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this is the daily news live from berlin a victory for turkey's opposition. i was kind of that acronym of all the wins is stumbles mayor old election for a 2nd time the outcome of the controversial rerun of the vote deals a heavy blow to president on a live to our correspondent for the latest also coming out. hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of prague crowns of demonstrators turn out for it what are thought to be the czech republic's largest protests since the overthrow of
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communism demonstrators are calling on time minister bobbish to step down but he standing firm. on a call for welcome to the show. opposition candidate who has declared victory in the runoff a mayoral election in molo has won almost 54 percent of the ballot with over 97 percent of votes counted that's according to the state run news agency on the dole who is rival below the rim of the ruling a k party has already conceded defeat the a.k.p. had successfully called for a rerun of the vote. a narrow defeat in the 1st election in march the vote was seen as a key test for president. and his ruling party. for
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more let's bring in. who is following the elections in istanbul for us the opposition candidate acrimony who has won for a 2nd time does this come as much of a surprise. it doesn't come as a surprise to him and his supporters and we can already hear people honking the horns of their cars so we can safely expect some celebrations tonight because mr mama really achieved the near impossible he won back this city the significant city of 16000000 people for the opposition it's the 1st opposition victory here in 25 years mr mom who himself was little known until a few months ago even to many people here in turkey but at the initial vote and this repeats election have propelled him onto the national stage and he just gave
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a short speech where he said this is a new beginning to everybody in istanbul from now on the city will be rude by love equality and justice instead of polarization that was his message today and if we look at the figures as they are being reported now by the state run on a don't lose agency miss a mama who won with almost 54 percent of the votes with a decisive margin of 700000 votes in march he won with a narrow margin of 14000 votes but now he won 700000 votes more. of the ruling a k p so this really is a decisive victory for the opposition today arresting live pictures. what does the outcome mean for president. for president edwin and his ruling this is
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a huge blow to their reputation as being an almost invincible political force here in the country stumble is where president adam himself was born that way he became mayor in 1994 and then rose to power until. he won the presidential palace so this city for him means power and prestige and he was not willing to let the city go so easily that's why his party had pushed for a repeat of election so so hard so this night definitely has to be seen as a blow for the president and now apparently since the peace candidate conceded defeat it's also an important message apparently the a.k.p. is willing to accept this defeat this time but for sure the party will probably debate about what this election result means for them not only here in istanbul but in turkey as well talk about about the opposition how significant is this victory
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for them will they now we strengthen. other parts of the country well it's hugely significant at this election victory sends a signal of hope to turkey's opposition and many opposition parties have rallied behind him on the loo of the proca h.t.t.p. for example has supported him as a candidate and now the opposition has 3 major cities turkey's largest cities under control the capital ankara izmir in the west and now also with its 16000000 people turkey's largest city so for the opposition this really is a huge success so people will celebrate i guess on to late night day thank you leon i missed. iran's president hassan rouhani has demanded an international response for what he says was
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a violation of iranian airspace by an american drone terran has announced it will present quote incontrovertibly evidence to the u.n. to support its claims for his part the u.s. special envoy for iran has called on the international community to diplomatically urge iran to deescalate but with u.s. president reportedly authorizing a cyber attack on a rainy and targets and fresh sanctions against the islamic republic looming for now the brinkmanship carries on. a cyber strike against iran's missile systems that was washington's response to iran's downing of a u.s. spy drone the cyber attack was launched on thursday and reportedly crippled tehran's military command and control systems no lives were lost in the cyber attack but tempers still boiled over in iran's parliament on sunday as persian lawmakers chanted death to america. iran's president rouhani
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accused the u.s. of throwing oil on the fire when tensions were already running high in the middle east in israel trumps national security advisor john bolton vowed to keep up the pressure on tiran. neither iran nor any other hostile actor should mistake u.s. prudence and discretion for weakness no one has granted them a hunting license in the middle east u.s. president donald trump took a different approach trying to carrots instead of the stick the fact is we're not going to have a run have a nuclear weapon and when they agreed to that they are going to have a wealthy country they're going to be so happy and i'm going to be their best friend i hope that happens. i hope that happens but it may not. tensions in the gulf begun to boil over 2 weeks ago when all tankers were tucked while crossing the
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strait of hormuz a choke point along a runs shores that a 3rd of the world's crude oil passes through the u.s. blamed iran for the strikes something to iran denies. and with washington due to officially announce fresh sanctions against iran on monday it's unlikely the standoff will be over any time soon i think stay tuned. massive demonstrations are underway and prague with protesters calling for embattled prime minister under a bobbish to step down according to organizers more than 250000 people are there reportedly the biggest crowds of the country's 900 $89.00 revolution which overthrew communism bobbish is a wealthy businessman who leads the populist a party he's under investigation for corruption and conflicts of interest. until you correspondent is in prague for us emmanuel we can see huge crowds gathering
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behind you what's going on where you are. but i think the images and sounds really do speak for themselves we are witnessing here the historic day for the czech republic the 1000000 members for democracy civic movement which started this wave of protests around the country was hoping for just that this amount of people here on let's not park today in prague let's not back a highly symbolic play place for to check people this is where all the protests are doing in 1089 and this is where today people are gathering and coming from all classes of live beats students pension is active people they gathering here to demand the resignation of carmen is there and very obvious what exactly do they accuse bobbish of. collusion of interest and also corruption and this comes not only far from where you are a commission leaked report it's 2 weeks ago but also from the czech criminal police which conducted an investigation into alleged corruption and alleged subsidies
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that's bad babesia would have got from the european union more than a decade ago and for which he's he has to answer for if not up to justice but instead of answering to. accusations by the simply said that he would stay i remain prime minister and he fired a former justice minister and nominated someone he really trusted and that really triggered the anger also check the be. you see if you're knighted here how big of a problem is corruption in the czech republic in general. where this is exactly what the people here want to get rid of it is still very present in the checco society but to check the people who don't want any longer that correction he's part of their politics and i talk to people who earlier on today they told me that they wanted to come to me just as their parents had done it 30 years ago because they wanted a more democratic country something that i'm very proud he's had promised before his election but hasn't it is rich in money and many thanks. to formula one now
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tournament 8 times. we've probably all seen and heard parrots and song words mimic human speech but researchers in scotland have found that gray seals too can copy human sounds to tell us more about this unexpected finding i've got to tell your reporter pablo lives with me tell me what exactly have these researchers discovered well they're saying that the gray cells which are found in. northern europe and the northeast coast of the united states and canada have an ability to copy speech and songs now what this means is that they sense you have a similar production mechanism so the ability sort of to produce aims in their voice box similar to humans and it's potentially a new model to study speech disorders so it's a pretty big breakthrough it's a big breakthrough for scientists but what i want to do before we talk about it more is actually take a look at these heels and listen to them and i want to know what song are they singing nicole so let's listen to it 1st ok.
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i have. to ask. well there you go on to say one thing because they sing better than me what song was a twinkle twinkle little star indeed it was the thing about it is that currently it's actually not been possible to develop a sort of a workable model for tackling speech disorders so this like i said before is a huge breakthrough because interesting lee people would have associated perhaps primates with sort of using an animal will say as a similar sort of mechanism to humans but it's not the case it looks like seals are
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and presumably these researchers are getting around an ethical issue until through these new findings i exactly under thing is that using seals and baby seals like pups and is basically getting over this issue that you can't use new born babies in research why because of course they're going to be with her at their parents'. pulps in fact what happens is after a couple of weeks naturally they actually separate from their mother so this is a great way of basically doing all this research and they saying we just found out about this thank you very much. and before we go here's a quick reminder of the top story we're following for you opposition kind of an acronym molo has won as a 2nd victory in the rerun of istanbul's mayoral election as rival. they're rolling a party had conceded defeat losing control of turkey's largest city a heavy blow to president reza tell you there are no on and his ruling
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