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this is the news line from berlin the f.b.i. praises pittsburgh police officers for their rapid response to the synagogue shooting investigators said the quick apprehension of the attack aimed pennsylvania in pittsburgh rather prevented further casualties as born as held a vigil for the leaven victims many blamed the killings on the current political climate. the german chancellor faces a next big test as voters in the state of passing go to the polls we'll tell you why this regional election could spell disaster for america.
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welcome to the program there's been a wave of international condemnation off to eleven people were killed in the deadliest attack on the jewish community in the united states now they alleged killer robot powers is accused of shouting and to semitic slurs as he stormed the pittsburgh synagogue opening fire on washing. thousands gathered in pittsburgh on saturday evening to sing and say prayers for the dead and the wounded and to express both s. solidarity with the community and that anger. this may have been hidden for the past few years but not ceasing anti semites white supremacists and the like
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are feeling completely emboldened and more confident and competent to go out and express their hateful beliefs in this political climate there's no wonder hiding underneath why pointedly i feel like the leadership in our country right now is just encouraging violence and i wish to stop. the tree of life synagogue where the shooting happened is in the squirrel hill neighborhood normally it's a tranquil place of worship but on saturday morning the sanctuary became a scene eleven people were killed and several more injured including four police officers who took on the attack. president donald trump has called the attack an act of evil and called for tougher penalties for such crimes i was a hired side. whether it's this one on another. we have to bring back the death penalty. but this morning at the vatican pope
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francis also condemned the attack. all of us in reality are wounded by this inhumane act of violence. the lord help us to put out the hot beds of hate that flare up in our societies. in jerusalem the israeli cabinet observed a minute of silence to honor the victims. because of the we stand as one front against anti-semitism and against these barbaric manifestations i call on the entire world to unite in the fight against anti-semitism in every place. on the shooting in pittsburgh is said to be the deadliest attack on the jewish community in u.s. history. investigators and officials in pittsburgh held a news conference on the progress of the investigation well they said that quick
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action prevented further casualties last night at approximately nine pm robert barres was formally taken into federal custody following the issuance of an arrest warrant by federal magistrate judge here in the western district of pennsylvania is presently still in the hospital following surgery and under guard at this point we have nothing to indicate that bowers had accomplices but again we are in the early stages of this investigation we continue to conduct interviews scrub social media review possible surveillance camera video and exploit digital media to determine how and why bowers committed this terrible act i ask again that if you have information that may help please contact law enforcement i'd like again to thank chief she word of the pittsburgh police for the heroic actions of those officers had bowers made it out of that facility there was a strong possibility that additional violence would have occurred. back sandow from our news desk now joins me here in studio with the very latest so max i'm beginning
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to see chatto about the shooter's political i mean online activity what do we know about it well this suspect is believed to have used social media to spread his radical believes online he is connected to one specific account on the social media platform gap that's a network a network favored by many right wingers now the account has been taken down after yesterday's events but some of the country is still out there still are kind of let's have a look at it just to get in and understanding of this race is our eulogy to this man was falling have a look at the banner here this is his account gathers a photograph of the numbers fourteen eighty eight that's a number loaded with neo nazi symbolism and also his bio reads jews are the children of satan and bauer didn't hold back on direct threats to the jewish community in this post he targets a jewish nonprofit group that helps jewish refugees relocate in the u.s. the post reads you like to bring in hostile invaders to dwell among us we
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appreciate the list of friends you have provided you also then attached a link to shot events of the group and what probably comes as a surprise to many is that compared to many prominent figures of the author right he was not a supporter of president donald trump this post reads trump is a globalist not a nationalist there is no model as long as there is infestation he's using a racist slur here and this so what we learned from studying his profile the shooter was very open about his racist ideology and he wasn't hesitant at all to share his violent fantasies online with the with the gap community well very clearly using extremely hateful and incendiary messaging but how was it allowed to stay online what is this platform so most important gap compared to traditional or other social media sites such as facebook and twitter they have very few rules and very few guidelines limiting the users so a lot of the users are not welcome on facebook and twitter. but here again they can
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engage in hate speech also and the can also engage in what they like to call free speech as the c.e.o. of gab puts it free speech in his beliefs is free speech means you can offend criticize and make means about any race religion ethnicity or sexual orientation according to gallup so in this basically according to him this shows the spirit of justification all right so do we expect any consequences or regulation for this site so has already been banned on the google play store for example and people just recently just after listeners events cut the relationship and at the moment it does not look like god will be able to continue as they have done before because the site's hosting provider announced that they will not who's the site anymore starting on monday so it's likely that guy will go down for at least a couple of months well max and over the very latest thank you as the have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world three people have
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been wounded in sri lanka as the country's political crisis deepens reports suggest a security guard of a minister in the sacked government open fire on a crowd to the president after they threatened him the country was plunged into crisis on friday when the president fact the prime minister and appointed a new one. policing georgia police friday in the former soviet republic of georgia have voted for new president today the two frontrunners are both former foreign ministers and the vote is seen as a crucial test for the ruling party ahead of parliamentary elections. german chancellor angela merkel is bracing for another major blow today this time in regional elections in the state of essex where voting has been underway now the chancellor's conservative c.d.u. party is expected to suffer heavy losses with the smaller green party and far right alternative for germany looking set for a boost in support the vote is considered
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a test for the cd use national popularity and after a string of poor election results no less than merkel's legitimacy as chancellor is at stake. a political correspondent almost paranoid joins me in studio film also told us why a state elections such as this one being watched so closely in germany essentially because they're interpreted in a more much more broad way at a federal level in other words voters going to the polls in states like he said but we've seen this in other parts of germany as well express their views about not only what is happening in their particular state but also about what is happening at the federal level and what we've seen at the federal level in recent months is political infighting all these debates about migration and personnel so this is why to a certain extent people are saying that what is happening at the federal level has overshadowed what is actually at stake at a regional level in germany and it has so regional elections national consequences can we expect the same for anglo american if a party does poorly of it what with the constant possible consequences depends on
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how bad the result would be cool if indeed conservatives for example don't get the mandate to form a regional government i would be a very bad result from the merkel it could even have consequences here in berlin if on the other hand the c.d.u. doesn't get that mandate to form a government they can present that in a way obviously as a victory but it is absolutely clear from what we've been seeing in the last few weeks that the conservatives on the social democrats will be losing ground compared to previous elections and has say and those votes will be going to a certain extent to smaller parties like the greens or like the far right alternative for germany alternative for germany said to end this parliament which would mean that they will now be in all regional parliaments in germany all sixteen of them and what is making these smaller parties more attractive to the voters well essentially depends on how you look at it for example with a conservative the social democrats many people are not very happy about this political infighting about the fact that they see that the grand coalition in germany is not doing what they're supposed to do on the other hand they see that
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those smaller parties can get that attraction can get those things moving forward can present those ideas and that's what people are going to these smaller parties whether this is a long trend that we will see for many years to come that remains to be seen but it's a phenomenon that we see here in germany and also a phenomenon that we see in other parts of europe thomas ferro with the very latest thank you. well brazilians are also at the polls today but they're voting in a presidential runoff where the far right candidate show you both so narrow is set to win the sixty three year old is a former army captain and has been criticized for making a string of sexist homophobic and racist remarks well has also repeatedly praised the military dictatorship which ruled the country from one nine hundred sixty four to nineteen eighty five miles an hour is up against leftist candidate friend who had died going into the vote opinion polls put them eight to ten percentage points
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apart. and ophelia homes are now joins me from rio de janeiro sophia both scenarios seems likely you know clearly winning this victory but is there a chance for her dad here i mean recently polls have suggested that that gap is narrowing. well i can barely hear you at the moment but what i can tell you is that the government certainly narrowed between eighteen to ten to eight points according to those polls that have been published in the past two days that has raised hopes of the workers' party of course of their candidate for man those. who voted already today and said that here is very certain that most brazilians will go to the poll today and defend democracy as he told the press but what you can see behind me we are outside your rules and ours house and his supporters of course. are very loud
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as you came here and they already think that their candidate will be brazil's next president there are already in party mood everyone who is here is very much certain that they will have a triumph tonight so a feel of what could have passed a possible victory rather mean for the country. well and on the economic. side it will mean i liberalization of the market mr bolton arrow has promised to heal a national and foreign investment this will mean that he might even make a stronger corporation with neil liberal and millionaire liberal governments in the region like chile colombia argentina as well which is one of the biggest corporation partners in brazil on the education side he has promised to make a more conservative education for brazil he wants to eliminate sexual education from the loser example and make it more moral as he calls it education which also
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includes opening military schools in every brazilian capital stage and he has promised to bring the military to the streets as well he thinks that it is needed to publishers to fight insecurity and criminality on the streets he has also spoken in favor of stronger penalties for for those criminals and he has also been in favor of of a gun law and for brazilians to have a hired gun. will offer you homes a routine joining me from very loud rio de janeiro thank you. reminded of the top story that we're following for you investigators in pittsburgh have held a press conference on the progress of the investigation into a gun attack at a synagogue that killed eleven people the f.b.i. . says for their response to the incident saying there will be attack prevented for
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