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this is deja vu news live from burlesque it's this practice a deal may not happen at all those are the words of the e used john claude younger appearing alongside theresa may at a late night press conference he's warned there will be no third chance at all of the new terms and not to win the support of the british parliament in a vote later today also coming out. algeria is ailing president says he will not
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seek a fifth term the move follows mass protests next month's elections have also been delayed raising concerns about where this country's had. and this teenage girl was raped and murdered here in germany and this practice asylum seeker is the man accused he goes on trial today in a case that has inflamed the national debate over migration. also coming up the sands turning neighbor against neighbor in rural kenya high demand in the construction industry for such as lead to environmental damage and even some deaths of the tracks were sent just like. our brian thomas thanks for being with us british prime minister theresa may. he
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has struck a deal to revise the terms of britain's divorce from the european union parliament's due to vote on these terms later today less than three weeks before bracks it's set to take place the main change may secured in strasbourg with european commission president john claude younger concerns the future of the border with northern ireland both sides agreed that the so-called backstop which were seized northern ireland continuing to follow the rules in order to keep the border open would only apply temporarily after bracks. now younger warned that there would be no third chance to change the agreement and theresa may says the revised terms should convince british lawmakers to back her bracks a deal having the insurance policy to guarantee that they will never the north is absolutely right it's all this the u.k. saw the commitments in the bill false good friday agreement but if we ever have to use that insurance policy it cannot become
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a permanent arrangement i just know the tent for a future relationship. to deal with and these things don't in january was not strong enough to make that clear and legally binding changes we needed to set that right today we have agreed. well will these binding assurances be enough let's bring in moscow from london bigger good morning to you theresa may there sounding very positive what does she bring back from her last minute meeting and strong. she has to be very positive she has to put a positive spin on this because really it's another last ditch attempt to get any deal through the houses of parliament m.p.'s now have only a few hours time to look at this agreement and to make the decision to resume a has said that she has brought something from the negotiations that see legally binding the concerns of future of northern ireland here in london and peace would still be waiting for so most crucially they will still be pondering over the text
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also waiting for the attorney general to give his legal opinion of how watertight this really is and then the nail biting another nail biting day year love that m.p.'s are going to vote on this new agreement another meaningful vote in just a few hours type ok how watertight these terms are is very important i just mentioned that you know what's it looking like will these new terms be enough to get bracks at the green light today in parliament. we have to remember the last time treason may try to get this deal through it was defeated by two hundred thirty votes a record loss for the prime minister now she will hope that well at least the loss can be less than last time and and this is really what people are watching out for we've heard from the labor opposition from jeremy corbyn that he doesn't think that
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the deal should be voted three so labor looks shaky for good reason made to two to support her and then we have to watch closely the northern irish m.p.'s the democratic unionist they are really crucial for how crucial allies if they think that the future for northern ireland is watertight is a good guarantee for them then i think a lot of conservative m.p.'s would follow them so they are still sort of pondering and poor ing over the tax and making up their mind but this will be crucial but it's going to be very very difficult for trees or me to get it through that's clear ok it's hard to tell what's going to happen so what happens if this deal is not passed in parliament today. well if this deal is not passed reason may has promised that there will be another series of those then m.p.'s will have their charms to vote on no deal a lot of members of parliament and indeed
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a lot of businesses here in the u.k. as well are really fearing that the u.k. could crash out of the european union without a deal so without any agreement on the future relationships and just over two weeks time so when everybody says the clock is ticking it is true it is really really of it's really ticking at the moment and m.p.'s will want to exclude this scenario which for many of them is really a horris and that in just two weeks the u.k. crushes out so that will be another vote if that gets voted through and that's. expected to happen then she reasoned they will have to face another vote on the possible extension of the withdrawal period so it's then expected that to reason they will be instructed effectively by parliament to go back to the european union and to ask for the whole process to drag on even longer ok and whether any of that happens depends on the vote today coming up over the next few hours because last
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following up for us thanks very much. allow are you correspondent max hoffman has been in a straw spring where the new terms were agreed here's what he has to say about the british parliament vote later today if they don't back this deal but at the same time they want to avoid a no deal drugs and what does it mean that might even mean a second referendum or a new elections and that of course is the worst case scenario for hard drugs the tears they might be willing to swallow this agreement if it means that they can still have their bags and avoid no brags that because you don't know what's going to be the result of a second referendum if it really takes place so this is zone clode younger the president of the e.u. commission building up even more pressure before this crucial vote in the house of commons on tuesday what really happens afterwards we don't know but this is this is really the kind that's the important part we've been steering towards this for for
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two years and all sides are trying to build up pressure as much as possible and in the case of zone clude younker in order to force the house of commons to pass this deal with his successful or not we'll see later in the day. i was due to abuse max hofmann joining us earlier from strasburg get much more on bracks and all the possible scenarios at our website e.w. dot com. stories making news today a court and belgium has sentenced the gunman who killed four people in an attack on brussels jewish museum to life in prison maybe stage the attack in two thousand and fourteen after returning from syria where he's thought to have joined so-called islamic state as a fighter u.s. regulators have ordered boeing to make urgent improvements to its seven thirty seven max eight aircraft after the crash in ethiopia but they've not ordered it to be ground it's the second deadly accident in five months involving that aircraft singapore is the latest country to ban the plane from its airspace. power blackouts
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in the venezuelan capital caracas have disrupted that city's water system forcing residents to line up for water from tanker trucks and cisterns some are also taking water from a local river most of venezuela's electricity grid collapsed last week president nicolas maduro has suggested the u.s. sabotage to keep power station. australia has granted citizenship to a bahraini soccer player at the center of a tug of war between three countries last year thailand detained hakim arrived on extradition request from bahrain he's been living in australia as a political refugee supporters there urged the government to give him citizenship. it's area now where the long serving president abdullah sees beautifully as announced he will not be seeking reelection this move comes after weeks of protests against his candidacy now unlike other leaders in north africa beautifully to
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survive the wave of revolutions between two thousand and ten and two thousand and twelve yelling president now seems ready to pass all jarius political future onto a new generation but some voters are yet to be convinced as we hear in this report . echoes of the arab spring after nearly a month of protests the eighty two year old who defeat about to public pressure announced he will not run for a fifth term as president the news brought tens of thousands of in the streets to celebrate but some struck a note of caution warning that real change must follow. it's a good thing but only if they change the government completely. if the bring someone just like him. it's not worth it so. they have to change the whole government persons as well so wary of their nonsmoker that the election due to be
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held next month has been postponed indefinitely. we should do what does that mean when they announce the buddha flicka is not running for a fifth term future but that he is adding another year this is what he wanted from the beginning to postpone the elections and have another year we don't want that we want to put a fleet and his plan to give up power to prematurely to boot from it all but. suffered a severe stroke in two thousand and thirteen and it's already appeared in public since monday. at footage of the ailing president in a meeting that included northern baduy the current interior minister who is not considered part of beautifully because in a circle has been named the new prime minister. that's being seen as a sign that the old guard might really be releasing its hold on power. joining us now from algiers for journalist following events there morning so here are the celebrations we've been seeing in algiers premature and well beautiful i can't really leave office for the relations that we've seen yesterday night definite
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sickly mature and what we've seen yesterday night were seven like some of thousands of people who were going out but the majority of those who were heading to the streets in recent weeks stayed home yesterday as they know very well that the move and the announcement. made by but if you just plan yesterday shinji a political maneuver this is not a real political change it's worth noting that the suggestion of how organized in a national conference on contentious what was already put forward by allies all could actually get into trouble so this is not. a new sort of like and a new suggestion and use solution to scold the ongoing crisis. they were trying to build a new consensus within the regime. so the suggestion of a national conference of consensus is not more than a political maneuver to stay in power and to keep things running if you know what
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was behind the decision to postpone april's presidential election. it's important to to have a look at the way how the us during regime is working we're not talking about a dictatorship we're not talking about an autocratic regime we're talking about a simulation franticly in composed of several winnings and what we're witnessing for quite a while is a policy struggle between several up between so when we consider was if you let's it in two thousand fourteen between couldn't agree on another candidate or put the people what kind of an emergency solution because they couldn't find another kind of. buying time then buying time was find another candidate that would be able to please as many wings that's hospital here in the. case a lot of movement there in the background in algiers sophia nasr for us thanks very much
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well here in germany the trial of an iraqi asylum seeker accused of the rape and murder of a fourteen year old girl begins today prosecutors charged the twenty two year old suspect ali being attacked and killed the victim in the city of the spawn last year and then fled with his family to iraq german federal police eventually brought him back with the help of iraqi authorities this case has fueled a broader debate about asylum practices in germany especially for those like ali b. who are charged with violent crimes. when susanna disappeared in may last year two weeks went by before any trace of her could be found then police discovered the body of a fourteen year old next to a railroad track and a home covered with dirt and branches. a young iraqi living in a refugee shelter in response was the main suspect the investigating team then got a tip from within the migrant community where he was living.
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at about six thirty pm on sunday june third a thirteen year old refugee appeared in the spotless first precinct and said that susana had been raped and murdered so i think about it. and he named this twenty year old iraqi as a possible suspect. its workers in. be and his family fled overnight to northern iraq but he was arrested there and handed over to german authorities he confessed to killing susanna but denies having returned. right when the populace used the case to criticize the government's refugee policy in germany emotions ran high in an unusual step chancellor merkel commented on the sidelines of the g. seven summit in canada. unimaginable suffering that the family and also the victim have endured touches everyone including me. i can only say now that it is good that the suspected perpetrator has been caught. to.
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be is believed to have killed susana in order to cover up the rape he has also been accused of raping an eleven year old girl that case is being handled separately. all of those twenty years ago today the former communist countries poland and then czechoslovakia joined the nato military alliance that move broke up the former soviet union's iron grip on a satellite states in eastern europe but now a newly a sort of russia has those countries looking to bolster the alliances defenses on assistance like. it's the stuff of boardgames diplomacy conflict and alliances poland and the baltics used to be allies but this of the it's union in the communist defense alliance close the warsaw pact in the is following the end of the cold war in one thousand nine hundred nine they became members of the north atlantic treaty organization nato. to russia's líza vladimir
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putin that was a mistake. unafraid of conflicts russia annexed crimea and spock's the crisis in ukraine. in response nato isn't hunting its presence in eastern europe once again with both sides rebuilding their military strength tensions are rising once more. as a result of the ukraine crisis many see russia as a growing threat and that's especially true in the north east of poland it's less than one hundred kilometers from the russian border and hosts a large contingent of american soldiers there part of nato supply arms to secure poland for all possible scenarios. these are not pictures stuff an actual war it's an exercise in case of emergency jonathan oakes has been stationed for six months in northeast and poland near the russian
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border a long way from his home state of tennessee in the u.s. he previously did two tours of duty in iraq as a tank gunner. completely. wrecked was a combat mission. bring the. focus on. mission throughout the day throughout the week. here we're focused on training with our friends nobody here hates working with nato partners. it's one of nearly a thousand nato soldiers from various countries helping put on the shelf farce the occasion poland is celebrating twenty years as a nato member. it's a demonstration of power also meant for the polish president. bush. that's you know who we're going over every way you know it's quick response
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taskforce troops which protect us and the eastern flank of the alliance are stationed here. through here that. i hope that they will increase their presence soon if you will the encounters with many poles pure russia the threats especially since the ukraine crisis and the annexation of crimea that's why the u.s. has sent extra troops siddur nader's eastern flank that's a deterrent they are now around five thousand u.s. soldiers and poland. every year opponent is spending two percent of its g.d.p. on defense making it a poster child for nato for selling to a crime and stuff the alliance has also led she repeated price by the united states now into. turn for the financial commitment poland is also demanding for more security from nato and for more u.s.
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troops in the country. the little town of or shish near the nato base has been profiting from the presence of so many u.s. soldiers oakes and others frequently visited he says he does not feel threatened even though the russian border is less than one hundred kilometers away. i wouldn't say a burden at all it's. there our nato partners we're here to train with him for any serious this is not just that you know it's it's any threat whatsoever so for the freight train for one hundred years and nothing ever happens that's good training manny off the townspeople feel safe for now that the americans are here at oaks favorite restaurant people no longer fear russia will look a little christiansen of we think we can depend on the americans on america's five fifteen one logically believe they will help us in case it comes to a conflict with russia. because it also. poles have been calling for a permanent us space for years but for the time being the soldiers are only
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stations here for short term oh oaks will soon return to tennessee he says specially looking forward to being with his daughter again whom he saw only briefly right after she was born. it's to kenya now where the illegal digging for sand is posing a growing environmental threat the practices depleted water supplies and worsened draft additions melanie curveball visited a district where the promise of quick cash from sand is having some devastating consequences. it's a walk across this god landscape which john meant to i mustn't call it home this used to be a river carrying drinking water for the community and then livestock in much tacos county kenya. that's until centile is just started illegally mining the river bed leaving barely any sand told the water john fights to stop them but his activism has come at a high price. goes when no it's somebody. my
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old. my house also is a human being that you made to me just to fuel up. john says san cartels are behind the illegal mining which feeds the demands of the country's rapid zation people in his community believe they won't stop the destruction until there is no sand left with no regard for those whose lives depend on access to the water is. when the sun is too hot and you come to look for water you find the levels have gone very low and this water is salty it's not good for washing clothes for drinking this water is bad and we sometimes catch diseases like typhoid. all over the country illegal sand harvesting is taking place in broad daylight the driver of this truck doesn't want to be filmed but tells us up to two hundred
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truckloads of sand are collected each day the illicit scent business is a lucrative one just not for the people in the communities where the sand is mind on the small group of sandy just cashes in on the sales by the people of much acos are divided between those who depend on the little money and from harvesting and those desperate to say the last part is of water in the area but no matter which side they're on both groups suffer the dangerous and by mental and human cost of the data you send industries underbelly. many lives have been ruined or lost due to kenya sandra this is a thirty six year old farmer who lost her husband a centavo who died at work. it happened on the seventh of march twenty fourth teen before he was scooping sand to sow. as they were scooping sand and taking underground the soil above him fell down and
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buried him. as does as opposed to the sand harvesting which has caused an almost permanent drought in the region but she knows that many of these men who make just a few dollars a day that behalf no choice. the problem that we have their own tiny job and we have families we have needs. we human beings and we try home together. but we just don't get them different. is that. dunn says it's a tragedy that men like matthew of being used by the cutouts and have become complicit in destroying the livelihoods of their communities he's asking politicians and police to find these stand up to those stealing much echo send so that hopefully one day its rivers can recover. we have some
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sports now and the ultimate fighting championship star conor mcgregor has been arrested in miami florida for allegedly smashing a fan's phone as he tried to take a picture of a the irish mixed martial arts fighter has been charged with strong armed robbery and misdemeanor criminal mischief legends didn't take place as the thirty year old was leaving the hotel at about five thirty am local time last year mcgregor was ordered by a court to undergo undergo anger management training and perform five days of community service after attacking a boss containing rival u.f.c. fighters. from football now and in the bonus league is monday night game frankfurt doesn't door closed outmatched a twenty five hosts took their time but eventually overcame their opponents scoring three goals in the second half and that means frankfurt remains undefeated this year. four defeated by frankfurt in
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a major way earlier this season conceding seven goals to the high flying eagles all on ice run frankfurt as he scored five goals against dusseldorf in their first encounter but he wouldn't be a factor in this one the home side thought they were off to a great start and even early goal but unfortunately for dusseldorf luka back you know was called for handball in the build up after the restart frankfurt open the scoring off the cross because since he finished with a header one zip frankfurt they haven't lost a match after taking the lead in twenty nine games in stoppage time they added another through a rare substitute sebastian i lay off the french me no problem navigating the keeper. only two minutes later again giving frankfurt the easy three nil victory over dusseldorf a great tune up for frankfurt to face intermingle on in the europa league later this week. let's get your mind of our top stories this hour british prime minister
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. has struck a deal with e.u. negotiators to revise the terms of. main change concerns northern ireland's border with irish republic makers of london will be voting on the changes later today. this is deja vu news live from berlin gary hart will be here in just a minute with our business news a look at an invention that has changed everything literally the world wide web site thirtieth birthday that's up next the for.
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