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big moments in the life of a great mission designer. sun smart and. start september ninth w. this is the news line from berlin the u.s. city of charlottesville marks the first anniversary of white supremacist rallies that turned deadly students and activists commemorates the confrontation between white nationalists and protesters that left one person dead in the city last august we hear from all correspondent in washington where rallies are also taking things
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also coming up. book counting is underway in many of the presidential runoff election but many people say at home amid reports of attacks on polling stations we'll go live to bamako for the latest. and not so launches a groundbreaking mission to touch the sun the park solo probe blasts all from cape canaveral on its way to unlock the mysteries of all stars superheated atmosphere. i'm a diff kimani thank you for your company the u.s. has been marking one year since a violent white supremacist rally that claimed the lives of three people in charlottesville virginia white nationalist a gathering in washington for another so-called unite the right rally police are separating them from counter protesters who are expected to outnumber them last
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year hundreds of white nationalists descended on charlottesville to protest the removal of a monument to confederate general robot lee. rally turned violent as protesters clashed with counter protesters culminating in the death of. the who was killed when a man drove his car into a crowd. now a rally against racial hatred is currently underway in the city of charlottesville but a number of rallies are also beginning in washington and that's where your correspondent there is and she joins us now my it's good to see you i don't know if you can hear me but the white nationalist rally obviously coming on the anniversary of last year's violence in charlottesville but we can clearly see that there's also protests happening behind you what are police doing to ensure that there are no clashes this time around. ok. edith what's happening right next to me right now is one of the many counter protest that's been happening in washington d.c. is starting their march towards lafayette square which is going to be the place where
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both these counter protesters and the white supremacists who are marching later today will converge the police earlier this week made it clear that their goal was to keep to sides separate and to try to avoid a repeat of what happened last year but it's unclear how they're going to be able to do that because lafayette square is a very small space and according to one person who we spoke with earlier is already absolutely packed with counter protesters who are anticipating the white supremacists arrival so everything's a bar has been very calm on this side very positive very forceful but we'll have to see what happens when the white supremacists come and how those two sides may or may not meet and at this point do we know what the message is from both the anti-fashion the so-called anti fascist groups and the white nationalists. so the white nationalists jason castro the man who arranged both last year's unite the right rally and this years has said in media interviews this week that he wants
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this year to be peaceful really his goal is to spark a conversation to spark a debate about the role of white people in american society and he is one of these white nationalists who believes that white voices are being marginalized in america these people who are here who are probably many times more people than the white nationalists or record to show up later today very much reject that message and they want to put forward the message that washington d.c. is a multicultural place it's a welcoming place and this sort of ideology coming from the other side is not welcome here maya could you give us a feel of how many people have turned up to the rally where you're currently at and what the numbers are expected to be like from the international news from the white enough from this rather. i'm rather bad at estimating myself by just looking at this crowd ahead of me as at least a couple of hundred people and we know that there are other rallies going on around you see in other areas so it's going to be very crowded at lafayette park later on
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the white supremacist side they're expecting maximum probably four hundred people and reports have been that it's probably even less than that maya schrader joining us from washington thank you. well let's now look at some of the other stories making news around the world a powerful explosion in north and syria has reportedly killed at least thirty six people including many children the force of the blast toppled buildings burying many of the victims the origin of the explosion is still unclear a british based wanted to group says a rebel weapons depot in the basement might have detonated. the five countries bordering the caspian sea have reached a landmark deal on its legal status a convention signed by russia iran as a by john kazakstan and. decades of dispute over the world's largest and close body of water and its huge oil and gas reserves iran says dividing up the seabed will
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require additional agreements. jordanian security forces have pulled the bodies of three suspected militants from the rubble of their collapsed hideout following a deadly shootout four soldiers were also killed when the assailants opened fire at a set of explosions late on saturday the clash west of the capital amman is one of the deadliest in recent years. voters in mali excuse me voters in mali went to the polls on sunday in a presidential runoff marred by reports of violence security sources say an election official was shot and killed by jihadists in the north of the country incumbent ibrahim. cast his vote in the capital bamako and he's up against so my let's just say one small loss to kate in twenty thirteen claims the west african state has become even more insecure indicators rule extremists killed three polling
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station workers and seized voting material in the first round of the election last month. so let's now bring in journalist brum posthumus who is joining us from mali's capital bamako so brown we've had reports of a polling station chief being killed today has there been widespread violence and if so did it affect voting. record including european union observer mission which . are the two on the. top. of the one you mentioned. general picture here of the regular moment. for him and the first round although that may also have to do with the simple fact. so incoming president abraham. came out of the first round with just over twenty percent of all opposition candidates my let's just say any chance that says it will catch up this time round. down very little chance of that happening being gambon
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president great arguably huge advantage coming out of the first round and for that to pull that gap to be filled you need a very large turnout in the second round so you can mobilize the voters vote for the can to bring down the this haven't happened turnout if anything is any indication is anything to go by is actually lower than in the first would usually plays into the hands of the incumbent so this very much looks like a fairly comfortable win for the incumbent president you're going to look at kadir from posthumus joining us from bomb acoa thank you seven days after a powerful earthquake struck the indonesian kept. on bulk the death toll continues to rise more than four hundred people are now confirmed dead many survive as a still waiting for aid to reach them the quake has left a quarter of a million people homeless among them many children. this kite
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fluttering in the wind is nothing more than a short moment of fun in such times these kids have to act grown up be brave and strong after their lives were shocked by the quake that struck long book this is their school their old one has been destroyed the sound of laughter resonating through the tent is like medicine for their souls we have like may be out of order for the adequate coming up but we have the cough here and this isn't even done feel it yet even we haven't just morning but even they have that this idea here with us they they think without it don't even feel that way. the psychologists say drawing helps process the trauma most pictures are created out of a positive experience pictures of a world that no longer exists. this is what that world now looks like for hundreds of thousands their homes and buildings have been polarized.
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their home has been destroyed as well what has remained is a fear and a child that is no longer the same as before saying. it was horrible the ground was shaking i didn't know what to do i grabbed my boy he was screaming and shocked he hasn't let go of me for six days not for one second. this is the first time that you did has seen her colleague since the earthquake her business a diving equipment store has been closed all the tourists are gone. united has organized donations for food medicine and diapers necessary goods to keep her colleagues and their families going this is supposed to be a new beginning in their gas and sting your first instinct after such an experience is to go home back to germany your second thought after reflecting for
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a moment. no i want to stay here and help and i think for me it's the best way of dealing with the trauma. and it's a trauma that no one can run away from a trauma that they can all relate to. nasa has launched a groundbreaking mission to unlock the secrets of our son after a twenty four hour delay due to a late technical problem the profundity lifted off from cape canaveral in florida the spacecraft is named after a physicist eugene paca who predicted the existence of the solar wind sixty years ago the one point five billion dollar mission is being described as one of the most projects ever undertaken by the u.s. space agency. this is a mission solar physicists could only dream of for sixty years. a space probe the can
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approach the sun close enough to enter its atmosphere. the objective is to examine how solar flares formed. when currents of electronically charged particles hit the earth they threaten sensitive electronics and satellites that's why scientists want to be able to forecast devastating solar storms. the parker solar probe will gather the necessary data with four instruments this means coming closer to the sun than any other space probe as before. and to be successful it has to survive being showered by energy particles and extreme radiation this extremely hostile environment demands highly developed technology a carbon he chilled with a sickness of twelve centimeters on the program enters the sun scorching atmosphere its surface will heat up to fourteen hundred degrees celcius the onboard computer has to continually readjust the heat shield so that electronic and measuring
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devices inside can remain at room temperature and keep working if the probe falters in some way unprotected parts will simply melt. with every approach to the sun the probe has to fold in its solar panels behind the heat shield only a small part can be exposed to extreme radiation. the probe has been fitted with this cooling system during a flight through the sun's atmosphere it will cool the solar antennas and keep the instruments working. the parker solar probe will orbit the sun twenty four times coming closer to the star each time until the end of the year twenty twenty four when it's supposed to make its final approach solar physicists are eagerly anticipating a trove of new data. in the austrian motorcycle grand prix defending champion mark
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marquez of spain failed to win from pole position for the first time this season it was this fellow spanish. lorenza who made the best of the day instead overtaking on in the race maintained the lead and managed to beat kids by an extremely narrow margin of just zero point one seconds the response lorenzo's victory this season. to win suffering now and spain claimed top spots in both the men's and women's world cup wave discipline event. picked up a third consecutive victory in the canaries to claim the outright lead in the overall standings and in the men's three time wave world champion victor. stormed to victory the win also puts him top of the overall standings. so british act has added fuel to rumors that he could be set to play the next james bond with a cryptic tweet the forty five year old stuff posted
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a selfie alongside the caption my name's elba. at least that's how i think he said it's he was obviously boring from the famous bond line is one of several stars to take over the role when daniel craig finally leaves the film. he watching the news live from berlin wall coming at the top of the hour you can join us on our web site www dot com thank you for watching. we were. when we were. in the percent of americans at some point in our lives will experience hardship. listen.
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