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this is the deputy is coming to you live from berlin a possible breakthrough in ghana and the u.n. says the warring parties have agreed to a cease fire and the red sea port of put it up could this be the breakthrough to end the conflict in the rest of the country where hundreds of thousands on the brink of famine and. also coming up the widening search for the strong support that tackle more than seven hundred police gone the friend sitting in the cellar to try to check on the man suspected of carrying out an attack of christmas monks on tuesday three people i'm not confirmed dead. and after surviving the trolling
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prosecutors british prime minister to resign arrives in brussels she wants key leaders to help save the brics a deal. last she can only imagine what the scene looks like common your friends rides the big waves guided by instinct she spins first visually impaired female athletes to enter the world adaptive to the championship. banner. the end of a well welcome to you i'm. we start with some breaking news on the future of yemen the two sides in yemen civil war have agreed to a ceasefire in the port city of haditha a u.n. sponsored peace talks in sweden the warring parties agreed to establish humanitarian car. and the deployment of duty forces the next round of talks i
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showed you for january the city in the kitty it on the red sea is a vital route for humanitarian aid upon which millions of yemenis depend. has seen some of the worst fighting in the country's civil war which began four years ago. and joining me now on the peace talks which have been going on in sweden is she's a resident humanitarian coordinator for the u.n. and also responsible for the republic of yemen she joins me now from sun ms gandhi united nations extra general. just announced that a cease fire has been agreed in the port city for there the brain does it started how significant is this development. after six months of nearly daily bombardment and continuous fighting for data was a city that was literally dying the ceasefire that the un secretary general has
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just announced and that the parties to the conflict at the greet is going to change all of this the two hundred thousand civilians who have remained in danger route are now free from the daily fear of shelley and air strikes and the embargo and we're also relieved because the port of pre-dated which is the like line for northern england will be open and secure and functional right now there are twenty two million people in who are hungry the united nations is providing food to eight million of those people and we know we have to do more and that's why we're going to be scaling up and providing food to twelve million will bring you that food and mostly through the port of data and this is another reason why this cease fire is so welcome and so important and we're looking at some of it shows off. i don't have to tell you say u.n. secretary general and some of the key members and those peace talks tell us what else has been agreed at those talks because this conflict in yemen has been going
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on for four yes. the parties to the completive been discussing a wide range of issues and that includes economic issues this is very important because the food insecurity crisis in the country could create them conditions that we're witnessing the majority of those are linked to to economy they're linked to the fact that sounds rather than a little service for years now they're linked in recent appreciation of the currency they're linked to restrictions on importers all of these issues were discussed during the recent talks in stockholm the status of near ports were discussed and the steps that have to follow place in this tragic and terrible that all of this has been looked at in the past we were very anxious for the next round of talks to occur the fighting in yemen has had an enormous civilian toll there are millions of people who have been brought to the brink of famine because of this war
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and this is why it's so important so urgent that the war stop and stop now we have to see what comes out in the second round of talks if you discuss the political framework but right now it does sound like a bit of a breakthrough for the people of yemen lisa gunda visit him attitude coordinator for the u.n. thank you very much for joining us from santa. ana not to france of police of nor should the people to have find the man suspected of carrying out tuesday's deadly attack in strasbourg hundreds of police and soldiers are searching the twenty nine year old chevy checkup known as he's has a criminal record he is described as dangerous and police are warning the public not to approach him the dead still are from the shooting estrada supposed christmas market has not risen to three prosecutors say a fourth person is in a critical condition. i'm john the on the line from singing in gemini by two mosques that he's
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a former lawyer for the main suspect in the strasburg shooting welcome mr dude if you represented sheriff checa when he faced a burglary charge in two thousand and sixteen what can you tell us about him. i'm. two thousand sixty. four. a normal guy. a normal. western child or western. young. no. well it just thought no political thought the only thing he thought about religion was that told me that he won't drink any i. won't take any illegal drugs and he just asked me at our first meeting to
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a. prison director that he wants to have his meals. and he doesn't want to eat any paulk. to prison organized. good food. for such he go down to collide why he was in prison what more can you tell us about that. i have to say and the only contact to him while he waited for is they caught and. i supported him in his trial. but after his trial when he passed to. prison i didn't have any contact anymore. to the time he passed his trial he wasn't radicalized at all the indications that show the cheka could be in germany right now you wanted me received
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a call from a german telephone number directly before the attack what can you tell us about his connections here during the time when you knew. when i met him he certainly had no relations here in any i can say that because we tried to get him out of prison the church told her she would. probably take we if you had to place to live here if he didn't have a place he could. tell him about friends where he could live but he didn't know but he to host him or she didn't have somebody. and mr goodere know shareef had faced dozens of charges in the past he started his criminal activity while he was still a teenager people are asking how was he able to continue such
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a long criminal act criminally active period you're a lawyer what explains that what kind of impression did he make on you when you were his lawyer. for the. crime in case you why because he committed a crime approx and you had a great. good to inform. had. information from him and. you. every. right to muster the former lawyer for the main suspect in the strasbourg shooting thank you very much you're welcome let me now bring you up to date some of the stories making news around the wind is really official see a palestinian has shot and killed two israelis in the occupied west bank another
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two are said to be wounded the shooting happening at the jewish settlement off. when a palestinian gunman did seven people in a separate attack on sunday. a fire in the congolese capital kinshasa has destroyed thousands of voting machines just ten days before the presidential election opposition leaders had raised concerns that congress first use of voting machines could lead to possible manipulation in favor of president joseph kabila preferred successor officials from the election commission say the vote will go ahead. in hungary demonstrators gathered in front of parliament in but uppish to protest against a new labor legislation dubbed the sliver by critics the reform loosens the lever code and this is and you over time our eyes opponents are calling for peace heights in the country which has some of the newest bridges the. prosecutors in brazil i'll
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stick in the rest of the country's most famous faith healer following allegations of sexual misconduct more than two hundred women have accused the man known as john of god of sexually abusing them while he was seeking spiritual guidance and treatment he says he's innocent. britain's prime the city reason me is back in brussels where she's seeking help from e.u. leaders this option survived a confidence vote by her own party on wednesday in brussels she first tells talks with the irish prime minister leo she's seeking legal issue and says from e.u. leaders that could help to sell a break the deal to fall a month and prevent a disorderly exit from the european union. here's what she had to say after she arrived in brussels. well first of all can i just say
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a word about yesterday which was a difficult area and i'm grateful for all the significant support i had from colleagues but i've also had the concerns of those who didn't kill able to support me and i know the concerns there are in the house of commons about this issue of the box office and that they do not want it to be permanent and what i'll be talking to european leaders about here today is about what i think we need to get this feeling tonight and i told you that we're proud to cover i'm going to be addressing the european council later and i will be sharing with legal and political assurances i believe we need to restrain the concerns that members of parliament have on this issue you know i know the e.u. twenty seven will also be discussing the g.o.p. planning and indeed the government in the u.k. is discussing their geo planning but i think it's i said to the best arrangement treasury body for both the u.k. and the risk for us to agree a deal and get this deal into line so that was tourism
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a talking in brussels and also in brussels is our correspondent he's at the european council where the summit is taking place all welcome you all not the surviving all that political turbulence that tourism may is now dead looking for a new lifeline what is she hoping to get from. essentially in research she's looking for a game changer here something that would make it possible for her to sell this db or steal a bank home in the british parliament and one of those the game changer could be addressing a key sticking point is this question of a backstop and that is why today the dutch prime minister here said this summit will be about demystifying about clarifying that the e.u. has zero interest in making this backstop pearman and now i should say the specs of means it is an insurance that the e.u. wanted from the u.k. that there's no hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland
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which is part of of the u.k. the solution is keeping the whole all of the u.k. including northern ireland in a sort of customs union and parts of the internal market so that there is no need for border checks along the inner irish border on the island of ireland so gil gets they clear were to visit me once there what's the word there about how you live is i going to respond to her request. when i mention the clarification attitude that the dutch prime minister has arrived with angela merkel for instance reiterated that point and said there will be no changes in the in the key treaty the divorce treaty but there is a way that some assurances additional assurances potentially could be given but she said those insurances will only come in unity so leaders will talk about that but changing the deal in other words adding a temporary expiry date to this backstop is not on the table and this much talk
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about terrorism being we can't politically in india and also the fact that she said she would be standing in the next election is all of this being viewed in the context of this because of the exit discussions. i think all leaders who were asked a question about the reason may today mention sympathy. the dutch prime minister even spoke about deep respect for her resilience and she was greeted by luxembourg prime minister with open arms and a kiss and a promise we were trying to help here so the attitude overall a sympathy on the other hand what is true for you case also true for the e.u. no deal is better than a bad deal so the e.u. will not make compromises that cross any red lines that would give the e.u. a bad deal only to make sure that the worst case scenario of a cliff edge president no deal breaks it can be avoided radke are marxists at the european council in brussels where the drama is going to play out for the next few hours thank you very much for that live update from there. jimmie's
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fundamentally mastracchio for the bloated terrorism is hopes of extracting fresh concessions from europe the bundestag agreed not to allow any substantial renegotiation of the withdrawal deal between britain and brussels and that's despite some german lawmakers expressing sympathy and even regret over britain slight. after facts were laid out emotions were also running high when the german parliament just passed corrected on thursday exam german m.p.'s feel personally a fact it. is physically smashed the cracks in the entire breaks it hurts me every day i have family there and i have a british passport most of you know that and the family i have there move some time ago within the u.k. from england to scotland they ask themselves what will happen if things go on like this. what will scotland do will we someday be foreigners in our own country and
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also in the men learn to fly and man is speakers made clear that there will be no cherry picking when it comes to the u.k. leaving the e.u. . we continue to have a clear interest in reaching agreement with britain. and the deal which took months to negotiate is a truly workable compromise. provides a good basis for an orderly exit and for building future relations. with c.e.o. there is no basis for opening it up again we made this clear in the past few days and this is not going to change. one of the most discussed points was the backstop the last restart to maintain an open border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland if the u.k. creches out of the you without a deal we have to avoid
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a hard border between north and ireland and ireland do. should be avoided in all cases and because there we talk peace the far right alternative for germany party are f.t. is to only party in the german palin and that things beck said it's a good thing let's be put to the british go and prove that there is life after leaving the e.u. and then after some possible difficulties in the transition process no one will remember why they were ever part of this continental european circus. not quite a circus but madness was the description some n.p.c. used for the current situation in the u.k. that's still the vast majority of them think i know it will be good neither one of the you know for gemini. again i'll saga joints be good to see you have it and it seems the end of cheap money in europe that's right and retire we still have to see what's going to happen with rex said but it seems like things are going quite ok
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here in the eurozone at least the european central bank just announced the end of its massive and controversial bond buying program known asked quantitative easing setting the end of an era why because the e.c.v. believes the eurozone economy no longer needs central bank support to growth in total the e.c.v. has bought government and corporate bonds worth two point six trillion euros since the program started march fifteenth back then and it's invested to strengthen a weak euro zone economy suffering with the flame critics say the program let government simply minimize borrowing costs instead of making reforms for their countries. our financial correspondent common bolzan is in frankfurt where the e.c.b. has its headquarters and has been following along today statements that it's good to see you well now we can say it's done the e.c.b. is ending its controversial q.e. and it's fair to say come about no surprises there. no surprises the european
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central bank is a very reliable communicator that's very important for the markets that we're not really surprises but i think it's worth mentioning a few statements coming from the european central bank along with the decision that q.e. quantitative easing those asset purchases would officially end at the end of the year the e.c.b. says and i quote this it will continue reinvesting in full the principal payments from maturing securities purchased under the asset purchase program for an extended period of time past the date when it starts raising the key e.c.b. interest rates now that might sound a bit technical it basically means that bonds that expire and that the you know european central bank is holding the e.c.b. will take this money and reinvest it in the successive bonds of the same kind and this is a clear sign to the markets that this you know phasing out of quantitative easing
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will be very very very slow and that should make some people unhappy especially here in germany because no one or not everyone rather is fan of these policies. that's true but i think that you know the official statement today that the official quantitative easing program the money printing of money that the e.c.b. used to buy bonds that this will come to an end now this is still positive news for many of the critics here in germany who had of course criticized the e.c.b. because they said that by buying government bonds the european central bank would directly influence the cost of borrowing for governments and like this it would. not encourage those governments to make policies that allow the government to have a healthy budget without you know super low interest rates which means of course.
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economic policy allowing growth those critics here in germany will likely be very happy today and some banks are happy to kind of briefly if you can what does this mean for euro zone banks well the e.c.b. says that money will be cheap for quite a while but eventually interest rates will rise and for traditional european banks this means they can return to their traditional business model which heavily relies on interest rates on a frozen in frankfurt thank you very much. and is it a tit for tat chinese authorities are now investigating another businessman from canada michael specter for is the second canadian citizen to get in trouble with chinese authorities after beijing detained former diplomat michael called break on monday the two cases appear to be retaliation for the detention of name one show a high level chinese accent you know fancy f.o.'s phone maker huawei by canada on
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a request from the united states the whereabouts of mr speight were remain unclear . this is businessman michael spade and this is what he is known for bringing people together in this case for an athlete's to pyongyang to play the north korean hockey team he is a canadian businessmen with a cultural exchange company based in the northern chinese city of dying dog he is also the man behind the unusual friendship between us basketball star dennis rodman and north korean leader kim jong un space as possibly one of the best connected westerners in secretive north korea and now nobody knows exactly where he is before beijing confirmed it was investigating space for kenner's foreign minister confirm something was wrong. but we are aware. of eight canadian. who got in touch with us.
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because he was being asked questions by chinese authorities. space for also uses his base in china to promote investment in north korea but china says he is now a security risk. that's all for business i'm going to hand you back to return now for the latest on very terrible incident tricky that's right thank you very much javier. at least nine people have been killed and many more injured in a high speed train crash in turkey the train collided with a look at motive on the same track shortly after it left the central station in the capital ankara shaken to live a man stumble from the mine gold wreckage of the six thirty train from i'm corrupt to qana and the dark valley morning rescue team search for survivors buried beneath a mountain of metal and concrete. emergency services treated the walking wounded
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as posh and just describe the scene. was such an argument we hadn't yet reached high speeds when it happened i was in the sixth carriage we could see that the train had been ripped apart and had come off the tracks. the expression train was just a few minutes into its fated journey when it crashed into a maintenance locomotive seen at the bottom here and then flew into a pedestrian overpass at a suburban station which collapsed it's unclear how fast it was travelling at the time of impact or why the truck was blocked authorities say three drivers are among the fatalities not as rescue efforts to recovery but the full extent of this tragedy yet to marriage. he watching the news coming tonight from but in time for a bit of sport and in last night's champions league football tournament by munich and i.x. amsterdam faced off in a thrilling three or draw the drama started with fifteen minutes to go and the
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match level at one apiece bonds to most was sent off for this high kick after that apparently for each team made it through a deliberate level tying the school with his second goal kingsley come on then put by a head injury time to just when you thought the germans had done enough of victory nicole last time your fico never the match again treats the final score which leaves behind still on top of the book kill is what levon das he said after the match took all. day long and he's the highest biggest b.b. hope i've not played in a game like that in a long while. if you are not going to luckily we managed to get through it. and we know where we can improve how we can play better and of course in attack we could do with putting away two or three more chances so it will but in general i think we've shown our potential. now that was.
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by and now the last team to get into the champions league last sixteen was legal they travelled to snowy ukraine and managed a one hour draw with shock down the ats and that was enough to put them through here's a look at all of the teams that made it through as group winners including and german sides by as i mentioned and one of these teams will be seeded in part one for the next draw meaning they will not play each other but they are still some european heavyweights in part to featuring the group run as a notably last year's finalists liverpool in the draw for the last sixteen take space next monday. you're watching the news coming up ahead they have been asked to prove the impossible time is running out of millions of the northeast of india tourists being left speechless on list if they do use decades old people but
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asylum state government supposedly to crack down on illegal immigration from neighboring residents were asked to prove that they or their families have been living in a song before one thousand nine hundred seventy one when bangladesh declared independence the result was a draft list of citizens with four million people left off they originally had until friday to submit additional documents but on wednesday that's yesterday india's supreme court extended the deadline by two weeks to december the thirty fust the critics say the citizens test unfairly to august's muslims many of whom i have lived in asylum states all their lives. her future hanging by these pieces of paper sixty year old now john naser is one of millions in india's asylum state who could soon be stateless. we handed in my mother in law's documents for my
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wife and four of our family members a registered but my wife's name isn't on the list. oh as the deadline looms a some residents are scrambling to prove their right to citizenship but many simply don't possess the documents to back their claims even those who've lived in india for decades john nice eighty eight years old. my father's name is jordan shaikh. i submitted the voters' list of one hundred fifty six or seven that. but my name's not there on the list and i don't have any other papers a lot of things got a crowd of them up because the night. more than two million people still haven't filed claims of the national registry of citizens with time running out many know a few they could face deportation or even detention. for let me go in a correspondent in a delhi nimish i just want you jones me live from there so nisha as we should the people who don't have citizenship papers off is
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a huge amount of uncertainty so what is the government planning to do. well i'm with the people who have not been on the station yet that station is basically a job the government is giving them the option to file for appeals and objections now these people about two of one point five million people have already filed for objections two point five people have not yet reapplied but if then means are left off of the final draft they will have to walk through already set up about one hundred or national tribunals in the state of assam they can also walk through the judicial system but they eventually step for them can actually be pretty frightening they can report it does norway the appeals world can be put in six detentions and best but the detentions and does do not have the space to accommodate so many people and they would basically be overeating depredation or be stateless in the state of assam and not have citizenship and daniel and he would
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have the state of a summons had long running tensions over so-called migrants tell us above. well under the be used tensions on migration are definitely not new migration into the state of assam started all the way back in the early twentieth century and the first such registry was actually vote all the way back in nineteen fifty one there was a six year agitation right from nine hundred seventy nine up to eighty five which is why the assam accord was built it is on the basis of this thirty three year old accord that this citizenship of history is being drawn up now and the protest which was the what the orders responded to was basically about the fact that people felt that migrants were taking away from them but it would utilize in their resources and would damaging the political cultural and social structure over sam and what claims of this can be in the campaign has been used by the hindu nationalist government to target muslims in particular and disenfranchise them.
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well the interesting thing here of the national registry for citizenship in assam does not speak about any particular religion but most of the migrants from neighboring mungo they should have been muslim there was also hesitation and a lot of questions being raised about the more recent influx of rohingya muslims by this government what is also interesting is the citizenship amendment bill which seeks to do the opposite they actually try they're trying to push through a bill which will allow for people from six religions including c. kusum hindu islam and christianity to migrate feed from pakistan of ghana stunt and bangladesh and become naturalized indian citizens so there's a clear push in one read through the roof muslim citizens citizens calling them illegal but also facilitate easier citizenship for other legends. just one in delhi thank you very much for that. we changing the subject now and returning
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to snakes a symbol of evil through the ages and still the stuff of fears and phobias and talking about for busy i know there's a picture of those creatures behind me but i'm not looking but for one village in eastern china snakes represent wealth and prosperity these a cio was a poor community with one thing in abundance you guessed it the screeches at the back so one enterprising family decided to turn boys than into profit today the village breeds around three million of these creatures every. creams and tonics which claim to treat everything from skin ailments to impotence and even the appearance of aging it might sound like snake oil to some but in china traditional remedies are thriving business. to the forces of anyone charmed by snakes should feel at home here young chang is doing what he's done for more than forty years making
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a business out of the reptiles these are being drowned in alcohol they've been delivered by a local farmer to make snake liquor to drink or lather on the skin. most customers prefer to watch from behind a glass wall muffing jin has ordered the snaps to see if snake medicine could heal her elements. that are ten years i've had problems here and there and many of my joints i've heard treatment with snake eyes and can help i'm here to give it a try. this is the village of this shell in eastern china built on canal banks it was once mired in poverty the residents live from farming and fishing but today things have changed snakeskin here dry in the sun in china this place is known as the village of snakes three million of them are bred here every year they're kept in sacks like these washed and ready for use the village
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owes its livelihood to young chang i mean the one you can do as a young man i was very ambitious and. i wanted to help bring the village out of poverty. so when that's why i came up with this idea to make a business from the snake trade. i began to catch them and sell them then i started to breed them very hard in kind of young shows us an old television report once a frequent face in chinese media he's famous across the region he's been called the king of snakes but today he doesn't have to raise them himself he makes his money by turning them into products such as three snake powder snake cream or snake wine all from yang's own brand they're supposed to help to lay the effects of aging treat various skin conditions and boost potency. this is how the snakes are bred venomous vipers in their hundreds.
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young's neighbor turns their poison into profit he milks them as they bite down on the edge of a container massaging their glands to extract the poison. it's a highly concentrated venom and it requires high concentration to avoid being bitten by. a snake bite isn't necessarily deadly but it's always painful. every day i extract about five hundred grams of poison i leave it out to dry then it's ready to sell. the dried venom is bought by medicine distributors and it's used to make treatments for thrombosis people here and a good living from the snake trade this is where their eggs are checked they're placed in sand filled insulated boxes and incubated dispatch alone should yield more than ten thousand snakes after two months baby snakes will emerge.
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now that the snake king doesn't have to run his empire he has time for other pursuits he's even opened a snake museum where he personally welcomes the visitors sounds of chinese tourists come every year. they can look and they can touch the snakes. the. young says he's proud of what he's built. to say maybe that's why. we are known as the village of snakes are you so we have to build a snake museum here so we just would not say. we want to pass on our knowledge
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about snakes you have to make them different varieties you know and our own culture and that's from generation to generation and we do this or do today do we want to could see. things here so what might the future look like here in snake village young tang is sixty seven but he has plenty of ideas this will soon be a restaurant with snake on the menu and this is a memorial dedicated to all the snakes sacrificed along the way have possibly made some people healthy they've definitely made young wealthy. returning now to india but staying with the animal kingdom a huge colony of bunky is a settler on some of delhi's government buildings including the presidential palace that's the russia but they haven't and the ministries of finance and defense as calmness as they may look at even cute sometimes these monkeys can turn aggressive and they are scaring allam and stuff forcing the parties to take action. they have
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set up home at some of the best addresses in delhi india's government district office stately architecture and great views as well as easy access to tasty snacks and fun entertainment. they snatch food from people's hands and sometimes they even tear up files and documents by climbing in through the windows they respect no hierarchies whether you're a security guard or a government minister you're fair game for these daring red faced rhesus my cat's food isn't safe even inside the premises and they're also fond of snatching cell phones they're monkeying around with cars buildings and even people. indian or thora teams have reached their wits end so they've hired squads of monkey chases to drive the animals away. except there are still quite
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a few people who like sharing their lunch. stop reading monkeys don't want fried monkeys at all because it will confuse them and then they will expect referred all the time and after that you have to understand that you must not talk garbage if you have got a bit in food available and you are sending the wrong signals to the monkey authours he is estimate that around half a million monkeys are living in the urban jungle of delhi and numbers are rising. now you might remember a selfie by a refugee with the german chancellor that changed his life for the us three years ago under a lot of money fit syria to escape the war and ended up in a refugee shelter in berlin the selfie became their percentage of the ribs of refugees pouring into germany in two thousand and fifteen and mansions welcoming attitude towards them it's ended up going viral on facebook
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not did have you followed up on the story for our facebook series scored what happened next and a social media editor. joins me now for more welcome khalid tell me more about this unexpected for not from this a selfie yeah i mean when the money took that photo he says he could never have imagined the consequences on the one hand this really became a symbol for syrian refugees that were seeking shelter in germany on the other it was used by people that were seeking to discredit its chancellor angela merkel's open door refugee policy and this was really just a classic case of so-called fake news that picture was used out of context to claim that no the money wasn't just a refugee but a terrorist he was falsely accused of being involved in all kinds of crimes the terrorist attacks in brussels the attack on a christmas market in berlin among others you can see some of these pows these are just examples of some that were shared thousands of times on facebook this was often done by members of far right facebook groups to spread mission misinformation
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about crimes that were committed by refugees in germany as a result what really the game became a happy moment for an os changed into something different and here's what he told us. and before the committee i had a really bad feeling i was just so scared of the selfie and didn't like it anymore and i wanted it to disappear from the media because they were calling me a terrorist to get on top when on this i wanted them to figure get me to just say i don't want that people you hate refugee use keep using my face money because they're not telling the truth and. just you know his reputation really was stained by those posts on facebook to this day some of those false posts are still out there on social media gosh what a shame because it's such a lovely selfie now what action did he take then well he actually went ahead and took facebook to court and this is what he did he he said you know facebook really
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should be responsible for preventing these sort of posts from getting out there with false information in the first place he saw an injunction against the company he ended up losing that case but it may really have set the stage for some stricter privacy laws that we saw coming into effect in germany and in europe this was really before we've seen things like the g.d.p. you are so in a way it kind of helps improve privacy and security on the internet on social media and so what this is life like now in many ways he is the typical refugee in germany he's twenty one he said in german he's working here but also he's facing some of the same struggles that many refugees are including with immigration or integration . mohnish when he got to so forth i sometimes don't feel comfortable here. i'm always treated as a refugee no matter where i am. people treat me as if i come from a dangerous an islamic country and. our
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viewers can see the entire interview on our latest episode of what happens next it's available on r d w news facebook page great food what a sad and heartbreaking story that selfie represented everything that was wonderful and good about that really turned out for that happy moment to do something totally totally different here thank you so much for being us the story and of course we look forward to seeing the rest of it on facebook not to a story of grit and determination this week there was adaptive surfing championships taking place in california the event give cellphones with physical challenges the chance to display their talents in a one to class competition this is event features visually impaired female surface for the first time one of them is common no bez she's representing spain. carmen lopez can only imagine what the sea looks like. but that hasn't stopped the twenty one year old spaniard from riding this surf.
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christmas. i can't pre-entry locks i don't have any concerns and it's just me and the wave. coach lucas garcia guides carmen with whistled signals he's trained her to compete at the world adaptive surfing championship. no one ever thought the blind people could surf and suddenly we find kamen who can she need some extra help in the water compared to other adopted sports but at the end when someone wants something they can break the limits and everyone can see if carmen was born with congenital about coma and lost her vision when she was a child she wants to encourage others with physical challenges to push past their limits it was their to keep showing day by day and with everything that i do if you
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want something you can get it whether or not you have a disability and the important thing is to do what you like the most people put their own various not know when asked puts them there that's what. carmen has also learned figure skating and horseback riding with her bold attitude the sea is the limit. if you ever visit burnet you simply have to go to brilliance famous museum and in the showpiece of the city's cultural landscape landscape that is home to five major museums and now there's even something more the final piece of a decades long basel is finished and today the keys were handed over for the brand new gene seem on gallery which will serve as a new visitor center tell me all about this and you. haven't got to this welcome. and love the idea of a gallery but what is his visitor's center of business what does a visitor center be in the middle of
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a museum other than ok well i think it's supposed to function a little bit like the glass pyramid at the louvre in paris which you're probably for familiar with it's going to be the main entrance for all five of these museums so the place where you go to buy your tickets start your tours orient yourself and decide which of these fantastic museums you're going to tackle first and so it was the prussian king people to him the fourth i think it was who had the original idea to create this sanctuary for art and science on an island so it's literally in the middle of the rivers play and there are these five for museums crowded onto it now they are the i just museum which houses the collection of classical antiquity so you can see it there and in the background we'll see it here the other two nights when i got to the old national gallery showcasing nineteenth century art. and then there's the noise museum or new museum which has the famous bust of the egyptian queen a. collection and she is the one you see i'm. a
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real draw with its famous pediment alter currently undergoing radical renovation and last but not least border museum which boasts an impressive collection of sculptures now about two million people visit that island every year it is you know a world heritage site and when the power renovation is actually finished they're hoping to double that figure so of course it's a constant work of progress and as you know it's taken many decades to get to this point and it's this man who was entrusted with bringing it all to fruition. award winning architect david chipperfield developed the master plan for the overhaul of berlin zoo museum island and also drew up plans for its grand entrance the new james cmon gallery. the complicated construction project was subject to numerous delays it is now finally
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being completed after seventeen years at an estimated cost of one hundred thirty four million euros. the friends right now the five museums are like five friends sitting at one table. but with their backs to each other. and. james in the gallery will link spaces and museums with each other. and the. british architect david chipperfield also oversaw the major restoration of the noirs museum which was heavily damaged in world war two and had been neglected for many decades. at first not everyone appreciated his plan to combine historical and modern elements today however his work is celebrated as an impressive architectural achievement. but david shipler feeling started on this project in one thousand nine hundred nine his philosophy was to respect the rule
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and not to cover up the marks left by history he wanted to restore and carefully preserve this historical building while sensitively complementing it with modern elements and. saying what i'm going through. now the james seaman gallery is ready for use it's set to open its doors in the summer of twenty ninety. looks impressive suggests that we don't overlook him is june's so he was a wealthy entrepreneur here in berlin some of a jewish caution cotton merchant who became an art collector but also very much a philanthropist and a patron of the arts in the late nineteenth century now he had a particular interest in archaeology and he collaborated with fun boda of the border museum to found the german oriental society that was under have in him they financed a lot of the excavations that were done in egypt which is why i never t.t.
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her bust ended up in his private collection that is seen critically of course by many people today and for very good reason but very early on he did make his private collections accessible to the public he was also a very culturally engaged person built many facilities for the poor and so this new building by chipperfield is the late on or for him and david cheap if you live close really left his mark on blin in a city which really prides itself on its architecture it's incredibly antin ewing to do so as well because you know he's also in charge of the current renovations of the me nuts or not i've got a view which is set to probably ongoing until twenty twenty but museum island is really his crowning glory a little bit sort of his acropolis if you will and we can look forward to that. gallery opening next september as we heard in the piece chipperfield said it was something like a shopping basket of all the things the museum island was lacking for instance a lecture hall a special room for temporary exhibitions
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a huge bookshop and of course representatives restaurant which will be complete with a beautiful terrace to overlook the view and so it promises really to be a place of congregation i think and also a place that you can do a fair amount of strolling you love to walk there yourself from it i think there will be lots of. things to see in in different in different ways that it will change the navigation of the island but it's obviously away from the traffic you know sorts of it's very much a sanctuary cities it's one of my most favorite parts of london i have to say and more on your website yes absolutely d.w. dot com slash culture thank you very much content at five o'clock to this leisure. you're watching the news let me just bring you up to the of thought top stories at this hour the warring parties in yemen have agreed to a cease fire with a critical red sea port of there the breakthrough came at the united nations back to a peace conference in sweden and british farms the tourism me is in brussels to make
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