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please please please. please. this is the w. news and live from bergland the german chancellor condemns far right street mobs who are hunting down foreigners anti immigrant protesters have been taking to the streets of the eastern city of pendants over the killing of a german man a syrian and a rocky national have since appeared in court in connection with those deaths will go there live also coming up it's a big day for trade says the u.s. president after a year of talks donald trump announces a quote really good deal with mexico but will canada now signed up to create
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a new version of nafta. and bobby vine is fear freed on bail and the ugandan pop star turns a lawmaker who has been charged with treason says that he was tortured in detention will go live to kampala to ask how much of a threat he poses to president the seventies thirteen year brain. plus u.n. investigators called for genocide charges against me on mars military leaders and a damning report on myanmar scrap down on broken just the u.n. says that military commanders must be investigated for crimes against humanity. and they use them only the procedure is done by your so-called content and yet they have no idea what they're doing they just have a knife and a razor and they come to. the cruel practice of female genital mutilation we need a woman from somalia who fled her country to seek help at a german reconstruct. including.
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i'm sarah kelly welcome to the program we begin with far right protests in germany crowds of demonstrators are out in the streets of chemist's for the second night in a row the rallies in the east german city began after a german man was killed early on sunday morning two people a syrian and an iraqi national have since appeared in court in connection with that killing and last night the protests they turned violent the german government has sharply condemned the actions of the protesters who reportedly targeted people that they believed to be foreigners. far right demonstrate his clash with police in kemet city center. patterns vs bottles leading to more officers being drafted in from neighboring preston and
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like to to curb code castro. this is a policy they chant in this video shared on twitter that they're protesting against what they see as a rise in crime committed by foreign it's. beyond rest follows the death of a thirty five year old german man in the early hours of sunday during the city's annual street festival he died from his injuries in hospital after being attacked with a knife. two of a man was seriously injured. government spokesperson stuff and stressed at the events and cannot have no place in a democratic society. this is a victory for the good news for you it's important for the government as it is for all democratic politicians and for most of the population as well i think to state clearly we do not accept marauding riots like these nor the hounding of people who look different or come from somewhere else no attempts to spread hate on the
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streets this has no place in our cities we and i can certainly say this for the government utterly condemn that kind of behavior. tension on the eastern german city of can next has yet to come down with further demonstrations from both right and left wing groups going forward this evening. and for more let's bring in correspondent charlotte telson hill who is standing by with the very latest from chemists where as we can see protests are happening in fact we're seeing them right there behind you and we understand that that there is not only these right wing protest but there's also rival protests going on so how is that playing out i mean are these two sides being kept of parts or is there really the danger that we could see some volatility here. good evening sir are you joining me as the hundreds of far right process is just beginning to march through the city now
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a short time ago just as they began to move away from the place where they've been rallying for the last couple of hours tensions did start it's as clay we've had fireworks there were some minor scuffles the police did begin to move in as well we have seen water cannons drive through this street just behind me the protesters here all chanting things slogans like resistance like medical muster in the meantime perhaps you can just hear it's just started counter-demonstrators the shouting not these remarks god now of the council demonstrators are just if you need to is away on the other side of the street from the demonstrators just behind me there is a very real fear that tensions could start as politically now as these demonstrations are starting to spread through the city there are scenes of warned about violence on side streets they will say make clear the violence here is starting to escalate that they have seen the atmosphere getting more aggressive in fact the police have in the last hour or so you tweeted that they have seen
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a lot of these members of this far right rally wearing masks hiding their faces and who so many of them doing the hit the salute which of course is is we've been hearing john there. wow and charlotte i mean we can just see the tension there behind you two opposite messages being expressed passionately and in some cases aggressively as you highlighted you've also been speaking with people you spoke with them earlier today what did they tell you about the situation. there i just have to interrupt you very briefly people are starting to run in front of me it's not exactly clear what's going on but there are fears that these noisy far right prices are starting to spread through the city in fact i think i might briefly have to cut you off in charlotte you know what i'm going to cut you off in fact i'm going to ask you to please leave because we know that they are often aggressive toward the process well so please go and get to safety and we will check back with you perhaps a little bit later. and
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picking up for us now we have frederica from social media who is with me here in the studio which is a safer area so welcome to you today because. so tell us. what do we know about the right wing groups that organize these. so the protests were told by local fire right anti immigrant groups who are very well organized on social media they have some of them have facebook pages with thousands of followers one of them in particular was. was at the center of yesterday's protest called good good big poor can it's citizen movement for candidates they have over eleven thousand followers on facebook and these groups are very good at using these channels to whip up their followers against foreigners in yesterday's case what happened is
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that these groups began sharing a rumor the rumored that the fight on saturday night in chemists began because a german woman was being harassed by a group of foreigners and this is an allegation that has been rejected by the police but by daytime sunday the rumor had been picked up by several people online and even by news media and it was enough for these far right groups to to really get very quickly to rally their supporters they began sharing messages like this one that reads our city our rules we call upon all fans and sympathizers of candidates to join us now as i mentioned police in saxony yesterday promptly rejected the rumor that a german woman had been harassed and as we can see here on their official twitter
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page they said that the investing. at that point found no indication that harassment played a role in the fight broke out so it's very unclear yet what exactly caused that that fight yet the rumor was enough to really get people. out to the streets so a lot of rumors flying around so just bring us back to the facts now frederica because we know that all of this of course was sparked by this incident the killing of a german right so well you know police they confirm that the suspects in this case are from syria and iraq the far right is really seizing on this fact aren't they they have of course today i mean we're seeing that the same groups that called for the protests yesterday they they have been calling for more protests today and of of course been sharing also this information on their facebook pages and they know that i mean in saxony people are sensitive there's a lot of people who are sensitive to such messages to untie immigration proposal
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and there's an established new not seen on the other hand a number of these of these pages on facebook are they are public yesterday we saw that police was caught a little bit off guard by the number of people who went down to the streets. today hopefully they i mean they're likely much more prepared to deal with the situation authorities can monitor what i'm trying to say is authorities can monitor days of facebook pages they can monitor these calls for action and hopefully in the future they will better be better prepared than they have been yesterday to prevent dangerous speech from from turning into into real violence and streets and it's so interesting to see you know how both the language online and how the violence on the streets as we witness also with charlotte who is on site there who is now getting to safety how all of these are sometimes intertwined so. for the budget with the latest on our social media desk thank you so much for your reporting on
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the story. oh now let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world police in berlin are cracking down on organized crime they're targeting members of an extended lebanese family suspected of drug trafficking police have made several arrests and confiscated vehicles and properties the family are suspected of carrying out high profile robberies including last year's theft from a museum of a gold coin worth four million euros. russian opposition leader alexina vali has been sentenced to thirty days in prison for organizing a rally in late january against the country's presidential elections devolved the spokeswoman said that the sentence was clearly time to prevent him from attending another protest which he has called for next month. there are mounting calls for more security at a sports tournament's after sunday's shooting at a competition in jacksonville florida local authorities say that the gunman killed
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two people and injured nine others before killing himself police are searching for a motive. helena humphrey is here now from our business desk and we are talking trade between the united states and mexico absolutely thank you very much sara because u.s. and mexican trade negotiators have reached a bilateral deal that could lead to an update of the old north american free trade agreement u.s. president donald trump called it a really good deal for farmers and manufacturers in both countries he suggested calling it the united states mexico trade agreement if a child deal with canada cannot be reached on to it says it will continue to work for a trilateral trilateral agreement and those talks are to begin shortly. well africa correspondent put it so told us that the mexican deal leaves the question of canada up in the f a now. that's of course a very very clever negotiating tactic technique he wants to close that deal with
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mexico by the end of the week and canada knows this so the advantage would be on their side but by claiming or by framing of the way that it could be a bilateral agreement he's changing that now forcing cad us hand to either be there and agree to the us terms quickly or just not be part of it. but it's there the frankfurt stock exchange well folks falcon's admissions scandal is far from over but to make sure it doesn't happen again the u.s. government has appointed a lawyer to keep a close eye on the german call make it to make sure that it's comply with agreements made with u.s. authorities but it seems that it's easier said than done. no works through v.w. involves books and larry thompson is the v.w. inspector from the u.s. state department both have the same goal to make sure there's never another diesel scandal at folks wagon but in the first interim report of the so-called v.w.
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monitor there continues to be deficits for example not reporting new emissions tests to the us authorities transparency to which v.w. is committed itself according to the auditors commentary we're not there yet but we're in a i think a very rigorous and professional review process and. at the end of at the end of the court ordered her term and at the end of the monitor ship term we will have more to say about that according to thompson it's still too early for more evaluations the three year oversight process is only in its first year. for a long time none of you w.'s employees were fired in the diesel scandal but volkswagen is now taking the americans criticism seriously in the hope of soon fulfilling the conditions of the settlement with the u.s. justice system that's been done and then in the remaining eighty percent of the time we have to sharpen improve continue to reshape the processes will be doing
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that for a very long time observed. with around sixty employees thompson is overseeing the change involves spork it seems that everyone involved will have to step up the pace . he said has launched a brand new electric car model and squarely at the chinese market the government that has been pushing a mobility not least because of serious worries about the nation but a lot o. will be be built in china and the japanese make a hopes to gain a foothold ahead of foreign rivals that it might be the domestic companies has to worry about it's this is the first electric sedan that nissan has designed especially for the chinese market and it is now set to go into production in china a market in which no car maker wants to be left behind. as i want to the biggest market in terms of anything by people from my click on any point of view and if you want the people in china who think that we would have to consider is how much we
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can mobilize and i think there's a lot of local supplier in china with people who go to their bowl that is what we have of people. like other global players meeson needs to produce electric cars in china to stay competitive on the chinese market they are the market is dominated by local rivals which have been heavily subsidized by the chinese government since beijing with lots rules on electric car makers earlier this year in a bid to boost development there's more room for foreign brands and it appears to be working g.m. and folks a bargain will also be launching electric car models designed for the chinese market this year. but it's back over to sarah now and the all of the spotlight remains on the pope thank you so much helena pope francis has refused to comment on allegations made by former vatican ambassador to the united states carlo maria gano
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said that the pope himself was involved in the cover up of sex abuse by a prominent american cardinal now in an eleven page statement the gano says that francis lifted sanctions imposed by the cardinal by his predecessor pope benedict even though he knew about the abuse allegations against the cardinal that dano called on francis to resign. pope francis was asked about the claims on his way back from rome for a visit to ireland you know on the don't know no federal lawsuit way so i would not say one word on this i think this statement speaks for itself. and i think you have sufficient journalistic capacity to reach your own conclusions. that. it is an act of trust when time is passed and you have drawn your own conclusions maybe i will speak. but i would like you to do this job in
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a professional way. put a face you know so that is the pope's response and to help us make sense of it all is just affairs correspondent martin gak who joins us now in the studio. and you're a very measured reply i think we can say from the pope so just walk us through these claims and who exactly is making them here i mean who is big on oh. you know just give us an overall view of all the figures and this is going to work for a member of the vatican to washington d.c. and before that who is actually an administrator within the quite high who is involved in the bowtie leaks and his claim is that he was displaced to washington after having aired or present accusations against other members of the church for mishandling of funds now it is important to him that these eleven pages are by and large around a very long run and that contains not just like you say sions but sort of large extracts of sort of pretty runs that homophobia. like using many of the people
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that's associated with the pope of being essentially participants or supporters of gay rights or of gay activities or things of the guy no it's not a chris but you say she and this is a figure to self. that has quite a spotty record begin to himself has been accused of stopping an investigation on sexual abuse and actually destroying evidence in two thousand and sixteen two thousand and fifteen on their archbishop of ball and minnesota so the fact is that very subvert a complicated or a very strange political situation lining up and sort of the thing. on the table the memo itself should really be read through to understand in what context you said decisions are being made can we also read anything into the timing because even the pope we know he is visiting ireland for example we have sort of a very interesting timing not only because he sector netherland but because of this stage what we're seeing is on the progressive left let's say it's of course putting
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pressure on the vatican putting pressure on this pope for a concrete actions but on the other hand this sort of a very important detail in the stories that begin to be loans to a very very very conservative group of people including cardinal burke where was initially called for disobedience to the bowl or have actually go the you know there are occasions in which it got the league and show the civilians to the pope so in a way i mean the timing is very particular it looks very much as something else many commentators have pointed out something that has been orchestrated it's not clear though. why he is that money fist a would be presented and not quite simply an accusation as for the accusation itself it's really not does not seem to be the case that the boat actually two can be concrete actions but just skip the start of school concerning the birds and that that beginners accusing so at the end of the day martin fair to say that this is all about power do you think i mean you know how high is the pressure on pope
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francis' right now i think the brochure is very high for concrete steps and i think that this seems to be sort of a political position within the vatican that is so to say you know ponying on top of these particular men what is also the case and i think that this is the most remarkable part of this story is that it shows the most open challenge from within the korea from a very high official on the conservative side to the current pop a c. and it's reform its circle ok well we saw the pope for example challenging the journalists to do their jobs challenging them to get answers so we'll see if those do indeed come out martin gak our religious affairs correspondent thank you so much for your reporting i pleasure. q the u.s. migration agency is warning that venezuela is heading for the same refugee crisis moment as was seen in the mediterranean in twenty fifteen this warning comes as venezuela's neighbors try and block the movement of people fleeing the country's
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economic collapse brazil ecuador and colombia have seen some two million venice whalen's arrive since two thousand and fourteen peru also has seen a surge in migrant numbers as a fairly harmless reports. volunteers serve breakfast at this checkpoint for migrants on the border of petru dozens of venezuelans arrived here this morning they're hoping to make a fresh start in a new country ernesto came here with his brother because he has a sick son back home who's medication he couldn't afford anymore without his father's help the boys health is at severe risk but authorities in peru won't let in a stolen without a passport. supposed to do no i have no money what am i going to do i left a child with special needs in my car i had to sell all my work equipment to buy him his monthly supply. how do i get back when i work with return illegally they will
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put me in jail that's no option. like a nest many others with no documentation arrived here too late they were transported for free all the way through ecuador only to find the peruvian borders had already closed. the buses were delayed and i should have arrived here last night it eight pm but the boss took twenty four hours to get here. my legs is swollen because i'm pregnant and the boss had no toilet and we only made one stop i spent a lot of time without food as well as that whole said the impulse single me everyone here is desperate and tired they spent all their money on the journey and can't afford to go back to venezuela their hopes of escaping misery could crumble with this new regulation. these venezuelans arrived here this morning and are stranded
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now because peru started asking for a passport and they don't have one now they are asking about country to grant them asylum but dozens others didn't arrive here because they were afraid that they could be arrested or deported. a few kilometers away from the immigration post is this bridge a poorest border where many managed to get through with no documentation. here and veritas commerce flows as if there was no border at all and even venezuelans can get from one side to another without having to identify themselves . so that obama when the. doors i was in peru we go to the bars and shops and they get sold. down on like the name. but there are also dangerous areas to cross or smugglers and
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thieves lie in wait all the time still for many the risk is worth it. a ugandan court has granted bail to a group of opposition lawmakers including pop star bobby wine who was charged with treason last week wine appeared before the court hearing on crutches as you can see there he says that he and several colleagues were tortured into tension wine and other opposition members face a treason charge for their alleged role in an incident in which the president wearing the seventies motorcade. was pelted with stones. joining me now from the ugandan capital kampala is journalist julius he's here to tell us a little more about this story so i mean how substantial are the treason charges against wine. choosing is a couple of things and kind of start to much month sentence of death in uganda so
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how some studies show is now what we look forward to seeing in court today is up on prosecution to prove to a court that this politician and he's core accused the fund given to the defense team slobo be y.m.c.a.'s that it's not what it takes to secure freedom so that member of parliament and what lies ahead both sides in court is what you're used to see when both the one we times to court later in the week speculations into the case of quite many but well the legit guy probably go binion how they could be distant from what actually happens in court or to what you see in the coming days if not weeks or months but tell us a little bit more about how he appeared in court there because i mean we just saw him appearing on crutches he says he was severely beaten in the tension has he been able to corroborate that i mean has he undergone a medical examination to our knowledge. yes but their extent
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mike vireos from bob so what's the authorities up previously over him and what he may have wanted medication but soon as he was granted bail yeah but we want to appear to be moving or on crutches but again he was taken in to on a new lens. just that he has started to receive many core attention as he had wished so i understand that she's been on the road for a big part of the afternoon from northern uganda where he had been held where the court proceedings took place and we believe has been taken to the horsemeat to unbar hops from there he would be able to get enough medication as he does as indeed the claims his lawyers claims and some relatives that to a judge but government say he's the present because i just briefly before we go how much support does he have. what we want to ha's a very big support as a musician who's been who's hyped close to fifteen years of his successful music
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caria and then he's transformed bring these two into he's united as political capital so that you already associate it with him giving him supporting in the political career that is sticking. from kampala thanks. it watching her back in a few minutes. the sky was on fire. the madame plane collision the condom and the ram shining am a substantial musical up my own experience the crash. how are survivors coping with the tragedy today. mainstream on the american advice and the village around shine. shows up in forty five minutes.
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of the fashion. so what do we really know about samantha behind the torch. what motivates him how does he think and feel good moments in the life of a great fashion designers. in the song smile welcome back here with news i'm sarah kelly in berlin our top story the german government has condemned anti immigrant protesters for quote hunting down foreigners in the eastern city of camden demonstrations have been ongoing after a thirty five year old german man was stabbed to death on sunday a syrian and in a rocky national have appeared in court in connection with the death. but turning now to the horrific practice of female genital mutilation or. more than two hundred million women and girls are affected by f g m it leaves them with lifelong scars full physical and emotional and sometimes proved fatal the recent figures show that
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the number of women living in germany affected by s.g.m. has reach an estimated sixty five thousand that's an increase of twelve percent on last year experts say that that increase is due to the arrival of migrants from countries known to carry out f.d.m. central and north african states and parts of the middle east now any reconstruction clinic in berlin cape brady met one affected woman who is calling for and end to the brutal practice her name has been changed to protect her privacy . i was about eleven or twelve years old and several people held me down then they cut me off they laid me on the table i can still picture it i had such horrific pain well then they sewed me together. they tied my legs together for a month so that the wound would heal. i had had i typed
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a female genital mutilation very anywhere from damaging the clit or to summing up the vaginal opening in some countries the brutal practice is considered a rite of passage a prerequisite for marriage. in somalia the procedure is done by your so-called cutter they have no idea what they're doing they just have a knife and a razor and they cut. after two and a half years in germany thirty six year old e. for seeking advice a balance doesn't flower center which offers reconstructive surgery and consultation for women affected by a. doctor cornelius joins advises those effects and but germany service is an expertise in f g m a still limited. when i studied medicine and was uncovered in the subject. but i know this is changing and i hope that trend continues but i still need colleagues who either know very little or absolutely nothing about this
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and. according to ted a family some sixty five thousand women affected by after a living in germany an increase of twelve percent on last year. this is due to the increase in migration from countries where female genital mutilation is particularly prevalent for germany this means countries like somalia . and a statement to germany's family and women's ministry described female genital mutilation as a human rights violation during this legislative period the ministry also plans on working more closely with germany's youth welfare offices but when it comes to some parents taking that young daughters back to the hung country for a so-called vacation circumcision there's very little. well the german government can do. volunteers and teachers therefore play a huge role the i'm only way to really gauge what's going on is to have
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a vigil in society particularly means people who work in close contact with families who might potentially subject their daughter to. these people should be particularly attentive these. ted it estimates that fifteen and a half thousand girls living in germany are in danger of after a furphy as her three year old is among them. miami good my three year old daughter has been circumcised yet but if we sent back to somalia who i'm one hundred percent sure that her grandparents will make undergo the procedure. but for the first eldest three doses it's already too late. and i'm predicament that was our fate those of us who had to experience that but i'm a fighter. and i hope that at some point this ritual will stop. a difficult topic and we are very pleased to be joined now by hand of the take from
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the end giovanni to put all of this into perspective for us on the organization campaigns against f g m in asia africa and the middle east welcome to the program this evening and thank you so much for joining us. how widespread would you say this practice is worldwide because in it's not just isolated to one region or to one continent well i think first of all thank you very much for inviting me here. that's a really interesting question i mean we talk about two hundred million women and girls affected but really. we do estimate that it's a lot more and that is in my case i'm speaking for the organization of wadi which is working in iraq as a big program against in northern iraq but we also started a campaign in two thousand and thirteen about female genital mutilation in asia and
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the middle east. because no one was talking about it the map you just showed for example is the u.n. map and it still hasn't changed even though by now everybody does acknowledge that it does exist in asia and is quite widespread there as well. but still the un is not changing the map so what we know now it's it doesn't exist in the twenty nine countries or the un lists and those are mainly in africa and it is really severe and this is of course. a focal point especially because the procedure in africa in some places in africa is much more brutal than in other places but we also speaking about many countries in asia that is oman yemen probably the emirates maybe qatar for sure it is iraq for sure it on malaysia indonesia thailand brunei so
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a whole number of countries and some small sects in india and pakistan so it sounds like it's even more more widespread than is currently documented by your assessment and your indications that you have what obstacles would you say that you and your colleagues face in your work not only to create and promote awareness but you know also to stop this practice. obstacles were i mean it really depends on what the reasons are what the motivations for the practice are. because there are so many different reasons i mean we can say there is one common denominator and that is to curb the women's sexuality. but we have traditions we have for example in africa it is often celebrated as rite of practice rite of passage but for example in asia but also in somalia what we've just seen it is considered religious practice the people there do believe that is. to do it
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but i have to be very clear here not all muslims and in fact the majority of muslims do not believe that it has anything to do with religion but there are many muslims who do. and one obstacle we're facing in asia because there it is strongly connected with religion is talking with religious or towards and. getting religious authorities to to tell people also that it is not connected to religion and then our discussions with the women started from there so it's such important work that you're doing and we thank you so much for joining us to tell us a little bit more about it your assessment of the situation and also the challenges that you face when it comes to campaigning against female genital mutilation in asia africa and the middle middle east and yvette take thank you so much thank you
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. we're heading back now to helen humphrey and she is taking a look at the business of bottled water sara thank you very much indeed of course spotted water has to be pumped from somewhere and nestlé has an agreement to source a million cubic meters of water each year from the wells in the town of detail in eastern france but water levels of course have been dropping for years that means is this water overall in the residents well they are the ones coming up short and yes they have actually cut consumption it says but it's not enough residents are now demanding action their say says it wants a solution that's in everyone's interests. the machines spin endlessly more than two million bottles are filled here every day water is a lucrative business swiss food and drink giant nestlé had more than two hundred sixty million euros in sales here in the last quarter alone. but
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groundwater levels have sunk dramatically according to tests nestlé has been pumping out thousands and thousands of cubic meters of underground mineral water for years. and this new notice picked up nestle shows no consideration. the company does not protect this water resource it exploits it. and the government is not doing its job its just looking on. a company geologist and water expert does not even trying to deny the problems with groundwater levels in v ten. we draw most of the water if that's true and that's why we bear the responsibility . but we also have the responsibility and the will to find a solution with respect to all parties and their interests. it's a kilometer long pipeline is being planned to transport water from the neighboring
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village to the inhabitants of the village of the town ben already has to fetch water from a neighboring village every day to give to his sheep even though his meadow lives directly above the the town spring. before the city nestlé be owner has sealed off the wells here they own the land and two wells and both are sealed off me so feel me nestlé denies this. is a lawyer she has prepared an assessment for the state environment organisation says that. our conclusion is that water is a common good water belongs to everyone and everyone needs respect to. the fact that the population has a right to water and sufficient amount and in good quality quantity according to. the brand is on display everywhere in the town and nestle is the chief source of tax revenue here to plays an important role in the dispute over the natural mineral
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water from the town. where construction work on a new b.m.w. progeny east in hungary set to begin next year the german carmaker hopes to produce one hundred fifty thousand cars a year that b.m.w. is following in the footsteps of other big automotive powerhouses like me sadie's an audi have also had plants in hungry for years now concerns about the government's to stay in for the e.u. as a face. just off the autobahn to budapest this four hundred hectare field is to be home to the bavarian or to make his new plant and investment worth about a billion euros the german auto parts supplier came to debrecen more than twenty years ago attracted by lower labor costs but is that still the case. that no not because of the low wages it's the proven expertise of the people here our products are highly technologically oriented and the big advantage for us is the professional pull that we're able to draw on.
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the local man. proud of his newest corporate settler the german bottling machine manufacturer conus the company has invested forty million euros here perhaps political composure a president viktor orban has come under fire for his anti european policies but that doesn't seem to be all the invest in. the city of debrecen in the region have a lot of potential i don't think investors come here and look at the unemployment i think they come because we have seventy four thousand students in our university. and that's what these german companies need a well educated skilled workforce but hungry so opposition parties have criticised b.m.w. z investment they say details of the one billion euro investment not transparent enough. we don't know how much it will cost for the taxpayers we don't know how
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many dogs these cones they don't know any details about this and the government and these big companies including the b.m.w. makes these special discounts which are kept in secrecy. what about sheffler with its recent fifty million euro investment in a new production facility the industrial bearing company says there are no e.u. funds to such a large scale projects. or notices it's not tax exempt we got only state subsidies to cover fifteen percent of the total investment. to make the location of debits and more attractive the hungary in government is building a new technical college and it's intended to produce a labor force tailor made for the new industries moving to the city. i have is there now for the latest on a key meeting in washington thank you so much eleanor we are indeed heading to the
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united states where kenya's president who is meeting with u.s. president on trial at the white house their talks are expected to focus on trade and security issues as kenya emerges from months of election turmoil kenyatta is the second african leader to meet with trump at the white house after nigeria's president. and that of your correspondent standing by with the very latest from washington d.c. so kenya says meeting with trump we know rather shorts how important is the visit for kenya nevertheless. stephanie a short meeting sarah what kenya is trying to do here what kenyatta is going to be trying to do is figure out a way to get americans to buy more kenyan stuff at the root of it they're looking for ways to attract more foreign investment and increase their own exports especially to the u.s. and the kenyan media has been describing this meeting as a really historic chance for kenyatta to shore up relations with the world's
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biggest economy now what we have to remember is kenya is a member of the nonaligned group so this is an old term from back during the cold war but what it means is that kenya does not really have any particular allegiances to the u.s. or to any of the u.s. is adversaries such as for instance russia so they're really are just looking for the best investment they can get and for the u.s. it really is in the u.s. is best interest best economic interest especially to invest in growing economies fast growing economies like kenya and we also have to remember that kenya and the u.s. have joint military operations in somalia fighting against the terrorist group al-shabaab there so these are two countries that have a lot to work for have a lot to work towards together and kenyatta will definitely be looking to shore up american investment and we'll see if he is it indeed able to do so or in washington
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d.c. thank you. united nations investigators have released a damning report on myanmar's military calling for the prosecution of its commanders for crimes against humanity investigators say that the military orchestrated a campaign against the country's will hinge of muslims with quote genocidal intent . brutal crackdown against the rope and she began a year ago the ensuing campaign of arson rape and murder prompted some seven hundred thousand people to flee to neighboring bangladesh. un investigators have made it clear to me and most high ranking military officials must pay for what they're now calling actions with quote genocidal intend. the mission has concluded that criminal investigation and prosecution is warranted focusing on the top tech matter or generals in relation to the three categories of crimes under international law genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes
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the u.n. used to call the treatment of the rohingya and the emma a textbook example of ethnic cleansing monday's report is however the strongest condemnation so far based on interviews with over eight hundred victims and witnesses the report detailed a list of crimes committed against their will hinge on murder and false disappearance touch and large scale gang rape the way in which sexual violence has been taking place in myanmar is particularly brutal and take it from a former special rapper toure on violence against women. the scale of brutality and systematic nature of rape and violence indicate that they are part of a deliberate strategy to intimidate terrorize opan ish the civilian population there used as a tactic of war. investigators are referring to the brutal crackdown myanmar launched against range of muslims last august fearing for their lives around seven
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hundred thousand of them fled to neighboring bangladesh now confined to crowded basic cams many here welcomed the un's new findings. i'm very happy about this new house me another government has killed tens of thousands of our people right down miles and sisters killed our children and burned out homes so of course we want justice for this. that. they must be punished by torture just because we're muslims and we read islamic verses they have nothing against any of the other one hundred thirty five ethnic. groups a million miles we are the only muslim community and i just don't want to hear. un investigators say six military leaders and now the priority subjects for prosecution including commander in chief mean online but they say impunity in the country had placed the military about the law so the impetus for accountability must come from the international community. it's been a dramatic start to the u.s.
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open in new york with the top woman see it and world number one simona halep knocked out by a story is kaya caterpillar the romanian couldn't cope with canopies power and dropped the first set six to battle to stay in the game but the estonian took the second set six four as the second consecutive first round exit for hell of the tournament. you're watching flying steps on one of the most successful urban dance theirs in the world and they are just one of the myriad of performers who over the next year will take part in what is known as the wonder bar together and initiative funded by the german foreign office with the support of the go to institute and the
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federation of german industries and as you can see our culture editor robin merrill is right here beside me to tell us about this initiative entertaining game we have to say but i'm really about something serious here right it's about transatlantic relations which have mean doing so well recently and what better way to improve the month through the op's amongst other things but to be honest the. together as it's cold it was actually planned before trumpeting president and before the relations between the two countries on the political level got strained if you like it's basically a year a whole year to strengthen the ties between germany and the u.s. and it will start on october the third which as you know is a very special day here in germany because it's the day of german reunification it's a holiday here and it's when the two countries were reunited knighted off the fall of the bowling ball of course it's going to run from october the third talked over the next year the idea is to go to many places in america big cities but also lot
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of small town america if you like who perhaps don't know so much about germany all the germans as people maybe in the big city anyway as you said it all got started at the weekend let's have a look. germany and the united states voted to bar together the motto of a year of german american friendship the program was launched in a pop up venue on berlin central plaids the specially designed mobile structure will house exhibitions and cultural events on a tour of the us that targets culturally neglected small town america. the this is the biggest joint effort between. science and education business in politics aimed at maintaining the dialogue with our american friends because the u.s. is our biggest partner outside europe. and you know one i'm going to be themes on as well we want to address the major themes of the twenty
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first century that is means education digitalisation it means planning we want to reach multipliers who can take the ideas that we can touch upon. to get with us and what we are attempting here which some describe as a new assessment of our relationship with him it is to get in touch with the people right across the country one because we have established that direct contacts exchange programs i major factor in determining how another country is perceived how germany is perceived in the u.s. in finding stock market. best selling german or phone current now a long term resident of california is one of the participants she shows that the rolling germany review will remind the two nations and continents of all they have in common by the continent for both continents have done terrible and wonderful things and would do well to just admit that us. and so much of america is european
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and things that are going on in europe also have an echo in america in america from that. time for americans to make a judgment and hopefully see that they can still be. together. that way. so as we just heard there of course from the people at the top the people involved what they want business politics those worlds all you know involved here these are events going on throughout the year though right yeah yeah. and from a cultural point of view the first thing was actually an exhibition about the loafer aka which is the lift that we saw a couple of pictures that and the report from it this save the city after the second well wolf famously when the soviet union blocked this the streets blocked the railway and the waterways in nineteen forty eight and the allies led by the
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u.s. lou in supplies the city relentlessly for ten months or is an extraordinary thing it was the foundation of the of the postal friendship between the two countries so i think it's very odd that this is the first exhibition but there's lots of other things going on as well what else is planned well there's going to be some many october fast as far as america is classical music concerts there's heavy metal concerts and everything in between i mean we should finally just say fifty eight million people in america have german ancestry or part german ancestry so hopefully they'll get interested in all these events going on over a thousand events over a year so that's about three every day it has in germany it's so much more than first but hey if that's what draws people in the next bit more culturally aware no harm no foul right i don't know about the mouth of our culture of death thank you so much. and with that you're out to date now on news i'm sarah kelly in
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this is g.w. news from a berlin to long to germany's chancellor condemning far right street mobs who she says are hunting down foreigners anti immigrant protesters clashed with police in the eastern city of chemicals the violence sparked after the killing of a german man police have taken a syrian and an iraqi national into custody in connection with that killing we'll go live to cabinets for the latest also coming up ok the name somalia the procedures done by you so called crimes that they have.
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