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this is deja vu news live from sri lanka imposes a curfew after violence against muslims angry mobs have killed one person and attacked mosques and muslim owned businesses the rest follows the deadly easter attacks by islamists also coming up more deaths in sudan protests in the capital khartoum turned violent despite a breakthrough in talks between the country's military rulers and opposition
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leaders. a california court towards $2000000000.00 in damages to a couple who says monsanto's roundup weed killer caused their cancer the german company buyer has to foot the bill it bought monsanto last year. i'm sumi so much kind of thank you for joining us. anti muslim mobs in sri lanka have killed one person and attacked mosques and muslim owned businesses the government imposed a nationwide overnight curfew to contain the violence sectarian anger has been building in the country since the easter church bombings by islamists that left more than 250 people death. mob justice in sri lanka i agree and impatient some sri lankans have
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rioted and taken to attacking muslims after is the missed terrorists carried out the easter sunday bombings killing over 250 people. police struggle to contain the anger with one muslim man dying from stab wounds shops run by muslims are being torched all ransacked and the owners targeted. because. they came with a sword and tried to attack me. about 15 people came in several taxis. they threatened to kill me i ran away through the back door. the same group attacked my brother shop the police are trying to stop such attacks and manage a volatile situation. it's all so new this small group must stop the dangerous game they're playing against the lives and property of innocent people rather i must
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state that we won't allow the country to be led to anarchy by those who show their strength on armed innocent civilians is. this all not to go no show and the sri lankan government has imposed a nighttime curfew the government has also set about blocking some social media platforms hoping to stem the anger but sporadic anti muslim violence is frequent and it's becoming clear the sri lankan government has to step up its efforts to contain it. let's bring in journalist genuine asma doing she joins us on the line in colombo jamila despite a curfew and restrictions on social media platforms we're seeing that the ethnic violence has continued our authorities doing enough to stop it. there is a growing public anger as of now that the government is not doing much to dissipation calming the country ever since a huge supporter explosion since last sunday and people concessions have it up that we severed a half of the island and yes i think that's going to fight for them in much one of
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the worst and the present of the country has ever weakness i am hearing reports that actually the speaker has been killed too obvious to the a.b.c. not care much from the government the obvious or easy urgency spoke again calm and often much damage was done with the understanding that might that they finally use bongos the people do not have much faith in the 7 months or next financing as of now however the physical forces all on the ground there have want to take strong action against muslims who are promoting ethnic violence such arenas there's frustration with the government from your perspective there on the ground what does need to be done to ease tensions. there basically as of now or what the ad hearing is that the people are calling for it isn't pretty that's a guess morning was census are having forums and precedents as we vacuum in the urging them to maintain calm and making peace and not typically responses if seeking peace deal because again the design for them runs on pushing the get the
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moment. they also physicians to fool sort of had common sense as a this is of worship and that coming uses must mingle with each other so that they can soften their differences and they can shed light no communicate at the moment is spreading terrorism and that the separate motion is in fact my eyes because i don't and that small community is to be in saudi so i guess it's become the biggest because melissa said our staff at the moment are journalists from iran that went in speaking to us on the line from colombo thank you very much for that update. the threats to sri lanka's muslim minority have been building since authorities blame the local islamist groups for the easter sunday bombings refugees from muslim majority countries feel particularly vulnerable having fled persecution at home. and heading goal sent this report from the gumbo about a community living in fear. nightmares don't compare to this ordeal more than
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150 people are crammed into this makeshift shelter so the off is only 12 but it's feared for her life before in afghanistan it was. like those things and cause after we leave afghanistan really we have a country and we come here and so brings a lot of problems. in here so we come get blessed and people blame. their implicit station. they came to this police station for their own protection all have been renting homes in the gumball for years as they waited to go to 3rd countries they say locals had generally been friendly but after the easter sunday bombings some call them terrorists several refugees were attacked at home and on the streets there were some people they were standing. on the. ground after going. after one while i was on. leave the house because we
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can to go and we don't have any responsibility about you landlords scared of being targeted themselves ask the refugees to leave but others from lankans have come to their aid activist ricky fernando has been helping them but feels more needs to be done so i think the government needs to take the initiative to inform the local people particularly that these are refugees and asylum seekers who are free in their countries that they have prospered through we've all been about the countries that have been offer free. and foster at least. some families have now been in this space for more than 3. week's a space meant for police vehicles not parents with small children there is little protection here from the intense heat and conditions are only getting worse i am worried about that all the children not i want my only marginally about all the children what will happen today and yesterday get very serious sick. if you
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lose money off limits when did you know the condition is very good or bad to there to go straight on. we couldn't believe that the real fairies search kind of strange and there are just a few toilets for everyone to use and these stalls are also were people being told what are your few things to do and what he does for you for deportation is a reality for this catholic family they say they face death if sent back to muslim majority pakistan. must be worn save our life so now all the news that the government says they're not going garments the. people will be sent back to pakistan but because we don't have any more time so please do something put us. nearby so the off since was her mother in the parking lot instead of in a school with her classmates. actually i am really worried about my future because
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i have a lot sometimes for my future that after those things that happen in here i really don't have it i just wanted to save it i thought of the dreams that i had to become a doctor. it's. just . that. actually it's really good tutor. it's really hard to even hear. that report from. and heading goal now some other stories making headlines around the world what's up has discovered a weak spot that allowed remote spyware to be installed on phones and other devices the financial times newspaper says the israeli security for firm and s o group
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developed the surveillance software whatsapp is urging its 1500000000 users to insult the latest update as a precaution. unofficial results in the philippines midterm vote point to a boost for president go to tara to his allies lead the tallies for all 12 contested seats in the senate a new majority could allow detected to bring back capital punishment as part of his controversial war on drugs. u.s. president trump has met with hungary and prime minister viktor orban at the white house trump praised him as a friend of america and for quote being like me a little controversial but doing a good job like trump or bond is focused his politics on a hard line migration message a top democrat criticize the president for embracing authoritarian figures. in sudan 5 protesters and an army major have been shot dead in the capital hartill the deaths came just hours after protest leaders reached a breakthrough agreement with the ruling generals to transition to
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a new elected government protesters want a civilian led transition though and they have kept up pressure since an uprising that ousted longtime president omar al bashir. security forces chase a protest and down this street in sudan's capital khartoum they whip him and beat him before he appears to run away. across the city protesters have been blocking roads as they try to increase pressure on the ruling generals to step down. the military council took over last month after a veteran president omar al bashir was forced from power. but these people don't want the army in charge. no longer than months ago and the old regime has not fallen yet so we're staying you've seen with your own eyes the oppression we've escalated our protests because we reject the decisions by the
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transitional military council we've blocked knol street to pressure the government we want to ensure our voices are heard we hate what they're doing they even use whips on us. who are going to flip that. on monday saddam's military council and opposition groups finally agreed to a power structure for the country's transition. the. protesters want civilian rule but the makeup of the governing bodies has yet to be agreed. just after these pictures were filmed at least 5 sudanese protesters and an army major was shot dead on tuesday the ruling generals blamed supporters of the former regime on the situation has been exploited by other factions and by sleeper cells of the old regime and others who are still targeting this revolution. the generals may claim alba she is only god who was responsible for this violence but
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increasing tensions between the military and civilian protest is only too plain to see. while the demonstrates has refused to go quietly talks between the 2 sides continue. uber he has just returned from sudan where she's been covering the protests for us and she joins us in our studio why are we seeing this escalation now i mean it's been a couple of weeks of relative calm i would say since the beginning of the holy month of ramadan there have been some sporadic attempts by unknown forces to disperse the barricades that are that are everywhere around the sit in and this is exact this is what happened sort of with more intensity last night that forces were trying to disperse the barricades over these borders that the protesters have put up surrounding the city and now the barricades is
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a very sensitive topic for the for the protesters they see this as as the 1st line of defense for for their sit in one of the barricades that there was an attempt to disperse it yesterday or sit down yesterday was where i went into the protests every day and one time i asked one of the people standing there in protecting why you saw a touch of this he said you know it's because our martyrs have paid with their blood for us to be able to put these structures appear so for it's the protesters see any force trying to come and take this physical representation of their gains away they will defend it in mass in mass numbers and violence will occur although the protest leaders have yesterday during these attacks urged the protesters to stick to their peacefulness saying that peacefulness and nonviolence has been the ultimate weapon for the success of this movement well the military's denying any involvement in this violence what do we know about who's behind it are these supporters of the i. president bashir it's very unclear the military has immediately put out a statement after the attack started blaming this on 3rd party groups that were
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said were quote unquote happy with the positive progress of the negotiations as you know yesterday there was a brick breakthrough in the negotiations however my sources on the ground tell me that they have seen the rapid support forces being among the forces that were trying to disperse these very good of course the rapid support forces and lete unit of fighters under former president i'm going to share many of its fighters come from the militia that has been condemned in the dark for in the darfur massacres and in the for human rights violations is all of this and come from the military has again distance itself the r.s.s. itself is a paramilitary group so operates at times under the military but also as a times under the government it has been sent by the bashir forces to fight on the
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side of the saudi coalition in yemen so there is reason to believe that they might feel threatened by the negotiations although the protesters are so are not convinced by what the military says so far just very quickly what's your what's your perspective on this how do you think this violence is going to impact those talks i think it is definitely soured the mood on the streets among the protesters whose distrust of the military has now been exacerbated and made even worse however my sources inside the news professionals association have told me that the meeting with the military council will go on today as a schedule 1 pm but it remains to be seen this meeting was supposed to be the meeting where they iron out the details of this new sovereign council but the mood on the streets and for chair and i was a mood of sorrow and mourning for the people that lost their lives last night all right our reporter in human studio with us here thank you so much. you're watching news still to come the countdown to this year is the all singing all dancing euro
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vision song contest the german behind the gala night spectacular staging. but 1st a california jury has awarded more than $2000000000.00 to a couple who says monsanto is a round up weed killer cost their cancer it is the latest headache for a german company buyer it bought monsanto in a blockbuster deal last year today buyer share price tumbled by around 5 percent this was the 3rd lawsuit to award damages over round up and many more are pending. and. a round up caused their cancer so they sued even though a lot of people believed they wouldn't stand a chance against buyer in court. we've been finding cancer for. 9 years now. and it was caused by a round of. it's changed our lives forever. we can't do the
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things that we used to be able to do and we really resent. for that. their lawyer told the jury and turn over documents prove to monsanto wasn't interested in determining how dangerous its product is now by a has been hit with $2000000000.00 in compensation an astronomical sum even by american litigation standards and things could well get much worse for the chemicals giant. this is not the end of this litigation this is the beginning there are tens of thousands of people out there probably 203040000 people and i have continuously told bayer and monsanto are coming after them investors seem to have come to the conclusion that buyer's woes won't end any time soon since its takeover of monsanto back in june of 2018 virus shares have plummeted by more than 40
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percent the company says that it will appeal the decision and continues to deny that roundup causes cancer but increasingly it appears by a might have seriously underestimated the long term cost of its month sentosa takeover. now a court in malta has issued a verdict in the trial of the refugee rescue ship lifeline the captain. will not go to jail but he was slapped with a $10000.00 euro fine which will have to pay to multis aid organizations that he was charged with using the boat in maltese waters without proper registration in june 2018 and his crew rescued more than $230.00 refugees in the mediterranean but the lifeline was not allowed to dock at an italian harbor after several days at sea the ship was then allowed entry in malta where it was confiscated by authorities. it is not as sad as has been monitoring the story for us he joins us in our studio
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i not her 1st let's talk about the court's ruling no jail time but a hefty fine what do you make of this verdict i think it's a little bit strange because the court followed the claim of the dutch authorities under their flag whose flag the lifeline vessel is registered and the dutch authorities say it's not just her properly on the other hand clasp it arrived the skipper or the captain also a lifeline sais that he has this what they call the blue paper and it's a he's clearly that the flag of this vessel is dutch and the home port is sort of him so it's a kind of a. it's for me not really comprehensible why he or why the court and the judge joseph ness would followed the dutch authorities and not the lifeline and it's captain price and decided that it wasn't registered properly as you're saying you actually met this captain
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a little while ago what did he tell you about this this case i met him last august and also talked to him this morning on the phone he's not happy. with this court's ruling and he's going to appeal and he say's. it's good that he's not going to have a jail time but on the other hand the. this registration issue it's just a political ruling that the multis authorities want him or want most of the ngos the charity n.g.o.s to stay out of the mediterranean not rescue people and bring them to europe so he say's that this is a political ruling and he's he doesn't acknowledge it and he wants to fight it there what about his work though does he say he will continue he says he will continue they bought his his organization lifeline a boat in new ship last year and now they're preparing to.
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use this boat in june so they say we are ready although the original ship lifeline which is now still impounded in the maltese harbor will not be. given back to this organization until there is a new ruling from the court over the appeal you mentioned this is a highly politicized issue italy and malta have previously denied entry to lifeline and want to discourage migration across the mediterranean what do you think this verdict does mean then for migrant oper rescue operations rather in the mediterranean i think it's a very sad and also dangerous signal for these n.g.o.s who are trying to rescue people in the military ring and now they have the feeling that also the judicial system in their opinion is not is not on their side and although the people are still drowning in the mediterranean last friday we saw that
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6 of the people who embarked from. libya are drowned off the coast of tunisia so the problem is still there and the n.g.o.s they don't think that it can be solved by prohibiting them from rescuing people in the sea all right our correspondent now to set us covering the story for us thank you so much for joining us now it is a big weekend ahead for fans of camp pop music and cutthroat nationalism it's the euro vision song contest which takes place in tel aviv on saturday. this here is the net part philia last year's winner who has brought the european contest to israel she was one of dozens of contestants for 1st thing you had about live shows which will be watched on t.v. by tens of millions of viewers. germany looks set to prop up the bottom of the
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standings once again but when it comes to the staging the country is in a league of its own in fact this time will be the 6th time germany's florian video has designed the sets for europe's premier pop gala. the final run up to the euro vision song contest in tel aviv a key test drawing for florian vader. he designed the backdrop for the show the biggest competition of its kind on the planet. now we get a chance to see whether everything works as planned. it's a big set and big venue but the stage itself is actually relatively small and that creates an intimate party atmosphere even though when viewed as a whole it of course looks gigantic its reports to the music was also. a 6 time the german stage designers shape the look of the contest the 1st rehearsals
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every participating country like poland is responsible for its own performance but one design element reappears again and again the triangle it's a reference to the star of david and this rainy symbol. the expo exhibition center tell of eve is the venue for this year's european song contest the most complex aspect is coordinating with the various country delegations and the israeli t.v. producers. it's not easy to do a search for the vision we have 4141 countries and we need a lot of versatile. and. you can see the stage a lot of versatility. of course it's important to me that the whole thing looks good and works visually but the most important thing of all is that it works as a whole. you can only judge that after the show. and when it's over i'm happy if it all went well would leave. vader has done far more than create a stage for
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a competition with a $29000.00 euro vision song contest he sets a new milestone for stage design. formula one has announced that next season it is returning to the netherlands for the 1st time in 35 years that while the sport's bosses are coming up with new ways to increase revenues the mercedes team has been busy giving a terminally ill boy a very special day to remember the team transported an f one car to harry shah's home in southern england the 5 year old has a rare form of cancer good luck. driver lewis hamilton before sunday's spanish grand prix hamilton won the race and dedicated the victory to harry calling him his spirit. a reminder now of our top story here on g.w. in sri lanka anti muslim mobs have killed one person attacked mosques and ransacked
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muslim owned businesses the government has imposed a curfew with some places to stop the violence sectarian anger has flared in the country since authorities blamed local islamist groups for the deadly easter sunday bombings. coming up next on d. w. all the highlights from the kind alternate weekend of the bundesliga in our show kick off stay tuned for that.
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