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tino scored twice within 3 minutes 30 goal came from evidence warrants 5 minutes from full time to seal the when the action will continue later on saturday we have and this waiver taking on the group and argentina will face full of. up next world stories that's the week in reports including an update on the silent for hong kong refugees in berlin a promise of thanks wanted. to. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised in a military dictatorship with just one to his shadow and a few newspapers one official information as a journalist i have work off the streets of many canvassed and they have problems are always the same 14 social inequality a lack of the freedom of the press. coverage we can afford to stay silent when it
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comes to the fence the humans on seeing their microphones who have decided to put their trust in us. my name is jenny paris and i work a day dolly. this week on well stories. mozambique david life has become trying author the cycle russia a home that cares for seniors and disabled children but we start off in berlin germany has granted political asylum to refugees from hong kong their protests against chinese power have been escalating to activist have managed to escape china's clutches. there the 1st hong kong refugees to be granted asylum ray walston
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and ellen lee now feel safe in germany they were threatened with a prison sentence in the homeland for having taken part in an anti-government protest. as a fairy story set things actually because i've been no one wants to leave their home country and never go back. but anyway we're missing that. we must do it e s. . because reese we should let the let the whole road know what what is happening in hong kong. a look back to 2014 many young people took to the streets of hong kong calling for civil liberties and more democracy both sides became violent. ray one and ellen lee were also there they later found at their own movement hong kong indigenous they are fighting for hong kong's independence from china. we
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teenagers we found that the government tried to cleanse our unique culture try to transfer our language try to class our identity as a hong kong hong kong and we don't want that to happen and we don't want hong kong just to become and like in our the city in china right you won't and were taken into custody in 2016 the accusation there where involved in violent riots one of their fellow companions was sentenced to 7 years in prison on the same charge but the 2 feel the punishment is disproportionate fearing what might happen the 2 fled to germany while on probation they lived in limbo for 6 months until germany granted them political asylum. i think the history of germany trip for me personally is quite encouraging because after i came to germany. they told me that. when they were young they had imagined
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is germany west germany. united a reunion. but somehow it happened so. that those german told me don't lose my home because everything could happen both men hope for hong kong homeland where democracy and the rule of law prevail just like in germany. entire regions of mozambique were destroyed in early march when a cycle tool to the country more than a 1000 people died and hundreds of thousands were left homeless people were left without basic supplies those in the port city of beirut were among the hardest hit . weeks after the cycle and really you know this house is still barely habitable. the family have moved all their possessions into the only room that's also where
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they now sleep. you know will never forget the day the storm it's. just the idea that. they could come out so they leave. going out that was a very. you know his house is just a few 100 meters from the shore the sea is the most immediate danger. bera is often flooded parts of the city are below sea level the districts of. nova i specially at risk un climate change experts estimate that sea levels could rise by a meter by the year 2100. the city has taken defensive action with a network of locks and candles and parts of the measures have cost millions subsidised by development funds from germany. only going to have
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a dream to me on the day of the cycle and it also started raining we're in the last so the water could run down into the sea if we haven't done that the flooding would have been even worse here though. mayor. says the city is used to flooding but destructive storms like cycling need a new phenomenon see mongo is hoping for more funding from overseas to pay for defensive measures whilst they have been in flooding once they have been in the heavy wind as to what we have seen definitely do feel in their skin that something bad is happening and that's called climate change. in the meantime and worries about the future about his house and his family. were. ignored the possibility the war any other place so we're here. for
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a so we're free. if we could afford it or says he would have moved a long time ago away from the water's edge. in mexico 40000 people are considered to be missing most of my young men who are up doc to them possibly killed long ago mexico's drug cartels are usually involved in these unsolved cases meanwhile mothers continue to look. for the lost sons. man i made enough finally found her missing son live after he disappeared without a trace 5 years ago i had all we have only after telling me and all one day he was selling cell phone accessories as usual and he was just kidnapped at a gas station because my son was disappeared in the off forties didn't look for him i started my own search the local police were no help she says but that was no
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surprise ordinary police officers are suspected of frequent collaboration with the drug cartels. minima dina started to search with this simple tool that helps detect the scent of decaying corpses beneath the soil. and over time other mothers looking for them missing children and jointer. for many women here this has become their sole mission when. the women's findings on this day become the top story for mexican journalists now the stench of rotting corpses is overwhelming. time and again the mothers of the disappeared confronted with a tormenting question could this body be my child let me go out of the mythology to look at me got a job it feels like my heart wants to jump right out of my body. i'm shaking my ears are blocked oh yeah i think i'm glad and sad at the same time because i don't know if it's my son or her son nothing now that i am in the end it doesn't matter
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we're looking for them because we love them. man i mean dina and her group have already found nearly 500 bodies according to local media many of the disappeared a believed to have had ties to the drug trade victims are often young men who had no prospects for legal employment minima deen and the other mothers found the remains of 15 people on a single day neighbors who had observed suspicious activity gave them crucial tips on where to. dick the search missions are provocation to the drug cartels releasing for the him who was caught they tell us we should stop looking yes it is proper otherwise the same thing will happen to us. it took 3 years for man amedee now to find her son at last she says he can rest in peace. in russia people with disabilities are often discriminated against but now
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a home there is promoting tolerance seniors and children with disabilities help one another. when you're making pancakes every step needs to be timed just right. that's what deonna could you have of learned from her boarding home grandmother spent long a gram of the pair found each other 12 years ago when they started living together in a unique russian residential home. my this is my family and sometimes they get pretty cheeky. it's a special home they share diana and her surrogate grandma live together with 30 other children and over $100.00 pensioners. they're all in one big housing complex where they spend their lives together.
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most pensioners live here because their relatives no longer want to care for them and most young people are here because their parents are no longer allowed to care for them many were alcoholics who lost custody. as a result many of their children were born with disabilities. with no other family to rely on young and old alike would be lonely if it weren't for this haven. where you don't hear or read to you. you would think. my entire family died in 1993 in a car crash it was horrible things that i almost lost my mind. that then i didn't want to live anymore. i would have preferred to die with my family. this unique home where young and old lived side by side was founded 12 years ago.
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it's an start of a shop in russia's court istanbul public bicycle and it's one of a kind in the entire country. thanks to funding by the state donors and volunteers the facilities are in great condition. do you other russians with disabilities or special needs are as fortunate. human rights activist sub repeatedly reported cases of abusive caretakers corrupt directors insufficient fire safety measures and a lack of funding in other homes. i didn't see him saying that i feel remains a huge barrier between people with and without disabilities in a society parents from the soviet generation do not want their children socializing with kids that have special needs. though of course with people of all ages residing here it's not always smooth sailing. living together and caring for each
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other can be challenging. still everyone here is very close they are eager to share their lives rather than just co-exist. or when i see children i forget all my problems. they just vanish. and all i see are the good things from. the day of the special residential home winds down with a small dance performance. life is good because here russia's most vulnerable are not left to fend for themselves.
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enter the conflicts fronting the powerful. my guest this week here in burlington is the qatari foreign ministry spokesperson. for the last 2 years the gulf states of qatar i was feeling blockaded by a quartet of arab states which accuses of supporting terrorism she has always denied the charges. complex. to know that 77 percent. are younger than fixing up. on the 77 percent we talk about the issues that my. street spending in south africa formerly any legal matters. now a new generation of drivers is pushing this some country into the mainstream. to 60. w.
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. sometimes books are more exciting than real life. what if there is no speed. list. german street. you know with facts so you're dealing with something that no no no no what i said that you want to call terrorism not a war and this. i mean this a problem for the entire world because you don't think the move for the last 2 years the gulf state of qatar has been blockaded by a quartet of arab states which accuse it of supporting terrorism my guest this week here in berlin is the qatari foreign ministry spokesperson. 2 years always denied the charges but with question marks going back many years.
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