this is deja news live from berlin tonight germany's chancellor condemns far right street moms who she says are hunting down foreigners and tight immigrant protesters clashed with police in the eastern city of candidates today the violence sparked after the stabbing death of a german man police have taken a syrian and an iraqi national into custody in connection with the killing we'll go live to kiev that's for the latest also coming up. against the money the procedures you so called contact. they just have

a knife and they cut the group practice of female genital mutilation we meet a woman from somalia who fled her country to seek help at a german reconstruction clinic. and the u.s. or u.n. investigators calling for genocide charges against me in mars' military leaders in a damning report that you were in says the military commanders attacks on the muslim may constitute a war crime. i bring coffee it's good to have you with us tonight police in the german city of kenneth's say that several people have been injured as far right protesters faced off with counter demonstrators they are tonight on rest of follows a similar far right protest that broke out yesterday encampments after a german citizen was fatally stabbed to suspects

a syrian and an iraqi have been arrested in connection with that killing. for the second day in a row tensions run high in the city center of candidates police were out in force to attempt to keep right wing and left wing demonstrators apart the unrest in cannes that follows the death of a thirty five year old german man in the early hours of sunday during the city's annual street festival the man died from his injuries in hospital after being attacked with a knife two other men were seriously injured officials have taken two suspects into custody young men from iraq and syria. only hours after news of the stabbing broke on sunday far right demonstrate just started writing buttons versus bottles clashes with an overwhelmed local police force that authorities to bring in additional officers from nearby cities witnesses described menacing scenes. as happy even to us i saw huge groups of people with a racist mindset it was

a right wing mob they were roving around freely in the city center they were chasing migrants here with too little police presence if they took over the city want to happen just that i've been on the government spokesperson stephens i but said the events in cabinets have no place in a democratic society that will mislead you all 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 will come from somewhere else no attempts to spread hate on the streets this has no place in our cities we and i can certainly say this for the government utterly condemn that kind of behavior. was not was. get out of our city right wing supporters chanted in this video shares and west of the weekend's violence but as they keep up their protests they're facing

counter-demonstrators who are out to send a very different message. or did. phil has been at the protests today in cambridge i asked her a short while ago what she witnessed. but we did see were processed is throwing fireworks apparently stones were being thrown as well that is just a short time ago when there were hundreds of far right protesters just in the square behind me and across this street here over on this side of the road where hundreds of counted demonstrators they were both hurling slogans insults at one another and as the far right protesters started to get on the start of the march through the city tensions did begin to rise police had to send in water cannons we did see those being used it seems the more the terence but tensions very high here on the streets now as you can see behind me most of the protesters have dispersed now but the concern really is what happens next while they were confined to these

isolated spaces behind me and carefully watch by riot police who are standing in the middle of the street keeping the two sides apart they were they were under control it was calm when they spread out they want to side streets there is of course a real worry that the situation could once again become by volatile suspects we understand they're in custody tonight after this weekend's stabbing and we understand that touched off all of these far right protest i mean how much do we know about the suspects tonight. that's right well pete lisa initially was quite vague about exactly how that killing unfolded they said it initially that involved people several nationalities and it was that that really fueled the tensions on the street yesterday and again today we have started to hear more about the tea people that they have in custody today with has been confirmation that one of the suspects is in a rocky national another suspect the syrian national base of them in their early twenty's police have said that they don't know what the motive was and they will

say it's not very clear how the attack on folded what they have said though is that people must avoid speculating as much as possible avoid spreading rumors there are a number of room is around on social media as there is some real concern and revisit coots escalate tensions here in cabinets our correspondent in charlottesville some fill in the story for us tonight in the eastern german city of kept its thank you here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the u.s. and mexico have reached a preliminary deal to replace the north american free trade agreement as he announced the new deal u.s. president donald trump said that he would consider concluding it with canada trump has been a harsh critic of the former now after calling it a job killer russian opposition leader a legacy of only has been sentenced to thirty days in prison for organizing a rally in late january against the country's presidential elections the faulty

spokeswoman said the sentence was clearly time to prevent him from attending another for a test which he has called for next month. pope francis has refused to comment on claims made by the former benteke an ambassador to the u.s. that the pope unself was involved in the cover up of sex abuse by american cardinal francis was asked about the claims on his way back to rome from ireland. all the women's rights organization. estimates that as many as sixty five thousand women and girls living in germany have been subjected to female genital mutilation or. of the figure has been rising for some years mainly because more migrants are coming from countries where if g.m. is practice. a reconstruction clinic here in the w. correspondent one affected woman who has joined the growing call for an end to female genital mutilation her name has been changed to protect her identity.

and one has to say. ok i was about eleven and twelve years old 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. then they sewed me together. they tied my legs together for a month so that the wound would heal no one had done by like i had had i types of female genital mutilation very anywhere from damage in the clit or us to summing up the vaginal opening in some countries the brutal practice is considered a rite of passage a prerequisite for marriage and then i use them all the other procedures done by a so-called cutter they have no idea what they're doing they just have a knife and they cut us to even after two and a half years in germany thirty six year old the for seeking advice a balance does

a flower santa which offers reconstructive surgery and consultation for women affected by if g.m. . dr cornelius joins advises those effects and but germany services 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 and he got into this according to ted a family some sixty five thousand women affected by after 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 eritrea and iraq. in a statement to deutsche avella 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 their hung country for a so-called vacation circumcision there's very little that all forty's well the german government can do. volunteers and teachers therefore play a huge role. the only way to really gauge what's going on is to have a vigil in society particularly means people who work in close contact with families who might potentially subject their daughter to after. these people should be particularly attentive these are. estimates that fifteen and a half thousand girls living in germany are in danger of. a furphy as her three year old is among them. why i'm good my three year old daughter has been circumcised 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 door says it's already too late. to make that was a fate all right those of us who had to experience that could do but i'm a fighter. and i hope that at some point this ritual will stop. when united nations investigators have released a damning report on me in mars military calling for the prosecution of its commanders for crimes against humanity investigators say the military orchestrated a campaign against the countries were muslims with quote genocidal intent mean mars brutal crackdown against the war hinged began one year ago the ensuing campaign of arson rape and murder prompted seven hundred thousand people to flee to neighboring big. un investigators have made it clear to me and must 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 talked at my door generals in relation to the three categories of crimes under international law genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes the un used to call the treatment of the rohingya and 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 the range of 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 tour and violence against women. the scale brutality and

systematic nature of rape and violence indicate that they are part of a deliberate strategy to intimidate terrorize all punish the civilian population there used as a tactic of war. investigators are referring to the brutal crackdown myanmar launched against muslims last august fearing for their lives around seven hundred thousand of them fled to neighboring bangladesh now confined to a crowded place a cams many here welcome the u.s. new findings. i'm very happy about this new house meanwhile the government has killed tens of thousands of our people right down mothers and sisters killed our children and going to our 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 us here.

u.n. 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 low so the impetus for accountability must come from the international community. well it has been a dramatic start to the u.s. open in new york with the top women's seed and world number one simona halep knocked out by a stony is it cannot be the romanian couldn't cope with can appease power in the first set six two how the battle to stay in the game but the estonian took the second set six four has become the first top seed to lose in the opening round to u.s. open history. but don't forget you can always get the w. news on the go just download our app from google play or from the apple store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push

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