this is deja vu news live from berlin a filled asylum seeker in germany is found guilty of murdering his teenage girls for. the court sentenced the defendant to eight and a half years in prison and the verdict comes at a time when tensions over migration are running high entropy critics accuse rightwing extremists of the exploiting the case to store a hatred towards all migrants. also coming up international outrage as me and mark sentences two workers journalists to seven years in jail the reporters say they were framed by police western governments condemn the british u.k.

calling it a hammer blow to the rule of law in turkey cracked down on the women and their supporters protesting against the enforced disappearance of their loved ones in the one nine hundred ninety s. the women say they'll never give up their struggle. on the phone to ring someone in your family don't use you very don't then try to move on but we don't have this consolation for us this morning never and. i'm sumi so must go to thank you for joining us a young migrant from afghanistan has been sentenced to eight and a half years for killing his former teenage girlfriend here in germany he stabbed the fifteen year old to death in the western town of cundall in december last year the murderous fueled a heated debate here about crimes committed by migrants and also the rise of far right violence i put it to be and funded mark that it was unusual for such

a case to make international headlines but that this story had shaken the country. that's true i mean when you look at the numbers two people a day are killed in germany the difference here is the perpetrator was a migrant from afghanistan and far right groups have used this case this individual case to highlight what they believe the criminal character of migrants to highlight the dangers of mass migration as they put it although the vast majority of all these murders in germany are committed by germans but this far right mobilization in candle has shifted the attention to the city many protests took place there people from all over germany came to the small city to what they sometimes said defend germans against migrants and of course also anti. groups have come to the city then to protest also against these kinds of demonstrations so a lot of attention on this little village of

a highly politicized case five and we'll talk more about that moment but first let's take a closer look at the background to this killing. this 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 encampment 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 instrumental lies this tragedy for right wing thinking. but

then the counter protesters were targeted local residents like this family were attacked after exhibiting. outside their home police had to protect the family as rightwing hooligans attempted to forcefully enter the house you know i did miss out on ones our cundall for these people are abusing our towns she didn't think if reasons for doing this but the real reasons are different when this in. to new ones 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. safavian as we see there the far right has seized on this case and candles part of its campaign against migrants how are they

likely to react to the verdict. well we have to see a number of groups and people have already expressed their discontent with the verdict on social media for example the if the the far right party parliamentary party group leader vitals said on twitter that she believes that life imprisonment would have been appropriate and also others have stressed that eight and a half years is not enough for a person was killed someone ten years would have been the least some say there on social media but then on the other hand i believe that in the past couple of days the attention has already shifted away from kumble rather to kenya it's and i think that would will remain so like that yes i mean we have to look at this in context of course the verdict as you're saying comes after more than a week of tensions over migration in cam nets in the east of germany and far right forces there exploited the killing of a man allegedly also by two migrants what is the government doing to counter this

mobilization by far right elements. why in terms of very concrete measures germany's interior minister has offered the support of the federal police since there was a lack of police visible when these protests happened in saxony in kenya and last week then a number of politicians of ministers have stressed the importance of standing up against right wing extremism they have the civil society to speak out against right wing extremism the german president for example has asked people to attend a concert today that is against right wing populism against right wing extremism on the other hand there's also a closer look on the a.f.p. the far right party in germany so there's a new discussion now whether this party should be one you toward to buy the mystic intelligence service since it was visible that people of the if the politicians

demonstrated side by side with people who used hitler salutes on these protests in kenya it's all right or political correspondent. reporting for us thank you very much. i stopped and said an anti-racism concert is scheduled to take place in chemist's tonight with twenty five thousand people expected to attend and an easy call him has returned to the city following a week marred by far right violence embraces attacks on sunday some two thousand people joined a rally against rightwing extremism in the city they called for tolerance and mutual respect this after days of anti immigrant protests sparked by the killing of the man allegedly carried out by two asylum seekers. let's catch up on some other stories making headlines around the world a new u.n. report says the percentage of migrants dying trying to cross the mediterranean has risen dramatically this year there's one death for every eighteen arrivals in europe last year that figure was one in forty two the un refugee agency said people

smugglers were taking ever greater risks two people have been wounded by gunfire during anti-government demonstrations in nicaragua protests players in the capital managua ouster president on your expelled if you went observers who accused him of violence were pressured rights groups say some three hundred protesters have been killed in the past four months. huge fires ripped through brazil's national museum in rio de janeiro gutting a two hundred year old building the director of the historic institution has called it a cultural tragedy the museum how some twenty million valuable items the cause of the blaze is not yet know. and children in france go back to school after their summer vacation today but with a new ban on mobile phones and place the french education minister says the aim is to help children socialize more and to focus more on less. of courteney and mark has sentenced to orders journalists to seven years in jail they

were convicted of breaching the country's official secrets act while investigating the allegedly mass killing of rohingya muslims by the military the jury porters denied the charges and said they had been framed by police. western governments have condemned the verdict and say it calls into question ma'am marse commitment to freedom of the press was like seven years in jail for breaching mammals official secrets act or as some would say for simply doing their job while lying on his colleagues who were found guilty of illegally possessing confidential documents base men have denied the charge saying they're being punished for their reporting oh my god you know i don't but yes i know that this decision is unfair and one sided it directly threatens our democracy and freedom of the press told us we will continue to fight it. he noted on. the journalists were arrested while covering the

military's brutal crackdown on four hinge of muslims which has prompted some seven hundred thousand people to flee to neighboring bangladesh to the international community the case is clear me and most government under increasing pressure over the range of crisis is attempting to silence critical voices these two admirable reporters have already spent more than eight months in prison on false charges designed to silence their reporting and intimidate the press without any evidence of wrongdoing and in the face of compelling evidence of a police set up. the evidence reuters is referring to earlier this year a policeman testified that his commander had given an order for documents to be planted on the journalists but the court declined to stop the trial and the policeman in question was thrown in jail. the case of following. a strong condemnation from the start ahead of the verdict journalists and pro-democracy activists took to the streets of young gone to support the reporters. they go we do

not think that we want the truth that's why journalists who write true news for the people are important. that's why i'm taking part in this rally that. we're that will lead to. the un and the m.r. has called for the release of the journalists and reuters says it will do whatever it can to help secure it. but until then it's back to prison for the journalists i follow in his already missed the birth of his first child he's never met his story to. more of the story now with boston heartache our south-east asia correspondent you have covered me and mark for many years also this case in particular for us by saying thank you for joining us in studio these two journalists are now set to go to jail for seven years what do you make of this verdict and where do things go from here i think first of all on a personal level this is really tragic this verdict and going to prison for seven years as we heard in the report they both have young families and will launch case

his first daughter was only born a month ago and has never had the chance to meet her so from that point of view that this is obviously very tragic but also from abroad a wider perspective if you look at the situation over casts a light on the situation of press freedom and of the situation of human rights violations in me and maher in general and this is what these two reporters were working on they were uncovering evidence of atrocities that were that were committed in. against the muslim minority in the west of the country in rakhine state and now that's what they were in effect for decrying these violations that's what they were sentenced to seven years in jail for and how damning was this evidence that was that they were gathering is crucial because you think about the fact that most of the evidence that the outside world gets or the you know the

reports that the outside world gets of what has happened in rakhine state comes from refugees that have left the country because no one is allowed into that area where all these atrocities were committed so but these two reporters managed to earth evidence concrete evidence on the ground from the local population as well that implicates the military in these crimes and it actually led to eight soldiers being convicted and that's the only time that's ever happened being convicted of taking part in these murders and they've been they were sentenced to ten years in jail with hard labor and that is that is extraordinary and even though the minute the myanmar government and the military to deny any connection with the reuters investigation i think it's telling that this case that they were working on is the only case that actually led to convictions of members of the myanmar military well as you've been saying has become an important symbol for the state of press freedom in myanmar we've said seen now widespread condemnation particular from the west and

we have a tweet here from phil robertson who's the deputy director of human rights watch who wrote no words for this outrageous injustice against reporters while on and just say wow kony and large additional system justify sending reporters doing their job to a longer prison prison sentence than the tatmadaw soldiers who killed the ten will hinge in their story in cold blood so boston you know how hard is it for journalists to do their job in this climate well even though this is the most high profile case it's not the only time or not the only case and recent years where journal. were arrested and tried for doing their job sensually and of course that it creates a climate of fear for journalists in myanmar and it makes force it makes them think twice about are they going to really touch on sensitive issues that might implicate the government or might implicate the military in respect to human rights violations for example that are taking place in the country and you could argue

that that's the goal of these of these trials to stifle free reporting on these cases all right or south-east asia correspondent boston heartache thank you so much for your analysis. turkish police have prevented a group of women in istanbul from holding a peaceful visual to protest against the disappearances 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 in mr try to force the government to find out what happened to their relatives but 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 muslim it's about a dozen women many of them past retirement age and their supporters. in tow soon as

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 scoffed his joy most of them she's no longer afraid of the police she says. tension the change 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 demonstration police forcibly dispersed the crowd several people were injured dozens detained.

after her short sit in i need one until soon again she wants to tell me her story and the story of the saturday mother for more than twenty years she has been fighting for justice she says and for her husband tolson each group. may soon be the most 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 and 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 to. her has been 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. to be their fault 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 leans to the militant kurdish to take a group in a speech she said they have. should return a blind eye to motherhood being exploited by a terrorist organization. hunnam tolson and the other saturday mothers have experienced a lot of hostility over the years but they refuse to give up that's why they plan

to meet again next saturday and demand justice for their sons and for their husbands. in the bundesliga last season's league runners up shellcode were trying to recover from their opening loss they hosted how to berlin but it didn't go as planned with the berliners producing an impressive victory for the second match in a row. excitement in the shall cause stands mirrored by early action on the pitch and defended now as i say the golden chance which is he reflected on what might have been our officials were taking another look at the build up from ball their verdict to a new kind of jury given the chance from the sports. he flopped his lines. they couldn't believe it but soon it cost a whole lot worse defense tends to attack with the slickest of touches patches andre do down the goal scorer. within two minutes

home hopes have been turned upside down. in the second half frustrations only grew a shocker pressure to equalize rates on the iran contra plank or was sensible for this cynical shot. direct free kick. devastates dispatched by teenager it was the last kick of the game patter ballin the ones bouncing at the end. for the hell out of here now with a closer look at china's growing investments in africa that just keep on growing of course now some criticism that countries are being settled with too high a debt levels while chinese companies have long had that strong foothold on of the african continent have invested huge amounts in infrastructure we're talking about things like roads hospitals and stadiums but economists warn that china is saddling african nations with a mountain of debt which is unsustainable african leaders say on the other hand

that's not the case and as the four want to china africa cooperation begins in beijing nations across africa hoping that china's in theory as an infrastructure and investment will help industrialize the continent. african leaders have high hopes for what chinese investment can do for their countries beijing's presence in the region has grown exponentially since its emergence as a global trading power now africa has become a cornerstone in beijing's global belt and road project in sierra leone for example president julius model b o c s china's thirst for investment as a way for his country to catch the wave of globalization. and there are so many benefits to globalization so force we want to be a part of the world community but the large investments which chinese state owned companies have pursued so aggressively in africa have not been an exercise in philanthropy africa's vast resources have helped fuel china's economic

transformation still below rejects the accusation by some western countries that china is exploiting africa we are not fools enough we know where we want to take our point in various countries do we evolve in a relationship that is designed to be it when we need relationship if we do not think it was so we wouldn't be involved in that so i don't subscribe to that i know when to technical entry. some african countries have become heavily dependent on chinese financing and a recent study by the center for global development a us think tank has raised serious concerns about the sustainability of sovereign debt in several african countries receiving belt and road funds. and for more on this i'm joined now by our correspondent in nairobi catherine one day good to see you catherine now there is growing criticism that chinese infrastructure projects are pushing african nations into debt to what extent. well since two thousand and

fifteen during the full cac meeting in johannesburg when president xi jinping pledged sixty billion dollars in financing in various sectors like trade and industrialization we've seen you know an uptake of loans by african countries and african governments so far the chinese africa research institute puts three countries in africa which do all that debt to china and it's a worrying trend and that's the beauty which is about seventy seven percent of its national debt to china the democratic republic of congo which china seven point one billion dollars and which i was trying to six point one billion dollars catherine i mean chinese policymakers clearly see the african continent as one of its main supplies for natural resources but doesn't see anything but you all not does it have any big plans for that partnership.

during his keynote speech a chinese president xi jinping did talk about deepening relations in terms of areas like climate change and health as you can recall during the outbreak china did play a pivotal role in west in west africa but also they're looking at starting a peace and security body within the continent and we're ready seeing chinese peacekeepers very active in countries like south sudan and mali and catherine is there anything that germany can learn from china's relationship with africa. well other than the fact that you know africa union chair commission chair said that china in africa's centuries of history and as well as you know fighting the imperial fighting imperialism china does offer no strings attached in terms of politics when it comes to giving these loans so these countries that take up these

loans don't necessarily have to be accountable and they will not interfere in the in the internal affairs of african countries some people argue that then these african governments do not have checks and balances when we have rampant and runaway corruption in the continent but no strings attached is basically what makes china so attractive noninterference policy so no interference policy there from china looking at this partnership over time what have been the main benefits for african nations. well those who say that we have seen a lot of development in africa since the you know the relationship began but then those who say that it's not necessarily a win win relationship as they like to put it if you look at kenya for example the amount of imports that we import from china stands at three hundred ninety billion and the amount of goods the tween exports to china stands at nine point nine

billion so there's not really any balance in trade and some would say that china's taking the wind in this our correspondent catherine reporting for us from nairobi good to talk to you thanks. b.m.w. has reportedly been ordered to pay a fine of ten million euros off a software was found on a around eight thousand dia diesel calls that illegally shot off a mission's filtering the prosecutors say this appears to been a bug in the software and not an intentional cheat as according to newspaper this suit deutsche had sight on while the com a crit self informed go forward he's in february about the shuttle following a month long investigation that decided not to file charges against any b.m.w. executives. undermined and out the top stories we're following for you a failed asylum seeker thought to be from afghanistan's been found guilty of murdering his teenage girl friend in the western german town of canada the case has been exploited by near nazi groups to stir hatred and refugees the court said since

the defendant believed to be aged between seventeen to twenty years old to eight and a half years in prison. meanwhile sentenced to journalists from international news agency reuters to seventies in jail for breaching the country's official secrets act of will just say they were framed while investigating violence against the range of minority western governments in the un who condemned the verdict calling it an attack on press freedom. that's the latest here on the d.w. news i'm hannah humphrey plenty more coming up at the top of the hour thanks as ever for your company and c.c. .

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