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interactive content to inspire people to take action google idioms series of global three thousand on t.w. and online. this is news coming to you live from berlin international observers accuse him bob noyce military of using excessive force after they killed three unarmed protesters have an opposition rally help over alleged vote rigging we'll have the latest from the capital harare also coming up levanon is pressuring syrian refugees to return to their country but what about those fearing reprisals from the assad regime we
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hear from one syrian woman worried about her future plus. i think that there are children here but they just started attacking is even mean viciously my husband was lying dead in front of me after that i lost consciousness i mean we have an exclusive report on a series of attacks by far right gangs on the roma community in ukraine what is fueling the bottoms. with. fellow i'm terry martin thanks for joining us election authorities in zimbabwe are urging people to keep calm the statement comes after an opposition rally yesterday turned violent and the army shot dead three unarmed protesters the opposition alleges that the rulings and party of president. has rigged the results of monday's
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elections election commission denies any wrongdoing. soldiers firing live rounds in zimbabwe's capital. the army into the streets of harare mid afternoon reportedly at the request of the police. the country's justice minister said the military had been deployed to maintain peace and tranquility and accused opposition supporters of going on a rampage however the protesters claim they didn't stop the violence. was going on . with. the crackdown came after a day of protest in the capital people were taken to the streets to protest a delay in the release of the results of presidential polling. crowds gathered outside the offices of the country's electoral commission to demand the release and things quickly turned violent the electoral commission called for patience
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verifying the vote was more complicated than expected the commission chairwoman said the unusually high number of candidates was causing delays in the verification process. but a spokesman for the opposition said the situation was unacceptable and suggested that something unusual was going on it is everywhere the citizens right to demand that the results operate used in reasonable time ok that defect that results far right essential that it's just next door to have not been released by up by by midday today is inappropriate and suggest that something wrong is happening we've been here before. as tensions remain high in the country the international community is becoming increasingly concerned with governments calling for restraint on all sides. melanie corridor ball joins me now from harare and melanie election observers from the commonwealth have been commenting on the election and the violence what have they been saying.
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yesterday he denounced. i think. civilians here in harare and both parties to exercise restraint it was talking about the election itself though they raised concerns about voter intimidation about the local media being biased in favor of the rulings and m.p.'s and now they are asking the electoral commission to come out with the full report the full results as soon as possible because the delays are of course raising suspicions come to teach me we know that they have to give us the result by some today but we will get pressure mounting up on them it could be that a town knows who the next president will be today if they do so we are expecting them to do that during the evening or it might even to decrease the likelihood of protests. so yesterday we did see last night the government would
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crack again if there were any further anti-government protests what's it like there on the streets today. the situation on the streets does come out as of now but not on social media there are more pictures and videos appearing online of people being beaten up of people bleeding even of those shot dead. but in general we also can say that it feels like it is a state of emergency here just not a declared one the army is still out on the streets they have been saying that the police with seventy thousand police officers is completely understood up to the army will remain present in the streets until the police in the case there is no need for them to be around well they thank you so much from the l.b.w. correspondent melanie curry the ball there in harare. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today authorities in the democratic republic of congo say four more people have tested positive for the ebola virus in
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the country's north east the outbreak in north kivu province close to the ugandan border has already claimed twenty lives the cases come just days after another outbreak in the northwest of the d.r. see has declared over. the u.s. has announced sanctions against two top turkish officials over the country's detention of an american pastor turkey accuses endor brunson aiding the failed coup attempt against turkish president wretch of time out of won in two thousand and sixteen the us is demanding brunson's immediate release. remains of what are thought to be fifty five u.s. servicemen killed in the korean war have arrived in the united states president mike pence attended the ceremony in hawaii he said president donald trump was grateful to north korean leader kim jong un for fulfilling a promise made at the two leaders summit in june.
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levanon is stepping up pressure on syrian refugees in the country to return home some one point five million syrian refugees are currently in lebanon and officials say that there have been they have repeatedly said rather that they've been put it it's putting the country under strain hundreds of refugees have returned to syria in the past few weeks but many more are afraid of what would happen to them if they went back to w correspondent traveled to the town of our sol where she met a woman who fled syria the assad government killed her husband and son she and her children fear for their lives if they return. it was not a voyage with the emotion an undertaking but the mother of eight and grandmother with three children was forced to flee has city and home. to take refuge in the town. ourselves just across the border in lebanon. although it happened five years
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ago the memories are still fresh this is my son or husband and eldest son were killed in the syrian war. and the beginning of the uprising protests were not violent they were peaceful but my husband was killed because he took part in the my son was with the regime army doing his compulsory service and the syrian intelligence service killed him because he does or. rather the. who fears the assad regime but the pressure from lebanon to leave is building some three thousand syrians have already registered to return there but i can never go back to syria. she is especially worried about this man. goes and is a member of the syrian committee tasked with collecting the names of billing return is and sending the list to damascus for approval who is suspicious of the
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government mitali the names with those who protested against the regime and neither of us them upon arrival or refuse them approval to return but go soon denies the charge. it's not a condition not an issue of approval and it's just about informing the government of the names of the people returning. he claims syria is now safe and to convince us he asked one of the refugees who have applied to return to talk to us do you want to go back of course what's keeping me here but it doesn't go quite as he sought so he is confronted by angry syrians know their jobs are going back to syria safely is impossible. he shows his broad scars the military. why austin i leave. but lebanon's government is eager to stop one off million syrian refugees so many say they may be forced to look at
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europe again. and her friends are among those thinking about making the journey to europe they know that it won't be easy but the risk of reprisal by assad security forces is high. one of the ladies has just heard of the arrest of her sister by the syrian regime. i want to migrate to europe for the future of my children and i applied to the un but they didn't help me other than. smugglers want one thousand euros for the trip and i when i said that if your own is in the field who that doesn't know what she would do yet and many here are facing a similar dilemma. it may be too soon to say if there will be a second wave of refugees to europe but the conditions are right. for now despite all the hardship. but it seems to be. if the lebanese want to stay.
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controversial holding and processing centers for migrants opened in germany southern state of bavaria the centers are part of interior minister haw say hope is disputed plans to reduce the number of migrants arriving in the country and stop failed asylum seekers from going underground or critics say the centre's will prevent new arrivals from integrating. it's the oldest reception center for asylum seekers in germany now to sand off its becoming a so-called and present a holding in person facility identity checks of foreigners registration office next door a foreign ministry office charity institutions there's even a school on site that's the way it's been since the ninety's for the head of the facility michelle nunn show the only thing that is new is that. you could comment on the case will move in here too including the federal employment agency in the
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next few days then we'll have someone inside who can begin a job counseling early on especially for people with a good chance of staying this wasn't the case before and it certainly makes sense for all seven bavarian holding facilities will allow those asylum seekers without lawyers to file an urgent petition should their request be rejected but the final decision will be made by an administrative court official say negotiations within the holding facilities themselves and realistic ministers it's and said he would have to create a meeting rooms and above all before we would have to make these meeting rooms open to the public there's nothing but the anchor sense around the current reception facilities are closed position and use meaning that they are restricted. but the new facilities won't necessarily mean quicker processing of asylum claims. residents at the facilities must remain in the accommodation and aunt allowed to
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move out until the asylum procedure is complete. that could prove helpful to police authorities are currently looking for tens of thousands of rejected asylum seekers who have gone underground all left germany. therefore the advantage is that people who have no chance of staying that was silent application is reject it can be quickly disappointed if they live outside of the anger centers there's a chance that they go on the ground. but with each holding facility housing up to fifteen hundred residents police fear there could be security incidents. in may asylum seekers in alabama and in southern germany violently resisted efforts to deport them. and dissenters also aim to deter people from fleeing to germany but that could come at a price was that to see what will actually happen is that city turns policy and the answer centers will be at the expense of integrating peaceful we will have
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huge following because you can shop on the integration of the anchor center themselves will also generate high costs and could be a burden on the surrounding area was. the party. for michelle nunn show and some four hundred asylum seekers not much will change and off except for the name of the facility activists in denmark have held protests against a ban on pole face veils that came into force yesterday the so-called burka or ban prevents people from covering their faces in public denmark follows other european countries that are per introduce such a ban including france and belgium. as soon as their faces may be masked but their outrage is on display over a thousand protesters marched through copenhagen in defiance of denmark's new ban
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on facial coverings they say the lord infringes on freedoms of religion and expression and the right to dress as they choose i said is a discriminating law it's of searchlights a law that this need since in fact this is i really hate this law i think is so embarrassing and i cannot stand being a citizen in this so-called democracy where this kind of of the. mosque protestors and those wearing burkas and the cabs can now be fined more than one hundred euros more than a thousand euros for repeat offenses opponents say the real price will be paid by danish society we actually live it seeing our freedoms our liberal freedom rights in a society to dress like we want to write we want and so forth so so i think it's we need dangerous step to take it out the majority in the parliament has done with this law because what is that what is coming next what is after this supporters of the law held their own demonstration they say the ban upholds secular and
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democratic values and combat's fundamentalist islam. where we want to take a stand against political islam that is the fundamentalist in our society that we have some people who believe that their in their good right to wear headscarves would call this all of the face so we're not able to relate to see their faces or she's not able to see their face and this is what we want to take a stand against. an estimated two hundred muslim women in denmark where facial coverings some say they plan to carry on despite the ban that i feel insecure now that i'm going out. facing people and news moving. but in my believe from hot and. i think now i think. it's now up to danish police to decide
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if and when to enforce the ban. if you are officials rather from the european commission are joining a group of holocaust survivors from the city and roma community today as europe marks roma holocaust memorial day hundreds of thousands of members of the minority were murdered by the nazis in recent weeks the roma community in ukraine has been under attack by right wing groups they've injured several people and killed one man twenty four year old david pop stabbing him to death in front of his children didn't call a travel to the country's west to speak to pop's widow and two other victims of the violence. this is how do we began in april twenty eighth team. attacked a rome account in the ukrainian capital kiev a copycat attack soon followed across the country in late june twenty three year old david pappa was stabbed more than a dozen times in the western city of leave his death provoked an outcry inside and
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outside ukraine's borders the teenage suspect a noun custody but how could this have been allowed to happen i what has become the survivors. where in the village where david pappa grew up from here it's just a matter of kilometers to ukraine's western frontier with hungry it's a backyard the region is home to ukraine's biggest roma community many of them live in extreme poverty since the attacks people here have become wary of strangers and it's only with the help of pastor fed your progress that we are allowed in he takes us to meet david pap's with you boy it's the first time she's spoken publicly about her husband's murder he says when those teenagers came to attack our camp they didn't say a word they just started going out as we begged them there are children here but they just started attacking us even move viciously my husband was lying dead in front of me after that i lost consciousness. on the day of our visit the boy
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received a call from the police and we've asked her to testify in court she refused the fish she says is too great since the attacks police have responded to requests from community leaders to step up their patrols and roam a district. miroslav heard about the roma community leader and a local councillor in the past most of his work was about helping roma people gain access to basic government services many here don't even have a birth certificate let alone a passport but in recent months he's been confronted with a totally new set of problems as the victims of the attacks come to him looking for support. i don't understand where this hatred comes from we've never seen anything like this kind of open discrimination these kinds of attacks or action what we need to get around to solving the roma communities problems now we're not just kick the can down the road who knew we would have moved to be able to meet us left takes us on a visit to run a roma community on the edge of sort of there we meet claro
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a survivor of one of the attacks and live in. peace old people and children they smashed my brother in law's head in and just left him for dead but i don't want to go to prison prison doesn't make people any better they were just kids after all that's up picked. up the day it's a point of view we hear time and time again whether people here are ready to forgive and simply fear further escalation we can't get a clear answer as we continue our walk through red phone call with miroslav the atmosphere suddenly turns there's been a break in the political church and suspicion this fall and the inhabitants of this road community will move so if you want them they'll give it all back. someone broke into the church. do you have pictures we never do find out how the investigation ends but now the police leave iraq and without making any arrests at
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a time when the roma community needs the police to protect them or the never relations with law enforcement attempts a mob by suspicion. connally in western ukraine now swedish police have said it's criminals one zero and this as they hunt seems who stole some of the country's crown jewels in a daring daylight robbery the cvs took the priceless regalia from a to see a girl near stockholm before making a getaway on a nearby lake police are appealing to the public for their help in reclaiming the royal heirlooms. these are what the robbers got away with two crowns in an orb dating back to the seventeenth century during the rule of king karl the ninth and queen christina they were taken from the historic hilltop strong us cathedral around midday on tuesday where they had been on display the cathedral about an hour's drive from the capital stockholm was reportedly open to visitors at the time
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with an event being held in a site chapel the jewels were in a locked display cabinet connected to an alarm system reportedly the theft was only noticed after an eyewitness saw two suspects fleeing the scene and alerted authorities the robbers are suspected of fleeing on bicycles to the nearby dock of lake malar and where they then used either a boat or jet skis for their final getaway the bikes have since been recovered. reports say forensic technicians have completed their investigations police are now turning to the public for more leads a police spokesperson said the objects are national treasures and would probably be very difficult to sell interpol is also on the case. so i've been farmers in the us have found a new market after trade with china dries up and the market is europe the european commission says u.s. soybean imports to the e.u. have almost quadruples commission president zone close it up as a sign the e.u.
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is delivering on promises made to president donald trump last week in an apparent effort to dodge a trade war between the two sides donald trump has certainly disrupted global trade flows especially when it comes to soybeans u.s. soybean foam is have seen prices for their produce plunged by twenty percent after their prime export market china imposed high tariffs in retaliation for u.s. tariffs on chinese goods the trade has almost ceased. the e.u. was quick to take advantage of the cheap the u.s. crop something that must have been clear to commission president john claude younker last week when he promised trump the e.u. would step up u.s. soybean imports the latest figures show that that process was already well underway . today that you can commit commission has published the latest figures on e.u. imports of soybeans showing an increase of two hundred eighty three percent in
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imports of save us from the u.s. bringing that used to a sheriff in parts of u.s. soybeans to thirty seven percent up from nine percent just one year ago washington had already promised twelve billion dollars to compensate farmers hurt by the dispute with china but with harvest time approaching many of the must still uncertain i think there's maybe just a little bit of comfort there knowing there menstruation is backing farmers but you no longer weren't looking for any kind of an aid package we want markets to work and markets to be. china was us soybean farmers main market and it's doubtful increased e.u. imports can make up for the loss soybeans made up sixty percent of u.s. agricultural exports to the country. beijing meantime has ramped up domestic production and lowered import tariffs on other producers and one side effect of the dispute is that countries like brazil are emerging as the winners brazilian soybean
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exports to china soared twenty five percent in june. german engineering complemented zeman is planning a complete restructuring the company which builds trains turbines industrial robots and medical scanners will be streamlining five of their business sectors into just three according to see joe simmons wants to concentrate on the energy industry digitization and infrastructure sectors the company wants each segment autonomy sleep with less involvement from had not yet clear how the plan will affect their almost three hundred eighty thousand employees siemens hopes to improve its sales and earnings by two percent annually. now let's bring in our financial correspondent in frankfurt paul cares insist that he is not splitting up the company but it sure looks that way doesn't it. the signs are
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pointing in that direction gearhart yes the new plan the vision twenty twenty plus that's going to read start effect of the tobar has those three divisions and they're not going to be managed from germany they're going to be manage a ton of mostly so energy in texas in the united states then there is infrastructure in switzerland and digital side of things will be mad at you from germany so headquarters is probably going to shrink the aim is to be more agile more flexible within the company and allow each of the sectors to to grow individually is a continuation of the vision twenty twenty that was given out earlier that was all of also already moving into a holding territory even if kayser says he isn't planning to create a holding a potential successor of which the next come by twenty twenty one may just do that
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. is this what companies have to do to stay competitive internationally briefly if you can. well it is certainly a trend a lot of german companies are doing it fox and i've been dying to learn energy companies and also if you look at google for example in two thousand and fifteen it created a mother company called alphabet in order to make google search for more independent and flexible and it does seem to appeal to markets as well individual parts may be more valuable than the whole itself. thank you very much paula because john puts in front for the fore. and that's if you're up to date you're watching t.v. news a lot of the from and there's more news coming up at the top of the hour and of course don't forget you can get all the latest news and information for all the talk on the web sites that's of course. those call agree very much watching you know the
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news but want. to. enjoy the conflict zone with jim sebastian. turkey is not easy ally for the west to manage my guest is the turkish foreign minister revolution trouble showing what are the differences between turkey and the e.u. becoming impossible to reconcile. the two.
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