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this is d.w. news live from the u.n. investigators issue a damning report on me and miles cracked down on the range of using the word genocidal intent they say military commanders must face justice for crimes against humanity the army's brutal offensive a year ago caused hundreds of thousands of revenge of muslims to flee the country we'll get reaction in a second from amnesty international. there in germany hundreds join far right protests in the eastern city of chemists that softer
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a fatal stabbing of a german national during a dispute police say in polls people of various nationalities. also on the program . we take you inside a mile of germany's neo nazi village all the residents here all fall right sympathizes with the exception of one couple who meet the love of my aunts who stemmed the tide of extremism every summer with a music festival to promote a total deaths. and who can keep by munich from winning their seventh straight pool in this league a title after the first weekend of the season don't mention is the side making the running off so they demolished a strong light seems to leave on sunday. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring a good to have you with us the united nations is calling for the prosecution. of
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myanmar's military commanders for what investigators say was a campaign with genocidal intent against the country's revenge of muslims u.n. investigators say they now have enough evidence to prosecute six top generals for their alleged crimes the mission has concluded that criminal investigation and prosecution is warranted focusing on the top tech mentor generals in relation to the three categories of crimes under international law genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes we have examined the period since two thousand and eleven the violations we have identified during this period are part of a history of abusive military conduct going back at least half a century. now myanmar's brutal crackdown against the range of began exactly a year ago the army has always denied accusations of ethnic cleansing it insists it was responding to attacks by ranger rebels ensuring campaign of arson rape and
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murder prompted some thirteen hundred thousand people to flee to neighboring bangladesh. a never ending line of refugees streaming across the border from me amar to bangladesh. they fled after security forces launched a brutal offensive against them last august. just looted and to watch their homes they raped tortured and killed thousands of re-injure. across the border in bangladesh the refugees have settled in sprawling camps. as they've tried to settle in here with stories of unimaginable horror as have emerged. soldiers came into every house and shot at us. and then looked me up in my house
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and then set fire to it i have burns like this. out of all those and was all over my body. conditions in the camps the cramped and squalid the huts here a flimsy and built on hilly sandy ground prone to landslides. third world this year's monsoon brought more misery for the ranger mr kim fled here with her five children after her husband was killed when the military stormed their village. two of her previous shacks in the camp were destroyed by water she is now hoping for a sturdier shelter and then i felt i had to sell my pulses all and even rice for this month i had to sell to build the house my relatives told me to make the house strong even if i were to go hungry or has. paid agencies have
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warned against an outbreak of water borne diseases such as cholera and diphtheria but most would rather bad life here and go home i didn't even if we have to sleep in a trench it's better than being back. but they're not meant to stay here in january min mon bangladesh agreed to repatriate the revenger within two years. miramar has started building transit camps to house the retina knees. but the u.n. has said conditions are not yet right and so far barely a handful of really have returned. ok let's talk now to laura hague an expert on myanmar with international in london laura thanks for joining us what is your reaction to this really quite damning report from u.n. investigators are you satisfied with the central conclusion that they have that there was genocidal intent in the way myanmar's military dealt with the ranger.
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well thank you i mean this is a blistering report from the u.n. comes a year after this campaign of violence prompted this exodus of their inject it is a really important step i think towards justice and accountability but i think it's the experts themselves make clear it is the international community that now has the responsibility to act and ensure that these military commanders who oversaw this operation crimes under international law are held to account and you know as i say it's a positive step that isn't going to go before we see these people in the dock how likely do you think it is that these very senior generals the commander in chief and five other very senior generals from me and miles military how likely do you think that it is. going to come to pass that they face a court of law. well the finding mission were very clear that they want to see the situation referred to the international criminal court and that's something that
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the u.n. security council should do the reality for us is that it is likely that man is allies on the council may actually block out all detail but i think this is where the fact finding mission to be very clear that actually that shouldn't stop the evidence collection preservation that needs to happen and they are could just as often long been a week we can get that we do get that and these reports are really important step towards that and of course the report also singles out the civilian government led by. saying it effectively contributed to the commission of atrocity crimes is that justified. absolutely is justified i think the report is very clear however it is the military that were responsible for the. violations against american john actually it also goes into a lot of detail about military abuses elsewhere and not magazines the ethnic minority states but of course the civilian government while it doesn't have control
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of them in a tree house i doubt them to continue these abuses unpunished they've blocked investigations that go to the fact finding mission from god and they show that they have absolutely no willingness or ability to investigate or hold the military to account and i'm just looking to the future laura what needs to happen in myanmar. in order to allow range of refugees to return home. i think there are two things are really crucial for a engine to return home the first is accountability and that international accountability you cannot be expected to return to a place where they have been raped killed their houses burned by the security forces and those security forces are allowed to continue as they wear but there's also an underlying system of discrimination and segregation that needs to be dismantled state is an apartheid state returning there for the very job the moment means not being able to move being confined to council villages not being able to go to hospitals being segregated schools and that has to stop as well so
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accountability and dismantling apartheid and the two central components of a safe returns for the right ok are the views there of laura hague from the international in london laura many thanks thank you. we're going to catch up with some of the other stories making news around the world at the moment pope francis has refused to comment on claims made by the vatican's former ambassador to the united states the pope himself was involved in the cover up of sex abuse by an american cardinal francis was asked about the claims on his way back to rome from a visit to london over the weekend archbishop cardinal newman made the allegations has called on the pope to resign. two people have been killed and eleven wounded in a shooting at a computer game tournament in jacksonville florida the twenty four year old contestant opened fire on other competitors before shooting himself the head of investigating the gunman's motives. and clashes erupted in afghanistan's time
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come province bordering tajikistan on sunday and local police officials that border guards were killed in fighting with the taliban a tajik or russian plane subsequently bombed the area the official said taliban insurgents were killed and six wounded cross border clashes in the area i'm. turning to germany now where police are investigating a violent far right protest yesterday in the eastern city of kevin it's the protest erupted after a german national was stabbed to death in the early hours of sunday morning later in the day but nice a crowd of some eight hundred far right demonstrators refused to do so in march through the city center. german government has sharply condemn the actions of the protesters who reportedly targeted people they believed to be part of.
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far right david streeters clashed with police in came that city center batons meeting bottles leading to more officers being drafted in from neighboring trees thin and light sick to cope oh god god god god god god start i disagree sixty the chant in this video shared on twitter german media see some of those gathered were protesting against crimes committed by foreigners the un rest follows the death of a thirty five year old german man in the air the iris of sunday during the city's annual street festival he died from his injuries in hospital after being attacked with a knife two other men were seriously injured in what police described as an altar cation between people of different nationalities. was these crowds are chanting we are the people what was a call for democracy in the final days of east germany has now been rebranded by the modern day far rights heightening tensions in ever more divided communities.
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and with me now until his chief political correspondent melinda crane melinda things appear to have happen quite quickly and can now it's was this protest as spontaneous as it seemed that absolutely not it was incited and it was coordinated shortly after this incident took place in the night from saturday to sunday reports appeared on far right websites basically accusing migrants of southern appearance of having perpetrated the knifing attack and said that the victim was a german with russian cultural roots and those reports also called on people to take to the streets they were picked up very quickly and read. circulated and among the groups that essentially also. gave further calls for protests where the ultras faction of the football club the fans of the football club of the candidates
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and they called on people as well to take to the streets and show people here who's boss in this city and with doubt hundreds of people did in fact poor into the streets and outnumbered the police for the first phase of this demonstration they were a little bit of the times yesterday when they came to eastern germany does have a problem with right wing extremism and the problem for you is why is that exactly what does it come from indeed that program was on view for example in mid august when there were demonstrations in the city of dresden also immigration demonstrations and saxony which of course is also the state where chemist's is located it is the place where the piggy to movement took groups that is an anti migrant movement that brought tens of thousands of people to the streets grazed in twenty fourteen to protest against the so-called islam is ation of germany this is
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also this state that is viewed as a stronghold of the far right e.f.t. party in last year's federal election it took the biggest share of the vote in saxony but the problem goes beyond saxony alone in fact far right parties and anti and immigrant sentiment are strong in many places at the former eastern germany which may seem a paradox since the fact is that region has fewer foreign born residents than many parts of western germany but still this this phenomenon absolutely has both demographic and historical political roots of just briefly on the demographic side the far right parties exploit a sense of insecurity a sense of frustration and those are very much present in this region this is a region that has seen. a lot of structural change since the fall of the wall young people moving away many of the older people left behind in rural areas with a sense of having been left behind and therefore a sense of precariousness now add that the fact that there is
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a generalized mistrust on the part of many western german institutions and western political parties mainstream parties all that adds up to pretty fertile ground for the far right and a deep seated problem melinda many thanks for that back from melinda crane there our chief political correspondent. and we're going to stay with the problem of right wing extremism in germany and take you now to what's known as the neo nazi village that's because the village of ja mil has been almost entirely taken over by far right sympathizers there is however a notable exception the norm my own family every year in august this courageous couple takes a stand against extremism by staging a music festival promoting tolerance through w.'s marial mother reports. the village of yama has eleven houses with roughly sixty residents it looks a delight but this is anything but a normal german village. once
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a year yama residents to get low my and her husband organize a festival in their backyard. and it's not your average summer gathering actually it's a protest twelve years ago when they started it the long miles wanted to take a stand against neo nazis in this case that means almost all of their neighbors they say. for years the couple tell us they have been terrorized by them until one day their bond caught fire that was a direct attack they get says. broad an indian flag on the neon we have become very vigilant in these past years especially after the arson attack on us. we have install security measures to it's a very difficult situation there is a constant sense of danger. the burned down barn was located just a few meters from their home. right behind me is the property of the little maya family here hundreds of people enjoying life music in
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a form of protest against neo nazis and others with far right views meanwhile when we turn around we can see on the opposite side of the village there's another little party going on spec kluger a notorious right wing extremist in germany has invited just like minded friends to come over for a barbecue and in fact the police states and just in front of his house to make sure they could intervene in case of any confrontation. it's crystal clear whose turf this is the flag of the former german or empire is clearly visible from everywhere a moral szell's the residence a vision of a german area and family. and a signpost points the way to close birthplace and to leave no doubt eight eight is neo nazi code for heil hitler. these are only some of the not two symbols we can find in the village. and
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he's the unofficial basia spank luka his criminal record includes illegal possession of weapons and assault. so over there they're leftists and we're not and we have to listen to nazis out the whole evening my own garden fence i was told to get out because i'm a nazi so i said i live here and you don't think they play music against us we have a nice state barbecue and together we'll probably do this every year now against the left wing us. the crowd next door at the festival doesn't seem to care much they're here to support the message of shared it and tossed. tolerance and democracy.
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sunday's big match in the bundesliga saw two of by munich's closest rivals facing off against each other dortmund and leipsic both teams have high ambitions this season above all they want to prevent by munich from winning a seventh straight title and the endorsement was the side that looked most likely to achieve that goal. a shock for the hosts after just thirty one seconds seek in the lead of bouncing ball fell to john. who bulldozed past keeper roman burkey. but dortmund struck back in the twenty first minute. smelters cross met by the acrobatic. one off. then in the forty eighth minute to marco toys free kick headed in by marcel's out bits like sick handing their opponents a gift and three minutes later a christian policy corner thomas delaney's header saved by a quick look see but it's all firing home to rebound with the sublime over.
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and dortmund weren't done yet in injury time new captain marco that it is one hundred one just. for one success and dortmund stake their claim to being legitimate title contenders. and while the other sunday match up pitted months against stuttgart both teams spending a lot of money over the summer to bring in new players it was mike's who came out on top yesterday this girl in the seventy six minute and to. make the difference between the two teams robin cries or make it all possible first winning the ball then pulling it to set up for the one male victory goal this is the first time by the way that month one by opening match in the bundesliga season in five years. turning to formula one now ferrari sebastian vettel made a quick pass on the very first lap of the belgian grand prix holding. that top spot
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then for the rest of the race he also trimmed rival lewis hamilton slim lead in the driver standings the race was marred by an early crash that fortunately left no one injured. just seconds after the start and with lewis hamilton and sebastian fettle having already cleared the corner there was drama inspired. the culprit was nico hurt you back in the yellow red no the crash propelled mclaren's fernando alonso through the year and on to charlotte clearing so. that drivers made out unscathed thanks to the halo cockpit system which is only been used in the sport since the beginning of the season the race was over for them but not for hamilton and battle who put on quite the fight to finish the german stronger motive proved the difference though as he took the win it was pretzels victory this season. ok let's take
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a quick look at the standings in formula one after thirteen races with twenty five points for victory fertile has now moved within seventeen of hamilton both drivers have five when so far this season but there's a long way to go twenty one races per season quite a long way down third place commit reichen and fourth place terry bought us a lot of ground for them to make up. now a group of orcas has been rescued along the argentinian coast after the tide washed washed ashore the weekend the same group of rescuers were called upon twice to help the killer wilds back into the sea. it's not an easy task as i think you can see all because on average about six inches in length and they weigh over three thousand six hundred.
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a good job well done that now pressure is mounting on a popular ride hailing service in china some violent attacks by drivers on the rise more from christopher that's right christopher one of the most popular companies diddy in the crosshairs here china's transport ministry says the contrary has lots of right hearing services and that companies that did not provide their passengers with effective safety precautions where not needed rather marks after a woman was raped and killed allegedly by a driver of the right here ling service d.d. that sparked outrage on social media forcing the company to suspend its carpooling service it was the second killing of a d.d. passenger of the seer ministry said it would not stand by if companies did not take the lives of their customers seriously. now in germany sentiment among executives improved significantly in august that's according to
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a monthly survey by the munich based research group its latest poll of company head shows that they are somewhat more satisfied with the current business climate driven is record trade surplus and the ongoing negotiations between washington and brussels to prevent further frictions in trade have boosted sentiment this is the first prize following months of declining business climbs. now for more let's bring in our financial correspondent paul bread standing by the frankfurt stock exchange paul sentiment among german business leaders is picking up what do investors make of it. yes indeed it is a positive sign and so surprisingly positive that the institute is even considering to raise its growth projection for the year in germany. the next is considered to be the most important gauge on germany's economy so that should now put worries that the economy may be slowing at rest what it does show is
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that how much german executives really rely on trade rely explored because it is as you mentioned the calming between the e.u. and the u.s. in trade that has. sparked a positive outlook especially among automakers who are as of now at least not basing in the tariffs on their products to the u.s. you know stay with the automotive sector tesla c.e.o. musk says the company is to stay public after all despite peddling different ideas in recent weeks how is the market reacting. yeah masque can't seem to calm things down there. sorry that there is a selloff happening actually here in germany where the company is also trading four to five percent the stock has has lost which may be an indicator of what is to come
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once wall street trading starts this zigzagging you know has created doubts and pulling out of that privatization is not going to take care of the problems that mosque has since the tweet in august seventh that you put out claiming that funding was secured the ses as you see is looking into that claim and what it actually had any fundamental basis so he could make that make that claim legally in frankfurt thank you. now after a bargaining marathe all. over the weekend the u.s. and mexican trade negotiators are reportedly close to squaring away bilateral differences to update the north american free trade agreement nafta and response to mexican peso is gaining in today's trading session disagreements between the two countries have been a major obstacle to renegotiating the deal which also includes canada u.s. president has been a harsh critic of nafta accusing mexico of using it to take away jobs from
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americans trade negotiator has also expressed optimism analysts say a new nafta deal could reduce the risk of a global trade war talks are set to resume later today. and here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you today un investigators are calling for the prosecution of myanmar's military commanders for what they say was a complaint of genocidal intent against the country's a range of muslims the army's brutal crackdown a year ago forced hundreds of thousands. to flee their homes. you're watching the i want to use coming to you live from berlin more news coming up the top of the hour thanks for watching.
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