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he w. this is deja vu news live from berlin forces commanded by libyan warlord close in on tripoli as the power struggle in the north african country heats up united nations calls on the militias to halt their advance on the capital of libya i mean fears of a renewed civil war also coming up in berlin thousands take to the streets to demand more affordable housing a growing population and a shortage of new construction are driving up rents and house price. and in soccer
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buyers for dorchen five mill in the big budgets league clash to leap to the top of the table the defending champions now look poised to win a seventh straight type. unexpired thanks for joining us the united nations security council has called on militias closing in on the libyan capital tripoli to halt their advance the militias commanded by a warlord called calif i have to are have started to lose men in clashes with fighters for the un backed government libya has been riven by violence and division since long time dictator moammar qaddafi was overthrown in two thousand and one. general have to its troops advancing towards the capital tripoli a bold thrust against libya's internationally recognized government commanders of
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have told self-styled libyan national army say their forces have reached the city limits. this is great progress it means we are technically inside tripoli we still have a few checkpoints to secure but the battle will be on the outskirts of the city. ranged against have tossed brigades forces loyal to the government the struggle for power and control of libya's oil began with the fall of the dictator moammar gadhafi nearly eight years ago and remains unresolved. the g. seven countries which met in france over the weekend are concerned because we spoke about in particular those responsible for the situation in libya in particular about general khalifa haftar. we're very united in the fear that no further military escalation must occur everyone is working on that through their channels we already spoke about this in the un security council the situation is
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extraordinarily disconcerting and we cannot accept further developments particularly military escalation. meanwhile russian foreign minister sergei lavrov met his counterpart in cairo egypt he said also it's could be involved in a political solution in libya and blame nato for creating the crisis. we advocate that there should be no unilateral attempts to appoint or guilty persons the reason for the libyan crisis is what nato members did to this country in two thousand and eleven so since then it has become a destroyed failed state is a black hole through which terrorists and illegal arms smuggling go to the south and illegal migrants flow to the north. as the un recognized government deploys its supported militias to. defend the capital tripoli the risk of an escalation to all out civil war remains alarmingly high. and now to some of the other stories making
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news around the world. in venezuela rival political factions are taking to the streets as the power struggle intensifies between anti-government and loyalist factions self-proclaimed frezza twenty urged his supporters to maintain pressure on president nicolas maduro and anger is mounting over the collapse of public services and repeated power outages across the country. in sudan protesters converged on the army headquarters and the presidential palace in the latest demonstration against president omar al bashir thousands marched through the capital khartoum chanting peace justice and freedom opponents claim government mismanagement has brought soaring food prices and fuel shortages. in london human rights activists gathered outside the luxury dorchester hotel owned by the tiny absolute monarchy of nine they waved rainbow flags and banners calling for
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homophobia to be stamped out the sultan of brunei has adopted harsh new sharia laws including death by stoning for homosexuals the move has sparked calls for a boycott of properties own by the tiny oil rich sultanate. to greece now on saturday protests between migrants and police on the border with north macedonia turned violent around two thousand margaret started protesting on the border three days ago demanding to be that across false reports online said restrictions on travel to northern europe had been lifted. thank you for a third day at the greek border with north macedonia rumors of an open border spread on social media and thousands of asylum seekers came which. was that was your can run america rather than cut well above the crowd the families are often from syria arriving in greece in two thousand and fifteen
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fleeing a bloody civil war they want to reach say for countries like germany. with no country to tell and that's where. greece's asylum system is overwhelmed the next available appointment sulf and years away those housing camps want to escape them we decide who comes up with a new mobile or you know all proceeds of what that one must prove was that it was no problem with that is the border that is that there is a bit that in fact up there are more than seventy thousand refugees and migrants living across greece as a result of the mass influx of people since two thousand and fifteen many are living a life in status waiting to be officially given asylum or waiting to escape. authorities in red have moved to evacuate more towns and villages threatened by floods after forecasts for more rains in the country's southwest iran's climate is usually dry
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but it has been hit by unprecedented flooding nationwide since mid march the rainy and emergency services say at least seventy people have died as a result the extreme weather. nearly two thousand towns and villages in southwest iran have been hit by flooding since heavy rains began falling last month women and children are being told to leave the affected areas but men have been asked to stay and help with rescue efforts. along with how could i take my family away from here even if i wanted to. have the say there's no alternative to evacuation we've moved our belongings to the rooftops we have no choice it was surrounded by water and soon we're going to have to leave feel like that it made him they don't. want. the choice we have to make is between bad and worse not between good and bad in choosing bad we have to pay the cost and the people are
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paying the costs i'm deeply grateful to them. all of the efforts being made for the people sustain us now to prevent bigger losses and worse conditions will be compensated the government will definitely pay for their losses. people sift through the mud salvaging what they can amongst the debris schools of towns and villages have been affected the heavy rains hammered parts of the country after years of drought buildings and roads close to rivers have been the worst hit residents say safety regulations were often ignored during the construction. shifting gears now berlin is often touted as a paradise for students and creative types and. on a small budget but that's fast becoming a myth because living here is getting more and more expensive. thousands took to the streets today to demand more affordable housing a growing population
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a lack of new housing and rampant gentrification have sent rents soaring. germans are split on the issue of high rents as one of the main findings on the new. trend a survey by the german public broadcaster a r d the pollsters asked how big a problem is it to find an affordable flat thirty three percent said it was a big or very big problem but thirty seven percent consider it a small problem or no problem at all the answers depend heavily on the size of the cities people live in in cities with fewer than one hundred thousand inhabitants only twenty nine percent think that fighting an affordable apartment is a big or very big problem but in cities with more than one hundred thousand inhabitants a solid forty eight percent think so among the protesters who came out today were members of a citizens' initiative who say the answer lies in reclaiming apartments from private investors and bringing back social housing. berliners are scrambling for
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affordable apartments in the capital and experienced this firsthand he shared a two room apartment with a housemate for six years but then the landlord announced he was planning to renovate the building after which the rent would rise by three hundred percent who was shocked. but. do if i have to move. or if i can't afford the higher rent i might not be able to find another place to live. but have to start thinking about whose culture can sleep on. the renters are fighting back a local initiative is gathering momentum to expropriate commercial property owners and his joined in. he started taking part in housing protests a decade ago during the sixteen years he lived in central berlin he carefully documented investors' activity they began selling and renovating over one hundred
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flats in his apartment block. they even planned to demolish the buildings to make way for luxury apartments. eighty tenants have already moved out. be a missionary and we have to live somewhere it's unacceptable to these apartments or become commodities or sold off for profit people like you and me aren't important anymore it's all about property no not people it's going to. the cost of renting is escalating in other european cities to a studio apartment in berlin goes for around six hundred euros a month but in other cities such as munich rent for the same apartment can run over a thousand euros barcelona is pricier than berlin of these cities only istanbul is a listen expensive place to live in dublin and in london rental prices have gone through the roof. it's not just low wage earners who are having a hard time shopkeepers police nurses and teachers are also finding it hard to
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afford living in the german capital. biggest football match in germany for years has ended and byron have destroyed dortmund five know all to jump to the top of the table all over body from sports joins me. it was kind of over at half time what what didn't go wrong in that first off nick it was a bit of a shambles to be honest with you it couldn't have got much worse and anyway they actually did have a great chance to take the later mahmoud early on he hit the post when he really should have scored and after that it was all by munich in the scoring for notts formals after about ten minutes of course a former dortmund player so that would really have hurt then and just a few minutes after the robot live on the double by the end of another former player so this is really having this age and it was his two hundred one does leave a go in terms of the goal of his career so big moment for him after that the
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floodgates open how the martin has made it three nil search gnabry made it four before halftime after the break he did another against really despondent by this point dorman defense has to be. said we dreadful throughout the gang credit to buy and put the pressure on and they were ruthless in taking their chances and if you play like that even against a side as good as dortmund you're going to come out with a good result so what does this mean for the title race when we can see exactly what it means for the title race in terms of the table we're going to get up on the screen in just a sec basically what we're looking at is by and now being one point ahead of dortmund they also in part thanks to this absolute hammering of dortmund have a huge advantage when it comes to goal difference too so they certainly have a big advantage in the title right now the other teams their way about life they can so on it really is just a two horse race with dormant and by now the difference in points is still negligible at this stage one point with six games to go any slip up from either
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side could prove fatal to their chances but i think the psychological impact of getting hamlet five nil out by it could be the dortmund much much worse than losing the points on a psychology it's ok. thank you that only movie debut sports. an israeli man has broken the world record after recovering the oldest footballer to participate in a professional match. hiatt is seventy three and a goalkeeper for the fourth tier club irani or yehuda in israel was born in iraq but moved to israel as a child he received the guinness world record prize in an official ceremony after playing the full ninety minutes i will turn seventy four next week and he says it's ready for another game. you're watching the news coming up next is world stories where we take
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