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i am. this is due to all the news coming to you live from berlin disaster strikes in africa as the biggest make more than a hundred passengers drowned as the ferry capsized on the victoria school that people are still missing inhibitions expect the deaths to draw it's also coming up a bad week fundamentally gets even bust stats and the new survey puts a conservatives on their lows to poll rating for two decades the far right
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alternative for germany mean by now the country's second biggest party. and an orphanage clad in greece so why as allegations about china are going to lead to muslim minorities good reports in much of the state is tearing children away from the parents. hello and welcome i'm on with that shima at least one hundred six hundred thirty six people have died after a ferry carrying more than four hundred passengers sank on lake victoria in tanzania in water risk you efforts are underway a day off to the disaster officials say chances of finding more survivors is low and the death toll is expected to rise about one hundred people have been rescued so far thirty two are said to be in a critical condition the ferry sank near the shore between the islands of your
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korda and google dora. people in the region on twitter have turned to the name of the boat and be done get it into a hash tag to express this sadness and frustration with what they see as an avoidable tragedy one woman from donna salaam tanzania is asking why is this still happening and be spies and be book call but and now nine hundred eighty the names of this and previous both involved in fatal accidents when will it stop my heart goes out to the families of those who lost their lives and are still missing hash tag and being i.d.d. meanwhile a kenyan blogger had this to say it goes without saying and being the idea of tragedy was bound to happen it was not a matter of when. but if precious lives lost in similar tragedies in tanzania and kenya have taught us nothing the lives of the poor are not even their own they
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don't matter rest in peace. for the very latest on the situation correspondent catherine wander joins me from nairobi catherine what's the latest from the disaster side and initial thoughts on the cause of the tragedy. now the rescue mission has officially turned into a recovery mission the navy doesn't expect to find any more survivors from here on out dozens of bodies have been retrieved within the last couple of hours and they expect to retrieve dozens more given that there was a market day there was a lot more people using the ferry and it's not quite clear still just the exact number of how many people were on this particular ferry and rita. as we heard many people are very angry about the frequency of accidents like this one why do we keep seeing disasters on lake victoria. well other than the fact that lake
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victoria has rough water. the main issue is overcrowding of these particular ferries this particular ferry had a capacity of one hundred people but then it was carrying well over that local authorities put that number between three hundred and four hundred people on board and this is including livestock including dyes including things like cement and you know me bags of maize so it was it was overloaded it was carrying more than it's capacity and this is mainly the reason why a lot of boats go down on lake victoria and cats have been any attempts made to improve safety on the waters of lake victoria. all governments this is uganda kenya and tanzania have been looking into ways to maintain their ferries in fact this particular ferry had undergone maintainance in the last couple of months it had its two engines over hold the issue is probably just implementation of the regulations that govern how many people get on board
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these ferries there are regulations that say that you shouldn't exceed the number of people required on the ferry but then now implementation down on the ground is one thing and that's probably what to governments are going to look forward or look into going forward how to implement so that these ferries that just carrying what they can bear. to do in nairobi thank you very much for that update. let me now bring you up to some other stories making news around the world german authorities are struggling to contain a more land fire that was sparked by military rocket tests which french wrong the find the citigroup saxony has been burning for nearly three weeks it has spread to an area the size of one house and football fields threatening to residential communities. the death toll from monsoon landslide in central philippines has risen to twenty two dozens of other people are still missing authorities forcibly
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evacuated people from five villages at risk of further landslides after days of heavy rains brought by typhoon court. the president of vietnam john di kwon has died at the age of sixty one state media says president kwang had suffered a serious illness and had been treated both at home and abroad he was vietnam's president since april two thousand and sixteen. authorities in peru have recovered more than seventeen hundred ancient artifacts richard instilled and from the country they include prehistoric relics from various lost civilizations in the andean nation the items of riprap created from europe the u.s. and other latin american countries. an american is on the increase in pressure after the results of a new poll here in germany only twenty percent of voters surveyed backed matters conservatives the last share in over two decades the survey also shows that the far
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right or turn to for germany has overtaken the center left to become the country's second biggest party for the first time ever with strife within a coalition and a surging opposition some are asking for how long can the chancellor hold on. it was still business as usual at german chancellor angela merkel's weekly cabinet meeting here the struggle to keep her coalition together is increasingly taking its toll. the latest germany trend by public broadcaster a.r.d. again sees merkel's coalition government lose its overall majority the conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. drops to twenty eight percent its worst result ever social democratic coalition partner s.p.d. is down to seventeen percent while the far right party has become the second strongest political force for the first time polling for the remaining parties has remained the same. weeks of public wrangling over what really happened on the
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streets of chemists with the f.d.a. and the extremist right closed ranks in demonstrations and the constant power struggle between matter and her interior minister horses. have hurt the government the promotion of germany's chief spy hunter a medical critic as a compromise way to remove him from office also appears to be backfiring on the very man who had the idea. machall critic and interior minister horsy who his approval ratings have plummeted eleven points since april to twenty eight percent. the head of the various conservative c.s.u. party is facing increasing criticism from within his own party ranks this latest poll again suggests the coalition wrangling is a major problem and is playing into the hands of the far right of d. . and for some analysis to the obvious chief political editor joins me from up on
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i'm interested yours as the sore gains for the far right if he according to the latest survey making is the second strongest party in the country what does this mean for chance i'm going to mecca. well it means that the pressure from the right certainly growing and that is really. just an expression of the weakness of her own coalition government right now i'm going to market is used to pressure she's used to pressure from the right but with her interior minister horse playing up in her own government and not being afraid of once again forcing upon her a potential government crisis which was now really averted. stands there weakened and also very visibly weakened for her european partners as well she knows she needs to find something to tackle the a d. from the right this latest poll puts it in second position but then again that's what a health warning on those polls we've learned that over the past two years and one of the reasons for these losses the survey shows both the conservative blogs. and
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the coalition part of the s.p.d. have lost support. yes appears to be really a punishment by the voters who really thought it was rather an appetizing what they had to see over the past weeks this wrangling over these chief spies somebody who clearly. somebody who's not in a political position makes political statements and is then promoted to get rid of him into a more political position is also rather complicated but in the end it boils down to the coalition being busy with itself and that's something the voters don't seem to approve of and you put a health warning on this but we have to remember there has been a fair bit of infighting within the coalition government and within the conservative bloc if this goes on could the country be heading for fresh elections . well we certainly first of all have those recent elections coming up in bavaria
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anything could really happen after that but the expectation really is that hospital for who's also the head of the bavarian sister party might not survive those elections this would throw a lot of questions into the open but it could also then be a relief for german chancellor merkel i think where we stand right now were far way off fresh elections and we're certainly seeing views made of her prime task together with the social democrats a coalition partner to avoid that pretty much any cost even if it means their own credibility don't receive political editor we can occur thank you very much to china now where up to a million muslims have been sent to reeducation camps in the past year they are reportedly dozens of them and province where mostly members of the riga muslim minority are thought to be headed for political indoctrination china has defended the camps a spot of a vital security move guarding against militants and separatists this after caused
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by germany and france for the camps closure. now there's evidence that regular children are being detained and sent to state orphanages far away from their parents activists say the camp see the count as an effort to dissolve the identity and culture of a prouty ethnic minority. with its music and cartoon characters the whole ton kindness kindergarden seems like just another place for kids to have fun but the barbed wire and barricading betray its real purpose as a de facto prison for muslim children. among those believed to be inside other children of we go muslim merit. a deal mohamed and abdullah. from clothing to food it's all chinese they're indoctrinating them with chinese culture and chinese customs so they sell
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their bacon there no living in turkey all but one of mera pets children were taken away while she was abroad caring for her six father. as well i wanted them to grow up with me i feel horrible. there isn't a day that goes by where i don't cry or. state security are always on high alert and she and jang province home to china as we go community. are people rocked by past and prone to protest. we were and it is where the government is accused of a brutal crackdown that has seen more than one million muslim center indoctrination camps like this one since last year. official response is in the language of anti terrorism. she injunction the measures are intended to promote
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stability development harmony and people's livelihoods and at the same time strike against ethnic separatists and terrorist opposition movements. back in turkey hard words for grieving mothers like mary pat but faith and family help. they get there if god gave me another chance to speak to my children i would say that i'm so sorry my children for. a systematic separation of parents and children. fears that beijing is on a campaign to raise identity one week ago child at a time. here watching the news coming up ahead. turkey's economy has kept on growing until now we see wanted a slow down could mean in business news. and don't forget you can get all the
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