[000:00:00;00] playing games playing games. live from berlin a failed afghan asylum seeker in germany is found guilty of murdering his teenage girlfriend. the court sentenced the defendant to eight and a half years in prison the verdict comes at a time when tensions over migration are running high in germany the critics accuse right wing extremists of exploiting the case just our hatred towards all my breasts also coming up on the two reporters who were investigating myanmar's brutal attacks

on the broken jaw minority today that they work framed by police western governments can damage the verdict of seven years of the to the u.k. calling it a hammer blow to the will look law and oh such a. turkey to crack down on a group of women and their supporters protesting against the enforced disappearance of their loved ones back in the one nine hundred ninety s. but the women saying they will never give out they're struggling to and then trying to bone that we don't have this consolation costs morning never and. and shelter may have finished the last season second in the bundesliga but opposing fans and players this season are on it impressed how to bring land toko away from shock on sunday they're near the top of the standings and shout

those in the bottom. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program a migrant who is reportedly from afghanistan has been sentenced to eight and a half years for killing a teenage girl in the western german city of kendall the fifteen year old girl was stabbed to death in december of last year the case prompted months of pro and anti migrant protest with some saying that the far right exploited the teen's death for their own message of hate. now for more let's bring in. mark who is standing by in the german capital for us with the very latest and. a fifteen year goal old girl stabs his girlfriend to death or rather fifteen year old stabs his girlfriend to death that's normally not national news or international news rather but it is in this case why is that. well the reason as you mentioned already the perpetrator was a asylum seeker from afghanistan and far right groups have used this individual

case to highlight what they believe the criminal character of migrants to highlight the dangers that come along with mass migration as we as we had in germany in the last years in two thousand and fifteen and particularly and after the deed there were protests of far right groups in the city again and again there were meetings where people from also the entire region went to the city in order to protest they claim to protect german women from migrants but what they did was of course propaganda and that was the reason why all the other groups went to the streets so we had a lot of attention on this case ok i'm going to talk a little bit more more about it all in a moment but mary one thing just to mention what you said in your question the perpetrator he wasn't fifteen after all he claimed that he was fifteen but

tests that were asked for by the state attorney found out that he was at least seventeen and a half so there was also a discussion in germany on age tests of migrants coming to germany so now the judge believes that the perpetrator was at least seventeen and a half probably twenty when he killed his then girlfriend and that was also one of the reasons why there was a lot of discussion on this case so many details like that to sort their five and i'd like to have a closer look at them i'm going to play this piece right now and get your reaction to it after. the small german city of congo was unknown to most people until last december. that's when a teenage girl was stepped in front of a local drugstore her boyfriend a young immigrant was the suspect what followed was a situation not unlike that in kemet migration protesters flocked to the small

western german town from all parts of the country back then the poster stated cundall is everywhere the goal was to utilize the tragedy for right wing propaganda . but they were met with resistance the citizens of candle did not want the town to be utilized and with the help of the state government they staged counter protests . kamel is not nazi brown it's colorful and diverse we have an open society and absolutely no reason to instrumentalists this tragedy for right wing thinking. but then the counter protesters were targeted local residents like this family were attacked after exhibiting and honey a nazi outside their home police had to protect the family as rightwing hooligans attempted to forcefully enter the house you know i don't miss our homes our country for these people are abusing our towns. they have reasons for doing this but the real reasons are different age when this in. in country they

shut us down effectively we have to hide in our houses all day because it's too dangerous to take our children outside in. even after today's verdict their ordeal isn't over for candle right when protesters have already decided to march again. and as we see there the far right very much seizing on this case as part of its campaign against migrants is today's verdict likely to take some of the wind out of their selfs. there will certainly be people who will criticize the verdict as they already did before when it became clear that they will probably. verdict under juvenile criminal law and that has happened so eight and a half years for murder is a lot but that's juvenile criminal law and maybe some of those protests that would say well of those would have to go to prison

a lot longer so that might be spark some discussion but i believe that the focus has already shifted and last saturday right before the verdict this weekend there were only a few hundred protesters three hundred fifty on the streets of candle so i believe that the focus really has shifted and that we won't see huge outrage in anymore but we have to mention i mean the general atmosphere is that this verdict it does come after more than a week of racial tensions in the eastern german town of kemet as well i mean the far right there they're exploiting the killing of a man allegedly also by two migrants what is the government doing to counter this mobilization by far right elements especially considering the fact that the largest opposition party that is currently in the german parliament the a.f.d. are marching with these extremists. that's true and that has led to a new discussion whether the a.f. d. would have to be observed by the domestic intelligence service in germany so far it

terrorism being money toward by the domestic intelligence service they have said well we have some suspicion on individuals but not the party so this is a discussion the government this very moment is reluctant to observe the entire party but there's also other things that of course are done on the regional level politicians try to support the civil society democracy groups the fight against extremism and on the state level in germany on the federal level politicians have also the civil society to stand up and speak out again straddling the three business and the interior minister himself has supported or has offered his support in terms of more police force also for sex and where we have these problems. and found a marked thank you favia. well an anti-racism concert is scheduled

to take place in the city of chemist's tonight with twenty five thousand people expected to attend and an uneasy calm is slowly returning to the city following a week marred by far right violence and racist attacks on sunday some two thousand people joined a rally against right wing extremism in the city they called for tolerance and mutual respect following days the anti immigrant protest by the killing of a man allegedly carried out by two asylum seekers. let's get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world in hamburg more than ten thousand people have demonstrated in support of organizations operating migrant rescue boats in the mediterranean the marchers called for hamburg to become a safe harbor for such vessels similar protests were held across germany. two people have been wounded by gunfire during anti-government demonstrations in nicaragua protests flared in the capital after the president daniel ortega expelled

the un observers who accused him of violent repression rights groups say that some three hundred protesters have been killed in the past four months and a huge fire has ripped through brazil's national museum in rio de janeiro gutting the two hundred year old building the director of the historic institution has called it a cultural tragedy the museum housed some twenty million valuable items because of the blaze is not yet known. to journalists have been jailed for seven years for breaching beyond mars official secrets act while investigating violence against roe hinges while lone and chas they were also working with the reuters were both excuse me working with the reuters news agency the men say that they were framed by police the u.n. i mean anwar has called for their release the case has been widely criticized as an attack on me the freedom. joining me now from young good myanmar is kevin he is in asia editor with reuters and

a colleague of the two journalists they give so much for joining us kevin and the we understand now that your colleagues are now set to go to jail for seven years what's your view on this verdict. this is a deeply disappointing result it's not a result a fair reading of the trial of the evidence any scrutiny and can sustain. we're disappointed it's a heartbreaking result who are their colleagues here in the in the in the bureau for their friends for their young families who are deprived opposed ones and fathers and what happened today was an injustice that so also to the rule of law and to the freedom of press that any democracy requires the government of myanmar has an opportunity now to do the right thing and to step in three as you fight against that injustice as you try and encourage the government to do what you have just said there to release them what are the next steps do you see any

possibilities left to help them well we want to every avenue so valuable to us. the verdict was only in the yangon district court only a few hours ago you see in widespread international reaction to the verdict already we want to look at every opportunity that's available to us to press for freedom for all and shows we need to meet with advisors and lawyers and talk to the families this doesn't end here we won't stop working and only after. this verdict is being seen as as much bigger than the esteem and it's really being seen as an attack on press freedom in the country therefore i'd like to ask you what is the mood in the reuters news for him there in myanmar right now and how hard is it just generally speaking for journalists to do their job in the current climate. it's very difficult clearly this verdict will have a chilling effect and that's

a bigger concern in our newsroom or you know. our our our reporters in fact and that's a concern that they recognize while on leave in court today i think you heard him say he knows what it is he believes the truth and repressing democracy hopefully live in strong and unwavering in the indicated who want to we want to work and we will work and so. now it was just last week as you know that the u.n. human rights body actually recommended that genocide charges be investigated and brought against senior myanmar military officers over the crackdown on the road into iraq and said we know that that's what your colleagues were investigating. do you see anything behind perhaps the timing in this verdict in particular. well you know journalism is not a crime that is not and should be a controversial statement members own legal framework guarantees

a free press journalism is not a crime is a slogan supported while on a cho seung this is a case to. have widespread attention here as well and so it's a slow going to have on t. shirts that they wore to court in this case if there was a crime at the time of their arrest concentric circles are investigating the involvement of security forces and the killing of ten men and boys in a village called into in the current state. clearly this case this arrest their arrest was an attempt. to stop that report. and the unfortunately today's work of the right support for those in the police. to cover up. evidence of i heard. kevin asia editor with reuters and colleague of the two journalists who have just been sentenced to seven years in jail for preaching myanmar's official secrets act while investigating violence against kevin we thank you so much for joining us to

share your insights. thank. you now turkish police have prevented a group of women in istanbul from holding a peaceful village vigil excuse me to protest against the disappearance of their loved ones in the one nine hundred ninety s. the women known as the saturday mothers have held nearly seven hundred demonstrations over the last two decades there and you to try and force the government to find out what happened to their relatives however police accuse the women of having links to the banned terrorist group the p.k. k. . he stumbles police getting ready for action combat gear and gas masks shields rubber bullet guns. and these are the people they're preparing to confront the such as a mother it's about a dozen women many of them past retirement age and their supporters. in the first

row the saturday mothers have been meeting since nine hundred ninety five for the vigils and the lady with the dog green had scoffers join most of them she's no longer afraid of the police she says. tension the chanche and this protest is not legal police disperse the police has now blocked every street in the area around until sun and the others are forced to stop the protest quickly and this time the women and their supporters couldn't even get close to the location right behind me where they usually hold the city policemen many of them heavily armed blocked all the passages authorities probably wanted to avoid images like last week when the group was about to stage their seven hundred demonstrators in police force simply disperse the crowd several people were injured dozens detained. after her short sit in i meet on impulse and again she wants to tell me her story

and the story of the saturday mother's for more than twenty years she has. in fighting for justice she says and for her husband me tolson. cremation giving us some of the day it happened my husband left home around ten in the morning. around six in the evening my daughter happened to see him being taken away by police i thought the worst would be that he's in prison but they'll eventually release him but i never heard from him again after all these years i've given up hope of getting him back. her husband fake me is not the only one in the one nine hundred eighty s. and ninety's thousands of young men most of them kurds were reportedly taken into custody and their families never heard of them again there were no charges no trials and no information from the authorities. back then the mothers and wives of the disappeared began to organize themselves they met every saturday in central

istanbul and they still do until today. the fall when someone in your family dies you bury them and try to move on but we don't have this consolation for us mourning never ends we don't even have a gravestone to put flowers on it that it was said but. the current government is not responsible for the disappearances it happened before they came to power but they still order the police to crack down on the saturday mothers the interior minister has even accused the women of having means to the militant kurdish to take a group in a speech she said yesterday should return a blind eye to motherhood being exploited by a terrorist organization. fundamental song and the other saturday mothers have experienced a lot of hostility over the years but they refused to give up that's why they plan to meet again next saturday and demand justice for their sons and for their

husbands. to. in the bundesliga last year's league runner up shall go where trying to recover from last week's opening loss they hosted have to berlin but it did not go according to plan with the berliners producing a second straight impressive victory. excitement in the shock of stands mirrored by early action on the pitch and defended now as i was the golden chance which is he reflected on what might have been v.a.r. officials were taking another look at the build up. their verdict on your county jury given the chance from the sport. he fluffed his lines. they couldn't believe it but soon of course a whole lot worse defense times were attacked with the slickest of touches patches andre do down the goal scorer i within two minutes

time hopes had been turned upside down. in the second power frustrations only grew a shock of pressure to equalize rates on different corner play and care was sensible for this cynical shot. direct free kick. devastates dispatched by judah it was the last kick of the game pacha ballin the ones pouncing at the end. anti-life they've had a nightmare but to think opener against dortmund last week in a tough europa league qualifier in the middle of the week that heavy schedule they explain why disregard for able to move so easily against them early in sunday's but as they can match as the let's say defense looked on the tails zimmerman put the door in for a run but like a great games their footing and john kevin august on managed to tie the score after sixty eight minutes leipzig came within inches of winning at the last minute but they had to settle for

a one one draw against just. so what does all of this need for the table let's have a quick look. now after two weekends of the season it has a slightly familiar local byron munich at the top but wolfsburg and berlin surprisingly join them with the maximum six points so far at the bottom we can see that has been a bad start for a number of big clubs including shaka and liver. and speaking of a bad start is a bad start to the week a gloomy day on the markets helen humphrey is here to make us feel less bad about it i'm going to try my best asian markets opening down we've also seen some falls on european bourses as well that's off to the news that b.m.w. has reportedly been ordered to pay a fine of ten million euros off the software was found on around eight thousand diesel cars that illegally shut off emissions filtering prosecutors say this appears to have been

a bug in the software and not an internationally and intentional rather cheat that's according to a newspaper the site all called make herself in full force he's in friday about the shuttle following a month long investigation of decided not to file charges against any b.m.w. executives. and we can bring in now our financial correspondent at the frankfurt stock exchange really is this news about b.m.w. having an effect on the market. not generally i don't think and not specifically for being w. the car shares are going down that's mainly on fears that the trade issues will escalate in north america the issue of canada joining us in mexico deal but especially the question of tariffs between the u.s. and the e.u.

apparently not going to be easing but you know it is having an effect on the image of b.m.w. the shares going down not because of that but people see this story and i think the story that b.m.w. is presenting there is more harmful than the event itself nobody i've talked to in the building behind me where the chamber of industry and commerce sits in the stock market is believes that it was a glitch that it was an accident that the software somehow found its way into two of the largest heaviest and most polluting vehicles that b.m.w. produces pretty votes talking about reputational damage image damage the eyes of the wold have been on it can it on the rest that all michael business is they worry that that could have an impact on them. yes they are the president of the german industry association said as much as he says that it can do serious damage to the image of germany in the world and an executive a very high placed one

a very visible one showcase c.e.o. of siemens he sat last year at the devotes meeting at the table with us president donald trump and he's saying now that what happens in chemist's can do damage to the reputation of germany in the world and as a corporate leader interestingly he raised the point he meant supply is three hundred seventy eight thousand people throughout the world almost one hundred thirty thousand people in germany and many of them are not germans they come from culturally very different backgrounds here that says they have to feel well in a german company as well diversity is the key all right big words there from a heavyweight and our financial correspondent who he brought to the frankfurt stock exchange really thank you. chinese companies have a strong foothold in africa often to the envy all other european companies now they've invested huge amounts in african infrastructure building roads hospitals and stadium paid for often in will materials now there are some african countries

are going deeply into debt to pay for the projects an issue which will be up for discussion at the forum on china africa cooperation currently taking place in beijing. chinese workers on african construction sites a normal site nowadays china says it's built more than five thousand kilometers of roads and over sixty two hundred kilometers of railway lines on the continent and phasing claims it's also distributed about one hundred billion dollars in loans in africa via its new silk road infrastructure project the new president of zimbabwe took a trip to the chinese capital last spring to try to drum up financing for new railway lawyers and power plants and loans are just one aspect of development billions in direct investment also flow into africa every year around eighty percent of it in the energy sector over seven billion dollars in chinese direct investment went to

nigeria alone in the first half of the year it's followed by zimbabwe which had one point six billion and south africa with one point three billion. in kenya a new train route between the capital nairobi and the port of mombasa opened in twenty seventeen and the brunt of the costs were borne by china extending the four hundred seventy kilometer long line cost around three point four billion dollars critics say kenya is buying outdated technology that's too expensive to boot and will have to pay back loans at a high rate of interest. you know african leaders think china is santa claus they're not santa claus they want returns on their investment we've already had a levy on each liter of fuel sold in kenya there is a libby going towards the repayment of that now this is more sophisticated banking than china has been known for they have got

a fantastic group and they've got security they own and run and manage the whole thing the train line is now slated to be extended to uganda south sudan rwanda and burundi at the cost of about fourteen billion dollars a mountain of new debt for african states. and our minds are now of the top story we're following for you. a failed a sign him seeker thought to be from afghanistan has been found guilty of murdering his teenage girlfriend in the west german town of candor the case has been exploited by near nazi groups just a hatred of refugees the court yesterday sentence the defendant believed to be aged between seventeen to twenty years old eight and often years in prison. and watching the news from ballet we'll have more here at the top of the hour in the meantime head to our web site d w dot com i'm having

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