this is news live from the germans trying to set a different tone on the divisive issue of migration. left onto migrant protests the eastern city of camden it's tens of thousands of now gathered for a free concert against racism and neo nazi violence also on the program. as tensions over immigration semma german court finds an asylum seeker guilty of murdering his fifteen year old former girlfriend critics accuse right wing

extremists of exploiting the case to stoke hatred. outrages me and sentences to international journalists in jail for their investigation into the ministry's crackdown on the country's wreckage of minority reports as saying they were framed by police condemns the verdict and calls for their immediate release. i'm still gail welcome to the program a pub called such against racism has begun in the east and german city of camden it's organizers say they expect more than twenty thousand people to attend several well known german bands including teetotum hosen opera forming using the slogan v. as in math there are more of us than comes that's intended to send a message against the anti foreigner of violence the chemist's the scene of the recent days no. both arches meanwhile have banned to right wing counter protests on

technical grounds the city has become a flashpoint in germany's divisive debate of migrants and after a german man was stabbed to death just over a week ago leaving to the arrest of two asylum seekers ahead of the concert the musicians gave a news conference is the leader of the total. this isn't about right wing versus left wing it's about all those with some decency regardless of what their politics are taking a stand against a violent far right mob and it's very important that we put a stop to this behavior as long as it's still a snowball and before it becomes an avalanche. well in the same cabinets and joins us from a concert welcome linda it seems about and found it important to perform tonight. yes indeed they did it's actually initiative of a local band and they really do these incidents here in come this they started

calling other bands other friends of them and they organized this concert and they said it was a medal of medal for twenty four hours and they had all the bands seven playing here together so it was really important for them they wanted to start and have a very strong and a very loud statement against xenophobia and against hatred here what they've seen in kemet and what they're very very devout so well thought is what we're talking about twenty thousand or so expected what's the crowd looking like. looks like we've lost the line to fear we'll see if we can go back to that story a little later in the program this move on to another case that's taking tensions over germany's migration policy a court in the southwestern town of candle sentenced a failed asylum seeker to eight and a half years for the murder of his former girlfriend last december critics say the

sentence is too lenient while others accuse far right extremists of exploiting the case to promote bigotry. at today's court hearing in london the verdict on the sentence were announced behind closed doors the case has caused an uproar in the region and throughout germany the defendant's lawyer said his client regretted what he'd done and accepted the sentence eight and a half years in prison. for we should take no further legal measures because my client wants to accept the verdict and has now done so. the court could not establish the age of the young defendant known as d. but he was tried under juvenile law some people are upset about the sentence. i think it's too short if you look at what's going on in germany these days imagine how her parents feel it's not right that finch since you do not know if you knew. your i think it is just although we don't really know if he was

a minor at the time of the attack yet but. this is the shop in the town of kandahar where the defendant attacked his former girlfriend mia with a knife she was fifteen the judge determined that he was driven by jealousy and the desire for revenge they've been demonstrations in the town since the murder mainly by right wing groups they claim it shows the government's policy on refugees has failed. nice are some of the other stories making news around the world a new u.n. report says the proportion of migrants dying as they cross the mediterranean has risen dramatically this year it said there's one death for every eighteen arrivals in europe roughly double the figure for last year the un refugee agency says people smugglers were taking ever greater risks. five people have been killed and more than a dozen injured after a bus crashed into a viaduct in a story yes in northern spain four of the injured on a serious condition after the vehicle plowed into

a concrete column and split into the driver is reportedly amongst the badly injured . a huge fire has ripped through brazil's national museum in rio de janeiro gutting the two hundred year old building which housed twenty million artifacts the museum's director has described the place as a cultural tragedy its causes no no. a chord in me and ma has sentenced to international journalists to seven years in jail they were convicted of breaching the country's official secrets act while investigating the alleged mass killing of a hinge of muslims by the military the reporters deny the charges and say they were framed by police the u.n. has described the trial as a travesty of justice western governments say the ruling calls into question mean mass commitment to press freedom. was seven years in jail for breaching me and myles official secrets act or as some would say for simply doing their job while

lying on his colleagues were found guilty of illegally possessing confidential documents pacemen have denied the charge saying that being punished for their reporting. was no i don't but yeah but all of 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 was. 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. 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 and also has drawn condemnation from the start ahead of the verdict journalists and pro-democracy activists took to the streets of young go on 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. whatever you do . the u.n. 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 while lane has already missed the birth of his first child he's never met his store

. well d.w. southeast asia correspondent boston harty has been reporting there from me and mouth for many years welcome to the studio asked him what do you make of these two seven year jail sentences well i think on a personal level this is really tragic we heard in the report there both young fathers and well known hasn't even had the chance to meet his daughter who was only born a few weeks ago but if you look at the broader picture then i think this trial really speaks to the deterioration of press freedom and human rights in myanmar and this isn't in effect what these two were reporting on right they were reporting on human rights violations and atrocities committed in western me and maher in rakhine state where the muslim. minority has been targeted by military operations and which led more than seven hundred thousand of them to flee the country so how damning was the evidence that they got the government in the military was complicit in this is crucial if you if you think. the fact that the

myanmar government in the military they've they've gone to great lengths to seal off this area and to not let anyone in not reporters but also not members of the international community u.n. fact finding mission for example so most of the reports that we get from there are from refugees who have left the country and these two reporters have managed to gather evidence on the ground from the local communities and even from members of the security forces implicating the military in this and this has arguably this is led to the only case where the military has actually admitted that they were involved in atrocities committed there and where soldiers members of the military were actually put on trial and sentenced to two years in prison so that's how important this trial was even though the government in the military denied that there was a connection between this trial against these soldiers and the reporting that these two did but it's telling i believe that this is the only case that has actually led

to a conviction of soldiers in in this whole conflict this trial has become an important symbol of press freedom and there has been widespread condemnation we'll take a look at some of the tweets that are that are out there phil robertson is deputy asia director for human rights watch he's tweeted no words for this outrageous injustice against reuters reports as well low short so so how can we in my judicial system justify sending reporters doing their job to a longer prison sentence than the tatmadaw soldiers who killed the ten injured in this story in cold blood here's a tweet from the un's resident and humanitarian coordinator in myanmar cannot be a free press is essential for peace justice and human rights for all we are disappointed by today's court decisions. for bustin hearted things in me and was supposed to be so different with. the in charge of what's gone wrong well

that's whatever. when expected that she would she would really lead the country towards more freedom and democracy and that hasn't really happened or not to the degree that everyone expected especially now with this crisis that we're seeing where she's. many say complicit in denying that these atrocities that were committed there ever even happened and she's received a lot of international criticism for that because she's not the beacon of democracy and freedom that she once was or that everyone expected her to be when her civilian government came into power three years ago quite to the contrary actually so we're seeing that journalists are being arrested in this is not the only case just since last year eleven journalists were arrested this is just the most high profile case but it is happening a lot and it's. as i said human rights and press freedom as one of them is deteriorating in myanmar and it's with the country's really backsliding here. thank

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