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this is d.w. news live from berlin germany's chancellor faces her critics in cabinets on the back or stay started in friendly fashion three months after an explosion of racist violence but shook the city and she's faced some tough questioning from local residents at a public meeting also on the program. because in cambodia delivers a historic ruling to command rouge leaders are found guilty of genocide and forty years after they oversold a slaughter of almost two million people. residents return to their homes as
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firefighters bring northern california's wildfires under control we meet a man who lost everything in the blaze been destroyed paradise more than six hundred people still missing. unfilled welcome to the program we saw here in germany where chancellor i'm going to machall is visiting cabinets in the country's east it's now three months since a fatal knife attack in the city provoked days of far right protests and counter-demonstrations the chance of a match with its residents for informal discussions she said she wants to get a better impression of the city and find out how the government can help residents improve the city's public standing violent protests broke out at the end of august when a man was stabbed to death allegedly by two asylum seekers the other arrests all mobs of right wing extremists chasing migrants. this cheap political ad is
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a beheading is with the chancellor welcome mccain or what sort of welcome i did i'm going back over get. well she had one individual voice that phrase her work but there were many questions people want to. hear in came that this town that has seen that it's basically been shocked by the events that unfolded after that killing of a young man here allegedly by two young. and many felt that this really was a bit late for the german chancellor to come to campus we have a couple of sound bites there for you. i don't know what she wants for the christmas market it's too early or what happened it's too late yet sure but you know she's coming up to so many other politicians have been here it would have been better the other way around. so behavior what is the chance i tried to achieve
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three months after the fat. but she did stress that she's come here to listen to the concerns of people she admitted throughout that debate that lasted about two hours that maybe explaining policy having such town meetings hadn't been done enough and she was challenged on several occasions how long she wants to remain chancellor falwell she stuck with what she said before that she intends to serve the full term and at the same time step down as party leaders who allow her party to renew and then there was one individual woman who confronted her on two of the quotes that are probably the most quoted recently for saw the one that she said during the migration crisis via shaft us we will make it she was challenge how could she say that when it mends as another man was saying that this had to be shouldered by people who themselves are not able. to soul to this because the basic
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factors simply aren't there the issue of course being integrating some one million migrants into german society with many people here not just in kemet feeling ready and not listened to by the government then we have ever been far right demonstrations encampments every friday since august five in protest but this is symptomatic of the rest of germany. well these demonstrations on two really but certainly we have seen over the past year the far right alternative appearing in the german parliament for the very first time so arguably that is a shift to the right to a certain degree here in saxony. a different kind of atmosphere as well this is a state that is bracing itself for regional elections here coming up next year and
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here the a.f.d. is a lot stronger than it is in many other states and this is expected to be a battle ground to decide how far potential shift to the right can actually go in germany in the year while it will then be twenty nineteen well it's friday night the chancellor is in taiwan will there be protests tonight. well the microphone i don't think is picking them up right now there are sounds from where i'm standing like potentially a couple of hundred people out protesting we heard that song on the charts america's most effective chance a hoss to go something if the chance pretty much wherever it goes being us here by the crowds this will be a very busy night for the police that is turned out in force here in kemet. in cabinets thank you. to some of the other stories making news around the world
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a federal judge in the united states is sort of the trump administration to return press credentials to c.n.n. reporter jim acosta this is a temporary move on cnn's case against the white house for sage trump administration bans mr after a heated exchange with the president during a press conference last week syria and then sued the administration claiming press freedom had been violated. at least forty two people have been killed in a bus accident in zimbabwe twenty others were injured some with severe burns and police are not given details but local media are reporting it might have been caused by an exploding gas cylinder the bus was said to be traveling to neighboring south africa. and i call it the painting by british artist david hockney who sold for ninety point three million dollars in new york the winning bid at christie's auction houses that's a new record for a living artist hockley painted the work called portrait of an artist poor with two
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figures in one nine hundred seventy two. well as to forty years ago the camaro rouge murdered a quarter of cumbered us population it's around two million people today for the first time a un backed court in the capital phnom penh has found two of the regime's leaders guilty of genocide the defendants accuse sumpin new on che already serving life sentences for crimes against humanity. this is a long awaited moment to form a committee rouge leaders in one chair and kids some fans are sentenced to life in prison for genocide by a un backed quote. from home. but the chamber has considered the gravity of the crimes including nest scale and brutality the number and the vulnerability of the victims for which the accused have been convicted. these two old men the last surviving leaders of the committee rouge already serving life
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sentences for crimes against humanity but this new verdict is a landmark ruling for the first time it says that the crimes against cambodians vietnamese and sham minorities amounted to genocide the livery of the judgement today in phase two zero zero is in historic achievement in the work of the extraordinary chambers in the courts of. this court is once again demonstrated that he has the capacity to prosecute and try the most complex cases in accordance with international standards. the c'mere rouge under its leader pol pot sought to create a communist utopia by forcibly moving people from the cities to the countryside nearly two million cambodians died from overwork starvation and mass executions during its reign of terror from one thousand nine hundred five to nine hundred seventy nine plum pens museums and memorials detail the sheer horror of the past
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a past that lingers. they deserve to get a sense because they committed such big crimes the rest of my family members were killed and the only child who survived that regime. this is an important moment for cambodia it's courts recognising that what happened here was indeed genocide. and british prime minister tourism a has appointed a new press secretary following the resignation of dominic robb on thursday he stephen barclay for my junior health minister who voted to leave the european union in the referendum of twenty sixteen earlier says may have received a boost when another leading breast supporter said he would stay in government. a moment of relief for the prime minister a key voice in teresa mayes top ministerial team environment secretary michael gove has confirmed he is backing may. have confidence in the prime minister.
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very good morning with a series of meetings with my colleagues here i'm also looking forward to continuing to work with all my government colleagues and all my colleagues in parliament in order to make sure that we get the best future for britain this comes after a tumultuous day from may as she presented her draft deal to exit the european union. on thursday several cabinet members resigned including brags that secretary dominic rob and brags that hard liners led by m.p.'s jacob reese marg and steve baker say they will collect the forty eight signatures necessary to trigger a vote of no confidence in the prime minister. the future of this country for generations generations hinges upon rejecting this policy it's become clear to me and to jacob that the only way now to reject this policy is to ask the prime minister to go into. the government is struggling to secure a deal with the e.u. before break that is triggered at the end of march next year meanwhile the u.k.
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remains divided over whether or not it should even leave the union. the number of people missing in northern california wildfires has risen to more than six hundred sixty. five managed to contain most of the blaze and thousands of people are starting to return to their communities often to find their possessions reduced to ashes. this is what it looks like to lose everything. hair. quick that's all i can say. while my gosh words can't describe it. words can't describe it. and how can they when all you're left with is the clothes on your back everywhere signs of a life well lived now all gone. the
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base home one of more than six thousand destroyed in a town named paradise. the epicenter of california's deadliest ever wildfire for jonathan clark there's another reason to come back here his brother is missing. we're still trying or do whatever it takes he is found. dead or alive that's just what clarksdale we look out for each other so. so many people here were caught by surprise when high winds fans the deadly flames through their town now authorities simply can't be sure how many human remains alive beneath the ash the sheer chaos of what's happened in neighborhoods like these distorting the numbers. are watching
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the standard there are a lot of people this waste and we're finding that a lot of people don't know that we're looking for them and that is why we're publishing those words. firefighters are still trying to contain the camp fire one of three wildfires raging in california this one is said to be forty percent under control but it will take two more weeks to put out completely. in sports tennis great roger federer has won ninety nine titles in his era defining career and last night in london he moved closer to his hundredth and guarantees yourself a place in the final four of the a.t.p. finals by cruising past south africa kevin anderson. less than a week ago federer was dealt a drubbing by cain issue cooling he's back on for now though as his pinpoint backhands attest i it was kevin anderson who knocked federer out of wimbledon this year after a marathon quarter final but this one really looked like it would go the distance
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at four all in the first set federer broke the south african serve before holding his own to take the six six for. the thirty seven year old remains dominant a confident approach to the net leaving anderson no chance here i and soon enough the deal was sealed six four six three. federer is a six time champion here and he's not getting too what about the prospect of making it seven. for me i've always wanted to go out with a bang today and win the match if i go through great if i don't i don't deserve to be through it it's ok i'm happy i'm still alive and i hope i can play a good match on the day after tomorrow. one hundred career. which i had said show up today to get. business updates in just a moment top story that looking after trying to put the woes of behind it and
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looking to the future i'll be back at the top of the hour i think that. closely. listen carefully. to the.

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