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be our guest. managed by for. this is d. w. news live from berlin france mourns a hero police officer who died after yesterday's supermarket shooting on a belt took the place of the last remaining off stage and helped to bring a siege at a store to an end police stormed the supermarkets in the small town of ted where and islamist gunman killed four people and held others captive. also coming up the
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school shooting survivors sick of them two words we need to the students from auckland florida preparing to lead a march for more gun control to the gates of the white house. i'm edith kimani welcome to the program the policeman who offered himself as a hostage during a supermarket shooting spree in south of france has died in hospital. on all trauma is being hailed as a hero for saving lives he switched places with the last remaining person being held captive inside the store locals in the town of have been leaving flowers outside the police station where beltran worked three other people died in friday's attack which authorities allege was carried out by a twenty five year old moroccan born french national he was shot that. the face
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of a hero colonel are nobel terms switch places with the 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 fronts in the town of tread near caucus on around lunch time. we went and started our shopping and after some time we heard an explosion well
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several explosions. so i went to see what it was about i saw 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 missed attacks in france since the beginning of twenty fifteen the government says the terror threat level remains high. heat up to correspondent he said louis is following the story for us from paris lisa thank you for joining us so what are the reactions to this police officer is death. well people here are reacting with a great deal of sadness obviously they're appalled that this man passed away overnight they called him that calling him the epitome of a hero and saying that today harrison has a name and
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a face and one of the people speaking out today was his brother cedric who was talking to francis r.t.l. radio. on he's gone as a hero i think what he do goes beyond the commitment to his job beyond values he gave his life for someone else for a stranger. it's not even for someone from his family he gave his life for strangers. he was well aware he had almost no chance. he was very aware of what he was doing kept his professional reflexes using his mobile phone. and i think if we don't describe him as a hero i don't know what you need to do to be a hero but he did what needed to be done and thanks to him many lives were saved. was. the moving words of cedric beltran was a brother of the policeman who took place what took the place rather of the last remaining hostage speaking on french radio service
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a back to you what more do we know about the nobel train. well we know that he was forty five years old i was married didn't have any children he was known for his bravery really from very early on from when he was actually doing his police training people who are saying he is someone who will never back down will fight until the end in two thousand and five he was sent to iraq as a parachutist and afterwards received a military medal for that and after that he was actually attached to the ne the palace and was c'mon the in the republican guard that is guarding the elysee palace and then obviously about last year late last year according to local press reports he was participating in an exercise and that was staging an attack just like happened last night and yesterday actually as an attack on a supermarket now following that attack a minor was arrested this morning what's the latest on the investigation. we know
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that this seventeen year old apparently was a friend of his the police also yesterday arrested at the attackers part not we don't really know how he was in touch with the with the so to say radicalized people in the area to police trying to find out he's more about his links with the people there but also with that possibly people in syria and iraq and now the french president in my call yesterday set that the threat to france had changed in its nature whereas before hand attacks would be masterminded from abroad from countries like iraq iraq and syria nowadays there was this homegrown terrorism so the police had to deal with people who had never left france to get radicalized who got radicalized here in france and as staging attacks and that's obviously a lot more difficult to detect and the police will have to adapt this to this new kind of threat a lot more difficult to detect so how is france standing with this latest attack.
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well as i said people are really a pauper laying down flowers in front of the john the money down there in turkey and there's also talk about a national nationwide remembrance ceremony maybe several ceremonies one for the attack in itself but also one to this policeman who died instead of someone else. is joining us from paris with the latest thank you. look at some of the other stories making news around the world a car bomb has exploded in the north an egyptian city of alexandria killing at least one person and the target was reportedly a convoy carrying the city's security chief the attack comes just two days before egypt's presidential election but no group has yet claimed responsibility. british regulators have raided the london offices of data from cambridge analytical they're investigating whether the company improperly used data from some fifty million facebook users to target voters with political messages the firm is under scrutiny
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for its role in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election and the breads that come paying. u.s. president donald trump has ordered the banning of most transgender troops from serving in the country's military people who've had gender reassignment surgery or taken hormones cannot now serve an earlier version of the band prompted protests and was successfully challenged in court. staying in the us where i am go over politicians in action on gun control is coming to a head tens of thousands of protesters are expected at a demonstration in the capital washington and the slogan march for our lives the first protest as i've already begun assembling and they'll be joined by supporters in hundreds of such as around the world including right here in germany the washington protest will be led by survivors of last month's mass shooting at a high school in auckland florida. a star for each of the seventeen people who lost
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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 her friends. harming coaches and. it's been hard so it's i mean i guess it's just me being able to say i have something to enjoy is walking. on the day of the shooting that 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 run for their lives as they would
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if they had known that it's definitely 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 and so i went there. and so we're looking for a shooter we don't know where the shooter looks right. looking for guns and were 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 in 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
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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 use but over probably a thousand dollars a share just on little things that might cause fear 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 the better wrote because they see you don't think it's more important want to go represent the three hundred twenty five million as opposed to the syria gun manufacturers we have in this country you are going to be out of a job a florida school reeling from an unthinkable tragedy is taking its fight to the
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national level to say enough is enough. germany's president. has begun a visit to the world's largest democracy that's india with a plea for religious tolerance steinmeyer visit comes amid growing tensions between hindus and muslims there on his trip the german president will be visiting sacred sites from both sides of an increasingly fractious defiant. german president francophile to shine my i was treated to a lesson in india's islamic past at the jama must geed in delhi the country's largest mosque built during the mughal empire the seventeenth century structure is one of india's best known landmarks the german leaders visit comes at a time of widening religious divisions growing violence is straining india's secular foundations the guns and sidon compass die think it is crucial to the younger generation show the will to really embrace and live this diversity in
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indian society of so that you know to allow violent conflicts to continue to erupt because of different backgrounds and different religious conviction exhibits organ have to be the conflict to give them a conflict and. india is home to one hundred eighty million muslims who form the country's largest religious minority they've borne the brunt of attacks by far right hindu groups affiliated to prime minister narendra modi's hindu nationalist party. for many the german president's visit to the jama masjid is a powerful show of support for india's beleaguered muslims our point of view it is very very important. state head is visiting a religious place and that to a mosque definitely will. give a very positive message. to the world and especially to the muslim community in
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india as well it's a message that is sorely needed in recent years hindu mobs have been accused of stoking tensions of the beef consumption of the slaughter of cows an animal revered by hindus reports of lynching of muslims a fueled fears that being targeted muslim and i'm really scared within around ramadi in power i feel as muslims we don't have a voice anymore in india. there's a lot of hatred being spread against muslims but at the same time there are secular and liberal voices here too that's what will save india. go through bit of a. look government is dividing hindus and muslims that's all they're doing with. the german president is not intervening in india's increasingly polarized politics but his visits to the country's many religious sites in the world's largest democracy speak volumes. and just a reminder of the top story we're following for you a policeman hailed as
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a hero for taking the place of a hostage doing a fake supermarket shooting. the brother of a nobel trunk the officer that gave his life to save a stranger. well that's the news coming in exactly forty five minutes in the meantime do feel free to check out our web site at www dot com up for all the talk news and information thank you for watching. every journey begins with the first step and every language but the first word heard in the. rico is in germany to learn german and why not learn it simple online on your mobile and free shop for d w e learning course because german made easy.
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