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because justice is about the truth. detectives starts feb fifteenth on t.w. . this is d w news live from berlin millions of people on the move across the african continent refugees are topping the agenda african union leaders meet in addis ababa our correspondent visits an ethiopian refugee camp and asks what the future holds for the people there also coming up a russian island under siege by polar bears officials declare
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a state of emergency as the bears enter residential areas but the real crisis is the state of the mind. i'm married to evanston it's good to have you with us. leaders from across the african continent are in the ethiopian capital addis ababa for the annual african union summit rwandan president paul kagame e who's the outgoing head of the age group has been pushing for the body to expand its powers he has just passed the baton on to egypt and president sisi who will lead the block for the next year the main focus of this year's summit is involuntary migration from africa is home to a quarter of the world's refugees and ethiopia has become the continent's second largest host for displaced people. well some four hundred thousand of them are
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in the gum ball region is funny a char visited a refugee camp there please note that some viewers might find this next report disturbing. we are traveling through a beautiful but dangerous region needed so sudanese border in the impoverished lowland of ethiopia lies a bed of conflicts among different ethnic groups. behind me that's all sudan a young and independent nation but the fighting over there continues more than two million people fled to neighboring countries like you but this country produces hundreds of thousands of this people all that own did you after the clashes violent droughts and flooding so what's the perspective for refugees here. if you become africa's second largest refugee hosting country in the gambell
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a region refugees number almost as many as ethiopians about four hundred thousand like this camp is home to sixty thousand traumatised refugees who fled fighting in south sudan. when the war erupted in south sudan children were set on fire and many others were abducted. the soldiers even killed blind people. people were forced to eat dead bodies and have sexual intercourse with family members. boys were forced to have sex with their mothers. this trauma will not be forgotten. and her family feel safe in this camp it's supposed to be a temporary home but they've been here for four years already without permission to work outside the camp she fears the future looks dim. when my husband was in south sudan he had a job but now he doesn't this is
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a problem because we depend on a lack of education is also a problem and i want education for my children and for myself and only then will we have a chance here and you know here. that's just one of the problems in the camp run by the un and if you open government. when we've. got of the refugees with the sort of is that we are providing to the refugee it is very listen they spend a. day it's by united nations high commission for refugees people and the list resource and we are keeping almost. providing the basic service which is a live saving sort of we're almost focusing on the lifesaving side of life saving food food food. and and the so on outside the camp there are mixed feelings among the local population if you o.p.'s ethnic who are are more while coming off refugees because many arriving from south sudan are from
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the same group but it's u.p.s. apnic and work say they feel threatened. many of these refugees come from south sudan they're straining our resources we are getting poorer so the government should help us to if not there could be clashes with the refugees. here in the city the new prime minister has promised opportunities for everyone refugees and locals but unemployment is very high in the region especially among young people. we don't see any improvement regarding the youth. there are no jobs we're trying to get ahead on our own. but we don't get very. for. playing pool costs five b. or twenty u.s. cents and still only form of entertainment they can afford the lack of prospects if
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you go to streets to demand jobs last year if employment prospects armed force coming soon existing tensions over land and the city could boil over. now let's get you up to speed on some of the other stories making news around the world the united states has presented a draft resolution to the u.n. security council calling for angel liveries for venezuela to be allowed across the border from colombia and for fresh elections to be held that immediately triggered a counter proposal from russia which supports venezuela's president nicolas maduro . thousands of protesters have rallied in spain's capital madrid demanding that socialist prime minister pedro sanchez steps down the protests was called by right wing parties they say sanchez has to resign after he held talks with catalan separatists who are demanding a referendum on independence. the time political party that nominated princess for
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prime minister could be banned from the general election in march thailand's election commission is moving on monday to discuss how to punish the party it pulled the princess's candidacy on saturday after just one day after her brother the king ordered them to do so. now an invasion of hungary polar bears as for the residents of a remote russian arctic island into panic mode officials in the siberian region have declared a state of emergency saying that the aggressive bears have left them inundated as sea ice melts in norway as in yeah the bears have been drawn to settlements like. where more than fifty polar bears have been sighted in recent weeks. all right our reporter matthew morrison following the story for us and he joins me now in the studio to talk about it a bit so matthew polar bear is just how serious is the situation really well for
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the two thousand residents of this settlement it's a frightening time six to ten polar bears have reportedly taken out residency with them and living in the run the settlement and they're attacking people they are walking into buildings i mean take a look at this video that we've got it's extraordinary you can see a bear walking through the hallway of an apartment building where there are problems clearly young children live there it takes a look in one of the problems doesn't find anything and scarper has and in another video that was posted online we see a man polar bear between two buildings but here are a man walks up to the polar bear and takes an almighty risk. and it gives i mean residents there saving face there's kind of the risk of bumping into people a bit whenever they leave the house and. they're kind of running out of options or they're like what are people doing i mean can they like shoot them or like this is happening to them or they're endangered so no tried and tested methods of fending
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off bears are no longer working this is the vehicle patrols the dog patrols and i mean a resident part of this last year that gives people their own idea of this the kind of the numbers are full of errors this is a lot of fellows either tired which was just. like ten to twenty polar bears scavenging for food and yesterday the target minister said that there was a state of emergency people were afraid to leave their homes and they were talking about culling the regulator. has said that it will be no color they're endangered in russia and and anyone who shoots of the bears will be facing punishment all right but i mean where do they come from i mean they don't normally live in that part of the region do they know that you're there you're right they don't. this is the bigger picture is climate change. the bears live and are diminishing.
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nasa has some visualization data that shows the ice now in the arctic circle when we see the kind of the depletion over the last four decades so the bears are no longer able to fish and hunt on the ice sheets as they used to so they're turning to the land than that's going to residential areas and one russian polar bear expert said that ration there is extreme and it's not just just here it's in all the thousands across liberia where people are coming face to face with a political day and so it's a very real possibility that we have now so a visible consequence of climate change and you know exactly and there's a delegation heading over from russia to to assess the situation there and try to kind of find a solution all right reporter matthew more on the story for us thank you. all right some sports news now and american skiing great lindsey vonn has hung up her skis after nearly twenty years of unparalleled success finishing her career in
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familiar style with a medal vonn produced a fast clean run to claim bronze in the downhill at the world championships in ari's sweden she ballas out with a record at twenty world cup title surname and even reached another milestone in her last race becoming the oldest female medalist at a world championships the thirty four year old is retiring due to ongoing injury problems when she says she did her best i risked it all today as always i was so nervous all day just serious things id you know i think i wanted more than anything to. finish strong that's the best i could have done today you know honestly. there's not another gear. and you know i can say that i'm very very happy and thankful for bronze. had it's day four of the berlin international film festival also known as the berlin allah
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when we take you straight over to the red carpet where charlotte chelsea till is standing by for us hello to you charlotte so tell us what is on the berlin screens today hey mariana yes today is a really important market in the balance as sched jewel here and that's because we're almost haul flights through seeing all of the films that are competing in this year's festival there are seventeen in total and we really all started to get a sense of the films that are going to be hits and the films that you probably should miss now there are a few films that was screened today right now the audience in the building behind me is watching the wall premiere of the israeli film the operative now that got a lot of people here behind me extremely excited a short time ago because it stars the pretty big names who walked the red carpet behind me that's who that is martin freeman mariana you might know he's from the
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hobbit trilogy that peter jackson films the british actor there's also a diane kruger she has a huge name here on the bat and on the red carpet she's the german american actress who you might know from inglorious basterds and from troy so people were extremely excited to see that the red carpet. is the operative going to be running in the competition as well. the operative yes that was a film that said diane kruger and martin freeman do star in the film that's going on behind me at the main the now confusingly just to throw you a little bit mariana there is this competition section but not all the films that are running in that section are actually competing for the ballot not as top prize the go to bat the operative is one of those films that's not in the running still though of course it wants to impress the balun ata bell and all the audience here and it it did make some waves it's an israeli spy and the really it's based on
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a noble person by a real life secret agent from mossad that was a bit of a star the novel when it came out because it had to be the edge of the screen because they didn't want to reveal too many secrets of the israeli secret service it was very interesting to watch the film try to take. out something that they really do i don't know but the green the director in the screen this film said he didn't want to make it a political film even though it details relations between israel and iran he said it's more about the relationships in the toll the working as a secret agent takes on people's souls all right so the operative not in the competition charlotte but what is today's competition movie briefly if you can. yeah there's another film that's about sixty well predator have a well premier hits night mr jones now the real life story of an intrepid welsh journalists who exposed have been in ukraine in the early ninety's is a very moving piece and i think
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a lot of people will be here to check out the red carpet for that to our ideas. till reporting from the berlin allah thank you very much. you're watching d.w. news coming to you from berlin up next is shift which looks at life in the digital age this week the focus is on artificial intelligence and what it means for the workplace american and steve from all of us in the news room thanks for watching. it's up. to.
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