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every week and looking to the future of. science and research. this is due to live from berlin our brave pain over gang rape burdick's thousands take to the streets to protest the acquittal of five men accused of raping a young woman and this video during the boy running for president in two thousand and sixteen also coming up. spending is back in the spotlight after the president now germany's chancellor this week is europe's powerhouse on be prepared
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to give its defense budget a significant boost. and russia says its voting nuclear power plant is key to opening up the arctic but as a way to begin environmentalists this morning it could be calm chernobyl on ice. welcome to the program tens of thousands of protesters have rallied across spain to condemn a court ruling which has cleared five men of gang raping a young woman at the twenty sixteen bore running fast of oil and pump while into it filmed the incident and then bragged about it on what's up demonstrators say sentencing the men for the lesser offense of sexual abuse which carries jail sentences of nine years each is not enough the victim and her lawyers are appealing
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the verdict. i the court's ruling has unleashed a wave of anger around spain i was every guy protesters insist the verdict is too lenient and that too often it felt like the victim was the one on trial here i would assume there are so many incoherencies of the sentence the justice system is still patriarchal it blames also rather than protecting us even though they think it must kill us we don't want to be scared to go out at night but we always are it's horrible and on fast do you see who still get the. i the crime took place during the annual san fermin bull running festival in pamplona back in two thousand and sixteen amid the drinking and revelry prosecutors alleged five men led an eighteen year old woman into a building where they raped her films themselves in the act and then stole her mobile phone but judges stopped short of ruling the crime to be rape which requires
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evidence of violence or intimidation under spanish law. multiple lawmakers have condemned the ruling the conservative government says it's now considering changing how spanish law defines break. any change to the laws must be well thought out and all political parties must participate in out that's our will proceed as he said i i with protests to continue so too was the court case that's driving them lawyers for both the prosecution and defense say they're going to appeal the ruling i now see the other stories making news around the world officials in seoul say north korean leader kim jong un will close his country's nuclear test site next month is expected to invite experts to observe the process in news follows a historic summit between the two states on friday as they announce plans to officially and the korean war with a peace treaty. u.s.
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president dollar trump says he expects to hold talks with north korea's kim jong un but three to four weeks he made the comment during a rally in michigan the exact date and location of the meeting has not yet been announced. thousands of nicaraguans have marched through the country's capital to demand justice following the deaths of dozens of people during anti-government protests the rally was called by the catholic church the original protests were triggered by government plans to reform the social security system including reducing pensions president daniel ortega has since canceled the overhaul. of french museum has discovered that more than half of its collections are fakes police in the town of arden vesta gating how the gallery which is dedicated to french painter who ended up with eighty two counterfeit paintings paid some one hundred sixty thousand euros for the drawings and watercolors investigators say
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works by other artists could also be affected. larry harvey the founder of the burning man arts festival has died in the united states tens of thousands of people attended the annual nevada gatherings he started in the one nine hundred ninety s. they conclude with the burning of a giant effigy friends and family have called him a visionary and mentor who challenge others to view the world in new ways he was seventy come with cars. u.s. president dollar trump has met with french president emmanuel mccall then he met with german chancellor angela merkel but these meetings with two european powers haven't cleared up some open questions has renewed his criticism of nato partners saying they're not paying their fair share in defense efforts but how much germany should chip in to the alliance is the subject of much debate among the country's top politicians. for years german defense spending was spiraling downward due
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primarily to the end of the cold war and the standoff between east and west but as international tensions grow german military spending has gone up still as far as the us is concerned berlin is not doing enough no they should meet the goals that they agreed to german defense minister ursula evangelion agrees with the nato goal of each country spending two percent of gross domestic product on the military. for germany that should be seventy billion euros a year current defense spending is thirty seven billion. to visit as we all agree in the coalition that defense spending will have to go up over the next four years current plans would only increase defense spending to forty four billion by twenty twenty one raising opposition eyebrows as most get india money must be allocated a lot of money so that germany's armed forces can once more be deployed as a reliable nato partner it's the head of the opposition free democratic party wants
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europe to be more independent on defense. we should not allow ourselves to be put under pressure by the us it's right for europe to do more for defense ideally through more cooperation not by boosting individual armed forces we should create european structures too and shuffle some lawmakers from chancellor merkel's conservative bloc don't want to see big increases in defense spending others agree that germany has not contributed to nato in a way that fits its status as a major economic player. now russia has launched a controversial floating nuclear power plant which it says is the first ship of its kind it's been under construction for years in st petersburg and the two reactors are due to be equipped with nuclear fuel and i'll sail to the arctic sea next summer as moscow looks to secure the rich deposits of oil and gas believed to be in the region around the north pole but environmentalist have criticised the plant for its many risks. russia's floating nuclear power plant makes its way out to sea and
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development since two thousand and seven the academic limon us off cost around a half a billion euros it's builders say it's safe. well this power plant incorporates all of the best features of traditional nuclear plants it's protected from all kinds of natural and technical dangers was. the ship is said to play a key role in russia's plans to develop the arctic it will supply vast amounts of electricity and warmth to far flung locations and to power oil refineries and desalination plants. environmentalists warn of the potential dangers greenpeace has dubbed it a floating chernobyl. its maiden voyage takes it around scandinavia to reach months in russia's far north that's where its nuclear reactors will be fueled late
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next month. next year the vessel will travel ten thousand kilometers across the arctic to pay back in superior it'll provide power to the remote mining town and to oil rakes for now the ship is one of a kind that russia says fifteen other countries are showing interest in the technology. to formula one racing now an overall leader sebastian fatso has taken pole position at the azerbaijan gone free the fourth race of the season a ferrari driver posted a flawless lap on the bottom circuit to secure his third consecutive hole of the german should expect some stiff competition in sunday's race with world champion lewis hamilton starting in second place and his mercedes teammate valtteri bottas in third. football is somewhat of a religion for many around the world and in argentina where one club has recreated michelangelo's famous painting in the sistine chapel in their gym using stars such
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as diego merritt donna and leon all massy now fans and players who worship football legends can also look up to them. messi any merit gone up to trade as the iconic figures of adam and god in michelangelo's masterpiece argentina's two football stars already have heavenly status in the country anymore lies in the two on this ceiling along with other argentinian stars is an effort to motivate the next class of up and comers. a group in the cloak now has the top figures in the world of football messi a marathoner and the others who have decided how old so excellent players with a very good foot would. be always prioritised goodwill what with the kids gimmick so who better to look at you know than these players some when they're doing it already know. the sports club paid around twenty thousand u.s. dollars to complete the artwork and its president believes every generation will
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look up and be inspired the go girl kids ones are the ones that love football want to be like i want idols when he plays. today the kids who play here have messi. and the adults who come also share our idols. would have moved doesn't come off you look at the sky and when you ask god for a helping hand you have so many of them here to choose from on this event and if they did still there i'd done a known for the hand of god won the world cup in one nine hundred eighty six with argentina while messi has yet to win the greatest trophy but could also a sin to the same heights at the finals in russia this summer. fred stein a master of the art of street and portrait photography died decades ago but his work still resonates fine lad nazi germany for paris in the early one nine hundred thirty s. and later moved to new york where he led for the rest of his life now the museum of
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friends and drawings here in berlin is commemorating him by displaying a selection of more than thirty of his original prints. really brandt. and hannah aren't all post force camera many portraits of albert einstein are well known but to the stay photographer fred stein remains largely unknown his son peter hopes to change that he's brought stein's photos to his birthplace traced and i'm just really thrilled about this exhibition is in place and it's. really my father is coming home to waste as the son of a rabbi fred stein fled the nazis to paris in one nine hundred thirty three there as an unemployed lawyer he began taking photos with his wedding present i like a camera he took it with him everywhere capturing street scenes from paris and later after fleeing again in new york. but up until his death in one thousand nine
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hundred sixty seven stein never achieved success with his images. before. it was before the value of photography. and galleries were created exclusively for photography and photos were displays in museums. he. started sun is convinced that the unknown photographers openness played a key role in getting so many famous people to pose for him. and albert einstein had a ten minute appointment to see him and einstein secretary saying oh you have to leave it's the sun said no no no no no they spend some of that time telling each other dirty jokes in german. most the star and subjects are cheerful he wasn't bitter about his experiences and he didn't bear a grudge against germany what it's like now it's night and he came back to germany
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he was friends with who really brunt and. he really. was happy to be back fred stein loved raised but he never returned to east germany so his son was touched even more by the huge turnout of the city's residents eager to see the opening of fred stein's exhibition. just a reminder of the top stories we're following for you thousands have marched in protest across spain after five men were cleared of great interest found guilty instead of a lesser charge of sexual abuse of five we called themselves pac assaulted an eighteen year old woman during twenty sixteen or running past of all victims lawyers will appeal the verdict. and europe's nato spending is back in the spotlight after u.s. president donald trump met with germany's chancellor merkel on friday term politicians are discussing just how much more. should shift then to the lion. and
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