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because sitting. in for migrants your platform for reliable information. this is d w news live from berlin tonight google's searching for a solution to sexual harassment from within thousands of google employees around the world stage they walk out today in protest at the company's treatment of women it comes after reports of sexual harassment that implicates several executives also coming up a major new study says the earth's oceans are warming more quickly than previously
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thought which could be disastrous for the world's ice sheets of coral reefs and all sorts of marine life and divers in indonesia find one of the black boxes from the plane that crashed on monday just minutes after taking off from jakarta they hope that it will help to explain the tragedy that claimed the lives of almost two hundred people. i bring coffee it's good to have you with us google employees around the world have walked off the job today they are protesting what they see as the tech giants lenient treatment of executives accused of sexual misconduct employees a staged walkout in new york dublin london tokyo in singapore the last week. the
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c.e.o. of google disclosed that the company and fired forty eight employees and that includes thirteen senior executives all for sexual harassment in recent years the c.e.o. also apologized for the company's past actions. organizers of the walkout for real change have hit out at what they say is a culture of complicity dismissiveness and support for perpetrators of sexual harassment and misconduct at the company at the tech giants e u headquarters in dublin hundreds of employees took part in the hour long walk out. fighting to courtney open bothering one of the many google fights that are walking out today and. with everybody with the clarion any form of call. or misconduct or. similar protests were organized at google offices around the
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world last week the company disclosed that it had fired forty eight employees including thirteen senior executives for sexual harassment in recent years in london bad weather kept most of the demonstrators inside but some braved the elements to take the protests to the public. so we will thing out to support fully any workplace that has something to arrest them and to ensure that the right is protected or rewarded google employees in singapore and tokyo also walked out and protests were planned in the united states one of the key demands of the walkout is an end to full stop attrition which is used to stop complainants from suing or going public demonstrations come after a new york times report alleged that google is still paying a ninety million dollar golden parachute to a senior employee who was dismissed for sexual misconduct in two thousand and fourteen. go to one of our jersey from our social
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media desk you know in studio with this kind of a shocker we've been hearing. still you know you don't expect this to be going on at a company like google but what exactly are these google employees are they fed up with well they're frustrated with what they're describing as a culture of complicity in sexual harassment and also protection for people accused of it and what's brought this all out into the open why these people are marching today because of an article last week in the new york times and it reported that google paid to the founder of android its android software a man named andy rubin and nine hundred million dollars severance package when he was accused of sexual harassment and the article reported that google paid this money just bought finding the claims against team as credible he of course denies these and the articles reported that there was similar cases to this way google has
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been making similar payments and basically that's why these employees are. staging mass walkouts out of their offices today as the one sign it said what do i do with google i work hard every day in the company can afford these nineteen million dollar payouts to executives who harass my coworkers with ninety million dollars the company what did the employees what concrete measures do they want to see ok so they want to what's called forced arbitration and this is designed to stop people from taking their complaints public they want to clear a process for reporting sexual harassment anonymously insightfully at google they want the company to create a transparency report around sexual harassment and to make that public they want a partial managerial restructure and they want an employee to sit on the company's board and they also want google to commit to equal pay for men and women non-disclosure clause the. talked about recently i mean it's coming under fire yet
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again do you think our perception of google. should change or is it changing because it's hard to say i mean old habits die hard because what do you do when you when you want to find something out you log on to google and that's why over the past twenty years it's become so powerful and one of the world's most valuable companies because of. but it's starting to appear that some of the country companies around one hundred thousand employees are starting to question whether its commitment to do evil is genuine. disavow isn't confined to google we have to point that out to take industry generally generally has a problem with an imbalance of men and women far more men work and take then women do and that contributes to what a lot of people in silicon valley describe as a sexist culture there's a big gender gap there for sure. of the media thank you. well
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here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world ethiopia has sworn in its first female supreme court president human rights lawyer may offer a fee her appointment builds on efforts by reformers to prime minister ahmed to achieve gender parity in government ethiopia recently elected its first female president and approved one of the world's few gender balance government captains brazil is set to become the second major country after the united states to move its embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem brazil's far right president elect joe you're both sonando announce the plans via twitter today the controversial step breaks with the international consensus and it was one of both scenarios campaign pledges. u.s. president donald trump has delivered a lengthy speech on his hardline policy towards a caravan of migrants traveling from central america to the us mexico border he
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says that those entering the u.s. illegally will not be eligible to seek asylum in the u.s. he announced that a new plane is being finalized to limit claims at the border. the man charged with killing eleven worshipers at a synagogue in the u.s. city of pittsburgh has pleaded not guilty to all forty four counts against him forty six year old robert bowers appeared in court today as funerals were held for several of his victims prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for saturday's attack at the tree of life synagogue. well scientists have given another ominous warning about climate change a major new study shows that the world's oceans are warming more quickly than previously thought the findings published in the journal nature mean that global warming may also be further advanced than previously stated scientists reach these conclusions after using new calculations of the gases escaping the oceans warmer oceans lead to the deaths of marine wildlife in coral reefs and they cause ice
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sheets to melt fenced. or earlier we asked oceanographer chris fogg will at britain's kill university does this latest study reduce the possibility of ever meeting those peris climate agreement targets. well it is a question of mitigation or adaptation essentially if we want to try and hit those targets we might have to adapt our lifestyles massively or attempt to mitigate you know we cannot sleep bring in engineering answers to reduce c o two now obviously what we're trying to look at harry's climate sensitivity and what they're finding is who are the upper bounds of what the i.p.c.c. estimates so it still doesn't change the year increases. need to address these questions but it doesn't change the fact that we can mitigate
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or we can adapt we've got to choose which of those options. divers in indonesia have located a black box from the lion air passenger jet that crashed on monday it's hoped the device will shed light on the cause of the tragedy in which one hundred eighty nine people died the boeing seven thirty seven went down thirteen minutes after taking off from the capital jakarta. the heat is on for indonesian aviation authorities they're under huge pressure to explain what went wrong on the lion air flight and this could help them one of the plane's black box recorders recovered among parts of the boeing seven three seven plane. now that we've retrieved the black box. we hope to unravel the mystery as to why the plane crashed. one of the salvage teams said they dug deep to find the box it
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was buried in the debris on the sea floor examination of the wreckage continues but it's tricky and slow going much of the plane remains hidden beneath the surface. slowly the bodies of the missing of being returned to land. families have beside themselves entire villages banding together to support them as they grieve. once victims are dandified funerals can be held. identification presents a huge challenge for insect teams examined body parts and check fingerprints and dental records. clothes and other belongings are also helping confirming who died in the crash. and the details are related to my husband's shoe we just wanted to be sure because those in charge of identifying the victims say we can help them with identification but they're not his shoes they're different they're red so i can confirm they are not his knowing why the line if lines went down
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nearly fifteen minutes after take off my help a grief stricken families come to terms with the tragedy but it's likely to take a long time for investigators to analyze the black box data and provide ounces as to why this new aircraft crashed into the sea. of the tennis stars and novak djokovic are under pressure to pull out of it event in riyadh next month it follows allegations that the saudis murdered journalist. and there is a consulate last month roger federer has also turned down an invitation to a country which is desperately trying to shift the spotlight to sports. rafael nadal and novak djokovic are two players at the top of their game and major star attractions which is why they've booked to play this exhibition in saudi arabia a country now firmly in the spotlight after its alleged involvement in the murder
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of dissident journalist jamal khashoggi. not to mention its role in the ongoing conflict and humanitarian crisis in yemen despite increasing attention on the actions of the saudi arabian government both players gave choreographed responses this week of course i am aware of all the situation. but i have a commitment since when you. join a list last the life i was and also something happened it may but so of course we are trying to take in consideration everything all the options but right now i can say more than that through its general sports authority saudi arabia has invested heavily in sports if the exhibition goes ahead djokovic will pocket one million dollars each for their participation big money but at what cost. in this league a football giants player munich could be in hot water over
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a halloween party photo that was posted on twitter by defender. in the photo which the club itself also posted later brazilian defender. a traditional arab head dress and a fake mustache while holding a box that says danger social media users have widely criticized the choice of costume. since we did that it was not his intention to hurt. feelings. of france's iconic eiffel tower switched off its lights for a minute this evening to denounce crimes against journalists and to honor those reporters who have been killed members of the n.g.o.s without borders gathered in front of the tel were holding photos of murdered journalist including jamal khashoggi who was murdered last month at the salty consulate in istanbul. and here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you google employees around the
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globe have walked off the. what they see as the lenient treatment of executives accused of sexual misconduct. in new york. and singapore. you're watching the news. more so than some of the. lead. to lead eleven. eleven
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