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cannot explain. bangladesh the dawn of islam is a starting people twenty first on t w. claim . this is deja vu news live from berlin negotiations to reach a final agreement over the eastern good to city of duma are under way in syria the news comes after rebels in the area say more than forty people have been killed in a chemical attack the rebels blame the government and say the death toll is likely to rise the assad regime calls the allegations a fabrication also coming up. police in the german city of munster are now
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scrambling to understand why a man deliberately troves of them into a crowd killing two people authorities say there is no evidence of an islamist connection but they're investigating all other possibilities we'll go live to the scene. voting is underway in hungary's general election where prime minister viktor orban is expected to secure a third term on casting his ballot orbán who ran a populist anti migration campaign said he was fighting for the future of hungary and we'll go live to do have passed. on michelle henery thanks for joining us we begin in syria where it's been reported that the rebel group controlling too much eastern ghouta has agreed to leave and.
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change for the release of prisoners the group known as josh islam has not confirmed the report the news comes just hours after dozens of people were killed and suspected chemical weapons attack there aid organizations say at least one bomb filled with poisonous chemicals was dropped on the last major rebel stronghold near the capital damascus the syrian regime and its ally russia called the allegations a fabrication. earlier correspondent in beirut put together what we know about this alleged chemical weapons attack in ghouta. well what we have heard from syrian american medical society and white elephants which are a group of medics and activists working on the ground that yesterday evening about quarter to eight in the evening barack containing a chemical agent was dropped in a part of the lost city and they started receiving a lot of patients and they these patients this made signs like excessive or
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reforming which led the medics to conclude that they've been attacked with a poisonous gas now all radio was have been shared by these activists and medics on the ground with us of course the images are quite graphic they say that it is likely a chemical agent has been used but that of course cannot be verified verified until and unless you've got a legitimate authority on the ground. and for some analysis of this we're joined by not or us are us from arabic not our welcome rebel groups and medics on the ground alleged use of chemical weapons by the assad regime which denies this who has more credibility here as michel it's all was hard to say after such a short time as our colleague invited said but i would say the syrian government the syrian regime all always denies and always says it's fabricated it's phony it never happened so i think that the this mass killing.
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and what's happened and will tell yesterday cannot be done or carried out by rebel groups because we know that this area was under siege for the last four years so i'm asking myself how can this weapon this these these chemical weapons come inside in the last few years also we have to think that last year in live there was a very similar attack and. dozens of people died and a report of the u.n. and the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons they found out in a report that the syrian regime. is responsible for or might be responsible for this attack so i think the syrian regime is not very credible in this case and rebels have reportedly started negotiating pulling out of for the exchange of
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prisoners how likely do you think that this is going to happen. it's always hard to say because in the last few days the jesuit islam or the. army officer this opposition group did not say much about the these negotiations with they didn't comment very much we saw a couple of people or maybe a thousand came out of the duma but there were news about the dispute inside this rebel group itself so we don't know at the moment it might be possible that they now really reach an agreement. because there will be because of this pressure of this military pressure by russia and by the syrian regime the last two days and the regime has used chemical weapons before in kuta and the u.n. has also accused rebels of using chemical weapons why has this war been so brutal. i think this war became very brutal because it's very fast became
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a proxy war people from outside. jihadist groups from outside came inside syria and it became this prophecy war between two major enemies in the region so to arabia and iran so i think that's that's what made it so. so bad for for the people for the for the civilians there because yeah it's not only normal let's say a civil war between. groups inside syria it's a proxy war with lots of nasa destruction weapons and yeah lots of money also involved so i think that's the main reason not are all serra through arabic thank you for your insight. police in the german city of munster are trying to establish the reason why a man crashed his van into a crowd outside a busy restaurant in the historic center of the city two people were killed and
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dozens more injured germany's interior minister has called the attack a cowardly and brutal crime. people pay their respects to the dead and injured on the streets of munster. yeah you know and i'm still totally shocked my entire family were all shocked and sad it's still somehow incomprehensible i'm very glad that nothing happened to our daughter he goes into the city and was very close to where it happened. we can be glad that it was not an i.a.s. attack but instead a crazy person who is not in the right side of mind. but it is very very bad. the moment carnage hit the historic heart of the city a forty eight year old plowed a van into a group of dinon sitting outside a popular restaurant a fifty one year old woman and
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a sixty five year old man were killed and around twenty others injured the driver of the van shot and killed himself shortly after. local media reporting that he was a german man suffering from mental problems another firearm has since been recovered from his home. base here had to put it in police have searched the apartment of the suspects and in and recovered but actually call of a machine gun a k forty seven rendered unusable as well as illegal fireworks on board. as police continue to investigate the man's motives the attack is a painful reminder of the deadly trend of vehicles being used as weapons. for more on the aftermath of this deadly crash correspondent daniel cooper joins us now from the city of munster daniel what's the latest on the investigation.
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here we're standing exactly where and where all of this was taking place yesterday at three thirty pm in the afternoon and yes indeed we are learning more about the suspect here supposedly called the ends are he is a german holding a german passport originally from the german region office our land which is about an hour and a half away from here with a statement a little bit earlier from the german police here also in the city of minster saying that he was known to them already in the past he has been charged with deception hit and run and also harassment also very interesting when you learn a little bit more about his background because apparently he was somebody with three houses five cars he was working as what we are learning as an industrial designer so yeah it was somebody who was in his life he was not doing bad that's also what we are hearing but all of this still is ongoing and the
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police is still investigating that important thing and that's also what the police pointed out at this point they really don't believe that this was any way linked to terrorism or politically motivated and daniel can you tell us what has the response from politicians been. a little bit earlier we had german interior interior minister zero five here and also the president of this state here and also ryan was failure they came here they paid tribute they were also meeting with the relatives here in the local hospital we still have to remember that there are still people here in the hospital fighting for their lives and still in a very serious condition. i really had the feeling that mostly the president here of this federal state was really touched and he was saying that there is going to be an in-depth investigation and they really want to know what's behind all of this
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. once again and we've seen that despite all the efforts of the government to protect our citizens there's unfortunately no such thing as absolute security. but we still have to do everything that snap power to prevent the harms like these from happening all of this so inconceivable to us so we must do everything we can to try to stop as many of these crimes from happening as possible in the future. and this is just seen from the latest statement from the interior minister horse a home for there's been an outpouring of concern and sympathy from politicians since the incident how are monsters residents receiving their messages can you tell us what the mood is like in the city there are today. yeah i guess people you know are actually still in shock i mean we have to remember the day was pretty much yesterday like it's today a very warm temperatures between seventeen and twenty degrees the city was packed
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also at this moment many people are coming by to pay that should be we can actually have a look at some of the cards some of the flowers that were displayed here i was reading one of the cars a little bit earlier it has the big sign on there saying why and also one person was writing in times like this we are even standing closer together tonight at seven thirty pm there's going to be at church service here in the city of minster where everybody of course will be thinking about the victims the people being hurt and those still in very serious condition daniel cope in one state or thank you for the update. now to some of the other stories making news around the world in new york one person died and four firefighters were injured in a blaze on the fifteenth floor of trump tower official said the fire in the u.s.
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president's signature building was quickly put out victim was a male president of the building who died after being brought to the hospital at least fifteen people were killed and fourteen injured when a semi-trailer slammed into a bus carrying a youth hockey team in western canada the humboldt broncos were on route to a playoff game in the province of saskatchewan when the crash took place police are investigating the cause of the accident france's rail network is suffering a major disruption once again a third of rail workers walked off the job on sunday in protest against the government's planned overhaul of the state run rail system the strikes are part of an ongoing dispute set to last for three months. you're watching the news more still to come. coming up byron munich did it again becoming german champions and now for the glorious trouble. elections
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are underway in hungary where nationals prime minister viktor orban is widely expected to win a third consecutive term polls predict organs who does party which is campaigned on an entitlement and euro skeptic platform will win a majority together with the christian democrats but growing unity among opposition parties is putting or bans margin of victory in doubt. it's an election being closely watched across europe will hung gary and swing further to the right or will they vote for closer relations with the e.u. turnout is high which could indicate that change is on the horizon. like two or three more i think p.d.s. is going to win again but the opposition is going to be bigger and they'll be quite a solidarity a child of government is probably going to happen in four years from now or less but others point to increase safety and economic growth. in the city has
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transformed since feet as came to power beautiful construction it's clean and orderly foreign as a coming my astray and cousin is here right now who unfortunately cannot vote and they see things the same way from abroad only. one. victory seems assured for or band but his feet as party doesn't just want a majority they need a super majority to execute their sleeping reforms or ben has taken a hard line on migration comparing it to a rust that would consume hungary. as leader of an a you can treat his nationalist views clash with the blocs liberal ideals but your band insists that his criticism of the european union was directed at brussels. and not the member countries. are going to open if you win this election will you make your peace treaty i'll be a member of. member of all international organization and we are standing on the
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basis of the interest of our country because we love our country and we are fighting for the future of our country hungary has been one of the biggest recipients of the.

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