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biala guest at frankfurt airport cd managed by for. this is the w. news live from devastation and the desperate search for survivors in indonesia survivors of the earthquake and tsunami of back to be airlifted out of the area food and medicine are running out of the fish will say the death toll will rise stay play over the coming days also on the program. will sources in germany's flash point city of cabinet say they have stopped planned attacks against far less than
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left wing activists seven men have been arrested and accused of forming a far right terror group. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program indonesia has started burying hundreds of dead in a mass grave following last week's devastating earthquake and tsunami efficient death toll stands at eight hundred fifty but that's expected to increase as authorities reach areas cut off by the disaster tens of thousands of people homeless and many survivors say they haven't eaten for days they w. correspondent bastin hottie is on the island or so away say in reports from apollo one of the places hardest hit. all they want is to get out. some of them have been waiting four days at the airport to get on one of the planes that are bringing in the eight. indonesia's armed forces are constantly airlifting
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in relief goods things that people here need most water food medication most of all 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 let you know me a little. i'm going in and i'm about to give birth it absolutely did 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
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down in that direction it was swept here by the moving soil now there are still 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. there when 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. ones and the whole street rose up and it was like a wave and we were swept away because the it was like a hole opening and then slamming shut again.
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it's one of the man was arrested two weeks ago six more were taken into custody today federal prosecutors say. it's a plan to carry out. activists. security the six men arrested today. state prosecutors say communications between the. i. believe that there are still communicate actions indicates that the queues have joined together in order to carry out violent assaults and attacks both against foreigners and against those who hold different political views for and there's nothing. they also showed that the accused had made intensive efforts to obtain
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firearms 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 glass bottle steel knuckle gloves and tasers to attack an inch of foreigners oh yes. 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 pull it. into. the terrorist cell this announcement to accused of filming is called revolution came and it's named after the eastern city where the fatal stabbing of a german man in groups prompted the angriest anti foreigner protests germany has
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seen and you. get more from the double is chief political correspondent belinda crime and welcome what more do we know about the suspects these men are all german citizens between twenty and around thirty years of age and they're known to the police to be associated with neo nazi hooligan and right wing extremist groups in the city of candidates and apparently a number of them also they see themselves as leaders of the right wing movement in the larger eastern german state of saxony to which candidates belongs they were working together with a man named christian k who is known as the ringleader of the group he has been in detention since the middle of september since one of those protests in cabinets and the group were as you said calling themselves revolution chemists and their aim seems to have been not only isolated attacks on foreigners or people of other political persuasion but in fact toppling the democratic system here in germany as
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a whole so big and so it does sound as though the risk of far right tara remains high here in germany that's what german officials are staying both federal and at state level the interior minister said these arrests were a real blow against right wing extremism but he also did say yes the threat remains in the justice minister said that she is sure this group does not stand alone and in fact if we look at this region that's region of chemist's in the larger eastern german region of saxony it's not just since late august that we have seen right wing violence in fact this is the region where the movement against the islam is a show. germany known as piggy has held enormously larger rallies ever since twenty fifteen it's also the region where eight people were convicted and sent to prison in march this year
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a group known as frightened they had been attacking refugee centers so it is a region seen as a hotbed of right wing extremism and local authorities said today they are forming a new task group in saxony to look at the right wing violence that is on the rise there and that they do see this as an ongoing a large and existential threat in the words of one politician linda craig thank you . now to some of the other stories making news around the world this year's nobel prize for medicine spin awarded to two immunologist from the united states and japan james alison that to sukkot home joe's work focuses on how the body's natural defenses can five cancer the swedish academy says their discoveries have revolutionized cancer treatment. thousands of cattle on protesters have taken to the streets of boss alone marking the first anniversary of a disputed independence referendum was about and by spanish authorities. catalan
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society remains deeply divided over the separatist movement. french singer shells as a void has died at the age of ninety four often described as france the surface france is frank sinatra sold more than one hundred million records during a career that spanned seventy years the legendary crooner rushes themselves which often broke to blues singing about topics such as marriage and homosexuality he died at home in southeastern france. i was twenty and residents of the west bank village of bracing for the demolition of their homes israel says the calm a mob an incumbent of corrugated shacks outside an israeli settlement was illegally built these in an unsafe location near a major highway israel has offered to resettle residents a few miles away what it says improve conditions but critics say the inhabitants don't want to move and that if the demolition goes ahead it will make room for the expansion of an israeli settlement. every day in the salina of the who tends to
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have families sheep and goats the situation is difficult she says her village is under threat of demolition by the israeli authorities. given her 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 you. the bedouin village of. new twosome 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 place spoke to a boat first. in a statement the civil administration said residents had to tear down this truck just themselves the state contends they were built illegally. palestinians here say
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it is almost impossible to obtain a building permit in the israeli controlled area c. 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 expanded around 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 there are fears that the recent killings of a number of influential women may be linked last week a women's rights activist was shot dead outside a supermarket in the city of basra face later social media star with millions of followers was gunned down in broad daylight social media is jarid read east. what's
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going to fulfill you just mention two of the people who've been killed recently but actually they've been for since august and people are starting to worry in iraq that there might be some sort of coordinated campaign underway to try and silence prominent women particularly women who have bucking the conservative norms in iraq firstly i want to tell you about farai she is a former beauty queen who built an enormous social media profile almost three million followers on instagram and what she was posting was pretty typical for any kind of influence on instagram showing off her makeup and her clothes and her car we're looking at someone who is a pretty typical instagram celebrity who documents their life on social media we have to remember this is iraq a presence like this really does stand out and you could argue she's making a political statement generally against these conservative norms that dominate her country and as we saw tara had a lot of fans almost three million but she had
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a huge amount of detractors as well and she received the enormous amount of height online and very sadly last day while she was driving through baghdad in her car she was shot dead ok so hers was one of a number of killings that have raised suspicions what are authorities saying well basically when you look at them all together it does look like something's amiss here and the prime minister of baghdad has asked the interior ministry to investigate now what we can do now is look at the other people who've very sadly recently lost their lives firstly to other prominent figures in iraq who knew tara their names are. really. on that were killed in the spice of just one week in baghdad back in olga's they were in the same social circle and last week two dies before far as was killed a human rights activist named so waddle ali was shot dead in the city of basra she
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was a prominent campaign a full body. women's rights and for better services in basra so within the space of a month really a number of tragic killings of women in iraq and so how are iraqis reacting to these iraqis want some answers basically they want to know why women prominent women being killed and some people saying well look the security situation in iraq isn't grice these could be random attacks but other people suspects that these women have been singled out because of their presence online their prominence someone who definitely thinks that is a person code she. a former missy rock with also a huge instagram following in this video she posted to social media she told her follow was that she'd been receiving death threats to tara's five atara fars is killing and also text messages warning that she would be next sorry a really terrible situation for people like her and other women in iraq who are
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using the internet to to build up their profiles and we'll be tracking this story of course gerrard's reach social media affect kids. that's it you're up to date talk of the hour and of course around the clock on the website that's steve w. dot com have a good day. it's all happening to children coming to your link to news from africa and the world your link to exceptional stories and discussions anyone will come to see their views after being program tonight from for an exam week from the news it is easy to out with say do don't read it comes next africa join us on facebook and d.-w. africa.
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