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it lives in the life of a great fashion designer. starts september ninth w. . this is. from the u.s. . the first time diversity a white supremacist from these. students and activists commemorate the confrontation between nationalists and protesters that left one person dead in the city last august. on the washington. taking place.
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on the new german football season. in. the games use violence new coach. faces former club in his very first game. records exceed all stumble in his opening match. it's good to have you with us. the u.s. city of charlottesville virginia has been marking since the. rally that left one woman dead the anniversary was marked mainly with peaceful vigils on saturday but there was a brief tense confrontation between police and demonstrators angry at the large number of officers and bride last year hundreds of white nationalists descended on charlottesville to protest the removal of a monument to confederate but even the ready to protest has clashed with counter
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protesters culminating in the death of thirty two year old. who was killed when a man drove his car into a crowd. correspondent alexandra phenomena was in charlottesville where she spoke with hi is mother. had the high you know 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. and i realize that urn on my arms was about the same weight in the same size as she was the day she was formed 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
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august last year white supremacist neo nazis and members of old tried groups from across the country are to challenge spilled from the now infamous unite the right to 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 say we are to clearly condemn white nationalists and neo nazis for the violence at 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
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activists like your lane smit the roots of racism run deep here she says pointing to his to confederate general robert e. lee still standing proud as just one example but for too long people of shannon's bill 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 held a panel discussion to promote the importance of remaining vigilant. this is. indeed eat the can we eat is simply ignoring the problem they say they want to make it go away. a rubbing against racial hatred is cutting
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through on the word of the severe fall that's what a number of writers at all to beginning in washington do you have a correspondent mara shweder is live on the ground for us my aunt the part nationalised romney comes on the anniversary of last year's violence in charlottesville organizers sending off a message from. organizers of both this year's rally this year's unite the right rally and last year's rally jason kessler said in a media interview earlier this week that his first goal was to keep things peaceful but his second goal was really to to send a message to spark a debate and to stand up for white people's first amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly now as you can see behind me there's quite a large crowd gathering to stand against this message and then fact it's grown exponentially in the past couple of hours kessler is really trying to be a prophet provocateurs or here and he really seems to if you read interviews with
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him really believe that white people in america are very marginalized voice one thing of that of course white supremacists always say is they're being marginalized that they don't have a voice that they don't have a share in the politics of the nation if you talk to anyone around me here they'll say they absolutely do not believe that they do not see that in action and that in fact this administration has simply been helping fuel white supremacists and white nationalist views throughout its time in office and that of course the counter protesters are fighting to the counter protest that unite the right to event that is also under way my home and police to control the bold groups don't clash like they did install that's preposterous. and this is a very good question considering both rallies this one happening behind me and the white supremacist rally that's going to be marching later today are both converging on the same spot right next to the white house and it's not a very large area what we heard the police chief say earlier this week was. that
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their biggest priority was to keep the groups separate so i imagine there's going to be a lot of police barriers there and simply a lot of police presence trying to keep the two groups away from each other right now things are fairly call things are fairly peaceful but it's just the beginning of the day the white supremacists have not started their march yet we'll have to see what happens this evening and while we're talking about u.s. politics there footprints can be far behind that of today's primaries of course u.s. president donald trump. trump tweeted by the medical blessed to live in a nation that protects liberty freedom of speech and diversity of opinion there is no place for white supremacy racism and you know this is a you know a great country. speaking for a father. it's an excellent question it's really unclear how much sway or say ivanka has in the administration at this point we can definitely say that she was when she came into the white house she was supposed to be one of
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these moderating factors in the administration someone who would hold people back to the center if things got to far one way or the other but we also saw that donald trump himself did tweet about a day ago in reference to this anniversary saying that there was senseless senseless death and division in the country and we need to come together as a nation which is of course a much more broad generic statement than what yvonne made specifically is condemning what supremacy and her father has not yet done not by a traitor in washington thanks very much. not so has launched a groundbreaking mission to unlock the secrets of offer the twenty four hour d.v.d. due to a late technical problem the sort of probe finally lifted off from cape canaveral in florida. three two one zero. liftoff. the probe will fly closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever before its
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mission is to study the corona atmosphere around the sun hope to find out more about what's known as the solo wind which can throw satellites off course and disrupt the power grid on earth scientists have developed a revolutionary new he cheated to protect the probe from the sun's extreme temperature. now to some of the other stories making news around the world a powerful explosion in northern syria has reportedly killed at least thirty six people including many children the force of the blasts toppled buildings burying many of the victims the origin of the explosion is still unclear a british based monitoring group says a rebel weapons depot in the basement might have detonated. voting is under way in mali in west africa in the second round of presidential elections the incumbent. is expected to win security is tight the first round of voting was overshadowed by violence at polling stations. there's under pressure but there's
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also severe sniper has died at the age of eighty five and i paul was born in trinidad in one thousand thirty two to parents of indian origin he wrote dozens of books spend your free church with colonialism and its legacy and won many of the pictures most prestigious awards including the nobel prize. the curtain raiser for germany stop flight football season takes place today this year's super cup is a rematch of last season's german car final fitting league champions by a minute against cup winners i tracked to frankfurt frankfurt have seen some major departures over the summer including coach nico coverage to their super cup opponents now it's up to his successor to pick up the pieces. need addy after winning this receipt with young boys band he's now in the hot seat at frankfurt not an easy task especially after losing four key players but one big
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name remains until the beach recently rose to new heights with croatia when they finished run us up at the world cup in russia he's decided to stay and extend his contract with the eagles. the symbol of those under frank i'm very pleased to be back and to get to know the new coach which it's also an honor for me to be here and to be getting ready for the new season the sec. crank for it we're in the usa for the pre-season training camp and the team has a few bands that need smoothing out so what better way to do that then to take on the mighty bye and. that there will be of course we want to win this competition but we also know we're up against the best team in germany against the record champions but i'd like my team to play like they want to win it from the first minute on words that will show our mentality and whether we can chance what we practice in training on to the pitch so. or lose it is
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a team in terms with a difficult season ahead of them. from france form of course just hoping to pick up his first starting with his new club by a munich ahead of the final he talked about how it felt to be back in front for for tonight's care is absolute and it's definitely a special game. on the one hand i'm returning to my old home a great city a great club a great stadium with great fans which incidentally we had two and a quarter really very successful years together and so in that respect it's something special and on the other hand it's the first opportunity to get a title and we want to win it. back and a client is having fun in frankfurt and he's there for the super cup and nick faces his former club in his very first game the idea stop to his buy and career. absolutely they can ask anything that's a typical fully honest because otherwise it would always have been this whole
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pretense of byron about frank's very first game of the season he gets out of the way otherwise they would be meeting till december so it's very very good for him it will be difficult he was i was at the time cup final in may he was so emotional so happy to win the cup with frank for frank before he left of course now it's difficulty seeing all those fans again he's seen those players again and he said by munich is that by munich ocean even the name by munich seems so odd as a coach for this club when we've seen pep guardiola we've seen carlo and should also you join this club. household name when it comes to coaching qualities he is someone who knows the club inside out he knows the whole me is i me a d.n.a. and he knows it by munich want to win titles and this game tonight in the stadium behind me is the first chance to bring silverware home to munich and if he does that then that's a very very good start to his buying career it's also a new era forefront for players of left and they have a new coach what are the fans think about the chances of the game tonight and the coming season. actually for five minutes ago the frankfurt bus drove past in
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they're all clapping and cheering their players on so they're still very much behind the team but it will be a very difficult transitional year for frank of course with coach gone his very first season the been asleep but not just that he's starting players because right at ski kevin prince boateng leaving the club that was so important for frankfurt last year and they have a replacement for like for like players they've actually got players from the second division or even frankfurt to come in to replace them so be very difficult for frank i don't see them fighting for the european paces the same way as they did last year but these fans are very much always behind the eagles and always support their team we've seen that today and we saw that last season so the fans know what's ahead they know it could be difficult certain not being too difficult with the dream too hard on their team. look into a crystal ball what could be understood or filed before during this game. i mean we're still two weeks ahead of the season actually starting properly next week of course the first round of the cup but this at least gets the season going we get to
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see the best team in germany by munich and the cup winners play each other we get to see the bonus to kicking back into into full force again we get to see teams play and we also get to see how buying will set and selves up will they play we can operate with a play levon dusky we get to see how much will set up his team what he's idea of buying the kids in the same goes for frankfurt it's going to be interesting to see just to see how these two teams set up for the season and it become a kleiner fight for thanks very much. they're up there join us again at the video of a cut. the photo of it coming. during a link to news from africa and the world or links to exceptional stories and discussions from own use as easy as our website d.w. that comes to pick up join us on facebook. for good.
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