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starts september. w. . this is news coming to you live from berlin italy escalates a dispute with his neighbors over migrants the populist government in rome says the e.u. must change the rules on rescues at sea or it will close its ports to all vessels carrying refugees also coming up the east german city of chemist's braces for more demonstrations as far right nationalists gear up for another protest. and he says
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he was tortured in prison now his fate is causing international concern we take a closer look at bobby and why the ugandan pop musician turned opposition politician who's taking on the country's political elite. hello i'm terry marchin thanks for being with us italy is stepping up pressure on its european partners to take more migrants rescue to see italy's defense minister elisabetta announced that she'll ask fellow e.u. defense ministers to rotate the ports that migrants disembark at calling on other countries to share the load that used joint naval mission in the mediterranean operation subpoena was created to target people smuggling but has rescued thousands of people since its launch in two thousand and fifteen under current rules operation sophia brings all of those rescued to italy rome says that practice is no
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longer acceptable. wants it changed or else it could stall accepting microphones. well that use chief diplomat fredricka morenae says it's a divisive issue and one that states need to tackle together here's what she said a short while ago the issue of how to share the management of migration flows that is not an issue for one single country but is a common european this is why we have a european union operation at sea and this is why i believe that even if it's a very difficult discussion. it would be good if member states considered taking more responsibility. respect but it's a difficult discussion i don't see with the ministers how much political space we have to move forward. defense ministers are meeting today for a second day in vienna also talking about operation sophia barbara bezel is
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covering the joint talks and joins us now from the austrian capital barbara operations appears pertly achieving its aim of reducing people smuggling and preventing further deaths at sea why is it only proves pushing to have a changed. it's really wants more on this. mission that's the point behind all this and it's a really high stakes gamble because the atmosphere here among the defense minister is quite partisan is because they feel blackmailed by italy to not allow you a fellow european naval vessels to enter your ports after they have maybe rescued a couple of hundred migrants at sea that is that's a pretty drastic step that really is an escalation of the ongoing battle of it's only against sea rescue against taking in. for instance they've already done that. it's only once really is to more or less completely and the sea rescue off migrants
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off the european union in front of the libyan coast and that's what all this is about well barbara is there any prospect of the defense ministers at least at that meeting in vienna reaching some sort of compromise arrangement that would allow sapir to continue. no it doesn't look like it and the german defense minister minister funded line more or less openly said that she doesn't really expect anything moving here they're just going through the motions and what they say is this needs to be solved at the level of the heads of state and government so they sort of pushing this issue on kicking the can again once more time down the road and say at their next summit they really need to find a. new position on distribution of migrants within the e.u. but then this is going to be made maybe october till then it's a the is really playing hardball and the political climate is really getting sort
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of more and more cold between member states here well whatever italy decides the migrants are continuing to come across the mediterranean of course as we all know italy's new government is hoping that other e.u. countries will participate in burden sharing and taken more migrants rescue to see . are they getting anywhere with their counterparts. they have in a way of course just had a certain amount of wind in this game of blackmailing their neighbors that they've been playing for the last two months but if you look at the latest migrant vessels coming in they got redistributed so of course this is just sort of putting all to make and really pushing people it does get certain results but that's not a political solution you can't every time a migrant boat comes into european voters say oh who is going to it's like an auction you know who's going to take some people in twenty he takes thirty that
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that is not possible and it's undignified and it's politically really just a very bad idea so needs to be a better solution but at the moment there is no way other countries don't volunteer france doesn't spain doesn't they have their own problems migrants coming across from morocco for instance and so the situation is really is really very bad but what will happen if things go on like this is there will be no more european sea rescue in front of the libyan coast if things carry on as they aren't at the moment barbara thank you very much barbara basell there in the. well here in germany right wing groups are again expected to take to the streets of the eastern city of kenya's today some twenty people were injured earlier in the week when around seven thousand protesters many of them porritt nationalists
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clashed with left wing demonstrators after a man was stabbed to death here's a look at what life is like for residents of chemists who are ballance and hatred of foreigners has dominated headlines for the past few days. a snapshot of daily life in chemists to look cool runs a cafe in a not center it's a bit of an ivory tower he says here things are fine. but he also knows the city has a problem with right wing radicals. we don't see marauding bands of murderous nazis in the streets every day but things happen and the instrumental lies it and use it as a pretext to whip up a crowd. last sunday eight hundred took to the streets in response to the killing of a man the night before on monday the far right see mobilized about five thousand demonstrators and they were not just locals the rally wasn't about mourning the dead man it was
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a protest. the state premier of saxony is coming to camp its later today to hold a town hall meeting. in ghana what would you like to tell him about what's been going on here. before that he's totally misunderstood the situation and that he's out of his depth this is given the right wing radicals of platforms and they're rallying their forces it wasn't just people from came it's here on monday but from all over germany i find out painful the student. is there a general sense of frustration among local people are there problems with refugees here this man's answer shows how rejection of neo nazis and concern about the presence of foreigners in cannes it's not always so far apart what's it like living here. this is not what i expected i like to sit in the park when the weather's good but i see more and more foreigners there and they behave as if the time belongs to them. they don't sit on the benches but on the backs of the benches
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with their feet on the seats drinking beer. that's not acceptable so i'm not a right winger but it bothers me it's just not right the specific issue we should dismiss gets me. a city theatre company is rehearsing for a video with dunces from twenty four countries we ask if they feel they're under threat they say no. but in fact. it's not that simple. we tend to tell them they should try to avoid any possible problems if they go home late they should go home together or not alone of course they're all trying to cope with the situation. it's not easy in kenya it's living together takes practice we have some catching up to do. most people we talked to here say they want to have nothing to do with the far right demonstrators but there is something that bothers them they feel marginalized the mail office and analysis.
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the city has changed it will take a while for some particularly the elderly i would say to get used to the way things are nowadays it's different now. and in the meantime nobody seems to have an answer to that question what with all the heated debate the thirty five year old killed on saturday night is no longer the focus of attention flowers and candles but no crowd of mourners. joining me now to talk about this is t w political correspondent you know. the far right movement in saxony is drawing international attention the un human rights chief is calling for stronger political engagement how are germany's leaders responding well the national government has been fairly quick to condemn the events in chemist's when those protesters clashed from both sides right wing and left wing protesters and stressed the importance of upholding democratic values on several occasions
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a family minister will travel to kenya on friday so they are taking it seriously but what critics are saying is that the regional leaders have been sluggish in terms of addressing that threat that challenge of right wing extremism let's not forget that the conservatives are anglo-american party they have been in power in saxony since the one nine hundred ninety s. so for decades and many critics including the social democrats are now saying that . they have been turning a blind eye to that threat so far right extremism. the regional leader in section of the state premier. he is holding a town hall meeting in candidates in a football stadium today what can you do to calm the situation well that event was planned a long time ago as part of citizens dialogue he is a member of the conservative party as i said party they did lose tremendously in last year's federal election is specially in saxony and so he wants to go out and
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travel the his state and tell the people look we've got the message what are the issues that are really pressing what do you want to talk about but now of course tonight's event will be dominated by this week's events in chemist's and of course it's anybody's guess just how useful such a platform of a football stadium that can host fifteen thousand people to calm the tensions in kent it's especially because he will be greeted by a far right demonstration outside yes indeed a demonstration i want to ask you about that another far right demonstration planned there for cameras today what can we expect. while the organizers say that is the far right groups they say they are expecting five hundred participants but again if the events from this week are anything to go by of course these numbers could be a lot higher and they show just how fast they can mobilize their protesters from all over the country so that remains to be seen just how many people will turn out also those events have also mobilized the other side so there will be lots of
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people in the street we can only hope that the authorities have learned their lesson that they're better prepared and that the police will manage to keep both sides apart you know thank you so much d.w. political correspondent nina. now let's catch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today german chancellor angela merkel is in west africa this week the visit is focused on boosting german investment in the region partly as a way to slow mass migration to europe machall met with senegalese president yesterday and will meet the presidents of ghana and nigeria before returning home rescuers in myanmar are struggling to reach thousands of people stranded after yesterday's dam failure in the pago region state media say waters unleashed by the dam have blocked a major highway and driven more than sixty thousand people from their homes the incident has highlighted safety concerns about in the region as a whole. and
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a large fire has engulfed a warehouse in melbourne australia the blaze broke out around five am local time authorities aboard residents to seek shelter over concerns of toxic smoke several nearby schools have been forced to close the fire authority says more than one hundred firefighters are on the scene. now to uganda in the case of politician bobby wine the united nations outgoing human rights chief has said he's deeply concerned about allegations that authorities in uganda tortured wine and several other politicians detained on treason charges once case has touched a nerve in the country a high profile challenger to uganda's longtime president yoweri most seventy one was arrested in mid august after stones were thrown at the president's convoy was released on bail earlier this week on crutches w.'s julius. reports on how ugandans are minting their frustrations over the case and what they think of the
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man who is taking on uganda's political elite. protesting uganda is copping to. the focus of the be more stringent this month a bloody known as bloody one protesters demanding his release after hearing about easily torture while under our wrist. in an interview will be one toward d.w. about his role in uganda as party takes nobody should look at me as a messiah nobody should look at me as a solution i'm just part of the puzzle i knew that i was that is watching me he also part of that puzzle i cannot believe this if you choose to do it together and yes that is this only because if we are to attain. what we want as a country they need to give that. a large majority of ugandans population is under
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twenty four and many see they thought the six year old hopes to as they have voiced so when i look at the un he's presenting me. is a voice of me as a youth because me too and we use because what he's saying is real and it is there and you've seen will come from when it's clearly and socially he speaks a lot of things and neutrally speaking i wouldn't. say that he inspires me like. i'm going to the streets on doing whatever he has been doing because there are other ways of handling things yes but very is it my voice really he represents my voice because he talks about the things that i think. and he's a you with he talks about unemployment education or option despite this supports a but b. one enjoys especially among young people mainly because brutal campolo present during the seventy's government seems to have
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a different perspective of their margin politician who is also battling treason charges in court does the bitter who love the moment and i don't think it is largely that that he's either viewed as the president to be or of course there's been a lot of framing around events our own him. by his group and he's on the hunt laws where he's been portrayed largely as a victim but this is just a fleeting moment and it will probably pass. the wine was voted to parliament last year in a by election where he defeated four challengers including one backed by president morsi of in. less than two years in office this singer has been strongly critical of government. anyone who is a serious politician needs to sit back and evaluate that quote is will
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be wayne rip present when he talks about people power you know what is he trying to say is in there any. wait in the wilds that he's expressing today right and shouldn't to the president didn't heed. the rigor was enjoy more than fifteen years of a successful music. although he sees making it to entertainment has been an obvious struggle challenging a government that has been in power for forty two yards would prove to be he's biggest struggle yet. and surely a smoker who filed that report joins us now from kampala chile as i understand it all the wine was expected in court today but did not appear what twee do we know what kept him away yes it will be one of those of the court this morning one of his
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lawyers nicholas here told me that he told that what we why were not up yet because he was undergoing treatment i needed more time with the doctors what do i how do you know it's a lie what's going to bail you out of hearing in court working on crutches and hearing to be paid he didn't say that they couldn't christenings up you know jane i'm forty one will pops up i tell it a bit now bobbie one says he was severely beaten in detention we saw many report walking on crutches what are authorities saying about these allegations. yes his lawyers and some of these alleged that the musician was beaten the reason why he appears frail and walking with difficulty i wave i have not seen a lot of special medical reports from the hospital where he is receiving treatment and we understand this because he got us by them into cars but you shouldn't be president he wants the president to inform pile of into parliament about the i lay church or maybe better the members by me but the president is used to all cease and
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they respond to their communication to this day god but we understand he told members of his party that there was some people who resisted attempt and will be one perhaps is one of them will be one is a very popular figure in uganda course of particularly among young people does he have enough support to pose a serious threat to the country's leadership yes many young ugandans especially the up and youths mostly indic up until they suffered will be the way they are supported will be why music and they seem to be following. in the new car of the just push up assuming in a position politics but government saves you know this excitement among these young gunman it's. a new found love in leadership and that at some point when they start to do tonight it will be when they will they will seize the support julius thank you so much that was julie is there talking to us from kampala.
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this is the big problems with the argent tarring paste that's right terry big problems indeed argentina plummeted to a record low against the dollar with investors reacting to president mary sue mockeries appeal to the international monetary fund to speed up this in burst minutes from the country's fifty billion dollar credit line mr markey says the cash is needed to ease the country's financial crisis stabilize turbulent markets and guarantee compliance with next year's financial programs uncertainty over inflation and economic downturn and the budget deficit and the pace of tumbling forty percent since the beginning of the year the i.m.f. has said it will reexamined its payment schedule. for more on this let's cross over to our markets man paul broad standing by the frankfurt stock exchange paul turkey is the lira is dropping venezuela's ball of our seems beyond repair and now argentina is having trouble keeping up its currency does that spook investors.
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yes christofer alarm bells are ringing not just about argentina now where investors are already pulling out but more globally analysts have warned that a global emerging market crisis is becoming more likely and that one of the reasons of course being the ongoing trade disputes now turkey has its own dispute with the us but otherwise the. conflict between the us and china where a lot of other countries are suffering from your list we can also add the indian rupee which is that at a historic low stocks in china have been going down for three days in a row now and the news about argentina being in contact with the i.m.f. once again have not exactly helped the pace so it dropped seven per cent on wednesday the largest one day drop since the currency was allowed to float in
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twenty fifteen so we have investors pulling out of argentina's peso here what's the word on the trading floor how bad is the situation in argentina. it's not beyond hope there and there is still hope but it is concerning the government tried to fix the drop on tuesday and wednesday by selling five hundred million dollars of its currency reserves results none nothing really happened. on top of that we've got twenty percent inflation and twenty eighteen the projection even goes to thirty percent by the end of the year and as you mentioned investors are already retreating on the upside at least argentina seems to be reasonable about this and is trying to get help from the i.m.f. turkey won't even consider that. and there is a targeted relief from the u.s. concerning aluminum and steel imports from argentina that might be a little bit of brits keeping his eye on these financial trouble brewing in
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argentina paul thank you. fresh labor ministry figures say the german unemployment ticked up slightly in august it's in line with expectations as students and school leavers register as unemployed over the summer still the number of people looking for work remains the lowest in twenty seven years posing a challenge as many positions remain vacant it's an acute problem in the health care sector where there aren't enough young people choosing to work as caregivers raising wages to make the job more attractive would be an option but hospitals and nursing homes say there is a cheaper way. germany needs nursing staff and not enough germans are going into caregiving they see the work is too hard and poorly paid that's why berlin's biggest hospital has been hiring albanians and it's about to recruit workers from mexico to it's symptomatic of the personnel shortages in germany not only in the health professions. the number of vacant positions has been rising steadily in
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recent years in july one point two million openings couldn't be filled so in future who will deliver all those goods that germans order on the internet who will build and maintain houses who will work on factory floors sixty percent of companies say they view labor shortage as the biggest risk for their operations staff deficits cost the german economy an estimated thirty billion euros a year that's why calls are growing louder to ease immigration and employment restrictions for people from countries outside the e.u. such as albania with or without academic qualifications. japanese electronics giant panasonic plans to move its european headquarters to amsterdam from london in october to avoid any tax issues links to braxton's the u.k.'s exit from the european union could mean that japanese authorities may treat britain as a tax haven if that happened to us on it would face retroactive taxes for its u.k.
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operations back in japan uncertainty about the movement of goods and people between britain and the e.u. postbox have also played a role in the decision britain plans to leave the block in march twenty ninth. the maker of jack daniels whiskey is feeling the pain of the trades bats were tween the european union and the united states brown foreman has issued a profit of warning risky is among the american products targeted by brussels retaliatory terrorists which includes peanut butter and harley davidson motorcycles a price hike has not helped the ten. the risky maker offset losses as a result of the tears while the european union and the united states have declared a cease fire on their ongoing this beaut some products will continue to be affected by tears until the two trading partners come to an agreement. telecoms giant vodafone's all strain the operation is set to merge with the
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country's second biggest internet provider t p g telecom the deal is said to be worth eleven billion dollars what a phone has been struggling down on tour where it's the third biggest mobile phone provider in a joint venture of mentor hong kong based hutchens and he's hoping the planned merger will allow it to provide provide a stronger mix of services beyond mobile phones similar to the strategy vodafone has been following in countries like germany where its vaults for its phone services by buying major internet and t.v. providers. you're watching news coming to you live from berlin we have a fresh bulletin coming up at the top of the hour don't forget you can get all the latest news and information and a website that's developing for now thanks for watching.
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