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this is d w news live from berlin u.s. president donald trump really imposes sanctions on iran it's a move that iran has been bracing for since trunk cold out the u.s. of the iran deal three months ago there have already been mass protests against soaring inflation and shortages now it's likely to get worse also coming up almost one hundred dead in indonesia a second earthquake in a week and the death toll is expected to rise with the islands of lombok and bali worst affected and did zimbabwe families very they're dead from last week's
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post-election violence one of them was sylvia my post was shot in the back by security forces our team is in harare with a special report. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program. u.s. president donald trump has signed an executive order to reimpose many sanctions on iran has said that the move aims to inflict quote maximum economic pressure on the country but you has condemned the move iran has already acted to soften the blow by easing foreign exchange transactions but iranians have been protesting over the economic hardship many are facing. for six days in a row now iranians have taken to the streets in protest in cities across the
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country they're angry about high prices and the government they accuse iran's politicians of mismanagement and corruption leading the country into ruin but however not everyone is marching some feel helpless like his son he's certain that his life won't get better any time soon. and i don't know what being a move the u.s. sanctions is. all i know is that for iranians everything is get the sanctions just hit me people who are poor anyway like me the rich. food prices have risen by forty percent in just a few months and few people can afford to buy meat even the prices of bread have soared. iran's currency has plunged in value since may when the united states pulled out of the nuclear deal and threatened iran with. iran's currency has
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plunged in value since may when the united states pulled out of the nuclear deal and threatened iran with new sanctions and the reaal has lost seventy percent of its value against the euro with disastrous consequences for rainy and. things like eggs tomatoes and bread that were foodstuffs we could still afford to buy when you can't even pay for a cucumber and that's really bad fruit became too expensive long ago. in athens and. sharpening rhetoric between iran and the u.s. also has people worried despite a recent surprising proposal by donald trump. i would certainly meet with iran if they wanted to meet i don't know that they're ready to have a hard time right now. but i ended the iran deal it was a ridiculous deal. taran hasn't directly replied to trump's suggestion but some international media report a meeting might happen in new york at the next general assembly of the united
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nations. meanwhile the iranian people continue to hope for a resolution to their problems. we're now at least ninety eight people have died in the earthquake that struck on sunday night the holiday islands of lombok and bali have been the worst affected hundreds of people have also been injured namely in the north of lombok and thousands made homeless the region has been hit by numerous aftershocks the magnitude of the quake was a powerful seven and it struck as many people were having their if. they did time in long locals and tourists alike were packed into restaurants when suddenly the floor gave white like. they didn't. know that were packed into restaurants when suddenly the floor gave white like.
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they give them. the power went out almost immediately people have read that into the straits it was just a week since the last time a tremor brought destruction here and this one was even worse oh well. if. we ran out from our house twice two times. everyone ran out because the quakes were very strong. as the knot drew on rescuers began pulling the dead and injured from beneath collapsed buildings first responders were overwhelmed across the nation's holiday islands local residents joined emergency services pulling the injured out by hand. i'm not going on a ten foot they're grabbing ok. and over one hundred aftershocks forced authorities to take dramatic measures at bally's i'm not going on
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a ten foot exact moment. and over one hundred aftershocks forced authorities to take dramatic measures at bally's main hospital the injured were treated in the open air. so no way of placing patients here in the parking lot and the gymnastics yard plus in areas near the hospital that do good to us not even as dawn broke into edition authorities were still rushing to remote areas. on the kili islands northwest of low but terrified people packed onto the beach white and fold them up to two earthquakes in two weeks people are desperate to leave they fear the trauma could trigger a tsunami. even though authorities say there's little chance of that right now. you know it's funny how some would say somewhere and know that the risk is almost. every night for. bali lombok a prone to earthquakes all the same millions of tourists visit them every year now
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the russians in the other direction the airports of packed with people wanting to go home. and for the very latest now let's bring in john less critic of our gore who is joining us with the latest from jakarta and we just like to know what are the authorities saying about the situation especially in long books right now. well there they're definitely monitoring the casualties the death toll is ninety eight so far but the head of the disaster management agency has said there are certainly be more where there are twenty four hours out and there are twenty thousand people in temporary shelters which is a huge number and there are not yet any foreigners among the dead but as these as as authorities have said the numbers are still being processed so it's very much developing an active situation emergency for thousands of people and the first responders are very hard pressed and it's
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a challenging situation for them right for those rescue teams for those relief agencies which you know many of them are trying to get in there all or are already there just walk us through what they're facing. hama went through another devastating earthquake of of six point zero magnitude just last week so this compound in the death toll from that and not only that this one has also affected bali where there were already two casualties registered and these are two of the biggest holiday hotspots in indonesia so not only are the attending to thousands of displaced indonesians and entire villages have been destroyed but also they're trying to evacuate tens of thousands of foreigners who are crowding out the bus the ports and airports desperately trying to get home so there's a two pronged evacuate tens of thousands of foreigners who are crowding out the bus the ports and airports i desperately trying to get home so there's a two pronged situation that's been very difficult to contain you mentioned that
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earthquake a similar one that we know took place only a week ago has there been any word from the authorities are they expecting more shocks. yeah well there have been over one hundred aftershocks already in lombok and there would be a few more but none of the seismic activity is totally unexpected because indonesia is on the so-called ring of fire so there are always you know going off and active things like that that aftershocks are most likely not completely finished yet but the tsunami warning that was in effect briefly yesterday has been called off we saw in our piece of bit earlier you know those scenes from the airport people really crowding trying to get out long book and bali of course huge tourist it's the height of tourist season right now what advice are visitors being given. several countries home offices including the u.k. and u.a.e. have put it kabul or on potential travel to indonesia particularly these two
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islands but the airports and flights are running as of now on schedule and as planned there's not too much damage there so tourists are being advised to stay on higher ground and not near the coastline however it's most likely that we'll see the big impact of these events over few weeks or months into the future especially on lombok which is a major tourist hot spot that has seen a significant you know seismic activity in a while journalists' critique of our guard joining us from jakarta thank you so much for updating us. well now let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world cambodia's leader on send has said that he would stake his life on the accuracy of recent election results his party won a landslide victory in the poll which independent observers have called neither free nor fair he's been in power for more than thirty years. police in italy say
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that one person is dead and as many as seventy injured after a major explosion on a highway near the northern city. they say that the blast happened when a truck carrying flammable substances collided with another vehicle the explosion also caused a bridge to partially collapsed. and i'm going to head over to ben facility who has the latest business news including more on our top story and that is of course the u.s. we imposing sanctions on iran thank you sir that's not going to happen so it's a market demand is still high in iran for imported industrial equipment for example the supply part of this is the question a growing number of german firms and other foreign companies or wary about doing business with tehran because of the new sanctions the european union says it will do what it can to help keep trade open. as the middle east director of german packaging machines maker multivac amir so today often works weekends too. he's
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based in the united arab emirates and serves customers in afghanistan pakistan and the gulf states. today a customer from tehran has come to look at a machine for packaging fresh dates demand remains high in iran for state of the art equipment. but since washington announced its withdrawal from the around nuclear deal and new sanctions amir so today has been struggling to make money in his native iran getting more difficult because every bank. iran business and they don't like to do. transactions so it works of course in those they don't know how to pay for our service and how it can support. big. hopes were high when iran emerged from international isolation three years ago following the signing of the nuclear agreement in business terms of a market with eighty million consumers together with huge demand and potential for a modern infrastructure and production machinery while there have been preliminary
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talks and very tentative plans on joint ventures so far new international investment has barely materialized european technology is in demand in iranian industry but chinese and russian firms are ready to fill any gaps in supply we spent has barely materialized european technology is in demand in iranian industry but chinese and russian firms are ready to fill any gaps in supply which for a multi back would mean a serious loss in business. businesses in iran how well positioned on the chinese and russians is as we heard there to fill any gap left by. well as far as i see chinese and russian companies already to fill in the gap. and it's really a pity because former times terming companies are very very well known and
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everybody. was looking for made in germany. so at the moment a lot of space to china and to russia. are the germans really giving up that easily on iran i mean do they have to follow the u.s. or slate. i mean they don't really give up. they have to wind down as it is. president because you know a lot of touring companies have been in the u.s. and they started business in iran so if they can perfect two markets they have no other choice then to eat around but they don't need it for ever as they try to stay as far as they can to to build out their business of diverts again. the sanctions
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were never totally moved to the business hadn't even picked up significantly how's it going to change now what's going to change now i mean what is going to change that. informant times it has been challenging to do business in iran but now it has got dangerous because no. company can dare to do that small. they can't ever even be sanctioned fence. it's no question if they have the choice i have to they have to leave. and come november when when the sanctions are tighten even for them. i mean. what i fear is. that business. and at all in the end. time i really know that on a political level there will be
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a change and. yes politicians find a way to talk it's really my hope and it is really important to me i will tell doug from bornstein thank you very much for joining us here on. facebook has said its eyes on a new set of data the social network and u.s. banks to shed detail financial information about their customers that facebook has set its eyes on a new set of data the social network and u.s. banks to shed detail financial information about their customers the wall street journal reported the request is likely to be part of it's a fit to deepen user engagement and to offer new services requested financial information include card transactions and checking account balances facebook several financial service providers to discuss potential office he could host for bank customers. let's bring in conrad who is in our financial reporter in frankfurt
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conrad is this a good idea. well if you look at the forums in the internet you know the commentary is there it's not most people they're outpolled out the idea to see their financial data their banking data shared with third party platform and internet platforms like facebook but to be fair wall street journal reports that facebook they did not want the data from the banks in order to market it for advertisement it wanted that data in order to offer the bank's better services for example communications via its facebook messenger service and if you look at it from this side from the industrial logic in both the tech and the financial sector it makes sense the banks for such a long time have been desperately trying to you know increase their customer base find new younger customers that are used to doing business on the internet and
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facebook of course has shown that in the western world it's come to its limits to limits in terms of customer growth so it has to grow by offering other services investors at least seem to like the idea shares in facebook today here in frankfurt up four percent or abused first break thank you very much. and a diplomatic dispute that began on twitter has led to saudi arabia freezing a whole new trade with canada dramatic development came up to canada criticize the kingdom's human rights record late last week in a tweet the canadian version ministry wrote it's gravely concerned about the arrest of women's rights activists in saudi arabia including saudi american human rights campaigner adel week it also urges the saudi authorities to immediately release them and all other peaceful human rights activists. on sunday saudi arabia shot back saying it will not accept any form of interference in its internal affairs
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adding it considers the canadian comment and attack on the kingdom in addition to freezing trade saudi arabia also ordered the canadian ambassador to leave the country labeling him a position a non grata at cerro with more news. thank you so much to you ben now the government of bangladesh wants to impose the death penalty on motorists found guilty of deliberately causing a fatal traffic accident that would be one of the harshest punishments worldwide the proposal to quell mass protest over road safety in the capital. that would be one of the harshest punishments worldwide the proposal to quell mass protest overrode safety in the capital. that. the chance has been echoing through the streets of darker for more than a week now paralyzing the mega city of eight hundred million students are calling
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on the government to take steps to improve road safety they also want justice for their classmates killed by a speeding bus on july twenty ninth. many dark of the residents sympathize with their anger. those drivers killed the students and now students are protesting the killing i think the drivers should get the hirsch's punishment. high that they love the way they killed people just standing beside the streets of course it's a crime and a punishable offense everyone's life has value the drivers must get punishments like the death penalty so people will be more careful with. the ongoing protests and outbreaks of violence of put the government on the defensive. and that. private bus companies are also feeling the pressure police have stepped up spot checks and started compounding vehicles. protesters have also set hundreds of vehicles on fire that's prompted some operators to keep their buses in the depots. that are going to
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run we stopped our buses running because students attacked and damaged our vehicles we cannot go on the roads students hit our drivers and our things so no vehicles could move. protesters want the government to address issues that make the roads unsafe streets are overcrowded many drivers do not have licenses vehicles or old an unsafe bus drivers are paid by the number of passengers they carry motivating them to overfill their vehicles and drive fast it will take more than the death penalty to make roads safe for. the protests have forced many commuters to switch to the country's railroads trains leaving dhaka far more crowded than ever. since leaving dhaka far more crowded than ever.
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and now to zimbabwe where tensions are still running high a week after the country's first election since the ousting of robert mugabe the victory of the long ruling is out of p.f. party is being disputed by the opposition m.d.c. as the country struggles to recover from post-election violence religious leaders have been praying for peace it's a difficult time especially for those who are burying their dead correspondents melanie core of the ball and adrienne creech sent us this report. well i was there friends and family paid their respects to suzy on the fourth and final journey the mother of two was killed in zimbabwe this post-election violence last week she was on her way home when she got caught in the crossfire hit in the back by soldiers bullets is the death of brother joshua my tumblr still can spring . she was
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a big if. we just knew it when we would hit. up and. she says god on wednesday opposition m.d.c. supporters took to the streets and were met was brutal violence by zimbabwe's. what they can and tear gas rubber bullets and life ammunition to crackdown on opposition demonstrators. president elect emerson has promised consequences that was. if you didn't listen to me last night i'm going to do it and indeed tended. to inquire into these fears of violence have been subsided the opposition is vowing to challenge the
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election results nelson chamisa insists the presidency is his. fluke this oh this is just. to make sure that we. will split but so far has not provided any evidence to back up his claims and the tense situation life in harare is only slowly getting back to normal many people in the capital still scouts scattered speak out scats to. besides the government or the security forces after last week's violent clashes many fear that the time of mugabe who ruled the country for thirty seven years with an iron fist might be done but that his legacy of brutal repression still lives on the right. joshua my tomboy is among those afraid stupid fingers over his sister is this
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the. way you know. not i would think. for the force of loved ones this little comfort in the fact that the deaths have sparked outrage and sadness across the country as they mourn they suspect the government is just hoping that the dust settles as quickly as possible. the japanese city of hiroshima is remembering the victims of the world's first atomic bomb attack seventy three years ago today people gathered in the hiroshima peace from oriel park to pray including prime minister shinzo. august sixth known as a bomb day or people gathered in the hiroshima peace from oriel park to pray including prime minister shinzo. august sixth known as a bomb day or hiroshima day is met globally with calls for peace and nuclear
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disarmament on this day in one thousand nine hundred five an american warplane dropped a nuclear bomb in the port city instantly killing eighty thousand people it is sometimes called history's deadliest one. a legend has it that back in one nine hundred seventy three a group of motor sports fans met at a british pub and invented the lawnmower race and in durance test that is a low budget alternative to the famous twenty. for hour now nowadays event the event is a highlight and enduring test that is a low budget alternative to the famous twenty four hour of now nowadays event the event is a highlight of the british racing calendar forty three teams from around the world competed this year let's see who cut their rivals down to size.
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sunset in england time to fire up the engines and extend them on of lawn mower was it's twelve hours instead of twenty four but the need for speed is just the same the salon more drivers have a long night ahead as state insurance goes up put to the ultimate test some extra motivated by that thought. is. known. each team consists of three drivers who rotate to avoid exhaustion but it's nighttime falls to teach starts to set in and visibility is poor. pit stops. and technical problems become more frequent read a bit of a bad start to get a blunder in the back that we had a good beginning and trying to get it off the grid is carried out in
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a. matter of. four hundred thirty laps nadirah this team from the uk some work took home top honors at the first non british site to win the event. spanish soccer giant barcelona have confirmed the signing of former byron midfielder of total data for a fee of about twenty million euros are sloan officially presented the doll at the camp no today each to lay in one the bundesliga title in each of his three seasons of fire and he also played a key role in chile's back to back copa america titles in two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen he does says that his main goal of barcelona is to win his first champions league title. meantime in the world surf league home favorite courtney congo made it a comeback to to remember. when the us open event in california check this out
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because she was only competing in her third of end of the season after returning from a foot injury she delighted the fans with a victory over stephanie gilmore on home shorts at huntington beach and despite losing in the final australian still more extended her lead in the overall standings she's chasing a seventh straight world title. and with that you're up to date now i'm to be a news i'm sarah kelly in berlin thank you so much for watching have a great day. to
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