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and your family from diseases and home by plying the five keeps to see for food use them you also have a role to play. this is news live from berlin forces commanded by a libyan warlord close it on tripoli as the power struggle in the north african country heats up the united nations calls on the militias to halt their advance on the capital of libya amid fears of a renewed civil war also coming out. demonstrators and police clash on greece's
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border with north macedonia after a false rumor circulate that the so-called balkan route to northern europe will reopen. 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 prospects. make spicer thanks for joining us. you noted 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 tar has started to lose men in clashes with fighters from the un backed government libya has been riven by violence since long time dictator was overthrown in two thousand and eleven. general have toilets troops
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advancing towards the capital tripoli a bold thrust against libya's internationally recognized government commanders of have told self-styled libyan national army say their forces have reached the city limits. this is great progress it means we're 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 full 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. we spoke about in particular those responsible for the situation in libya in particular about general khalifa haftar. very united in the fear that no further military
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escalation must occur everyone is working on that through their channels we already spoke about this in the u.n. security council the situation is 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 unilaterally attempts to appoint. the persons the reason for the libyan crisis is what nato members did to the country in twenty eleven. this should use them go but since then it has become a destroyed failed state black hole through which terrorists and illegal arms are smuggled 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
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an escalation to all out civil war remains alarmingly high. to greece now on saturday protests between migrants and police on the border with north macedonia turned violent around two thousand migrants started demonstrating on the border three days ago demanding to be let across false reports online said restrictions on travel to northern europe had been lifted. and go 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. to have your children america were not cut well above the crowd by families often from syria arriving in greece in two thousand and fifteen fleeing a bloody civil war they want to reach say for countries like germany.
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with no country italy that's what. greece is asylum system is overwhelmed the next available appointment sulf and years away those housing camps want to escape them we decided the result was that you open your purse example of that one must do was that it was no problem the bit that is up for 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. as it should joins us now in the studio she's been reporting firsthand on migrants on the move through europe since the start of the refugee crisis in twenty fifteen emanuel why are so many of these migrants still stuck in greece when they want to move north well they're unable to go further simply because the border is too close
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and once they arrive in greece they are put in those facilities centers we charge defacto a detention center said another exactly prisoners but they cannot leave those places because if they do they also use their entitlement to claim asylum so their neighbor to go further they have to stay in those centers and obviously some of them just do not want to spend months on end even years in such centers and that's why they try to move forward then they're ending reaching other countries in northern europe and how did they get this idea that somehow the border was going to be to be opened well we've heard it in the report as well rumor. a rumor just spread on social media that the border was open and not talking on the five kind of good detective show how it is also say that the similar rumor had been spreading in turkey and when you're in those city centers and you're
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a migrant the only thing you rely on is your smartphone your how do you you know smartphone and you receive information from people you know you might know well or not so well but that's the only information you're getting so what do you do you just go for it and they see an opening and they see a possible end to this situation of limbo they're stuck in and they just believe you tend to take whatever belongings they still have and they go for the border close open or not that's a reflection of their desperation to service. and what was next for them well the border being closed they're staying in facilities. for dam in greece to greek i mean history called for them to go back to those centers so what awaits them is applying for asylum and then waiting for months on end i said sometimes for years until a solution is found until there is i don't request accepted or not and what's very
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difficult as well is that if the application the asylum application isn't accepted sometimes there are no agreements between greece and the countries of our regions of those people and they are just stuck in limbo in greece and see no end to that uncertainty is trying whatever they can. do to use a menu which has thanks for that. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world. in london human rights activists gathered outside the luxury dorchester hotel owned by the tiny absolute monarchy of brunei they waved rainbow flags and banners calling for 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 owned by the oil rich sultanate. in venezuela rival
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political factions are taking to the streets as the power struggle intensifies between anti-government and loyalist factions self-proclaimed president 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 . more towns and villages are being evacuated in western a rant as heavy rains are expected to resume after years of drought trench will downpours over the last two weeks have caused widespread flooding in the region at least seventy people have lost their lives and shelters have been set up to house those displaced by the floods. the german capital berlin now which has a reputation for being a kind of paradise for anyone on a small budget that's all changing as the cost of living in the city is skyrocketing year on year thousands took to the streets saturday to demand more
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affordable housing growing population a lack of new housing and rampant gentrification have sent rents through the roof. one demand united demonstrate isn't affordable housing the problem of rising rents is affecting all big cities but the german capital is particularly affected because berlin is a city of tenants more than eighty six percent of apartments here are rented. out and we want to make people aware of what is happening here rents have gone crazy they've shot up by seventy percent in the past ten years people have reached the limit they calm pay those kinds of rents their wages aren't rising at the same rate. i'm here because i want to find the huge profits cultures and stop these constant planting increases to put it simply speaking just a minute just around the corner from here i've had enough but you know than they've been here. the demonstration also marks the start of the
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nationwide petition for a referendum on appropriating the real estate property of large scale rental companies those who own three thousand rental units or more however this could cost billions of euros in compensation critics warn that berlin which is already heavily in debt contra for the bill and they also point out that such a move would not in itself create any new housing in a city that desperately needs it. just in gears now legendary designer mary quant is synonymous with the swinging sixty's when london was the center of the world when it came to music and fashion quote was the driving force behind the mini skirt hot pants and much more victorian albert museum in london is celebrating her iconic status in a new exhibition which shows how she led the way bringing daring and exciting fashions to main street. for
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a mini skirts and vinyl dresses two vibrant tights and makeup. two hundred items tell the story of how mary quant changed fashion forever included are garments donated by the public and never before seen pieces from the designer's own archives. the exhibition charts twenty years of one's work from its beginnings in the mid one nine hundred fifty s. in london's chelsea district. stablished shop in one thousand fifty five it was the famous bazaar we take on the king's road and really at that point where coming out of britain is coming out of post-war austerity rationing is still in place and on one nine hundred fifty four and in many ways had plays a real reaction against that time this is a ring again and that gentleman means legs no longer hidden under dirty jeans as mary quant but exposed once more in the long leg. so what else is new.
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quite quickly the brand was very successful shaping the second store she tapped into this atmosphere this mean for change and for new ways to go with women's lives and so we tell that story how it relied on marketing and publicity in magazines. mary quant made a name by originality a style that will forever be associated with want is the mini skirt. throughout the decade hemlines gradually rose by nine hundred sixty six the term mini skirt was in white usage it became a symbol of the swinging sixty's and women's liberation but it was also a polarizer a splint learned in her shop from the beginning it was a getting out of there was one lot of young men to bring in their girlfriends and raving about everything and there were no the lot of sort of city gents. on the
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window with. the exhibition also shows how quantum braced mass production techniques bringing her striking styles to ordinary shoppers are more being introduced this time by mary queering the nine hundred seventy s. the designer expanded her remit to include items like curtains and bed linens. that you reach as hoped the show will finally gonna quantz the recognition she deserves that think now is really the perfect time to celebrate a woman with an amazing career to inspired so many different women and liberated them for traditional rules and regulation. fans can catch the exhibition at london's victorian albert museum until february next year. and the bundesliga show follows after the break with the best of the action from the top of the table clash between buyer nick and dortmund. would dortmund live to
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rue this early miss against defending champions prior to find out soon bring you the goals from the rest of saturday's games. and that's coming up been a minutes for doubt on behalf of the whole team thanks so much for watching to go. to an extravagant video. game to move.

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