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the template minya . business is it of the news live from berlin a nazi collaborator the ports of the u.s. but will he face justice ninety five year old a jockey polly taken from his home in new york is now arrived in germany but the german government doesn't think there's enough evidence to put the former labor camp guard on trial also coming up militants break at the heart of the afghan government two rockets land near the presidential palace in the capital kabul as president i shall find it makes an address to the nation a comes just days after he
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offered a conditional cease fire plus germany tells turkey we want to help rescue your currency the nation faces an economic crisis as a mountain of debt causes foreign investors to take flight plans of a new star is crowned at the m.t.v. video music awards. to cut cuban born singer camilla cabello takes home the top prize video of the year for her song of them. or and what. her rocked thanks for your company everyone. this man right behind me is believed to be the last known nazi collaborators still alive and living in the united states but today ninety five year old jack heath polly touched down in germany twenty five
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years after efforts began to the poor him during world war two he worked at a nazi labor camp in poland where inmates were massacred but it's not certain that he will be prosecuted here in germany this report now with exclusive pictures of polly's deportation from a.b.c. news. to living quietly in new york for decades this was the moment history caught up with polly that the u.s. authorities arresting him for deportation to germany expelling the ninety five year old despite his plea of frailty has been a priority for the trumpet ministration born in what was then poland poly arrived in america in one nine hundred forty nine concealing his nazi service from immigration officials eight years later his application for citizenship was granted but in the one nine hundred ninety s. investigators caught up with him he admitted to them having trained at a nazi s.s. camp in trav nikky the site of one of the holocaust worst massacres claiming the
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lives of some six thousand jewish citizens a judge then revoked pollies american citizenship in two thousand and three a year later the us authorities ordered his deportation. until now though germany had refused to accept him on the grounds that he isn't a german and also because german investigators say the evidence against him using conclusive. but the u.s. ambassador lobbied strongly behind the scenes saying berlin had a moral obligation to admit a man suspected of committing crimes in germany's name. on diplomatic rather than legal grounds the german government has now accepted that argument. i've been talking to talk more about this so joining me in the studio is the daily reporter. who has covered this story extensively so good to see you i mean because was interesting at the beginning of this year back in february you went to new york and washington to investigate this case so what did you find that's why i went with
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a colleague ruben carlos to investigate this case this was right after trump announced the trump administration rather announced that they would make this a priority deporting uk of paoli we attempted to get in touch with him but what we found was the home of a recluse i mean windows that hadn't been painted it was really seen that he hadn't come out and while neighbors saw him infrequently and they knew him as just an old man but we spoke with a rabbi at a local school there who told us a different story he said that he had been protesting with students out in front of jack of polly's house for almost fifteen years annually he told us why should an old man be forgiven if he was part of a mechanism that killed some of my grandparents a very poignant point there indeed what will happen to polly next now that he is in germany well it's unclear first we know that he's been sent to a nursing home and the area minster but he's not
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a german citizen so the only reason he's actually in germany right now is because of a diplomatic deal that has been made with the u.s. germany has no legal obligation to prosecute him so it's unclear what they're going to how they're going to proceed with this case is their willingness to prosecute i mean what's germany stance on this case germany stance has changed partially because of the efforts of the new diplomat the the new. and so i hear us about the new u.s. ambassador has made this a priority he's been talking to a lot of german officials about this germany's stance is that they there's not enough evidence to be brought against jacques of poly. like it was said in the report he was at a camp that killed almost everybody he was there all the jews who have been brought to this camp but there's evidence to show that it was done after he left and the u.s. government says that that's enough to prosecute him but the german government says
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that this might not be enough legally according to german german law all right now you when during your time in the u.s. you spoke to the u.s. justice department what evidence that they have concretely against polya yes we spoke to a man who has been called the nazi hunter because he made it his career over the past twenty years or so to find nazis in the u.s. and have them deported he was surprised that this case took so long but he believes like other u.s. officials that because he helped the apparatus that eventually led to the deaths of the people who travel nicky and he's responsible for the murder i mean this is thank you so much for your continued coverage of this case and next we're going to shift our attention to afghanistan now where i've gone security forces have fought off a major militant assault in the heart of the capital kabul reporters say all the attackers were killed in the heavy fighting that followed rocket attacks it came as
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president he was delivering his holiday message on the first day of eat a major religious festival for muslims. it was supposed to be a peaceful day off in kabul but the calm didn't last long. in the morning militants fired a number of rockets towards the presidential palace as president gunny was delivering a speech to mock the muslim celebrations of aid. could do you think it gave it up if the insurgents think that with rocket attacks this nation will surrender they have to think again. this is a brave tough nation and we are always ready to defend our independence and islamic tradition. the rockets triggered an immediate and ferocious response by security forces a military helicopter targeted the house from where the rockets were fired sending plumes of smoke into the sky. sort of sold out the car as
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a result of the mortar attacks only two police officers were slightly wounded and all the terrorists were killed in a clearing operation launched by afghan security forces the area with the timing of the assault a significant it comes two days after the president offered the taliban a conditional three month cease fire can siding with celebrations afghan police initially help the group responsible before the so-called islamic state made its claims what presidents all work of those in the past we used to celebrate eat with joy and happiness but now suicide attacks scare people around the holidays is filled with tension. when we leave our homes we're not sure if i'll make it back alive i just praise almighty god to save god all the muslim people in afghanistan. the attacks mark yet another blow to gandhi's efforts to bring militants to the negotiating table and hold peace talks to end the country seventeen year war.
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now to some of the other stories making news around the world. more than a million people have now taken refuge in relief camps after floods in the southern indian state of corolla two weeks of tarantula rain submerged much of the state of the rescue operation is starting to wind down with the death toll standing at more than four hundred. software giant microsoft says its forded attempts by kremlin backpack are so large cyber attacks on u.s. political groups the hacking group known as fancy bear reportedly targeted the websites of conservative american think tanks and the u.s. senate a criminal spokesman has rejected the allegations. czechs and slovaks have been marking fifty years since the soviet union sent in tanks to crush the priest bring the prague spring rather democratic reform movement hundred speight tribute to the victims of the crackdown in central prague the ceremony also saw angry
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protests against the prime minister he faces allegations of collaborating with the communist era secret police. you're watching the news was still have a lot more to share with you including. ukrainian political prisoner own leg sense also marks one hundred days on hunger strike in russia supporters demanding his release but is the kremlin likely to give in. plus one of the made two movements leading activists actors a c r gent who has been accused of sexually assaulting an under age fellow actor she denies it but it's been alleged she paid him harsh money. we'll have the all the details on those stories in just a minute but first ben has got the business and the turkish leaders huge losses but just as much as just a much a shock as this income was there as much as the thank you but it's much more
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shocking german chancellor angela merkel says she sees no urgent need to offer financial aid to turkey liras lost forty percent against the dollar this year so he's leader calls the currency crisis an attack on his country but experts say he's the problem. whether it's a bridge over the bosphorus an istanbul subway system or an imposing mosque turkey's president about to tie up and one is known for his beak ambitions. the construction sector has been at the forefront of the country's economic development . but recent events have put the brakes on turkey's economy. turkish banks and companies have accumulated four hundred seventy billion dollars a foreign desk and just the value of the lira plummets it's getting ever harder to repay those loans. turkish president ratchet type eridu one has ignored calls
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for interest rate hikes and rejected any notion of a bailout from the international monetary fund. experts say a multi-pronged approach is needed to tackle the country's economic problems. turkish business and investment in the environment need structural reforms labor market reform fiscal reform education reform all the forms that are this is a city to cope with the challenges of the twenty first century in the digital age so they have to be priority. ordinary turks are ready feeling the pain prices are rising rapidly there are fears that a slowdown in business could trigger massive job cuts. in germany some politicians have raised the prospect of offering turkey financial aid but economists say such a move wouldn't get to the core of turkey's problems. it would be
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a really bad idea to make direct payments in order to support turkish economy i mean turkey's problem is not liquidity problem there are structural problems inflation is too high and that interest rates are off the central bank are too low . for now the turkish president appears to to. herman to stick to his existing economic policy mean while two major credit ration agencies have downgraded the country without a concrete plan of action turkey could be on course for an economic disaster. thirty years out the german reunification there are still differences in pay and working hours between the two pots in the east people put in the extra seventy five hours more on average per year in comparison to their counterparts in the west and then you will gross wages in western germany are almost five thousand euros higher than in eastern states that's according to data from the statistics office the
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purchasing power which includes the costs of living for rent and food is often better in eastern germany than you copes over in the west in frankfurt the former west i should say despite the east west pay divide some areas of eastern germany a prospering which one is. well ben i have to tell you something even though i miss sometimes living in berlin i guess it paid off sense of courting to this report i'm working less here and frankfurt i make more money than you guys over there in berlin not sure if that's really true but those numbers yeah they're actually very interesting so when you look at the figures employees in the state of the ring go work the most in germany with one thousand three hundred seventy hours per year followed by a sex in the hot and western pull rain year we certainly don't want to offend people living in north rhine-westphalia germany say with the highest population but that's a state where people only work an average of one thousand two hundred fifty hours
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per year let's talk about this the salaries hamburg is the number one with an average gross income of forty thousand euros per year followed now here by hasn't where we are and there is indeed this big gap when you compare this to the east to west rainier where the average rose income per year is only at a level of twenty twenty twenty seven thousand five hundred euros per year lots of numbers lots of numbers daniel i'm going to have to compare pay stubs for the show but tell me why the big differences it's been such a long time. exactly that's a tough one some politicians especially from the left party are accusing the german government of anglo-american to kind of given up on the german east even though this issue is part of the coalition contract many are saying that the key issue is still that conditions negotiated by worker unions are completely different in the east and in the west part of the country also are many are calling for a general increase of the minimum wage in germany which is right now at the level
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of twelve euros per hour i guess there is not the solution but it will still take a couple of years maybe even decades until this issue will be completely solved give me a wage hike and i won't complain a bit thank you daniel. the dollar is dipping at this hour u.s. president donald trump is lashed out at the federal reserve he says he's not pleased with the central bank raising interest rates the fed is currently expected to raise its keep rates two more times this year and another two times next year german drug powell says he's concerned about inflationary pressures in an interview trump said he was not thrilled with the hikes those who refused to say if he believed in the fed's independence powell has said the committee will not bow to political pressure. i still have. you been ukrainian filmmaker oleg cents off imprisoned in russia on terrorism charges has now been on
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hunger strike for exactly one hundred days the forty two year old is serving a two decade long sentence after being convicted three years ago of arson attacks in his native crimea since off was a fierce critic of moscow's occupation of the peninsula back in two thousand and fourteen amnesty international called sense offs case a show trial and western nations have campaigned for his release sense office lawyer says that since starting the hunger strike back in may his condition as rapidly deteriorated all right let's get some more details now from polina cover from your asia programs she is the director at penn america polina a very warm welcome to d.w. news you are currently in russia there are different accounts of the state of the health of aleck's sense off what do you know. yes last
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news that we got from his lawyer is that he's also very slow as forty bits and minutes and he is very weak also another. human rights defenders who is a bit of a visit here in love with. recently and she said that he gets to have very very quickly and he's forces very weak sue also he himself explains his state of health as pre critical upward into his recent letter to to his cousin so i would say the situation has been to. that point to with this hunger strike a mr sense office is demanding the release of around seventy ukrainian political of prisoners that are being held in russia and crimea how high do you think the chances are how likely is it that russia will give in to his demands. well
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you know it's it's very hard to predict and i'm not in the position to do that but i would say that since it is. completely unlawful process. the decision is on the faith is really in the hands of one man and unfortunately i am not one can get inside this hat. so but i know that i know that there is there is a. negotiations on a very high level the president bachar on recently raised his case so we'll see i should speak for myself and i know that i'm a part of the huge community of his xander is and we will continue raising his case all of that walt and still he will be really pulling a couple you know five eurasia program director at penn america thank you thank you . all right now the fastest man in history is currently down under
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and ready to take to stake his claim rather as a professional footballer the same bolts went through his first training session with australian club central coast mariners on tuesday he's currently just on trial and wants to prove the doubters wrong and earn a contract. for a thirty two year old who has never been paid to kick a ball in his life it's an implausible drame box you same bolt is no ordinary thirty two year old the jamaican is attempting to make the ultimate crossover from a limp explain champion to professional football he started his trial with a strained club the central coast mariners on tuesday and knows he has a lot of hard work ahead of him this is my my first round some really good new chance to train and to. get to a love affair as a professional footballer so i don't want to spend some days here to push myself
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all eyes are focused on the new arrival and the trial is seen by many as a me a p.r. stunt the mariners have gained invaluable worldwide coverage following the trolls announcements the odds are certainly against both winning a professional contract but that hasn't to soften the olympic legend who was determined to silence his doubters people i was going to say what i want to say on just like when i was in shock and feel people say about things about me but i always prove them wrong so it's just a not a moment for me to prove people wrong that mentality should at least give bolt a fighting chance a even if the dream turns out to be a short lived one it's a win win scenario for both club and player. one of the me two movements leading voices is denying accusation accusations that she sexually assaulted a minor according to documents obtained by the new york times the actress turned me to activist argento paid nearly four hundred thousand dollars to settle
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a sexual assault claim her alleged victim actor colleague jimmy bennett claims that our gentle assaulted him in a california hotel room back in twenty thirteen when it was seventeen at the time which would make him a minor under california law. well the allegations are threatening to cast a dark cloud over the me too movement carm has been is tracking the fall which is continuous it seems. so is well is was one of the first to publicly accuse super producer harvey weinstein of sexual assault now she's on the receiving end shocking really a shocking turn around here i think many of her fellow me to activists are also shocked by this they're trying to make sense of it and really trying to figure out what does this mean now for their me to movement and many of them are speaking out online about that including the writer and activist syl la abrams she accused the
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record producer russell simmons of rape and she says when she saw the news she felt like she'd been sucker punched she says i was shaking with anger of what she did to her victim and frightened about the potential implications her actions have for the need to movement overall actress rose mcgowan who also accused weinstein of assault she writes i got snow argento ten months ago or commonality is the shared pain of being assaulted by harvey weinstein my heart is broken i will continue my work on behalf of victims everywhere and the founder of that me too hash tag that's toronto burke she released a series of tweets saying in part sexual violence is about power and privilege that doesn't change if the perpetrator is your favorite actress activist or professor of any gender and we won't shift the culture unless we get serious about shifting these false narratives now how have critics of the me too movement reacted to these allegations some are arguing that this alleged hypocrisy really should cast doubts
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or a big blow on the movement's credibility among those voices is actually the most notorious alleged sexual predator harvey weinstein himself his lawyer actually released this statement yesterday saying that this development reveals a stunning level of. see by the argento what is perhaps most egregious is the timing which suggests that at the very same time argenta was working on her own secret settlement for the alleged sexual abuse of a minor she was busy positioning herself at the forefront of those condemning mr weinstein critics often framed this me to movement as really women kind of ganging up on men and these men don't even have a chance to defend themselves before they're taken from a position of power now those voices are calling out for the same thing to happen to ms argento even creating a new hashtag called she too although we mentioned at the beginning argento has denied these allegations she's now released a statement in which she says that she is deeply shocked and hurt by having read
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news that is absolutely false she claims she never had any sexual relationship with bennett and that her former boyfriend the late anthony bourdain actually was the one that urged her to pay him that settlement money sour to be continued from there are i think so much calm for tracking that story for us. and we'll go to something slightly different it was a night for new stars to shine at the m.t.v. video music awards cuban born singer comerica bello dethrone some of the music's top acts as the night's big winner she joined the ranks of rock royalty for her moment in the spotlight. the queen of pop madonna announcing one of the top prices do you think you become units available. for her songs have done a. beating out many big names the cuban born singer also to come and other top prize of the
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year. it was for me thank you so much and i thank you so much and i think i love you guys so much. the best price went to a rianna drum day. the twenty five year old singer her from ten new song is a woman and has made it joined by her grandmother and mother on stage i. i i. i. i. feel such one of the highlights of the night jennifer lopez performing for mentally of her hit songs before accepting the vanguard of water on the ring for my feeling achievement i. see many of the big crisis went to women this year but with a few exceptions rock star plus the song of the year the film to sing
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a post malone who later rocked the stage with legendary band adam smith. the to. her mentor now of the top story that we're following for you this hour. and nazi collaborators has been deported from the u.s. to germany ninety five year old jockey's pollinate worked at a nazi labor camp in poland during world war two but the german government doesn't think there is enough evidence to put him on trial. you've been watching the news for growth i'm loyal hoch on behalf of the entire news team thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us the news continues at the top of the hour to .
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