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subscribe. documentary. this is deja vu news live from berlin huge protests take place in hong kong hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets to demand the repeal of a law that could see people extradited to mainland china to face charges also coming up. around a 100 people are arrested in kazakhstan as they speak out against that country's presidential election saying the outcome is not in doubt. the italians
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inflict some last minute pain on australia at the women's world cup meeting the matildas folks hanging by a thread. a michael thanks for joining us in hong kong hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets for a huge rally against a proposed extradition law the law would allow suspects to be sent to mainland china to face trial critics of the bill fear this could lead to arbitrary detention and unfair trial on congress returned to china in 1997 but has kept its own system of justice today's march is the city's largest in more than a decade. let's go to d w correspondent mathias bolinger in hong kong who's joining us 5 phone mathias you were at the protest earlier today quite
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a turnout it seems why did so many people take to the streets. when uncle was returned to china 22 years old china promised that he would keep this if he could keep it to the live t.v. and if independent judicial system now many hong kong most here that this little board would pay a dollar and somebody called the fire wall between hong kong who overall and china on the jury could issue a system this could be the final blow actually to this if you liberty's to these problems to these 2 promises that beijing gave and this and raged on commas some. 12 years ago more 15 years ago in 2003. took down a lot on national security that people had similar concerns about by
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taking to the market now it seems today with only move people today then i've got time so clearly a lot of stake or interest you spoke of so i mean you spoke to some of the protesters what specifically what more did they tell you. the people people are afraid that china might push any case to this extradition bill. on any grounds on any possible ground so that nobody although on call court might keep their independence. china might get to go home kong with this little euro. city local how have hong kong's leaders reacted to what appears to be this vast opposition to the law. until now on concrete as
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i did there is a broad vision that it should come groups in the city that are very hard to do now . who caught people off the computer can call them and make clear they would see this whether this had any impact on not there's also a difference to 2003 because the chinese government in beijing how much more online now than it was. so he. could to stop people on not going. to report him from hong kong mathias thank you so much. thank you very much. around $100.00 people have been arrested at protests as kazakhstan holds a presidential election internet services in the central asian country have also reportedly been shut down the protesters are accusing authorities of running
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a sham vote it's the 1st time since independence nearly 30 years ago at the country's soviet era ruler will not be on the ballot and many had been calling for change but once again there's little doubt who the winner will be. i it was meant to be catholics down seamless transition to a real democracy but instead this. opposition protesters being rounded up in several cities during elections the central asian countries 1st new president in almost 3 decades. there is 7 candidates running to replace the longtime former leader an assault on those not by a half but only one is expected to come out on top. and picked successor interim president casting have. a generation of catholics because no no other leader of another bias and many of them feel will do little to bring change to the
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former soviet country. one of them is opposition activists are not you spoke to d.w. from all marty just shortly before he himself was arrested at a rally. i think it's quite clear that once you have stepped up their rules of the streets them actually come out oppose them in a way we expect. would insist she never asks for their rallies to try to speak to to gather the people on the squares to detroit really support a lot of hard core to our political right you know they believe. through legal track. specially i repeat that of course why she started to cooperate with their character you know i think that what he found out that he got really to appreciate control ready to fight iraq here. for his part is to kind of has brushed
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aside concerns about police crackdown some protesters saying his administration would build up a dialogue with those who support the government and those who are against the government. these images though will do little to persuade the opposition in kazakhstan that they have forces will be had when then you need to take up the reins of power there. earlier we talked to journalist reed standish and here's what he had to say about today's arrests in kazakhstan it's been a wave of protests across the country there's been about $100.00 hundreds of arrests because of these protests over what people see as you know and i'm sure you vote and on 3 election. so there's been a. journalist the rest of us well including a british colleague of mine who was a hauled away earlier today and a little roughed up by police and in the scuffle. and it's part of
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a wider kind of protest but that's been growing in the country over the last few months that was sort of kicked off by not survives resignation you know 30 years of no surprise rule has eliminated any kind of organized opposition or driven it into exile the last few months have been interested in the country because they've seen a new wave a new type of city in danger menton activism especially coming from younger kazakhs those that are born after the collapse of the soviet union and during that span that not only held protests and showed their dissent but they tried to organize a kind of loose political movement but they face some pretty tremendous obstacles moving forward and will likely continue to come under pressure both today and in the future you know there's not really much democratic infrastructure in this country so they're really trying to build something from scratch which is are extremely difficult to do. now to some of the other stories making news around the world in sudan a general strike has reportedly much of the country to
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a standstill strikers trying to force the military to hand over power to a civilian government dozens have been killed since militia broke up a months long pro-democracy sitting in the cafe nearly a week ago. german foreign minister heiko mas has reaffirmed his support for a 2 state solution to the israel palestinian conflict he made his comments while meeting jordanian counterpart iman safadi in amman tensions have been mounting with clashes in jerusalem in recent days. a russian court has put a prominent journalist under house arrest even go to no known for investors investigating corruption among moscow city officials was detained on thursday for alleged drug offenses earlier he was taken to hospital a close friend told the news that cool enough had been beaten while in custody. g. 20 leaders have agreed to come up with common rules to ensure a fair international taxation of global tech giants like facebook and google ending
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a 2 day meeting they also acknowledged the risk to the global economy posed by the us china trade conflict but stopped short of calling for a resolution. several people have been hurt in a stampede at washington d.c.'s pride parade panic broke out amid false rumors of an active shooter at the annual l g b t event police say 7 parade goers sustained injuries in the commotion. the thousands of people have crossed into colombia after venezuelan president nicolas maduro reopened a pedestrian border bridge many cross to look for food and medicine due to the severe economic and political crisis at home. queuing for hours for the chance to buy vital supplies this was how around 30000 venezuelans spent the day on saturday when this border crossing in the western state of touch it out was
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reopened for the 1st time in 4 months president nicolas maduro promised on friday to open this bridge to colombia but many were frustrated that the containers blocking the road had not been removed resulting in bottlenecks as crowds were forced through narrow gaps says monica see here you would think that if the border is open they'd remove the containers remove everything so that it's really an open border. this is just another policy from the dictator majority a crazy policy because if you really want to open the border he would open it for vehicles through. the containers have been here since february they were put in place to prevent the opposition bringing in aid supplies mature oh so as a pretext for foreign military intervention. since then venezuela has remained in political deadlock president maduro has the support of the country's military and powerful allies in china and russia. but the head of the opposition plan why dole
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says he's the country's rightful leader and has been recognized as interim president by more than 50 countries including the u.s. and germany. it's not clear how long this crossing will remain open most of those here are traveling to colombia just for the day but the u.n. says that almost 4000000 venezuelans 15 percent of the population have fled abroad to. neighboring countries are struggling to cope with the influx of refugees actress angelina jolie visiting a camp in colombia as a special envoy for the un's refugee agency warns that resources are wearing thin. the impact on public services here in colombia is staggering some border hospitals are now providing emergency health care to as many venezuelans as colombia was. on both sides of the puerto banus wayland's a struggling to make ends meet amidst
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a crisis that still shows no signs of abating. at the women's world cup the italians have got their campaign off to the perfect start with a heart stopping victory over australia in group c. the result leaves the matildas as they are known under pressure and wondering where it all went wrong. australia was awarded an early penalty and the chance for a dream start captain samantha current took responsibility sloughing her lines 1st before slotting home the rebound was a heavy touch from defending clint poking home allowed italy's bubble i've been in a run i'm told in the 55th minute. was pushed right to staying cool to draw her side level. with the game well in. as injury time it's really one of free kick. i've been in 0
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was under it's again to score and hand her side a dramatic late winner. the whistle went shortly after confirming that she won result i puts a pill to swallow for duck courses australia. at the french open the men's final will be played today with rafael nadal looking for a record 12 title in paris that follows australian ashley barty winning the 1st grand slam slam singles title of her career on saturday. it was a final nobody would have predicted need to ash nor markets have had played in a grand slam singles final before. the more experienced party took control from the start she won the 1st 4 games of the match and this forehand winner gave her the 1st set 61. of
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