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second children. this is the news live from berlin tensions over migration turned violent in the german city of cabinets several people are injured after a second day of protests and the german chancellor condemns the unrest and warns the government will not tolerate mob violence against foreigners also on the show. our killer robots the future of warfare experts from around the world meeting in
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geneva to discuss how to deal with weapons that can fight wars and kill all on their own. plus when drinking tea is one of the few pleasures left in life we visit a family in iran already hard hit by a bad economy and now by u.s. sanctions as well. by bryan thomas thanks so much for being with us in the german city of qom that's police are investigating a number of people after a night that saw several thousand taking to the streets to protest immigration they were met by about a thousand counter-demonstrators the two sides kept apart by hundreds of riot police concerns about further violence has now prompted germany's interior minister to provide additional police support to the eastern state of saxony. silence again encampments on monday was far right demonstrators faced off with counter protesters
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was a call by a right wing group attracted as many as two thousand far right protesters and around one thousand counter-demonstrators leaving the police scrambling to keep the two sides apart like sunday's demonstration monday's protest was sparked by the death early sunday morning of a thirty five year old man allegedly of the hands of two migrants from iraq in syria they have been arrested and are in police custody authorities have given very little information on the altar cation that led to the stabbing but that doesn't stop the far right demonstrators from demanding retribution. by god auslander else foreigners get out of our city they chant. another video posted on social media appears to show vigilante attacks on migrants.
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amongst the demonstrators on monday citizens of chemists who declare they have nothing to do with neo nazis but is simply there to express their anger of the situation in their city. because it's on every evening this trouble encounters between groups i don't want to say it's only the foreigners who puts this plenty of troublemakers on because i'm all for if you want to go out you can't go into the city without being scared of what might happen is that i wouldn't call myself part of the mob and i don't want anybody calling me that just because i'm standing here. what happening chemist's is being closely followed on a national level police and politicians are warning against vigilante justice after two days of violence in chemist's the city remains on edge. and the german chancellor addressed the events in cannes that's during a press conference with her counterpart. busted on the off could see in what we saw there has no place in a country where the rule of law prevails we have video footage of people being
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hunted down and of gangs of rioters hatred on the streets i cannot stress enough that this is incompatible with the rule of law. incompatible with rule of law let's bring our our chief political correspondent on the crane for more on this there have been calls for all more forceful response to the far right violence in comments how would you gauge the chancellor's response today well she had very strong words to say and she had her spokesman expressed similar thoughts yesterday in the weekly press conference of the federal government in both cases absolutely condemning vigilante justice and saying that even an attack and a death like the one that occurred in the night from saturday to sunday cannot be taken as any kind of reason for the sort of violence that we have seen in the last
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couple of days in the eastern city of camden and certainly also not for the kind of hunting down of people who were appear to be migrants such as has also occurred so yes it was a strong statement one person that many people had been looking to hear from was the interior minister who in fact had had little to say about the events in kemet until today he has also now spoken out but the key thing is what kind of actions will follow these words because the fact is and we heard it today from the head of the the union for policeman the fact is that continuing cutbacks in the security six services continuing cutbacks in personnel with the police have. left many german cities and regions short staffed and the
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president of that police union made it very clear today he said you know where people feel that the cities are not in a position to control what happens on the streets we see a rise in risk in the risk of vigilante justice so the real question is will we see federal and local politicians take action both to to preserve the order but also to do the kind of education the kind of social media work that is needed to stop the very forces that are writing these attacks that's that's that's a long term plan and you know in the interim to get the situation under control could we see federal police being deployed to come yes or elsewhere in saxony to help out state police briefly well in his own statement the interior minister did make an offer to send federal officers to chemists local officials there today in their own statements admitted that they had underestimated the situation they said they were seeing a lot of far right demonstrators coming from other regions in very very well
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organized protests and that indeed they did need to greatly expand the police presence so they may well wind up taking the interior minister's offer but beyond that as i say crucial to see what other efforts will follow to get the situation under control and to prevent further incitement and organization of such actions ok moving the train for us our chief political correspondent thanks very much more. now for some of the other stories making the news today japan has warned that north korea still poses a threat to its national security that despite a pledge to denuclearize japan's defense minister saying north korea still has several hundred missiles capable of reaching japan even after the summit between can go on and president from. the un human rights council says all sides of the human conflict may have contributed to war crimes report by experts says the children have been most vulnerable in this conflict saudi arabia's according the
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yemeni government against who the rebels who are backed by iran. france's popular environment minister nicholas hullo has resigned live on radio without telling president mccrone beforehand the resignation is a blow to mccall who hand-picked to go the icon of the green movement repeatedly clashed with his cabinet colleagues who felt they were too weak on environmental issues. government experts from around the world are meeting in geneva to discuss the future of so-called autonomous weapons systems also dubbed killer robots these systems can operate and kill without any human guidance critics are calling for this new generation of weaponry to be banned globally before it goes into mass production. germany's armed forces already make use of semi autonomous weapons this air defense system can seek out targets on its own. for now
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soldiers still have to give the order to fire but fully autonomous weapons are being developed they can select and attack targets without humans at the controls. the highly controversial supporters say the new weapons are needed in modern warfare and will help people make ethically responsible decisions. warfare is becoming so fast right now that human beings are not capable of making intelligent informed decisions like they could in the past others have voiced concerns that autonomous weapons could diminish human responsibility in war we don't want to have happen is robotic system isn't out there causes some kind of mash casualty event and we know humans have all. these activists in berlin are protesting against autonomous weapons they want the german government to campaign for them to be banned worldwide. what's dangerous about artificial
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intelligence and robotics is that they're altogether removed from human decision making about a good deal about what's useful for people and what's not about a concrete situation human intelligence is still required for that. an international ban on autonomous weapons systems would only be possible with the unanimous support of the united nations but with the u.s. and russia both opposed that's highly unlikely. washington has told u.n. judges they have no jurisdiction over american sanctions against iran this comes a day after hearings began at the international court of justice where a rainy and lawyers are demanding that the united nations court lift the u.s. sanctions u.s. argues that it has a sovereign right to protect its national security from what it describes as around nuclear threat. meanwhile every day around ian's are finding it difficult to cope with the
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worsening economic condition in their country not everyone blames the u.s. sanctions though many say arounds economic problems are homemade. when marie i'm home i'm far makes you couldn't tell that her family are really struggling her husband does not earn enough to make ends meet. they can't afford new clothes for their daughter or even enough food. so i am member to know if i have to go to bed hungry so be it but not my child our situation is really tough in that respect we're lucky to have just one child i can't imagine how families with lots of children get by. we're already living on the edge i have to pay the rent every month we have a bank loan i'm very worried. says he could lose his job any day he works for a company that makes cardboard boxes it's boss. he had big plans he wanted to
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expand but the currency crisis put paid to that the leader resumed its with decline in part because of a nuclear sanctions the price of raw material soared his customers can no longer pay him. this machine has been standing idle for almost three months we're producing much less than we used to when customers would order ten thousand cut is we use this big machine now that they order five hundred we use the small machine over there. the work force used to number forty now just six. over the next few days i shall have to let two or three more go i'm already paying their wages out of my own pocket. javan says he needs waste paper to make cardboard but the government is now selling it to china in order to earn hard currency his life's work is at risk and he worries about his
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staff. you know what about young workers what will become of them they have to earn a living the government should focus on them i'm old i'll get by somehow but these workers will soon be out of a job. fears he might be one of those about to be searched he doesn't blame his boss or the americans and their economic sanctions. the reason for our economic problems are to be found here in iran it's not foreign powers and i think ninety five percent of our problems are homemade. are you aware that the powers that be should come visit us and see how we let. it bring tears to their eyes perhaps they would then make better decisions. says that the underlying problems are mismanagement and corruption and that most people in iran would agree with him. sports and tennis now it was a bittersweet match for spain's david for the u.s.
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open he was forced to quit because of injury for the first time in two hundred matches and that at his last grand slam tournament before retirement his opponent was his davis cup teammate and friend rafael. nidal farah was once ranked third in the world but a slipped sense he will only play in selected tournaments from now on. but it's like a football news and shelter has signed in germany midfielders abbas and rudy from rival club byron munich ready made thirty five competitive appearances after joining bahrain last year for him but with a coaching change at byron rudi hasn't found many opportunities as signed three midfielders. paragliding now and rossi oh yeah audience of spain wrapped up victory in the acro world tour finals with is flight high above lake geneva in switzerland all of the paragliding aerobatics competitors
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perform spectacular aerial stunts up there but it was thirty five year old your audience who impressed the judges most about thirty thousand spectators witnessed the grand finale of this year's world to. this is that every news still to come on the show europeans to ban plastic bags to find out what is life like without plastic we look at one place that has already out. over right. if you're smart t.v. smart or with a d w force not just. what you want when you want it up to date extraordinary. you decide what's on sunday more. smart t.v. .
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