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this is deja vu news live from berlin hundreds of thousands branes brave heavy rain in hong kong to take part in another pro-democracy rally turnout is being closely watched as a gauge of public sentiment after more than 2 months of violent clashes and increasingly stern warnings from beijing also coming up. the islamic state group says it carried out a deadly suicide bombing in the afghan capital kabul that killed dozens many of the victims are already being laid to rest. and suck up dortmund opened its borders
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legacies and with a 5 to one stumping abound shows that if a serious contender to take the championship title. time record has welcome to the program in hong kong pro-democracy demonstrations have demonstrators have marched through the city center for another major rally it's the 11th consecutive weekend of protests organizers say more than 1700000 people joined sunday's painful demonstration a mattress aimed at proving the movement still has popular support despite mounting violence and growing warnings from the mainland chinese government protesters are demanding free elections and an independent investigation into what they say is police brutality against protesters. protesters are also repeating their calls for hong kong's laid. carrie lamb to step down let's hear from one of the organizers of
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bonnie long now. that carrie lamb must listen to people's voices and implements to fight the monks and also asked the police to visit to reconsider right the strategies against protesters if the government continues to ignore people's voices they want only for protesters to use out the means including some radical means to do our protest hong kong people will soldier on until we see the government respond to all of our fighting dating nice challenge so simple joins me now from hong kong charlie tell us what's been happening there today. record i'm outside the government headquarters at the moment where a number of these protesters have converged i'm not sure if you can see just behind me but these as this is the legislative council the government had courses there's a bit of a spontaneous laser show happening at the moment these lasers have become
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a common feature an icon if you like of this protest movement that ever since one protester was arrested by police for having one of these days as it is still peaceful on the streets at the moment but the protesters who are just below me on this big main road have completely shut it off and there are some questions about how long police will allow that to carry on for but as i say it has been an extremely peaceful day so far the protests began in a pot they assembled that was something that was committed by police to the spread of these people through the streets was not authorized nevertheless they have marched through the whole essential hong kong braving pouring rain at times but rebecca a lot of these protesters who we're seeing out again tonight have seen tear gas they've seen rubber bullets in recent weeks they certainly aren't going to be put off by a bit of rain. shall we say may's mass rallies often every weekend for 4 months now
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what's different about today. today's been organized by the people behind 2 massive rallies that took place in june where organizers say one of them up to 2000000 people attended now what's been crucial about today is the organizers wanted to prove that they could still bring out that many people back onto the streets of hong kong and that this could importantly remain peaceful as well they really are trying to counter this narrative that sprung up over the last few weeks that some of these protesters are extremely violent that something that was and how it's by scenes that we saw at the app earlier this week which was sprung on by chinese state media is proof that these protesters were violent and not sort of peaceful the peaceful demonstrations like the ones we've seen today in fact beijing likened some of these more violent protesters to terrorists so all the
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nicest today are going to be very candid the scenes of the the world sees that go around the world peaceful scenes like the one behind me and what we've seen so far today so much more peaceful event there today but tensions must still be pretty high their health authorities been responding to the romney. authorities have put out a statement in response to today's rally they said that they're particularly on set upset that one of the key complaints of protesters today one of the key themes is today is to to accuse the police if brutality in their handling of protests in recent weeks that authorities have said that the police have been violently attacked themselves in authority say that they are fully behind the police schools here now what we have seen is a real hardening of rhetoric though from beijing in response to these weeks of protests that has come in tandem with scenes that we've seen all of people's police the. chinese paramilitary on the border with hong kong say people of course given
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that are going to be watching very closely for the statements coming out of authorities in hong kong and beijing challenged us and kill in hong kong thanks very much. there's been a dramatic development in the standoff in italy over a migrant rescue ship stranded off the coast of lampedusa island several migrants have jumped overboard from the open arms in a desperate bid to reach the shore the migrants began swimming towards land after the italian government to night them permission to disembark the 2 for more than 2 weeks and also by spain to dock at one of its ports was rejected earlier by a spokesman for the ngo that operates the rescue ship he said die of conditions on board would make the 6 day journey impossible the group's founder warned that the humanitarian emergency was only getting worse. throughout most of the others i mean how many days of we've been warning you how many days. people in the water fighting
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violence panic crisis everywhere how far do you intend to go. what are you waiting for. do you want deaths remember this is over. and take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world gibraltar has refused a u.s. request to seize an iranian tanker currently caught in a standoff between tehran and the west washington had attempted to detain it on the grounds that it had links to iran's revolutionary guard which the u.s. calls a terror group the ship is due to set sail soon. far right groups and counter protesters faced off against each other in the u.s. city of portland oregon authorities closed streets and bridges to keep the rival groups apart police arrested 13 people hundreds of officers were deployed to prevent violence. wildfires on the spanish island of gran canaria have forced the evacuation of some 4000 people fishel say several communities are threatened in
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a region already hit by fire some days ago as a strong winds and high temperatures could spawn from embers from the previous blazes. in afghanistan the so-called islamic state has claiming responsibility for a deadly suicide attack on a wedding party in the capital kabul funerals are being held for the victims the attack left more than 60 people dead and dozens more injured many of the victims were women and children the explosion took place as more than a 1000 guests were celebrating a marriage in a shiite neighborhood of the city. islamic state considers muslim shiites to be heretics and has targeted them in many attacks in the past. cobbles huge wedding halls are centers of community life but the grand design and decor of this one belie the carnage of the attack the death toll detailed in part by what many of the victims left behind. throughout the night ambulances ferried the injured for
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treatment outside of a nearby hospital relatives checked for names of the dead and injured an attacker had set off explosives in the midst of the wedding celebrations yeah dimon presented the explosion happened near the stage where the musicians were all of the young people and all the people who were there were killed some are wounded and now they're in the hospital and others are dead. this nearby hospital needed every bit of space to accommodate the victims they had arrived in a massive wave of distress. of all of that the market bottom of it we came to the site of the blast and i saw that many women and children were screaming and crying many martyrs and injured people were transferred by the ambulances and it was really a terrible situation. beyond the weddings themselves wedding halls are also used as simple meeting places for small and large gatherings that's made them the
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target of a local affiliate of the so-called islamic state. last november at least $55.00 people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked hundreds of muslim scholars and clerics gathered in another kabul wedding hall to mark the birthday of the prophet muhammad. representatives from 190 nations are meeting in geneva to agree on protections for vulnerable species like elephants the trade in ivory has been banned worldwide and he is but some african countries say the ban is unnecessary they want restrictions on elephants and ivory exports to be listened. elephant tracks go straight across daniel jeremiah's field the small farmer lives in cousin a on the edge of tobie national park the packet derms often enter his farm and eat or trample his crops irrelevant to come every day can see. where. there's.
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anything. there direct damage botswana is home to africa's largest elephant population with around 150000 the number is growing in some areas there have been deadly encounters between humans and elephants in may but want to lifted a 5 year hunting ban now the country's going a step further by pushing for limited ivory trade at the world wildlife conference in geneva scientists fear that could also lead to more illegal trade in ivory we know that within africa we really struggle to control trade of products like wildlife and we struggle to sort of monitor it and regulate the legal side of things and we cannot pretend we are not stopping the illegal side of things i mean it's theoretically possible that poaching could get worse and of course and that that's why that's a worse outcome for elephants effective controls are needed to ensure that only
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tusks from legal haunting are traded but countries with rampant corruption often lack such oversight and that could worsen the plight of elephants. in sunday's game frankfurt have won their opening clash of the season martin him to i guess gold after just a minute to seal a one male home when i've often haim. playing their 1st ever been a snake a match at home 2 in the late game. on saturday dortmund opened a campaign at home to oust fog they were came to take advantage of by me an extra with had on friday dortmund had an early fright but recovered quickly. dortmund fans are hoping that this is their year and off to buy an opening day draw on friday perhaps the back 4 was already dreaming of the title as they were caught sound asleep in the 1st minute. household's new signing pfluger needle ational with
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his 1st goal for the club just 55 seconds in. but don't mend responded just 2 minutes later they're attacking the trio of jayden sanchez marco royce and tackle al cassidy combined to pull one back by the no look pass from roy's showing telepathic understanding with the spanish striker. in the 2nd half it was outsports defense that started off snoozing actual vessel calmly dribbling down the left flank and his time cross carried straight to jade in san shou it was linked with a move away this summer but showed where his loyalties lie was to one after 51 minutes was on the calamitous defending continued. my this time outs book keeper who must made a mess of it allowing al cassatt to tee up captain mark
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a royal the door opens 3rd. just 2 minutes later the lead increased to 41 as house will collapse and out castle sealed his dress was 3 goals scored in 8 minutes all starting down goldman's left hand side around things off new signing union bunch came on to a story on his debut was it was the 5th time and don't wince history that they conceded in the 1st minutes of an opening day fixture but after the shock of the early goal they put on a dominant. boy that sends a clear message to their title rivals you know. we all took note of the fact that by andrew on friday and that was a little added incentive for those who are just happy to have taken 3 points and were looking forward to the next games the black and yellows will be wary of last season's to refix start but the funds already dare to dream. in major league baseball germany's max kepler's broken a 68 year old record for the most home runs in a safe in by
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a european born player the burnin native knock in a home run for the minnesota twins to rate 33 for the campaign and breaks the record set by scottish born bobby thompson back in 1951 for the new york giants minnesota went on to beat texas rangers 4 to 3. you're watching do you have any news up next to dave w reporter takes us to colombia i'm a decorator thanks for watching. where i come from we have to fight for a free press i was born and raised in a meeting with the painter she put just one to the shadow and a few newspapers with official information as a journey and hard work on the streets of many characters and their flaws.

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