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this is deja news live from the island a french al truce in yemen in the balance the u.n. special envoy arrives in the country to ensure rebel leaders there to uphold a cease fire will have the latest on what is the world's worst humanitarian crisis with millions on the brink of famine also coming up. and the ariens marching band to push his overtime dumond's files and stakes of the streets hope would have paced keeping up the pressure on prime minister vick's whole body over l.a. have been told that critics say is slavery. and germany's icy security agency
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defends how it handled a massive dangerous act as hundreds of politicians is and public figures personal information is released online some victims say or she's failed to inform them about the suspicious activity soon enough. i'm christine one welcome to the program. begin suspicion envoy to yemen has arrived in the country to try and shore up a cease fire agreed upon last month since then they've been reports of repeated violations off the truce which applies to the port city offshore data a crucial entry point for eight shipments human civil war began in twenty four spain and a saudi made coalition intervened in the conflict. it's a devastating humanitarian crisis with millions on the brink of famine. and he
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hopes to save what is a fragile cease fire un special envoy martin griffiths knows that the longer they can keep the gun silent the more precious aid can be delivered to the destitute country. yet both sides of the conflict report that the other has already violated the treaty with gunshots a daily disturbance in a round hole data and a dispute over the wording of the ceasefire could be its downfall the deal says the port should be turned over to local authorities the yemeni government interprets that to mean their own authorities the rebels however say it means the officials currently running her day to support their allies. at stake are the lives of millions of yemenis who depend on aid to survive like the young patients at this clinic in her job in the northwest abraham is struggling to survive here my friends and i am none of the aid gets to us none of the
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organizations aid or food supplies reach us. i love them even when they started the registration we didn't get anything on that i must be here war in yemen has resulted in the world's worst humanitarian crisis a short term ceasefire say aid groups is only the first fragile step in pulling the country back from the brink. since two thousand and fifteen the rebels with backing from iran have been fighting against the yemeni government which received support from saudi arabia. the un hopes the kings can be ironed out of the current ceasefire in the next few days but what small progress has been made since december is threatened by the constant sound of gunfire. of the only os the direction off the charity oxfam will see in city key how hopeful he was that yemen's fragile ceasefire would hold i think due to four years of war the
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world has seen the war through went on crisis millions of starring in a separating from malnutrition the country that the brink of they mean then there is economic decline identical labs and also the infrastructure so. i think it we are really really hope also for things that are moving on right. there so even agreement we have seen positive signs from both the conflicting parties however we do know hope that amount in different spheres it would be important to have some kind of more cream in the. year and also after these he will get it we are so you'd hope that even country what are these his visit here and also in riyadh and then there will be a meeting in the end sometimes in general. now to some of the stories making news around the world no breakthrough in talks between democrats and republicans aiming
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to end partial u.s. government shutdown president all trump say is the shutdown could go on for months all yes if he doesn't get funding for a border war with mexico it's all music and we were constantly heard over the weekend. thousands of syrians have been demonstrating in the capital grade against the country's president for a fifth consecutive week and their rallies began after an opposition leader was assaulted in late november protest as a kid is present alexandre off all for a tear in his and hate speech against his opponent. and opponent says he is a morning off to five teenage girls were killed in a fire it happened while they were inside an escape room and attraction with people all locked in a room and have to solve to get out firefighters have blamed substandard safety procedures. thousands of people have been protesting in the hunger in capital budapest today against what they're calling a slave labor law it was passed just before christmas and allows employers to
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demand hundreds of hours of overtime from their workers prime minister victor all bonds reforms have come under intense criticism and treated repeated protests over the last several weeks braving icy conditions thousands returned to the streets of budapest with a message for hungary's president stop obama they want his right wing government's new overtime law to be repealed it allows a massive increase in how many extra hours employees can ask the staff to work from two hundred fifty to four hundred hours it also lets employees take up to three years to pay the overtime labor unions say it's slavery. we hunger ians work too much already we just can't bear it anymore wall the problem is if the company goes under or if you quits then you lose all your overtime pay. hungary's overtime laws been hugely controversial ever since it was proposed when it came to a vote in parliament the opposition blew whistles and made noise to try to stop it
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from passing without success. since then thousands of going out regularly to protest accompanied by an overwhelming police presence. in one protest opposition politicians was thrown out of the state television station as they tried to read out a petition against the law people gathered outside for hours calling for free speech and freedom of the press the opposition of joined labor unions in calling for a year of resistance and hungry they hope to increase the pressure on the rightwing government until something changes. germany's siva defense agency is defending the way it handled a massive data leak personal information from hundreds of politicians and celebrities was published online back in december but only became public knowledge yesterday and victims are demanding to know why the cyber security body sais it didn't because it wasn't able to connect the dots and didn't know the extent of the
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breach until yesterday now the data was posted on a twitter account of a four weeks the leak impacts of politicians at all levels including chancellor angela merkel foreign minister mas and wonderstruck president of all functionally in fact they were very few politicians who weren't talkative most were from ackles conservatives the center lived social democrats in the party as well the notable exception the far right a.v. the party conference yesterday that and then off they had will make his were affected now a gentle voice say the government's i was not compromised and they're looking at where the information came from the intent remains and clear and some politicians are demanding action. and what i heard shark mean this is a grave attack on democracy in our country. there are massive problems in the digital security architecture we put tensions
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have looked off as enough in recent years of can we commit to the government has gross and neglected that. we have single action this is a turning point it's. nearly fifty migrants stranded on risky ships in the mediterranean are still looking for countries to take them and they were rescued in late december and are stuck off the coast of malta e.u. member states remain deadlocked over what to do with the migrants while the cramped conditions on board deteriorate. for two weeks thirty two refugees have been living in limbo stranded. aboard a german risky ship the sea watch three the maltese government is refusing to let a dock until other european union countries agree to accept them so far none have. to see which three is just off the coast of malta due to rough seas many including children are suffering from sea sickness they feel like they're imprisoned and they worry about what lies ahead just internet. the international lure of the sea
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requires that we're provided with a safe haven as soon as possible. just. supplies of being shipped out to the sea watch three the crew now exhausted is replaced by a new team building with the members of the german parliament. there has to be a solution whether these people are allowed to land in a spanish italian or even maltese port they'll be redistributed to countries that are ready to help. italy has agreed to let the women and children currently aboard the sea watch three disembark but the rest must wait whilst european governments struggle to gree upon a plan. to football and the opening game of the asian cup almost provided the first shock of the tournament with hurst u.a.e.
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needing a late goal to secure a draw against. the lower ranked as it has opened the scoring through mohammad may but with just two minutes remaining on penalty for the one one finals. this year's asian cup features plenty off political side stories including a serious game against palestine with turmoil in the palestinian territories and the continuing conflict in syria play is from both sides would be forgiven for struggling to focus on football but instead they're using those issues as motivation. up sometimes football and politics simply cannot be separated the asian cup match between palestine and syria sees two of the most troubled and controversial teams at the tournament faceoff several of the palestinian players were born outside of the territories they see the asian cup as a chance to show solidarity with people in their ancestors homeland in recent days
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when we lean though you know it's something very nice to defend the people. to represent these people that are in a constant battle out on the pitch i think it's good that we'll be out there to defend them. i think. likewise the syrian plaza focused on bringing a small sense of relief to people in a country ravaged by civil war. we have to keep going with sports in order to put smiles on the faces of the syrians whether in football or any other game because sports bring syrians together in spite of their suffering during the crisis. syria's german coach bench is avoiding talk of politics he wants his side to concentrate entirely on the sporting task at hand it's a great challenge for our soon football players and for our friends for all syrians to play the greatest asian cup ever with twenty four teams it may just be
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a simple game to shanna but it means so much more to the people watching back on. the deck already is one of the world's most arduous racing events it gets underway on sunday with computers is from across the globe battling it out in the end forgiving business conditions are tough for every comp it is in the gruelling ten stage event but this year one homegrown racer faces a bigger test than most. lucas peron is about to make history the twenty five year old is set to become the first person with down syndrome to compete in one of motor racing is most demanding events to tackle really if a five thousand kilometer ten day marathon race through the peruvian desert doesn't sound tough enough already look at his condition means he'll be at a significant cognitive disadvantage to his fellow competitors but he doesn't let that hold him back. if you want to do something special work hard and reach that goal. like he
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would be driving the car himself that responsibility rests with his father lucas will be his copilot gets on with the hands on aspect of the drive lucas will have to keep his wits about him. he's the eyes of the car he can see if there's another competitor out there we're going to be through june is not like you're on a track someone can come straight at you and you're going to see them. in preparation for the grueling ordeal the father son duo competed in september's the suffer in courageous a warm up event also hosted on the sand dunes of peru. seven well the i in this time is the sydney finish nobody would be shocked if they did a whole lot better than that of the rule lucas has a habit of surprising people. now the international ice estival has been hard in china from twelve countries face temperatures below minus ten degrees
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celsius to create a frozen loss to pieces we'll be back at the top of the hour but for now a look at some of the dazzling. he. was going on a rant. here silly thank you so much for that i thank you.

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