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everyone has the right. to everyone has the right to say. still the news live from berlin a big step forward for deescalation on the korean peninsula north korea pledges to dismantle the site where it has its nuclear weapons and allow foreign media has actually birds to observe we'll go to seoul for the latest also coming up. outrage in spain over gang rape burdick's thousands take to the streets to protest
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a few of fine men accused of raping a young woman in a city a pump long during a bull running basketball in twenty sixteen. and it's going down to the wire at the rock band of the german bundesliga this weekend things got physical between hamburg and world's birds as they fought for survival and it was no different in freiburg house alone desperately trying to avoid relegation. i'm happy and welcome to the program mir days after the historic summit between north and south korea pyongyang says it's prepared to shut down its underground nuclear test site next month this is according to officials in seoul they say the north is also prepared to invite experts and foreign media to the site very to ensure the process is transparent at
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a groundbreaking summit on friday north korean leader kim jong un and south korean president mugabe and pledged to officially end. a state of war between their countries and rid the korean peninsula of nuclear weapons and u.s. president donald trump says a meeting between him and kim will take place between three to four weeks. for more let's go to solve our correspondent jason strother is standing by jason the north says it's prepared to shut down the nuclear test site in mere weeks what more can you tell us about this new development. of it and lee kim jong moon said this to moon jay and during their summit this was all relayed today by president moon's office there of course there's been some speculation over the functionality of this of the gave the site however kim jong un says that he's ready to bring international observers journalists whoever to watch this site get closed down
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sometime in may and that presumably means complete dismantlement they're saying that they're going to shut this site down within mere weeks what do we know about the north north korean nuclear site. right well it's built under a mountain and there are four tunnels that are that the site is made of the first two tunnels seem to be an active based on satellite imagery collected by observers at johns hopkins university the second tunnel was used during north korea's biggest nuclear test last september its sixth nuclear test and since then there's been no activity but two other sites the south and west tunnel do seem to be be functional according to observers now jason when the news came on friday that kim jong un had agreed to denuclearize at the enter korea summit there was skepticism how can we interpret this sudden change in
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a long held position from the north korean regime and developing and keeping nuclear weapons. i'm not so sure this was a real a real turnaround for pyongyang i mean ever since north and south korea have engaged in talks dating back thirty years these kind of promises to have a nuclear free korean peninsula to work toward a peace treaty these are things that have always been agreed upon and i'm reminded and kim jong un saying during the summit that he's ready to dismantle the nuclear test site this reminds me of what happened back in two thousand and seven during the previous korean enter some interesting summits similar pledges were made and in two thousand and eight north korea did demolish the equaling tower at the time tony a reactor only to rebuild it some years later and continue to make more nuclear warheads now if we look ahead we mentioned that trump has said that he's looking forward to meeting came with a near weeks what can we expect in that meeting. well i think the agenda was pretty
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much set on friday during the moon kim summit no one was expecting any breakthroughs to come through but i think now north korea least the pledges that north korea has made to denuclearize and dismantle its very nuclear test site at least gives washington the ability to say look kim is earning the talk with donald trump so let's move ahead but still we don't know exactly when or even aware that summit will take place jason strother and seoul thank you for your insight thank you. 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 two thousand and sixteen bull running fast of one pump long up it filmed the incident and then bragged about it on whatsapp demonstrators say sentencing the man 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 protesters insist the verdict is too lenient and that too often it felt like the victim was the one on trial i would say there are so many incoherencies of the sentence the justice system is still patriarchal it blames oft rather than protecting us even though they could almost kill us we don't want to be scared to go out at night but we always are it's horrible and done fast even to see who still get here 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 filmed themselves in the act and then stole her
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mobile phone but judges stopped short of ruling the crime to be raped which requires 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 great bargain any change to the laws must be well thought out and all political parties must participate in out that's our will proceed. i with protests to continue so too is the court case that's driving them lawyers for both the prosecution and defense say they're going to. appealed the ruling. now some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o. has urged saudi arabia to resolve its dispute with qatar and a meeting with saudi king samana and riyadh on pale set goals unity he did to be achieved saudi arabia and many of its neighbors have cut ties with qatar accusing
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it of supporting terrorism and iran guitar denies this. armenia's governing party says it will not put forward a new candidate for prime minister after sarah's circassians resignation a week ago the move is seen as a bid to ease tensions following weeks of antigovernment protests and opposition leader a new poll question is now the only candidate parliament will make its selection on tuesday. a french museum has discovered that more than half of its collection are fakes police in the town of el nina are investigating how the gallery which is dedicated to french being to atlanta who ended up with eighty two counterfeit paintings it paid some one hundred sixty thousand euro for the works. yes trillion government says it will spend almost four hundred million u.s. dollars to help restore the great barrier reef the reef is one of the most
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biodiverse ecosystems on the planet in recent years it's lost thirty percent of its corals due to rising sea temperatures and damage caused by the coral crown of thorns starfish. that is one of europe's most popular cities with taurus but what was once a blessing has become a curse according to many residents they're sick of the huge number of visitors who traipse through their city every day they say tourists destruct normal life for locals but not for much longer perhaps because the italian city has come up with a way to turn back some tourists at peak times it's been testing this out long weekends coming up. the city of gondolas of canals. and of overcrowding. last year nearly thirty million people visited venice many flocking to see the same famous sites but this week their path may be blocked responding to complaints from local residents the city's mayor has installed
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automated gates to control the flow of pedestrians through the most well trodden areas. i think it's a good idea a little boy a city that we cannot accept mass unchecked tourism tourism should be unintrusive obvious. although gates remain open much of the time police can shut them to divert foot traffic to other areas when the streets become too crowded but as visitors to venice continue to come in larger numbers the small city is urging tourists to think before they visit. we are advising tourists who want to spend a single day in venice to avoid coming on the most popular days if the mayor succeeds local venetians may win back some peace and quiet. sports now the bundesliga season is going down to the wire for clubs locked in the relegation scrap on saturday last place cologne headed to freiburg needing that went to have any hope of avoiding the drop and with the hosts also fighting for their lives it
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was not going to be an easy day for either side. this classic six point game got moving fast mike france with the crossed a newspaper sim who opened the scoring in the fourteenth minutes. with no chance. and threatened again resorting to a foul to stop him penalty but couldn't convert one at half time soon after the restart suffered another blow pietersen once again fribourg mr reliable reasoning past many kinds to hit the two nil pietersen has scored seven or freiburg last eight goals colognes attack. until the eighty second minute that is that's when they. make it to one and out of nowhere the billy goats were back in the game. between cortez scored in three straight games and he wasn't done yet. to all as he headed in the cross from
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my cell research. it was now anyone's game and less than a minute later fribourg created a crazy double chance first team horned in idea on a carburetor before dominic moto stopped look at her there's a rebound on the line that wasn't the last word from. robin cox header landed at the feet of her i netted his first league i three two the final score i and important win for fribourg and the sixth time cologne have been relegated from the bundesliga. kind of prepared for this spending the whole season at the bottom but we always kept hoping it's a bit of dates and. fans were loyal to the end and next season they'll be cheering on their teams campaign to return to the top flight. now the relegation scraps
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bergman's three want to home to hamburg. you now have three wins in four matches bobby wood's penalty kick open the scoring for the visitors and three minutes later lewis holtby headed in another one then in the second half of break a loews free kick sailed in to give world sport some hope but an added time a blocked penalty kick fell to the feet of luke about schmidt who put the match away for hamburg. and saturday's late game sticker shock champions league hopefuls laverick isn't christian getting their settled the game in the visitors favor with this dumping header and sixty seven minute the defeat means that heiko halogens meant slip into fifth place one point behind hoffenheim who now occupy the last champions league spot deckard meanwhile are already guaranteed another season in the bundesliga. now let's take a look at all the bundesliga action so far on match day thirty two as we just
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oliver couzin lost to cart in saturday's late game a crucial when for hamburg and freiburg as well who wrapped it up late with a three two win over cologne you know munich beat frankfurt berlin drew without spur to to another tie between shock and gladbach on friday night hoffenheim hand over three want later today minds will face leipsic and braman battle dortmund so let's see what all that means for the table for now hoffenheim have taken the fourth champions league spot away from labor cruzan but it's still very much up for grabs there as you see there in fourth spot and the bottom half freiburg take a big step towards safety the same goes for hamburg though for now they're still in the drop zone with already relegated cologne. don't forget you can always get all the news on the go just download our app from google play or from
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