tv DW News - News Deutsche Welle August 28, 2018 9:00pm-9:16pm CEST
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police in eastern germany for a third night of violence as tensions over migrants. remain high several people were injured sunday and monday in the city of it happened after a german. to death in two foreigners were arrested the german chancellor making it clear there will be no tolerance of mob violence against forward also coming up our killer robots in the future of warfare at a u.n. conference in switzerland there are calls tonight to ban weapons that can fight.
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all on their own and as america mourns the passing of senator john mccain the campaign battle lines are already being drawn in his home state of arizona by the candidates who want to replace him. it's good to have you with us tonight the federal police in germany are on standby ready to deploy if the call comes from the eastern city of camden there have been two days of violent immigration protests and counter protests triggered by the fatal stabbing of a german man over the weekend in an apparent altercation with migrants opposition parties have criticized the police for acting too late german chancellor angela merkel has said that there is no place for eight in the streets of germany.
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violence and unrest as protests as encampments faced off on the one side groups to claim the city for themselves saying candidates does not belong to foreigners on the other side counter-demonstrators saying they want the city to stand for openness the german government has been following the events in cannes that's chancellor angela merkel condemned the unrest busted and off because in what we saw there has no place in a country where the rule of law prevails we have video footage of people being hunted down and the gangs of rioters hatred on the streets i cannot stress enough that this is incompatible with the rule of law that's going to fuel the k.f.t. going on the protests in cabinets erupted over the fatal stabbing of a thirty five year old german man on sunday during a street festival police identified two suspects in the stabbing one man from iraq another from syria authorities have provided little information on the altercation that led to the stabbing but what is known about the case along with rumors
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circulating online have inflame tensions in cabinets. oh god. go down start get out of a city they chant social media posts include videos depicting what appear to be vigilante attacks on people believed to be far enough participants in the rightwing demonstrations say they're angered by crimes in the city but also at how the media presents what's happening on the show every evening this trouble encounters between groups i don't want to say it's only the foreigners there's plenty of troublemakers . if you want to go out you can't go into the city without being scared of what might happen. i wouldn't call myself part of the mob and i don't want anybody calling me that just because i'm standing here. politicians continue to warn against vigilante justice yet following two days of violence chemists and the state of sex and the remain on edge. makers have been quick to criticize each other in
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the aftermath of the violence g.w. is falling from the mark spoke to one of the leaders of germany's green party and he asked her why right wing extremism appears to be alive and well in eastern germany. misspoke time and again file and sprague's out in the eastern drum state of saxony why always saxony we're not talking about whole eastern germany but we have a problem in some of the stays there too right wing radicalism was not taken seriously enough and this was definitely the case in sex any where the state government ignored to the fellowmen for some time then they tried to put it on the agenda but they didn't really do anything against it they didn't finance program for democracy ation they didn't find any programs against radicalization of the right wing and therefore now we have the consequences on the streets and this is a horrible phenomenon and therefore we call for the stage prime minister to put it on top of the agenda for his political projects was in the next ones and yes.
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thousands of protesters went on the streets of candidates has something got out of control in the german society we're not having a problem was in the whole german society but we have a problem with ten fifteen percent who are radical izing in the right wing field and unfortunately some of the politicians also from the democratic parties didn't draw it like strong line between right wing extremism and conservative politics and this we can see now in six in the which is the deep problems also of the government there and therefore we really call on the government in sex and to put a strong commitment for the fight for democracy and against racism and right wing populist you mentioned already but what should be done in order to prevent situations like the one in chem that's in the future the problem of right wing
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extremism has to be on the top agenda of the government in sex and meaning that we have to finance programs who are. fighting for democracy daily daily daily programs and we have to finance the police we have all the problems that in the rural areas there's a lot of policemen in the area and this was also one of it's a phenomenon was in the next last two days that we didn't have enough police men on the streets and this is the responsibility of the interior minister in saxony. thank you very much. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world hungary's prime minister viktor orban has called for a new european commission to stop migration his comments came after a meeting with the tell you interior minister matteo salvini orbán praised me for being the first senior figure in europe's mediterranean countries to prove that it is possible to stop migrants arriving by sea prosecutors at the international
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criminal court are calling for the conviction of former congo warlord basco into gonda on charges including murder rape conscripting child soldiers and sexual slavery into gonda faces eighteen counts for his role in the deadly conflict in the democratic republic of congo congo fifteen years ago he denies the charges washington says the international court of justice has no authority to force the u.s. to lift it sanctions against iran iranian lawyers have demanded that the u.n. court stop economic sanctions really imposed by washington over tehran's nuclear program the u.s. state department says the same sions are a matter of national security. thousands of fans are expected to line up in detroit michigan over the next few days to pay their last respects to so legend aretha franklin the singer's body is lying in state ahead of a private funeral on friday the seventy six year old died earlier this month she
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had been suffering from pain created cancer. which a night in geneva switzerland government experts from around the world are meeting to discuss the future of killer robots now these all thomas weapons systems can operate and they can kill without human guidance critics are calling for the 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 base add offenses to can seek out targets on its own. for now soja 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
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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 systems out there causes some kind of mass 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 intelligence and robotics is that they're altogether removed from human decision making about good and evil 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.
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and russia both opposed that's highly unlikely. well in his death u.s. senator john mccain is uniting democrats and republicans they have been eulogizing him as a statesman and politician mccain represented the state of arizona in the senate for thirty one years the republican vietnam war hero was known for his fears independence and for reaching across the aisle but with mccain now gone arizona may soon be represented by a very different type of politician. a veteran stands watch at a local mortuary in phoenix where john mccain's body is being held before the public feeling on wednesday many hours owners have already visited this makeshift memorial to pay tribute to the late senator. but one of the things that i admired the most going about him was a drive that people lived on something and it wasn't being done they would know he
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got mad about it. he stood his ground pretty years stresses that he was easy to get along with says tommy espinosa. the latino advocate in the senate who were close friends for over thirty june is obviously younger my so close that mccain asked espinosa to be a key player in his senatorial campaigns. john i said you know i'm a democrat so i'm not sure it's going to get you any votes you know and he said i don't care you're my friend i want you to be my co-chair i said well let me sleep on it because no i want to hazard yes or no that. yes. espinosa says he wants to attend every single ceremony in honor of the senator who will first lie in state at the arizona state capitol. arizona is honoring one of its most influential politicians on the national stage john mccain was one of
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the last republicans standing up to president trump he believed in bipartisanship at home and strong alliances overseas but it seems that the worth of mccain's death he is brand of conservatism is losing out that republican party is increasingly taken over by the president's brand of divisiveness and isolationism the one man who typifies that divisiveness is joe arpaio he's one of the three candidates running in the republican primary for arizona's second senate seat which will be up for grabs in the november midterm elections the former sheriff the controversial immigration hardline support strong one hundred percent a lot of people. maybe would never run for office or a not controversial other controversial want to go to war should help the president . well before you know standard politics as usual
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bull republican candidates in arizona have embraced trump and distance themselves from mccain his life will be on. but his party seems to have moved away from his ideals. well it's day two of the u.s. open in new york it's been a smooth ride for the big names at the tournament as second seed carlina wozniak e from denmark beat former u.s. open champion samantha stosur in straight sets the dane took the opening set six three dominated her australian opponent in the second to win it six two tipped to be one of the stars of the future naomi osaka booked her place in the second round by seeing off germany's laura the japanese player who's just twenty years old won her time six three six two and in the men's tournament the frenchman. seeded number twenty six made it through the opening round by beating yuichi sunita of japan six three six one six three or the spanish striker. is coming to the bone this
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illegal brucia dortmund will pay two million euros to barcelona to get him on loan for the season and the german club will have the option of buying i'll consider at the end of the loan he scored fifteen goals in fifty games for barcelona winning legal once and the cope of their way twice. well finally how to dance and do business the reason may way the that the british prime minister is in africa on a three day tour to promote britain as a major future investor there in south africa may shed some of her british reserve as she boogied with pupils at a cape town primary school well i don't think she wanted to stop and while her dance moves may have had more awkward moments than breaks in the young scholars here they didn't seem to mind a bit. see she didn't want to stop is a reminder of the top stories we're following for you the german government has
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condemned violent far right protests in the eastern city of kenya's several people have been injured after anti immigrant protesters clashed with police and counter protesters i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day i hope to see you then. why do we want to when do we want it now eighty percent of americans in some places and i really experience i should. listen up. double. binds. me and love.
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