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this is the news coming to you live from berlin argentina senate rejects a bill to legalize abortion it was a narrow voter after some fifteen hours of debate thousands of anti abortion activists cheered the news outside the congress and more in a sided with others launched angry protests also coming up is really wrong she is a we will as strikes against gaza three palestinians killed including
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a pregnant woman and a child israel says it was in retaliation for rockets and mortars fired from gaza. and inside. this former turkish naval officer and major diplomatic corps to uncle and jane now he's forced to live in exile and speaks to do you. have in a warm welcome to you i'm under. argentina senators rejected a bill to legalize abortion by a margin of thirty eight to thirty one the bill was allowed abortion up to the fourteenth week of pregnancy the issue has proved deeply divisive in argentina it's the homeland of pope francis and the rueben catholic church camp in strongly against the proposed law. so the marathon session in the argentinian cement ended
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shortly before three am as the news broke opponents of the bill erupted in celebration abortion remains essentially illegal yet we came from the country and we're here to protect the rights of the unborn child i thank god and the senators. prior to the decision thousands of pro-choice demonstrators had gathered outside the senate building and the cold and rain the majority of them came here to protest that abortions must be regulated by find any alternative just to unbearable. that i have both there in the senate they're the ones responsible for all those women who have died during an illegal abortion they are murderers. a slim majority of argentinian senators eventually rejected the bill that would have legalized abortion. the decision came after heavy pressure from the argentinean catholic church which lobbied hard against the bill. now at the recent polls suggest that
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most action times back legalizing abortion the votes left many frustrated and disappointed beatings of violent protests in some areas. joining me now is an aliyah in the us is she's an argentinian journalist who works for the spanish newspaper bias in the spanish capital madrid welcome to you know we heard in our report opinions are hugely for arise over the issue of legalizing abortion why is a country so divided on this issue. the country the country is divided because of anything argentina is a very political country with the positions very very strong position both sides and country like so the politics east issues are always very. very. nervous you know here and there. from the
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european perspective argentina are seen as quite a liberal country for example gay marriage is established tell us more about the background of the abortion debate in the country. this is. this very difficult to explain because argentina has some some cities very liberal as you say going to say some very liberal city like europe but. there are a large a large country. very conservative positions and the representatives of these. other provinces are very very conservative and they are presented in this in eight nine in the congress. and the spanish capital madrid thank you very much for that thank you.
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the gaza has ministry says israeli air strikes have killed a pregnant woman and i young daughter in the gaza strip one hamas fighters was also killed these really we launched the attacks after hamas militants fied more than one hundred fifty rockets into israel injuring at least three israelis the security situation in the region has been tense since march when palestinians began staging reeky protests along the gaza israel border israel has warned how mass against for the escalation and for the very latest i'm joined now by our middle east correspondent in jerusalem john what's the latest you can tell us about this incident. was the situation seems to have quiet down in the past hour or so but it's not yet clear where this is going. we've seen such as collations in the past month or so already several times so it's always said they
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don't have an interest to take it any further but i think only the next will tell according to the israeli army about a hundred and eighty protect was fired from gaza into southern israel. about thirty of them were intercepted by the israeli defense system. and this very young he says they have targeted over one hundred fifty sites and locations in the gaza strip since yesterday three people. in the gaza strip where killed according to house officials and people on both sides. now dani has just been in the palestinian territories before i talk to her again let's look at her report which shows the situation of the people of gaza since the budget cuts for you and the united nations agency responsible for some five million refugees across the region . to sit in on roads headquarters in gaza city a few employees have even started a hunger strike all of them fear for their jobs among them the psychologists who
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are shot she will have to work part time for the next six months and they did too good of a shot at bragg's drawing us out in the street i'm thirty eight years old my husband doesn't work i have full clinics we don't have any other source of in a town or where should i apply for this job i want to get them back most of the anger is directed at the agency a hundred and thirteen people lose their jobs with unemployment at more than forty percent in gaza work with the agency had been highly sought after the funding crisis is starting to bite after the u.s. slashed its support for back in january there is a ninety million dollars shortfall in its emergency fund which supports food distribution mental health and cash for work programs we're trying the best we can to prioritize the food distribution and that means we have to borrow some money and do less of the other two programs a number of our staff staff roughly
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a thousand staff are affected by this some of them will continue full time their job some of them will have to move to part time so that we can fit into the budget of food distribution and how must control gaza the crisis over the agency which provides services normally supplied by state comes amid attempts political situation a ceasefire between hamas and israel remains elusive. people here are very that the cuts in u.s. funding are only the beginning of a wider complained to take the refugee issue off the agenda israel and the you as a key. the u.n. organization of perpetuating the refugee problem but people here say that without the little support they get the situation would be even worse. at the distribution center at the shelter refugee camp people come for their basic items with the gaza strip seared off by israel and egypt over eighty percent of the population are dependent on age one way or another. every three months or even
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mohamed going up picks up his family's ration of oil lentils floor and other items he's a tailor but hardly finds work was a little agency has reduced its own staff so what will happen to people like me if our coupons are cut even slightly it will hurt. them today i'm getting seven bags but if they cut it by half the quantity will not be enough it will never be enough the food. like for him and his fellow two million gazans remains deeply uncertain. how do your report gives us a good sense of how desperate conditions are for the people of gaza and things seem to be getting even was how are people coping. well people in gaza live under different pressures from different sides and they have been living under closer for the past ten years now every time you see
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a military escalation like this and that also goes for people living in the south of israel there is a lot of fear of a new war now people in gaza like looking at what's going on in egypt because there have been mediation efforts going on for the past several weeks with the help of the egyptians and the united nations on different tracks monitors to calm down the situation there will be looking at what they can do at this particular point in time but also there are reports that actually they're trying to program a longer term ceasefire between israel and hamas another issue they're looking at is the conservation efforts between hamas and fatah that have failed over the past ten years and another track would be to look at a plan to make the situation to address some of the hardships in gaza like the missing water problems and unemployment now with every military escalation of course the situation becomes more complex and we have to wait and see how this will
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play out donna kremer in jerusalem thank you. listen to the take a look at some other stories making news around the wild aid workers in yemen see dozens have been killed after an as try kid a school bus at a market in the province most of the victims were children the saudi led coalition said it was targeting revenue side facilities in the town nation for rocket attack on wednesday. japan has seventy three years since the u. s. atomic bombing of nagasaki in the closing days of the second world war u.n. secretary general antonio good ted ish laid a wreath in tribute to the victims the bombing took place three days the u.s. targeted hiroshima and kid more than eighty thousand people. a powerful aftershock struck the internees in island off the six point two magnitude tremor is the strongest of hundreds of aftershocks that have hit the area since the deadly
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quake on sunday officials say the death toll from sunday's quake has now risen to more than two hundred and twenty seven tens of thousands remain homeless. joining me now from long book is again highly he's from the anti child trafficking organization project a welcome glenn on this been another major aftershock there what is the situation like where you are. you know one theory. oh you know so small sea. market which. we all remember. was almost forced or. first. base. for. these very limited.
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resources here right. you know we know again my desire to put a question to people who live by what is being done to help them which obviously needed prouty's and challenges that. you know so there are just a mouse where some are yours that is what we're saying prude will be small and it will be i think it's a boy saying that structures will be nice destroyer or useful because we changed the last. spice that you're going to use strobes for your studies. for your house where she sees the universe on it's very easy to sell for spruce average. sorry there's been more of forty four hours as a mask proves to be serious crimes are our schools they had some errors models of this or so we're still here is it so you know what regions her food well.
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senate and it's possible all as your use of the common to be just a couple of items you know the whole house is where you see this will be pretty tough for us. and the indonesian law is on an earthquake prone zone how people bearing up with this and a national disaster that. you know if what he says is no i haven't been reading top's the speech was not suppose a lot of the media will soon be to dislike us he says to go it all the fireworks on top. is the rescue of a pretty good. and mighty one off. city we've all been all over this. dish it will be so sorry.
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if we should read words as if to say spruce might take weeks cos. you could be inside one of the stars home on. the disarm was. all talk to you it was for trouble. then how they from the ngo project thank you for. not the story for full attack us naval officer one of the thousands of minute trip us in a jail for allegedly being part of the faint to yes they go into now that one time need to diplomat was accused of being a terrorist he's now in exile in belgium way too ready to have used any shoots about his experiences in techies post-school pudge. peaceful days with his family are something former turkish naval officer just for tokyo wasn't sure he'd ever happen again after president richard tie
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a pair to one excuse to the then lieutenant commander and most other officers stationed at nato of supporting the two thousand and sixteen coup top korea was imprisoned but escaped several months ago and returned to brussels where he tried to stay under the turkish government's radar until now. the pope on behalf of me. for those who can't meet the press will come with the journalists who can't meet their low us you know that they are in prison and they can't prove their innocence i have to talk on behalf of took a as ordeal began three months after the coup when he was lured from brussels back to under the guise of an urgent meeting instead his former turkish military colleagues had him arrested and thrown into jail for more than sixteen months turning him overnight from a high ranking international diplomat with nato is top security clearance to a so-called terrorist one of almost two hundred thousand people swept up in the
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massive purges ordered by air to one after the coup attempt takuya was accused of being a follower of exiled islamist leader to the glenn who heir to one blames for instigating the coup he was also charged with insulting air to one on twitter the officer says the claims are absurd that he has no religious or political ties and never had a twitter account at that point a prosecutor even brought up his nato appointment as an allegation against him being pro less than pro me too is a big crime in turkey you know. he fled while on a temporary release from prison and awaiting trial tokyo says he witnessed terrible things while being held extreme physical and mental torture of people he's convinced did nothing wrong. now top korea does have a twitter account and he's using it to share these stories sparking a backlash from the government controlled media in turkey which call him
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a traitor i feel relieved with it to me and i know. the bad guys are afraid of it takei as family supports his risky decision even after everything they've suffered his wife miscued is nervous about telling their story but agrees it's the right thing to do. other purged nato officers however feel they must stay in the shadows as threats from continue one of them tells me in a written statement he fears turkish intelligence will snatch to shut him up. everywhere they try to find a live report on what we do and if they get orders they carry them out talk is giving way to fear emboldens the autocrats what use them corage is innocent people. being frightened or afraid so we are in the
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front we are on the right so we should be more cards with the belgian government supports him on the same day you spoke with he received word that belgium has granted him refugee status protection from the government he thought he would serve all his life. to sport and some huge football transfer news a premier league club chelsea have signed goalkeeper. from atlantic bilbao for eighteen million euros and that makes the twenty three year old the most expensive goes keeper in the history of the sport cable replaces a t. ball who is joining the young madrid made fifty three appearances in spain's. he has signed a seven year contract which f.c. . now after standing for seventeen years the transfer record for a goalkeeper has been shattered for the second time in the space of a month cable replaces the previous of was a record fee for
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a goatee that was set on me a few weeks ago when liverpool purchase does ill internationale some from roma the sixty two point five million it was prior to any sort john ngugi before his transfer from bottom much your dentist held the record and that was fifty two point eight million euros moved way back in two thousand and one. after european athletics championships being co-hosted by germany has won its first gold medal. came first in the men's dika long at the olympic stadium finally giving the fans something to celebrate on day three of the proceedings after was the man known as king couldn't hide is motion. that was simply crazy at first at that moment you just hear the public scream then you feel your legs they were burning like hell. then you breathed then the pulse comes.
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then you stand there and think those are two crazy days hey you won it. what just happened slowly the emotions come when you break down and realize you were just a small worm down here and you just rocked the stage. in your own house to have the corrected copy here. i'm a pleased to see. and hear it all business we didn't jimmy's introducing tougher regulations to protect industries that's very. tired for that is of course very clear for several years beijing has been on a mission to buy foreign companies that fits have made in china twenty twenty five strategy mostly market leaders and ten different key industries sectors like robotics or pharmaceuticals that strategy involves takeovers of foreign companies and countries such as germany and the us are now there now see their industrial
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advantages risk starting to fight china's massive buyout strategy with ever stricter regulation. it's a move china won't like germany's government wants broader veto powers when investors from outside europe buy into local companies starting at fifteen percent stakes instead of the current twenty five. the new regulations come after berlin effectively blocked a chinese company from buying a twenty percent share in electricity grid operator fifty hurts chinese trade representatives claim they're being singled out however the sudden surge in chinese purchases is striking while the volume of chinese transactions in germany was comparable to low in the years before twenty sixteen it's accelerated quickly since then a sudden surge to twelve point six billion dollars in twenty sixteen was followed by a new peak of thirteen point seven billion dollars in twenty seventeen. and it's not
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only the size of the investments that are ringing alarm bells in berlin. acquisition of robot manufacturer a cougar for four and a half billion euros last year falls into that category. and this year. c.e.o. of chinese carmakers easily acquired ten percent in germany. now germany is slamming on the brakes by planning tighter scrutiny of foreign investments but german industry representatives fear the government stricter controls could deter chinese investors and that's not necessarily good news after all investors also provide capital and create jobs. german drugmaker for seniors cubbie is suing to stop a planned execution in the u.s. state of nebraska it says the state illegally acquired two of its drugs for use in the state's first ever lethal injection of roscoe plans to use an untested lethal
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cocktail of four drugs to kill a convicted murderer on the company's reputation would be damaged if its products are used for capital punishment civil lawsuit last month temporarily halted an execution in the volga. let's bring in our financial correspondent who's in frankfurt called how is this rather strange lawsuit being discussed on the trading floors that. well if you talk to people here most people here too are convinced that this is bad for the reputation of craziness and also investors seem to think that the share price of dizziness is down more than two percent today and in terms of the chances that physios will manage to prevent the use of its products in this execution in nebraska well most people here are convinced that this will be very difficult for years even though the company has tried to limit the use and
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control it in the united states by making contracts with distributors explicitly forbidden for beating the use of the products for executions for the death penalty but. quite obviously the state of nebraska seems to have the opinion that it's law is above those contracts and if you imagine an american court at the moment taking into consideration the opinion of a u.s. state in opposition to the point of view of a german company it's quite foreseeable that probably the point of view of the state will be prevail but they have been. other cases like this what's different here. yes one of those cases was back danish company which effectively made sure that its product could not be used in executions in the
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united states but the product that looked back sold at the time was very very specific and it wasn't widely used in many medical contacts on the contrary the product of disease in us the ones we're talking about here a muscle relaxer and and a chemical that can be used to stop heart function this is something that is widely used in many clinics in the u.s. and in many practices and it's quite likely that the state of nebraska finds many ways of obtaining them one of those in frankfurt thank you. now so many governors across europe brown's seems to be the new green in the heat wave that is currently sweeping across the globe most have given up watering their grass though a dutch entrepreneur has come up with a rather clever idea. he sprays the dry grass with a green liquid that way yachts can appear like the wood in a regular some of our last between five and seven weeks it also contains the first
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eliza which helps the grass really grow on the intense summer heat finally comes to an end. and here's a reminder of all the top stories we're following new for you here at the w.b. argentinean senate is now really rejected a bill to legalize abortion thousands of anti-abortion activists she had the news all the congress in. all those launched angry protests. israel has launched a wave of strikes against gaza killing three provinces in the us israel says it was in retaliation for more than one hundred fifty rockets and mortars fired from gaza that injured at least three israelis you're watching the news that's an update for you the top of the offer you very much for watching are going.
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to. ensure the conflicts over with the mission for the month from the treatment of migrants to freedom of expression to end to terror a little solace standards of human rights across you're also slipping my guest in vienna is michael flood the director of the agency full fundamental rights does he believe you up is doing all you can to protect human rights conflicts so for. g.w. . there's
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