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this is deja vu news live from berlin britain's prime minister boris johnson takes a dramatic step he says he has asked the queen to shut down charlie went on till just a few weeks before bragg said opponents are calling the plan outrageous and a dark day for democracy. also coming up italy said it's decision time in italy parties must reach an agreement to form a new coalition government or the country will face fresh elections and polls say that is likely to put western europe's 1st far right government in power. and will
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explain why this author and other entities are at risk of becoming extinct partly because of social media. this is d.w. news i'm sumi so misconduct british prime minister boris johnson says his government to suspending parliament until just 2 weeks before brags that the suspension would give lawmakers less time than expected to debate britain's exit from the european union on october 31st now johnson has denied criticism that he was trying to prevent a debate as he said parliament would be back in session ahead of a key summit. that is completely true if you look at what we're doing we're bringing forward a new program croyle hospitals and making sure that we have the education funding
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that we need and there will be time but it's crucial october the 17th. important. to debate. and the other issues let's go right to do. standing by for us in london with the very latest so birth abortions are now saying that he's going to ask the queen to suspend parliament tell us what this means. well boris johnson show is a lot of determination to get wrecked the brakes in 3 we have to remember that the 31st of october is the deadline this is when britain is going to leave the european union and boris johnson has always maintained that this is going to happen do or die he is fearing his government the brics it is in his government are fearing that parliament can somehow influence the process and we've seen yesterday opposition
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m.p.'s coming together and trying to come up with a plan in order to prevent britain just from leaving the european union at the end of october without any deal with the european union and draws johnson's government to say well we have a free hand we don't want parliament basically to throw anything in the span of the works when it comes to leaving briggs and of course they maintain that this is a normal process they are now saying they are preparing a queen's speech which is a new legislation but on the other hand it's not normal that parliament is suspended during times like this during breaks in times when frankly every day parliament is sitting counts when it comes to shaping gregg's that they're going to want to make sure i understand this correctly does that mean the stuff that boris johnson is taking that there would be no way. stop brags that on october 31st for lawmakers in parliament. it will soon be that is really the big question
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in any case it's very difficult to stop the government in their ways because the opposition m.p.'s have so far not been very strong they haven't shown the same steel in this as johnson is now showing so they were basically trying to find some sort of consensus some sort of way of coming together and this is difficult because it's involves m.p.'s of many different parties and i might also need to rely on conservative m.p.'s to help them so now what it means is that i have much less time to come up with anything and they might resort to a vote of no confidence next week they definitely need conservative m.p.'s to help them and what boris johnson is doing he's just increasing the pressure on every side he's increasing the pressure when it comes to his negotiations with the european union because he makes it much more difficult for parliament to bridge and so he's saying we're really really serious we are going to leave on the other hand
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he also leaves parliament very little time if he does come up with a new agreement with the e.u. if there's anything that can change then paul amend might have to just say yes to it and then he might be able to get this agreement with the you over the line but it's a really high risk gamble and there are many ways that this can fail so he is really going for it and opposition m.p.'s are saying he's trained on the court to go into parliament that he was the leader of the leave campaign which was all about parliament taking back control it was about the mother of all palm and about the birth place of democracy getting power back from the european union and now he is actually suspending polman so that they cannot this stab him in his way say that's how the opposition m.p.'s see it so. basically we're going to see really a war here in london when it comes to the government and its relation to parliament
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and we've seen online already some reaction saying this is a dark day for democracy tell us more about the reaction to all of this there in london. well from old sides of position. have expressed outrage actually and exactly with you know the same arguments they said. we are the parliament and you call them just suspend us and for example a form of government minister. he was on the radio this morning the said he didn't think that would dare anything to do anything like this that was as. close as this morning but he said if. the government does do this and then we're just going to meet somewhere else and we are not going to get stopped so they will try everything they can and they have to act quickly in order to to prevent the government from basically disabling them all right our correspondent with the very
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latest there in london where the prime minister says he has asked the queen to suspend parliament on till october 14th thank you for that update. now it is a make or break day in a tally in politics the country's president has told the main parties they must reach an agreement today on forming a new governing coalition if they fail he will call new elections far right interior minister matteo salvini triggered the collapse of the government by withdrawing his support earlier this month. italy's presidential palace is a busy place these days. negotiators for a new at tally and government left talks on tuesday with no clear signal as to whether they have reached a final agreement on who is going to be italy's next prime minister. the previous officeholder giuseppi content resigned his post last week bringing italy's populist
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government to a swift end after just 14 months in power. context uses interior minister matteo 70 of wanting to rule by himself. don't need men with absolute power. but people with a strong sense of responsibility. i really salvini the leader of italy's right wing likud party told senators he triggered the government crisis because he wanted to bring about snap elections. before they. will do everything that i did all over again thank you. thank you. everything with a great strength of being a free man. it means i am not afraid of being judged by the italian the.
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his supporters have been out in force chanting elections now elections now salvini is bid for power comes amid high poll numbers reflecting widespread support for his tough stance on migration. if the 5 star movement is unable to secure a coalition deal italy's president is expected to call an early election for november. let's take a look now at some other stories making news around the world brazil has backtracked on the offer of aid for the amazon wildfires by wealthy g 7 countries after president called his french counterpart to apologize for an alleged insult before taking the money a spokesman said tuesday brazil would accept foreign aid provided it then controls the cash. and former malaysian prime minister najib razak has pleaded not guilty in a major fraud trial linked to a multibillion dollar state fund. court and board to face allegations that he
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pilfered billions of dollars from the one fund which he co-founded in 2009. fighting is heating up in the province of it live in northern syria the last stronghold for the opposition at least 50 combatants are reported to have been killed in clashes between anti-government forces and syrian troops the new author of has also caused a humanitarian crisis thousands of civilians have been forced to flee. i do keep trying i mean family finally safe all 7 of them beneath the top poland in a bit of room in the extreme heat but anything is better than a lot surrounded by folding bomb. the family fled to the north of syria from the south of. their house had collapsed in the attack at deuce leg was injured one of his daughters was killed. imagine your child dying in front of your eyes and
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you can't do anything you can't carry her away i can't describe what kind of feeling. since the end of april syrian forces had bombed the south of italy government troops are also on the ground despite a ceasefire. the province lies in the north west of syria on the border with turkey it's the last rebel stronghold turkey sides with the rebels and has a rated observation post in italy. turkey already controls areas in neighboring provinces it's from here they wish to keep kurdish forces in the north east of syria in chick russia syria's closest allies also involved in the offensive it has taken part in iraq and provided special forces. 400000 people have fled the fighting and then now on the move north many are stranded in refugee centers like the at my camp in cramped quarters and without knowing what comes next. i don't know as
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a kid and his family want to flee to turkey or to europe in hope of a better future. if didn't they have a better life than the children go to school children have nothing no papa food no clothes no school nothing at all. nothing. but the road to turkey is blocked like so many others across syria millions of people are tracked living in fear of yet more attacks from the. well the crisis in italy was discussed at a meeting of russia between turkey's president tayyip erdogan and russian president vladimir putin the cheerleaders back different sides in the syria conflict but both said they want to defuse tensions their relations between the 2 have been strained over the ongoing war but during the visit they put on a show of unity. celebrating cooperation by eating ice cream together russian president vladimir putin paid for his turkish counterpart wretch of type
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air longstreet offering up a sweetener before talks. we would talk about the directions i will cooperation can go as well as some delicate issues in the region that's are on the agenda. the venue and aviation show reflects increasing military cooperation between russia and turkey which is a nato country turkey has bought russian anti-missile systems irritating nato and is now looking at purchasing russian fighter jets as well co-operation has limits russian and turkish troops are both in syria on opposite sides russia backs the syrian government while turkey supports the remaining rebel forces in the province . recently russian backed syrian forces have stepped up their campaign against rebels there. we cannot tolerate the syrian regime death by air and land against civilians under
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the pretext of fighting terrorism and unfortunately attacks on civilians strengthen radical groups. putin said russian forces in syria were under threat. of those are the terrorists continue to show for positions of syrian government forces trying to attack russian military installations deescalation zone should not serve as a refuge for militants let alone as a bridge head for new attacks where both countries see a huge stake in syria and are trying to do without the west as they settle their differences putin and marijuana are due to meet with officials from another key player in the syrian conflict iran next month. you're watching news still to come as an international convention on endangered species wraps up in geneva will explain why this author could be at risk of becoming extinct it is partly due
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to social media. and he is 102 years old and still teaching in the pool. which while i can't find out why his life is still going so swimmingly. but 1st it has been 18 years since the taliban lost power in afghanistan in that time some women have gained freedoms they never could have imagined under the militants rule yet there is not a single woman present at the high level negotiations currently taking place to decide the country's future nor any mention of women's rights. on t.v. is a glimpse into another afghanistan a television station by women for women its very existence an act of revolution in a country imagine from the shadow of the taliban ever since the islamic fundamentalist group were driven out women have been discovering new freedoms even in the face of threats. mustn't go in there that i will not allow the taliban to
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stop me from learning from working or from having hope for the future of my country we will not allow the taliban to force women again to sit at home as they did during their dark period of power. in the reception to privately colored back because they stand as reminders of the dark past but while women have made leaps here the lack of a voice taliban peace talks good some. where has the enduring dominance of the petri arche been clearer than in high level negotiations about the country's future. so one of the women should have been part of the peace negotiations but there haven't been any talks on women's rights as far as i know to interject in my i work in the media i appear on t.v. and i'm concerned for my future because even if peace comes after you chair might
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be in danger i shall try to find in my hand and that. it's a view shared by campaigner fawzia koofi the taliban try to assassinate her for speaking out for women's right for the arrests could not be starker and i think the new generation of afghanistan the transformed generation of afghanistan will not be able to accept this kind of approach and behavior and therefore i think this is a major issue a major issue a major challenge i would say post the taliban integration palawan peace process would be how do we smoothly ensure that these taliban fighters interviewed the system without respect to the values that people of afghanistan believe in since the war began here in 2001 women have enjoyed equal rights to men in law even if society lags behind unequal c. however is another matter. humans are exploiting the planet's animal and
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plant species and that is putting them at the risk of extinction that is the message from the convention on international trade in endangered species representatives 180 countries have spent 2 weeks forging an agreement on how to regulate the buying and selling of species under threat take the mako shark here for instance it is the fastest shark in the world but humans appetite for its flashin it spins means it is quickly disappearing from our oceans the convention delegates agreed to better protect it from trade and commercial fishing they have also voted to protect some species you might not think are under threat like 2 kinds of autor here's more. they may be really adorable but they use cheeky little creatures are in danger conservationists i oughta numbers are declining and the species could one day be extinct one of the main culprits social media images such as these that generate
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a demand for offices as pits. and striving and acceptability of having a pet when someone creates a false narrative on their instagram accounts about how great it is to have a pet by showing cute videos cute photos and really glamorizing whether there's one in fact it's the animal suffering animals you might not even imagine could be endangered in fact giraffes for instance particularly in parts of west central and east africa they're threatened by habitat loss drought and the tried in body parts for the 1st time the countries have agreed to regulate the stright not ban it. and that means all international trade in giraffes will now be regulated by the treaty to make sure any trade whether it's trophies or products is sustainable and legal but when it comes to elephant ivory and ron are horns global trying to drive the legal and it will stop. why some southern african nations had wanted to sell
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government aren't ivory stockpiles but others successfully argued fuel demand and illegal poaching the un has warned over a 1000000 animal and plant species face extinction environmentalist believe much more needs to be dom to stop the decline in biodiversity that they say is unprecedented. and due to the environment reporter jennifer collins is in geneva for us hi jan so the conference there ends today what has been achieved for wildlife protection in general well there's really been a big big trend towards more protectionism so restricting trade banning trade in some cases we have animals that have been added to the list like sharks authors which we just heard and of course the big question has been ivory trade on elephant protection and that's revealed
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a really big big split in the continent of africa on how elephants should be conserved and some of the southern african states have been talking about pulling out and all this kind of. but of course that will be very difficult for them to do because they trade so many animals inside and so they could just leave because of elephants because it is kind of the only game in town but yes conservationists in general are very happy here because they feel that trade is a driver of a calm good driver of a species extinction and they feel that more protection restricting trade is often the way to go jennifer with that kind of division there among delegates how effective do you think these measures will actually be. well this is one of the biggest and oldest conservation agreements in the world conservation and trade agreements i should say 183 signatories to it basically all the countries in the world so for that reason alone it is very effective and of course it does really depend on how these countries implement these decisions on the ground will
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they actually take into account that they should be trading they should be tricked restricting trading and the agreement does have teeth as there are compliance mechanisms there if the country isn't taking precautions isn't doing its job it can be escalated and they could actually be temporarily banned from trading any species that are on the sides list and of course countries don't want factors that could be really bad for economies where countries are very reliant on this kind of trade and so it does people in general feel it's quite an effective treaty although there are problems under combi divisions of course so if there are competing interests what does need to happen to make sure that we don't lose more vital wildlife species. well trade is really just worn aspect of this debate and psyches really only covers trade of course that has been identified as a big driver of loss of biodiversity if it's on regulation so i decided to run the
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site that people really need to be looking at issues like climate change there's also identified in the un biodiversity report as a big driver of species extinction also. lost so draining wetland chopping down forests for agriculture and human settlements that's also a really big issue and none of those things are in the remit of such that they have to be looked up to already to view environment reporter jennifer collins for us in geneva thank you jenny. since the turn of the century the number of people over the age of 100 has risen markedly the un counts more than half a 1000000 at present but how do you get old and stay young berliner leopold could folic is $102.00 and still giving swimming lessons. the local find it maybe there will also hold a slim teacher at the grand old age of 100 into his still given classes every week at the school in burnie. thanks swimming is
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special. thanks to all the media doing sports is one of the biggest joys in life. was forever i. i keeping feet has certainly helped to keep you young. you know the full metal worker who wanted to stay active when he retired 40 years ago. he quantified as a swimming instructor and has been teaching children ever since. he was just nothing with the kids i do it all for free. tonight. more than a 1000 children have taken to the war to me. kids age doesn't bother them. i know how old is leona. and how you didn't choose.
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him. he's really helpful and very patient. if you leave it to the teacher liking you i mean my kids i can pick it up. a little blue school nukes are full of admiration. they were fearful it's all we're very proud to have her for peace so figure her and say here's a great sense of humor. it is wonderful with children that keeps them young. does that mean look. i'm not that young anymore. but. in this. country yes watch well i can do pretty much anything if i want to get a little bit older i'm not not at all just yet and it's children expect to see him diving in every thursday without fail.
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now you come in. if i can do it in the old days i used to dive from the 5 minutes aboard. goodbye. thank you. ok reminder now of our top stories here indeed have you british prime minister boris johnson says his government is suspending parliament until just 2 weeks before britain's exit from the european union opponents are calling the move outrageous and a dark day for democracy. after italy's president has told the main parties they must reach an agreement today on how to form a new governing coalition and if they fail he will call new elections the move comes after far right interior minister matteo salvini triggered the collapse of the government by withdrawing his support. coming up next eco
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