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opus might violence against children. this is due to overuse line from berlin egypt's 1st democratically elected president dies during a court hearing mamak morsi collapses during his trial on espionage charges with hit with his body brought later to the hospital he was ousted by the military in a coup led by the current president in 2013 after massive protests also coming up
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german investigators establish a far greater motive in the murder of a local politician investigators say a suspect in the killing of an official from uncle america's party has an extremist background it's alleged he shot this official in the head at close range before his arrest on the weekend and protesters in hong kong refused to back down and they're out in force against stepping up pressure on their territories leader to resign over a controversial extradition law china says forgo prints are involved in the rallies . all right thank you so much for your company everyone will begin this broadcast with breaking news egypt's former president mohamed morsi has died morsy reportedly collapsed during a court session in cairo and was rushed to the hospital where he later. di it was
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a key figure in egypt's muslim brotherhood and the 1st democratically elected president in the country's modern history morsy had been in jail since 2030 after the military ousted him following mass protests against his rule. let's get you the latest now on these breaking developments for that i would like to turn now to correspondent ruth michelson she is joining us on the line from the capital of cairo with what exactly happened. for we understand from the local media here in egypt that former president morsi died while on trial espionage cases in espionage cases result he's made damning from. his connection with a legit connection with the palestinian islamist group. the local media said that he also is judged to speak fainted and then died before his body was taken to the hospital the former president has been in solitary confinement since he is tension
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in 20 says he and i have been ongoing questions raised about his health and his treatment while in prison. now mohamed morsy was egypt's 1st democratically elected president what do you think his legacy will be. well he's ongoing legacy is certainly speech it's democratically elected president and he was something of an unlikely figure he saw the brotherhood changing from an underground organization to one that came to egypt and his legacy is also someone who was unable to find a way to rule that really made all gypsies happy that could understand him and when he said he must proceeded and that friendship never peak or extremely unhappy about his style of leadership. no of course as you alluded to. came from egypt large as long as a group the muslim brotherhood he led it he brought it to power do you now expect
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protests erupt in egypt after his death. well it's important to remember the context that protests here in egypt have been essentially banned following a lauren 20 team so they're essentially nonexistent now but there are reports of increased security across the country q 2 concerns by the egyptian government that violent offshoot of the muslim brotherhood may take action following this incident with michael some reporting from the capital cairo thank you and here in germany federal prosecutors have revealed they're treating the killing of a local politician as far right extremism while some of the was a member of a clerical conservatives in a vocal supporter of her welcoming approach to refugees he was shot dead earlier this month at his home in the central state of hassam police say the suspected
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killer arrested on saturday has a long history of hate crimes. in the early afternoon a spokesperson for the federal prosecutor held a press conference 45 year old stephanie is being held as prime suspect and the police believe they have established a motive the again of clint this october and we can with the current state of our investigation we assume that what we're dealing with is right wing extremism that taught and it the suspects past gives us grounds to believe us. as do his public opinions and beliefs even a minor one won't insist on june 2nd falter luka consul district president was shot dead while standing on the terrace of his home 2 weeks ago the police began a broad search for evidence one of the 1st suspects was arrested on a north sea ferry but the authorities turned out to be on the wrong track the 45 year old suspect arrested last weekend was found by means of d.n.a. identification the police acquired comparative material when the suspect was
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previously convicted of right wing crimes authorities were tipped off to the connection between the murder and extremists when they observed right wing celebrations on social media shortly after loop because murder although the federal prosecutor does not believe the suspect is a member of a larger extremist network they are still investigating that possibility. ok let's take you now to my colleague walter she is standing outside the home of the assassinated politician in the state of. tessa tell us about how people feel about this arrest. well we got his to his hometown and there is quite an atmosphere of shock people can't believe that look at might have actually been killed because of a frightening most amount of people who knew him as a very friendly person the neighbor said he helped to take out the cattle when you
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are is a home so there is quite a shock why did this believe that his political position and especially his support for refugees in 2015 might have actually provoked his kidding right so people are very rattled about where you are why was walter who could target it. so as you said earlier he spoke up for refugees and he was also very prominent in building refugees centers here in the area where people were received after they came to germany and this sort heated up at a community meeting in 2015 he said on stage that people who disagreed with this believe of perceiving and welcoming these refugees while they were free to leave the country at any point after that he received death threats hundreds of them and all of this heated up again after his death when there was a hateful speech online celebrating his death saying that he was
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a trader of the people he got what he deserved so he had quite a political progress here to stand which now of the sea comes up in the investigation what do we know about the alleged killer. so the killer was 45 years old and he had connections to the brides bring seen allegedly especially one group which is called combat 1818 years stands for one a in the alphabet and 8 the 8th flesh of the alphabet so that means hitler and this group was one of the most important and most dangerous right wing neo nazi groups around the year 2000 they also have a cell here and cuss which is what next to east up and he was in contact with them allegedly he also convicted he's also claimed he also was in a conflict in and an attack off of refugee center in 1903 when he
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tried to build a bomb that should explode in front of the center luckily the bomb never exploded and doesn't do we know if the alleged suspect if he acted as a lone wolf or if he was supported by some sort of network. so right now we can't really say anything about that the investigations are still ongoing some people think about the n.s.a. you case right now this was a group of people who killed several people here in germany with a foreign background saying that there might be a connection between combat 18 and the n.s.a. case but they there is no. connection right now and investigation is still ongoing so we still have to see what happens in the next few days. reporting from the state of has to think you want to bring up speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. well point saying don't shoot i'm just
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planning an overhaul to shift away from risky investment banking it will create a so-called bad bank to hold poorly performing assets valued at up to 50000000000 euros and may also shrink or shut down its u.s. equity and trading businesses. iran has warned world powers it will exceed the limit of uranium stockpiles are agreed to in the 2015 nuclear deal within the next 10 days tehran also said it could enrich the uranium beyond prohibit it levels the deal has been facing collapse since the united states for drew one year ago and we imposed economic sanctions. electricity is back on again in several countries in south america which were hit by a massive power outage on sunday the blackout left more than 40000000 people in argentina uruguay and paraguay without electricity officials are still investigating what caused the power failure. next to hong kong
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where protesters have again turned out in large numbers to demand the resignation of the territory's leader carrie lam over a controversial extradition law demonstrators are gathering outside government headquarters in other cities the protests come a day after one of the largest rallies in hong kong's history with nearly 2000000 people taking part. and to talk more about this ongoing story i'm now here joined on the set by barron's barrackers senior fellow at the german council on foreign relations a very warm welcome sir the people of hong kong remain deeply suspicious of their government the territories leader kerry lam it's not showing any signs of stepping down the demonstrators are demanding she resign do you fear that this could come to a head. well i think the students and the young people will not step down at this stage
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because the struggle is a longer one that is not only about this extradition door since 2014 things have been deteriorating and in hong kong has been a settlement policy that will 1500 people can settle any day and then hong kong and there's a perception that the judiciary is not as independent as used to so for the hong kong needs it's a struggle for the existence and to keep on going and dependant as it was let's talk about joshua wang the 22 year old pro-democracy pro-democracy activists who plays a very central role in this movement to he has been in prison since may was released today he came out swinging i mean he's really become the face of this pro democracy movement do you think that his release is an olive branch by the authorities really in the way it is i mean does the timing of this of you has it just also surprising that the government were given that such
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a stage and it's not why do you think they did that well it's obviously a sign to true true say hey we are on your side we want to move on on the other hand it's quite interesting that the protests that are happening now without any figureheads there's no big figures that the doing it the organizers had kept a low profile to try to evade any observation or showing the faces of the try to keep it as a message movement. let's talk about the chinese leadership. how is that going down with them these mass protests and do you expect beijing just to kind of allow these protests to go on indefinitely or do you foresee a time when their patients will run out well we never know what's happening in beijing because a lot of factors at play by that the moment it seems that beijing wants to keep a low profile for several reasons 1st of all the don't. when does international attention the keep it inside hong kong leave it to the hong kong government in the
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same time there are so struggles inside the communist party that factional struggles and any strong reaction would really play into the hands of the position of g.g. big bear into a beggar senior fellow of the german council on foreign relations sir thank you for weighing in. now don't forget you can always get news on the go just download our app from google play or from the apple store they'll give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news you can also use the d w app zoom send us your photos and videos. you want to see the way it is up next carousel for us with the day's biggest business stories from africa on leyla her rock and roll in for now thank you so much for spending of this part of your day with us to stay tuned for guess.
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