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this is deja vu news line from berlin tense moments on the streets of hong kong police fired tear gas at protesters authorities accuse them of writing the demonstrators say they are defending the territories freedoms by opposing and unjust laws. also coming up a crackdown in moscow russian police arrest demonstrators protesting in solidarity with investigative journalists in
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a bungalow not this comes one day after he was released from custody. plus the reigning champion start off with a bang at the women's world cup it rained a gold for the americans they sent the tournament into a spin with their 13 goals masters. i'm serious almost kind of thank you for joining us police in hong kong a fired tear gas at protesters trying to stop a controversial proposed law that would allow extradition to mainland china the city's legislative council last postponed a planned debate on the law after crowds blocked access to government buildings hong kong officials have ordered the demonstrators to disperse but they say they are defending the territories free. from peaceful protest to violent chaos umbrella. become shields and weapons as demonstrators tried to fend off rubber
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bullets and tear gas fired by the police but tens of thousands of people came out to rally again today and protest against hong kong's controversial extradition bill a quiet march until tempers flared. like already mostly dressed in black their faces covered with surgical masks and wearing makeshift body armor from the get go some in today's crowd seems ready for a different kind of protest than the largely peaceful mass demonstrations on sunday i would say it actually is the week car or farmer a protest story we do or like for it it's a different way to work our way that's the only way that we care for the right. having our part that. they are worried about a proposed law that would mean hong kong could send people to mainland china to face trial critics warned that it would allow beijing to target political opponents
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in hong kong which retained its own justice system after being returned to china from british rule in 1997 undeterred by the outrage the territory's chief executive is promising to push forward with the legislation i do but i have not received anything instruction on mending from beijing to do disappear. we were doing it in the us to doing it out of key other functions. and i'll come meet once upon. a commitment hardly reflected today at the legislative council were seats remained empty as the schedule debate was postponed but with a legislature dominated by beijing loyalists few protesters expect the law to fail the vote on june 20th. one is legal so. i'm quite disappointed that i didn't think. they would listen to the people. who were still going ahead but i think there were people. they may have forced the legislate. leaders to delay the
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vote but for these protesters the struggle to preserve hong kong's autonomy has only just begun. let's bring in our correspondent mathias bellinger he's been following the very latest developments in hong kong for us time at ts over the last few days protests there were mostly peaceful but we have heard that police have fired tear gas tell us more about that yes police have massively used tear gas to disperse the protests and to cordon off the area around let's go in the government buildings they are trying to drive out the protesters on this side of the city is house worked there are no more protesters around here. they wanted these protesters out they wanted to end these protests now whether they this would put an end to the the protests i doubt it people are really angry here and it seems momentum is growing the ts now this extradition bill debate in the
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legislative council it has been delayed what does it actually mean is it a victory for the protests or really just a delay. during the day people have the feeling it was a small victory but nobody had the illusion that the government would back down or reconsider this bill that they would have really achieved something it was a small punctual victory by blocking off the legislative council and. blocking. the discussion inside so the norm acres could not come inside the government is determined to push this through against probably a majority of hong kong as we have seen the largest demonstration in 30 years on sunday a big part of society is roughly against this bill this did not have any impression on the government so probably today's protests will neither the energy as you
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mentioned determination we saw images of the territory's chief executive kerry lamb saying she believes that this bill is important for hong kong she did say that the government has altered the bill and put in human rights safeguards will that ease concerns among protesters the government has altered the bill twice already before and then just just now before yesterday they announced that they would employ implement a mechanism to. service the implementation of the bill to have an extra look at all the cases this will not ease anything because nobody in hong kong things that a hong kong government that is appointed by beijing would have the guts to stand up to beijing on this the fear among many protesters is that this is the latest sign of china tightening its grip on hong kong is that the case.
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china has tightened its grip on hong kong for a long time the city is not what it was 10 years ago a lot of bookstores for example have taken out critical books for fear of written retaliation people have been kidnapped by the secret police the chinese secret police and then were showing up in chinese courts again this bill would legalize all these actions would give beijing a legal way to demand the extradition so this is why people are so angry about it because they feel this is the nail in the coffin to hong kong's freedom all right our correspondent my to spelling reporting there in hong kong for us thank you so much in russia police have detained dozens of people at a moscow rally in solidarity with investigative journalist even call enough protesters are calling for the punishment of police officers who were involved in
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golan also legit framing and police mistreatment while in custody now the rally comes a day after golan else was released from police detention due to a lack of evidence. walked out of police custody a free man early tuesday evening he thanked supporters outside the interior ministry and vowed to continue his work exposing corruption was the way to run everything is fine i still need a bit to gather my wits i don't have to work very hard now to show that your faith in me is justified thank you for that. yes you are. one of. those supporters had been protesting at the ministry since news of goal enough the rest broke on friday one person pickets don't have to be authorized in advance so protesters took turns holding signs calling for even calling off to be freed. 3 major newspapers also joined the protests he trining the same headline in
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monday's additions declaring i am we are even gholam must do as i did in the several prominent media personalities also criticizing the circumstances i call him most arrest what is considered because mr olson might sit. in court on saturday going off insisted he was innocent and that the police planted the drugs on him his lawyers said the fingerprints weren't on any of the items police seized and that go enough had been beaten in custody and denied a lawyer for more than 12 hours. police released several photos that seem to show a drugs lab home they later admitted only one of those photos was actually taken at the journalists apartment go enough is well known for exposing corruption medusa to the let you have based news website he works for was preparing to publish his latest reporting on russia's crime ridden funeral industry go enough the rest seems to have hit a nerve yes well just as a political spin to get the there is
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a demand for justice in society because this case is not just about you but it concerns many citizens who could end up in the same situation it is no secret that police often break the law in situations like this. in a turnaround it's those law enforcement agencies that are now coming under scrutiny . the interior ministry has opened an investigation into the officers who arrested called off and they've asked president putin to fire 2 senior moscow police officials. let's bring in our correspondent emily sure when she's standing by at a demonstration in solidarity with poland off in central moscow hi emily so people as we said gathering in solidarity with the journalists today but there have also been a number of people detained to tell us what's happening around you. well actually just now sumi here at a square where people are still gathering people are being kind of still arrested
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left and right just now i was standing here and someone was literally taken off this small wall that i'm standing on and arrested apparently according to reports more than 90 people have been arrested in total but that look number looks looks set to rise the protesters were peacefully marching along the boulevards here in moscow and the police was kind of trying to block their path as they went to clear demonstrators there telling people to clear this area as well as the protesters not officially authorized ok it's not officially authorized but it comes a day after the nobs was released why was he released so suddenly a survey. well 1st of all the evidence that there was against going off was kind of shaky from the beginning we just heard that in the piece but there was also huge public pressure over the weekend and continuing into this week there were protesters gathering outside outside the
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interior ministry 3 news papers came out with matching front covers in solidarity with the journalist so there was really a huge amount of of public pressure around this case and that public pressure here is continuing as well today people here are saying yes well enough was released but there are a lot of other people still behind bars that were arrested. for political reasons as they say and people said look we have to come out they were telling me this case would go and also this with release was really just a drop in the ocean and we have to do more all right so they want to keep up the public pressure at the same time as you said there's been a number of arrests at this demonstration so could this case actually have an impact on how the russian government deals with these types of. cases in the future . well yes and no there has been some discussion about perhaps softening drug laws here in russia the parliament here has said that
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they will be discussing that going forward at the moment it's rather easy to kind of put a bag of drugs in someone's bag and then say that and then charge them for drugs possession drug possession and that can mean that someone goes behind bars for up to 20 years so there will be some discussion about those that legislation yesterday there was a real saw of release that was powerful in russia civil society after the release of. the signal here seems to have changed rather radically today with these huge arrests perhaps a signal from the kremlin to russia's civil society as well. reporting there for us in moscow bring us up to date thank you emily. let's get a round of now some other stories making news around the world ethiopia special envoy to sudan says protest leaders have agreed to resume talks with their
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country's military rulers the apparent breakthrough comes days after protesters launched a campaign of civil disobedience this was in response to a deadly crackdown on demonstrators demanding civilian rule. in uganda a 5 year old boy confirmed as the country's 1st case of ebola has died in the western town of. official said his mother is a congolese citizen married to a ugandan she traveled with the child back home to nurse her father who eventually died from ebola. and congo's government is a clear enough a demick of measles after more than $1500.00 people died of the disease since the year began more than even health officials say tens of thousands of cases have been reported across the vast country. now under frank as one of the most famous victims of the holocaust and her name is still widely recognized today thanks for a world famous diary during world war 2 she and her family hid from the nazis in
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concealed rooms built into a courtyard house in amsterdam but when she was 15 she and her family were discovered arrested and sent to a concentration camp her diary describes nazi persecution of the reign of terror in impressive detail today would be on a friend's 90th birthday to mark the occasion $40000.00 students in germany from hundreds of schools are taking part in their frank de well i reporter went to a school in the london book region of northeastern germany and met one of the few people who still remember under frank personally. peter cornish knew and friend personally she babysat him when he was little their families were good friends. after school. so. the park. would have friends who. would come home she was.
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launched on himself fled to america now he has come to germany just for and frank day which marks what would have been her 90th birthday and he has a message. to say. who. were the 1st students at the school outside of berlin have gone through the diary of anne frank and they're impressed by her story. among these kind of on this and when you read it can cause especially since it's coming from a kid's point of view. i mean she was my age it's just incredible it's terrible it's hard to imagine. you know. just because you have
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different roots doesn't mean you're different as a person everyone can be good or bad it depends on the person and not religion a person belongs to. them for years the number of anti-semitic incidents has been rising in german schools history teacher bad lindemann wants to raise awareness of the issue although one can school has had few problems there have been anti semitic insults and graffiti here. people often apply concepts such as using the word jew as an insult that are used in a completely on differentiated way and in an ignorant way. i think that by raising awareness people or the students get a feel for what anti-semitism even means what the consequences are words origins large or diversity forums and what he was on duty and that is the aim of anne frank remembrance so that history does not repeat itself. and i'm joined by john shapiro
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who is the organizer of the anne frank day in germany he joins us in our studio john thank you so much for being with us but we saw in our report there the school the students seemed really impressed by anne frank and her work her diary what is your experience interacting with students do they know when frank is and when they learn of her what is their reaction. so of course there's nobody in the don't know about her of course and in front of his one of the most widely known when it comes to the holocaust and there are all kinds of reactions we always experience that there's a great openness of the students to get involved with the biography because that when you teach me speaks to them. he's also talking just about matters that medically youngsters that age she was a young girl and she was also explaining her experiences in that diary we heard in our report that some use the word jew as a swear word and we have seen
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a spike in anti-semitism in germany as well we have to say that what is your experience been with students have you encountered that in schools so we have to center we also have. of course we have those slurs and semitic sirus also racists nurse. so i have to say yes that exists students are part of our society where we have the points of discrimination of course we also have that at the center with the students and i think it's really important to look at the person to listen to them and to work with them youngsters that you can really change and with that way we have. we. are working with the youngsters but why is it that you could encounter anti-semitism in schools among young students well i guess because just the schools and students are part of our society and since we all over experience racism
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anti-semitism of course those young people that also have said. what has to happen to keep the memory of anne frank and also the holocaust alive and to make sure that young people carry that memory forward well we have different measures one of them is for. the races. we really have to keep memory because. of their history was the holocaust. important for them to be aware. to. day to day really depends on the students on the teachers on society as a whole to keep that society and also really to speak up when we experience injustice are you worried that people are forgetting and frank's legacy. i wouldn't say that. would be i mean which is one of the biographies that it's really really known but i really think that we have to remember that she was also
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striving for justice society that she was a victim of the holocaust. and therefore we really have to be active in the racism and accepting especially active because as we said anti-semitism seems to be spiking here in germany we saw the commissioner who is fighting against some of the anti-semitism here say that jews against wearing in public as something changed in germany in recent times. we're placing that threat against jews all to along with them to it so. they keep or just. themselves of jews we have that all too long but we're really talking about it in that we have to change society and yes there i think there is the rise of there is the statistics show that. in the races so we're living in the society that gets them through those
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forms of discrimination and we have to say stop we don't. go there and the more we had a kid or people or young youngsters. who live in the society where diversity some braised. shapiro the organizer of the un frank a day in germany and france would have been 90 years old today john thank you so much for joining us thank you now canada says it is banning single use plastic starting in the year 2021 as part of an effort to cut down on the plastic waste clogging the world's oceans it's just one of many threats to oceans including overfishing and global warming it's an ugly problem one german photographer is taking a special look at the breath and depth of the destruction and highlighting the work being done to preserve the life and beauty of our oceans take a look. environmental photographer your code vests latest project draws attention to the state of our oceans with shocking results.
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this is not an island but a mountain of plastic off haiti doesn't alter totalities or places of total pollution were beaches have been destroyed where people live in total misery mentioning. the spent 10 days in haiti last april the island state has a severe weiss problem he accompanied an environmentalist who pays locals to collect plastic which is then recycled. there are more than 150000000 tonnes of plastic in the ocean. this year the environmental photo festival horizons in synced on the german coast focused its attention on the environment under threat. america really got these are shared oddly enough this kind of horror also has a strange fascination for me we're like hunters on the lookout for these moments because we know these images are triggers that every human being can understand
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emotionally it's a value. for his project heroes of the same oh this is documenting the work of those fighting against the destruction of our oceans this was with the conservation organization sea shepherd for 4 weeks off the coast of west africa documenting overfishing and senseless torture. up to live off an option for spent many weeks on ships and the work of these activists these biologists these people i followed and was with and worked with they're my heroes. at the beginning of december so vest and 2 of his friends planned to cross the atlantic in a rowboat to raise awareness for heroes of the sea. the photos he's taken for his project will be used for a book and a video material for a documentary film. child enormous respect for the have
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enormous respect for the ocean because of the unpredictability of what can happen there you can never underestimate the power of the water and the power of the waves it's. a life threatening on taking to show us reality. soccer now and team usa have made their much anticipated debut at the women's world cup in france expectations for the defending champs were high as they took on thailand but few could have expected the record setting performance that followed. when star striker alex morgan noted usa into the lead up to this 12 minutes thailand fans had every right to be concerned by a bruising haul followed before morgan made it 5 new to the usa in the 52nd minutes 5 if and she completed her hat trick amid a flurry of usa goals to make it by now on the 70 full for minutes. but she wasn't
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done yet some excellent wing play from megan rapinoe gave morgan another golden chance in the 81st minute 10 mil is time i and she bagged a 5th in the 87th but seems 12 and 13 would follow soon enough to buy the final whistle morgan was the 1st to console the broken opposition a stunning display of ability and sportsmanship from one of winning stokols biggest names. our minder now of our top stories that we're following here and you got new police in hong kong of fire tear gas of protesters demonstrating against a controversial law that would allow extradition to mainland china lawmakers to postpone debate on the bill authorities are urging demonstrators to go home but protesters say they are defending hong kong's freedom. and russian police have
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detained dozens of people at a moscow rally and solidarity with investigative journalist. protesters are calling for the punishment of police officers who are involved in golden of a legit training and mistreatment in custody to rally comes a day after growing up was released due to a lack of evidence. coming up next the made in germany looks at the business of meat and finds out a vegetarian can save the planet they can put on. food .
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