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and speaking in northern ireland today in belfast he reiterated his promise that he will take the u.k. out of the european union and that there can be no brakes a deal until the backstop is scrapped now the backstop is something like an insurance policy that would guarantee no return to a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland most people in northern ireland voted to remain in the european union in that referendum back in 2016 and $1.00 of the provinces biggest parties the nationalist shin fein is staunchly opposed to a new deal. that was the message that the party's leader had for mr johnson when she spoke to him today so we have mass with bars johnson. we've had a fairly extensive conversation with him and which we have raised the issue of breaks us in his sad course of action which seems. to indicate that he has set the
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compass for a disorderly in a crash frags this it was very carefully that this would be catastrophic for the irish economy. for irish i fully hood's for our society for our politics and for our peace accords. we've made it clear to him that the extensive planning that he tells us he is carrying out and respect of a potential crash bragg's. the constitutional question of the issue of a border post here in our lands. germany deported nearly 25000 people last year whose application for asylum had been rejected but that is less than half of the number of people who should have been deported 30000 people are thought to still be in the country in hiding where now the government is tightening the law to make it easier to send people not
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eligible for asylum back to their country of origin as we reported the changes are controversial. techniques airport a dozen nigerian national star 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 kook of my own 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 to mention the day are always 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 a proper legal process is being carried out. for. somebody who is
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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 fear for all of us let's not leave because we are not safe the other says. what to do what we think. is we haven't got money i think if someone don't know what is problem you don't fight so i think. people. some get support from an engine you know in 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 delay sions. the start at an as isness compared to being completely deprived of their rights not only that it's led here are being dehumanised because this is no longer
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a matter of an individual's fate but the families are split up or whether the 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. related to yeah but she will. people who have committed offenses have priority on deportation flights or those who are in danger of public order and safety delinquents and people consider the threat dealt with 1st then comes every one else. by the struggle so 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.
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think twice even if they trust the system could be mired thinks abusive officials who accompany deportees such as speeding and fighting is on the rise and witnessing deportees inflicting injury on themselves is stressful. because it is it is. try to avoid letting it get to me i think he doesn't mean me personally he probably sees police officers on the flight as representatives of the german state and he holds them in contempt because he has to leave the country that is how i distance myself from the situation or and over the week is a visit from your fiancee or. the migrants from nigeria have long since landed back home for the time being they may not return to germany their train is over. one remains a country deeply scarred by the genocide 25 years ago about 800000 people were
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slaughtered in 100 days by ethnic extremists they were targeting members of the minority community as well as political opponents many of the killers mostly men have served time in prison but the genocide has had a lasting and devastating effects on rwanda with ethnicity still very much a taboo subject our correspondent melanie jura the ball introduces us to men who are trying to talk about what happened in the hopes of healing themselves. when the mall today these men sit side by side in community based social sarah p. to share their experiences during run this darkest hour the 1994 genocide 25 years ago when up to a 1000000 tutsis a moderate hutus were wiped out in just 100 days it would divide it among those who carried out the killings and those who survived it. memories of being on the run
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and how his pregnant wife had to give birth in hiding still give it. your couldn't find a way that baby would survive being with us but i still had friends who i was doing business with they helped me and they took my newborn at night chairwoman them with her run an orphanage at. the baby stage but a few days later at the perpetrators went there to look for him and they took my baby and killed him but i don't know. 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 released perpetrators like every step of the 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
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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 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 a man should also show his emotions in rwandan culture i can accept it in public. amounted to oprah compassed pain. men swallow their tears that's a local problem here in rwanda which reflect the dangerous side to all men are expected to deal with their pain and grief alone in silence and internally although
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