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moments in the life of a great mission designer sun smash and. start september night w. . this is the w.'s live from the lead more than sixty five thousand turn out for a free concerts in the against racism in the east and that you have a secure camp it's a show of defiance against neo nazis over last month's five and the michael protests also on the program the strongest typhoon in more than a quarter of a century hits japan forcing the evacuation of a million people and causing huge disruption to roads and at
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a trot. down to taking sides are about maybe i have overtaken been the source giants nike makes american football player colin kaepernick the start of its new ad campaign i think knights and you could probably say. i forgot welcome to the program it's not about being left wing or right wing it's about doing but decent thanks that's how the lead singer of one of germany's best known rock bands ditto to host described last night's concert against racism in the east german city of cabinets musicians said they wanted to send a signal after the violence that followed last week's anti migrant protests in the city tens of thousands of people turned out to watch the concert. views intimate there were more of us that was the motto of today's event is liberal
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germans responded to calls to stand up against far right racism before the concert got underway there was a minute of silence for the thirty five year old whose fatal stabbing unleashed a week of anti mike and protests. the mood was peaceful albeit with a clear message to the racist moms who shot the country with thousands chanting nazis out. several well known german bands have been playing in chemist's this afternoon including local group cuffed club the driving force behind the concert as the group's singer explained at a press conference earlier in the day. it was not a dancing didn't start after all this rubbish happened we called friends on tuesday evening and asked them if they would join us for the concert. within twelve to
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twenty four hours everyone had said yes to get that and everyone was just getting in touch with everyone else and then all these people here agreed to join consummate i'm starts and the lead singer of one of germany's most popular rock groups and explained his motive for taking part is scheduled visit list as just sensual that we've cleared that this is not about a fight between left and right everybody who is in any way decent and it doesn't matter what political beliefs you have should oppose a radical right wing that attacks people up to the fish but. few people at the chemist's concept would disagree with that their city has put on a different face today with thousands united in a fun loving show of music intolerance. let's get off and a double is chief political correspondent milind crane welcomes the end germany's debate over migrants and racism has dominated news headlines and here and around the world of late how significant is an event like the candidates concert. i think
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it's absolutely significant it's not going to convert to bands of neo nazis overnight but the organizers of this concert made it clear that that was not there and they had no illusions in that respect but since the events in chemist's we've heard repeated calls for people to take a stand for the silent majority to make its voice heard and i think we absolutely saw the people attending this concert and also those who are going to get who by the way the lead initiator was a local group one of the bands that played kaf club and they made it very clear they are not willing to see the streets of their city of candidates simply handed over to the far right and neo nazis so i think in that sense it is absolutely a signal to the region to the rest of germany and also to the world which as you
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said has been closely following developments here i'm going to stay with us if you would like your views on this the next item because as german mainstream politicians try to work out how to win votes as back from far right parties like the f.t. the new leftist movement was launched today in ballot. the district of will ensure and housing is on the eastern periphery of berlin seemingly far from the city center and the rich and powerful unemployment runs high many here say they are tired of politicians the area used to be predominantly left now the far right populist is gaining support. i am fed up with politics here is what the politicians have no regard for the people in this must not for the most part be doing do you want the promises. or stand up as a group that says ordinary people should do just that stand up and make themselves heard it has a website but no party structures yet and sees itself as left wing steve hudson is
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involved in the group originally from one. he lives in germany so we've really got to restart again to reach out to the millions and millions of people who feel completely like they don't have a political voice almost everybody in here they're all kind of university graduates and stuff which you know that's fine but so many people fifty percent the population on this they just not represented. hudson wants to bring together all people on the left and also win over or win back people who now support the a.f.d. and going to them and saying you know what is it really is it really that you want to vote for these guys because you're right system unite people with a different skin color or with a different religion or is it that you feel ignored and excluded and that your knees have been taken care of the founders of the initiative are ten and. he used to head the social democrats then switch to the left party. she's parliamentary party leader of the left party and his wife. critics accuse them of
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being populists. imho unsure in housing opinion is divided can make a difference there's no but i can go into those crises it as a positive development. and i don't think bill the chief. then go use a left wing movement like not won't change a thing. it's early days for but it would probably like to win over the people of jordan sure and how's. about the chief political correspondent milind crying melinda stands found us have just given the first press conference to tell us more about that aims and how they want to achieve them well as they were just expressed by his out of agone connects to you saw in that piece she's the head of the parliamentary group of the left party she essentially expressed two aims that are perhaps potentially contradictory one is to reclaim the streets from the far right from the anti immigrant to get
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a movement the other one is to bundle the forces of the left in order to pave the way for a new left leaning federal government that would amongst other things renew the welfare state and listen to all of those germans who feel that their interests and voices have been ignored so first of all in terms of trying to win support from those who are perhaps tending toward the far right many critics say art the leaders of this movement to potentially adopting the far right own anti immigrant language in order to try to win these voters isn't there a risk that they themselves are moving toward populist nationalism in order to try to win that right wing support and then on the other hand bundling the forces of the left critics even within the left party led by star of are going to act in the parliamentary group they say look. this potentially could split the
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left further and there is a sense that that this probably could be a movement of short duration yes it's an online movement right now but will it really translate into the kind of widespread voting changes that the act is looking for many people are skeptical when the current thank you let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world coalition forces led by saudi arabia have admitted that last month's astrakhan a yemeni school bus was a mistake forty children were killed in the attack the western back to line said they thought the bus was carrying who's the rebel leaders and that those responsible would be held to account for. this president donald trump as well and syria against morsi attack on the last rebel stronghold of the country he tweeted about an offensive put calls a human tragedy syrian forces are massing around the province in the country's northwest russia and iran are expected to back any assault. but
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japan has been hit by the strongest typhoon to make landfall for twenty five years well thought is the first a million people in the west and central regions of the country to leave their homes typhoon gebbie has battered the country's west with rainfall and violent winds of more than two hundred kilometers an hour leaving tens of thousands without power causing major disruptions to road and traffic. you know the latest from but journalist michael patton who joins us from tokyo welcome michael. b. has just made landfall talk us through what's happening. well the typhoon is extremely powerful in fact they're saying that it could be the most powerful typhoon to hit japan in twenty five years. however it's also fast moving it hits the concept of region which is the second largest urban area of japan and it moved
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quite quickly through it and is now going along the japan of sea coastline the amount of damage that it did in terms of you know ripping off roofs and and and smashing a ship into a bridge and cutting off the cons like airport was pretty amends but the good news is that it seems that the human toll is relatively light compared to the ferocity of the storm so far there is only reports two people having died and almost one hundred wounded but when you think of how strong this storm is that's that's not a very high figure that japan seems about and all about its face share of natural disasters recently think about to two thousand and eleven the typhoon that of course just a couple of months ago there was another one of these storms it's the country well prepared at. all well i think that among the nations of the world there's probably no country that's as well prepared to deal with the massive natural disasters in
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japan precisely for the region reason you say it's a country which is hit by natural disasters quite regularly major earthquakes volcanoes storms and this summer in particular has been a dramatic one with a heat wave which killed many people giant rainstorm so it's been rough going but japan handles it pretty well like a pet in tokyo thank you you. thank. officials in brazil say underfunding is to blame for the fire that got to the country's oldest and most prestigious museum the national museum in rio de janiero homes houses to twenty eight million items including the oldest human skull found in the americas because of the places not yet known they sprinklers had no buildings had no sprinkler system and the fire hydrants closest to the museum were empty. angry scenes the morning after the disastrous fire which ripped through brazil's
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historic national museum. protesters demanding to inspect the damage for themselves they want to see the museum rebuilt and punishment for those who failed to protect the two hundred year old building and its priceless contents. how can we explain in words what you have lost we are here to say goodbye to the museum and to fight for its restoration our national memories are here. here but as i went to sleep thinking it was a nightmare i thought i was going to wake up from it is a little just that i feel more anger than sadness because it could have been avoided there wasn't even water of course there are guilty people and they have to be punished. devastated staff are devoted their careers to looking after the twenty million pieces in the museum's collection this curator came straight to the museum
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on hearing about the fire she helped to recover some valuable mature writes. that was i was in a rush to get in because i knew where the meteorites where they were brought out of the ashes of the real phoenix. v.a. . officials admit the museum suffered from years of underfunding and neglect under successive brazilian governments it's necessary for all the authorities that have the resources specifically the federal government to help the national museum put its history back together now. we've already lost part of our collection brazil cannot lose its history. but as you. wish but. it's feared as much as ninety percent of the museum's collection has been destroyed even if the structure is rebuilt huge numbers of irreplaceable artifacts have been lost forever
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. sports giant nike is weighing in on a racially charged controversy in the united states your expat from the interview sports talk us through to the program yannick so nike is taking the knee yeah i guess. this is a debate that's been going on for more than two years now colin kaepernick started protesting against racial injustice by kneeling during the national anthem before n.f.l. matches and it really divided the country donald trump even got in on the debate and came out against company and so nike now coming out in support of company with this new advertising campaign is really a boost for the player as will say in this report any time now nike's new campaign pulls no punches believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything that's exactly what colin kaepernick has
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done over the past two years after starting his protests in august twenty sixth jane company has not been offered a new contract by any n.f.l. club with. his decision to protest racial injustice specifically police brutality against african-americans cause division as fellow n.f.l. players joined the movement. u.s. president donald trump was among the most vociferous critics. when you love to see one of these n.f.l. owners when somebody disrespects our flag to say get that son of a bitch off the field right now out of the sky. fire. in may n.f.l. owners ratified opposed seawitch directed protesting players to remain in the locker room during the end them or face punishment we want people to be respectful
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to national anthem we want people to stand that's our personnel and make sure that they treat this moment in a respectful fashion. that policy is yet to be implemented and the new nike campaign has now intensified the divisive issue nike and kathy make face a backlash on social media hashtags boycott nike and just burn it showed fans discarding nike products with just days before the start of the new season not he has added fire to an already fiery debate. so just a side note on the report to fill not he is one of the biggest sponsors of the n.f.l. so this is quite a significant move from them from the right timing joint so they doesn't look like they are picking a side what what does this campaign then mean for coming on this movement at this time especially it's pretty big it's just days before the n.f.l. season starts but it's also days before or a short time before company troil against his lawsuit against the n.f.l.
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owners will come into place he's basically alleging that the n.f.l. owners occluding against him and in terms of not offering him any work in the n.f.l. because of his protests so for companies to get nike support at this time it really is a huge new develop from him before it was him against the powers that be that was the n.f.l. and even the u.s. president no less and so. i have not keep a company worth somewhat i think thirty five billion dollars is a big deal for him it's the first time he's had a big hit really in his court so this is a divisive campaign potentially losing nike millions so why is it getting behind him look might not a mistake i think not he will have weighed up the pros and the cons and made a business decision they must have i mean they are concerned about profits first and foremost so they must have realized that in the long run no matter what kind of boycott goes on they will turn a profit from this advertising campaign but that said not he does have
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a history of putting on similar campaigns when just after trump's inauguration they brought out a cape campaign called equality featuring le bron james the famous basketball and i feel that this campaign as well as the previous campaign was a bit of a middle finger up to donald trump i think they really kind of going at him a bit here and it is a rare move for a company like this to get away from being neutral and make a political statement about the games governing body than the n.f.l. where have they yet decided what to do about this take in the campaign not yet so as mentioned the port they the n.f.l. owners decided that they wanted the players who were protesting to stay in the locker room during the national anthem and if they did stand neil during the national anthem they would be punished that decision is going to hold on hold as a negation negotiations continue between the n.f.l. and the players association and they also face this lawsuit from company which is
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yet to be decided and so i think the n.f.l. are in a pretty dicey position they won't want to lose not the sponsorship money which is means a lot to them but there are a lot of egos at stake here as well and i don't think they'll be wanting to take a step down but interesting a young expat thank you. in tennis of five time champion roger federer has crashed out of the u.s. open to australia's john millman federer cruised through the first set against his unseated opponent but millman took the next three advances to the quarterfinals for the first time where he will face novak djokovic who powered into the final eight with a straight sets victory over portugal's joa sosa joke which has already won the title twice. head out for a look at an internet giants turning twenty which will give you a cake fail you might want to google yes google in fact is turning twenty it's a noun it's of a and it is a very valuable company and twenty years ago today
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a pair of ph d. students working out of a carriage in menlo park made it into a legal company google was born in the excitement of the young democratic internet it's ambitions were even courageous levering the world's information to anyone with internet access but both the company and its uses have changed in twenty. google's business model is simple users searching the internet tell google about themselves allowing google to sell targeted advertising to businesses the firm i.p.o. that eighty five dollars a share in two thousand and four and quickly rose in value. new products like google mail and acquisitions like you tube expanded google from a search engine into an online network where users could shop news. as the mobile internet and apps began to rise google moved to make up ground to pioneer apple releasing the android operating system and app store. today google
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employs more than eighty five thousand people worldwide and is worth more than seven hundred billion dollars it has fifteen data centers around the world and that's part of the problem information is increasingly seen as something to protect tech firms are being held to new standards of social responsibility. and insight google pushes for gender diversity and against collaboration with governments like the u.s. or china. so a lot of transformation in only twenty years. and to talk more about this i'm joined in the studio now by d.w. business correspondent steven b. it's a good to see stephen i suppose the question is what's changed. more in the last twenty years is it google or is it popular opinion on tech like google well i think in one sense google hasn't changed very much over twenty years and that is that it is primarily an advertising programmer in fact eighty five percent of its revenues
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in the past quarter came from advertising but of course it is a massive tech firm with other ventures including artificial intelligence including cell tribe and cars and. of course we google things that's what we do what's interesting is that for their massive earnings seven hundred more than seven hundred billion dollars we heard they employ relatively few people and those tend to be very well educated people in urban areas and so there can be sort of an aloofness or offense oftenest to these massive tech firms you might not see in other areas other industrial firms for example you had the i'm sorry if you add to that you know sort of how we were looking at privacy you know how are looking at data and what you see is that taken together those two things have given us sort of a different view of tech firms like google and made it easier for them to be regulated than to be fine for them to be sort of challenged. another point i really want to bring up is the google relationship with china i mean it makes the left in
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twenty ten now we're hearing reports that it wants to pretend to the market that what would that mean for china right that's the so-called dragon fly project and that would be a sort of censored version of google the chinese authorities would be able to control the settings control the censorship settings google says that it's not close to bringing a search engine to the chinese market but of course by all accounts it would be difficult the first place to get that approval and to keep the backing but google does have other projects it has been cars driving car project it has artificial intelligence projects in china still has employees there it would be an enormous market for them but it's also a big challenge for them because of the human rights issues because of the censorship issues when google left in thousand two. thousand and ten it followed reports of chinese hacking into google systems looking for human rights activists are trying to dig up information on human rights activists and so you see more of a pushback against that and interestingly a lot of the pushback now comes from within google itself and not just about
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working with china but also as we heard in the piece about the role of women in the firm and working with other governments like the u.s. and the u.s. military right very briefly and google was the first. what distinguished it right your member ask jeeves you members and the other ones right these were firms that were out there want to see which google was that was simply better it was a better product that people wanted it was a more advanced algorithm that took a lot of different things into factor and so it outpaced its competitors and then it built on that lead and a lot of regulators would say practice sort of monopolistic behavior after that to advance on that lead requiring that phone makers install android certain. chrome browser extensions for example an android app stores things like that that would give them that lead and help to maintain in the mobile market so a bit of product a bit of. sort of help on the other hand the need of any business correspondent even if they thank you very much andy. well the german chancellor heads to frankfurt they say wesh deliver
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a speech on the future of the financial center america is well aware of the fact that when britain leaves the e.u. in march next year london's loss could well be frankfurt's again that's because brags that banks and financial service providers will no longer be able to do business in countries from the british capital but there's stiff competition including from the likes of paris. the eiffel tower the new four gallery or the octopus globally recognized parisian landmarks and germany's frankfurt cannot hold a candle to the its room a city hall pales in comparison still frankfurt is germany's financial hub and was so even before the european central bank was headquartered here that's why many in the banking district are cautiously optimistic about britain's exit from the e.u. . front foot isn't he a few known frankfurt's an important european financial center but it's also obvious that the city of london you know remains the european financial center it
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will take frank for quite some time to take the title now still that increasing number of london banks are looking at paris and frankfurt as alternatives because it seems clear that all people first don't lose the right to conduct business from their london offices over twenty financial institutes have already decided on frankfurt. fund for talking for time right for has the advantage that it's well established more so than paris frankfurt has the advantage of hosting the european central bank guys it's important for financial operators to be physically close to it to understand what's going on with paris got a boost with the european banking agency decided to relocate there from london with . the scheme group. frankfurt also. but paris was offering rent free offices and now paris is offering tax breaks for the banks as well. here watching t w he's from by live in tents. more coming up at the top all the hour.
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so clever. lots. of investment bankers conflict ourselves with her stock. everything is wrong the wanted to meet new reality the whole thing might blow up in my face of a system that spun out of control. problems that will. cause. the crash the investment bank lehman brothers start september thirteenth on t.w. . i'm max merrill and welcome to another week of euro max your daily dose of european lifestyle and culture let's take a look at what's in store for you today.
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