t w. this is d w news live from berlin tonight a controversial internet copyright laws european lawmakers say it's time to move the internet into the twenty first century there were protests ahead of the vote in the european parliament today critics worry that the changes could lead to censorship supporters say it's time for online platforms to compensate content creators fairly also coming up unfit to rule a jury in president beautifully faces fresh calls to step aside this time from the country's powerful army chief will get an update from algiers and

a window of hope for abused women in jordan we take you inside the country's first protective shelter for battered women whose wives are at risk from their own family members also coming up tonight a german court of cold murder convictions for two men after their drag race down berlin's iconic left one man dead the judges say that the men knew drag racing could be dead. if. i burned off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome we begin tonight with sweeping changes here in the european union that could have a big impact on the continent that you see online the e.u. part. and today voted to approve controversial legislation so overhaul copyright

laws now the new legislation is aimed at online content and it aims to make internet platforms such as google and you tube liable for copyright violations supporters say this will protect intellectual property opponents fear that it could limit creativity and online freedom. four years of intense argument came to a head in strasburg on cheese day when the european parliament debated copyright reform german law maker x. of fast negotiated the deal on behalf of the parliament thank you. start this is about the rule of law it's all one we're talking about is protecting a fundamental right it's about property and about the right to intellectual property and finally it's about fair payment for content creators it's up to us to save european cultural products and not to hand them over to tech monopolies for them to plunder. was. the

aim of this reform is to require those who profit from content shared on the internet to obtain permission to do so and if necessary to pay the originators. of. people like musician alexander dommage who currently find it almost impossible to benefit when their creative work is uploaded to the internet. this is about a fundamental right to creators who want to live from their efforts composers photographers whatever have a right to share in the commercial exploitation of their work that means to receive payment. these. critics fear the change will make the internet less free and lead to de facto censorship as legitimate content is mistakenly kept offline they also worry that small platforms will struggle to chase down all the licenses to use

content. tens of thousands of people across europe have demonstrated against the plans many feel strongly regulation of the internet should be as light as possible although others say the protests were part of a managed campaign by big corporations like google. with european elections just weeks away the issue of copyright on the internet has become intensely controversial. opponents of the reform say the change means content will be checked by also message filters rather than human being. what the politicians expect algorithms to be able to do is to tell the difference between a copyright infringement and satire as long as artificial intelligence does not develop a sense of humor and this is something that's going to remain impossible i think we should not trust the block black box of an algorithm to tell us what we can and cannot post online. in the end the stress parliament voted in favor of the full

package of copyright reforms by three hundred forty eight votes to two hundred seventy four. member states miss now formally approved the legislation before it can take effect. for both sides of this issue and to do that to my right is called aspen from our social media desk into my far right is my colleague and a musician as well warner paul and gentlemen it's good to have you here at the big desk that we start here with the musician so if you consider what was passed today then that would imply that for years you have been shortchanged by these online platforms and indeed i and many others. these companies like you to google facebook they've been using a lot of content of creative content and really been bursting us properly and i mean that. they've. been paying a lot less and even competitors like spotify you know i mean it's really quite

a quite a dire situation are you not able to demand a fair price what we will now we will now i mean they've had it they've had a deal in place with the german collection it's game a but it's not been a very good one and this will now force them to actually properly license this material that they want to use and for luck it will be kind of like a blanket license where they make make deals with the whole industry so that there is. it gives us a better chance of getting a fair or maybe possibly even close to fair mean aeration course there is that the situation here that they need the european union to come in and force these big platforms to depend for what they're using but mean platforms are not going to evolve on their own we've seen that with facebook with all the legislation with go around that company however you know i think a lot of the protesters who don't support article thirteen would still support an artist's right to make money and that's not really the issue here in terms of who is protesting what they say is they just don't like this law it's too broad it

covers so much content not just music we're talking about movies images tax anything that could be copyrighted but it's yet very vague it doesn't say how should a company like you tube or even a smaller company detect copyrighted information from the billions of bits of information uploaded online every day they say they don't have the technology to do that so there is technology out there but it's just not very good you have you might need something like an upload filter they call it which automatically scans the content before it's uploaded and will block it if it's copyrighted it's not good enough yet it's imperfect you have false positives and what the protesters say is it will catch copyrighted material that is being used legally maybe it's a remakes maybe it's a piece of art or what have you that we could be stopped and that could stop freedom of expression on the internet is that a valid argument partially i think over you know there's so many there's so many instances where if you if you want to publish something you want to get something online or make a movie you have to do due diligence you can't just use of material and so i mean i

think it's a for me it's a bit of a cop out argument because you know there are rules and there are you know and then you can't just take off and right now we're all content creators like we all tweet something we all upload upload to facebook and you know you could take a picture you could turn it into something funny and that would be then your own content so it's not just hard as it's really everyone everyone that uses the internet it is a mindset that has to be changed i can remember what's there. is this gentleman who said if you go into a bookstore and you take a book without paying for that stealing but if the book is online and someone gives you the data a copy of the book and you take it do you consider that stealing and i think a lot of people would say well actually i don't but it is stealing at least for the author isn't it well tell him in there that it's completely the music industry has suffered greatly it's not the same industry there was twenty years ago you know newsy news media is running you know i mean the print is fighting a downhill battle against this is well they're getting that you know what's an

article eleven which was going to put this link tax in there as well you know i mean which might be a saving grace for some media. tax what is that exactly this is saying that google should no longer be able to take news from other platforms and put it into its google news search results without paying for it and some companies are ok with that they say great we should get a little bit of money others say we want that reach we want to show up and google news results because we get a much bigger audience and maybe google would just say this is too much effort we don't even have service that the threat that if we don't accept no pay or low pay google will just not allow us to be shown i mean this just shows you how but how many problems really are with the internet that cannot be fixed with with one e.t.u. directive i mean out of worms it is you open up a can of worms and you end up with more problem where we got ten seconds left where do you expect to get the the money that is owed to you unfortunately it will take them at least twelve years for the european countries to. grow two years not twelve

if you like to well well as they say is better than their check joining our border political announcement gentlemen thank you very much. well here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world china's president xi jinping has held talks with european union leaders in paris french president emanuel macron the european union's john clarke and german chancellor angela merkel are trying to find a common approach to china's growing investment in europe and the takeover of numerous companies by chinese competitors authorities in romania say they've seized more than a thousand kilograms of cocaine from a boat that capsized in the black sea last week officials say the drugs have a market value of up to three hundred million euros two suspects have been detained nasa has canceled the first all female space walk due to a lack of available space suits in the right sun astronaut christina caulk you see here on the left was going to be joined by your colleague and mclean but there's

only one medium sized suv is available a male astronaut will now join call on that space walk this coming friday. all right now to algeria and that country's political crisis the nation's powerful army chief is now demanding that president do to flee could be declared unfit for office that's after weeks of really let loose protests demanding that he step down the army is calling for the start of a constitutional process that would put a caretaker leader in place but has been in power for two decades and is now in failing health. algeria's reclusive an ailing president has faced weeks of protests demanding he step down. now the country's army chief has stepped in on the side of the protesters general ahmed guide salah declared president abilities beautifully get too ill to serve the general intends to trigger an

article of the constitution that could bring down the president. that. this will be done with respect to the legitimate demands of the algerian people and this is the solution in accordance with the constitution that allows for the continuity of the state. if their quest is approved by parliament the senate president will take charge of the government until new elections can be held elections had already been scheduled to take place in april but in february beautifully to announce his intention to run for a fifth term before postponing elections altogether. tens of thousands of algerians took to the streets over the past month to demand an end to his twenty year rule. general guide salas announcement came to many as welcome

news. yeah this is a brave decision and it's the first step on a path toward democracy a path that is still long we appreciate the step and we are waiting other steps the movement will continue until the realization of a democratic republic the second republic. it's a good step for the algerian people but we won't stop here we'll keep up the movement and we will keep watching what happens until we reach our aim which is the change of government. they all have to go god willing. go. the president's fate may now be in the hands of parliament which is likely to vote soon at the military's request or it looks like you know the military is going to get involved with this is this a political powder keg i want to talk about that now with arabic spiked cheer got

your name right there. i mean talk to me a little bit about the head of the army now saying he wants the president out because the president is unfit is this a big move or is this something that we should be worried about i think he has no choice is. is. he was invested from. this position and he tried in the beginning of the protests to threaten the people he called the civil war and. drawn to the civil war in syria and also to iraq and egypt but the people of syria didn't get threatened they invested the streets before ten days there were almost twenty millions of them calling for the situation else would they also if the whole regime so these protests have done the job but it appears that the army chief may be able to do the job he is invoking

an article in. constitution that says if a president is too old or is not in good health in that president can be removed it sounds like he is abiding by the wall allowing the rule of law to steer this can we trust him well indeed apparently his interest in protecting the constitution of but what we have on the other side is that the klan of what the violate of the constitution days ago when they said that they will. and you're late to the elections and prolong his office for many other years until a new constitution will be approved so i think this is only another to do when to gain time and to find other solutions. basically doing to make sure that there's peace and to remove lot of leakage but then what happens i know that beautifully

had said that he was not going to run for office again but he had delayed elections because he said he wanted a constitutional a new constitution to be written right if so what is that new constitution going to achieve is it going to be something that the military likes more i mean he's going to benefit from this new constitution no one knows that there's no plan no time plan no material plan to how they will get this transition period that's why people. don't don't. have any faith and there's a big mistrust between the population and the regime and that's why they're calling for an office of the whole regime yes or no way to know exactly how the situation is going to end that is for sure ok but you are going from our arabic thank you very much we appreciate your insights thank you. you're watching the w. news still to come a u.s.

congresswoman a law courts controversy in washington w. travels to her home district in minnesota which tell you why her constituents are standing by her despite charges of anti-semitism. all right we're going to go now from north africa to the middle east years of campaigning in jordan for better protection for women threatened by domestic abuse well it's beginning to bear fruit it is hard to believe but it has been common practice to place women at risk of abuse in prison supposedly for their own protection or last year the government finally opened a secret shelter and found out it is giving vulnerable women hope of starting new winds in safety. it's been years since my last saw her husband but the abuse she suffered at his hand is still fresh in her mind. that one. when the beating got really bad i would run away to the neighbors my husband

suspected i was having an affair with my neighbor so he beat me again and strangled me. authorities feared one of husband might kill her in the name of family honor so they put her in prison. the forty two year old mother of eight was incarcerated for seven months under georgians crime prevention law which has long been used to indefinitely jail women consider to be at risk of so-called honor killings supposedly for their own protection. the hook up with a jailed me with women facing the death sentence women convicted of drug crimes were the ones on death row are hard to be with no lawyers were able to get more out of prison after her husband left the country but the circumstances of her release are extremely rare. a woman is usually told that someone must come and bail her out in guarantee has safety usually a brother or a father her son or her husband and that's difficult because these are often the

same people who were threatening her they had to do all. it is estimated that hundreds of women have been jailed under the pretext of protection with some spending over a decade in prison but after years of campaigning things are finally starting to change. according to the government cases like more that won't have to spend any more time in prison for their own protection in twenty eighteen the jordanian ministry for social development opened this home known as the purpose of it is to house women whose lives are under threat by members of their family today we're being given a rare look into the home and the lives of its residents. the shelter the subject around the clock protection and surveillance its location is kept secret. and is one of the first to be transferred from jail to the shelter after spending almost six years in prison. for safety reasons we cannot give details about the twenty six

year old story only that her life is under threat from multiple members of her family. but. when i arrived here for two days i could not believe that i could just go out on the balcony and see people the world and life it had been almost six years and i had not seen the site and i had not seen people. shelter director does that insists this is not just a place for the women to eat and sleep here they also receive psychological counseling legal aid and vocational training with the aim of reintegrating them into society children up to the age of six can remain with their mothers. corner for tat and and when a woman comes to us she's entering an unfamiliar situation we let her know that being here is voluntary one of her choices on our first task is to comfort her help and once that happens working with her becomes much easier. since it's opening

twenty women have been transferred from prison to the shelter around twelve still remain in prison but the ministry intends to gradually move them here as well three of the women transferred from prison have left the shelter after they were deemed to no longer be in danger if a woman wants to leave beforehand she's informed of the risks and cannot be held against her will. my goal is to one day be able to leave and find a suitable place to live i do not want to be threatened anywhere who had heard the opening of the shelter has been hailed as a major step forward but activists say the law which allowed for these women to be held in the first place must be repealed to guarantee this never happens again. well here in berlin a court has upheld the murder convictions of two men whose midnight car race three years ago ended in the deaths of another man and best a gator say the two drag racers reached speeds of a hundred and seventy kilometers in the heart of the city and that they drove

through several red lights now this case takes german chords into new judicial terrain the judges upheld the murder convictions and saying that both men knew that drag racing could have a deadly result. the judge at today's trial said the man's actions had nothing to do with negligence and everything to do with selfishness and ruthlessness both men were sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. coming up here i'm going to do for the chamber has accepted a charge of conditional intent to kill and stated that the defendants had alternative options but that they actively decided against that in order to win the race. driving at a speed of up to one hundred seventy kilometers per hour on a main berlin shopping street one of the men hit this car the sixty nine year old driver of the jeep died at the scene at the first trial back in two thousand and seventeen dylan's regional court sentenced the mental life in prison for matter but the federal court of justice overturned the sentence citing insufficient evidence

of intent to kill today the district court upheld that original ruling it maintained there was not one but several indications of intent to kill the victim's son expressed his relief this isn't a clinical it's a small compensation i'm satisfied. no sentence in the world can compensate for my grief and the grief of my family in the company. the trial could continue to directly after the ruling one of the defense lawyers stated he had already appealed today's verdict. are to the united states now and the controversy surrounding the new congresswoman from minnesota she's one of the country's first female muslim lawmakers and she's drawing criticism with recent comments that some have interpreted as anti-semitic but in her home district her constituents are firmly on her side. phenomena found. a busy morning at the

village market with the barber shop and it could be the most highly popular among the member of. the american community they tell me they're proud to be represented . an immigrant like them buy their way through controversy we will support a hundred percent like she she should she should talk about the truth she shouldn't fear anybody just didn't feel like any group and that's exactly what she's doing we don't believe it's on to some. fellow jews and the muslims and everybody else we just did that in washington however. through an intense backlash or a tweet but jesting american support for israel was all of all the benjamin baby reference two hundred dollar bills and four remarks you made about apec a prominent israel lobby group.

that says it isn't good. for allegiance to a point. i want. why is it ok. for me to be in this of the n.r.a. fossil fuel industry so be smart and not. whole lot. move. your comments steve cohen and things play dangerous anti jewish there are types the director of the jewish community relations council in minnesota met with omar three times when we met on february nineteenth i brought along this picture. the site is a picture of my maternal grandfather barney and this gentleman gerald sunny cohen. he would have been my cousin hetty lives. nov sixteenth nine hundred forty four son is killed in action in france northeast france laid to rest in the

military cemetery lorraine france so i brought the picture with to make the point to represent of omar to understand american jews you have to understand their profound patriotism. critics here in minneapolis their comments are especially problematic amid a recent spike in anti-semitic incidents in the us which rights to talk to one omar about her controversial statements but the congresswoman declined our request for an interview stating that she wants to focus on her constituents and not the media . law school. in august twenty seventh the center was the target of. the controversy over the congresswoman is a distraction from growing aggression against all kinds of minorities the problem

is always getting caught up in the corner of not paying attention to what's going on what's going on. what's going to white supremacy wide mission is and this is. that's emerging to this world that's where he says that as. jews and muslims and this country. you're watching news after a short break i'll be back to take you through europe tells google and you tube to pay off and in britain. the prime minister you're not in charge anymore.

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