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starts. you. wrote wanda reflects on its darkest chapter the african country marks the twenty fifth anniversary of the genocide which nearly a million people were killed we'll hear from our correspondent at the ceremony also coming up. a controversial campaign promise from israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he'll annex west bank settlements if he's returned to office in next week's election. and
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a new documentary about the gatekeeper of legendary nightclub scene of the one nine hundred ninety s. they decided who got in and who have to walk away. a michael thanks for joining us rwanda has begun one hundred days of mourning for the more than eight hundred thousand people slaughtered in the ethnic genocide that began twenty five years ago today president paul kagame has been leading a ceremony in the capital kigali commemorating the lives of the ethnic and moderate hutus who were killed in a span of just one hundred days we have more from de melanie. who's at the ceremony . remember you night i knew where this theme runs have started a three month period of coming ration of the nine hundred ninety four genocide on
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april seventh twenty five years ago government soldiers and what a militia commenced a systematic killing campaign which wiped out close to a million runs mostly to see today the country has come together to pay tribute to the lives lost by behind me in their godly convention center the main commemoration event has taken place in a solemn setting artists performed songs in the honor of the victims survivors had haunted testimonies take a look. now as to remember the ethnic violence that left hundreds of thousands dead. thank you for paying respect to the victims of the genocide against your accidents is now going believe invited just label for member. of course
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who is a million people are buried here at the g.o.c. memorial site in kigali. two militias began their campaign to write pound around as minority ethnic tutsi population on april the seventh one thousand nine hundred ninety four the day after the assassination of the country's hutu president the killings lasted until current president paul kagame a legit tutsi defense force into kigali three months later on hand to help mark the twenty fifth anniversary of the slaughter dignitaries from africa and europe excellences the flame of remembrance who later today is a symbol of the courage resilience that randoms have shown over the last twenty five years with us today. we have young wantons aged twenty five who presented a new generation of one times there will no harm you the torch to light the flame
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this flame of remembrance will burn here at the more you for the next hundred days of mourning gummy let the flame with the leaders of the african union and european commission. oh. oh yes i. can remarks have been made by representatives of the african union as well as all club you spoke on behalf of the european union. my heart thousand pounds over to the survivors and to. those who have hopes for. their lives for such and we need to see it
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in through the members. you just walked in away from we never forget what human confiscated look it is only go to member to become be just a worker to go to president paul kagame he also addressed fellow rundowns emphasizing the necessity to forgive but also never to forget all borders under minds based. on the traditions and scars. but none of us is our own together we. will run the chartered roads of our union. in true and new talk this. is not only a day of remembering the victims of run the biggest tragedy it's also
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a sad reminder of the international community abandoning the country and its stock is time and a warning that history should never be repeated. that's. reporting from. some of the other stories making news around the world fighting around the capital tripoli is intensifying with at least thirty five people killed in recent days a militia led by general khalifa haftar aims to take the capital where the united nations backed government is based militias loyal to the u.n. back mobilizing to defend the city. thousands have taken to the streets of the sudanese capital khartoum demanding that president bush leave office demonstrations have swelled in recent days borne by the recent string of long serving president the protesters are urging the army to join the security forces reportedly killed
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five demonstrators in recent days. police in romania have mounted a massive search operation along the country's black sea coast after one hundred thirty kilograms of cocaine. authorities are urging residents not to open packets that started appearing on the beach on friday is a key transit point for drugs from latin america destined for western europe. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has vowed to annex jewish settlements in the occupied west bank if he's reelected next week the prime minister laid out his policy shift in an israeli t.v. interview that has promoted jewish settlement expansion during his four terms as prime minister but until now he's restrained from presenting plans for the future of the west bank settlements which are considered illegal under international law palestinian officials. whose campaign.
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well and his main opponent of the blue and white party are running neck and neck in that race now. experts say state news and decision from asian about the campaign are surging on social media reporter frederica baggio joins me now with this story for the week of this seems to be an increasingly powerful weapon in politics no matter where you were what is the exact extent of the problem in israel well michael observers have been warning of an exponential increase in the circulation of fulsome from ation ever since the beginning of the political campaigning of the election campaigning in january and one recent example just from last week when an israeli social media watchdog known as the big butts project they published a report saying they found evidence of and ongoing this information campaign against particularly against its own yahoo his main opponent benny gantz and we're
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talking about one hundred thirty thousand tweets that were coming from about five hundred ten yahoo twitter accounts and these accounts were spreading false rumors exactly about guns and things like claiming for example that he is mentally ill claiming that he has an affair even making claims about sexual misconduct all of which is unsubstantiated and many of these accounts aware using fake names and pictures the one we're looking at right now for example is it goes under the name moshe but that picture is actually it actually belongs to a greek model and. these accounts what's really interesting is that they seem to be run by people rather than bought so rather than automated programs but what remains really unclear and to stage is who is behind them so the authors of
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the report they said they didn't find any direct link between these accounts and it's a now or he's party but they did. led that they thought they were part of a cordon ated an effort to discredit guns and that discord a nation may come from his party and now this has not been proven it's a now and his party have both rejected these links and also israel's election committee has been looking into the matter and they've also they also said they didn't find enough proof to some of these claims seem to have absolutely no balance so what is being done by authorities or whatever the governing parties might be here to stop misinformation on line well on the government side not so much yet i mean the main problem is that israel's laws aimed at regulating political campaigns they date back to one thousand nine hundred fifty eight so well before the internet
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even existed and last year a bill was put forward and they were trying to amend the law to include online online political ads as well but the bill ultimately didn't go through and in march the election committee demanded that for example anonymous election ads are banned on social media but experts say this is only a recombination and so in a way social media companies themselves are you know held responsible for monitoring all this and they say that they're stepping up efforts to. battle fake news not only in israel and generally speaking in israel in particular facebook for example and they rolled out specific measures ahead of the election like they set up an a for ization process for. buyers of political ads they're also included third party fact checkers but critics say this is not this is not enough.
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about your thanks for joining us thank you. a new documentary is hitting cinemas about a legendary chapter in berlin's history berlin bouncers tells the story of the city's exploding nightclub scene in the one nine hundred ninety s. and three gatekeepers who decided whether visitors gained access or sent packing when they got to the front of the line this was one man they faced his friend mark out is often called the world's most famous bouncer the film profiles him and some of berlin nightclubs other famous doormen. still loved driving around at night didn't accept custody in of excess i think it dorman's most important job is guarding intoxicated people to blood on my knees every evening paints a different picture and i'm responsible for that painting every not. three men who
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get to decide who's in and who's all right three different personalities who gravitated to the doors of carlin's legendary club scene in the one nine hundred ninety s. and each played a defining role in it. smiley baldwin was serving as a u.s. soldier in west berlin when the wall fell frank came to berlin to study but find there were too many distractions. there's not a night life scene became so dominant there were so many openings to new things that were happening i really got sucked into it and lost interest in my studies. and then this fan marquardt guardian of baghdad in the inner sanctum of the berlin club scene and a photographer he came out of the dissident artists in the prince arbor district a former east berlin. i dived into the club scene and they were spaces which i experienced as completely reunifying because everything flowed
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together from the to harvest of the divided city. frank fields film is not just the portrayed it also shows the history of a unique era burning in the decades after the fall of the berlin wall. movement so this job is one where a lot of people ask hey smile you're still standing on the door twenty years later why don't you look for something new they don't understand this is not a hobby for me. i always imagined that when i die then i end up in a kind of. running most of bush headed well i'm always knocking on the door somewhere and they say or no no just you in a permanent loop that never stops i thought face life as though it's needed all. alan. you are up to date with the w.
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