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this is. from prevailing in the u.s. remember special to feel one year after the violence of the genius of the world the young woman who was killed correspondent needs a mother who says she'll carry on the struggle against white supremacy also coming up. a u.s. court awards of millions of dollars after jury says until we gave him counsel with other lawsuits filed we'll find out what this means for more and more it's
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german owners. the leaders of spain and germany reach an agreement on migration three hundred promising to take back to mind once we leave for germany but critics say that will do little to stop the flow. thank you for your company the u.s. city of charlottesville virginia is preparing to mock one year since violence surrounding white supremacist rallies turned deadly commemorations have kicked off with peaceful protests and a memorial service for the dead the city is expecting large crowds to an activist have a high a who was killed in last year's riots two police officers were also killed in a helicopter crash during the clashes more than a thousand people are stationed around charlottesville ahead of remember events tomorrow. a correspondent alexandra phenomenon is in charlottesville where she met
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. had the high you always had that sparkle in her eyes susan bro tells me when we meet in charlottesville carrying on her daughter's fight for social justice she says helps her to cope with the grief when i first held the urn with her ashes on it and i realize that aren't on my arms was about the same weight in the same size as she was the day she was four and that was hard. hier believed in standing up to discrimination so when far right nationalists came to town she joined her black friends to protest in august last year white supremacist neo nazis and members of old tried groups from across the country club were to challenge the bill from the now infamous unite the right rally clashes soon broke out between the group and county demonstrators.
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the violence ultimately matched to highlands. this is the place where it happens right here a car driven by a white supremacist smashed into a group of counter protesters killing heather higher and injuring many others hires this sparked outrage across the country which was employed fired by president strums say we are to clearly condemn white nationalists and neo nazis for the violence of charlottesville for many here this was the moment they decided to stand up against hatred bigotry and racism an outpouring of public support has encouraged activists like your lane smit the roots of racism run deep here she says pointing to the state of confederate general robert e. lee still standing proud as just one example but for too long people of charlottesville didn't want to confront the issue schmidt tells me they wanted
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their peace and quiet white supremacy is part of the everyday fabric. of our political life our economic life the way policing is conducted against black people and you know so there's much more discussion of this you know even among people especially white people who were previously very kind of self-satisfied and thought that everything was fine. and see any verse three approaches still ancient and other local activists told a panel discussion to promote the importance of remaining vigilant. but if you eat the can. simply ignoring the problem basically to make it go away. by a street in washington who's covering this story for us now joins me my it's good to see you so sunday marks the first anniversary of the clashes but who really seeing demonstrations by so-called anti-fascist but how is charlottesville
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preparing to mark this day well the earlier this week i spoke with charlottesville activist who said the city has been very tense all week it's a very small town and he said about a thousand police both at the national and at the state level have descended upon this small town and shut off one of the main areas and it is actually the same area where this attack happened last year we also know that earlier today there was a memorial service as we saw in the report and there was also just a church service for anyone who wanted to come together and come together in solidarity and it was called i look at my nose the church as it was called the hope that summons us or just for the community to come together and prepare themselves later today we also know that there's going to be a group of students from the university of virginia which is also in charlottesville who will be occupying the area of the university that the white
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supremacist march originally kicked off from last year as a way to they say reclaim their space and take it back from these white supremacists so my are you saying shallots who people are bracing themselves but in washington on sunday we're expecting demonstrations from white nationalists an extremist groups as well as a counter demonstration how prepared are the police to do with a potential clash. the police have said their biggest priority for these protests happening will be to keep people apart and they definitely do not want a repeat of what happened last year and really no one wants a repeat of what happened last year so they said their goal is to keep people apart and they will also be scanning the crowds for weapons that means for long guns anyone carrying guns will not be permitted to even if they have a permit to do so and anything that might be a weapons is a lead pipe or an umbrella but it is a big question how they are going to keep these crowds apart because everyone is
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going to be converging on a main square on the same main square and we are expecting some very large crowds at least from the counter protesters side it's still unclear how large the white supremacist crowd will be. joining us from washington thank you a jury in the u.s. state of california has found one some two guilty of causing terminal cancer in a plaintive who was exposed to its weed killer as they ordered the chemicals giant which is now owned by germany's bya to pay millions in damages court authorities in san francisco fast tracked the case because the man is dying. shortly after the verdict was handed down joy is written and when johnson's face monsanto must now pay around two hundred ninety million dollars in damages johnson blames the companies we killers like round up for causing his cancer they contain the chemical glyphosate there i learned about roundup in. and going to save everything i'm glad
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to be here to be able to help with the causes were bigger than me and during his career as a groundskeeper johnson used large quantities of the herbicide very schools but in two thousand and fourteen he was diagnosed with leukemia had cancer the verdict was unanimous. did monsanto failed to adequately warn of the potential risks answer yes. was the lack of sufficient warnings a substantial factor in causing harm to mr johnson answer yes monsanto says its products are safe it has promised to appeal the verdict. and frankly that shocked me that's not who we are and that's not what we did and that will certainly be a very very closely closely argued point of appeal monsanto was recently acquired by german chemical giant bio for fifty four billion euros buyer says hundreds of scientific studies showed glycol state does not cause cancer experts continue to
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debate the issue the world health organization says the chemical is possibly carcinogenic more than five thousand other americans are currently suing monsanto in connection to its use of life estate doing johnson's victory may just be the first for the plaintiffs this is now. a sound look at some of the other stories making news around the world thousands of mainly arab protest has rallied in tel aviv against a new law that declares israel the nation state of the jewish people critics say the legislation marginalizes the country's non jewish citizens including its arab minority israel's prime minister said it's necessary to fend off palestinian challenges to jewish self-determination. in man used capital bamako opposition supporters are urging voters to be vigilant doing sunday's presidential runoff votes they accuse the government of electoral fraud in the first round last month the incumbent is expected to win the second round election has been marred by
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threats of violence and security will be tightened. police in the united states say a suicidal airline employee. an empty passenger plane on friday and then crashed into an island. jets pursued the plane but when able to prevented from coming down and sparking off a fire official say the pilot was likely killed in the crash. german chancellor angela merkel is in spain where she has agreed and you approach on migration with prime minister heather sanchez the two leaders were holding informal talks amid growing migrant numbers there. as spanish prime minister pedro sanchez welcomed his german counterpart to southern spain for informal talks a new deal took in fact spain will take back migrants already registered there who reach germany. although the number of such cases is low it's an
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important agreement for america. it's a commitment to help another country struggling with an issue. just as germany is committed to helping spain for example with morocco. almost every day migrants arrive on spanish shores from morocco close to twenty four thousand have arrived this year my grants are now entering spain and italy. sanchez called for a common response from the e.u. . the solidarity of the whole european union in dealing with the challenge of migration. but the spanish and german leaders will present their common vision on migration at an e.u. summit next month. in romania thousands of protesters are on the streets in many
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parts of the country protesting against the government for a second day in the capital booker's huge crowds gathered in victory square to demonstrate against corruption low wages and lack of opportunities in the southeast european country protesters say they're not intimidated by the violence on friday in which around four hundred fifty protesters were injured. that's now bring in lavinia remain a service she joins me on the line and she's in to following events across the country lavinia tell us more about what's happening in romania tonight so many people were hurt in protests on friday. that's right good evening at the moment with the sounds of protesters in bucharest and about sixty thousand in other major cities as you said i mean to me so i right now this is the second largest city in. the lucian began so people took to the streets yesterday specially after what
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happened yesterday because there's also these demonstrations. there have been no casualties so far today but they were fond of the lease in bucharest as tens of thousands of acts that had gathered back home for a protest against social democratic governments riot police on the edge you know guys and water cannons at the protesters. innocent people lots of innocent people at the moment there's just six. with not into these but in total about four hundred people accused injuries and. one of a correspondent for the detail that you are making and. has been beaten up by the police obviously no reason. well that's obviously really quite unfortunate to hear but looking at the numbers why are these anti-government protests so important.
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they're very important because these people are fighting corruption and they're angry and demand that the government resign after continues attempts of weakening that efficiently and the state of low. density leave your dogma ahead of the social democrats who is believed to be politicizing the country. for the second time of abuse of power. in the engines of their corruption trial that there's a classic appeal sometime in september but he was previously convicted for two years on probation for food creating and this is the main reason he's not allowed to become prime minister the position he has been driving for anyway. considered to be the government pocket octo bottom line there are many here got hoping for major pain because you're there at the end. hoping for a major change having a pizza from remain in service thank you thank you i like. it watching the
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