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this is the w.'s line from berlin that the brutal scale of disaster all the earthquake and tsunami in indonesia starts three manage. to get to the top of such a vibrant begged to be airlifted out of the area as food and medicine run out some say they haven't eaten for days the government is trying to rush aid to the stricken region but it's facing many obstacles also coming up. german authorities in the flashpoint city of kenya say they've stopped planned attacks against
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foreigners and left wing activists seven men accused of forming a far right terrorist group have been arrested. once approved by congress this new deal will be the most modern up to date and balanced trade agreement in the history of our country high praise from the u.s. president for his country's new trade pact with mexico and canada trump says it's a right the wrongs of the old enough to agreement and will serve as a model for more trade deals to come plus the nobel academy on those two men for a landmark research in the battle against cancer we explain why james and his sons and to supraphon just groundbreaking work on cats of therapy could mark the start of a revolution in the fight against the disease. and the septuagenarian digital broadcasting golden oldies into the homes of the elderly on international day of older persons who hear just how much they enjoy reading or installed in england means to aging the. around the world.
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welcome to the show indonesia has started burying hundreds of dead in a mass grave that's after last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami that killed almost eight hundred fifty the death toll is expected to rise further as authorities reach areas cut off by the disaster tens of thousands of people are homeless and many survivors say they haven't eaten for days correspondent bastian hot issue reports now from one of the hardest hit cities. some of them have been waiting for days at the airport to get on one of the planes that are bringing in the eight. million users on forces are constantly airlifting in relief goods things that people here need most water food medication most of all
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and on the way back they're taking those who are desperately waiting to leave old people people or injured people who've lost their homes women and small children. and going to like you know me a. long run i'm over it and and i'm about to give birth like it absolutely did look at a given moment i heard that it's difficult to still get treatment at the hospital here so i have to go into a bigger city. in the city rescue workers find new bodies every day. the earthquake i think the english entire neighborhood. this is the end of a landslide that's about two kilometers long and that was caused by the earthquake and to understand the sheer force that was unleashed you just have to look at that building up there because that previously wasn't here but some one hundred meters down in that direction it was swept here by the moving soil now there are still
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some five hundred people believed to be buried here and a lot of the people over here on this side have lost relatives right here and they're waiting for them to be found. irwin lost his mother his brother and his nephew when so all the earth turned into a swirling board. that. when the ground started moving i went outside. lawns and the whole street rose up and it was like a wave and we were swept away because the it was like a whole opening and then slamming shut again. yeah. it would take its residents a long time to recover from what was destroyed in just a matter of seconds. and some. may never heal. well as the days passed since the earthquake and tsunami their destructive extent is slowly becoming clearer for more i'm now joined by frederick tillman his head of
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seismology at the helm watson potsdam german research center for geosciences thank you so much for joining us so what made this geological events so deadly i mean not all quakes that happened at sea end up with tsunami so what you need essentially is that. sea floor moves up or down over a large area by some significant amount so a few meters so. for you to get to certain earthquakes that have this kind of motion and you get a large punch up of a sea floor and a large tsunami and that's what happened in this position usually in that has mostly i mean from the seismology it looks like most horizontal motion and most of the earthquake making to it was large but not that large in terms of tsunami generation so it really took everyone by surprise but the tsunami was so large and so deadly you know one of the things that our reports referred to was that the earth was being turned into a swirling vortex and doing this earthquake in fact some survivors did say that the earth turned into liquid during the vent and i want us to miss and to what one man
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had to say. after the earthquake i saw the ground here moving in a circle spinning. it wasn't water it was the ground that was spinning. after it stopped i called out to my daughter sarah. rock where are you. so fragile that man being so clear that was moving what is the phenomenon that he's describing that this is something the thames from the shaking is very strong and it shakes oil that is of water then essentially the little grains that make up the make the stability they lose contact with each other and would take its freight and just before so it starts behaving like a liquid so as he was a half it really has a sink into the liquefied. and indonesia's warning system i just want to focus on that for a second for tsunamis has obviously been highly criticised but that system was
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largely provided by you organization did it well function so that. warning system is a whole chain that needs to work to give us in the beginning they have a sense as for initial warning the only sense is a. fever shaking and based on the snow of picnicking to decide termed the location and this part of the system functioned well so a warning was issued after five minutes of it was a little bit over estimated and then this warning goes from b m k g which is the office in indonesia of it deals with this tsunami warning to the local then responsible for it creating. reports so far upon it is there was no real warning on the ground that might have been because the communication was disrupted youth was shaking so they take a mobile phone tossed on to says levy can only speculate what went wrong in this spot but the first part of his system would take a good warning for the initial tsunami that worked the other thing that went wrong is that tsunami warning was cancelled or
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a news lee after half an hour we don't really know the reasons for this but i believe it was because of picnicking is and was one identified as doesn't close in on these so. it was a very difficult call to make for these operators in the tsunami warning center. another thing that's been reported is of this is done predicted waves would be up to three meters high but in fact what ended up having happening is that they were twice about height. is not a significant problem yeah that is still a mystery why they were so large so we run the simulations with more time and we still find very small way flights of even less like one to two meters so there are different reasons i was quite certain the earthquake could have triggered the submarine landslide which then caused a tsunami of its own that happened previously and pop one again in one thousand nine hundred eight and this is very difficult to detect as bush no system that can convey this office i was reminded japan that we invest most of all countries no word on that tsunami warning system to force an eleven what's the initial height of
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the tsunami quite wrong right it's a very difficult ok seismologist frederick tillman thank you for joining us all right here in germany police have detained seven men on suspicion of forming a far right terrorist group in the eastern city of can it's one of the men was arrested two weeks ago while six more were taken into custody today federal prosecutors say they plan to carry out attacks against foreign as and left wing activists. under heavy security the six men arrested today were rushed to the rest hearings state prosecutors say communications between the suspects indicate they were preparing an attack for this wednesday germany's unification day holiday. i. believe that there's still a communications indicates that the cues to join together in order to carry out violent assaults and attacks both against foreigners and against those who hold
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different political views for and there is nothing. they also show that the accused had made intensive efforts to obtain fire. in the communications also show that they had a clear plan. prosecutors say five of the suspects were involved in an incident on september the fourteenth allegedly intended as practice for a larger attack on unification day. the suspects used last bottle still knuckle gloves and tasers to attack an in-joke foreigners. this is very serious otherwise the police and justice departments would not have reacted this is the effect of our zero tolerance policy on the right wing radicals and right wing extremism and that's why it's right that the police and judicial authorities are acting so resolutely it's going to put it. into. the terrorist cell the suspects are accused of forming is called revolution came next
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named after the eastern city where the fatal stabbing of a german man in august prompted the angriest anti foreigner protest germany has seen in years. and for more i'm now joined by our chief political correspondent melinda crane so melinda what more can you tell us about these people who've been arrested. the six men who were arrested today are all between twenty and thirty they are german citizens and they belonged to the skinhead neo nazi far right scene different groups associated with that scene in the city of chemist's they also apparently see themselves as leaders of the far right movement in the overall state of saxony which is in eastern germany now they were working together with a seventh man named christian k it's practically a practice here in germany not to use the last name for privacy reasons mr christian kay was detained in the middle of september after that attack you just
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heard about in the report on september fourteenth he was detained for violence against foreigners and presumably some of the information we're now getting from the prosecutors it does come from the ongoing investigations with christian ok and what we also know is that this group the men founded apparently sometime around september eleventh shortly before those attacks on the fourteenth of september this group how does its goal not only isolated attacks on foreigners on prominent members of society on journalists but also actually toppling the democratic order in germany so many into what do these arrests tell us about the risk of far right tara here in germany. well we've heard a number of german politicians at both federal and state level state being the state of saxony in eastern germany saying that this is an important brillo against a right wing terrorism but germany's justice minister for example says that it also illustrates how high the threat is and she said this group revolution chemist's
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does not stand alone and clearly the authorities in saxony share that view they have now decided to start a task force on on terror and violence and we've heard politicians in saxony saying the threat of right wing violence in that state in that region is high and existential in the words of one green politician and it's important to remember that we have seen other anti foreign right wing initiatives in this region starting with the movement against the so-called islam is ation of germany that was founded in the saxon state. and we also saw just in march of this year people arrested as belonging to a far right group called flight hall that it also perpetrated violence against foreigners so it is definitely an ongoing threat d.w. chief political correspondent melinda crane thank you time now for some of the
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other stories making news around the world for my ivory coast president or has asked the international criminal court in the hague to acquit him of crimes against humanity. has been in detention for seven years and on trial of the i.c.c. since twenty sixteen he faces four counts of crimes against humanity for his alleged involvement in deadly violence after the country's disputed twenty tent presidential election. police in somalia say a suicide car bomber has targeted an e.u. convoy carrying italian military trainers in mogadishu one civilian was killed and several soldiers were injured. group has claimed responsibility for the blast. rescuers in argentina have successfully returned. back wheel to the open sea they used a special harness and crane as well as ocean tides to just watch the animal it was then guided by boat out to deeper water more than thirty people were involved in
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the two day. you're watching news still to come facing expulsion corresponded with the residents of a palestinian village slated for demolition following a ruling by israel's supreme court. protesters in north and spain marked the anniversary of a banned referendum on catalan independence one year on how united in the separatist movement. will have years here with the business and the nafta saga seems to be coming to an end finally and if you're tired of hearing the good news is it's getting a new name so we won't be talking about nafta that often anymore the united states and canada have agreed to a deal to replace the after free trade agreement that is according to a u.s. official who said it will be renamed the united states mexico canada agreement until now canada had rist out of the deal reached in august between the u.s. and mexico to update nafta but last minute talks between auto and washington
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guaranteed that all three members will be in the new version of the tree. it's my great honor to announce that we have successfully completed negotiations on a brand new deal to terminate and replace nafta and the nafta trade agreements with an incredible new us mexico canada agreement called us m.c.a. it's out of this us president donald trump is finally happy with a new trade deal under his belt. canadian prime minister justin trudeau was in good spirits too after a cabinet meeting in ottawa. the final stumbling blocks had been removed there will be no tariffs on the two point six million cars that are made in canada and sold in the u.s. but there was still no sign of an agreement on tariffs on canadian steel and aluminum exports canada says it is a good deal because the country can also go to an independent referee when it has
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a trade dispute with the u.s. and doesn't have to subject itself to u.s. courts that part of the old nafta treaty survived the government in washington says it's been able to negotiate a much better deal for american farmers as canada gave in to u.s. demands to open its highly protected dairy market. once approved by congress this new deal will be the most modern up to date and balanced trade agreement in the history of our country with the most advanced protections for workers ever developed in mexico the government was relieved that the new free trade deal includes all north american countries just like the old treaty the u.s. and mexico would already agreed to a new deal in august mexico accepted that more industrial production will take place in the u.s. to protect american jobs all three economies are highly interwoven and all three governments are relieved that
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a last minute compromise has been reached. diesel car drivers in germany have one more thing to worry about as part of the aftermath of the diesel gate scandal the government is trying to prevent cities from batting diesel cars from the streets one of the turnit of solutions essentially give state aid to those who buy new less polluting cars but what about the rest no one is against making things more environmentally friendly the problem is defining who is going to pay. german drivers are fuming especially the ones who drive diesels they have no idea if their cars will soon be allowed on city streets of the fifty six million cars in the country almost one third to use diesel fuel some car makers have already recalled vehicles and reduce their emissions by retrofitting diesel engines usually with a software update so far the industry isn't saying how many cars still need retrofitting diesel drivers are also in the dark about what comes next.
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yasmina for me my family is already thinking about buying a new car. and i'm really worried in fact i'm outraged with the new cars that they're making at least they ought to be clean. it's been three years since the diesel emissions cheating scandal broke despite this new diesel cars are still being sold whose emissions far exceed european limits on nitrogen oxides the chemicals that cause smog test show folks diesel models put out nearly twice as much nitrogen oxide as is permitted b m w's diesels emit three times the limit and opel models exceed those pollution limits on average by a factor of ten. diesel has been popular in germany in recent years because the fuel is cheaper than gasoline the cars are also significantly more fuel efficient. even last year more than one point three million new diesel cars were sold that
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compares to nearly two million gasoline powered cars that were registered. the share of diesel vehicles in new registrations has fallen since diesel gate and the value of used diesels has plummeted if they find a buyer at all. i would back with more business news later on to them but you seem to think you have it and we go and look at what's happening with the palestinian residents of a west bank village who are bracing for the demolition of their homes israel says that can and kept meant of corrugated shacks outside an israeli settlement was illegally built and is in an unsafe location near a major highway israel has offered to resettle residents a few miles away and what it says are improved conditions but critics say the inhabitants don't want to move and if the demolition goes ahead it will make room for the expansion of an israeli settlement. every day in the serene of the who
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tends to have families sheep and goats the situation is difficult she says her village is under threat of demolition by the israeli authorities. given we've been here a long time we've built a school we're trying to get ahead they saw us getting an education and now they want to the militia school and our houses. the bedouin village of. them in the occupied west bank over one hundred eighty people live in simple structures right next to their livestock after many years of legal battle or the village was cleared for demolition by israel's high court back in may and now some time ago residents were given a deadline to evacuate the plays spoke to both first. in a statement the civil administration said residents had to tear down this track just themselves the state contends they were built illegally. palestinians here say it is almost impossible to obtain a building permit in the israeli controlled area c.
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in the occupied west bank although the school was also built without a permit it was funded by the e.u. . its premises have now become a meeting point for activists international observers including the un say that the forcible move of its population violates international law critics also say the surrounding settlements could expand a round jerusalem and effectively cut the occupied west bank into two. the residents don't want to move israel has offered to relocate them to another site not far away from a garbage dump. to iraq now where fears are growing that the recent killings of a number of influential women may be linked now last week a women's rights activist was shot dead outside a supermarket in the city of basra just days later social media star with millions of followers was gunned down in broad daylight. social media and it's. so jerry and
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this is some really shocking killings what is going on so you just mention to the people who have been recently killed have actually been for since all of it and so people are now starting to worry that they could be a campaign a push in iraq to to silence prominent women particularly women who are sort of bucking the conservative norms in iraq i want to tell you about. she is a former beauty queen who built an enormous social media profile she had three million followers on instagram and her profile was pretty typical for any instagram influence showing off makeup showing off tattoos in outfits pictures we've heard someone who on the one hand is a typical twenty two year old who documents her life on social media remember this is iraq prisons like this really stands out and you could argue is a political statement against conservative norms in her country and we know it had
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a lot of fans almost three million but she had a lot of detractors as well and she received a lot of criticism in height online for what she was doing and very sadly last thursday while she was driving through baghdad she was gunned down while driving her car so what are authorities saying about terrorist killing and also the other right so if you look on the face of it it does seem like there may be a link and for that reason the prime minister of iraq has asked the interior ministry to look into what we should do now is take a look at the other people who sadly lost their lives in recent months to other prominent figures in iraq he also knew their names are roughly three and russia they were killed in the space of just one week in baghdad back in august they were in her social circle and just last week two days before far as was killed human rights activists ali was shot dead in by. in southern iraq she was
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a prominent campaign of women's rights and better services in her city sorry in really the space of one month very tragic number of killings in iraq so how have iraqis reacted to these deaths so people want answers basically some people are saying well look iraq's security situation isn't great to begin with so maybe it was a coincidence these were maybe these were random attacks and others are saying will now there is a push to silence people with a prominent profile online and someone who definitely thinks that the that's the case is i mean. she is a former miss iraq with a huge instagram following as well in this video she posted to social media she told her followers that she had been receiving death threats after his death and text messages warning that she'd be next a really terrible situation for her and all the women who are using themselves to build up an online profile in iraq and of course as i said the government's
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investigating we're going to be tracking the story social media thank you. in spain's catalonia region protest as a marking the one year anniversary of a referendum on breaking away from madrid the vote was banned by the spanish authorities and plunged the country into a political crisis here later pro independence demonstrators have been rallying in this streets demanding that their voices be heard. i independence activists marching in the streets of the council on capital barcelona they also sat down on the tracks of the railway station in the town of hit owner while out in the countryside they temporarily blocked the highway was all coming right steve vents of a year ago when spanish police heavy handedly broke up an attempt to hold a referendum on catalonia dependence spanish courts have declared the referendum illegal triggering the nation's greatest political crisis in decades huge crowds
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came out to call for independence. from your own and the castle own independence movement is fractured its leaders in jail or in exile from belgium the most prominent leader colors pushed them on sent out this message. the victory of october first must stay alive in our heads and our hearts. let us not stray from the only path we must follow in order to live in a full democracy that is a catalan republic and international recognition that national was cut or local between the regional and national administrations has so far delivered some economic deals for catalonia but the demonstrators on bustling the streets know that the talks are marred amid internal discord between separatists and the socialist government in madrid that is weakened by having only a way for a thin majority in parliament. here watching data being used still to come in an exclusive interview with ugandan opposition leader bobby why i tell you about his
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dreams for social equality in his country. and the need to fill the head deejays broadcasting golden oldies and reaching. the lives of others see me as an adolescent only. over taking a really short break we'll be back in exec a one minute stay. on the. cigarette filters the silent killer lives. each day cigarette box a kid to see thrown away finishing the ground and water feels to come. researches and environmentalist are demanding a stop to this cigarette butts poisoning the environment. to stop you know forty five minutes w. . i'm not laughing at the germans because somebody found but they stand
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all time for me to tell everyone what's going on the fight courageous activists cut their guns to come march you know cold. ok so starts october ninth the w. welcome back here with the top stories rescuers in indonesia scrambling to reach the earthquake and tsunami almost eight hundred fifty people are confirmed dead and authorities save that number is likely to cry as the government is struggling to deal with the aftermath of the disaster has appealed for international help. seven men have been arrested on suspicion of forming a far right terrorist group in the eastern city of kenya federal prosecutors say
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the men planned to carry out attacks against foreigners and leftwing activists. this year's nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to immunologists from the u.s. and japan james alison and to work focuses on harnessing the body's natural defenses to fight cancer the swedish academy says the therapy they developed which has fewer devastating side effects like you mf'er has revolutionized cancer treatment can you fight cancer without resorting to surgery or chemotherapy yes if your immune system recognizes dangerous cancer cells the problem is cancer is very good at hiding from the immune system the body's so you are defenders often don't detect the diseased intruders nobel prize winners to go and. looked at ways to get around this problem. they worked with the moon cells called
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t. cells that are stopped cold by molecular breaks and found ways to switch some of those breaks off and if i release this break in the cell it's b. c. also in our patients that then they respond better to any other kind of treatment that as they are because this break it's loosened and this is a fantastic idea and will help many cancer treatments to be more successful so called immune checkpoint therapy is a groundbreaking approach that still undergoing intense testing until now doctors fought cancer by attacking cancer cells directly with treatments like radiotherapy surgery or chemotherapy because they rally the body's own forces though the treatments developed by one joe and allison generally have fewer side effects than those conventional treatments and they have helped cancer patients who otherwise had run out of options. so there's a broad spectrum because the mechanism is a very general make an ism if you could go to
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a menu different to most. some new period piece to be expected from this type of principle so to sukkot one joe and james p. ellison received the nobel prize in medicine because they've laid the foundations for a new pillar in cancer therapy one that helps the body fight the condition all on its own. and the w.'s dairy queen anne's joins me now to tell us about the nobel committee's decision first of all thanks for joining us the nobel committee called this work a landmark in the fight against cap so why is that well it's a landmark because in the past the treatments that we've always used to fight again to fight cancer the traditional treatments conventional treatments involved chemotherapy or radiotherapy or surgery so you have the doctors basically from outside the body trying to get into the body and stop the cancer that was unfortunately it's an ineffective way to fight cancer quite often cancer is able to avoid those those those therapies and so what this particular therapy does is it
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harnesses the the immune system itself the body's immune system itself in order to fight against the cancer which is what makes it actually a landmark a new paradigm if you will of this kind of treatment and where reporting that it functions as a brake on the moon system but what does it all it mean explain it in late well the immune system the way the immune system works is that it has to be able to recognize what is the body's tissue what's its healthy tissue and what's in the invaders so it's there's this divide within you know the immune system between self and non-self and the problem with cancer cells is that they start out as self but then they go wrong somewhere along the way and so cancer cells are actually able to hide from the immune system very effectively which is why your immune system doesn't attack them because obviously within the immune system itself you have to have these sort of checks and balances you have to have these breaks that's. stop the immune cells these killer cells these t. cells from attacking healthy tissue if you have if that happens you end up with an
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autoimmune disease that's a very common thing that you often see nowadays auto immune diseases now what these researchers have done is they've gone in and they've they've found these molecular switches that stop these t. cells from attacking the cancer cells they flip them off and bang they go after it in some cases it's been with briley remarkable results and have we seen this research having an effect perhaps on cancer patients already know it is it is having an effect on cancer patients the problem is that we don't really know why if it works so well with particular patients around one in five patients they say the tumors just disappear almost completely as they melt away like ice in the sun but with others it doesn't work as well and with some actually it causes fairly serious fairly serious side effects because what you're doing by removing these checks and balances is you're giving free rein to these really veracious cells in your immune system so there's still
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a long way to go in order to understand how we need to use this particular therapy and with which patients and when but it's definitely it's going to be a huge new tool in the toolbox for fighting cancer in the future derek williams thank you so much for that take down. the pop star turned politician known as the wind has been hailed as the new face of uganda's opposition with his message of hope and freedom and inclusive it has built a large following especially among the country's younger generation but he's seen as a menace by long time president yoweri was seventy one was arrested on treason charges and says he was tortured while in detention in an exclusive interview with the wind describes his vision for a free uganda. world. that. he has legions of fans. both as a pop star and since winning a parliamentary seat last year as an independent candidate robert neeson time known
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to fans of the wine is a powerful opposition voice in uganda especially among young people frustrated by president yoweri museveni. just want to live in a country where all of us and all of us. no matter how you our tribe nobody knows you know what which from the new come from that's it can do one where i was just as gun feeling safe you know where they do not have to think about giving back you know is that why you do vision for uganda but most importantly want to have the freedom to even imagine all those things because now it seems like we're not allowed to. whines outspoken criticism of the government has landed him in trouble he's been arrested and since he was badly beaten in custody he's currently awaiting trial on what he calls trumped up charges of treason. you know.
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that scared me of course everybody wants to. live peacefully i understand but again when i think about the. two hours of oppression that we have already and i've been there's nothing to fear i mean more. decide to gain our freedom only to be slaves when you go. to nick named the ghetto president mine has a deep feeling among the urban poor and unemployed. he is calling for a president who is seventy to retire he insists he does not have presidential ambitions. i think which you know presidency is they are ninety this should not be renewed just. so now i say that before and i'll say it again that this is not about me is about all of us and we need all of us each one needs to play their part i'm not surprised that this is not just my message it is
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our message. to my jury to over us who feel oppressed and yes i feel a canteen is increasingly cutting across many great people that have gone before me they have sent the same message i'm only doing my words and i'm sure many will come up to me is one of us keeps being one until the liberation day will come but the singer became a musical celebrity three songs that tackled issues such as poverty and corruption . and still using his music to combine ugandans to demand political freedom they see it you. will have is back with the business news and a shakeup in one of germany's biggest companies that's right one that took many by surprise to some clip famous for its steel and also for its elevators is splitting into the company says the move will allow it to be more competitive in the very diverse markets it serves after years of turmoil the new c.e.o.
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promised no further job cuts and officially kissed the company's crisis good buy. this is how a german industrial giant corp likes to present itself innovative with an eye to the future but the steel and industrial component producer is having to take drastic action to see that future come to pass european steel prices plunged in two thousand and eleven after cheap chinese steel began to flood world markets to soon cope was hit hard by the low commodity prices leading to liquidity issues and a twenty seven percent drop in its share price it now thinks splitting into two companies will help it deal with a changing market the supervisory board approved the measure over the weekend the plan will see one company taking over the steel and construction material production which has almost forty thousand employees and a turnover of about eighteen billion euros the second company will inherit to some
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groups elevator and automotive component business with around ninety thousand employees and sales of around sixteen billion euros interim c.e.o. care call for head both companies for the long term unions and employee representatives have given their blessing as no jobs will be lost but it could take up to eighteen months before the shareholders decide at a general meeting whether they agree with the split after all experts expect restructuring costs of around one billion euros. to rwanda now a country that wants to jump on the digital ization wagon the current government has been pushing technological developments for years helped by state aid from foreign countries and germany is not the exception and you facility for entrepreneurs was just unveiled in the capital kigali to kick start newly founded companies. they're all around thirty thousand motorized tanks he blocks on the streets of could golly. not gave kind of move julia
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a business idea a blight washed on servicing station which he opened two years ago. he now has around four thousand regular customers served by thirty stuff the bikes are clean by hand here in the markets we we're entering is an easy one and the business is to start over the issue overcome so many challenges and and we need a heart of our customers to a point where we're really happy with what we're getting into and very confident about the future so i will say proud and very happy. and he's now got an extra help an office in the new vest availability in kigali provide start of this like his with modern workplaces with computers three d. printers laser cutters and training. these entrepreneurs are already their country's heroes they take chances that pay off they want to
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create something and that's a big opportunity the more support they get from government the better the chances of the country's development. rwanda has a young population a growing number of people in the capital have a smartphone and a frequent use of ups on the internet the government is committed to further digitalisation although for now it's primarily urban populations who are benefiting in all the tribulation over kigali is tech rise it's easy to forget that this rather the exception than the rule forty percent of all ruined these lives below the poverty line most outside and rural areas seventy percent don't have internet access so too many in this country new apps and startups are quite meaningless. it's all for business but it's time now for the sports action and been handed back to it that's right heavy and we go straight to the bone to see go where hanover went into their match up with frankfurt on a fifteen game win less streak away from home and found for it took full advantage
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of their opponent struggles. frankfurt's world cup runner up and say read it return to the starting line up for the first time this season and his presence seemed to inspire his teammates. in the thirty six minutes of astronaut less set up evan and deacon and the nineteen year old frenchman scored his first goal. surely before the break out there was the provider again setting out right which he made it to nil and over far too passive already the game look beyond the fact that we're just as dominant after half time great it spectacularly term provider for jonathan it goes man. three nil just after the hour mark. and over did manage a consolation goal florent mostly a reduce the deficit in the eighty six minute. but there was still time for you to make it for one and kept a perfect day for frankfurt. for to much of the response from the team was
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exceptional it was a deserved win that will definitely do us a lot of good versus a good. team secure their first home victory of the season and increase the pressure on hanover they're still without a win after six games. this season's going to sleep the table is taking shape after six match days docklands a win over labor corps and combined with ions lost. means more and are on top beneath the top three play men and life's all on eleven points down at the bottom it's also tight town over in last place and still mean less after six games shocker have finally moved up from the cellar. now today is the international day of order past and so we're going to take you on a radio station to a radio station in southern england that's run by the elderly for the elderly radio angels specializes in print one nine hundred sixty is music and is run by dozens of
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volunteers most of whom are actually over seventy but for many of its listeners around the world radio enjoy is about so much more than just hearing their favorite golden or the. one of angel radio's top presenters arrives at the studio in the southern english town of haven't. eighty six year old mildred french spins discs here the best of the thirty's forty's and fifty's. we can call their sales d.j. survey a percentage d.j.'s a people talk over the top records is something we can do. if people have requested something. mildred is one of eighty volunteers at the station most of them are over seventy she's played music here for eighteen years. when we
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were off air that time and we had to find. somebody that one of has if you haven't you know he said then he said i know what it's like to have my life support turned off it means that much to. say this is why we sit here and do it the receptionists takes on requests from listeners they often have long conversations with loyal fans in southern england and thanks to the internet around the world tony smith founded angel radio in one nine hundred ninety nine when no other station was playing his favorite songs it became about more than just music. what did very quickly discover were the only people who were firmly a sop and asking for record requests bartz they really just wanted to chat. it's just really nice to do something unique for people. maybe seventy year old maid a smith is one of them aside from the songs she requests she enjoys listening to local news general advice and good conversation. never lonely when i've got the
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radio on and the fact that you can interact and talk to somebody that means a lot because otherwise you're on your around for hours and hours and not talking to her so you know. in the big angel radio family top across seventy one is new blood he play sixty's music for the younger fans. destroys them but nothing to rock this topic plays dulcet tones that convey enjoy radio's motto life really starts at sixty six. in. the world premiere at the latest theater production from british great a director so lame and out awesome in munich the piece explores more than four
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thousand years of arab history and in three languages it tells a story of the mythic arab city who are taking us through the political violence of the modern day and looking forward to an imagined more hopeful future. culture editor scott roxbury is here with us to talk to us about that so first for those who don't know his name can you tell us a bit more about the director of the layman. yeah about some is a really well known in the theater world maybe not so much outside of it but he's a really big name the theater world i mean his productions and put on by the royal shakespeare company by by peter brookes a company in paris in new york and in japan and he is born he was born kwaito. the father and british mother but educated in london and he bridges himself bridges those two cultures and so does his work he's really well known for doing. adaptations of shakespeare for example he wants to do richard the third but set in
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modern day middle east and so he's really he writes in both arabic and english and often combines the two in his works so that's sort of what he's known for and this play is also a similar thing but i think will which had its premiere in munich on friday actually is probably the most ambitious work yet it's a very complex story i don't know if i can describe it what a few sentences but we have a piece maybe just to set it up it starts off thousands of years ago and it's based on a a myth about this arab city of oil which is apparently in a very open and tolerant society and it kicks off just before it's about to fall let's take a look. two thousand years before christ daughter of the. over the mesopotamian city. and she has a vision to abolish weapons instead of making wounds soldiers should be writing poems believing in the power of poetry frozen open the gates of the city and takes
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a prisoner. it's also a rebellion against a male society that doesn't chalo at the taking of such liberties. according to legend the city is destroyed but his memory lives on handed down through generations this story is the basis of. some play. my intention in writing those scenes was to really try to use this very ancient samarian text which is one of the first texts in the history of of human poetry which is a law mentation for the destruction of the city of war and i wanted to use that as a starting point. to look. at the destruction of contemporary cities in the world. four thousand years later is not mixtape terrorists looking to
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wipe out the symbols of earlier cultures and anyone who chooses to defend the place looks at the utopia of an open and tolerant society and. it's also a direct example of successful into cultural communication. that is in three languages and brings together actors from different backgrounds even we arab actors are not so similar we've had different experiences and come from different backgrounds so it was a new experience for us to perform together and then there were the differences between us and the german actors this was where completely different theatre traditions came together that was particularly exciting the challenge of how we can form a group of. multiple voices multiple points of view and a plea not to give up hope for a peaceful coexistence very different viewpoints. like this is not the only
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story because it was a few it was good but i still have to think about it i think we're living in a challenging moment and i think it was a challenge for you to a successful joint venture. of migration and one that points to the future of the it's. all right so scott it looks like this play is taking on some really big themes here and we're talking about migration terrorism history does it all work yeah well i think that's good depend on each individual member of the audience as i think the last person said in that in that piece it is a very challenging work. maybe it's not for everyone but i really thought of fasting because the sort of core idea of this play is what is an open and tolerant society how does it work out and what happens when we forget about this whole idea . of an open and tolerant society and i think structurally what's interesting about the play is how he connects this ancient story of supposedly
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this ancient arab city which was open and tolerant and then was destroyed to the real life destruction of the syrian city which the so-called islamic state invaded and obliterated more or less and remember in twenty fifteen. was essentially a living museum it was a had culture going back twelve thousand years and then isis arrived and. sensually destroyed everything every bit of culture they could find. trying to sort of wipe out even the memory of the history of the culture in that area and so this play really is looking i mean essentially you could say is asking the question is. can we live in an open and tolerant society and can we learn from history and avoid this kind of thing in the future so can we i mean this is a very difficult question does a play provide an answer at least well not really and i think that's sort of the
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point also is that message that a hollywood movie and it doesn't give a nice happy ending either so the story itself is they maybe not that optimistic but the director. says the making of the production is optimistic because in the production itself you have arab actors and european actors writing together you've multiple languages he said that itself the production itself is a symbol of tolerance is the symbol perhaps of hope even if the story itself is a bit of a downer all right i want us to look at something different here some sad news today about one of the world's great songwriters charles. many will know some people called the french frank sinatra a french i mean singer songwriter has died today ninety four years old he's a phenomenal talent to some people called the greatest honor to. of all time actor singer and songwriter just last year he finally got his star on the hollywood walk of fame and here we have him in his some of his early performances from nine
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