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this is deja vu news live from berlin hong kong protesters keep up the pressure we have live pictures of mass rallies calling for hong kong's probation leader to step down this after she vows to pressure and drops plans for a controversial extradition law. also coming up. israel prepares to name a town after donald trump after he recognized the golan heights as israeli territory our correspondent tells us what's behind the move. and a record breaking match at the women's world cup as the netherlands reached the
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last 16 vivian made him a scores twice and in $31.00 win over cameroon to become the dutch team's top all time goalscorer at just age 22. thanks for joining us tens of thousands of people are again rallying in hong kong this time to demand the resignation of the city's probating leader carrie lam that's after she bowed to pressure from huge street protests and delayed work on a controversial extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to mainland china for trial pro-democracy demonstrators want the bill scrapped completely and they say they've lost all confidence in miss lamb. did have used to be calling is in hong kong following the situation there for us t.v. despite they can see. russians protesters have been on the streets in huge numbers
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all day today why are they still so angry. yeah well i am right now lying one chivied the central district of hong kong island you can see life behind me there are hundreds of thousands of home home protesters they have they talked to streets today and them most of them a rose and i'm here in hong kong i don't feel that way of flight number us posthaste this and there is a mounting there with sorrow off the air unpopular extradition or you know they are simply them not satisfied with the suspension of the feel because they know that it's not enough for the hong kong people late on this not enough to to restore them they're afraid that the government will bring back the field sometime later so they're calling for the government to scrap the bail. out amount and then the 2nd one is that regarding the crash of them and the mosque demonstrations on the chris well say earlier this week the government has the fine is
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a sobriety and some of the protests read the arrest and i'll cry if in charges so these protesters today they are the mounting and they're calling for the government to release the. detainees off all of the rioting charges and to call for the government not to be fined on these leaves that musta missed ration and the question is a surprise anymore and we have talked to some of the pros houses like what are they thinking about i want to one of the one of the these tests are these said the artist says question to us the government and yeah we can i have this but i'm not satisfied with carolyn's attitudes here was our home is our n.r. because just like i don't care all i won't do i want to give any changes and i would just buy your people and to keep going to do what i am doing i just couldn't imagine these. suspended with all the people. signifying
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themselves and i think s. deal with the generation that's in that we need to support them and i think that's very important to keep on paul as free as possible and also we have jurisdiction and the valley with. tb are we likely to see hong kong government back down to protestors demands. when not sure yet i guess on the diamond demonstrations today they have started the rally for over 5 hours until now it's still light has been finished and there's no sign of life off life all off we like to to like see those off and off the team and so far we are that the government has made no announcement and no i mean we're supposed to was to rally today so it's still unclear that one of the government will light back now or the auto whatever government will take out put forward by
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fiat concessions in response to that the nons off their demonstrations we will light have a look and keep track of the developments in the future. kong reporting from hong kong for us thank you so much. and now i bring you some of the other stories making news around the world in jerusalem court has convicted sarin that's in you know the wife of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu of misusing state funds after she spent thousands of dollars on lavish meals at her official residence fraud charges were dropped as part of a plea bargain in which she will pay a fine. at least 8 people have been killed by a car bomb near the parliament in the somali capital mogadishu the islamist militant group al-shabaab claimed responsibility police said several people were also killed in a 2nd explosion on the road to mogadishu airport. polls will open in guatemala in a few hours. central american country is electing
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a new president and parliament today but after the top 2 candidates were barred from running distrust is widespread and many doubt today's vote will be fair. the ballot boxes a ready voting papers prepared but many quotes unconvinced that today's election will bring any real change. unemployment violence and corruption top voters' list of concerns instead of sparking hope a chaotic campaign period appears to have done the opposite. but i guess every 4 years it's the same people and every 4 years they come for the same thing and then we're not so i'm not really convinced by any candidate. for guatemala the truth is we need change and with these candidates who are leading the polls we won't have anything change for guatemala and will stay the same or even get worse.
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the country's former attorney general felt had been topping the polls before she was kicked off the ballot over allegations of fraud and lying she was well known for leading several anti corruption investigations in the country and supporters so her removal from the list as a move driven by corrupt politicians since then former 1st lady sandra taurus has emerged as a favorite with a strong support base in rural areas her main rival is right wing candidate. who is seeking the presidency for a 4th time but it's likely neither of them will gain the majority needed to avoid a runoff round in august. there's a sense of disillusion among photo. concern that on election day that dissolution could turn to violence. well donald trump is famous for putting his name on hotels and casinos but now israel is preparing to put to name an entire community after the u.s. president after recognize the golan heights as part of israel israel gained control
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of the territory more than 50 years ago in the 6 day war but the united nations and most countries still consider it occupied syrian land trumps move was seen as a boost for prime minister benjamin netanyahu and he said he'd rename him in the u.s. president's honor the israeli cabinet is due to approve that decision later today but if it goes ahead what might that look like kramer has more this is the settlement of. golan heights a new neighbor. is planned here named in honor of u.s. president on the trump only a dozen presidents live in killer pull him there right many years ago from the former soviet union flooding. one of them the red terry is the news by the recent interest in this home. we suddenly
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have lots of visitors coming here from all different parts of the country recently was a couple from tel aviv and a family from jerusalem here it's because the settlement is going to be named after charm but they're also interested in the golan heights. koskie helped build the settlement in 1991 over the years more and more families moved away to less remote towns now it's almost abandoned the new neighborhood named after trump will be built next to the old settlement it would be based on old plans that were never realized in april prime minister netanyahu announced that he would name a town in the occupied golan heights after u.s. president donald trump in honor of his decision to recognize israeli control over the territory and this is the place that eventually will be named after trump trump's controversial decision most criticized by the international community which
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considers the golan heights to be occupied territory israel captured the strategically important plateau from syria 967 here israelis were thrilled by trump's decision they hope the new place will lead to new infrastructure and investment. it is very exciting because no new settlements have been built on the garden heights for 30 years it's unbelievable a lot of young families with kids already waiting to come and live here. google can . that's also what's most important to longtime resident flood. let me show you let it be named after. it's important not something changes here doesn't happen just by changing the name. you have to. i'm not done by people and money. today or time tomorrow so it doesn't really matter.
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what does matter is that the u.s. president agrees with the israeli government that this land should remain under israel's control. moving on to sports the women's world soccer world cup continues in france and joining me to discuss all the latest action is max merrill from d.w. sports hi max so the netherlands beat cameron on saturday what do you make of the performance well it was a great forms for the netherlands who have now progressed into the last 16 and it was almost a home match for them the game was played in france in valencia but it's very close to the dutch border just an hour's drive away are many fans were out there around your brigade were out in full force and the defenders in this game won't be happy because as we're about to see there were quite a lot of mistakes but a great day for striker vivi. because she said let's find out more. the usual sea of orange was there to greet the site and they gave their fans something to cheer on 41 minutes when did the ana need and i got the opener with
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the police had it with what the league did not last long with cameron levelling through gabrial on getting a with them delivered a message home via the t. shirts it was cameroon's 1st goal in 251 will cook minutes. the 2nd half belong to the netherlands though and they reach the elite quickly after the restart dominique of the cameroon is defending left a lot to be desired. the gift meant the defender had the easiest of finishes. he did not then became the neverland's recalled scorer with a 60th goal and she still only 22 was through the looking dangerous if some other went for the netherlands a big day for vivian meet in the how she managed to rack up so many goals at such a young age incredible she's only $27.00 already the old time top scorer for the
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netherlands now has a celebration incidentally that will somersault we saw that was a bet with her brother she says she won't be doing that again. but she plays for also in the women's super league and also the season she's been scoring over a goal per game which is incredible and we see she has a real eye for goal she made her netherlands debut at the tender age of 17 so even though she's only $22.00 she's already played for them for 5 years she's chasing the all time record of course but that's the u.s.a.'s abby one backs at the moment one $184.00 goals so little while ago and there's another play out this tournament kind of this captain christine sinclair who's closing in on the record she's going to go for goals to catch up she's 36 so probably a last tournament but she didn't score yesterday well we had another game on saturday that was can ever since new zealand how did that go down there. well not so great for sinclair but great for kind of the overall in grenoble they booked their place to the last 16 as well joining the netherlands and new zealand on the
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other hand have had quite bad luck this tournament they got their 2nd injured defend the yesterday and also a narrow defeat in the 1st game and again just coming up short here. after school the 1st time a one mil from jesse fleming just 3 minutes after the break set up by michelle prince with them school a go here we see eventually the ball goes to mildew in the 79th minute so they approved as i said for the last 16 as the netherlands and the netherlands and kind of the will face each other on thursday to fight it out for the top spot all right max now from the deadliest for thanks for that update. minder of the top stories we're following here for you protesters in hong kong are calling on the city's probation leader to step down and we have live pictures here of the mass protest that has been happening all day carry land has shelves controversial plans to allow extradition from the city to china but opponents say that's not enough.
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