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g w. this is a line from berlin clashes in central paris as yellow vest protesters reclaim the spotlight after the fire at notre dame cathedral. police have made scores of arrests as protesters battle officers and set fires in the french capital it's a twenty third street yellow vests demonstration. on the scene. also coming out northern ireland police arrest two suspects in the murder of journalist. she was killed while reporting on
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a riot in london to free on the eve of the twenty first anniversary of the signing of the good friday peace deal. americans are marking the twentieth anniversary of the columbine high school massacre two students killed twelve of their classmates and a teacher in the worst school shooting in the u.s. up to date. thanks for joining us we start in paris where yellow vests protesters have taken to the streets once again to protest wealth inequality this time and made heightened security following the fire in notre dame cathedral several days ago the protests quickly turned violent and french police say they have arrested more than one hundred people the protests in paris and other french cities are taking place for a twenty third. if we can the yellow vests say they want to remind the government
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that france faces many problems besides rebuilding the fire ravaged new to dump the thieves. our correspondent rebecca rivers is in paris covering the story for us hello rebecca we understand you have to stay in a relatively secure position but what can you tell us about what's going on in the streets around you. well i've actually been able to move away from that more secured position because things here is starting to die down a bit police are trying to clear this particular site and we've definitely seen a lot of the protesters move on but as police have been clearing the scene there's been more violent clashes between the protesters and the police and we're starting to see the debris that's now left over smashed windows of police keeping guard to stop looting and lots of debris from the smoke bombs and the little explosive devices used by the protesters but this particular place definitely coming to an
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end of the protest because a test is moving on. as you well know we're back of the yellow vest years have been at this for months but the temperature the intensity seemed different today is that true and if so while. that is true we've seen a bit of a resurgence shall we say of the violence we've seen a couple of months ago this is the twenty third consecutive week now of the yellow vest protests five months these have been going on every single week and they have been waxing and waning in terms of violence and numbers the last few weeks have seen the numbers die down but today even before the not fire was planned to be a resurgence of numbers and violence largely jew in response to a speech that emanuel macro was due to give on monday now that speech was it was postponed because of the not return fire but in it he was going to address some of
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the concerns of the protesters and so they were expecting to respond in kind expecting to be disappointed one might assume and respond in kind so this already had planned to be a very big day and it's proving to live up to that. well the sun is clearly setting soon what's expected later this evening. well as the protesters clear out from this site they may be moving on to other sites as you say it's very warm here so be a warm night to know whether deterrence here for protesters there is and called set . commemorative concert for not for example on fanaa and pm local time this evening and i know that the french interior minister has come out saying he's concerned about protests in the area and police presence presence will be beefed up around that concert area to stop scenes like we've seen here today thank you that's our rebecca ritter's in paris much appreciated to the u.k.
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now police in northern ireland have arrested two men over the killing of a journalist during a riot on thursday using the eighteen and nineteen year old suspects are being detained under anti-terrorism legislation hundreds gathered last night in london derry for a vigil in memory of lir mckee her death underlines the fragility of the peace process in northern ireland. the ceasefire babies was what they called us we were the good friday agreement generation destined never to witness the horrors of war but to reap the spoils of peace the spoils just never seem to reach the words of leader mckee a young journalist who was gunned down on thursday night in the city that it captured her heart a few months ago she wrote. derry is such a beautiful city i felt the love with it over the past year in love with a woman who hails from it here's to better times ahead and sing good bye to bombs and bullets once and for all. all of northern ireland's main political parties have
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condemned the violence which led to her day this was an attack on everybody in northern ireland doesn't matter if you're a catholic or protestant british or irish this is an attack on democracy they have attacked the community they've attacked the people of daraa they've attacked the peace process and they've attacked the good friday agreement the remick e wrote extensively about the decades long conflict in northern ireland known as the troubles between nationalists who supports a united irish republic and loyalists who want to remain part of the she was working on her second big writing about the disappearances of young people during and since the conflicts in iraq was also a fierce advocate for l.g.b. t. right you don't have gaydar i'm gay and so are you going to have to ok. and i hear that myself for much of my life because of what religion taught me about people like me. and when i stopped hearing myself i started hearing religion.
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within the l.t.v. community and we have a saying we tell people. that are. and what i realized was that it gets better for some of it gets better for those of us who live long enough to see it get better. my friends and colleagues have set up a craig funding campaign to support leaving the keys family tunisians are coming in every other minute and will go some way to honoring her they can see. now just some of the other stories making news around the world officials in afghanistan say they have ended an assault on the communications ministry in the capital kabul all the attackers have been killed after an hours long siege the violence comes a day after peace talks between the government and taliban insurgents were cancelled in qatar. in the libyan capital tripoli crowds have protested against the military offensive led by warlord khalifa haftar who opposes the u.n.
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recognize government this as news broke that the u.s. president had called half tar and a surprise show of support he already has the backing of egypt saudi arabia and russia. ukrainian president petro poroshenko and political novice a lot to me as selenski faced off in a final debate at kiev's olympic stadium ahead of sunday's runoff election today ukraine is observing a day of silence with political campaigning banned the day ahead of the vote the. egyptians have begun voting today in a referendum that could grant the country's authored tarion leader abdel fattah el-sisi another term in office the proposed changes to the constitution would also give the former army general more power over the judiciary a move heavily criticized by international human rights groups. this was supposed to be his second and last time in office but a gypsy and president of the c.c.
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is poised to extend his rule until at least twenty thirty gyptian citizens of voting on constitutional changes including one that would allow us c.c. to run for a third presidential term in all likelihood without any real challengers the changes are also meant to give the former general more control over the military and judiciary which rights groups say he's used to silence his critics. polls suggest the referendum will pass. constitutional amendments are necessary and important so that i'll say seek and complete his achievements because the constitution is not the holy qur'an the constitution can be adjusted according to the situation of the country. others are very much against the changes. i strongly oppose the amendments because they consolidate military and authoritarian rule and it makes no sense to be so different from the civilized
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world there are a president is in office for a term of four or five years and can then be elected for a second term. with after that another president assumes office in the idea that. c.c. rose to the top following a pro-democracy revolution that ousted long time autocratic leader hosni mubarak in twenty eleven sisi led a military coup against the man elected to replace mubarak mohamed morsi and was himself elected president in twenty fourteen since then r.c.c. has ruled egypt with increasing severity. human rights groups estimate he's jailed some sixty thousand people on political charges and staged unfair elections to remain in power public criticism of assisi has become nearly impossible. nevertheless. c.c. remains a key ally for western governments keen to defend their interests in the volatile
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region among those interests fighting islamic fundamentalism. the egyptian leader was in washington just two weeks ago to discuss military ties and trade with the us president donald trump for many egyptian activists however the referendum is a blatant power grab and the end of aspirations for a peaceful and democratic transfer of power. today marks twenty years since the columbine high school massacre in the united states where two students armed with guns in homemade explosives killed thirteen people on that tuesday morning the school in littleton colorado rose to tragic fame around the world a fate it today shares with other locations in the country like sandy hook and parklane but columbine is still remembered as the start of a modern era of school gun violence in the u.s. it's. scenes that have become all too familiar played out for the first time on
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april twenty nine hundred ninety nine the students who ran from the horrors of the mass shooting at columbine high school in littleton colorado could hardly have known that so many others would follow in their footsteps twelve students and one teacher died that day at columbine as well as the two disaffected teens who executed the massacre. survivors brought shocking stories of random cruelty inside. remaining grindin don't know not do you know we don't know yet the girl was. there in that in front of me. did we get. any of them in the way. they prayed it would never happen again. the response from then president bill clinton became a script too often repeated by other leaders. i can only say that the prayers of the american people are with you. since columbine there have been more than one
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hundred deadly school shootings in the us an estimated two hundred thirty thousand children have experienced a school shooting incident. students have had enough of politicians thoughts. in this in. the last two years shooting at marjorie steinman douglas high school in parklane florida set off a wave of protest against decades of political inaction over gun violence. students older guys nationwide marches since then some states have tougher gun access laws in response but little has changed in washington president trump has banned so-called bump stalks that make semi automatic weapons fire fost but he has promised to veto
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a bill that would tighten background checks on gun bias. two decades on the name calling by and still represents an unresolved american tragedy turning a football now and the bundesliga where leaders by and munich took their time but managed to carve out a one no win at home against. nicklaus deflected shot on seventy five minutes ended brahmins resistance after they had been reduced to ten men at the other end thrashed with god six nil leave the visitors stranded in the relegation playoff spot. however were helped by second bottom nuremberg losing at leverkusen lines beat dusseldorf there are two games later on saturday and two on sunday when dortmund visit freiburg hoping to cut the gap to byron back to a point. you're watching the news live from berlin coming up next is shift
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