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be our guest. this is dave news live from berlin protest this type of the streets of zimbabwe's capital harare police respond with pots and pots almost tear gas and water cannons demonstrators defy police baton to accuse the government of corruption mismanaging the economy also on the program. to rein in the oil tanker cease fire to get ready
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to set sail with british territory act the ships permission to leave after securing a promise from iran not to deliver the cargo to syria. hong kong gets ready for another week of protests this newspaper seen as a mouthpiece for. china's to take direct action. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. police in zimbabwe have used tear gas and water cannon against anti-government protesters in the capital harare more than $100.00 opposition supporters demonstrated despite a police ban which was upheld by the hardcourt supporters of the country's opposition movement for democratic change accuse the government of corruption and mismanagement the failing economy. chaos and violence as zimbabwe police clashed with opposition supporters firing tear gas and water cannons to disperse
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the protesters. fairly on friday demonstrators took to the streets of harare after their plans for a large scale marches were banned by police late on thursday nights. that angry at the government blaming them for the country's daya konami situation if we demonstrate peacefully he wants change course we had tired of promises promises promises we had tired enough until now. it is in the general people people we have the power like it is the executive that is why they will proceed because he is the most original thing. it was supposed to be the 1st in a series of protests across the country organized by the main opposition party movement for democratic change after zimbabwe's high court rejected that challenge to the ban because asian leaders vowed to continue fighting. we are not taking down
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we are putting forward the people of zimbabwe i tied it up no one in this long suffering so what is it that we did my cheese we've risen above. as police launched the crackdown the ruling party zanu p.f. issued a warning to demonstrators. visions no that we didn't really. need in this area recently our number has remained. oh. my we are not going. to do. that. with almost a 3rd of the country's population in need of aid demonstrators are set to keep up their calls for change however police attempt to stop. the iranian oil tanker
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held in. early july is preparing to senseo the british territory has released the grace one despite a last minute legal bed by the united states to keep it in detention the vessel was held up suspicion of carrying radiant oil to syria violations and u.s. sanctions a charge that iran denies after the grace one was captured iran seized a british flag tank in the strait of hormuz the gateway to the persian gulf so will the british tank can now be released d.w. correspondent teresa trumpet is on the island in the strait of hormuz is her assessment of the british flag tanker has already been moved from the place where it was detained in the strait of hormuz a couple of weeks ago closer to the port where the revolutionary guards are controlling everything and that's a place we have foreign specifically as journalists cannot go to as we were told to not quote and danger proceedings so apparently they're still preparing for an exchange but we have to keep in mind that the revolutionary guards in iran as
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a whole do not have a lot of trust in the united states or the united kingdom so before the iranian vessel in gibraltar is not free this peril here in the persian gulf will not be released either iran's foreign minister zarif said. to stop the release of the tanker was an attempt piracy move so he said washington was abusing the international legal system to steal iranian property and that is if you sat by many iranians as well we've spoken to some people here on my island and they. said they do not want a conflict to happen with other countries not here in their region and not elsewhere but that they are willing to step up and defend their own country if necessary so that is why everybody here in the persian gulf is monitoring very closely what is happening in. a serious drop reportedly out of caution in the straits of hormuz let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world bombs exploded
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in a mosque in pakistan during friday prayers killing 4 people wounding at least 20 explosion happened in the city of quetta area where the taliban has a strong presence brother of the afghan taliban leader is said to be amongst the dead according to the. u.s. democratic congresswoman proceeded to leave the rejected an offer from israel a lot of not to visit a palestinian grandmother in the west bank. to the previously received special permission which reversed a previous israeli ban on her and her new territory israel's office early after she agreed not to provoke boycotts of the country during her visit. states the city of new york has evaporated a busy transport transport hub after suspicious objects were reported to police to abandon pressure cookers at the fulton street subway station in manhattan were later discovered to be harmless well sources in the press to gauge whether they were placed there deliberately to spread from. north korea has launched at least to
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2 shorter range missiles near the city of tone into the sea of japan that's according to the south korean military is the 6th round of launches in recent weeks and protested military drills between south korea the united states has rejected any further peace talks with. china appears to be getting ready to take direct action against protesters in hong kong with a newspaper seen as the mouthpiece for beijing backing intervention the global times said that if hong kong cannot restore rule of law on its own it is imperative for the central government to take direct action chinese armed police have carried out drills just across the border with hong kong ahead of fresh pro-democracy protests planned for the weekend. these pictures show a paramilitary police exercise in the chinese city of shenzhen on the border of hong kong forces here appear to be practicing how best to handle angry protesters
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it's clearly a signal being sent to hong kong a warning to the quote riot is there that's according to the global times a mouthpiece of the communist party it says that hong kong cannot restore the rule of law on its own it's imperative that the central government take direct action. the message is a thinly veiled threat to the demonstrators in the former british colony in hong kong on friday i 1000 of people gathered for a peaceful demonstration in the city center the slogan for the evening was standard hong kong side many here are hoping for support from western democracies around the world and fear that beijing could soon intervene. if air his race scare as. i'm cause she dying. from their home we are at the point of no return so we have to protect our homeland if no one stand
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by. you not come back that's why i'm here. more rallies and protests marches are planned for over the weekend. a daredevil frenchman known for his unauthorized climbs of skyscrapers around the world scaled a 62 story building in hong kong in a play for peace allow roberto has become known as spiderman scantly chung concept to using his bare hands without a harness that he unveiled about a featuring the chinese and hong kong flags on his appeal and the current unrest in the territory. of the leaders of nations at risk from rising sea levels in the pacific have failed to agree on new climate change commitments the meeting of the states into villages to help limit rising temperatures but australia the world's biggest a cold exporter blocked a binding agreement in order to protect its economy. the half hearted handshake
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says it all there's nothing to be proud of here instead of a compelling global call to action the pacific island forum concluded with a watered down plan that opposing nations can easily opt out of the frustrated host scrambles for conciliatory words everybody should move together in the firmly and spirit of the forum i think that. it's no use to start ups to the bleeding gave. but all fingers are pointing towards australia and its prime minister scott morrison. of the 15 most climate vulnerable states on the planet 7 are in the pacific region in order to protect them the leaders were hoping the forum would commit to action to limit temperature rises and agree to an immediate halt to coal mining these hopes for quickly dampened by the region's powerhouse.
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we stretched very strongly during our exchange and states betrayed me at school as though you were concerned about saving your economy. situation in australia conserves about saving my people into a boat. was the leaders of others of his reach moral compass morrison has long championed his country's lucrative coal industry he concedes climate change is real but insists it can be managed in a way that doesn't hurt his economy. because try to cancel 1.3 percent of the will to missions astride you. want to target one on them. and if we're serious about it we better actually understand that emissions don't have a nationality and with the bulk of emissions come from that's what's threatening the world's moment but at this point it's also australia's actions or the lack of them that are jeopardizing the future of millions of people living in the pacific
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struck our responsibility morris and won't be able to walk away from. siberia is also under threat from rising global temperatures they vast regions permafrost is thawing and releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and if this continues it could spell in a logical disaster locally and around the planet but one scientist is testing a new method that he believes could refers to the trend and keep siberia from. 240 kilometers above the arctic circle it's summertime in the russian arctic at 1st glance the natural surrounding here seems healthy but russian scientists sergei seem of disagree here at the bank of the column are river he shows us how siberia is permafrost is melting. sure as the microbes here have been sleeping almost 50000 years when they wake up they will immediately start eating and will be producing carbon dioxide we have so many microbes if they all fall out europe's
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climate would become intolerable. the arctic permafrost is key to the world's climate it contains twice as much carbon as is found in the earth's atmosphere if it follows climate damaging gases will be released and this frozen layer is melting more quickly than previously believed in order to protect the permafrost sergey similar wants to revive the ice age in an area about the size of least in stine together with his son nikita has been cutting down trees planting primeval grasses and introducing grazing animal herds. there you go what is it that we do have to in december there's a thick layer of snow here and in senate's the soil from the cold but forces such from across here they trample around in the snow and stomping down that helps keep the permafrost cold during the winter which prevents it thawing out during the summer to. see months experiment has been drawing scientists from around the world
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the team from the max planck institute are here to see whether his changes to the ecosystem are having an effect. as big enough or not assume that the whole system circulation is much more active that there's a more active exchange with the atmosphere but in the end more carbon will accumulate in the soil due to the photosynthesis of the livelier grasses that will grow here than measurements the seamounts have taken show that the soil temperature in their ice park is already staying cooler. or i don't want to leave my grandchildren and their children with this miserable landscape which only mosquitoes like i'd rather leave them with the proper species rich nature of our ancestors the kind of nature that stabilizes and feeds humans are. going to. force him off no idea is too big he can imagine woolly mammoths once again roaming through yakutia one day geneticists at harvard university are already preparing to support this project. limits why am i next this is d.w.
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