this is you got the news live from berlin international outrage as me and maher sentences to borders journalists to seven years in jail. for two reporters were investigating me and mars crackdown on the war here minority they say they were framed by colleagues western governments condemned the verdict in the u.k. calling it a hammer blow to the rule of law. also coming up in germany and afghanistan and seacrest found guilty of murdering his fifteen year old former girlfriend the verdict comes as tensions over migration one high in some parts of germany critics

accuse right wing extremists of exploiting this case to stoke hatred towards all my friends. i'm so me so much going to good to have you with us a court in myanmar has sentenced to reuters journalists to seven years in jail they were convicted of breaching the country's official secrets act while investigating the alleged mass killing over a hundred muslims bar the military the two reporters deny the charges and say they were framed by police western governments have condemned the verdict and say it calls into question man morris commitment to freedom of the press. seven years in jail for breaching me and most official secrets act or as some would say to simply doing their job while lying on his colleagues were found guilty of illegally possessing confidential documents. bass men have tonight the charge

saying they're being punished for their post saying oh my god what about all of us this decision is unfair and one sided it directly threatens our democracy and freedom of the press. who will continue to fight it. he noted on. the journalists were arrested while covering the military's brutal crackdown on for him to muslims which has prompted some seven hundred thousand people to flee to neighboring bangladesh to the international community the case is clear to 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. strong condemnation from the start ahead of the verdict journalists and pro-democracy activists took to the streets of young gone to support the reporter's. ego 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. whatever you do. the u.n. and miramar 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 following has already missed the birth of his first child he's never met his story. let's catch up now on some other stories making headlines around the

world a new u.n. report says the number of migrants dying while trying to cross the mediterranean has risen dramatically this year it said there is one death for every eighteen or rivals in europe more than doubled last year speaker the un refugee agency says people smugglers are taking ever greater risks. of philippine president barbara go to territory has met israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu in jerusalem on an official visit aimed at altering trade and defense deals it's the first visit to israel by a philippine head of state since the two countries established diplomatic relations more than sixty years ago. 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 museum how some twenty million valuable items the cause of the blaze is not yet no. 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 candle in december last year the murderous fueled a heated debate up here about crimes committed by migrants and also the rise of far right violence i put it to be a stop in front of that it was unusual for such a case to make international headlines but that this story had shaken the country yeah 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 income 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 far right 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 condoms 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 until 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 . 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 exiting. 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 star condor for the staple are abusing our towns she didn't they have reasons for doing this but the real reasons are different when the sindh. 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. so far and 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 t. 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 condom rather to kenya it's and i think that would will remain so like that if 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 cannes 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. well 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 if the the far right party in germany so there's a new discussion now whether this party should be more new toward to buy the best 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 kent it's all right or political correspondent probably in front of mike reporting for us thank you very much and it's not been 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 calm has returned 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 this after days of anti immigrant protest sparked by the killing of a man allegedly carried out by two asylum seekers.

turkish police have prevented a group of women in istanbul from holding a peaceful vigil 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 their aim is to 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. did ever use yulia han reports. 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. on i'm told 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 scoffers join most

of them she's no longer afraid of the police she says. gentians attention 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 this 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 meet 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

me tolson. cremation even though 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. 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. 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 leans to the militant kurdish to take a group in a speech she said yesterday should we turn a blind eye to motherhood being exploited by a terrorist organization. until slim and the others 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. yulia han reporting there from istanbul you're watching d.w.

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