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order forbidding that deportation the court has demanded that sammy a be brought back to germany. sami was closely monitored in germany before he was deported to tunisia and german authorities suspected him of having been the bodyguard of a close confidant of asama bin laden last week following months of investigations he was repatriated from a german prison to tunisia his lawyer there make serious accusations against german authorities. in germany he was subjected to insult and mistreatment he was prevented from contacting his lawyer his family and a doctor they kept him naked for a while everything that happened to him was done outside the bounds of the laws in germany he was not respected as a human being neither he nor his family five of whom all german passports. germany's interior minister disagrees however the court responsible for the case bar the suspects deportation at first it called for a written guarantee that sami would not be under threat of torture in tunisia. but
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by then he was already on board the plane from dusseldorf to tunis. and. how does it look with the tunisian government it regards itself as a country under the rule of law and it is not always easy to demand from a country with the rule of law something that ought to be taken for granted. but that is exactly what the german court had demanded prior to sami deportation the government in tunis told d.w. that this would not have been a problem the tunisian anti terror agency pointed out its close ties with germany. there is judicial cooperation and coordination between tunisia and many european countries including germany and one of these agreements includes extradition and counter-terrorism. and as for some e.a. after landing in tunis a suspected terror accomplice was arrested and has been in prison ever since.
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catch up with some of the other stories. u.s. person will be inviting his russian counterpart vladimir putin to washington this autumn the invitation comes four days after the summit in hell thinking of meeting that provoked an uproar in the u.s. over trump's failure to publicly confront her team of of moscow's alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election. nicaragua as president daniel ortega has blamed the united states catholic bishops and satanists for recent unrest in the country ortega joined thousands of nicaraguans in marking the anniversary of the nine hundred seventy nine overthrow of the country's former dictator hundreds of people have been killed over the past three months during the government's bloody crackdown on protesters. to china now where the courage of a handful of young women is galvanizing the country's fledgling me to movement they
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call themselves silence breakers in their campaigning against widespread sexual harassment in chinese society particularly in universities and on public transport it's an uphill battle as they confront china's male dominated culture and also the communist authorities trying to sweep the problem under the carpet. educated and a little bit funky. this is what feminism looks like in china. she is a ph d. student in gender studies at hang go university. taking inspiration from the meet to movement that began in the united states she's launched a campaign to combat sexual harassment including on public transport. like to see my auntie sexual harassment stickers all over the subway system. ideally there would also be loudspeaker announcements and ads on the screens.
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that's out right now to. trying to get permission for this from the transportation authorities in eleven major cities a bureaucratic ordeal but in china it seems to be the only way to get the message out. there was no way. this protest took place three years ago and ended with prison sentences for the activists the women sing a song against the notorious gropers on public transport they were jailed for thirty seven days. me too in the us it's been championed by celebrities in china it's a fledgling movement led mainly by university students. it began with a former doctoral student who accused her professor at bay honey university in beijing of trying to rape her the allegations posted on chinese social media went
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viral garnering millions of views and shares many describe going through similar experiences but for china's censors it went too far. me too. they blocked our me too micro blog so we changed the name to the chinese words for rice which is me and bunny which is to graze bunny meat to me. it's a clever way to avoid powerful government censors this is me too in china the rise bunny on the internet it looks cute but behind it is a powerful network of strong women all linked to one another. in shanghai joy lynn is an advocate for victims of sexual violence she has an internet platform where she offers advice and publishes articles but even the small scale events she organizes are viewed with suspicion by police just because they're
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for women. for screening like iran ten people came and and talk about certain gender issues. and they thought when is this why i wouldn't be it would be for the authorities but still i got called and taste also in beijing me too in action feminist document rene's case her ex-boyfriend trying to rape her in the underground garage of another university she went to the police but they didn't want to take the case renee's university even put pressure on her parents so she wouldn't go public. john mayer my father said to me come home and listen to your university otherwise they'll expel you. i asked him why should they expel me i've done nothing wrong
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he had no answer to that he only repeated that i should listen to the university. britney's consultation with her attorney is sobering there is no national legal framework for dealing with cases of sexual harassment in schools or the workplace. loucheux chen is one of the few attorneys who take on these types of cases he explains to ranie that there is no legal definition of sexual harassment but he promises he'll support her in her lawsuit against the police who fail to help her at the time. as. a feminist movement that doesn't have it easy in china she the doctoral student from hang joe continues her work despite the challenges and she inspires others from inside the student dorm room new feminist
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campaigns are springing up all the time. for more on china's me to move let's talk now to lake george an activist for women's rights in her home city of shore they thanks for joining us your efforts to publicize sexual harassment on public transport i believe are effectively blocked by the authorities so you took things into your own hands tell us about your campaign what exactly do you do. i can play here. we appear to have an interruption of playing there. we will continue to try and get back in touch with a lathe a german activist for women's rights in china moving on with much of europe sweltering under a heatwave at the moment even reaching regions near the arctic circle are feeling the burn around forty separate wildfires raging in sweden for instance threatening
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villages there causing big problems for a country more accustomed with the battle against snow climate change could mean that this extraordinary weather may become the new normal. inferno near the arctic circle. four days firefighters have been struggling to contain a rash of wildfires scattered over a vast expanse of sweden from north of stockholm all the way to the arctic forests . in the sense that it feels like we were in vain it just burns and burns at the end we had to back up three kilometers because it became too dangerous. it. multiple villages have been evacuated and officials estimate the fire damage at around seventy million euro so far at fault as an extraordinary heat wave that has turned much of the evergreen landscape into kindling. temperatures have climbed to thirty three degrees celsius in recent days
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conditions be fitting italy more than sweden and so the italian government has sent help. it's. the biggest lead in the work we have nineteen of this and. drop six thousand feet of all this about one second. in fact the effort to extinguish the nordic blaze has become a european task with further personnel and air support sent in from france germany and neighboring norway. sweden has dealt with wildfires before but rarely over such a large area now meteorologists are warning that with global temperatures on the rise fighting fire in the arctic could become an annual battle. people in pakistan go to the polls in less than a week's time to elect a new government but campaigning has been taking place against a background of violence supporters of jailed former prime minister nawaz sharif
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have complained about the way he's being treated and some analysts say that candidates in wrong come the former cricketer is being unfairly supported by the army. remains the front runner at the moment to take power after a long career in the country's political life. rely on new hope imran khan former cricket star turned star politician runs on a message of change for pakistan. to. go out and campaign and support our candidates god willing when this country rises up we will all right the whole nation. after the election we will reunite this divided nation and end the hatred. born in one nine hundred fifty two in the heart pakistan congress to prominence as one of his country's most beloved cricket players leading the team to world cup victory in one thousand nine hundred two after his retirement from cricket he quickly
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turned to politics founding the political party pakistan test week in south in one thousand nine hundred six sometimes scribe is a populist khan's platform is firmly. islamic anti-corruption and anti-military he began running in general elections in one thousand nine hundred seven but did not win a seat in the parliament until two thousand and two. even then khan and his party really rose to prominence between two thousand and eleven and two thousand and thirteen when he began staging huge rallies across the country promising a quote new pakistan khan's party didn't win the two thousand and thirteen elections but they did make big gains becoming the third biggest party in the parliament and the latest polls for this election show p.t.i. polling even with the leading party. i'm white the vote for them to the start i would do it is the best prepared my party is to you. in terms of we've got good candidates and we have a good manifesto so i feel you know we're prepared but then you know we're going to
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try our best. i'm i'm hopeful i'm confident but still you know that this dog over until the last ball is aboard. a cricket metaphor from a cricket legend who may change the face of his country. there was a dramatic end to stage twelve of the tour of yesterday it's one of the two is legendary stages by the way ending in two areas in the french alps and this year there was a tight five man sprint at the finish competition lead a great thomas coming out on top that meant he extended his lead in the yellow jersey. thirty kilometers into one of the most grueling stages in the competition under leading pack was formed but after two two thousand metre high mountain stephen kreutzer they broke away from the group the dutchman lead the final two
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lines allowed ways with tour leader during thomas and competition favorites chris froome and tom to learn trailing behind closed calderon to his legion to his post just three and a half kilometers from the finish. and with the end almost inside through monday bowman but they both gave up on winning the stage even just five riders in the race for victory. thomas made a final attack at the last corner sprinting to the finish line for his second consecutive stage when. i this race is so hot. you never know how the body reacts. like i said yesterday. i'm still riders are firmly firmly still the man he's like i said you know i was there are three weeks of living the dream extends thomas' lead over teammate and captain freeman to one minute thirty nine seconds.
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and football english and liverpool have smashed the world transform record for goalkeepers citing brazil's early song from italian club roma is costing the premier league side a whopping seventy two point five million euros that beats the fifty two million paid by event to back in two thousand and one for germany luigi before the move looked almost for previous number one north korea's he set to lose his place almost certainly after the mistakes that cost of liverpool. the champions league title back in may. but this news now with the funny for cha some angry protesters i believe in the us opposing those tariffs tariffs they don't want those terrorist stand here protesting. as the u.s. commerce department launched hearings into the import duties here is why trans terrorists don't just a fact important cost but vehicles made in the u.s. too because his measures put a levy on parts as well so let's look at two foreign cars the first one hundred
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civic and an audi q five now the compact car today just over seven hundred thousand dollars but see what happens when we slap on trump's u.t.c. surprised by almost one thousand seven hundred dollars the luxury asked. even worse a price increase of almost nine thousand either consumer or the company will have to eat that costs and higher costs cutbacks now from the u.s. and that could mean as much as one hundred ninety five thousand jobs lost factoring in by foreign countries on an equal basis as much as six hundred twenty five thousand hewas jobs could be slashed protesters in washington have made their anger clear. inevitably everyone arrived but auto pick up trucks made in the u.s. even japan's toyota belongs to the u.s.
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automakers alliance along with names like general motors ford and folks. all of them produced in the u.s. and they all opposed trump's plans if we put very very high taxes on cars in the united states and keep in mind since it's both auto imports and auto parts imports every single car or truck sold in america would face price increases higher taxes higher taxes will lead to fewer sales fewer sales will lead to less production less productions will risk american jobs in the hundreds of thousands of job say the protesters who also claim auto prices would rise by an average five thousand dollars we're very concerned about the security of our jobs and the fact that these vehicles are coined that there are calls on national security issues here that refers to trump's claim that national security is at risk if terror.
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