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this is you know we news live from berlin germany tech news its laws on migration and asylum in an effort to speed up deportations of asylum seekers who haven't been granted their right to stay all those with pending applications now fear that time might be running out for them and they might be soon forced to leave the country also coming up at least 30 people are killed by a roadside bomb in afghanistan as the leaders in a string of attacks his presidential campaigning gets underway there are fears the violence could get worse. as the former an audi chief rupert stadler is formally
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charged by german prosecutors for his alleged role in the diesel gate scandal. only iraq is great to have you along everyone in a controversial move germany is tightening its laws on migration and asylum while one aim is to make it easier to deport asylum seekers whose applications have not been successful a last year journey to port of nearly 25000 failed asylum seekers but more than 31000 planned deportations didn't take place in the 1st place the reason often being that documents are either missing or that the people due to be deported have gone into hiding while now with this new bill asylum seekers will be penalised. if
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they were fused to cooperate and it will become easier to detain failed asylum seekers ahead of their deportation do abuse market went to munich to find out just how germany's deportation procedures work in practice take a look. at munich's airport a dozen nigerian nationals are taken to a chartered plane for deportation. 5 people on the passenger list are missing they may have gone into hiding 12 migrants board the aircraft accompanied by 3 times as many police officers. officer christiane kugel maya has been on many such deportation flights he says repatriation amounts to a personal crisis for migrants many are desperate some even injure themselves at the last minute to try and avoid deportation as i remember the moments in the bay are always all my worry about it i wonder how things are going to work out for them are these but then i figure if we're sitting in the plane with them that
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a proper legal process is being carried out to me even though i'm out of order. some bubba whose from senegal could be deported next he has lived in and around munich for 5 years his asylum application was turned down he knows the rules for deportation are getting stricter and a lengthy detention is possible. is a feel for all of us let's not leave because we are not see if we are to see. what through what we think from the years we have been done i think if someone don't know what is probably we don't fight so i think is good also to point you to those people. some get support from an n.g.o.s munich a refugee council that helps him when he deals with officials and needs legal advice the refugee council is critical of the new deportation that you lation. the stared at him as a sneer compared to being. literally deprived of their rights not only that those
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who fled here are being dehumanised because this is no longer a matter of an individual's fate but the families are split up or whether a person is sick this is a matter of carrying out to potations for the sake of raising the statistics scientistic good. authority to see things differently those in detention at this temporary facility at munich airport are legally required to be deported. every case has been reviewed by a judge. to hear a plea was for people who have committed offenses have priority on a deportation flight these are those who are in danger of public order and safety delinquents and people consider the threat a dealt with 1st comes every one else because when one by the gastritis if it's not only criminals who are detained in the worst cases people who have committed minor violations such as signing a document too late could also be deported. that sometimes makes officers like john
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cougar meyer think twice even if they trust the system could a minor things abusive officials who accompany deportees such as speeding and biting is on the rise and witnessing deportees inflicting injury on themselves is stressful. because it it was it is murder is really your go and sort of i try to avoid letting it get to me but i think he doesn't mean me personally he probably sees police officers on the flight as representatives of the german state and she holds them in contempt because he has to leave the country that is how i just ask myself from the situation or over the week is a visit from your fiancee were. the migrants from nigeria have long since landed back home for the time being they may not return to germany their dream is over. well for more on this issue i want to welcome our francisco bill maher she is an
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asylum policy expert at amnesty international here in berlin good to have you here with dismissed germany has been trying to reform its migration policy for some time now are they going about it the right way with this new bill we have criticized the new bill a lot and this is because actually many laws have been passed in the last years in a very very steady procedure and we fear that the experts and especially in this legal process procedure have not been here enough and this is why for instance the un committee against torture but also the human rights commission not by the european council have criticized the legal procedure and also our way of deporting asylum seekers that have been rejected in a nutshell what are some of the main concerns that you are has the main concern is that actually putting rejected asylum seekers into custody or into detention might
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become a rule instead of an expectation and. exception and actually it should be a measure of last resort this is why let me just add this maybe because the criteria the risk of scolding is now always something that is expected and there has been a shift the burden so the person who has been detained has to prove that in fact he won't a scone that's very hard is it legal in germany to detain people like the failed asylum seekers ahead of their deportation is there a bill that allows for that this is exactly what is coming up now and it will have also rules that make it much more easier. do you expect this to be challenged in court this bill i expect especially expect this to be challenged because now germany is planning to put together people that are in immigration detention together with people that are in criminal detention this has been ruled out by the european court of justice and through 2014 to violate european law but also of
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course the message being to all of those who are applying for asylum here in germany is don't go to the authorities go into hiding because the chances of you your application be rejected is so much higher and have you been deported as so much higher do you fear that there's going to be an increase of people resorting to remaining in this country illegally i don't think so i actually think it would be necessary to really slow down a little bit and look at the numbers and make evaluations of the existing laws right now for instance nobody talks about the fact that in 2018 actually in within or about 40000 rejected asylum seekers have actually left germany and then we have a lot of doubts about the numbers that the government has been dealing with around surrounding this law they've been talking about 236000 people that are actually obliged to leave germany out of which 180000 are actually tolerated by the. gratian
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office is for several reasons because of medical reasons legal reasons or also because they are in vocational training and the number just to include the city for we let you go the number of people applying for asylum have radically dropped exactly so the timing of this bill is there's no state of emergency right thank you so much francisco bill maher from amnesty international here in germany greatly appreciate it i want to say now about some of the other stories making news around the world the african union has condemned the killing of 4 students opposition protesters in sudan earlier this week the students were shot by government forces in the city of beit as they protested the country's military rulers the opposition signed the outline of a power sharing agreement with the military government just weeks ago. north korea has launched 2 short range ballistic missiles as young yanks 2nd weapons test in
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less than a week south korea says the missiles were fired from the east coast and flew about 250 kilometers towards japan japanese prime minister shinzo abbay says there's no impact on his country's security. iran has announced plans to reform and rename its currency which is now called the reaal is set to become the toll mine and will shed 4 zeros in the process ordinary iranians have long been slashing zeros from their national currency to simplify transactions and move comes as the real continues to hit record lows under international sanctions. we turn our attention now to of gone a stone where at least 30 people have been killed and 10 injured by a roadside bomb in the province of fatah it's the latest in a string of attacks as the presidential campaigning season gets underway security has been deteriorating across the country with both the taliban and islamic state
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fighters mounting near daily attacks. the victims were all civilians the majority of the dead women and children they'd been travelling in a bus on a highway linking the 2 key cities of kandahar and herat in western afghanistan the bus then hit an improvised roadside bomb. and we were heading to kabul from hair out with our vehicle was hit by a landmine i saw many people martyred and injured there was no immediate claim of responsibility afghan government officials blamed taliban insurgents who operate in the area and are accused of planting the explosives but a taliban spokesman denied the group's involvement in the bloodshed is expected to intensify now that official campaigning for afghanistan's presidential election is underway on sunday just hours after incumbent president ashraf ghani kicked off his
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campaign at least 20 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when a suicide attacker and gunman targeted the capitol office of his running mate. once again civilians bore the brunt of the violence. so here must be a lecture and will cost the lives of our poor people the poor are the main victims are myself i'm affected by this attack there is no one to check on my situation. i can't go anywhere i have no shelter job or is your beef with the taliban and other insurgent groups determined to undermine afghanistan's fragile democracy many afghans worry about further violent attacks in coming weeks. i'm now joined in the studio sandra peters min an expert on of gonna start why is there such a spike in violence right now at this moment i think most of the time we tend to forget that this has been one of the bloodiest was ever in the history and in the
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past couple of years has seen year by year by year an uptick in. casualties and right now there is a lot going on politically we see presidential elections scheduled for the end of september but we also see a lot happening at the negotiation front and maybe this taken violence is also about leverage at the negotiating table from both sides from both sides but what i was struck by in our report as well is that the u.n. mission in afghanistan came out just recently and released a report saying that most civilians deaths in the 1st half of the year were not caused by taliban were not caused by the islamic state they were caused by afghan forces and the international allies yeah because this is a war without front lines you know this is a war hitting the villages hitting talents so take today if you have a planted roadside bomb that explodes it's meant to hit a convoy but it hits
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a civilian bus you have civilian casualties likewise if you haven't asked reich that it's meant to hit taliban fighters who are in the village and that goes wrong you will hit civilians and that is precisely what's happening so we have a great increase in our strike from the u.s. and afghan air force but mainly from the u.s. air force and that is hitting civilians and also ground forces moving during the night during night raids that is also hitting civilians though the intention might be to hit fighters what you illustrate there makes me think this is these are not the conditions that are right to hold a presidential election but they will be held it's a little bit reading in the crystal ball because negotiations are ongoing right now that there will be a round of negotiations between the taliban and the u.s. so we might see if this might be a bargaining chip if you ask me personally the last presidential elections that i have covered have seen a lot of violence a lot of dying people and i sometimes wonder is it really worth it when what people
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are asking for most right now is security and safety for their loved ones because a lot of my friends. and they leave the house in the morning they are not sure if they will see their life once again in the evening so they always say goodbye as if as if it were the last time and the 20 seconds that we have left together is there a candidate currently running that could deliver on that promise to secure afghanistan for the people cannot just not get that out there because it's really such a quick my own you have a great idea for decades of war all right sandra peters and i thank you so much i'm sure you'll be reporting from there and keeping us updated thank you. the next one and a country still deeply scarred by the genocide of 25 years ago some 800000 people were slaughtered in a time span of 100 days by ethnic hutu extremists they were targeting members of the minority tutsi community as well as political opponents many of the killers mostly men have served time in prison but now want to heal themselves and reconcile
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with their communities our correspondent melanie has been to the city of against and in western rwanda and there she met some of those struggling to come to terms with their troubled past. i was hopeful when the mall today these men sit side by side in community based social therapy to share their experiences during run discover it's the 1994 genocide 25 years ago i went up to a 1000000 tutsis a moderate hutus were wiped out in just 100 days but it were divided among those who carried out the killings and those who survived it. memories of being on the run and how his pregnant wife had to give birth in hiding to pivot. when we couldn't find a way that the baby would survive on and being without it but i still have friends who i was doing business with they helped me and they took my newborn at night
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chairwoman and i'm going to run an orphanage. the baby stay there but a few days later at the perpetrators. went there to look for him they took my baby and killed him. after now lives a peaceful life with his wife. but he struggles with the guilt of not being able to protect the 12 members of his family who were killed during the genocide similarly former release perpetrators like every step have served their sentence are still haunted by what they call the shame of their past he says he's guilty of killing 4 people including to members of his own family. i came to realize that i can't escape my judgment i accepted it i went to ask my father in law for forgiveness it was too much to handle the fact that i had killed my mother in law i was in so much pain. many of the men returning from prison have struggled they found their families estranged their role as the head of the household challenged
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in the image of their very own masculinity destroyed. they say these feelings however cannot be talked about in public. and always has to be strong a man has to suffocate his pain and behave like a man. the way i see it a man should also show his emotions in rwandan culture i can accept it in public. amounted to overcome its pain. then swallowed it tears that's a local problem here in rwanda which reflects a dangerous side to all men are expected to deal with their pain and grief alone in silence and internally although the country is hailed as a role model reconciling with its violent past a toxic image of let's continue to assess it continues to have the healing process of its mayor population. away from social pressures at least and i'm glad they have found
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a safe space to reconcile and work on the psychological. therapy helped. because we used to fear each other. whenever i saw a person i had wronged. i could feel my heart racing. we have no problems with the perpetrators anymore because they're part of the families of social therapy. when we meet now we are the same we have the same heart. but. the men have the same use social therapy group hope to contribute to the healing of their country so that future generations won't repeat their mistakes by facing their demons together they set an example so that rundown men learn how to show their emotions and their society learns to accept that. you know he used the
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money correct of all that reporting from rwanda i had it's still more than a year away but in the u.s. the democrats are already gearing up for the 2020 presidential election while 10 hopefuls hoping to win the party's nomination have faced off in a televised debate the candidates addressed issues on immigration and health care but the democrats' biggest challenge is stopping incumbent president donald trump winning a 2nd term on 10 more contenders including vice president and front runner joe biden will debate later tonight. it was billed as a political blockbuster these democratic candidates met for a 2nd time to spawn live on t.v. . for all said.
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they sang out of the same hymn book during the rendition of the national anthem but all unity disappeared when a fierce debate ensued and progressives like bernie sanders clashed with more moderate candidates like john hickenlooper. but there was one thing all contenders agreed upon trump must go. we have got to take god trumps racism is sexism settled phobia and come together in an unprecedented unprecedented grassroots movement to not only defeat trump but to transform our economy and how government will call his racism out for what it is and also talk about its consequences it doesn't just offend our sensibilities to hear him say send her back about a member of congress because she's a woman of color because she's a muslim american doesn't just offend our sensibilities when he calls mexican immigrants rapists and criminals senator elizabeth warren reminders
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a rival's that in spite of the differences democrats will soon. have to unite to defeat their common enemy 5 shirts away from the one donald trump disgraces the office of presidents every single day and to have anyone on this stage tonight or tomorrow night would be a far better president i promise no matter who our candidate is i will work my heart out to be donald trump and to elect a democratic congress for. 10 more democrats will debate each other on wednesday it will be some time still before the policy chooses a candidate to try mum see trump in the 2020 alexion zz 50. 0 back here in germany news of the emissions cheating scandal in germany's automotive industry may have broken 4 years ago but prosecutors are still bringing charges against the people that they believe are responsible the latest is rupert
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stadler who used to head up the division of the volkswagen group. for more than 20 years rupert stadler was one of the top executives in the german although industry today the former audi boss finds himself facing charges of fraud false certification and criminal advertising practices all consequences of his alleged role in days of the gas emissions cheating scandal which has rocked the car industry in germany since details 1st emerged almost 4 years ago that statler is accused of a lengthy sales of hundreds of thousands of folks wagon and all the models to continue after september 2015 that's when munich prosecutors say he already knew those same models had been fitted with illegal software that helped the vehicles game missions tests. audi is part of the volkswagen group before joining audi shuttler was head of the board for the folks wagon group he served as audi chief
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executive from 2007 until october 20th when he was formally dismissed a few months after being arrested by german police for his alleged role in the scandal he spent more than 3 months in custody before its release. the public prosecutor's office in munich say shuttler and 3 other defendants are being charged . already says the case is separate from the wider investigation into the carmaker's role in the scandal which was settled last october with an 800000000 euro fine. our senior business anchor ben facility joins me now here on this saying good to see you blast from the past take where are we at in this investigation this has been going on for years and years and years now since 2015 as you know even further back to the ninety's the 1990 s. when there were revelations back then in the washington post that these sorts of different devices were being used in cars and these sorts of discrepancies were being read. through inquiries the discrepancies between cars on the road and
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cars being tested. slowly but surely the authorities have been tracking down who's responsible for this and it takes a long time i mean you've got to go through company e-mails or raid their offices the u.s. authorities have been much quicker the german authorities are slowly starting to catch up and whereas v.w. always pointed the finger at engineers and all the bosses in the bosses didn't know what was going on finally the bosses landing in jail including mr sha'ath because this this process is so painstaking as you've just illustrated who else is facing prosecution and dislocate it's not just the shot lower of as we've heard today also on how it's the former out ian porter manager according to people who are familiar with the proceedings 2 engineers as well and $23.00 further suspects of being investigated the v.w. boss the big guy has to be into corn mountain been to coin has also been charged with fraud as part of the wider investigation and basically a way of waiting to see whether or not all of this comes to trial what else is
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going to happen now for where do we go from here where do we go from here i know that i'm going to take my bike from here right now i mean seriously as a consumer you've been cheated for years thinking that you're. buying environmentally friendly cars and you know it you know these cars are just pumping out heaps more fumes and it's not just bad for for you on the road but also for cyclists like me who have to put up with all the fumes from these cars but basically these comic is a going to try to put this whole affair behind them try to put it in the review mirror v.w. is doing a fantastic job at that saying that it wants to become the leader in environmentally friendly mobility and it is starting to move to electric vehicles but it's taken a long time a lot of the other com make is went electric a long time ago. so they're going to continue doing that and they going to continue breaking in the profits because ever since this scandal broke they've continued making record profits year on the consumer confidence. then physio and our senior
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business anchor and much more thank you very much greatly appreciate it. you're watching up next to news asia and over it you can always stay up to date by heading to our web site that's. thank you for spending this part of your day with.
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