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this is deja vu news live from berlin on qantas chief executive carrie lamb apologizes again for her handling of an unpopular extradition law but she says she will try harder in the future stopping short of meeting protesters demands to resign so what is next for the territory's political crisis we'll go live to on com also coming up tensions are rising in the gulf as the u.s. orders 1000 more troops to that region but a point in coming as the u.s.
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releases new footage it says proves the rand was behind the attack on 2 ships near the gulf last week and as a rand says it's about to breach the international nuclear accord for the 1st time . also on the show german investigators say they believe the killing of a regional politician was motivated by far right extremism. it was shot in the head and close range and what some are calling an execution style shooting. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for joining us on kong's leader kerry lamb has apologized for her handling of a concert reversal extradition law but has not offered to withdraw during her apology said she regretted failing to connect with young people but the territories leader stopped short of resigning as demonstrators are demanding hong kong's leader
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didn't say that she takes full responsibility and has quote listened to the people . i have heard you loud and clear and have reflected deeply on all that has transpired the concerns over the past few months have been caused by deficiencies in the work of the government over the amendment exercise. i personally have to show that much of the responsibility. this has led to controversies this pillows and societies in society for this i offer my most sincere apology so all people of hong kong. chief executive terry lamb a short while ago let's go live now to hong kong and indeed abuse mathias bollinger who's joining us from there in the tears can you fill us in on more on these statements from kerry law.
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behind me you can see with their considerably less protesters today than there have been in the past few days than the have been yesterday after this speech i think they will all come back because kerry lamb has done everything possible to reignite people's anger she has apologized yes but she has also said she's not going to withdraw the bill and although she has clarified that she herself does does not think that it will come anytime soon and she has of course not step don't know but the expected her to step down on the weekend that's for real but i think if she wanted to calm people she would have to hock 2 or 4 more people are getting really angry ok can you tell us why people are getting so angry angry what is it in this extradition bell that has set off the people of hong kong so much that 2000000 took
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to the streets just a few days ago. people fear that this bill would have. dealt a major blow to their freedoms is this this bill would have allowed people suspects to be extradited to china which has a judicial system that is arbitrary that nobody in hong kong trusts hong kong has its own judicial system and this judicial system has been one of the of the of the key parts that distinguish hong kong that protect hong kong's freedoms compared to the mainland so people really felt that this would is an urgent matter that would really really. diminish their freedoms rapidly i mean she is how do these protests compared to the umbrella protests that we saw on 2014 are they similar of all. there are some similarities that happens in the same places some of the protesters use the same tactics especially the young people who
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are out during the week but we see also much more support than during the umbrella movement the umbrella movement lasted long but it it was a certain group of people who participated if it was not hundreds of thousands and not into the millions now last week and we have seen 2000000 people at least that's according to the organizers if this is true this would be community in 2015 the u.s. has released new footage it says proves or iran was behind the bombing of 2 oil tankers in the gulf last week around denies that. these are the new images that the u.s. says proves iran was behind the attacks on 2 oil tankers last thursday in the gulf of a says it will be able to make weapons grade uranium last year u.s. president donald trump pulled the u.s. out of the deal and re imposed economic sanctions on iran and even though the
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americans withdrew from the deal they still want iran to comply with the restrictions. we have made it very clear since this president came into office and since the secretary came there that we will not tolerate a non-gay in iran obtaining a nuclear weapon full stop the european union and the un office in this instance and prince harry can hear that we will not tolerate a non-gay an iran obtaining a nuclear weapon full stop. the european union and the un have called for caution regarding actions based on the attack on the 2 oil tankers implementation of the preview now and some of the other stories making the news this hour rescue operations are underway in southwestern china following him earthquake that killed at least 12 people 6.0 magnitude quake and aftershocks are so sure one province leaders monday more than 120 people were injured. on the. wall as we've been reporting protests in hong kong are starting to dwindle that's
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expected change though after days of mass demonstrations a government offices have resumed work and roads reopened to traffic but dozens of protesters as we saw all remain camped out they fear the government may quietly pass that controversial extradition law i was talking about with mathias building up allowing them to send people to mainland trial for mainland china for trial. a new zealand court has sentenced a christchurch businessman to 21 months in prison for sharing video of the massacre of worshipers of one of the city's mosques the judge said full of arts admitted to hate crimes video recorded by the gunman he killed 51. it's to egypt now where a former president mohamed morsy has been buried in the capital cairo a day after his sudden death morsy had collapsed in court state t.v. said he died of a cardiac arrest. his muslim brotherhood blamed poor conditions in the prison where
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he's being held in accuse the egyptian government of assassinating human rights groups are calling for an independent investigation into his death. earlier i spoke with correspondent ruth michelson in cairo and i asked her how people in egypt are reacting to morsi sudden death she remembered well it's extremely actual and decisive state. law is a freedom of speech. bill of freedom and democracy he represented a time in our refute that race in underground for many many is to others he was an enemy of the state and will remain that way and probably will remain that way. to graze opponents including the people currently in. the stands and treason as difficult but somewhat uncontroversial events. and you know his eyes or excuse me in their eyes this man was a criminal who died in prison some of his supporters or even other political
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figures for the prostitutes conception egypt do you feel that his death was unfortunately somewhat inevitable given the lack of who sees me giving up the treatment that he was suffering for his ongoing medical conditions while in prison and they say that he was his death was essentially symbolic of the treatment of this prisoners in egypt today or here in germany federal prosecutors say they're treating the telling of a regional politician as an act of far right extremists. were shot dead earlier this month at his home in the state of has a police say this suspected killer as a long criminal record and is now in custody police arrested the suspect 45 year old stuff from his home early on sunday morning the next day germany's federal prosecutor took over the case after concluding the photo loop because killing was motivated by right wing extremism he if you expect the suspects previous actions
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and the views he expressed publicly strongly point to this motive i know one want and. some right wing extremists applauded luca's killing on social media prompting investigators to suspect that the perpetrator might come from far right circles up diffidence to get tied stories are investigating whether the suspect is part of a terrorist group or network but at present we have no reliable indications of this and that's beyond. the federal prosecutor's office has taken up this case because of its particular importance and that in itself shows the dimensions of the murder as a possible political assassinations. stephanie has a criminal record he was previously convicted for his involvement in an attack on a german trade union demonstration he was also linked to an attack on a refugee center in 1993 chancellor angela merkel has welcomed the federal prosecutors initiative. this up this is also if it's right and proper that the federal prosecutor has taken over the investigation and that will open questions
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a cleared up as quickly as possible. prosecutors did not disclose whether they had had an opportunity to question stephanie. let's go now live to wagner and that's where that killing took place near castle i'm joined by a reporter tess of alta tessa can you fill us in how people where you are are reacting to everything that's happened. yeah you can see right behind me the home of a to look to and you might actually also hear the children playing in the background we saw the parents arriving this morning and they're really trying to come back to normality here you have to imagine is a very quiet town just a few 100 and habitants and they were quite shocked by what happened here the crime in the 1st place and then all that press interest the days and weeks after and i spoke to the representative of the town this morning and he told me well there was
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a certain breasts in the few weeks and now that a suspect has been arrested on saturday there is a relief but obviously it is a bit unsettling that there is a right wing motive but they say neo nazis try to spread fear and they want to resist that they want to be stronger than these neo nazis and they say not here in the town and even online they will they will not reactive and they will stay strong . ok bring us up to date from the location there where that killing took place thanks very much in other news the former you a for president michel platini has been detained for questioning by authorities in france according to reports in the french media is reported detention in the western suburbs of paris is part of an investigation into alleged corruption during the bidding process for the 2022 world cup which was awarded to qatar and 20 town
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but he was the chief for 8 years before he and then even presidents of lata were both banned from working in football by the thief ethics committee. we have some basketball now and these celebrations that you're looking at here for the new n.b.a. champions the toronto raptors were unfortunately marred by gunshots a love for people wounded the shot some fans running for cover and the city's main square police say 3 people arrested about 2w2w people turned out to cheer on the raptors who are celebrating their 1st ever n.b.a. title they beat the golden state warriors in the finals to become the 1st canadian team to ever quench the championship. that's all we have time for i'm brian thomas for the entire team thanks for being with us.
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