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bjaaland asked airport city managed by for a part. this is detail when you fly from wild leaders gather any french resort all the air it's for the g. 7 summit in 3 days of talks there are already deep divisions on a broad range of urgent issues including trade climate change and their wrongs nuclear program summit host emanuel mcconnell hopes to define expectations by find common ground and uniting debris field wealthy countries also coming up brazil says
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in the interview all these you battle forest fires across latin america demand all growing action to protect the great forest. plus riot police confront protesters in hong kong once again no doubt among to protect the territories independent country. i have a home free good to have you with us leaders of a deeply divided group of 7 leading industrial countries are meeting in the french resort of barrett's they've been arriving in the seaside town where french president emanuel mccall is the host and expectations are low for the summit disagreements on issues such as global trade climate change and iran's nuclear program make consensus unlike. divisions are so deep that for the 1st time in more
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than 4 decades they'll be no joint statement at the end of the g. 7 summit. and for more i'm joined now by georg matches in berets for the 1st time in 45 years there be no communique whatsoever at the end of this summit why is that. well the french president hellenized really here is in damage control mode at the g. 7 b. or is he wants this meeting this this important summit to be a success and that is why he has scrapped this communique the reason being simply that he knows very well 1 that and you remember very well that donald trump walked away from a common declaration at the last years of meeting in canada has also taken another step in order to make sure that the benchmark is not too high for commentators to criticize this meeting by broadening the agenda lot of topics are on the plate of
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the leaders everything from the environment the world economy global conflicts he's invited african leaders to really to at the end of the summit to be able to say look we've worked on a number of fronts and here we have some results to show and we know and go do you have to ask why are these leaders still meeting. you're absolutely right and clearly michael tries to find a common denominator on the big questions for instance such as iran or world straight where he has said after or role rather diplomats have told us here that after a 2 hour lunch meeting of trump and mark all marco has identified a partial areas off agreement when it comes for instance to questions like iran and that is where diplomats said that michael had started to circle the idea that the european nations could start buying again oil from iran. in return for
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iran following again the nuclear the conditions of the nuclear deal and staying calm in the persian gulf we'll have to see if donald trump goes along with that and what the need is have all arrived now what can we expect tonight and tomorrow then . all eyes tomorrow will. of course on the big meeting of donald trump and boris johnson who is attending his 1st at g. 7 meeting expect donald trump to say that he will be happy to make a free trade deal and boris johnson dram for size that free trade is important apart from that german chancellor angela merkel and the french president will meet and really the best outcome of this summit many commentators here i've said is if leaders could find some answers to the big questions for instance world trade everybody in principle agrees that the g 7 that new rules have to be brought up for china in order to deal with a trade power trade
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a huge straits giant that subsidizes its companies at home and throws cheap goods at the world markets the only question is will the answer to that problem be one like trump who tries to go it alone or will they be able to hammer out something together for instance a reform of the w g o that really would be the best outcome but certainly a tall order d.w. correspondent gave matters in barrett thank you very much indeed. we're just down the road from the g. 7 summit riot police faced off with anti capitalist protesters offices briefing news today cannon to disperse about 400 demonstrators in nearby by young some wearing face masks a few of those processes threw rocks at police in offices news to take gas facing down the demonstrators after more than an hour several people were arrested. and a much larger protest made up of thousands of antiglobalization activists facts ask
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separatists and yellow vest protesters marched peacefully from the spanish border demanding action from the g 7 leaders. protesters from around the globe set out at midday from france's border with spain yet many here are anti globalization that you have long been critical of the g 7. here because we think this is them has to be changed radically profits have to be invested in changing the economy to socially responsible and ecological production methods. at their side local basque octave it's an organic farmers they're using the proximity of the g. 7 summit to get their demands onto the world stage on the eve of schools here because we're calling for independent agriculture we want to see local methods of production and social transformation. this summit is different because the host address the concerns of the g 7 critics ahead of the protests if you only know all of the great challenges of the climate biodiversity technical transformation and
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the fight against inequality in the world we can solve all of these only if we act in unison with. ensemble. a statement likely also aimed at the yellow vests protesters who have presented a major challenge to microns presidency though freedom where taking part in these protests because we have deep social divisions here in france many people cannot live from the work they do not even. we hear even if mccrone doesn't like it they chant the yellow vests seem unmoved by his appeal for unity but after 3 hours their protests and speech fully. well the g 7 is also pressing for more action on the massive fires raging in the amazon rain forest french president emanuel to michael has threatened to block a trade deal with brazil and other south american countries if brazil government fails to fight the fires brazilian president who has ordered the deployment of tens of thousands of troops to help extinguish the places. they battle the flames deep
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into the night this is the model grass so fire department at work in a national park and extremely dry season means they have much more to do than in recent years as they watch the park turn into ashes. the brazilian president joe you're both a narrow has now ordered the military to join the firefighting efforts in the amazon basin it's part of an abrupt about face after both the narrow came under heavy international criticism he made developing the amazon rain forest a priority but now says he wants to protect it. we will showed 0 tolerance for people who break environmental laws. border as a result that's why we're offering the amazon states our full support of the most on the legal pressure from large scale agricultural interests may have had something to do with this change of heart they fear the trade in exports might suffer as a result of all scenarios defiance they should do is meet the since 2012 there have
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been more and more fires in the amazon but people are only reacting now because also now those radical statements. political pressure is also building in brazil 3 weeks after the blazes broke out. most now is responsible for the destruction because of his radical statements there's a crowd of. activists have pledged to step up their protests across the country. though. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world some 20000 ukrainians most of them soldiers and their families have taken part in an unofficial independence day parade in kiev the country's new leader followed me as a lenski canceled the traditional military parade for financial reasons some marches held photos of not ones killed in the country's 5 year war in the east with russian separatists. us how far 40 say that
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a person in the state of illinois may have died because of a pig as part of a wave of long illnesses which appear to be linked to e.c. carets no exact compound or product could be pinpointed as the cause for the risk for a tree illness but nationwide reach 200 cases apparently connected to vaporing have been reported. well tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have taken to the streets of hong kong once again but a standoff with riot police descended into violence offices with batons and tear gas chased the demonstrators who held bricks and petrol bombs the violence interrupted nearly 2 weeks of calm in hong kong. after a week of uneasy peace this. compositors were back on the streets for some of the most violent clashes with police so far. and this is what sparked saturday's protest surveillance cameras built into lamp
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posts that are supposed to be used to monitor traffic but demonstrators fear more sinister motives. i doubt it that this is an evil regime that uses c.c.t.v. to monitor every move of citizens. i don't know how the government plans to use peak data from the c.c.t.v. that's why we need to come out to say no to the dictatorship. that. cut saturday saw a new level of violence after weeks of complaints about police heavy handedness and fatality where we were hundreds of protesters surrounded the police station there was a tense standoff we then saw several protesters picking up bricks and putting them at place now after a warning from police that they would use force of those protests as it does this to gas was by sending those protesters running. frustration is running high
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for hong kong as you feel that demands aren't taken seriously with clashes continuing into the evening it's difficult to see a peaceful way out it fit either side of his own got there it was yet. an anti racism protest has drawn tens of thousands of supporters to dresden the capital of the east and german state of saxony ahead of state elections that next weekend the far right alternative for germany party or a.f.d. is poised to win big at the expense of big tent parties like i'm going to merkel's christian right scris teen democrats which currently had the state government the outcome of the elections could further destabilize politics at the national level. c with all eyes turning to section 8 this is what many here wanted to see droves of people from both in and out of state converging on dresden the section capital a demonstration against racism and the far right president has long been a flashpoint right get it politics your 2nd world war my mom died the city killing
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tens of thousands of civilians are writing me a massacre to see some recent rally it was here against residents and doesn't think that his mom a big nationalist party it was mounted it's here last saturday to get the chance i might bring the german 1st but at the. president. that's why groups from across german civil society and the political spectrum descended on dresden to show there's more to saxony than racism populism and fear they call their embroil a movement for the title bar in divisible. city chang's enough home prices and is a show that is a climate of pages but also so many people who stand to solidarity and other ways of living and that's what we want to show we want to bring these people together on the streets country does this new find it can be hard sometimes in everyday life they're not the structures in my town of about some of the refugees and people on the left get attacked it's
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a problem. this is the price the seat of sex and his government next weekend voters decide who will lead it polls show the far right a.f.d. running a strong 2nd still it's unlikely they'll end up in power that's because no other party has agreed to work with them but what a coalition without the f.t. might look like is anyone's guess. no one from the a.f.c. agreed to comment for this story but the poles their posters and their platform suggest a politically savvy campaign built on a sense of loss of power status and identity that many in this state in former east germany say they feel. saxons are proud of their state its history and traditions that pride is up for grabs whether on the streets of dresden or soon in voting booths around sex or. you watching the news live from berlin coming up after a short break it is that when disney go with nick mechanical mind but just before that well maybe with the wall famous but infineon want to orchestrate their brand
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