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this is the double in years live from world leaders arrive in japan for the g. 20 summit meeting a trade war between the world's 2 largest economies china and the united states and the lack of consensus on tackling global warming are likely to dominate also on the program the health of germany's chancellor back in the spotlight after i get a makeover seeing shaking out an event for the 2nd time in 2 weeks. the european union calls on insulators and its standoff with a microchip rescue ship in the mediterranean rome was threatened drastic action
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after the vessel defies the. italian. german police arrest 2 more man in connection with the killing of a regional politician who supported refugees opposition parties saying the government must do more to combat the spread of right wing extremist factions. i'm phil gal welcome to the program. well leaders are gathering in the japanese city of ahead of friday's g 20 summit with their shortage of big issues to discuss the trade war between the united states and china is expected to dominate u.s. president donald trump warned on wednesday that he's ready to impose billions of dollars more tariffs on beijing defense ties and tackling climate change also on the job. also is on high alert over
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32000 police officers have come to the venue of the g. 20 summit from all over the country and many main traffic routes into the city are in lockdown. all public school students have 2 days off and residents are asked to refrain from using cars and going out if not necessary. in the major stations coin lockers and garbage bins are sealed off to counter terrorist attacks and security is ramped up at key locations close to where the heads of state will be staying. longer i'm from osaka and i really hope that everything goes down safely i'm proud to have a g 20 summit here so there's an aside in the sirens are a bit much i have a young child my baby hasn't been able to take a proper nap in a while and. usually bustling attractions like parts of was
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a castle park and the inside of the castle are closed off to the public since part of the summit is to be held inside the grounds. country to the g. 20 summits held an argentine and germany in the last they haven't been any major protests here and i've talked to organizers of a protest on sunday and they estimated that only about 200 people came and that's compared to thousands in argentina last year and tens of thousands in hamburg in germany in 2017 overrule the city's expecting 30000 visitors over the course of the weekend. the summit starts tomorrow d.w. correspondent to max hoffman is that in one sentence this. the japanese presidency is desperately trying to focus on well traditional g 20 topics such as the reform of the world trade organization or projects to fight climate change but
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what might happen here and also is that all of this is overshadowed by the big trump trump does not believe in multilateral institutions in fact he's coming here to have a series of bilateral meetings and one of them is highly anticipated with the chinese president xi on saturday as we know both countries on the edge of a full fledged trade war and the outcome of that bilateral meeting might determine the fate of world trade in the next month's up or down. in the reporting from saka and i had the g. 20 summit there are more concerns about the health of a german chancellor i'm going to medical after she was seen shaking at a function with the german president from qantas timeline to latest for attending a ceremony with outgoing justice minister caterina bali and this comes just 8 days after a similar incident in ukraine then the tremors were attributed to the chancellor suffering from dehydration. let's get more from
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political correspondent and even if not how most unwelcome how does the chancellor now. well she appeared just fine shortly after the incident happened today i'm going to america went on to visit a parliamentary session as the german parliament is going on some a break after this week and she's now actually on a plane flying to go to japan to attend the g. 20 summit but of course concerns are growing here in germany because it is as you mentioned the 2nd incident just within 2 weeks just over 9 days ago going to stood outside in the sun with a ukrainian president here in berlin during a state visit and she was seen trembling back then after the after the incident occurred reporters had asked chance that i'm going to america what she had done to combat the traveling and she said she drove drunk 3 glasses of water and was feeling a lot better afterwards and was able to continue continue with her agenda so in the
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previous accident it was as you just mentioned blamed on dehydration on a hot summer's day so want to stuff saying about this latest incident so her staffers spokesman today after the incident occurred that the chancellor was feeling fine that she was in good condition and she was able to continue with her agenda but of course concern is growing in germany about the chances health because especially because she's known for such a robust health and her staff didn't elaborate on the causes off today's trembling but we have to know that german privacy laws are very strict on releasing that type of personal information so again it is important not to speculate but to wait and see what should doctors say what her office will release over the next couple of weeks and acid seems now and we've seen in the previous incident it was blamed on
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dehydration and i'm going to america was able to continue with her duties as normal leader from thomas tamm thank you. now take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world german authorities say they have arrested a bosnian man in connection with islamist extremist attacks in paris in november 25th day and officials say the 39 year old was detained a week ago in eastern germany and will be extradited to belgium $130.00 people were killed in attacks on sites that included the battle plan theater. in tunisia one person has died and that least 8 have been injured in 2 suicide bombings in the capital tunis the attacks targeted security forces including police offices to music has faced a string of extremist attacks in recent years some of them claimed by the islamic state militant group. tens of thousands of supporters of new man have been celebrating in the city streets of position politician. took office for the 2nd
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time today 4 days after his decisive victory in a rerun thoughts by president ones at building and k. party. the european union is calling on italy to find a quick resolution to its standoff with a german n.-g. o. who's migrant rescue ship and to the italian waters despite a ban from rome on board the ship of 42 people picked up off the coast of libya 2 weeks ago. jonathan crane has more on this so welcome jonathan so tell us what's going on for a century this has been stranded at sea for the last fortnight it's been around. as you mentioned that the nearest italian territory to libya has been very clear with its position it's closed for policy means that migrant ships cannot dock in any italian port it's expressly for bates the sea works from entering its water is that
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blocking it from docking but yesterday the captain of the ship she had no choice but it's how the end waters know she risks a fine of up to 50000 euros for doing. but she says the condition of the migrants on the ship is now desperate that exhausted that she posted on social media. marketing which. more and. more. with the latest update from her she has told the german news agency d.p.a. that if no agreement is reached she will force that ship. so what's next then for the sea watch well they're hoping that someone somewhere will find a solution and reach an agreement on the of this because the e.u. is that the doc that is in it doesn't seem to me at school to do that now we
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suffered a bit of a blood because they had been asking the european court of human rights to intervene but the court basically said that it wasn't a blah is to let the migrants disembark but rather offer them assistance it sees that there is some speculation that maybe the italian coast guard who take migrants off the ship themselves and then take them support on their own ships the sea maintains that under emergency maritime law italy is obliged to act. so it shows and obviously his view of this is completely different what are they saying yes in interior minister. and his far right party made a lot of political capital on the line immigration stance that popularity has as
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a result now he says this isn't about a c. rescue it's about an organization aiding and abetting illegal immigration. he's been tweeting as well we know he's very active on social media he said that i do not support those who help the smugglers who with the money they offer the immigrants then by arms and drugs he then added that in another treat if the ship is seized and the crew arrested i would only be happy now there's a lot of frustration among some in italy that the country has become a landing points if you like for many migrants they borne the brunt of the crisis solve any is made a point of saying is that it was done being a refugee camp in europe for migrants is called on a lot of other e.u. countries to do more but the youth says unless the migrants are actually allowed to talk then nothing can be done but to follow jonathan craig thank you. here in germany police have arrested 2 people in connection with the killing of
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a vigil politician. it was an outspoken supporter chancellor whose migration policy opposition parties say the case shows the need for the government to take the threat of far right extremist violence most seriously. in the case of the killing of state politician volatile luka investigators say there was no sign of a right wing extremist terrorist network but the suspect allegedly had help with acquiring the gun germany's federal prosecutors have confirmed that 2 men one suspected of selling the weapon and a contact man are being taken into investigative custody. was that we're acting on the assumption that the 2 suspects knew about stephanie's right wing extremist beliefs and that they approved of the sale of a shooting weapon knowing it was possible it would be used for a politically motivated killing more to get into doing suppression. to get castle's district president was executed with a single gunshot in front of his house it is said to be the 1st murder of
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a serving politician by a right wing extremist since $945.00 since the nazi dictatorship ended. germany's interior minister horst say hole 1st says he will do all he can to toughen the rule of law. a constitutional democracy must be able to remove enemies of the constitutional democracy from the general population especially those who process serious sleep my office will seriously look into which groups we can ban according to say the number of right wing extremists in germany has reached a new height of close 224000 this is a worrying figure for the head of the country's domestic intelligence agency who said while presenting his annual report that right wing extremists appear more confident in our networking internationally. right wing extremists high degree of readiness to commit violence is striking said every 2nd right wing extremist is to be classified as ready for violence the number of violent crimes
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has risen by 3.2 percent. the opposition says it is now time that investigators analyze the right wing extremists seen more closely than ever before. we need a reform of the administration we need more scientific expertise more transparency to be able to get clarity in the face of the complexity of these numbers. we need to recognize network structures better see the connections between single groupings better. was most likely killed because he advocated for refugees as a politician now many in germany are asking themselves how rightwing agitation and hate can be held in check. let's look at this closer with journalist martin stein haagen who's been researching this case he joins us from frankfurt they are welcome to day let's start with today's that 2 arrests what do we know about the
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men taken into custody. well as we heard at least one of them was involved in the new nazi scene before so it appears that he has been arrested maybe 10 years ago or something like that in connection with the assault of a group of violent new nazis on a demonstration of the german union and the other one is not so not not not known so far but. i think that is very important to see if they were involved in the united networks or what their role in the cases now despite today's arrests german prosecutors say there is no indication of the far right network behind this killing what do your research is tell you well it's an ongoing investigation but at least the federal prosecutor says that they will look into it so i hope that they'll really do this this time and there was lots of criticism within the and as you case . in your nazi of terrorist group that killed 10 people in germany that they were focused solely on the on the main perpetrators and didn't really look into the
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network so i think it's crucial that this time. the focus is wider and the networks are being taken seriously you mentioned the notorious and as you case that do seem to be the links between that case and these suspects. well we're not so sure how close these links are at this point and as i said it's an still ongoing investigation we know that the federal prosecutor at least also asked this question whether there's a link. at least one of these people who were arrested today appears in with in the end it's you complex because he was asked in as a witness back then but we're not sure yet whether it was as an actual connection between the 2 cases the question always was had the detainees you have some kind of local network within the places where they're actually killed people in council there was a murder in 2006 of young holly just that he was 21 years old and we have always asked the question whether local help us that we are not aware of today until today
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so this still remains an open question we're hearing from the interior minister jose hoffa he says he's concerned about the size and violence of the far right seen here in germany many would say that he should have reached that conclusion long ago yeah i think you're right i think lots of n.g.o.s activists journalists on the other politicians also said that the german government has long played a difficult role in assessing the domestic threat by a right wing terrorism in germany especially the intelligent the domestic intelligence service was always criticized of not taking these networks to serious and also of maybe downplaying the importance and the threat that they oppose him so they have a problem though don't they german politicians in as much as you now have a far right. if they are sitting as the opposition in parliament effectively legitimize legitimizing these sorts of views. yeah we've seen that or at least
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there's always the danger that when these views get more air time get more presents seem to be legitimate because there are protections that talk this way in the german parliament that this always gives new energy to the neo nazi in that they feel that there is some kind of representing a legitimate view of a portion of the population that they feel that they that they just act out what lots of people think and that's very dangerous yeah thanks for joining us journalist a modern china hog and thank you for that. also in germany fanuc story the biggest abuse scandal the country has seen for years the trial has begun of 2 men for sexually abusing a several 100 young children the abuse is alleged to have taken place at a campsite in a town in western germany over decades the case is mired in controversy and with charges of failures by the police and by local authorities. it was here at this
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camping ground that the 2 suspects allegedly abused over 40 children their victims included the main suspects own foster daughter as well as children as young as 4 years old the unlucky for good at solving a relatively short period of time through interrogation and deduction we were able to determine that many children had been abused and additionally we found evidence of child pornography much of which were self-made food. the police are now giving deaf allah tension to the case after dragging their feet thick years say critics according to the latest reports a government official and a psychologist had already raised concerns about the suspect sexual behavior in 2016 despite this government agencies allow the suspect to be granted custody of his foster daughter mia is on their clearly it is even comprehensible to
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me how these 3 pieces of evidence could have been so badly misjudged resulting in such a fatal oversight and had to work on this. but reports suggest that the government's failure went beyond basic incompetence employees of the youth welfare office reportedly did not only ignore these concerns they also manipulates the suspects records in their favor by deleting certain information about him. when they thought we have not fulfilled our duty as guardians and our mission to protect the welfare of the children the way we should have because we misjudged these 3 pieces of evidence. on darfur and we sincerely apologize to those who have suffered as a result. night lytton holland. 2 police officers and now also under investigation allegedly they too had known about the concerns against the
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main suspect and not reacted then in february over $150.00 d.v.d.'s that served as evidence disappeared from a police department only 3 were saved the trial for now assess not only the killed of the alleged abusers but also how the government authorities could have failed so many times. out of the latest trend to hit the streets in big cities around the world electric scooters for hire they're everywhere at the moment lots of international companies want to slice of that market where local authorities see them as a headache with accidents only increase critics also say they're not economically viable or environmentally sustainable so commuters say it's the best way to get around. this couple is doubled up on one studer even though it's illegal in germany you can now find these vehicles for rent on nearly every corner in the heart of berlin and this summer people are scootering through the streets and parks of the
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german capital where 15 companies are competing for the market critics complain that they clog up traffic and consume too much energy. we wanted to hear the company's response so we zoomed along 2 german scooter sharing company tier mobility experiences in other cities show that only 20 percent of economics good or riders have given up their cars for this mode of transport but the sector believes that in the long run electric scooters will ride cars off the road. but it is if. you want to if you look at the commuter train stations here in berlin in some cases they're one or 2 kilometers apart and maybe your office is right between them or your workplace is 4 or 5 kilometers from the train station then it's very attractive to rent an electric kick scooter at the station to get to your office and the potential users are people who would have otherwise taken their cars
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dignified sense of. unfairness ultimately. but keeping up an adequate network of motorized scooters is a logistical challenge at night transporters have to collect the scooter fleet and redistribute them for the next morning micro mobility analyst alexander young says that's why it's no surprise that a 10 minute ride currently costs 2 years 50 as much as a subway ticket. let's find out all of the aga fuel i lot of suppliers say that's even below the running costs because managing a fleet of electric scooters cost so much money tied into the buy don't adequately taught on as the current generation doesn't have replaceable batteries. so you basically. you have to pick up every scooter every 2 days ticket to a warehouse to be charged and then bring it back into town and he starts over because that in my view that's not economically viable in the long run. but
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manufacturers are working on the battery problem and they're convinced that these electric vehicles can help turn the corner in the mobility revolution. france has issued its 1st ever red alert for dangerous weather amid the record breaking heat wave sweeping across europe parts of france and spain a sweltering in temperatures above 40 degrees celsius with forecasters warning of even hotter conditions on friday germany and other northern european countries are also getting their share of the extreme heat. sometimes the only way to escape the heat is to go for a day. that's what these germans on the banks of the rhine did once the horror in temperatures came to europe. scientists say such weather is made more likely by climate change but it's refreshing and it's fun to go swimming with friends and to lie in the sun. now this was like
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a nice not good this is when the weather is this good you don't need to go on holiday. across the continent they struggled to keep cool weather on 2 legs or 4. but the extreme heat was too much for some particularly vulnerable the young and the old. at this retirement home in france they need not venture far to wet their toes. and. put a small white cloth around my name and there isn't much more i can do i don't move around but it our age we don't move too much. for provisions 20 water can and help combat the scorching sun. rules were meant to be broken on days like this. but for emergency services in northeastern spain there was no such respite the weather is fuelling raging forest fires officials
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warn bad as temperatures rise to over 40 the blaze could grow 5 times as big. a heat wave has also turned up in iceland well by local standards some daring teens took the plunge to beat the searing 22 degrees celsius heat. yeah that's all you get pico so i'm rather terrified of the water ringback and this is the 1st time i've done this and the 1st. place it's wet it's cold and it's bad. they were fooling around approx 2 supplies of frozen fruits to stop the gorillas from losing their cool. as a reminder of our top story at this hour g. 20 leaders are arriving in japan in fact i know summit which begins on friday trying to catch up serious divisions over trade and tolerance i'm talking the
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global climate crisis. this is the next focus on europe including reports on the suffering of fresh fiji's on the greek island of psalms i'll be back at the top of the hour.
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when much of europe wanted to keep them out marie i'm not pro-gun he invited them in. if we kind of son most is home to one of the worst 50 g. cancer in the mediterranean. but one woman makes life a little better for her new neighbors. meet mama riyadh and the refugees of some us . next on the c.w. .
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but the room a legend was simply a schumann beam was neil armstrong. the moon was his destiny starts july 20th on t.w. . come. my. hello and welcome to focus on europe. it's nice to have you with us there are few places where europe's failure to tackle the refugee crisis is so evident as in greece thousands of refugees are stuck in overcrowded camps waiting for their asylum applications to be processed and there are new are arrivals daily this.

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