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this is d.w. news life from brother a new move in the tough love the man suspected of being a solid bin ladin's former bodyguard no no sammy he was freed from prison in two museum for lack of evidence so will he return to germany his government previously deported him also on the program. natural disaster oh awesome greek authorities say this week's deadly wildfires was started deliberately with the government's also facing criticism over its response. and tonight is the night of the blood moon the longest total lunar eclipse of the twenty first century we'll
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find out what is so special about this astronomical event. i'm phil gal welcome to the program a judge in tunisia has ordered the provisional release from jail of a sama bin ladin's alleged former bodyguard seen here is a court hearing in germany the man known as i've been living with his family in the west german city of boca since two thousand and five he was deported to his home country earlier this month when a court decided there was not enough evidence to keep him in jail. political correspondent simon young has been following this story welcome simon tell us more about sami and what his release could mean for the german government. well phil semi is a national forty two years old he's been living in germany in balkans since two
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thousand and five and he keys by german authorities as you said of being a former bodyguard of al qaeda chief some of bin laden which he denies but they also say that he continues to pose a is the missed terrorist threat which is why they were keen to deport him back to his native tunisia which is what happened two weeks ago at that time a german court had actually ruled that he couldn't be deported because there was a danger he might face torture in tunis year but when that decision was issued he was already on the plane back to tunis now if he were to be released and sent back to germany what would it mean for german the german government i think it would be a big headache for them because they like to see this man dealt with in tunis here instead so he was living here for some time if he is he likely to want to come back
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well. imagine that he would do his family is here and since there is a an investigation continuing and into his past affairs in tunisia maybe he'd feel more comfortable in germany but it would appear that the judge's ruling in that decision today in tunisia made no reference to banning him from traveling but in addition to the fact that there's an investigation continuing the authorities have also confiscated his passport we're told so it seems unlikely that he'll be able to travel at this time simon young thank you. now to chris we have your forces are facing increasing criticism of the way they handled this week's deadly wildfires and why they failed to order an evacuation and least eighty three people were killed many of them in the seaside resort of marty west of athens authorities suspect the blaze that was started deliberately.
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paradise lost attic is eastern shoreline the mediterranean sea claims as blue as ever but on shore so many of the homes and hotels that once stood here are gone. on monday the flames charge through here at sixty kilometers per hour almost everyone fled towards the bates's only the firefighters have the mains to try and resist the flames often in vying. and this is their first time in thirty eight years of my service. seeing so much. of it sometimes we can cause it's something. to stop this investigators say the blaze took just ninety minutes to race down the mountain towards the coast many residents simply had no chance to escape and while monday was extremely hard and we need grace the government suspects the worst fires were
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no accident. i would like to stress that we have serious indications and findings of criminal activity namely arson. the police are also still trying to identify victims relatives of the missing have been gathering need their forensics lab the agony is compounded by anger at the government which they choose of botching the evacuation of residents one confronted grace's defense minister as he visited victims. did you know if no one notified anyone to fire engines didn't come to nothing you leftists of the massey of god. the residents would stick by monday's blaze were living in an area known to be prone to fire greeks are now asking why authorities weren't better prepared and why so many perished now to some of the other stories
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making news around the world protesters in poland have clashed with police during demonstrations against changes to the country's judicial system anti-government activists accuse the right wing ruling the law and justice party of trying to stack the courts with its own judges the ruling party insists is the reforms and necessary to rebuild the country. north korea has handed over the remains of american soldiers killed in the korean war of one hundred fifty to nine hundred fifty three a u.s. aircraft for the remains to an air base in south korea the handover follows an agreement reached by the north korean leader kim jong un u.s. president donald trump at the singapore meeting in june. sex workers have instructed former u.s. president bill clinton speech at the aids twenty eighteen conference in the netherlands they were protesting against a recently passed u.s. law designed to crack down on online sex trafficking protesters says the law makes their jobs more unsafe. a european union monitoring team has described pakistan's
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election week as showing a lack of equality that meant political parties did not compete on a level playing field you know what came after pakistan's election commission declared a man can't p.t.i. party the winner but although it won the most seats the p.d.i. failed to win outright majority and must now seek coalition partners to form a government. supporters of pakistan's cricketer turned politician imran khan celebrating what many at least a few years ago had thought impossible an election victory for a turnaround matched only in prominence and impact by this the when he secured as pakistani cricket captain against england in the one nine hundred ninety two world cup. with a reputation as a celebrity playboy con long struggle to be taken seriously in politics after founding his p.t.i. party in the one nine hundred ninety s.
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for years he failed to translate his personal fame into votes. the breakthrough came in two thousand and thirteen when the p.t.i. became the third largest party in the national assembly a surgeon support partly down to young urban voters wanting change that desire just as palpable now. the population is almost two hundred one million currently and over seventy percent of the people live below the poverty line so for the country to progress the lives of these people need to change we need the lives of poor people to change so those images of them that. there will be change in the country we are satisfied with imran khan because he is a relatively new leader and has a fresh approach so i'm hopeful he will take pakistan forward. people like me is very difficult in pakistan these days if a man can deliver what he promised in his speech it will be beneficial for the
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country and for the masses. while his supporters celebrate khan's critics accuse him of fraternizing with pakistan's powerful military and intelligence agency and welcoming into his party politicians he formally coolidge corrupt for them he is simply a puppet. for more than eight hundred children separated at america's borders. with mexico have been reunited with their parents but hundreds more are still waiting despite a court ordered deadline to reunite all the families by thursday the trumpet ministration ended its policy of detaining migrant children separately from their parents after widespread condemnation he don't lose alexander phenomena reports from texas. after three long months there are back together omar domingo's and his eight year old son are in there appear a bit shy and nervous but determined to tell their story here in
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a catholic shelter in sun who on. when they told me they are going to separate us it was so hard it hurt me so much because truthfully he was never separated from me. and are in ads i felt bad because i didn't see him. they fled when doris hoping to find a better life in the u.s. they didn't cross the border illegally the father says they presented themselves to immigration seeking asylum and were separated like many other migrant families and the president's drum zero tolerance policy after the expiration of a court's deadline to reunite all families some parents are still waiting to rejoin their children at detention centers like this one in texas even though the government says it's on track to reunite all eligible parents belanger c.i.s.
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immigration lawyer she's worried about her client a maverick who is still waiting to get back together with her child. when i spoke with her and this was about i think it was yesterday she had spoken to her child going on almost on three weeks so she's of course very concerned doesn't know what's going on very upset very mad and she's one of many mothers said still in that in that area in that situation. says the administration's policy is not what her country stands for well it's totally inhumane obviously in an unjust. it's racist we have a refugee law here up and we should be able to assist the people. omar dominus says he never lost faith that in the end here in oregon the will be reunited now they plan to travel to kentucky dominus hopes he'll be granted asylum and find work to
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support the rest of their family back in the us all maher and his son are happy to be together again but hundreds of migrant kids remain in custody some may never see their parents again that's the shocking for result of trom sirat tolerance policy. when the moon rises tonights much of the world will experience the longest total lunar eclipse of the twenty first century the total phase when the moon has no direct light from the sun will last an hour forty two minutes and fifty seven seconds during which time it will also look red this is a so-called blood moon so why and how does it happen this report from the moon. i am. your satellite your moon i circle you in an internal dance but i try to surprise you from time to time with an eclipse. an eclipse is when your
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planet moves between me and the sun blocking the direct light that otherwise makes me surfer it only happens when i'm full every twenty nine and a half days doesn't happen every time because they are bits human a slightly slanted path. when the sun the earth and i are lined up i get two different shadows from the earth. because the larger the penumbra it's the less intense the smaller one is darker it's the younger and i don't always travel through both but when i do you see me in a total lunar eclipse that's when i'm even more amazing than usual i read. how it's your atmosphere splitting the sunlight heading my way into color. chart blue light waves are scattered outwards longer red light waves are bent in words only ones to reach of turning the red. lunar eclipse is not so rare
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but on the twenty seventh of july it will be the longest of the twenty first century. i'm beautiful come take a look. who you are taking those because we will be asking questions later don't forget you can always get to d.w. news on the go with our app you got to access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications on your phone of already breaking news could also use it to send us your photos and videos just download it from google play or from the apple store. i sit your update i'll have more for you right here at the top of the program at the top. our you can always check out the website that's t w dot com i myself according. to.
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