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assuming our other countries don't keep just. starts to turn on d w. land. this is d w news live from berlin the plight of women escaping genocidal violence in their own countries only to fall prey to sex traffickers a d w investigative team needs are working a refugee in bangladesh who's been forced into prostitution how many others share her fate and is nobody doing anything to help with some answers also coming up
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scotland's highest court puts up another barrier to practice. for. her to. move closer to months to come to the fore to the cold war was on law and. so is parliament no longer suspended go to lunch. and questions over u.s. foreign policy after a shake up in the white house president trumps a parklike national security advisor john bolton is out will be exploring what turns us to follow suit he likes to detail. i'm sumi so much kind of thank you for joining us they have fled deadly violence become refugees in a foreign country and they've been forced into prostitution they are among the 70000 refugees now living in sprawling camps in bangladesh the. lives are already
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grim refugees are not allowed to work and depend on food handouts some women there have turned to the sex industry others are lured abroad with promises of jobs and marriage only to end up in prostitution did have you has this exclusive report from the bangladeshi city of cox's bazaar. in the world's largest refugee camp in bangladesh the life for women and children is particularly difficult. this woman fled from me and ma with her 3 children and husband after their village was burnt down 2 years ago. my husband left me and my children after we came here and it was difficult for me to make ends meet . i didn't have any other option and i want to live. any other option that is going to work as
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a prostitute now when she gets the cool she travels to the neighboring towns outside of the refugee camps. there is no other job i can do like i can't do anything else if i remarry my new husband will take care of me but not my children. that it's impossible to say how many reading or refugees end up in the sex trade here many are as young as 14 according to a local engineer thousands of women are trafficked across bangladesh and even abroad lured by false promises of jobs and marriage. we wanted to gauge how widespread the problem really is in the tourist town of cox bizarre roughly 40 kilometers from the camps we got in touch with a pimp who posted to have several rango women on call.
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hello. show you some girls and if you like them you can take them if not you can leave. oh ok see you in an hour. a bit later a reporter meets the man at a prearranged point and gets into an auto rickshaw with him while we follow behind a reporter secretly filming the entire encounter. the 1st stop is a hotel which serves as a brothel to begin with the manager seems suspicious and denies having any prostitutes then he shows us pictures of a few women on his phone none of them seem to be wrecking. around 10 pm the pimp sends a rectangle woman to our hotel she's too scared to talk to us when we reveal we're journalists because she's worried the hotel might tell the pimps that she confirms she is a 23 year old wrecking a refugee she says she's
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a victim of her circumstances. back at the camp the sex worker we met earlier tells us they are not allowed to work and there have been several police raids on hotels doubling as brothels she herself was recently released from jail. the us and the now let me know if i can't find any other way to make money i'll have to go back to this work if i do i might get arrested again. but she's likely to take that risk again because for now she doesn't have a choice. and faced with such a bleak future bridging the women remain easy prey for the pimps and traffickers. and we're joined by. one of the reporters in that story thank you for being with us here in our studio one of the women you spoke to there said she has no other choice but to take on this kind of work and put it. the context for what for us how
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desperate the situation is for women living in these camps you don't in 2017 more than 700000. on this and most of them are all women and children so for women there is not much opportunities to war and they cannot. do anything to make their and smith and then. some of them are in really difficult condition awaiting them they have families they have today and they have to take care of them and their husbands and live to them in that we found that. some of them one wanted to get involved with prostitution because there is the only way they have to on some money he said some of them how common is this story. talk to some enjoy a walk as they are in course as well as if they don't have any exact figure but they say the thousands of women have been trafficked to the bottom of this in many
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cities in bangladesh as well as ever old and many of them are involved good prostitution some of them forced by to do so because there are cases where like beams and others gave them kind of a lucrative offer or of jaw and married so they ended up in brothels whatever bangladeshi authorities doing about this we talked to 2 courses of police and the police chief said that he is not out of any prostitution. ring as are involved and in another police station we talked to they say that they know there is one incident where 3. women listed because they were involved in this sex for it so in general they ignored the fact that there are 4 situations happening and that involves rowing a woman and if at all is it really that there are no other alternatives for these women the fact is like a bomb. this accepted this. and that they provided shelter brought
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a shelter for them but by all of this doesn't to be called as their own guess as and refuses so they're not getting any kind of facility that usually refuses to get according to international law so that's there is no way that they can wark there is no way that they can get education there is no way that they can move freely so they are. in and in a fixed in area we have to very limited opportunities to war that is almost no parts of india of salmon they can do some voluntary work but they don't get. money out of it and what about the options for them to return home to me and are they want to i mean a last month there was a creation at them by the government of bahrain and they sent me and i also supported it reportedly but what happened that say they have some specific demands they wanted me and my goldman to recognize them as. local community and they want
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me in much the citizenship but they haven't got any kind of confirmation or any kind of issue or is that there is this possibility that they would be safe if they do turn to rock and state so we don't any confirmation of citizenship or to cognition they don't want to go thank you. now scotland's highest court has ruled that out british prime minister boris johnson's decision to suspend parliament is unlawful and a controversial move johnson formally put the house of commons in recess until the middle of october he says he did it so he could start afresh on his domestic agenda next month but it means lawmakers will not get to work back to work until just 2 weeks before britain is due to leave the european union the government says it will appeal the scottish ruling in britain supreme court. all right let's go right to london for more on the story our correspondent standing by for us hi barry gets
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what does all of this mean well sumi it's really uncomfortable for bros johnson's government because it implies that he didn't give the real reasons for suspending parliament he said it was to prepare for new legislation a so-called queen speech but the court has ruled that in fact it was to shut down parliament that's the implication also it implies that he misled the queen because he advised her to agree on this for a geisha and suv really very very critical i think for the prime minister and some commentators are even asking whether boris johnson could could even survive that and where does this leave bracks i mean where do things go from here. well the court has ruled that it was unlawful the shutting down of parliament but it hasn't ruled polman to start sitting again now this is of course what opposition politicians oskin they are asking boris johnson's to immediately open up parliament
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open the doors of westminster again and recall parliament and they have of course been saying all along that the real reasons that they their voices should be not heard so they are very much on the up however when they actually win this battle we will probably have to wait for next week when the supreme court will also hear this case there are several cases in the london supreme court so basically sumi watch this space very good miles for us in london thank you very much. now to some other stories making news around the world north korea's state run television has broadcast pictures of its leader kim jong un overseeing the testing of a multiple rocket launcher the launch took place only hours after the north offer to resume nuclear diplomacy with the united states. pro-democracy activists joshua wong has urged germany not to turn
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a blind eye to hong kong speaking in parliament in berlin he called on the government to suspend trade negotiations with china and hong kong he also called on it to suspend the export of riot equipment to the territories. the hong kong stock exchange has made a bid for one of its biggest european rivals the london stock exchange $39000000000.00 are on the table the proposal in visions of single exchange joining europe with asia. questions are growing about the direction of u.s. foreign policy now that president trump has fired his national security advisor john bolton had gained a reputation as a hardliner supporting regime change in north korea and iran and opposing tribes negotiations with the taliban to end the conflict in afghanistan the president tweeted that he disagreed strongly with bolton on many issues. john bolton in happier times seated at the president's side an influential proponent of
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a whole key foreign policy. but his tenure as national security adviser came to an end when trump took to twitter to announce his departure the president tweeted that he strongly disagreed with many of bolton's suggestions prompting trump to ask for his resignation bolton quickly disputed this version of events in turn to reaching that he had offered to resign of his own accord. it's not the 1st time trouble bolton have disagreed the former adviser stood for a muscular approach to foreign relations and their own hard liner he favored military intervention in iran north korea and venezuela but despite his aggressive rhetoric trump often chose diplomacy over confrontation he has met north korea's leader kim jong un and was prepared to strike a peace deal with the taliban in afghanistan. bolton's departure has fueled speculation that u.s. foreign policy could mellow. but senior administration of figures cautioned against
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that idea someone asked what would the policy be different absent any individual being here is a been the president's policies but i don't think any leader around the world should make any assumption that because someone of us of hearts that president trumps foreign policy will change in a materialized sanctions designed to pressure iran into concessions over its nuclear program a likely to remain in place. i would say secretary of. health and the president are completely aligned on our maximum pressure campaign i think you know we've done more sanctions on iran and anybody and it's absolutely working and you're right even as bolton became the sort of national security adviser to serve under president trump brushed off suggestions that the national security team was in disarray absolutely not that's the most ridiculous question i have ever heard you have to say that it is a very right but bolton is unlikely to be the last official to find himself going
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out of the revolving door of trump's white house more on the story now with 4th fama a professor of politics at bard college here in berlin or thanks for joining us here in our studio we heard the question asked there will foreign policy be any different now with john bolton out of the white house. i think it's a question that's almost answerable because there hasn't been such a thing as a trump foreign policy there's no grand vision behind it or no consistency and there's been a lot of contradiction back and forth so maybe one major change would be a return to moral leadership of the u.s. in the world but it's unlikely for this to happen what we've seen is trump has perhaps one consistency which is it's about domestic politics and he wants to appear as a strong leader and he doesn't tolerate contradiction except his own contradiction and that was something that john paul bolton apparently did a lot with contradict the president some say that john bolton actually destroyed that the u.s. national security council system do you think that that is his legacy now leaving
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the white house i mean you could say this but a lot of institutions and political traditions in the u.s. the democratic traditions the separation of powers the 4th estate the media attacks on the media that we've seen repeatedly it might be that right if there's a reelection perhaps there's an erosion of institutions that is irreversible at the same time perhaps trump is seen as an outlier at some point it's too early to tell really what issue do you think was the one that got in the way the most between john bolton donald trump well i think there were some overlaps between the 2 being strong militarily appearing strong in politics not negotiating trying to see international relations as a 0 sum game i think is something that both of them agreed on maybe that's also the reason why it took him and has as his 3rd national security advisor which by the way is the highest number ever for national security advisors in one presidential
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term but there were contradictions so trump is trying to isolate us and turn away from international relations turned towards domestic politics both and the opposite he was very much engaged and asking for regime change. even under george w. bush but no dent under trump one trigger appears to have been these a failed peace talks that would have involved the taliban so afghanistan peace talks that would have involved the taliban possibly being invited to camp david that is something that john bolton was clearly against and in the end the president called off those talks of the last minute was that the tipping point that seems to have been the straw that broke the camel's back it's hard to tell because we have diverging news stories emerging on twitter as we speak so probably will never find the exact reasons why that happened but it seems like this was the last sign of in
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loyalty that trump couldn't bear to see where things go from here boris foreman a professor of politics at bard college here in berlin thanks for sharing your insights with us it's being hailed as a milestone in rescuing endangered species a team of scientists has successfully created embryos of the northern white nasir abas only 2 females of the african species remain alive the sperm was harvested from male rhinos of the same species of the last of which died last year. these are not seen and the 2 mother and daughter the last 2 individuals of their species in the world the northern white rhino. the last male sedan died last year although the 2 rhino ladies are still very much alive those species will become extinct when they die excessive poaching was their death warrant that and losing their habitat but an international group of scientists hopes to bring the north and
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white rhino back to life with the help of frozen sperm collected from 4 rhino bulls before their death after years of perfecting the technology the scientists have been able to harvest egg cells from the 2 last females a risky procedure. the almost 4 you have to understand why we were so times we operated on blood vessels that this big needle can make a hole of 2 millimeters and when such a big blood vessel is split or pierce the animal complete to death that's the shocking but don't fall into just here. but it's all ran smoothly right after the operation now and fats who went grazing and took a much bath. and the scientists were successful they flew the harvested egg cells to their lab where they were fertilized with the activated
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sperm cells. isn't it well it works dreamily happy to say today that we produced 2 blastocysts from the exiles. these of these are early embryos that have a very high potential to develop into a baby from bodies blastocysts these embryos have now been put in liquid nitrogen and so we've achieved a new life of a new hope for this species noisily in lawyer hoffman fifty's art the embryos now need to be implanted into a rhino uterus but as you know in fact you are both sick and can carry a pregnancy to term anymore so the researchers have another plan the closely related southern white rhino ism are abundant species the plan now is to implant the embryo in a southern white rhino surrogate mother but they have to move quickly now you know in fact you might not be able to give birth but the right no baby would still need
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them. in their northern white rhinos of and they must pass on their knowledge of how a northern white rhino behaves to the offspring and. that's the time pressure where on the talk. the researchers are still working on the implantation procedure for the southern white rhinos but they hope to bring a small northern white rhino baby to life in the next 3 years. and we can speak to yon stay sculls the director of international projects at the devoted klal of a zoo in the czech republic he joins us on the line here and i understand you've been fighting to save white rhinos for years so this must be pretty exciting news for you how big of a breakthrough is this. just fantastic of achievement as you said we brought in white rhinos from south sudan in 175 so it's more than 40 years that we've been trying to save them and when we saw this actually develop to last more than one
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night in the fog idea that everyone would think ok this is the end but then give up and to get it would have according to go before me we achieved this huge achievement this year to success when you learn from this process that this is a viable way to save threatened with extinction. we are not there yet it's true that 5 years ago we find out that none of the females 9 or 5 to naturally breed and at the time it was a bit like a dream to be could achieve an embryo and we did it so now we can be optimistic about the other. 2 to have a successful embryo transfer and to have an orphan why write a baby that would be actually born to self and why and why not donor a surrogate mother. for young would mean that it is now possible to rebuild the white rhino population. and we are not still there yet because you know this is
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cutting edge science so there still could be obstacles that we wouldn't be able to overcome but on the other hand as i said to achieve the current achievement that gives us hope that isn't that we will overcome even the cycles that are in front of us so i hope that in 3 years we might have not alive right now and again as we said you've been working on this for years why is it so important to you to save the northern white rhino. because it's a unique and big mammal that roam around from central africa and we wouldn't be able to say such magnificent creatures like us don't do what ryan did you know what other species we would be able to safe distance is really something like a flagship like a single for what we do today. and we do want to see each of these in regard to marriage or we want to show producers the chance even for the special that are on the brink of extinction because we have to create good of a predicted and we just have to adjust it for the writers so why we should be doing
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. all right. from the good kind of a zoo in the czech republic thank you so much for joining us. thank you very much for interest now who needs to own a car that's a growing question in big cities where public transport and ride sharing apps are common and young people are typically more concerned about their carbon footprint. went to the frankfurt motor show to see if you can be convinced to get behind someone else's wheel. i'm almost 30 and i've never owned a car and why would i like living in berlin means i can get anywhere pretty much any time by bus or train. and if i do need a car i can just rent one through a cost sharing service i'm perfectly fine without my own car. i'm not alone with this only one 3rd of young german city dwellers say
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a car is important to them and i'm wondering what is the car the street going to do about that. well what better place to find out than at a motor show at the i.a.e.a. in frankfurt a major car companies from all over the world a showcasing their latest models one of them is opal the brand my parents have driven since i was a kid trying to reach young urban customers with the course eat a new electrically powered version of an old classic. and. when i look at you i think that driving enjoyment is something that can get you excited electric cars are a lot of fun and if you go into the bakery or the butcher or wherever and you don't emit any c o 2 and that's very appealing to the sardines in this. ok that does sound nice but not 30000 euro nice if you ask me even if soccer coach jurgen klopp is indorsing the car. but why are comical struggling to win over
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people like me i meet up with a market analyst and ask him. people tend not to have drives anymore that they you know they might have an apartment in might have a shared carriage you know but i think it's that that sort of idea of having the pride enjoy parts on your drive is becoming less appealing and less relevancy on people and that is a difficult conundrum for the car makers to to to work out. how many cars are trying to adapt to what young people want smart which pretty. i'm a sadist for example developed an out through which you can share your own car with friends and family but again events alone is not really going to sway me into spending 20000 euros on a car that i really don't need. the american god a young woman or just that young people want a car isn't available at all but once they've taken on certain obligations they start asking themselves when she caught on could make sense for me to come to vegas
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although condon's in mom for me the phone maybe i will get to that stage one day but for the moment i'll remain calas and maybe that is for the best. for her to come back. coming up next on d. w. our environment show eco africa will be exploring how to make conventional farming more eco friendly and how to repro forests on the stump and molly stay tuned to the .
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to africa. change doesn't always have to cost money. the water and madagascar's capital isn't only safe often it's contaminated and a danger to consume. but none of them as a nation has proven that clean drinking said it doesn't have to cost too much.
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