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this is d.w. news live from berlin tonight sounding the alarm over the spread of ebola in the democratic republic of congo. in the forty's have closed and then reopened the border with the d r c as a 3rd death is confirmed in the congolese city of goma with a population of 2000000 fears of an epidemic are growing also coming up tonight
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could be planning to use force in hong kong that's what some people are reading into the army's release of a video that includes an exercise in riot control plus remembering a huge sacrifice in world war 2 thousands have been on those who were killed in the war seoul uprising 75 years ago the futile effort to drive the nazis out of poland was the biggest active military resistance against german forces in the will. i bring coffee it's good to have you with us tonight fears of a new outbreak of ebola are growing a 3rd person has died from ebola in the city of goma in the democratic republic of congo the latest victim is a one year. old girl whose father the 2nd confirmed case in the city died yesterday
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now goma is a city of about 2000000 people so there are fears that just a few cases of the deadly virus could quickly infect hundreds even thousands of people the city is close to the border with rwanda as you see right there it's been a year since the original outbreak of ebola further north of goma and then i'll break it is still claiming lives. after another death from a bullet in the congolese border city of goma rwanda closed through its address to get attempt to limit the disease is spread but one that threaten the lightly hood of those who commute between the countries but just hours later it was open again with the u.n. seeing border closure actually makes it harder to contain the disease he will find another way there's there are more remote areas where he can do across the main border you can find a different way when you when that starts to happen the ability to get to see that
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the magic or not it was that was so sexy by inductive and only it was either country protesters further north and congo demanded more picketing u.n. headquarters another day to add to the $2500.00 people already affected surprise there is panic and confusion on both sides of the border. and we're joined now by trish newport from doctors without borders in geneva switzerland she is coordinating the organization's ebola response trisha's good to have you on the program talk to me how big is the risk of ebola spreading within and beyond goma at this point. there's definitely a risk so right now there have been in the past year more than 2700 people in cases with over 1700 deaths so that's a lot but what's even more concerning is that every week of all the new cases that are identified only 40 percent are people 40 percent who are never identified as
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people that were risk of having the disease and because of this we have no visibility over the at the dimia logical situation we don't know who has been in contact with confirmed cases and that means that there's always the risk of spread in one year on the fight. over what makes it so difficult to contain this epidemic. it's extremely challenging it's the 1st time there's ever been any bola operate in an area with active conflict and it's not so much the conflict it's the lack of trust that the people have to wards the ebola response so from the very beginning there was very little community engagement with the communities since then it has improved but the problem is the communities have other priorities than just people it's an area where there's a measles a very where there's color cases where people are dying of area and they don't all
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have access to clean water so when you ask the population why they're so angry or resistant towards the ebola response they say because he pull is not their priority so we really have to be changing the way that we're responding to ebola and really working with the communities asking them how they want the response in their communities and asking them what their priorities are in looking at how we can respond to those priorities as well. so that the people of eckstein is still experiment of which means that it needs to be used under research protocol so it's not something you would use as a mass vaccination you have to do it as a ring that's a nation that's need all of the contacts or people that were in close contact with a confirmed case and everyone around those people the problem is that's based off
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of a surveillance system that's working but as i said 40 percent of the people that are getting ebola were never identified as contacts or people that had some link to a confirmed case so we need to be looking at changing the strategy to ensure that there's better access to the vaccine for the affected population and. the trust between the. the the physicians coming in to treat. patients to trust you. it's a great question i'll give you an example of what happens when you don't have trust so when you have a confirmed case that confirmed case is supposed to tell someone everyone a list of everyone that was close to them in their lives so that all of those people will be followed for 21 days to see if they develop the signs of a bullet and if you don't trust someone you're not going to tell them everyone that's close to you in your life so it's an example of why we don't have this
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visibility over that the team the logical situation so really we need to be reviewing how we're dealing with the situation we have to be listening to the community and we have to be giving the communities the control to really direct how they want people of response and as i said before we have to make sure that we are dealing in addressing with the other priorities that the community has like access to health care access to clean water making sure that we're responding to the measles outbreak into the violence and displacement that they're living in. to convince them that you're there to help them and not to be big brother. doctors with us in geneva switzerland 1st we appreciate your time tonight thank you and thank you very much. for the 1st time the chinese army has condemned the ongoing pro-democracy protests in hong kong and said that should not be tolerated now that comment has left many wondering whether beijing will intervene with force
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and was also seen as a warning the army released a proper video of an exercise in which armed troops quell demonstrations take a look. help us show of force by the chinese troops stationed in hong kong this video released by the people's liberation army is not just about regular military training. also show soldiers facing down demonstrators. the video will be seen by many as a thinly veiled threat of intervention by the chinese military in hong kong's internal affairs especially when a company by this. message from the commander of chinese forces in the territory major general chandelle shunk spoke of extremely violent incidents happening in hong kong and warned that these should not be tolerated. shunk was referring to the
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mass protests that have been taking place in the city for weeks often resulting in clashes between demonstrators and police beijing has become increasingly vocal in its condemnation of the pro-democracy protests. on thursday the chinese foreign ministry raised the prospect of military intervention in the woman we believe the hong kong artists and of the piano will continue to be a stabilizing pillar of hong kong's long term prosperity and stability. also in the propaganda video hong kong earth expressing their admiration for the p.l.o. way and their love for mainland china this vision of a model hong kong citizen differs sharply from that of the defiant protesters who continue to throng the streets of the city. of course by the months he has been following this story from beijing he says the statement that we saw in that report from the major general of the army represents
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a significant escalation of the chinese government's rhetoric towards. people's liberation army has made it clear before that they would go into the city if the hong kong government asked them to do so however sending troops to hong kong would come at a huge cost for beijing it would lead to an international backlash their position in the trade war with america would be weakened the hope of bringing taiwan into the people's republic of china would be destroyed on a very long term so i am sure beijing is still hesitating to take this last step but as a last resort they will be ready to do it through that was once he has been living there reporting from beijing all right we want to go now to bangladesh large numbers of raw hinge of refugees have been sheltered in camps there since they fled me and more for fear of being killed 2 years ago i mean mars military you may
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remember began a crackdown in rock kind stayed ethnic hinges say that they were the targets while the government of myanmar insists it was just going after suspected terrorists but the un's special records were on me and more has described the campaign as genocide where now me and maher says it is ready to welcome the real hinge back but it's a hard sell to people who say they've been treated as pariahs in the land they once called home. waiting to catch a glimpse of the visit has tasked with deciding their future a delegation led by neon mas foreign secretary has come to me to hinge leaders for a 2nd time the talks aimed at working at how to read the hundreds of thousands of for him to refugees in bangladesh one of the main stumbling blocks citizenship for those who live in for 3 generations they are entitled to apply for the what we call
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naturalized citizen ship once parents apply for their natural citizenship. sons and daughters their offspring are entitled to apply for the citizenship that often however is unacceptable for many of the over 720 sides in the hinge who fled the country they consider their home in 2017 to escape violence persecution and death. in the on mob the ethnic minority had long been illegal immigrants even if families had left after generations now those who found shelter in camps like the ones on bangladesh's site the eastern border want to show and since other i literally don't accept that we are citizens of a country we want our full citizenship card we will not accept just a naturalized citizen ship card we are indigenous will hinge oh we do not accept this paper we don't agree we are doing negative here i doubt anybody got me there to give us full citizenship then we will go if we accept just
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a naturalized citizen ship card and go back they will again slaughter us and kill us we will not go on about out of the wild will. the very hinge of rejects being treated like foreigners in their own country bangladesh blames me for the slow be patchy asian process but it will not force the rangers to go back to me at the moment they will not return for as long as their fight for recognition in that own homeland continues. and here are some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world u.s. president donald trump says he will apply a new tariff of 10 percent on $300000000000.00 worth of goods from china starting next month the announcement occurs after the latest round of trade talks ended earlier this week in shanghai without progress british authorities have ordered a tell me more than $6000.00 people to evacuated with fears that a nearby dam could collapse at any time situated above the tail end of wally bridge
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it suffered damage damaged by heavy rains police are calling it a fast moving emergency situation in yemen dozens of soldiers were killed when who the rebels targeted a military base in the port city of aden the drone in missile attack took place during a military parade is where yemen's is holding back the government is based there who these who are. supported by iran say the parade was being used to prepare an attack against. poland's capital city came to a complete stop today to mark the 75th anniversary of the war so uprising thousands gathered in the city center as sirens rang out to honor those who lost their lives fighting the nazi german occupation during world war 2 the warsaw uprising began in 1944 it is considered the largest military resistance operation against nazi
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occupation. of the effort was ultimately crushed by the occupying forces here's a closer look at that significant historical event. the germans were retreating the red army was approaching the poles finally saw their chance on august 1st 1904 units from the polish home army and underground resistance launched their armed struggle to liberate warsaw from nazi occupation it was one of the largest such efforts of the war polish forces may have outnumbered germans around the capital but the germans had the poles outgunned the uprising strategy gambled on soviet support for the most part and never came they were also expecting soviet forces to free the city within days but they didn't historians still debate whether stalin intentionally delayed the red army's advance because the polish home army was anti-communist fighting lasted 63 days a bloody stalemate took hold but the germans made progress by early october polish
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forces negotiated their surrender. the toll on life and property was extreme tens of thousands of combatants on both sides were killed as well as hundreds of thousands of civilians many massacred by german forces during house to house combat . and ruins some of it destroyed in the fighting much of the rest as retribution after it ended the nazi leadership wanted to raise the city. the warsaw uprising was a tactical failure but it succeeded in showing poland's resilience to the nazi occupiers and to soviet dominance yet to come. for the governor of the u.s. territory of puerto rico ricardo roselli is resigning tomorrow following massive protests up to half a 1000000 puerto ricans have taken to the streets in recent weeks angered by corruption economic mismanagement and the response to a recent hurricane the last straw appears to have been
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a leaked chat in which the governor voiced obscenity use about women gays and hurricane survivors alexandra phenomenon went to puerto rico to meet some of those . who were pushing for you to step down. he's well known for his hard hitting political and. one of the artists who have inspired to protest in puerto rico he says he is called to be a part of the. act with this we wanted to celebrate the fact that we kicked the government out of office in only 12 days but i also want to motivate people to continue to fight and to protest look how many came here today. were he words on his lyrics lyrics that have earned him a reputation as a verse a title artist p.j. since well it says he writes about what's happening and what affects him right now
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it's political crisis and the anger of the people caused by a corruption scandal and text messages in which. disparaged ordinary citizens as well as political. look at all the messages he made phone. when they came he made fun of. community he did so many things wrong and he was very civil for everybody to so to like get the message this guy's wrong he's got to get out one of the people targeted by the governor was joined almost. he tells me he was angry but not surprised to find his name in the leaked text message just because he's always been critical of the administration but he didn't anticipate the consequences. i'm very proud of what happened and resupplies by the extent of a civil commitment and here today proto recourse for the most part or rather passive country. my arm and we do not take to the streets easily. and if we do the
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protests are small you can always see the same people and groups i mean the persona . prout but. also wary that real change will follow that's how many french americans seem to feel since govern their oh say you know and now instead he will step down that's why there are still protests taking place a new governor will soon be moving into this mention right behind but the political crisis in puerto rico is far from over in the streets of san juan cortices say they want to continue their fight and they're hopeful that soon no later they will get their leaders they believe they deserve. from someone who won we drive sell. the protests attracted ordinary people from all over the island people like omar so to fall into a neo and he's a wife to write a couple and still amazed by the size of the crowds and their unity people awoke
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with the situation are going to do they more than explanations. i don't think i don't think we are ready until i change the how for example that when the born or unborn or from later pari but people are are more aware of the situation they argue about politics at their kitchen table the governor successor and what should happen next and the past you write out says she didn't pay much attention to politics but the protests really touched her heart. all right we want to go back now to that story. and the country marking the 75th anniversary of the war so uprising against nazi occupation to talk about that i'm joined by journalist . in warsaw libya it's good to see you i want to ask you with all the commemorations going on today it's been 75 years what does the memory of those
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resistance fighters mean to polish society today. well i think it's never been as important as now to polish society and the beginning is specially the beginning of the war so uprising is i would say the most important or one of the most important historic dates for the post society we have to remember that only after 89 people could officially openly talk about what happened there and now it's for the political left and for the political right although there are some some discussions about. how much each death been there it should have happened looking at the high toll it took people now all come to the streets to honor the fighters who have yet to have done the uprising against the nazi occupation specially for young people it's also a very very important issue now because we see research search shows that young
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people got more and more patriotic and catholic conservative so i can see many many youngsters here with t. shirts with nationalist emblems livy you see the people have become more patriotic and remembering this anniversary i'm wondering is this an event is this a verse 3 that is you know i mean the polish people or is it being increasingly politicized and used to divide this is ard. well indeed it is dividing society i would say i'm standing here in the very center of course. and right next to me we saw a nationalist marched starting so far right the far right organized the march which started here while also regular citizens just came here next to the apologies of culture they were paying their owner to the to the fighters so indeed yes the far
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right is using it but also the government to party the law and justice they say they use it because for them for their politics identity politics is a very big part and for them it's a symbol of a strong poland of an independent and sovereign potent early years i see biting earlier today germany's foreign minister was in warsaw and he apologized on behalf of germany for the horrors that were inflicted on poland is that enough for the people of poland. it's definitely not enough there's a big difference between the german and polish debates the poles 2 very well remember that the responsibles for the warsaw uprising or what happened after for the murders and for destroying the destruction of for so the responsibles did not face trials of prison they had yeah they could make careers so actually the poles
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we expect germans to learn more about it to know more about it. and they want reparations of the part of. the polish people think that germany should pay more but all in all i don't think that the soviet headers showed he said it was the german polish relations i think they will settle these discussions to. terms with the latest on this commemoration 75 years after the war so uprising in warsaw tonight on libya thank you. well the recent women's world cup helped bring women's football or soccer to a wider audience but despite the tournament success getting involved in the game is still a struggle for many women around the globe discover football hopes to change that w. is that official media partner for the event which aims to help women take part in the beautiful game and pay in her element back in south africa's she's
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a referee in the men's division a job where she comes up against a lot of resistance but she says that's made her stronger. i believe that this woman i am today because of football. in berlin she's running the line at the opening match of discover football an international women's football festival for most of those taking part so ball is much more than just a sport. without football maybe i could be off on this plane filling my body and which i would end up being. affected from a tavi and aids. the award winning festival is now in its 10th year in that time women's football has undergone some big changes in many countries such as pakistan . parents of younger girls want them to be involved in recreational sport which is very new in our country often it was there was a heavy focus on the. good grades. you know in life will go on in that cycle
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however there are still countries where women in sports have to battle for acceptance when i was in the university my friends and even my ex-boyfriend who was saying that. they're me. i'm just like ok you can go and me i would be with. me because i love food but i need pay has shown courage to take on the toughest job on the pitch in men's football she says it's given her confidence in herself. being a real thing. so i am one person but i believe that i am. the people behind discovered football hope the support of institutions like the united nations and d w can help them continue to break down barriers. and here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you in rwanda authorities have closed and reopened the border with the democratic republic of congo as a 3rd. was confirmed in the congolese city of goma the city has
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a population of 2000000 stoking fears that the deadly virus could spread rampant. you're watching news from next ico africa the environment magazine i'll be back at the top of the work with more news followed by the day i'll be joined by. the german foreign affairs committee to talk about germany's no. request to help in the strait of hormuz.
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