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this is d w news live from birth lead that paralysed task of clearing land mines in ukraine countless explosive device and still infest the former battlefields in the east of the country as a fragile peace takes hold joins the people working inch by inch to make the region safe again also coming up with horrible the execution was horrible for sure until the very execution or a cover up we should remember that. washington talks tough on saudi arabia and revoke the visas of suspects in the death of journalist jamal khashoggi meanwhile
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saudi's rulers offer condolences to you son despite allegations that they ordered the killing plus profits at germany's deutsche bank take another tumble we'll ask what that could mean for europe's biggest economy. i'm sara kelly welcome to the program more than four years into the simmering conflict in eastern ukraine nearly two thousand people have been killed by land mines alone no one knows how many mines were laid in the chaotic early stages of the fighting today the country sees more casualties from mines than almost anywhere else on earth it's a problem that is expected to get worse as displaced people slowly return to their homes our correspondent nick connelly has been to meet the people behind efforts to
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clear those minds. it may look calm now but just a few years ago these fields saw intense fighting between ukrainian government troops and russian backed separatists. over and over again the front lines shifted each time the retreating troops left mines and booby traps behind them. it's now up to civilians to pick up the pieces halo trust is an international ngo and the world's largest humanitarian mine clearance organization. the challenges it faces in ukraine are unlike any other conflict zone. what makes you crane different is that we have a real problem with trip wire traps and our organisation hasn't come across anything like them in other countries our experts have had to come up with new ways of dealing with them. it's back breaking work. a grenade
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and a trip wire that's all it takes a few summers after the traps were laid the weeds have grown tall making them almost impossible to spot clearing these traps is as much about touch as it is about sight. there's no way of predicting how far you'll get in there it all depends on the vegetation. sometimes you'll manage twenty metres in a day sometimes it'll be just ten fifty years our priority and all of this in the distance the shooting continues the current frontline is just a few kilometers away. these people are searching for anti-tank mines the anti-personnel mine so characteristic of conflicts from yemen to mozambique a less widespread in ukraine. it takes one hundred fifty kilograms to set off this kind of empty tank mine so a person on foot wouldn't be enough. but a tractor very definitely would. this may be
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a war zone but the rhythms of the farming year continue this is all that's left of the tractor that muscle can see of was using to plough back in twenty fifteen soldiers had told him that the field was safe. i lost consciousness when i came around i saw that i was on fire so i tried to get out of the tractor but i couldn't they pulled me out through the back window and then put the fire out . of the photo for use when i woke up in hospital they told me that only one mine had gone off but one more of them underneath me and when they came to get me out of the tractor they had to drive over the mines to. russell sustained eighty percent burns on his legs three years and several operations later he's still in chronic pain it's not clear whether or not he'll ever be able to work again. back at the site they found a grenade failed to go off n.g.o.s like halo trust aren't allowed to dispose of
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ordinance themselves instead they must wait for the military to collect them and that can take weeks. ten twenty or sometimes just five meters a day the progress here is painstaking no one can say with any certainty how long it will take to find all the mines that were laid in the chaos of the early stages of the war but left untouched these mines have the potential to maim and kill the people of this region for decades to come. let's turn to some other news now when the united states says that it will revoke or deny the visas of twenty one saudis who it says are linked to the killing of journalist jamal khashoggi it's an embarrassing turnaround for washington after president first took pains to defend its key ally in the middle east but as turkey revealed more details about the murder in istanbul the u.s. has been forced to change track. a jovial donald trump surrounded by
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lawmakers in the oval office asked about the killing of jamal khashoggi the us president had blown bad deal should have never been thought of felt but he really messed up. and they had the worst cover up ever. and word should have stopped is at the deal standpoint when they thought about it because whoever thought of that idea. i think is in big trouble. the u.s. says it's putting together its own intelligence about the killing and has identified some individuals behind it it's pouring entreats of twenty one suspects from the saudi government secret services and royal courts but washington remains reluctant to get tough on a key ally and a major economic partner but in particular trump is worried about losing a saudi arms deal to competitors i will tell you that russia and
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china would love to have that military order and i can say to my democrat friends too they would love this is one hundred ten billion dollars worth of military. yet some taking a stand over casualties murder many western firms boycotted the kingdom's premier investment event which began on tuesday despite the brave face put on by crown prince mohammed bin solomon these are difficult days for the saudis. we are going through. a crisis of short resulted for. a. very good actor or an incident that took place in turkey nobody in the kingdom. justify it or explain it. earlier saudi media released extraordinary images the crown prince and king solomon meeting face to face with brother and son
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independent sources say the same son has been barred from leaving the kingdom since last year as a result of his father's writing and money directly linking the crown prince with the general staff. chief among the kingdom's critics the turkish president. he told parliament that turkey has strong evidence the murder in the saudi consulate in istanbul was premeditated and savage he called for the highest ranking of those responsible to face justice. and for more let's bring in correspondent dorian jones who is standing by in istanbul dorian as we just heard president once said that the killing was premeditated that they have strong evidence to support that why didn't he put forward though more evidence yesterday like the alleged audiotape for example what could the strategy.
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well indeed but i think the president did just enough he lay out what they say is powerful circumstantial evidence these three teams that were involved in the killing of. the careful preparations ahead of that which indicated this was a carefully premeditated planned and in fact for now at least does have the it appears the international community behind them in their in their narrative of events isolating but he didn't use the nuclear option this talk of these ordeal and elated a videotape recording the last minutes of khashoggi which according to turkish investigators show that he was tortured executed and then his body dismembered this is in many ways turkey's most powerful piece of leverage at the same time releasing it would possibly compromise its intelligence services and on the line that it was surveilling possibly the saudi consulate so i'm keeping that back in its back pocket knows it's a very powerful piece of leverage not only on riyadh but also on washington and for
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now it doesn't feel it needs to use that car and is it carefully this carefully called for i plan to further isolate and to extract the most concessions and to get to the bottom of the truth when it comes to the approach of washington dorian and we know the cia director now in istanbul but it looks like the u.s. generally speaking is taking a slower approach it's been said that they're still in the fact finding stage is there a potential for conflict here. i think quite the opposite i think what we're slowly seeing now is that washington and slowly coming together the fact that the cia chief came to a just ahead of a one speech one delivered what many people consider was quite a restrained speech he didn't target the crown prince mohammed bin solomon by name that will be a relief to washington in particular but the same time we see now the trunk does appear to be moving closer to uncle stance he's talking about this being the worst
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cover up he said that people should be held to a. i'm doing the interview with the wall street journal on choose stay for the first time he indicated the idea that he mohammed bin some of the crown prince could have been involved in the killing that will be seen as very significant on cross so i this is a long term plan on korea's play of isolating reality getting washington on its side and post and also seeing the benefits of. crushing the building closer ties with washington at the same time watching uncle really believe in the driving seat at the moment dorian jones in istanbul with the very latest thank you. and let's get a quick check now of some other stories making news around the world hurricane wilma has hit the pacific coast of mexico as a category three storm packing winds of nearly two hundred kilometers per hour towns in the storm's path were mostly evacuated as it closed in but some people were forced to seek shelter in public buildings the storm is expected to bring
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torrential rains as it moves further inland. and there could be at least one winner of the world's largest lottery prize in the u.s. state of south carolina lottery officials report one take it being sold with the exact numbers to win the jackpot of more than one point six billion dollars so far no one has come forward to claim the grand prize and there could be additional winning tickets sold in other states. now if you have bought fresh produce in europe there's a strong chance that it may have come from an italian farm but there's a dark side to the juicy plums and ripe tomatoes many of us enjoy on a regular basis d.w. has spoken to migrant workers in the latino area there we found exhausting work conditions poor pay and allegations that organized crime gangs are preying on pickers from india. and now and a half from roam the villas hidden behind these high walls and hedges are vacation
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homes for one of italians but there's also shadow side to this fertile region the produce grown here is sold in supermarkets throughout europe but the laborers who harvest the fruits and vegetables earn only a few euros per hour some of them have come from as far away as india. singh has been working in latino for twelve years he's one of nearly eight hundred thousand sikhs from punjab working in this region friends from his village back home who told him he could earn good money in italy's agriculture sector he knew life field wouldn't be easy but he found it so challenging at the beginning but he often considered returned to india. for the. gold jewelry belonging to my wife and sister to pay for the trip here. in the money back quickly and retrieve the jewelry. i was put to pay off the loan we had
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to sell the gold instead. almost everyone who comes here goes through the same thing. reality is very different from what we expected. in. the living and working conditions often miserable the official minimum wage is about nine euros the farmers pay less than a third of that many indians work seven days a week during harvest time up to twelve to thirteen hours a day. we were free in india i had my own business. so i could come to work late and go home early if i had better things to do so here is different here you're only paid for the areas you work. but i'm doing better than others. she actually seeing his paid off his debts so he no longer has to share a small flat with four or five other workers as he did before most are too afraid
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to speak on camera investigators say the laborers are trapped in their illegal jobs at the mercy of criminal gangs a majority of them have paid thousands of euros to people smugglers in exchange for forged papers and passage to italy as a result many inductors one of the laborers who need years to get out of debt analysts say this practice is widespread throughout italy and grow better leaving me to return to the farm workers take drugs like amphetamines opium and muscle relaxants especially at the beginning to cope with the punishing work conditions. people imagine being bent over picking radishes for fourteen hours a day but with a boss standing over you saying you know work work or work got all your. contribution. your body and soul would burn out pretty fast. investigators say the racket involves middle men who seek out labor has been key
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part. their wages and dictate their work hours all of which is illegal in italy. and there's hardly a business in the agricultural sector that isn't part of the system one of the biggest radish producers in europe allowed us to film on their premises we confront the head of the company with the allegations about the middlemen and the exploitation of their workers. not to none of that's true that contradicts our company philosophy. if we found anyone was doing this we would fire them immediately because i mean we're not among the firms that exploit their workers. no proper benefits or even then. the union workers insist that this company also pays its laborers below the minimum wage and that middle men act if they're too it's one person's word against another the workers themselves won't comment they
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want to keep their job check sheet seeing was able to bring his wife and children to italy a few months ago in the evenings of the labor has come for dinner including men who've lived here for years in the hope of bringing their own families here despite the difficulties they say they're determined to stay because the money they earn in italy is still far more than what they'd be paying in india. sports news the champions league were turned on tuesday night and to take us through all of the drama at mccain bridge from sports we have to talk about byron munich winning in athens let's begin with that does it mean the mini crisis is over well personally i don't think they're out of the woods just yet their problems haven't really been so much in your decision of struggle domestically. and they were actually on a six game on the street away in europe and they made it seven last night against a pretty poor afghan side to be perfectly honest i mean it's always a pretty fiery atmosphere in the stadium but they struggled
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a little bit at the start but they made the breakthrough in the end. i made it seven seven wins in a series seven games in a row away in europe and i actually put the joint top of their group with like i say it's been going ok for them in europe so far this season but what they do next domestically will be the real test of the crisis that was only one of the matches last night we know that there were seven others talk about you know a lot of flipping the channels there what was your pick of the evening was a big stories going into the into the match day so christiane all those returned to old trafford with the events this was one of the big stories they won one nil he didn't actually go to school she herself elsewhere of course holders reale were in action as well they got a two one win but it was actually a another boom is league club hoffenheim which provided most of the thrills last night three all draw. could see of some pretty slapstick defending. as we can see there in the pictures but managed to get two of the goals and put them up to one after a pretty poor start but in the lead on fight back got them back on the front foot and it was only a very very late goal from jolin tone which actually rescued
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a point at the end of the game and it was funny actually because you know goldman said despite the fact that he thought there were basically three own goals of his i conceded they were absolutely awful but he was really really angry with the referee at the end and said they should get a bit more time because of the number of goals because you think they could have actually gone on and won that for three ok so let's look forward dortmund at let's go madrid facing off what's expected there well this is a really tasty time i think a lot of football fans can be really excited for tonight dortmund of course one of the form teams in europe but up against that same with real pedigree in a flood to come adrift have done very well in the tournament in recent years and we're actually going to hear from the dortmund coach lucien farber here he thinks he's got a tough task tonight for his team. ok that's mexico has been one of the best teams in europe for the last seven or eight years they were always among the first three in the spanish league and even won the title once they reached the champions league final twice there always up there they're always competing. so i mean
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he seems wary of their of the troubles that atletico can cause them he is of course and he should be because of a very good team to some of the world's best players the likes of griezmann of shorts of course i'm a bit of trouble but i think actually going to be quietly confident tonight like i say his team has really been on for at the mystically at least so far this season they've got the likes of. firing goes in on the regular it's going to be really say six are you not expect a lot of goals will see how they do i know you will be watching mccambridge thank you so much. and nasa cameras fly over antarctica now have discovered an unusual sight a perfectly rectangular iceberg is floating off of the larson sea ice shelf check this out scientists say the icebergs where shape and sharp angles show it is likely to have just broken off recently the larson sea ice shelf is one of several that stretch along the coast of antarctica shelves a and b.
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have disintegrated in recent decades likely due to rising global temperatures scientists believe that the glaciers have been around for at least the past ten thousand years. absolutely stunning something. that deutsche bank cannot say this morning about their quarterly earnings for it added profits have been disintegrating similar to. those a bank has posted a sixty five percent decline in year on year profits for the third quarter of with earnings coming in at two hundred twenty nine million euros all of the banks divisions recorded lower yields with revenues in the particularly important fixed income business that's government and company bonds down fifteen percent nevertheless in a letter to the banks employees c.e.o. and there's even said it was on track for profitable year the first time since twenty fourteen once one of europe's leading banks doj has struggled since the
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financial crisis in the past ten years the bank shares have lost around ninety percent of that value. and see how that goes down on the markets and bring in paul christiane brits who joins joins us from frankfurt that's a massive drop there for georgia in q three but still on track for a profitable yeah how is that going to happen. or seen a similar situation last year there were seemed to be on track last year in the in the third quarter with one point seven billion in profits they're under savings predecessor john cryan but then what happened is that the costs exploded and on top of that the us tax reform basically means they could have meant they could write off less of their their costs from before so then no profitability for the year just because profitability did drop that doesn't mean the bank isn't
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making money though. though it's been has been in disarray many years now is that just an embarrassment or was it a real problem for the german economy its. banks are considered the heart of and soul of an economy because they make money flow and they give out credit to companies who can then invest and they also a lot access to other markets international banks especially and this is important for the german economy as and as an export nation now usually the stronger a bank is the more money it will lend and sure it's fine to just borrow that money from a foreign bank if necessary in good times but imagine times aren't so great imagine that germany is going through a tough economic time and let's just play us out on the example of fox agonise and doing so well ok so. possibly donald trump gets the idea his mind that general
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motors could take over the company because it's sort of weak at the at the moment now if we have a german bank that essentially is you know. an extension of the arm of the government it could prop up again maybe through the help of the government and thereby make sure the company's stays a german company so political reasons but if that isn't the case it might be lost to the u.s. so it's more of a political than an economic problem really well because of the. very much what is . brazing agency moody's has now downgraded the credit ratings of several italian banks as well and companies and putting them just one notch above junk status that comes after the e.u. rejected italy's national budget on tuesday in an unprecedented move brussels has demanded the rome present a revised budget drop within three weeks but the italian government isn't wavering
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despite the risk of higher sovereign debt levels the e.u. says italy's italy's plans break its rules and restore confidence in the euro zone . and next year's fiercely debated budget plans of the italian government also include what is called a so citizens wage it's a flagship policy of italian deputy prime minister luigi the meiers anti establishment five star movement which is governed italy with a right wing leader since june the basic income scheme has entered pulling the poorest italians out of poverty and bolster the economy those eligible will receive a payout of up to seven hundred eighty euros per month without conditions attached critics fear the ten billion euro initiative will destabilize the economy further because it is largely financed by debt. inside a job center in a poor naples neighborhood dozens of people are filling out the same form. a team of five employees helps them but they use paper clips and piles of folders more
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than computers. soon the job centers will be launching a new welfare policy but no one's explain the details to local officials. of the all see by three we've met two or three times and labor minister luigi de milo asked us to explain our difficulties and that but every region has different problems. will be the same if he didn't explain anything about that basic income scheme or how it will be implemented in the job centers that a. bit of the basis for the outside of money while they've already ali says he has no hope the job center will find him work the money. it was the same for my father he was signed up here for more than thirty years and never received a phone call never. mind. the unemployed greengrocer gets only a few hundred euros per month but under the new scheme his benefits will be much
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more generous up to seven hundred eighty euros per month. the government plans include investing large sums into modernizing job centers which will verify that recipients are actively looking for work. but currently only three percent of job seekers find employment with the help of the centers. the new policy is designed to lift five million the talionis out of poverty it's part of italy's proposed big spending budget aimed at boosting private consumption economic growth and tax revenues. but if the scheme fails some observers warn it could trigger another euro zone financial crisis. that's all your business you're watching the news a live from berlin there's more coming at the top. brainwashed but watching.
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