another six others might see coach may have
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been ruling that decision early on the home defense all it see sandri wagner was the happy recipients. at the other end only heroics from strength in the acrobatic new consumer we keeping brian ahead it was only a matter of time until right see break through now the case of not once but twice of the house with the momentum after a frantic fast. and the pressure on in the second period team event have played three one go and the strike out on a sub made no mistake i am a commanding his seven game goal drought and they've been with mika. fan and then got greedy as he tried to see a light six win. but the visitors can break through again frogman sending the last chance of the match high and white was and so another milestone in the light sweet story the banner inspired first of a picture you know if i am. and what a historic victory it was yannick you know this must be sweet vindication for ralph
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has a little rep isn't he decided to rest some life story yeah hundred percent it's always a risk to arrest some of your best players but when you win no one's really caring so hundred percent indicated but he also kind of had no choice i think he's had to manage the squad with playing in europe for the first time ever for the club's history and that means often playing three games with a wake so it's not only normal to rest players but it's also a necessity and housing has to has to juggle you know which players he thinks need to needs a break there which players he thinks has the capacity to you know put in the next shift and logical struggle to be fair this season dealing with that european responsibility but on sunday i wasn't hurt. one hundred percent roy he did have to rely on team of verner to come off the bench and school the winner but it was a solid performance deserved victory and i think a lot of sequel now push on and get that shame is a quote. from sport and they're not the only ones in fact looking for one of the
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spots we're going to look now at by are leaving leverkusen in fact because they were also on the pitch over the weekend they took a look at the shootin to be rock bottom cologne but what seemed to be a mismatch through more than a few surprises have a look. seldom has there been a hotter favorite for the right darby. highflying leverkusen coming off the back of two wins would surely have the edge against rock bottom cologne who hadn't won at home for two months. but cologne clearly hunt read the script there were just nine minutes gone when you asako gave them the lead by live accused and couldn't get to grips with leonardo but in court his cross caused chaos in the leverkusen defense and bentley wouldn't cover himself in glory with his attempt to save was it might have been a lucky goal but it was one that colognes play had merited. leiva cousens mistakes
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when confined to their defense the video assistant referee summoned on field counterpart compos most to the pitch site monitor where he saw what had happened behind his back was most julie sent lucas a lot he was packing for a flying elbow five and that wasn't leave a cousens last moment of madness in the darby. deep into the second tough charles inadvertently headed through for cologne's even solar gratefully accepted the chance to seal a shot to no win for the hosts five three big points for the billy goats who suddenly have renewed hope of avoiding relegation five and leverkusen stiffy it gave dortmund a chance to get a tight grip on the champions league place for next season just a few days after they crashed out of europe following a dire performance against austrian club salzburg but there is unbeaten in the league as dortmund coach and he continues that run at home to have the ship that's
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why sport the only goal in the game the twenty minute the online striker converted from a corner of his six goal in seven matches if england won it when and for each other a little relief. the team so how big is that relief which you say i mean does is he now safe in his job. i don't think so to be fair i think he's been very solid coming in he's done exactly what he's need to do he studied the dortmund ship he's brought a defensive stability to the team and they should qualify for the champions league but that's the minimum required for this club i still feel that a lot of cracks are being papered over especially by michi bush was goals and i feel that this club needs more of an attacking direction i think the fans demand that they've been used to previous coaches in the past like you're going cluck and thomas too cool who were innovative technically hard pressing high high tempo game
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stalls and is a bit more defensive a bit more pragmatic and i was so i think well he's done a great job and get dortmund in the champions league i don't think he's a long term solution for this club ok let's talk about the standings because have there been any changes this weekend not some big changes to be fair still up top as we can see in the table and then the race for european qualification as well is heating up show could dortmund and frankfurt all go big wins to boost their champions they copes but live in loves you can hoffenheim a still in the mix as well and then down the bottom of the table it's looking pretty grim for humbug they lost again on the way kent cologne actually have a lifeline as we saw in that win over live coups and their only five points off months and wolfsburg they played both those teams before the season's end so a great escape is still on the cards unlikely still but this club just wants a dog ever now you know an expat from far it's thank you.
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