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put a bit of that. this is deja vu news live from berlin italy's prime minister resigns after his coalition government falls apart to stop the context that the blame for the crisis lies with the interior minister much himself who is trying to trigger an election to become the country's next prime minister. britain's prime minister issues a fresh challenge to the european union over breakfast that forced johnson calls the e.u. a bit negative and says the bloc must scrap its current plan to avoid our border in ireland. religions of the world come together in the face of terrorism with houses
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of worship coming under attack the cross the blow hundreds of religious leaders gather in germany to pay their social and political responsibility. plus germany's far right to a.s.d. party is counting on coal to deliver them big games in an upcoming state elections look at how the f.d.a. is fighting to keep the coal industry alive and despite government plans to shut it down. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us we start with a deepening political crisis in italy just a little while ago to set picante officially tendered his resignation as prime minister and accepted a caretaker role until the country can form a new government country's resignation caps a dramatic day in which he lashed out at right wing interior. minister of any for
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toppling his ruling coalition earlier this month south any pulled his support for the coalition in a bid to force fresh elections opinion surveys that signaled a snap vote could see salvini become italy's next prime minister. oh she is and she is for the italian prime minister as he arrived at the senate in rome for a crucial debate on the government's future was in a dramatic announced he resigned from his post bringing italy's populace government to a swift end after just 14 months in power come to accuse interior minister matteo salvini of being the sole architects of the country's seemingly endless political crisis. for the reasons that lead me to call the decision to spark the government crisis extremely irresponsible. i must say that the interior minister has shown
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he is acting out of personal and party interest for the. county blasted salvini for breaking up the right wing coalition with the intent of going it alone. we don't need men with absolute power. but people with a strong sense of responsibility. was solid a hell of a salvini the leader of it is right trained league party told senators the teacher gets the government crisis because he's not afraid of an early vote. when my will do everything that i did all over again. everything with a great strength of being a free man. yes it will mostly but it means i'm not afraid of being judged by the
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italian in the form of the. kid on a par with. the judy so that he thought that his supporters were also out in force chanting and that shouldn't snow elections now the salvini has made clear his bid for power and his popularity is steadily on the rise because of his on t. migrants policy this almost mccue that the employment has plunged its any even deeper into one of its worst political crises in reason she is. staying in italy now where a prosecutor has ordered that a rescue ship stranded off the country's coast be seized and that the migrants on board be immediately evacuated the humanitarian vessel open arms had been blocked from landing on italy's lampedusa island for 19 days deteriorating conditions on board led 15 people to attempt to swim ashore before the prosecutor's intervention
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at the 80 still on board are expected to be taken ashore during the night prosecutors are considering bringing kidnapping charges against interior minister sufyan a who had refused to let the migrants disembark. british prime minister boris johnson is demanding that the european union ditch its plan to avoid a hard border in ireland after britain leaves the e.u. the so-called irish backstop has been a sticking point in the braggs of debate and a key reason that his predecessor tourism a failed to get her brags the plan through parliament johnson sent a letter to european council leader donald complaining about the backstop but truscott back saying the e.u.'s plan is the only one on the table. dear donald begins boris johnson's letter to european council president donald tusk in a 4 page missive johnson describes how the so-called backstops solution for the irish border is undemocratic and infringes on britain's sovereignty and must
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therefore be removed from the withdrawal agreement the prime minister's made it clear that the withdrawal agreement because the backstops not been rejected 3 times something's got to change the alternative arrangements for me are for those all already being investigated and the promises made it clear if the e.u. is willing to be flexible on that one point then we got a really good chance of getting a deal through the house of commons the backstop as a last resort solution to keep the border between british northern ireland and e.u. member aren't open even after brags that many fear that civil conflict could flare up again if new border controls are implemented johnson is now calling for alternatives to the backstop without offering any concrete proposals this is drawn a cool response from the european commission. sides began the negotiations with a commitment to avoid a hard on the island island and the backstop is the only means identified so far by
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both parties on it this commitment prime minister johnson will be in berlin on wednesday for talks with chancellor angela merkel. let's get a round of now of some other stories making news around the world turkish police have used the tongs and water cannon to disperse protests in the city of d.r. back here after the ousting of 3 opposition party mayors turkey replace the mayor's with state officials and 3 major south eastern cities accusing them of crimes including spreading terrorist propaganda. syrian opposition forces have withdrawn from the strategic town of concha koonin the country's last rebel held profits of syrian government troops are now set to move north towards the town of marjah on demand which has been hit by intense airstrikes over the past few days. pakistan says it will take india to the international court of justice over kashmir it comes after india were both the special autonomous status of the region
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a city that customer officials say thousands of people have been arrested in a crackdown on protests. and on mend indian spacecraft launched last month has started orbiting the moon and will attempt india's 1st moon landing on september 7th if successful this would make india only the 4th country to do so after the us russia and china. in a year when places of worship across the globe seem to have become particular targets of terrorist attacks the world's biggest interfaith assembly is meeting in southern germany at the world assembly of religions for can use 900 representatives of many religions are debating there were sponsibility since society and politics there's a special emphasis on the role of women in bringing about peace german president fine father steinmeyer delivered a keynote address that one of the topics the delegates are discussing is how to protect places of worship at a time when attacks on such sites appear to be on the rise.
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disbelief in christ church new zealand. it's march 29000 and a white supremacist has just shot dead 51 people in consecutive attacks at a mosque and an islamic center in the city. what is especially horrific many of the victims were killed or injured while praying the mosque a place of peace turned into a site of slaughter soon after the u.n. secretary general makes this play i am making a global call clear for the sanctity of all places of worship and the safety of all worshippers who views it reverent sides 1 in a spirit of compassion and dollars people everywhere must be allowed to observe and practice their face in peace. yet just several weeks later on easter sunday terrorists carry out attacks in sri lanka among the targets are christian churches
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nearly 260 people are killed. churches or other places of worship and not immune from violence on the contrary attacks on religious sites are commonplace all over the world in october 28th teen a gunman killed 11 people during press or to synagogue in pittsburgh pennsylvania it sort terrorists target congregations to kill as many people as possible but killing people at their place of worship also sends another message that religious communities are at risk even when they're in what is supposed to be a place of sanctuary. was. and for more on the story and we can speak to me again on his what are the un high representative for the alliance of civilizations he is participating in the interfaith gathering in lindau mr martinez thank you for joining us now religious intolerance contributes as we saw in our report to a great deal of violence in the world so how can religion be used to bring people
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together instead. what i think these guys are in india is a stream important very timely as you present it in this program we are living in now very very on a stable situation with an acceptable behavior you mentioned chris church attack you mentioned sri lanka and that's the reason the the secretary general downturn it with there is mandate me to present an auction global plan in order to solve a guard wholly for side and at the same time to protect worshipper and today here in the we have sand a very strong call to all the international community it can be done you know we are not only 900 leaders religious leader but the leaders really started the peace and this world peace is recuperate we want really to leave in our money in cooperation we are going to establish on your agenda positive agenda is not only
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got 2 questions to tolerate because you toward it because you have no other way to live together but now we have to go a step further to create a world that they have to respect to understand each other and to live together and i think the message that has been not only by my friend the president of republic of germany mr stan my dear but that all the participants are very clear no the religious and cultural elements have to be taken into account if we want to live in our world of the 21st century and peace are not morning mr athena's just briefly if you can is tolerance for other faiths something that religious leaders are focusing on enough. what i think we cover is not enough one of the present to secretary-general blunt the secretary general to study night and i think we are now onto
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a publicly in the beginning of october in 1 of the proposal is included in the plan is that there we have a really to go to gather not on the release as leader not part of the political leadership we have to work together it's not a question hall wrote religious leader about the it's called the whole society supernatural site the media we men media and you know social media and the call for doctrine property church action have to be implemented all right me get on head want to tina's the un high representative for the alliance of civilizations speaking to us from lindau thank you so much now in less than 2 weeks voters in the german states saxony and pardon book go to the polls in 2 closely watched elections the far right a.f.d. is polling strongly and could challenge the established parties the c.d.u. and the s.p.d. implanted by the a.f.p. has picked up support by making coal a big topic it is the last major industry in the south of the state in
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a region here called to say shop and the a.f.p. wants to keep coal fired power plants in operation well the city you the s.p. did they have decided to they need to be phased out with thousands of people employed in the coal industry the if his position is popular in the region. it's half past 3 and stephan kubicki is under pressure he needs to order a crane. and it's me again what kind of crane do in the end what kind of one was it again what. works in a coal fired power plant in the eastern german region of loose asia. lately he's been managing his election campaign qubits he wants to represent the far right alternative for germany party or a f.t. in brandenburg state parliament. not seen years ago i never would have thought that i would get into politics so to
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speak and with this involved i could have gone fishing for an honor and taken my dog for a walk i could have had a lot easier it's tough to be in the a.f.d. . hostile to you on your point of but the f.d.a. is popular here germany's phase out of coal fired power plants has many people here worried and the a.f.d. backs coal power which is practically the region's only source of income the party thrives on frustration with germany's mainstream parties. whatever they've done for the last 30 years they make most people sick people don't believe in all the promises being made again just before the election. and. after the collapse of communist east germany many people move to the west sense then the center left social democrats have governed the state of brandenburg. but since the emergence of the f.t. many voters deny climate change and use fear mongering to stir up xenophobia.
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this party that's been tied to the nato nazis could become the most powerful force in the former east only a few people here are willing to comment on the rise in popularity. i was on where they want to go. we won't know until they're in power. by then it may be too late at least most of the. a.f.d. candidates steffen qubits key who could lure s.p.d. voters to his camp dismisses concerns that his far right party is too extremist. when george says issue of what they have something in the f.d.a. became unacceptable be out fast but i don't think that's an issue. you mean a far right trend yes that's always the assumption that there isn't one it's well informed and yet some of qubits keyes own friends and family criticized him when he
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joined the f.t. . tom you know while your. family was divided some other relatives were really surprised and some were horrified they said man you're a decent guy how can you join the effort to become. even so other parties have been losing ground to the a.f.d. but not the environmentalist greens they've won supporters on the issue of the climate crisis and say they don't know why eastern germans vote for the far right. people are doing well and that's why they're willing to do ridiculous experiments we have 3 percent unemployment and our district is at the top compared with others . but when it comes to the f.d.a. they act crazy and take risks. for us he kind of.
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has nothing to offer and they don't contribute to solving any problems at all he said they just make vulgar complaints about their discontent. hearkens this evening another drawn out complaint. a.f.d. party leader alexander galland made an announcement he thrives on polarizing communities stephan kubicki also knows how to score points with this crowd. the funniest question was what do i think of the climate activist great atoned bag i was taken aback so i answered i drive a v 8 with 388 horse power so i still have to answer this question. but the party chief gets even more applause added i'm a downgrade you ladies and gentlemen if the f.d.a. governs branden org we will portray our borders again. when.
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i. would leave him. we're friends even if that means things get ugly many voters say gallons unvarnished frankness compliments steffen qubits he's more amiable style. for mr tibbetts king talks so much like ordinary people other politicians he is more of a parliamentary language but he talks like the workers in the power plant and of course people really like it. the f.d.a. can do what it wants in eastern germany at least it's set to become the party of the people. let's bring in our political correspondent william noah glue cruft for more on the story had william the f t we have to say it's only been around for 6 years tell us more about how this party has managed to gain such a foothold in such a short amount of time especially in this region and former east germany well let's remember the if these humble beginnings as a rather esoteric euro skeptic party that not
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a lot of people were behind was quite an ack a party of academics and a party for conservatives who are skeptical of the european union and greater unity and greater openness with borders but then of course 2015 happened more than a 1000000 migrants from outside the european union came into the european union and that was when the a.f.p. really saw their chance to make a move and started pushing on an anti migrant platform closing the borders harder security more more putting germany 1st and germans for 1st which a lot of people lot of voters responded to who felt that they had been left out or left behind in the last 3 decades since german reunification yet when we saw them the report i think senegal and talking about patrolling borders in the f.t. really has made security migration one of the biggest issues but is that really one of the biggest issues for voters. at the national level it's certainly true that the f.d.a. really pushes hard on borders on security on keeping migrants out of germany but
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that kind of sense of security is expressed differently at the local level the state level it's expressed in the way that polls show voters are what voters find important whether it's infrastructure education good employment opportunities care for older people these are some of the issues that are ranking at the top of polls among voters and the f.t. is responding to that they're also using a lot of coded language and you see if this is what voters are seeing today on placards all around the state of brown a very which turns around for lynne trent goes around berlin words like then which refers to the reunification calling voting for the a.f. the afraid lisha revolution cion a peaceful revolution these are all words these are all terms that are strongly associated with the fall of the communist east germany reunification of west and east germany that the been strongly criticised for co-opting this language for their own political purposes all right our political correspondent william noah blue cross thank you so much. it is no secret that city dwellers often flock to
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parks or green spaces to boost their mood but how happy does being outdoors actually make us researchers in the us are hoping the power of social media can provide an answer. life can be hard in the concrete jungle and increasingly research is revealing that greenery and open spaces can have a big impact on how urban dwellers feel but how to show that spending time in a park makes you happier in their new study researchers from the university of vermont in the us turn to a popular social media platform twitter and an online tool called a heat anomic or which has been used to analyze billions of tweets the 2 ranks common words typed into the short electronic messages on a scale from one to 9 and assigns them a score words like happy and flowers score high while words like crash and jail scored low the researchers focused on almost 5000 twitter users in san francisco
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who publicly identify their location the scientists geotagged and analyze tweets from when and where the user spent time the he nominee then spat out a score on those tweets and the scientists analyze changes in sentiment before during and after the twitter users spent time in green spaces their results show tweet happiness scores rose dramatically for the users in parks in fact they were equivalent to scores only otherwise averaged across the social media platform on one day a year christmas. as vast numbers of people move to urban centers and the number of city dwellers who suffer from mental health disorders grow sharply proof that green spaces can make you feel like it's christmas could have major implications for both city planning and public health. sports now in bundesliga news felipe continuous taking to the training pitch at his
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new club byron munich for the 1st time continues being touted as the next big thing but he's only on loan from barcelona the team that spent a staggering 160000000 euros to get him. fans of all sizes with the rainy weather to give a glimpse of byron's new number 10 felipe continuo the announcement on the club's instagram page was their 1st post to gain over 1000000 likes. playing. well i think. before the loan in other words was a good decision. because he's a strong player. and i think you'll do good. still as with byron players like robert levin dog ski some fans wish the club would be more ambitious in this transfer window. i had wished for a little more for a bit more euphoria from the transfers but what has happened in the last week has
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won me over again and i'm looking forward to the next season and for me it is. another new signing not on loan is france under 20 international. buy and sign the former much ungloved midfielder intil 2024. fascists are united as calling on social media companies to take more responsibility after their midfielder paul pogba was targeted with racial abuse online the french world cup winner missed a penalty during united's one all draw at wolverhampton wanderers on monday and then received abuse on social media in a statement united said they would take the strongest course of action against those involved and added that we also encourage social media companies to take action in these cases i. write it's no surprise to see a little messy and flatten it for him of each making the short list for goal of the year but this year he should also add the name billie simpson now she plays for the
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cliftonville ladies in the northern ireland women's league and knocked on knocked in this goal from her own half last summer she is one of 3 women on the 10 player shortlist the winner will be announced at the fifa football awards next month. looks like a piece of video art from a museum or a gallery but this right here it is actually a real scene from the u.s. state of colorado strong gusts of wind created what people are calling the great mattress migration of 2019 the air beds had reportedly been laid out for an open air movie night but the wind had. other ideas the mattresses eventually migrated across the park to a public swimming pool i'm. a. writer my dear now of our top story here on d w giuseppe conti has set officially resigned as italy's prime minister just a short while ago he tendered his resignation to the country's president and
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accepted a caretaker role until the country forms a new government the country has blamed the interior minister matteo salvini for toppling the country's ruling coalition. will be back for more news in just a few minutes don't forget to go to our web site every dot com for all the latest news and information around the clock thank you for watching.
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to the phantom most and contribute to something important to know the gumption. of the future of europe to start september 2nd on d w. such. high stakes poker in rome this man the interior minister matteo salvini pulls the plug on his coalition government and forces the prime minister to resign because he is angling for the job himself will his gamble pay off some a scandal in berlin and this is the day. to go to get into their most can.
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