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you know. this is deja vu news live from berlin tensions flare in india two women make history by entering a sacred hindu temples a tradition that has barred them from for centuries but there are fears of a backlash from conservative hindu groups and we'll go live to down. also coming up jarboe sonari sworn in as brazil's new president calling to liberate his country from socialism and political correctness of the far right leader's election marks a radical shift after decades of central school. and a tiny survivor in the ruins of a collapsed apartment building in russia rescuers pull
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a baby boy to say to you after he spent more than a day trapped in subzero temperatures. i'm sumi so misconduct lot to have you with us we start in southern india where passions are running high after two women defied a centuries old taboo and entered one of hindu isms holiest shrines and we're getting reports of protests and clashes in the state of carolina with a police firing tear gas and stun grenades that crowds the two women briefly entered the somebody's mama temple earlier to pray for centuries local tradition is barred women of menstruating age from entering the shrine but last year india supreme court overturned that and a ruling that enraged traditionalists on tuesday thousands of women in kerala formed a human shame to demand access to the building. let's bring in our correspondent
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michelle while she's following the story for us in delhi hi name isha tell us more about the reactions to these two women entering the temple today. about some of the women entering the temple has brought in some very strong reactions protests are already breaking out of cross the state a federal law which is where the temple is located a statewide strike has been called by the demi committee and these fought us have already led to clashes because the more these ruling party the party called for protests against women entering the shine and clashes broke out between the beach if the end the communist party a friend which actually supports the villains and to the police had to try to break up these clashes by firing tear gas is definitely a very strong reaction against the women coming in there's no signs of celebration because the such a strong backlash nimish up until today some hindu deities that actually blocked
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women from entering at all so how did the two women today manage to get in well over the last two months of the men have been trying to enter the temple in broad daylight in full there which also allowed to walk tees off the temple to block them even before the start of the three are trick up to the temple the only way the schools the men were able to breach that wall of the woodies is because these start of the trip from the dead of the night at midnight and the reach the temple at about three forty five pm the end to addressed all in black with the team of police protecting them rushton off with their prayers and rushed out the definitely a stealth the secret of the mission and the kill the fear for their safety and not again not a sign of celebration nimish explain to us why this issue of women immense rating age entering a temple is so controversial. well the shopping mall at temple is devoted to a lot i up by
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a lot i always believed that this court was celibate this is why women between the ages of ten and fifty which is women of menstruating age are considered impure one of the strong reactions that the entry of these two women has brought is that there was the leader of a shutdown for purification so even despite the supreme court although what he is feeling very strongly they have violated this order by blocking these women despite protests they can do despite of rest they continue to block women and they have even challenge the supreme court order later this month the supreme court will be hearing this challenge. are indeed his nimish agenda while of following the story for us from delhi to michigan to speak to you. now let's catch up of some other stories making news around the world danish police say at least six people have died and at least sixteen are injured following a train accident on a bridge authorities say an unknown object had a passenger train traveling between the islands of phone and zealand forcing it to
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brake hard the bridge was subject to strong winds at the time from a fall with the foods chinese president xi jinping said it is inevitable that the south falling island of taiwan will be reunited with china she delivered a speech marking forty years since the start of improving ties and call for peaceful reunification but he warned beijing reserved the right to use force if necessary. japan's emperor akihito was extended new year's greetings for the last time before he abdicate the eighty five year old appeared before tens of thousands of well wishers at the imperial palace in tokyo akihito has occupied the chrysanthemum throne since one thousand nine hundred eighty nine he is planning to abdicate in a probe which would make him the first emperor to do so in more than two hundred years. brazil's new president jarboe sonar has taken office and his first public speech of the helm of latin america's biggest nation the former army captain declared a crusade against crime corruption and left wing ideology now many brazilians see
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him as a kind of messiah and his supporters hope he can revive the economy and break safety to the streets but others worry that his hard line policies could lead to an erosion of fundamental rights. brazil's new far right president now officially in office. is vowing big changes in ways that have already polarized the country and they speak that says a kid if. i expect that he'll make brazil better and safer. so maybe i'm black and gay person ourselves were useless he does not represent me it is him. tens of thousands cheated in the capital of brazil. i was. yes i after being sworn in he set the tone for his term as president was
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near to zero who will do today is the day our people will begin to free themselves from socialism was sitting. by there to free themselves from false values from overreach by the state and from political correctness it's gonna tickle her was also nora's cap and it is mostly white and male with only two women seven of its twenty two members are ex-military their agenda is staunchly conservative the foreign minister wants to break with alleged cultural marxism many back the incoming finance ministers pray for the market stunts and his promises to privatized many industries foreign companies operating in brazil have also voiced support for his plans. but boston are also has his critics and amongst the toughest of them is left wing congressman john willis he's openly gay and says he's receiving more and more death threats. only that was able he ever said and will really do is hunt minorities i consider him
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a political fraudster and a threat to the world with me. on twitter also norah has already announced plans to liberalize gun laws part of the effets he's making to show his supporters he won't delay implementing his campaign pledges. we will make sure that proper citizens have the right to own weapons and to defend their property for the fields of. sonora is the face of brazil's political shift to the right many appending their hopes on him while others fear he threatens democracy. let's bring in journalist sam cowan he's been following the story for us from south paulo sam good to have you with us so jarba also now has now taken office what are his first steps and one of the challenges that he's facing. well he faces many challenges of course because despite being a popular president he's also a divisive president so he will face challenges particularly in congress which is
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very fractious. the way he will also face fierce opposition. first of all we've seen mr bowles on our has in fact given responsibility demarcation of indigenous lands he has given that now to the agriculture ministry which some critics say is a little bit. proceeding the fox is in charge of the hanes house so that's one of the things that happened straight away and that was something that he's allies in the agricultural. school because we're very keen to happen it seems that he will move to loosen gun ownership for citizens that was on a bleak place not a big pledge of his campaign the most important thing that he does that most people agree on the left and on the right is some kind of pension reform and that seems
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that he will be the most difficult because nobody wants to retire in brazil so that's going to require the police who perhaps was get that one through this and just very briefly if you if you can among those opponents how concerned are they that this shift to the right will actually threaten the country's democracy. get that say overrule opinion all from his opponents that if you have somebody with this very hard line all sorts of areas starts even if you know people want less corruption people want less violence on the streets but if your remedies to that very hard line policies then inevitably is collateral damage and most of all rows seems fine with that and many of us will it is due to morrow journalist sam cow it covering the story for us from south paulo thank you so much thanks now the president of world football's governing body fifa is considering expanding the
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twenty twenty two world cup to forty eight teams at a sports conference in dubai gianni inventin no announced he has commissioned a study into the feasibility of such a tournament and he stated that if he follows through with the idea neighboring gulf states could help qatar hosting some of the matches he thought already voted to increase the size of the twenty twenty six world cup from thirty two to forty eight teams but that expansion may now come sooner than expected. and the january transfer window is open and one one just like a club is has already cashed in dortmund have a sold american winner christian pilla sick to english club shall see the twenty year old will move to london for a fee of sixty four million euros making him the third most expensive bundesliga transfer in history came through the ranks at dortmund having joined their youth team in two thousand and fifteen he will remain at the club for the rest of the
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season before joining chelsea in. now at least eighteen people are reported to have died after an apartment block collapsed in russia on new year's eve more than twenty residents are still missing authorities believe a gas leak caused the blast of the city of magnitogorsk about seventeen hundred kilometers east of moscow but there's also been joy after rescuers found a baby boy alive under the rubble. but. it felt like nothing short of a miracle as a baby boy was pulled from the rubble a life thirty five hours after the collapse the. rescuers say he survived temperatures of minus eighteen degrees celsius because he was wrapped up morley in a cradle but he does have some serious injuries amazingly his mother also survived
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the collapse and has now joined her son at the hospital. it was a rare moment of joy in waters been a grim operation for rescuers. the only people they found otherwise were already dead. local residents are in shock many have come to the scene to express their grief openly. my colleague from work died here she was only young she's gone if you will be. there with paul wrote so many of us have lost loved ones we must be strong. first responders had to temporarily hope their search on tuesday while workers try to remove or stabilize sections of the building which were in danger of collapse the ten story apartment block was home to many ordinary families dozens of people are still missing but given the freezing temperatures in russia's year all mountains
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region hopes are fading of finding them a life. our minder now off the top stories that we're following for you here on the tensions are flaring in india as two after two men defied an ancient taboo and entered one of hinduism is holiest shrines to pray for centuries local tradition has barred women of menstruating age from entering the temple in care lest it. brazil's new president. has taken office in his first public speech the former army captain declared a pre-state against crime corruption and left wing ideology. still to come here on day w. china hopes to make the long road to market a little bit shorter but who benefits from its belt and road and.
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monica jones we'll have that story for you and your business headlines coming up in just a minute time. limit on. a . plane. sometimes books are more exciting than a real life. term. you know. what if there's no escape. from in the streets. a museum a little you should see the one single. is a little cold in the shade.
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