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this is t w news live from berlin britain's prime minister boris johnson takes a dramatic step he sets he has asked the queen to shut down parliament until just a few weeks before brags that opponents are calling the plan an outrageous and a dark day for democracy also coming up it is decision time in italy poland political parties must reach an agreement today on forming a new coalition government or the country will face fresh elections and polls say that it's likely to put western europe's 1st far right government in power and they
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are above the law model if over the take from their highly. teenage activist grettir to birth prepares to arrive in new york after sailing across the atlantic for the u.n. climate summit we look at how her trip is being covered on social media. welcome to have you news i'm sumi some astounding. it's being called an explosive announcement of british prime minister boris johnson says his government will shut down parliament until 2 weeks before britain's exit from the european union planned now for october 31st now opponents call the move undemocratic saying it will give lawmakers less time to potentially pass legislation to stop a no job writes it but johnson says the suspension is justified. as i said on the
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steps of donnie street we're not going to wait until october the 31st before getting on with our plans to take this country forward and to do that we need a new legislation we've got to be bringing forward new and important bills and that's why we are going to have a queen speech and we're going to do it on october the 14th and we've got to move ahead now with a new legislative. very good math is in london with the latest what does this all mean. sherry's an absolute determination on the side of boris johnson and his government to make breaks it happen we have to keep in mind that on the that the faster job or this is the deadline this is when britain is going to leave the european union and boris johnson is just so determined to make this happen he said do or die we are going to leave and by restricting parliament's time he makes it very very difficult for them to come up with anything that could
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stop him can stop the u.k. from leaving at this stage so he increases the pressure. just also what it when it comes to the negotiations with the european union to actually say we are going to leave so you really don't have a lot of time to to give me anything new any changes to the withdrawal agreement that has been negotiated with the european union which she wants to have change of increasing the pressure on the e.u. to give them some changes and then increasing the pressure towards holliman to actually to actually accept these changes and get anything through so he's just stepping up a notch his efforts to to leave the e.u. with a deal but he's also prepared to leave without a deal if that all that is fruitless there during the statement from boris johnson earlier a journalist asked him expose explicitly if this is a move to prevent a parliamentary debate and let's listen to what he said. that is completely
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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 that we need and there will be ample time on both sides of that crucial october the 17th summit ample taught in parliament for m.p.'s to debate the e.u. debate branches and all the other issues so there we have a very good forest on saying there's plenty of time to debate do you think lawmakers are likely to see it that way. i mean we've already from opposition m.p.'s who view it as a declaration of war against parliament they point out that boris johnson on his sleeve campaign have always maintained that leaving the youth is taking back control of the british parliament that they are one he sees as sovereign and for
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him to basically stop. working is what the speaker of the house of parliament. himself was normally supposed to be quite. a constitutional outrage so it really is. like a declaration of war for these opposition and pays what. doing. is there any way for lawmakers especially those opposition m.p.'s to stop. on october 31st. it just becomes very very difficult for them we have seen that they have been meeting yesterday and they have been trying to come together and trying to agree on a strategy they don't have the same ruthlessness as the johnson's government they find it very difficult to agree on something they have come up with a tentative plan trying to legislate for the government not to leave without a deal which is what they want to prevent at any cost but having so little time
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makes it even more difficult for them to agree on something so we might see a vote of no confidence by the opposition into the government that's what we might see as early as next week. for us there in london thank you. it is also a decisive day in italian politics the country's president has told the 2 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 mikhail 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 talian 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
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officeholder giuseppe content resigned his post last week bringing italy's populist government to a swift end after just 14 months in power. context use his interior minister matteo savvy me of wanting to rule by himself. we don't need man with absolute power. but people with a strong sense of responsibility that was 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 in the.
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can or. the tributes or the. his supporters have been out in force chanting elections now elections now salvini 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. and we can speak to journalists in rome now so the 5 star movement has the most seats in parliament and has to find a majority by the afternoon what is the latest that you're hearing there on negotiations but what we do know is that representatives of the 5 star movement as well as the center left democratic party talks right now to try and work out some
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kind of a deal they have that did line put in place by the president so what we do know is that divisions to remain but to clearly on the role that you rejected my hope will play in any kind of new government now he's the leader off the 5 and the current deputy prime minister so there was a lot of attacks by the by and the 5 star who went on the against the democratic party and the cost * and so there are factions in both parties that want to have absolutely nothing to do with the job that we've already heard such as representatives of each party saying well if this coalition is formed i'm the party you want to get this so really i'm not in that state though what is motivating all these parties is that it's their desire to ensure that salvini and his the party does not return to pot and to avoid any kind of elections and the instability that will create so much irrelevant is currently also meeting all that if the different
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political factions and parties involved and he's expected to make some kind of statement as to what's going to come out of this how he could go to elections all i'll be good to see this new coalition formed later today or tomorrow. the same way you mention the far right leader my tales of any his plan was to force early elections how has this been working out for him. well the question remains here in italy as to whether this was a rose miscalculation on salvini spot i mean really was it the wrong step to do a bad timing perhaps in deciding to pull the plug on this coalition at this point in time we have seen certain polls saying some support for him has dropped as a result of this i think many italians are tired of the elections tired of turning to bullets and concerned about what this instability will mean in terms of the situation of the economy in the country and so perhaps this was
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a mistake on his spot or if i told could there be new elections at the moment it seems sometimes like there will be some kind of coalition but we'll have to see what comes out of talks between the 5 star movement and the democratic party and what decision much the relative a journalist in rome bringing us today thank you seem a. now to some other stories making news around the world brazil has backtracked on the offer of aid for the amazon wildfires for the wealthy g 7 countries after president called his french counterpart to to apologize for an alleged insult before taking the money a spokesman said tuesday would accept foreign aid provided it then controls the cash 2 explosions have ripped through separate police checkpoints in gaza city killing 3 policemen and wounding passers by the hamas controlled interior ministry there declared a state of emergency there was no claim of responsibility but the blasts were reminiscent of previous rounds of infighting between hamas and other islamists. and
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2 people have been confirmed dead in japan as heavy rains pounded the southern island of cuba authorities told hundreds of thousands of residents to leave their homes amid landslide and flood warnings weather officials say the rains are the region's worst in 50 years. they are on opposing sides in the war in syria but the turkish president. met with russian president vladimir putin on tuesday both insisting they want to defuse tensions in syria's northern province russian backed syrian forces have stepped up their campaign against rebels their opposition forces hold holding it live have reportedly lost at least 50 combatants recently the new offensive has also forced thousands of civilians to flee. keep trying i mean family are finally safe all 7 of them beneath the top poland you know a bit of room in the extreme heat but anything is better than
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a lot surrounded by folding ball. the family fled to the north of syria from the south of. their house had collapsed in the attack i have does leg was injured one of his daughters was killed. imagine your child dying in front of your eyes and you can't do anything you can. carry her away from i can't describe what kind of feelings 1st. since the end of april syrian forces have an airborne to the south of italy and government troops are also on the ground despite a cease fire. 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 ally is also involved in
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the offensive it has taken part in iraq and provided special forces. 400000 people have fled the fighting and they're 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 a kid and his family want to flee to turkey or to europe you know hope of a better future there is did they have a better life than the children go to school our children have nothing no for the 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 trapped living in fear of yet more attacks from the year. 16 women have testified at a court in new york about the sexual abuse they say they suffered at the hands of
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american billionaire jeffrey epstein the judge allowed them to speak on the record even though epstein committed suicide in prison while awaiting trial some of the victims say they were angry that they had been robbed of the chance to face their tormentor some viewers might find this next report disturbing. even after their accused perpetrators death these women cannot shake off the past. i began my massage trying not to let him smell my fear in obvious discomfort before i knew what was happening he grabbed onto my wrist and tucked me towards the bad i tried to pull away but he was unbuttoning my shorts and pulling my body onto his already naked body faster than i could think i was searching for words but all i could say was i need no please stop but that just seemed to excite him more he continued to rape me and when he was finished hopped off and went to the shower i pulled my shorts up and i ran to stuff as i could back to my own villa my feet bloody from the rock i cried myself to sleep that night do i feel his death is an
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appropriate punishment absolutely not it gets nobody justice and it leaves a lot of unanswered questions. for the accusers the fight for justice will continue beyond the indictment of jeffrey epstein it makes me sick to my stomach that there's preacher perpetrators out there that obviously help him in many ways for a very long time and they're still out there with no punishment to. the victims want others who collaborated in assaulting them to be brought to justice. anybody can do anything. for the state different things come here to answer questions under oath subject laws examiner and. eventually the victim say they will get answers. you're watching t w news still to come on our show he is 102 years old and still teaching in the fall will
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meet leo coach while it can find out why his life is still going so swimmingly. but 1st after 14 days at sea swedish climate change activist gratitude burke is about to arrive in new york she's headed to a u.n. environmental summit and want to travel without leaving a carbon footprint the 16 year old began her transatlantic journey from a plymouth in the united kingdom across the atlantic to new york and face some fairly rough conditions. racing across the atlantic to fight climate change in the yachts that leaves no carbon footprint to to him on a mission to change the world and get to the u.n. climate summit in new york without flying. but it's not all been plain sailing. we're doing one thing. love and love and all that we're the
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love bombing muslim no but oh so very wrong way. to 16 year old set off from the southwest of england 2 weeks ago some criticized what they saw as a publicist stunt put to him back made no apology i mean i'm not telling anyone what to do or what not to do i'm just doing this because i want to do this myself and i am one of the very very few people in the world who actually can do this and i think i should take that challenge to do this. last year gretta to newburgh began fridays for a future each friday the swedish teenager would skip school in order to campaign against climate change from outside the country's parliament. has school strike soon spread around the world. and so did tom message she is now the young
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face of environmental activism. it's been quite a journey for 2 in bag and with the united states now in his sights this is just the start. and. standing in battery park in new york right there the place where gratitude is due to doc hi paula good to see you when is she expected to arrive. hi sue me well that's the $1000000.00 question but the latest we have is that she is expected to dock here in. the marina here as you said in battery park around lunchtime $215.00 local time the latest we heard is that she is stuck at the moment dealing with customs and immigration and as i said it will be around lunchtime when she will arrive here in manhattan i'm sure to be plenty of people waiting to see here because the media are already gathering and also loads of people who want to give her
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a warm welcome are beginning to arrive to you know part of the question has she really been making headlines there in the u.s. is there this sense of expectation that she's going to arrive today. well sumi what surprised me actually is that you know compared perhaps to europe it hasn't actually been making as many headlines i would say in the past 24 hours or so it certainly has been making more waves and bullets as i said it seems that you know the youth will say of today are are getting your news online and they've been following are following her progress step by tracking her on twitter and on facebook and so on so they are saying that there are going to be many crowds here this afternoon. public for us at battery park there in new york ahead of arrival thank you poppy. or as we heard there a lot of media attention on gratitude berg's arrival also a lot of social media attention being paid to this trip and our reporter of my own
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schwitters been looking into that for us hi my how big is the hype we're just hearing there from from public online and on social media so as he said that is where young people get their news these days and it was a lot of young people who she has inspired around the world to take part in these fridays for future demonstrations she now has more than a 1000000 followers on twitter and facebook and close to 3000000 instagram which is where she was primarily documenting this voyage and you see all sorts of supportive comments calling her hero telling her to be brave thanking her for doing this recently a lot of comments telling her that she should really specifically address the issue of the amazon burning so we'll be looking for that when she gives her speech at the u.n. climate action summit in september which is why she made this journey in the 1st place yeah let's not forget we're talking about this one small woman who started this basically one woman movement picketing in front of the swedish parliament and now it's grown into this huge worldwide movement for climate action well it wouldn't be social media if there were negative comments as well so what are her
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critics saying absolute well of course there's the usual amount of conspiracy theories people picking on a 16 year old girl because she has a cause these accusations about her being manipulated either by or parents or by certain companies that are sponsoring her or that she just doesn't know what she's talking about because she's too young one of the biggest questions which is something that she herself brought up was she said there are very few people in the world who can do this so i feel like i should do it and it does sort of raise this issue of well being environmentally friendly in many cases can be very costly and there are a lot of people out there who just really can't afford to be more environmentally friendly traveling by ship the way she did or buy a yacht. cost money and takes a lot of time traveling by plane takes a lot less time he even here in germany travelling by train is sometimes more expensive than flying and takes a lot longer these are just you know things that we have to ask ourselves in our everyday life how can we make a difference how are the choices that we're making affecting things and certainly
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her message is a good one of how do we reduce our overall impact but realistic solutions is something that is being brought up a lot when i talk about a tom burke all right our reporter myra schrader with us here in our studio thank you miles since the turn of the century the number of people over the age of 100 has risen markedly the u.n. counts more than half a 1000000 at present but how do you get old and stay young berliner leopold which while like is $102.00 and still giving swimming lessons. luke you find it maybe they've also told this in teacher at the grand old age of 100 into his still given classes every week at the school in burnie. thanks swimming is special. was also me doing sports is one of the biggest joys in life thanks good.
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luck i thank you keeping fit has certainly helped to keep leo young. the full metal worker who wanted to stay active when you taught 14 years ago. he quantified as a synonym structural and has been teaching children ever since thank you guys i just love being with the kids i do it all for free if not. more than a 1000 children have taken to the water the. kids each doesn't bother to. talk i hold his hand. and hollered ensues. but he's really helpful and very patient. if you remember exactly just thank.
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you. thank you thank you. if you get that. little blue school x. are full of admiration. they were fearful it's all we're very proud to have him with you so fit for his age he has a great sense of humor and is wonderful with children along with that keeps him young and does that mean look. i'm not that young anymore but the button on the tire is still in this. country yes watch well i can do. pretty much anything is i want to get a little bit older i'm not in a job just yet. and did she expect to see him diving in every thursday without fail. thank. you now you come and. pick up a conduit for good in the old days i used to drive from the 5 minutes of orange.
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to bar. thank. you it's ok let's get a recap now of our top stories here on 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. and italy's president has told the country's main parties they must reach an agreement today on forming a new governing coalition if they fail he will call new elections the move comes after a far right interior minister matteo salvini triggered the collapse of the government by withdrawing his support. coming up next eco africa to find out more about saving endangered plant species in south africa and don't
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