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take photos grandma there you go it's cold out there. i'm rachel join me to meet the germans on the w. . post. this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin and me and not freeze to reuters journalists jailed for their reporting following and quasi reunited with their families after spending more than five hundred days in prison despite their ordeal they say they're looking forward to getting back to work or to coming out
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turkey's opposition vows to fight on after officials and now all of the victory in istanbul is a local election supporters say that the president as drawn to educate people are riding roughshod over democracy. and this was germany in two thousand and fifteen at the height of the arrival of thousands of refugees for years on how our girls are refugees faring in argentine still as well coming up we have the results of a new survey. hello and welcome i'm. they face seven years in prison but suddenly they're free to reuters journalists jailed for their reporting of the rohingya crisis in men must have been released a spot of a presidential amnesty vallone casso all were arrested in december two thousand and seventeen and they case had prompted
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a global outcry by human rights campaign as. free after more than five hundred days in detention following the arrest swallowing 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 one lone told reporters he was keen to get back to work inside every day in an office going around the world wishing to receive a. letter says thank you. i'm really happy my family my body that i can with my use right now right now reuters said the two men which ailed in retaliation for their reporting and have not committed any crime we are enormously pleased that mean war has released our courageous reporters while on and thought so since their arrest five hundred eleven days ago become symbols of the importance of press
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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 crown amnesties to prisoners to dating a back with their families but the future of press freedom in myanmar is unclear. on now julie my freelance journalist a diva good obama in god and did as a journalist working in me and my you must be delighted by the release of the two reuters journalists. yes certainly delighted and relief for them and their young families that have been there just an absolute nightmare for more than five hundred days now so in that sense relief yes but on the flipside the truth is they should
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have never been arrested in the first place i mean they did an incredible pulitzer prize winning investigation of a mass killing by security forces that led to them getting the pulitzer prize as i said. and then during their trial a police captain who was called by the prosecution testified that he and other policeman were ordered by superiors plant documents on these two reporters and entrapped them that came out in the trial it also came out in the trial that these supposed state secrets were not secret said it actually this information was already public so the truth was in any legitimate independent criminal justice system if these charges were even brought they would have been thrown out at trial so it's terrible that they had to go through this to begin with but at least this nightmare finally ends today for them and their families if they happen to be of united with their families and do you know why these journalists who had released after having been given a prison term off a seventy and. so it certainly been there certainly
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a lot of pressure mounting on the myanmar government and there was you know a lot of discussions going on that involved a government that represents united nations that involved foreign diplomats and also involved reuters so that have been going on really since their arrest why did it happen today well first off this is the time of year when we see a lot of amnesties going on and prisoners getting hard and it usually happens around the time of the burmese new year which is in april and this is the third there is you know this is the third wave of parties to happen thousands of prisoners have been released during the last few weeks that's one reason why it happens now but there are also some who were released earlier several weeks ago. so that gives a sense of why maybe it happened during his time here but why was it specifically today and not one of the earlier releases that's really unclear and even though you've been looking him in much as a journalist for many years what are conditions like for local journalists working
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that. yes if you're talking about the medium aren't nationals you know those with me in our citizenship a lot of them are in a climate of fear not only because of this reuters case but there are been you know a number of local reporters who face charges and and suits brought against them by the military and the police and isn't typically involves coverage of what kind state when the military or the police don't like the coverage now keep in mind the conflicts there it's not just involving the run into there's also another ethnic group the ethnic were kind and there is a group of ethnic or kind insurgents have been fighting with me on our military and it appears when they don't like the press coverage that's coming from the local press the military the police don't like it they tend to bring suits so a lot of the local reporters are living in a climate of fear. david going to bomb in young go on me and my thank you very much for that update from that. you know highly controversial election officials in
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turkey have cancelled the matia election results for the manifest on bone and ordered a region of the vote to president john spotty have narrowly lost the vote in the country's economic hub education claims the vote was now a new vote has been shed huge phonetics month i've talked to our correspondent in istanbul in just a moment but first this report. rising into the nighttime sky the din of protest banging crockery against pots system all residents express their dismay at the rerun of may oral elections at an impromptu rally on the outskirts of istanbul the winner of the election vowed to fight on. my fellow citizens that are trying to take away the elections we won on the evening of march the thirty first they have tried to steal our hold work. or show mertz rather still. we really written back our rights with
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a smile on our face as well as hope love and respect. his supporters had 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 let 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. these. perhaps also unsurprisingly the losing candidate disagreed. why have the elections gone to the electoral board. because of the irregularity is the wrong doing it's the cheats and staying. on after the elections we have detected. that.
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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. of every show i've ever watch or has been cheating there's been corruption all this is clear and unambiguous you know come on let's go before the people and we will accept what the people's wish to take. it's the simplest not but on monday night the people of istanbul gave their response to airlines claiming that he's acting in their interest. and he did his correspondent joe johns joins me now from istanbul durant edge on has just lashed out at critics still questioning having read out the election for the manifest on what what is the basis of this came is that the election was rigged.
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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 should a warning saying he knows who is responsible and they will be dealt with like any other terrorist adding to i think concerns of the opposition is that he says that 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 words from. dorian and there's a lot of anger on the streets of. what is the opposition's strategy expected to be
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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 on the gentry's a possible boycott of the vote and possibly even withdrawal from parliament there has been voicing growing calls within the party saying that these democracy is 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 and he has received important boost three minor parties or participated in these town halls are reportedly announcing that they will withdraw in the next vote and offer support to him all of those folks amounted to around one hundred forty thousand votes that's ten times the margin that won so
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that is an important boost and will make the difference make the task burdwan even greater and just kind of nation of the returns are also being echoed in international circles as undermine democracy in the country under how much pressure is the judiciary in turkey from edouard and his government. well ever since i heard one assume the sweeping executive powers two years ago mongering clews the 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 when all the vote most of those were appointed by a woman 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 jones in istanbul thank you very
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much for that. lesson look at some other stories making news around the world pro-government forces in libya have reportedly clashed with forces supporting the rebels general khalifa haftar on the sudden edges of the capital tripoli these pictures the police placed posted on the facebook page of half hours self-styled libyan national army he's been trying to take the city since the beginning of a trial. u.s. secretary of state mike compeer has canceled just planned trip to berlin actual notice he was expected here later today the u.s. embassy in berlin said the visit had to be postponed due to matters a news agency reports gives quote international security issues as the reason. the international monetary fund has been urging the u.s. and china to set aside their differences on trade christine legarde the head of the i.m.f. won't in paris quote clearly the tensions between the united states and china are
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deep threat for the world economy and u.s. president joe did markets at the beginning of this week when he threatened the tag of already imposed on two hundred billion dollars in chinese exports the u.s. would more than double this friday to twenty five percent of the current level of ten percent. on this story i haven't needed a business china analyst kiffin couldn't welcome to foot the why is christine legarde so wanted is this a real crisis in attempts to design the trade dispute between the u.s. and china i think will be hard for the last few months has been the two biggest economies in the world the united states and china slugging it out between themselves and the fallout has been in many other areas around the world not just the u.s. and china so i think with her intervention here it's not very surprising what she said but the fact that she's intervening it's just to show maybe a reminder too to the two warring factions in the strait conflict that the rest of
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the world is also watching now with a why is the u.s. and other donald trump playing so hard ball on this issue well the there's various theories part of it is that he is tradition likes to see himself as the great negotiator and if it falls into the pattern as well that it's a negotiation tactic if you're strong at home the economy is doing well there's also talk that the chinese were expected to make concessions which they haven't a moment and he wants to negotiate and given that he feels so strongly what options at the moment china is also quite a strong position the economy is doing quite well there in the last couple of months after after a period of slowdown i think what they're going to do is have to think about for concessions they're prepared. to make because ultimately they will have to reach a deal on issues like technology transfer which is proving very problematic and intellectual property so in a lot of these sort of areas china is probably going to have to make some
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concessions it's going to have to see what its pain barrier is when it comes to making these concessions and i think that's what we're going to see over the next few days when you know her goes to washington then we have a clearer picture of what the chinese are prepared to do right if it's going to china i'm dishonest thank you very much for those insights. new survey here in germany has found that people are increasingly hostile to was asylum seekers more than fifty four percent of participants expressed negative opinions towards them jimmie's attempting to integrate hundreds of thousands of new arrivals who arrived in recent is do you have you met a posture in the eastern city of leipzig assisting newcomers in trying to counter the anti foreign offended meant in his community. pastor under doren at work in his life parish oh that's right. twenty fifteen thousands of refugees arrived in my pic and ever since pastor dorn has been offering them
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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 first why are you helping refugees you should be helping needy germans for board for our. 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. as a workman you meet a lot of people income struction sites i walked by
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a plumber every day and he always gave me a funny look. i made a point of saying hello to his colleagues he looked at me and said well you refugees want here. it saddens me because the german constitution's first article states such 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. 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
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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 but as a preacher i'm quite prepared to argue that with endless public debates if need be . andreas joran says that if you want to stop right wing attitudes you need citizens to be active and vocal he has done just that in his parish. and now to jordan and the fight for greater gender equality they won the battle over the issue of citizenship rights and in jordan are not allowed to pass citizenship on to their children and that means babies born to jordanian mothers and fathers are classified as far as putting major restrictions on their lives and this is an estimated three hundred fifty thousand of these families pushing before the citizenship but not everyone welcomes the courts for change as we hear and this
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report. when see him married an egyptian man almost four decades ago she never expected her choice of life partner would cause her seven children so much suffering down the line. when they grew up they had problems with work. unless they got a work permit they could get a job. if they worked on officially they would have problems getting paid fairly. if they went and complained to officials they had no personal id to file a complaint with. according to jordanian law only men can pass on citizenship to their children this means that something daughters born to a jordanian mother is a non jordanian fathers i considered foreigners in the eyes of the state. see him says her children feel jordan is their only home yet in addition to work issues their status also limits their ability to own property their access to public
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education health care and their ability to acquire a driver's license. this is because as non-citizens they do not possess a national id number. for see him the problems went further than restrictions to everyday life her son status almost got him kicked out of the country he calls home . he got into a fight as a result there was a legal problem and within ten days he got a deportation order that if he was jordanian he would not have been treated like this he was detained for two years pending deportation because of them and twenty fourteen authorities started issuing the children of jordanian mothers special id cards that were supposed to ease restrictions on their daily lives see him son tells me the card is ineffective in practice and is often not recognized by institutions like banks. local and international human rights organizations including human rights watch have repeatedly recommended the jordan overhaul its
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citizenship law completely any change in jordan citizenship law would require the approval of the country's legislative body measureless in nowhere but some parliamentarians here are still stunningly opposed to the move this parliamentarian says amending the law would open the door for palestinian refugees to become jordanian as. jordanian women are married to palestinian refugees he says this would hurt the palestinian cause jordan is host to two million palestinian refugees . if we give citizenship to this group all at once there will be a huge change in the demographics of jordan and will the like tell this group to be happy with the current measures in place and the rights they've been granted thus far. for salmon her children however this is easing of the restrictions is not enough. i want them to have their citizenship this is the least of their rights if a man can pass on citizenship to his spouse and children i should be able to do the
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same. but it seems that for now a change in the law is nowhere in sight. now whenever we use the internet or social media some aspects of our identity are stored online artificial intelligence so i can exploit that data in many different ways some of them are morally questionable so scientists dom starting in verse thirty here in germany are trying to work out if they can teach i'm machines some sort of moral code should people 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
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a kind of context within a sentence it's a small step but it shows that it could possibly be taken further but maybe 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. we have to abandon the notion that artificial intelligence or algorithms create inequality in justice 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 a new social networking they aren't shown different job listings based on gender by making sure that the job application process is anonymous as possible things like
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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 and i'll have to make some improvements there is no i don't really see a competition but rather a partnership with which we can. i grew out 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 only fred winds up in the toaster and not a hamster. and i to
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most force the islam kills football club has made it back into the industry gus top division just one season after being relegated to the second tier colognes away win over growing to flirt clinch then move up to the top tier stockings next season yawn cordoba off cold a hat trick and further added an own goal to make it that much easier for condole cardo but the need a full native band with his could go sending fans of the club known as the billy goats and the team itself into celebration mode. it watching the dublin news coming up ahead free at last amid modern resist two journalists interest in for the porting on the running a crisis plan to build their release improve restrictions on the free press. and
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why did the indonesian elections cost the lives of hundreds of election but us two down the looks of the tragedy behind the one single largest single day a national election. and south korea reopens access to the demilitarized zone we follow sciences of the into korean issues village all that coming up and have been used in asia.
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a halt. twenty seven years ago but there's no holding back his dreams. thank you for watching. cinema starts may twenty seventh on. this is the governor has a show coming up on the program free at last me and moderately just two journalists imprisoned for reporting on the drug prices what they released do to improve the restrictions on the free press on the searching process. why did the indonesian elections cost the lives of hundreds of election walk us.
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