you know. in your. opinion. this is d w news live from berlin a suicide bomber strikes at the heart of somalia's capital mogadishu is misc group al shabaab says it's responsible for the attack as part of its years long campaign to overthrow somalia's government at least six people are dead and many more injured are also on the program here in germany thousands demonstrate in the eastern city of chemists against all right extremism. german foreign minister i call must says more citizens should be standing up for tolerance all for

a week you've entered my current protests. and russian president vladimir putin faces ongoing anger over his plans to raise the pension age with thousands taking to the streets of moscow that some despite the concession is getting major this week. hello and welcome my name is christopher spring a good to have you with us after a period of relative calm the somalian capital mogadishu has again been targeted by a terror attack at least six people dying earlier today including two children when a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle full of explosives near a local government office fourteen people were also injured in the blast the islamist militant group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility. for these plumes of smoke from the explosion was seen shortly after the bomb went off. witnesses said

the blast was huge the attacker was targeting a local government building in the center of mogadishu but it also damaged nearby mosque and school. one woman described what happened as the bomber detonated his device. about i guess we were in the middle of our usual work when the explosion happened in front of our district offices where our building was destroyed so i had myself under the table there was a lot of gunfire at our gate and someone called me to check if we were say but when i came out i saw many people laying on the ground injured while others were dead and you know that some of that. medics said many of those hurt including several students from the nearby islamic school were severely injured one witness said the bomber had tried to speed through a checkpoint at the building but then blew himself up when he was stopped by security forces. or yeah i saw bodies strewn on the ground before the ambulances

arrived and the whole scene was very ugly. the militant group al-shabaab claimed responsibility immediately that trying to overthrow somalis internationally backed government. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu has praised the united states for its decision to cut funding to the united nations relief and works agency it on yahoo says the money could be spent better but there's now concern that washington's decision could fuel radicalism in the middle east the agency better known hundred sacrum annorah provides basic supplies and services to millions of palestinian refugees. nearly the entire population of the gaza strip depends on aid from the agency was set up to help palestinians who fled their homes after israel was established in nine hundred forty eight and their descendants on raw is responsible for schools health care facilities and food. appliances. that have

a clock but if the supplies are stopped it will destroy palestinian families because we are refugees we live off un supplies we depend on them for seventy to eighty percent of our food palestinians in gaza have no regular income there's no permanent employment israel rejects owner a policy of passing down refugee status through generations giving displaced palestinians hope they might one day return to ancestral homes in what's now israel sort of we've got to start the united states has made a very important thing stopping the funds for the agency perpetuating refugee called. the refugees institution must be cancelled. fun should be taken and used to really help with the rehabilitation of the refugees. israel is in a big jordan hosts around half of the almost five million displaced palestinians. it says the u.s. decision won't only affect humanitarian aid it will also fuel radicalism and harm

the prospects of peace in the middle east. we do believe in the concept of the cheering that everybody else of the dirty community need to step up and pay their share to the refugees but we are certainly. very cognizant of the extreme the dangerous consequences of failing on the law and not enabling it to go forward hundreds of palestinian refugees protested outside their own run headquarters in jordan's capital and they accuse us president trump and his middle east team of being unfairly biased in favor of israel and disregarding the rights of the palestinians. here in germany people have been demonstrating again in the eastern german city of quetta today to take a stand against far right violence and racism today's event comes after a divisive week of anti immigrant protests and counter protests sparked by the fateful stabbing of

a german national last weekend two asylum seekers are currently in custody over that killing saxony state premier michel chrisma received a friendly welcome when he visited came in it's on sunday he said he'd come to the city to support those who are making a stand against violence and for mutual respect. to produce a fine should i chose to attend this event because i think it's important to be there when the people of chemists come together to show the world that democracy and the rule of law are important to them they don't want people to let their emotions run away with them or for anyone especially the most vulnerable to come to harm that foreign minister heiko mass had a similar message. whether extremist elements get hurt in our society depends on how loud the voices of the decent people are and that's why i think we need to raise our voices more to call for a more open international and tolerant society. the two thousand people attending

a rally organized by the lutheran church on sunday were far from loud but their message was clear. it was important for us to put on an event that did not polarize people further or push people so there apart instead we wanted to focus on what unites us. and. the people who came that started throwing the streets in the early afternoon in a protest organized by a private citizen who said he simply wanted to do something to improve the situation in his town i was trying and i can only hope that this is just the beginning of something for the whole country we have to be honest about it the problem is not confined to the city of camden it's. so people who are out on the streets of candidates again but this time in the name of peace. egypt has ratified a new social media law all critics say will file and political dissent the law gives the government new powers to monitor people with launch online followings it's part of a series of bills introduced by president. sisi taking aim at so-called five

a crime amnesty international has criticized the president calling his recent legislation an assault on online freedoms the group says the legislation is quote vaguely defined and could allow the government to censor any dissent on social media. we're going to get more on this now from. one of my egyptian colleagues who's been following this story for us walk us through what's happening here why is the government with the egyptian government cracking down on people with all these social media followers the government doesn't actually say that it cracks down on people with large social media accounts it says that it's introducing this law as you said is part of a larger package of laws to crackdown partially on fake news and to maintain the security of the country now why social media as our viewers may already know during egypt's version of the arab spring social media was a huge part of. the uprising and during this time you had

a large group large groups of activists who in a very short time gained a very large following and the hundred thousands and some of them even in the millions and. in egypt the state's control over. traditional media outlets like newspapers and t.v. stations is pretty tight whether it's public broadcasters or private t.v. stations and social media was really the last front where you could get some dissent you could get some free expression but the state had so far not been able to regulate it in the way that it regulates traditional media and basically what they did with this law is. treat social media accounts as media media companies which if anything shows that the state's mis understanding of what social media is and how the internet operates and in many ways it's another tool of control essentially is what you're saying which is in many ways yes and you know we heard on a few international saying you know this is an assault on online freedoms what is the effect of this legislation likely to be. my estimation is that the effect of

this law on the ground is not going to be huge because the egyptian state has not been waiting for this law to actually crack down on social media activists they have been doing this for a while in may a very prominent social media activist was essentially taken from his home in the middle of the night we had from him was a message on his facebook saying i'm being arrested now but what this does is that it gives the state an official reason to make moves like this it's basically puts down on paper a practice that they've been the something that they've been practicing for the past three or four years three or four years with impunity and pretty systematically now when we're talking about the effect that this could have on activists of course this is going to make them express less. places like twitter and facebook and you tube are not going to be places where they go to express their opinions i've talked to some activists to get their opinion about how this is going to affect their work and one of them said something that was very striking which is that. we activists don't really. cannot really trust

media anymore and this is going to be an opportunity for us to try to start looking for alternative platforms she said just as they found social media and twenty eleven twenty twelve now is that the historically defining moment to see if there are other platforms and it remains to be seen when and how and what these platforms are going to be absolutely and you'll be keeping tabs on that for us your head many thanks for that background. turning now to russia where thousands of people have been demonstrating today against the government's plans to increase the pension age many russians are afraid they'll have to work well into their old age just to earn enough to survive of the widespread criticism of the plans president vladimir putin announced concessions earlier this week but many russians are still angry. the some ten thousand people gathered in central moscow for a protest organized by the communist party. they opposed the government's plan to

raise the pension age critics here say the changes won't just have a negative impact on the old younger generations will likely have a harder time finding jobs as older employees keep working longer. look at the reforms put forward will take away normal pensions for women and future jobs for young people. one for youths is unemployed and one in three can't find work that suits their qualifications. for weeks the communist party has been pushing for a countrywide referendum on the issue but the kremlin has ignored their attempts angering many. nashville you would hear our people are working and setting aside money for our time and slight the government once was right did they have to take that away. it was me as i am eighty eight years old and still have

to work part time because we don't have money for meat and sausage that is disgraceful that was able to get shipped a bit into his colleagues should at least resign or be prosecuted in court the whole lot of them should be taken to court come on but. the polls show more than eighty percent of russians opposed to reform. there are plans for further protests from other political parties. in a national address on wednesday president putin finally weighed in on russia's debate about pension reform mr putin watered down some of the most controversial aspects of the government's current plans most people i spoke to the. this demonstration we were not impressed by president putin. to say the least.

in formula one britain's lewis hamilton won the italian grand prix earlier today to extend his lead in the championship hamilton dealt a stunning blow to sebastian fattal who suffered an early spin after contact with hamilton's miss eighty's on the first lap that left the german playing catch up all throughout the race to finish fourth joining hamilton on the podium ferrari's kimi right in second and his mercedes team mate. in third. and german soccer bad news for last season's bonus league or runners up show they lost today to how to win in while in sunday's other match held to a one all draw by newly promoted distance off so after two games so far this season it's a familiar sight in the standings by munich topping the league much less familiar volkswagen held up there with them six points out of six meanwhile at the bottom surprisingly a bad start to the season for a number of big clubs including. at the top of the hour in the

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