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his music is better than to keep your car stops sounds good. video game music starts february twenty fifth on g.w. to get out of the. plane. place. this is the news live from berlin campaigning wraps up ahead of nigeria's elections with just one week to go tens of thousands rally in support of president mohamed who put ari has he done enough to win another four years in power a correspondent as the latest also coming up more violence and says yellow best protesters clashed with police movement's leaders denounce authorities for injuring
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demonstrators proclaim to contain violence from their own law. and one year ago the twenty eighteen winter olympics were getting started in pyongyang we take a look back one a year ago today at the legacy of the games and ask are they worth it. i'm calm assman welcome to the program nigerian president's muhammadu buhari made his case today for another four years and power addressing tens of thousands of supporters at a rally and lay goes there's just one week to go until the country's presidential election and he's hoping to secure a second term but he's also facing stiff opposition. it's africa's most populous nation prepares to go to the polls president mohamed bihari is pulling out all the
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stops. he's from ruling all progressives congress party so to govern our supporters at a mass rally in lycos that year is largest city an economic powerhouse but the has work to do to convince a jury that he deserves another four years in power many feel that the president has not done enough to fight corruption cover boko haram insurgency and revive economic growth is to go to the station by. the young that's the economy sufficient bad to corruption to say yes to me that's not it will take you know. so so what i was talking about so these days and telephone for a few promises. this government will come in and they made a lot of promises and people who got to do really improve with this new government coming in. after us on time people got to disappointed given my very first i got this opportunity government i so much believed in the government when it was coming
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in with the promises they made but i know did i was appointed just like a good idea. the opposition it's also shouting foul play the people's democratic party and about how his main competitor. was prevented from holding its own mass rally in the capital abuja on saturday it blames the a.p.c. . a record eighty four million people have registered to vote next saturday they will either offer a change or get another chance. the horrors speech at today's rally was short but it was filled with promise as our africa correspondent on the increase in lagos and he sent us this. president mohammad dressed his supporters for exactly three minutes his key message vote me in once again for another four years so i can fulfill the promises that i made already during the last elections four years ago and the three key promises he made was to corruption tackling the insecurity
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situation white parts of the country and create employment but the problem is many people in nigeria have the feeling that apart from the fight against corruption he hardly made any progress the security situation is still a big problem a huge parts of the country and unemployment is actually rising this is why most people believe it's going to be a neck and neck race between president obama and his main contender. during the elections on saturday. in france an apparent arsonists has attacked the home of a top politician and ally of president emmanuel bar crawl national assembly head risch author all shared photographs on twitter of his living room and said police found materials soaked in gasoline politicians across the political spectrum including the president condemned the incident french authorities have made no immediate link between the arson attack and violence in paris today as police
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clashed with demonstrators from the yellow vest movement protests have been taking place every weekend since mid november there may be fewer people protesting but the movement shows no signs of slowing down. thousands of years of various protesters take to the streets of paris for the thirteenth weekend in a room and a little bit of blood isn't going to get in their way one man he was badly injured last month is back demonstrating again whether you believe in the ideas of the yellow vest protests or not there's a real problem with democracy in france today because when you dare to speak out well you lose a knife and that's a problem here medics attend to a man with a serious hand injury he was hurt when he tried to pick up a sting ball grenades normally used by police to stares crowds with tear gas. what began as a protest over fuel taxes has become a revolt against the political classes who are seen by many people here as being
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out of touch. when i see poverty in france when i see the people abandoned by our government and not just this one for decades whether it be sarkozy and all the others i say to myself that we must act. before. there are fewer damon streeter's on the streets compared with the initial protests back in november but the yellow vest protesters showed no sign of backing dying. now look at some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. democrat elizabeth warren has officially kicked off her campaign for the twenty twenty presidential election she pledged to defend working americans and increase taxes on the rich the sixty nine year old massachusetts senator is another high profile democrat joining the race to unseat president donald trump next year. hundreds of mourners marched in the gaza strip on saturday carrying the body of
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a sancia lobby the fourteen year old boy was one of two palestinian youths killed by israeli troops on friday demonstrators have been gathering weekly along the perimeter fence for nearly a year demanding ed an end to israel's blockade of the territory. relatives of the ten boys killed in a fire at brazil's flamengo football club's training center have arrived in rio de janeiro investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the blaze brazil has declared three days of mourning in honor of the teenaged victims. now imagine getting paid a salary every month whether you have a job or not it might sound like a fantasy but in finland the government decided to find out what would happen if suddenly the unemployed had all their basic needs taken care of what they look for a job would they start their own business or what they just do nothing at all the results of that two year experiment are in. tourists who come to helsinki
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these days end up in the city covered in deep snow with temperatures just above freezing and some might just end up in this restaurant owned by cindy martine and she was one of two thousand unemployed people who participated in finland's basic income experiment that ended in december. the basic income trial actually gave some freedom and they kind of i think the biggest effect was psychological so it kind of got this idea that you have two years you have the security of four hundred sixty year old per month and you have to do something with that money she says the basic income she received gave her the freedom to open this restaurant and contribute to the economy. there's some mathematician has to call and if we can afford a system like that but i don't think that there. really are system is or the existence system is cheap either in finland existing system the unemployed receive support
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from the state but critics like trial participant. say they're not much more than a number for the unemployment office. if you are awfully unemployed you can't work very much. if you have this kind of system like the trial was you can earn how much you want and you can still keep the money and that activates. now that the first results from the experiment out it seems that only a few of the unemployed finns who took part found a new job but they all seem much happier and healthier than unemployed citizens who didn't have a basic income over the past two years. french artist and writer tommy as died in ireland at the age of eighty seven he was known for children's books such as the three robbers and also illustrations for grown ups he
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was a lifelong activists protesting against racial segregation the vietnam war and the election of u.s. president donald trump in strasbourg grow had lived in ireland for more than four years. in england's premier league cardiff city have led tributes to their player in million no solid whose death in a plane crash was confirms on thursday a minute's silence was held before their match with southampton and players across the country wore black armbands as a mark of respect salo was travelling from not to his new club cardiff when the light aircraft disappeared from radar over the english channel last month the pilot of that plane remains missing. now here in germany match day twenty one of the buddhist league has thrown up a few surprises leaders dortmund squandered
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a three goal lead at home to hoffenheim and munich took full advantage beating shall go to cut dortmund lead to just five points european hopefuls leipsic and frankfurt played out a goalless draw on over climbed off the bottom by beating fellow strugglers nuremberg mention gladbach loss at home for the first time a season fiber came from behind three times to draw with both spirit and in the friday game leverkusen thrashed scoring four goals in a blistering first half. when dallas started that round after just five minutes to have a home an easy goal their minds dressed in a festive carnival jersey they drew level just four minutes later robin quite stunned with the goal there but. and bronze footed leverkusen three one up before karim well robbie got a four before halftime bronze got his second goal in the sixty fourth minute to
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seal a five one away with. meanwhile on sunday bremen will look to return to form against burke and dusseldorf host stuttgart in a key bottom of the table clash just one year after the world's best skiers and skaters gathered in south korea to compete for limpid gold many of the venue's stand empty with arguments mounting over their upkeep the country built six sports centers and a ceremonial stadium for the twenty eighteen winter olympics and renovated six existing facilities at an eye watering cost of eight hundred million dollars. super wrong and bond to be the cute mascots are still here so to the scenic mountain side in artificial snow everything's the same in pyongyang what's new are the disappointments concerns with tourism if a structure and finance for really stage in show business has plummeted he's lost three million euros. who. are expectations
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were high there were lots of positive developments for the olympic games but in the end best is nothing here that attracts tourism buttonwood home the signal the winter olympics were a flash in the pan seoul thought the market would be booming after the event so he bought some land but then no one came the result too many hotels falling prices in fire sales the property is now barren again south korea's government gambled on the future to spending eight hundred million dollars on facilities the bobsled in lieu drugs aren't being used nor the downhill skiing slope well the high speed rail way station attracts heart of the any passengers local gov choice moonstone blames the government in seoul but he also blames himself. really for the olympic games you
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need a concrete plan about what will happen to the facilities after the games it didn't work out for us we focus too much on the implementation is beyond chang applied for the games three times so they had enough time but there's no plan for the speed skating rink or the hockey center south korea doesn't even have a pro hockey league in taxpayers are paying eighty thousand euros a month for the electricity bills. but i'm going to hope all the sports facilities will continue to operate and that many people can use them if that happens then i'd be happy thing as the person then shot shia. but even keeping the lights on proved difficult. claims that all the apartments have been sold in peeling chuang flatter to to see there's not a single light inside only darkness. veterinarians in the us town of cali spell have saved a cat that was found frozen stiff in
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a snow bank take a look at this fluffy the cat was delivered to the animal clinic unconscious with clumps of snow and ice sticking to its fur the cat was actually so cold that staff couldn't measure its body temperature but fluffy was revived with generous tell rubbing cage warmers and intravenous fluids coming up next we take a look back at this week's global headlines on world stories and there's more news of the top of the hour in the meantime all the latest news and information is available on our website dot com. it's time for berlin sixty nine film festival. we give you the lowdown on all the stars movies and gossip. the burning of a twenty nineteen every day on. the
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world of obscene wealth. india's new horizon just a little fleeting glimpses of it.

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