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the pope would route through slowly. this is the daily news lawyers from berlin and france laurens a hero police officer who dies after yesterday's supermarket choosing our nobel took the place of the last remaining hostage and helped bring in scenes as a store to an end any store into the supermarket in the small town of tad where an islamist grown man kills four people and tells others captive. also coming up to
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the school shooting survivor is sick of empty words we need the students from parkland florida preparing to lead a march for more gun control to the kinks. and on world to close this day we visit ukraine the country's at the center of a dangerous resurgence of the deadly disease in iraq. for joining us the policeman who offers himself as a hostage during a supermarket choosing spree in southern france has died in hospital colonel arnaud is being hailed for saving lives he switched places with the last remaining person being held captive inside the store three others died in friday's attack. the face of a hero colonel are nobel traumas switch places with
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a hostage but kept his phone switched on and so helped bring the deadly standoff at a supermarket to an end france's interior minister said well trump's heroism and bravery and sacrifice would never be forgotten. the country's president emanuel praised the swift action of the police. i want to salute their engagement and their professionalism but especially their courage. particularly the courage of an officer of the gendarmerie who volunteered to take the place of a hostage. the attack took place in southwestern from some of the town of travel. around lunch time. we went in and started our shopping and after some time we heard an explosion well several explosions. so i went to see what it was about i saw
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a man lying on the floor and another person very agitated with a handgun in one hand and a knife in the other yelling allahu akbar. the french government says the islamist link is on the close investigation police have detained a woman believed to be the gunman's partner more than two hundred forty people have been killed in islam mr attacks in france since the beginning of twenty fifteen the government says the terror threat level remains high. but for more on this story now we're going to cross over to our correspondent lisa lewis in paris and she's standing by for us there lisa france is mourning tell us tell us some of the first reactions after the death of this police officer today. people obviously uphold by the fact that he passed away overnight they're calling him the epitome of terrorism they saying hair is now has a face and
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a name in manama called the french president came out saying that the whole nation should pay tribute to this forty five year old man who exchanged his life against someone else's life. what else do we know about this brave hero and this officer today he was married he didn't have any children but he was known in the police for his bravery really from very early on when he was doing his training to become a police officer he was known to be someone who was willing to fight until the end and never give up in two thousand and five he went to iraq as a parachutist and then afterwards. the exit palace and the ministry of environment he was part of the security team there and was then then sent down to the south of france to join the counterterrorism group that actually late last year according to
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local press reports he took part in an exercise staging such an attack as happened yesterday that is a shooting at a supermarket. what is the latest after friday's attack what's happening with the investigation you did report earlier that there was an arrest earlier on. yes absolutely and the police arrested his partner not of the last yesterday actually and today we heard that a seventeen year old man who is arrested as well taken into preliminary custody to be questioned apparently he was a friend of the attackers we know that the attacker was known to be radicalized but apparently the police didn't think that he was on the brink of staging a terror attack he was part of a few. a list of people that was known to be radicalized but he was rather known for his petty crimes instead of really being on the brink of sage an attack they
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tell us and paris thank you for that update. of the u.s. now where i am girl over a politicians in action on gun control will be coming to a head later today thousands of protesters are expected to demonstrate in the capital washington under the slogan march for our lives they'll be joined by supporters in hundreds of cities around the world including here in germany the washington protest will be led by survivors of last month's massacre at a high school in parkland florida they've become powerful advocates for change. a star for each of the seventeen people who lost their lives just over a month after the massacre at marjorie stoneman douglas high the pain here is still raw but the students who survived it didn't miss a beat and demanding stricter gun control many are flying to the u.s. capitol this weekend to take part in a massive protest it will be sarah's first time on a plane she's bringing a new tattoo that commemorates those she's fighting for several of the dead were
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her friends while keen. to harm me and i know the coaches and. it's been hard so it's i mean i guess it's just me being able to say i have seven to windows walking. on the day of the shooting and there had already been a fire drill at school the students also knew that they would need to practice their response to an active shooter on campus one day. so when the shooting happened many people assumed that it was fake that people were shooting blanks and i think people didn't take the precautions like a run for their lives as they would if they had known but it's definitely a real one of those who will be marching in d.c. on saturday is history teacher greg pittman he recalls the confusion and horror on the day of the shooting and as i was working with the students there are no others teacher came running up to me and said greg greg. these shots these are real shots
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and so i want them like watch and so we're looking for a shooter we don't know where this. looks like we're looking for guns and we're all very concerned and concerned with their students and just trying to figure out what to do next the students hid in their classrooms in silence hoping the shooter would pass as they waited other students and videos of gun smoke filling classrooms and their classmates bleeding on the ground. a few weeks after the massacre thanks largely in part to the activism of students here at marjorie stoneman douglas high florida state passed a raft of new gun control measures they include things like raising the minimum age at which you can buy a firearm from eighteen to twenty one however they also include a controversial new provision that would arm some teachers in school but teachers here don't think they should have to decide when to shoot a child even when one has a gun they want to know who will provide them with training and who will pay for it we barely have money for paper we barely have money for just supplies i spent over probably a thousand dollars
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a share just on the little things that might cost you because i can't go to the school with it the march for our lives protest in d.c. is their first step in an uphill battle for stricter gun laws but these high schoolers are media savvy and writing a wave of unprecedented national attention for their cause they're going to washington with a clear message for lawmakers you better through the road because they see you don't decide that it's more important point to go represent the three hundred twenty five million as opposed to the gun math. today marks where else to this day globally tb is one of the top ten deadliest diseases effective treatments came close to wiping out a rich countries but it's now making a dangerous resurgence and the main cause is the increase in the number of drug resistant strains of tuberculosis where the medicine used to treat it simply stops working well officials say that about one quarter of the world's population has
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latency. and there are an estimated ten million new infections i knew and the disease kills about one point seven million every year and in europe ukraine is one of the countries hardest hit by the return of tuberculosis and the rise of resistant strains. just three years ago. barely knew anything about tuberculosis that is until a routine checkup changed life tonight that with me we can't know how many people around us here have tb many just don't know their status yet but even after a recovery the fear of reinfection is never far away from it not sometimes i just couldn't use public transport i just couldn't. we're all doing it whether we coughing or sneezing or just breathing out each of us is constantly sailing thousands of tiny liquid droplets droplets that can spread the common cold but also tuberculosis that's what makes it such a feared disease. yeah there's
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a mole and i was praying that it was cancer or anything but tb when i got that diagnosis it felt like my life was over i packed my things the hospital and said goodbye to my friends that is the friends you stuck by me lots of people had just disappeared from my life that happens to everyone who gets tb. takes us to a closed hospital for tb patients on the edge of the capital kiev. visiting the patients even for just a couple of minutes means taking extensive precautions since her own recovery all those dedicated herself to fighting for better care for ukraine tuberculosis patients we head to the most secure part of the hospital. so. i will not. rest till sixty eight and has multi resistant tb standard antibiotic treatment isn't enough to beat the strains of the disease he carries he
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too early discovered he was infected by chance. we had a routine check up at work they took an x. ray and they found a problem i had no symptoms at all i didn't realize anything was wrong. russell's treatment will take longer than his chances of a full recovery a lower than for those patients with conventional strains of t b. more than a quarter of tb cases seen in ukraine a multi resistant that's one of the highest incidence is worldwide experts say that's down to many patients not completing their course medication and the health system the confines patients in close quarters allowing them to infect one another . we joined on the children's ward. yes many of these children were infected by their parents. there in hospital they have little in the way of distractions and no school. while recent years have seen big
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improvements in the medicines available to patients in ukraine over worries does not you know if you know this to the people with tuberculosis need help they need support it's not just about the drugs a lot depends on the emotional state of the patients whether or not they will complete that course of medication and make a full recovery. got them. to the korean peninsula where the north and says have made a further step toward dialogue souls' says the north has agreed to hold high level talks at a border village on march twenty ninth the talks are set to focus on your article ration for an expected so much between north korean leader kim jong un and science korean president kim in april it would be the first between the leaders of the two koreas in more than a decade or so. and to sylvia their stories making news around the world.
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russia's defense ministry say over one hundred thousand civilians have left serious besieged eastern guta since the start of a government offensive around four hundred thousand people lived under opposition control in the region near the capital damascus prior to the solves most of the area has since been recaptured by the regime. forces regulators have raided as the london offices of dacer firm cambridge honest count they're investigating whether the company improperly used data from some fifty million facebook users to target posters with political messages the firm is under scrutiny for its role in the twenty six day u.s. presidential election and the process campaign. u.s. presidents donald trump has ordered the banning of most transgender troops from serving in the country's military people who had gender reassignment surgery or taken hormones cow last name serve an earlier version of the problem says protests
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