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from the city. to margaret's your platform for reliable information. this is due to the news live from berlin the difficult legacy of the philippine struggle against a militant and served as martial law office extended on into town for another two years d. w. has an exclusive report from the devastated city to. talk to one young muslims ready to fight for an islamic state. also coming up rallying and the coming to terms right wing prime minister viktor orban thousands turned out in the hearing
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capital budapest to protest against what they're calling a new slave law. is there no way out as calls grow for a second crack bret's at referendum trace a maze expected to warn of still highly skeptical parliament that it could do irreparable damage to british politics. also coming up fighting the perils of plastic in sierra leone rivers of trash are causing havoc not just for free towns of drainage system but also for the engines of the port cities books to find out what can be done. i'm sorry so much god it's good to have you with us we start in the southern philippines where president. has extended martial law for another year to counter the ongoing threats by armed militants last year are always city on the island a minute. now it was a scene of
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a five month battle when government troops were deployed to kuala insurgency by militants allied to the so-called islamic state more than a thousand people were killed and half a million were displaced today borowe he lies in ruins a team of date of your reporters has just returned from the city with this exclusive report. this force the center of today residents call it ground zero. we get the military's permission to enter a selective pots and a wall into ballot unexploded devices last year a few hundred i asked inspired fighters holed up in mosques and houses the army with help from the united states responded with relentless rates. in this type of warfare you have to flush out the enemy from their defensive position and you can only do that number one using bombs or heavy artillery
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bombardment if you look at the experience of. no aleppo. all of this experienced bombings but in the case of. the hour when we did the bombings it was we did it. been pointed to specific targets only. but people here paid a very high price for the five months long battle hundreds were killed they had buried in these mosque graves. most of the victims were never identified denying their families closure. over sixty five thousand people remain displaced many are still searching for their life once. has lost four of her eight children she believes they were taken hostage and used as human shields. for simply
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i feel a very deep pain inside of me i missed my children they were gone in a blink of an eye i can't be with them anymore. it hurts because i can still feel them and hand them but. in the suburbs life is slowly returning to normal but the biggest muslim city in the philippines has been changed forever. martial law remains in force with soldiers everywhere the impoverished region has witnessed decades of conflict between muslims and christians who make up the vast majority of the filipino population many young muslims feel disenfranchised. last year afterwards spied on the military passing on details of troop movements to i.a.s. fighters holed up in mirage he tells us that he's still ready to fight for an islamic
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state. so. we have an advantage because we just blend in with the military cannot easily identify us as fighters know how to use a gun. or i would not fight in my we again or in any other muslim area here. in the same thing will happen again our own muslim people would get hurt. but if the battle happens elsewhere i will join. so why listen i don't. like many others up to blames president rodrigue territory for bombing merapi the government has promised reconstruction and great to muslim autonomy but until those promises are fulfilled angry young men like up to it will continue to pose a threat. just mounted was part of the team filming in morocco we city and she joins us to talk more about the story sandra thank you so much for joining us
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a lot of us are familiar with the so-called islamic states presence in syria in iraq how deeply rooted are the islamists in the philippines well there is a longstanding insurgency there is a lot of potential for an islamist insurgency and as isis losing territory in iraq and syria there is threats of moving over like up to here he told us when he was receiving jihadi training in the jungle camp in spring of two thousand and fifteen there are about so two foreign fighters in his camp alone and these foreign fighters mainly hate from neighboring countries indonesia malaysia but also from arab countries and from chechnya as he said and as long as there are grievances longstanding grievances which are not addressed i think the potential is there and international organizations like al qaida and just let me state a you know they do want you know to establish themselves and southeast asian
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mindanao or as it is it's a place where they can grow roots i want to ask you about those grievances in a moment but first those pictures are just stunning you know this is such a devastated city how are residents coping. they concrete and they conned rebuilt their house because the entire area is still very much sealed off so we're looking at about sixty five thousand people who are displaced who are you know in emergency refugee camps or squatting with relatives being you know unrooted and there is a high rate of unemployment especially affecting young people like opto who are in the n.t. side hey if the government is not doing anything for us. we pick up weapons again he said in the report he worked with i assume would do it again why is that where does this incredible anger stem from is it the unemployment is the economic situation it is i think many poverty and unemployment because he didn't come across
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as a deeply religious person in the whole and if you look at mindanao it is a very impoverished area there is a longstanding conflict historically you know if you look back to colonial times. between christians and muslims and the philippines as it is is a mainly roman catholic country only five percent of the population are muslim and they you know have this feeling that they are a victims of historical injustice that they are suppressed that they are disenfranchised that they are not part of political decision making in the country and this is something jihadi organizations can easily exploit with young people like up to the centerpieces not speaking to us this morning thank you so much for sharing your reporting with us. now at some other stories making headlines around the world french authorities say a fifth person has died of injuries sustained in the attack near the christmas market in the city of stress the paris prosecutor's office identified it to only as
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a polish national police killed the gunman on thursday night after a two day national. a brazilian fake you are accused of sexually abusing hundreds of women has turned himself into police john of god as he is known by followers allegedly use so-called spiritual healing sessions to assault and even rape when an arrest warrant was issued for him on friday. officials in the japanese city have suffered horo are searching for the cause of a powerful explosion at the most of building the blasts ripped through a pub on sunday night injuring forty two people and starting fires local media were for it saved a dozen nation may have been caused by a gas leak but officials say it is still too early to comment. and hungary there's been the biggest demonstration of public discontent since right when prime minister viktor orban came to power in twenty ten an estimated fifteen thousand people braved freezing temperatures in the capital budapest for the fourth rally in a week they're protesting against new labor legislation that opposition groups are
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calling a slave law but. whoever does not jump is viktor orban they chant hungary's prime minister a pariah here among this coalition of opposition all day sunday. from the greens to the far right where united and i'm going fed up with what they see is their government creeping authoritarianism in the thick of the smoke bombs tear gas and clashes desperate voices plead for calm. that if they do not do not rule why are you throwing he shouts. others point the finger at the police i want to see that these protesters are here for you two for you and you and you for all of you. this is the outrage was sparked by a rowdy parliamentary session last week with victor or bans government taking over
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control of a judicial system that has until now been independent and weakening employment rights described as a slave law by critics. for many the seventh constitutional change in his many years under our ban was the last straw. in that look at what i'd like to have a democracy here i'd like to live in a country where i can freely decide what i can do and no decisions are made above my head and i have very little that we have unfortunately reached the point where the government interferes with almost every bit of people's every day life in cultural administration labor and health care here at the body the result is piling pressure on hungary's government and puts its controversial leader on a collision course not just with the european union but with his own people. british prime minister theresa may is expected to warn lawmakers later today against seeking a second referendum on bragg's it may well be briefing the house of commons on
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talks she held with european leaders at last week's summit travel to brussels seeking to renegotiate parts of her breakfast deal with the but it is face so much opposition from lawmakers that some of may's own aides have reportedly begun packing a second vote as the only way to break the impasse. let's get the latest on that with john worth a political blogger who writes extensively on bragg's ajanta good good to have you back with us we heard there of the tree some a six pack to to warn m.p.'s against a second referendum why is she so against this possibility she still blocking her own deal it's taken such a painstaking negotiations two to agree and she still believes that's the right way forward she thinks she's delivering on that vote from two thousand and sixteen and doesn't want to put out various parts of the people in a second referendum she thinks it would be very divisive to the british society if you did that. nevertheless the difficulty is she's not making any headway in poems
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gets her own view through and so therefore maybe a second referendum might be the way of breaking that log jam bear in mind however that theresa may already maybe a month ago refused to even countenance the idea that a second referendum was was possible today she's probably going to talk about why she's still opposed to it so something has changed she's even talking about some of a referendum now something that just a month ago she refused to even countenance it does seem like the momentum around a second referendum is growing we sent our reporter out in london to get some voices hear what people have to say about the possibility of that and starting with just outside parliament one of the big problems is that there's been a bit of lack of trust and misunderstanding across all the parties whether that's between britain and the you where that's been the two sides of the argument here in britain there's just not enough dialogue going and constructive dialogue and so if we can just get that little bit of trust in goodwill back into the in the talks in a hopefully we can. and i think.
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twenty six. to be. really when you're up. john that sentiment really seems to sum things up a lot of uncertainty a lot of frustration on the streets as we heard there we are still looking ahead to that vote in parliament expected to take place in january and it seems like there is no majority in british parliament for anything what what would parliament vote for there is no brit variant that commands majority support in parliament and that's the essence of the whole problem here to resume a deal some kind of soft of brics it's something that britain have a closer economic relationship with the european union all the more radical option leaving without a deal moving various options for france and
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a mom to majority support that's because ultimately the whole cross back to price it was sold on a false premise that essentially the brits and leaving the european union has been easy negotiation but without one of any difficulties in managing to leave the block and so we now know that was not to be not what was not so so where century two ways out britain could just stop the clock on the whole thing or essentially if you go for a second referendum as a way out of the on purpose and the clock is still ticking because ultimately britain is supposed to manage to deliver a break by twenty ninth of march two thousand one hundred that's just over one hundred days away from today and there is no prospect at the moment of working out a way forward and doesn't be the key argument for such a second referendum is essentially to say westminster is blocks nothing to get through westminster put that issue back to the people involved a controversial way of looking at a political problem but it also is unprecedented in british political history the palm that would be brought in in such a complicated manner was just very briefly john what does the e.u. do at this point just sit back and watch it go to sit back and watch there's
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nothing else the european union can we do there's nothing else european union can really offer and that's the reason why the summit last week to reason may go so little what until about brocky g.'s from news we're not going to make any progress here where thanks again for your analysis. to west africa now in sierra leone where the capital freetown is struggling to cope with a growing problem posed by plastic waste the city has no place for sorting and separating trash although the u.n. says as much as eighty percent of the waste could potentially be were cycled or made into compost database i can increase went to find out what's being done. the best way to get from freetown airports to the city center is by boat captain sagal man sorry has been making the journey for fifteen years the biggest challenge never get in through all the plastic debris. is very very was before. interest taxes they've been in the water it can last for everything is thinking
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what are for five ten years not. plastically to get stuck in the motor almost every time that's why there's someone keeping watch at the back of the ship to inform the captain as soon as it happens but many motors still keep overheating the owner of see coach xpress jaji shows us the extent of the damage last year alone he had to replace nine motors each new one costs more than twelve thousand dollars cost of operations is much higher the damage to engines as you can see over the years we have close to something engines here that have been completely destroyed you to overheat or you know floating debris. from the expensive. free towns plastic problem is also evident in other parts of the city but who is to blame residents say the government but also the people.
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that got people by drinking water and backs and then they just throw the plastic rubbish onto the streets on the hill there's a drainage ditch which people throw their garbage all the way. it's from there ends up here and when it rains everything flirts. with. love. i don't think the government can solve the waste problem we who live here are responsible so we are the ones who have to find a solution. for the. sierra leone does not even have its own plastic recycling plant the refuse either ends up in the landfill sometimes right in the city center or it's exported to. the head of the environmental protection agency says the government must act immediately he admits there has been some failures now he would like to see
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a complete ban on single use plastics. we differ have objections and we have to find an alternative for those people so if we have a lot of. these plastic. stuff so. does your life so you have to find an alternative. we have plans for that. but many here don't believe a plastic ban is likely any time soon which is why the tourism authority has begun working with civil society groups they have fired eighty employees to collect the litter that washes up on the normally beach but she will call mark came up with the idea and coordinates the team he says it's an important first step though it can feel like a hopeless battle. around us weekly. and that is the critical challenge
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for c. coach express it means continuing high operating costs the newest boats even have four motors to prevent breakdowns for customers it means higher prices if the water were cleaner the company says ticket prices would be much cheaper. sports now and in sundays when the sake of football are the lights it hammered minds to keep their place in the top four as so often with the bowls a season it was there in form a tack that saw them lock down another three points. like six regular attackers yousif cosen and team over no were back in the starting line up unlike at their midweek europa league match and they went right on the offensive house and opening the story in the fourteen minutes. getting to having temples cross just before their minds defenders. like to see past finds deep in their own past and sprang into action when they won the ball. team obando setting up house and to make it to
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neil only five minutes later his second of the day and a half to seize. shortly before half time the visitors finally created a chance and cut the money see both hit the target in the face of some sloppy leipsic defending that score encouraged minds to be bolder going forward but it opened up a lot of space for leipsic to counter attack team over making three runs in the seventy fifth minute and putting the results beyond doubt. and in the final minutes been a bag his fifth brace of the campaign for one the final score like six attacking duo of power set in van that made all the difference. but let's look at the bundesliga standings after the end of the weekend dortmund now have a nine point lead at the top ahead of flood and byron with the lights at their completing the top four often i've been false for a move up while hatha and bremen slight down at the bottom house is led by minds
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intent was to court have left the relegation zone disallowed of efforts to play off spot with norberg at hanover behind. all right let's check in with modern art to see how equity markets are doing after those losses last week yeah they were quite heavy sumi but at least when we look to asia markets they have mostly risen but us trade is await the outcome of two key events this week the first is tuesday speech from chinese president xi jinping in which he's likely to announce a number of measures aimed at stimulating his country's economy growth in china has been losing momentum recently and traders are also hoping for signs that the crippling trade dispute with the united states could be closer to a resolution the other major event coming up this week is a meeting of the u.s. federal reserve weaponless you make us are expected to indicate a slowdown in the play pace of interest rate hikes. so that's what
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happening in asia and what's it look like here in europe for that we cross over to our financial market correspondent ali botts who is in a friend footing keeping an eye on the market action there really what's the mood like where you are this week or the mood is gloomy people are tired it seems when you talk to them they're wary they're nervous and they're a little bit beaten up after this should slide tumble in the past weeks since the fall and you know the prognosis for a christmas rally that is share prices going up until christmas or possibly until the start of the new year those bets are getting slimmer and slimmer and slimmer because the market has gone down not unexpectedly after such a long ride upwards these past few years but the temper downwards was a little quick for people the market does seem to be taking
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a breather here in europe now as trading starts into the new week so now it just again hopefully the sky behind you is also rather gloomy is that is that is a symbol for the week to come. so it might not be there might be some sign of relief later on in the week we just mentioned the federal reserve which is meeting and that could be a game changer then again it could not be if the rate increases of jerome powell the fed chief indicates that that temple might decrease next year then it could be a relief for the market at that same moment people in the market investors always see that also as a sign of pessimism for the economy in the united states still the world's largest also in focus a report today on the deutsche bank still germany's largest even if it was hitting all time lows this december that the state of qatar from the persian gulf is ready to increase its stake in the bank and that's also always
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a bone of contention but also a an element of hope for a lot of investors who are interested in a solid investor increasing his stake all right in frankfurt thank you so much. now israeli's government has agreed on the basis of a new budget aimed at avoiding disciplinary action from the european union the move comes after the country's regional spending plans were found to be in breach of u. fiscal roots it to these leaders want to increase welfare payments cut taxes underage use the retirement age of the e.u. says those plans will raise the country's deficit beyond acceptable levels details of a revised budget i'm not yet. and the turkish economy is slowing in the midst of a domestic currency crisis the turkish lira tumbled as much as forty seven percent against the us dollar in august g.d.p. expanded by only one point six percent in the third quarter and industrial
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production those figures just out continues to slow shedding five point seven percent more than anticipated rating agencies like fitch expects tech it to slide into recession and the negative outlook could weigh on the upcoming regional elections. the situation in istanbul seems a bit more relaxed than two months ago back then the political differences with the usa caused a severe economic crisis inflation fell slightly to just under twenty two percent the value of the turkish lira has stabilized this was aided by the fact that the country's central bank raised the key interest rate to twenty four percent so is everything all right now not really. exports rose by nine and a half percent since last october due to a weekly or at the same time imports slumped by almost twenty one point five percent domestic demand also fell by three point five percent. the crisis doesn't
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seem to be over yet the government now wants to ensure that the turks feel as little of a crisis as possible before the important regional elections in march it could support the economy with subsidies but that would probably only postpone the crisis in turkey. and thousands of greek pension us took to the streets of the capital athens this weekend to call on the government to reverse pension cuts imposed since the country plunged into a debt crisis in two thousand and nine the measures were imposed as part of an international bailout program that offer the country cheap loans in exchange for wide ranging before greece managed to exit the program earlier this year. you're watching t w news live from berlin more coming up at the top of the.
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