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this is the news coming to you live from berlin the last migrant rescue ship in the mediterranean is of course to head for the adults the aquarius heads for the french fourth of march say after its mission its registration rather is canceled it marks the end of independent missions saving migrants from drowning all the crossing from africa will talk to a member of the crew also coming out indonesia finally accept foreign aid after last week's earthquake six days all the survivors are still waiting desperately for help when fourteen hundred people are confirmed dead. and the german football club
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goes to sicily to help migrants integrate through sports we take a look at the king borders project. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us last privately operated ship dedicated to saving migrants from drowning in the mediterranean is on its final journey to the port of mar say the aquarius has had its license withdrawn by panama also it won't be able to head out to sea again legally we'll talk to a crew member in just a minute but first this report. this ship has meant the difference between life and death for thirty thousand people say its operators the n.g.o.'s a last minute tiny launch the aquarius two and a half years ago the group says its work is vital. caringly there is
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massive confusion in the mediterranean there's no real coordination to manage the distress calls and lead rescue operations. the aquarius is out of action and there are no other private sea rescue vehicles operating in the mediterranean. for other ships run by n.g.o.s have already been detained to vessels lifeline and sea watch three are being held in malta the ship you vent to is stuck in the port of to pani in sicily all the boats have been to flag now the aquarius joined their ranks. before returning to its home port of mar say the aquarius transferred fifty eight shipwrecked migrants to the maltese coast guard this after italy refused to ship permission to dock following a hard line on migrants from the for the visas now's the right time because it's the cannot continue to be the refugee camp of europe.
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this isn't the first maritime drama aquarius has been involved in this summer it was forced to embark on a weeklong odyssey on the mediterranean several countries refused to take in one hundred migrants aboard rescued off the coast of libya spain eventually took the ship now its future is again in doubt as so s. military ne has asked several countries to let it sail under their flags so far they haven't backed the boat. for more now i'm joined on the line by mick romagna okies one of the activists on board the aquarius heading for mar say he's a rescue coordinator with the organization meditator and they which operates the vests first of all mr remind you of how far away are you from the port of. which is of the off the coast moments of carnival standby waiting for the authorities to send out the part of boat to guide us into into the harbor. so first
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then what does the day flagging of your ship mean then for irregular migrants trying to cross the mediterranean. well it could mean that the aquarius will be in the fall of must say first period of time while we go through the minute details of getting a registration for the vessel to be able to head back out to sea while we were heading up to ma say we have heard reports we have received messages from maltese and italian authorities saying that they're all boats in distress currently off libya maybe this is being resolved it's unclear if the time being but it's playing multiple life. we are dedicated to social rescue of people that's what we like what we do we say that since two thousand and fourteen it's been a gap of any to be filled and a question for that and it's uniquely to save lives at sea and this is being hinted
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at the moment by by political maneuvering within it within europe the local effect of that is people dying which so acceptable. critics argue that organizations like yours collude with people smugglers and effectively encourage illegal migration to europe what do you say it's not. i mean first of all this this is a shoe collusion a ridiculous idea that discovery. smugglers and traffickers they put people in danger of the course of events for many people from a dangerous situation and bringing to safety. these accusations are being looked into weeks of people looking for them and systematically by courts in italy and or and of european countries there is no grappling with. all across this at all is this if it was impossible for so you're saying that the migrants who are.
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risking their lives out on the mediterranean right now they will continue to do that even if your boats are not in the water. situation in libya at the moment it's so unsafe that people have no other option apart from get all about and trying to escape from libya because the motivations of trying to get to live to europe it's it's creating the situation in libya at the moment a loss rescue of fifty eight people the majority of those people were libyans themselves from tripoli they had houses jobs because of the family members. the conflicts the ongoing fighting in in tripoli they said that the only safe option for them and their families including small children was to get onto a and see what a boat that was when we found them to human to to flee the situation they have no other options there are other no there are no other options at all apart from take your jobs and see. the full titian's in europe at the moment what options are
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they giving people they have to one is. fighting for your country be intercepted by the libyan cause god is funded by your union trying and be taken back to libya where you'll be put in detention and we've seen and documented the conditions of detention centers in libya the moment it's it's it's atrocious. drought that's the fury two options intercepted and taken back to libya or water on the sea because there are no other rescue assets in the area to fight nick grimm on your thank you very much for talking with us nick roman york is less true it wouldn't matter with s.o.'s mediterranean. now let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world today u.s. authorities have arrested a navy veteran suspected of mailing suspicious envelopes to the white house and the pentagon the ais now investigating why william clyde allen the third allegedly sent
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caste or seeds in the mail they're dangerous of swallow and source of the poison rice of. peru's former author or terry in ruler of berto fujimori has been hospitalized shortly after a court ordered him to return to prison which morey was last year granted a pardon partway through a jail sentence for human rights abuses but peru's supreme court has now ruled that decision the ruling was welcomed by victims' families. and the international court of justice has ordered the united states to lift sanctions on humanitarian goods entering iran the un's top court said medicines foods and aviation parts should be allowed in the u.s. as the court does not have authority to rule on the measures from the optional protocol. international efforts to help survivors of indonesia's earthquake and tsunami are gathering pace after the government eased long held restrictions on foreign help jakarta says some countries have offered assistance in coping with the
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disaster which has so far killed more than fourteen hundred. people. more body bags being carried out of this seaside hotel in palos city which bore much of the brunt of friday's earthquake and in suing tsunami. yet some people haven't given up that their loved ones may have survived. is that is i am i hope that my wife is still alive i pray god will work a miracle and i'm still hoping that they will find her she is six months pregnant six months many isolated air. has hit in the disaster are yet to see any help the government at first rejected offers of foreign assistance that's changed now and the united nations and aid organizations are pitching in the task they face is
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a daunting one. of the situations that the team described incredibly difficult it took them one and a half hours to carry each of the bodies out to nearby ambulances having to wade through incredibly deep mind. the sense from the tames who working there from colleagues on the ground is one of real frustration the indonesian government has mobilized thousands of soldiers police and members of civilian agencies to distribute aid and restore order president joe cole we don't know has acknowledged the aid effort has yet to reach maximum capacity you know. every region has its own problems but i can see progress everywhere. it's having now is heavy equipment has arrived. logistics have started to arrive although it's not at these moxon yet and fuel is beginning to arrive. and. it's been six days since the earthquake and tsunami struck with many people still missing and more than seventy thousand
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displaced soloway z. is still in the grip of an ongoing disaster. for more now let's cross over to journalist max walden who's in jakarta max president would veto says the relief operation is getting up to speed what are people in the affected areas what do they need most. well it seems that. the same as. i mean search and rescue efforts continuing and given a. human that off. almost impossible that people will still be alive in the rubble but in terms of of course food. and medical supplies the still still lacking i've spoken to people on the ground saying that. and there are. some hospitals and. doctors. from
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places like to. help. well typically like to emphasize sovereignty i think in this case actually i mean there was going on on monday morning that the president had actually authorized as of sunday evening from friday to sunday yes this is a couple of days however if we compare to the longbox. olga's. that was much longer that like indonesia is home to red cross certainly they were instantly mobilized and i think now having spoken to two very humanitarian aid organizations. certainly mobilizing from from across the world i think the main issue has been active and certainly given that the management agency and military
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and trying to manage who's able to get in and out of the of the disaster certainly that would be worried that. it may become too chaotic as they allowed. me to try and arrive however it does from those journalists talking to us from the indonesian capital jakarta. german chancellor angela merkel is on a diplomatic mission to israel today in what's being billed as a restart on a difficult bilateral relationship akhil reportedly stopped holding regular consultations with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu last year because of her anger over his government's expansion of jewish settlements on the west bank to leaders also disagree sharply over the iran nuclear deal. america's trip to israel meant she had to cut short her participation in germany's national
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day of unity during ceremonies here in berlin politicians praised the progress made in the twenty eight years since the country's east and west were formally reunited but they also raised concerns about the divisions that remain and called on germans to defend democracy against the rise of white right wing populist. music by beethoven often seen as the quintessentially german composer. the i have a chill to his oprah leonora by tens quiet and thoughtful ten thousand passionate. almost like a wake up call for germany twenty eight years since reunification. both can show you that now president of the parliament was one of the politicians who negotiated the treaty that opened the door to german reunification that will be his political legacy but he reminded germans that unification is always an ongoing process.
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unity of a state was achieved on that oktober the one nine hundred ninety you know limits he over what it is that unites us is something we must constantly strive to reach shortly went on to describe reunification is the second chance that germany germany he said must be vigilant in the face of any attempt to avoid facing up to the responsibilities of its history liberal democracy can never be taken for granted the guards that. were used in germany as an. where we see populists with the arrogance to call on the people to rise up against their political opponents against imagined or actual minorities against those elected by the people but no one no one has the right to claim that he or she is the sole representative of the people's will. for the us what it. should be as words will have resonated with many germans at this time despite the party atmosphere at the brandenburg gate germany is facing some difficult and controversial issues. it's not me is that what's happening right now worries me but generally i hope that the majority of
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people are still intelligent enough to oppose this development. i'm very worried about right wing tendencies and cinna phobia which are still on the rise in our country all my meds to an end. not far from the celebrations at brandenburg gate more than a thousand right wing extremists gathered outside byrd in central railway station to protest against chancellor angela merkel against what they call the bias press and fake news. although they could not hear him outside the station surely place words were addressed to such people as well as the rest of the nation. is. accepting differences recognizing the diversity of legitimate opinions and interests and realizing that your own ideas are not the measure of all things that is the way of thinking which will lead to more unity in our society. and good mind to stuff. chancellor merkel echoed the idea that german unification is still
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ongoing. now twenty eight years on we know that what we call german unity is a process a long journey which over and over again means we must listen to each other's point of view work together and not give up german unity is not finished twenty years on it is still as continuous a challenge. and so this year's day of german unity and it as it began peaceful pensive with contradiction and conciliation. so sports news now and in soccer match day two the champions league group stage concluded on wednesday and dortmund maintain their one hundred percent record with a three nil win against monaco who in lawson. and marco royce each scored for the home team the last time these sides met the game had to be postponed half of the dortmund team bus was attacked with explosives in april of last year.
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or earlier on their bonus lee arrival shaka pulled off a last minute when away to lokomotiv moscow american western mckenney headed home in the eighty eighth minute to secure the one nil win for the royal blues that will be welcome news considering how shaka have struggled domestically this season there were also some big clashes elsewhere in the champions league last night let's take a look at the results of that to go madrid defeated club bruce three one intermeddle and came back to defeat p.s.v. eindhoven two one the in a messy scored twice as barcelona be taught him for two police on cement smashed so ben says the six one brazilian star neymar scored a hat trick late goal saw not only defeat liverpool and porto saw off house or i. like rence continue to arrive in europe and one way of helping them integrate
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with their new neighbors is through sports socially is an arrival point for many so german second division teams are poly has sent coaches there with a mission to unite people through football. a football pitch in the sicilian town of syracuse a has been temporarily taken over by german club some paoli technical director. and several youth team coaches have traveled over under the motto keep the borders italians the migrants will train together for five days and to think back one hundred in the theme of migrants are no longer really arriving in germany but people are still coming to year it even if the reception centers and. the people have not suddenly gone away they are in other places and so it is important to focus on a sort of europe has a common responsibility and cannot just leave people in italy and here in sicily of on their own for you know a door here in the sea in the garden of any line or whether people are from italy a west africa doesn't matter football brings people together the fact this project
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is organized by a german professional club has made quite an impression. to me because to do for stand. so. we did team so it's great for me to learn in the training has been brilliant if you can see that this is a serious football club and the people have real experience they're a great group and there has been a lot of dialogue between us just. for the. way good for both on. the training camp ends of course with the b. match. there are. some paoli have done their bit now the local community must carry on the good work they will have to do which is put to play for your team for the game i was disappointed because this. it's not correct to put two central defenders too quick for the opponent this was
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not fair but. it's also now up to the italians and migrants to take their new found bomb beyond the football pitch. the oldest to see. if team is going to get four days even before ball is not the sort also on but put boards or is part of it because if we really reduce of say the. i doing many would you need a gun called. opportunity is that what the project is all about football knows no borders. business now whatever the hell and with a look at beijing's plans to sell off some of its u.s. debt that's right terry many people are now asking where the china has its finger poised on the trigger of its latest economic weapon aid in its economic war with the united states the country is planning to sell u.s. treasury bonds well three billion dollars this month the senshi the move means that
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china is selling off the u.s. debt that it holds dealing a blow to the u.s. economy potentially while the two countries are currently locked in a tape the top battle over trade if beijing goes ahead with the sale it will only get a third time that the country has actually carried out a bond sale since two thousand and four asian countries one of the biggest holders of u.s. government debt and some analysts are now concerned that the move could cause major havoc on international markets. facebook's latest hack a scandal could land the tech giant a one point four billion euro fine the irish data protection committee has begun investigations into the data breach and it wants to determine whether facebook correctly adhered to recently toughened e.u. security requirements to protect its uses last friday facebook announced that hackers had access to at least fifty million user accounts a face that the. found to have not fully complied with this year's new general data protection when a regulation it may have to pay up to four percent of its annual turnover in tech
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giants european headquarters are in on it. presidents head to the polls this weekend to elect a new government with the elections coming at a pivotal moment for south america's largest economy the country only recently pulled out of its recession and remains plagued by anemic growth investor mistrust in a population that's lost faith in both business and the government and with public debt and unemployment continuing to rise it seems brazilians are facing a long uphill battle. surf sun and beach that's what most people think of when it comes to brazil but take a stroll away from the country's famous beaches and the story for every day brazilians looks much different alexander coaster used to work at an international company but then he lost his job and with help wanted ads few and far between he started selling hot meals out of his friends car. it's involuntary entrepreneurship
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a common story here. the input here problem of unemployment in brazil was created by that enormous economic crisis that we're currently experiencing. to survive the crisis people have to reinvent themselves that's what i did. i could stay at home and look for a job sending out c.v.s. all the time but with the job market so tight it's difficult so i didn't give up and decided to do my own thing that fitting. in jobs are one of the chief concerns for brazilians with unemployment hovering between twelve and fourteen percent around thirteen million people spend their days at unemployment offices just like this one. whoever comes out on top in this month's polling will have their work cut out for them. brazil's public debt has topped half of its g.d.p. . worker productivity is out is still stands and both investors and local officials have lost confidence in the government's ability to pay its debts. european car
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makers the going to have to rev up their efforts to make sure the latest vehicles rolling off the production lines are environmentally friendly european parliament voted in favor of forty percent reduction in carbon dioxide emitted by new cause and events by the end of the next decade denmark took that sentiment one cent that took that sentiment one step further rather proposing an outright ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars as a result plain transport options are in demand like never before in a few of them are currently on display at the paris might show. tomorrow's mobility today autumn on your part shows are increasingly focusing on electric cars not least because countries around the world are planning long term to bomb fossil fuel vehicles. but international motor shows like here in paris concept models are moving steadily to center stage. public transit options are also set to play
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a bigger role in the fight against road congestion and pollution the so called to get the minibus is both electric and self driving it's going to the roads you have for vision next year twenty five of these people's will be running into body to connect the main metro station to the waterfront. the i crystal shuttle can run up to thirty kilometers per hour a top ranking speed for all thomas vehicle. other manufacturers quite literally have their sights set higher than the former flying cars. models like this one from germany are still some way from getting the green light from the authorities however so don't expect them to be taking off any time soon. and your mind and now the top story we're following for the last independent my good rescue ship operating in the mediterranean has been forced to head for the docks and registration of the aquarius has been cancelled by panama also won't be
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allowed to leave the french quarter of math a really good. you're watching news from berlin on how men are free we've got plenty more coming up for you at the top of the hour of course you can always get the latest news and information around the clock on our web site that is d w dot com thanks as ever your company and see you again are you staying.
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