don't expect our pm to. six. weeks. the at. this is coming to you live from berlin and me and mom freeze to reuters journalists jailed for their reporting. and clouseau reunited with their families after spending more than five hundred days in prison despite their ordeal looking forward to getting back to work also coming up operations in turkey order drawn up istanbul's election after president. party complained about losing the votes that

feel physician says the decision is the latest sign that the country is being good fight a dictatorship. and this was germany in two thousand and fifteen at the height of the influx of refugees for years on how are those migrants and refugees faring on the german still as welcoming we have the results. i don't welcome i'm a bit touchy about good to have you with us. this been seven years in prison but suddenly they are free to do it is journalists jailed for their reporting of the writing a crisis and me and ma have been released a spot of a presidential amnesty why lower and quiet so address it in december two thousand and seventeen and their case prompted

a global outcry by human rights campaigners. free after more than five hundred days in detention following the arrests wallonia and just became international figureheads in the struggle for press freedom they were convicted of breaking the official secrets act for their coverage of the massacre of ten during your muslims in myanmar speaking shortly after their release told reporters he was keen to get back to work inside the prison and on the phone or on the old regime to release a film like this is banking. on really happy educate my family my colleagues and i can wait for good news right over the reuters said the two men which ailed in retaliation for their reporting and had not committed any crime. we are enormously pleased that mean more has released our courageous reporters wallowing and toss since their arrest five hundred eleven days ago they have become symbols of the

importance of press freedom around the world we welcome their return. their case through international criticism and put the spotlight on myanmar state council and de facto leader aung san suu kyi who was already under pressure for the oppression of the reunion minority u.n. investigators said it amounted to genocide. the release of the two men comes at a time of year when it is traditional for the president to grant amnesty to prisoners to dating a back with their families but the future of press freedom in myanmar is unclear. joining me now is stephen butler from the committee to protect jenison he's based in hong kong steven know your organization was involved in the campaign to get the reuters journalists released first to give us your reaction now that they have been freed. well my reaction is i'm very happy i'm very happy that these two talented and brave journalists are on the out of those in the able to see their

families and get that the war. over on them or how do we as an organization work very hard in all kinds of different ways and hoping for this outcome and it's very pleased that it's happened now when i think they've really been eased up to be a sentence for seventy as in prison. i think that the member they were in jail because of what in the with their it was a military move to plant evidence on them and get them in prison and to intimidate other journalists and i think the military they achieve their goals and i think that keeping them in jail longer under tremendous international pressure not just from lost in the united nations and other organizations from the united states government from the e.u. from all sides that we're going to share and i think that they. must have concluded that they had to achieve their goals and there was no point in giving them any moment. in this many on you that this should not have been interested in the first

place i want this case that means steve in full press freedom and then mock. well it's we we don't know for certain we are hopeful obviously that there's been a change of heart and that. journalists in these war did but we don't really see any evidence for. what was to our continuing efforts i mean for example there is a case against your watching the paper which had reported on military activities and so these efforts to suppress press freedom they have continued and they obviously want to look at is in a hopeful way but we have to be prepared the discipline. ranks even back now from the committee to protect genesis thank you very much. mark. let me bring you up to date some of the stories making news around the world she won because acting police she fears or suspected plotters in the easter sunday

bombings have been arrested or dead more than two hundred fifty people were killed in be attacks which had been claimed by the so-called islamic state. ten elephants painted white have been led to the royal palace and the thai capital bangkok to pay their respects to the newly crowned king kong the white elephant is a sacred symbol. in thailand the king's three to coronation ended on monday. now to a major political controversy in turkey election officials have thrown out the result of the vote but the matter if istanbul turkey is president to have had suffered a humiliating defeat in the vote his ruling party won the local elections overall but lost key mayoral polls in istanbul as well as the capital his party then challenge the legitimacy of the results now a new vote has been shed for next month. rising into the night time sky the

din of protest banging crockery against parts residents expressed their dismay at the rerun of may oral elections at an impromptu rally on the outskirts of estimable the winner of the election vowed to fight on. caused by my fellow citizens the trying to take away the elections we won on the evening of march the thirty first they have tried to steal our hard work. or show mertz rather still. we really written back our rights with a smile on our face as well as hope love and respect. his supporters have been see them with anger all day. this is a preplanned game and the election authority is a part of it what else can i say and this decision doesn't represent voters it

clearly has been made ignoring the people's will. can they didn't know this came from somebody who doesn't want to lose his power so it's no surprise the vote should not have been cancelled. perhaps also unsurprisingly the losing candidate disagreed. and that's. why i have the elections going to the electoral board. because of the irregularities is the wrong doing of the cheats and staying happens during and after the elections we have detected. that. after his justice and development party lost control of both istanbul and the capital ankara president had put increasing pressure on the supreme electoral council he delivered his latest broadside on sunday or eleven shy of a watch or has been cheating there's been corruption all this is clear unambiguous

you know come on let's go before the people and we will accept what the people's wish dictates it's the simplest not but on monday night the people of istanbul gave their response to claim that he's acting in their interest. but he did these correspondent joe johns joins me now from istanbul during an edge on it has just lashed out at critics still questioning having a rebuttal to election but the metaphors thought what is the basis of his cames that the election was rigged. yes president won in a very impassioned speech lashed out at this istanbul vote saying that it was a victim of circles of evil and corruption that took the victory away from them he then also targeted turkey's powerful business community saying a should know their place and that's because several leading figures within turkey's business leaders have been voicing concerns over a revote on also said that there was economic terrorism going on in the country the

turkish currency has fallen steeply following the announcement of a revolt and he issued a warning saying he knows who's responsible and they will be dealt with like any other terrorist i think concerns of the opposition is that he says the shortcomings in the last would be addressed present one has sweeping powers that he can introduce or any real reform ahead of the vote which will add to fears that he could plan to change the rules of the game ahead of this key vote so they strong. dorian and there's a lot of anger on the streets of istanbul as we saw in our report what is the opposition's strategy expected to be ahead of the region on june twenty eighth. well the opposition c.h.p. leadership are still meeting they held meetings last night and those meetings are still continuing today about what their strategy will be is understood of one item only changes a possible boycott of the vote and possible even withdrawal from parliament there

has been voicing growing calls within the party saying that these democracies basically failed in turkey and if you participate all you are doing is legitimizing a broken system at the same time from a more local did when the vote has been on the offensive he's been continuing his policy of of condemning the vote at the same time reaching out to all sections of society with a message of of inclusive it and he has received a important boost three minor parties are participating in the stamboul polls are reportedly announcing that they will withdraw in the next vote and offer support to him all of those folks amounted to around a hundred and forty thousand votes that's ten times the margin that in my model the want to that is an important boost and will make the difference make the task burdwan even greater and the condemnation of the read on is also being echoed in international circles as undermining democracy in the country under how much pressure is the judiciary in turkey from and his government

well ever since early one assumed these sweeping executive powers two years ago mungo inclusive power to appoint many of turkey's leading judges and there has been concerns of the judiciary he's basically under the control of the presidency now that is the knife but there is this fear that the judiciary is no longer independent and the eleven judges that did make this announcement to him now the vote most of those were appointed by one and his government and the fact that they have taken a decision is widely condemned and seen as being very partisan will add to concerns over the impartiality of the judiciary during jails in istanbul thank you very much for that. now campaigning for the european parliament elections in three weeks time is gathering momentum the main parties are hoping their lead candidates will take the top job the head of the european commission in and the running to take over from. france to from the center left party of european

socialist and mon fed veba from the center right european people. but infighting within the conservative means that mean on down the chalk this is because of the raw with hungary's viktor orbán and his party hungry sends a large number of the just latest to the bottom and so without its support the center i've blocked that substantially be weakened that could potentially cost the group the vote on who takes over at the top of the commission. we would have accepted facts and leader vapor as president of the commission but he announced that he not only does not need the votes of the hunger ariens but that he does not want to become president of the commission with them if someone offends a country in such a manner than the prime minister of that country cannot support the cabs and see of such a man. let me know a growing chorus on band then we heard what a prime minister orbán had to say that appears to be

a spat within the conservative blogs how do you see this playing out. well it's not only a spat it's a real split this avoids filing for divorce actually and by doing so viktor orban the hungarian prime minister and leader of the fittest party did mounted weber's the leading candidate a favor because now mantra veba does not have to get rid of all but he did this step himself in the past but was criticised that he was not vigorous enough because the fetus is already sins. suspended from membership in the e.p. group all one has a long history of under european and even and he said medic and slurs and attacks and that's why his group is no longer a real member of the group so maybe might be a little bit relief that all but now did the final step and what do you have the

european social democrats good their candidate france to months and end up winning because if the ra with hungary. no that's not that's not a given effect after this because. we'll lose fourteen to fifteen seats that fetus she might have brought into the group after the elections and he will end up with one hundred sixty one hundred fifty five seats but he's still a little bit ahead of the socialists of the socialist group and france to moments they both end up with one hundred forty to one hundred fifty and none the less you know none of the groups has a majority to elect somebody both of them have to form and then form a coalition to be able to form the majority which lies it is three hundred seventy six and they would even need a third party like the liberals or the greens to vote on a commission president though the race is still open and it's not clear if either man way about ottomans would ever get this job again we just have to wait and see

what the results of this election in three weeks time meanwhile this difference is a band an indication of a deeply divided. yes they are indication of the fight between the liberal democrats on the one hand and the liberals like victor all bans on the other hand. arriving populist gaining support in many many countries of the you right now from the netherlands france germany austria-hungary italy you name it they are everywhere and it shows that the division is really growing and this is the fight between baby and all but is actually the symbol for a split in the. ride to bend to get in brussels thank you very much for that. now europe and often germany is a destination for many migrants and refugees but how those who made it here doing germany's council on integration migration assist released its latest report there

was a surge in asylum applications in two thousand and fifteen and sixteen with more than seven hundred thousand applications in two thousand and sixteen and the number started following the following as you can see from this graph this good news by those who made it a third of all adult migrants and refugees arrived in two thousand and fifteen got city jobs within three years that's certainly good news let me now draw enough political correspondent hans grant who is standing by at up alimentary studios in but. let's first get some context to this what was described as a very fishy crisis remind us what was the feeling in germany when these tens of thousands of refugees appeared in the country. well there was of course a feeling of crisis and it was a crisis for germany in the sense that nobody expected hundreds of thousands of people to be arriving to be standing at the doorstep of germany and wanting to get

in so it was amongst other things a logistical nightmare in some sense one had to find accommodation for these people food for these people medical attention for these people and at that stage germany very much opened its doors and a lot of people mobile the simple people went to train stations for instance and welcome the refugees to germany there was this feeling that germany needed to help these people because they were in a dire situation and hans and jim one chunk of that point amid a statement which came back to haunt to and became identified with the refugee crisis let's first take a listen to watch on some actor said and the impulse with which we approach this matter must be. we have done so much we can do this to seven does and wherever something stands in our way but we must overcome it with so we had what to chance america had just a seance of the this report which has just come up doesn't actually tell us whether

germany has managed to overcome the so-called crisis what is your assessment. well the fact the report did say that it's not distributing kind of marks on how well somebody has done or not but it does states that basically germany didn't manage this crisis pretty well that it to manage to integrate these thousands tens of thousands of people into german society that as we've mentioned many of them have fallen jobs that i'm over ninety percent of the small children that came in and now in school that there are still challenges ahead but basically this whole situation has been handled pretty well by the to america governments that handled it obviously there was an election in between and a new government was formed but there is a kind of continuity between these two governments from the end of two thousand and fifteen until today there has been a lot of infighting political infighting a lot of grandstanding as the commission said on migration issues but in the end

some sort of balance was found and in fact one of the members of this commission said that germany is an exemplary within europe for the way it is one of those crisis no other european country has managed to do it as well as this right hans brand at the bottom and you see just thank you very very much for you and on assists and let me go back to the deposit that i mentioned it's not all good news on the downside the report says the incidence of hate crimes against refugees increased dramatically peaking in two thousand and sixteen there's also been an increase in negative attitudes towards a migrants and asylum seekers correspondent visited a church in the east in jenin city of leipzig to talk to someone who has been doing his best to help integrate the new arrival this. past year under doren at work in his life parish. oh that's right.

twenty fifteen thousands of refugees arrived in my pick and ever since pastor dorn has been offering them support he helps them find apartments goes with them to official appointments and teaches them german but some criticize his engagement. they say things like you know taking care of the wrong people we should be focused why are you helping refugees you should be helping needy germans for the board that's the door and says all of his parishioners stand behind him the congregation has a get together cafe for refugees and germans that has been popular for years how much migration can germany handle. asylum seekers are now seen in a more negative light than they previously were still most of the refugees here at zouk cafe say they feel at ease in leipsic but they all have stories about times when they were overtly rejected i listen because. a lot of them as

a workman you meet a lot of people on construction sites i walked by a plumber every day and he always gave me a funny look and then. i made a point of saying hello to his colleagues he looked at me and said well you refugees want to hear. it saddens me because the german constitution is first article states that human dignity shall be inviolable . but i often hear people say always those refugees as refugees the. refugees just got a bit of breathing space they could show how creative they are. both of these syrians say what is lacking is real human contact they think germans showed more interest just a couple of years ago but when there is no actual contact prejudice rears its ugly

head pastor door knows that even within his own liberal parish there are people who have a very critical view of the refugees in their city but no one wants to talk to us about this perhaps because the pastor has said he will not tolerate right wing slogans in his church. this is not a point i'm prepared to compromise on. as a preacher i'm quite prepared to argue that with endless public debates if need be . andrea's door and says that if you want to stop right wing attitudes you need citizens to be active and vocal he's done just that in his parish. no we all live in age when we all have some sort of a digital footprint whenever we use the internet all social media some aspects of our identity are stored on line the artificial intelligence so i can exploit that data in many different ways some of them of questionable morality so scientists are

dumb starting diversity here in germany are trying to work out if they can teach it i'm machines some kind of a moral code. you know this is a bad thing to do. yes why not the moral choice machine analyzes masses of texts written by humans and determines which combinations of words appear together most often its answers based on that analysis. make a distinction kill time or kill people that means that the machine has acquired a kind of context within a sentence it's a small step but it shows that it could possibly be taken further we can go further like this. but the question is how far is it possible to go so far that machines have a human moral compass and can make decisions independently based on that this. is a sociologist at the go to university in frankfurt he doubts that machines will

ever be able to be fair. on the force that we have to abandon the notion that artificial intelligence or algorithms create inequality and injustice it's always the people behind it who allow it to be that way. but applied correctly these technologies can offer opportunities for the future and could even help to fight prejudices for instance by ensuring that when women in my new social networking they aren't shown different job listings based on gender or by making sure that the job application process is as anonymous as possible things like that could be applied sensibly. the moral choice machine in darmstadt also shows that if people wanted to the machine can be used for good and it shows that it's going to take some time before artificial intelligence functions perfectly. this is debatable maybe you want to ask also someone else. am i going to ask about

toast see if you get a positive answer. should i put toast into the toast. now this is not good. we have to make some improvements there. isidor i don't really see a competition but rather a partnership with which we can tackle a lot of the major social issues on the income. correctly programmed artificial intelligence can incorporate human values and that's important so that in the future the only friend winds up in the toaster and not the hamster. very interesting let me know bing is some sports news from germany colognes football club has made it back into the bundesliga top division and just one season after being relegated to the second tier colognes away when over going to church change their move up to the top tier starting next season young gogglebox scored a hat trick and first added and own goal to make that much easier for goodell

a good job a feat a full on the wind with his third goal sending fines of the club known as the billy goats and the team itself into celebration mode have a. show coming up next is close up looking at life in new zealand off the terrorist attacks on mosques in christchurch stay with us for that.

it is important that no star in his life done to him to begin to the bottom of how this act of terrorism accrued the attacks on christ church crimes of hate in a peaceful country sprinkle names of those who were lost rather than the name of the man who took them new zealand life after the terror attacks. close up next.

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