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rethinking the rochas history been unfair to be done from the. start of august fourteenth on w. . this is being used live from berlin in the u.s. for members of the field who want to get to the violence in the genius city shocked the world tributes to the young woman who was killed by a correspondent meets a mother who says she'll carry on her daughter struggle against white supremacists and coming up. to a u.s.
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court towards a dying man millions of dollars after a jury says among some to repeal that game in town with other lawsuits filed both find out what this means for monsanto and for its german owners. the leaders of spain and germany reach an agreement on migration with hundreds of promising to take back migrants leave for germany but critics say some do little to stop the flow. thank you for joining us the u.s. city of charlottesville virginia is preparing to mock one year since violence surrounding white supremacist rallies tend 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 riot. two police officers were also killed
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in a helicopter crash during the clashes more than one thousand police are stationed around charlottesville ahead of the remembrance events tomorrow. but our correspondent alexandra phenomena is in charlottesville where she met hi is mother how the high you always had that sparkle in her eyes were 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 realized that urn in my arms was about the same weight of the same size as she was the day she was born 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
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supremacist neo nazis and members of old tried groups from across the country cupboard to challenge the bill from the now infamous unite the right rally clashes soon broke out between the group and county demonstrators. the violence ultimately maps 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 failure 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 delay instrument the roots of racism run deep here she says pointing
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to the 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 their peace and quiet white supremacy is part of the everyday fabric. of our political life our economic life the way for 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. this is where if you eat meat can. simply ignoring the problem b.c. to make it to go with. bias waiting in washington who's covering the story for us
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now joins me my it's good to see you sunday marks the first anniversary of the clashes but who really seeing demonstrations by so-called anti fascist groups but how is charlottesville preparing to mark this day. well the earlier this week i spoke with charlottesville activists 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 this church that was called the hope that summons us or just for the community to come together prepare themselves later
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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 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 you st charles who people are bracing themselves but in washington on sunday we're expecting demonstrations from white nationalists and 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 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 full on guns
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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 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 son to guilty of causing terminal cancer in a faint if 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's authority is in some francisco fast tracked the case because the man is dying shortly after the verdict was handed down joy is written on dwayne johnson's face monsanto must now pay around two hundred ninety million dollars in damages johnson blames the
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companies we killers like round up for causing his cancer they contain the chemical glyphosate there i learned about ground up in. and going to say anything i'm glad to be here to be able to go with a cause is way 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 lymph node 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. frankly that shockley 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
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by german chemical giant bio for fifty four billion euros buyer says hundreds of scientific studies show of glycol say does not cause cancer experts continue to 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. now. let's not look at some of the other stories making news around the world thousands of mainly arab protesters rallied in tel aviv against a new law the 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. turkish president to egypt
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has escalated his role with the united states over ankara's detention of an american clergyman and no one has told supporters he wouldn't be brought into line by threats the turkish lira has hit record lows of to washington announced it would hike steel and aluminum tariffs on turkish imports. in mali's capital bamako opposition supporters are urging voters to be vigilant during sunday's presidential runoff vote they accuse the government of electoral fraud in the first round last month the incumbent is expected to win the second round the election has been marred by threats of violence and security will be tightened. german chancellor angela merkel is in spain where she has agreed a new approach on migration of prime minister petal sanchez the two leaders were holding informal talks of me growing migrant numbers there. a spanish prime minister pedro sanchez welcome to the german counterpart to southern
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spain for informal talks the 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 important agreement for america. this is. why it's a commitment to help another country is 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. such as called for a common response from the e.u. . the solidarity of the whole
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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 parts of the country protesting against the government for a second day in the capital booker a huge crowds gathered in victory square to demonstrate against corruption low wages and lack of opportunities in the south east european country protesters say they are not intimidated by the violence on friday in which around four hundred fifty protesters were injured. the final to make day of the european athletics championships proved successful for a host nation germany the team secured two more gold medals of brilliance lympics stadium and here's a roundup of some of the main events starting with the women's long jump. like them iyabo pulled off the most important jump of her sporting career the twenty four
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year old leapt six point seven five metres in her third attempt that was good enough for gold ahead of rather a ukraine's marina back. fellow german mctavish ship will go in the high jump of it had some spring in his legs with the bar set at two point three five meters the twenty six year old became european champion with the flawless attempt his victory is germany's first european title in the high jump since nine hundred eighty two and a historic achievement for great britain deena asher smith already had gold in the one hundred meters in hand and ashley smith dominated the two hundred meters as well wrapping up a european sprint double her outstanding time of twenty one point eight nine seconds also set a new british record. of french football champions parisa kick off their title defense against come on sunday with german coach thomas to her in charge
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p.s.g. will be able to call on the world's most expensive plan naima as they aim for a repeat not to mention teenage sensation and world cup when a kid end up a despite all the talents the former coach feels he signed over a long way from reaching their full potential. there is still a lot to do for our structure and the game for our for our intensity in the game and for us for that to be we have to improve is that it starts now but we we have to focus on an every single day we have to use time because there is so little time it's not been like ready to go and we see what's coming we still have a lot to do. nobel prize winning author v.s. naipaul has died in a statement his wife said he passed away peacefully at home in london ny paul was born in trinidad in one thousand fifty two to parents of indian origin he published
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his first novel in one thousand nine hundred fifty seven then went on to write dozens of books many of which dealt with colonialism and its legacy he was knighted by queen elizabeth in one nine hundred ninety and awarded the nobel prize for literature in two thousand and one he was eighty five. you're watching the news live from berlin you can log on to a website called news and information thank you for. any time place.
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