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this is news live from berlin islamists on the streets of pakistan are issuing fresh demands to the pakistani christian bibi hung to death for insulting islam this after pakistan's supreme court unanimously acquitted her for lack of evidence we'll talk to a correspondent close to the case also coming up. devastation in india storms and flooding kill more people rescue divers and imagine seeing teams are still looking to save the lives of people holding on for hope. and with one day left before u.s.
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sanctions he may just sectors of iran's economy thousands of iranians at a rally in the streets of tehran we'll look at the impact of the new sanctions on people's lives there. i need to keep money welcome to the show islamists in pakistan are renewing their calls for death by hanging for as a baby angry protesters have staged rallies since her acquittal was announced on wednesday pakistan's supreme court said there wasn't enough evidence to convict the christian woman of insulting islam maybe sat on death row for eight years awaiting a decision her husband has now asked a number of countries for help citing frias for her life. for more on this story i'm now joined by shiloh shams from asia really it's good to see you so we've just had that baby as husband says her life is in danger what's the latest
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information you have on how well being. well we received an order you clipped from a person very close to the b.b. family and he said that b.b.c. life is still in danger the family's life is in danger and we know that. husband also pleaded appealed to the u.s. president and the british prime minister that they should do something about it try to get the family out of pakistan but things have become really complicated the protesters are still calling for her death and we know that the protesters kind of forced the government to strike a deal with them and the government agreed to to their demands so it has become it is becoming increasingly difficult for us your baby to leave the country or to live safely in pakistan shadow you say a difficult situation so how likely is it that big family will be able to leave the
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country as the husband appeals for international help well he has appealed to a number of countries and we know that the that france and spain have offered asylum to the family to be but the question is what is the government going to do about the agreed to a deal in which they said to do. try to do take measures to ban babies departure from pakistan if that happens then it will become very difficult for bibi to leave pakistan life will remain under threat. and now as a baby as you know was unanimously acquitted by the high court in the country after demands by had line assignments that well well now be an appeal do critics have a point when they say that the pakistani government is caving in to the extremist. well the pakistani government formation minister just said that it is in line with the constitution but the whole issue is not about the constitution the supreme
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court acquitted on wednesday. she should have been a free person by no she should be able to to roam the streets freely or all travel abroad but that has not happened and that has not happened because the government actually. missed and it is not the first time the government money governments have done that. kind of embolden islamists and now they are still calling. for death. i think the government should do about it. media analysts we should do all something about it shallow shams from asia desk thank you thanks for having me. let's now look at some of the other stories making news around the world a group of thousands of central american migrants heading for the u.s. has begun splintering off after mexican officials broke a promise to supply buses the group of about four thousand people is traveling
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through an area locals call the route of death the governor of veracruz had offered safe passage to mexico city officials later with to that. u.s. president donald trump is spending the final weekend before tuesday's midterm elections campaigning for republican candidates at a rally in florida he told supporters of vote for democrats is a vote for socialism that would turn florida into venezuela he repeated calls for border security to keep migrants out who he is depicted as dangerous. storms have killed at least twenty nine people this week the harsh weather is especially battering sicily where dozen bodies have been recovered from floodwaters one family lost nine members overnight and forecasters well they warn more severe weather lies ahead. this is where an entire family lost their lives after a nearby river engorged by heavy rainfall burst its banks. among the dead
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a baby and a three year old relative. and that is that they probably rented a house for a union but we don't know exactly why yet with this leg. the only thing we know for sure is that nine are dead it's unfortunately one of the more serious all the. more victims were found in their cars which respect away by the flooding. heavy storms have fatter the whole of italy for week the worst hit areas are in the north . centuries old forest like this one in the benito region destroyed within just a few days. in the province off bellew new winds reached one hundred ninety kilometers an hour and proves off houses. so the shadow went out here and looked
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upward and i shouted that the roof was blown away that we were stuck five days without a phone without electricity without anything and without no it's ok because nobody could regency us. residents here were cut off after a landslide damaged a major mountain wrote. no we're worried the road might collapse. because underneath the road we saw a crowd to get them to support. the storm damage in italy is estimated to run into the billions and rather warnings are still in place six italia regions remain on high alert for new storms. iranians have staged mass protests against the united states one day before new american sanctions going to effect against the u.s. has spiked since president trump decided to withdraw from the run u.k. deal and tens of thousands took part in protests across the country which also marked the anniversary of the country's islamic revolution. a show of
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defiance and support for the iranian revolution portraits of the ayatollah khomeini and the other ideologues of the islamic republic. since a safe power from the shower runs formulator in nine hundred seventy nine the message has changed little. down with israel and down with america. but this year the tension at the pro-government rallies is higher facing new american sanctions on monday the regime is shopping its rhetoric. in parliament the man once in charge of negotiating nuclear policy with washington compared the united states current leader to one of iran's bitterest enemies. now mr donald trump like former iraqi dictator saddam has decided to fight the iranian nation he wants to directly oppress and torture the iranian nation. but elsewhere in tire and
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worries a growing about the impact of the sanctions they're expected to further drive up consumer prices and why heavily on the country's growth right which had been recovering from an earlier round of penalties the. more the we can see the effect of sanctions in this bizarre. there was a man here today who did not have money to buy a lotion for his baby because the economic situation is getting worse the people are very poor and times are hard each one. expects leka runs large antigovernment protests in january to the country's deteriorating economic situation the fear among regimes the porters the latest u.s. sanctions will only deepen iran's problems and further undermine the foundations of the islamic republic french president emmanuel mccaw says the territory of new caledonia has voted to the main hot of france with ninety five percent of votes counted nearly fifty seven percent
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of people have voted against independence. they have us much at stake for the people of new caledonia queued for hours and turned out in droves to cast their ballots and number of polling stations had to stay open longer than planned for manning this referendum was an emotional day. when i put my won't in the box i almost cried because i thought of our mothers and fathers who really fought hard for this this land has a past history the country has a very diverse population agents people from other pacific islands and about forty percent are descendants from the original inhabitants an ethnic group called to come back those people mostly wanted independence for them it would have been a way to express their opposition to colonialism. but thirty four percent of the population has to peen roots and are descendants from the first french said last
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citizens from france still immigrate to the territory. we. are in flower of no reason to move. to some saying get. finally many may have seen the advantages of being part of france first and foremost to get the one point three billion in annual subsidies the european motherland transfers every year to the south pacific islands. sports news now and tennis fans are calling it one of the best matches of the season a nail biter between two of the sport's heavyweights well then the two nova djokovic against his longtime rival roger federer in the semifinals of the paris masters. it had just about everything including a bit of levity after federer's mis hit landed in. we were this in a match where every point was crucial and fans already knew it the two would go toe
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to toe for a full three sets and djokovic was more than fired up when he took the first set tiebreaker eight six. it was the forty seventh meeting between these two with hardly a chance to breathe as federer won the tight second set. was. leaving room for a third set at the paris masters with more masterful shotmaking neither federer nor djokovic conceding any ground. until the final set tiebreaker federer will go for the winner. but find the next. my thought. we went told to told to the last shot i mean it was really really spectacular match i was i was proud of this year and if it was best i've ever played against him in my career. sports junkies often take a liking to the most bizarre events on offer and we've got something that's just
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out there moto ball or and high rev combination of football and motocross germany and france faced off at the international dirt bike show on saturday with both sides putting on a performance their footballing count of the would be proud of his will. germany trouncing france nine three in football is currently tough to imagine but that's exactly what happened when they met in moto ball. that's right moto ball it's just what it sounds like. football on motorcycles and. for players to go pro and each team. taking place in the u.k. the match was a dream for gearheads and football fans alike. the sport may seem a bizarre combination but for the players it makes perfect sense.
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if with. low wage you start motocross and it's just. france's defense desperately needed to know. they were stuck in second gear chasing a dominant germany all match. the german squad had plenty to celebrate as they cruised to victory. football on motorbikes ok i've seen it all now all thousands of people have gathered in south in taiwan for the burning of a ceremonial boat as part of a doll history channel to what off disease and bad luck more than one thousand volunteers from the seaside township of dong dong spent three months building the intricately decorated boat according to foreclose the boat belongs to one lay divine and serene has the power to cleanse people of evil spirits and disease after
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its construction the boat is paraded through town and then set ablaze at night. watching the news live from berlin will have won the top of the hour thank you for watching. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship but just one to the shadow and if you newspapers with official information as a journalist i have worked at all of the strengths of many cantors and their problems are almost the same for doing the social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press and corruption who can afford to stay silent when it's.
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