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this is news coming to you live from berlin french jews a rise in religious hate as french police report a surgeon and he submitted crimes talks with worried jewish families they wonder if they're still living in friends also coming up israeli justice officials announced they intend to indict prime minister binyamin netanyahu charges but he says it's a witch hunt just weeks before parliamentary election. plus students in germany take to the streets to strike over climate change joined very special guest swedish
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team has become her generation's voice for climate change. inspired the future movements now she's marching in hamburg calling for more action to combat global warming. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us we begin in france where a surge in anti semitic beilenson hate speech has members of the jewish community there fearing for their safety french president manuel the call has made a very public show of condemning the crimes which include vandalism of cemeteries online harassment and physical attacks but the public outcry has done little to address the underlying problem as catherine martin reports many jews living in
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france increasingly feel under threat. want to move the door those who i was or what i did so that they were there for you benefited us of all there's no one will get started i'll have a lunch alone is preparing for shabat it's friday and tonight he's meeting other members of his jewish congregation together they are going to read the sabbath prayer is the thirty four year old is an active member of the jewish community here in paris being jewish is important to him but so is being french that's why the increase in violence disturbs him so much that those bodies in cities with their insults vandalism and sometimes even cases of murder for us that means staying aware and alert and always keeping an eye out we wouldn't have to do that if we didn't feel threatened now we're also asking ourselves is france really the right place for us. around half a million jews live in france the third largest community behind israel in the u.s.
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last year there were more than five hundred anti-semitic offenses here in increase of around seventy five percent. flossy califano president of the umbrella organization representing france's jewish community is also alarmed he says the real figures are much higher as not every offense is registered he's most concerned for the young. softballs reef we're noticing that in some regions jewish children are no longer going to public schools you know they're being pulled out because they can't have a normal school day they're being insulted and their physical safety can't always be guaranteed. back in the synagogue young ballerinas are practicing for a big performance the synagogue offers jewish children an afterschool program which parents gladly make use of delphin tell you have is the mother of three sons she tells us one of them has moved to israel because he feels safer being jewish there
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delfin says she is shocked by the rhetoric she hears she thought it was a thing of the past. god or not or this when we hear things like go back home to it hurts us deeply. you feel threatened to some. pretty far all gone. the launch alarm is determined to stay in his homeland france despite the worsening situation experts say that anti-semitism is no longer soley coming from right wing groups but also from radical islam but it rarely has anything to do with religion and jews often meet hostility because they're seen as being part of an elite. tub reason see the host it is the rejection of a community in this case the jewish community that is seen as being privileged as the group with the most influence on the powerful. in launch on them says he will
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never conceal the fact that he's jewish despite the dangers loser make issues it is because i've never hidden the fact that i'm jewish and i won't do that now when i go to the synagogue for sure but i will my kippah and i will continue to do so much social will. but when it came to the question of whether he would let his own children wear a key part in public in line couldn't give us an answer. or for more i'm joined by d.w. correspondent tanya kramer who's in jerusalem tony i understand that you met a jewish family who took the step of believing friends and moving to israel tell us more. yeah the teachers heard in the report was a bit echoed by the family that i met here and they made me great it too is well five years ago they told me it was a long has three months them to come to is that all kind of different reasons you know to to thinking of moving to israel but that the situation at the time in
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farms gave them somehow the final push you know to go ahead with their plans so and let's have a look at their story what they're doing today and what they are saying of the events today in europe and their former homeland fronts even from a distance and then you home and read the news about anti semitic incidents in france it's upsetting me to his mind and to distort a tooted photo that developments back in the home and closely. well the argument is that. if i compare what i see in twenty nineteen the last twenty years in france all. what i can see that the situation us become really difficult by law i did. that because that may be the situation has really changed we were still very young when we lived there but we shouldn't forget that france is a country that is still rather tolerant and we shouldn't forget its positive sides
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. visited the family in two thousand and fourteen in the suburb of christ shortly before they emigrated to israel the family had thought about making it to israel for a long time and waited for a good moment to move with this three children i started with city in southern israel became the new home of. the departed in the beginning it was a long held dream to go to zion to go to jerusalem. later the rise of incidents the whole situation was deteriorating with regards to the jewish community as a push to finally go ahead with it. it is a new if you want it gave us a sort of pretext to finally go for it. while israeli put it to regularly call in jews living abroad to come to israel in light of attacks so anti semitism it does not always result in more i mean creation after peak in two thousand and
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fifteen with over seven thousand french jews coming to israel numbers have called in to about two thousand six hundred in two thousand and eighteen and two summonses them as always in the background of considerations of people we decide to move but i can't say it's the single push factor that determines everything and that's why we have seen. lower numbers of arrivals from france in recent years. in the start the two months had to adapt to new life it also comes with new responsibilities due to judyth has to do her tory military service with the recent set up and the beginning it wasn't easy it was a whole integration process with the new language the culture and everything else but now everything has become normal everyone here plays a part and israeli society. goes i think i've done the right thing to come here. i've done the right thing for my children is about to go i would say i saved them
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that's not the case but in my mind i know i saved them from this constant feeling of numbness and insecurity. after five years in israel they feel at home it's a new life complete with new challenges but it's so i price they're willing to pay for their future. tell you how much concern is there in israel about the increase and he's a medic attacks here in europe. well on the one hand i mean europe is far but it's also close i mean fun in the sense of people of course in israel they don't you know experienced this kind of you know does kind of incidents but then if you do have family relations so also travel there is of course there is concern of what's going on then people follow also closely the events over there if you do hear as you heard in the report today always a politician sick calling for jews to come back here to the homeland and night
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attacks and to semitism but that it's not always translated in numbers and to his agency officials that i talk to you say it's you know people have very individual reasons also to come yet making it's not set such a thing that you do from one day to the next but i think most people here are saying is that they want to see what european governments are actually doing you know to counter those developments and what measures they're taking in this situation tania thank you to that was tony kramer there in jerusalem and in two hours' time we will be speaking to israel's ambassador to germany about the measures israel is supporting to tackle at the summit isn't in europe we hope you can join us for that well israel itself is a broil in a political scandal just weeks before the country's general elections prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he is the target of a witch hunt after israeli justice authorities announced they plan to indict him on
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corruption charges the move follows more than two years of investigations internet and yahoo over allegations of bribery fraud and breach of trust. champagne bribes and back door deals with billionaires. the charges against israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu paint him as he did mystic and corrupt. prosecutors allege netanyahu accepted over three hundred thousand dollars worth of champagne and cigars from hollywood producer arnon milchan. another serious allegation is that the prime minister eased business regulations for show all of it a telecom mogul in return for favorable media coverage. the coverage of this scandal has certainly not played favorably for netanyahu. and this just six weeks away from national elections when he hopes to win a fourth term. for netanyahu the attorney general's recommendation to indict is
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no more than a political witch hunt. well he's looking at the house really their aim is to whip up the public with ridiculous attempts to make me look evil. without the chance to refute them now but only after the elections is the. enough with that though not their luck show in august. ignore the spin i intend to continue to serve you as prime minister for many years to come. after more than two decades in office netanyahu is only months away from possibly becoming the longest serving head of government in israel's history yet some israelis see the april ninth election as a good time for a change of leadership. and co-judge of the sufi done i think this is the end of the road netanyahu should say goodbye and leave as fast as he can before he gets into more trouble. but he was good but that said he should give the chance to young
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people and new people to do the work. others see no reason to abandon bibi as he's affectionately known. and i prefer. to have somebody who is experienced that are going to you know hold israel in good position and lead to charges i think . netanyahu has not been formally indicted a moment that will most certainly come well after votes are cast. yet with a strong challenge from the new centrist blue and white party in the looming elections a slight shift in votes could mean the end of a political era. now to smother stories making headlines around the world today pakistan is set to release an indian pilot captured when his plane was shot down over kashmir the gesture comes despite ongoing skirmishes in the disputed region
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tensions flared up between the two nuclear armed neighbors following a bombing delhi blames on pakistani based militants. officials in somalia say a suicide car bombing by al shabaab militants on a mogadishu who tell as killed twenty nine people police say eighteen more were injured in the attack a gun battle between al shabaab fighters and small the troops as been raging at the site of the blast. the united states has offered a one million dollar reward for information on the exact whereabouts of one of osama bin laden's sons officials believe comes up bin ladin is emerging as an al-qaeda leader the group brought down the world trade center in the nine eleven attacks in two thousand and one. third famous swedish climate activist gratitude berg is joining german students on strike today in hamburg
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peoples from around the world have joined in on her friday's for future movement walking out of classes to call on politicians to take climate action some three thousand students are expected to take part in the march today in the northern german city. it is kate brady is in hamburg covering the march and joins us now hi kate gratitude unberth she's become a real figurehead for climate change activist says her presence there and hamburg getting people out on the streets. she certainly has drawn many more students to the street here in hamburg this week and we saw around eight hundred schoolchildren stepping in class last friday to come. protest a call for more action from politicians against climate change today we're looking at numbers nearer to around three thousand and you might be able to see them behind me now they're about to set off on their walk and their protest march across
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a hamburger city center and british presence here today has certainly got the school children very excited they told me early this morning that they see her has an inspiration and that they and that she has inspired them to take to the streets and make their voices heard to politicians. has been making the rounds as it were she was in belgium yesterday i understand this is their first time in germany what are the students demanding in terms of policy changes for germany. well it's no secret that here in germany the country is falling ever further behind when it comes to reaching the climate goes we already have confirmation of the end of last year the germany will not reach its twenty twenty climate goes and says students here that it's skipping school today are calling for more action to make sure that germany reduces its greenhouse gases quicker and also a particularly point peace particularly interesting point here in germany is when
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it comes to the phase out of coal here the german government has vowed to phase out coal by twenty thirty eight but the students here a calling for a quick a phase out and they want to see the end of coal here in germany by twenty thirty so that's germany what about the overall goals of gratis. kate tell us a little more about that. whole greater herself has actually been striking skipping school every friday since august and this is the end and it was because of a speech largely at the un climate conference that inspires schoolchildren around the world to make their voices heard and that demanding more action to protect what they have is their. described as protecting that you check and so many of them are taking this stance and stiff in schools saying what is the point in going to school if we are not going to protect us and so they were one of the main aims is to see
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a significant reduction of greenhouse gases and make sure that some of these effects of climate change which were already seen cannot be changed and even reverse trade thank you very much did i use kate brady in hamburg. the women's football world cup kicks off in june germany have a new coach and they took all the tournament hosts france in a friendly match last night. a hard fought battle between two of the pre-tournament favorites was settled in germany's favor. scoring the games only gold scare one nil will match a new coach martina false technical and a texan borgen a closer look at her squad with less than one hundred days to go before the tournament kicks off in june. premier league football club full men have fired their coach clough do you run the agree with the team's battle against
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relegation looking increasingly bleak omen only hire the italian coach in november but a terrible run of form saw the london club win just five points in twelve matches and they are currently ten points from safety on the average is best known for leading leicester city to an unlikely premier league title in twenty sixty. two tennis and roger federer is just two matches away from winning his one hundred title on the a.t.p. tour ever saved to set points in the first set tiebreaker in his match against martin in dubai in the dubai championships the swiss player then took the second set six four to book a place in the semifinal. well we're going to take you to rwanda now where the sport of cycling is this week transforming villages and cities all on the route of the tour de rwanda it's an eight stage race that winds from lake keep to some of
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the highest mountains in the country after five stages eritrean rider always. has braced leaders yellow jersey goose was one of the first african cyclists to compete in the tour de france david king john is another african cyclist to make an impact on the sports the kenyan became a local legend by mentoring four time tour de france champion chris froome he's still working with young cyclists another quick prayer the journey. it's just three thirty am david keene and his team have a special undertaking they want to ride their bikes from kenya's capital nairobi to the coastal city of mombasa about five hundred kilometers. within twenty four hours .
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the forty six year old a cycling legend in kenya. that was practically falling apart but. many hurdles and eventually made it onto the international stage in two thousand he was the only nonwhite in the world championship but his fame came from mentoring chris froome who later won the two to four times the kenyan with british ancestry made his breakthrough training with. has been a cyclist for twenty five years he's still one of kenya's most successful in order to raise young kenyans chances he established
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a training camp this is where chris froome began his training and his success is still here today rather than developing professional athletes here. he wants to raise the prospects of those from lower income households. to. the young people acquire skills they can later use for instance for working as bike mechanics or tour guides skills next to impossible to acquire here. for instance as. to constantly justify his passion for bikes to her family and friends. is not a good thing. for me it's. salome says her success is thanks to david king john an inspiration for young kenyans his training camp enables them to escape their often difficult daily lives
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. and you move you know these no boundaries so you go and it's for them and. perhaps kenya will one day not only produce remarkable marathon runners but cyclists too. there to hamburg for a look at a new exhibition that's as much for the ear as it is for the taking a trip through the works of superstar musicians an artist the hype for show highlight how art influences music and vice versa this may look like a record storm but it's not instead it's an art exhibit for the. it features twelve hundred copies of the beatles' white album canadian artist rather for a chunk collector the records for him the most important work in musical history.
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it's part of the exhibition hyper a journey into art and music about forty artists have turned their favorite songs into installations giving the music scene a face blending sound with the senses. this is not an academic exhibit it's not a difficult conceptual even though there are many conceptual pieces here but things here are also very colorful. people say cannot turn up a picture like i'll turn up music we're trying to turn up the view. there are headphones throughout and visitors can dive into worlds of sound the unconventional seating arrangements create new perspectives.
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is not an art historian but a music journalist his approach to the exhibition has been unique from the start. i created this exhibition in cooperation with the us it's i held interviews and talks with each artist and then everything was very easy but they are really i will to explain the most complex relationships in just a few sentences and these explanations are part of the exhibition even people who do not know anything about who just like music for example a completely new way into out with the sick submission. a journey through genres from indie rock. to eighty's his. to scandalous pop star.
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classics such as contacts album. if you visit an exhibition and leave it and suddenly see and hear music and with new eyes and i think that's something you can only dream about when creating a show but i think because of the collaboration here this one does just that you know. the exhibition in hamburg. is the first and only of its kind worldwide and to the love affair between art and music. business is coming up next chaos here to tell us what's ahead well we're looking at the new commission that has issued another warning for its excessive debts to get their finances in order to keep more and more millionaires are having to sell their villas off the chance of prizes for that but well the arabs are snapping let off
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